JP3247275B2 - Banknote depositing / dispensing machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device used in a financial institution or the like, and more particularly to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device for loading and unloading a bill storage cassette having a shutter at an opening.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out machines conventionally used in financial institutions and the like include, for example, Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-open No. Sho 60-1.
A banknote pay-in / pay-out device as disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 53377 is known.

[0003] This type of depositing and dispensing machine has a plurality of bill storage cassettes, and stores deposited bills in a plurality of bill storage cassettes by sorting them by denomination. The banknotes are paid out and paid out. When the day's work is completed, all the banknotes present in the machine are collected in the banknote storage cassette, and the next process, for example, the banknote storage cassette is taken out of the machine and transported to the cash processing center together with the banknote storage cassette. Has been made.

[0004] The bill storage cassette is loaded in an aligned state so as to be aligned in a vertical position in a drawer unit which can be pulled out from the front side of the machine body. The storage cassette cannot be taken out. In addition, a shutter for opening and closing this opening is provided in an opening portion for opening and closing a bill on the upper surface of each bill storage cassette, and the shutter is opened and closed and locked in conjunction with a drawing operation of a drawer unit. It is formed to be. That is, when the manual operation unit is swung to pull out the drawer unit, the shutter is mechanically closed and locked, so that the drawer unit can be pulled out, and the bill storage cassette in which the shutter is closed is moved to the drawer unit. The shutter is unlocked when loaded and the drawer unit is pushed into the body, and then the shutter is released when the manual operation unit is returned from the swinging state to the original state. Can be put in a state where it is possible.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device, the shutter of the banknote storage cassette is opened and closed and locked in conjunction with the pull-out operation of the drawer unit. The shutter of the storage cassette is always in a closed state, and therefore, it is impossible to determine whether the banknote is present or empty in the taken-out banknote storage cassette, and therefore, whether the banknote is present in the banknote storage cassette. Regardless of the type, all the bill storage cassettes are transported to the next process location such as a cash room or cash processing center, and the person in charge at that process opens the bill storage cassette and it turns out that the cassette is empty. As a result, there is an inconvenience that useless transportation work is performed.

Since the shutter of the bill storage cassette is mechanically opened and closed in conjunction with the operation of pulling out the drawer unit, the shutter must be closed before the bill storage cassette is loaded into the drawer unit. Therefore, there is a problem that it is not possible to distinguish whether the cassette is a cassette in which banknotes have been taken out and processed, or a cassette containing banknotes before processing.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the foregoing, the present invention makes it possible to determine at a glance whether or not bills are present in a bill storage cassette before taking out the bill storage cassette from the drawer unit of the machine, and to eliminate useless transportation of the bill storage cassette. It is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote pay-in / pay-out device capable of performing the following.

[0008]

As a means for solving the problems of the above-mentioned prior art, the present invention relates to a shutter which has a banknote opening / removal opening formed on an upper surface and which is closed and locked. A bill storage cassette having: a bill presence / absence detecting means for detecting whether or not a bill is present in the cassette; and a drawer unit which is provided so as to be able to be pulled out from the machine body and which detachably supports the bill storage cassette. In the depositing and dispensing machine, a drive receiving unit provided in the bill storage cassette and receiving a driving force for opening and closing a shutter, an electric driving unit provided in the drawer unit for applying a driving force to the drive receiving unit, Shutter detecting means for detecting the open / close state of the shutter of the inserted bill storage cassette; and locking the drawer unit in a state where the drawer unit is not drawn. Drawer lock means, and confirming the detection result of the bill presence or absence detecting means at the time of withdrawal of the drawer unit, for the cassette in which the bill is present, by driving the electric drive means to lock the shutter fully closed and locked, For a cassette in which no banknotes are present, a control unit is provided for controlling at least the inside of the cassette to be visible and then unlocking the drawer lock means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the shutter detecting means detects a fully open / fully closed state of the shutter and a half open state which does not hinder the drawer of the drawer unit, and there is no bill when controlled by the control unit. In the cassette, the shutter is stopped at a position where the shutter detecting means detects the half-open state of the shutter.

[0010]

When a drawer unit loaded with a bill storage cassette is pulled out from the machine, the presence or absence of a bill in each cassette is detected by a bill presence / absence detecting means, and the detection result is confirmed to confirm the bill storage cassette in which the bill is present. The shutter of the cassette is fully closed and locked by the drive of the electric drive means. For a bill storage cassette in which no bill is present, the drawer unit is unlocked after the shutter is at least in a state in which the inside of the cassette can be viewed, and the drawer unit can be pulled out.

When the drawer unit is pulled out, the empty bill storage cassette in which no bills are present is in a state where at least the shutter can be visually inspected in the cassette, so that it can be determined at a glance whether or not bills are present in the bill storage cassette. It is sufficient to take out only the cassette in which the banknotes are present and transport the cassette to the next step, without having to transport an empty cassette.

Further, the shutter of the bill storage cassette is opened and closed by transmitting a driving force from an electric driving means provided on the drawer unit side to a drive receiving unit provided on the bill storage cassette side. Therefore, there is no restriction that the shutter must be always closed when the bill storage cassette is loaded, and the shutter is opened in a state where the inside of the bill storage cassette which has been taken out and emptied can be visually checked. Can check the empty cassette at a glance.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic cross section of an example of a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine to which the present invention is applied. In this banknote pay-in / pay-out machine, a banknote P is placed on a top surface of a machine body 1 in a horizontal position. There is a bill loading unit 2 for loading the bills, and a feeding port of the loading unit 2 includes a kicker roller 3, a feed roller 4, a gate roller 5, and the like for feeding bills P one by one.
The banknote P fed into the body 1 by the feeding mechanism 6 passes through a transport path 7 provided below the loading unit 2 in the body 1, and the denomination is performed by the identification unit 8. , True / false, true / false, front / back, etc. are identified and sent through the downstream transport path 9 based on the identification result, and the flipped-back bill P is reversed by the front / back reversing mechanism 10 and the bill storage cassettes 11, (Hereinafter simply referred to as cassettes) are transported to a transport path 13 to temporary storage units 12, 12,... Located at the upper part of the cassettes 11, and are distributed to the cassettes 11, 11,.
.. Are fed into the respective temporary holding sections 12, 12,. The temporary holding unit 12 or the cassette 1 is located at a position opposite to the sorting units 14, 14,.
Are provided with a kicker roller 15, a payout roller 16, a gate roller 17 (reverse rotation roller) provided opposite to the kicker roller 15, a payout roller 18, a transport belt 18, and the like. The banknotes P that have been fed out are sent to the upstream side of the identification unit 8 and pass through the identification unit 8, and the dispensing port (cumulative reject port) 20.
Will be withdrawn. The withdrawal reject bill is discharged to the withdrawal reject port 21.

As shown in FIG. 2, the cassettes 11, 11... Are loaded in a drawer unit 22 provided so as to be able to be pulled out from the front surface of the machine body 1 in a vertical position in a parallel state. I have. In FIG. 2, SD is a solenoid for locking the drawer unit 22 when the drawer unit 22 is stored in the machine body 1. The solenoid SD is provided in the machine body 1, and a locking claw 23 swinging by the solenoid SD is connected to the drawer unit. Engagement with the hook 24 provided on the side 22 is locked so that it cannot be pulled out. When the solenoid SD is excited, the locking claw 23 rotates clockwise in FIG. , The drawer unit 22 can be pulled out. In FIG. 1, 26
Denotes an operation unit disposed at a position on one side of the upper surface of the body 1, 27 denotes a display, and 28 denotes a receipt issuing unit.

FIG. 3 shows one of the cassettes 11 partially cut away, and has a box shape having a vertically long rectangular cross-sectional shape, the upper surface of which is sufficient for the bills P to enter and exit in a horizontal state. An opening 11a having a size is provided, and a handle 29 is attached to the opening 11a so that the handle 29 can be turned upside down so as to straddle the opening 11a in the longitudinal direction. The opening 11a is opened and closed by a shutter 30 provided in the cassette 11. A stage 31 for stacking and supporting the banknotes P on the upper surface is provided in the cassette 11 so as to be able to move up and down.

As shown in FIG. 4, the shutter 30 is a shutter-shaped shutter which moves along guides 32 arranged on both sides in the short direction of the opening 11a of the cassette 11, and is provided on the inner surface of the cassette 11. The shutter 30 is attached to the shutter opening / closing belt 35 wound between the upper and lower pulleys 33 and 34 as described above.
The base of the belt 35 is attached by a fixture 36, and the belt 35
In FIG. 4, the shutter 30 is rotated by the rotation in the direction of arrow A.
Are configured to move in a direction to close the opening 11a.

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of an example of the stage 31 and its lifting mechanism 37. Stage 31 above
Has a rectangular shape made of a flat plate material and has a surface approximately the same size as the banknote P, and its lower surface is supported on a substrate 39 by a pantograph 38, and the pantograph 38 is wound around its intersection axis 40. The stage 31 is constantly urged by a coil spring that does not push up the stage 31 upward.

At both ends of the substrate 39, mounting members 41,
A guide groove 46a of a pulley support member 46 is provided above and below the outer surfaces of the mounting members 41 and 42.
The guide rollers 43, 43 that fit into the shafts are respectively mounted on the shafts. A magnet 44 functioning as a position detector for the stage 31 is mounted on a side surface of the one mounting member 41 via a fixture 45 ′, and a side surface of the other mounting member 42 is fixed to the lifting mechanism 37. A tool 45 is attached.

The elevating mechanism 37 of the stage 31 has a pulley support member 46. The pulley support member 46 includes a first pulley 47 from above and a second pulley 4 in the middle.
8, a third pulley 49, and a lower fourth pulley 50 are respectively mounted on the shaft. The pulley 51 and a lower pulley 52 are mounted on the inner side of the cassette 11 at upper and lower positions, respectively. A lifting belt 53 is wound around the pulley 51, the second pulley 48, the first pulley 47, the fourth pulley 50, the third pulley 49, and the lower pulley 52. The fixture 45 of the stage 31 is fixed to the belt 53 through a window hole 54 formed in the pulley support member 46 in a vertical direction.

The belt 53 is provided at a symmetrical position. When the belt 53 rotates in the direction of the arrow B in FIG. 4, only the stage 31 first rises, and its fixing member 45 is moved to the window hole of the pulley support member 46. When it hits the upper end of 54, it rises with this pulley support member 46, whereby the stage 31 moves up and down a large stroke range from the lowest position to the highest position. The pulley support member 46 is provided on the guide rail 1 on the inner surface of the cassette 11.
It is moved up and down along 1b.

As shown in FIG. 3, drive receiving portions 55 and 56 are provided on the shaft end of the pulley 33 above the shutter opening / closing belt 35 and the shaft end of the upper pulley 51 of the stage elevating belt 53, respectively. When the cassette 11 is loaded into the drawer unit 22, it is exposed to the side surface, and when the cassette 11 is loaded into the drawer unit 22, it is jointed with the transmission units 55 a and 56 a provided on the drawer unit 22 side to receive rotation transmission.

A pair of claws 57, 57, 58, 58 are provided on both sides of the opening 11a of the cassette 11 in the longitudinal direction.
One end of an interlocking lever 62 is connected to a short arm 61 fixed to a shaft 60 of one of the claws 58, 58. The other end of the interlocking lever 62 is connected to the lower end of an operating lever 64 pivotally supported on the cassette 11 by a shaft 63. When the shutter 30 is closed, the leading end of the shutter 30 pushes down one of the claws 57, 57, and then the operating lever is operated. 6
4 and pull the interlocking lever 62 to pull the pawls 58, 58
Is tilted inward of the cassette 11, and is always erected by a spring (not shown) to guide the bill when the bill is stored in the cassette 11.

In the cassette 11, the stage 3
1 is provided with a bill presence / absence detecting means for detecting whether or not a bill is present. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, the detecting means in this embodiment is formed on the stage 31 at a central position in the longitudinal direction and an intermediate position on both sides thereof. , And through holes 66, 66, 6 formed at positions corresponding to the slots 65, 65...
6 (shown in FIG. 3) and through holes 66, 6 provided on the drawer unit 22 side on one side when the cassette 11 is loaded.
6, the long holes 65 of the stage 31, 65, the cassette 11
The optical axis 6 is inserted into the through holes 67, 67, 67 (shown in FIG. 6) on the other side.
8, 68, 68 are constituted by optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ arranged obliquely in a vertical plane and at different positions in the vertical direction.

[0025] In this embodiment, it includes an optical sensor S ₄ to the optical axis 69 is disposed so as to cross obliquely in the horizontal plane in the longitudinal direction of the stage 31, which is lifted primarily banknote curled It is provided for detection when there is.

[0026] Then the proximity sensor S ₅ for detecting that the stage 31 to a position of a predetermined range H that is detected is performed by the optical sensor S ₁ to S ₄ is positioned disposed in the drawer unit 22 This proximity sensor S ₅
Are operated by detecting the magnetic force of the magnet 44 provided on the stage 31, and are provided for detecting that the stage 31 is present in the bill presence / absence detection range.

The detection signal from each of the above optical sensors is input to the control unit 70 (FIG. 10). The control unit 70 controls the drive system M ₂ of the lifting mechanism 37 of the stage 31, and controls the optical sensors within a predetermined range H from when the proximity sensor S ₅ detects the stage 31 to when the proximity sensor S ₅ stops detecting the stage 31. all of the optical axis of the S ₁ ~S ₄ 68,68 ... 6
It is determined that there is no bill on the condition that no light is blocked in 9.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 9, on the drawer unit 22 side, sensors S ₆ and S ₇ comprising a reed switch or the like as shutter detecting means for detecting the open / closed state of the shutter 30, that is, fully closed, half open or full open. , and S ₈ are arranged, fully open kinematic after loading of the cassette 11 by the shutter opening and closing electrical drive system M _1, the total closing during the extraction, empty the absence of a bill in the cassette 11 The half opening movement at this time is controlled through the control unit 70.

The control unit 70 issues a release command of the solenoid SD which controls the lock of the drawer unit 22 in addition to the above.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

Withdrawing the drawer unit 22 from the body 1,
When loading a cassette 11 which banknotes P is housed in the drawer unit 22, the drawer unit 22 of the shutter opening and closing electrical drive system M ₁ preliminary stage elevating mechanism driving system M
Each transmitting portion 55a of the _2, and the respective drive receiving portions 55, 56 of the 56a and the cassette 11 are joint, in a state that can receive the transmission of rotation. At this time, the shutter 30 is locked by a shutter lock mechanism (not shown).
, The claws 57, 58 are tilted inward. When the drawer unit 22 is pushed into the body 1, the locking claw 2
3 is engaged with the hook 24 and locked so that it cannot be pulled out.

[0032] The lock is confirmed, the shutter opening and closing belt 35 shutter for opening and closing electrical drive system M ₁ is actuated via the control unit 70 is rotated in a direction opposite to the arrow A in FIG. 4, the shutter 30 Are fully opened (FIG. 8A). Then stage elevating belt 53 is actuated stage elevating mechanism driving system M ₂ is rotated in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 4, thereby the stage 31 is raised (FIG. 8 (B)), further round of the belt 53 The pulley support member 46 is raised by the movement, the stage 31 projects from the opening 11a of the cassette 11 (FIG. 8C), and the upper surface of the banknotes P stacked thereon is pressed against the kicker roller 15 of the feeding mechanism 19. . This pressing is appropriately maintained by the biasing spring of the pantograph 38 of the stage 31.

When a withdrawal command is issued, the above-mentioned delivery mechanism 1
The banknote 9 is driven to feed out the banknotes P on the stage 31 one by one, and the banknotes P are dispensed to the dispensing port 20 through the above-described route of FIG.

In the above description, the stage 31 passes through the area of the predetermined range H during the upward movement, and the arrival of the stage 31 in the range H is determined by the proximity sensor S ₅ and the stage 31.
And the magnet 44.

While the stage 31 passes through the predetermined range H, the optical axes 68, 68, 68 of the optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ are set.
The long holes 65, 65, 65 of the stage 31 sequentially approach the position 68. At this time, when even one bill P is placed on the stage 31, all or some of the optical axes 68, 68, 68 are cut off by the bill P, and the presence of the bill is detected. This detection is performed by the optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S
_Since the position of ₃ is vertically different, it can be detected even if the banknote P is broken or a part is raised,
Also be detected by the optical sensor S ₄ having an optical axis 69 which crosses obliquely the longitudinal direction of the stage 31 for this lift.

In this manner, during the period when the stage 31 moves in the predetermined range H, it is detected whether or not the bill P exists thereon, and the optical axis of any of the optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ , S ₄ is detected. 68,68,68,69 also signal without bill when no Setsu barrier within the range H is input to the control unit 70, the stage 31 and controls the stage elevating mechanism driving system M ₂ determines that the bill without the controls the shutter opening and closing electrical drive system M ₁ causes lowered into place, the sensor S
₇ detects the half-open state of the shutter 30, a shutter closing drive system M ₁ is stopped by the signal. This shutter 30
Is half-open because the claws 57 and 58 of the opening 11a of the cassette 11 are tilted down by the shutter 30 so as not to hinder the drawer when the drawer unit 22 is pulled out. This is to allow the user to immediately recognize that the object is empty as shown in FIG. Therefore, when the drawer unit 22 is pulled out, the presence of an empty cassette 11 can be immediately identified, and it is not necessary to open the shutter 30 and check the inside each time.
FIG. 9 shows the cassette 11 in which the banknotes P are stored.
The shutter 30 is fully closed and locked as shown in FIG.
After the drawer unit 22 has been pulled out, the drawer unit 22 functions as a safe even when pulled out from the drawer unit 22.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a drawer unit loaded with a bill storage cassette is pulled out from the machine body, the presence or absence of a bill in each cassette is detected.
Based on the detection result, the shutter for the cassette in which the bill is present is fully closed and locked, and for the empty cassette in which the bill is not present, the inside thereof is made visible (for example, a half-open state), and then the drawer unit is unlocked. When the drawer unit is pulled out, it is possible to immediately discriminate between the cassette containing the banknote and the cassette not containing the banknote, and only the cassette containing the banknote (the shutter is fully closed). It only has to be transported to the next process, and there is no need to transport empty cassettes.

The shutter is opened and closed by transmitting the driving force from the electric drive means provided on the drawer unit side to the drive receiving unit provided on the cassette side, so that the shutter is opened and closed without fail when the cassette is loaded. There is no restriction that the cassette must be inserted, and the cassette that has been emptied by taking out the banknote can be opened with the shutter open so that the inside can be visually checked. This has the advantage that the empty cassette can be easily checked.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view showing an example of a banknote handling machine to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state where a bill storage cassette is loaded into the bill processing machine of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing one of the cassettes.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an example of a shutter opening / closing mechanism and a stage elevating mechanism of the cassette.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the stage elevating mechanism of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between an optical sensor and a stage arranged in the cassette.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the same.

8 (A) to 8 (C) are explanatory diagrams showing a state where the stage is raised and lowered.

FIGS. 9A to 9C are explanatory diagrams showing an open / closed state of a shutter.

FIG. 10 is a control block diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 body 2 paper sheet loading section 6 feeding mechanism 8 identification section 11 banknote storage cassette 12 temporary holding section 14 sorting means 19 feeding mechanism 20 payout port 21 cashout reject port 22 drawer unit 30 shutter 31 stage 35 shutter opening and closing belt 37 stage elevating mechanism 44 magnet 46 the pulley support member 53 stage elevating belt 55 driving support member 55a, 56a transmitting portions 57 and 58 pawl S ₁ to S ₄ optical sensor S ₅ proximity sensor S ₆ to S ₈ shutter sensor

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bill storage cassette having a bill insertion / removal opening formed on an upper surface thereof and having a shutter which closes and locks the opening, and a bill for detecting whether or not a bill is present in the cassette. In a banknote pay-in / pay-out device including presence / absence detecting means and a drawer unit that is provided so as to be able to be pulled out from the body and detachably supports the banknote storage cassette, a drive receiver that is provided in the banknote storage cassette and receives a driving force for opening and closing a shutter. Unit, an electric drive unit provided in the drawer unit to apply a driving force to the drive receiving unit, a shutter detecting unit for detecting a shutter open / close state of a bill storage cassette mounted on the drawer unit, and the drawer unit. A drawer locking means for locking the drawer in a state where the bill is not drawn, and a detection means for detecting the presence or absence of the bill when the drawer unit is pulled out. After confirming the result, for the cassette where the bill is present, the electric drive means is driven to fully close and lock the shutter, and for the cassette where the bill is not present, at least the inside of the cassette is made visible. And a control unit for controlling to release the lock of the drawer lock means. 2. The shutter detecting means detects a fully open / fully closed state of a shutter and a half open state which does not hinder the drawer of the drawer unit. 2. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is stopped at a position where the shutter detecting means detects a half-open state of the shutter.