JP2716623B2 - Banknote deposit / withdrawal device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device mounted on an automatic cash transaction apparatus installed in a financial institution such as a bank, and more particularly to a banknote pay-in / pay-out having a batch cassette for loading and replenishing banknotes. It concerns the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 21 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a conventional banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus.
(Japanese Patent Application No. 1-223151). Reference numeral 130 denotes a banknote pay-in / pay-out device.
At the upper front side of 30 is provided a customer service port 131 for a customer to put in and take out bills. Reference numeral 132 denotes a discriminating unit provided for discriminating and detecting the authenticity, correctness, front and back, overlap (double running) of two or more banknotes, skew, and the like of the banknotes. Inside, it is located on the lower back side from the customer service port 131.

[0003] 133 is the back of the customer service port 131, the discrimination unit 1
This is a front / back sorting mechanism located on the upper side of the front side 32. The front and back sorting mechanism 133 has a function of sorting front and back bills to be sent to the customer service port 131 in the case of a bill determined to be a back side by a discrimination result of the discriminating unit 132 during a dispensing transaction described later. Reference numerals 134, 135, and 136 denote bill receiving / dispensing devices 130.
This is a denomination cassette that is located at the lower side of the inside and stores bills to be used for dispensing and stores bills that can be reused for dispensing among the deposited bills.

137, 138 and 139 are provided in the denomination cassettes 134, 135 and 136, and are stages on which bills are stacked and mounted.
8 and 139 move up and down in the denomination cassettes 134, 135 and 136 by receiving a driving force from a driving means such as a motor, not shown. 140 is a cassette 134, 13 by denomination
The banknotes are provided on the upper side of the banknotes 5 and 136, and store bills in the banknote cassettes 134, 135 and 136 at the time of replenishment and loading, and feed out banknotes from the banknote cassettes 134, 135 and 136 at the time of withdrawal transaction. It is a deposit and withdrawal unit.

[0005] Reference numerals 141, 142 and 143 denote bill extracting and separating mechanisms provided in the depositing and dispensing unit 140, and these bill extracting and separating mechanisms 141, 142 and 143 are used at the time of dispensing transaction.
The banknotes on the stages 137, 138, 139 are fed out from the upper side of the denomination cassettes 134, 135, 136. Reference numerals 144, 145, and 146 are temporary storage units provided in the cash-in / pay-out unit 140 and located on each of the denomination cassettes 134, 135, and 136. 147,148,149
Is a temporary storage section shutter that constitutes the temporary storage sections 144, 145, and 146.
Reference numerals 148 and 149 are provided so as to be slid so as to open and close the denomination cassettes 134, 135 and 136 by driving means (not shown).

At the time of loading and replenishment, the cassettes by denomination 134, 1
When storing banknotes in the storage units 35 and 136, first, the denomination cassettes 134, 135 and 136 are closed by the temporary storage unit shutters 147, 148 and 149, and the banknotes are stored on the temporary storage unit shutters 147, 148 and 149. Collect.
Then, the temporary holding section shutters 147, 148, and 149 are pulled out by a driving unit (not shown), and the denomination cassette 1
The banknotes are stored by opening the tops of 34, 135, and 136.

[0007] Reference numerals 150, 151, and 152 denote bill collecting mechanisms provided in the depositing / dispensing unit 140, and discharge and collect bills onto the closed batch holding section shutters 147, 148, and 149 in a closed state at the time of loading and refilling. Reference numeral 153 denotes a transport path for transporting bills in the depositing / dispensing unit 140. Bills fed by the bill extracting / separating mechanisms 141, 142, 143 at the time of withdrawal transaction are transported along the transport path 153 to the discrimination unit 13
It is sent to 2. In addition, at the time of loading and replenishment, the banknote stacking mechanisms 150, 151, and 152 temporarily store the paper in the holding units 144, 14.
The bills sent to 5, 146 are also conveyed through this conveying path 153.

Reference numeral 154 denotes a batch cassette located at the rear of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 130.
Banknotes of a plurality of denominations are collectively stored to load and replenish the banknotes 35 and 136. Reference numeral 155 denotes a collective stage in which bills of a plurality of denominations are collectively mounted and moved up and down in the collective cassette 154 by a drive mechanism (not shown).

Reference numeral 156 denotes a feeding mechanism for feeding bills on the batch stage 155. Reference numeral 157 denotes a paper money transfer path at the time of a dispensing transaction from the banknote take-out / separation mechanism corresponding to each of the denomination cassettes 134, 135, and 136 to the front / back assortment mechanism 133 via the discrimination unit 132, and 158 denotes a banknote delivery mechanism 156 of the batch cassette 154. The transport path of bills at the time of loading and replenishment through the discrimination unit 132 to the banknote stacking mechanisms 150, 151, and 152 corresponding to the denomination cassettes 134, 135, and 136. These transport paths 157 and 158 pass through the discrimination unit 132. Conveyance path 159 and deposit / withdrawal unit 140
Is shared with the transfer path 153.

[0010] That is, at the time of withdrawal transaction, a denomination cassette 134, 135 or 13 storing a predetermined denomination.
A predetermined number of bills are fed from 6 by the bill extracting / separating mechanisms 141, 142, 143. The bills fed by the bill extracting / separating mechanisms 141, 142, 143 are sent to the discriminating unit 132 to determine whether the bills are as specified, or both sides are discriminated. If so, the bills are sent to the front and back sorting mechanism 133. According to the determination result, the front and back sides are collected one by one, and are stacked in the front and back collection mechanism 133.

When the specified number of sheets have been discharged, the bills collected in the front and back sorting mechanism 133 are sent to the customer service port 131. At the time of loading and replenishment, the banknotes in the batch cassette 154 are fed out by the feeding mechanism 156 and the discrimination unit 13
Send to 2. The discriminating section 132 checks the denomination and the fitness of the bills sequentially fed and checks the running state, and based on the discrimination result, predetermined temporary holding sections 144 and 14.
5,146. At this time, the temporary hold shutter 1
47, 148 and 149 are denomination cassettes 134 and 13
5,136 are closed, and the temporary holding units 144,14
The bills fed to the trays 5 and 146 are accumulated on the temporary holding section shutters 147, 148 and 149.

When there are no more bills set in the batch cassette 154, the operation of the feeding mechanism 156 is stopped, and the last bills are temporarily stored in the shutters 147 and 148.
Alternatively, when it reaches 149, the transport operation by the transport path is also stopped, and the banknotes are stored by pulling out the temporary holding section shutters 147, 148, 149. Thereafter, the cassette stages 137, 138, and 139 are simultaneously lowered to predetermined positions, and the loading and replenishing operations are completed.

In the above-described conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device, a part of the banknote transport path 157 during the dispensing transaction and the banknote transport path 158 at the time of loading and replenishment share the same transport path. Thereby, in the automatic replenishment process automatically executed by detecting that the remaining amount of any of the bills in the denomination cassettes 134, 135, and 136 has become equal to or less than the predetermined number, the dispensing transaction is performed during the replenishment process. When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device receives a command to start a withdrawal transaction when the operation key of the customer is pressed by the customer, the replenishment process is temporarily suspended to shorten the waiting time of the customer,
Withdrawal transactions are given priority.

[0014]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device, a series of procedures described below are required as an operation of temporarily suspending the replenishment process after receiving the command of starting the withdrawal transaction. is there. (1) The batch removal / separation mechanism is stopped. (2) Send the bills in the transport path to the temporary holding unit. (3) The temporary holding shutter on which the banknotes are accumulated is opened to store the banknotes in the denomination cassette. (4) Close the temporary hold shutter.

[0015] For this reason, the customer is kept waiting during this process, and there is a problem that the customer is inconvenienced. In addition, if a failure such as a banknote jam occurs during the replenishment process, other transactions cannot be performed without recovery from the failure such as removal of the jammed banknote. However, since it takes a lot of time to recover from a failure, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device and the automatic teller machine equipped with the banknote pay-in / pay-out device cannot operate during that time, and there is a problem that the customer waits.

FIGS. 22 to 24 are explanatory views showing the problems of the conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device.
When the bills are stored in 37, 138, and 139, the bills are accumulated in the temporary holding portions 144, 147, and 148 with their leading ends bent as shown in FIG. 22, and then the bills are opened by opening the temporarily holding shutters 147, 148, and 149. Is stored in the denomination cassettes 134, 135, and 136, at the time of a dispensing transaction, the bills whose leading end sides are bent as shown in FIG.
42 and 143 are jammed in the meshing portion between the feed roller 160 and the reverse roller 161 and cannot be fed out. If the leading end side of the bill to be fed as described above is bent, as shown in FIG. 24, the bill is largely skewed and jams on the side guide 162 of the denomination-specific bill extracting / separating mechanisms 141, 142, 143. I do.

As described above, when the dispensing of the banknotes becomes impossible or when a trouble such as a banknote jam occurs, the dispensing transaction is interrupted, and the dispensing transaction cannot be resumed unless the trouble such as the removal of the jam bill is restored. However, there is a problem in that a long time is required for recovery from a failure, so that the customer waits during that time. In particular, recently, automatic teller machines equipped with banknote depositing and dispensing devices have been operated on holidays such as Sundays and holidays, and financial institutions such as banks have outsourced the operation and monitored them remotely, so When the operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device is stopped due to a failure as described above, a clerk comes to work to recover from the failure, such as removing jammed banknotes, so that there is a problem that the customer must wait more time.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and performs a replenishment operation and a dispensing transaction at the same time. An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote pay-in / pay-out device that can reduce a waiting time of a customer and provide excellent customer service by enabling a recovery operation of a failure such as removal of a jam banknote generated during operation.

Further, even if a failure occurs during the dispensing transaction, the dispensing transaction can be continued without stopping the operation of the entire banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus, thereby shortening the waiting time of the customer and providing customer service. It is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote pay-in / pay-out device excellent in quality.

[0020]

In order to achieve this object, a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a batch cassette for collectively storing bills of a plurality of denominations, and a bill stored in the batch cassette. A collective banknote take-out means to be fed out, a plurality of denomination cassettes for storing banknotes to be dispensed to customers and receiving replenishment of banknotes from the batch cassette, and provided above the denomination cassette corresponding to each denomination cassette After temporarily accumulating the banknotes replenished from the batch cassette, a temporary holding unit for storing the banknotes in each denomination cassette, and provided below the denomination cassette corresponding to each denomination cassette, A denomination-specific bill extracting means for paying out bills in a denomination cassette, a customer service opening for paying bills to a customer, and bills to be dispensed for dispensing bills of the kind and amount indicated by the customer. First discriminating means for discriminating, second discriminating means for discriminating bills to be replenished for storing bills in a predetermined denomination cassette, and first discriminating means from denomination bill extracting means of each denomination cassette. And a banknote transport path for dispensing to the customer service port, and a banknote transport path for dispensing banknotes from the collective banknote extracting means of the collective cassette to the temporary holding unit of each denomination cassette through the second discriminating means. And an independent replenishment bill transport path.

In this bill receiving / dispensing apparatus, only the batch cassette, the collective bill taking-out means, the second discriminating means, and the temporary holding unit connected by the replenishment bill transport path are connected to the banknote by the bill transport path for payment. The type banknote take-out means, the first discrimination means, and the customer service opening may be independently and integrally drawable. Further, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the present invention includes a batch cassette that collectively stores banknotes of a plurality of denominations, a batch banknote take-out unit that feeds out the banknotes stored in the batch cassette, and a banknote that is to be paid out to a customer. A plurality of denomination cassettes for storing and receiving replenishment of banknotes from the batch cassette, and provided above the denomination cassette corresponding to each denomination cassette and temporarily accumulating bills to be replenished from the batch cassette A temporary storage unit for storing banknotes in each denomination cassette, and a first denomination banknote provided under the denomination cassette corresponding to each denomination cassette and feeding out the banknotes in each denomination cassette Take-out means, second denomination banknote take-out means provided above the denomination cassette corresponding to each denomination cassette, and feeding out the banknotes in each denomination cassette; , A discriminating means for discriminating bills to be dispensed for dispensing banknotes of a denomination and amount indicated by the customer, and discriminating means from the first denominated banknote extracting means of each denomination cassette. A first withdrawal banknote transport path leading to the customer service port, and a second withdrawal banknote transport path from the second denomination banknote removal means of each denomination cassette to the customer service port via the discriminating means; And a third bill transfer path for dispensing from the collective banknote take-out means of the collective cassette to the customer service port via the discriminating means, and the first, second, and third bill transfer paths for dispensing. Each having a detecting means for detecting whether or not a banknote is normally conveyed, when there is an abnormality in a conveyance state of a banknote in one banknote conveyance path for dispensing, another banknote conveyance path for dispensing; And transporting the bills.

[0022]

In the banknote pay-in / pay-out device having the above-mentioned construction, the banknote transport path for payment from the denomination banknote extracting means of each denomination cassette to the customer service port via the first discriminating means, and the collective banknote removal of the batch cassette Since it is independent of the replenishment bill transport path from the means to the temporary holding section of each denomination cassette through the second discriminating means, the replenishment operation and the dispensing transaction can be operated in parallel. In addition, only the batch cassette, the batch banknote take-out unit, the second discriminating unit, and the temporary holding unit connected by the replenishment banknote conveyance path can be integrally pulled out from the banknote pay-in / pay-out device, so that the banknotes can be billed even during a withdrawal transaction. It is possible to perform a recovery operation for a failure such as removal of a jam bill generated during the replenishment operation without stopping the operation of the entire cash-in / pay-out device.

Further, by providing two or more paper money transfer paths for dispensing, even if a failure such as a banknote conveyance error occurs in one paper money transfer path for payment during a payment transaction.
The banknote can be transported by another banknote transport path for payment without stopping the operation of the entire banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus.

[0024]

An embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes a banknote pay-in / pay-out device, on the upper front side of which is provided a customer service opening 2 for a customer to take in / out banknotes. FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing the configuration and operation of the customer service port 2.
a and a bill separating mechanism 2b that separates bills one by one.

The customer service opening 2 is a depositing position where the customer service opening shutter 3 shown in FIG. 2 (a) is opened and the customer waits for a bill to be inserted, and the customer service opening 2 shown in FIG. (C) a separating position in which the shutter 3 is closed, and the banknotes which are collectively inserted are separated one by one and sent into the apparatus;
The receiving position for receiving bills collectively from the front and back sorting mechanism described later, and the bills receiving from the front and back sorting mechanism shown in (d) collectively, then opening the customer service opening shutter 3 to collectively output bills to the customer. It stops at five positions: a withdrawal position to pay money, and a take-in position for transferring the banknote that the customer has forgotten to take into the take-in cassette 3a as shown in (e).

The movement to each position is driven by a motor (not shown). In order to detect the position of each position, a sensor (not shown) is provided corresponding to each position. Returning to FIG. 1, reference numeral 4 indicates the authenticity, validity, front and back,
A discriminating unit provided for discriminating and detecting two or more sheets (overrun), skew, and the like. The discriminating unit 4 is located in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 at a position below and behind the service port 2. positioned.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a front / back assembling mechanism located at the back of the service port 2 and above the discrimination section 4. The front and back sorting mechanism 5 switches the traveling path by operating a separating blade 6 by driving a magnet (not shown) in the case of a banknote determined to be a back side by a discrimination result of the discriminating unit 4 during a dispensing transaction described later. And a function to arrange the front and back of the bills to be sent to the customer service opening 2.

Reference numerals 7, 8, and 9 are located on the lower side of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 and store banknotes used for dispensing.
This is a denomination cassette that stores bills that can be reused for dispensing among the deposited bills. Here, the denomination cassette 7 is a ten-yen ticket cassette for storing ten-thousand-yen notes, the denomination cassette 8 is a thousand-yen ticket cassette for storing one-thousand-yen notes, and the denomination cassette 9 is five of the deposited bills. The bill is a non-returnable banknote such as a 1,000-yen note, and a damaged-notes cassette for storing banknotes that are suitable for depositing but are not reusable for dispensing among the 1,000-yen note and the 10,000-yen note.

Numerals 10, 11, and 12 are provided in the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 and are stages on which bills are stacked and mounted. The cassettes 7, 8 and 9 are moved up and down by receiving the driving force. 13a, 13b, 13c
Are full detectors provided on the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9, respectively, for detecting the fullness of stored bills;
b and 14c are provided in denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9, respectively, and are near full detectors for detecting near full of stored bills, and 15a, 15b, and 15c are denomination cassettes 7,
End detectors provided at 8 and 9 for detecting the end of the stored bills. These detectors are constituted by optical sensors and serve as means for managing the amount of bills in each denomination cassette.

Reference numerals 16, 17, and 18 denote cassettes 7,
A denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanism provided at the lower side of 8, 9 and includes a pickup roller, a feed roller, a separation roller, and the like driven by a motor (not shown). Here, the denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanism 16 is a banknote-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanism 1.
Reference numeral 7 denotes a thousand-note extracting / separating mechanism, and denomination-specific bill extracting / separating mechanism 18 denotes a damaged-note extracting / separating mechanism. At the time of the withdrawal transaction, the stages 10, 11, and 12 are positioned at the lowermost positions 10a, 11a, and 12a shown in FIG. From the lower sheet, the denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanisms 16, 17, 18 feed out one sheet at a time.

Numeral 19 is provided on the upper side of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9, and is used to store bills in the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 at the time of deposit transaction, replenishment, and loading, and at the time of collection. It is a deposit and withdrawal unit for dispensing bills from 7, 8, and 9. Reference numerals 20, 21 and 22 denote bill separating / separating mechanisms provided in the depositing / dispensing unit 19, and when collecting bills from the respective cassettes 7, 8 and 9, the stage is controlled by the bill separating / separating mechanisms 20, 21, 22. 10,
The bills on 11 and 12 are paid out from the upper side of the denomination cassettes 7, 8 and 9.

Reference numerals 23, 24, and 25 denote temporary storage units provided in the deposit and withdrawal unit 19 and located on the respective cassettes 7, 8, and 9 for each denomination. 26, 27 and 28 are the temporary holding units 2
The temporary storage shutters 3, 24, and 25 are configured such that the temporary storage shutters 26, 27, and 28 are slid so as to open and close the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 by driving means (not shown). It is provided in.

When storing banknotes in the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9, first, the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 are closed by the temporary storage shutters 26, 27, and 28. , 27 and 28 are stacked.
Then, the temporary holding section shutters 26, 27, 28 are pulled out by driving means (not shown), and the denomination cassettes 7, 8,
The bill is stored by opening the top of the bill.

Reference numerals 29, 30, and 31 denote a banknote stacking mechanism provided in the depositing / dispensing unit 19.
The bills are released and accumulated on 27 and 28. Reference numeral 32 denotes a transport path for transporting banknotes in the depositing / dispensing unit 19, and the banknotes fed by the denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanisms 20, 21, and 22 are transported through the transport path 32 and sent to the discrimination unit 4. Reference numeral 33 denotes a separating gate for switching the transport direction of the bills transported on the transport path 32 toward the banknote stacking mechanism 29, and reference numeral 34 denotes a separating gate for switching the transport direction of the banknotes transported on the transport path 32 toward the banknote stacking mechanism 30. , 35 are dividing gates for switching the transport direction of the bills transported in the transport path 32 to the bill stacking mechanism 31. These separating gates are operated by magnets (not shown).

Reference numeral 36 denotes a batch cassette located at the rear of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1, in which banknotes of a plurality of denominations are collectively stored in order to load and replenish the banknotes in each of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9. I have. Reference numeral 37 denotes a collective stage in which banknotes of a plurality of denominations are collectively mounted and moved up and down in a collective cassette 36 by a drive mechanism (not shown).

A full detector 38 is provided in the batch cassette 36 and detects the fullness of stored bills. 39 is a near full detector provided in the batch cassette 36 and detects near full of stored bills. End detectors are provided on the cassette 36 and detect the end of the stored bills. Each of these detectors is constituted by an optical sensor and serves as a means for managing the amount of bills in the batch cassette 36.

A collective reject cassette 41 is provided integrally with the collective cassette 36, and stores banknotes discriminated from non-dispensable tickets at the time of replenishment, which will be described later, and banknotes discriminated from defective transport at the time of collection of damaged coins. Reference numeral 42 denotes a full detector which is provided in the batch reject cassette 41 and detects the fullness of stored bills.

Reference numeral 43 is provided on the upper side of the collective cassette 36 and the collective reject cassette 41, and is used to feed out banknotes from the collective cassette 36, store banknotes in the collective cassette 36, and store banknotes in the collective reject cassette 41. This is a batch deposit / withdrawal unit. Reference numeral 44 denotes a collective bill extracting / separating mechanism provided in the collective deposit / dispensing unit 43. The collective bill extracting / separating mechanism 44 converts the bills stored in the collective cassette 36 into denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9.
The banknotes stacked and mounted on the stage 37 are fed out one by one in order to load and refill the banknotes.

Reference numeral 45 denotes a banknote stacking mechanism provided in the batch deposit / withdrawal unit 43. The banknote stacking mechanism 45 converts the banknotes collected from the denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9 into a stage 37.
It is fed into the batch cassette 36 so as to be integrated and mounted thereon. Reference numeral 46 denotes a reject bill releasing mechanism provided in the collective deposit / withdrawal unit 43.
Sends the banknotes discriminated as non-payable tickets at the time of replenishment and the banknotes discriminated as conveyance failure at the time of collecting the damaged bills into the collective reject cassette 41.

Reference numeral 47 denotes a simple discriminating unit provided in the collective deposit / dispensing unit 43 for discriminating the denomination and the transport state of the banknotes in the collective cassette 36 fed by the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44. The simple discriminating unit 47 is constituted by an optical sensor or the like including a light receiving and emitting element, discriminates double feed (double running) using transmitted light, and discriminates oblique feed from a change in signal due to intermittent light beams. It does not have a function of discriminating a magnetic pattern by a magnetic head for discriminating the authenticity of a bill as compared with the discriminating unit 4.

Reference numeral 48 denotes a banknote transport mechanism 45
And 49, a switching gate for switching the transport direction of the banknote to the batch reject cassette 41. Reference numeral 50 denotes a dispensing reject cassette located at the rear of the banknote depositing and dispensing apparatus 1 and above the collective depositing and dispensing unit 43. The withdrawal reject cassette 50 is a banknote that is not a designated denomination at the time of a withdrawal transaction, or that is discriminated as being unable to withdraw, or a banknote that has been discriminated as having a bad transport state at the time of collecting a 1,000-yen ticket and a 10,000-yen ticket. To store.

Reference numeral 51 denotes a full detector which is provided on the dispensing reject cassette 50 and detects the fullness of stored bills. 52 is a bill discharging mechanism for feeding bills to the dispensing reject cassette 50. 53 is a cassette 7 for each denomination,
8 and 9 through the discrimination unit 4 through the discriminating unit 4 to the front and back sorting mechanism 5 or the bill reject cassette 50 during the billing transaction.
Reference numeral 4 denotes a collective bill removal / separation mechanism 44 of the collective cassette 36.
From the batch reject cassette 41 via the simple discriminator 47
Alternatively, the bill stacking mechanism 2 of each of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9
In the transport path of the bills at the time of loading and replenishment reaching 9, 30, and 31, the transport path 54 of the bills at the time of loading and replenishing is completely independent of the transport path 53 of the bill at the time of the dispensing transaction. I have.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 having the above-described configuration includes an upper unit 1a and a lower unit 1b.
a comprises a customer service opening 3, a discriminating unit 4, a front and back sorting mechanism 5, a dispensing reject cassette 50, etc., and a lower unit 1b includes a depositing / dispensing unit 19, denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9, a collective depositing / dispensing unit 43, a collective cassette. Consists of 36 mag, 5
Reference numerals 5 and 56 denote paper money transport paths connecting the upper unit 1a and the lower unit 1b.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a banknote pay-in / pay-out device at the time of maintenance and inspection in this embodiment. In the lower unit 1b, a batch cassette 36 connected by the above-described banknote transport path 54 at the time of loading and replenishment is provided. Collective deposit and withdrawal unit 43,
The deposit and withdrawal unit 19 can be integrally pulled out from the back of the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 1. At this time, between the denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9, the discriminating unit 4, the front and back sorting mechanism 5, the customer service port 2, and the withdrawal reject cassette 50, which are connected by the bill transport path 53 at the time of the above-mentioned withdrawal transaction, Transport is possible.

Returning to FIG. 1, a door 57 is provided on the rear surface of the lower unit 1b, and is arranged such that by opening the lower unit 1b, the batch cassette 36 can be removed in the direction of arrow A without pulling out the lower unit 1b. In addition, the lower unit 1b is arranged so that each of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 can be removed by pulling out the lower unit 1b from an automatic teller machine described later.

The batch cassette 36 and each of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 are provided with a common lock, and the door of the cassette can be opened by using an audit key so that bills can be loaded and unloaded. . In addition, independent motors (not shown) are mounted on the upper unit 1a and the lower unit 1b as power sources for separating, stacking, and transporting banknotes, and a power transmission mechanism is disposed.

FIG. 4 is an external perspective view of an automatic teller machine equipped with the above-mentioned bill depositing / dispensing apparatus 1, and FIG. 5 is a control block diagram of the automatic teller machine. 1 is the above bill receiving / dispensing device, 5
Reference numeral 8 denotes a card reader / writer for performing processing such as identification of a card inserted by a customer and printing of the contents of a deposit / withdrawal transaction.
Reference numeral 9 denotes a passbook entry machine that performs processing such as identification of the passbook inserted by the customer and printing of the contents of the deposit / withdrawal transaction.

Reference numeral 60 denotes a customer operation unit comprising an operation key for inputting a deposit / withdrawal amount and a password, and a display unit for displaying illustrations and characters for the amount and operation guidance, and 61 a load, replenishment, and collection by a staff member. Internal operation composed of an operation key for inputting items and data corresponding to each transaction, and a display unit for displaying input data and processing results from the operation keys and guiding a staff operation in order to perform processing such as Department.

Reference numeral 62 denotes a control unit for controlling the above devices. Note that the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 mounted on the automatic teller machine shown in FIG. 4 is provided from the rear of the automatic teller machine so as to attach / detach each cassette for accommodating the banknotes and to remove paper jams at the time of transport jam. It is possible to withdraw. Next, an embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 to 9 based on procedures of a depositing transaction, a dispensing transaction, a replenishment process, and a collection process in the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 having the above configuration.

<Payment Transaction> When the customer presses the payment transaction key and inserts the card into the card slot or passbook passbook slot, communication is performed between the apparatus and the center, and it is confirmed that there is no problem. Then, the control unit 62 transmits a command for starting a depositing process to the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1.

When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 receives the command for starting the payment processing, it switches the internal state to the payment mode and waits for the customer to set the banknote. When it is detected that the customer has set a bill, the shutter 3 of the customer service port 2 is closed, and information on the presence of the service port banknote set is added to the status sense command periodically transmitted from the control unit 62 to respond to the response message. (Hereinafter referred to as a response).

Next, the control unit 62 transmits a deposit counting command, and instructs counting of the bills set in the customer service opening 2. Hereinafter, a processing procedure of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a flow of banknotes at the time of a deposit transaction. After a banknote is set in the service port 2, the service port shutter 3 is closed, and the service port 2 is driven by a motor (not shown). It is in the separation position as shown in FIG.

Then, the set bills are taken one by one into the apparatus by the separating mechanism 2b and sent to the discriminating section 4 by the transport path. The discrimination unit 4 sequentially detects the authenticity of the conveyed banknotes, discriminates whether it is good or bad, and detects the traveling state, and sends the bills backward. Those discriminated as counterfeit by the discriminating unit 4 are conveyed to the front and back sorting mechanism 5 and stacked one by one.

After all the bills in the service port 2 are sent to the discriminating section 4, the service port 2 is moved by a motor (not shown) as shown in FIG.
And the banknotes accumulated in the front and back sorting mechanism 5 are sent to the customer service opening 2. The bill sent to the customer service opening 2 is a so-called deposit reject bill. The banknotes judged to be genuine by the discriminating section 4 are sent to the route (c) by operating the separation gate 63.

Here, in the case of a banknote that can be reused for dispensing with a genuine 1,000-yen banknote, the 1,000-yen banknote separating gate 34 is operated and sent to the 1,000-yen banknote stacking mechanism 30, and the 1,000-yen banknote temporary holding unit 2
In the case of banknotes that are accumulated in the temporary holding section shutter 27 of No. 4 and can be reused for dispensing similarly with genuine ten-yen notes, the ten-yen note separation gate 33 is operated and sent to the ten-yen note accumulation mechanism 29. , Are accumulated in the temporary holding section shutter 26 of the ten-yen ticket temporary holding section 23.

In the case of a damaged or unpayable bill (for example, a 5,000 yen bill, a bill before reprinting), it is sent to the damaged bill accumulation mechanism 31 as a non-returnable bill, and temporarily stored in the damaged bill temporary holding unit 25. It is accumulated on the holding section shutter 28. When the payment counting process of the banknote set by the customer in the customer service opening 2 is completed by the above operation, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 returns a response of the payment counting end to the control unit 62, and the data is returned for each denomination as data. The counted number is separately added to the recycle banknotes and the non-recycle target banknotes.

The control unit 62 receives the data, calculates the amount of the denomination and the total amount, displays the amount on a CRT (not shown), counts this data as a deposit count, and stores it. When the customer confirms the amount displayed on the CRT (not shown) and presses a confirmation button (not shown), the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 receives the command and first accumulates it in the temporary holding sections 23, 24, 25 of the lower unit 1b. The deposited banknotes are stored in the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 by simultaneously pulling out the shutters 26, 27, and 28 of the temporary holding unit.

At this time, the stages 10, 11, and 12 are at positions where the uppermost bills stacked on the stages 10, 11, and 12 and the shutters 26, 27, and 28 maintain a predetermined distance. When the customer presses a cancel button (not shown), the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding units 23, 24, and 25 are removed from the denomination-specific banknote removal / separation mechanisms 20, 2.
The sheets are separated and fed one by one by 1 and 22, pass through the discrimination section 4, and are accumulated in the front and back sorting mechanism 5. Then, the service port 2 is set to a receiving position by a motor (not shown), and the banknotes accumulated in the front and back sorting mechanism 5 are sent to the service port 2 and returned to the customer.

<Withdrawal Transaction> FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a withdrawal transaction. A withdrawal transaction key is depressed by a customer, a card is inserted into a card insertion slot, and a password is entered. Enter the number. The control unit 62 transmits a command for starting a dispensing process to the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus 1.

When receiving the command to start the dispensing process, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 switches the internal state to the dispensing mode and waits for the instruction of the denomination and the number of the bills to be discharged. When the customer inputs, for example, an amount of 50,000 thousand, it is first determined whether or not the end detector 15a of the ten-yen bill cassette 7 and the end detector 15b of the thousand-yen bill cassette 8 have detected the end. If either one has detected the end, a response is returned with the information indicating that withdrawal is impossible.

When the end detection is not performed, assuming that the instruction of the number of dispensed money is m-million-yen ticket n-million-yen-million-yen bills, the m-million-yen bills are dispensed by operating the million-yen bill take-out / separation mechanism 16. At this time, the positions of the stages 10 and 11 are the lowest positions 10a,
11a. The fed banknotes are sent to the discriminating unit 4 via the transport path as indicated by the arrow in FIG. The discriminating unit 4 discriminates the front and back sides of the bill as specified, and if so, activates the separating gate 64 and sends it to the front and back sorting mechanism 5, and the separating gate 6 according to the front and back determination result of the discriminating unit 4.
Is operated, the front and back sides are sorted one by one, and are stacked in the front and back sorting mechanism 5.

When the discriminating section 4 discriminates the ticket from the one not specified or the one that cannot be dispensed, the separating gate 64 is operated to send the ticket to the dispensing reject cassette 50. Then, the payout is repeated from the ten-yen ticket cassette 7, and discrimination and accumulation are repeated as many times as necessary.

When the release of the ten-yen ticket is completed, the release of n thousand-yen tickets from the thousand-yen ticket cassette 8 is performed in the same manner as the ten-yen ticket.
When the discharge of the specified number of sheets is completed, the service port 2 is set to the receiving position by a motor (not shown), and the bills collected in the front and back sorting mechanism 5 are sent to the service port 2. Customer Service 2
Is set to the dispensing position by a motor (not shown), the customer service opening shutter 3 is opened, and the banknote is handed to the customer.
Close.

When the dispensing of the designated number of sheets from the control unit 62 is completed, a response of completion is returned, and the released denomination and the number of sheets are added as the data. The control unit 62 receives this, counts it as the number of payments, and stores it. With this, the processing of the withdrawal transaction is completed. <Replenishment> When the banker presses the replenishment key with the operation key of the internal operation unit 61, the control unit 62 receives this input and transmits a command for instructing the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 to start a replenishment operation.

When the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 receives the command for starting the replenishment operation, the internal state is switched to the replenishment mode, and the end detector 40 of the batch cassette 36 has not detected the end, that is, the bill to be replenished is set in advance. Make sure that If the end is detected, a response is returned with information indicating that the operation is disabled, and this process is stopped. When it is confirmed that the end is not detected, the replenishment operation is started.

The operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a flow of banknotes at the time of a replenishment process, in which the banknotes set in the batch cassette 36 are fed out one by one from the upper side by operating the batch banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44. It is conveyed as indicated by the arrow 8 and sent to the simple discriminating section 47. Simple discriminator 47
Then, the fed banknotes are sequentially sent to the travel path 55 by detecting the denomination, the fitness judgment, and the traveling state.

In the case of a banknote that can be loaded for withdrawal as a genuine one-thousand-yen note, the thousands-yen ticket separation gate 34 is operated and sent to the one-thousand-yen note accumulation mechanism 30 to temporarily store the one-thousand-yen note temporary holding unit 24. It is accumulated on the holding section shutter 27. In the case of a banknote that can be loaded as a withdrawal for a banknote, the banknote separating gate 33 is operated to send the banknote to the banknote stacking mechanism 29, and the banknote temporary storage section shutter 26 of the banknote banknote temporary storage section 23 is operated. Tally.

This operation is repeated until there are no more banknotes set in the batch cassette 36. In the middle of the operation, if the number of stacked sheets in either of the temporary holding units 23 and 24 reaches the holding allowable value (for example, 100). Suspends the operation of the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 and temporarily suspends the
The banknotes are stored by pulling out the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27. Thereafter, the stages 10 and 11 are lowered by a motor (not shown) by an amount corresponding to the hold allowable value. Thereafter, the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27 are closed, and the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 is operated again to repeat the replenishing operation.

If a banknote jam occurs during the operation of the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44, that is, during the replenishment operation, the jammed banknotes are transferred from the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 via the simple discriminating section 47 to the temporary holding sections 23, 24. , The batch cassette 36, the batch deposit / withdrawal unit 43, and the deposit / withdrawal unit 19 having the temporary holding units 23 and 24 are pulled out of the apparatus to remove the jam.

When the banknotes in the collective cassette 36 are exhausted and the end detector 40 detects the end, the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 stops, and the last banknote is
When the vehicle arrives at any one of 6 and 27, the transport operation by the transport path also stops. Then, the temporary holding section shutters 26, 27,
28 is opened and bills are moved to stages 10, 11, 12
The cassette stages 10, 11,
12 at the same time, the bills are denominated cassettes 7, 8, 9
And the replenishment operation ends.

The bill discriminated from the withdrawable ticket by the simple discriminating unit 47 is operated by a separating gate 49,
It is sent to the batch reject cassette 41. If the full detector 13a of the ten-yen ticket cassette 7 or the full detector 13b of the thousand-yen ticket cassette 8 detects a full state during the replenishment operation, the damaged-sheet separating gate 35 is operated and sent to the damaged-sheet stacking mechanism 31. Then, the temporary storage section shutter 28 of the damaged paper temporary storage section 25 is integrated.

Then, the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 is stopped, and when the last banknote reaches the damaged-note temporary holding unit 25, the transport operation by the transport path is also stopped. Then, as described above, the temporary holding section shutter is pulled out and the bills are stored in the damaged sheet cassette 9, and the replenishment operation ends. Bill receiving / dispensing device 1
Returns a replenishment completion response to the control unit 62 and adds the counted number of sheets loaded for each denomination as data thereof.

Thus, the replenishment operation is completed. <Loading> The banknotes set by the banker in the batch cassette 11 in a lump prior to the commencement of the work from the original operation unit 55
When the loading key is depressed by the operation key, the control unit 56 receives this input and transmits a command for instructing the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 to start a loading operation.

Upon receipt of the loading operation start command, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 switches the internal state in the same manner as in the replenishment mode and performs the same loading operation as the replenishment operation. <Recovery> When the employee presses the recovery key with the operation key of the internal operation unit 61, the control unit 62 receives this input and transmits a command for instructing the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 to start a recovery operation.

When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 receives the command to start the collecting operation, the internal state is switched to the collecting mode, and the end of all the cassettes 7, 8, and 9 is not detected. Type cassette 7,
Confirm that it exists in either of 8 and 9. If the end of all the denomination cassettes has been detected, a response is returned with information indicating that the collection operation is not possible, and this process is stopped.

When it is confirmed that the end is not detected in any one of the cassettes, the collecting operation is started. Hereinafter, the operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a collection process. First, the unfit-note extracting / separating mechanism 22 is operated to feed out the banknotes stored in the unfit-note cassette 9 one by one in order from the upper side and send them to the discriminating section 4 via the transport path 32 as shown by the arrow in FIG. The discriminating unit 4 discriminates the sent bills sequentially and detects the traveling state, and sends the bills backward.

As a result of the discrimination by the discriminating unit 4, the banknotes in which two or more sheets (overlapping), skew, etc. are detected are separated by the gate 4.
9 is actuated and sent to the batch reject cassette 41.
As a result of the discrimination, normal banknotes operate the separation gate 48,
It is sent to the collective stacking mechanism 45. The bills sent to the collective stacking mechanism 45 are sequentially stacked on the stage 37 of the collective cassette 36.

This operation is repeated until there are no more banknotes set in the unfit bill cassette 9.
When the number of stacked sheets of No. 7 reaches the allowable stacking value (for example, 100 sheets), the operation of the damaged sheet take-out and separation mechanism 22 is interrupted,
The stage 37 is lowered by a motor (not shown) by an amount corresponding to the permissible stacking value. When the stage 37 is lowered, the damaged sheet take-out / separation mechanism 22 is operated again to repeat the collecting operation.

When the end detector 15c of the damaged sheet cassette 9 detects the end, the bill is fed out from the 1000 yen note cassette 8 next. Overlap of two or more discrimination results of discrimination unit 4 (double running),
The banknote for which the skewing or the like has been detected is sent to the dispensing reject cassette 50 by operating the separation gate 63. As a result of the discrimination, the normal banknote repeats the same operation as the normal banknote of the damaged banknote until the end detector 15b of the 1,000 yen banknote cassette 8 detects the end.

When the end of the 1,000-yen ticket cassette 8 is detected, the same operation as that of the ten-yen ticket cassette 8 from the ten-yen ticket cassette 7 is executed. In this way, the banknotes of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 are accumulated while counting them in the collective cassette 36 in the order of unfit, 1,000 yen, and 10,000 yen. If the full detector 38 of the batch cassette 36 detects the full state during the collecting operation, the collecting operation is interrupted and the information is returned to the control unit 62.

The control unit 62 displays "Batch cassette full" on a display unit (not shown) and instructs to collect the banknotes stored in the batch cassette 36. The door 57 on the rear surface of the lower unit 1b is opened, the batch cassette 36 is pulled out, and the door of the batch cassette 36 is opened using the inspection key to take out all bills. When the collective cassette door is closed and the collective cassette 36 is set by the reverse operation of the above, and the door 57 is closed, the collecting operation is performed again.

As described above, when the end detector 15a of the ten-yen note cassette 7 detects the end, the ten-yen note take-out mechanism 2
When 0 stops and the last bill reaches the stage 37, the transport operation by the transport path also stops. The stage 37 is lowered, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage 37 are
6 and the collecting operation is completed.

After completing the above processing, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 returns a response indicating that the collection has been completed, and adds the counted number of sheets collected for each denomination as the data. In response to this, the control unit 62 counts and stores the number as the number of collected sheets. Thus, the processing of the collecting operation is completed. Each process described above is performed in the following procedure in actual operation.

Prior to the start of the business, the banknotes set in the batch cassette 36 in a lump from the original side are loaded into each denomination cassette by performing a loading process. After entering the business, deposit transactions, withdrawal transactions and the like are performed as needed. When the batch cassette 36 becomes near-end or end, the batch cassette 36 is removed from the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1, and the shortage banknotes are collected. The batch cassette 36 is set in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1, and replenishment processing enables continuation of the pay-out transaction. Even if the batch cassette 36 is taken out from the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1, depositing / dispensing transactions are possible, and there is no need to stop the operation.

Here, in the above-mentioned bill receiving / paying device 1,
The banknote transport path 53 during the dispensing transaction and the banknote transport path 54 during loading and replenishment are independent of each other, and there is no part that also serves as both. Therefore, the replenishing operation and the dispensing operation can be performed simultaneously. FIG. 10 is a time chart when the replenishment operation and the dispensing operation are performed simultaneously. In the replenishment operation, the banknotes are fed out of the batch cassette 36 by the batch banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 and the temporary holding units 23, 24 of the denomination cassettes 7, 8
When the number of sheets is accumulated, the time required for the number of accumulated sheets to reach the hold allowable number is T ₄ (= t ₃ −t ₀ or t ₉ −t ₅ ).

Stages 10 and 1 of cassettes 7 and 8 by type of money
1 is a temporary holding section 23, 2 in the home position.
4 temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27 and stages 10 and 1
The upper surface of the banknote 1 is positioned so as to keep a predetermined distance (the same applies to the case of the denomination cassette 9). Therefore, in the dispensing transaction, the stages 10, 11 are moved to the lowermost positions 10a, 10a. Time to lower to 11a is T
₁ (= t ₁ −t ₀ or t ₆ −t ₅ ).

In a withdrawal transaction, a customer instructed
Separate banknotes by denomination in cassettes 7 and 8
The time for driving out the mechanisms 16 and 17 is T_Two(= T_Two
-T ₁Or t₇-T₆). Stay withdrawal transaction
Pages 10 and 11 to the lowest positions 10a and 11a
Since it is descending, the temporary holding unit 23 in the replenishment operation,
24 accumulative bills are temporarily stored in cassettes 7 and 8 by denomination
When retracted by pulling out the shutters 26 and 27
The banknotes on the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27 stand up
On stage 10, 11 to avoid irregularities
The top of the banknotes stored in the
Stage 1 so that the distance between the
Time to raise 0,11 is T_Three(= T_Three-T_TwoOr
t₈-T₇).

From the above relationship, the withdrawal transaction and the replenishment operation are continuously performed.
In order to perform_Four> T₁+ T _Two+ T_ThreeCondition is required
It is important. Also, the paper on the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27
After the number of stacked papers reaches the hold allowance,
The time required to open and close shutters 26 and 27 is T
_Five(= T_Five-T_FourOr t_Ten-T₉), The stay
Pages 10 and 11 to the lowest positions 10a and 11a
Withdrawal transactions cannot be made unless they are falling, so customer replacement
Total time T of time and press time of transaction key and amount key
₆And T₆> T_Three(When raising stages 10 and 11
Interval) + T_Five(Required for opening and closing the temporary storage shutters 26 and 27.
Time) + T₁(Stage 10 and 11 are the lowest positive
Time to lower to 10a, 11a)
The replenishment operation can be performed during the withdrawal transaction without waiting for the customer.

The time T for lowering the stages 10 and 11 to the lowermost positions 10a and 11a first.
₁ (= t ₁ −t ₀ ) is T ₇ > T ₁ , where T ₇ is the time when the customer presses the transaction key or the amount key, and the customer does not wait. That is, the bills are accumulated on the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27 between t ₀ and t ₄ , and
₀ t ₁ the least significant stage 10, 11 from the home position during the position 10a, is lowered to 11a, and dispensing bills number of customer specified between t ₀ from t _1, from t ₂ t Temporary holding section shutter 26, 2 during ₃
Position of the top surface of the bill on the 7 and the stage 10, 11 is elevated to the stage 10, 11 so as to have a predetermined interval, then temporarily between t ₄ of t ₅ holding portion shutter 26, 27
Opened and the bills in denomination cassette 7,8 closes the housing after escrow unit shutter 26, a stage 10, 11 lowermost position 10a between t ₆ from t _5, 1
By lowering to 1a and performing the same operation as described above, the replenishment operation and the withdrawal transaction can be performed simultaneously and continuously.

As shown in FIG. 3, the batch cassette 36, the batch deposit / withdrawal unit 43, and the deposit / withdrawal unit 19, which are connected by the bill transport path 54 at the time of loading and replenishment, are integrally united from the back of the bill deposit / withdrawal device 1. It can be pulled out,
At this time, bills are conveyed among the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9, the discrimination unit 4, the front and back sorting mechanism 5, the customer service opening 3, and the dispensing reject cassette 50, which are connected by the bill conveyance path 53 during the dispensing transaction. Even if a failure such as a jam occurs during the replenishment operation, the dispensing transaction is not interrupted, and the collective cassette 36 and the collective deposit / withdrawal unit 43 connected by the above-described loading and replenishing bill transport path 54 are not interrupted. In addition, the deposit / withdrawal unit 19 can be pulled out to deal with the failure.

FIG. 11 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In the second embodiment, the same components as those of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to the first embodiment are used. For the numbered parts, almost the same configuration,
Since it has an effect, a detailed description thereof is omitted here. In the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the second embodiment, when some kind of trouble occurs at the time of withdrawal transaction, it becomes impossible to pay out the banknotes from the banknote extracting / separating mechanism 16, 17, 18 side by denomination. The banknotes in the respective cassettes 7, 8, and 9 are fed out by the denomination banknote separation / separation mechanisms 20, 21, 22 of the unit 19 to perform a withdrawal transaction.
Also, as described above, the denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanism 16,
In the case where the bills cannot be fed from the billing cassettes 17 and 18, the bills in the billing cassette are insufficient or the billing / withdrawing unit 19 has the bill-specific bill separating mechanism 20, 21, 21.
When the banknotes can no longer be fed from the two sides, a banknote of a single denomination is stored in the collective cassette 36, and if the denomination matches the denomination designated by the customer, the collective cassette 36 Withdrawal transaction using the banknotes stored in the banknote.

For this reason, the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus of the second embodiment is provided via the discriminating section 4 from the bill-specific bill extracting / separating mechanisms 16, 17, 18 located at the lower side of the bill-specific cassettes 7, 8, 9. The transport path of the first dispensing banknotes to the customer service opening 2, and the denomination banknote extracting / separating mechanism 20, 2 of the depositing / dispensing unit 19 located above the denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9
A second delivery banknote transport route from the first and second 22 through the discriminating unit 4 to the customer service port 2 and a third path from the collective banknote take-out and separation mechanism 44 of the collective cassette 36 to the customer service port 2 through the discriminating unit 4. A transport path for three dispensing banknotes with a transport path for dispensing banknotes is secured.

Reference numerals 65, 66, 67 and 68 denote transport motors. The transport motor 65 drives a transport path from a point F to a point G which reaches the dispensing reject cassette 50 or the front and back sorting mechanism 5 via the discrimination section 4. The transport motor 66 drives the transport path from the point D to the point E in the batch deposit / withdrawal unit 43. The transport motor 67 is connected to the point H in the deposit / withdrawal unit 19.
Is driven from to the point I. And the transport motor 6
Reference numeral 8 drives the transport path from point B to point C where the banknotes fed by the denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanisms 16, 17, and 18 are transported.

In each transport path, detectors 69 to 98 for monitoring the transport status of the banknotes are provided, and optically read the degree of skew of the banknotes, the interval, the remaining amount, and the like. Here, the detector 69 is provided in the transport path near the ticket removal / separation mechanism 16, and if a bill is not detected by the detector 69 even if a predetermined time has elapsed after the payment instruction for the ticket, It is considered that a feeding failure in the take-out / separation mechanism 16 has occurred. The detector 70 is provided on the transport path near the 1,000-note removal / separation mechanism 17, and when the bill is not detected by the detector 70 even after a predetermined time has passed after the payment of the 1,000-note is issued, the 1,000-note removal / separation mechanism is provided. It is considered that the feeding failure at 17 occurred. Note that the detector 71 is provided on the transport path near the damaged-note removing / separating mechanism 18, and in this embodiment, the denomination cassette 9 is used as a damaged-note cassette. If 9 is used for ten thousand or ten thousand tickets,
It is used in the same manner as the detectors 69 and 70.

The detector 72 is provided in the vicinity of the confluence of the transport path for the 1000-note and the transport path for the damaged note. In this embodiment, a predetermined time elapses after the bill is detected by the detector 70 when the 1000-note is advanced. If the detector 72 does not detect bills, the detector 7
It is considered that a failure such as a banknote jam has occurred in the transport path between 0 and the detector 72. The detector 73 is provided in the vicinity of the confluence of the transport path of the thousands and unfit bills and the transport path of the thousands of bills. When a bill is not detected in 73, it is considered that a failure such as a bill jam has occurred in the transport path between the detector 69 and the detector 73.

[0096] The five detectors monitor the transport state of the bills in the first dispensing bill transport path until they merge with the second and third dispensing bills transport path. 99 is a shutter provided between point C and point F, 100 is point I
And a shutter 101 provided between point E and point F. Reference numeral 101 denotes a shutter provided between point E and point H. The shutter 101 is operable in a direction indicated by an arrow X, an arrow Y, and an arrow Z by driving means (not shown). Open and close the transport path.

FIG. 12 is a control block diagram of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device in the second embodiment. The banknote depositing / dispensing device in the second embodiment is also controlled by the control unit 62 of the automatic teller machine described with reference to FIG.
Is controlled by a control signal or the like input to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 103 through the control unit. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 103 includes a microcomputer that controls the operation of the entire banknote pay-in / pay-out device, and its peripheral circuits.

The banknote depositing / dispensing device control section 103 has an I / O interface circuit 104, a batch cassette interface circuit 105, a ROM 106,
AM 107 is connected. The ROM 106 is a memory for storing an operation program of the bill receiving / dispensing device control unit 103. The RAM 107 is a banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 10
3 is a memory for temporarily storing parameters and the like necessary for the operation of Step 3.

A motor driver 108, a magnet driver 109, a switch reading circuit 110, a detector reading circuit 111, and a bill discrimination control unit 112 are connected to the I / O interface circuit 104. The motor driver 108 is connected to the motor group 113 of each unit of the apparatus and the motor group 114 provided in the batch cassette 36 and the batch deposit / withdrawal unit 43, and controls the driving of various motors including the above-mentioned transport motor group according to the operation mode. Circuit. The magnet driver 109 is connected to the magnet group 115 of each unit of the apparatus, and is a circuit for turning on or off each magnet for driving a separation gate or the like according to an operation mode.

The switch reading circuit 110 includes a switch group 116 of each unit of the apparatus and a switch group 11 of the batch cassette 36.
7 is a circuit for reading the presence / absence of the batch cassette 36, the denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9 and the dispensing reject cassette 50, and the state of a switch for detecting the position of each stage. The detector reading circuit 111 includes a detector group 118 provided in the batch cassette 36 and the batch deposit / withdrawal unit 43, and a detector group 118 of each unit of the apparatus.
19, a group of detectors provided in the transport path in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device for monitoring the running state of the banknotes, the batch cassette 36, the denomination cassettes 7, 8, 9 or the withdrawal reject cassette 50. This is a circuit that reads information from a group of detectors that monitor the state of accumulation of bills provided.

The bill discriminating section 112 includes the bill discriminating sensor group 12
0 and banknote discrimination sensor group 121 of collective deposit / withdrawal unit 43
It is connected to the. The banknote discrimination sensor group 120 includes various sensors provided inside the discrimination section 4, and the banknote discrimination sensor group 121 includes various sensors provided inside the simple discrimination section 47, and includes the discrimination section 4 or the simple discrimination section. Part 4
7 is a circuit provided for discriminatively detecting the authenticity, denomination, damage, front and back, heavy running, skewing, and the like of the banknote sent to 7.

The batch cassette interface circuit 105,
Cassette management memory 12 provided in batch cassette 36
2 is read and the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 10 is read.
3 and a circuit that updates the contents of the cassette management memory 122 in response to an instruction from the banknote depositing / dispensing device control unit 103. The cassette management memory 122 is configured by a semiconductor memory or the like which is backed up by a battery or the like and is directly accessed by the bill receiving / dispensing device control unit 103. The cassette management memory 122 is integrated with control means such as a microcomputer in addition to the above, and is configured to transmit and receive data to and from the banknote depositing / dispensing device control unit 103 via the batch cassette interface circuit 105. Is also good.

The memory used for the cassette management memory 122 is a semiconductor RA by battery backup.
In addition to M, a magnetic recording medium such as an EEPROM, a magnetic disk, a magnetic tape, or the like, from which data is not erased without supplying power, may be used. The cassette management memory 122 individually stores the number of banknotes stored in the batch cassette 36 for each denomination.

In addition, a count managing unit 123, a bill collecting unit 124, and a bill distributing unit 125 are provided to control various operations of the bill receiving / dispensing device control unit 103.
Each of these means is constituted by a sequence program for controlling the circuits of each section of the apparatus via the I / O interface circuit 104 in a predetermined procedure and controlling the execution of each operation.

The count management section 124 counts the bills stored in or distributed from the collective cassette 36 and controls the cassette management memory 122 each time it is updated. The bill collecting means 125 takes out and transports the bills stored in the denomination cassette,
To control the operation of collecting. When there is a shortage of bills in the denomination cassette, the bill distribution means 126 checks the number of denominations stored in the cassette management memory 122, and performs an operation of distributing and replenishing the necessary denominations to the denomination cassette within the range. Control.

Next, an outline of procedures of a depositing transaction, a dispensing transaction, a loading, a replenishing process, and a collecting process in the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus of the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. It should be noted that, in the second embodiment, a deposit transaction, a normal withdrawal transaction,
The procedure of loading, replenishment processing and collection processing is basically the same as in the first embodiment. <Payment Transaction> FIG. 13 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a flow of banknotes during a payment transaction.

The banknotes set in the service port 2 are taken into the apparatus one by one by the service port separation mechanism 2b and sent to the discriminating section 4 through the transport path. The discrimination unit 4 sequentially detects the authenticity of the conveyed banknotes, discriminates whether it is good or bad, and detects the traveling state, and sends the bills backward. What the discriminating unit 4 has determined to be a fake ticket is:
After being conveyed to the front and back sorting mechanism 5 and stacked one by one, all the banknotes set in the customer service port 2 are sent to the discrimination unit 4, and then the banknotes collected in the front and back sorting mechanism 5 are sent to the service port 2.

The bills judged to be genuine by the discriminating section 4 are sent to the deposit / withdrawal unit 19 by operating the separating gate 63. Note that the shutter 101 is open at the time of a deposit transaction. In the case of a banknote that can be reused for dispensing with a genuine 1,000-yen banknote, the thousands-yen banknote separation gate 34 is operated and sent to the 1,000-yen banknote stacking mechanism 30 to be stored in the 1,000-yen banknote temporary holding unit 24. In the case of a banknote that can be reused for dispensing with a genuine ten thousand-yen ticket, the ten-yen ticket separation gate 33 is operated, sent to the ten-yen ticket accumulation mechanism 29, and accumulated in the ten-yen ticket temporary holding unit 23.

In the case of damaged or non-withdrawable bills (for example, 5,000 yen bills, bills before reprinting), the bills are sent to the damaged bill accumulation mechanism 31 as non-returnable bills and accumulated in the damaged bill temporary holding unit 28. I do. Then, the deposited banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding units 23, 24, 25 are temporarily stored in the temporary holding unit shutters 26, 27, 2.
8 at the same time, the cassettes 7, 8,
Store in 9.

<Payment Transaction> FIG. 14 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing the flow of banknotes during a normal payment transaction.
Assuming that the instruction of the number of dispensed money is m-million-yen ticket n-million-yen ticket, the m-million-yen ticket is fed out by operating the ten-million-yen ticket take-out / separation mechanism 16. At this time, the positions of the stages 10 and 11 are the lowest positions 10a and 11a. Note that the shutter 99 is open at the time of withdrawal transaction.

The fed banknote is sent to the discriminating section 4 to discriminate whether the banknote is as specified or not. If it is as specified, the separating gate 64 is operated and the front and rear sorting mechanism 5 is operated.
, And the front and back sides are collected one by one and accumulated in the front and back collection mechanism 5. If the discriminating unit 4 discriminates the ticket from a ticket that is not as specified or that cannot be withdrawn, the separating gate 6
4 is sent to the dispensing reject cassette 50.

When the release of the ten-yen ticket is completed, the n-th-yen ticket n is released from the ten-yen ticket cassette 8 in the same manner as the ten-yen ticket.
When the feeding of the specified number of sheets is completed,
Is delivered to the customer service port 2 and handed over to the customer. At the time of the above withdrawal transaction, when dispensing a 10,000 yen ticket,
If the banknote is not conveyed to the detector 73 after passing through the detector 69, it is considered that a failure such as a paper jam between the detector 69 and the detector 73 has occurred.

In this case, in order to stop using the transport path from the point B to the point C, first, after confirming that no bills remain in the detectors 74 and 75, the transport motor 68 is stopped.
Shutter 99 that was open so that bills could pass through
Is closed by a driving means (not shown) so as to prevent the bill from passing therethrough. If bills remain in the detectors 74 and 75, the transport motors 68 and 65 are kept operating, and as soon as the bills pass the detector 75, the transport motor 68 is stopped and the shutter 99 is turned off. Put in a closed state.

The banknotes on the transport path from the point F to the point G operate only the transport motor 65 and, based on the result of the discrimination by the discriminating section 4 in the same manner as in the normal dispensing transaction, the banknote reordering mechanism 5 or the reject rejection. It is fed into the cassette 50. At this time, the total number of bills sent to the front and back sorting mechanism 5 before and after the occurrence of the failure is stored in a control unit (not shown).

Replenishment of the shortage with respect to the number specified by the customer is performed as follows. FIG. 17 is a schematic side view of a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus showing a first embodiment of a flow of banknotes when a failure occurs during a dispensing transaction, and FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing a processing flow in FIG. As described above, since the use of the transport path from the point B to the point C has been stopped, the denomination-specific banknote removal / separation mechanism 20 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 19,
It is assumed that a second delivery banknote transport path from the first and second through the identification unit 4 to the customer service opening 2 is used.

The shutter 100 in the closed state is opened (S1), and the multi-ticket take-out / separation mechanism 20 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 19 is operated (S2). (S
3). Then, when the separation and feeding of the shortage of the ten thousand tickets in response to the customer's request is completed (S4), the ten thousand ticket removal / separation mechanism 20 is stopped (S5). Deposit and withdrawal unit 1 if necessary
Activate the 1,000-note removal / separation mechanism 21 on the 9th side (S6, S
7), a predetermined number of thousands of coins are paid out and sent to the front and back sorting mechanism 5 through the discrimination section 4 (S8). Then, when the separation and feeding of the thousands is completed (S9), the separation and separation mechanism 2 of the thousand is removed.
1 is stopped (S10). The discrimination in the discriminating unit 4, the separation into the front and back sorting mechanism 5 or the withdrawal reject cassette 50 based on the discrimination result, and the sending of the bills from the front and back sorting mechanism 5 to the customer service port 2 are performed in the same manner as in the normal withdrawal transaction. Done.

FIG. 19 is a schematic side view of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a second embodiment of the flow of banknotes when a failure occurs during a withdrawal transaction, and FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in FIG. is there. In the second embodiment, bills cannot be fed out from the bill-specific bill extracting / separating mechanisms 16, 17, and 18, and bills in the cassettes 7, 8, and 9 are insufficient, and bills in the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 are classified. In the case where the banknotes cannot be paid out from the payout / separation mechanism 20, 21, 22 as well, the customer's instruction is only to withdraw a single denomination of only ten thousand notes, and the batch cassette 36 stores only ten thousand notes. It is operated when it is used for replenishing a million bills, and uses the transport path of the third payment bill from the collective bill removal / separation mechanism 44 of the collective deposit / withdrawal unit 43 to the customer service port 2 via the discrimination unit 4. It shall be.

The shutters 100 and 101 in the closed state are set to the open state (S11), the transport motors 66 and 67 are started, and the collective bill extracting / separating mechanism 44 of the collective deposit / withdrawal unit 43 is operated (S12, S13). Unfolded and pass through the discrimination unit 4
(S14). Then, when the separation and feeding of the shortage of the number of tickets in response to the customer's request is completed (S15), the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 is stopped (S16). The discrimination in the discrimination unit 4, the separation into the front and back sorting mechanism 5 or the withdrawal reject cassette 50 based on the discrimination result, and the transfer of the bills from the front and back sorting mechanism 5 to the customer service port 2 are performed in the same manner as in the normal withdrawal transaction. Done.

In addition, when the customer's instruction is to withdraw only a single denomination of only one thousand bills, and the batch cassette 36 stores only one thousand bills and is used for replenishing one thousand bills, the above-mentioned ten thousand bills are also required. Same as for tickets. <Loading and Replenishment> FIG. 15 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing the flow of banknotes during loading and replenishment processing.

By operating the collective bill extracting / separating mechanism 44, the bills set in the collective cassette 36 are fed out one by one from the upper side and sent to the simple discriminating section 47. In the simple discriminating section 47, the fed bills are sequentially sent to the deposit / withdrawal unit 19 by detecting the denomination, the damage, and the running state. Note that the shutter 101 is open during the loading and replenishing operations.

In the case of a banknote that can be loaded for withdrawal as a genuine one-thousand-yen note, the thousands-yen ticket separation gate 34 is operated and sent to the one-thousand-yen note accumulation mechanism 30 to be accumulated in the one-thousand-yen note temporary holding unit 24. I do. In the case of a banknote which can be loaded as a withdrawal as a true banknote, the banknote separating gate 33 is operated to send the banknote to the banknote stacking mechanism 29 and is stored in the banknote temporary storage unit 23.

In the middle, either one of the temporary holding units 23 and 24
When the number of stacked sheets reaches the hold allowable value, the operation of the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 is interrupted, and the
The bills are stored by pulling out the temporary storage shutters 26 and 27 of the storage units 3 and 24. Then, stage 10, 11
Is lowered by a motor not shown in the figure by an amount equivalent to the hold allowable value. Thereafter, the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27 are closed, and the collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 is operated again to repeat the replenishing operation.

When the banknotes in the batch cassette 36 are exhausted, the batch banknote take-out / separation mechanism 44 stops, and when the last banknote arrives in the temporary holding section 23 or 24, the transport operation by the transport path also stops, and the temporary holding section shutters 26 and 27 are stopped. Is pulled out, the bills are stored, the stages 10, 11 are lowered, and the loading and replenishing operations are completed. The bill discriminated by the simple discriminating unit 47 from the withdrawal-impossible ticket operates the switching gate 49 and is sent to the batch reject cassette 41.

<Recovery> FIG. 16 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing the flow of bills during the collecting process. First, the unfit-note extracting / separating mechanism 22 is operated to feed out the banknotes stored in the unfit-note cassette 9 one by one from the upper side and send them to the discrimination section 4. Note that the shutter 100 is in an open state during the collection operation. The discriminating unit 4 discriminates the sent bills sequentially and detects the traveling state, and sends the bills backward.

[0125] As a result of the discrimination by the discriminating section 4, the banknotes in which two or more sheets (overlapping), skew, etc. are detected are separated by the gate 4
9 is actuated and sent to the batch reject cassette 41.
As a result of the discrimination, the normal bill activates the switching gate 48,
It is sent to the collective stacking mechanism 45. The bills sent to the collective stacking mechanism 45 are sequentially stacked on the stage 37 of the collective cassette 36.

If the number of sheets stacked on the stage 37 reaches the allowable stacking value, the operation of the damaged sheet take-out / separation mechanism 22 is interrupted, and the stage 37 is lowered by an unillustrated motor by an amount corresponding to the allowable stacking number. When the value has dropped, the damaged-note take-out / separation mechanism 22 is operated again to repeat the collection operation. When the bills in the damaged cassette 9 are exhausted, the bills are fed out from the 1,000-yen bill cassette 8 next. The banknotes of which the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 4 is two or more, that is, the overlap (double running), the skew, and the like are detected, are activated by switching gates 63 and 64 and are sent to the dispensing reject cassette 50.

As a result of the discrimination, a normal banknote repeats the same operation as a normal banknote until the banknote in the 1000-yen banknote cassette 8 runs out. When the bills in the 1,000-yen ticket cassette 8 run out,
Next, the same operation as that of the 1,000-yen ticket cassette 8 is executed by the ten-yen ticket cassette 7. In this way, the banknotes of the denomination cassettes 7, 8, and 9 are accumulated while counting them in the collective cassette 36 in the order of unfit, 1,000 yen, and 10,000 yen.

When the bills in the ten-yen ticket cassette 7 run out,
When the ten-yen note take-out mechanism 20 stops and the last bill reaches the stage 37, the transport operation by the transport path also stops.
The stage 37 is lowered, the bills accumulated on the stage 37 are stored, and the collecting operation is completed.

[0129]

As described above, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to the present invention includes a banknote transfer path for payment from the denomination banknote separation / separation mechanism of each denomination cassette to the customer service port through the discriminating section, and a batch. A replenishment banknote transfer path is provided independently from a collective banknote take-out / separation mechanism of the cassette through a simple discrimination unit to a temporary holding unit of each denomination cassette.

In this banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus, only a batch cassette, a batch banknote take-out / branch mechanism, a simple discrimination section, and a temporary holding section connected by a replenishment banknote transfer path are provided.
The denomination-specific banknote take-out / separation mechanism, the discrimination unit, and the customer service port connected by the banknote transfer path for dispensing may be independently and integrally drawable. As described above, since the banknote transport path for dispensing and the banknote transport path for replenishment are independent, the replenishing operation and the dispensing transaction can be operated in parallel, and even during the replenishing operation, the dispensing operation can be performed. Since the gold transaction can be started, there is an effect that the customer does not have to wait until the replenishment operation is completed.

Further, only the batch cassette, the batch bill removal / separation mechanism, the simple discrimination unit and the temporary holding unit connected by the replenishment bill transport path can be integrally pulled out from the bill receiving / dispensing device, so that during the withdrawal transaction. It is also possible to carry out restoration work such as removal of jam bills generated in the replenishment operation without stopping the operation of the entire bill depositing and dispensing device,
This has the effect that the customer does not have to wait due to the suspension of the transaction.

Further, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the present invention can feed out the banknotes from both the upper and lower sides of each denomination cassette and send them to the discrimination section, and also send the banknotes stored in the batch cassette to the discrimination section. Since it can be used for dispensing, three banknote transfer paths for dispensing are secured, and even if failure such as banknote transfer abnormality occurs in one dispensing banknote transfer path during dispensing transaction The effect that bills can be transported by another bill transport path for dispensing without stopping the operation of the entire bill depositing and dispensing device, and the waiting time of the customer when a failure occurs during the dispensing transaction can be shortened. Having.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration and operation of a customer service entrance.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus during maintenance and inspection.

FIG. 4 is an external perspective view of the automatic teller machine.

FIG. 5 is a control block diagram of the automatic teller machine.

FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a withdrawal transaction.

FIG. 8 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during loading and replenishment processing.

FIG. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a collection process.

FIG. 10 is a time chart for simultaneously performing a withdrawal transaction and a replenishment process.

FIG. 11 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a control block diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing device in a second embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 14 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a normal dispensing transaction.

FIG. 15 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a flow of banknotes during loading and replenishment processing.

FIG. 16 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a flow of bills during a collection process.

FIG. 17 is a schematic side view of a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus showing a first embodiment of a flow of banknotes when a failure occurs during a dispensing transaction.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in FIG.

FIG. 19 is a schematic side view of a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus showing a second embodiment of the flow of banknotes when a failure occurs during a dispensing transaction.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in FIG.

FIG. 21 is a schematic side view of a conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 22 is an explanatory view showing a problem of a conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 23 is an explanatory view showing a problem of the conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 24 is an explanatory view showing a problem of the conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote pay-in / pay-out apparatus 2 Customer service opening 4 Discrimination part 7,8,9 Denomination cassette 16,17,18 Denomination banknote removal and separation mechanism 23,24,25 Temporary holding part 36 Batch cassette 44 Batch banknote removal and separation mechanism 47 Simple discrimination Part 53 Banknote transport path during withdrawal transaction 54 Banknote transport path during replenishment processing

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] A collective cassette for collectively storing bills of a plurality of denominations; a collective bill extracting means for feeding out bills stored in the collective cassette; and a collective bill for storing bills to be paid out to a customer. A plurality of denomination cassettes for receiving replenishment of banknotes from the cassettes, provided above the denomination cassettes corresponding to the denomination cassettes, and temporarily accumulating the banknotes to be replenished from the collective cassette, and then storing the bills in each denomination cassette. A temporary holding unit for storing banknotes in each bank, a banknote-specific banknote take-out means provided on the lower side of each banknote cassette corresponding to each banknote cassette, and paying out banknotes in each banknote cassette, and paying banknotes to customers A customer service port, first discriminating means for discriminating bills to be dispensed for dispensing bills of the kind and amount indicated by the customer, and for storing bills in a predetermined denomination cassette Second discriminating means for discriminating bills to be replenished; a bill transfer path for withdrawal from the denomination bill extracting means of each denomination cassette to the customer service port via the first discriminating means; A bill receiving / dispensing apparatus, comprising: a bill transporting path for dispensing bills and an independent replenishing bill transporting path from the means to the temporary holding section of each denomination cassette through the second discriminating means. 2. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 1, wherein only the collective cassette, the collective banknote take-out unit, the second discriminating unit, and the temporary holding unit connected by a replenishment banknote transport path are used for dispensing banknotes. A banknote pay-in / pay-out device, characterized in that the banknote can be withdrawn independently and integrally with a denomination-specific banknote take-out means, a first discriminating means and a customer service port connected by a transport path. 3. A collective cassette for collectively storing bills of a plurality of denominations, a collective bill extracting means for feeding out the bills stored in the collective cassette, and storing the bills to be dispensed to a customer. A plurality of denomination cassettes for receiving replenishment of banknotes from the cassettes, provided above the denomination cassettes corresponding to the denomination cassettes, and temporarily accumulating the banknotes to be replenished from the collective cassette, and then storing the bills in each denomination cassette. A first holding unit for storing banknotes, a first banknote extracting means provided under the denomination cassette corresponding to each denomination cassette, and feeding out the banknotes in each denomination cassette; A second denomination-type bill extracting means provided above the denomination cassette corresponding to the denomination cassette and for feeding out the bills in each denomination cassette; and a customer service opening for paying bills to customers. And discriminating means for discriminating bills to be dispensed in order to dispense denominations and amounts of money designated by the customer, and discriminating means from the first denomination bill denomination means of each denomination cassette to the customer service port via discrimination means. A first withdrawal banknote transport path, a second withdrawal banknote transport path from the second denomination banknote removal means of each denomination cassette to the customer service port through the discrimination means, A third banknote transport path for dispensing from the collective banknote take-out means to the customer service port through the discriminating means, and the banknotes are normally transmitted along the first, second, and third banknote transport paths for dispensing. It has a detecting means for detecting whether or not it is being conveyed, and when there is an abnormality in the conveyance state of the banknote in one banknote conveyance path for dispensing, the banknote is switched to another banknote conveyance path for dispensing and the banknote is conveyed. A banknote pay-in / pay-out device for transporting paper.