JP4718154B2 - Sales receipt processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a sales deposit processing apparatus installed in a store of a game shop, and when a reserve stored in or outside the apparatus falls below a predetermined amount, the cash handling company is replenished with a reserve. The present invention relates to a sales receipt processing apparatus that can automatically make a request.

As shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-54456 by the present applicant, it is installed in a store of an amusement store and processes the sales proceeds of the store and sorts them according to the purpose of use in preparation for the next day's business. .
In the sales deposit processing apparatus shown in the above publication, when the amusement store is closed, in order to collect cash from the card vending machines in the store and prepare for the next day's business with the sales deposit processing apparatus, These cash are sorted according to their use.

By the way, there is no problem if the sales are good and the denomination is appropriate, but there is often a tendency for thousand yen bills to decrease. This is due to the decrease in the thousand-yen bills, while the number of yen-yen bills etc. increases as the customer exchanges 10,000-yen bills and 5,000-yen bills into thousand-yen bills using a money changer. ing.
This is because if the customer uses all of the thousand yen bills exchanged in the card vending machine, the thousand yen bills are not short on the whole, but the rest may be taken home without using them all.
Also, if a major bleeding service is scheduled for the next day, a special premium replacement fee will be prepared in advance, but if it is not expected, it will be 5,000 yen as well as a thousand yen bill. There is also a risk of running out of bills and 000 yen bills.
For this reason, the amusement store prepares a predetermined amount as a reserve in a safe, etc., in thousand yen bills, five thousand yen bills, and ten thousand yen bills, in addition to those managed by the sales deposit processing device. It is indispensable.
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However, if the above reserve is used, it is necessary to replenish the reduced amount. Therefore, the reserve amount is checked and the amount of replenishment is notified to the cash dealer by telephone or fax. That was happening. Moreover, since it is necessary to manage who made this contact and when, the work load on the store side was excessive.
The present invention has been made to reduce the work burden on the store side in such reserve management, and the object of the present invention is to provide a cash handling company when the amount of reserves falls below a predetermined amount. An object of the present invention is to provide a sales receipt processing apparatus that can automatically make a supplementary reserve request.

The present invention relates to a sales deposit processing apparatus installed in a store of an amusement store, and the above-mentioned object of the present invention is to accept the bills to be processed, identify and count by denomination, and sort and store them according to usage. In the processing apparatus, the sales deposit processing apparatus includes a plurality of storage units for storing banknotes sorted according to usage , and a reserve fund stored in or outside the sales receipt processing apparatus separately from the storage unit. and a spare amount input means for inputting the initial values and the use amount in the amount of, by subtracting the sum of the used amount from the initial value of the gold value of the reserve is calculated reserve inventory amount, the reserve inventory amount is predetermined when below the amount, by sales proceeds deposit processing device characterized by comprising a control unit for controlling to transmit the reserve replenishment request signal automatically to an external cash supplier via the network Achieved. The above-mentioned object of the present invention can be achieved more effectively by providing supplementation request history management means for managing the transmission history of the supplementation request signal.

  By connecting the sales receipt processing apparatus according to the present invention and the server of the cash handling company through a network, a replenishment request for the reserve can be automatically made, so that the work load of the replenisher is reduced. Since the history of replenishment requests remains, there is an effect that the management burden on the manager is reduced.

A sales deposit processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows the appearance of the sales deposit processing apparatus of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a banknote receiving unit, 2 is the initial value of the number of reserves for each denomination, and the reserve money used. This is an input unit for inputting amount information such as amount (for each denomination).

  FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the inside of the sales deposit processing apparatus. In the figure, 1 is a bill accepting unit, 2 is an input unit, 3 is a feeding and conveying unit, 4 is a denomination identifying unit, 5 is a sorting unit, 6 is a binding unit, and 7 is a money changer / game as an operating money storage unit. A bill storage unit for change bills for a card vending machine, 8 is a rose storage unit for special prize exchange bills as an operating money storage unit, 9 is a banknote cassette as a gross profit storage unit, and 10 is a reserve. It is a reserve deposit storage part. The reserve storage unit 10 may exist in the form of a safe, for example, outside the sales deposit processing apparatus. In any case, the bills are managed separately from the bills deposited by the sales deposit processing apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control system of the sales deposit processing apparatus. The control unit 11 controls the input unit 2, the denomination identifying unit 4, the sorting unit 5, the binding unit 6, and the communication connection unit 13 according to a predetermined control program. The control unit 11 includes a CPU 111 that performs arithmetic control, a ROM 112 that stores the control program, and a RAM 113 that is a working memory. In addition, a storage unit 12 is connected to the control unit 11 for storing data such as the denomination, number of sheets, storage location, etc. of the banknotes taken in, and the amount of reserves. Here, the communication connection unit 13 in the figure is for connecting to a hall computer installed in a game shop or a server of a cash handling company so that they can communicate with each other via a network.
In the configuration as described above, the operation in the case of automatically making a reserve replenishment request by connecting the sales deposit processing apparatus according to the present invention and the server of the cash handling company via a network will be described.

During a business at an amusement store, for example, if a currency exchange machine has a thousand yen bill for money, it is normal to take out a banknote from the bundle storage unit 7 and replenish it to the money changer. If there is an event such as a bleeding service, replenishment from the bundle storage unit may not be in time. In such a case, the necessary thousand yen bill is taken out from the reserve deposit storage unit 10 (regardless of whether the reserve deposit storage unit 10 is inside or outside the sales deposit processing apparatus) The money is input to the input unit 2 and the money changer is replenished. The amount (initial value) of the reserve in the reserve storage unit 10 is input from the input unit 2 in advance for each denomination and stored in the storage unit 12. Each time it is taken out, the amount of money used is input and automatically subtracted from the initial value, and the current balance is managed and stored. In this way, every time a banknote for replenishment is taken out from the reserve storage unit 10, the amount of the reserve will be reduced. You have to bring it with you and replenish it. However, since it may not be enough to request replenishment after the reserve has completely bottomed out, usually a certain threshold value (threshold) is set and the balance is below that threshold. I ask for replenishment.
Therefore, in the sales deposit processing apparatus according to the present invention, the threshold value is input in advance from the input unit 2 and stored in the storage unit 12, and the reserve amount falls below the threshold value. The control unit 11 performs control according to a predetermined program so as to automatically transmit a reserve replenishment request signal to the cash handling company server via the communication connection unit 13. In addition, the transmission history of the supplement request signal is stored in the storage unit 12 so as to manage when and how much the supplement is requested.

For example, if the initial reserve amount is 5 million yen (consisting of a thousand yen bill, a 5,000 yen bill, and a 10,000 yen bill), this data is input to the sales receipt processing device, and 1 million yen If you use minutes, enter the amount manually in the input section. The sales deposit processing apparatus calculates (5 million to 1 million), obtains a calculation result of 4 million yen, and stores it in the storage unit 12.
If the replenishment threshold is set at 1 million yen in stock, a reserve replenishment request signal is transmitted when this amount is cut (in the above example, when a total of 4 million yen or more is used). By doing so, it is possible to perform automatic ordering for reserve replenishment without manual intervention.
In the above example, the replenishment request is made to the cash handling company, but it goes without saying that it may be made to the game store headquarters.

It is a figure which shows the external appearance of the sales deposit processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a cross section which shows the inside of the sales deposit processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the control system of the sales deposit processing apparatus which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote receiving part 2 Input part 3 Feeding conveyance part 4 Denomination identification part 5 Sorting part 6 Bundling part 7 Bundle storage part 8 Rose storage part 9 Banknote cassette 10 Reserve money storage part 11 Control part 12 Storage part 13 Communication connection part

Claims (2)

In a sales receipt processing apparatus that accepts banknotes to be processed, identifies and counts by money type, and sorts and stores them according to usage, the sales receipt processing apparatus includes:
A plurality of storage units for storing banknotes sorted according to usage;
A reserve amount input means for inputting an initial value and a use amount of a reserve amount stored in or outside the sales receipt processing apparatus separately from the storage unit ;
By subtracting the sum of the used amount from the initial value of the gold value of the reserve is calculated reserve inventory amount, when said reserve inventory amount falls below a predetermined amount, the external cash supplier via the network a control unit for controlling to transmit the reserve replenishment request signal automatically,
A sales receipt processing apparatus characterized by comprising:   2. The sales receipt processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising supplementation request history management means for managing a transmission history of the supplementation request signal.

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