JP3192973B2 - Bill receiving / dispensing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus for depositing and dispensing banknotes by operation of a customer or an operator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When making a deposit using a conventional device of this type,
First, a bill is inserted into the customer service port, the pickup roller is rotated in a state where the bill is pressed against the pickup roller, the bills are separated one by one, and the bills are transported to the transport unit. And the like, and the unacceptable banknotes are temporarily stored in the reject banknote storage unit as reject banknotes, and after all the input banknotes have been separated, they are again conveyed to the customer service port and returned.

[0003]

However, in the conventional apparatus, a dedicated reject banknote storage unit must be provided for temporarily storing reject banknotes. After all the banknotes are separated, the reject banknotes are rejected to the service opening. The processing time required for the transaction was long to transport the bills.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, in a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus for pushing bills to a pickup roller and rotating the pickup roller to pay out bills, the pickup roller is arranged so as to be in contact with the side face of the accumulated bills. A first bill press and a second bill press for pressing a bill against the pickup roller are provided so as to be movable such that the first bill press is on the pickup roller side, and the second bill press is located at a predetermined distance from the first bill press. If you take
A bill stopper capable of partitioning between the first building press and the second building press is provided, and a control unit that controls and functions each of the above components is provided.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external view showing an automatic cash transaction apparatus incorporating a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Before explaining the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the embodiment, an automatic cash transaction device will be described first.

In FIG. 1, an automatic teller machine (hereinafter, referred to as an automatic teller machine)
The ATM 1 is mainly composed of a banknote depositing / dispensing device 2, a coin depositing / dispensing device 3, a card reader / writer unit 4, a passbook bookkeeping machine 5, and a customer operation unit 6. This is a device that accepts a deposited bill and pays the bill to a customer, and is provided below the ATM 1 as shown in the figure. The coin depositing and dispensing device 3 is a device that receives coins deposited by the customer through the service port 8 and pays coins to the customer, and is arranged alongside the banknote depositing and dispensing device 2.

The card reader / writer unit 4 includes a card reader that reads the identification information of the cash card inserted by the customer and the customer information, and performs a process of printing the results of transactions such as a deposit transaction and a withdrawal transaction on a transaction statement. Is what you do.
The passbook entry machine 5 can identify a passbook inserted by a customer,
The bookkeeping process for recording the results of the depositing and withdrawing transactions and the like is performed.

The customer operation unit 6 includes operation keys operated by the customer to input a deposit amount, a withdrawal amount, a password, and the like,
A display for displaying illustrations and characters for input amounts, operation guidance, and the like is provided.

The ATM 1 is provided with a voice guide 9, an approach detector 10, a flicker lamp 11, and a plasma display 12. The voice guidance unit 9 provides operation guidance to customers by voice, and includes a speaker 9a and a microphone 9b on the front of the apparatus 1. The proximity detector 10 detects that the customer has approached the ATM 1 using ultrasonic waves. The flicker lamp 11 is provided for guiding the operation to the customer, and is provided near each of the medium insertion / ejection outlets of the card reader / writer unit 4 and the passbook bookkeeping machine 5 and the customer entrances 7 and 8 so as to blink. Controlled. The plasma display 12 is a display unit that displays a transaction item that can be traded in the ATM 1 and displays various information, and is scrollable in the horizontal direction of the ATM 1.

Although not shown in the ATM 1,
ROM storing programs for performing various controls
, A storage unit composed of a RAM or a floppy disk, an interface unit for connecting to a host computer as a host device, a main control unit for controlling the above units,
A power supply unit for supplying power to each of the above units is provided.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to the embodiment of the present invention, as viewed from the left side of the ATM 1. The internal configuration of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 2, the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus 2 includes a customer service port 7, a front / back reversing section 21, a discriminating section 22, a replenishing and collecting cassette 23, a denomination cassette 24 (24a, 24b,
24c), a deposit / withdrawal reject box 25 and a transport path 26 for connecting the above components are provided. The front and back reversing unit 21 has a function of aligning the front and back of the bill to be paid out to pay the customer, and specifically, the banknote determined to be the back side by the discrimination unit 22 is reversed to the front side by the front and back reversing unit 21. . The discrimination unit 22 has a function of discriminating a denomination, authenticity, correctness, front / back, and the like of a banknote.

The replenishment and recovery cassette 23 stores a plurality of denomination bills, and can be taken out of the ATM 1 from the back side of the ATM 1. The replenishment and recovery cassette 23 is integrally provided with a recovery unit 23a and a reject box 23b. The collecting unit 23a collects the bills fed from the denomination cassette 24 in accordance with the collecting instruction. The reject box 23b stores banknotes determined to be abnormal among banknotes fed from the replenishment and collection cassette 23, and the like.

The denomination cassette 24 is a cassette for storing banknotes for dispensing, and the cassettes 24a and 24b store banknotes of ten thousand yen, and the cassette 24c stores banknotes of one thousand yen. At the top of each denomination cassette 24a, 24b, 24c, there is provided a banknote temporary storage 27a, 27b, 27c.

The upper part of the deposit / withdrawal reject box 25 is
Capture reject unit 25 for storing bills that the customer has forgotten
The lower part of the deposit / withdrawal reject box 25 is a banknote (for example, a 500-yen bill or a 5,000-yen bill) which cannot be stored in the denomination cassette 24 at the time of deposit and a genuine bill at the time of withdrawal, Therefore, a deposit rejecting portion 25b for storing the bills which cannot be reused is formed.

The transport path 26 holds the banknotes by a transport roller or belt (not shown), and transports the banknotes by rotating them by a motor or the like. At each branch point of the transport path 26, a switching blade 28 for switching the transport direction of the bill is rotatably provided.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing the service port of the embodiment. Next, the configuration of the service port will be described. In FIG. 3, a pickup roller 31 is rotatably provided on the left side of the customer service port 7. The pickup roller 31 is a roller that separates the bills pressed against the bill one by one and feeds the bills to the outside of the customer service port 7, and a high friction member 31a is embedded in a part thereof. The bills are separated by the high friction member 31a. Below the pickup roller 31, a feed roller 32 and a reverse roller 33 are provided in pressure contact with each other. The feed roller 32 rotates clockwise to convey the bills fed by the pickup roller 31, and rotates counterclockwise to take in the bills into the customer service opening 7 when performing a dispensing transaction.

The reverse roller 33 rotates only in the clockwise direction, and acts so that two or more bills are not fed out. The reverse roller 33 is supported by a rotating arm (not shown) around the rotation axis of the feed roller 32, and rotates between the position shown by the solid line and the position shown by the one-dot chain line as the rotating arm rotates. I do. The rotary arm is rotated by a motor or the like.

The first building press 34 and the second building press 34
Bill presses 35 are both provided so as to be movable in the left-right direction in the figure. The first bill press 34 is rotatable by 90 degrees in a counterclockwise direction in the figure from a vertically standing position shown in the figure around an axis (not shown) at the lower end thereof.
The first building press 34 is urged in the clockwise direction in the figure to normally maintain a vertical standing state as shown in the figure. When the second bill press 35 is moved to the left in the figure while the first bill press 34 is stopped in the vertical state, the first bill press 34 is pushed by the second bill press 35 and moves counterclockwise 90 degrees. It rotates horizontally and becomes horizontal,
The structure is such that the second building press 35 can pass above it.

A reject building stopper 36 is provided below the service opening 7 so as to be movable in a vertical direction. The reject building stopper 36 is shown from a position shown by a solid line to a position shown by a broken line in the drawing, that is, the inside of the service opening 7. It can be moved by a driving means that does not. Reject building stopper 36
When it moves to the position shown by the broken line, it stops in a state where the tip is slightly inclined rightward in the figure from the vertical state.

A sub-guide 37 is attached to the second bill press 35 so as to project therefrom. The sub guide 37 protrudes to the position shown by the broken line. Reject accumulation rollers 38 and 39 are rotatably provided below the service opening 7.
The reject accumulating rollers 38 and 39 convey a reject bill to be described later upward in the figure and send it out to a space between the reject bill stopper 36 and the sub guide 37.

A shutter 40 is provided above the service opening 7 so as to be movable in the left-right direction in the figure. The position of the solid line in the figure is the closed position, and the position of the broken line is the open position. The shutter 40 is driven by a drive source (not shown), and is capable of inserting and removing banknotes in the customer service opening 7 formed by the above-described components in the open position.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus of the embodiment. 4, a control unit 41 is connected to each component shown in FIG. 3 and controls these components.

Next, the operation of the deposit transaction in the present embodiment will be further described with reference to FIGS. FIG.
Is an explanatory diagram showing the operation of taking in the bills of the customer service entrance during the deposit transaction,
6 and 7 are explanatory views showing the operation of storing a rejected bill in the customer service opening.

When the "deposit" key displayed on the display unit of the customer operation unit 6 is pressed by the customer, the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer unit 4, and the passbook is inserted into the passbook entry machine 5. The information recorded on these media is read, and communication is performed between the ATM 1 and a host computer (not shown). If it is confirmed from the cash card and passbook that the transaction is possible, A
The TM 1 transmits a command for starting a deposit process to the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 2. When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 receives the command to start the payment process, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 switches its internal state to the payment mode.

In the customer service port 7, the control section 41 moves the first building press 34 and the second building press 35 together in contact with each other and arranges them as shown in FIG. Also, the reverse roller 33 moves downward. In this state, the shutter 40 is opened to wait for the bill 42 to be inserted. Banknote 4
When it is confirmed by a sensor or the like (not shown) that the roller 2 is inserted between the pickup roller 31 and the first bill press 34, the shutter 40 is closed.

Next, the control unit 41 transmits a deposit counting command, and instructs the counting of bills inserted into the customer service opening 7. Here, the first building press 34 and the second building press 35 are moved to the left in FIG.
As shown in (b), the bill 42 is transferred to the pickup roller 31.
Pressure contact. Then, as shown in FIG. 5C, the reverse roller 33 is moved upward to set the transport system such as the feed roller 32 and the reverse roller 33 to a transportable state.

Further, as shown in FIG. 5D, only the second bill press 35 is moved rightward in the figure. At this time the first
The bill press 34 is kept pressed against the bill 42. Next, the reject building stopper 36 is moved upward, the tip is set so as to be slightly inclined rightward in the drawing, and the sub-guide 37 is set so as to project leftward from the second building press 35. I do.

When the pickup roller 31 is rotated clockwise in this state, the bills 42 are fed one by one by the high friction member 31a of the pickup roller 31. The feed roller 32 also rotates clockwise at the same time, and conveys the fed bill 42 downward. At this time, since the reverse roller 33 is configured to rotate only in the clockwise direction, simultaneous feeding of two or more banknotes 42 is prevented, and only one banknote 42 can be reliably transported. The first bill press 34 always presses the bills 42 against the pickup roller 31, and moves to the left in the drawing as the bills 42 are fed out one by one.

In FIG. 2, the bills 42 fed from the customer service port 7 enter the route A in the transport path 26, pass through the front / back reversing section 21, and are further fed to the discrimination section 22 through the route B. The bills 42 conveyed by the discrimination unit 22
Of the denomination, true / false, fitness, front / back, and detection of the transport state, and are sent to the route C. The banknote discriminated by the discriminating unit 22 as a genuine banknote or an unfit banknote (a banknote not to be circulated) is sent by the switching blade 28 in the direction of the route E. The banknotes determined as genuine notes are temporarily stored in the denomination cassettes 24a, 24b, 24c by denomination from the route of E,
27b and 27c.

On the other hand, a counterfeit or abnormal transported bill, that is, a bill determined to be unacceptable by the discriminating unit 22, is switched as a reject bill by the switching blade 28 in the direction of the second route, and is forwarded to the customer service port 7. Can be

The rejected bills 42a conveyed in the direction of the service port 7 are moved by the reject stacking rollers 38 and 39, as shown in FIG. 6A, between the reject building stopper 36 and the sub-guide 37 in the service port 7. Is sent out and accumulated. The reject banknote accumulation will be described later.

When the rejected bills 42a are fed into the service port 7 and all the bills are fed out and the rejected bills 42a have been accumulated in the service port 7, the sub-guide 37 is moved to the second building press as shown in FIG. 35. Then, the first bill press 34 is moved rightward in the drawing, and the reject stopper 36 is moved downward. Next, as shown in FIG. 6C, the second bill press 35 is moved leftward in the figure, and the first bill press 34 is moved leftward. Then, the shutter 40 is opened, and the customer
2a can be taken out.

With the above operation, when the deposit counting process of the bills 42 inserted by the customer into the customer service opening 7 is completed, the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus 2 returns a response of the deposit counting completion to the main control unit of the ATM 1. In this response, data is added that separates the number counted for each denomination into a recycle banknote and a non-recycle banknote. The main control unit of the ATM 1 receives this data, calculates the denomination amount and the total amount, and displays it on the display unit of the customer operation unit 6. This data is counted as the number of deposits and stored in the storage unit.

When the customer checks the amount displayed on the display unit of the customer operation unit 6 and presses the "confirmation" key of the customer operation unit 6, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2 receives the confirmation signal, and Temporary holding unit 2 on type cassettes 24a, 24b, 24c
By pulling out the not-shown shutters of the temporary holding units 27a, 27b, 27c, the banknotes received in the banknotes 7a, 27b, 27c are pulled out of the denomination cassettes 24a, 24c.
b, 24c.

Subsequently, if the passbook is inserted, the deposit amount is printed at a predetermined printing position in the passbook, and the information in the account ledger file for each customer stored in the host computer is updated. Then, the cash card is discharged and the deposit transaction is completed.

Here, the stacking operation of the reject bills 42a will be described in detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a detailed explanatory view showing an operation of stacking reject bills. FIG. 7A shows the state of accumulation of the reject bills 42a in the present embodiment, in which the reject bill stopper 36 is standing slightly inclined to the right in the figure, and the sub-guide 37 is the second bill press 35. It is in a state of projecting obliquely.

FIG. 7B shows a reject building stopper 36.
Of the rejected banknotes 42a when the banknotes are set up vertically. In FIG. 7B, when the reject bills 42a are guided upward by rotating the reject accumulation rollers 38 and 39, the newly guided reject bills 42a are sequentially accumulated on the right side of the already accumulated reject bills 42a. Go. Therefore, the reject bill 42a is in a state of leaning against the reject bill stopper 36 so that the upper end thereof is in contact with the reject bill stopper 36, and the lower end may be shifted to the right side to block the entrance of the reject bill 42a by the reject accumulation rollers 38 and 39. . Reject accumulation roller 38
A tongue roller (not shown) having a tongue piece 43 is provided coaxially with the tongue roller.
And reject bill stopper 36 by flipping the lower end of reject bill 42a taken in customer service opening 7
In this case, even if the tongue piece 43 is used as shown in FIG. 7B, the reject bill 42a is leaned against the reject bill stopper 36 as shown in the figure. As a result, the lower end of the reject bill 42a may cover the reject accumulation rollers 38 and 39.

On the other hand, in the present embodiment, FIG.
As shown in (a), since the reject bill stopper 36 is tilted rightward, when the reject bill 42a is pushed toward the reject bill stopper 36 by the action of the tongue piece 43, the lower end of the reject bill 42a is more rejected. It moves to the building stopper 36 side, and the upper end is inclined to the right, so that it is stably accumulated. That is, reject bill 4
The lower end of 2a is stacked in a standing state without covering the reject stacking rollers 38, 39. In addition, sub guide 37
Guides the newly rejected banknote 42a so as not to protrude upward.
a is stably integrated.

The stacking of the rejected banknotes 42a in a standing position is not limited to the stacking of the rejected banknotes 42a, but is generally applicable to the case where sheets are stacked in a standing position.

When the rejected bill 42a is generated, the rejected bill 42a is guided on the display unit of the customer operation unit 6 in order to prompt the customer to take out the rejected bill 42a from the customer service opening 7, but the user may still be left behind. In this case, the rejected banknote 42a in the
In a certain state, it is determined by detecting that the customer has left the device 1 by the proximity detector 10, and the reject bill 42
a is taken into the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 2. Next, the operation of taking in the reject bill 42a will be described.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a rejected banknote taking-in operation. The rejected banknote taking-in operation will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8A shows a state where the shutter 40 has been closed due to the forgetting to reject the bill. Here, the first bill press 34 is moved rightward in the drawing so as to come into contact with the reject bill 42a. Next, FIG.
As shown in (b), the second bill press 35 is moved to the left while the first bill press 34 is stopped. The second bill press 35 pushes the reject bill 42a, and the reject bill 42a pushes the first bill press 34. Since the first bill press 34 is stopped, the first bill press 34 is tilted leftward about an axis (not shown) at the lower end, and is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise to be in a horizontal state. The second bill press 35 pushes the reject bill 42a on the horizontal first bill press 34 and moves to the left in the drawing.

The second bill press 35 is a reject bill 42
8A is pressed against the pickup roller 31, and as shown in FIG. 8C, the pickup roller 31 is rotated clockwise in the figure to separate and transport the reject bills 42a one by one. By utilizing the single space formed in the customer service opening 7 in this way, it is possible to separate deposited banknotes and accumulate rejected banknotes. In addition, since the procedure of storing the rejected banknotes in the dedicated storage and then transporting the rejected banknotes to the customer service port 7 is omitted, it is possible to speed up the deposit processing.

[0045]

As described in detail above, a single space formed near the customer service entrance can separate deposited banknotes and accept rejected banknotes. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a dedicated temporary storage for rejected banknotes. In addition, since there is no need to transport and store the rejected banknotes in a dedicated temporary storage and then transport the banknotes again to the customer service port, high-speed processing can be performed.

Further, the provision of the building stopper has an effect that the banknotes can be stably and reliably stacked.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of an automatic teller machine.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a service port of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a bill taking-in operation of a customer entrance.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation of storing a reject bill.

FIG. 7 is a detailed explanatory diagram showing an integration operation.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a reject bill taking-in operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 31 Pickup Roller 34 First Bill Press 35 Second Bill Press 36 Reject Bill Stopper 37 Sub Guide 41 Control Unit 42 Banknote 42a Reject Banknote 43 Tongue

Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-4-223587 (JP, A) JP-A-7-57131 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 13 / 00 G07D 9/00 G07F 19/00

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bill receiving / dispensing apparatus for pushing bills against a pickup roller and rotating the pickup roller to pay out bills, wherein a pickup roller is arranged so as to be in contact with a side face of the accumulated bills, and the bills are transferred to the pickup rollers. A first bill press and a second bill press to be pressed are movably provided so that the first bill press is on the pickup roller side, and when the second bill press is at a predetermined distance from the first bill press, the second bill press is pressed. A bill receiving / dispensing device, comprising: a bill stopper that can partition between a first bill press and a second bill press; and a control unit that controls and functions each of the above components. 2. With the first building press stopped,
When the second bill press is moved to the pickup roller side, the first bill press falls down to the pickup roller side with the lower end as an axis and becomes horizontal, and the second bill press passes over the first bill press. The bill receiving / dispensing device according to claim 1, wherein the bill receiving / dispensing device is movable toward a pickup roller. 3. The first bill press and the second bill press are moved so as to form a space between the first bill press and the pickup roller under the control of the control unit, and a bill is received in the space. The bill is moved toward the pickup roller to press the bill against the pickup roller, the second bill press is moved in a direction away from the pickup roller and the first bill press, and the bill is moved between the first bill press and the second bill press. A stopper is arranged, the pickup roller is rotated to separate and convey the bills, and unacceptable bills are accumulated as a reject bill between the second bill press and the bill stopper. After the bills are separated, the bill stopper is stored. The bill according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the rejected bill is returned with being interposed between the first bill press and the second bill press. And dispensing apparatus. 4. When a rejected bill is forgotten to be taken in and the rejected bill is taken in, the first bill press is arranged at a predetermined distance from the pickup roller and stopped, and the second bill press is stopped on the pickup roller side. To move the first building press to the pickup roller side,
4. The bill input / output according to claim 3, wherein the reject bill and the second bill press pass over the bill press, and the second bill press presses the reject bill against a pickup roller, rotates the pickup roller and takes in the reject bill again. Gold equipment. 5. When the building stopper partitions between the first building press and the second building press, the building stopper is tilted toward the second building press, and a gap between the building stopper and the second building press is provided. A tongue that flips the lower part of a bill fed from a pay-out port provided below the second bill press side is provided on the bill stopper side, and the bill is inclined so that the lower part of the bill is closer to the bill stopper than the upper part. The bill receiving / dispensing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein 6. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 5, wherein the second bill press is provided with a sub-guide protruding toward the building stopper to prevent the bill from jumping out, and the sub-guide can be protruded and stored.