JP3324528B2 - Bill storage / discharge device and bill automatic depositing / dispensing machine using the 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 cash automatic transaction apparatus used in a financial institution, a banknote storage / discharge apparatus for storing and discharging banknotes mounted in a vending machine and the like, and a banknote storage / discharge apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to a banknote storage / discharge device that stores and discharges a banknote by winding and rewinding a tape between a wheel and a reel, and a banknote automatic payment machine that applies the banknote storage / discharge device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A bill storage / discharge device of a type in which a tape and a bill are wound on a wheel and stored therein, and then discharged by rewinding the wheel, is advantageous in that a small-sized and low-cost device can be realized with a simple configuration. There is. As a bill storing and discharging device of this type, a bill storing and feeding assisting means is added to a basic structure in which a single tape is wound around a wheel and a reel as shown in, for example, JP-A-8-96191. Known devices are known.

[0003]

The above-mentioned prior art is a system in which bills are stored and ejected in the longitudinal direction of the bills. The feature is that the interval between the clamping points of the bills can be designed to be large because the long sides of the bills are long. Have.

However, when compared with the method of storing bills in the short side direction, there is a problem that the wheel diameter increases for the same number of stored bills, and the apparatus cannot be miniaturized.

[0005] Further, in the conventional apparatus, it is difficult to make the distance between the holding points of bills small, and it is difficult to handle small-sized bills of foreign bills.

The present invention realizes a large capacity, small size, and low cost of the stored banknotes by storing the banknotes in the short side direction, and can cope with small-sized foreign banknotes. It is an object of the present invention to provide a bill storage / discharge device that is easy and has excellent staff operation.

[0007]

Means for Solving the Problems To solve the above problems ,
The present invention relates to a reel for winding / rewinding only a tape.
And the winding / rewinding direction of the tape is the short side direction of the bill.
To take up / rewind the tape and bill
Banknote storage and discharge device equipped with
It is supported to follow the change in the diameter of the wheel
A bill guide, and the shape of the bill guide is
Center the axial center of the shaft that rotatably supports the wheel
Of the wheel around which the tape or the tape is wound
The arc shape is such that the outer peripheral surface is almost inscribed.
The portions corresponding to both ends of the bill to be
From the point where the tape is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel,
The further in the circumferential direction of the wheel, and toward the end of the wheel axle.
The outer circumference of the banknote wound around the wheel
The shape is such that these spaces increase.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 15 is a side view of an automatic banknote depositing / dispensing machine 8 to which the banknote storing and discharging device 3 of the present invention is applied. Here, the flow of banknotes during a deposit transaction by a customer will be described. When the customer inserts banknotes of different denominations having different dimensions into the cash slot 1 all at once, the bills are separated into one by one at the cash slot 1 and fed to the transport path 6. The fed-out banknotes pass through the transport path 6 indicated by the arrow A, and are discriminated by the discriminating device 2 to be temporarily stored in the banknote storage / discharge device 3 in a mixed state of each denomination. When the customer confirms the amount and completes the payment transaction, the customer discharges the denomination-mixed banknotes in the banknote storage / discharge device 3 and passes through the transport path 6 (thin bold line in the figure) indicated by B, for each denomination. It is stored in the reflux cassette 5 or the deposit cassette 4. As described above, the bill storage and discharge device 3 of the present invention is applied as a temporary stacker of the bill automatic depositing and dispensing machine 8.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing the entire structure of the bill storage / discharge device 3 of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of FIG. One end of the tape 30 fixed and wound on the reel 20 is connected to the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate roller 42 (first roller) (FIG. 3).
) Is attached to the wheel 10. The tape width is determined to be a necessary dimension from the pinching force of the bill, the restraining force of out-of-plane deformation of the stored bill, the tape strength, and the like.

Next, the shaft (not shown) of the wheel 10
Auxiliary wheel 1 that runs approximately the same diameter as wheel 10
1, 1 (drum member) are provided (indicated by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 3). Intermediate roller 42 (first roller)
A transport roller 41 fixed to the axis of an intermediate roller 42 (dashed line) is disposed on the left and right of the roller, and an idle roller 40 (second roller) pressed against the transport roller 41 is disposed above the transport roller 41. An idle roller 4 is provided above the intermediate roller 42.
A scraper 50 (first bill guide, indicated by a broken line) that swings about the 0 axis (dashed line) is disposed, and the tip of the scraper 50 lifted upward by the scraper spring 52 is always a wheel 10. Is in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the tape 30 wound around. Further, an auxiliary roller 51 that idles is fixed at an intermediate position of the scraper 50,
1 and the tape 30 are always in contact.

Further, when storing the bills, the bills are placed on the wheel 1.
Banknote guide 60 to easily follow the outer peripheral surface of the banknote 0
A (second bill guide) is arranged so as to swing around the axis of the transport roller 41, and a part of the shape of the tape 30 wound around the wheel 10 by storing bills as shown in FIG. It has an arc shape larger than the maximum diameter.

The bill guide 60 includes a pair of guide rollers 62 that come into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the stored bill near the winding point of the tape 30 around the wheel 10 and near both sides of the wheel. The guide roller 62 is pressed against the outer peripheral surface of the bill 101 wound around the wheel 10 by being lifted upward by the use spring 61.

The wheel 10 and the reel 20 are provided with a motor (not shown) and a torque limiter on the reel shaft, and are driven to rotate while controlling the tape tension to be substantially constant. You can take and rewind.

The thickness of the tape 30 is as thin as possible.
By employing 1 (drum member), the inertial load of the wheel 10 shaft can be reduced, and the processing speed of bills can be increased. The above is the basic configuration of one embodiment of the present invention.

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 16, the direction of the first and second tapes 30a and 30b is changed by the first and second intermediate rollers 42a and 42b to form the first and second reels 20a and 30b. , 20b, and the bill 100 is sandwiched between the first and second tapes 30a, 30b.
0, and the first and second tapes 30a, 30b are rewound on the first and second reels 20a, 20b, respectively.
The present invention is also applicable to the bill storage / discharge device 3 that discharges 00.

Next, the operation for storing bills will be described.

A transport path 2 provided separately as shown in FIG.
00, the banknote 100 is conveyed in the direction of the arrow, the wheel 10 is driven to rotate counterclockwise, and the reel 2
The tape 30 wound around 0 is wound around the wheel 10.
Further, the intermediate roller 42 is driven to rotate by the frictional force with the tape 30 wound around its own outer peripheral surface, and the transport roller 41 and the idle roller 40 fixed to the shaft of the intermediate roller 42 are driven to rotate. Therefore, the conveyed bill 100 is nipped by the conveying roller 41 and the idle roller 40, conveyed in the direction of the arrow,
The wheel 10 is held between the auxiliary roller 51 and the tape 30.
Is wound and stored around the outer peripheral surface together with the tape.
When the bill is stored, the bill guide 60 guides the bill so as to easily follow the outer peripheral surface of the wheel 10. Therefore,
As shown in FIG. 2, the denomination-mixed banknotes conveyed from the conveyance path 200 can be sequentially stored by winding the banknotes 101 together with the tape 30 on the outer peripheral surface of the wheel 10.

Next, the operation of discharging a bill will be described.

The reel 20 shown in FIG. 2 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction, and the tape 30 wound around the wheel 10 together with the bill 101 is rewound onto the reel 20. The banknote 101 wound around is discharged. Upon release, as shown in FIG.
At the tip of the bill 126 where the clamping force by the tape is released
Waveform deformation is given by the two guide rollers 62, and the bills 126 are wound from the outer peripheral surface of the tape 30 wound around the wheel 10.
Of the scraper 50 and guided below the tip of the scraper 50.

As a result, the bill 126 smoothly passes through the holding point between the auxiliary roller 51 and the tape 30 and passes through the transport roller 41.
Then, the paper is discharged to the outside of the bill storage / discharge device by the idle roller 40.

As described above, the bill storage / discharge device 3 of the present invention transports bills in which denominations of different bill sizes coexist in the short side direction, and winds them one by one onto the wheel 10 at high speed and rewinds them. Can be stored and released.

Next, a description will be given of an increase in the outer winding shape of the wheel with respect to the number of stored banknotes. Wheel core diameter 80m
m, tape thickness 0.03mm, banknote thickness 0.1mm, short side (long side) dimension of the banknote 76mm (160mm), banknote transport interval 7
In the case of a specification of 9 mm and a storage number of 200, the maximum winding outer shape of the wheel according to the present invention is 107.4 mm. On the other hand, in the case of the conventional apparatus for processing in the long side direction of the bill, the length is 119.6 mm, which is about 1.1 times the increase in the present invention. However, since the length of winding around the wheel per bill becomes 160/76 = 2.1 times,
Actually, it is known that the stored banknotes are easily affected by the bulging, and the winding outer shape of the wheel is increased more than the calculated value. In particular, this tendency is remarkable in the case of foreign banknotes whose paper quality is worse than that of Japanese yen.

Therefore, the present invention has an effect that by processing in the short side direction of the bill, it is possible to realize a large capacity of the number of stored bills with a small device.

Further, in the bill storage / discharge device 3 of the present invention, the distance between the clamping points of the bills is shortened by the auxiliary roller 51 at the center of the scraper 50, so that the clamping force of the bills tends to be unstable. Since the guide roller 62 is arranged near the point where the tape 30 is wound around the wheel 10, stable operation of storing and discharging continuous banknotes even with small-sized foreign banknotes can be realized, and a highly reliable device can be provided.

Further, the present invention has a configuration in which the idle roller 40 can be rotated about the axis of the wheel 10 as a fulcrum (see FIGS. 4 and 5), so that the pressure contact force with the transport roller 41 can be adjusted appropriately. . Therefore, the tape speed slightly increases when the bill is stored (see FIG. 1) compared to the external transport path 200, and when the bill is released, the tape speed slightly decreases compared to the external transport path 200, so that the delivery performance is improved. Is stabilizing. The stabilization of the performance can be realized by generating a proper slip of the bill between the transport roller 41 and the idle roller 40, and strict speed matching between the external transport path 200 and the tape 30 is not required. Therefore, an inexpensive device with a simple control circuit can be provided.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the bill storage / discharge device 3 of the present invention can be used even if a jammed bill near the transport roller 41 or the idle roller 40 occurs for some reason during storage and release. By rotating the wheel 40 around the axis of the wheel 10, the bill holding portion is opened, and the jam bill can be easily removed. Therefore, an apparatus excellent in staff operation can be provided.

Next, problems in storing and discharging bills which are conveyed in a skewed and inclined manner due to processing in the short side direction of the bills will be described.

As shown in FIG. 6, when the banknotes 120 conveyed with the banknotes tilted at an angle θ are wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel 10 together with the tape 30, the preceding corner portion 122a is deformed due to out-of-plane deformation. It rises from the outer peripheral surface. For this reason, when the wheel 10 is further driven to rotate, as shown in FIG.
2b collides with the bill guide 60 at an angle close to a right angle, and the problem of the ear breaking phenomenon, which is bent outward, is likely to occur.

In order to solve the above problem, the present embodiment is provided with a bill guide 63 having a shape as shown in FIG. The basic shape of the central part in the axial direction near the wheel 10 is
In the vicinity of the tape winding point, the wheel 10 has a substantially arc shape in which the wheel 10 is almost inscribed, and further, the guide shapes at both ends in the long side direction of the banknote are further away from the tape winding point in the circumferential direction, and as they approach the wheel shaft end, It has a shape in which the space with the outer periphery of the stored bill increases continuously or stepwise. In this embodiment, the stepped banknote guide 63 is shown. However, the banknote guide 63 may have a smooth shape without the step.

Next, the operation and effect of the bill guide 63 will be described. In FIG. 9, the leading end portion of the bill 121 is a tape 30.
A state is shown in which the contact point starts to contact the edge of the adjacent arc of the bill guide 63 from a portion having a smaller rise, and gradually moves to the adjacent edge on the outer side. Therefore, the corner portion 122a is connected to the bill guide 63.
Can be reasonably imitated, and the ear break phenomenon can be prevented.

However, if the inclined bill 123 and the following bill 124 collide with each other at the timing shown in FIG. 10, there is a possibility that the ear breakage phenomenon may still occur. This is because the subsequent banknote 124 wrapped around the wheel 10 and deformed into a shell shape and having an apparent bending rigidity acts as a rigid body on the corner 125 b of the banknote 123. Therefore, in this case, since the deformation of the subsequent bill 124 at the time of collision cannot be expected, the shape of the bill guide 63 has no meaning.

Therefore, another embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that the above-mentioned collision timing is avoided in the transport control of the preceding bill and the succeeding bill, and the transport control will be described below.

Normally, in order to control the rotational drive of the shaft of the wheel 10 so that the transport speed of the tape 30 is constant, the preceding inclined banknote 1 wound around the wheel 10 shown in FIG.
The collision timing between the 23 corner portion 125 and the subsequent bill 124 changes every moment, and the distance Y from the leading end of the subsequent bill 124 to the collision point greatly varies. FIG.
The larger the distance Y of 1 is, the greater the apparent rigidity of the succeeding banknote 124 described above is, and thus the above-mentioned ear break phenomenon is likely to occur.

Therefore, as a countermeasure for preventing the breakage of the ear, in the embodiment of the present invention, when a banknote inclined at a predetermined angle or more is detected, the conveyance control is performed as follows. That is, as shown in FIG. 12, the preceding banknote on the external transport path 200, the transport cycle P of the subsequent banknote and the inclination θ of the preceding banknote are detected by a sensor (not shown), and when θ is equal to or larger than a predetermined angle, the preceding banknote is received. Thereafter, acceleration and deceleration driving of the wheel 10 are performed, and phase control is performed so as to collide at the timing shown in FIG.

At this collision timing, the following bill 124
Before the leading end of the bill is wound around the wheel 10 together with the tape 30, the subsequent bill 124 is in a state of being easily deformed with low bending rigidity inherent to the bill. Therefore, the collision between the preceding corner portion 125a of the inclined banknote 123 and the subsequent banknote 124 causes the collision portion of the subsequent banknote 124 to be deformed downward, so that the collision force is alleviated and the occurrence of ear breakage can be prevented.

In the automatic banknote depositing / dispensing machine 8 to which the banknote storage / discharge device 3 is applied, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the transfer path 200 of the transfer section with the banknote storage / discharge device 3 is one-way transport drive from below to above. In addition, a gate a201 and a gate b202 are provided on the transfer path 200 of the transfer section. Gate a2
01 is the passage of the bill storage / discharge device 3 and the bill storage / discharge device 3
The gate b202 switches between banknote storage into the banknote storage / discharge device 3 and banknote release from the banknote storage / discharge device 3.

The gate a201 and the gate b202 are configured to be linked by a gear (not shown), and the gate a201 and the gate b202 at the time of storing the banknote are switched to the positions shown in FIG. Guide to 3. Also, gate a at the time of bill release
201 and the gate b202 are switched to the positions shown in FIG.
Guide to 0.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, by optimizing the shape of the bill guide 63 and applying the transport control, it is possible to eliminate the bent corners of the bill transported at an angle and to improve reliability. It is possible to provide a banknote storage / discharge device with high reliability. The above-described transport control detects the inclination θ of the preceding banknote and the rotation phase of the wheel 10 at that moment at the supply source that sends the banknote to the banknote storage / discharge device, and separates the following banknote when θ is equal to or larger than the predetermined angle. Similar results can be obtained by controlling the timing to be delayed.

[0040]

As described above, the present invention has the following effects.

By adopting the simplest single-tape system and the system for carrying and processing bills in the short side direction, it is possible to provide a bill storage / discharge device which realizes a larger capacity, smaller size and lower cost of stored bills. .

Further, the distance between the holding points of the bills is made small,
It is possible to provide a bill storage / discharge device that can handle small-sized foreign bills, is easy to remove bill jams, and is excellent in staff operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view (an initial state of banknote storage) of a banknote storage / discharge device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the bill storage / discharge device to which the present invention is applied (in a state where bill storage is completed).

FIG. 3 is a perspective view (an initial state of banknote storage) of the banknote storage / discharge device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 4 is a first explanatory view of a jam removing method of the bill storage / discharge device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a second explanatory view of the jam removing method of the bill storage / discharge device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the bill storage / discharge device to which the present invention is applied (in a state in which a bill is tilted).

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the bill storage / ejection device for explaining the ear break phenomenon (a state at the time of occurrence of a break in the ear).

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a bill guide shape capable of preventing ear breakage.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view illustrating a function of a bill guide shape capable of preventing ear breakage (a state in which a bill is tilted).

FIG. 10 is a first explanatory diagram of the occurrence of an ear break phenomenon due to a collision with a succeeding bill.

FIG. 11 is a second explanatory diagram of occurrence of a breakage phenomenon due to collision with a succeeding bill.

FIG. 12 is a first explanatory view of a method for preventing occurrence of ear breakage due to collision with a succeeding bill.

FIG. 13 is a second explanatory diagram of a method for preventing occurrence of ear break due to collision with a succeeding bill.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of waveform deformation by a guide roller when a bill is discharged.

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of a bill automatic depositing / dispensing machine equipped with the bill storing and discharging device of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory view of a bill storing and discharging device to which two first and second tapes are applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Deposit and withdrawal port 2 ... Discrimination device 3 ... Bill storage / discharge device 4 ... Deposit cassette 5 ... Reflux cassette 6 ... Conveyance path 8 ... Automatic bill depositing and dispensing machine A ... Flow of bills at the time of a deposit transaction B ... After completion of a deposit transaction Banknote flow 10… wheel 11… auxiliary wheel 20… reel 20a… first reel 20b… second reel 30… tape 30a… first tape 30b… second tape 40… idling roller 41… transport roller 42… Intermediate roller 42a ... First intermediate roller 42b ... Second intermediate roller 50 ... Scraper (indicated by broken line) 51 ... Auxiliary roller 52 ... Scraper spring 60 ... Bill guide (stepless) 61 ... Bill guide spring 62 ... Guide roller 63: Banknote guide 100 ... Banknote 101 ... Banknotes stored 102 ... Jam banknotes 120 ... Tilt banknotes 121 ... Stored tilt banknotes 122a ... Corners of tilt banknotes 122b ... Corners of tilt banknotes (ear breaks) 123 ... Stored Tilt banknote (preceding banknote) 124 … Succeeding banknote 125a… Corner portion of the sloping banknote (preceding banknote) 200… Transport path 201… Gate a 202… Gate b

Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Yasuya Shinoka 1st Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Prefecture Hitachi, Ltd. Information Equipment Division (56) References JP-A-8-96191 (JP, A) JP-A-8-96 147528 (JP, A) Patent 2666773 (JP, B2) JP-B-55-29472 (JP, B2) JP-B-61-39264 (JP, B2) JP-B1-32155 (JP, Y2) JP-B Showa 62 −45249 (JP, Y2) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 11 / 00,13 / 00 G07F 19/00 B65H 5 / 00,29 / 00

Claims (11)

(57) [Claims] 1. A reel for winding / rewinding only a tape, and a wheel for winding / rewinding the tape and the banknote with the winding / rewinding direction of the tape being the short side of the banknote. In the bill storage and discharge device, a bill guide supported so as to follow a change in the diameter of the wheel with storage of the bill is provided, and the shape of the bill guide is an axial center portion of an axis that rotationally supports the wheel. Is formed into an arc shape that is substantially inscribed in the outer peripheral surface of the wheel or the wheel around which the tape is wound, and the tape is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel at portions corresponding to both ends of the bill in the bill long side direction. As the distance from the tape winding point in the circumferential direction of the wheel increases, and toward the end of the wheel shaft, the space from the outer periphery of the bill wound on the wheel increases. A bill storage / discharge device having a shape. 2. The shape of the bill guide, wherein the shape of a portion corresponding to both ends of the bill in the bill long side direction in the bill long side direction is a tape winding in which the tape is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel. 2. The shape according to claim 1, wherein the space from the outer periphery of the bill wound around the wheel increases continuously or stepwise as the distance from the point in the circumferential direction of the wheel increases and toward the end of the wheel shaft. 3. Bill storage and discharge device. 3. A roller provided near the tape winding point where the tape is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel and on both side surfaces of the wheel, and abutting against the outer peripheral surface of the bill wound by the wheel. The bill storage / discharge device according to claim 1, further comprising: 4. The bill storage and discharge device according to claim 3, wherein said roller is provided on said bill guide. 5. A tape is disposed at a position substantially separated from a winding point at which the tape is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel by a dimension of a short side of a bill so that the tape can be turned and wound on the reel. A first roller, a second roller that rotates while being pressed against the first roller, and another bill guide whose tip disposed between the axis of the second roller and the tape winding point has an acute angle. The first roller is driven by a tape, and a tip of the first bill guide abuts on an outer peripheral surface of the tape wound on the wheel.
A bill storage and discharge device according to any one of the preceding claims. 6. A bill storing and discharging device according to claim 5, wherein said first roller comprises an intermediate roller for changing the direction of said tape, and bill transport rollers disposed on both sides of said intermediate roller. 7. The bill storing and discharging device according to claim 5, wherein the shaft of the second roller is rotated around the shaft of the wheel as a fulcrum. 8. The bill storage and discharge device according to claim 5, further comprising a pulley on the inner peripheral surface side of the tape of the other bill guide. 9. The bill storing and discharging device according to claim 1, further comprising a drum member having a diameter substantially equal to a diameter of the wheel rotatably supported on a shaft of the wheel on both sides of the wheel. 10. A deposit and withdrawal port into which denomination-mixed banknotes of different dimensions are inserted, a transport path for transporting the bills separated by the deposit and withdrawal port one by one, and transported through the transport path. In a bill automatic dispensing and dispensing machine having a discriminating device for discriminating a denomination of a bill, and a bill storing and discharging device for temporarily storing a bill conveyed from the discriminating device in a mixed manner with each denomination, the bill storing and discharging device is A reel for winding / rewinding only the tape, and winding / rewinding the tape and the bill with the winding / rewinding direction of the tape being the short side of the bill.
A wheel to be returned and a bill guide supported so as to follow a change in the diameter of the wheel along with storage of the bill, the shape of the bill guide is the axial center part of the shaft that rotationally supports the wheel. A tape on which the tape is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the wheel, wherein the outer surface of the wheel or the wheel around which the tape is wound has an arc shape substantially inscribed, and portions corresponding to both end portions of the bill in the long side direction of the bill are provided. The distance from the winding point in the circumferential direction of the wheel is increased, and the space from the outer periphery of the banknote wound around the wheel is increased toward the wheel shaft end. The delivery unit with the discharge device has a first gate and a second gate, and the first gate passes through the bill storage and discharge device and the bill storage and discharge device. And a second gate for switching between bill storage to the bill storage / discharge device and discharge of bills from the bill storage / discharge device. 11. The automatic banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to claim 10, wherein the first gate and the second gate operate in conjunction with each other.