JP4411777B2 - Banknote storage device for banknote identification machine - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a banknote storage device, and more particularly, to a banknote storage device that can be stored in a single storage box with two or more types of banknotes having different lengths in the transport direction in a banknote identification machine mounted on a vending machine or the like. .
[0002]
[Prior art]
The vending machine is equipped with a banknote discriminator adapted to identify the inserted banknotes and store the banknotes in the banknote storage device after purchasing the product. An overview of this bill validator is shown in FIGS.
[0003]
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the bill validator as seen from the front side, and FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the bill validator as seen from the back side.
The bill validator 100 is attached from the inside of the front door of the vending machine and has a bill insertion slot 101 for inserting bills on the front. The banknote insertion slot 101 is connected to a banknote identification unit 102 that is arranged on the back side and performs authenticity determination of a banknote inserted from the banknote insertion slot 101. The banknote recognition unit 102 is mounted on the frame unit 104 together with the banknote storage device 103 that stores inserted banknotes, and constitutes a banknote recognition machine 100 that can handle, for example, a thousand yen banknote.
[0004]
FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a cross section of the bill validator.
In the bill validator 100 configured as described above, when a thousand yen bill is inserted from the bill insertion slot 101, the insertion of the bill is detected, the conveyance motor is activated, and the conveyance mechanism operates. The transport mechanism transports the inserted banknotes into the apparatus along the guide 105 and transports the banknote identification unit 102. During the conveyance, the bill recognition unit 102 determines the authenticity of the bill. Here, if it is not determined to be a genuine note, the transport mechanism reversely operates at that time and returns the bill to the bill insertion slot 101. If it is determined to be a genuine note, the bill is further transported and the bill is When the sensor detects that a certain position has been passed, the transport motor is braked to stop the bill at the storage position.
[0005]
At this time, the stopped banknote is held between the transport roller 106 and the pressing roller 107 of the transport mechanism in the transport path of the banknote storage device 103, and is held by the pressure pressed by the pressing roller 107.
[0006]
Here, when the commodity is purchased, the transport roller 106 further feeds the banknote, and when the rear end of the banknote passes through the transport roller 106 and the pressing roller 107, the banknote falls into the transport path of the banknote storage device 103, and the leading edge Comes into contact with the tip of the transport path. Thereafter, the pusher 108 moves in the right direction in the figure, whereby the banknotes in the transport path are pushed into the storage box 109 of the banknote storage apparatus 103. Thereby, the banknotes are arranged and stored in a stacked state in the storage box 109. When the banknote is pushed in by the pusher 108, the rear end of the banknote moves over the banknote receiving lever 110 protruding into the storage box 109 and is moved into the storage box 109. Thereby, the rear end of the banknote after being stored is received by the banknote receiving lever 110, and the central portion of the banknote is not bent and enters the transport path.
[0007]
8A and 8B are diagrams for explaining the operation of the bill receiving lever, in which FIG. 8A shows a state where the bill receiving lever receives a stored bill, and FIG. 8B shows a stored state of a stored bill when there is no bill receiving lever. Is shown.
[0008]
The stored banknotes 111 pushed into the storage box 109 by the pusher 108 are aligned and stored in the storage box 109 in a stacked state. The transport path side surface of the storage case 109 has an opening at the center for pushing in bills, and the storage bills 111 are only held at both ends in the drawing in the storage case 109. For this reason, the stored banknote 111 stored in the storage box 109 hangs down at the center of the figure and enters the transport path. In order to prevent this state, the banknote receiving lever 110 receives the central part on the rear end side in the transport direction of the stored banknote 111 as shown in FIG. Thereby, as shown in (B), the central part on the rear end side of the stored banknote 111 hangs down to the space of the conveyance path sandwiched by the guides 112 that guide both side parts of the conveyance banknote, It can avoid that it interferes with the front-end | tip of the conveyed banknote.
[0009]
By the way, in recent years, 2000 yen banknotes have been issued, and vending machines are desired to deal with 2000 yen banknotes. In this case, it is possible to cope with the cost increase by configuring the bill storage device to mix and store the thousand yen bill and the two thousand yen bill.
[0010]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, since the thousand yen banknote has a length of 150 mm and the two thousand yen banknote has a length of 154 mm, the length of the storage must be increased in accordance with the length of the two thousand yen banknote. There are the following problems in storing bills of different lengths in a cabinet.
[0011]
FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram enlarging the part A of FIG.
When the thousand yen banknote 114 is mixed and stored in a storage box that is elongated according to the length of the two thousand yen banknote 113, the leading ends of the two thousand yen banknote 113 and the thousand yen banknote 114 touch the stopper in the transport path of the banknote storage device. Since it comes into contact and stops, it is loaded and stored in a state where the front end positions are aligned, and the rear end of the banknotes becomes uneven as shown in the figure. For this reason, when the thousand yen banknote 114 with a short length is stored in the storage, the wrapping length with the banknote receiving lever 110 is shorter than that of the two thousand yen banknote 113, so that the banknote receiving lever 110 is detached. There is a high possibility, and when the detached banknote is a thousand-yen banknote 114a with a curled saddle, its rear end enters the transport path and may interfere with the next transported banknote 115. When the bill receiving lever 110 is lengthened so that the thousand yen bill 114 does not come off from the bill receiving lever 110, the pusher moves so that the rear end of the two thousand yen bill 113 gets over the bill receiving lever 110. Since it is necessary to increase the distance, the number of stored sheets decreases accordingly.
[0012]
Also, a transport mechanism is provided in the transport path of the banknote storage device so that the rear end of the banknote wrapped with the banknote receiving lever 110 is stopped at the same position regardless of the length of the banknote while the transport mechanism holds the banknote. In this case, the drive system must be brought into the conveyance path, so that the number of parts in the apparatus increases and the structure cannot be simplified. In addition, since the transport mechanism holds the banknote, when the banknote is lifted by the pusher, the pressure applied to the transport roller of the transport mechanism becomes resistance and the load applied to the pusher increases, and the life of the motor that operates the pusher is shortened. Become.
[0013]
Furthermore, if the transport motor is braked to control the stop position of the transported banknote, the stop position of the banknote becomes unstable due to variations in the load of the transport system, motors, ambient temperature, and the like.
[0014]
This invention is made | formed in view of such a point, and it aims at providing the banknote accommodating apparatus of the banknote identification machine which can accommodate the banknote from which length differs reliably.
[0015]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In the present invention, in order to solve the above-described problem, a determination is made by a conveying unit that conveys a banknote inserted from an insertion slot, an identification unit that determines the authenticity of a banknote conveyed by the conveying unit, and the identification unit. In a banknote storage device of a banknote discriminator provided with a banknote storage section in which banknotes are pushed in and stored by a pusher mechanism, after the banknotes arranged on the downstream side of the transport means of the recognition section and slipped out of the transport means A bill rear end holding means for holding the end, and the bill rear end holding means is an extension in the bill storage part that extends a guide plate on the side where the pusher mechanism constituting the transport path of the identification part is provided. There is provided a banknote storage device for a banknote discriminator characterized by having a pressing member that presses the rear end of the banknote that has come out of the transport means .
[0016]
According to the banknote storage apparatus of such a banknote identification machine, since it has a structure which hold | maintains the rear end of the banknote conveyed by the conveyance path in a banknote storage part by a banknote rear end holding means, it slips out from a conveyance means. The banknotes that have lost their conveying power are always stopped at the same position at the rear end. In this state, since the banknotes are pushed into the banknote storage unit by the pusher mechanism, the banknotes are aligned and stored in a state where the banknote rear ends are aligned. Thereby, the banknote receiving lever which holds the central part of the rear end of the banknotes arranged and stored in the banknote storing section can hold all the banknotes securely, and the banknote receiving lever is lengthened according to the length of the short banknote. Since there is no need, the number of stored sheets does not decrease.
[0017]
In addition, since the conveying means is provided not in the banknote storage part having the movable part but in the identification part, the structure for transmitting power to the conveying means can be simplified, and in the banknote storage part, the banknote is only used by the banknote trailing edge holding means. Since it is held, the load applied to the pusher mechanism is small, and the life of the motor that operates the pusher is not shortened.
[0018]
Furthermore, since the banknote which lost conveyance power is stopped by the frictional force by hold | maintaining with a banknote trailing edge holding means in the conveyance path of a banknote storage part, excessive sending to a banknote storage part is prevented, The stop position is not affected by variations in transport system load, motor variations, ambient temperature differences, etc., and stops at a stable position and can be stored in an aligned manner by the pusher mechanism. The center of the end can be securely held by the banknote receiving lever.
[0019]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, taking as an example a case where the present invention is applied to a banknote storage device capable of mixing and storing thousand yen bills and two thousand yen bills.
[0020]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a cross section of a banknote discriminator provided with a banknote storage device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory view enlarging part A of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view showing a banknote receiving lever.
[0021]
The bill validator 1 includes a bill insertion slot 2 provided on the front of the vending machine, a bill validator 3 and a bill storage device 4, and the bill storage device 4 stores a bill. 5 and a pusher 6 for pushing bills into the storage 5. Further, a guide 7 that guides the banknote from the banknote slot 2 to the banknote storage device 4 is provided, and a transport mechanism that transports the banknote along the guide 7 is provided. In the figure, only the conveyance roller 8 and the pressing roller 9 provided at the position of the outlet of the banknote identification unit 3 are illustrated. The pressing roller 9 is urged by a coil spring or the like with respect to the conveying roller 8 so as to apply a conveying force to the banknote held by these rollers.
[0022]
A guide plate 10 on the pusher 6 side that constitutes the guide 7 of the bill recognition unit 3 is formed integrally with the guide plate in the bill storage device 4. A banknote receiving lever 11 is pivotally supported by a fulcrum shaft 12 in a banknote storage device 4 that is a few millimeters downstream from the transport roller 8 and the pressing roller 9 of the transport mechanism. The banknote receiving lever 11 has a flat banknote receiving surface for holding the rear end of the stored banknotes on the storage 5 side, and a protrusion 13 on the surface on the pusher 6 side. The protrusion 13 is formed of plastic integrally with the banknote receiving lever 11. Moreover, the protrusion part 13 is protrudingly provided in the both sides of the width direction of the banknote receiving surface of the banknote receiving lever 11, and the center part between them is concave shape. Further, the bill receiving lever 11 is urged by the coil spring 14 so that the projection 13 abuts against the guide plate 10 of the bill storage device 4. The protrusion 13 urged by the coil spring 14 constitutes a bill rear end holding means.
[0023]
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the bill validator showing a state in which the storage is removed.
The banknote receiving lever 11 is located at the center in the width direction of the banknote transport path, and the transport roller 8 and the pressing roller 9 of the transport mechanism are respectively provided at positions of guides 15 that guide both ends of the banknote on both sides of the transport path. ing.
[0024]
In the bill validator 1 configured as described above, when a bill is inserted from the bill insertion slot 2, it is introduced into the apparatus along the guide 7 by the transport mechanism. When the bill is determined to be authentic by the bill recognition unit 3 and is determined to be a genuine note, the bill is sent out to the back of the bill storage device 4 by the transport roller 8 and the pressing roller 9. When a bill is conveyed into the bill storage device 4, the tip of the bill passes through between the protrusion 13 of the bill receiving lever 11 and the guide plate 10 and is sent out. At this time, the protruding portions 13 spaced apart from the banknote receiving lever 11 press the transport banknote against the guide plate 10 at two points off the central position of the banknote, for example, a banknote that is bent into a V shape. The center is not touched.
[0025]
When the trailing edge of the banknote comes out of the transport roller 8 and the pressing roller 9, the banknote stops at that time. This is because the banknote that has entered the banknote storage device 4 is always pressed against the guide plate 10 by the banknote receiving lever 11, so that a frictional force is generated there, and both side ends are the transport roller 8 and the pressing roller. 9, the paper is transported by overcoming the frictional force. However, when the transporting force by the roller 9 and the pressing roller 9 is lost and the transporting force by them is lost, the protrusion of the banknote receiving lever 11 at that time It will be caught by the part 13 and stopped. That is, the bill is stopped such that the rear end is located at a position immediately after it has come out of the transport roller 8 and the pressing roller 9.
[0026]
The stopped banknote is then pushed into the storage 5 by the pusher 6 in the state of the position. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 1, the stored banknotes 16 stored in the storage 5 are arranged in a mixed state in which 1000 yen banknotes and 2000 yen banknotes having different lengths are stacked. Is that the leading edges of the banknotes are irregular, but are stored with the trailing edges of the banknotes aligned. This means that the rear end of the stored bill 16 is reliably held by the bill receiving lever 11 regardless of the length of the bill. Therefore, it is possible to avoid the adverse effect caused by the rear end of the banknotes being irregular, that is, the situation where the rear end of the banknote is detached from the banknote receiving lever 11 and interferes with the next banknote to be conveyed.
[0027]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, in the present invention, the bill trailing edge holding means is arranged on the downstream side of the conveying means of the identification unit, and the trailing edge of the bill that has come out of the conveying means is held. Thereby, since the banknote receiving lever can reliably hold the banknote rear end by being able to align and store in the banknote storage portion with the rear end of the banknotes aligned, like the thousand yen banknote and the two thousand yen banknote, a child storing bills of different lengths in mixture so that it is.
[0028]
Moreover, since the shape of the banknote receiving lever used in the banknote discriminator dedicated to one denomination is modified, the structure of the banknote rear end holding means for holding banknotes can be simplified without increasing the number of parts. Can be realized.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a cross section of a bill validator equipped with a bill storage device according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram enlarging an A part in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view showing a bill receiving lever.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the bill validator showing a state where a storage is removed.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the bill validator as seen from the front side.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the bill validator as seen from the back side.
FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a cross section of the bill validator.
FIGS. 8A and 8B are diagrams for explaining the operation of the banknote receiving lever, in which FIG. 8A shows a state in which the banknote receiving lever receives a stored banknote, and FIG. 8B shows storage of a stored banknote when there is no banknote receiving lever; Indicates the state.
FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram enlarging a part A of FIG. 7;
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote identification machine 2 Banknote insertion port 3 Banknote identification unit 4 Banknote storage device 5 Storage 6 Pusher 7 Guide 8 Conveyance roller 9 Pressing roller 10 Guide plate 11 Bill receiving lever 12 Supporting shaft 13 Protrusion part 14 Coil spring 15 Guide 16 Storage banknote

Claims (4)

Conveying means for conveying the banknote inserted from the slot, an identifying part for determining the authenticity of the banknote conveyed by the conveying means, and the banknote determined by the identifying part are pushed in and stored by the pusher mechanism. In a banknote storage device of a banknote discriminator provided with a banknote storage unit,
A banknote rear end holding unit that is disposed on the downstream side of the transport unit of the identification unit and holds the rear end of the banknote that has come out of the transport unit ;
The banknote trailing edge holding means is a trailing edge of the banknote that has escaped from the conveying means to an extension part in the banknote storage part that extends a guide plate on the side on which the pusher mechanism constituting the conveying path of the identification part is provided. The banknote storage apparatus of the banknote identification machine characterized by having the pressing member which presses . The pressing member is integrated with a banknote receiving lever provided at a central position in the width direction so as to restrict the central part of the rear end of the banknotes aligned and stored in the banknote storage part from entering the transport path in the banknote storage part. The banknote storage apparatus of the banknote identification machine of Claim 1 currently formed. 3. The banknote storage device for a banknote discriminator according to claim 2, wherein the pressing member is biased toward the extension by a spring provided on the banknote receiving lever pivotally supported. . The banknote storage device for a banknote discriminator according to claim 2, wherein the pressing member has a concave surface in contact with the banknote.

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