JP3214529B2 - 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 pay-in / pay-out device installed in a financial institution such as a bank and automatically processing cash transactions such as deposit / withdrawal by a customer's own operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Of the teller machines and automatic transaction services in financial institutions such as banks, banknote depositing / dispensing apparatuses have been frequently used in recent years for handling cash with customers. FIG.
FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an essential part showing a configuration example of a conventional banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus. In the upper front side of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 shown in this figure, a customer service port 3 for a customer to put in and take out a banknote or a staff member of the device operator to replenish the banknote when replenishing the customer service banknote, and A shutter 2 is provided which opens and closes only when a customer or a staff at the apparatus operator inserts and removes banknotes from the service entrance 3.

[0003] At the lower left of the customer service port 3, denominations and authenticity
A discriminating unit 4 for discriminating and detecting front and back, damage, traveling state, and the like is arranged, and further, on the left side of the customer entrance 3,
The front and back sorting mechanism 5 is provided, and the banknote discriminated as being the back side in the discriminating unit 4 is turned over to the front side so that all bills to be dispensed can be paid out to the customer in a state facing the front side. When all the dispensed banknotes are stacked, the banknotes are sent to the customer service opening 3.

[0004] In the lower part of the banknote depositing and dispensing apparatus 1, three denomination storages 6, 7, and 8 are disposed as internal banknote storage. The denominations to be stored in each of the storages are previously set, such as a 1,000-yen ticket in the denomination-type storage 8, and when the denomination is determined in the discriminating unit 4, a 10,000-yen ticket is issued according to the determination. Is distributed to the denomination storage 6 or 7, and the 1,000 yen ticket is distributed and stored to the denomination storage 8 respectively.

In the uppermost part of the apparatus 1, replenishment bills to be replenished as bills to be dispensed to the three denomination storages 6, 7, 8 and cash storages 6, 7 for each of these denominations are provided. , 8 are full, and a replenishment collection storage 11 is provided for collectively storing a plurality of denominations for collection bills to be collected at the time of scrutiny or the like. Below the replenishment collection storage 11, a deposited rejected banknote of which a traveling abnormality such as breakage or skew has been discriminated or a banknote fed out at the time of dispensing is also skewed or the like. A reject cassette 15 is provided for accommodating a rejected banknote that has been determined to be a withdrawal rejection banknote due to a running abnormality. This reject cassette 15 is provided when a customer forgets to take a banknote that has been dispensed to the customer service port 3. Banknote storage unit 1 that stores banknotes that have been taken back again
6, a reject banknote at the time of dispensing and a reject banknote at the time of deposit, and a deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17 for accommodating a banknote without a corresponding denomination storage of the deposited banknote, for example, a 5,000 yen note or the like. Have been.

A deposit / withdrawal unit 18 is disposed above the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8, and the deposit and withdrawal unit 18 stores and feeds bills into and from the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8. Do. And this deposit / withdrawal unit 18
Inside, denomination-specific transport paths j, k, and l are arranged according to denomination so as to convey deposit and replenishment storage banknotes, and denominations are disposed according to denomination so as to convey out-payment bills for withdrawal and collection. It has denomination-specific transport paths m, n, and p, and switches the transport direction of banknotes to these denomination-specific transport paths m, n, and p, and transports the denomination-specific transport paths m, n, and p to the transport path c. Switching gates 31, 32, 3 for switching directions
3 is provided.

[0007] Further, between the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and each of the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8, temporary storage units 24, 25, and 26 are provided corresponding to the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8, respectively. These temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26 temporarily accumulate the deposited and replenished banknotes, and when the banknotes can be stored in the safe, slide and move in the horizontal direction indicated by a broken line in the figure to accumulate. The banknotes dropped are stored in the respective denomination storages 6, 7, and 8. Also, when it is fed out, it is also slid horizontally to open the upper surfaces of the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8.

[0008] For this reason, in the case where the coin type storages 6, 7, and 8 are preliminarily associated with each other so as to store a 1,000-yen ticket in 8 and a 1,000-yen ticket in 8, respectively, The bills discriminated in 4 are conveyed via the traveling paths c, d, and e. If the bills are 1,000 yen, the switching gate 33 corresponding to the denomination storage 8 operates, and the denomination-conveying path j, and is accumulated in the temporary storage unit 26. On the other hand, storage by money type 8
Are separated one by one by a separation / delivery mechanism (not shown) of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and sent out to the traveling path m. Note that the same structure is also applied to the ten thousand yen ticket. For example, one of 6 and 7 is used in accordance with a predetermined priority order for the denomination storages 6 and 7, and is used at the time of withdrawal. The higher priority is used until the banknote in the middle denomination storage 6 or 7 is detected at the end and until the banknote is fully detected at the time of deposit.

Separating gates 21 and 20 are arranged between the depositing / dispensing unit 18 and the replenishing / collecting storage 11, and the bills conveyed toward the dividing gates 21 and 20 on the conveying path d are replenished and collected. When stored in the storage 11, it is guided to the collection and transport section i side by the operation of the separation gate 20. The bills fed to the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8 are guided to the traveling path e of the depositing and dispensing unit 18 described above by the separation gate 21, and the denomination traveling path j or k in the depositing and dispensing unit 18 is used. Or sent to l.

The rejected banknotes are sent to the replenishment reject stacking unit 14 provided in the replenishment and recovery storage 11 or the reject cassette 15 provided at the innermost lower part of the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 by the separating gate 22. The replenishment reject accumulation unit 1
Reference numeral 4 denotes a discriminating unit 4 for bills fed from a replenishment / separation mechanism (not shown) in a replenishment bill storage unit 12 of a replenishment collection storage 11.
Is provided for storing a banknote corresponding to a case where it is determined that a traveling abnormality such as double feeding or skew occurs.

In addition, various functions for controlling the transfer of bills, a power source, and the like are provided inside the apparatus main body, but are not shown here for the sake of simplicity. Next, a description will be given of a paper money transfer path for each transaction operation by the paper money receiving / dispensing device having the above-described configuration. First, in the deposit transaction, when the customer operates the operation keys to indicate the deposit transaction, the shutter 2 is opened, and when the customer inserts a bill into the customer service opening 3, the bill is transferred to the travel path a. , B
Through the discrimination unit 4.

The discriminating section 4 is provided with a sensor (not shown) for detecting the arrival of a bill at the entrance thereof.
It determines whether it is true or false. Then, when the discrimination section 4 determines that the bill is a fake bill, the bill is transferred to the transport paths c, q, and r.
Into the front and back sorting mechanism 5 through the transport path s or t
After passing through the transport path u, they are sent to the customer service port 3 and returned to the customer.

The banknotes determined to be genuine in the discriminating section 4 are transported by the gates 33 and 32 or 31 through the transport path of c, d, and e, as described above, by switching to denominations. The road is divided into j and k or l,
It is temporarily accumulated in the temporary storage units 26 and 25 or 24. Thereafter, when a storage command is issued from a higher-level control unit, the temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26 slide horizontally to move the accumulated bills into the denomination storage 6 or 7,
Or, drop it into 8 and store it.

However, when the customer performs an operation such as cancellation, a return command of the temporarily accumulated bills is issued from the higher-level control unit, and the bills accumulated in the temporary holding unit 26 are separated by a separating mechanism (not shown). The bills that have been separated one by one and fed out to the transport path, and the bills accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 or 24 are also delivered to the transport path n or p in the same manner, and the transport paths y and b, the discriminating unit 4, and the transport paths c and q. , R, and are accumulated in the front and back sorting mechanism 5, are conveyed to the customer service opening 3 in a state where they are all aligned on the front side, and returned to the customer.

Next, in the case of the withdrawal transaction, when the customer specifies the withdrawal amount, the denomination storage 6 or 7 of the corresponding denomination is made.
Alternatively, the sheets 8 are separated one by one by a separation mechanism (not shown), fed out to the transport path n, p, or m, taken along the transport paths y, b, and sent to the discriminating unit 4. The discriminating unit 4 discriminates the banknote denomination and the authenticity.
Is stored in the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17, and if it is determined that the bill is genuine, it is temporarily accumulated in the front and back sorting mechanism 5 through the transport paths c, q, and r, and all the bills of the designated amount are stored in the front and back sorting mechanism. Upon completion of the accumulation in 5, they are sent to the customer service port 3 in a lump. Thereafter, since the shutter 2 is opened, the customer inserts his hand into the customer service opening 3 and takes out the bill. Then, when a sensor (not shown) detects that the bill has run out in the customer service opening 3, the shutter 2 closes and the dispensing transaction ends. When the customer does not receive a bill from the customer service port 3 within a predetermined time, the shutter 2 is closed, the bill is taken again as a forgotten bill, and the bills are conveyed to the transport paths a, b, c, d, and d. g, the paper money is stored in the forgotten banknote storage unit 16 disposed above the reject cassette 15, and the dispensing transaction is completed.

Next, the replenishment operation will be described. The replenishment operation is performed automatically when a bill is lost in the denomination-type storage 6 or 7 or 8 or when the number of remaining bills is reduced, or by an input instruction of a staff member. The replenishment collection storage 11
It is configured to be detachable from the main body of the apparatus, and collectively stores banknotes of a plurality of denominations. When the replenishment operation is instructed, first, the banknotes are fed to the discrimination unit 4 by taking the transport paths v, x, and b from the replenishment / collection storage 11, and if the banknotes are determined to be counterfeit, the transport is performed. It is stored in the replenishment / reject stacking unit 14 through the paths c, d, and h, and when it is determined that the bill is genuine, it is transported to the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 through the transport paths c, d, and e, and is switched to the denomination type. 33, 32, or 31 and are sorted into the transport paths j and k or l, and are temporarily stored in the temporary storage units 26 and 25 or 24, and each time a predetermined number of sheets have been stored, the denomination storage 6 or 7 or 8 Is stored in. The replenishment operation is completed when replenishment is performed to a number smaller than the predetermined number of moneys by the money type storages 6, 7, 8 become full.

Next, the collecting operation will be described. The collecting operation is performed when one of the denomination storages 6, 7 or 8 is full of bills, or when the cash balance in the apparatus is inspected from time to time. From storage by money type 6,7,8,
The banknotes are separated one by one by a separation mechanism (not shown), fed out to the transport path n or p or m, taken along the transport paths y and b, and sent to the discriminating unit 4. The banknotes determined to be counterfeit by the discriminating unit 4 are stored in the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17 of the reject cassette 15 through the transport paths c, d, and f. It is stored in the collection section 13B of the replenishment collection storage 11 through d and h.

When any one of the denomination-type storages 6, 7, and 8 is full of bills, the remaining banknotes in the denomination-type storages 6, 7, and 8 are fully filled by the collection operation performed automatically. If not, the collecting operation ends. Then, in the case of collection at the time of close inspection, the collection operation ends when all the banknotes in the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 are exhausted. As described above, the conventional banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 shown in FIG.
The movement of banknotes in each basic function of collection has been described.
The banknotes in the replenishing unit 13A are fed out one by one, and the transport paths v, x, b, the discriminating units 4, c, d, i, or the transport paths v, x, b, the discriminating units 4, c, d, h. By passing through
It is possible to determine the amount of bills in the replenishment / collection storage 11.

When all of the banknotes in the replenishing section 13A are fed out or there are no banknotes in the replenishing section 13A because they were not originally loaded, the banknotes collected in the collecting section 13B are transferred to the replenishing section 13A. Can be changed, collection unit 1
The bill in 3B can be replenished. Therefore, by the replenishment operation, denomination storages 6, 7, 8
Is full and banknotes still loaded in the replenishment unit 13A remain, all of the remaining banknotes are fed out, the denomination unit 4 discriminates the denomination, and is collected by the collection unit 13B for replenishment. The total amount of the bills loaded in the collection storage 11 can be determined, and the bills in the collection unit 13B
By performing the change operation on A, when the number of banknotes in the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 decreases due to the transaction, replenishment can be performed again.

[0020]

As described above, the conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device has extremely excellent functions such as a recirculating function for utilizing the deposited banknotes as a dispensing banknote and a function for determining the banknote height in the replenishment and collection storage. Function. However, this conventional device is an extremely complicated and large device in order to satisfy the above-mentioned excellent functions.

The reason is that bills can be transferred from one banknote stacking point to another stacking section with almost no limitation, and in any banknote transfer operation, the banknotes are transferred via the discriminating section in order to count the banknotes. In addition, if there is any abnormality or stain on the banknotes that are discriminated as normal in the discrimination result, it is necessary to separate these abnormal or stained banknotes from normal banknotes. Assuming that each of these bills must be conveyed to the corresponding different destination and that the operational convenience is the first consideration, the position of the customer service port, replenishment collection storage, etc. As described above, the transport route has to be different for each transaction type and operation type, as described above, so that the transport route configuration becomes complicated, and as a result, the apparatus becomes large and the cost increases. There is a problem that that.

Further, with the recent increase in the holidays of financial institution staff, the dependence of transaction business on automatic transaction equipment has increased, and even during holidays, automatic transaction equipment has been provided unattended for services. Since it is difficult to replenish the bills inside, increasing the capacity of bills that can be accommodated in the apparatus has become an urgent issue. However, in the conventional apparatus, the configuration of the transport path is complicated for the same reason as described above, so that it is inevitable that the apparatus will be further increased in size, while on the other hand, no increase in the size of the installation space is recognized. This is a difficult problem to solve.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has a simple and small-sized transport path configuration without providing a special bill transport path according to a transaction type or an operation type. An object of the present invention is to provide a small, high-performance banknote pay-in / pay-out device capable of processing various operations such as depositing, paying out, replenishing, and collecting, which are functions generally required of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device. It is assumed that.

[0024]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, according to the present invention, first, as a first means, bills deposited from a customer service port for transferring bills to and from an apparatus operator are provided inside the apparatus. A bill recirculation function for storing the bills in the internal bill storage and using the bills during a withdrawal transaction, and collecting excess bills that can no longer be stored in the internal bill storage or running out of bills in the internal bill storage. In addition to having a replenishment and collection function to replenish the dispensed bills when the bill is dispensed, a temporary hold between the customer service port and the internal banknote storage, and a temporary hold of the banknote in front of the service port and the internal banknote storage. Between the internal banknote storage and a reject banknote storage for storing reject banknotes that have been discriminated to be unsuitable for dispensing among banknotes dispensed at the time of dispensing from the internal banknote storage. Between the internal banknote storage and the replenishment / collection storage for storing banknotes for replenishment and collection with respect to the internal banknote storage, one of which is a banknote separating unit and the other is a banknote stacking unit (or storage unit). In the bill receiving / dispensing device, which is provided with a bill transporting path that is connected in a relationship and transports bills between them, and in each of the bill transporting paths, a bill discriminating unit is disposed, the bill transporting path is transported in both directions. A possible annular main transport path, and a plurality of supporting transport paths connecting the main transport path and each bill separating / stacking unit, and a discriminating unit is arranged on the main transport path, and the discrimination is performed. The separation unit is configured to be capable of discrimination in both the bi-conveying directions, and when a bill that is discriminated as rejected during separation, conveyance, and stacking operations is generated by the discrimination unit, the separation operation from the bill separation unit is immediately interrupted. And the drive of the supporting transport path The banknotes already fed out are transported without stagnation, and the banknotes identified as normal in the identification unit are accumulated in the accumulation unit of each storage destination and the banknotes identified as rejected bills are Continues to be conveyed in a circular manner in the main transport path without being taken in, and if all of the normal banknotes have been accumulated in the storage location, the main transport path is transported in a direction opposite to the previous transport direction and the rejection is performed. After the banknotes are conveyed in the reverse direction and accumulated at the reject banknote storage location, the banknote processing operation is resumed until no unprocessed banknotes remain in the banknote separation unit or until the predetermined number of processed banknotes is reached. It is provided with control means for controlling to continue.

As a second means, an annular main transport path capable of bidirectionally transporting the bill transport path, and a plurality of supports for connecting the main transport path and each bill separating / accumulating section are provided. together constitute the conveying path, to place the differential portion in the main transport path, and the discriminator is a differential configurable in bi conveying direction both, rejected paper in the conveying direction of the main transport path
The branch point of the branch transport path to the banknote storage location is just before passing the discrimination section.
(Upstream) or immediately (downstream)
When a bill that is discriminated as rejected by the discriminator during separation, transport, and stacking operations,
Serves to immediately interrupt the separation operation from banknote separating section, the main reject banknote driving is continued as it is in the transport path and supporting the conveying path continues the main transport path is conveyed to the annular, the of the reject banknotes When returning to the branch point of the branch transport path to the storage destination again, after being transported to the reject banknote storage destination via the branch transport path to the reject banknote storage destination and accumulated, the untreated A control means is provided for controlling the bill processing operation to be restarted and the operation to be continued until no bill is left or the number of processed bills is reached.

Further, as a third means, when a rejected bill is generated, the operation for separating the bill is immediately interrupted with respect to the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus according to the first means.
Until all normal banknotes have been accumulated in the storage location, the rejected banknotes continue to be conveyed in a circular shape in the main transport path. The discrimination unit performs re-discrimination by continuing the transport in the transport path one or more times in an annular manner. If the re-discrimination result changes from a rejected bill to a normal bill, the re-discrimination is carried to a storage destination of the normal bill, and the re-discrimination is performed. If the result is a rejected bill again, a control means is provided to convey the main conveying path in the opposite direction to the previous direction and convey and accumulate the rejected bill to the rejected bill storage destination.

As a fourth means, when the rejected bill is generated, the separating operation of the bill is immediately interrupted with respect to the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus by the first means, and the rejected bill is transferred one or more times to the main transport path. The re-discrimination result is performed by the discrimination unit by continuing the conveyance of the rejected bill, and if the discrimination result of the rejected bill does not change due to the re-discrimination, the rejected bill is placed at the branch point of the branch transport path to the storage location of the rejected bill. A control means is provided for storing the bill in the rejected banknote storage destination via the sub-conveyance path when it arrives, and for directly transporting the banknote to the normal banknote storage when the discrimination result changes to a normal banknote by re-discrimination.

As a fifth means, the above-mentioned first method is used.
And the banknote depositing / dispensing device according to the second means, when a rejected banknote is generated, the banknote separating operation is immediately interrupted, and the rejected banknote remains in the main transport path until all the banknotes determined to be normal have been accumulated in the storage destination. Continue to be conveyed in a ring, and when the normal banknotes are all accumulated, the main conveyance path is conveyed in the reverse direction, and the reject banknote being conveyed on the main conveyance path is passed through the discrimination section from the reverse direction to perform re-discrimination, When the discrimination result of the rejected banknote changes to a normal banknote by this re-discrimination, the banknote is transported to the storage destination of the normal banknote, and on the other hand, when it is determined again as the rejected banknote in the re-discrimination result, the banknote is stored in the rejection banknote storage destination. The control means is provided.

[0029]

According to the above-described structure, for example, at the time of a deposit transaction, when a customer inserts a deposited bill into the service port, the bill is separated and fed out from the service port in order to store the deposited bank note in the internal bill storage. Start. The bills fed from the service port to the annular main transport path are subjected to a counting process of transporting the bills while discriminating the authenticity, correctness, denomination, etc. in the discriminating section.

If the rejected banknotes are discriminated by the discriminating section during the counting process, the banknote separation / delivery from the customer entrance is immediately interrupted, and the main conveyance path and the sub conveyance path continue to be conveyed. The counting process of the banknotes which have been paid out is performed. That is, among the banknotes that have already been paid out, normal banknotes continue to be transported on the main transport path as they are and are stacked on the stacking section of the predetermined internal banknote storage.

At this time, the rejected banknotes continue to be transported in the main transport path without being taken anywhere, and when all the normal banknotes have been collected in the predetermined stacking section, the main transport path is moved in the current transport direction. Transport in the opposite direction. This allows the rejected banknote to be transported in the reverse direction, and switches the branch transport path branching section to be connected to the customer service unit temporary storage unit disposed in front of the customer service port, and the reject banknote to the customer service unit temporary storage unit. And accumulate. This is repeated until the deposited banknotes in the service port are completed, and when the banknotes in the service port are exhausted, the rejected banknotes accumulated in the service section temporary holding section are returned to the service port, returned to the customer, and the transaction confirmation is performed. When instructed by the customer, normal banknotes are stored in the internal banknote storage, and the transaction ends. When the cancellation of the transaction is instructed, the normal banknotes are returned to the main transport path again, accumulated in the customer service section temporary storage section, returned from the customer service port, and the transaction ends.

Further, when the rejected bills are accumulated in the customer service section temporary holding section during the counting, the number of times of conveyance in the main conveyance path is set to one or more, and re-discrimination is performed by the discriminating section. When the banknote changes from a rejected banknote to a normal banknote, the banknote is stored in the normal banknote stacking unit, that is, the stacking unit of the internal banknote storage, and the rejected banknote that has been rejected again even after re-discrimination is rejected banknote stacking. The banknotes are accumulated in the rejected banknote accumulating unit, that is, the customer service unit temporary holding unit, via the branching path of the service transfer path, and the above-described counting process is repeated until the incoming banknotes in the customer service port are exhausted.

Alternatively, when a rejected bill is generated and re-discrimination is performed, if all of the normal bills have been accumulated in the predetermined normal bill accumulating section, they are transported in the main transport path in the opposite direction to the previous direction, and The rejected banknote is sent to the discriminating section from the other side, and discrimination from the opposite direction is performed by the discriminating section capable of bidirectional discrimination. If so, the rejected banknote is transported and accumulated to the rejected banknote stacking section via the branching path branching section that leads to the rejected banknote stacking section, and this is repeated until the banknote to be separated disappears.

Although the above description is directed to an example of a deposit transaction, the dispensing transaction has a configuration in which the source of separation / delivery is an internal banknote storage, and the stacking unit is a service port. In the replenishment process and the collection process, only the position of each separation / accumulation unit changes, and the control procedure can be said to be substantially the same according to the result of the bill discrimination unit in the main transport path and the sub transport path.

[0035]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Some embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 shows a first configuration example of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to the present invention, and FIG. 14 shows a second configuration example.
FIG. 15 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a principal part showing a third configuration example. 2 is a block diagram of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a software configuration diagram showing a control system of the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a control system of the second embodiment. FIG. 5 is a software configuration diagram showing a control system of the third embodiment.

First, the difference between the structures of the banknote pay-in / pay-out devices shown in FIGS. 1, 14 and 15 is that the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the first and third configuration examples in FIGS. The customer service port 3 operated by the user is located on the front side of the apparatus, and the replenishment / recovery storage 11 and the reject cassette 15 are
Is arranged on the rear side of the apparatus. In the apparatus having such a configuration, among the transport paths for transporting banknotes, an annular transport path A (a route indicated by a thick line in the drawing) including a transport path passing through the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and the discriminating unit 4 is mainly used. It is a transport path.

In the second banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. 14, the customer service opening 3 for customer operation, the replenishment / recovery storage 11 and the reject cassette 15 for the device operator are both in the same direction. The configuration is arranged on the front side (right side in the figure), and the route of the main transport path in such a configuration example is almost the same as the above-described configuration, and as shown by a bold line, the deposit and withdrawal unit 18 The transport path is an annular transport path B including a transport path that passes through the discrimination section 4.

The structure of the depositing / dispensing module of the depositing / dispensing unit 18 of each device shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 14 and FIG. 15 is different. In the device of FIG. The mechanism and the mechanism are different from each other, and the mechanism can be rotated in both forward and reverse directions, so that both functions are provided. 14 and 15
In these devices, these accumulating mechanisms and separating and feeding mechanisms are:
The function is performed by a single mechanism so that the function can always be shared. However, it is assumed that there is no difference between the functions in these two configurations.

In FIG. 1, FIG. 14 and FIG.
Is arranged at the upper part on the front side of the apparatus, and a transport path extends horizontally from the customer entrance 3 to the back of the apparatus. A discriminating unit 4 is arranged in the middle of the horizontal conveying path, and the conveying path passing through the discriminating unit 4 is bent in a direction hanging down behind the discriminating unit 4 and then into the deposit / withdrawal unit 18. Into the depositing and dispensing unit 18, bend upward at the exit, and further bend so as to extend horizontally below the service port 3, At the front side of the discriminating section 4 to form a loop, thereby forming the main transport path A (or B).

A plurality of supporting transport paths are connected to the main transport path A (or B). For example, a route connecting the main transport path and the customer service port 3 through the switching gate 37, A route connecting the payout opening of the collection and storage box 11 and the main conveyance path, and a main conveyance path between the discrimination section 4 and the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 via the switching gate 38 or 39, the intake port and the rejection of the replenishment collection storage box 11 There are a route connecting to the cassette 15, a route connecting the horizontal main transport path in the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 to each denomination storage 6, 7, 8, and the like. And the main transport path A (or B) are rotatable in forward and reverse directions, respectively.

Next, in the block diagram of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. 2, reference numeral 55 denotes a banknote pay-in / pay-out device control section mainly constituted by a microcomputer or the like, which controls the entire operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device. Things. Reference numeral 56 denotes a higher-level control unit interface. The higher-level control unit interface 56 places various I / O devices, such as an automatic teller machine (ATM) and a control unit of a counter system device of a financial institution, under the control of the interface. A command received from a control unit corresponding to a higher order of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device controlling to execute the processing is transmitted to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 55, and is output from the banknote pay-in / pay-out device control unit 55. The execution result of the command is sent back to the upper control unit.

Reference numeral 57 denotes an I / O interface circuit.
The I / O interface circuit 57 reads the detection results of various sensors provided in the mechanism of the banknote depositing / dispensing device, and transmits this to the banknote depositing / dispensing device control unit 55, or the banknote depositing / dispensing device. This is a circuit for outputting a signal for operating actuators such as various motors and solenoids, a driving power supply, and a mechanism unit according to a command from the control unit 55.

Reference numeral 58 denotes a ROM (Read Only Memory) storing a software program of the microcomputer, and 59 denotes a RAM (Random Access Memory) for temporarily storing information necessary for operating the microcomputer. Also, setting information such as operation parameters of the apparatus, such as what specifications the apparatus is operated with, is stored. If there is information that needs to be stored even after the power is turned off, the RAM 59 is stored in the battery 6.
0 or backup to EEPROM or F
What is necessary is just to use nonvolatile storage means, such as DD.

As for the mechanism, FIG. 1 and FIG.
14 and 15 are the same as those described with reference to the cross-sectional view of the main part of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1, so that the detailed description is omitted here. Next, referring to FIG.
A description will be given of the configuration of the software program of the microcomputer constituting the program. This software program is stored in the ROM 58 shown in FIG.

Reference numeral 62 denotes a higher-level interface control unit which controls a communication procedure with the higher-level control unit, communicates with the higher-level control unit, and transmits a command received from the higher-level control unit to the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61. The program comprises a program for transmitting and transmitting a reply from the bill receiving / dispensing controller 61 to the higher-level control unit in a predetermined procedure. The hardware executes the higher-level control interface 56 so as to operate.

Reference numeral 61 denotes a banknote pay-in / pay-out control unit which is composed of a program for managing the entire operation of the pay-in / pay-out device. It has a function of activating necessary programs and ordering the entire operation. Reference numeral 63 denotes an initial control, which is a program for executing an operation of initializing each unit of the apparatus when the apparatus is turned on or after a failure occurs in the apparatus according to a command of the banknote depositing / dispensing control unit 61. A transport path drive motor, a stage in a bill storage, a bill separating mechanism such as a depositing / dispensing unit, and the like are operated, and if they operate normally, each is stopped at a predetermined position. When an abnormality is detected, the content of the abnormality is notified to the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61. Upon receipt of the notification, the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61 stores the device state and controls the content of the abnormality through the upper interface control unit 62. Send to the department.

Numeral 65 is a counting management control, which is a program for managing various types of bill counting, for example, counting of all processes such as depositing transaction, dispensing transaction, replenishment, and collection.
1 has a function of issuing an operation command to various programs 66 to 73 under its control in accordance with the state of the apparatus based on the command from 1. Reference numeral 66 denotes a counter management,
5 is a program for calculating and managing the total incoming transaction amount, outgoing transaction amount, replenishment amount, collected amount, the balance in each denomination storage at that time, etc. based on the various counting operations passed from step 5. .

Reference numeral 67 denotes a jam monitoring control, which comprises a program for monitoring the running state of the bills being conveyed in the conveyance path, and monitors according to the conveyance route corresponding to the processing type such as deposit and withdrawal. When the banknote jam is detected, the information is immediately transmitted to a transport control 69 described later, and an instruction is given to stop the separation and transport of the banknote. Reference numeral 68 denotes a counter control, which is a program for counting the number of banknotes fed from each banknote stacking unit and the number of banknotes reaching the storage destination at each time of various counting processes based on a count content instruction from the count management control 65. Is made up of The count result is transmitted to the counter management 66 through the count management control 65, and is also transmitted to a transport control 69 and a corresponding program among the programs 70 to 75 described later. The control 69 itself checks against the contents counted during the operation to increase reliability.

Further, the transport control 69 includes a command from the count management control 65 and a payment processing 7 corresponding to the command.
0, withdrawal processing 71, slot replenishment processing 72, replenishment processing 7
3. Based on the operation information from any one of the collection process 74 and the financing determination process 75, the feeding source and the destination of the banknote and the driving direction of the transport path corresponding to the banknote are determined and the banknote is counted. In this counting operation, the destination of the bill is determined based on the sensor passage information of the bill by the sensor monitoring control 78 and the discrimination result information in the discrimination unit 4 obtained through the discrimination unit interface 77, and the I / O is appropriately performed. Driver 79
Is driven to operate the switching gate and execute a desired process. The reject bill transport control 76 is provided in the present invention and will be described later.

The depositing process 70, the dispensing process 71, the slot replenishment process 72, the replenishment process 73, the collection process 74, and the credit determination process 75 are activated according to the counting type information from the counting management control 65. The program comprises a program for controlling the operation of the feeding source and the transfer destination in accordance with each counting type. When the operation programs 70 to 75 are ready for operation, this is transmitted to the transfer control 69 and the counting operation is performed. Be started. Then, when these operations are started, for example, at the time of a dispensing operation, a built-in storage where the banknotes are deposited when the banknotes are fed out from the denomination storage as the internal banknote storage to be fed out. The position of the stage is raised or lowered to a predetermined position of the depositing / dispensing unit 18 suitable for separating bills, and the control is continued. In addition, during counting operation, referring to the count information of the counter control 68, a function of instructing the transfer control 69 to switch the transfer destination or the like when one banknote stacking unit is full or the like is provided. I have.

Next, referring to FIG. 1 to FIG.
Regarding the third to third embodiments, the transport route and transport control of the banknote will be described for each processing operation. The operation described below is controlled by the above-described hardware and software, but the description of individual control contents is omitted for simplification of description unless otherwise important. (1) At the time of a deposit transaction A first embodiment of a method of controlling the handling of a rejected banknote at the time of a deposit transaction will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3 and FIGS. explain. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIGS. 6 to 7, bills inserted from the customer service port 3 by the customer are separated one by one by a separation / feeding-out mechanism (not shown) and fed out into the apparatus. It is transported in the direction of the arrow.
Then, the bill is sent to the discriminating section 4 provided in the main transport path A, and the discriminating section 4 discriminates the denomination, authenticity, correctness and the like of the bill. Here, when the bill is discriminated as a normal bill, the bill passes through the main transport path A as it is to the deposit / withdrawal unit 18.
Transported to the discrimination unit 4 according to the discrimination result,
For example, in the case of a 10,000 yen ticket, the deposit / withdrawal module 20 or 21
Is taken into the higher priority order, and is accumulated on the temporary storage unit 24 or 25. Those who are not used among the deposit / withdrawal module 20 and the temporary holding unit 24 or between the deposit / withdrawal module 21 and the temporary holding unit 25 are unsuitable banknotes for withdrawal, for example, a 5,000 yen note, a discriminating unit. In the discrimination result of No. 4, the banknotes are used to take in and accumulate genuine but dirty or damaged banknotes (hereinafter referred to as unfit banknotes).

When the conveyed bills are taken into the deposit / withdrawal module 20, the switching gate 31
This is done by activating. Similarly, for the 1000 yen note, the switching path 35 is operated to switch the transport path, whereby the ticket is branched and transported to the deposit / withdrawal module 22, and the bills are accumulated on the temporary holding unit 26. These temporary holding units 24, 25 and 26 are designed to slide horizontally between a position indicated by a solid line and a position indicated by a broken line by driving a motor (not shown). , The positions of the temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26 are slid to the positions indicated by solid lines (directly above the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8), and until the customer inputs an amount confirmation, 6,
Prevent banknotes from entering directly into 7 and 8. this is,
When the automatic teller machine is used, the amount of the counting result is displayed on a display unit (not shown) so that the customer can confirm the counting after the counting is completed. Transactions may be canceled for any reason, such as doubting the amount displayed, or a jam such as a banknote jam may occur during counting.In such a case, the banknote must be returned. At the time of such return processing, the banknotes in the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 and the banknotes of the customer in the middle of processing are strictly separated so as not to cause a trouble such as a shortage of money.

Therefore, the temporary holding units 24, 25, 26
Can be said to have a function of temporarily holding deposited bills until the transaction is confirmed. The arrangement of the temporary holding function is located above the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 as shown in the figure, but is not necessarily limited to this. However, if it is provided in another place, another space is required, and furthermore, the banknotes deposited after the transaction is confirmed are stored in the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 for withdrawal, so that this temporary storage is required. And then transported to the discriminating unit 4, re-discriminated, transported again to the deposit / withdrawal unit 18, and stored in the respective denomination storages 6, 7, 8 by denomination. In the present embodiment, this configuration is shown because the illustrated system is superior when the processing efficiency is taken into consideration.

In the above-described apparatus having such a configuration, after the transaction is confirmed, a motor (not shown) is driven by driving a motor (not shown) except for the temporary holding unit 24 or 25 in which bills not used for dispensing and unfit bills are accumulated. When either one of the temporary storage units 24 or 25 and 26 are slid to the position shown by the broken line in the figure, the banknotes temporarily accumulated on the temporary storage units 24 or 25 and 26 are stored in denominations respectively. A temporary holding unit 24 or 25 in which the banknotes and unfit bills that are stored in the storages 6 or 7 and 8 and that are not used for withdrawal are accumulated.
The upper bill is directly separated and fed out from the temporary holding section,
It is stored in the deposit / withdrawal reject storage along the same route as that at the time of collection shown in FIG. 10, whereby the depositing operation is completed.

Now, the transfer control and the transfer path when a rejected bill is generated during the above-described deposit operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 in addition to FIGS. 1 and 6 to 7. First, during the counting while paying out the bills deposited by the customer into the device,
When a bill discriminated from the reject by the discriminating unit 4 is generated, the transport control 69 shown in FIG.

For this reason, the reject bill transport control 76
The bills already fed out are conveyed as they are, and based on the discrimination result in the discrimination section 4, the normal bills are accumulated in the temporary holding sections 24, 25, 26 corresponding to the respective denominations. Until everything disappears from the main transport path A, the rejected banknotes are not taken anywhere and the main transport path A
Keep moving inside.

All normal banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary holding units 24, 25, and 2.
6, when only the reject banknotes remain on the main transport path A, the reject banknote transport control 76 temporarily stops the transport path drive motor (not shown) and Stop operation. Next, as shown in FIG. 7, a front side of the front and back sorting mechanism 5 provided between the discrimination unit 4 and the customer service opening 3, that is, the front and back sorting mechanism 5.
The switching gate 37 located between the discrimination unit 4 and the discrimination unit 4 is shown in FIG.
7 to rotate counterclockwise to switch the transport direction, and to rotate the drive motor in the opposite direction to the transport direction as indicated by the arrow in FIG. The banknotes remaining in
To the front and back arranging mechanism 5, and takes in the customer service temporary holding unit 9 provided between the front and back arranging mechanism 5 and the customer service opening 3.

When all the banknotes discriminated from the reject are taken into the customer service temporary storage unit 9, the reject banknote transport control 76 operates the switching gate 37 in the direction shown in FIG. The completion of the reject bill processing is notified to the transport control 69 receiving the notification.
Starts the counting operation again when there is still a deposited bill inserted by the customer in the customer service opening 3. When the counting process of all the deposited bills inserted into the customer service opening 3 is completed, the transport control 69 notifies the count management control 65 of the end information.

The payment processing 70 is performed by the customer service section temporary storage section 9.
When there is a rejected banknote in the inside, the banknote is moved to the customer service port 3 and a completion report including the information on the presence of the rejected banknote and the normally counted banknote amount data is notified to the count management control 65. Next, the counting management control 65 notifies the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 that the counting process has been completed with the rejected banknote present. Notify to the upper control unit.

The higher-level control unit that has received this notification returns to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 1 and issues a rejection banknote return command. Therefore, the payment processing 70 opens the shutter 2 and instructs the customer to receive the banknote on the display unit. Prompt with display. When the customer removes the rejected bill in the customer service opening 3 according to this display, the shutter 2 is closed, and the completion report of this post-processing is sent via the count management control 65, the bill deposit / withdrawal management unit 61, and the upper interface control unit 62. Notify the host controller.

Subsequently, the temporary control unit 24,
When a storage command for stored banknotes is issued on the banknotes 25, 26, the deposit processing 70 slides the temporary holding units 24, 25, 26 to the positions indicated by the broken lines in the figure, and stores the respective denomination storages 6, 7, 8.
Drop it inside and store it. When a higher-level control unit issues a banknote return command due to, for example, pressing the cancel key by the customer, the banknote is conveyed to the customer service port 3 through a withdrawal route (shown in FIG. 8) described later. The shutter 2 is opened and returned to the customer. The difference between the route at the time of deposit return and the time of withdrawal is that the temporary return unit 24,
On the other hand, when dispensing, it is only separated from the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8 and dispensed.
The details will be described later in connection with the dispensing operation.

Next, a second embodiment of handling reject bills will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 6 based on a block diagram (at the time of normal direction re-discrimination control) showing a configuration example of a software program shown in FIG. This will be described with reference to FIG. Note that the bill transport control in the second embodiment is as follows.
The difference from the first embodiment is that discrimination of rejected banknotes is performed not once but repeatedly a predetermined number of times.

In the same manner as in the first embodiment described above, a deposit transaction is instructed by the customer, and the deposited bills inserted into the customer service opening 3 are separated and fed out while counting is being performed.
When the rejected bill is discriminated in the discriminating unit 4,
The transport control 69 shown in FIG. 4 immediately stops the operation of separating and feeding out the deposited banknotes in the service port 3. Then, the control of bill transfer is entrusted to the reject bill transfer control 76.

As a result, the reject bill transport control 76
The banknotes that have already been fed continue to be transported as they are, and based on the discrimination results, the normal bills are accumulated on the temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26 corresponding to the respective denominations, and the banknotes discriminated as normal Until all are removed from the main transport path A,
The banknotes discriminated as rejected continue to be transported in the main transport path A without being taken anywhere.

In this way, when all the bills discriminated as normal have been accumulated in any of the temporary holding units 24, 25, and 26, and only the reject bill remains on the main transport path A, the reject bill transport control is performed. In step 76, the transport path drive motor is temporarily stopped immediately as described above, and the transport path drive motor is rotated in a direction opposite to the previous transport direction, as in the first control method described above. Instead, the control is left to the normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80 shown in FIG. This is different from the first control method.
Note that the normal direction indicates the direction of the arrow shown in FIG.

The normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80 continues to transport the rejected bills in the main transport path A as it is, and when the discrimination result when passing through the discrimination unit 4 is changed to a normal bill again, the discrimination result is used. Accordingly, for example, in the case of a 10,000-yen ticket, it is taken in from either the deposit / withdrawal module 20 or 21 and is accumulated on the temporary holding unit 24 or 25. Part 26
Control to accumulate on top.

By re-discriminating in this way, if the rejected bill is discriminated from a rejected bill due to running conditions that are not always reproducible when passing through the discriminating unit 4, the discrimination result changes to a discriminated result of a normal bill. , The acceptance rate can be improved. In general, the normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80 manages the number of times re-discrimination is performed by the re-discrimination counter 81 shown in FIG. If the rejection discrimination result is obtained even when the remittance is reached, the transport path drive motor is temporarily stopped in the same manner as in the rejected banknote transport control 76 described above, the switching gate 37 is operated, and the transport direction is switched to change the transport direction. Rotate the transport path drive motor in the opposite direction,
The banknotes remaining on the main transport path A are transported by the switching gate 37 through the transport path of the front and back sorting mechanism 5 to the customer service temporary storage unit 9.

If uncounted bills still remain in the customer service opening 3, feeding is restarted, and the counting is continued until counting is completed. If rejected bills are discriminated again after counting is resumed, the same procedure as described above is performed. Then, re-discrimination control is performed. In this way, counting of all the deposited banknotes in the service port 3 is completed, and the operation result is transmitted to the transport control 69 through the rejected banknote transport control 76. The transfer control 69 receives the information on the number of each denomination discriminated as normal and accumulated on the temporary holding units 24, 25 and 26, and the information on the presence or absence of the banknotes discriminated from the reject banknotes to the end and returned to the customer service opening 3. When the rejected banknote is present in the customer service unit temporary holding unit 9, the remittance processing 70 moves the banknote to the customer service port 3 and, at the same time, transmits the information on the presence of the rejected banknote and the normally counted banknote amount data. The completion report is sent to the count management control 65 and the counter control 68.

Thus, the counter control 68 notifies the information relating to the completion report to the counter management 66, and the counter management 66 updates various counters relating to payment based on the notification. On the other hand, the counting management control 65 transmits the above-mentioned payment counting result to the higher-level control device (not shown) under the control of the higher-level interface control unit 62 via the bill receiving / dispensing control unit 61. When there is a banknote returned to the customer service port 3, the higher control device instructs the banknote deposit / withdrawal control section 61 via the higher interface control section 62 to return the rejected banknote in the service port 3 to the customer. put out. When this instruction is notified to the deposit processing 70 via the bill deposit / withdrawal control unit 61, the deposit processing 70 opens the shutter 2 and closes the shutter 2 when the reject bill in the service port 3 is pulled out by the customer. Then, the completion of the return of the rejected bill to the customer is notified to the higher-level control unit via the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61 and the higher-level interface control unit 62, and the operation is completed.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram (at the time of reverse re-discrimination control) showing a configuration example of a software program of the third embodiment shown in FIG. This will be described with reference to FIGS. The third embodiment is similar to the second embodiment.
The re-discrimination operation of the rejected banknote in the embodiment of the present invention is performed in a state in which the main transport path can be conveyed in the reverse direction.

As in the first and second embodiments described above,
When a deposit transaction is instructed by the customer, and the deposited bill inserted into the customer service port 3 is separated and fed out and counting is performed, the discriminating unit 4 discriminates that the bill is a reject bill. After the banknote transport control shown in FIG. 5 is rejected by the banknote transport control 76 or the control of the normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80, the transport path drive motor is temporarily stopped, and then the control is performed by the reverse direction re-identification transport control 82 shown in FIG. Entrust.

In response, reverse re-discrimination transport control 82
Notifies the discriminating unit 4 via the discriminating unit interface 77 that the bill is traveling in the opposite direction, and then rotates the drive motor (not shown) of the main transport path A in the opposite direction. Then, the rejected bill on the main transport path A is passed through the discriminating section 4 at least once from the opposite direction to the rejected bill and discriminated.

In general, the reverse re-discrimination transport control 82 manages the number of times re-discrimination is performed by the re-discrimination counter 83 shown in FIG. If the rejected banknote is recognized as a rejected banknote even after reaching, the rejected banknote on the main transport path A is operated by the switching gate 37 to pass through the transport path of the front-back sorting mechanism 5 to the customer service section. The sheet is conveyed to the temporary holding section 9 and the result is conveyed through the reject banknote transfer control 76 as in the case of the above-described second rejected banknote processing control, the transfer control 69, the deposit processing 70, the count management control 65, the counter control 68, and the counter management. 66, the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61 is notified and transmitted to a higher-level control device (not shown) via the higher-level interface control unit 62. Move the reject bills in the customer unit escrow unit 9 to customer port 3.

In the same manner as described above, when there is a banknote returned to the customer service port 3, this higher-level control device also controls the banknote deposit / withdrawal control section 61 via the higher-level interface control section 62 to control the inside of the customer service port 3. Is issued to return the rejected banknote to the customer, and the depositing process 70 receiving this instruction opens the shutter 2 and the customer opens the service opening 3.
When the rejected banknotes are removed, the shutter 2 is closed and the completion of the return of the rejected banknotes to the customer is notified to the higher-level control unit via the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61 and the higher-level interface control unit 62, and the operation is completed. I do.

It is to be noted that the third embodiment is different from the second embodiment only in the point that the bill is conveyed in the opposite direction and the discrimination is performed again as described above. FIGS. 12 and 13 are cross-sectional views of main parts of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device having another configuration example capable of performing the rejected banknote transport control of the above-described first to third embodiments,
The banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. 12 has a structure in which not only the customer service port 3 but also the replenishment / collection storage 11 and the reject cassette 15 are arranged on the front side of the device.
The banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. 13 has substantially the same structure as the above-described banknote pay-in / pay-out device, but differs in the configuration of the pay-in / pay-out module of the pay-in / pay-out unit 18.
However, even if the structure of the deposit and withdrawal module is different, the operation is not different from that of the deposit and withdrawal module of the banknote deposit and withdrawal device shown in FIG. Next, the case of the dispensing operation will be described. (2) Withdrawal Transaction Next, a handling control method when a rejected bill is generated during a withdrawal transaction will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a bill transporting route during a dispensing transaction, FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a rejecting bill transporting route during a dispensing transaction, and FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a rejecting bill retry transporting during a dispensing transaction.

First, a description will be given of a paper money transfer path at the time of dispensing with reference to FIG. When the withdrawal transaction is instructed by the customer operation, the higher-level control unit shown in FIG. 3 issues a withdrawal command including the denomination and the number data through the higher-level interface control unit 62 to the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61,
In response to this, the count management control 65 activates the dispensing process 71 based on the dispensing command, whereby the dispensing process 71 activates the transport control 69 and executes a dispensing operation together with the transport control 69.

First, the dispensing process 71 is performed by storing the denomination storages 6, 7, and 7, in which the denominations instructed by the upper control unit are stored.
8 drives a stage drive motor (not shown) to push up each stage in the storage so that the upper end portion of the banknotes deposited on the stage enters the mechanism of the depositing / dispensing module of the depositing / dispensing unit 18. . This state is shown in the denomination storage 8 in FIG. Thus, when the upper end portion of the stacked banknotes storing the denominations corresponding to the dispensing instruction, for example, in the denomination storage 8, is pushed up into the mechanism of the depositing and dispensing module, the depositing and dispensing module starts to be driven, and from the upper end. The banknotes are separated one by one and fed to the main transport path A.

The bill fed to the main transport path A under the control of the transport control 69 is transported in the direction of the arrow in the figure and is discriminated when passing through the discriminating section 4, and if the discrimination result is a normal bill, switching is performed. The gate 37 is operated and guided to the support transport path to the front and back sorting mechanism 5. In the front and back sorting mechanism 5, the bills conveyed in the face-down state based on the discrimination result in the discriminating unit 4 are switched by the switching gate 43.
Is operated, the front and back are reversed, and the banknotes conveyed with the front facing upward are accumulated in the customer-reception-unit temporary holding unit 9 as they are.

As shown in FIG. 9, when a bill determined to be rejected is generated in the discriminating unit 4 during counting, FIG.
Operates the switching gates 37 and 39 to guide the banknote to be rejected to the sub-conveyance path and to take in the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17 in the reject cassette 15. When the number of sheets designated for each denomination has been accumulated in the reception section temporary storage section 9, the withdrawal processing 71 proceeds to the reception section temporary storage section 9.
The banknotes in the inside are moved to the customer service port 3 and the counting management control 6
5, the completion of the operation is notified to the counter control 68, the counter management 66, and the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61. Thereby, the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61 notifies a higher-level control device (not shown) of a payment completion report via the higher-level interface control unit 62. The higher-level control device that has received the notification issues an instruction to the banknote deposit and withdrawal control unit 61 via the upper-level interface control unit 62 to pay out the bills dispensed in the service port 3 to the customer. The money processing 71 opens the shutter 2 and closes the shutter 2 when the customer dispenses the bill to be dispensed from the customer service opening 3 to indicate that the bill is completely paid out to the customer. A notification is sent to the host controller via 62, and the operation is completed.

When a bill discriminated from the rejected bill by the discriminating unit 4 is generated in the course of counting in the above-described bill transfer control at the time of dispensing, the switching gate 37 is actuated immediately and the deposit / withdrawal reject storage is performed. The re-discrimination method for the rejected bill at the time of dispensing will be described with reference to FIG. During counting,
When the rejected bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 4, the transfer control 69 shown in the block diagram of FIG. 4 immediately stops the separation / delivery operation in the deposit / withdrawal unit 18, and controls the transfer of the bill and the normal direction. A re-discrimination transport control 80 is provided.
In response to this, the normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80 transports the banknote that has already been fed out as it is and, based on the result of the discrimination in the discrimination unit 4, passes the normal banknote through the front and back sorting mechanism 5 and temporarily stores the customer service unit in the customer service unit temporary storage unit. 9, the rejected banknotes are not taken anywhere, and are continuously transported in the main transport path A until all of the banknotes identified as normal are removed from the main transport path A. Let it pass and re-discriminate.

As described in the depositing process, generally, the normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80 manages the re-discrimination execution circuit by the re-discrimination counter 81 shown in FIG. If the rejected discrimination result is obtained even if the value reaches a predetermined number of times predetermined in control, the rejected banknote on the main transport path A is switched to the branch transport path to be rejected by operating the gate 39. , Reject cassette 17 in reject cassette 15
Take in. Thereafter, the normal direction re-discrimination transport control 80 reports a completion notification of the rejected bill processing to the transport control 69.

When the banknote determined to be rejected at the time of the first discrimination passes through the discrimination section 4 again and the discrimination result changes to a normal banknote, the switching gate 37 is operated.
The banknotes are guided to the sub-conveyance path to the front and back sorting mechanism 5, and the banknotes conveyed in the face-down state on the basis of the discrimination result by the front and back sorting mechanism 5 are operated by the switching gate 43 so that the front and back are turned over. The banknotes conveyed upward are accumulated as they are in the customer service temporary storage unit 9, and when the designated number of sheets has not been accumulated in the customer service temporary storage unit 9, the transport control 69 sets the corresponding money. Storage by type of money 6,
The feeding of the bills is restarted until the number of bills from 7, 8 is reached. Then, after the number of sheets designated for each denomination has been accumulated in the customer service temporary storage unit 9, the subsequent operations are as described above, and a description thereof will be omitted.

Next, with reference to FIG. 14, a description will be given of the transfer path control at the time of dispensing when a rejected bill is generated in the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus having the second configuration example. The configuration in FIG. 14 shows an example in which the replenishment and recovery storage 11 and the reject cassette 15 are arranged on the front of the apparatus, as can be seen from the figure, and the main transport path B is indicated by a thick line. In such a configuration example as well, when the withdrawal transaction is instructed by the customer operation, the operation at the time of withdrawal is first performed by the denomination storages 6, 7 in which the denominations instructed by the upper control unit are stored. , 8
Driving a stage drive motor (not shown)
The stages in the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 are pushed up so that the upper ends of the bills stacked on the stages come into contact with the mechanism of the deposit / withdrawal module of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18. The deposit / withdrawal module is 1 meter from the upper end face of this
The sheets are separated one by one and fed out to the main transport path B.

The bill fed to the main transport path B is
The bill is fed out in the direction of the arrow in the middle and is discriminated when passing through the discriminating unit 4. If the discrimination result is discrimination of a normal bill, the switching gate 37 is operated here to support and transport the bill to the front and back sorting mechanism 5. The banknote is guided to the road, and the banknote transported with the banknote upside down on the basis of the discrimination result by the front / back sorting mechanism 5 is turned over, and the banknote transported with the banknote upside down is left as it is. , Customer Service Department Temporary Reservation Department 9
After the number of sheets has been accumulated in the customer service temporary storage unit 9 up to the designated number, the subsequent operations are the same as those in the above-described embodiments.

On the other hand, when a bill whose discrimination result is rejected is generated, the transport control 69 shown in FIG. 3 immediately stops separating and feeding out at the service port 3 and entrusts the control of bill transport to the reject bill transport control 76. Subsequently, the rejected banknote transport control 76 transports the banknote that has already been fed out as it is and, based on the discrimination result, reverts the normal banknote to the front and back sorting mechanism 5.
The banknotes which have been rejected and discriminated are transported in the main transport path B without taking them anywhere until all the banknotes which have been discriminated as normal are removed from the main transport path B. to continue.

When only the rejected banknotes remain on the main transport path B, the rejected banknote transport control 76 temporarily stops a transport path drive motor (not shown). Next, the main transport path B drive motor (not shown) is rotated in the reverse re-discrimination transport control 82 direction in the opposite direction, and the rejected bills remaining on the main transport path B are switched, and the gate 39 is operated to switch the rejected banknotes. The rejected banknote transport control 76 reports the completion notification to the transport control 69.

At this point, if the specified number of sheets has not been accumulated in the customer service section temporary holding unit 9 yet, the transport control 69 advances the bills from the denomination storages 6, 7, 8 until the specified number of sheets is reached. Resume. Thereafter, when a rejected bill is generated again, the above-described rejected bill generation processing is repeated. Further, since the operation after the number of sheets designated for each denomination has been accumulated in the customer service temporary storage unit 9 is the same as that of the above-described embodiment, the description thereof will be omitted.

In the case of the above-described transport control, the re-discrimination process for the rejected bill can be similarly performed under the control of the reverse re-discrimination transport control 82, but the content of the process will be described in the first embodiment in the above-described deposit process. Therefore, detailed description will be omitted. (3) At the time of replenishment Next, a description will be given of the transport path control at the time of rejection bill generation at the time of replenishment. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the second configuration example shown in FIG. 14 is different from the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the first configuration example shown in FIG. 11 in the arrangement of the refill / collection storage 11 and the reject cassette 15. However, it is clear that the banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. 14 can obtain the same result by the same control as the device of the first configuration example shown in FIG. 11, and the third embodiment shown in FIG. As described at the time of dispensing, the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus also has exactly the same functions as the apparatus of the first embodiment except that the specific constitution of the depositing / dispensing module constituting the depositing / dispensing unit 18 is different. Therefore, here, using the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus having the first configuration shown in FIG. 11, a description will be given of the transport path control of rejected banknotes at the time of replenishment.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing a bill transport path at the time of replenishment. The banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 shown in FIG.
When a replenishment command is received under conditions such as replenishment of the replenishment bills 7 and 8 or the replenishment of bills, the count management control 65 receives the replenishment command 73 based on the replenishment command content.
Start Thereby, the replenishment process 73 is performed by the transport control 69.
Is started, and a replenishment operation is executed together with the transport control 69.

First, a stage drive motor (not shown) of the refill / collection storage 11 is driven to push up the stage into the mechanism of the deposit / withdrawal module 19 of the refill / collection storage 11, and a separation motor of the deposit / withdrawal module (not shown) is driven. The banknotes are separated one by one and fed out into the main transport path A. Main transport path A
The banknotes conveyed to the banknote are conveyed in the direction of the arrow and are discriminated when passing through the discrimination unit 4, and the banknotes discriminated from the normal banknotes are transferred on the main conveyance path A by the conveyance control 69 to the deposit / withdrawal unit 1.
8.

When the ticket is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal unit 18, according to the discrimination result, for example, in the case of a ten-yen ticket, it is taken into the deposit / withdrawal module 20 or 21, whichever is higher in priority, and the temporary holding unit is used as in the case of deposit. Once accumulated on 24 or 25, they are stored in the denomination storage 6 or 7, or the denomination storage 20 or 21 is directly used from the deposit / withdrawal module 20, 21 without using the temporary storage units 24 and 25.
To be stored. FIG. 11 shows the latter case.

In the case where the paper is temporarily stored on the temporary storage unit and then stored in the denomination storage, it is necessary to slide the temporary storage unit every time a predetermined number of sheets are stored on the temporary storage unit. Therefore, it is necessary to temporarily stop the feeding of banknotes from the replenishment / collection storage 11, but when a plurality of denomination storages are assigned as in the case of the ten-yen ticket in this example, the transport destination is alternately changed. By doing so, it is possible to avoid temporarily stopping the feeding of bills, and it is not necessary to extend the processing time. However, when only one denomination storage is allocated as in the case of the 1,000-yen ticket in this example, it is inevitable to temporarily stop paying out bills, and the processing time is slightly longer.

[0093] When taking in the deposit / withdrawal module 20, the switching gate 31 is operated, and when taking into the deposit / withdrawal module 21, the switching gate 32 is operated. In the case of a 1,000 yen ticket, the switching gate 33 is operated to be taken into the deposit / withdrawal module 22. On the other hand, when the banknote whose discrimination result is rejected is conveyed to a position near the switching gate 39, the banknote is conveyed to the sub-conveyance path in the direction of the replenishment reject storage unit 14 in the replenishment collection storage 11. Then, the switching gate 39 is operated, and the switching gate 41 is further operated to take the rejected banknote storage unit 14.

Also, the money type storages 6 and 7 or 8
If either of them becomes full from the beginning or in the middle, even if the denomination corresponding to the full storage is normal banknotes, the banknotes will be The switching gate 39 is operated so as to be conveyed, and the switching gate 40 is further operated so that the collection unit 1
Import to 3B.

When the replenishment to the respective denomination storages 6, 7, 8 is completed, the replenishment processing 73 notifies the count management control 65 and the counter control 68 of the end information. Counter control 6
8 reports this information to the counter manager 66, and the counter manager 66 updates various counters related to replenishment based on the report. On the other hand, the counting management control 65 notifies the above-described replenishment counting result to the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61, and the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 further includes a higher-level interface control unit 62.
To the upper-level control unit via

Next, regarding the re-discrimination control when a bill whose discrimination result is rejected occurs, as in the case of the above-described deposit and withdrawal, the normal direction re-discrimination transport control and the reverse Both direction re-discrimination transport control is possible,
The details of the control are clear at the time of payment and at the time of payment, so a detailed description is omitted here. (4) At the time of collection The transfer path control of the rejected banknote at the time of collection will be described using the banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG. The banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus having the first configuration example shown in FIG. 12 and the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus having the second configuration example shown in FIG. Although they have different configurations, as can be seen from the drawing, it is clear that the same result can be obtained by the same control as in the first configuration example, and the third configuration shown in FIG. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the configuration example (1) is completely the same in function as the first configuration example, except that the specific configuration of the pay-in / pay-out module constituting the cash-in / pay-out unit 18 is different.

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view of a main part of the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus showing a bill transporting path at the time of collection. The banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 shown in the block diagram of FIG. 3 is a case where some banknotes are collected from the upper control unit through the upper interface control unit 62 or there is a denomination storage box in a state of being full of either. When a command including the number of sheets to be collected is received depending on the type of the collecting operation and the operation type of whether to collect the bill until it is canceled or to collect all the bills in the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8, The counting management control 65 activates the collection process 74 based on the contents of the collection command. As a result, the collection process 74 activates the transfer control 69 and executes a collection operation together with the transfer control 69.

First, the collection process 74 is performed by the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8 in which denominations instructed by the upper control unit are stored.
The stage drive motor (not shown) is driven to push up the stage until the upper end portion of the banknotes deposited on the stage comes into contact with the mechanism of the pay-in / pay-out module of the pay-in / pay-out unit 18. Then, the banknotes are separated one by one from the uppermost portion and fed to the main transport path A. The transport control 69 operates the switching gate 38 in advance in a direction of branching to the supporting transport path to the collection unit 13B, and the bills fed to the main transport path A are
The banknote is conveyed in the direction of the arrow under the control of the conveyance control 69, the banknote is guided to the sub-conveyance path to the collection unit 13B by the switching gate 38, and the banknote whose discrimination result by the discrimination unit 4 is normal is
The switching gate 40 is actuated to accumulate in the collection unit 13B.

If a bill discriminated from the reject by the discriminating unit 4 is generated during counting, the transport control 69 shown in the block diagram of FIG. It is taken into the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17. Next, regarding the re-discrimination control when a bill whose discrimination result is rejected occurs,
As in the case of the above-mentioned deposit and withdrawal, both the normal direction re-discrimination control and the reverse direction re-discrimination transport control are possible,
The details of the control are clear at the time of payment and at the time of payment, so detailed description will be omitted. (5) When the replenishment and collection storage space is determined The replenishment and collection storage position determination process is to determine what kind of denomination is in the replenishment unit 13A and the collection unit 13B of the replenishment and collection storage 11 newly installed in the apparatus. This is the process of determining. Normal,
When the refill / collection storage 11 is newly attached to the apparatus, the banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit 61 notifies the upper control unit via the upper interface control unit 62 of the attachment.

The upper control unit that has received the notification sends the replenishment and collection storage via the upper interface control unit 62 in FIG. 3 in order to clarify the banknotes present in the mounted replenishment and collection storage 11. The banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 is notified of an instruction to determine the amount of money (hereinafter referred to as “determination of the amount of money”). Receiving this, the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 notifies the counting confirmation control 65 to the counting management control 65, and the counting management control 65 activates the counting determination process 75 based on the content of the counting determination command. As a result, the high / low determination process 75 activates the transport control 69 and executes the high / low determination operation together with the transport control 69. Since the operation of determining the position is similar to that at the time of replenishment, the operation will be described based on the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus having the first configuration example shown in FIG.

First, in the position determination processing 75, the replenishing section stage drive motor (not shown) of the replenishing section 13A is driven to push up the stage into the mechanism of the deposit / withdrawal module 19 of the replenishment / recovery storage 11, and the deposit / withdrawal module 19 (not shown). Is driven to separate the banknotes one by one and fed out to the main transport path A. The transport control 69 operates the switching gate 39 in advance in a direction of branching to the supporting transport path to the collection unit 13B, and the bills fed to the main transport path A are transported in the direction of the arrow by the control of the transport control 69. After being discriminated by the discriminating unit 4, the collection unit 13B is switched by the switching gate 39.
The banknote that is guided to the sub-conveyance path and has a normal discrimination result by the discrimination unit 4 operates the switching gate 40 to collect the banknote 13B.
F accumulate.

If a bill rejected by the discriminating section 4 is generated during counting, the transport control 69 shown in the block diagram of FIG. Gold reject container 17
Take in. When all the banknotes in the replenishment unit 13A have been counted in this way, the denomination determination process 75 discriminates the denomination in the discrimination unit 4 and determines that the denomination is a normal banknote.
End information including the total number information for each denomination accumulated in
The count management control 65 and the counter control 68 are notified. The counter control 68 reports this information to the counter management 66, and the counter management 66 updates various counters related to the replenishment and collection storage space based on the notification.

On the other hand, the count management control 65 notifies the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 of the above-mentioned finalized count result, and the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 further notifies the higher-order control unit via the higher-level interface control unit 62. . Subsequently, regarding the re-discrimination control in the case where a bill whose discrimination result has been rejected occurs, both the normal direction re-discrimination transport control and the reverse re-discrimination transport control are possible as in the case of replenishment described above. Since the control contents are clear in the above description, the detailed description is omitted. (6) At the time of refilling the customer service port The replenishment operation of the customer service port is performed at the service port 3
This is an operation of replenishing bills into the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8, and this transport operation will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 13 shows a bill transporting path when the customer service mouth is replenished. When the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61 in the block diagram of FIG. 3 receives the customer service unit replenishment command from the higher-level control unit via the higher-level interface control unit 62, it notifies the count management control 65, and the count management control 65 receives the command. The customer service section replenishment processing 72 is performed based on the instruction content. Accordingly, the customer service unit replenishment process 72 activates the transport control 69 and executes the customer service unit replenishment operation together with the transport control 69.

First, the customer service section replenishment process 72 opens the shutter 2 of the customer service port 3 and, when it is detected by a sensor (not shown) that a bill has been inserted into the customer service port 3 by the customer, closes the shutter 2 and removes the inserted bill. The sheets are separated one by one and fed out to the main transport path A. The transport control 69 operates the switching gate 37 in advance in a direction that does not hinder the travel of the banknotes, and the banknotes fed to the main transport path A are transported in the direction of the arrow by the control of the transport control 69, and are transmitted to the discrimination unit 4. Is identified. The banknote whose discrimination result is normal is led to the depositing / dispensing unit 18 by the switching gates 38 and 39, and is switched to the depositing / dispensing module 20 to 22 according to the denomination discrimination of the discriminating unit 4 by the switching gate 3
1, 33, 35, and denomination storage 6,
It is stored in 7 and 8.

On the other hand, the banknote whose discrimination result is rejected is guided to the support / conveyance path to the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17 by switching the switching gate 38 and is taken into the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17. When all the banknotes in the customer service opening 3 have been replenished to the denomination storages 6, 7, and 8, the customer service section replenishment processing 72 counts the end information to the count management control 65.
To the counter control 68. The counter control 68 notifies this information to the counter management 66, and the counter management 66
Updates various counters related to replenishment based on this notification. On the other hand, the counting management control 65 notifies the above-described replenishment counting result to the banknote deposit / withdrawal management unit 61, and
1 further notifies the higher-level control unit via the higher-level interface control unit 62. When the customer service port replenishment is to be continued further, a command is issued again from the higher-level control unit, so that the above-described operation is repeatedly executed.

In the above operation, if the switching gate 38 is disposed very close to the discriminating section 4 due to the device configuration, the bills discriminated before the discriminating section 4 outputs the discrimination result are sent to the switching gate 38. When the banknote arrives and the discrimination result is rejected, the banknote cannot be guided to the sub-conveyance path to the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17. less than,
Control in such a case will be described. When a rejected bill is generated, the rejected bill is kept in the direction in which the switching gate 38 continues to be transported on the main transport path A, and the customer service section replenishment processing 72 shown in the block diagram of FIG.
Immediately stops the separation / delivery operation in the customer service port 3, and the transport control 69 entrusts the control of bill transport to the reject bill transport control 76.

Subsequently, the reject bill transport control 76
Banknotes that have already been paid out are transported as they are, normal tickets are accumulated on the temporary holding units 24, 25, 26 corresponding to each denomination based on the result of discrimination, and rejected banknotes are mainly transported without being taken anywhere. The transport is continued in the path A, and when passing through the switching gate 38 again, the gate is switched to control to guide the deposit and withdrawal reject accommodating section 17 to the supporting transport path.

When the reject banknotes are stored in the deposit / withdrawal reject storage unit 17 in this way, the reject banknote transport control 76 notifies the reject banknote process completion to the customer service unit replenishment process and the transport control 69, and upon receiving this, the customer service unit replenishment is performed. Process 72
The transport control 69 restarts the operation if unprocessed banknotes still remain in the customer service unit temporary holding unit 9. In this case, both the normal direction re-discrimination transport control for the rejected banknote and the reverse re-discrimination transport control for the rejected banknote are possible as in the case of the above-described replenishment.
Detailed description is omitted.

[0110]

As described above, according to the present invention, the bill transporting path in the bill receiving / dispensing device is constituted by one annular main transporting path and a plurality of supporting transporting paths.
It is possible to realize a simple and compact transport path configuration in which a plurality of separation sections and an accumulation section can be connected and transported without any restriction. In other words, in spite of a simple transport path configuration, operability and functionality are not sacrificed.
This has the effect of realizing a device having a high degree of freedom in configuration.

Also, since one discriminating section is provided on the main transport path, and this discriminating section is capable of discriminating in both directions, there is no need to provide a plurality of discriminating sections according to the transport direction. Is provided on the main transport path, so it is not necessary to take measures according to the device configuration such as providing a simplified type discriminating section at a necessary location, so that not only the simplification of the transport path but also the arrangement of the discriminating section can be achieved. Since only one device is required, a great effect can be obtained in reducing the space in the apparatus, improving the reliability of functions, and reducing costs.

Further, even when the bill once discriminated from the rejected bill is re-discriminated, the bill can be sent again to the discriminating section if the main transport path is conveyed in an annular shape. In addition to being able to be easily performed, by performing this re-discrimination processing, the discrimination result of the rejected banknote once obtained may be changed due to a non-reproducible transport situation, so that the rejected banknote may become a normal banknote. Rejected bills can be reduced. For this reason, it is possible to reduce the number of bills that are discriminated as being unusable and are dormant in the reject storage, thereby increasing the efficiency of funds. As a result, the acceptance rate of deposited bills during the deposit transaction is also improved, so that the number of bills returned to the customer by discriminating rejected bills can be reduced, the service to the customer can be improved, and the bill deposit / withdrawal which has improved the operation rate of the device can be performed. An apparatus can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a principal part showing a first configuration example of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an internal block diagram of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a software configuration diagram illustrating a control system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a software configuration diagram illustrating a control system according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a software configuration diagram illustrating a control system according to a third embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a bill transfer path diagram of a rejected bill during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 7 is a bill transfer path diagram of a rejected bill during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a bill transport route during a dispensing transaction.

FIG. 9 is a bill transfer path diagram of a rejected bill during a dispensing transaction.

FIG. 10 is a route diagram at the time of retry transport of a rejected bill during a dispensing transaction.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a conveyance path of a rejected bill at the time of replenishment.

FIG. 12 is a transport path diagram of a rejected bill at the time of collection.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a transport route of bills during a service port replenishment operation.

FIG. 14 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a principal part of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a second configuration example.

FIG. 15 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a principal part of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device showing a third configuration example.

FIG. 16 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a principal part showing an example of a configuration of a conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE SYMBOLS 3 Customer service opening 4 Discrimination unit 6 Deposit store 7 Deposit store 8 Deposit store 9 Temporary storage unit 11 Replenishment collection store 15 Reject cassette 18 Deposit and withdrawal unit 61 Banknote deposit and withdrawal control unit 62 Upper interface control unit 65 Count management control 66 Counter management 67 Jam monitoring control 76 Reject bill transport control 80 Normal direction re-discrimination transport control 81 Re-discrimination counter 82 Reverse re-discrimination transport control 83 Re-discrimination counter

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-5-242334 (JP, A) JP-B-56-50300 (JP, B2) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 7/00-13/00 G07F 7/00-19/00 G06F 17/60-19/00

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bill recirculation function for storing bills deposited from a customer service port for transferring bills to and from an apparatus operator in an internal bill storage provided inside the apparatus and for using the bills during a withdrawal transaction; In addition to having a replenishment and collection function to collect surplus banknotes that can no longer be stored in the internal banknote storage or to replenish withdrawal banknotes when banknotes in the internal banknote storage are insufficient, the customer service port and the internal banknotes Between the storage, between the customer service port and the temporary holding unit that temporarily holds the banknotes in front of the internal banknote storage, the internal banknote storage and the internal banknotes were fed out at the time of dispensing. Between the rejected banknote storage for storing rejected banknotes that have been identified as unsuitable for dispensing among the banknotes, the internal banknote storage, and bills for replenishment and collection in the internal banknote storage are collected. A bill transfer path for connecting one of the bill collection units (or storage units) to one another in a relationship of a bill stacking unit (or a storage unit) and transporting the bills between the two; In the banknote pay-in / pay-out device, in which a banknote discriminating unit is disposed on the road, the banknote transporting path, an annular main transporting path that can be transported in both directions, and the main transporting path and each banknote separating / accumulating unit. The discriminating section is arranged on the main conveying path, and the discriminating section is configured to be discriminable in both the bi-conveying directions. The discriminating section separates, conveys, and accumulates. When a banknote that is discriminated from the reject during operation is generated, the separation operation from the banknote separation unit is immediately stopped, and the drive of the main transport path and the sub-transport path is continued as it is, and the transported banknote is transported without delay. Let me The bills discriminated as normal by the discriminating section accumulate in the accumulating section of each storage destination, and the bills discriminated from the reject bill continue to be conveyed in the main conveyance path in a ring without being taken anywhere. If the banknotes have all been stored in the storage location, the main transport path is transported in the opposite direction to the previous transport direction, the rejected banknotes are transported in the opposite direction, and the rejected banknotes are stored in the storage location,
A bill provided with control means for controlling such that no unprocessed bill remains in the bill separating section or the bill processing operation is restarted and the operation is continued until the number of processed bills is reached. Deposit and withdrawal device. 2. A bill recirculation function for storing bills deposited from a customer service port for transferring bills to and from an apparatus operator in an internal bill storage provided inside the apparatus and for using the bills during a withdrawal transaction; In addition to having a replenishment and collection function to collect surplus banknotes that can no longer be stored in the internal banknote storage or to replenish withdrawal banknotes when banknotes in the internal banknote storage are insufficient, the customer service port and the internal banknotes Between the storage, between the customer service port and the temporary holding unit that temporarily holds the banknotes in front of the internal banknote storage, the internal banknote storage and the internal banknotes were fed out at the time of dispensing. Between the rejected banknote storage for storing rejected banknotes that have been identified as unsuitable for dispensing among the banknotes, the internal banknote storage, and bills for replenishment and collection in the internal banknote storage are collected. A bill transfer path for connecting one of the bill collection units (or storage units) to one another in a relationship of a bill stacking unit (or a storage unit) and transporting the bills between the two; In the banknote pay-in / pay-out device, in which a banknote discriminating unit is disposed on the road, the banknote transporting path, an annular main transporting path that can be transported in both directions, and the main transporting path and each banknote separating / accumulating unit. And a discriminating section arranged on the main conveying path, and the discriminating section is configured to be discriminable in both conveying directions, and a reject banknote in the conveying direction of the main conveying path. Storage
If the branch point of the sub-transport path to the destination is just before passing through the discrimination section (upstream
Side) or immediately (downstream)
A is, by the classification section, separation, transport, when the banknote is distinguished from rejected in an integrated operation occurs, with immediately interrupt the separation operation from banknote separating section, the main transport path and supporting conveyor The drive of the path is continued as it is, and the reject bill continues to be conveyed in the main transport path in a ring shape, and when the reject bill returns to the branch point of the sub-transport path to the accommodation destination again, the reject bill storage destination After being conveyed to the rejected banknote storage destination through the supporting conveyance path to and accumulated, the banknote processing operation is restarted until no unprocessed banknotes remain at the separation source or until the predetermined number of processed banknotes is reached. A banknote pay-in / pay-out device comprising a control means for controlling an operation to be continued. 3. The rejected bill continues to be conveyed in the main transport path in a ring shape after the rejected bill is generated, immediately after the separation operation of the bill is interrupted, and until all the normal bills are accumulated in the storage destination. If all of the rejected banknotes have been collected in the storage destination, the rejected banknotes remaining in the main transport path are continuously conveyed in the main transport path one or more times in a loop, and re-discriminated by the discriminating unit. When it is changed to a normal banknote, it is transported to the storage destination of the normal banknote, and when the re-discrimination result is a reject banknote again,
The banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 1, further comprising a control unit configured to convey the main conveyance path in a direction opposite to the previous direction and to convey and accumulate the rejected banknotes at a storage location. 4. When a rejected bill is generated, the separating operation of the bill is immediately interrupted, the rejected bill is continuously transported one or more times in the main transport path, and a re-discrimination result is performed by the discrimination unit. If the determination result of the rejected banknote does not change, the rejected banknote is stored in the rejected banknote storage location via the support / transport path when the rejected banknote reaches the branch point of the support / transportation path to the storage location of the rejected banknote. 3. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 2, further comprising a control unit that, when the discrimination result changes to a normal banknote, directly conveys the banknote to a storage destination of the normal banknote. 5. When a rejected bill is generated, the separating operation of the bill is immediately interrupted, and the rejected bill continues to be conveyed in the main conveyance path in a loop until all the bills determined to be normal have been accumulated in the storage destination. When all normal banknotes have been collected, the main transport path is transported in the reverse direction, and the rejected banknotes being transported on the main transport path are passed through the discriminating section from the reverse direction and re-discriminated, and the rejected banknote is discriminated by this re-discrimination. When the result is changed to a normal banknote, the banknote is conveyed to a storage destination of a normal banknote, and on the other hand, when it is determined that the banknote is a reject banknote again in the re-discrimination result, a control unit for storing the banknote in a reject banknote storage destination is provided. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein