JP2689742B2 - Passbook printer - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a passbook printer in a bank terminal device and a passbook printer suitable for this passbook.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a passbook printer mounted on an automatic cash handling apparatus or a passbook printer used by a staff member of a bank or the like, a machine automatically turns a page as necessary to find a necessary location. Print. The passbooks handled by this passbook printer are roughly classified into two types of passbooks, that is, a binding part is opened in the vertical direction with respect to the printing direction, that is, a vertical opening passbook and a horizontal opening in the vertical direction.

Therefore, some of the passbook printers have a mechanism capable of turning the pages of these two types of passbooks.

That is, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-9564, a carrying means for carrying a passbook in an open state has a four-way structure in the carrying direction of the passbook carried by the carrying means.
A turning body is arranged at an angle of 5 °, and the turning body is rotated by contacting the page of the passbook so as to inflate the page and then moved in the direction of about 45 ° to open the page. At this time, the push-up plate provided on the non-rolling body side of the passbook slightly bends the page of the passbook in a convex shape so that two sheets are not rolled up.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the above-mentioned prior art, the turning roller for opening the passbook has two operations, namely, a rotational movement and a translational movement in a direction of about 45 ° with respect to the conveying direction of the passbook. Since it is done, the mechanism becomes complicated, and
No consideration was given to processing time, and there were two problems: high cost and slow processing.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a passbook handling device which has a simple mechanism, is highly reliable, has a short processing time, and is low in cost for a passbook opened from left to right.

[0007]

The above-mentioned object is to arrange the page-changing rollers in a slanting manner with respect to the passbook, and to make the shape of the guide near the page-changing rollers a twisted curved surface and a flat surface. And the combination of the protrusions, and the arrangement of the guide roller and the conveying roller that face each other with the guide and the page changing roller sandwiched therebetween.

[0008]

When the page of the passbook is changed, a hollow page change roller, which is provided obliquely with respect to the conveying direction, is rotated and turned up while contacting the top page of the passbook. At this time, since the page is constrained by the guide and the conveyance roller in the page changing direction, it is possible to reliably separate one sheet. When the page is turned, the passbook is conveyed so as to collide with a guide provided obliquely with respect to the conveying direction. As a result, the page obliquely collides with the guide and receives a reaction force. When the angle between the conveyance direction and the guide surface direction is θ, the direction of the reaction force is to turn the page .
It can be divided into a direction to try and a direction to buckle the page.
The magnitude of this reaction force is the product of the collision force, sin θ and the coefficient of restitution.
It can be approximated and is proportional to θ in the range of 0 ° ≦ θ ≦ 90 °.
This θ is small at the point where the page collides with the guide,
Larger as the page turns. Guy from page
Since the force applied to the window is the largest at the time of a collision,
Use a guide shape that reduces θ so that the force is minimized.
By doing so, it is possible to prevent page buckling during a collision.
It becomes possible. Also, join the guide from the page after the collision
The transport force is the main force. The force to turn the page is conveyed
It can be approximated by the product of the force and sin θ and cos θ. Therefore, the page
As the replacement progresses, θ increases and approaches 45 °.
Therefore, the power to turn pages gradually increases, and page change
The movement is smooth. Also, the guide shape is twisted
Page, it helps to flip and flip pages.
Shape. In addition, the protrusion of the guide facing the transport path
Has the effect of extending the bulged page by changing the page
doing.

[0009]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a partial cross-sectional plan view of a page changing section, which is a main part of an embodiment of the passbook handling apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a partial side view of FIG.

A conveying path is formed by the side frame 1, the side frame 2, the first guide 4, the second guide 5 and the third guide 6. The page changing roller 7 is driven by a motor 8. The page changing roller 7 is
It is arranged obliquely with respect to the transport direction A. Further, the second guide has a shape that is oblique to the transport direction A and has a twisted curved surface. Transport rollers 9, 10, 11, 1
2, 13, 14, 15, 16 are leaf springs 17,
It is supported by 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

As shown in FIG. 2, the second guide 5 intersects with the first guide 4 by a portion 5c parallel to the first guide 4, a portion 5b forming a twisted curved surface. a flat portion 5a standing as, consists projections 5 d. The third guide 6 is composed of a portion 6b that is parallel to the first guide and a portion 6a that is not parallel to the first guide 4 .

FIG. 3 shows a bankbook handled. This passbook is generally called a left-right open passbook, and the binding portion 42 is parallel to the transport direction A. The turning direction B is orthogonal to the carrying direction, and the up-down direction of the print 43 is parallel to the carrying direction.

Next, the main operation will be described with reference to FIGS.

The left-right opened passbook 41 is inserted and stopped at a predetermined position (FIG. 4). Page 41a trying to turn
In order to turn the page 41a, the page changing roller 7, the conveying roller 11 and the third guide b constrain the page 41a.
Is buckled and largely deformed, and is turned up (FIG. 5). Subsequently, the passbook 41 is moved in the discharge direction C.
At this time, the back page 41b of the page 41a is lifted by the flat surface portion 5a of the second guide 5, and then is twisted and rotated in the page turning direction B by the twisted curved surface portion 5b (FIG. 6). In the figure, it is considered that the page 4b and the guide 5b mechanically cause a collision phenomenon. At this collision point X, as described above, the page 41a
Moment M that tries to buckle, a force Fb that tries to buckle the page 41a in the in-plane direction, and a moment m that is orthogonal to the moment M act. The buckling force Fb is affected by the distance between the contact point X and the stitch portion 42 and the collision angle θ between the guide 5b and the page 41a. Therefore, the collision angle θ is (0 ° ≦ θ ≦ 90
The larger (in degrees), the greater the buckling force Fb. Therefore, in the shape of the guide 5b, it is necessary to keep the θ as small as possible, but it is also necessary to make the space required for the device as small as possible. For this purpose, the guide 5b has a curved shape such that the collision angle θ gradually increases. Further, in order to shorten the turning time of the page 4, the guide 5b is
It has a twisted shape. Further, since the displacement m is caused by the moment m, the protrusion 5d of the guide 5 shown in FIG. 2 is required. When the shift occurs, a bulge occurs in the vicinity of the stitch portion of the passbook. When the bulge is pressed by the protrusion 5d so as to be crushed, as a result, the shift angle α becomes almost 0 degree. The deviation angle not only adversely affects the printing accuracy, but also causes a jam during conveyance.

Further, when it is conveyed in the C direction, page 41
The back page 41b of a appears on the front side, and the page change is completed (FIG. 7).

Next, a case where the above operation is viewed from the side of the main part of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

The left-right opened passbook 41 is conveyed to a predetermined position and stopped (FIG. 8).

Next, the friction portion 7 of the page changing roller 7
while rotating a is frictionally contact with the passbook, increased turning the pages 41a of the passing book 41. At this time, page 41a includes a transport roller 11, is restrained by the third guide 6 (Fig. 9). In addition, proceeds the rotation of the page replacement roller 7, page 41a is turned up (Figure 10). Then, when discharged through book 41 in the direction C, page 41a is raised by the flat portion 5a of the second guide 5, torsional curved portion 5b, is caused to twist rotation (Figure 11). further,
The passbook 41 is conveyed in the C direction, and the page change is completed (FIG. 12). FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the passbook printer of the present invention. Basically, the printer of the present invention is configured such that the transport path including the insertion port 58 and the paper pan 4 and the transport rollers 11, 15, 1 driven by the transport drive motor 51.
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A conveying system consisting of 2, 27, and sensors 56,54,55 for recognizing the presence or absence of 1 such as passbook, a sign-shaped portion 52, an optical character recognition unit 53 for reading the information such as a bar code, magnetic stripe a magnetic information recognition sensor 57 such as a magnetic head for reading information etc., pages of a magnetic information recognition unit 44, a page replacement roller 7 and the paper guide 5, 6 or the like driven by the page replacement motor 8 for page replacement Replacement unit, interface unit 46, and operation unit 47
The information operating unit 48 and an information input / output control unit for exchanging information with a power source unit and an external computer (not shown).

FIG. 14 shows a specific example of the page changing roller according to the embodiment of the present invention. The page changing roller 7 includes the core 1
11 and a frictional contact portion 112. The frictional contact portion 112 is a hollow elastic body structure made of a high-friction member such as chloroprene or natural rubber as a structure capable of elastically deforming the change in the passbook thickness. The frictional contact portion 112 is
The second bending surface 115 having a first curved surface portion 114 having a first outer curve of the second outer curve, mainly the shape is determined. In addition, the first and second curved portions 1
14 and 115 may be straight lines instead of curved lines. Further, the cored bar portion 111 is made of a sintered alloy such as iron having a low coefficient of friction with a medium such as paper.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, the page change of the left-right opened passbook can be performed with high reliability by a simple structure. Therefore, with respect to the passbook, it is possible to automatically print information covering a large number of pages.

In the present embodiment, a passbook is used for explanation, but it is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to a booklet such as a passbook in which many sheets of paper are bound.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a page changing unit of a passbook printer.

FIG. 2 is a side view of a page changing unit of the passbook printer.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a passbook

FIG. 4 is a plan view illustrating a page change operation.

FIG. 5 is a plan view 2 for explaining a page changing operation.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the page change operation explanation.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a page changing operation explanatory view.

FIG. 8 is a side view for explaining a page change operation.

FIG. 9 is a side view 2 for explaining a page changing operation.

FIG. 10 is a side view 3 for explaining a page changing operation.

FIG. 11 is a side view for explaining a page change operation.

FIG. 12 is a side view for explaining a page change operation.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a passbook printer configuration.

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of a page changing roller.

[Explanation of symbols]

4 ... Paper pan, 5 ... Paper guide, 6 ... Paper guide, 7 ... Page change roller, 41 ... Left and right open passbook, 47
... operation unit, 48 ... information operation unit, 52 ... printing unit, 57 ... magnetic information recognition sensor, 111 ... core metal unit, 112 ... friction contact unit

Front Page Continuation (72) Inventor Masataka Kawachi 502 Kintate-cho, Tsuchiura-shi, Ibaraki Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-2-200496 (JP, A)

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] And printing means for printing on 1. A passing book, a page replacement means for performing <br/> page replacement of the passbook, to convey the passbook
Conveying means that, form a conveying path for conveying by the conveying means
In a passbook printer including a guide, the guide is a first guide forming a bottom surface of the transport path.
And a twisted curve that is skewed to the transport direction.
A second guide with a surface and this second guide and transport
Such as a third guide that is placed a certain distance in the direction
A passbook printer. 2. A pre-Symbol third guide relative to the direction perpendicular to the passbook in the transport direction, the page of the passbook first
請 to out-of-plane direction of the guide forming the deformation behavior free space
The passbook printer according to claim 1 . 3. A pre-Symbol second guide of the first guide side passbook printer according to claim 2 in which there is a local protrusion. 4. A near the front Stories second guide torsional curved, arranged with means for restraining the seam portion near the passbook 請
The passbook printer according to claim 2 .