JP4530115B2 - Medium storage for automated teller machines - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a medium storage in an automatic teller machine.
[0002]
[Prior art]
The structure of the medium storage of the conventional automatic teller machine will be described with reference to FIG.
In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a medium storage, and medium storage units 2 and 3 for each bill (for example, a unit for storing 10,000-yen bills and thousand-yen bills, and storage for other bill storages if necessary. A banknote is prepared.), There are a reject banknote storage unit 4 and a forgotten banknote storage unit 5, and branch units 6 and 7 for conveying banknotes to the reject banknote storage unit 4 and the forgotten banknote storage unit 5, respectively. Arranged and connected by a transport path 8.
[0003]
Moreover, as a structure of the depositing / withdrawing machine 12 which withdraws / withdraws a banknote in the said media storage 1, there exist a banknote depositing / withdrawing port 9, the temporary storage part 10, the discrimination part 11, etc., and these are connected by the said conveyance path 8. FIG. .
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
According to the medium storage having such a configuration, the reject banknote storage unit and the forgotten banknote storage unit each need a branching unit, and the entire structure is connected to each other by a conveyance path. There is a problem of growing.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Therefore media repository automated teller machine of the present invention, a stacking guide having one end uptake roller communicating with the transport path of the medium body is constituted by opposing the two holding member so as to face provided in the integrated guide A bill holder that is movable in the vertical direction and biased downward is provided above, tilted with respect to the stacking guide below the stacking guide so that the rotation shaft is positioned below and the free end is positioned above provided the energized rejected bills stage from the lower side in the orientation positioned on the roller side uptake free end, further, the movable switch plate is provided between the banknote suppressed and rejected bills stage sandwiching the integrated guide, the uptake roller Rejected banknotes taken into the stacking guide from the banknotes and banknotes forgotten to be stacked are stacked on the reject banknote storage unit on the reject banknote stage by switching plates. It characterized in that it was to house to pick up forgotten bill storage portion on the id.
[0006]
Further, in the medium storage of the automatic teller machine having the above configuration, the switching plate moved to a position below the stacking guide so as to stack the reject banknotes stacked on the stacking guide on the reject banknote stage is positioned above the stacking guide. In conjunction with this, the free end of the reject banknote stage moves upward, and the end on the free end side of the banknotes stacked on the reject banknote stage is pressed against the lower surface of the stacking guide. And
[0007]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of an automatic teller machine, FIG. 2 is a side explanatory view of a reject banknote storage section and a forgotten banknote taking-in storage section, FIG. 3 is an explanatory front view thereof, and FIG. In the figure, the automatic teller machine comprises a depositing / dispensing machine 12 and a medium storage 13 for performing bill depositing / dispensing processing.
[0008]
The structure of the depositing / dispensing machine 12 that allows the banknote 13 to be inserted into and exited from the medium storage 13 to be described later is the same as that of the conventional one. For example, the banknote depositing / dispensing port 9 for delivering banknotes, temporarily holding the deposited banknotes temporarily There are a part 10, a banknote denomination, authenticity, and a discrimination part 11 that discriminates between good and bad.
A medium storage 13 has the following configuration.
[0009]
There are medium storage units 14 and 15, and banknotes discriminated by the discrimination unit 11 are stored for each denomination to prepare for withdrawals and deposits (for example, storage units for 10,000-yen bills and thousand-yen bills; other bills) If you need another storage, a storage for that will be prepared.) Each of the medium storage units 14 and 15 includes a guide or the like that includes a plurality of rollers and a motor and that can operate to separate and pay out bills and move up and down, and stacks the bills conveyed one by one in the guide. The medium is stored and ejected by the vertical movement.
[0010]
The medium storage 13 further includes a reject banknote storage unit 16 and a forgotten banknote storage unit 17.
As shown in FIG. 2, the reject banknote storage unit 16 and the forgotten banknote storage unit 17 have an integral structure. In other words, there is a movable bill holder 19 which is biased and pressed by a spring 18 at the upper part, and two holding bodies 20 having substantially the same U-shaped cross section and different lengths are opposed to the groove side at the lower part. There is a stacking guide 21 that supports and holds both sides of the banknotes by the grooves of the two holding bodies 20, and a take-up roller 22 is disposed facing the end of the stacking guide 21. The upper surface of the stacking guide 21 and the upper side thereof are left as the banknote storage unit 17.
[0011]
Below the stacking guide 21 is a reject banknote stage 23. One end of the reject banknote stage 23 is rotatably held, the other end is a free end, and is urged and pressed toward the stacking guide 21 by a spring 24. The upper surface of the reject banknote stage 23 is rejected by the reject banknote storage unit 16. It is as.
Reference numeral 25 denotes a switching plate, which can move between the banknote holder 19 and the reject banknote stage 23 through the holding body 20 of the stacking guide 21, and the banknotes stacked on the stacking guide 21 are rejected by the reject banknote storage unit 16 or It is made to store in the banknote storage part 17 which it forgets to remove.
[0012]
The take-in roller 22 is continuously arranged along a conveyance path 26 that connects the depositing / dispensing machine 12 such as the temporary storage unit 10 and the medium storage 13.
The flow of banknotes in each transaction of the automatic teller machine having the above configuration will be described below.
(Deposit Transaction)
When the customer selects the deposit transaction at the customer operation unit, the shutter of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 is opened. When a customer inserts a banknote into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9, the shutter is closed, and the inserted banknotes are separated one by one by a separating / feeding / stacking mechanism provided in the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 and sent to the conveyance path 26. .
[0013]
A banknote is sent to the discrimination part 11 by the conveyance path 26, and discrimination | determination, such as a genuine note or a fake note, a money type, a conveyance abnormality, is performed.
As a result of the discrimination, normal banknotes are sent to the temporary storage unit 10, distinguished from the banknotes in the medium storage units 14 and 15 and temporarily stored.
The banknotes identified as abnormal as a result of the discrimination are returned to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 and returned to the customer.
[0014]
All the banknotes inserted into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 are fed out and stored in a predetermined storage location according to the discrimination result, and then sent from the temporary storage unit 10 to the medium storage 13 for storage.
Next, an operation for storing the banknote stored in the temporary storage unit 10 in the medium storage 13 will be described.
[0015]
Banknotes are paid out from the temporary storage unit 10, and according to the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 11, the medium storage unit 14 has 10,000 tickets, the medium storage unit 15 has 1,000 tickets, and the reject banknote storage unit 16 has 5,000 tickets and 2,000 tickets. And the abnormal ticket is sent and stored respectively, and the depositing operation is finished.
(Withdrawal transaction)
The withdrawal transaction is started when the customer selects the withdrawal transaction in the customer operation unit.
[0016]
After the customer's identity is confirmed, when a withdrawal amount is input, the separation feeding and accumulating mechanism of the medium storage units 14 and 15 is driven, and each bill is sent out to the transport path 26.
The fed banknotes are conveyed to the discrimination unit 11 through the conveyance path 26 and are discriminated.
If there is no abnormality as a result of the discrimination, the sheet is sent to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 through the conveyance path 26, and the shutter is opened and delivered to the customer.
[0017]
The banknotes identified as abnormal as a result of discrimination temporarily stop feeding, and all the banknotes on the conveyance path 26 are sent to the reject banknote storage unit 16.
After storing in the reject banknote storage unit 16, the banknotes are again fed out from the medium storage units 14 and 15 until the amount specified by the customer is reached.
When the designated amount of banknotes is collected, the shutter of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 is opened and delivered to the customer.
[0018]
Here, when it is detected that the banknotes arranged in the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 9 are not taken within a predetermined time, the shutter of the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 9 is closed and all banknotes are transferred from the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 9 to the transport path 26. It is fed out and discriminated by the discrimination unit 11 and sent to the banknote storage unit 17 forgetting to remove it.
Next, operations of reject banknote storage and forgotten banknote storage will be described.
[0019]
5-7 is explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of rejection banknote accommodation.
The banknotes identified as abnormal at the time of withdrawal or storage are stacked on the stacking guide 21.
At this time, the switching plate 25 is positioned at the up position 25a (normal home position) by a drive mechanism (not shown) (FIG. 5).
Next, the switching plate 25 is lowered to the down position 25b (FIG. 6), and the reject banknote 27 is scraped off from the stacking guide 21 by the switching plate 25, and on the reject banknote 27 of the reject banknote storage unit 16 on the upper surface of the reject banknote stage 23. Are sequentially stored. At this time, the reject banknote 27 moves while being sandwiched between the switching plate 25 and the reject banknote stage 23 so that the reject banknote 27 is securely stored.
[0020]
Finally, the switching plate 25 returns to the up position 25a and waits for the next reject banknote. Thereafter, the same operation is repeated until there are no rejected banknotes. When all of the medium is no longer on the transport path 26, the reject banknote storing operation is stopped, and the reject banknotes 27 are stacked and stored in the reject banknote storage unit 16 (FIG. 7).
8-11 is explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of banknote storage forgetting to remove.
[0021]
When it is detected that the banknotes in the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 9 have not been taken within a predetermined time, the shutter of the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 9 is closed, and at the same time, the switching plate 25 is not shown from the up position 25a to the down position 25b. It is moved by the drive mechanism.
Thereby, the bill holder 19 comes into contact with the upper surface of the stacking guide 21 (FIG. 8).
Next, the banknote is fed out from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 9 to the transport path 26, identified by the discrimination unit 11, and taken into the accumulation guide 21 from the transport path 26 by the take-in roller 22, and the take-in is completed.
[0022]
The switching plate 25 moves to the up position 25a, whereby the banknotes 28 that are left out of the stacking guide 21 are lifted up and stacked while being sandwiched between the banknote holder 19 and the switching plate 25 (FIG. 9).
At this time, the forgotten banknote 28 is moved in a state of being sandwiched between the switching plate 25 and the banknote holder 19 so that the banknote is securely stored so that no deviation or the like occurs in the banknote.
[0023]
Next, the switching plate 25 is returned to the down position 25b and waits for the next bill. As a result, the forgotten banknote 28 is stacked on the upper surface of the stacking guide 21 while being sandwiched by the banknote holder 19 (FIG. 10).
Hereinafter, when all forgotten banknotes are stored until all the forgotten banknotes are stored, the switching plate 25 finally puts the forgotten banknotes accumulated on the upper surface of the stacking guide 21 between the banknote holders 19. In the state where it is sandwiched between the two, it moves to the up position 25a.
[0024]
This is the end of the description of each operation.
Next, the automatic teller machine 12 is entirely covered with a storage cover 29 and the back is closed by a door 30. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 12, if a take-out door 31 is provided at a location facing the forgotten banknote storage portion 17 of the door 30, only the forgotten banknote is opened without opening the entire medium storage 13 containing the banknotes. Can be taken out.
[0025]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention described in detail above, an accumulation guide is provided in which two holding bodies are opposed to each other so that one end faces the take-up roller communicating with the medium conveyance path. A bill holder that is movable and is urged downward by a spring is provided, and one end of the stacking guide is pivotally fixed to the lower side of the stacking guide, and the other end is open and movable in the vertical direction. A reject banknote stage is provided, and a banknote suppresser that holds the stacking guide and a switching plate that moves between the reject banknote stages are provided. To be stored in the reject banknote storage section above and the banknote storage section forgotten on the stacking guide The banknotes taken in by one take-in roller can be stored in both the reject banknote storage part and the banknote storage part forgotten to be removed by the switching plate, and the effect of being able to make the configuration much smaller than before Have
[0026]
In addition, by providing an individual take-out door at the location corresponding to the banknote storage section that you forget to remove, you can take out only the banknote that you forgot to remove and return it to the customer without opening the entire media storage. In addition to being able to respond to customers as soon as possible, there is an effect of improving the security and manageability of bills.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an automatic teller machine. FIG. 2 is a side explanatory diagram of a reject banknote storage unit and a forgotten banknote taking-in storage unit. FIG. 3 is a front explanatory diagram. FIG. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a reject banknote storing operation. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a reject banknote storing operation. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a forgetting banknote storing operation. FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a forgotten banknote storing operation. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a forgotten banknote storing operation. FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a state in which a forgotten banknote taking out door is provided. Illustration [Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 9 Banknote deposit / withdrawal port 10 Temporary storage part 11 Discrimination part 12 Depositing / withdrawing machine 13 Medium storage 14, 15 Medium storage part 16 Reject banknote storage part 17 Forgetting banknote storage part 18 Spring 19 Bill holder 20 Holding body 21 Accumulation guide 22 Taking in Roller 23 Reject banknote stage 24 Spring 25 Switching plate 25a Switching plate up position 25b Switching plate down position 26 Transport path 27 Reject banknote 28 Forgotten banknote 29 Storage cover 30 Door 31 Takeout door

Claims (2)

An accumulation guide configured by two holding bodies facing each other so as to face one end of the take-up roller communicating with the conveyance path of the medium is provided, and is movable upward and downward and biased downward above the accumulation guide. A bill holder is provided, and is attached to the bottom of the stacking guide so that the rotation axis is tilted downward and the free end is tilted with respect to the stacking guide and the free end is positioned on the take-up roller side . the energized been rejected bills stages provided, further, the movable switch plate between banknotes suppressed and rejected bills stage sandwiching the stacking guide is provided, the rejected bills and forgetting removal banknotes taken into the collecting guide from uptake roller respectively With the switching plate, it is stored in the reject banknote storage section on the reject banknote stage and the banknote storage section on the stacking guide that is left behind. Media storage boxes of the automatic teller machine, characterized in that. In claim 1,
When the switching plate that has moved to a position below the stacking guide moves to a position above the stacking guide so as to stack the reject banknotes stacked on the stacking guide on the reject banknote stage, the free end of the reject banknote stage is moved accordingly. Moves upward and presses the end of the free end of the banknotes stacked on the reject banknote stage against the lower surface of the stacking guide.

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