JP3320386B2 - Bill handling device and method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for handling bills used in an automatic teller machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a part of improving the efficiency of bank teller services and providing services to customers, cash automated teller machines have been frequently used for cash withdrawals, deposits, and transfers from customers' accounts. The automated teller machine is a man-machine interface between cash and a customer, and is a machine that automatically performs deposit and withdrawal operations while interacting with the customer via a display device.

[0003] By the way, there are cases where it is more difficult to handle automatic payment of banknotes than cash coins. This is because there are three types of banknotes: 1,000-yen bills, 5,000-yen bills, and 10,000-yen bills, and it is difficult to discriminate and align bills due to the degree of newness, oldness, dirt, folding wrinkles, and the like. Therefore, troubles have occasionally occurred in the process of transporting banknotes inserted by a customer or banknotes instructed by a customer to withdraw. The main ones are: (1) If a plurality of bills are overlapped, they are mistakenly discriminated as one. (2) The bills once confirmed by the customer at the time of deposit are recognized as bad in discrimination at the time of sorting. Cannot be stored,
(3) Bills taken out of the storage box at the time of payment to the customer are discriminated as defective during transportation, and the stock management of the storage box is confused because the denomination is unknown.

On the other hand, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-225
No. 497 discloses a banknote processing method for monitoring inventory and the number of banknotes that are deposited and withdrawn from a storage box and counting the number and the number of banknotes that are determined to be good or bad during discrimination during transport to manage inventory. Has been proposed.

[0005]

As described above, the bills conveyed between the bill storage box of the automatic teller machine and the customer cause a shape defect or a misalignment due to a new or old degree or folding wrinkles. Cheap. Conversely, when new bills are superimposed, they tend to be difficult to peel off one by one.

[0006] However, in the above-mentioned prior art,
Even if such troubles occur during the transportation of banknotes, it is difficult to directly solve them. That is, it is possible to count the denominations and the number of bills that are deposited and withdrawn from the bill storage box, and to reject bills that have been discriminated to be defective during transportation. Confusion is inevitable, such as when a jam occurs on the way and the machine temporarily stops functioning. For example, the number of superimposed banknotes is always read as two. However, when three or more banknotes are superimposed or only a part of the banknotes is superimposed, an incorrect judgment is made. Also,
If the local load increases due to the jam, the use of the automatic teller machine must be stopped until the jam is manually removed.

An object of the present invention is to add a function of separating, monitoring, and correcting bills to be conveyed,
An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling apparatus and method capable of minimizing troubles during transport.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises a plurality of storage boxes in which bills are stored by denomination, separating means for separating bills from the storage box, and Tracking means for tracking whether the bill is from the storage box, detecting means for detecting the state of the separated bills, and when the detected bills are in a skewed or multifeed state, the bills A quantity determining means for determining the denomination and the number of sheets, and an accumulating means for accumulating the banknotes of which the denomination and the number of sheets are determined, and when the detecting means detects skew or double feeding of the banknotes, the posture of the banknotes Posture correction means for correcting
Disclosed is a banknote handling apparatus including a stacking unit that stacks banknotes whose posture has been corrected.

Further, the present invention provides a plurality of storage boxes in which bills are stored by denomination, a check means for checking the denomination of the bills separated from the storage box, and a state of the bills. Detecting means, when the detecting means detects skew or double feeding of bills, a number detecting means for determining the number of bills, and the amount of the bills by the confirmation means and the number detecting means. A fixing means for fixing, and an accumulating means for accumulating the banknotes whose amount has been fixed,
When the detecting means detects the skew or double feeding of the bills, the apparatus includes a posture correcting means for correcting the posture of the bills and an accumulating means for accumulating the bills whose posture has been corrected. A bill handling device is disclosed.

Further, the present invention relates to a bill handling method in a bill handling apparatus for carrying bills and controlling input / output of the bills, wherein the bill form and thickness information of the bills transferred are obtained, Identifying the number of the transported banknotes based on the thickness information and the thickness information, confirming the denomination from the separation location of the transported banknotes, and determining the denomination and the number of the transported banknotes. The method of handling bills is disclosed.

Further, the present invention discloses a bill handling method characterized by checking a storage box in which bills are stored for each kind when checking a denomination of bills conveyed.

Further, the present invention relates to a method for handling bills in a bill handling apparatus for carrying bills for depositing and dispensing bills, wherein the kind of the bills to be carried is determined based on the skewed form and thickness of the carried bills. A banknote handling method is disclosed in which the banknote handling method is characterized in that the banknotes and the number of banknotes are determined and the types and numbers of all banknotes present in the banknote handling device are constantly grasped and managed.

Further, according to the present invention, after determining the type and number of bills to be conveyed, the amount of skewed or superimposed bills is specified, and the amount of all bills present in the bill handling device is constantly grasped and managed. A bill handling method is disclosed.

Further, according to the present invention, when determining the type and the number of banknotes to be transported from the skew mode and thickness of the transported banknotes, information on the skew mode and thickness of the transported banknotes is determined. Obtain and identify the number of transported banknotes based on the skew form and thickness information, confirm the denomination from the separation location of the transported banknotes, denomination of the transported banknotes And a bill handling method characterized by determining the number of bills.

Further, according to the present invention, when the type and the number of banknotes to be transported are determined from the skew form and thickness of the banknotes transported, the transported banknotes are skewed or multi-fed. Disclosed is a bill handling method characterized by determining the denomination and the number of bills conveyed when detected.

According to the present invention, the denomination and the number of banknotes are determined even in the state of skew or double feeding.

Further, according to the present invention, when skew or double feeding is detected, the posture of the banknotes is corrected and the banknotes are stacked.

Further, according to the present invention, the amount is determined by determining the denomination and the number.

[0019]

12 to 15 show four basic handling devices of the present invention. 12 includes a storage box 60, a separating unit 61, a tracking unit 62,
It comprises a first state detecting means 63, a thickness detecting means 64, a first number discriminating means 65, a quantity determining means 66, and a stacking means 67. According to the first handling device shown in FIG. 12, the banknotes dispensed from the storage box 60 first
The denomination is confirmed by the tracking means 62 in the middle of being peeled one by one and being transported for discrimination of the number of sheets in step 1. Next, the first
The posture of the banknote and the timing of conveyance are measured by the state detecting means 63, and the degree of superposition is checked by the heat detecting means 64. The first number discriminating means 65 detects the number of skewing or overlapping banknotes and the number of normally conveyed banknotes from these data for each denomination. Then, the final number is determined by the quantity determining means 66 for each denomination. The determined banknotes are put together in one place by the stacking means 67. For this,
The denomination and amount of money can be determined even if the superimposition of banknotes is eliminated in principle and skew or superimposition still remains.

The handling device shown in FIG.
0, separating means 61, tracking means 62, first state detecting means 63, thickness detecting means 64, first number discriminating means 65, quantity determining means 66, collecting means 67, attitude correcting means 68, second collecting It comprises means 69, second separating means 70, and second number discriminating means 71. According to the second handling apparatus shown in FIG. 13, banknotes that are superimposed or skewed even after being subjected to the separating action by the separation unit 61 are first corrected for skew by the posture correction unit 68. This is temporarily transferred to the second collecting means 6
After that, the peeling operation is performed again using the second separating means 70. Thereafter, the second number discriminating means 71
The number of denominations and the number of delaminations are detected. At this time, if the information of the tracking means 62 is used, the details of the banknote dispensed from the storage box 60 can be grasped.

FIG. 14 is a detailed view of the first number discriminating means 65. That is, this means 65 is provided by the overlapping state analyzing means 7.
2. First number estimation means 73, third number identification means 74
Consisting of According to the third handling device of the present invention shown in FIG. 14, the first number discriminating means 65 is the first state detecting means 6.
3. The overlapping state analyzing means 72 for checking the superimposition of bills based on the information of No. 3 and the overlapping state analyzing means 7 with the thickness detecting means 64
The first number estimating means 73 for estimating the number of superimposed sheets for each denomination based on the information of No. 2 and the third number identifying means 74 for identifying the denomination and the number of bills being conveyed based on these results. Constitute. This enables the amount to be determined even if there is superposition or skew.

FIG. 15 is another detailed view of the first number discriminating means 65. That is, the means 65 is provided with the overlapping state analyzing means 7.
2. First number estimating means 73, third number identifying means 7
4, posture conversion means 75, second state detection means 76, second
Of the number estimation means 77. According to the fourth handling apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG.
Further, the posture of the transported banknotes in a defective state is corrected. That is, the overlapping state analyzing means 72 and the first number estimating means 73
After grasping the denomination and the number of superimposed banknotes, the banknotes are passed through the posture converting means 75. The posture changing means 75 has a function of separating the stacked banknotes by changing their relative positions in a direction in which they are separated from each other. After that, the transport state of the bill is detected again by the second state detecting means 76. Second number estimation means 77
Are the first state detecting means 63 and the second state detecting means 76
Then, the state of the cancellation of the overlap of the bills is detected again by comparing the information of the bills, and then the number of bills is identified by the third number identifying means 74 by denomination.

Further, the relative slip transporting means, which is the attitude converting means 75 of the present invention, sandwiches the overlapped bills between two rollers and transports them while separating them by driving each roller at a different speed. Has functions. When a torque equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold is applied to the low-speed roller, the driving of the low-speed roller is stopped, and this roller idles in synchronization with the high-speed roller. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail based on specific examples.

A specific embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a banknote handling apparatus 1 incorporated in an automatic teller machine for performing banknote deposit / withdrawal transactions. The arrow in the figure indicates the direction in which the bill is sent. The banknote deposit / withdrawal port 2 is a place where the customer deposits / withdraws banknotes. The bills deposited in the deposit and withdrawal 2 are separated one by one by the separation unit 3 and sent to the discrimination unit 4.
The discrimination unit 4 determines the authenticity, denomination, and the like of the bill. The reject box 5 was judged to be unsuitable for use in depositing and withdrawing again because the deposited banknotes were extremely dirty, or the reject box 5 was unable to discriminate the denomination and was unable to withdraw. This is where the banknotes are stored. The denomination box 6 stores bills for each denomination. The accumulation unit 7
The bills sent one by one are stacked in the denomination box 6. The separating section 8 is for separating the banknotes stored in the denomination box 6 one by one again, and has the same mechanism as the separating section 3. FIG.
The fifteen storage boxes 60 are the deposit and withdrawal port 2 or the denomination box 6. The stacking unit 9 stacks bills sent one by one and discharges the bills to the deposit / withdrawal port 2.

The transport of banknotes to these banknote processing units is performed by a transport path 10 constituted by a transport which is a rubber belt running opposite to each other. Gate 11
It is provided at a crossroad of the transport path 10 and switches the transport direction of bills. The detection sensor 12, which is a detection means for detecting the timing at which the bills are conveyed, is disposed at the connection of the conveyance path. These detection sensors 12
Is composed of a light emitting element and a light emitting element, and these elements are installed on both sides of a transport path through which a bill passes. As shown in FIG. 2, the transport path 10 is driven by being divided into several blocks, and the transport of each block is driven by an independent drive source. That is, for example, the transport paths 14a and 14b divided into blocks 18 and 19 are:
Pulse motor 2 via gears 22, 24, 25
Driven by 0,21.

Further, as shown in FIG.
Tracking means 62 for tracking from where the bill has been separated, first state detecting means 63 for detecting the state of the bill conveyed skewed or superimposed, and detecting the thickness of the bill Detecting means 64, a first number discriminating means 65 for detecting the number of bills conveyed based on information from these means, and a quantity deciding means 66 for deciding the amount of bills conveyed thereby. It has. By providing these functions, it is possible to determine the amount of banknotes that are skewed or superimposed. By combining with the conventional cash scrutiny function, the cash amount present in the banknote handling machine is always grasped. It is.

The bill transport for bill processing in the present apparatus 1 is performed as follows. (1) Deposit route This is a bill transport route for depositing bills from customers. The bills inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 2 are separated one by one in the separating unit 3, and the denomination unit 4 determines the denomination, and is finally stored in the denomination box 6. In this depositing route, the banknote whose amount is not fixed due to double feeding or skew of the banknote is returned to the customer of the deposit and withdrawal 2. Therefore, it is not always necessary to determine the amount of money in this route.

(2) Dispensing route This is a route for transferring bills for dispensing bills to customers. The bills stored in the denomination box 6 are separated by the separating unit 8.
After the sheet is separated one by one, the discriminating unit 4 determines the denomination, and the banknote whose amount has been determined is sent to the deposit / withdrawal slot 2, and the banknote whose amount is not determined due to double feeding or skewing. Is sent to the reject box 5 and stored. The bill sent to the reject box 5 is delivered to the reject box 5 after the discrimination unit 4 detects the transport state of the bill and its thickness, and determines the amount.

(3) A banknote transport route for determining the quantity of banknotes shown in FIG. 3 This is a banknote transport route for dispensing banknotes to customers or collecting banknotes outside the apparatus. . The banknote transport route for performing the information processing indicated by the solid line in FIG. 3 separates the banknotes stored in the denomination box 6 by the separation unit 8 and discharges the banknotes to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 via the discrimination unit 4 or Similarly, this is a case where the banknotes are stored in the cassette 35 in order to take out the banknotes to the outside of the apparatus 1 through the discrimination section 4.

The banknote transport route for performing the information processing indicated by the dotted line in FIG. 3 is a process for processing the banknotes separated from the separating unit 8 and whose number of banknotes could not be determined by the discriminating unit 4. This is a route to be performed, after passing through the discriminating unit 4, via the posture correcting unit 27 that corrects the posture of the banknote, again storing in the denomination box 6 or the storage box not used in the banknote processing mode such as the cassette 35, and then again. It is separated and conveyed to the discriminating section 4, and the processing of the banknote in the case indicated by the dotted line is repeatedly executed again.

FIG. 3 shows a method of determining the amount of money by correcting the attitude of a bill. Although not shown, the discriminating section 4 includes a one-dimensionally arranged optical line sensor as the first state detecting means 63 and a bill detecting sensor as the thickness detecting means 64. The one-dimensional array optical line sensors are arranged so as to be aligned in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the bills are transported. The line sensor is a commercially available sensor having a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, and receives a reflected light from the bill when the bill is emitted from one side of the conveyed bill by the light receiving sensor. The thickness detection sensor is a known thickness detection sensor, which measures a change value of a position in a pressing direction of a roller when a bill being conveyed is pressed by a roller from both sides, and calculates a thickness distribution of the bill from the value. Is what you want.

The number discriminating circuit 26 corresponds to the first and second number discriminating means 65 and 71, and discriminates the number of bills conveyed from the output of the line sensor and the thickness detecting sensor. It has the function to do. As a result, if the number of conveyed banknotes is known, as shown by the broken line in the figure, the number and the information from the tracking circuit that tracks from which storage location the banknotes have been conveyed can be obtained. And an amount determining circuit 28 for determining the amount of the bills conveyed. The number discrimination circuit 26 will be described later in detail with reference to FIGS.

Here, if the number of the bills cannot be determined by the number discrimination circuit 26 because the bills conveyed are greatly skewed or overlapped, the solid line in the figure indicates As described above, the bills are sent to the posture correcting unit 27 for correcting the posture of the bills. As shown in FIG. 4, the posture correction unit corrects the banknote 38 conveyed skewed and conveyed by the conveyor belt 14 as shown by a broken line in the figure as shown by a solid line. It is. For this purpose, a stop lever 37 driven by a rotary solenoid 36 is provided on both sides of the conveyor belt 14. The stop lever 347 stops the skewed bill and corrects its posture. This stop lever is not usually on the transport path, and only pivotally moves to the position shown in the figure only when a skewed banknote arrives. That is, the rotary solenoid 36 is driven in accordance with the timing at which the bill is conveyed based on the information from the discriminating unit 4. When the stop lever 37 retreats from the conveyance path, the banknotes whose skew has been corrected are conveyed by the conveyance belt 14 as they are, stacked by the stacking unit 9 and then separated again by the separation unit 8.
And the operation is repeated until it is processed through the route indicated by the dashed line.

FIG. 5 shows a method of determining the amount of money of a conveyed bill by changing the posture of the bill. The solid line in FIG. 5 is for dispensing the bill to the customer or when collecting the bill outside the apparatus. In this case, the conveyance of the bill is separated from the separating unit 8,
Through the discriminating unit 4, it passes through the transport route collected to the reject box 5. Further, the dotted line in FIG. 5 indicates a processing method of a bill passing through the same transport route but being transported in a state where one bill is partially overlapped. In this case, the posture conversion unit 31 and the like are operated. This indicates that the quantity is determined without the need. With reference to this figure, the components of the number discrimination circuit 26 will be described. As described above, in order to determine the amount of bills that have been conveyed, it is necessary to know the number of bills that have been conveyed. On the other hand, the bills that are conveyed include those that are greatly skewed or overlapped as described above, so that in order to identify the number of these bills, the number discrimination circuit 26 uses the form of the bills that are conveyed. Is provided. This is to analyze the overlapping state of the conveyed banknotes from the output of the line sensor.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the overlapping state analyzing circuit 29, the transporting posture of the bill is represented on the basis of the information from the line sensor. As shown in the figure, as the bill passes over the line sensor, an area with the output of the line sensor is obtained over time. This area is an area through which the bill has passed, and indicates the state of transport of the bill.
The overlapping state of the banknotes is shown in the form of the output area of the line sensor. The analysis of the overlapping state of the banknotes can be obtained by aligning the corners of the banknotes on the straight lines A, B, and C having the corners in the drawing that cross the transport direction and overlapping them in order. Next, in the first number-of-sheets estimating circuit 30, as shown in FIG. 7, the overlapping state of the bills obtained by the overlapping state analyzing circuit 29 and the output of the thickness detecting sensor 12 for detecting the thickness on these bills. From the value, the thickness of each bill in the overlapped state is obtained by calculation, and how many bills are conveyed is estimated. That is, a straight line A,
The output of the thickness detection sensor when B and C pass changes with time, and the output value 1 indicates the thickness of the banknote C,
The value m is the sum of the thicknesses of the bills B and C, and the value n is the bills A, B,
The sum of the thickness of C is shown. Therefore, from these values, the thicknesses tA, tB, and tC of the bills A, B, and C can be calculated. If these values are smaller than the thickness of two bills, it can be confirmed that each of the bills A, B and C is one by one. Where tmin
Indicates the value of the thinnest of the bills A, B and C.

From the above results, when the number of bills conveyed in an overlapping manner is known, it is possible to determine from which denomination box 6 these bills came from the output information from the detection sensor 12. It is possible to know the total amount of bills that are skewed or overlapped and conveyed. The flow of the dotted line in FIG. 5 shows the processing procedure in the case of the example shown in FIG.

On the other hand, if at least one of the bills A, B and C overlaps two or more bills and the number of bills cannot be determined, the posture of the bill is changed by the posture conversion unit 31.

FIG. 8 shows an attitude conversion section by speed-up conveyance. The roller 48 is supported by being pressed in the direction of the roller 49 that is freely rotatable and opposed. Roller 4
Reference numeral 9 is rotated in a direction indicated by an arrow by a driving source (not shown).

The roller 50 is freely rotatable, and is supported by being pressed in the direction of the opposing roller 51. Roller 51
Is driven in a direction indicated by an arrow at a peripheral speed higher than that of the roller 49 by a drive source (not shown) through a torque limiter 54 to which a rotational force is not transmitted when a load equal to or more than a predetermined torque is applied. Thus, for example, when the bills 52 and 53 are partially conveyed in the front-back direction of the carrying direction, the bills 53 sandwiched by the rollers 50 and 51 and receiving the carrying force are driven at a high speed. As shown in the lower part of the drawing, the banknote 52 is separated from the banknote 52 in the upstream and downstream directions. In addition, the bill 52 alone is
When the paper money 52 is nipped and transported by the rollers 50 and 51, the upper limit of the driving torque of the roller 51 is controlled by the torque limiter 54.
The rotation speed of the roller 51 decreases. Accordingly, the banknote 52 can be prevented from being applied with an excessive tension, and the friction loss due to the slip generated between the banknote 52 and the roller 51 or the roller 49 can be suppressed.

FIG. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram of the attitude conversion unit 31 by applying shear slip. The pulley 40 and the roller 43 are driven to rotate by the motor 39. The pulley 4
At 0, the belt 41 is engaged, and the pulley 42 is driven to rotate.
The pulley 40 that drives the roller 43 and the pulley 42 that drives the roller 44 have different numbers of teeth, and the peripheral speed of the roller 43 is set faster than the peripheral speed of the roller 44. In addition, pulley 42
Incorporates a torque limiter 47 so as to rotate in the driving direction when a torque equal to or more than a predetermined torque is applied. As a result, the banknotes 45 and 46 that have been separated by the posture conversion unit 31 illustrated in FIG.
44, the paper is sheared in the transport direction and separated one by one,
Its form changes.

Returning to FIG. 5, the bill converted in the transport direction by passing through the attitude converting unit 31 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 is re-detected with the line sensor as described above. The unit 32 detects the form again. The second number estimation circuit 33 estimates the number of passing banknotes based on the information from the state re-detection unit 32. That is, since the state re-detection unit 32 detects bills that are conveyed in a state close to the state of being separated one by one, the second number estimation circuit 33 outputs The number of bills can be counted by counting the ON and OFF lengths and the number of times. The operation of the money amount determination circuit 28 is as described above, and the output of the detection sensor 12 provided at each storage location or on the way of the transport path is determined from which storage location the conveyed banknote came out. By checking by tracing and by estimating the number of banknotes coming out of the storage area from the second number estimation circuit 32, the banknotes skewed or superimposed are checked. Finalize the amount.

FIG. 10 shows a processing method for causing the above-described attitude conversion unit 31 to perform the banknote processing at a slow speed. That is, when it is confirmed by the first state detecting means 63 that the bills are largely skewed or superimposed, the subsequent separation of the bills by the separating means 61 is temporarily stopped (see FIG. 12), and those bills are stopped. A processing speed control circuit 34 is provided to cause the attitude conversion unit 31 to slowly correct the attitude of the defective banknote and then continue the separation of the banknote by the separation unit 8 again.

FIG. 11 shows a method for detecting a folded ear note in a broken ear state. That is, in the overlapping state analyzing circuit 29, as described in FIG. 6, the entire image of the bill is superimposed on the line a or the corners b and c of the front edge of the area where the output from the line sensor is present. Obtain an overview of D. After that, the same operation is performed one after another to analyze the overlapping state of the banknotes. However, if folded banknotes are mixed in these banknotes, when the entire image of the banknote is superimposed on the area line d or the corner e, there is a case where the entire image does not match the entire image of the output area of the line sensor. I do. Or,
Although it does not contradict the whole image of the output area of the line sensor, the whole image in this case sometimes contradicts the output of the thickness detection sensor. The detection of the broken note is performed by checking whether or not these contradictory points caused by the presence of the broken note occur.

By the configuration and operation of the apparatus of the present invention described above with reference to the embodiment, even if the separated and conveyed bills including broken-edge bills are in a large skew or superimposed state, the amount of the bills is reduced. Can be determined. As a result, it is possible to always know how much money is present in the bill handling apparatus. That is, cash management in a bank or the like can be performed efficiently.

[0045]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an apparatus for securely grasping the amount of banknotes in an automatic teller machine and efficiently performing cash management in a financial institution such as a bank. . By normalizing the posture of the banknotes that are greatly skewed or superimposed during transport, the occurrence of jams can be suppressed, and the number of banknotes that need to be carried into the reject box and re-sorted can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a bill processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating a drive mechanism of a transport path 10 of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a method of determining the amount of money by correcting the attitude of a bill according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an outline of a configuration of a posture correction unit in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a method of determining a money amount by changing the attitude of a bill according to the present invention.

6 is a diagram showing a processing operation of the overlapping state analysis circuit 29 of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a processing operation of the first number estimation circuit 30 of FIG. 5;

8 is a diagram for explaining a mechanism that performs a posture change by speed-up conveyance at a stage preceding the posture conversion unit 31 in FIG. 5;

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining a mechanism for performing a posture change by shearing slip at a stage subsequent to the posture conversion unit 31 of FIG. 5;

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining a low-speed attitude conversion method when a defective banknote is transported according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a detection flow of broken ear note of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining a first principle of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining a second principle of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining a third principle of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining a fourth principle of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote processing apparatus 2 Banknote deposit / withdrawal port 3, 8 Separation part 4 Discrimination part 5 Reject box 6 Denomination box 7, 9 Stacking part 10 Transport path 11 Gate 12 Detection sensor 14 Transport belt 14a, 14b Transport path 18, 19 Block 20, 21 pulse motor 22, 23, 24, 25 gear 26 number discrimination circuit 27 attitude correction unit 28 amount determination circuit 29 overlapping state analysis circuit 30 first number estimation circuit 31 attitude conversion unit 32 state redetection unit 33 second Number estimation circuit 34 Processing speed control circuit 36 Rotary solenoid 37 Stop lever 38 Skewed bill 39 Motor 40, 42 Pulley 41 Belt 43, 44 Roller 45, 46, 52, 53 Superimposed bill 47, 54 Torque limiter 48, 50 Non-driving roller 49, 51 Drive roller 60 Storage box 61 Separated hand 62 tracking means 63 first state detecting means 64 thickness detecting means 65 first number discriminating means 66 quantity determining means 67 accumulating means 68 attitude correcting means 69 second accumulating means 70 second separating means 71 second number of sheets Identification means 72 Overlapping state analysis means 73 First number estimation means 74 Number identification device 75 Attitude conversion means 76 Second state detection means 77 Second number identification means

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Claims (8)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of storage boxes in which banknotes are stored by denomination, separating means for separating banknotes from the storage box, and from which storage box the separated banknotes are from Tracking means for tracking the state of the separated banknotes, and a quantity for determining the denomination and the number of the banknotes when the detected banknotes are in a skewed or multifeed state Determining means, comprising a stacking means for stacking banknotes whose denomination and the number of sheets have been determined, when the detecting means detects skew or double feeding of the banknotes, attitude correcting means for correcting the attitude of the banknotes, A banknote handling device comprising a stacking unit for stacking banknotes whose posture has been corrected. 2. A plurality of storage boxes in which bills are stored by denomination, a check unit for checking the denomination of the bills separated from the storage box, and a detection unit for detecting a state of the bills. When the detecting means detects skew or double feeding of the bills, a number detecting means for determining the number of the bills, and the confirmation means and the number detecting means determine the amount of the bills. Means, and an accumulating means for accumulating the banknotes of which the amount has been determined, and posture correcting means for correcting the posture of the banknotes when the detecting means detects skew or double feeding of the banknotes, A banknote handling device comprising a stacking unit for stacking banknotes whose posture has been corrected. 3. A method of handling bills in a bill handling apparatus for carrying bills and controlling input / output of the bills, wherein the skew form and thickness information of the bills conveyed are obtained, Identifying the number of the transported banknotes based on the thickness information, confirming the denomination from the separation location of the transported banknotes, and determining the denomination and the number of the transported banknotes. Banknote handling method. 4. The method for handling bills according to claim 3, wherein, when confirming the denomination of the bills conveyed, a storage box storing bills for each kind is confirmed. 5. A method for handling bills in a bill handling apparatus for carrying bills by depositing and dispensing bills, wherein the kind and the number of bills to be carried are determined based on the skew form and thickness of the carried bills. A bill handling method characterized in that the bill type is determined, and the type and number of all bills present in the bill handling device are constantly grasped and managed. 6. After determining the type and number of bills to be conveyed, the amount of skewed or superimposed bills is specified, and the amount of all bills present in the bill handling device is constantly grasped and managed. The bill handling method according to claim 5, characterized in that: 7. When determining the type and number of banknotes to be transported from the skew mode and thickness of the transported banknotes, obtain information on the skew mode and thickness of the transported banknotes. Identifying the number of the transported banknotes based on the skew form and thickness information, checking the denomination from the separation location of the transported banknotes, denomination and the number of the transported banknotes 6. The method for handling bills according to claim 5, wherein 8. When the type and number of transported banknotes are determined from the skewed form and thickness of the transported banknotes, it is detected that the transported banknotes are skewed or multi-fed. 8. The bill handling method according to claim 7, wherein the denomination and the number of the transported bills are determined when the bills are transferred.