JP2680486B2 - Banknote counting machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill counting machine for counting bills and paying them out.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A bill counting machine of this type is one in which bills to be inserted into a stacker unit are fed out and conveyed one by one, and after discriminating the denomination, authenticity, etc. of the bills, the bills are successively collected in a stacking unit. What is known is. The function of such a banknote counter is to process banknotes of almost the same denomination, and detect banknotes of different denominations mixed in them (error stop when different denominations are detected. ), Take the desired number of banknotes of the same denomination
It was protruding (batch processing).

[0003]

By the way, since the above-mentioned bill counting machine does not have a function of presetting the amount of money, the bills loaded in the stacker section (a group of bills of almost the same denomination) When counting and taking out a desired amount of bills, both the denomination and the number of bills are designated in advance, and the bills are discriminated based on these designated conditions (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-91794). ). Therefore,
In the banknote counting machine as described above, if the desired amount of money is preset and the counting is determined, for example, when the desired amount of money is reached with the first one, at the time when the first banknote is determined. , Even if the feeding / conveying of the bills after that is stopped, a few bills have already been fed / conveyed to the conveying path during that period, and as a result, bills having a desired amount or more are accumulated in the accumulating unit. There was a problem of being lost. this is,
This is because the bills are being processed at high speed, so that when the comparison process ends, the next bill has been delivered from the stacker unit.

In order to solve such a problem, the amount of money is preset and the denomination of the bill to be discriminated,
You can also enter the number of bills to be paid out,
When inputting such a plurality of data, there is a problem that the operability of the bill counting machine itself is deteriorated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and prevents the banknotes having a preset value or more from being fed out from the stacker section, and thereby reliably assures only the banknotes of a preset desired amount. An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote counting machine which can be paid out to a user with good operability.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a feeding / conveying drive unit for feeding out bills one by one from a stacker unit and conveying the bills to a stacking unit via a conveyance path. In the banknote counter having a discriminating unit that discriminates the bills fed to the transport path and outputs the discrimination result as discrimination data, a preset mode designation key for designating a preset mode and a preset mode are designated. Discriminating denomination storage unit that stores the denomination of the first bill fed out from the stacker unit as the discriminating denomination when the operating unit has a numeric keypad for inputting a preset value that is the desired payout amount. And a discriminant number storage unit that stores the number of bills discriminated by the discriminating unit as the discriminant number every time the bill is discriminated, and a preset value, the denomination of the first bill. Counting number calculating means for calculating the counted number of bills to be discriminated by dividing, counting number storage section for storing the counting number calculated by the counting number calculation means, and preset mode designated by the operation section Under the condition,
And a counting process control unit for controlling the counting number storage unit,
Based on the discrimination data from the discriminating unit, the counting processing control unit determines whether or not the bill fed out from the stacker unit is the first bill, and when the bill is the first bill, the feeding / conveying is performed. The drive unit is temporarily stopped, and the counted number calculation unit is caused to calculate the counted number of bills to be discriminated by dividing the preset value by the denomination of the bill, and the counted number storage unit is caused to count the counted number. The first counting discrimination processing function for storing the number of bills and the second number of bills output from the stacker unit
In the subsequent cases, the number of bills is stored as the number of discriminated sheets in the discriminated number storage unit each time the discriminant data is input, and the discriminant data of the discriminator is stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit. Second counting determination processing function for determining whether the determined number of coins matches the determined number of denominations and whether the number of discriminated numbers matches the counted number of sheets stored in the counted number storage unit And further, by the first counting determination processing function, when the counted number of sheets calculated by dividing the preset value by the determination denomination is 1, the banknote counting determination processing is ended, and a natural number other than 1 If it is, Rutotomoni is stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit as determined denomination one th bill denomination against discrimination denomination storage unit, feeding and conveying drive
Section is driven again to feed and convey the second and subsequent bills.
In addition, when the discrimination data matches the discrimination denomination and the discriminated number does not coincide with the counted number by the second counting discrimination processing function, the feeding / conveying drive unit feeds and conveys the bill. On the other hand, when the discriminating data does not match the discriminating denomination or the discriminating number matches the counted number, the feeding / conveying drive unit is made to stop the feeding and conveying of the bills. Also, the first counting discrimination processing function
Is a count calculated by dividing the preset value by the discrimination denomination
When the number of sheets is not a natural number, an alarm signal is issued.
It may be.

[0007]

According to the present invention, it is determined whether or not the bill output from the stacker is the first bill based on the discrimination data from the discriminating unit, and when the bill is the first bill, it is fed out.・
The transport drive unit is temporarily stopped, and (1) the denomination of the bill is stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit as the discriminant denomination, and (2) a preset value is provided to the counted number calculation means for the denomination of the bill. When the counted number of bills to be discriminated is calculated by dividing by (3), when the counted number is 1, the bill discriminating process is ended, and when it is a natural number other than 1, the discriminant denomination storage unit On the other hand, the denomination of the first bill is stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit as the discriminant denomination. That is, with respect to the first denomination, the processes (1) to (3) for comparing whether or not the count value of the bill matches the preset value are performed by stopping the feeding / conveying drive unit. Therefore, when this banknote delivered from the stacker unit reaches the preset value with this one banknote, no more banknotes are delivered into the transport path, and thus the banknote of the preset desired amount of money is taken out to the stacking unit. You can

[0008] In addition, the bill, which is output from the stacker unit are two
If it is the first and subsequent sheets, every time the bill discrimination data is output, it is determined whether or not the discrimination data matches the discrimination denomination stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit, and the bill It is determined whether the total number of bills paid out from the stacker unit agrees with the preset value by determining whether the discriminated number of coins matches the counted number stored in the counted number storage unit. I made a decision. That is, it is determined whether or not the bill discriminating data matches the discriminating denomination (stored in the discriminating denomination storage unit), and the discriminating number of the bills is stored in the counted number (stored in the counted number storage unit). It is determined whether or not the bills paid out from the stacker unit match the preset value by the two comparisons and determinations of comparing whether the bills match with the preset value. It is possible to shorten the time required for. Therefore, when the total amount of bills matches the preset value, it is possible to immediately output an instruction to stop feeding / conveying, and to prevent bills having the preset value or more from being fed from the stacker unit. The preset desired amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. First, the schematic configuration of the bill counting machine will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a stacker unit in which banknotes (banknotes of almost the same denomination) are loaded in an accumulated state, and the stacker unit 1 has a lower portion at the bottom of the accumulated banknotes. A kicking-out roller 2 for kicking out the located banknote is provided.
The bills kicked out by the feeding roller 3 and the separating belt 4 are fed to the conveying path 5 one by one. The surface of the separating belt 4 on the side in contact with the feeding roller 3 is moved in the direction opposite to the direction in which the banknotes are conveyed, whereby two banknotes kicked out by the kicking roller 2 are superposed. In order to prevent the above, the sheets are separated one by one and sent to the conveyance path 5.

A discriminating unit 6 is provided in the middle of the conveying path 5. The discriminating unit 6 discriminates the denominations of the bills sent out one by one, and the bills are different denominations. Whether it is a bill of a denomination different from the majority of denominations loaded in the stacker unit 1 or not, it is determined whether or not it is a genuine note. At the end of the transport path 5, a collection vehicle 7 is installed.
Are provided, and the banknotes conveyed one by one by the stacking car 7 are stacked in the stacking unit 8. In FIG. 1, the reference numeral 9 is a detection sensor for detecting the presence or absence of banknotes in the stacker unit 1. Further, the bill counting machine includes an operation unit 10 (see FIG. 2) as an input unit, a display unit 11 as an output unit, and an alarm unit 1.
2 (see FIG. 2) are provided.

Next, a control mechanism for controlling the bill counter of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. The control mechanism has a counting process control unit 100, and inputs and outputs signals to and from the counting process control unit 100. The determination unit 6, the operation unit 10, the display unit 11, the alarm unit 12, and the determination information storage unit 1
3, a counted number calculation unit 14, a counted number storage unit 15, a stacker unit bill detection unit 16, and a feeding / conveying drive unit 17. Each of these components will be described.

[0012] Operation unit 10 includes a numeric keypad 10A, a money counting mode specifying key 10B, be one having a preset mode designation key 10C, by the amount counting mode designating key 10B, with respect to the bill counting machine in FIG. 1 1 is designated by the preset mode designation key 10C, and a preset designated (i.e., preset) desired amount of bills is paid out to the bill counting machine of FIG. The preset mode is specified. The desired payout amount (that is, a preset value) when the preset mode is designated is set by the ten keys 10A. Further, these keys 10A to 10C are operated by the operator.

The discriminating information storage unit 13 stores the discriminating number storage unit 13A which increments the "discrimination number" of the bills discriminated by the discriminating unit 6 by one each time the bills are discriminated.
Then, among the banknotes discriminated by the discriminating unit 6, after the discrimination is started, the discriminant denomination storage unit 13B that stores the data as a reference, that is, the “discriminant denomination” of the denomination of the first bill. I have. In addition, this discrimination denomination storage unit 13B
As the data to be stored in, for example, a pattern obtained by optically reading the first bill may be stored as it is, and denominations such as 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen may be stored. The counted number calculation unit 14 divides the desired amount of money set in the operation unit 10 by the denomination stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit 13B at the time when one bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 6, The number of bills to be discriminated by the discriminating unit 6 is calculated as the "counted number". Further, the counted number storage unit 15 stores the “counted number”, which is the number of bills to be discriminated, which is calculated by the counted number calculation means 14.

The stacker banknote detecting means 16 detects the presence or absence of banknotes in the stacker section 1 based on the detection signal output from the detection sensor 9. Feeding / transporting unit 1
Reference numeral 7 drives the kicking roller 2, the feeding roller 3, and the separation belt 4, and also drives a conveyor belt (not shown) that constitutes the conveyor path 5. By these drives, banknotes are transferred from the stacker unit 1. The bills are fed one by one and the bills are conveyed to the stacking unit 8 through the conveying path 5. On the other hand, the display unit 11 displays the total amount of bills discriminated by the discriminating unit 6 and the content of the error when an error occurs in the counting discrimination process. The alarm unit 12 informs the operator of the occurrence of an error by an alarm.

Next, the discriminating section 6, the operating section 10, and the display section 1
1, the alarm unit 12, the discrimination information storage unit 13, the counted number calculation unit 14, the counted number storage unit 15, the stacker unit bill detection unit 16, the control contents of the counting process control unit 100 for controlling the feeding / conveying drive unit 17. Will be described step by step with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In addition,
The flowchart shown in FIG. 3 is executed when the preset mode is designated by the preset mode designation key 10C.

<< Step 1 >> A drive signal for driving the kicking roller 2, the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance belt (not shown) of the conveyance path 5 is output to the feeding / conveying drive unit 17. To do. << Step 2 >> The discrimination data of the bill discriminated by the discrimination unit 6 is fetched. << Step 3 >> It is determined whether the discrimination data fetched in Step 2 is for the first bill or for the second and subsequent bills, and if YES (first bill), Step 4 If NO (second sheet or more), go to step 10.

<< Step 4 >> The kicking roller 2 for the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 output in Step 1 above,
The output of the drive signal for driving the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance path 5 is stopped. At this time, the kick roller 2, the feeding roller 3, and the separation belt 4 are configured to stop first with respect to the transport belt of the transport path 5, so that the output of the drive signal is stopped and then the stacker unit 1 is stopped. The bills of No. will not be delivered to the transport path 5. This also applies to step 12. << Step 5 >> The denomination of the bill is discriminated from the discrimination data fetched in Step 2. In this step 5, the discrimination data is compared with the reference data for the front and back sides of the thousand, five thousand, and ten thousand tickets that have been stored in advance. Species "). Further, the counting number calculating means 14 is caused to calculate the number of bills discriminated by the discriminating section 6. That is,
By calculating "preset amount of money ÷ discrimination type",
The number of bills to be paid out from the stacker unit 1 (“counted number”) is calculated. Further, the counted number calculated at this time is stored in the counted number storage unit 15.

<< Step 6 >> In the calculation of "preset amount / discrimination denomination" in step 5, it is determined whether or not "remainder" is present, that is, whether or not it is a natural number, and YES.
If it is (not a natural number), it is regarded as an abnormal one and the process proceeds to step 7. If it is NO (is a natural number), it is regarded as a normal one and the process proceeds to the next step 8. << Step 7 >> An alarm signal indicating that an abnormality has occurred is output to the display unit 11 and the alarm unit 12. << Step 8 >> It is judged whether or not the counted number is 1 based on the "counted number" which is the calculation result of the step 5, and in the case of YES, it is determined that the preset desired amount of bills has been paid out. Finish this flowchart,
In the case of NO, it is determined that the desired amount has not been reached yet, and the process proceeds to the next step 9.

<< Step 9 >> The discrimination denomination storage unit 13B stores the denomination of the first bill discriminated in step 5 as the discrimination denomination, and thereafter returns to the original step 2. << Step 10 >> It is determined whether or not the discrimination data acquired in Step 2 is the same as the denomination (see Step 9) of the first bill stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit 13B,
As a result, in the case of YES, the process proceeds to the next step 11, and in the case of NO, the process proceeds to step 7 to output an alarm signal indicating that an abnormality has occurred to the display unit 11 and the alarm unit 12, and The output of the drive signal for driving the kicking roller 2, the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveying path 5 to the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 is stopped. << Step 11 >> The number of discriminated bills is detected from the number of discrimination data fetched in the step 2, and the discriminated number storage unit 13A stores the discriminated number. That is, each time this step 11 is performed, the "discrimination number" stored in the discrimination number storage unit 13A is incremented by one. On the other hand, it is determined whether or not the "determined number" matches the "counted number" stored in the counted number storage unit 15 (see step 5). If YES, the process proceeds to the next step 12, or N
If O, go to step 13.

<< Step 12 >> The kicking roller 2 for the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 output in Step 1 above,
The output of the drive signal for driving the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance path 5 is stopped. << Step 13 >> Based on the output of the stacker section bill detecting means 16, it is judged whether or not there is a bill in the stacker section 1, and if YES, the process returns to the original step 1, and
If NO, go to the next step 14.

<< Step 14 >> The kicking roller 2 for the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 output in Step 1 above,
The output of the drive signal for driving the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance path 5 is stopped. << Step 15 >> The display unit 11 is caused to display the bills to be inserted into the empty stacker unit 1 so that the operator inserts new bills into the stacker unit 1. wait. << Step 16 >> Based on the output of the stacker banknote detecting means 16, it is determined whether or not a banknote has been inserted into the stacker section 1. If NO, wait for the insertion of banknotes, and if YES, the original step 1 Return to.

As described in detail above, according to the bill counting machine shown in the present embodiment, the process for comparing whether or not the count value of bills matches the preset value for the first denomination ( Steps 5 to 8) are performed by stopping the feeding / conveying drive unit (see Step 4). Therefore, when this banknote fed from the stacker unit 1 has a preset value No more bills are fed out into the transport path, so that the preset amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit 8.

In the present embodiment, steps 1 to 9 of the flowchart of FIG. 3 correspond to the "first counting determination processing function of the counting processing control section" shown in the claims. Also, steps 1 to 3, step 7, step 10
Nos. 16 to 16 indicate "the second of the counting processing control section".
Corresponding to "count determination processing function".

[0024]

As is apparent from the above description, the claims
According to the bill counting machine described in 1, regarding the first denomination,
Since the process of comparing whether or not the count value of the bills matches the preset value is performed by stopping the feeding / conveying drive unit, one bill of this bill fed from the stacker unit can be compared with the preset value. If the number of bills becomes less than this, no more bills will be fed into the transport path, and the preset desired amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit. On the other hand, the bill counting machine of the present invention is configured so that the preset desired amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit only by inputting the preset value, that is, the preset value and the amount of bills to be paid out. Since it is not necessary to input the seed and the number of sheets, high operability is obtained in this respect. Further, the bill meter according to claim 2.
According to some machines, the preset value is divided by the discrimination
If the counted number is not a natural number, that is, the preset
If there is an error in the amount of money, an alarm signal will be issued.
Therefore, it is possible to easily detect that an abnormality has occurred.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a bill counting machine.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control mechanism of the bill counting machine.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the control contents of a counting process control unit of the control mechanism shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 6 Discrimination Section 10 Operation Section 10A Numeric Keypad 10B Preset Mode Designation Key 13 Discrimination Information Storage Section 13A Discrimination Number Storage Section 13B Discrimination Kind Storage Section 14 Counted Number Calculation Means 15 Counted Number Storage Section 17 Feeding / Conveying Drive Section 100 Counting Processing Control Section

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A feeding / conveying drive unit for feeding out bills one by one from a stacker unit to convey the bills to a stacking unit via a conveyance path, and discriminating the bills fed out to the conveyance path. To input a preset mode designation key for designating a preset mode and a preset value, which is a desired amount of money to be paid out, when a bill counting machine having a discrimination unit for outputting a result as discrimination data is designated. A numeric keypad, a discrimination denomination storage unit that stores the denomination of the first bill fed from the stacker unit as a discrimination denomination, and the number of bills discriminated by the discrimination unit. The number of bills to be discriminated is calculated by dividing the preset number storage unit that stores the number of bills to be discriminated each time it is discriminated and the preset value by the denomination of the first bill. Counting number calculation means, a counting number storage section for storing the counting number calculated by the counting number calculation means, and the feeding / conveying drive section and the discriminating section on condition that the preset mode is designated by the operation section. , A discriminant denomination storage unit, a discriminated number storage unit, a counted number calculation unit, and a counting process control unit for controlling the counted number storage unit, wherein the counting process control unit is based on the discrimination data from the discriminating unit. , It is determined whether the bill fed out from the stacker unit is the first bill, and when the bill is the first bill, the feeding / conveying drive unit is temporarily stopped, and A first counting determination processing function of calculating a counted number of bills to be discriminated by dividing a preset value by the denomination of the bill and storing the counted number in a counted number storage unit; and a stacker unit Output from When the number of bills that have been made is the second or later , the number of bills is stored as the number of discriminations in the discrimination number storage unit each time the discrimination data is input, and the discrimination data of the discrimination unit is It is determined whether the bill matches the discriminant denomination stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit, and whether the discriminated number matches the counted number stored in the counted number storage unit. And a second counting determination processing function for determining, wherein the first counting determination processing function performs the bill counting determination processing when the counted number calculated by dividing the preset value by the determination denomination is 1. Exit if a natural number other than 1, Rutotomoni is stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit as determined denomination denomination one th bill against discrimination denomination storage unit, feeding
・ The transport drive unit is driven again to repeat the second and subsequent bills.
When the discriminating data coincides with the discriminating denomination and the discriminating number does not coincide with the counted number, the feeding / conveying drive unit is caused to carry out the feeding / conveying operation. The feeding / conveying operation is continued, and when the discriminating data does not match the discriminating denomination or the discriminating number matches the counted number, the feeding / conveying drive unit stops the feeding and conveying of the banknotes. And a bill counting machine. 2. The first count discrimination processing function is a preset
The number of coins calculated by dividing the
If there is a banknote count determination process,
If it is a number, the first bill in the discriminant denomination storage unit
If the denominations are stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit as the discrimination denominations,
In both cases, the feeding / conveying drive unit is driven again to feed the bill.
Send out, carry, and if not a natural number,
A banknote according to claim 1, wherein the banknote emits a boom signal.
Counter.