JP4996930B2 - Packaging coin processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a wrapping coin processing apparatus, and more particularly to a money changer that handles wrapping coins.

  The opening time of convenience stores is longer than the opening hours of financial institutions, and it is easy for many customers to gather, so there is an increasing need to install an automatic change machine there. A financial institution that installs a money changer can increase its profits by collecting a fee for money exchange transactions. To that end, it is important to increase the transaction volume of exchange, and as one measure, it is necessary to reduce the transaction time required for one exchange transaction.

  On the other hand, because there is a shortage of coins at financial institution stores, there is a need to exchange money for wrapping coins, and many currency exchange machines have a function to exchange money for wrapping coins. For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-256901 (Patent Document 1), when a detection unit that detects the number of wrapping coins remaining in a wrapping coin storage unit detects that the number of wrapping coins is less than a predetermined number, A packaging coin processing system is disclosed in which a shortage signal that informs the shortage of packaging coins is output to the outside, thereby reducing the frequency of coin transportation to a store requested to exchange money.

JP 2003-256901 A

  Some units for dispensing wrapping coins adopt a wrapping coin tray system for ease of loading wrapping coins. Moreover, in order to achieve both the amount of wrapping coins that can be mounted and the height related to operational convenience, a relatively large number of wrapping coin trays are arranged in multiple rows and stages, and the mechanism for taking out wrapping coins from the tray is There is also a method in which a plurality of trays having the same height are covered with one bucket. In that case, wrapping coins can be withdrawn from a plurality of trays at the same height at the same time. For this reason, the height of the tray is not always the same with respect to the required combination of denominations, and it has been difficult to sufficiently improve the withdrawal processing performance.

The objective of this invention is providing the packaging coin processing apparatus which can shorten the time which withdrawal of a packaging coin requires.
Another object of the present invention is to optimally arrange trays for loading wrapping coins.

  The present invention preferably includes a wrapping coin tray comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of trays on which the wrapping coins are mounted, and a takeout mechanism portion for taking out the wrapping coins from the wrapping coin tray and transporting the wrapping coins to the dispensing port. In a wrapping coin processing device in which a user selects wrapping coins and exchanges money, a database that stores information indicating the transaction status of the wrapping coins that are actually traded and information stored in the database are used. A calculation means for calculating a combination of high-grade wrapping coin denominations, and an output means for outputting optimal arrangement information of the wrapping coin tray calculated by the calculation means. The wrapping coin processing apparatus is configured to arrange the wrapping coin tray as a target at a place where a plurality of rows and a plurality of tiers are hit.

  In another aspect of the present invention, a packaging coin tray including a plurality of rows and a plurality of trays on which packaging coins are mounted, and a take-out mechanism for taking the packaging coins from the packaging coin tray and transporting the packaging coins to a dispensing port. And a database for storing information indicating the transaction status of the actually traded wrapping coins in the wrapping coin processing apparatus in which the user selects the wrapping coins and exchanges money, and information stored in the database. A calculating means for calculating a combination of wrapping coin denominations that are highly used, and an output means for outputting optimal arrangement information of the wrapping coin tray calculated by the calculating means. It is understood as a wrapping coin processing device configured to dispose wrapping coin trays on the same stage in a plurality of rows in accordance with accurate placement information.

  According to the present invention, when a plurality of wrapping coins are withdrawn, the denominations whose trays are arranged at the same height can be taken out at a time, and the withdrawal processing time can be shortened. Therefore, the time required for one transaction can be shortened.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an outline of a packaging coin dispensing unit of a money changer.
The wrapping coin dispensing unit 110 takes out the wrapping coins from the wrapping coin tray 120 and the wrapping coin tray 120, and includes the wrapping coin tray 120, which is a multi-row, multi-stage (in this case, 5 tiers, 2 lanes) tray on which the wrapping coins are mounted A take-out mechanism 130 for carrying the wrapping coins to the withdrawal port is provided. The take-out mechanism unit 130 includes a bucket for putting wrapping coins and a moving mechanism for moving the basket in the vertical direction, and stops moving the basket to a target position and takes out the necessary wrapping coins from the corresponding wrapping coin tray.

  The wrapping coin unit 110 is connected to a control device 140 such as a personal computer (having a memory, a CPU, and an input / output device), and the wrapping coin unit 110 is executed by causing the CPU to execute a program stored in the memory of the control device 140. To control. In addition, the control device 140 has a transaction statistical information database (hereinafter simply referred to as DB) 150 that stores transaction information including information indicating the withdrawal status of wrapping coins.

FIG. 2 shows the overall appearance of the money changer.
The money changer 200 is installed on the front surface 205 of the handy phone 210 used for communication with a staff member of a financial institution or a call center, and a display operation panel 215 for displaying transaction information and operation guidance to the user. , A receipt output unit 220 for discharging a receipt for printing a transaction result, a take-out port 225 for taking out a wrapping coin, a monitoring camera 230 for monitoring a user, an alternative coin depositing unit 235 for depositing an alternative coin for exchange, and an alternative coin Are provided with an alternative coin dispensing unit 240, a banknote depositing / withdrawing unit 245 for depositing / withdrawing banknotes, a fee coin depositing unit 250 for depositing an exchange fee, and a fee coin dispensing unit 255 for dispensing an exchange fee.
In the figure, the processing unit related to the fee is configured separately from the processing unit for the exchange money for the sake of easy management, but these processing units may be configured by a common mechanism.

FIG. 3 shows a functional block diagram of the money changer.
The control device 140 is connected to the center system 350 through a public line 340 or the like. FIG. 3 shows an example in which one control device 140 is connected to the center system 350, but since the center system 350 usually manages a plurality of money changers, In some cases, a plurality of money changers 200 are connected.

The control device 140 implements a predetermined function by executing the application 310 and the middleware 320 by the CPU. The application 310 has functions of an overall software control unit 311, a transaction business unit 312 that processes a user's exchange transaction, and a staff business unit 313 that controls and processes an operator's operation. The middleware 320 includes a common processing unit 321, a communication processing unit 322, and a hardware control unit 330.
The common processing unit 321 performs processing commonly used in each module such as setting file loading and trace output. The communication processing unit 322 communicates with the center system 350, transmits a transaction result or the like to the center system 350, receives an instruction from the center system 350, and develops it in each process.

  The hardware control unit 330 includes a banknote unit control unit 331 that controls the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 245, a wrapping coin unit control unit 332 that controls the wrapping coin dispensing unit 110, and a coin unit that controls the alternative coin deposit / withdrawal units 235 and 240. It has a control unit 333, a fee coin unit control unit 334 that controls the fee coin deposit / withdrawal unit 250, 255, a receipt output unit control unit 335 that controls the receipt output unit 220, and an alarm sound control unit 336.

FIG. 4 shows a flow of exchange processing.
This process is performed by execution of the transaction business unit 312 of the control device 140. The user operates the display operation panel 215 to start a currency exchange transaction (S401). That is, when the user presses the “transaction start button” displayed on the display / operation panel 215, the transaction is started and a transaction selection menu screen is displayed, as well as a selection item for what kind of exchange is performed. Is done. There are, for example, a method of selecting a currency exchange, and a method of selecting a predetermined currency exchange combination or a method in which the user himself selects currency exchange items one by one.

Next, the user selects necessary wrapping coins (S402). As a selection method, on the screen of the display operation panel 215, for example,
500 yen wrapping coins (50) 1 XX yen <1><2><4>
100 yen wrapping coins (50) 1 XX yen <1><2><4>
Is displayed. <X books> indicates a display button.
The user can select the required number of wrapping coins by pressing the <X> button. At this time, if the number of wrapping coins in the main body of the money changer is insufficient, for example, if there are only three 500 yen wrapping coins, the button “<4>” for 500 yen wrapping coins cannot be selected. , Hidden.

Next, the user inserts the banknote to be replaced into the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 245 (S403), and further inserts the exchange fee into the alternative coin deposit / payment unit 235 or the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 245 (S404). The user sees and recognizes the exchange fee displayed on the display / operation panel 215.
At this point, the transaction is completed, and the designated wrapping coin is withdrawn from the alternative coin dispensing unit 240 (S405). Further, the transaction information is printed on the receipt by the receipt output unit 220 (S406). As transaction information, information such as transaction time and transaction serial number, deposited substitute money (type and number of money), exchange money (type and number of wrapping coins), fee, and change are printed. The
The transaction information is transmitted from the control device 140 to the center system 350 (S407), and the center system 350 updates the transaction status information of the money changer. The updated transaction information is stored in the database.

FIG. 5 shows the exchange processing operation of the wrapping coin tray in the money changer.
This process is performed by the execution of the staff member 313 of the control device 140. The display / operation panel 215 normally displays a transaction menu that can be exchanged. The clerk operates the display operation panel 215 to change the wrapping coin tray to change the transaction menu to the clerk menu, and starts the operation according to the menu. The change to the staff menu can be realized by using, for example, a hardware key or a special operation on the screen, for example, inputting a personal identification number.

  In the clerk menu, the clerk presses the tray exchange job button to start the exchange job (S501). Next, in the exchange selection process (S502), it is selected whether speed priority or normal process (S503). Here, speed priority refers to increasing the processing speed for preparing wrapping coins during a transaction. Since the trays of wrapping coins are arranged in two rows, if the wrapping coins to be prepared (selected by the user) are one 500 yen and one 100 yen, the left row When a 500-yen coin tray has a 100-yen coin tray in the right column, the number of times the tray needs to be moved only once and the picking operation to remove from the tray is only once (take out from both trays simultaneously). Can be controlled).

  Now, in the speed priority process (S504), the information which optimized the arrangement | positioning of a tray using the statistical information of the transaction in a change machine is output. That is, transaction information exchanged for a predetermined period by the money changer is accumulated in the transaction statistical information DB 150, and the accumulated exchange processing information is calculated to output optimum information as speed priority processing. For example, the number of combinations of wrapping coins withdrawn, such as one 500 yen and two 100 yen, is counted, and the ratio of the combination to the total number of withdrawals is obtained as statistical information. An example of calculation of statistical information for optimization will be described later with reference to FIGS.

  In normal processing 505, specific fixed tray information is output. In the normal process, the same denomination is arranged on the same stage, for example, without performing the control as described above. For this reason, when the withdrawal from the tray of the different denomination is necessary, the movement of the tray occurs twice and the picking operation occurs twice.

  Next, the output tray arrangement information is displayed on the screen of the display operation panel 215 (S506). Next, whether or not to print a receipt is selected (S507). If printing is selected, the tray arrangement information is printed (S508). For example, as shown in FIG. 8, if the tray has 20 rows and columns in two rows on the left and right, a total of 40 (20 columns × 2 columns) tray positions and denomination information are printed. Note that the print format may be printed in an appropriate format, such as for each column in FIG. 8 or in a state where ruled lines are omitted.

  The clerk looks at the tray arrangement information displayed on the screen or printed on the receipt, and performs the tray replacement work (S509). After the replacement work (S509), the result is confirmed (S510). In the exchange result confirmation process, the tray arrangement information printed as described above is compared with the arrangement information of the actually exchanged tray to determine whether the result matches (S511). If the results match, the process ends. On the other hand, if they do not coincide with each other, the tray that has been replaced in error is displayed (S512), a warning sound is emitted, and the operations after tray replacement (S509) are repeated.

  Here, the confirmation process of the exchange result will be described. In the wrapping coin unit 110, information such as a barcode or an ID tag printed on the wrapping coin tray 120 is detected, and the denomination of the tray is determined. It has a mechanism for automatic discrimination. The exchange result confirmation process (S511) compares the tray arrangement information printed and instructed earlier with the tray arrangement information detected from the packaging coin unit 110 after the tray exchange by executing a program in the control device 140. Do that.

FIG. 6 shows an example of calculating the priority of the combination of wrapping coin trays for the tray arrangement optimization process (FIG. 5, S504).
In this example, for the sake of simplicity, there are two rows of trays in the wrapping coin unit 110, two wrapping coins that can be taken out of the tray at a time and moved to the bucket, and the combination priority is 2 denominations or the same money. It shall be calculated regarding the combination of species. This process is executed by the process of the staff service unit 313 of the control device 140.

  (A) shows the ratio of each combination when the total number of wrapping coin withdrawals registered in the statistical information DB 150 is 100%. For example, the ratio of transactions in which 100 yen wrapping coins and 10 yen wrapping coins are withdrawn simultaneously is 30% of the total (602). In addition, it shows that the ratio of transactions that simultaneously withdraws two 100 yen wrapping coins is 5% (603).

  In this combination, only a certain ratio or more is extracted from the frequency graph 604 (B). (C) shows a table in which constants when the smallest value is 1 among the extracted ratios are shown as tray combination priorities. For example, only 5% or more are extracted, so only combinations of 100 yen and 100 yen, 100 yen and 10 yen, 100 yen and 1 yen, 10 yen and 10 yen, 10 yen and 1 yen, 1 yen and 1 yen are available. Is shown as a constant. Other combinations are indicated by “−”, meaning that no priority is given.

FIG. 7 shows the selection of the optimum combination of trays with priority.
In this example, the number of packaging coin trays 701 actually prepared is set to 701, the number of combinations in priority order is set to 703 from the priority constant 702 of the combination of trays extracted in FIG. Is shown.

An example of a method for calculating the combination 703 will be described.
Attention is paid to each combination using 100 yen and 10 yen of the highest priority combination. Combinations using 100 yen are priority item numbers 1, 2, and 6, and the total number of trays required for each combination is 11. The number of 100-yen trays prepared here is 12, and the fractional part is rounded down from the ratio of the combination of item number 1 to the total value described above, and 12 × 6 / 11≈6 trays.
On the other hand, if 10 yen is calculated in the same way, it becomes 4 trays. Since the number of trays that can be prepared for 100-yen wrapping coins and 10-yen wrapping coins is six, the number of combinations of 100 yen and 10 yen, which is the first priority, is 6. Hereinafter, according to the priority order, the number of combinations 703 is obtained by the same calculation method for the number of remaining trays.
In addition, it may be considered that the pieces of information 701 to 704 calculated as described above and the arrangement information illustrated in FIG. 8 are registered in the transaction statistical information DB 150.

FIG. 8 shows the tray arrangement 801 obtained according to FIG.
According to the high priority combination 703, the combination of trays of 100 yen and 10 yen to stages 1 to 6 (802), the combination of 100 yen and 1 yen trays to stages 7 to 10 (803), 10 yen and 1 Place the combination of circles from steps 11 to 12 (804), the combination of 1 yen and 1 yen as step 13 (805), the combination of 100 yen and 100 yen as step 14 (806), and the remaining trays Arranged under the steps. In the screen display S506 in the exchange tray exchange flow of FIG. 5, this arrangement result 801 is displayed.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the information on the wrapping coin withdrawal in the exchange process is registered in the transaction statistical information DB 150, and the wrapping coin money obtained from the statistical information registered in the database when the wrapping coin tray is exchanged. By selecting a high priority among the combinations of seeds and arranging the wrapping coin tray according to the combination, it becomes possible to simultaneously perform a dispensing operation. On the other hand, if the tray arrangement is too complicated, there is a high possibility of erroneous loading. Therefore, a mode (normal process S505) in which a normal fixed arrangement can be selected can also be selected so that the tray replacement operator can select it. Yes. If the possibility of erroneous loading is low, the normal process S505 may be omitted and the tray optimization process S504 may be set as the speed priority mode.

The figure which shows the outline of the packaging coin unit in one Example, An external view showing the entire money changer in one embodiment, Functional block diagram of the money changer in one embodiment, The flowchart which shows the exchange operation in one Example, The flowchart which shows the exchange operation | movement of the packaging coin tray in one Example, The figure which shows the example of calculation of the priority of the tray combination in one Example, The figure which shows the example of the optimal combination selection of the exchange tray in one Example, The figure which shows the condition of tray arrangement | positioning in one Example.

Explanation of symbols

110: Wrapping coin dispensing unit 120: Wrapping coin tray 120 130: Removal mechanism unit 140 140: Control device 150: Transaction statistical information DB 200: Currency exchange machine
310: Application 320: Middleware 320 311: Overall control unit 312: Transaction business unit 312 313: Staff business unit 321: Common processing unit 321 322: Communication processing unit 322, 330: Hardware control unit

Claims (5)

A wrapping coin tray comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of trays on which wrapping coins are mounted, and a take-out mechanism for taking out the wrapping coins from the wrapping coin tray and transporting the wrapping coins to the dispensing outlet, are provided by the user. In the packaging coin processing device that selects and exchanges money,
A database for storing information indicating the transaction status of the wrapping coins actually traded, a calculation means for calculating a combination of wrapping coin denominations that are highly used by using the information stored in the database, and the calculation means Output means for outputting the optimal arrangement information of the wrapping coin tray calculated by the above, and referring to the output optimal arrangement information, the target wrapping coin tray is arranged in a plurality of rows and stages. A wrapping coin processing apparatus, which is disposed in a corresponding place.   2. The wrapping coin processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the combination of the wrapping coin trays is displayed on the screen of the operation display means or printed by a receipt printer as the output means. The packaging coin tray is provided with unique information, and when the packaging coin tray is replaced, the unique information of the packaging coin tray is detected, the arrangement information and the unique information are collated, and the result of the collation If not appropriate, the packaging coin processing apparatus according to one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that issues an alarm. The wrapping coin processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising operation means that enables the wrapping coin tray to be changed only when operated by a specific person. A wrapping coin tray comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of trays on which wrapping coins are mounted, and a take-out mechanism for taking out the wrapping coins from the wrapping coin tray and transporting the wrapping coins to the dispensing outlet, are provided by the user. In the packaging coin processing device that selects and exchanges money,
A database for storing information indicating the transaction status of the wrapping coins actually traded, a calculation means for calculating a combination of wrapping coin denominations that are highly used by using the information stored in the database, and the calculation means Output means for outputting the optimum arrangement information of the wrapping coin tray calculated by the above, and according to the outputted optimum arrangement information, the wrapping coin trays are arranged in the same stage in a plurality of rows. Wrapping coin processing device.

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