JP2796033B2 - Banknote depositing / dispensing machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device connected to a POS register.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a money receiving / dispensing machine connected to a POS cash register, for example, a coin receiving / dispensing machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-294480 has been known. This coin depositing and dispensing machine discriminates coins inserted from the deposit opening,
It has a deposit mechanism for sorting and storing coins in a coin storage cylinder provided for each denomination, and a dispensing mechanism for dispensing coins stored in the coin storage cylinder to a dispensing port. The money mechanism is connected to a POS cash register of a higher-level machine that calculates the price of a purchased product by POS. In such a coin depositing and dispensing machine, of the price received from the customer, the coin portion is received from the deposit port, the received coins are classified by denomination, stored in the coin storage cylinder, and received from the customer. If there is a difference between the purchase price and the purchase price of the product, a change command for paying out the coin is output from the POS cash register, and a predetermined amount of coins is output based on the change command. We pay out from the money mouth.

[0003]

The coin dispensing and dispensing machine disclosed in the above publication handles only coins. At present, however, not only coins but also banknote dispensing and dispensing machines which can be used by connecting to a POS register. In addition, there has been a demand that such a banknote pay-in / pay-out device can be used without trouble at gas stations and convenience stores where cash managers tend to be absent.

[0004] However, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device is used only in financial institutions where cash managers are always present at present, and the use range is extremely narrow. That is, the banknote pay-in / pay-out machine widely used in financial institutions and the like is of a recirculation type that pays out a deposited banknote as a withdrawal banknote. Since the flow is complicated, jams often occur, and when a jam occurs, the inside of the aircraft must be opened to remove the jam banknotes and removed manually to eliminate the jam. It is only a cash manager that can open the banknote, therefore, such a banknote depositing and dispensing machine is often used only by part-time clerks, gas stations,
It could not be installed in a convenience store.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is capable of connecting to a POS cash register and minimizing the occurrence of a jam failure, so that there is no cash manager at a gas station, a convenience store, or the like. It is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote pay-in / pay-out device that can be effectively used in places that tend to occur.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a bill transport path for transporting a deposited bill inserted into a deposit opening, and a deposited bill provided in the middle of the bill transport path. Denomination of the denomination, authenticity, and a depositing discriminating unit for discriminating double transport, etc., connected to the bill transport path on the downstream side of the deposit discriminating unit,
A return stacker that sorts and stores the deposited banknotes based on the result of the discrimination by the depositing discriminator, and that can send out the stored deposited banknotes as a dispensed banknote to the banknote transport path, and is provided on the banknote transport path downstream of the return stacker. The dispensing discriminating unit that discriminates the double conveyance of the dispensing bill, and is connected to the bill conveying path on the downstream side of the dispensing discriminating unit. A depositing / rejecting port based on a command from a POS cash register, which is a higher-order machine, a storage stacker for storing dispensed bills, a dispensing / reject port provided at the end of the bill conveying path for dispensing dispensed bills, and the like. A banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a control unit for performing a money process, a recirculation mode in which a deposited bill is reused as a dispensed bill, and a non-reflux mode in which a deposited bill and a dispensed bill are individually handled. Providing selection means,
By the control unit, when the recycle mode is selected by the selection unit, the deposited banknotes discriminated from the authentic bill of 1,000 bills and 5,000 bills by the deposit discriminating unit to the recycle stacker for 1,000 bills and 5,000 bills. Each banknote is stored, and the deposited banknotes that are discriminated from the genuine banknotes are stored in the storage stacker.
Five thousand bills are dispensed from the recirculation stacker, and among the dispensed bills, the dispensed bills judged as normal by the dispensing discriminating part are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port. When the recycle mode is selected, all the deposited banknotes discriminated from the genuine bill by the deposit discriminating unit are stored in the storage stacker. Among the dispensing bills, the dispensing bills judged to be normal by the dispensing discriminating section are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port.

[0007] In the second invention, the control unit causes the deposit discriminating unit to convey a rejected banknote discriminated from a counterfeit note, a double-conveyed banknote, or the like, to a dispensing / reject port,
Further, the reject banknotes of the dispensed banknotes determined to be double transport or the like by the dispensing determination unit are stored in the storage stacker.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the recycle mode is selected by the selection means, the deposited bills discriminated from the authentic bill of 1,000 bills and 5,000 bills by the deposit discriminating unit are for one thousand bills, five thousand bills, and five thousand bills. Deposited banknotes stored in the ticket recirculation stacker and discriminated from the genuine ten thousand notes are stored in the storage stacker.Thousands and five thousand tickets to be changed are withdrawn from the recirculation stacker. Among the dispensed banknotes, the dispensed banknote that has been determined as a normal ticket by the dispensing determination unit is conveyed to the dispensing / reject port.
On the other hand, when the non-reflux mode is selected by the selection means, all the deposited banknotes discriminated from the genuine bill by the deposit discriminating unit are stored in the storage stacker. And among the dispensing bills, the dispensing bills determined by the dispensing determining unit to be normal tickets are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port. That is, in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the first invention, the selecting means can freely switch between the recycle mode in which the deposited banknotes are reused as the dispensed banknotes and the non-reflux mode in which the deposited banknotes and the dispensed banknotes are individually handled. Since selection is possible, if the non-reflux mode is selected by the selection means, it is possible to suppress a jam failure that is likely to occur in the case of a complicated return type (during the return mode) of the flow of banknotes.

In the second invention, a counterfeit bill,
The rejected banknotes of the deposited banknotes discriminated from the double-conveyed banknotes are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port, and the rejected banknotes of the dispensed banknotes that have been discriminated as double-conveyed by the dispensing determination unit are
Since the banknotes are conveyed to the storage stacker in which banknotes and the like are stored, a dedicated reject stacker is not required at the time of depositing / dispensing processing.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a money receiving and dispensing machine according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
A description will be given based on FIG. First, the overall configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 1. In these figures, the reference numeral 1 denotes a POS register operated by a cashier. In addition, what is indicated by reference numeral 100 is a bill depositing and dispensing machine 101,
A money receiving / dispensing machine including a coin receiving / dispensing machine 102, the bill receiving / dispensing machine 101 and the coin receiving / dispensing machine 102
Means that the deposit and withdrawal processing is respectively performed according to the instruction from the POS register 1. The width of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101 and the width of the coin pay-in / pay-out device 102 are each set to の of the width of the POS register 1.

The POS register 1 has a POS register control unit C1 (FIGS. 3 and 6) having a calculation function for calculating the total price of the product based on the bar code of the product read by a bar code reader (not shown). ), A total key 2 for terminating the barcode reading operation, an amount input key 3 for inputting the amount of cash deposited from the customer, and a display unit 4 for displaying the calculated total amount of goods. And a printing means 5 for printing the name of the purchased product, the price of the product, the total price of the product, and the like corresponding to the barcode. Then, in this POS register 1, the calculation of the product is completed,
When the total key 2 is pressed, the POS register control unit C
After displaying the total price of the product on the display unit 4 according to 1 (the cashier refers to the display unit 4 and tells the total price of the product to the customer), the price received from the customer, the purchase price of the product, Is calculated, and if there is a difference between the price from the customer and the purchase price of the product, a change command for paying out the money (paper money, coin) of the difference is output. The POS cash register 1 is used for a cash depositing and dispensing machine 100 to be described later.
Is mounted on the POS register mounting section 6 on the upper surface of the POS register.

Next, the structure of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101 is shown in FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG. This banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101
A deposit port 8 provided at the upper part of the front of the machine body 7 for receiving deposited bills and paying out the deposited bills one by one, and a dispensing / payment provided at the front face of the machine body 7 located below the deposit port 8.
The reject port 9 and the deposit port 8 are arranged horizontally in the depth direction of the body 7, and after making a U-turn halfway, they are arranged horizontally toward the front direction of the body 7 and finally withdraw / reject. The banknote transport path 10 leading to the mouth 9 and a return route of the banknote transport path 10 are connected via depositing communication paths 11 and 12 and dispensing communication paths 13 and 14, and are connected to the depositing communication path 11.
While accumulating and storing the banknotes deposited through 12,
A plurality of recirculating stackers 15 and 16 for dispensing accumulated and stored bills as dispensing bills through dispensing communication paths 13 and 14.
And a storage stacker 18 connected via a communication path 17 to a bill transport path 10 located downstream of the return stackers 15 and 16, and a bill transport path located between the deposit port 8 and the return stackers 15 and 16. 10, a bill discriminating unit 19 for discriminating the denomination, authenticity, double conveyance, and the like of a deposited bill conveyed by the bill transport path 10, and a bill between the return stackers 15 and 16 and the storage stacker 18. Provided on the transport path 10,
The dispensing discrimination unit 20 for discriminating double conveyance of the dispensed bills conveyed by the bill conveyance path 10, and the bill depositing and dispensing control unit C2 for controlling the bill conveying path 10, the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 (FIG. 3) are the main components.

The banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101 has a selection mode for selecting one of a recycle mode in which the deposited banknotes are reused as a dispensed banknote and a non-reflux mode in which the deposited banknotes and the dispensed banknotes are individually handled. Means 45 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) is provided. In the selection means 45, one of a reflux mode and a non-reflux mode is selected by a key operation of a key possessed by the cash manager.

In the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101, as shown in FIG.
Distributing forks 21 and 22 are provided at each of the branch portions 1 and 12, and a distribution fork 23 is provided at a branch portion between the banknote transport path 10 and the communication path 17, and these distribution forks 21 to 21 are provided. 23 is driven by the bill receiving / dispensing control unit C2 based on the selection of the return / non-reflux mode by the selection unit 45, the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating unit 19, and the discrimination result of the dispensing discriminating unit 20.

That is, when the recirculation mode is selected by the selection means 45, the banknote depositing / dispensing control section C2 determines that the depositing discriminating section 19 (1) judges that the deposited banknote is a genuine bill. In this case, only the sorting fork 21 is driven, and the 1,000 bills are transferred through the depositing connection path 11 to the return stacker 1.
(2) When the deposited banknote is identified as a genuine 5,000 bill, only the sorting fork 22 is driven, and the 5,000 bill is transferred to the recycle stacker 16 through the deposit connection path 12. (3) When the deposited banknote is identified as a genuine banknote, only the sorting fork 23 is driven to store the banknote in the storage stacker 18 through the connection path 17 and (4). ) When the deposited bill is discriminated as a rejected bill such as a counterfeit bill or a double-conveyed bill, the rejected bill is moved straight without driving the sorting forks 21 to 23, and the bill is rejected from the dispensing / reject port 9. Refund, (5) reflux stacker 15.1
If it is determined that the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 are full based on the output from the counting means (not shown) for managing the number of stored banknotes in the banknotes 6, only the distribution fork 23 is driven and The deposited bills of the genuine bills (1) to (3) are stored in the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17. It should be noted that the judgment of the fullness by the counting means is based on the depositing connection channel 11.1.
2. An optical sensor (not shown) that directly detects the amount of bills in the recirculating stackers 15 and 16 even if it is based on the count value of a counting sensor (not shown) provided in the middle of the dispensing communication paths 13 and 14. May be based on the detection signal.

On the other hand, when the non-reflux mode is selected by the selection means 45, the banknote depositing / dispensing control section C2 allows the deposit discriminating section 19 to (1) convert the deposited banknote into a genuine bill,
If it is determined that the bills are 5,000 or ten thousand, only the sorting fork 23 is driven to store these genuine bills in the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17, and (2) the deposited bills are counterfeit bills. If the rejected banknote is discriminated as a rejected banknote due to heavy conveyance or the like, the rejected banknote is moved straight without operating the distribution forks 21 to 23 and paid out from the dispensing / reject port 9.

The banknote depositing / dispensing control section C2, when performing the dispensing process, sends a thousand bills from the recycle stacker 15
The recycle stacker 16 pays out 5,000 bills. However, if the banknotes are discriminated as (1) double-conveyed bills by the withdrawal discrimination unit 20 during the transportation of these 5,000 bills and 5,000 bills, By driving only the minute fork 23, the bill is rejected to the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17,
(2) When it is determined that the ticket is a normal ticket that has not been double-conveyed, the distribution fork 23 is not driven, and the normal ticket is paid out from the dispensing / reject port 9. Note that the dispensing process by the banknote depositing / dispensing control unit C2 is the same even when either the recycle mode or the non-reflux mode is selected by the selection unit 45.

When the return mode is selected, the reason why 1000 and 5,000 notes are stored in the return stackers 15 and 16 respectively is that these bills can be used as change when dispensing. Therefore, the banknotes are stored together with the withdrawal reject banknotes in the storage stacker 18 where payment cannot be made again.

Next, the structure of the reflux stackers 15 and 16 will be described. These recirculation stackers 15 and 16 are provided with deposit and withdrawal paths 24 and 25 connected to the depositing and receiving paths 11 and 12 and withdrawal and connecting paths 13 and 14, and storage sections 26 and 27 connected to these with and withdrawing paths 24 and 25. And these storage sections 26 and 27
Elevating plates 28 and 29 on which the banknotes are mounted so as to be able to move up and down, and are provided so as to be able to enter and exit near the deposit and withdrawal paths 24 and 25, and are conveyed through the withdrawal and withdrawal paths 24 and 25. Elevating plates 28 and 29 in storage sections 26 and 27
Impellers 30 and 31 that are scraped one by one on top, and storage unit 2
It has ejection rollers 32 and 33 which are provided at the upper positions of 6.27 and feed out the bills on the elevating plates 28 and 29 toward the dispensing communication paths 13 and 14.

Then, such a reflux stacker 15.1
In 6, the impellers 30 and 31 are connected to the deposit and withdrawal paths 24 and
25, and by rotating the impellers 30 and 31 counterclockwise in FIG. 4 in accordance with the transport of the bills, the depositing contact paths 11 and 12 and the depositing and dispensing paths 24.2.
5, the bills conveyed through the respective impellers 30-3
1 and are stacked one by one on the elevating plates 28 and 29 (the elevating plates are in the lowered position) in the storage portions 26 and 27. On the other hand, at the time of dispensing, the impellers 30 and 31 are retracted from the depositing and dispensing paths 24 and 25, and the elevating plates 28 and 29 at the lowered position are displaced by the uppermost surface of the bills placed on the upper surface thereof. The lifting rollers 32 and 33 are rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 4 to raise the lifting rollers 28 and 29. Deposit and withdrawal path 24 for banknotes one by one
25, and further straight up through the deposit and withdrawal paths 24 and 25, and then through the withdrawal communication paths 13 and 14, the bill transport path 1
Transported to zero. The reflux stacker 15 as described above is used.
The detailed configuration of 16 is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 4-248267 filed earlier by the present applicant.

Next, the configuration of the storage stacker 18 will be described. The storage stacker 18 includes a receiving path 34 connected to the communication path 17 and a storage unit 35 connected to the receiving path 34.
And an elevating plate 36 provided in the storage section 35 for mounting bills on the upper surface thereof, and a bill provided near the depositing path 34 and conveyed through the depositing path 34 to store the bills.
A lifting / lowering plate 36, which is supported from below by a spring 38 and a bill is placed on the upper surface thereof,
It gradually descends according to the weight of the bill.

The impeller 37 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction in FIG. 4 in accordance with the transport of the bills, whereby the bills are scraped one by one onto the elevating plate 36 in the storage section 35. It is being accumulated. The storage stacker 18 is provided so as to be detachable from the machine body 7 and can be detached from the machine body 7 by operating a key 18A. Bills removed from the machine body 7 and stored inside the machine (payment bills of ten thousand bills,
5,000 withdrawal bills) can be collected.

Next, the structure of the dispensing / reject port 9 will be described. The dispensing / reject port 9 has a separator 41 rotatably supported by a shaft 40 provided in the machine body 7. The upper side partitioned by the separator 41 is a reject port 9A, and the lower side is a dispensing port. 9B. In addition, a bill sorting plate 42 and a support plate 43 are provided behind the dispensing / reject port 9. The bill collecting plate 42 comes into contact with the rear end of the bills accumulated in the dispensing port 9B to sort the accumulated bills. Further, the support plate 43 is provided with a shaft 4 provided on the body 7.
4 is rotatably supported and forms the same plane as the bottom surface of the dispensing port 9B when rotated to the fall position, while when rotated to the upright position,
The stacked banknotes are brought into contact with the rear end portion of the stacked banknotes stacked in the reject port 9A to collect the stacked banknotes.

In the dispensing / reject port 9 configured as described above, when depositing, the separator 41 is lowered and the support plate 43 is arranged at an upright position, whereby the deposit port 8 is deposited. Among the bills, reject bills discriminated from counterfeit bills, double conveyance, etc. are guided to the upper reject port 9A. At this time, the rear end portion of the rejected bills guided by the reject opening 9 </ b> A is collected by the support plate 43. On the other hand, in the dispensing / reject port 9, at the time of dispensing, the separator 41 is raised and the support plate 43 is disposed at a position where the separator 41 is tilted. And only the normal banknotes not double-conveyed are in the lower outlet 9B.
Will be guided to. At this time, the dispensed bills guided and accumulated by the dispensing port 9B are rearranged by the bill arranging plate 42.

Next, the structure of the coin depositing and dispensing machine 102 is shown in FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. This coin depositing and dispensing machine 102
Is provided at the upper part of the machine body 50 and receives a deposit coin, and is provided rotatably in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis. The deposit coin deposited through the deposit port 51 is stored and centrifuged during rotation. A rotating disk 52 for releasing the deposited coins by force, a deposited transport path 53 for continuously transporting the deposited coins ejected from the rotating disk 52 one by one, and a connected to the deposited transport path 53 and connected to the deposited transport path 53 A sorting passage 54 for sorting the conveyed deposited coins by denomination, chutes 55 to 60 for guiding the deposited coins classified by denomination by the sorting passage 54, and chutes 55 to 6
The return type hoppers 61 to 66 for receiving and storing the deposited coins guided by 0 and paying out the stored deposited coins as dispensed coins;
A dispensing transport path 67 for transporting the dispensed coins dispensed from 66, and a dispensing port 6 provided at the lower front of the body 50 for dispensing the dispensed coins conveyed by the dispensing transport path 67.
8 and a coin depositing / dispensing controller C3 (FIG. 6) for controlling the rotating disk 52, the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66, the dispensing conveyance path 67, and the like.
Reference).

The depositing transfer path 53 is provided horizontally in its entirety, and has a bent portion 53 which is strongly bent 90 ° in the middle thereof.
A is provided, and the coin conveyed by the deposit conveyance path 53 is made to follow a reference rail 73 described later at the bent portion 53A. Further, a depositing discriminating section 69 (see FIG. 7) for discriminating the authenticity, denomination, etc. of coins is provided in the deposit transfer path 53 located on the upstream side of the bent portion 53A. A reject gate 70 and an overflow gate 71 that are opened and closed based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating unit 69 are sequentially provided along the coin transport direction in the deposit transport path 53 located on the downstream side (see FIG. 9). ).

The reject gate 70 is opened when the deposit discriminating section 69 determines that the coin is false, and the coin determined to be false is dropped into the reject gate 70. Reference numeral 71 denotes an open state where coins of the denominations discriminated by the deposit discriminating unit 69 are already filled in the recirculation hoppers 61 to 66 (described later) and dropped into the overflow gate 71. is there. These reject gates 7
0, the opening and closing of the overflow gate 71 is performed by the coin depositing and dispensing control unit C3.

A storage box 72 (see FIGS. 1, 4, 6, and 9) is detachably provided below the reject gate 70 and the overflow gate 71, and the storage box 72 divides the inside into two. Is divided into
Rejected coins selected by the reject gate 70 are supplied to the one storage unit through the chute 70A, and overflow coins selected by the overflow gate 71 are supplied to the other storage unit through the chute 71A. ing. And this storage box 7
2 is provided with a key 72A, and the storage box 72 is detached from the body 50 by key operation.

Next, a description will be given of the sorting passage 54 for sorting the deposited coins conveyed through the deposit carrying path 53 into denominations. The sorting passage 54 is provided along the coin transport direction as shown in FIG. 7, and is transported to a reference rail 73 for guiding the coin and a passage surface 54A at a position slightly away from the reference rail 73. The sorting holes 74 to 79 are formed at regular intervals in order from the small-diameter denomination in the direction and sort coins in the small-diameter order, and are provided at positions above the passage surface 54. And a deposit transport belt 80 that transports the coin while pressing the coin against the coin. The deposit transport belt 80 is disposed so that an interval between the deposit rail and the reference rail 73 becomes gradually narrower in the coin transport direction.
Thus, the periphery of the coin is brought into contact with the reference rail 73. In addition, this sorting passage 54
As can be seen with reference to the plan view of FIG. 7, the sorting passage 54 is provided so as to be gradually approached toward the center of the body 50 in the coin transport direction. Has been reached.

On the other hand, the recirculation type hoppers 61 to 66 are provided with oblique disks which receive coins supplied through chutes 55 to 60 through openings (not shown), respectively. This inclined disk is provided rotatably in an inclined state, and is provided with a plurality of protrusions for locking and scraping coins one by one on an inner peripheral surface, and when the inclined disk rotates. The coins scraped by the projections
The money is paid out to the dispensing conveyance path 67 via a payout port (not shown). In addition, these reflux hoppers 6
1 to 66 are arranged in two rows on both sides of the sorting passage 54 as shown in FIGS. 7 to 9. One-yen coins are stored in the recirculation hopper 61 and Is a 50-yen coin, a 5-yen coin is in a recirculating hopper 63, a 100-yen coin is in a recirculating hopper 64, a 10-yen coin is in a recirculating hopper 65, and 500 is a coin in a recirculating hopper 66.
Yen coins are respectively stored. Also,
The dispensing conveyance path 67 is configured by a belt conveyor horizontally arranged substantially in the front-rear direction at substantially the center of the lower part of the machine body 50, and dispenses coins dispensed from recirculation hoppers 61 to 66. By being placed on the belt conveyor, it is transported to the outlet 68.

In the middle of the chutes 55 to 60, there are provided coins counting sensors (not shown). Based on the counting of the coins counting sensors, the coins supplied to the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66 are received. The number of coins is counted for each denomination. Dispensing coin counting sensors (not shown) are provided in the vicinity of the outlets of the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66, respectively, and based on the counting of the dispensing coin counting sensors,
The number of coins dispensed from the recirculation hoppers 61 to 66 is counted for each denomination. Then, the counting results of the deposited coin counting sensor and the dispensed coin counting sensor are supplied to the coin depositing and dispensing control unit C3, and the coin depositing and dispensing control unit C3 performs calculation based on the calculation results of these counting sensors. When the number of coins stored in each of the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66 is calculated, it is determined whether or not the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66 are full, and when it is determined that the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66 are full. Output full information. And
In the coin receiving / dispensing control section C3, when the denomination indicated by the full information is discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 69, the overflow gate 71 is opened to sort coins of the denomination into the storage box 72. I do.

Next, the POS register control unit C1 executes the POS
The banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101 by the banknote depositing / dispensing control unit C2 and the coin depositing / dispensing machine 1 by the coin depositing / dispensing control unit C3 based on the operation content of the cashier 1 and an instruction from the POS cashier control unit C1.
02 will be described.

(1) When the cashier reads the barcodes of all the products purchased by the customer with a barcode reader (not shown) and presses the total key 2 of the POS register 1, the cashier The total amount is displayed on the display unit 4. (2) The cashier informs the customer of the total amount displayed on the display unit 4 and, when cash is received from the customer, inputs the total amount to the POS cash register 1 with the amount input key 3. (3) The difference between the purchase price and the received amount is calculated by the POS cash register 1, and when there is a change, the cash transfer control unit C 2 of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101 and the coin pay-in / pay-out device 102 from the POS cash register 1. A change command is output to the coin receiving / dispensing control unit C3, and cash (one of a banknote and a coin, and either a banknote or a coin) corresponding to the change amount is paid out from each of the pay-in / pay-out machines 101 and 102. When the difference between the purchase price and the received amount is calculated to be 0 by the POS cash register 1, the change command is not output from the POS cash register 1,
The following operation (4) is performed.

When the change indicated by the change command of the POS register 1 is a thousand coins, the ejection roller 32 is driven to drive the thousand coins in the recirculation stacker 15 into the deposit / withdrawal path 24 and the withdrawal connection path. 13. Withdrawal / reject port 9 through bill transport path 10
To the dispensing port 9B. When the change is 5,000 tickets, the dispensing roller 33 is driven to dispense / reject 5,000 tickets in the recirculation stacker 16 through the deposit / withdrawal path 25, the withdrawal connection path 14, and the bill transport path 10. A predetermined number is paid out to the dispensing port 9B of the port 9. When the dispensing discrimination unit 20 detects double conveyance when dispensing such a thousand or 5,000 bills, the sorting fork 23 is driven to move the double-conveyed bills to the storage stacker 18. To store. On the other hand, change is 1 yen-500
If the coin is a yen coin, the corresponding recirculating hopper 61
To 66 are rotated to rotate the recirculation hoppers 61 to 66.
The coin is paid out from the payout port 66, and the coin is paid out from the cashout port 68 via the cashout conveyance path 67.

(4) Dispensing port 9 of banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101
B, If the change (one of banknotes and coins, banknotes and coins) paid out from the dispensing port 68 of the coin depositing and dispensing machine 102 has been delivered to the customer, the cashier transfers the cash received from the customer to the banknotes and coins. Into each of the deposit and withdrawal machines 101
-It is put into the deposit port 8.51 of 102. In this case, when the cash received from the customer is either a bill or a coin, the cashier puts the bill or coin into the depositing port 8.51 of the corresponding depositing / dispensing machine 101/102. When there is no need to pay change, the cashier performs only the work of putting the cash received from the customer into the depositing ports 8, 51 of the depositing / dispensing machines 101, 102.

Here, the deposit processing of the bill receiving / dispensing machine 101 and the coin receiving / dispensing machine 102 will be described. (I) When the recirculation mode is selected by the selection means 45, first, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101 feeds out the banknotes inserted into the deposit port 8 one by one toward the inside of the banknote transfer path 10
The banknote is conveyed along the line, and the banknote is discriminated by the depositing discrimination unit 19 during the conveyance. Then, based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating section 19, the highest bill among the bills that have been discriminated as true cannot be reused as change. , And the banknotes (thousands and 5,000s) that are equal to or less than the maximum amount are classified and stored in the recycle stackers 15 and 16 for each denomination. The banknotes discriminated as false or double-conveyed by the depositing discrimination section 19 are paid out to the reject port 9A of the dispensing / reject port 9 as a reject ticket.

(II) When the non-reflux mode is selected by the selection means 45, first, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101 feeds out the banknotes inserted into the deposit port 8 one by one toward the inside of the machine, and conveys the banknotes. Road 10
The banknote is conveyed along the line, and the banknote is discriminated by the depositing discrimination unit 19 during the conveyance. Then, based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating section 19, all the banknotes (10,000, 5,000, 1,000) that have been discriminated as true are stored in the storage stacker 18, and the banknotes may be falsely or double-conveyed. The distinguished bills are
The withdrawal / reject port 9 is paid out to the reject port 9A as a reject ticket.

On the other hand, the coin depositing and dispensing machine 102 has a deposit port 5
The coins inserted into 1 are fed out one by one to the deposit transfer path 53 by the centrifugal force of the rotating disk 52, and the coins are discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 69 during the transfer in the deposit transfer path 53. Then, as a result of the discrimination by the payment discriminating unit 69, it is true,
The coins judged not to overflow in the recirculation hoppers 61 to 66 are sent to the sorting passage 54, and classified into denominations according to the diameters of the coins in the sorting holes 74 to 79 of the sorting passage 54. The coins sorted in the sorting passage 54 are guided to the recirculating hoppers 61 to 66 by denomination through chutes 55 to 60, respectively. In addition, coins determined to be fake by the deposit discriminating unit 69 and coins determined to overflow in the recirculation hoppers 61 to 66 are guided to the storage box 72 by the respective reject gates 70 and overflow gates 71.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101 described above, when the non-reflux mode is selected by the selecting means 45, all the banknotes of the genuine bill are stored in the stacker 18.
, And dispensed 1,000 or 5,000 bills to be dispensed from the recirculating stackers 15 and 16. Accordingly, in the non-reflux mode, the banknotes are not deposited into the return stackers 15 and 16 and the return stackers 15 and 16 can be used as the withdrawal-only stackers.
There is no need to cause the recirculating stackers 15 and 16 to perform complicated depositing and withdrawing operations that cause a failure. In other words, in a normal banknote pay-in / pay-out machine, when a jam failure occurs in the machine, the inside of the machine must be opened to remove the jammed banknotes and removed manually, but in principle, the cabin can be vacated. , Must be a cash manager only. Therefore, in such a non-recirculation method, the frequency of occurrence of failures can be suppressed low, so that there is no need to have a cash manager, thereby securely managing the security of cash without a cash manager. For example, even when working only at a part-time clerk at a convenience store or gas station that is open late at night, calculation and sales of products by POS can be performed smoothly without interruption. Become.

By operating the selection means 45 by key,
When the mode is changed from the recycle mode to the non-recycle mode, the cash manager needs to store 1,000 or 5,000 bills to be dispensed bills in the recycle stackers 15 and 16 without excess or deficiency. Before such a mode change, 1,000 or 5,000 bills are stored in advance in the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 from the deposit port 8 through the bill transport path 10. The storage of the dispensed bills in the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 is performed by dispensing all the bills previously stored in the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 for the purpose of securely managing the number of stored bills. It may be performed after the empty state, without being limited to this, without sending out the previously stored bills, sending the bills from the deposit opening 8 until the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 are full. But it is good.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, in the recycle mode, all genuine bills in the deposited banknotes and rejected bills (1,000, 5,000) in the dispensed banknotes are rejected in the non-circulated mode. The rejected bills (1,000 and 5,000 bills) among the bills and dispensed bills are stored together in the storage box 18, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a reject stacker for exclusively storing rejected bills, It is also possible to separately provide a banknote stacker for exclusively storing banknotes, and to store rejected banknotes and banknotes in these dedicated reject stackers and banknote stackers.

The POS cash register control unit C1 of the POS cash register 1, the banknote pay-in / pay-out control unit C2 of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101, and the coin pay-in / pay-out control unit C3 of the coin pay-in / pay-out device 102 have the following data. It also performs processing and control. That is, PO
In the control unit of the S cash register 1, when the deposit processing of the deposited bills and coins is completed, the deposit amount based on the discrimination data of the deposit discriminating units 19 and 69 and the deposit input by the amount input key 3 of the POS register 1. The data is collated with the data to manage whether or not the cashier has made an operation error. And
At this time, if there is a difference (operation error) between the discrimination data and the deposit data, data indicating the error (for example, the difference, the time, the name of the person in charge, etc.) is set to P
The data is written on the memory of the OS register 1, and the data can be output in response to a request.

[0043]

As is apparent from the above description, in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the first invention, the selecting means recycles the deposited banknotes as the outgoing banknotes. If you do not have a cash manager at a gas station, convenience store, etc., you can select the non-reflux mode by the selection means, Jam troubles that are likely to occur in the case of a complicated reflux system (in the reflux mode) can be suppressed to a low level, so that even if there are only part-time clerks at gas stations, convenience stores, etc., sales of products by POS are possible. The effect that management can be performed without trouble is obtained.

According to the second invention, a counterfeit bill,
The rejected banknotes of the deposited banknotes discriminated from the double-conveyed banknotes are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port, and the rejected banknotes of the dispensed banknotes that have been discriminated as double-conveyed by the dispensing determination unit are
Since the banknotes are transported to the storage stacker in which banknotes and the like are stored, a dedicated reject stacker is not required at the time of depositing / dispensing processing, whereby the effect of simplifying the apparatus and achieving compactness can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a positional relationship among a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine, a coin pay-in / pay-out machine, and a POS register according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a flow of banknotes in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the internal configuration of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a coin depositing and dispensing machine.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing the flow of coins in the coin depositing and dispensing machine.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the coin depositing and dispensing machine in a state where an upper surface of a casing is removed.

8 is a side view of FIG. 7 as viewed from an arrow VIII.

FIG. 9 is a side view of FIG. 7 as viewed from an arrow IX.

FIG. 10 is a front view of FIG. 7 viewed from an arrow X;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 POS cash register 2 Total key 3 Money input key 6 POS cash register mounting part 7 Airframe 8 Deposit port 9 Deposit / reject port 10 Banknote transport path 15 Reflux stacker 16 Reflux stacker 18 Storage stacker 19 Deposit discriminator 20 Deposit discriminator 45 Selection means 100 Money receiving / dispensing machine 101 Banknote receiving / dispensing machine 102 Coin receiving / dispensing machine C1 POS register control unit C2 Banknote receiving / dispensing control unit C3 Coin receiving / dispensing control unit

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bill transport path for transporting a deposited bill inserted into a deposit port, and a deposit discriminating unit provided in the middle of the bill transport path to discriminate the denomination, authenticity, double transport, etc. of the deposited bill. When,
Reflux that is connected to the bill transport path on the downstream side of the deposit discriminating section, sorts and stores the deposited bill based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating section, and can send the stored deposited bill to the bill transport path as a disbursed bill. A stacker, a dispensing determination unit that is provided in a bill transport path on the downstream side of the recirculation stacker and determines double conveyance of dispensed bills, and is connected to a bill transport path downstream of the dispensing determination unit. A storage stacker for storing the dispensing bills determined by the dispensing determination unit to be double-conveyed, a dispensing / reject port provided at the end of the bill conveying path for dispensing the dispensing bills, etc. A banknote depositing and dispensing machine having a control unit for performing depositing and dispensing processing based on a command from a POS cash register which is a machine, a recycle mode for reusing deposited bills as dispensing bills, Non-reflux mode that handles bills individually When the recirculation mode is selected by the selection unit, the control unit converts the deposited bills discriminated from the authentic bills of 1,000 bills and 5,000 bills by the deposit discriminating unit for the thousand bills. , Stored in the recirculation stacker for 5,000 tickets respectively, deposited banknotes discriminated from all genuine bills in the storage stacker, and dispensed 1,000 and 5,000 tickets to be changed from the recirculation stacker, Among the dispensing bills, the dispensing bills judged as normal by the dispensing discriminating section are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port. On the other hand, when the non-reflux mode is selected by the selecting means, the deposit discriminating section. By storing all deposited banknotes discriminated from genuine bills in the storage stacker,
Dispense 1,000 and 5,000 tickets to be changed from the recycle stacker,
A banknote pay-in / pay-out device, wherein the banknote pay-in / pay-out device that conveys a bill dispensed as a normal ticket by the dispensing discriminating section to a dispensing / reject port. 2. The control unit according to claim 1, wherein the deposit discriminating unit performs counterfeit billing,
The rejected banknotes in the deposited banknotes discriminated from the double-conveyed banknotes are conveyed to the dispensing / reject port, and the rejected banknotes in the dispensed banknotes discriminated as double-conveyed or the like by the dispensing determination unit are stored in the storage stacker. 2. The storage device according to claim 1, wherein
The banknote pay-in / pay-out machine described.