JP2854885B2 - Cash deposit and withdrawal device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a cash depositing / dispensing apparatus installed in a financial institution or the like.

(Prior Art) In recent years, cash handling devices have been heavily used for handling cash with customers among window services and automatic transaction services at financial institutions such as banks. In addition, the depositing function and the dispensing function are integrated, and among the deposited money, the money that can be reused for dispensing is newly distributed to the denomination storage for dispensing, and the money recirculation used during the dispensing transaction. A number of cash dispensers have been announced one after another.

In such an apparatus, first, the money required for the dispensing transaction is set in one collective storage from the original side, and the collective storage is mounted on the depositing and dispensing apparatus. Thereafter, by operating switches for instructing the loading operation, the money can be automatically distributed and loaded from the collective storage to the respective denomination storages arranged for dispensing. Therefore, the operation of loading money is only required to attach the collective storage.

Further, when the work is completed, by operating switches for instructing the collection operation, the collection operation reverse to the loading operation can be performed.

That is, if the money is sequentially collected from each denomination storage to the collective storage, the storage to be taken out from the depositing / dispensing device only needs to be the collective storage and the reject storage that stores the rejected money. In this way, the convenience of the operator is achieved (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-289488).

Further, a memory is provided for storing the number of coins counted by the depositing / dispensing apparatus during the loading operation and the collecting operation, and the number is displayed on a display provided in the operation unit of the apparatus main body. The operator reads this and records it, and inputs the number of sheets to be loaded from the operation unit during the loading operation so that the number of loaded sheets and the number of collected sheets can be managed and operated (see Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 57-106057). No.).

<Structure of Conventional Apparatus> Hereinafter, a conventional depositing / dispensing apparatus described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-289488 will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing an example of a conventional depositing / dispensing apparatus. This device is mounted on a teller terminal device.

The depositing / dispensing device 105 includes an upper unit 110, an intermediate unit 111,
And the lower unit 113.

The upper unit 110 is provided with a bill insertion slot 113 and a discharge slot 114 in the upper front part. At the back side of the bottom of the insertion slot 113, there is provided a deposit separation mechanism 115 for separating and taking in one-by-one banknotes which are collectively inserted. Authenticity, flaws,
A discriminating unit 116 provided for discriminating and detecting front and back, two or more overlaps (double running), skew, and the like is arranged.
Behind that, a front and back arrangement mechanism 117 is provided, and in the case of a bill determined to be the back side by the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, the separation gate 122 is operated by driving a magnet (not shown) to travel. Switch the road and arrange the front and back
It is configured to send it to 117 and align it with the surface.

The travel path 119 is a transport path provided to deliver the bills guided and transported into the apparatus by the separation gate 123 to the intermediate unit 111, and the travel path 118 is a travel path of the lower unit 112 and the intermediate unit 111. This is a transport path for inheriting the bills transported by the road and sending the bills to the discrimination unit 116. Further, when the separation gate 123 is operated by driving a magnet (not shown), the bills conveyed through the discriminating unit 116 are sent to the traveling path 120, and are disposed on the inner side of the upper surface of the discharge port by the traveling path 120. The sheet is conveyed to the discharge accumulation section 121. The bills conveyed to the discharge accumulation section 121 are accumulated at the discharge port 114, and the teller can collectively extract the bills.

The intermediate unit 111 is a temporary storage section mainly for denominations and damages. The storage sections 124, 125, 126, 127 of the taken-in banknotes, the temporary storage sections 128, 129, 130, 131 for denominations and damages, the denomination separation gates 136, 137, 138, 139 and the withdrawal reject banknotes are dropped. And a traveling path 141 from the lower unit 112 to the upper unit 110.

At the time of depositing, the banknotes received from the traveling path 119 of the upper unit 110 are received, and are transported by the traveling path 141 in the direction of the arrow.

Here, if the conveyed banknote is determined to be a 5,000-yen ticket by the discrimination result of the discriminating section 116, the 5,000-yen ticket separation gate 139 is operated by driving a magnet (not shown). Then, it is sent to the 5,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 127. The 5,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 127 sequentially accumulates the sent banknotes in the 5,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 131. Similarly, if it is determined that the ticket is a 1,000-yen ticket, it activates the 1,000-yen ticket separation gate 138 and sends it to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 126. It is sequentially accumulated in the unit 130. If it is determined that the ticket is a ten thousand yen ticket, the ten thousand yen ticket separation gate 137
Is activated and sent to the 10,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 125,
25 are sequentially accumulated in the ten-yen ticket temporary holding unit 129.

Note that, in the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 116, the banknotes determined to be unfit bills or non-returnable banknotes (for example, 500-yen bills), and a collection process from a denomination-type storage described later to a collective storage, Does not operate any of the denomination separating gates 137, 138, and 139, but operates the collective / deposit separating gate 136 and sends it to the collective / deposit accumulating section 124,
The banknotes are sequentially accumulated in the batch / payment temporary holding unit 128.

The withdrawal reject banknote dropping unit 140 is a reject banknote to be described later when a banknote taken out from a storage unit of a denomination described later in the withdrawal transaction passes through the discrimination unit 116 and is determined to be a withdrawal nonconforming ticket. This is a transport unit for sending the data to the storage. The temporary storage shutters 132, 133, 134, 135 are connected to one magnet (not shown), and by driving the magnets, the temporary storages 128, 129,
With the part connected to the side of 130, 131 as the center of rotation,
The central part rotates downward. With this operation, the temporary storage unit 128,
The banknotes accumulated in 129, 130, 131 are dropped and stored in each storage of the lower unit 112.

When the teller performs a cancel operation while the deposited bills are accumulated in the temporary holding units 128, 129, 130, and 131 after the counting of the deposits in the deposit transaction, the lock of the intermediate unit 111 is released, and the intermediate unit 111 is pulled out forward. Thus, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding sections 128, 129, 130, 131 can be taken out. In addition, by using the monitoring key, the banknote remaining in each part of the intermediate unit can be taken out by the attendant's will, so that even when a jam occurs, the banknote can be taken out.

The lower unit 112 includes a batch / receipt storage 143, a denomination storage 144, 145, 146 and a take-out / separation mechanism 147, 14 from the storage.
8, 149, 150, a reject banknote storage 142, and a traveling path 151 for transporting banknotes taken out one by one from the storage.

The 5,000-yen ticket storage 146 has a function of receiving and accumulating banknotes from the 5,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 131 and the separating mechanism 150, and has a function of:
It is a storage for 5,000 yen notes that has the function of paying out bills one by one.

Similarly, 145 is a storage of 1,000 yen ticket, 149 is a separation mechanism of 1,000 yen ticket, 144 is a storage of 10,000 yen ticket, 148 is a separation mechanism of 10,000 yen ticket, and 143 is a lump sum / receipt return. Storage for possible tickets, 1
Numeral 47 denotes a separation mechanism for collectively stored tickets.

The reject banknote storage 142 is the discriminating unit 1 of the banknotes fed from the denomination storages 144, 145, 146 in the withdrawal transaction.
This storage unit stores banknotes that have been detected as skewing or two or more overlaps (double running) based on the 16 discrimination results and have been determined to be dispensable.

The traveling path 151 includes a lump / receipt storage 143 and a denomination storage 14.
Conveys the bills fed from 4,145,146 and sends them to the intermediate unit 111
This is a transport path for feeding into the travel path 141.

The batch / receipt storage 143 and the denomination storages 144, 145, 146 each have a full bill detector 15 as an optical sensor.
4a, 154b, 154c, 154d and near-full detectors 155a, 155b, 155c,
155d, near-end detectors 156a, 156b, 156c, 156d, and end detectors 157a, 157b, 157c, 157d are attached, and serve as means for managing the amount of bills in the storage. In addition, the reject bill storage bin 142 has a full bill detector 1
53 is attached, optically reject banknote storage
Detects full of 142 bills.

There is a door (not shown) on the front surface of the lower unit 112, and the structure is such that the door can be opened and the storage rack (not shown) can be pulled out by using an inspection key.

By pulling out the storage rack, each of the storages is arranged so as to be able to be removed.

Each of the storages is provided with a common lock, and a door can be opened with a key to perform loading and removing operations of bills. In the upper unit 110 and the intermediate unit 111, independent motors (not shown) are mounted as power sources for separating, stacking, and transporting banknotes, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) By the way, in the device as shown in FIG. 2, during the payment processing, the cash which has been identified as a lost or unwithdrawable ticket, for example, a 500-yen note, is returned. The bill is finally sent to the reject bill storage 142 as a non-target bill. Then, other recyclable 1,000-yen notes, ten-yen notes, and the like are stored in each denomination storage.

When such processing is performed, it is necessary to accumulate banknotes of each denomination in the temporary holding units 132, 133, 134, and 135 at the time of payment. The reason for temporarily holding deposited bills is to return these bills to the transport path again when the transaction is unsuccessful,
This is in order to collectively convert to customers. Therefore, in the conventional apparatus, the deposited cash is transported to a predetermined temporary holding unit for each cash stored in each denomination storage, and is further rejected to a separately provided temporary holding unit. It required processing to accumulate moneyless tickets.

Prior to the completion of the deposit transaction, such a process of subdividing the cash takes a relatively long time, and a special temporary holding unit is provided for holding a non-withdrawable ticket, and the cash is transferred. It is necessary to provide various mechanisms. Therefore, there is a problem that the apparatus becomes large and expensive.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides a cash depositing / dispensing apparatus capable of performing a depositing process quickly without providing a special temporary holding unit for accumulation of non-withdrawable tickets. The purpose is to do so.

(Means for Solving the Problems) A cash depositing and dispensing apparatus according to the present invention includes a discriminating section for discriminating cash, a plurality of denomination storages for storing cash, and a reject for storing tickets that cannot be withdrawn or collected. The cassette and the cash to be stored in the denomination storage at the time of deposit transaction are accumulated on the denomination storage, and temporarily stored without storing the cash in the denomination storage until customer confirmation is performed. In the cash dispensing and dispensing apparatus having a holding unit, a specific denomination storage that is infrequently used is set in advance from among the plurality of denomination storages, and a deposit other than the specific denomination storage is set during a deposit transaction. The cash to be stored in the denomination storage is accumulated in the temporary storage unit of the type storage, and the cash to be stored in the specific denomination storage and the rejection are stored in the temporary storage unit of the specific storage. Store in cassette After the cash to be collected is accumulated in a mixed manner, when the deposit transaction is completed,
While storing the cash accumulated in the temporary storage unit of the denomination storage other than the specific denomination storage in the denomination storage, the cash accumulated in the temporary storage unit of the specific denomination storage is It is characterized in that the discriminating unit sorts the cash stored in the specific denomination storage and the cash stored in the reject cassette.

(Operation) The above-mentioned device collectively rejects cash rejected as a non-withdrawable ticket and cash of a specific denomination before temporarily completing a deposit transaction, and temporarily holds the same in a denomination storage. As this specific denomination, a 5,000-yen ticket or the like that is used less frequently is set. That is, at the time of the deposit transaction, the 1,000 yen ticket and the 10,000 yen ticket are accumulated on each denomination storage, and the cash of the other denominations is stored on the 5,000 yen denomination storage including unfitted notes. Be accumulated. Then, after the payment transaction is completed, the cash accumulated in the temporary holding section of the 5,000-yen note is distributed to cash rejected again and the 5,000-yen note. Thus, it is not necessary to prepare a special temporary holding unit for cash to be rejected, and the size of the apparatus can be reduced. Further, the processing of accumulating cash before the settlement transaction is simplified, and the processing can be speeded up.

(Examples) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the illustrated examples.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an embodiment of a cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

This device includes a customer service port 3 for a customer to perform a deposit transaction, a discriminating unit 4 for discriminating deposited cash, a deposit / withdrawal unit 18 for transporting cash, a batch storage 11 for distributing and collecting cash,
It has mechanisms such as denomination storages 8, 9, 10 and a reject cassette 7.

Further, the collective storage 11 is integrated with a storage management memory 99 for storing the number of cash types of cash stored in the collective storage 11. The counting and managing unit 80a, the cash collecting unit 80b, and the cash distributing unit 80c of the control unit in which the apparatus main body 50 is separately built are configured to control cash distribution and collection processing.

Further, the cash depositing and dispensing device control unit 80 for controlling the cash identification and transport operation of this device includes cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 provided above the denomination storage 10 for storing 5,000 yen notes. Is sent to the discriminating unit 4 again, and a reserved re-transport management unit 100 for controlling the discrimination and sorting is provided.

The cash deposit / withdrawal control unit 80 includes a microprocessor or the like that controls the operation of the entire apparatus and controls for counting and managing the cash stored in the collective storage 11.

Also, the specific description of the blocks and the configuration of the entire device is as follows:
This will be performed in the description of FIG. 8 and subsequent drawings.

<Main Operation of Apparatus> The main operation of the apparatus of the present invention will be schematically described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a main operation of a deposit transaction of the apparatus of the present invention. In this figure, illustration of complicated transport mechanisms, components, and the like is omitted for simplification of description.

In the figure, at the time of the deposit transaction, the shutter 42 is opened,
The customer puts cash into the service port 3. This cash is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the route and is discriminated. The banknotes discriminated from the 1,000-yen note are accumulated in the temporary holding unit 24 disposed above the denomination storage 8 for storing the 1,000-yen note through the path of the bill. The ten-yen ticket passes through the path of the ten-yen ticket and is accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 arranged above the denomination storage 9 for the ten-yen ticket.

In the apparatus of the present invention, other 5,000-yen notes or non-returnable 500-yen notes, unfit notes, etc., pass through the collective route and are stored in the denomination-type storage 10 for the 5,000-yen notes. It is accumulated in the temporary storage unit 26 located above.

As a result of the discrimination, the received cash is counted, and when the counting result is displayed on a customer operation unit (not shown), the customer presses a confirmation button or a cancel button. Pressing the confirm button will complete the transaction, and pressing the cancel button will return the accumulated cash to the customer.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the apparatus of the present invention when a deposit transaction is not established.

As shown in the figure, in the processing of FIG.
The banknotes accumulated in 5, 26 are conveyed to the front and back arranging mechanism 5 through the route when the transaction is not established. And
It is returned to the customer via the service port 3.

Due to such an operation, the banknotes received from the customer are not immediately stored in the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10, but are temporarily stored in the storage unit.
Reserved on 24,25,26.

On the other hand, when the deposit transaction is completed, two kinds of operations are performed according to the contents of the banknotes accumulated on the denomination storage 10.

First, the denomination-type storage 10 is a storage dedicated to the 5,000-yen ticket, and when only the 5,000-yen ticket is accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 provided thereon, the shutter shown in FIG. 34,35,36
However, after the transaction is completed, they open all at once and store each bill
Down to 8,9,10. Thus, the deposit transaction is completed, and each bill is reused for withdrawal and the like.

On the other hand, a temporary holding unit provided above the money type storage 10
In the case where the banknotes accumulated in 26 include non-withdrawable tickets such as unfit and 500 yen notes, the processing shown in FIG. 5 is performed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the apparatus of the present invention when a deposit transaction is completed.

First, when it is known from the discrimination by the discriminating unit 4 before the settlement transaction that the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 are mixed with non-withdrawable tickets or the like, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 are Is sent to the discriminating unit 4 through the route once,
The 5,000-yen ticket is accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 through the route again. On the other hand, rejected tickets such as damaged or non-returnable tickets are
Is stored in the reject cassette 7 through the path of.

Thereafter, the shutters 34, 35, and 36 are opened at the same time, and the banknotes accumulated in the respective temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26 are dropped into the denomination-type storages 8, 9, and 10.

The reserved re-transport management section 100 shown in FIG. 1 controls the operation as shown in FIG.

It should be noted that the 5,000-yen ticket has a relatively low usage compared to other denomination tickets, and therefore, usually, the absolute amount of cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 is relatively small. Accordingly, the operation for re-transporting the reserved portion is completed in a short time.

In addition, it is not necessary to provide a special temporary holding unit for accumulating bills to be rejected. Further, at the time of the deposit transaction, an operation such as specially distributing and transporting the rejected ticket and accumulating is not required, and the deposit transaction process before the completion of the deposit operation is simplified, so that the processing is speeded up.

FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of the main operation of the above-mentioned apparatus of the present invention.

First, when the deposit transaction is started, the discriminating unit 4 discriminates the deposited bill (step S1). Then, it is determined whether or not the ticket is a 1,000-yen ticket (step S2) and whether or not the ticket is a 10,000-yen ticket (step S3). Yen tickets are stored in a temporary storage unit for 10,000 yen tickets (step S5), and other tickets are stored in a temporary storage unit for 5,000 yen tickets.

Then, it is determined whether or not the transaction is completed (step S7),
If the transaction is not successful, it will be returned (step S
8). When the transaction is completed, it is determined whether or not another ticket is mixed in the 5,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit (step S9). Then, when other tickets are mixed, the above-mentioned holding re-transport control unit 100 operates to transport the other tickets to the reject cassette 7, and the 5,000 yen tickets are re-collected in the temporary holding unit. (Step S10). Then, after the other tickets are no longer mixed in the 5,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit, the shutters are simultaneously opened (step S11). Thus, the deposit transaction ends.

In the above embodiment, a 5,000-yen ticket was selected as cash of a specific denomination for mixing rejected cash. Or you can mix it in a million yen ticket.

Hereinafter, the detailed configuration and operation of the device of the present invention will be continued.

<Cash automatic transaction device> Before describing the detailed configuration and operation of this device, first,
A configuration of an automatic teller machine using a cash dispenser will be described.

 FIG. 7 is an overall view of the automatic teller machine.

FIG. 7 (a) is a front view of the automatic teller machine.
51 includes a cash depositing / dispensing device 50 and a card reader / writer 52
, A passbook entry machine 53 and a customer operation unit 54 are provided.

The cash depositing / dispensing device 50 is a device that accepts bills received from customers or performs processing for paying bills to customers. The card reader / writer 52 is a device that performs processing such as identification of a cash card inserted by a customer and printing of the results of a deposit transaction, a payment transaction, etc. on paper.
The passbook entry machine 53 is a device that identifies a passbook inserted by a customer and prints the results of deposit transactions, payment transactions, and the like. The customer operation unit 54 includes operation keys operated by the customer to input a deposit amount, payment metal, a password, and the like,
This is a device having a display unit for displaying illustrations and characters for input amounts, operation guidance, and the like.

FIG. 7 (b) is a rear view of the apparatus, in which an internal operation unit 55 is mounted.

The internal operation unit 55 displays an operation key for inputting items and data according to each transaction, and data and processing results input by the operation key when the clerk performs processing such as loading and replenishing bills. And a display unit for guiding the operation of the attendant.

In FIG. 7 (a), the control unit 56 indicated by a broken line includes a processor and the like provided in the automatic teller machine 51 and provided for controlling the operation of each device.

Further, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50 shown in FIG. 1 is provided with an automatic cash transaction device 51 shown in FIG.
Can be separated from the main body and pulled out independently. Normal,
Opening the rear panel of the automatic teller machine shown in FIG.

<Block Configuration of Apparatus> FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

This device is controlled by a control unit 56 (FIG. 7) via a host device control unit interface 81 via a cash depositing / dispensing device control unit.
It is controlled by a control signal or the like input to 80.

The cash-receipt-and-disbursement device control part 80 is comprised from the microcomputer which controls operation | movement of this cash-receipt-and-disbursement apparatus whole, and its peripheral circuit.

The cash depositing / dispensing device control unit 80 has an I /
An O interface circuit 82, a batch storage interface circuit 90, a read only memory (ROM) 83, and a random access memory (RAM) 84 are connected.

The ROM 83 is a memory that stores an operation program of the cash depositing and dispensing device control unit 80. The RAM 84 is a memory for temporarily storing parameters and the like necessary for the operation of the cash depositing and dispensing device control unit 80.

The I / O interface circuit 82 includes a motor driver 85,
A magnet driver 86, a switch reading circuit 87, a photo sensor reading circuit 88, and a bill discrimination control unit 89 are connected.

The motor driver 85 is connected to a motor group 91 of each unit of the apparatus and a motor group 96 provided in the collective storage 11, and is a circuit that controls driving of various motors according to each operation mode. The magnet driver 86 is connected to a magnet group 92 of each unit of the apparatus, and is a circuit for turning on or off each magnet according to an operation mode.

The switch reading circuit 87 is connected to the switch group 93 of each unit of the apparatus and the switch group 97 of the collective storage 11, and determines whether or not the collective storage 11, the storage units 8, 9, and 10, and the reject cassette 7 are mounted. And a circuit for reading the state of a switch for detecting the position of each stage. The photo sensor reading circuit 88 is connected to the photo sensor group 94 of each part of the apparatus and the photo sensor group 98 provided in the collective storage 11, and the collective storage 11 and the metal type storages 8, 9, 10 or reject This is a circuit for reading information from a photo sensor group provided in the cassette 7 and monitoring the state of accumulation of bills.

The bill discrimination control unit 89 is connected to a bill discrimination sensor group 95. The banknote discrimination sensor group 95 is composed of various sensors provided inside the discrimination unit 4 shown in FIG. 1, and is used to check the authenticity, denomination, damage, front and back, and weight of the banknote sent to the discrimination unit 4. This is a circuit provided for differentially detecting running and skewing.

The batch storage interface circuit 90 reads the storage content of the storage management memory 99 attached to the batch storage 11 and transfers it to the cash depositing / dispensing device control unit 80, or issues an instruction of the cash depositing / dispensing device control unit 80. This is a circuit for receiving and updating the contents of the storage management memory 99.

The storage management memory 99 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 cash depositing / dispensing device control unit 80. The storage management memory 99 is integrated with a control unit such as a microcomputer, and transmits and receives data to and from the cash depositing / dispensing device control unit 80 via the batch storage interface circuit 90. It may be.

The memory used for the storage management memory 99 includes a semiconductor random access
In addition to memory, EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read / write)
(Only memory), or a magnetic recording medium such as a magnetic disk or a magnetic tape. In this storage management memory 99, the number of stored banknotes stored in the collective storage 11 for each denomination is individually stored.

In addition, a count management unit 80a, a cash collection unit 80b, and a cash distribution unit 80c are provided to control various operations of the cash deposit / withdrawal control unit 80. All of these means are provided through the I / O interface circuit 82 in a predetermined procedure.
It is composed of a sequence program for controlling the circuits of each part of the device and for executing and controlling the operations described later.

The counting management unit 80a counts the bills collected in or distributed from the collective storage 11, and performs control to update the storage management memory 99 each time. The cash collecting means 80b controls the operation of taking out and carrying cash stored in the denomination-type storage, and collecting the cash in the collective storage 11. The cash distributing means 80c checks the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99 when there is a shortage of bills in any of the denomination storages, and determines that the number It controls the operation of distributing and replenishing various bills.

<Service Port> Hereinafter, the configuration of each part of the apparatus in FIG. 1 will be described step by step.

First, a customer service opening 3 for a customer to insert and withdraw bills is provided in the upper front part of the apparatus main body 50 in FIG.

 FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view for explaining the operation of the customer service opening.

As shown in FIG. 9 (a), the customer service opening 3 is a bill guide.
And a banknote separating mechanism 49 for separating banknotes one by one. As shown in FIGS. 9 (b) and 9 (c), a rotator for rotating the banknote guide 57 around its center as an axis. Has a structure.

The service port 3 is rotationally driven by a motor (not shown), and various sensors are attached for confirming the shift to each position.

 The customer service opening 3 having the above configuration operates as follows.

First, FIG. 9 (a) illustrates a deposit position waiting for a customer to insert a bill. In this case, the shutter 42
Are opened, and the bill guide 57 is opened upward.

FIG. 9B shows a separating position for separating the inserted bills one by one. In this case, the shutter 42
Is closed, and the bills fed into the bill guide 57 collectively are
The sheets are separated one by one by the bill separating mechanism 49 and sent out of the customer service opening 3 in the direction shown by the arrow in the figure. Thereafter, a deposit process is executed for the bill.

FIG. 9 (c) shows a receiving position when the banknotes are collectively received from the banknote collecting mechanism 5 to the banknote guide 57 as a stage prior to dispensing the banknotes to the customer.

In the bill collecting mechanism 5, bills to be dispensed are stacked with their front and back aligned. This is sent out to the right side of the figure and stored in the bill guide 57.

FIG. 9D shows a dispensing position for dispensing the bill stored in the bill guide 57 to the customer. in this case,
The shutter 42 is opened, and the bill is delivered from the bill guide 57 to the customer.

The setting and selection of each position and the operation of shifting to each position are controlled by a control unit of the cash depositing and dispensing device described later.

<Discrimination Unit and Front / Back Arrangement Mechanism> Returning to FIG. 1 again, a discrimination unit 4 is provided on the lower left side of the customer entrance 3. The discriminating unit 4 is a device that discriminates and detects the authenticity, correctness, front and back, overlap of two or more sheets (double running), skew, and the like of the fed bill. This device also determines the denomination and the like.

Further, on the left side of the customer service opening 3, a front-back arrangement mechanism 5 is provided. The front-back arrangement mechanism 5 is provided with a separation gate 6. When the banknote determined to be the back side in the discrimination section 4 is sent to the front / back arrangement mechanism 5, the separation gate 6 is driven by a magnet (not shown), and the traveling path is switched each time, and all the banknotes face up. Stacked.

<Batch Storage> At the left corner of the device body 50, a batch storage 11 is arranged. The batch storage 11 is provided with a stage 70 at an upper portion thereof, and a batch separation mechanism 23 is provided for separating bills placed on the stage 70 one by one and taking out the bills at the time of bill distribution operation. Is provided. The amount of bills stacked on the stage 70 is determined by the near full detector 38d and the full detector 3d.
7d and the end detector 39d.

In addition, below the batch storage 11, a batch stacking unit 30 into which bills are fed during a bill collecting operation, a partition plate 33 for stacking the fed bills, and a drive for stacking bills on the partition plates 33. A lever 71 is provided. The end detector 39d is a detector for detecting that the absolute amount of banknotes stored in the collective storage 11 has decreased.

Below the partition plate 33, a batch reject accumulating unit 68 into which bills that have been discriminated to be dispensable by the discriminating unit 4 among bills distributed from the collective storage 11 are sent. The amount of bills in the batch reject unit 62 is detected by the full detector 40a.

In this batch storage 11, the stage 70 moves to the lower side of the drive lever 71, and the drive lever 71 is opened left and right, and the stacked bills are placed on the stage 70.
Is performed again. This operation will be described later with reference to FIG. 17, but in order to detect various positions set during the operation of the stage 70 and the operation of the drive lever 71, various position sensors (not shown) are used. Provided. Further, several drive motors are built in for operation of the stage 70 and the drive lever 71.

<Deposit-Specific Storage and Deposit / Deposit Unit> Deposit-specific storages 8, 9, and 10 are arranged below the apparatus main body 50.

The denomination-type storage 8 is a storage for storing a 1,000-yen ticket.
The denomination storage 9 is a storage for storing a ten thousand yen ticket. The denomination-type storage 10 is also a storage for storing a ten-yen ticket.

A deposit / withdrawal unit 18 is disposed above these denomination storages 8, 9, and 10.

The deposit / withdrawal unit 18 includes a temporary storage unit 24 for 1,000-yen tickets, temporary storage units 25,26 for 10,000-yen tickets, a stacking unit 27 for 1000-yen tickets, a stacking unit 28,29 for 10,000-yen tickets, A separation mechanism 20 for yen notes and separation mechanisms 21 and 22 for 10,000 yen notes are provided. In addition,
Denomination separating gates 32, 31, and 57 are provided along the banknote traveling path 49.

The denomination separating gates 32, 31, and 57 are driven by a magnet (not shown) or the like.

After the bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 4, when the bill is conveyed to the traveling path 49, the denomination separating gates 32, 31, and 57 operate. It is. The 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 27 accumulates the 1,000-yen tickets in the temporary holding unit 24.
On the other hand, the thousand yen tickets taken out from the denomination storage 8 are separated one by one by the thousand yen ticket separating mechanism 21 and sent out to the traveling path 49.

 It should be noted that the same configuration is also applied to the ten thousand yen ticket.

Also, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding units 24, 25, 26 are:
The shutters 34, 35, and 36 are configured to be driven by a motor (not shown) to be pulled out at the same time, so that the shutters 34, 35, and 36 fall into the denomination-type storages 8, 9, and 10.

Deposit boxes 8, 9, and 10 have full detectors 37a and 37, respectively.
b, 37c, near full detector 38a, 38b, 38c, end detector
39a, 39b, and 39c are provided, and the amount of bills in each storage is managed.

<Reject Cassette and Others> Further, between the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and the collective storage 11, collective separation gates 16 and 15 are arranged. Conveyance path 60
When the banknotes conveyed toward the batch separation gate 15 are stored in the batch storage 11, the batch separation gate
The operation of 15 guides the user to the collective stacking unit 30 side. Also,
The bills sent to the respective denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 are sent by the batch separation gate 16 to the traveling path 49 of the depositing / dispensing unit 18 described above.

Banknotes that are rejected are sent to the batch
Batch rejection unit 62 provided in the batch storage 11
Alternatively, it is fed into a reject cassette 7 provided at the left corner of the apparatus main body 50.

The batch rejecting unit 62 provided in the collective storage 11 is configured such that when the bills fed from the collective separation unit 23 of the collective storage 11 are determined by the discrimination unit 4 to be a heavy run or a skew, the corresponding banknote It is provided for storing. The reject cassette 7 is provided for storing bills determined to be dispensable or uncollectible for various reasons.

The reject cassette 7 also has stacking units 66 and 64 and full detectors 40b and 40c. Reject part 67
Accommodates forgotten bills, and the reject unit 68 accommodates other rejected bills. Further, a door 41 is provided on the back surface of the apparatus main body 50, and by opening the door 41, the collective storage 11 is pulled out to the outside. When the batch storage 11 is pulled out, the storages 8, 9, and 10 can be further drawn out.

The reject cassette 7 is arranged so that it can be removed separately without opening the door 41.

Common locks are attached to the collective storage 11 and the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10, respectively, and the doors of the storages (not shown) are opened using an audit key to perform loading and unloading operations of bills. be able to.

In each unit of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, a large number of motors and the like are mounted as power sources for separating and conveying bills, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged.

The operation of the above-described apparatus will be described in order based on the procedures of a depositing transaction, a dispensing transaction, a replenishment loading process, and a collection process.

<Payment Transaction> FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a deposit transaction.

First, the customer presses a deposit / withdrawal key (not shown),
When the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer section 52 shown in FIG. 7 or the passbook is inserted into the passbook entry machine 53 shown in FIG. 7, communication is performed between the automatic teller machine 51 and the center. . As a result of this communication, when the identity is confirmed, the control unit 56 of the automatic teller machine 51 shown in FIG.

In FIG. 10, upon receipt of a deposit processing start command, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus main body 50 switches its internal state to a deposit mode and waits for a customer to set a bill. In this case, as the customer service opening 3, the deposit position shown in FIG. 9A described above is selected. When it is detected that the customer has set a bill, the shutter 42 of the service port 3 is closed.

The control unit 56 shown in FIG. 7 periodically transmits a sense command to the cash depositing / dispensing device 50. The cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 returns information of a response message (response) to the sense command by adding information of “a bill set is present in the customer entrance”.

Next, the control unit 56 transmits a deposit counting command to the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50, and instructs the counting of bills set in the customer service opening 3. Here, the customer service opening 3 takes the separation position shown in FIG. 9 (b), and the customer service port separation mechanism 49 shown in FIG. 9 (b) separates banknotes one by one and takes them into the apparatus. . The bill is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the route indicated by the arrows. The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs the authenticity discrimination, the fitness judgment and the detection of the traveling state, and sends the conveyed bills backward. The discrimination unit 4 determines that the ticket is a fake ticket or an abnormally transported ticket by following the route indicated by an arrow, and is transported to the front-back arrangement mechanism 5 to be stacked one by one. Then, the customer service port 3 is set to the receiving position shown in FIG. 9C, and the bills accumulated in the front and back arranging mechanism 5 are sent to the customer service port 3.

In this way, the deposited reject bill is returned to the customer via the dispensing position shown in FIG. 9 (d).

On the other hand, in the discriminating unit 4, the banknote determined as a genuine banknote or a damaged banknote (banknote not to be circulated) operates the separation gate 43 and is conveyed to the conveyance path 60 as indicated by an arrow. Here, the genuine 1,000-yen ticket is a deposit / withdrawal unit as shown by the arrow.
It is transported to the 18 running path 49 and the 1,000 yen ticket separation gate 57
Is operated to be sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 27. In this way, the 1,000 yen tickets are accumulated in the temporary holding unit 24.

Similarly, genuine ten thousand yen notes are accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 via the accumulation unit 28 by the operation of the separation gate 31. Also,
The 5,000-yen note and the unfit note are collected by operating the separation gate 32.
It is sent to 29 and accumulated in the temporary storage unit 26.

By the above operation, when the deposit counting process of the bill set by the customer in the customer service opening 3 is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50
A response indicating that the counting of payment has been completed is returned to the control unit 56 shown in FIG. Data indicating the number counted for each denomination divided into a recycle banknote and a non-recycle target banknote is added to this response.

The control unit 56 receives this data, calculates the denomination amount and the total amount, and displays them on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. This data is counted and stored as the number of deposits.

When the customer checks the amount displayed on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 7 and presses the confirmation button of the customer operation unit 54, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50 receives the command, Deposited banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage units 24 and 25 of the denomination storages 8 and 9 are stored in the denomination storages 8 and 9 by simultaneously pulling out the shutters 34 and 35 of the temporary storage units.

Next, the 5,000-yen bill and the unfit bill that were accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 of the denomination storage 10 are separated one by one by the separation and takeout mechanism 22 and transported from the transport path 49 in the direction of the arrow to the discrimination unit. Send to 4. Then, the separation gates 43, 16 and 63 are activated,
5,000 yen vouchers are stored in the stacking unit 29, and unfit papers are reject cassettes 7
Is sent to the deposit / withdrawal reject accumulation unit 64 on the lower side, and accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal reject unit 65.

 Thus, the processing of the payment transaction is completed.

<Payout Transaction> FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a withdrawal transaction.

When the customer presses the withdrawal transaction key of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 7, inserts the cash card into the card reader / writer unit 52, and enters a password, the control unit 56
Transmits a command to start the dispensing process to the cash depositing and dispensing device 50.

When receiving the command to start the dispensing process, the cash dispensing / dispensing device 50 switches the internal state to the dispensing mode and waits for the instruction of the denomination and the number of bills to be discharged.

For example, when the customer inputs the amount of m-million-yen ticket and 1,000-yen ticket n, first, the end detectors 39a, 39b, and 39c of the deposit boxes 8, 9, and 10 respectively detect the end. It is determined whether it has not been performed. When the end detection is performed in any one of the money type storages, information indicating that withdrawal is impossible is added to the command and a response is returned. If the end is not detected, according to the instruction of the withdrawal counting, for example,
Activate the million-yen ticket take-out / separation mechanism 21 to feed out m-yen tickets. The fed banknote is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the travel path indicated by arrows. The discriminating section 4 discriminates whether the bill is the designated one or not and whether the bill is correct or not, and if so, activates the separating gate 43 and sends the bill to the obverse and reverse arrangement mechanism 5 along the arrows of. Since the discrimination unit 4 determines the front and back of the banknote, the separation gate 6 is activated based on the determination result, and the front and back are sorted one by one and stacked on the front and back sorting mechanism 5.

In the discriminating section 4, the bills discriminated from the abnormal transport ticket are operated by the separating gates 43 and 63, follow the route indicated by the arrow, and are sent to the collecting section 64 of the reject cassette 7, and the deposit / withdrawal rejecting section 65 Will be integrated.

The above operation is repeated until the previously designated m number of ten thousand notes are taken out from the denomination storage 9 storing the ten thousand notes, discriminated, and accumulated in the front and back sorting mechanism 5.

When the stacking of the 10,000-yen tickets is completed, next, n 1,000-yen tickets are taken out from the denomination storage 8 storing the 1,000-yen tickets.

As a result of the above operation, when m-million-yen notes and n-thousand-yen notes specified by the customer are accumulated in the front-back arrangement mechanism 5, ninth
The reception port 3 is set at the reception position shown in FIG.
The shutter 42 is opened by switching to the dispensing position shown in FIG. 9 (d), the bill is passed to the customer, and then the shutter 42 is closed.

When the dispensing of the designated number of sheets from the control unit 56 ends, the cash depositing and dispensing device 50 returns a response to the control unit 56 that the process has been completed. At this time, data of the denomination and the number of the released denominations are added. The control unit 56 receives this, counts and stores it as the number of payments.

 Withdrawal transaction processing ends here.

If the customer forgets to take a bill at the customer service port 3, the banknotes left behind at the customer service port 3 are re-separated and sent one by one in the direction of the arrow of the discriminating section 4, and the separating gates 43, 69 and 63 are turned on. After being activated, the reject cassette 7 is sent to the forgotten collecting section 66 of the reject cassette 7 and is collected in the forgotten collecting section 67.

<Loading> FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view showing a dispensing operation of the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus of the present invention, that is, a loading and replenishing operation.

First, an attendant attaches the collective storage 11 to the apparatus main body 50 before starting work. A predetermined amount of banknotes are collectively set in the batch storage from the original side. After installing the batch storage, the clerk presses the loading key among the operation keys of the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG. In response to the input, the control unit 56 transmits a command to start the loading operation to the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50.

Upon receiving the loading operation start command, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 switches the internal state to the loading mode. Then, it is confirmed that the end detector 39d of the collective storage 11 has not detected the entry. The banknotes to be loaded are
In order to confirm that it is set to If the end has been detected, information of inoperability is added and the control unit 56
Send the response to. In that case, the loading operation is stopped. After confirming that the end has not been detected, the loading operation is started.

At this time, the storage content of the storage management memory 99 provided in the collective storage does not always match the denomination and the number of banknotes actually stored in the collective storage.

When the loading operation is started, in FIG. 8, the cash-receipt-and-disbursement device control unit 80 performs the collective removal shown in the collective storage 11 of FIG. 12 via the I / O interface circuit 82 and the motor driver 85. The drive motor of the separation mechanism 23 is operated. As a result, the banknotes set in the batch storage 11 are fed out one by one in order from the upper side and sent to the discriminating section 4 along the route indicated by arrows.

The discriminating unit 4 performs denomination discrimination, authenticity discrimination, damage discrimination, and traveling state check for each bill sequentially sent, and the transported bill is further fed backward. If the result of the discrimination by the discriminating unit 4 is a genuine one-thousand-yen note (a bill that has no damage or is a small bill that can be used for withdrawal), the bill is routed by arrows, and Follow the path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18
It is sent to the 1,000 yen ticket accumulation unit 27 via 57. Thus,
The 1,000 yen ticket is directly accumulated on the stage 45 of the 1,000 yen ticket storage 8.

In the loading operation as described above, the shutters 34, 35, and 36 of the respective denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 are opened in advance, and the stages 45, 46, and 47 are set to accept the loaded banknotes. ing.

Also, if the discrimination result is a genuine ten thousand note, the banknote operates the ten thousand ticket separation gate 31 and the ten thousand note stacking section
Sent to 28. Then, they are directly integrated on the stage 46.

The above operation is repeated until the appropriate number of loaded sheets is reached for each of the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10.

During this operation, if the number of stacked sheets on any of the stages 45 and 46 reaches the hold allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the batch removal / separation mechanism 23 of the batch storage 11 is interrupted. Then, the stages 45 and 46 which have reached the hold allowance are lowered by a motor (not shown) by a thickness corresponding to the hold allowance. When the stage moves down, the batch removal / separation mechanism 23
And the loading operation is repeated.

For example, when a 10,000-yen ticket is first loaded into the denomination-type storage 9, a predetermined appropriate number of ten-thousand-yen tickets is stored in the denomination-type storage 9 until the full detector 37b detects the full state. Loading continues until it is stored.

Similarly, when storing 1,000 yen or 5,000 yen tickets in the denomination-type storages 8 and 10, loading is continued until the appropriate number is reached.

The appropriate number is set to, for example, an appropriate number after a bill is loaded, in which a space for accommodating bills to be deposited is left in a deposit transaction. This may be determined empirically uniformly, or may be arbitrarily set according to the installation environment of the automatic teller machine or when the transaction date is the end of the month or the like, depending on the specificity. The setting may be made, for example, by a staff member inputting and setting from the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG.

By the way, even if loading of banknotes into the denomination-type storages 8 and 9 is completed up to a predetermined appropriate number of loaded bills, if the denomination still remains in the collective storage 11, the separation gate 15, 1
By operating 6, the bills conveyed are collected in the stacking unit 30 of the collective storage 11 through the route indicated by the arrow.

In this operation, the banknotes on the stage 70 of the
The determination is continued through the route of,,,,, until the bill on the stage 70 runs out.
When the bill runs out, the transport operation of the collective take-out / separation mechanism 23 and each traveling path is stopped.

If the discriminating unit 4 determines that the bill is a denominated note or a denomination that does not have a denomination storage, for example, a 500 yen note in this embodiment, the bill activates the separation gates 15, 16, and 69. Through the route indicated by the arrow,
Sent to. Then, the damaged bills and the like are accumulated in the collective reject unit 62.

When the above series of operations is completed, the stages 45, 46, 47 are lowered simultaneously, and the banknotes accumulated on these stages are stored in the denomination storages 8, 9, 10, and the loading operation is completed. I do. When the operation is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50 returns a device end response to the control unit 56. At this time, the number data of the denominations loaded in the denomination storage units 8, 9, and 10 is transmitted.

Further, the count management unit 80a counts the number data of the denominations of the banknotes collected in the collective storage 11 again while the predetermined number of storages is loaded in the respective storages 8, 9, and 10 by denomination. Then, the data is transferred to the batch storage interface circuit 90 shown in FIG.
Through the storage management memory 99. As a result,
At the end of loading, the batch storage
Accurate number data for each denomination stored in 11 is stored.

<Storage Management Memory> FIGS. 14 to 16 show the data format of the storage management memory 99. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 14, it is assumed that, for example, 4-word data can be stored in the storage management memory 99. Here, the address m and m + 1 store the number data of the ten thousand yen ticket. Also, addresses m + 2 and m + 3 are
Stores the data of the number of 1,000 yen tickets.

As shown in FIG. 15, each piece of data is one word 8
Because of the bit configuration, the maximum number is 2 ¹⁶ −
1, that is, a number up to 65,535.

FIG. 16 shows an example of actually stored data. That is, the number data of the ten thousand yen ticket has "01000101",
The numerical value “11011100” is stored at the address m + 1. That is, this displays 1,500 decimal numbers.

On the other hand, the number data of the 1,000 yen ticket is “10” in the address m + 2.
000001 "and a value" 11110100 "are stored at address m + 3, which indicates that the number is 500 in decimal.

That is, after the loading operation is completed, if the data stored in the storage management memory 99 has the contents shown in FIG. 16, the data cannot be distributed to the respective denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 again, and The total number of banknotes collected in bulk storage 11 is 1,500,000 yen
It shows that 500 tickets and 1,000 yen tickets were sold.

<Operation of Batch Storage> During the above loading operation, the batch storage operates as follows.

 FIG. 17 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the collective storage.

From collective storage 11, storage by type of money 8, 9, 10 (Fig. 12)
At the start of the operation of loading the bills into the bills, the bills on the stage 70 are taken out and sent out by the collective take-out / separation mechanism 23 as shown in FIG. 17 (a).

On the other hand, bills collected without being stored in the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 are sent to the collective stacking unit 30 and collected on the collective partition plate 33. Here, the banknote has an allowable accumulation value, for example, 100
When the number of sheets reaches the number, the operation of the batch removal / separation mechanism 23 is temporarily stopped.

The drive lever 71 is preset at the position 71 in FIG. 17 (b), and upon receiving an instruction to the effect that the accumulation allowable value has been reached, rotates to the position 71 in FIG. Clamp the bills accumulated on 33.
Then, a motor (not shown) is driven to raise the drive lever 71 from the position 71 to the position 71 in FIG. Next, the previously stopped collective take-out / separation mechanism 23 is operated, and the stacking of the banknotes on the collective partitioning plate 33 is continued again to the allowable stacking value.

When the accumulation allowable value is reached again, the collective take-out separation mechanism 23 is stopped, the drive lever 71 is rotated from the position 71 to the position 71, and the bills lifted by the drive lever 71 are accumulated on the collective partition plate 33. Drop on the banknotes that have been lost. Then, the drive lever 71 at the position 71 is again lowered by the motor (not shown) and moved to the position 71. Thereafter, the drive lever 71 is again rotated to the position 71 to lift the bill to the position 71.

Such an operation is repeated until the end detector 39d detects that the bills on the stage 70 are exhausted. When the end is detected, the operation of the collective take-out / separation mechanism 23 is stopped, and the drive lever 71 lifts the bill up to the position of 71 by a motor (not shown).

On the other hand, the stage 70 is
From the position of 70 to the position of rotation,
Further descend to the 70 position. Then, it is rotationally driven to the position 70 and is disposed below the drive lever 71. Thereafter, the drive lever rotates to the position of 71, and the banknote that has been previously clamped and lifted is placed on the stage 70. Thereafter, the stage 70 is driven by a motor (not shown) and moves up to a position 70 in the figure.

With the above operation, the collected bills can be distributed from the collective storage 11 again.

<Update of storage management memory> In the above-described distribution operation, all the banknotes are once sent out from the collective storage, all the banknotes that cannot be distributed are collected in the collective storage, and the denomination-type number data is stored in the collective storage. It was stored in the storage management memory as it was. However, even in cases other than the dispensing operation, if it is determined that the contents of the storage management memory 99 are abnormal, the cash depositing and dispensing device control unit 80
(Fig. 8) detects this and automatically stores the storage management memory.
Update the contents of 99.

In such a case, for example, when the collective storage 11 is attached to the cash depositing / dispensing device and the content of the storage management memory 99 is doubtful, the power supply is just turned on to the cash depositing / dispensing device, and the storage management memory If the contents of 99 are unreliable, the sum of the denomination-specific number data in the storage management memory 99 is “0” or the batch storage is performed, even though the end detector 39d of the batch storage does not detect the end. There is a case where the number of pieces of data that exceeds the number of sheets that can be stored in the storage is stored in the storage management memory 99, or a state such as a parity error is detected in the access address of the storage management memory 99.

In such a case, as in the distributing operation, the banknotes are sent out from the collective storage, conveyed, discriminated, counted for each denomination, and circulated and collected again in the collective storage. Then, the denomination-specific number data obtained by counting is stored in the storage management memory, and the process is terminated.

<Replenishment Operation> Since the replenishment operation is the same as the loading operation in the drawing, the replenishment operation will be described again with reference to FIG.

When the clerk presses the replenishment key with the operation key of the internal operation unit 55 (FIG. 7), the control unit 56 (FIG. 7) receives this input and sends it to the cash depositing / dispensing device 50 (FIG. 7). A command to start replenishment operation is transmitted. Cash dispenser control unit
80 (FIG. 8) is a command to start the replenishment operation,
(FIG. 7), the operation mode is set to the supplement mode. The replenishment mode includes a compulsory replenishment mode instructed to replenish the designated number of sheets for the designated denomination, and a bill remaining amount of any of the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 during the transaction operation. However, there is an automatic replenishment mode that is automatically executed upon detecting that the number of sheets becomes equal to or less than a predetermined number.

At the start of the replenishment operation, it is confirmed that the end detector 39d of the collective storage 11 has not detected the end, that is, that the bill is set in advance. Further, referring to the data stored in the storage management memory 99, the batch storage
Check whether bills to be replenished are stored in 11.

If the end is detected in the forced replenishment mode, a response to which information indicating that it is not in the operable state is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). In this case, since the contents of the storage management memory 99 may not be reliable,
Clear all the number of denominations in the storage management memory 99 and stop the processing. Of course, the same processing is performed even in the automatic replenishment mode.

On the other hand, the end is not detected and the storage management memory 99
If it is determined that the replenishment can be executed within the range of the number of denominations stored in the group, the replenishment operation is started. In this case, in FIG. 12, the collective take-out / separation mechanism 23 at the top of the collective storage 11 is operated to feed out the banknotes set in the collective storage 11 one by one from the upper side. The bill is sent to the discriminating unit 4 through the route indicated by arrows,.

The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs a denomination determination, a true / false determination, a fitness determination, and a running state check on the fed bills. For example, if the banknote to be refilled is any one of a denomination of a ten thousand yen ticket or a thousand yen banknote, as a result of the discrimination performed by the discrimination unit 4, the banknote determined to be other than a genuine banknote of the replenishment target banknote is
, And the separation gates 15 and 16 are operated to be sent to the stacking unit 30 of the batch storage 11.

Then, as described earlier in the loading example, the batch storage 11
Is collected again in the collective storage by the operation inside.
In this case, it is needless to say that the contents are managed by the count management unit 80a so that the contents of the storage management memory 99 do not change.

The banknote whose discrimination result is determined to be a reject banknote is operated by operating the separation gates 15, 16 and 69, and is sent to the stacking unit 68. The bills are accumulated in the batch reject unit 62.

Now, when the genuine bill of the banknote to be replenished has been conveyed, as described in the loading section, if it is a 1,000-yen bill, the 1,000-yen bill separation gate 57 is operated to operate the 1,000-yen bill accumulation unit 27. , And are directly accumulated on the 1,000 yen ticket stage 45. In the case of a ten-yen ticket, the ten-yen ticket separation gate 31 is operated and sent to the ten-yen ticket accumulation unit 28. Then, it is directly accumulated on the ten thousand yen ticket stage 46.

The above operation is continued until the target number of sheets is replenished.However, when the number of stacked sheets on any of the stages 45 and 46 reaches the hold allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the batch removal / separation mechanism 23 is stopped. The cassette stage that has been interrupted and has reached the hold allowable value is lowered by an amount corresponding to the hold allowable value by a motor (not shown), and the collective removal / separation mechanism 23 is operated again to repeat the replenishing operation.

Even if the replenishment number reaches the target value or is less than the target value, referring to the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99, if all the replenishment target banknotes in the batch storage 11 are replenished, The take-out / separation mechanism 23 stops. Then, when the last bill arrives at the stages 45 and 46, the transport operation stops. Of the stages 45 and 46, the stage that has performed the replenishment operation is lowered, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage are stored in any of the corresponding denomination storages 8, 9 to complete the replenishment operation.

When the refill operation is completed, the number of refills is counted, and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are updated based on the result. In this case, the number obtained by subtracting the counting result of all the denominations collected in the collective storage 11 again from the counting result of all the denominations extracted from the collective storage 11 is based on the original data in the storage management memory 99. Is subtracted.

FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the storage management memory before and after the refilling operation.

For example, it is assumed that the banknote storage state in the batch storage 11 and the contents of the storage management memory 99 before the replenishment operation are as shown in FIG. In other words, before the refilling operation, 10,000 yen ticket 1,500
Suppose there were 500 tickets and 1,000 yen tickets. Here, in the case where 300 coins and 1,000 coins are refilled into each denomination storage, respectively, after the replenishment operation, as shown in FIG.
0 tickets and 200 tickets for 1,000 yen.

<Collecting Operation> FIG. 13 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a collecting operation.

When the operator presses the internal operation unit 55 (the operation key in FIG. 7) and presses the collection key, the control unit 56 (FIG. 7)
Receives the input, and transmits a command to start the collection operation to the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 (FIG. 7).

When the cash-in / pay-out device control section 80 (FIG. 8) receives a command for starting the collection operation from the control section 56 (FIG. 7), it determines whether this is a forced collection or an automatic collection. In the case of forced collection, all banknotes are unconditionally collected from the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 to the collective storage 11. The automatic collection is executed when the number of stored banknotes in any one of the denomination storages 8, 9, and 10 exceeds a predetermined number. In these cases, the operation mode is set to the collection mode, and it is confirmed that the near full detector 38d of the batch storage 11 has not detected near full.

Further, by referring to the storage contents of the storage management memory 99, it is confirmed that there is still a recoverable space in the collective storage 11, and the number of sheets that can be actually recovered. Here, when it is detected in the forced collection mode that no space that can be collected in the collective storage 11 is left, a response including state information indicating that operation is disabled is transmitted to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). Processing is aborted. The same applies to automatic collection.

On the other hand, when it is confirmed that a retrievable space remains in the collective storage 11, the collection operation is started.

First, when collecting banknotes from the denomination-type storage 10 storing the 5,000-yen ticket, the 5,000-yen ticket removal / separation mechanism 22 is operated, and the banknote is stored in the denomination-type storage (5,000-yen ticket storage) 10. The stored bills are fed out one by one in order from the top and sent to the discriminating section 4 through the route of. The discrimination unit 4 sequentially detects the authenticity and the running state of the fed bills and sends the bills backward.

As a result of the discrimination performed by the discrimination unit 4, two or more sheets overlap (double running),
The banknote for which the skew has been detected is sent to the reject cassette 7 by operating the separation gates 16 and 15 through the route, and the route.

As a result of discrimination, normal banknotes are counted and collected
Sent to 30. The bills sent to the collective stacking unit 30 are sequentially stacked on the collective partition plate 33. This operation is repeated until the target number of sheets to be collected is reached, or until there are no more banknotes set in the denomination storage 10 storing the 5,000 yen note.

In the meantime, if the number of stacked sheets on the batch partitioning plate 33 reaches an allowable stacking value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the 5,000-yen ticket removal / separation mechanism 22 is interrupted, and the batch operation described earlier during the refilling operation is stopped. The operation in the storage 11 is executed. The same applies to the collection operation for the other storage units 9 and 8 by denomination.

During the collection operation, the full detector 37
When d detects the full state, the collecting operation is interrupted, and the information is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). The control unit 56 displays this on a display unit (not shown).

The attendant discharges the banknotes stored in the collective storage 11 after seeing the display indicating that the collective storage is full.
In this case, the attendant opens the door 41 on the rear surface of the device main body 50 of the cash depositing / dispensing device, pulls out the batch storage 11, opens the door using the audit key, and takes out all the banknotes. After that, the collective storage 11 is set, the door 41 is closed, and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are all cleared to “0” by the reverse operation to the above, and the collection operation is restarted. After that, when the end detectors 39c, 39b, 38a of all the denomination storages 8, 9, 10 detect the end, the take-out mechanisms 20, 21, 22 are stopped, and the last bill arrives at the batch storage 11. Then, the transport operation stops.

The cash depositing / dispensing device that has completed the above processing is
In response to (FIG. 7), a response indicating the end of collection is returned, and the counted number of sheets collected for each denomination is added to the response.
In response to this, the control unit 56 counts and stores the number of collected sheets.

On the other hand, when the collecting operation is completed, the cash dispensing / dispensing device control section 80 (FIG. 8) stores the number of collected money of each denomination collected from each denomination storage 8, 9, 10 and the storage management memory 99. Is added to the number of stored denominations stored in the storage unit, and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are updated.

<Operation of Apparatus of Embodiment> The apparatus of the above embodiment has the following operation and effects.

(1) Two or more kinds of banknotes used in the device are stored in the collective storage, distributed to the denomination storage at any time after the cash depositing / dispensing device is attached, and collected as needed. ,
Banknotes can be managed by attaching and detaching only the bulk storage.

(2) The collective storage has a structure in which a collecting port and a dispensing port are provided separately so that bills can be circulated, and the deposited bills are sequentially stored and reused for dispensing and the like. Therefore, the banknotes can be efficiently operated. Further, even with a small and simple mechanism, there is no excess or deficiency of bills.

(3) The collective storage is integrally provided with a storage management memory, in which the number of bills for each denomination is stored. Therefore, the cash dispensing / dispensing apparatus can smoothly and reliably perform the operation at the time of cash distribution or cash collection.

(4) When the shortage of the remaining banknotes in the denomination storage is detected, the apparatus refers to the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory and automatically performs a replenishment operation from the collective storage within the range at any time. Can do it. Therefore, the number of stored banknotes in each denomination storage could be properly maintained. In addition, the maintenance and management of the staff becomes easy.

(5) In the case where the number of stored items in any one of the money type storages becomes too large due to a deposit transaction or the like, the collection operation can be automatically performed. In this case, the contents of the storage management memory are updated in accordance with the number of collections, so that the operation of the attendant is not required unless the batch storage is full, so that the power saving effect is extremely high.

(6) The same operation can be performed using not only banknotes but also coins and the like.

(7) Also, when operating a plurality of cash deposit / withdrawal devices,
By referring to the storage management memory of the collective storage mounted on each device, the collective storage can be exchanged as necessary, and appropriate accommodation can be achieved. Therefore, efficient operation of funds is possible with a simple operation.

(Effect of the Invention) In the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus of the present invention described above, the rejected cash is mixed in the temporary holding unit above the specific denomination storage at the time of the deposit transaction, so that the rejecting is performed. There is no need to provide a temporary storage unit dedicated to cash or a transport mechanism dedicated to cash to be rejected, and the size of the apparatus can be reduced. In addition, since the rejected cash distribution process is performed after the payment transaction is completed, there is no need to provide a special temporary holding unit for non-withdrawable tickets, simplifying the path for transporting cash before the payment transaction. Can be
The payment transaction operation can be performed in a short time in a well-balanced manner as a whole.

Further, according to the above-described configuration, even if a collective storage for replenishing and collecting cash is mounted on the apparatus main body, the apparatus main body is not significantly increased in size, and the total size of the apparatus is small and inexpensive. Can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an embodiment of a cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the conventional apparatus, FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a main operation of a deposit transaction of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of an operation of the apparatus of the present invention when the deposit transaction is not established, and FIG. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of an operation when a deposit transaction is completed, FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a main operation of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG.
Fig. 9 is a block diagram of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention. Fig. 9 is a sectional view for explaining the operation of the customer service port. Fig. 10 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of deposit transaction. FIG. 12 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus at the time of withdrawal transaction, FIG. 12 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of loading (replenishment) operation, and FIG. FIGS. 14 to 16 illustrate the data format of the storage management memory of the apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 17 illustrates the operation of the batch storage, and FIG. 18 illustrates the storage management of the apparatus before and after the refilling operation. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of contents of a memory. 8,9,10… Deposit type storage, 7… Reject cassette, 11… Batch storage, 50… Device main unit, 80… Cash depositing and dispensing device control unit, 80a… Count management unit, 80b… … Cash collection means, 80c… Cash distribution means, 99… Storage management memory, 100… Reserved re-transport management unit.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-63-51270 (JP, A) JP-A-62-2396 (JP, A) JP-A-2-66078 (JP, A) JP-A 62-19678 61193 (JP, A) JP-A-61-80493 (JP, A) JP-A-57-106057 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07D 9 / 00-9 / 06

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A discriminating section for discriminating cash in denominations, a plurality of denomination storages for storing cash, and a reject cassette for storing a ticket determined by the discriminating section to be a damaged or non-withdrawable ticket. And temporarily storing cash to be stored in the denomination storage at the time of a deposit transaction on the denomination storage, and storing the cash without storing the cash in the denomination storage until customer confirmation is performed. In the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus having a unit, a specific denomination storage that is infrequently used is set in advance from among the plurality of denomination storages, and during a deposit transaction, denominations other than the specific denomination storage are set. The cash to be stored in the denomination storage in the temporary storage section of the storage, and the cash to be stored in the specific denomination storage in the temporary storage of the specific denomination storage and the reject cassette To be stored in After the payment transaction is completed, the cash accumulated in the temporary storage unit of the denomination storage other than the specific denomination storage is stored in the denomination storage, and The cash accumulated in the temporary holding unit of the denomination storage is discriminated by the discrimination unit and sorted into cash stored in the specific denomination storage and cash stored in the reject cassette. A cash depositing and dispensing apparatus, wherein cash stored in a storage is stored in the specific denomination storage, and cash stored in the reject cassette is stored in the reject cassette.