【０００１】
【発明の属する技術分野】
本発明は、入金された紙幣を収納する一方、収納した紙幣を出金用として繰り出す還流式の紙幣入出金機に関する。
【０００２】
【従来の技術】
従来、銀行等の金融機関では、入金する紙幣を一枚ずつ取り込むとともに、その取り込んだ紙幣の金種等を識別し振り分けて、金種別に設けられる一時貯留・収納繰出部の上部の一時貯留部にその入金が確定するまで一時貯留させるとともに、入金の確定後、その紙幣を一時貯留・収納繰出部の下部の収納繰出部に収納する一方、収納繰出部に収納した紙幣を、出金処理において出金用の紙幣として出金させる還流式の紙幣入出金機が用いられている。このような紙幣入出金機としては、既に特許第２７５６０５８号公報に開示されたもの等がある。
【０００３】
【発明が解決しようとする課題】
ところで、この種の紙幣入出金機の従来のものにおいては、出金時に一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣を判別部で最終確認するようになっており、この判別部で異常が検出された紙幣については、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部にすべて収納するようになっている。このような出金時に異常と判別される紙幣は、斜行および重送の搬送異常紙幣と、判別不能紙幣とであるが、これら紙幣はいずれも、入金時等に一旦識別部で真券と識別されてから一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納されているものであり、偽券である可能性はなく、よって、判別不能紙幣も何らかの理由で判別部による判別ができなかった真券である。しかしながら、このような紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部にすべて収納させてしまうと、リジェクト収納部が早期に満杯となってしまい、この満杯状態を解除するために、リジェクト収納部から紙幣を取り出すための装置停止を頻繁に行うことになり、運用上不利になってしまうという問題があった。
【０００４】
したがって、本発明は、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納させる紙幣を極力減らすことにより、このリジェクト収納部が満杯になることに起因する装置停止の発生回数を抑えることができる紙幣入出金機の提供を目的とする。
【０００５】
【課題を解決するための手段】
上記目的を達成するために、本発明の請求項１記載の紙幣入出金機は、紙幣入金口から繰り出される紙幣の識別を行う識別部と、該識別部の識別結果に基づき分類された紙幣を一時貯留させるとともに一時貯留させた紙幣を収納しさらに収納した紙幣を最下のものから繰り出し可能な複数の金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部と、これら金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣の判別を行う判別部とを有するものであって、金種別の前記一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣のうち、前記判別部で搬送異常と判別された紙幣を、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納する一方、前記判別部で判別不能と判別された紙幣を、そのまま前記識別部で識別し、該識別結果に応じた対応金種の前記一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納させることを特徴としている。
【０００６】
このように、一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部で搬送異常と判別された紙幣については、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納することになるが、判別部で判別不能と判別された紙幣、すなわち、一旦識別部で真券であると識別されて収納されていたものの搬送異常以外の何らかの理由で判別部による判別ができなかった判別不能紙幣については、一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納することで、再度の繰り出しを可能とする。
【００１０】
また、一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部で搬送異常と判別された紙幣については、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納することになるが、判別部で判別不能と判別された紙幣、すなわち、一旦識別部で真券であると識別されて収納されていたものの搬送異常以外の何らかの理由で判別部による判別ができなかった判別不能紙幣については、識別部で識別し、該識別結果に応じた適正な金種の一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納されて、ここから出金させられることになる。
【００１１】
【発明の実施の形態】
本発明の紙幣入出金機の参考技術である貨幣入出金機を図面を参照して以下に説明する。なお、図２〜図１５における下側が、操作を行うオペレータ側すなわち前方（正面側）を示す。また、以下における「前」はオペレータ側、「後」はオペレータに対し反対側であり、左右は、オペレータ側から見たときの左右である。
【００１２】
この貨幣入出金機は、銀行等の金融機関のテラーカウンタの下側に配置され、左右の二人のテラー等のオペレータに共用で用いられるもので、図１に示すように、紙幣の入金、収納、回収および出金等、紙幣に関する各処理を行う紙幣入出金部１１と、硬貨の入金、収納、回収および出金等、硬貨に関する各処理を行う硬貨入出金部１２とが一体的に設けられたものである。
【００１３】
硬貨入出金部１２は、機体１０における上部に主として配置されており、紙幣入出金部１１と硬貨入出金部１２の一部とが、機体１０における下部に硬貨入出金部１２よりも前方に突出するように配置されている。なお、硬貨入出金部１２および紙幣入出金部１１は、機体１０の正面側に引き出し可能となっており、これらを機体１０に対しロックおよびロック解除する引出キー１３が紙幣入出金部１１の正面側に設けられている。
【００１４】
貨幣入出金機には、その機体１０の上面の正面（前面）側の左右両側に、上方に向いて、左右のオペレータにより各処理の操作が入力される操作部１４と処理状態等を表示する表示ランプ部１５とが設けられており、また、右側にのみ、処理のガイドメニュー、処理状態および処理結果等を表示する表示パネル１６が設けられている。なお、これら操作部１４、表示ランプ部１５および表示パネル１６は、硬貨入出金部１２および紙幣入出金部１１に対し共用とされている。
【００１５】
また、機体１０の上面の正面より若干後側の左右方向における中央には、硬貨入出金部１２に入金硬貨を投入するための硬貨入金口１７が設けられており、硬貨入出金部１２の下部すなわち紙幣入出金部１１側には、正面から後方に凹んで受皿挿入口１８が設けられている。この受皿挿入口１８には図示せぬ受皿が挿入されることになり、硬貨入出金部１２は、このように受皿挿入口１８に挿入された状態の受皿に硬貨の出金を行う。受皿挿入口１８と隣り合う位置にはリジェクト硬貨を返却するための硬貨リジェクト口１９が設けられている。
【００１６】
紙幣入出金部１１の硬貨入出金部１２よりも正面側に突出する部分の上面には、その最も正面側の左右方向の中央に、紙幣入出金部１１の内部から紙幣が送り出される紙幣出金口２０が設けられるとともに、この紙幣出金口２０の後に、入金する紙幣がオペレータによりセットされる紙幣入金口２１が設けられている。なお、紙幣出金口２０には、これを開閉するシャッタ２２が設けられている。ここで、紙幣入出金部１１のこれら紙幣出金口２０および紙幣入金口２１と隣り合う側方位置には、硬貨入出金部１２の一部である硬貨一括金庫２３が設けられている。この硬貨一括金庫２３は硬貨を収納するもので、機体１０に対し着脱可能とされており、この硬貨一括金庫２３の正面側には、これを機体１０に対しロックおよびロック解除する取出キー２３ａが設けられている。また、紙幣入出金部１１の下部正面には電源スイッチ２７が設けられている。
【００１７】
紙幣入出金部１１は、紙幣入金口２１にその長手方向を左右方向とした状態でセットされる紙幣を入金させて収納する入金処理を行うとともに、収納した紙幣を必要に応じて紙幣出金口２０ヘ出金させる出金処理等の紙幣における各処理を行う。
【００１８】
以下に、本発明の要部である紙幣入出金部について説明する。
図２に示すように、紙幣入出金部１１は、主として紙幣入金口２１から取り込まれた紙幣、あるいは紙幣出金口２０に向け出金させられる紙幣を搬送する上層ユニット２４と、入金され上層ユニット２４で搬送された紙幣を入金確定前に金種別に一時貯留させる中層ユニット２５と、中層ユニット２５に一時貯留させた紙幣を入金確定後に収納する一方、収納した紙幣を出金用として繰り出す下層ユニット２６とを有しており、これら上層ユニット２４、中層ユニット２５および下層ユニット２６は、それぞれ個別に貨幣入出金機の機体１０から正面側に引き出し可能とされている。
【００１９】
〔上層ユニット〕
上層ユニット２４は、入金処理時において入金紙幣がセットされ該セットされた入金紙幣を一枚ずつ機内に取り込む上記した紙幣入金口２１と、入金処理時等における識別不能なリジェクト紙幣が繰り出されるとともに、出金処理時において機内から出金紙幣が繰り出される上記した紙幣出金口２０と、この紙幣出金口２０を開閉する上記したシャッタ２２と、入金紙幣を必要な場所に搬送するとともに出金紙幣を必要に応じた場所に搬送する搬送路２８と、この搬送路２８の搬送途中に設けられ、入金処理時等において紙幣入金口２１から繰り出され搬送路２８で搬送される紙幣の真偽、金種、正損、重送および斜行の識別を行う識別部２９とを有している。なお、搬送路２８の途中には、識別部２９の識別結果から紙幣の表裏を判断し、紙幣の表裏を取り揃えるために必要により紙幣の表裏を反転させる表裏反転部３０が設けられている。
【００２０】
〔中層ユニット〕
中層ユニット２５には、上層ユニット２４の搬送路２８にそれぞれつながりこの搬送路２８から振り分けられた入金紙幣を取り入れる各紙幣取入部３２が設けられており、また、これら紙幣取入部３２のそれぞれの前側に、入金紙幣を、その取り引きが確定するまで一時貯留させる複数具体的には三つの同形状の一時貯留部３３ａ，３３ｂ，３３ｃが、左右方向および高さ方向の位置を互いに合わせた状態で前後方向に位置をずらして直線状に配列されている。ここで、これら三つの一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃは、紙幣取入部３２側からは紙幣の送り込みのみが可能となっており、紙幣取入部３２側への紙幣の繰り出しは不可となっている。なお、これら一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃに一時貯留された紙幣を入金確定せずに返却する場合、中層ユニット２５を機体１０から引き出すことによって、これら一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃをすべて機体１０の外側に露出させることになり、その結果、内部に一時貯留させた紙幣のオペレータによる取り出しを可能とする。
【００２１】
一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃは、それぞれ、対応する紙幣取入部３２から紙幣を内部に取り込む略角筒状の筐体３５と、筐体３５の下部に設けられ、筐体３５内に取り込んだ一時貯留紙幣を表裏方向を上下方向にして、上下方向に順次集積させながら載置させる開閉可能な一対のシャッタ３６，３６とを有しており、一対のシャッタ３６，３６は高さが一定で水平移動することにより筐体３５の下部を開閉する。なお、筐体３５の内側のシャッタ３６，３６よりも上側の部分が紙幣を一時貯留させる貯留空間３７となっている。
【００２２】
〔下層ユニット〕
下層ユニット２６には、各一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃの下側に、これらのうち対応するものに一時貯留された紙幣を入金確定後に受け入れて内部に収納する一方、内部に収納した紙幣を最下のものから一枚ずつ紙幣繰出部３９によって繰り出し可能な複数具体的には三つの同形状の収納繰出部３８ａ，３８ｂ，３８ｃが、左右方向および高さ方向の位置を互いに合わせた状態で前後方向に位置をずらして配列されている。
【００２３】
ここで、中層ユニット２５および下層ユニット２６がともに機体１０に適正に装填された状態で、各一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃとそれぞれの真下の各収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃとで一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃを構成することになり、同形状のこのような三つの一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃが、左右方向および高さ方向の位置を互いに合わせた状態で前後方向に位置をずらして配列されることになる。
【００２４】
すなわち、最も前側の一時貯留部３３ａと最も前側の収納繰出部３８ａとが最も前側の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａを構成し、前から二番目の一時貯留部３３ｂと前から二番目の収納繰出部３８ｂとが前から二番目の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂを構成し、前から三番目の一時貯留部３３ｃと前から三番目の収納繰出部３８ｃとが前から三番目の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃを構成している。なお、これら三つの一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃのうち、後側の二つは、金種別のものであり、具体的には前から二番目の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂは流通量の多い万券（一万円札）用、前から三番目の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃは流通量の多い千券（一千円札）用となっている。また、最も前側の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａは一金種のみに対応するものではなく、各処理に応じて適宜の紙幣を収納させたり補充用の紙幣を収納させる運用カセットとして使用され、通常は、入金された流通量の少ない五千券（五千円札）および二千券（二千円札）の複数金種を共用で収納させるようになっている。運用カセットとして使用されることから、収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃのうち、最も前側の収納繰出部３８ａは、機体１０から引き出された下層ユニット２６に対し着脱可能とされており、残りの収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃは、下層ユニット２６に対し固定されている。
【００２５】
下層ユニット２６には、前から三番目の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃの後側において、中層ユニット２５を介して搬送路２８につながるとともに、すべての一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃの下側を通って、最も前側の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの前方で、中層ユニット２５を介して搬送路２８につながり、各収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃから繰り出された出金紙幣等を搬送する搬送路４２が設けられている。搬送路４２の途中に、搬送する紙幣の金種、重送および斜行等を判別する判別部４３が設けられている。
【００２６】
さらに、下層ユニット２６には、出金処理時において搬送路４２で搬送される出金紙幣のうち判別部４３で重送あるいは斜行等の搬送異常と判別された出金紙幣を、繰り出し不可な状態で収納させるリジェクト収納部４４が、前方に開閉自在に設けられている。なお、下層ユニット２６の前面には、図１に示すように、リジェクト収納部４４内のリジェクト紙幣を取り外す際に開閉される扉４４ａとこれを開く際に必要なキー４４ｂとが設けられている。
【００２７】
収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃは、それぞれ、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃのうちの対応する一つから一時貯留紙幣を内部に取り込む略角筒状の筐体４５を有しており、また、筐体４５内に取り込んだ収納紙幣を表裏方向を上下方向にして、上下方向に集積させながら載置させる昇降可能かつ開閉可能な一対の扉式のフラッパ４６，４６とを有している。
【００２８】
フラッパ４６，４６は、筐体４５の前後に互いに平行をなしかつ同高さとなるよう配置されるとともにこの状態でガイド軸４７，４７に沿って一体に昇降する支持軸４８，４８を有しており、これら支持軸４８，４８を中心に揺動する。そして、フラッパ４６，４６は、自身が互いの支持軸４８に対し反対の端部同士を近接させることにより共に筐体４５内で水平配置される閉状態となり、この状態で、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃの対応する一つから投入された紙幣をその上側に載置させる。また、フラッパ４６，４６は、この閉状態から下方に旋回することで開状態となると、載置させていた紙幣を、筐体４５内のこれらフラッパ４６，４６より下側の出金紙幣収納用の収納空間４９に落とし込んで収納させる。さらに、フラッパ４６，４６は、この開状態から上方に旋回することで閉状態に戻る。なお、収納空間４９の最下部に紙幣を搬送路４２に繰り出すための紙幣繰出部３９が設けられている。
【００２９】
機体１０内における中層ユニット２５および下層ユニット２６の後側には、搬送路２８および搬送路４２で搬送され対応する紙幣取込部５０から送り込まれる紙幣を一時貯留させる一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅが上下に離間して設けられており、各一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅの下側には、一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅの対応するものに一時貯留された紙幣を受け入れて収納する一方、収納した紙幣を最下のものから紙幣繰出部５４により繰り出し可能な収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅがそれぞれ設けられている。
【００３０】
各一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅとそれぞれの真下の各収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅとで一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅを構成することになり、これら複数具体的には二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅが、上下に重ねられた状態で配置されている。すなわち、一時貯留部５１ｄと収納繰出部５２ｄとが上側の一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄを構成し、一時貯留部５１ｅと収納繰出部５２ｅとが下側の一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｅを構成している。
【００３１】
これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、幅および奥行きが等しいもので、互いに左右方向および前後方向の位置を合わせた状態で、上下に重ねられるように配置されている。結果的に、これら上下に重ね状態で配置された二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅ以外のすべての上記した一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃよりも機体１０の後部側に配置されている。これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、保守時には機体１０からの引き出しが可能とされている。
【００３２】
これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、それぞれ、搬送路２８あるいは搬送路４２の対応する紙幣取入部５０から対応金種の紙幣を内部に取り込む略角筒状の筐体５５を有しており、また、筐体５５内に取り込んだ一時貯留紙幣を表裏方向を上下方向にして、上下方向に順次集積させながら載置させる高さ位置固定で開閉可能な仕切手段としての一対の扉式のフラッパ５６，５６と、筐体５５のフラッパ５６，５６よりも上側に設けられ、フラッパ５６，５６に載置された一時貯留紙幣を上側から下方に向けて押圧しフラッパ５６，５６を開作動させながら下側に落とし込むプッシャ５７と、筐体５５内のフラッパ５６，５６よりも下側において昇降可能に設けられたエレベータ５８とを有している。ここで、筐体５５内のフラッパ５６，５６より下側かつエレベータ５８より上側の部分が出金用の紙幣を収納する収納空間６１とされている。なお、これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、紙幣取入部５０側からは紙幣の送り込みのみが可能となっており、紙幣取入部５０側への紙幣の繰り出しは不可となっている。また、収納空間６１の最下部に紙幣を搬送路４２に繰り出すための紙幣繰出部５４が設けられており、この紙幣繰出部５４は、エレベータ５８が最下位置に位置した状態で紙幣を繰り出すようになっている。
【００３３】
そして、フラッパ５６，５６によって筐体５５内の上下方向に連続する空間を上下に区画することになり、これによって、一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄにおいては、フラッパの５６，５６の上側の空間を紙幣を一時貯留させる一時貯留部５１ｄの貯留空間６０とするとともに、フラッパ５６，５６の下側の空間を紙幣を収納する収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１とし、プッシャ５７によるこのフラッパ５６，５６の開作動を伴う紙幣の落とし込みにより一時貯留部５１ｄの貯留空間６０から収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１への紙幣の受け渡しを行うようになっている。同様に、一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｅにおいては、フラッパの５６，５６の上側の空間を紙幣を一時貯留させる一時貯留部５１ｅの貯留空間６０とするとともに、フラッパ５６，５６の下側の空間を紙幣を収納する収納繰出部５２ｅの収納空間６１とし、プッシャ５７によるこのフラッパ５６，５６の開作動を伴う紙幣の落とし込みにより一時貯留部５１ｅの貯留空間６０から収納繰出部５２ｅの収納空間６１への紙幣の受け渡しを行うようになっている。
【００３４】
フラッパ５６，５６は、それぞれ、筐体５５の前後に互いに平行をなしかつ同高さとなるよう配置される位置固定の支持軸６３，６３を有しており、これら支持軸６３，６３を中心に揺動する。そして、フラッパ５６，５６は、支持軸６３に対し反対の端部同士を近接させることにより共に筐体５５内で水平配置される閉状態となり、この状態で、上側の貯留空間６０に投入された紙幣をその上側に載置させる。ここで、フラッパ５６，５６は、閉状態になるように図示せぬバネ等で付勢されている。また、フラッパ５６，５６は、この閉状態から付勢力にこうして下方に旋回することで開状態となると、載置させていた紙幣を下側の収納空間６１に落とし込む。さらに、フラッパ５６，５６は、この開状態から上方に旋回することで閉状態に戻る。
【００３５】
ここで、上下に重ね状態で配置された二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、両方とも同一の大きさで構成されているが、その収納部を異なる大きさで構成するようにしてもよい。
【００３６】
また、これら二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅのそれぞれの上下方向長さは、これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅ以外の上記した一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃの上下方向長さよりも小さく設定されており、幅および奥行きは同等に設定されている。その結果、これら一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅの収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅは、それぞれ、これら以外の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃの収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃのいずれよりも紙幣の収納容量が少なくなっている。
【００３７】
さらに、これら二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅを合わせた全体の上下方向長さは、これら以外の上記した一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃのそれぞれの上下方向長さとほぼ同等とされており、上側の一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄの最上部の高さ位置は、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃの最上部の高さ位置に対し同等以下、具体的には同高さ位置に設定されている。
【００３８】
また、これら二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、これら以外のすべての一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃとともに、左右方向の位置を合わせた状態で機体１０の前後方向に配列されている。
【００３９】
さらに、これら二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは、これら以外のすべての一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃよりも機体１０の後部側に配置されている。
【００４０】
加えて、これら二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅは金種別のものであり、これら二つの一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅのうちの一つである上側の一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄは流通量の少ない二千券（二千円札）用とされ、他の一つである下側の一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｅは流通量の少ない五千券（五千円札）用とされている。
【００４１】
以上に述べた紙幣入出金部１１の各処理について説明する。
【００４２】
「入金処理（入金確定前）」
オペレータにより入金させる紙幣が紙幣入金口２１にセットされ操作部１４に「入金処理」の実行入力がなされると、図示せぬ制御部は、紙幣入金口２１により、紙幣を一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させることになり、繰り出された紙幣を、搬送路２８および紙幣取入部３２の所定部分で構成される図３に太線で示す入金処理ルートで搬送させ、その途中の識別部２９の識別結果に基づいて振り分ける。すなわち、偽券を含む識別不能紙幣、重送、斜行等の搬送異常紙幣と判別された紙幣は紙幣出金口２０に送り出され、真券と判別された紙幣のうち真かつ汚損と識別された紙幣と、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃに収納しきれない真かつ正の紙幣とが、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれ、その他の真かつ正と識別された紙幣は、適宜表裏反転部３０を通過させることで表裏が取り揃えられた後、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃの一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃの対応する一つに、それぞれの紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれる。このとき、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃは、それぞれ、シャッタ３６，３６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれた紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６の上側の貯留空間３７に一時貯留させる。
【００４３】
具体的には、真かつ正と識別された紙幣のうち、万券は万券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの一時貯留部３３ｂに一時貯留され、千券は千券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃの一時貯留部３３ｃに一時貯留される。ここで、これら以外の二千券および五千券は、混合状態で一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに一時貯留される。さらに、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａには、上記したように、真かつ汚損の各紙幣と、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃに収納しきれない真かつ正の紙幣も送り込まれる。
【００４４】
そして、紙幣入金口２１からすべての紙幣が一旦繰り出され、紙幣出金口２０および一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃの一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃのいずれかに送り込まれると、制御部は、閉状態にあった紙幣出金口２０のシャッタ２２を開作動させるとともに、識別部２９の識別結果を図示せぬ上位機に表示させる。この上位機の表示からオペレータが入金確定操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力すると、制御部は、後述の「収納処理」を行うことになる。この場合、万券は万券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂにおいて一時貯留部３３ｂから収納繰出部３８ｂに収納され、千券は千券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃにおいて一時貯留部３３ｃから収納繰出部３８ｃに収納されることになるが、それ以外の二千券および五千券は、一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅが紙幣の返却処理に適していないことから、混合状態で、返却処理に適した一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａにおいて一時貯留部３３ａから収納繰出部３８ａに一時貯留される。すなわち、二千券および五千券は、「入金処理」から「収納処理」の流れでは、それら用の収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅには収納されず、後述する「内部充填分配補充処理」および「収納処理」によって収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅに収納される。他方、オペレータが入金キャンセル操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力すると、制御部は、後述の「返却処理」を行うことになる。
【００４５】
「出金処理」
オペレータにより上位機または操作部１４に「出金処理」の実行入力がなされると、制御部は、金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのそれぞれの収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅに収納させていた紙幣を紙幣繰出部３９，５４で最下のものから一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させ、搬送路４２，２８の所定部分で構成される図４に太線で示す出金処理ルートに沿って搬送させ、その途中の判別部４３の判別結果に基づいて振り分ける。
【００４６】
すなわち、判別部４３で正常と判別された紙幣は、紙幣出金口２０に送り出される一方、判別部４３で異常と判別された紙幣のうち重送および斜行と判定された搬送異常紙幣はすべてリジェクト収納部４４に送り込まれ、さらに、判別部４３で異常と判別された紙幣のうち、搬送異常以外と判定された紙幣すなわち判別不能紙幣および汚損紙幣は、運用カセットとしての一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに一時貯留させる。
【００４７】
そして、出金用に繰り出されたすべての紙幣が、リジェクト収納部４４、紙幣出金口２０および一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれると、一時貯留部３３ａは、シャッタ３６，３６を開作動させて、閉状態にある収納繰出部３８ａのフラッパ４６，４６上に紙幣を落とし込む。なお、フラッパ４６，４６上に載置された紙幣は、適宜のタイミングでフラッパ４６，４６から下方に落とし込まれ収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９に収納される。
【００４８】
以上により、出金処理時に、金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部４３で搬送異常と判別された紙幣を、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部４４に収納する一方、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣を、すべて複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａに収納することになる。そして、この複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａにおいては、後述する「内部充填分配補充処理」で、収納した紙幣を判別部４３で判別しかつ識別部２９で識別しつつ一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうちの対応金種のものに分配収納させ、その後の「出金処理」において、各金種の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから出金させることになるため、出金処理時に判別不能紙幣と判別された紙幣がいずれの金種の紙幣であってもこの分配収納により一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうち適正な金種のものに収納されて、ここから出金させられることになる。
【００４９】
「入金口分配補充処理」
金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅの収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅに紙幣を紙幣入金口２１から補充する場合、オペレータにより補充紙幣が紙幣入金口２１にセットされ操作部１４に「入金口分配補充処理」の実行入力がなされると、図示せぬ制御部は、紙幣入金口２１により、紙幣を一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させることになり、繰り出された紙幣を、搬送路２８，４２および紙幣取入部３２，５０の所定部分で構成される図５に太線で示す入金口分配補充処理ルートで搬送させ、その途中の識別部２９の識別結果に基づいて振り分ける。
【００５０】
すなわち、識別部２９において偽券を含む識別不能紙幣、重送、斜行等の搬送異常紙幣と判別された紙幣は、紙幣出金口２０に送り出され、真かつ汚損と識別された紙幣は、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれる。このとき、一時貯留部３３ａは、シャッタ３６，３６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれた紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６の上側の貯留空間３７に一時貯留させることになる。そして、それ以外の真かつ正と識別された紙幣は、適宜表裏反転部３０を通過させることで表裏が取り揃えられた後、金種別の一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅの対応する一つに、それぞれの紙幣取入部３２，５０から送り込まれる。このとき、一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃは、それぞれ、シャッタ３６，３６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部３２から取り入れた紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６の上側の貯留空間３７に一時貯留させることになり、一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅは、それぞれ、フラッパ５６，５６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部５０から取り入れた紙幣をフラッパ５６，５６の上側の貯留空間６０に一時貯留させることになる。
【００５１】
具体的には、万券は万券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの一時貯留部３３ｂに一時貯留され、千券は千券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃの一時貯留部３３ｃに一時貯留され、二千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄの一時貯留部５１ｄに一時貯留され、五千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｅの一時貯留部５１ｅに一時貯留される。また、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａには、真かつ汚損の各紙幣が送り込まれる。
【００５２】
そして、紙幣入金口２１からすべての紙幣が一旦繰り出され、紙幣出金口２０および一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅのいずれかに送り出されると、制御部は、閉状態にあった紙幣出金口２０のシャッタ２２を開作動させるとともに、補充処理が完了した旨を識別部２９の識別結果とともに図示せぬ上位機に表示させる。この上位機の表示からオペレータが補充完了確認操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力すると、制御部は、後述の「収納処理」を行うことになる。
【００５３】
「内部充填分配補充処理」
「入金処理」により一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの収納繰出部３８ａに収納された紙幣（主として二千券および五千券）を、金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅに紙幣を補充する場合には、操作部１４に「内部充填分配補充処理」の実行入力がなされると、図示せぬ制御部は、収納繰出部３８ａから、最下の紙幣を一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させることになり、繰り出された紙幣を、搬送路２８，４２および紙幣取入部３２の所定部分で構成される図６に太線で示す内部充填分配補充処理ルートで搬送させ、その途中の判別部４３の判別結果および識別部２９の鑑別結果に基づいて振り分ける。
【００５４】
すなわち、判別部４３で重送あるいは斜行の搬送異常とされた紙幣は、入金処理時に偽券でないことがすでに確認されているため、リジェクト収納部４４に送り込まれ、判別不能および汚損と判別された紙幣は、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれる。このとき、一時貯留部３３ａは、シャッタ３６，３６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれた紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６の上側の貯留空間３７に一時貯留させることになる。そして、それ以外の紙幣は適宜表裏反転部３０を通過させることで表裏が取り揃えられた後、金種別の一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅの対応する一つに、それぞれの紙幣取入部３２，５０から送り込まれる。このとき、一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃは、それぞれ、シャッタ３６，３６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部３２から取り入れた紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６の上側の貯留空間３７に一時貯留させることになり、一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅは、それぞれ、フラッパ５６，５６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部５０から取り入れた紙幣をフラッパ５６，５６の上側の貯留空間６０に一時貯留させることになる。
【００５５】
具体的には、万券は万券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの一時貯留部３３ｂに一時貯留され、千券は千券用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃの一時貯留部３３ｃに一時貯留され、二千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄの一時貯留部５１ｄに一時貯留され、五千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｅの一時貯留部５１ｅに一時貯留される。また、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａには、入金処理によって真かつ汚損の各紙幣が収納されるため、このような紙幣は、再び、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれる。なお、入金時の二千券および五千券は返却処理に対応するために一旦混合状態で一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａに収納されることになり、その後、このような「内部充填分配補充処理」で出金用に各一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ，５３ｅにそれぞれ分配されるのである。
【００５６】
このようにして、順次、収納繰出部３８ａに収納されている紙幣が、一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅに送り込まれ、そのうちのいずれか一つが満杯となると、制御部は、一旦、収納繰出部３８ａからの紙幣の繰り出しを停止し、一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃについてはシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、それ自身またはそれに載置された紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６に近接させて閉状態で待機している収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃのフラッパ４６，４６に紙幣を受け渡し、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させ一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃを空にする。一方、一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅについては、エレベータ５８をすでに収納している紙幣がフラッパ５６，５６に干渉しない位置まで上昇させた状態とし、この状態でプッシャ５７で押し込むことによりフラッパ５６，５６を開作動させつつ紙幣をエレベータ５８上に受け渡し、その後、エレベータ５８を紙幣がフラッパ５６，５６に干渉しない位置まで下降させ、プッシャ５７を上昇させることにより、フラッパ５６，５６を閉作動させる。なお、以上の動作を一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅのうち満杯になった一つについてのみ行うようにしてもよいが、収納繰出部３８ａからの繰り出し中断の回数を減らすために、上記のように満杯になっていないものも含めてすべてについて行うようにする。
【００５７】
そして、一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃのシャッタ３６，３６の閉作動および一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅのフラッパ５６，５６の閉作動が完了すると、制御部は、再び収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９から紙幣繰出部３９により紙幣を繰り出させ、紙幣の分配補充を再開する。
【００５８】
以上を繰り返して、収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９からすべての紙幣が一旦繰り出され、リジェクト収納部４４および一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅの一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅのいずれかに送り出されると、制御部は、補充処理が完了した旨を識別部２９の識別結果とともに図示せぬ上位機に表示させる。この上位機の表示からオペレータが補充完了確認操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力すると、制御部は、後述の「収納処理」を行うことになる。
【００５９】
「外部充填分配補充処理」
なお、上記は、「入金処理」を経て収納繰出部３８ａに収納された紙幣を分配補充する「内部充填分配補充処理」を例にとり説明したが、機体１０外において補充紙幣を収納繰出部３８ａに充填しこれを機体１０に装填して同様の分配補充処理を行う「外部充填分配補充処理」の場合は、基本的には上記した「内部充填分配補充処理」と同様の図７に太線で示す外部充填分配補充処理ルートで処理を行うことになるが、収納繰出部３８ａから送り出される紙幣には、偽券が含まれる可能性もあるので、判別部４３あるいは識別部２９で、偽券を含む判別不能紙幣とされた紙幣および重送、斜行等の搬送異常紙幣とされた紙幣は、すべて紙幣出金口２０に送り出すことになる。
【００６０】
そして、収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９からすべての紙幣が一旦繰り出され、紙幣出金口２０および一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅのいずれかに送り出されると、制御部は、閉状態にあった紙幣出金口２０のシャッタ２２を開作動させるとともに、補充処理が完了した旨を識別部２９の識別結果とともに図示せぬ上位機に表示させる。この上位機の表示からオペレータが補充完了確認操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力すると、制御部は、後述の「収納処理」を行うことになる。
【００６１】
「収納処理」
一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅにおいて、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅに一時貯留させた紙幣等を収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１に収納させる。
【００６２】
すなわち、上記した「入金処理」で入金確定操作が入力された場合、または、「入金口分配補充処理」、「内部充填分配補充処理」および「外部充填分配補充処理」で補充完了確認操作が入力された場合、制御部は、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃ，５１ｄ，５１ｅの紙幣を収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅに、図８に太線で示す収納処理ルートのように、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃのそれぞれのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、シャッタ３６，３６にそれ自身またはそれに載置されている紙幣の上部を近接させて待機している収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃの閉状態のフラッパ４６，４６に紙幣を受け渡す。続いて、制御部は、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させる。さらに、フラッパ４６，４６を既に収納空間４９に収納されている紙幣量に干渉しない範囲で下げて開作動させ、フラッパ４６，４６からすでに収納空間４９に収納されている紙幣の上に紙幣を受け渡す。その後、フラッパ４６，４６を上部待機位置まで上昇させて、閉作動させる。
【００６３】
また、制御部は、これと同時に、収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅのそれぞれについて、既に収納空間６１に収納されている紙幣量に応じた高さまでエレベータ５８を上昇させた後、一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅのそれぞれのプッシャ５７を下降させ、フラッパ５６，５６上の紙幣を下方に押圧しフラッパ５６，５６を開作動させながら、紙幣を収納空間６１に既に収納されているエレベータ５８上の紙幣の上に受け渡す。その後、エレベータ５８を最下位置まで下げる。
【００６４】
「整理計数処理」
複数金種混在した紙幣から指定した金種を計数しつつ分離する場合等の処理で、オペレータにより紙幣が紙幣入金口２１にセットされ操作部１４に「整理計数処理」の実行入力がなされると、図示せぬ制御部は、紙幣入金口２１により、紙幣を一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させることになり、繰り出された紙幣を、搬送路２８および紙幣取入部３２の所定部分で構成される図９に太線で示す整理計数処理ルートで搬送させ、その途中の識別部２９の識別結果に基づいて振り分ける。
【００６５】
すなわち、偽券を含む識別不能紙幣および重送、斜行等の搬送異常紙幣と、真かつ汚損と識別された紙幣と、真かつ正で指定されていない金種の紙幣と、真かつ正で指定された金種であって一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃの対応するものに貯留しきれない分の紙幣とが紙幣出金口２０に送り出され、真かつ正の紙幣のうち、指定された金種のものが、適宜表裏反転部３０を通過することで表裏が取り揃えられた後、金種別に、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃの対応するものに、それぞれの紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれる。このとき、一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃは、それぞれ、シャッタ３６，３６が閉状態とされており、紙幣取入部３２から送り込まれた紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６の上側の貯留空間３７に一時貯留させる。
【００６６】
具体的には、例えば、千券、二千券および五千券を整理計数する場合には、真かつ正と識別された紙幣のうち、指定されていない万券は、紙幣出金口２０に送り出され、二千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに貯留され、千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの一時貯留部３３ｂに貯留され、五千券は一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃの一時貯留部３３ｃに一時貯留される。
【００６７】
そして、紙幣入金口２１からすべての紙幣が一旦繰り出され、紙幣出金口２０および一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃのいずれかに送り込まれると、制御部は、閉状態にあった紙幣出金口２０のシャッタ２２を開作動させるとともに、整理計数処理が完了した旨を識別部２９の識別結果とともに図示せぬ上位機に表示させる。この表示からオペレータが整理計数完了確認操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力すると、制御部は、後述の「返却処理」を行うことになる。
【００６８】
「返却処理」
上記入金処理の結果の上位機の表示に基づいてオペレータが入金キャンセル操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力した場合、および、上記「整理計数処理」が完了した旨の上位機の表示からオペレータが整理計数完了確認操作を上位機または操作部１４に入力した場合、制御部は、中層ユニット２５の機体１０からの引き出しを可能とする。これにより、オペレータは、図１０に示すよう中層ユニット２５を引き出して一時貯留部３３ａ〜３３ｃから紙幣を取り出すことになる。
【００６９】
「精査処理」
（１）一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの収納繰出部３８ｂの精査処理
収納繰出部３８ｂにおける収納空間４９の紙幣枚数、具体的には収納空間４９の万券の枚数を確定する精査処理を行う場合は、オペレータにより上位機または操作部１４に収納繰出部３８ｂを精査処理する際の入力がなされると、一時貯留部３３ｂおよび収納繰出部３８ｂのフラッパ４６，４６より上側が空の状態で、制御部は、収納繰出部３８ｂのフラッパ４６，４６よりも下側の収納空間４９に収納させていた紙幣を紙幣繰出部３９によって最下のものから一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させ、搬送路４２，２８の所定部分で構成される図１１に太線で示す第１精査処理ルートに沿って搬送させ、その途中の判別部４３および識別部２９の識別結果に基づいて振り分けおよび計数を行う。
【００７０】
すなわち、判別部４３で異常と判別された紙幣のうち重送あるいは斜行と判定された搬送異常紙幣はリジェクト収納部４４に送り込まれ、判別部４３で異常と判別された紙幣のうち搬送異常以外の紙幣および判別部４３で正常と判別された紙幣は、識別部２９で金種が識別され、必要により表裏反転部３０で表裏が取り揃えられて、識別部２９で精査対象金種と判定された正常紙幣は、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの一時貯留部３３ｂに送り込まれ、識別部２９で精査対象金種以外と判定された異金種紙幣は、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれる。
【００７１】
このようにして、順次、収納繰出部３８ｂに収納されている紙幣が、識別部２９で識別計数され、一時貯留部３３ｂに送り込まれ、一時貯留部３３ｂが満杯となると、制御部は、一旦、収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９からの紙幣の繰り出しを停止し、一時貯留部３３ｂのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、シャッタ３６，３６にそれ自身またはそれに載置された紙幣の上部を近接させていた閉状態のフラッパ４６，４６に紙幣を受け渡し、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させて一時貯留部３３ｂを空にする。ただし、この時点では、収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９に収納されている紙幣とは分離しておく必要があるため、フラッパ４６，４６上の紙幣を下方の収納空間４９に落とし込むことはない。
【００７２】
そして、一時貯留部３３ｂのフラッパ４６，４６へ紙幣を受け渡しシャッタ３６，３６の閉作動が完了すると、制御部は、再び収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９から紙幣繰出部３９により紙幣を繰り出させ、上記と同様にして、判別部４３による判別、識別部２９による識別計数を行う。
【００７３】
以上を繰り返して、収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９のすべての収納紙幣が繰り出され、リジェクト収納部４４、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂのフラッパ４６，４６より上側および一時貯留部３３ａのいずれかに送り込まれて、収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９が空になると、制御部は、一時貯留部３３ａ，３３ｂのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、紙幣をフラッパ４６，４６上に受け渡し、続いて、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させる。さらに、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂについては、フラッパ４６，４６を最下位置まで下降させて開作動させて、空の状態の収納空間４９に紙幣を受け渡し、その後、フラッパ４６，４６をシャッタ３６，３６に近接する上部待機位置まで上昇させて、閉作動させる。一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａについては、フラッパ４６，４６を既に収納空間４９に収納されている紙幣量に応じた高さまで下げて開作動させて、フラッパ４６，４６からすでに収納空間４９に収納されている紙幣の上に紙幣を受け渡し、その後、フラッパ４６，４６をシャッタ３６，３６に近接する上部待機位置まで上昇させて、閉作動させる。
【００７４】
このようにすることで、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂの収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９の紙幣は、すべて精査対象金種の正常紙幣となりその枚数が確定できる。
【００７５】
以上により、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂは、精査処理時にその収納繰出部３８ｂの収納空間４９から一旦すべての紙幣を繰り出してこの収納空間４９を空にする際に、繰り出し紙幣のうち正常紙幣を、当該一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ自身の一時貯留部３３ｂに送り込む還流精査型一時貯留・収納繰出部となっている。そして、このような還流精査型一時貯留・収納繰出部である一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂは、その収納空間４９から一旦すべての紙幣を繰り出す際に当該一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ自身の一時貯留部３３ｂに送り込んだ紙幣を、収納空間４９から一旦すべての紙幣を繰り出した後に、当該収納空間４９に収納することになる。
【００７６】
以上により、精査処理時に、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂから繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部４３で搬送異常と判別された紙幣を、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部４４に収納する一方、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣を、すべて複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａに収納することになる。そして、この複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａにおいては、「内部充填分配補充処理」で、収納した紙幣を判別部４３で判別しかつ識別部２９で識別しつつ一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうちの対応金種のものに分配収納させ、その後の「出金処理」において、各金種の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから出金させることになるため、判別不能紙幣がいずれの金種の紙幣であってもこの分配収納により一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうち適正な金種のものに収納されて、ここから出金させられることになる。
【００７７】
（２）一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃの収納繰出部３８ｃの精査処理
収納繰出部３８ｃにおける収納空間４９の紙幣枚数、具体的には収納空間４９の千券の枚数を確定する精査処理を行う場合は、上記収納繰出部３８ｂの精査処理に対し、一時貯留部３３ｂおよび収納繰出部３８ｂを一時貯留部３３ｃおよび収納繰出部３８ｃに置き換えたものとなる。すなわち、収納繰出部３８ｃの収納空間４９の紙幣を搬送路４２，２８の所定部分で構成される図１２に太線で示す第２精査処理ルートに沿って搬送させ、収納繰出部３８ｃの収納空間４９を一旦空にした後、枚数の確定した紙幣を収納繰出部３８ｃの収納空間４９に収納させるのである。
【００７８】
この、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｃも、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂと同様に、還流精査型一時貯留・収納繰出部となっている。
【００７９】
（３）収納繰出部５２ｄの精査処理
収納繰出部５２ｄにおける収納空間６１の紙幣枚数、具体的には収納空間６１の二千券の枚数を確定する精査処理を行う場合は、オペレータにより上位機または操作部１４に収納繰出部５２ｄを精査処理する際の入力がなされると、制御部は、一時貯留部５１ｄが空の状態で、収納繰出部５２ｄのフラッパ５６，５６よりも下側の収納空間６１に収納させていた紙幣を紙幣繰出部５４によって最下のものから一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させ、搬送路４２，２８の所定部分で構成される図１３に太線で示す第３精査処理ルートに沿って搬送させ、その途中の判別部４３の判別結果に基づいて振り分けを行う。
【００８０】
すなわち、判別部４３で重送または斜行と判定された搬送異常紙幣はリジェクト収納部４４に送り込まれ、判別部４３で正常と判別された正常紙幣は、必要により表裏反転部３０で表裏が取り揃えられて、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれる。さらに、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣も、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれる。
【００８１】
このようにして、順次、収納繰出部５２ｄに収納されている紙幣が、一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれ、一時貯留部３３ａが満杯となると、制御部は、一旦、収納繰出部５２ｄからの紙幣の繰り出しを停止し、一時貯留部３３ａのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、シャッタ３６，３６にそれ自身またはそれに載置された紙幣の最上部を近接させた閉状態のフラッパ４６，４６に紙幣を受け渡し、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させて、一時貯留部３３ａを空にする。
【００８２】
そして、一時貯留部３３ａのフラッパ４６，４６へ紙幣を受け渡しシャッタ３６，３６の閉作動が完了すると、制御部は、再び収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１から紙幣繰出部５４により紙幣を繰り出させ、上記と同様にして、判別部４３による判別を行いつつ、一時貯留部３３ａに送り込む。
【００８３】
以上を繰り返して、収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１のすべての収納紙幣が繰り出されて、リジェクト収納部４４、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａのいずれかに送り込まれ、収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１が空になると、制御部は、一時貯留部３３ａのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、収納繰出部３８ａのフラッパ４６，４６上に紙幣を受け渡し、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させて一時貯留部３３ａを空にし、さらに、フラッパ４６，４６を収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９にすでに収納されている紙幣に干渉しない範囲で下降させて、開作動させて、フラッパ４６，４６上の紙幣を収納空間４９に収納させた後、フラッパ４６，４６を上部待機位置まで移動させ閉作動させる。
【００８４】
その後、上記した「内部充填分配補充処理」および「収納処理」を実行することで、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの収納繰出部３８ａに収納された紙幣を繰り出し、識別部２９で識別計数しつつ、その中から一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄの収納繰出部５２ｄに収納させる紙幣すなわち二千券のみを、一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄの収納繰出部５２ｄに、一時貯留部５１ｄを介して送り込むことで、精査対象金種の紙幣が確定した枚数で収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１に収納されることになる。
【００８５】
以上により、一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄは、精査処理時において、その収納繰出部５２ｄの収納空間６１から一旦すべての紙幣を繰り出して当該収納空間６１を空にする際に、繰り出した紙幣のうち、主たる紙幣である正常紙幣を、当該一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄ以外の被使用一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに送り込む他使用精査型一時貯留・収納繰出部となっている。そして、このような他使用精査型一時貯留・収納繰出部である一時貯留・収納繰出部５３ｄは、その収納空間６１から一旦すべての紙幣を繰り出した後、当該収納空間６１に被使用一時貯留・収納繰出部である一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａから送り込まれた紙幣を収納するようになっている。
【００８６】
（４）収納繰出部５２ｅの精査処理
収納繰出部５２ｅにおける収納空間６１の紙幣枚数、具体的には収納空間６１の五千券の枚数を確定する精査処理を行う場合は、上記収納繰出部５３ｄの精査処理に対し、一時貯留部５１ｄおよび収納繰出部５２ｄを一時貯留部５１ｅおよび収納繰出部５２ｅに置き換えたものとなる。すなわち、紙幣を搬送路４２，２８の所定部分で構成される図１４に太線で示す第４精査処理ルートに沿って搬送させ、収納繰出部５２ｅの収納空間６１を一旦空にした後、「内部充填分配補充処理」および「収納処理」によって枚数の確定した紙幣を収納繰出部５２ｅの収納空間６１に収納させるのである。
【００８７】
（５）一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの収納繰出部３８ａの精査処理
収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９の精査処理は、「入金処理」を経て収納した紙幣についての上記した「内部充填分配補充処理」と同じであり（図６参照）、一旦、収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９を空にするとともに、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのフラッパ４６，５６より上側に金種および枚数の確定した紙幣を集積させ、その後、上記した「収納処理」を行うことで、金種および枚数の確定した紙幣を収納繰出部３８ａ〜３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１に収納する。
【００８８】
「回収処理」
一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａ〜４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅに収納されている紙幣を回収する場合、オペレータにより上位機または操作部１４に回収処理を行う際の入力がなされると、制御部は、一時貯留部３３ｂ，３３ｃおよび収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃのフラッパ４６，４６より上側が空の状態で、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃの収納空間４９に収納させていた紙幣を紙幣繰出部３９によって最下のものから一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させるとともに、一時貯留部５１ｄ，５１ｅが空の状態で、収納繰出部５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間６１に収納させていた紙幣を紙幣繰出部５４によって最下のものから一枚ずつ分離して繰り出させる。そして、これらの紙幣を、搬送路４２，２８の所定部分で構成される図１５に太線で示す回収処理ルートに沿って搬送させ、その途中の判別部４３の判別結果に基づいて振り分けを行う。
【００８９】
すなわち、判別部４３で重送または斜行と判定された搬送異常紙幣はリジェクト収納部４４に送り込まれ、判別部４３で正常と判別された紙幣は、表裏が取り揃えられることなく、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａにすべて送り込まれる。さらに、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣も、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａの一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれる。
【００９０】
このようにして、紙幣が、一時貯留部３３ａに送り込まれ、一時貯留部３３ａが満杯となると、制御部は、一旦、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅからの紙幣の繰り出しを停止し、一時貯留部３３ａのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、それ自身またはそれに載置された紙幣をシャッタ３６，３６に近接させて閉状態で待機している収納繰出部３８ａのフラッパ４６，４６に紙幣を受け渡し、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させて一時貯留部３３ａを空にする。
【００９１】
そして、一時貯留部３３ａのフラッパ４６，４６へ紙幣を受け渡しシャッタ３６，３６の閉作動が完了すると、制御部は、再び収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１から紙幣繰出部３９，５４により紙幣を繰り出させ、上記と同様にして、一時貯留部３３ａに送り込む。
【００９２】
以上を繰り返して、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１からすべての収納紙幣が繰り出されて、リジェクト収納部４４および一時貯留部３３ａのいずれかに送り込まれ、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１が空になると、制御部は、一時貯留部３３ａのシャッタ３６，３６を開作動させ、収納繰出部３８ａのフラッパ４６，４６上に紙幣を受け渡し、フラッパ４６，４６をその上に載置された紙幣がシャッタ３６，３６に干渉しない位置まで下降させて、シャッタ３６，３６を閉作動させて、一時貯留部３３ａを空にし、さらに、フラッパ４６，４６を収納繰出部３８ａの収納空間４９にすでに収納されている紙幣に干渉しない範囲で下降させて、開作動させて、フラッパ４６，４６上の紙幣を収納空間４９に収納させた後、フラッパ４６，４６を上部待機位置まで移動させ閉作動させる。
【００９３】
以上のようにして、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１の紙幣をすべて収納繰出部３８ａに収納し、下層ユニット２６を機体１０から引き出して、収納繰出部３８ａを機体１０から取り出して紙幣を回収する。
【００９４】
なお、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃ，５２ｄ，５２ｅの収納空間４９，６１の紙幣をすべて収納繰出部３８ａに収納する前に収納繰出部３８ａが満杯になることもあるため、そのときは、満杯になった時点で処理を中断し、紙幣が取り出されて空となった収納繰出部３８ａが再装填されると、処理を再開する。なお、収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃの少なくとも一方をも下層ユニット２６に対し着脱可能とすることで、収納繰出部３８ａで収納しきれない場合に、着脱可能な収納繰出部３８ｂ，３８ｃに収納して回収するようにしてもよい。
【００９５】
以上に述べたように、参考技術の貨幣入出金機によれば、その紙幣入出金部１１において、出金処理時および精査処理時に、金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部４３で搬送異常と判別された紙幣を、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部４４に収納する一方、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣を、すべて複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａに収納することになる。そして、この複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａにおいては、「内部充填分配補充処理」で、収納した紙幣を判別部４３で判別しかつ識別部２９で識別しつつ一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうちの対応金種のものに分配収納させ、その後の「出金処理」において、各金種の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから出金させることになるため、判別不能紙幣がいずれの金種の紙幣であってもこの分配収納により一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうち適正な金種のものに収納されて、ここから出金させられることになる。
【００９６】
したがって、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部４４に収納させる紙幣を、減らすことができ、このリジェクト収納部４４が満杯になることに起因する装置停止の発生回数を抑えることができる。
【００９７】
なお、以上の参考技術においては、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣を、すべて複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ａに収納する場合を例にとり説明したが、本発明の一実施形態では、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅから繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部４３で判別不能と判別された紙幣を、識別部２９で金種を識別し、一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうちこの識別結果に応じた対応金種のものに収納するようにする。このように構成すれば、搬送異常以外の何らかの理由で判別部４３による判別ができなかった判別不能紙幣については、識別部２９で再度識別して一時貯留・収納繰出部４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅのうち適正な金種のものに収納することができる。
【００９８】
【発明の効果】
以上詳述したように、本発明の請求項１記載の紙幣入出金機によれば、一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部で搬送異常と判別された紙幣については、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納することになるが、判別部で判別不能と判別された紙幣、すなわち、一旦識別部で真券であると識別されて収納されていたものの搬送異常以外の何らかの理由で判別部による判別ができなかった判別不能紙幣については、一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納することで、再度の繰り出しを可能とする。したがって、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納させる紙幣を、減らすことができ、このリジェクト収納部が満杯になることに起因する装置停止の発生回数を抑えることができる。
【０１００】
また、一時貯留・収納繰出部から繰り出された紙幣のうち、判別部で搬送異常と判別された紙幣については、紙幣を繰り出し不可に収納させるリジェクト収納部に収納することになるが、判別部で判別不能と判別された紙幣、すなわち、一旦識別部で真券であると識別されて収納されていたものの搬送異常以外の何らかの理由で判別部による判別ができなかった判別不能紙幣については、識別部で識別し、該識別結果に応じた適正な金種の一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納されて、ここから出金させられることになる。したがって、搬送異常以外の何らかの理由で判別部による判別ができなかった判別不能紙幣については、識別部で再度識別して適正な金種の一時貯留・収納繰出部に収納することができる。
【図面の簡単な説明】
【図１】 本発明の紙幣入出金機の参考技術としての貨幣入出金機を示す斜視図である。
【図２】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の概略構成を示す側断面図である。
【図３】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の入金処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図４】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の出金処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図５】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の入金口分配補充処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図６】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の内部充填分配補充処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図７】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の外部充填分配補充処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図８】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の収納処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図９】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の整理計数処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図１０】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の返却処理時における中層ユニットを引き出した状態を示す側断面図である。
【図１１】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の第１精査処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図１２】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の第２精査処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図１３】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の第３精査処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図１４】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の第４精査処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【図１５】 同貨幣入出金機の紙幣入出金部の回収処理ルートを示す側断面図である。
【符号の説明】
２１ 紙幣入金口
２９ 識別部
４０ａ 一時貯留・収納繰出部（複数金種に共用の一時貯留・収納繰出部）
４０ｂ，４０ｃ，５３ｄ，５３ｅ 一時貯留・収納繰出部（金種別の一時貯留・収納繰出部）
４３ 判別部
４４ リジェクト収納部[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a reflux-type banknote depositing / dispensing machine that stores deposited banknotes and feeds the stored banknotes for dispensing.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, in a financial institution such as a bank, the banknotes to be deposited are taken one by one, the denominations of the taken banknotes are identified and sorted, and the temporary storage section above the temporary storage / storage and feeding section provided for each denomination In the withdrawal process, the banknotes stored in the storage and feeding part are stored in the storage and feeding part while the banknotes are temporarily stored until the payment is confirmed, and after the payment is confirmed, the banknotes are stored in the storage and feeding part. A reflux-type banknote depositing / dispensing machine that withdraws money as a banknote for withdrawal is used. As such a banknote depositing and dispensing machine, there is one already disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 2756058.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
By the way, in the conventional one of this kind of banknote depositing and dispensing machine, the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit at the time of withdrawal are finally checked by the discrimination unit, and an abnormality is detected by this discrimination unit. The banknotes that have been made are all stored in a reject storage section that stores banknotes so that they cannot be fed out. The banknotes that are determined to be abnormal at the time of withdrawal are skewed and double-fed transport abnormal banknotes and unidentifiable banknotes. Since it has been identified, it is stored in the temporary storage / storage / feeding-out unit, and there is no possibility that it is a fake ticket. Therefore, an unidentifiable banknote is a genuine note that cannot be determined by the determination unit for some reason. However, if all of the banknotes are stored in the reject storage unit that cannot be fed out, the reject storage unit will be filled up quickly, and in order to release this full state, the banknotes are removed from the reject storage unit. There is a problem that the apparatus for taking out is frequently stopped, which is disadvantageous in operation.
[0004]
Accordingly, the present invention reduces the number of banknotes stored in the reject storage section that stores banknotes in a non-deliverable manner as much as possible, thereby suppressing the number of occurrences of device stop due to the rejection storage section becoming full. The purpose is to provide a gold machine.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, a bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1 of the present invention includes a discriminating unit for discriminating a bill fed out from a bill depositing port, and bills classified based on the discrimination result of the discriminating unit. Temporary storage and storage of temporarily stored banknotes, and further storage of banknotes stored from the bottom of the banknotes can be delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery section of these denominations and the temporary storage / storage delivery sections of these types of money the be one having a discrimination unit for discriminating the bill, among the banknotes fed out from the temporary holding-storing and feeding parts by denomination, the abnormality determination and bill conveyed by the determination unit, the banknote while stored in the reject storing unit for storing the feeding impossible, the bills are discriminated indistinguishable in the determination section, as identified by the identification unit, the corresponding denomination of the temporary holding, storage Repetitive according to the identification result It is characterized in that is housed in the part.
[0006]
As described above, among the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit, the banknotes determined as being transported abnormally by the determination unit are stored in the reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in an undeliverable manner. For banknotes that were determined to be indistinguishable by the part, that is, for banknotes that could not be determined by the determination part for some reason other than abnormal conveyance of what was once identified and stored as a genuine note by the identification part, By storing it in the temporary storage / storage and feeding part, it is possible to let it out again.
[0010]
Further, among the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit, the banknotes determined as being transported abnormally by the determination unit are stored in the reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in an undeliverable manner. For banknotes that have been determined to be indistinguishable, that is, for banknotes that have been once identified and stored by the recognition unit but cannot be determined by the determination unit for any reason other than abnormal transport, And stored in a temporary storage / storage / feeding-out portion of an appropriate denomination according to the identification result, and withdrawn from here.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
A money depositing / dispensing machine, which is a reference technique of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention, will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, the lower side in FIGS. 2-15 shows the operator side which operates, ie, the front (front side). In the following, “front” is the operator side, “rear” is the opposite side of the operator, and left and right are the left and right when viewed from the operator side.
[0012]
This money depositing / dispensing machine is arranged below the teller counter of a financial institution such as a bank, and is used in common by operators such as two tellers on the left and right. As shown in FIG. A banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11 that performs various processes related to banknotes such as storage, collection, and withdrawal and a coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 that performs various processes related to coins such as depositing, storing, collecting, and dispensing of coins are integrally provided. It is what was done.
[0013]
The coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 is mainly arranged at the upper part of the machine body 10, and the banknote deposit / withdrawal part 11 and a part of the coin deposit / withdrawal part 12 protrude forward from the coin deposit / withdrawal part 12 at the lower part of the machine body 10. Are arranged to be. The coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11 can be pulled out to the front side of the machine body 10, and a withdrawal key 13 for locking and unlocking the machine body 10 is a front surface of the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11. On the side.
[0014]
On the money deposit / withdrawal machine, on the left and right sides on the front (front) side of the upper surface of the machine body 10, the operation unit 14 to which the operation of each process is input by the left and right operators and the processing state and the like are displayed. A display lamp unit 15 is provided, and a display panel 16 that displays a processing guide menu, a processing state, a processing result, and the like is provided only on the right side. The operation unit 14, the display lamp unit 15, and the display panel 16 are shared by the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11.
[0015]
In addition, a coin depositing port 17 is provided in the center in the left-right direction slightly behind the front of the upper surface of the machine body 10 for depositing coins into the coin depositing and dispensing unit 12. That is, a tray insertion port 18 is provided on the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11 side so as to be recessed rearward from the front. A tray (not shown) is inserted into the tray insertion port 18, and the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 dispenses coins to the tray in the state of being inserted into the tray insertion port 18 in this way. A coin reject port 19 for returning reject coins is provided at a position adjacent to the tray insertion port 18.
[0016]
On the upper surface of the portion of the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11 that protrudes to the front side from the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12, the banknote is withdrawn from the inside of the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11 at the center in the left-right direction on the most front side. A mouth 20 is provided, and a banknote depositing port 21 in which a banknote to be deposited is set by an operator is provided after the banknote dispensing port 20. In addition, the banknote dispensing port 20 is provided with a shutter 22 for opening and closing the banknote dispensing port 20. Here, a coin collective safe 23 that is a part of the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 is provided at a side position adjacent to the bill deposit / withdrawal port 20 and the bill deposit / withdrawal port 21 of the bill deposit / withdrawal unit 11. The coin collective safe 23 stores coins and is detachable from the machine body 10. On the front side of the coin collective safe 23, an extraction key 23 a for locking and unlocking the machine body 10 is provided. Is provided. Further, a power switch 27 is provided on the lower front surface of the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11.
[0017]
The banknote depositing / withdrawing unit 11 performs a depositing process for depositing and storing banknotes set in the banknote depositing slot 21 in a state in which the longitudinal direction thereof is the left-right direction, and the stored banknotes as necessary. Each process in banknotes, such as a withdrawal process to withdraw money to 20, is performed.
[0018]
Below, the banknote depositing / withdrawing part which is the principal part of this invention is demonstrated.
As shown in FIG. 2, the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 11 is mainly composed of an upper layer unit 24 that transports banknotes taken from the banknote deposit port 21 or banknotes to be withdrawn toward the banknote dispense port 20, and an upper layer unit that is deposited. The middle layer unit 25 that temporarily stores the banknotes conveyed in 24 in the denomination before the payment is confirmed, and the lower layer unit that stores the banknotes temporarily stored in the middle layer unit 25 after the payment is confirmed, while feeding out the stored banknotes for withdrawal 26. The upper layer unit 24, the middle layer unit 25, and the lower layer unit 26 can be individually pulled out from the body 10 of the money depositing / dispensing machine to the front side.
[0019]
[Upper unit]
The upper layer unit 24 pays out banknotes that are set at the time of deposit processing, and the banknote deposit port 21 that takes the set banknotes into the machine one by one, and reject bills that cannot be identified at the time of deposit processing, etc. The above-described banknote withdrawal port 20 through which the withdrawal banknotes are paid out from the machine during the withdrawal process, the above-described shutter 22 that opens and closes the banknote withdrawal port 20, and the deposited banknotes are transported to necessary places and withdrawn banknotes. Is provided in the middle of conveyance of the conveyance path 28, and is delivered from the banknote deposit port 21 during the depositing process or the like, and is conveyed by the conveyance path 28. And an identification unit 29 for identifying seed, damage, double feeding, and skew feeding. In the middle of the conveyance path 28, a front / back reversing unit 30 is provided for judging the front / back of the banknote from the identification result of the identification unit 29 and reversing the front / back of the banknote as necessary in order to prepare the front / back of the banknote.
[0020]
[Middle-level unit]
The middle layer unit 25 is provided with each banknote intake section 32 that is connected to the transport path 28 of the upper layer unit 24 and takes in the deposited banknotes distributed from the transport path 28, and the front side of each banknote input section 32. In addition, a plurality of, specifically, three, temporary storage portions 33a, 33b, 33c having the same shape are temporarily stored until the transaction is confirmed. They are arranged in a straight line with their positions shifted in the direction. Here, these three temporary storage parts 33a-33c can only feed a banknote from the banknote intake part 32 side, and cannot pay out the banknote to the banknote input part 32 side. In addition, when returning the banknote temporarily stored by these temporary storage parts 33a-33c, without confirming payment, these temporary storage parts 33a-33c are all outside the body 10 by pulling out the middle layer unit 25 from the body 10. As a result, the banknote temporarily stored therein can be taken out by the operator.
[0021]
The temporary storage units 33 a to 33 c are provided in a substantially rectangular tube-shaped casing 35 that takes in banknotes from the corresponding banknote receiving unit 32 and a lower part of the casing 35, and are temporarily stored in the casing 35. It has a pair of openable and closable shutters 36, 36 for placing banknotes while stacking them up and down sequentially with the front and back directions being up and down, and the pair of shutters 36, 36 has a constant height and moves horizontally. By doing so, the lower part of the housing | casing 35 is opened and closed. In addition, the part above the shutters 36 and 36 inside the housing | casing 35 is the storage space 37 which stores a banknote temporarily.
[0022]
[Lower layer unit]
In the lower layer unit 26, below the temporary storage portions 33a to 33c, the banknotes temporarily stored in the corresponding ones of these are received after the payment is confirmed and stored inside, while the banknotes stored inside are stored at the bottom. A plurality of storage feeding portions 38a, 38b, 38c of the same shape that can be fed out one by one by the bill feeding portion 39 one by one in the front-rear direction with the positions in the left-right direction and the height direction aligned with each other Are arranged at different positions.
[0023]
Here, in a state where both the middle layer unit 25 and the lower layer unit 26 are properly loaded in the airframe 10, the temporary storage / storage / feeding-out unit is composed of the temporary storage units 33 a to 33 c and the storage / feeding units 38 a to 38 c directly below the temporary storage units 33 a to 33 c. 40a to 40c are configured, and the three temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c having the same shape are shifted in the front-rear direction with the positions in the left-right direction and the height direction being aligned with each other. Will be arranged.
[0024]
That is, the foremost temporary storage portion 33a and the foremost storage / feeding portion 38a constitute the foremost temporary storage / storage / feeding portion 40a, and the second temporary storage portion 33b from the front and the second storage / feedout from the front. The part 38b constitutes the second temporary storage / storage feeding part 40b from the front, and the third temporary storage part 33c from the front and the third storage delivery part 38c from the front are the third temporary storage / storage from the front. A feeding portion 40c is configured. Of these three temporary storage / storage feeding sections 40a to 40c, the rear two are of the money type, and specifically, the second temporary storage / storage feeding section 40b from the front is the circulation amount. The third temporary storage / storage / delivery part 40c for a large number of ten thousand tickets (10,000 yen bills) is used for a thousand tickets (thousand yen bills) with a large circulation amount. In addition, the foremost temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a does not correspond to only one denomination, but is used as an operation cassette for storing appropriate banknotes or storing replenishment banknotes according to each processing. Is designed to store multiple denominations of five thousand tickets (5,000 yen bills) and two thousand tickets (two thousand yen bills) with a small distribution amount. Since it is used as an operation cassette, among the storage and feeding portions 38a to 38c, the frontmost storage and feeding portion 38a is detachable from the lower layer unit 26 drawn out from the machine body 10, and the remaining storage and feeding portions 38 b and 38 c are fixed to the lower layer unit 26.
[0025]
The lower layer unit 26 is connected to the conveyance path 28 through the middle layer unit 25 on the rear side of the third temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40c from the front, and below all the temporary storage / storage feeding units 40a to 40c. A transport path that passes through the middle layer unit 25 to the transport path 28 in front of the foremost temporary storage / storage feeding section 40a and transports the withdrawal banknotes fed out from the storage and feeding sections 38a to 38c. 42 is provided. In the middle of the conveyance path 42, a determination unit 43 is provided for determining the denomination, multifeed, skew, and the like of the banknote to be conveyed.
[0026]
Further, in the lower layer unit 26, the withdrawal banknotes that are judged to be abnormal in transport such as double feeding or skewing among the withdrawal banknotes transported in the transport path 42 at the time of the withdrawal process cannot be delivered. A reject storage portion 44 that is stored in a state is provided to be openable and closable forward. As shown in FIG. 1, a door 44 a that is opened and closed when removing the reject banknote in the reject storage unit 44 and a key 44 b that is necessary for opening the door are provided on the front surface of the lower layer unit 26. .
[0027]
Each of the storage and feeding sections 38a to 38c has a substantially rectangular tubular casing 45 that takes in the temporarily stored banknotes from one of the temporary storage sections 33a to 33c. It has a pair of door-type flappers 46 and 46 that can be raised and lowered and placed while the stored banknotes taken in are placed while being stacked in the vertical direction with the front and back directions set to the vertical direction.
[0028]
The flappers 46 and 46 are arranged so as to be parallel to each other and at the same height before and after the housing 45, and have support shafts 48 and 48 that integrally move up and down along the guide shafts 47 and 47 in this state. It swings around these support shafts 48,48. The flappers 46 and 46 are in a closed state in which they are horizontally arranged in the housing 45 by bringing their opposite ends to the support shaft 48 close to each other, and in this state, the temporary storage portions 33a to 33a. A bill inserted from a corresponding one of 33c is placed on the upper side. Further, when the flappers 46 and 46 are opened by turning downward from the closed state, the banknotes placed thereon are used for storing the withdrawal bills below the flappers 46 and 46 in the housing 45. The storage space 49 is dropped and stored. Further, the flappers 46 and 46 return to the closed state by turning upward from the open state. Note that a bill feeding portion 39 for feeding bills to the transport path 42 is provided at the lowermost portion of the storage space 49.
[0029]
Temporary storage units 51d and 51e for temporarily storing banknotes transported by the transport path 28 and the transport path 42 and fed from the corresponding banknote take-in section 50 are located on the rear side of the middle layer unit 25 and the lower layer unit 26 in the machine body 10. The banknotes temporarily stored in the corresponding ones of the temporary storage sections 51d and 51e are received and stored below the temporary storage sections 51d and 51e, while the stored banknotes are stored at the bottom. Storage and feeding portions 52d and 52e that can be fed out from the bottom by the bill feeding portion 54 are provided.
[0030]
Each of the temporary storage units 51d and 51e and each of the storage and feeding units 52d and 52e immediately below form a temporary storage / storage and feeding unit 53d and 53e. The parts 53d and 53e are arranged in a state where they are stacked one above the other. That is, the temporary storage unit 51d and the storage and feeding unit 52d constitute the upper temporary storage and storage feeding unit 53d, and the temporary storage unit 51e and the storage and feeding unit 52e constitute the lower temporary storage and storage feeding unit 53e. ing.
[0031]
These temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e have the same width and depth, and are arranged so as to be vertically stacked with their positions in the left-right direction and the front-rear direction aligned with each other. As a result, the two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d, 53e arranged in an overlapped manner above and below all the temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40a, except for these temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d, 53e. It arrange | positions at the rear part side of the body 10 rather than 40c. These temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e can be pulled out from the machine body 10 during maintenance.
[0032]
Each of these temporary storage / accommodating and feeding sections 53d and 53e has a substantially rectangular tube-shaped casing 55 that takes in a bill of a corresponding denomination from the corresponding bill intake section 50 of the transport path 28 or the transport path 42, respectively. In addition, a pair of door-type doors as a partitioning means that can be opened and closed with a fixed height position where the temporarily stored banknotes taken into the housing 55 are placed while being stacked in the up-down direction with the front-back direction being the up-down direction. The flappers 56, 56 are provided above the flappers 56, 56 of the housing 55, and the temporarily stored banknotes placed on the flappers 56, 56 are pressed downward from above to open the flappers 56, 56. However, it has a pusher 57 that drops down, and an elevator 58 that can be moved up and down below the flappers 56 and 56 in the housing 55. Here, a portion below the flappers 56, 56 and above the elevator 58 in the housing 55 is a storage space 61 for storing a banknote for dispensing. In addition, these temporary storage / accommodating and feeding parts 53d and 53e can only feed banknotes from the banknote taking-in part 50 side, and cannot feed banknotes to the banknote taking-in part 50 side. Moreover, the banknote feeding part 54 for delivering a banknote to the conveyance path 42 is provided in the lowermost part of the storage space 61, and this banknote feeding part 54 pays out a banknote in the state in which the elevator 58 was located in the lowest position. It has become.
[0033]
Then, a space continuous in the vertical direction in the housing 55 is vertically divided by the flappers 56, 56, whereby the space above the flappers 56, 56 is defined in the temporary storage / storage feeding portion 53 d. The storage space 60 of the temporary storage unit 51d for temporarily storing banknotes is used, and the space below the flappers 56 and 56 is used as the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding unit 52d for storing banknotes. The banknote is transferred from the storage space 60 of the temporary storage section 51d to the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding section 52d by dropping the banknote accompanying the opening operation. Similarly, in the temporary storage / storage feeding portion 53e, the space above the flappers 56, 56 is used as the storage space 60 of the temporary storage portion 51e for temporarily storing banknotes, and the space below the flappers 56, 56 is used. The storage space 61 of the storage / feeding part 52e for storing banknotes is used, and when the banknote is dropped by the pusher 57 when the flappers 56 and 56 are opened, the storage space 60 of the temporary storage part 51e is moved to the storage space 61 of the storage / feeding part 52e. Banknotes are delivered.
[0034]
The flappers 56 and 56 have fixed support shafts 63 and 63 arranged parallel to each other and at the same height on the front and rear sides of the housing 55, respectively. Swing. The flappers 56 and 56 are placed in a closed state in which both end portions opposite to the support shaft 63 are brought close to each other in the housing 55 and are put into the upper storage space 60 in this state. A bill is placed on the upper side. Here, the flappers 56 and 56 are urged by a spring or the like (not shown) so as to be in a closed state. Further, when the flappers 56 and 56 are opened by turning downward from the closed state to the urging force, the placed banknotes are dropped into the lower storage space 61. Furthermore, the flappers 56 and 56 return to the closed state by turning upward from the open state.
[0035]
Here, the two temporary storage / accommodating and feeding parts 53d and 53e arranged in an overlapped manner in the vertical direction are both configured with the same size, but the storage parts are configured with different sizes. Also good.
[0036]
The vertical lengths of the two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e are the vertical lengths of the temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c described above other than the temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e. The width and depth are set equal to each other. As a result, the storage and feeding portions 52d and 52e of the temporary storage and storage feeding portions 53d and 53e store bills more than any of the storage and feeding portions 38a to 38c of the other temporary storage and storage feeding portions 40a to 40c. The capacity is low.
[0037]
Furthermore, the total vertical length of these two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e is substantially equal to the vertical length of each of the other temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c described above. The uppermost height position of the upper temporary storage / storage feeding portion 53d is equal to or less than the uppermost height position of the temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c, specifically, the same height position. Is set to
[0038]
Further, these two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e are arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body 10 in a state where the positions in the left-right direction are matched together with all the other temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c. Yes.
[0039]
Further, these two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e are arranged on the rear side of the body 10 with respect to all other temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c.
[0040]
In addition, these two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e are of a denomination type, and the upper temporary storage / storage feeding portion which is one of these two temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e. 53d is for 2,000 tickets (thousand-yen bills) with a small circulation volume, and the other temporary storage / storage / feeding part 53e is for 5,000 tickets (5,000 yen bills) with a small circulation volume. It is said that.
[0041]
Each process of the banknote depositing / withdrawing part 11 described above is demonstrated.
[0042]
"Payment processing (before payment is confirmed)"
When banknotes to be deposited by the operator are set in the banknote depositing port 21 and execution input of “payment processing” is made to the operation unit 14, the control unit (not shown) separates the banknotes one by one by the banknote depositing port 21. The fed banknotes are transported by the deposit processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. 3, which is composed of a predetermined portion of the transport path 28 and the banknote accepting section 32, and the identification result of the identifying section 29 in the middle is conveyed. Sort based on. That is, banknotes determined to be unidentifiable banknotes including counterfeit bills, multi-feeds, skewed banknotes, etc., are conveyed to the banknote outlet 20 and identified as true and dirty among banknotes determined to be genuine. Banknotes and true and positive banknotes that cannot be stored in the temporary storage / storage and feeding sections 40b and 40c are sent from the banknote intake section 32 to the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 40a. And the banknote identified as positive is made to correspond to one of the temporary storage parts 33a-33c of the temporary storage / storage delivery part 40a-40c, after the front and back are prepared by passing the front-back inversion part 30 suitably, respectively. Is sent from the banknote taking-in part 32. At this time, the shutters 36 and 36 are closed in the temporary storage units 33 a to 33 c, respectively, and the banknotes fed from the banknote intake unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36 and 36.
[0043]
Specifically, among the banknotes identified as true and positive, ten thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33b of the ten thousand ticket temporary storage / storage and feeding unit 40b, Temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33c of the storage and feeding unit 40c. Here, 2,000 tickets and 5,000 tickets other than these are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a in a mixed state. Furthermore, the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a includes, as described above, true and soiled banknotes and true and positive banknotes that cannot be stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding units 40b and 40c. It is sent.
[0044]
And if all the banknotes are once paid out from the banknote depositing port 21, and sent to either the banknote dispensing port 20 and temporary storage part 33a-33c of temporary storage and accommodation | feeding-out part 40a-40c, a control part will be closed. The shutter 22 of the banknote dispensing opening 20 in the state is opened, and the identification result of the identification unit 29 is displayed on a host machine (not shown). When the operator inputs a deposit confirmation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 from the display of the host machine, the control unit performs “storage processing” described later. In this case, the ten thousand tickets are stored in the storing and feeding section 38b from the temporary storing section 33b in the temporary storing and storing and feeding section 40b for 10,000 tickets, and the ten thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storing and storing and feeding section 40c for thousand tickets. Are stored in the storage and feeding unit 38c, but the other two thousand and five thousand tickets are in a mixed state because the temporary storage / storage and feeding units 53d and 53e are not suitable for the banknote return process. In the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a suitable for the return process, the temporary storage unit 33a temporarily stores the storage and feeding unit 38a. That is, in the flow from “payment processing” to “storage processing”, the two thousand tickets and five thousand tickets are not stored in the storage and feeding portions 52d and 52e for them, but “internal filling and dispensing replenishment processing” and “ It is stored in the storage and feeding sections 52d and 52e by “storage processing”. On the other hand, when the operator inputs a deposit cancellation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit performs “return processing” described later.
[0045]
"Withdrawal processing"
When an execution input of “withdrawal processing” is made by the operator to the host machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit stores each of the storing and feeding units 38b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of the temporary storage / storage and feeding units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e. The banknotes stored in 38c, 52d, and 52e are separated and fed one by one from the bottom one by the banknote feeding sections 39 and 54, and the thick lines in FIG. It conveys along the payment process route | root shown, and distributes based on the determination result of the determination part 43 in the middle.
[0046]
That is, the banknotes determined to be normal by the determination unit 43 are sent out to the banknote dispensing port 20, while all the abnormally transferred banknotes determined to be double feeding and skew among the banknotes determined to be abnormal by the determination unit 43. Of the banknotes sent to the reject storage unit 44 and determined to be abnormal by the determination unit 43, banknotes determined to be other than conveyance abnormality, that is, banknotes that cannot be determined and dirty banknotes, are temporarily stored and stored as an operation cassette. Temporary storage is performed in the temporary storage unit 33a of 40a.
[0047]
And when all the banknotes drawn out for withdrawal are sent to the reject storage part 44, the banknote withdrawal port 20, and the temporary storage part 33a, the temporary storage part 33a opens the shutters 36 and 36, The banknotes are dropped onto the flappers 46 and 46 of the storing and feeding part 38a in the closed state. Note that the banknotes placed on the flappers 46 and 46 are dropped downward from the flappers 46 and 46 at an appropriate timing and stored in the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding portion 38a.
[0048]
As described above, the banknotes that are determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination unit 43 among the banknotes that are fed out from the temporary storage / storage and feeding units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of the denominations during the withdrawal process cannot be fed out. While storing in the reject storing part 44 to be stored, all the banknotes determined to be indistinguishable by the determining part 43 are stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40a shared by a plurality of denominations. In the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a shared by the plurality of denominations, the stored banknotes are discriminated by the discriminating unit 43 and discriminated by the discriminating unit 29 in the “internal filling / distribution replenishment process” described later. -Distribute and store the corresponding denominations among the storage and payout units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e, and in the subsequent "withdrawal process", temporarily store and store and transfer units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of each denomination Therefore, even if the banknote determined to be an indeterminate banknote at the time of the withdrawal process is a banknote of any denomination, the distribution storage of the temporary storage / storage feeding units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e They are stored in the appropriate denominations and withdrawn from here.
[0049]
"Receipt distribution replenishment processing"
When the banknotes are replenished from the banknote depositing slot 21 to the storage / dispensing sections 38b, 38c, 52d, 52e of the temporary storage / accommodating and feeding sections 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e of the money type, the replenished banknote is set in the banknote depositing slot 21 by the operator. When the execution input of “payment slot distribution supplement processing” is input to the operation unit 14, the control unit (not shown) separates and feeds out the banknotes one by one through the banknote insertion slot 21. The banknotes are transported by the deposit port distribution and supplement processing route shown by a thick line in FIG. 5, which is configured by predetermined portions of the transport paths 28 and 42 and the banknote receiving sections 32 and 50, and based on the identification result of the identifying section 29 in the middle thereof. Distribute.
[0050]
That is, banknotes that are identified as unidentifiable banknotes including counterfeit bills, multi-feeds, skewed banknotes, and the like in the identification unit 29 are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and banknotes that are identified as true and dirty are: It is sent from the banknote taking-in part 32 to the temporary storage part 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40a. At this time, the shutter 36, 36 is closed in the temporary storage unit 33a, and the banknotes sent from the banknote intake unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36. And the other banknotes identified as true and positive are appropriately passed through the front / back reversing unit 30 and then the front and back are arranged, and then one corresponding one of the temporary storage units 33b, 33c, 51d, 51e of denominations The bills are fed from the bill accepting portions 32 and 50, respectively. At this time, the temporary storage units 33b and 33c are configured such that the shutters 36 and 36 are closed, and the banknotes taken from the banknote receiving unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36 and 36. In the temporary storage units 51d and 51e, the flappers 56 and 56 are closed, and the banknotes taken from the banknote intake unit 50 are temporarily stored in the storage space 60 above the flappers 56 and 56. .
[0051]
Specifically, ten thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33b of the ten thousand ticket temporary storage / storage and feeding unit 40b, and thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33c of the ten thousand ticket temporary storage / storage and feeding unit 40c. The two thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51d of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 53d, and the five thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51e of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 53e. In addition, each true and fouled banknote is fed into the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding section 40a.
[0052]
And if all the banknotes are once paid out from the banknote depositing port 21, and sent out to any of the banknote dispensing port 20 and temporary storage part 33a-33c, 51d, 51e, a control part will be in the banknote discharge state which was in a closed state. The shutter 22 of the mouthpiece 20 is opened, and the fact that the replenishment process has been completed is displayed on the host machine (not shown) together with the identification result of the identification unit 29. When the operator inputs a replenishment completion confirmation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 from the display of the host machine, the control unit performs “storage processing” described later.
[0053]
"Internal filling and dispensing replenishment process"
The banknotes (mainly two thousand and five thousand) stored in the storage / delivery unit 38a of the temporary storage / storage / delivery unit 40a by the “payment process” are temporarily stored / storage / delivery units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e according to denomination. In the case of replenishing banknotes, when the execution input of “internal filling / distribution replenishment process” is made to the operation unit 14, the control unit (not shown) separates the bottom banknotes one by one from the storing and feeding unit 38a. The fed banknotes are transported by an internal filling / distribution replenishment processing route indicated by a thick line in FIG. 6 constituted by predetermined portions of the transport paths 28 and 42 and the banknote taking-in section 32. Sorting is performed based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 43 and the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 29.
[0054]
That is, since the banknote that is determined to be abnormal in double feeding or skew feeding in the determination unit 43 has already been confirmed to be not a fake ticket at the time of deposit processing, it is sent to the reject storage unit 44 and determined to be indistinguishable and dirty. The banknotes are fed from the banknote taking-in section 32 to the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding section 40a. At this time, the shutter 36, 36 is closed in the temporary storage unit 33a, and the banknotes sent from the banknote intake unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36. Then, after the other banknotes are appropriately passed through the front / back reversing unit 30, the front and back sides are arranged, and then each banknote receiving unit 32 is associated with one of the temporary storage units 33 b, 33 c, 51 d, 51 e of each denomination. , 50. At this time, the temporary storage units 33b and 33c are configured such that the shutters 36 and 36 are closed, and the banknotes taken from the banknote receiving unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36 and 36. In the temporary storage units 51d and 51e, the flappers 56 and 56 are closed, and the banknotes taken from the banknote intake unit 50 are temporarily stored in the storage space 60 above the flappers 56 and 56. .
[0055]
Specifically, ten thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33b of the ten thousand ticket temporary storage / storage and feeding unit 40b, and thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33c of the ten thousand ticket temporary storage / storage and feeding unit 40c. The two thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51d of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 53d, and the five thousand tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51e of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 53e. Further, since each banknote stored in the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a is stored in the temporary storage / storage / feeding unit 40a, the banknotes are stored in the temporary storage / storage / feeding unit 40a. It is sent to the part 33a. The two thousand and five thousand tickets at the time of deposit are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage / feeding unit 40a in a mixed state in order to deal with the return process. ”Is distributed to each temporary storage / storage feeding portion 53d, 53e for withdrawal.
[0056]
In this way, banknotes stored in the storage and feeding unit 38a are sequentially sent to the temporary storage units 33b, 33c, 51d, and 51e, and when any one of them is full, the control unit temporarily stores the banknotes. The feeding of the banknotes from the feeding section 38a is stopped, the shutters 36 and 36 are opened for the temporary storage sections 33b and 33c, and the banknotes placed on the shutters 36 and 36 are brought close to the shutters 36 and 36 in the closed state. The banknotes are delivered to the flappers 46, 46 of the waiting storage and feeding portions 38b, 38c, and the flappers 46, 46 are lowered to a position where the banknotes placed on the flappers 46, 46 do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36. 36 is closed and the temporary storage portions 33b and 33c are emptied. On the other hand, the temporary storage units 51d and 51e are in a state where the banknotes already storing the elevator 58 are raised to a position where they do not interfere with the flappers 56 and 56, and the flappers 56 and 56 are pushed by the pusher 57 in this state. The banknotes are transferred onto the elevator 58 while being opened, and then the elevator 58 is lowered to a position where the banknotes do not interfere with the flappers 56 and 56, and the pusher 57 is raised to close the flappers 56 and 56. The above operation may be performed only for one of the temporary storage units 33b, 33c, 51d, and 51e. However, in order to reduce the number of interruptions of feeding from the storage feeding unit 38a, the above operation is performed. Do everything about things, including those that are not full.
[0057]
When the closing operation of the shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage units 33b and 33c and the closing operation of the flappers 56 and 56 of the temporary storage units 51d and 51e are completed, the control unit again returns the banknote from the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding unit 38a. The banknotes are fed out by the feeding unit 39, and the replenishment of banknotes is resumed.
[0058]
By repeating the above, all banknotes are temporarily paid out from the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding part 38a, and the temporary storage parts 33a to 33c, 51d of the reject storage part 44 and the temporary storage / storage delivery parts 40a to 40c, 53d, and 53e, When sent to any one of 51e, the control unit displays the fact that the replenishment process has been completed on the host device (not shown) together with the identification result of the identification unit 29. When the operator inputs a replenishment completion confirmation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 from the display of the host machine, the control unit performs “storage processing” described later.
[0059]
"External filling and dispensing replenishment process"
In the above description, the “internal filling / dispensing process” for distributing and replenishing the banknotes stored in the storing and feeding part 38a through the “payment process” has been described as an example. However, the replenishing banknotes outside the machine body 10 are stored in the storing and feeding part 38a. In the case of “external filling / dispensing process” in which the same filling and replenishing process is performed by filling the machine body 10 and performing the same dispensing and replenishing process, it is basically indicated by a thick line in FIG. Although processing is performed in the external filling / dispensing / replenishment processing route, since there is a possibility that the bills sent out from the storing and feeding unit 38a may include fake bills, the discriminating unit 43 or the identifying unit 29 includes fake bills. All the banknotes determined as indeterminable banknotes and the banknotes determined as conveyance abnormal banknotes such as double feed and skew feed are all sent out to the banknote outlet 20.
[0060]
And when all the banknotes are once paid out from the storage space 49 of the storage payout part 38a and sent out to any of the banknote dispensing port 20 and the temporary storage parts 33a to 33c, 51d, 51e, the control part is closed. The shutter 22 of the banknote withdrawal port 20 is opened, and the fact that the replenishment process is completed is displayed on a higher-level machine (not shown) together with the identification result of the identification unit 29. When the operator inputs a replenishment completion confirmation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 from the display of the host machine, the control unit performs “storage processing” described later.
[0061]
"Storage"
In the temporary storage / storage feeding sections 40a to 40c, 53d and 53e, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage sections 33a to 33c, 51d and 51e are stored in the storage spaces 49 and 61 of the storage and feeding sections 38a to 38c, 52d and 52e. Store.
[0062]
That is, when a deposit confirmation operation is input in the above-mentioned “payment processing”, or a replenishment completion confirmation operation is input in “payment port distribution supplement processing”, “internal filling distribution supplement processing” and “external filling distribution supplement processing” In this case, the control unit stores the banknotes of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, 51d, and 51e into the storage and feeding units 38a to 38c, 52d, and 52e, and the temporary storage unit 33a as shown in the storage processing route indicated by the bold line in FIG. The flappers in the closed state of the storing and feeding portions 38a to 38c, which are in standby operation by opening the shutters 36 and 36 of .about.33c and bringing the shutters 36 and 36 close to themselves or the upper part of the banknotes placed thereon. Deliver bills to 46 and 46. Subsequently, the control unit lowers the flappers 46, 46 to a position where the bill placed thereon does not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and closes the shutters 36, 36. Further, the flappers 46 and 46 are lowered and opened in a range not interfering with the amount of banknotes already stored in the storage space 49, and banknotes are received from the flappers 46 and 46 onto the banknotes already stored in the storage space 49. hand over. Thereafter, the flappers 46 and 46 are raised to the upper standby position and are closed.
[0063]
At the same time, the control unit raises the elevator 58 to a height corresponding to the amount of bills already stored in the storage space 61 for each of the storage and feeding units 52d and 52e, and then temporarily stores 51d and 51e. Each pusher 57 is lowered, and the bills on the flappers 56 and 56 are pressed downward to open the flappers 56 and 56, so that the bills are placed on the bills on the elevator 58 already stored in the storage space 61. Deliver. Thereafter, the elevator 58 is lowered to the lowest position.
[0064]
`` Organization counting process ''
When the specified denomination is counted and separated from the banknotes in which a plurality of denominations are mixed, the operator sets the banknote in the banknote deposit port 21 and inputs the execution of the “organization counting process” to the operation unit 14. A control unit (not shown) separates and feeds out banknotes one by one through the banknote deposit port 21, and the fed banknotes are configured by a predetermined portion of the transport path 28 and the banknote intake unit 32. 9 is transported by the organized counting processing route indicated by a thick line, and is distributed based on the identification result of the identification unit 29 in the middle thereof.
[0065]
That is, unidentifiable banknotes including counterfeit bills, and transport abnormal banknotes such as double feed and skew, banknotes that are identified as true and dirty, and banknotes of denominations that are not specified as true and positive, and true and positive Banknotes that are designated denominations and cannot be stored in the corresponding ones of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and the designated denomination among true and positive banknotes After passing through the front / back reversing part 30 as appropriate, the front and back are prepared, and then sent to the corresponding ones of the temporary storage parts 33a to 33c from the respective banknote taking-in parts 32 by denomination. At this time, the shutters 36 and 36 are closed in the temporary storage units 33 a to 33 c, respectively, and the banknotes fed from the banknote intake unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36 and 36.
[0066]
Specifically, for example, when organizing and counting thousand, two thousand, and five thousand tickets, among banknotes that are identified as true and positive, ten thousand tickets that are not designated are sent to the banknote dispensing outlet 20. The two thousand tickets are stored in the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 40a, the thousand tickets are stored in the temporary storage section 33b of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 40b, and the five thousand tickets are temporarily stored and stored. Temporary storage is performed in the temporary storage unit 33c of the feeding unit 40c.
[0067]
And if all the banknotes are once paid out from the banknote depositing port 21, and sent to either the banknote dispensing port 20 and temporary storage part 33a-33c, a control part will be the banknote dispensing port 20 which was in a closed state. The shutter 22 is opened, and the fact that the organizing and counting process has been completed is displayed on an upper unit (not shown) together with the identification result of the identification unit 29. When the operator inputs a confirmation counting completion confirmation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 from this display, the control unit performs “return processing” described later.
[0068]
"Return processing"
When the operator inputs a deposit cancellation operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 based on the display of the host machine as a result of the deposit process, and from the display of the host machine to the effect that the “sorting counting process” is completed, the operator When the confirmation counting completion confirmation operation is input to the host machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit enables the middle layer unit 25 to be pulled out from the machine body 10. Thereby, the operator pulls out the middle layer unit 25 as shown in FIG. 10 and takes out the banknotes from the temporary storage portions 33a to 33c.
[0069]
"Scrutinize"
(1) In the case of performing a scrutiny process for determining the number of banknotes in the storage space 49 in the storage and feeding section 38b, specifically, the number of tens of thousands of tickets in the storage space 49, in the storage and feeding section 38b of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 40b. When the operator inputs to the host machine or the operation unit 14 when the storing and feeding unit 38b is scrutinized, the upper side of the flappers 46 and 46 of the temporary storage unit 33b and the storing and feeding unit 38b is empty. The banknotes stored in the storage space 49 below the flappers 46 and 46 of the storage and feeding section 38b are separated and fed one by one from the bottom one by the banknote feeding section 39, and the transport path 42, 11 is transported along the first scrutinization processing route indicated by the bold line in FIG. 11, and sorting and counting are performed based on the discrimination results of the discrimination unit 43 and the discrimination unit 29 in the middle thereof. It is carried out.
[0070]
In other words, among the banknotes determined to be abnormal by the determination unit 43, the conveyance abnormal banknotes determined to be double feeding or skew are sent to the reject storage unit 44, and the banknotes determined to be abnormal by the determination unit 43 other than the conveyance abnormality The banknotes determined to be normal and the banknotes determined to be normal by the determination unit 43 are identified as denominations by the identification unit 29, the front and back reversing units 30 are arranged as necessary, and the identification unit 29 determines the denomination to be examined. The normal banknotes are sent to the temporary storage unit 33b of the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40b, and the different denomination banknotes determined by the identification unit 29 as other than the deliberation denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a. It is sent to 33a.
[0071]
In this way, the banknotes stored in the storage and feeding unit 38b are sequentially identified and counted by the identification unit 29, sent to the temporary storage unit 33b, and once the temporary storage unit 33b is full, the control unit temporarily Stops the feeding of banknotes from the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding part 38b, opens the shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage part 33b, and brings the shutters 36 and 36 close to themselves or the upper part of the banknotes placed thereon. The banknotes are delivered to the closed flappers 46, 46, and the flappers 46, 46 are lowered to a position where the banknotes placed thereon do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and the shutters 36, 36 are closed. The temporary storage unit 33b is emptied. However, at this time, it is necessary to separate the banknotes stored in the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding portion 38b, so that the banknotes on the flappers 46 and 46 are not dropped into the lower storage space 49.
[0072]
Then, when the banknote is delivered to the flappers 46, 46 of the temporary storage unit 33b and the closing operation of the shutters 36, 36 is completed, the control unit again feeds the banknotes from the storage space 49 of the storage feeding unit 38b by the banknote feeding unit 39, In the same manner as described above, discrimination by the discrimination unit 43 and discrimination count by the discrimination unit 29 are performed.
[0073]
By repeating the above, all the stored banknotes in the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding section 38b are paid out, and the reject storage section 44, the flappers 46 and 46 of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 40b, and the temporary storage section 33a. When the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding unit 38b is emptied, the control unit opens the shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage units 33a and 33b, and passes the banknotes onto the flappers 46 and 46. The flappers 46 and 46 are lowered to a position where the bills placed thereon do not interfere with the shutters 36 and 36, and the shutters 36 and 36 are closed. Further, with respect to the temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40b, the flappers 46, 46 are lowered to the lowest position and opened to deliver the bills to the empty storage space 49. Thereafter, the flappers 46, 46 are moved to the shutter 36. , 36 is raised to the upper standby position close to 36 and closed. The temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40a is opened by lowering the flappers 46, 46 to a height corresponding to the amount of banknotes already stored in the storage space 49, and is already stored in the storage space 49 from the flappers 46, 46. Then, the banknotes are delivered onto the banknotes, and then the flappers 46 and 46 are raised to the upper standby position close to the shutters 36 and 36 to be closed.
[0074]
By doing in this way, all the banknotes of the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding part 38b of the temporary storage / storage and feeding part 40b become normal banknotes of the denominations to be examined, and the number of sheets can be determined.
[0075]
As described above, the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40b, when paying out all the banknotes from the storage space 49 of the storage / feeding part 38b at the time of the scrutiny, The temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40b is a reflux scrutinization type temporary storage / storage feeding portion that feeds into the temporary storage portion 33b of the temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40b itself. The temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40b, which is such a reflux scrutinization type temporary storage / storage feeding portion, temporarily stores all banknotes once from the storage space 49, and temporarily stores the temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40b itself. The banknotes sent to the part 33 b are temporarily stored in the storage space 49 after all the banknotes have been paid out from the storage space 49.
[0076]
As described above, during the scrutiny processing, among the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40b, the banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination unit 43 are stored in the reject storage unit 44 that stores the banknotes in an undeliverable manner. All the banknotes determined to be indistinguishable by the determining unit 43 are stored in the temporary storage / storage / feeding-out unit 40a shared by a plurality of denominations. In the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a shared by the plurality of denominations, the stored banknotes are discriminated by the discrimination unit 43 and discriminated by the discrimination unit 29 in the “internal filling / dispensing / replenishment process”. Distribute and store in the corresponding denominations of the payout units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e, and in the subsequent “withdrawal process”, the temporary storage / storage and payout units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of each denomination are taken out. Therefore, even if the banknote that cannot be discriminated is a banknote of any denomination, it is stored in the appropriate denomination among the temporary storage / storage and feeding sections 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e by this distribution and storage. , Will be withdrawn from here.
[0077]
(2) In the case of performing a scrutiny process for determining the number of banknotes in the storage space 49 in the storage and feeding section 38c, specifically, the number of thousand tickets in the storage space 49, in the storage and feeding section 38c of the temporary storage / storage and feeding section 40c. In this case, the temporary storage unit 33b and the storage / feeding unit 38b are replaced with the temporary storage unit 33c and the storage / feeding-out unit 38c with respect to the scrutiny processing of the storage / feeding-out unit 38b. That is, the banknotes in the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding portion 38c are transported along the second scrutiny processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. Is temporarily emptied, and then the banknote whose number has been determined is stored in the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding section 38c.
[0078]
The temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40c is also a reflux scrutinization type temporary storage / storage feeding portion, similarly to the temporary storage / storage feeding portion 40b.
[0079]
(3) Scrutiny Process of Storage / Feeding Unit 52d When performing a scrutiny process to determine the number of bills in the storage space 61 in the storage / feeding unit 52d, specifically, the number of 2,000 tickets in the storage space 61, When the operation unit 14 receives an input when the storage and feeding unit 52d is subjected to a scrutiny process, the control unit stores the storage space below the flappers 56 and 56 of the storage and feeding unit 52d with the temporary storage unit 51d empty. The banknotes stored in 61 are separated one by one from the bottom one by the banknote feeding part 54 and fed out, and the third scrutiny processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. And sorting is performed based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 43 in the middle.
[0080]
In other words, the abnormally conveyed banknotes determined to be double-feed or skewed by the determination unit 43 are sent to the reject storage unit 44, and the normal banknotes determined to be normal by the determination unit 43 are lined up in the front and back reversing unit 30 as necessary. And is sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a. Furthermore, the banknote determined to be indistinguishable by the determination unit 43 is also sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a.
[0081]
In this way, when the banknotes stored in the storage and feeding unit 52d are sequentially sent to the temporary storage unit 33a and the temporary storage unit 33a is full, the control unit temporarily stores the banknotes from the storage and feeding unit 52d. The feeding is stopped, the shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage unit 33a are opened, and the bills are put into the flappers 46 and 46 in the closed state in which the shutters 36 and 36 are close to themselves or the uppermost portion of the bills placed thereon. Then, the flapper 46, 46 is lowered to a position where the bill placed thereon does not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and the shutters 36, 36 are closed to empty the temporary storage unit 33a.
[0082]
When the banknote is delivered to the flappers 46 and 46 of the temporary storage unit 33a and the closing operation of the shutters 36 and 36 is completed, the control unit again causes the banknote feeding unit 54 to feed out the banknote from the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding unit 52d. In the same manner as described above, the determination unit 43 performs determination and sends the temporary storage unit 33a.
[0083]
By repeating the above, all the stored banknotes in the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding section 52d are fed out and sent to either the reject storage section 44 or the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding section 40a, and the storage and feeding section. When the storage space 61 of 52d is emptied, the control unit opens the shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage unit 33a, delivers banknotes onto the flappers 46 and 46 of the storage and feeding unit 38a, and puts the flappers 46 and 46 thereon. Is lowered to a position where it does not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, the shutters 36, 36 are closed to empty the temporary storage unit 33a, and the flappers 46, 46 are stored in the storage and feeding unit 38a. After lowering in a range that does not interfere with the bills already stored in the space 49 and opening the bills, the bills on the flappers 46 and 46 are stored in the storage space 49. Moving the flapper 46 to the upper standby position to the closing operation.
[0084]
Thereafter, by executing the above-mentioned “internal filling and dispensing replenishment process” and “storage process”, the banknotes stored in the storage and feeding part 38a of the temporary storage / storage and feeding part 40a are fed out, and the identification part 29 performs identification and counting. From among them, only the banknotes stored in the storage and feeding portion 52d of the temporary storage and storage feeding portion 53d, that is, two thousand tickets, are sent to the storage and feeding portion 52d of the temporary storage and storage feeding portion 53d via the temporary storage portion 51d. Thus, the banknote of the deliberation object denomination is stored in the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding section 52d with the determined number.
[0085]
As described above, the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 53d, when paying out all the banknotes from the storage space 61 of the storage / feeding part 52d and emptying the storage space 61 during the scrutinization processing, The normal banknote, which is the main banknote, is an other use scrutinization type temporary storage / storage feeding section that feeds the normal banknote to the temporary storage section 33a of the used temporary storage / storage feeding section 40a other than the temporary storage / storage feeding section 53d. Then, the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 53d, which is such other use scrutinization type temporary storage / storage feeding unit, once pays out all the banknotes from the storage space 61, and then temporarily stores and stores the used space in the storage space 61. The bills fed from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a, which is a storage and feeding unit, are stored.
[0086]
(4) Scrutiny Process of Storage / Feeding Unit 52e When performing a scrutiny process for determining the number of bills in the storage space 61 in the storage / feeding unit 52e, specifically, the number of five thousand tickets in the storage space 61, the storage / feeding unit 53d. For the detailed inspection process, the temporary storage unit 51d and the storage and feeding unit 52d are replaced with the temporary storage unit 51e and the storage and feeding unit 52e. That is, after the banknote is transported along the fourth scrutiny processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. 14 configured by a predetermined portion of the transport paths 42 and 28, the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding portion 52e is once emptied, The banknotes whose number has been determined by the “filling / dispensing / replenishing process” and the “accommodating process” are stored in the storing space 61 of the storing and feeding part 52e.
[0087]
(5) Scrutiny Processing of the Storage / Feeding Unit 38a of the Temporary Storage / Storage / Feeding Unit 40a The scrutinization processing of the storage space 49 of the storage / feeding unit 38a is the “internal filling / distribution replenishment processing” described above for the banknotes stored through the “payment processing”. (See FIG. 6), the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding portion 38a is once emptied, and the denomination is located above the flappers 46 and 56 of the temporary storage and storage and feeding portions 40a to 40c, 53d, and 53e. The banknotes with the determined number of sheets are accumulated, and then the above-described “storage process” is performed, whereby the banknotes with the determined denomination and number of sheets are stored in the storage spaces 49 and 61 of the storage and feeding portions 38a to 38c, 52d, and 52e. To do.
[0088]
"Recovery processing"
When the banknotes stored in the temporary storage / storage and feeding sections 40a to 40c, 53d, and 53e are collected, if the operator makes an input when performing a collection process on the host machine or the operation section 14, the control section temporarily In the state where the upper side of the flappers 46 and 46 of the storage units 33b and 33c and the storage and feeding units 38b and 38c is empty, the banknotes stored in the storage space 49 of the storage and feeding units 38b and 38c are placed at the bottom by the banknote feeding unit 39. The banknotes that are stored in the storage space 61 of the storage and feeding sections 52d and 52e in the state where the temporary storage sections 51d and 51e are empty are separated by the banknote feeding section 54. Separate and feed them one by one. And these banknotes are conveyed along the collection | recovery process route shown by the thick line in FIG. 15 comprised by the predetermined part of the conveyance paths 42 and 28, and sort based on the discrimination | determination result of the discrimination | determination part 43 in the middle.
[0089]
In other words, the abnormally conveyed banknotes determined to be double-fed or skewed by the determination unit 43 are sent to the reject storage unit 44, and the banknotes determined to be normal by the determination unit 43 are temporarily stored and stored without the front and back sides being arranged. All are sent to the temporary storage part 33a of the feeding part 40a. Furthermore, the banknote determined to be indistinguishable by the determination unit 43 is also sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a.
[0090]
Thus, when a banknote is sent into the temporary storage part 33a and the temporary storage part 33a becomes full, a control part will once stop feeding of the banknote from the accommodation | drawer supply part 38b, 38c, 52d, 52e, The shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage unit 33a are opened, and the banknotes are placed on the flappers 46 and 46 of the storing and feeding unit 38a waiting in the closed state with the banknotes placed on the shutters 36 and 36 close to the shutters 36 and 36. Then, the flapper 46, 46 is lowered to a position where the bill placed thereon does not interfere with the shutter 36, 36, and the shutter 36, 36 is closed to empty the temporary storage part 33a.
[0091]
When the banknote is delivered to the flappers 46 and 46 of the temporary storage unit 33a and the closing operation of the shutters 36 and 36 is completed, the control unit again feeds the banknote from the storage spaces 49 and 61 of the storage and feeding units 38b, 38c, 52d, and 52e. The bills are fed out by the portions 39 and 54 and sent to the temporary storage portion 33a in the same manner as described above.
[0092]
By repeating the above, all the stored banknotes are paid out from the storage spaces 49 and 61 of the storage and feeding parts 38b, 38c, 52d and 52e, and sent to either the reject storage part 44 or the temporary storage part 33a. When the storage spaces 49 and 61 of 38b, 38c, 52d, and 52e are emptied, the control unit opens the shutters 36 and 36 of the temporary storage unit 33a and delivers banknotes onto the flappers 46 and 46 of the storage and feeding unit 38a. The flappers 46, 46 are lowered to a position where the bills placed thereon do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, the shutters 36, 36 are closed, the temporary storage part 33a is emptied, and the flapper 46 , 46 is lowered in a range not interfering with the bills already stored in the storage space 49 of the storage feeding portion 38a, and the flapper 46, After the bill on 6 is housed in the housing space 49, thereby closing operation to move the flapper 46 to the upper standby position.
[0093]
As described above, all the banknotes in the storage spaces 49 and 61 of the storage and feeding sections 38b, 38c, 52d, and 52e are stored in the storage and feeding section 38a, the lower layer unit 26 is pulled out from the machine body 10, and the storage and feeding section 38a is machined. 10 is taken out and bills are collected.
[0094]
In addition, since the storing and feeding portion 38a may become full before storing all the banknotes in the storing spaces 49 and 61 of the storing and feeding portions 38b, 38c, 52d and 52e in the storing and feeding portion 38a, At this point, the process is interrupted, and when the storage and feeding unit 38a that has been emptied after the banknote is taken out is reloaded, the process is resumed. When at least one of the storage and feeding portions 38b and 38c is also detachable from the lower layer unit 26, when it cannot be stored in the storage and feeding portion 38a, it is stored in the detachable storage and feeding portions 38b and 38c. You may make it collect | recover.
[0095]
As described above, according to the money depositing / dispensing machine of the reference technology , in the banknote depositing / dispensing unit 11, the temporary storage / storage / delivery units 40 b, 40 c, 53 d, by type of money, during the withdrawal process and the scrutiny process, Among the banknotes fed out from 53e, banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination unit 43 are stored in the reject storage unit 44 that stores the banknotes in an undeliverable manner, while banknotes determined to be indeterminate by the determination unit 43 are stored. These are all stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a shared by a plurality of denominations. In the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40a shared by the plurality of denominations, the stored banknotes are discriminated by the discrimination unit 43 and discriminated by the discrimination unit 29 in the “internal filling / dispensing / replenishment process”. Distribute and store in the corresponding denominations of the payout units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e, and in the subsequent “withdrawal process”, the temporary storage / storage and payout units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of each denomination are taken out. Therefore, even if the banknote that cannot be discriminated is a banknote of any denomination, it is stored in the appropriate denomination among the temporary storage / storage and feeding sections 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e by this distribution and storage. , Will be withdrawn from here.
[0096]
Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of banknotes stored in the reject storage unit 44 that stores banknotes so that they cannot be fed out, and the number of times that the apparatus stops due to the rejection storage unit 44 becoming full can be suppressed.
[0097]
In the above reference technique , among the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding sections 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e, all the banknotes determined to be indistinguishable by the determining section 43 are shared by a plurality of denominations. Although the case where it stores in the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40a was demonstrated as an example, in one Embodiment of this invention , the discrimination | determination part 43 among the banknotes paid out from temporary storage / storage feeding part 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e. The denomination is identified by the discriminating unit 29, and the banknotes that are discriminated as being indistinguishable by the discriminating unit are stored in the corresponding denominations according to the discrimination result among the temporary storage / storage feeding units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e. to. If comprised in this way, about the banknote which cannot be discriminate | determined by the discrimination | determination part 43 for some reasons other than conveyance abnormality, it will identify again by the discrimination | determination part 29, and will be temporarily stored and accommodated delivery part 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e. Can be stored in an appropriate denomination.
[0098]
【The invention's effect】
As described in detail above, according to the banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1 of the present invention, among banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit, for banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination unit, The banknotes are stored in the reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in an undeliverable manner, but the banknotes that are determined to be indistinguishable by the discriminating unit, that is, those that are once identified and stored as authentic by the discriminating unit are abnormally conveyed. For banknotes that cannot be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason other than the above, the bills can be fed out again by storing them in the temporary storage / storage and feeding unit. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of banknotes stored in the reject storage unit that stores banknotes in an undeliverable manner, and the number of times that the apparatus is stopped due to the rejection storage unit becoming full can be suppressed.
[0100]
Further , among the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit, the banknotes determined as being transported abnormally by the determination unit are stored in the reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in an undeliverable manner. For banknotes that have been determined to be indistinguishable, that is, for banknotes that have been once identified and stored by the recognition unit but cannot be determined by the determination unit for any reason other than abnormal transport, And stored in a temporary storage / storage / feeding-out portion of an appropriate denomination according to the identification result, and withdrawn from here. Accordingly, indeterminate banknotes that cannot be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason other than abnormal conveyance can be identified again by the discriminating unit and stored in the temporary storage / storage / feeding-out unit of an appropriate denomination.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a money depositing and dispensing machine as a reference technique of a bill depositing and dispensing machine of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a side sectional view showing a schematic configuration of a banknote depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing a deposit processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing part of the same money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 4 is a side sectional view showing a dispensing processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing part of the same money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 5 is a side sectional view showing a deposit port distribution supplement processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing part of the same money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 6 is a side sectional view showing an internal filling / dispensing replenishment processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing part of the same money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 7 is a side sectional view showing an external filling / distribution replenishment processing route of a banknote depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 8 is a side sectional view showing a storage processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 9 is a side cross-sectional view showing a sorting and counting processing route of a banknote depositing and dispensing unit of the same money depositing and dispensing machine.
FIG. 10 is a side sectional view showing a state in which the middle layer unit is pulled out during the return process of the banknote depositing / dispensing unit of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 11 is a side sectional view showing a first scrutinization processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 12 is a side sectional view showing a second scrutinization processing route of a banknote depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 13 is a side sectional view showing a third scrutinization processing route of the banknote depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 14 is a side sectional view showing a fourth scrutinization processing route of the banknote depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
FIG. 15 is a side sectional view showing a collection processing route of a banknote depositing / dispensing part of the money depositing / dispensing machine.
[Explanation of symbols]
21 Banknote deposit port 29 Identification part 40a Temporary storage / storage feeding part (Temporary storage / storage feeding part shared by multiple denominations)
40b, 40c, 53d, 53e Temporary storage / accommodation payout part (temporary storage / accommodation payout part of money type)
43 Discrimination part 44 Reject storage part
