JP3217817B2 - Money management device for recycle currency unit - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to relates to a money management device of reflux type currency unit, it is particularly used in vending machines, related to money management unit of reflux type monetary unit that pays out a change depending on the price of a product, which was launched .

In recent years, the above-mentioned recycle type currency unit has been used also in an automatic vending machine for releasing a horse race voting ticket or the like in a horse race. The recycle type money unit counts the amount of money held according to the amount of inserted money and the amount of the winning horse voting ticket etc. released and pays it out as change,
It has a function of counting and collecting the total amount of inserted money and previously held money. However, with the increase in the sales amount of winning horse voting tickets and the like in recent years, the collection and counting work has become complicated, and there is a demand for performing this operation reliably and easily.

[0003] Therefore, the present invention aims to collect and count money reliably and easily.

[0004]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been a vending ticket vending machine for releasing a winning horse voting ticket of a horse race or a car ticket of a bicycle race (hereinafter abbreviated as a voting ticket). This vending ticket vending machine is designed for a customer who inserts bills or coins and specifies the type and amount of a desired betting ticket, releases it, and pays out change according to the inserted amount and the amount released. It is.

The vending ticket vending machine uses a recycle coin unit, which is a kind of recycle currency unit. The recirculation type coin unit is configured to hold coins for change in advance, count the number of coins for change according to the amount of inserted coins and the amount of voting tickets released, and pay out change. I have.

At the end of one day of operation of the vending machine, the inserted coins and the previously reserved coins are collected, and at the same time, the total number of these coins is counted to calculate the sales amount, thereby improving the efficiency of the payment service. It is configured to achieve Therefore, when collecting coins, it is desired that sales be accurately calculated.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of an example of a vending ticket vending machine.

In FIG. 3, a control unit 31 comprises an MPU (micro processing unit), a RAM (random access memory), and a ROM (read only memory).
The MPU performs arithmetic processing according to the program stored in the OM.

The vending ticket vending machine 30 receives bills or coins from a bill insertion slot or a coin insertion slot (not shown). These coins are stored in a coin identification unit 35 having a well-known configuration.
Alternatively, the type of money is identified in the bill identification section 33, and the identification data is sent to the control section 31 to calculate the inserted amount. The input amount data is sent to the customer display unit 39 and the input amount is displayed.

Next, when the customer selects and inputs the type and amount of the desired betting ticket in accordance with the display on the customer display section 39,
This input data is sent to the control unit 31. Control unit 31
Outputs a command such that the voting ticket issuing unit 38 issues a voting ticket according to the input data.
Issues a voting ticket desired by the customer.

The controller 31 calculates the amount of change to be paid out from the input amount data and the input data, and calculates the amount of change to be paid out.
4. A payout command is output to the bill payout unit 32, and a predetermined change is paid out.

On the other hand, the voting ticket vending machine 30 is provided with a change coin holding unit which is not shown in FIG. The required number is prepared beforehand and held. The number of 100-yen coins prepared in advance is input to the control unit 31 from the rear display unit keyboard 36.

By the way, when the operation of the day is completed and the sales are collected from the coin payout section 34 and the bill payout section 32, each money and bill are counted by counters (not shown) provided in each payout section. The control unit 31 calculates the sales amount from the count data, and controls the note ticket printing unit 37 to print the sales amount.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a recycle coin unit used in the vending ticket vending machine shown in FIG. The recirculating coin unit 40 generally includes the coin payout unit 34 and the change coin holding unit 41.

The coin 42 inserted through the coin insertion slot is identified by the coin identification section 35, and if it is a 100-yen coin for change, it is sent to the change coin storage section 41 as indicated by A. If the coin 42 is another coin, B
Are sent to a coin holding unit (not shown). Further, the change coin retaining portion 41 as described above, change for the coin 42 ₁ of necessary number to be expected are provided.

[0016] According to the input amount of the customer and the purchase amount of the voting ticket
If change is required, change coins 42₁Is a coin sending unit
43, through a change coin payout passage 44, with a dashed arrow C
Control unit to pay out to a change port (not shown) as shown
31. At this time, the shutter 45
The change coin collection passage 46 is closed as shown by the broken line. Ma
In addition, the payment is made by a counter 47 provided in the coin sending section 43.
Change coins issued 42 ₁Is counted and a predetermined number of
Change coin 42₁Will be paid out.

The number of change coins necessary for one vending machine to operate in one day is an unspecified number. Therefore, the number of change coins to be introduced is the case more than the number of change coins to be paid out as change are change coin 42 ₁ which is held in the change coin holding portion 41 gradually increases.

Since the size of the vending machine is limited,
The size of the change coin holding unit 41 is also limited. Therefore, as change coin 42 ₁ is no overflow it change the coin retaining portion 41 increases, change coins detector 48 detects the amount of change coins 42 ₁ of the change coin retaining portion 41. This is done by using a special sensor to hold the change coins 4
2 ₁ height in which is mechanically detected.

[0019] change coin 42 ₁ of the change coin retaining portion 41 exceeds a predetermined amount is collected in the coin collecting box 50 through the coin passage 49 overflows as indicated by D. Change coins 42 ₁ are collected in the coin collection box 50 and are held for change coins 42.
_When the height of ₁ becomes equal to or less than a certain value, the control unit 31 controls to stop the collection.

When the operation of the vending machine for one day is completed,
Change coins 42 held in the change coin holding unit 41
₁ is collected in the coin collection box 50 via the change coin collection passage 46 as indicated by E. At this time, the shutter 45 closes the change coin payout passage 44 as shown by the solid line.
Further, the number of change coins 42 ₁ recovered by counter 47 is counted.

[0021]

However, the conventional recycle type coin unit has a drawback that the number of change coins collected in the coin collection box via the overflowing coin passage is not counted. For this reason, in the case of collecting change coins and performing a payment operation after a day's operation of the release machine has been completed, the following complicated method must be used.

That is, the change coins collected through the overflowing coin passage are sorted out first, and then the change coins counted by the counter 47 are collected through the change coin collection passage. Then, the separated change coins are counted by any counting means different from the counter 47 provided in the recycle coin unit, and the total value is obtained from these numerical values.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a money management apparatus for a recycle type money unit which can easily count change money to be collected and can efficiently perform a payment operation.

[0024]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention is configured as shown in the principle configuration diagram shown in FIG.

That is, a storage means 1 for storing a quantity a of money previously stored in a money storage section having a predetermined capacity;
A first counter for counting the number of coins inserted into the coin holder;
Counting means 2, a second counting means 3 for counting the number of money sent from the money holding section, a number a of money stored in the storage means 1 and the first counting means 2. Difference value (a + b−c) between the sum value (a + b) of the obtained count value b and the count value c obtained by the second counting means 3
, And the calculated value (a + bc) obtained by the calculating means 4 and the predetermined capacity of the money holding unit .
Comparing means 5 for comparing with a predetermined value d set to a smaller value
When the sum value (a + bc) is larger than the predetermined value d, the money held in the money holding unit is counted by the second counting means so that the money holding unit does not overflow with money. The predetermined quantity is counted by 3 and the money is stored from the money holding unit.
It is sent to the money collection unit to be collected and at the end of operation.
All the money stored in the storage unit is stored in the second money storage unit.
While counting by the counting means, the above money
And a sending unit 6 for sending to the collection unit .

[0026]

According to the present invention having the above-described structure, the value of the difference between the quantity a of money previously stored, the quantity b of money inserted into the money storage section, and the quantity c of money sent out from the money storage section. (B
-C), the value of the sum (a + bc), that is, the quantity of the money currently held in the money holding unit is operated by the calculating means, and the value of the money currently held in the money holding unit is calculated. The quantity (a + bc) is compared with a predetermined value d corresponding to the capacity of the money holding unit by the comparing means 5, and if this value is larger than the predetermined value d, the counting means counts a predetermined amount of money and sends out the money. And act to transmit.

[0027]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control unit for controlling a recycle currency unit management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The management system of the present embodiment is applied to a recirculation type coin unit used for change coin management and payment in a vending ticket vending machine. Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

The control unit 31, as described above,
The MPU 20 includes a RAM 21 and a ROM 22, and performs the following processing according to a program stored in the ROM 22. The MPU 20 constitutes the first counting means, the calculating means, and the comparing means of the present invention. The RAM 21 as a storage means has a coin unit memory 23 including a memory M ₁ 24, a memory M ₂ 25, a memory M ₃ 26, and others.

When using a recirculation type coin unit (hereinafter abbreviated as a unit) as a voting ticket vending machine (hereinafter abbreviated as a vending machine), first, a 100-yen coin for change is used, for example. 1000 coins are previously inserted into the change coin holding unit 41 (money holding unit) of the unit 40. The change coin holding unit 41 has a storage capacity of 1500 coins.

Then, the number a of the inserted 100-yen coins a
Is stored in the memory M ₁ 24 of the control unit 31 from the rear display unit keyboard 36.

When the customer starts operation and inserts money into the vending machine, as described above, the type of inserted money is identified, and the amount of money inserted is calculated and displayed on the customer display unit 39. When the customer specifies the type and the purchase amount of the desired betting ticket and inputs it to the control unit 31 from the customer display unit 39, the specified betting ticket is issued from the betting ticket issuing unit 38.

At the same time, 100 yen coins used as change among the inserted money are inserted into the change coin holding unit 41, and the number b of the inserted 100 yen coins is counted. The difference between the input amount and the purchase amount of the customer is calculated.

A 100-yen coin of the number c corresponding to the difference is paid out from the change coin payout passage 44 through the coin sending section 43 to a change port (not shown) as indicated by a broken arrow C. The number c of 100 yen coins to be paid out is accurately counted by a counter 47 (second counting means) provided in the coin sending section 43. At this time, the change coin collection passage 46 is closed by the shutter 45 as shown by a broken line in FIG.

Next, the number b of 100-yen coins inserted into the change coin holding unit 41 and the number 100 of coins paid out as change
The value of the difference between the number c of the circle coin (b-c) is calculated by the MPU 20, stores the value of the difference (b-c) in the memory M ₂ 25 of the control unit 31.

Here, if b = c, the change coin holding unit 4
There is no increase or decrease in the number of 100-yen coins currently held in No. 1 and the value of this difference (bc) is the increased number of 100-yen coins held in the change coin holding unit 41 since the start of operation. Represents.

From the values a and (bc) stored in the memories M ₁ 24 and M ₂ 25, the sum (a + b−c) is obtained.
Calculates, and stores the value of this sum (a + b-c) in the memory M ₃ 26 of the control unit 31. The sum value indicates the number of 100-yen coins currently held in the money holding unit 41.

[0037] Subsequently, stored in the memory M ₃ 26 value (a + b-c), and stored in advance in the ROM22 constant d
= 1400.

The constant d = 1400 is set so that the capacity 1500 (sheets) of the change coin holding unit 41 described above has a margin. As described above, the work from the receipt of the deposit until the current number of change coins (a + bc) in the change coin holding unit 41 is compared with the constant d is performed for each customer.

As a result of comparison, (a + bc) <d = 1
If it is 400, the number of 100-yen coins currently held in the change coin holding unit 41 is the storage capacity 1500
There is a margin of 100 (sheets) or more with respect to (sheets). Therefore, the next customer enters a payment standby state.

When payment is made, the voting ticket release business is continued as in the previous case. As a result of selling voting tickets to a large number of customers, the number of 100-yen coins paid out as change may be smaller than the number of 100-yen coins inserted. In this case, the number of 100-yen coins held in the change coin holding unit 41 gradually increases, and may approach the capacity.

When (a + bc) ≧ d = 1400 as a result of continuing the voting ticket release business, the change coin payout passage 44 is closed by the shutter 45 as shown by the solid arrow E in FIG. A predetermined number of 100 yen coins held in the change coin holding unit 41, for example, 500 (sheets)
Is counted by the counter 47 and collected in the coin collection box 50 from the change coin collection passage 46.

At this time, the number of collected 100 yen coins is stored in the memory in the RAM 21. Further, when (a + bc) ≧ d = 1400 and 100 yen coins are collected, the number of collected 100 yen coins is MP
It is integrated by U20 and stored in the memory.

In this manner, the control unit 31 detects that the number of 100-yen coins held in the change coin holding unit 41 approaches its capacity, and the change coin holding unit 41 overflows with 100-yen coins. It can be collected appropriately so as not to cause any problems.

By the way, when the operation of the sales machine is completed for one day,
All 100-yen coins held in the change coin holding unit 41 are collected in the coin collection box 50 from the change coin collection passage 46 via the coin sending unit 43. The number of the 100 yen coin is counted by the counter 47. The number of 100-yen coins already collected in the coin collection box 50 in order to prevent the change coin storage unit 41 from overflowing during the operation of the vending machine is determined by the RAM.
Since the coins are stored in the memory in the memory 21, the total number of 100-yen coins collected in the coin collection box 50 can be known from these values.

Therefore, the number of 100-yen coins inserted into the recycle coin unit of the above embodiment,
The number of 00 yen coins and the number of 100 yen coins collected
Unlike the conventional method, coins collected to prevent overflow can be reliably grasped without having to separately count them, so that there is a feature that payment operations can be performed efficiently.

According to the present embodiment, a sensor for mechanically detecting the height of coins held in the change coin holding section and an overflowing coin passage can be removed, so that the unit can be constructed at low cost. Also, the above effects can be obtained by simply adding a simple program to the ROM without changing the hardware configuration.

In the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to the case where the number of coins inserted into the change coin holding unit and the number of coins sent from the change coin holding unit are managed, but the change coin holding unit ( The respective amounts are calculated by the MPU or the like from the number of coins (the number of coins) to be inserted into the money holding unit) and the number of coins sent from the change coin holding unit. The same effect can be obtained by applying the money management system of the money unit.

[0048]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the number of money to be put into the money holding unit is larger than the number of money sent from the money holding unit, the number of money held in the money holding unit increases, and the money holding unit increases. When the number of coins exceeds the number corresponding to the capacity of the unit, a predetermined amount of money is sent from the money holding unit and the money does not overflow from the money holding unit, and the amount of the sent money can be known. There is. At the end of operation
The total number of money collected by the money collection unit is calculated by a second counting.
It can be immediately known from the total count value of the means.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating management of a recycle currency unit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
It is a block diagram of the control part which controls an apparatus .

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of an example of a vending ticket vending machine.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an example of a recycle coin unit used in a vending ticket vending machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 storage means 2 first counting means 3 second counting means 4 calculating means 5 comparing means 6 sending means 20 MPU (first counting means, calculating means, comparing means) 21 RAM (storage means) 31 control unit 32 bill Payout part (delivery means) 34 Coin payout part (delivery means) 41 Change coin holding part (money storage part) 42, 42 ₁ coin 43 Coin delivery part (delivery means) 45 Shutter 46 Change coin collection passage (delivery means) 47 Count Vessel (second counting means)

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A storage means to store the quantity a pre shelved money to money storing portion having a predetermined capacity, the counting number of money put in the money storing portion 1
The counting hand stage, in the second counting hand stage and said memory hand the the quantity a stage to store the currency first counting means to count the number of the sent Ri by money escrow unit money the value of the difference between the value of the sum of the obtained count value b (a + b) and the count value c determined by the second counting hand stage (a
A + b-c) calculates the operation manual stage, compared to be compared with the operation manual operation value obtained by the stage (a + b-c) and set to a value less than the predetermined capacity of the money storing portion, predetermined value d and hand stage, when the value of the sum (a + b-c) is greater than the predetermined value d, the money holding portion shelved money the second to the money storing portion so as not full of money counting hand stage by a predetermined number counted from <br/> be recovered money Ri by the money storing portion
At the end of the operation at the end of operation.
All the money held in the holding unit is transferred to the second counting device.
The above-mentioned money collecting unit from the above-mentioned money holding unit while counting by the stage
Money management apparatus reflux type monetary unit, characterized by comprising a delivery means to delivery to.