JP4608814B2 - Media processing device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a medium processing apparatus having a function of temporarily holding a medium on a temporary holding plate capable of moving up and down during the processing of the medium and then feeding the medium from the temporary holding plate.
[0002]
[Prior art]
As this type of medium processing apparatus, there is a banknote depositing and dispensing machine incorporated in an automatic transaction apparatus used in financial institutions.
FIG. 5 is a schematic side view showing an internal configuration of a banknote depositing / dispensing machine as an example of a conventional medium processing apparatus, and FIG. 6 is a side view of a temporary storage unit in FIG.
[0003]
In the figure, 1 is a housing of the apparatus, 2 is a customer service section provided at the upper part on the front side of the housing 1, and this customer service section 2 is used for depositing bills, returning bills, and withdrawal transactions during deposit transactions. It has a banknote transfer function for paying banknotes at the time, and a separating and feeding function for separating and feeding out the inserted banknotes one by one.
3 is the identification of banknote authenticity, denomination, correctness, front / back, etc., and whether there is any abnormal transport such as double feeding, chaining or skewing at the time of deposit / withdrawal transactions, banknote replenishment, collection, or inspection It is a discrimination part which counts the banknote by which the denomination was confirmed by detection and the said discrimination.
[0004]
4 to 6 are denomination cassettes for storing banknotes P used for transactions in denominations, which are arranged side by side on the bottom side in the housing 1.
Reference numeral 7 denotes a collective cassette used for replenishment and collection of banknotes in the denomination storages 4 to 6, and has a stage 8 that collects thousand yen bills and 10,000 yen banknotes in a lump and moves up and down.
[0005]
The collective cassette 7 is disposed on the back side of the housing 1 and is detachable from the housing 1. Reference numeral 9 denotes a temporary storage unit arranged in the housing 1 so as to be positioned on the collective cassette 7 when the collective cassette 7 is mounted in the housing 1. The escrow unit 9, multiple rows La and the belt or the like constituted feeding and stacking means 10, such as feed uptake roller or a reverse roller, as shown in FIG. 6, the motor 11 for driving the feeding and stacking means 10, batch cassette 7 escrow plate 12 which also serves the role of the pressing member to correct the bill on the stage 8, motor 1 3 vertically moves via a pulley and a belt or the like (not shown) the escrow plate 12, and the light emitting element and a light receiving element The sensor 14 which consists of these is provided.
[0006]
Here, the feeding and accumulating means 10 is arranged on the upper front end side in the temporary holding unit 9 and rotates so as to collect banknotes on the temporary holding plate 12 and to feed banknotes on the temporary holding plate 12 and the stage 8. It is supposed to be.
Further, the sensor 14 is arranged to be tilted in the front-rear direction so that the optical axis obliquely intersects the temporary storage plate 12 in order to detect the presence or absence of the banknotes on the temporary storage plate 12. A small hole 12a is provided in the temporary storage plate 12 for allowing the gas to pass therethrough.
[0007]
Reference numeral 15 denotes a conveyance path composed of a belt and a roller for nipping and conveying banknotes in the apparatus. By the conveyance path 15, the customer service section 2, the identification section 3, the denomination cassettes 4 to 6, the collective cassette 7, and the temporary storage section 9 are provided. Etc. are connected, and a blade for switching the bill conveyance direction is arranged at the branching or joining part.
Reference numeral 16 denotes control means, which controls the entire banknote depositing and dispensing machine.
[0008]
The banknote depositing / withdrawing process and the banknote replenishment process from the collective cassette 7 to the denomination cassettes 4-6 are well known and will not be described here. The operation of the unit 9 will be described.
As one function of the automatic transaction apparatus, there is a function called unmanned scrutiny for checking the amount of banknotes in each denomination cassette 4 to 6.
[0009]
In this unmanned scrutiny, the banknotes in the respective denomination cassettes 4 to 6 are fed out and transported to the discrimination unit 3 by the transport path 15 for discrimination, authenticity, correctness, denomination, etc. The identified banknotes are transported to the collective cassette 7 by the transport path 15 and temporarily stored on the lower side.
Banknotes that have been identified as denomination unknown or that have been detected for abnormal transport such as double feeding, chaining, or skew are transported to the temporary storage unit 9 as reject banknotes and temporarily stored by the feeding and stacking means 10 Accumulate on the plate 12.
[0010]
At this time, the temporary holding plate 12 stands by at a predetermined position, and the control unit 16 controls the rotation of the motor 13 so as to descend as the rejected banknotes are stacked.
Then, when all the banknotes in the denomination cassettes 4 to 6 are drawn out and stored or accumulated in the collective cassette 7 or the temporary holding plate 12, the discrimination and counting results are obtained by the control unit 16 as the main transaction of the automatic transaction apparatus. After being sent to the control unit and subjected to a scrutinizing process, the temporary holding plate 12 is raised by the motor 13, and the banknotes on the temporary holding plate 12 are pressed against the feeding roller of the feeding and accumulating means 10. By driving the feeding and accumulating means 10, the banknotes are separated and fed one by one, but the temporary storage plate 12 is controlled to rise with the feeding.
[0011]
The fed banknotes are stored in any one of the denomination cassettes 4 to 6 via the discrimination section 3 by the conveyance path 15.
When the feeding of the banknotes on the temporary holding plate 12 is completed, the motor 13 rotates in the reverse direction, and the temporary holding plate 12 is lowered. At a certain point during this lowering, the light from the light emitting element of the sensor 14 is small in the temporary holding plate 12. The presence or absence of residual banknotes is detected on the temporary holding plate 12 depending on whether or not the light is received by the light receiving element through the hole 12a.
[0012]
On the other hand, the banknotes stored in the collective cassette 7 are transferred onto the stage 8 by transfer means (not shown), and then the stage 8 is raised and pressed against the supply roller of the supply stacking means 10 and separated one by one. At this time, the temporary holding plate 12 is retreated upward so as not to disturb the feeding of the banknotes on the stage 8.
[0013]
The banknotes drawn out from the stage 8 are conveyed to the discrimination unit 4 through the conveyance path 15 and returned to the denomination cassettes 4 to 6 in denomination according to the denomination discrimination result in the discrimination unit 3.
[0014]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the conventional technique described above, the small retaining hole 12a is provided in the temporary storage plate 12 so that the light from the sensor 14 can pass therethrough, that is, only at one point where the small hole 12a passes on the optical axis of the sensor 14. In order to detect the presence or absence of the remaining banknotes on the temporary storage plate 12, the presence of this banknote is present when the banknote P, which has been bent during stacking as shown in FIG. Therefore, there is a problem in that the banknote P that must be removed is left as it is, and a secondary failure such as a jam occurs when the banknote is stacked on the temporary holding plate 12 next time.
[0015]
In order to reliably detect the presence of an abnormal banknote P that has been bent or the like, it is conceivable to add a small hole 12a and a sensor 14, but in this case, not only will the cost of the temporary storage unit 9 increase. Due to space limitations, it is extremely difficult to add to the sensor 14.
An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem.
[0016]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Therefore, the present invention is a medium processing apparatus including a temporary holding unit that temporarily holds a medium on a temporary holding plate that can move up and down during the processing of the medium, and then pays out the medium from the temporary holding plate.
Wherein the temporary holding plate, integrated media, a slit extending in the feeding direction is provided, by tilting the sensor comprising a light emitting element and a light receiving element for the medium detected as the optical axis with respect to the slit intersects obliquely in the longitudinal direction After the completion of the feeding of the medium, the light from the light emitting element is scanned within the length of the slit by lowering the temporary holding plate, and temporarily held depending on whether the light from the light emitting element is received by the light receiving element. you and detecting the presence or absence of residual bill on the plate.
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of an essential part in the embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a side view of a temporary holding part in the embodiment.
In the figure, reference numeral 17 denotes a temporary holding plate which is provided in the temporary holding portion 9 and can move up and down. The temporary holding plate 17 has slits 18a and 18b having lengths L1 and L2 extending in the front-rear direction (banknote stacking and feeding direction). Are provided in parallel at regular intervals across the center of the temporary holding plate 17 in the left-right direction (single-handed direction of banknotes), and two sets so that the optical axis obliquely intersects the slits 18a, 18b. The sensors 14a and 14b are disposed so as to be inclined in the front-rear direction.
[0018]
Here, the lengths L1 and L2 of the slits 18a and 18b are set to about 2/3 of the temporary storage plate 17 in the left-right direction, but may be longer than that.
In addition, since the other structure of the temporary storage part 9 is the same as that of the past, it represents with the same code | symbol and the description is abbreviate | omitted.
Moreover, the whole structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine provided with this temporary storage part 9 is the same as that of FIG.
[0019]
Next, the effect | action of the structure mentioned above is demonstrated.
3 and 4 are side views showing the operation of the temporary storage unit 9.
For example, in an unattended scrutiny of an automatic transaction apparatus, it is fed out from each denomination cassette 4 to 6 shown in FIG. The rejected banknotes detected are conveyed to the temporary holding unit 9 by the conveyance path 15 and stacked on the temporary holding plate 17 by the feeding and stacking means 10.
[0020]
At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, the temporary storage plate 17 stands by at a predetermined position, and the control unit 16 controls the rotation of the motor 13 so as to descend as the rejected banknotes are stacked.
After all the banknotes in the denomination cassettes 4 to 6 are drawn out, the discrimination and counting in the discrimination unit 3 and the scrutinization processing in the main control unit of the automatic transaction apparatus are performed, and then the motor 13 The temporary storage plate 17 rises, the banknotes on the temporary storage plate 17 are pressed against the supply rollers of the supply and stacking means 10, and the banknotes are separated one by one by driving the supply and stacking means 10 by the motor 11. The temporary holding plate 17 is controlled so as to rise with this extension.
[0021]
When the feeding of the banknotes on the temporary holding plate 17 is finished, the motor 13 rotates reversely under the control of the control unit 16 and the temporary holding plate 17 is lowered. The temporary holding plate 17 is shown in FIG. As described above, the light from the light emitting elements of the sensors 14a and 14b passes through the slits 18a and 18b provided in the temporary storage plate 17 until the lower end of the moving range is reached, and temporarily depends on whether or not the light is received by the light receiving element. The presence or absence of a remaining banknote is detected on the holding plate 17.
[0022]
That is, the light of the sensors 14a and 14b scans within the lengths L1 and L2 of the slits 18a and 18b shown in FIG. 1, and the presence or absence of residual banknotes is detected on the temporary holding plate 17 within the linear detection range. .
Therefore, according to this, even when a banknote that has been bent at the time of stacking is deviated from the normal position back and forth or left and right, the presence of the banknote can be reliably detected.
[0023]
The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, it has been described that the reject banknotes at the time of unmanned scrutiny are accumulated on the temporary holding plate 17, but depending on the operation mode of the apparatus, normal banknotes may be accumulated in the deposit transaction and withdrawal transaction. In such a case as well, a banknote that has been bent at the time of stacking may be deviated back and forth or left and right from the normal position, so that the presence of the banknote can be detected.
[0024]
In addition to devices that handle banknotes such as banknote depositing and dispensing machines, devices that handle paper-like media such as stock certificates and tickets, the media are temporarily accumulated on a temporary holding plate of a temporary holding unit, and later Any device can be applied as long as it is a device for feeding out the medium on the temporary storage plate.
[0025]
As described above, the present invention provides a medium processing apparatus including a temporary storage unit that temporarily holds a medium on a temporary storage plate that can be moved up and down during the processing of the medium, and then feeds the medium from the temporary storage plate. the in escrow plate, integrated media, a slit extending in the feeding direction is provided, inclined sensor comprising a light emitting element and a light receiving element for the medium detected as the optical axis with respect to the slit intersects obliquely in the longitudinal direction After the feeding of the medium is completed, the light from the light emitting element is scanned within the length of the slit by lowering the temporary holding plate, and temporarily depending on whether the light from the light emitting element is received by the light receiving element. The presence or absence of residual banknotes on the holding plate is detected.
[0026]
The slits are provided in parallel at a constant interval across the center of the temporary storage plate, and a plurality of sets of sensors are arranged corresponding to the slits.
Therefore, according to this, even when a medium that has been bent at the time of accumulation is present in a position shifted from front to back or from side to side, the presence of this medium can be reliably detected, and therefore must be removed originally. The medium is not left as it is, and it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a secondary failure such as a jam.
[0027]
In addition, since the present invention can be realized without increasing the number of sensors, there is an effect that the cost is low.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a main part in an embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a temporary holding unit in the embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a side view of a temporary holding unit showing the operation of the embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a schematic side view of a temporary holding unit showing the operation of the embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a schematic side view showing an internal configuration of a conventional example.
FIG. 6 is a side view showing a configuration of a temporary holding unit in a conventional example.
[Explanation of symbols]
9 Temporary holding section 10 Feeding and accumulating means 14a, 14b Sensor 17 Temporary holding plates 18a, 18b Slit

Claims (2)

In the medium processing apparatus having a temporary holding unit that temporarily holds the medium on a temporary holding plate capable of moving up and down during the processing of the medium, and then pays out the medium from the temporary holding plate.
Wherein the temporary holding plate, integrated media, a slit extending in the feeding direction is provided, by tilting the sensor comprising a light emitting element and a light receiving element for the medium detected as the optical axis with respect to the slit intersects obliquely in the longitudinal direction arrangement and,
After the feeding of the medium is finished, the light from the light emitting element is scanned within the length of the slit by lowering the temporary holding plate, and the light on the temporary holding plate is determined by whether or not the light from the light emitting element is received by the light receiving element. A medium processing apparatus for detecting the presence or absence of a remaining banknote . Oite to claim 1,
A medium processing apparatus, wherein a plurality of slits are provided in parallel at regular intervals across the center of the temporary storage plate, and a plurality of sets of sensors are arranged corresponding to the slits.

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