JP2679114B2 - Currency handling device with a function for confirming recovery from transport failure - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a money handling apparatus with a transportation failure recovery confirmation function, such as a built-in cash automatic teller machine.

(B) Conventional technology Generally, this type of money handling apparatus stores the deposit coins that have been inserted into the deposit port in the type of denomination through the deposit route, and dispenses the dispense coins that have been dispensed from this storage section to the dispense route. (For example, Japanese Patent Application No. 61-154592 of the prior application).

By the way, when a jam occurs in the deposit / withdrawal / conveyance system, a staff member removes the jam, and after the removal process, the reset key is pressed to complete the recovery.

However, after this jam removal process, there is a case where a jam still remains in the transport path, and if the reset key is pressed with this residual jam, the recovery operation is performed without confirming the residual jam, This has been a problem of causing a jam again in the next conveying stage.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention The present invention is a highly reliable transport failure recovery in which the currency inside is circulated and transported to obtain a complete recovery confirmation after the removal processing of the transport failure such as jam. The purpose is to provide a money handling device with a confirmation function.

(D) Means for Solving Problems The present invention is of a circulation type in which incoming money is stored in a denomination according to a receiving path, and outgoing coins fed out from the storing section are discharged through the outgoing path. A money handling apparatus having a money handling unit, wherein input means for inputting a withdrawal command to the money in the storage section, and a predetermined number of all types of money based on the input of the input means. A circulation means for withdrawing the money into the deposit opening, discharging the coin into the deposit opening, and circulatingly storing the coins stored in the deposit part of each denomination, and detection for detecting whether the circulation state of the money by the circulating means is good or bad. And a currency handling device with a transport failure recovery confirmation function.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, at the time of restoration of the transportation obstacle, the clerk carries out the processing for removing the transportation obstacle and then inputs the input means to output the circulation means. A predetermined number of kinds of coins are withdrawn and discharged to the deposit port, and the coins discharged to the deposit port are re-acquired and circulated and stored in the storage section of each denomination by the detection means. Check detection and restore.

(F) Effect of the invention Therefore, it is possible to accurately grasp the state of restoration and non-restoration simply by detecting the quality of the circulating conveyance state. Even if there is an unconfirmed residual jam after the jam removal process by the staff, Also, it is possible to detect conveyance defects during circulation conveyance.
You can confirm that the jam has not been recovered.

In this way, in addition to the staff processing, the money can be mechanically circulated and carried to confirm the execution of the normal carrying operation, so that the device has a complete recovery function and is highly reliable.

(G) Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawing shows an automatic teller machine, and in FIG.
This automatic teller machine 11 includes a handling indicator 13, a passbook slot 14 and a card slot on the upper side of the customer service panel 12 described above.
It has a coin inlet / outlet 16 on the left side of the lower part of the panel, a banknote inlet / outlet 17 and a CRT input type touch panel 18 on the right side, and has a transaction function for both coins and banknotes.

Of these, the coin processing unit that deals exclusively with coins will be described. As shown in FIG.
An entrance / exit shutter 19 is arranged to cover the opening so as to be openable / closable. Below the coin entrance / exit 16, a receiving tray 20 which is allowed to rotate for taking-in and a coin inserted on the receiving tray 20 are further inward. A first feeder 21 for taking in is installed.

The coins taken in are guided to a lower storage belt 22 that is obliquely provided, having both a belt transport function and a storage function when the transport is stopped, and the first feeder 21 is placed on the upper surface of the belt.
The coins sent from the store are stored and temporarily stored so that they can be returned.

Then, one side of the storage belt 22 is extended so as to be conveyed to the second feeder 23 on the rear side.

The above-mentioned second feeder 23 sends the coins taken in to the coin inspection section 24, and the coins sent out by the coin inspection section 24 are, for example, 1 yen, 5 yen, 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen. , 500 yen, 6 coin types are determined, and the determined coins are conveyed to the subsequent stage through the sorting and conveying path 25, and the coins selected in this conveying process pass through the sorting holes corresponding to the denominations. , Each coin storage below
26 ... Dropped and stored inside, and one deposit processing operation ends.

Further, a collecting safe 27 is connected to the sending end of the sorting and conveying path 25, and a surplus that cannot be stored in the false coin and coin storing unit 26 which cannot be inspected by the coin checking unit 24 is connected to the collecting safe 27. The coins are collected.

In addition, 6 kinds of coins with different diameters are passed by denomination 6
Shutters (not shown) are provided at the openings of the different diameter selection holes of different types, and these shutters are taken in by opening and closing the solenoids 28 ...

Further, the inside of the coin storage portion 26 has cylindrical portions 29 with different diameters for storing six types of coins, respectively, and solenoids (not shown) are provided at lower end openings of these cylindrical portions 29. A discharge shutter 30 that is operated to be opened and closed by means of is disposed, and at the time of withdrawal, coins are ejected downward from the coin storage portion 26, and the ejected coins are the first withdrawal belt 31 as a withdrawal path. And the second withdrawal belt 32 to lead to the coin inlet / outlet 16.

Further, a coin replenishing device 33 for loading replenishment coins is arranged at the front position of the second feeder 23, and the replenishment coins are supplied from the second feeder 23 to the coin storing portion 26 and replenished. .

Fig. 3 shows the control circuit block diagram of the coin processing unit.
U34 drives and controls each drive motor M of the transport system and a solenoid for shutter control in accordance with the program stored in ROM35, and RAM36 stores and reads necessary data of coins to be taken in and out. put out.

The reset key 37 is pressed and input by a clerk when a transportation trouble such as a jam occurs in the deposit / withdrawal transportation system when the transportation trouble is corrected and the restoration is completed. At this time, the CPU 34, which has received the input signal of the reset key 37, outputs the coins in the coin storing section 26 therein in a circulating manner for the purpose of confirming the execution of the normal transport operation. This is, for example, the drive motor M ...
Is driven to discharge a predetermined number of coins, for example, one by one, and discharges the coins into the coin inlet / outlet port 16. The coins discharged into the coin inlet / outlet port 16 are taken in again to store coins. Department
It is circulated and stored in the tube part 29 of each original denomination of 26. As a result, it is possible to obtain the transfer execution confirmation of the payment path and the payment path.

A large number of transfer confirmation detection sensors S are provided on the coin transfer path and the coin transfer path to detect and confirm the coin transfer status of coins, and thereby detect the presence or absence of a transfer failure such as a jam.

The processing operation at the time of confirming the recovery of the transport failure of the coin processing unit thus configured will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Now, as a work to recover the transport trouble, the staff members remove the jammed coins. When the staff work is completed, the staff presses the reset key 37 to put the coin processing unit in the initial state (first to second steps 41 to 42).

At this time, the transport confirmation detection sensor S detects the presence or absence of a transport fault such as a residual jam in the transport system, and if there is no transport fault, all six coins are circulated as a circulation process for obtaining mechanical recovery confirmation. Withdraw money one by one for each type of money. In addition to this, on the banknote side, in order to check the internal banknote storage state, for example, 5 with 10,000 yen bills and 10 with 1,000 yen bills are withdrawn, for a total withdrawal of 60666 yen. (Third to fourth steps 43 to 44).

Then, the coin is normally dispensed to the coin inlet / outlet 16,
If the banknotes are normally dispensed to the banknote inlet / outlet port 17 and both sides detect that there is no transport obstacle, it can be confirmed that each of the dispensing paths is normal, and these coins and banknotes are returned to their original storage units. Deposit processing (5th-6th steps 45-
46).

During this depositing process, the coins are normally deposited in the original coin storage unit 26, the banknotes are normally deposited in the original banknote storage unit (not shown), and if it is detected that there is no conveyance obstacle in both, After confirming that the deposit path is normal, the recovery operation ends (seventh step 47).

However, after the initial state at the end of the clerk work immediately after pressing the reset key 37 described above, when a transport failure is still detected, and withdrawal that was circulated and transported for the purpose of confirming the execution of the normal transport operation When a transport failure is detected in the transport process and the deposit transport process, it is determined that there is a transport fault such as an unidentified residual jam, and the transport staff removes the transport fault each time (eighth step 48).

For this reason, it is possible to detect the quality of the circulating transportation state and accurately grasp the state of restoration / non-restoration, and as in the present situation, there will be no subsequent transportation failure after the restoration processing by the staff. In addition, a single clerk's work can be used for complete recovery, and the clerk's recovery work efficiency improves.

As described above, since the execution confirmation of the transport operation can be mechanically obtained in addition to the staff processing, the apparatus can be completely restored and has high reliability.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-mentioned one embodiment, the money handling apparatus with the transfer failure recovery confirmation function of the present invention corresponds to the automatic teller machine 11 of the embodiment, and hereinafter, similarly, the deposit port is , The coin inlet / outlet 16 and the coin inlet / outlet 17, the storage unit corresponds to the coin storage unit 26, the input means corresponds to the reset key 37, and the circulation means corresponds to the deposit / withdrawal transfer path and its drive motor M. Correspondingly, the detection means corresponds to the conveyance confirmation detection sensor S and the CPU 34, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

 The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view of a coin processing unit, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of an automatic teller machine, and FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of the coin processing unit, FIG. 4 is a flowchart for confirming restoration. 11 …… Cash dispenser, 16 …… Coin entrance / exit 17 …… Banknote entrance, 26 …… Coin storage 34 …… CPU, 37 …… Reset key S …… Transport confirmation sensor

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A money handling apparatus having a circulation type money handling unit for storing deposited money in a denomination according to a denomination through a depositing path and discharging the dispensed money fed out from the storing section through the dispensing path. Then, based on the input of the input means for inputting a withdrawal command to the money in the storage section, and the input of the input means, the money of all denominations is withdrawn every predetermined number and discharged to the deposit port. A transport failure recovery confirmation function that includes a circulation unit that captures the money discharged into the deposit port and circulates it in the storage unit for each denomination, and a detection unit that detects whether the circulation state of the money by the circulation unit is good or bad. Money handling equipment.