JP5670596B2 - Banknote handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus that is mounted and used in an automatic cash transaction apparatus (ATM) or the like that automatically deposits and withdraws cash by a user's operation.

  In recent years, banknote handling apparatuses that mount as many large-capacity banknote storages as possible have been proposed along with the increase in denomination and capacity of cash handled by ATMs. For example, Patent Documents 1 and 2 disclose a banknote handling apparatus in which a plurality of banknote storages are arranged side by side at the lower part of a banknote handling apparatus, and other mechanism units are aggregated and arranged at the upper part of the apparatus.

  In the banknote handling apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, a banknote deposit / withdrawal port, a banknote discriminating section, and a temporary storage section are arranged in the upper part of the apparatus, and a vertically long storage box and a plurality of banknote storage boxes are arranged in the lower part of the apparatus. These mechanisms are connected by a one-way conveyance path. The conveyance path by this one-way conveyance path becomes complicated. In particular, since the banknote at the time of depositing and the banknote at the time of withdrawal are transported in the same direction by the banknote discriminating section, a dedicated transport path for transporting the banknote to the banknote discriminating section entrance side is required. That is, a banknote depositing / dispensing port and a temporary storage unit are arranged in one loop-shaped conveyance route connected to the banknote determination unit, while a banknote storage is arranged in another loop-shaped conveyance route connected to the banknote determination unit. . For this reason, the volume of the structure which comprises a conveyance path over the whole apparatus increases, and there exists a problem that a banknote storage becomes small for the magnitude | size of the whole apparatus.

  In the banknote handling apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 2, a deposit / withdrawal port part is arranged on the front surface of the upper part of the apparatus, a temporary storage part and a banknote discrimination part are arranged side by side, and a loading box, a reject box, and a banknote storage box are arranged in the lower part. These mechanisms are arranged side by side in the front-rear direction, and these mechanism parts are connected by a bidirectional conveyance path.

  Moreover, the banknote handling apparatus disclosed by patent document 3 is aiming at the simplification of a conveyance path by connecting each mechanism part with a bidirectional conveyance path similarly to the banknote handling apparatus disclosed by patent document 2. FIG. For example, in FIG. 27 (second embodiment), the temporary storage 40, the reject storage 65, and the loading / recovery storage 83 are arranged at the rear of the apparatus, and the temporary storage at the time of depositing is placed in the reject storage 65 as a substitute for the deposit box. Non-refluxed banknotes or banknotes forgotten to be removed from the storage 40 are stored, and reject banknotes from the temporary storage 40 at the time of withdrawal are stored.

JP-A-8-221636 JP 2009-110230 A JP 2000-172903 A

  By the way, in the banknote handling apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 3, banknotes fed out from the temporary storage 40 cannot be collected in the reject store even if a banknote with poor conveyance is detected after passing through the banknote discriminating unit. There is no choice but to store it. For this reason, there is a risk that banknotes will be poorly accumulated in the recycle box, and that a paper jam will occur when the banknotes are fed from the recycle box next time.

  The banknote handling apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 2 has a mechanism for switching between a reject box and a loading box after the banknote has passed through the banknote determination section, and thus has passed the banknote determination section as in Patent Document 3. It seems likely that later conveyance of banknotes will be prevented. However, in the apparatus of Patent Document 2, a dedicated transport path 56 for transporting banknotes from the loading cabinet to the banknote discriminating unit is required, and the transport path is complicated. Furthermore, in this configuration, it is necessary to form a three-layer conveyance path between the two bidirectional conveyance paths 51b and 58 and one unidirectional conveyance path 55 between the lower surface of the temporary storage unit and the upper surface of the recycle box. Therefore, it becomes difficult to reduce the height of the apparatus and to achieve both a compact apparatus and a large capacity of the recycle box.

It is an object of the present invention to shorten the bill conveyance path as much as possible to simplify the bill conveyance mechanism and to reduce the size of the apparatus.
Moreover, this invention exists in the banknote storage which accommodates a recycle banknote, making it possible to attach or detach a loading store and a rejection store | warehouse | chamber, and to improve the convenience of the handling of a banknote by a staff.

Preferably, the present invention is a banknote handling apparatus that handles banknotes for depositing / withdrawing, wherein a banknote depositing / dispensing port, a banknote discriminating unit for discriminating a denomination of banknotes, and a banknote discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit are temporarily stored. A temporary storage unit for storing bills, a plurality of banknote storage units for storing banknotes, a loading storehouse for storing banknotes to be replenished with respect to the banknote storage units, and a banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit And a first transport path that passes through the banknote discriminating unit and transports banknotes to any one of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port, the temporary storage unit, or the plurality of banknote storages, and the first And a second transport path that connects between the loading storage or the reject storage, and the temporary storage unit, the loading storage, and the rejection storage, The banknote deposit / withdrawal port is the front-rear direction of the banknote handling apparatus. The both ends of the first transport path are connected to one end of the second transport path at the connection portion, are disposed in the second transport path, and are connected to the second transport path. A first switching unit that switches whether a banknote is transported from the road to the reject storage or the loading storage, and the first switching section is disposed in the first transport path, and transports the banknote from the first transport path to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port. A second switching unit that switches whether to perform, and a third switching unit that is arranged in the first transport path and switches whether the banknotes are transported from the first transport path to the temporary storage unit, In the front part of the banknote handling device, the banknote deposit / withdrawal port is arranged, in the rear part of the banknote handling device, the temporary storage unit is arranged, and the first transport path is separated from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port. Deposit counting processing for transporting the banknotes to the banknote discriminating unit, before It is the conveyance direction of the banknote in the collection processing which conveys the banknote isolate | separated from the banknote storage to the said banknote depositing / withdrawing port, and the banknote isolate | separated from the said banknote storage. In a first transport direction, a deposit storage process for transporting banknotes separated from the temporary storage unit to the banknote storage, and a loading process for transporting banknotes separated from the loading storage to the banknote storage. It is a conveyance direction of a banknote, Comprising: It conveys to the 2nd conveyance direction which is a conveyance direction different from said 1st conveyance direction, The rear part side of the above-mentioned bill handling device in the above-mentioned bill discriminating part, and the above-mentioned connection part , In the first transport direction, downstream of the banknote recognition unit, branching in the second switching unit, transporting to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port, branching in the third switching unit, and temporarily Transport to storage.

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the conveyance path of a banknote can be shortened and the banknote conveyance mechanism can be simplified. Thereby, the conveyance mechanism of a banknote can be arrange | positioned at the upper part of an apparatus, an upper part can be reduced in size, and also the banknote capacity | capacitance of the banknote accommodating part and loading cabinet which were arrange | positioned at the lower part of the apparatus can be increased.
Moreover, the convenience of handling of banknotes by an attendant is improved by adopting a configuration in which the banknote deposit / withdrawal port and the temporary storage unit are arranged on the upper surface of the banknote handling device and a loading / rejecting cabinet is detachable.

The perspective view which shows the external appearance of ATM. The external appearance perspective view seen from the back side of ATM. The external appearance perspective view seen from the back side of ATM. The side view which shows the structure of the banknote handling apparatus by one Example. Explanatory drawing of the deposit transaction processing operation | movement in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the money_receiving | payment accommodation processing operation | movement in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the payment processing operation | movement in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the loading process operation | movement of the banknote in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the rejection process operation | movement in the loading process operation | movement of the banknote in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the collection processing operation | movement of the banknote in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the direct payment processing operation from the loading warehouse in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the rejection processing operation at the time of payment in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the collection processing operation | movement of the banknote forgetting to remove in a banknote handling apparatus. Explanatory drawing of the collection | recovery processing operation | movement of the deposit banknote in a banknote handling apparatus. The side view of ATM which mounts a bill handling device. The side view of ATM which mounts a bill handling device.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an external view of an automatic teller machine (ATM) equipped with a bill handling device, and FIG. 2 is a view as seen from the back side.
The ATM 101 uses a cash card, banknote, statement slip, etc. as a transaction medium, and performs processing such as depositing, paying, and transferring cash by a user operation. At the top of the ATM 101, a passbook processing mechanism 106 that processes the user's passbook, prints and releases the transaction details, and a card / detail slip processing that processes the user's card and prints and releases the transaction details slip A mechanism 107 is provided. The passbook processing mechanism 106 processes the passbook of the user inserted from the slot 106a, prints the transaction details, and releases it. The card / detail slip processing mechanism 107 processes the user's card inserted from the slot 107a, and prints and releases the transaction detail slip. In front of the ATM, an operation unit 104 for displaying the contents of the user's transaction and inputting various information and items for the transaction is provided.

  In the lower part of the ATM 101, a banknote handling apparatus 1 for processing banknotes is provided on the right side, and a coin processing apparatus 105 for processing coins is provided on the left side (see FIG. 2). A banknote deposit / withdrawal transaction is performed in response to opening / closing of a shutter 20a provided at the deposit / withdrawal port 20 of the banknote handling apparatus 1. Similarly, a coin deposit / withdrawal transaction is performed in accordance with the opening / closing of the shutter 105a provided at the deposit / withdrawal port of the coin processing apparatus 105. Some ATMs 101 do not have the coin processing device 105.

  2 and 3 are views seen from the back side of the ATM, and the back door 102 is in an open state. From the back side of the ATM to the front, the tray 111 is loaded with a loading container 70 and a plurality of banknote storages 74 to 71 so as to be detachable (see also FIG. 15). The tray 111 can be separated into a first tray 1112 on which a plurality of bill storage boxes 74 to 71 are mounted and a second tray 1114 on which a loading box 70 is mounted, and the first tray 1112 and the second tray 1114 are combined. In this state, the entire tray 111 is supported by the rail 1102 and can be pulled out rearward. On the other hand, with the first tray 1112 fixed, only the second tray 1114 is supported by the rail 1104 and can be pulled out rearward.

Here, an actuator is mounted inside each of the rails 1102 and 1104, and by operating the switches 113 and 114, the corresponding actuator operates to lock or release the movement of the rail. That is, when the switch 113 is not operated, the actuator in the rail 1104 is kept locked, and the first tray 1112 and the second tray 1114 are in a coupled state. When the switch 113 is operated in this state, the entire tray 111 is supported by the rail 1102 and pulled out rearward. On the other hand, when the switch 114 is not operated and only the switch 113 is operated, only the second tray 1114 is supported by the rail 1104 and pulled out rearward. At this time, only the loading container 70 can be attached and detached. Thereby, loading or collection | recovery of the banknote from the loading store | warehouse | chamber 70 to the several banknote storage 74-71 is attained, without stopping operation | movement of ATM101. In addition, as said modification, you may make it mount all the loading storage 70 and the some banknote storage 71-74 in a 1st tray, without providing a 2nd tray.
The reject store 60 also has a mechanism that can be attached to and detached from the bill handling apparatus 1.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the internal configuration of the banknote handling apparatus.
In the upper part of the banknote handling apparatus 1, a processing mechanism for banknotes to be traded is arranged, and in the lower part, a banknote storing mechanism is arranged.
In the upper part of the banknote handling apparatus 1, a banknote deposit / withdrawal port 20 through which a user inserts and removes banknotes is arranged on the front side (side facing the user: upper right side in FIG. 4). Moreover, the banknote discrimination | determination part 30 which discriminate | determines a banknote is arrange | positioned in the center part, and the temporary storage part 40 which accommodates the banknote which the user received | paid | paid until the transaction establishment is arrange | positioned in the upper part of a rear part. Below the temporary storage unit 40, a reject box 60 for storing banknotes that are not used for deposit transactions or withdrawal transactions or for storing banknotes that the customer has forgotten to pull out is disposed. Each of these mechanism parts is connected by a bidirectional transport path.

Here, the banknote discrimination | determination part 30 can perform a money type discrimination | determination and authenticity discrimination | determination, even if it is any of the banknote conveyed from the front to back, and the banknote conveyed from back to front. That is, the banknote discrimination | determination part 30 can discriminate | determine and authenticate the banknote conveyed bi-directionally, and can discriminate | determine whether a banknote is rejected.
In the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 20, the banknote feeding part 20b which feeds the banknote thrown in from the bottom, and the banknote stacking part 2 which accumulate | stores the banknote for withdrawal or return conveyed from the downward direction are arrange | positioned forward and backward. ing.
Further, an openable / closable door 402 is disposed on the upper portion of the temporary storage unit 40. The door 402 is normally closed, but if an ATM operation is stopped due to an unexpected power failure or failure, an attendant can open the door 402 and visually check the banknotes in the temporary storage unit 40, and Can be easily removed.

In the lower part of the banknote handling apparatus 1, from the front to the back, banknote storages 71 to 74 that store banknotes in denominations, and loading that functions as a banknote loading unit by loading and collecting banknotes in these banknote storages A cabinet 70 is mounted on the tray 111 and disposed. Note that the banknote storage 74 may be used as a reject storage for storing banknotes that are not used for deposit transactions or withdrawal transactions. The bill conveyance paths 70a and 71a to 74a are formed through the entrances and exits of the loading cabinet 70 and the bill storage bins 71 to 74.
Thus, the temporary storage unit 40, the reject storage 60, and the loading storage 70 are arranged from the top on the back side of the apparatus. The driving of each mechanism unit, for example, driving of the rollers of the conveyance path, switching of the sorting gates of the conveyance path, and the like are driven and controlled by a control unit (not shown).

  Speaking of the conveyance path, the conveyance paths 10a, 10b, 10d to 10f, 30a, 40a, 50a to 50b, 60 and the like form a bidirectional conveyance path, and the direction of the arrow indicates the direction in which the bill is conveyed. Here, the bidirectional conveyance path (10a, 30a, 10d, 10e, 10f, 50a) between the deposit / withdrawal port 20 and the storage boxes 71 to 73 is a first conveyance path, and the bidirectional conveyance path 50b is a second conveyance. I will call it the road. That is, the banknote deposit / withdrawal port part 20, the temporary storage part 40, and the banknote storage 71-73 are connected to the 1st conveyance path, and the storage 74 is connected to the left end of the 2nd conveyance path 50b by the sorting gate 54. Further, the loading warehouse 70 and the reject warehouse 60 are switched by the sorting gates 54 and 55 and connected to the second transport path 50b.

  The first conveyance path, which is a bidirectional conveyance path, conveys banknotes in the first conveyance direction for conveying banknotes in the counterclockwise direction (left rotation in FIG. 4) and in the clockwise direction (right rotation in FIG. 4). Transport in the second transport direction. The second transport path 50b, which is a two-way transport path, includes a first transport direction for transporting banknotes from the banknote storage 74, the loading storage 70, and the reject storage 60 to the sorting gate 15, and a banknote from the sorting gate 15. A banknote is conveyed in the 2nd conveyance direction which conveys a banknote toward the storage 74, the loading warehouse 70, and the rejection store | warehouse 60. FIG.

Regardless of the direction in which the banknote is transported in the first transport path connected to the banknote discriminating unit 30, the end of the transport path (the lower end of the transport path 10f and the left end of the transport path 50a) is second transported by the sorting gate 15. Connected to the right end of the path 50b.
In the bill handling apparatus 1, a drive motor, an electromagnetic solenoid, a sensor, or the like (not shown) is attached to each of the above-described mechanisms including the conveyance path, and a drive motor or an electromagnetic solenoid necessary for the transaction of the bill. Is driven, and the conveyance state of the bill is monitored by the sensor.
With the banknote handling apparatus 1 configured as described above, processing such as banknote deposit and withdrawal, banknote replenishment, banknote collection, and forgotten collection transaction can be executed. Hereinafter, each operation will be described.

With reference to FIG. 5, the processing operation of the deposit transaction in the banknote handling apparatus 1 will be described.
The deposit transaction is a process mainly including a deposit counting process for performing authenticity determination, denomination determination, and counting of a bill inserted into the bill feeding portion 20b of the bill deposit / withdrawal port 20.
First, a plurality of banknotes set in the banknote feeding part 20b of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 20 are separated one by one and fed out to the lower conveyance path 10b. The banknotes fed to the transport path 10b pass through the transport path 30a in the banknote determination unit 30 from the front to the rear from the transport path 10a. In the banknote discrimination | determination part 30, the image of the banknote to pass is acquired by the sensor mounted in the inside, and the authenticity of the banknote, a money type, and a loss state are discriminate | determined.

The bill that has passed through the bill discriminating unit 30 is once transported upward from the rear portion of the bill discriminating unit 30 through the transport path 10d. While being conveyed by the conveyance path 10d, the discrimination by the bill discriminating unit 30 is completed, and the bill sorting gate 13 is switched according to the discrimination result. That is, when it is determined by the banknote determination unit 30 that the banknote is acceptable, the banknote sorting gate 13 is switched to connect to the transport path 10e, and the banknote is transported by the transport paths 10e and 40a to be temporarily stored. 40. On the other hand, when the banknote discriminating unit 30 determines that the banknote is difficult to accept, the banknote sorting gate 13 is switched to connect to the transport path 10c, and the banknote is returned to the banknote stacking unit 20c to be accumulated and used. Returned to the person.
In the conveyance of the deposit counting process, the first conveyance path conveys banknotes in the first conveyance direction in the order of the conveyance paths 10a, 30a, 10d, and 10e.

In this way, all the banknotes inserted into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 20 are processed, and the deposited amount and the amount counted by the banknote handling apparatus 1 coincide with each other, and the deposit transaction is confirmed by the user from the customer operation unit 104. When an instruction is input, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 40 are transported to and stored in the banknote storages 71 to 74 (payment storage processing).
In addition, control of operation | movement, such as starting and a stop of conveyance operation | movement of the banknote on a conveyance path, switching of a conveyance direction, switching of a gate, is performed by control of a control part (illustration omitted) (this is the same also in the following description). .

Next, with reference to FIG. 6, the deposit storage processing operation will be described.
In the storage process, first, the banknote sorting gate 13 is switched to connect the temporary storage section 40 and the banknote discriminating section 30, and the banknote sorting gate 11 is switched to connect to the transport path 10a and the transport path 50a.
The banknotes fed out from the temporary storage unit 40 one by one are conveyed to the banknote determination unit 30 through the conveyance paths 40a, 10e, and 10d. The banknotes that have passed through the banknote discriminating unit 30 are transported by the transport path 10a, and are transported downward by the banknote sorting gate 11 through the transport path 50a. Furthermore, a banknote is conveyed by conveyance path 50a, 50b, the banknote distribution gates 51-55 are switched according to the money type discriminate | determined by the banknote discrimination | determination part 30, and either the loading warehouse 70 or the banknote storage 71-74 is switched. It is stored in. Note that banknotes may be stored in the loading cabinet 70.

When the banknote discriminating unit 30 determines that the banknote cannot be accepted, the banknote sorting gates 54 and 55 are switched to be connected to the transport path 60a, and the banknote is stored in the reject box 60. The reject store 60 may be used as a collection store for storing banknotes that the customer has forgotten to pull out. In this case, the banknote store 74 is used as the reject store.
Regarding storage of banknotes fed out from the temporary storage unit 40, the sorting gate 55 is disposed after passing through the banknote determination unit 30, so that the loading box 70 is used not only as a function as a loading box but also as a banknote storage box. It becomes possible to do.
In this way, in the deposit storage process, the first transport path and the second transport path are the banknotes in the second transport direction (first transport direction) in the transport paths 10e, 10d, 30a, 10a, 50a, and 50b. It operates to transport in the opposite direction).

Next, the withdrawal transaction processing operation will be described with reference to FIG.
In the withdrawal transaction process, banknotes are fed one by one from the banknote storages 71 to 73 stored by denomination, and are transported to the banknote discrimination unit 30 through the transport paths 50a, 10a, and 30a. The banknote discriminating unit 30 determines whether or not the banknote can be withdrawn. As a result of the discrimination, if the banknote can be withdrawn, the banknote sorting gate 13 is switched to connect the transport path 10d and the transport path 10c, and the banknotes are stacked on the banknote stacking unit 20c.
On the other hand, if it is determined that the banknote cannot be withdrawn, the banknote sorting gate 13 is switched so as to connect the transport path 10d and the transport path 10e, and transported by the sorting gates 54 and 55 through the transport paths 10f and 50b. The road is connected and the bill is conveyed to the reject store 60. The banknote sorting gate 13 switching control based on the banknote discrimination and the discrimination result is completed while the banknote is being transported to the transport path 10d.

When the banknote transport operation is completed, the shutter 20a of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 20 is opened, and the banknotes accumulated in the banknote stacking unit 20c are in a state that can be extracted by the user. When the user pulls out the banknote, a sensor (not shown) detects that fact, closes the shutter 20a, and ends a series of withdrawal transaction processing.
Thus, in the withdrawal transaction processing operation, the first transport path transports banknotes in the first transport direction in the transport paths 50a, 10a, 10d, 10e, 10f, and 30a, and the second transport path 50b The banknotes are operated so as to be conveyed in the second conveying direction.
In addition, when using the banknote storage 74 as a rejection store | warehouse | chamber, it is possible to switch the conveyance path by the sorting gate 54, and to store the banknote which cannot be withdrawn in the banknote storage 74.

Next, with reference to FIG. 8, a bill loading operation will be described.
This process is an operation for transporting and storing the banknotes in the loading cabinet 70 to the banknote storages 71 to 73.
That is, the banknotes fed out one by one from the loading container 70 to the transport path 70a are transported to the bill discriminating unit 30 through the transport paths 50b, 10f, 10e, and 10d in order, and are appropriate as denominations and loaded banknotes there. Is determined. After the discrimination, the banknotes pass through the transport paths 10a and 50a, are sorted by the sorting gates 51 to 53 according to the denomination, and are stored in any of the banknote storage boxes 71 to 73.
In this loading processing operation, the second transport path 50b transports banknotes in the first transport direction, and the first transport path transports banknotes in the transport paths 10f, 10e, 10d, 30a, 10a, and 50a. It operates to transport in the second transport direction.
By such a loading process operation, the banknotes fed out from the loading storage 70 are directly distributed to the banknote storages 71 to 73 without being temporarily stored in the banknote storage unit.

Next, with reference to FIG. 9, the processing operation when a reject banknote is generated during the loading process will be described. This process is an operation of conveying a banknote (reject banknote) determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit 30 to the reject store 60 or the storage store 74 (when this is used as a reject store).
The banknote discrimination by the banknote discrimination unit 30 is completed when the banknote is transporting the transport path 10a. Once it is determined to be rejected, the feeding of banknotes from the loading cabinet 70 is stopped. After that, the banknotes on the transport paths 70a and 50b are transferred to the transport path 10f, and the transport of the transport paths 70a and 50b is stopped as soon as the banknotes disappear on the transport paths 70a and 50b. After the driving of the transport path 50b is stopped, the transport path 50b is driven by switching the transport direction so as to transport bills in the second transport direction. Simultaneously with the switching of the transport direction of the transport path 50b, the banknote sorting gate 15 is switched to connect the transport path 50a and the transport path 50b.

During the switching of the transport direction of the transport path 50b and the switching of the banknote sorting gate 15, the transport paths 10a, 10d, 10e, 10f, 30a, and 50a continue to transport the banknotes without stopping.
The switching of the transport direction of the transport path 50b and the switching of the banknote sorting gate 15 are completed while the banknote determined to be rejected is transporting the transport path 10a. The reject banknote passes through the conveyance paths 50b and 60a and is stored in the reject store 60.
The banknotes that are being conveyed following the reject banknotes are determined by the banknote discriminating unit 30 for the denomination and loading eligibility, but if there is no rejection determination, they are distributed by the distribution gates 51 to 53 according to the denomination. It is stored in one of the bill storage boxes 71-73. When it is determined as a reject banknote, it is stored in the reject store 60.
As soon as the banknotes transported through the transport path are stored in the storages of the respective storage destinations, the banknote feeding operation of the loading storage 70 is resumed and the loading process is continued. When all the banknotes in the loading cabinet 70 or a predetermined number of banknotes are paid out and stored in the respective storage bins, the loading process is completed.

In addition, it is also possible to use the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 60 as a collection | recovery store | warehouse | chamber for storing the banknote which the customer forgot to pull out, and to use the storage box 74 for storage of a reject banknote. In this case, the rejected banknotes are stored in the storage 74 after the transport path is switched by the banknote sorting gate 54.
The clerk can take out and collect the banknote determined to be rejected at the time of banknote replenishment from the ATM 101 without stopping the operation of the ATM 101 by taking out the reject storage 60 storing the reject banknote from the rear surface of the ATM 101. .

  Here, as a modification, the banknote storage 74 may be used as a loading storage. In that case, the banknotes in the banknote storage 74 are conveyed and stored in the banknote storages 71 to 73. In other words, in the above description, the loading operation can be understood by replacing the loading storage 70 with the bill storage 74 and the conveyance path 70a with the conveyance path 74a. However, the banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit 30 when the banknote is loaded from the banknote storage 74 to the banknote storage 71 to 73 is stored in the reject storage 60.

Next, the bill collection processing operation will be described with reference to FIG.
This process is a processing operation for collecting banknotes from the banknote storage boxes 71 to 73 to the loading box 70. The banknotes collected from the banknote storage boxes 71 to 73 are transported to the banknote discriminating unit 30 through the transport paths 50a and 10a, and then passed through the transport paths 10d, 10e, 10f, 50b, and 70a. This is done by being stored in the loading box 70. The banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit 30 is switched to the transport path 60 a by the banknote sorting gate 55 and stored in the reject store 60. Note that the banknote determined to be rejected may be switched to the transport path 74 a by the banknote sorting gate 54 and stored in the banknote storage 74.

In the operation of this collection process, the first transport path operates to transport bills in the first transport direction in the transport paths 10a, 10d, 10e, 10f, 30a, and 50a, and the second transport path 50b. Operates to transport bills in the second transport direction.
In addition, according to the modification, you may use the banknote storage 74 as a temporary banknote loading warehouse for banknote collection | recovery. In this case, the bill handling apparatus 1 has two loading bins, a loading bin 70 and a bill storage bin 74, and collects banknotes in two collection bins, the loading bin 70 and the banknote bin 74 when collecting bills. And banknotes in the ATM can be collected at once.

Next, with reference to FIG. 11, the direct withdrawal processing operation from the loading storage will be described.
This process is an operation of withdrawing the banknotes stored in the loading storage 70 directly to the deposit / withdrawal port section 20 without loading the banknote storage sections 71 to 73.
The banknotes fed out one by one from the loading cabinet 70 are conveyed to the banknote discriminating unit 30 through the conveyance paths 70a, 50b, 50a, and 10a, where it is determined whether or not the banknotes can be withdrawn. When it is determined that the withdrawal is possible, the sorting gate 13 is switched so as to connect the transport path 10d and the transport path 10c, and the banknotes are stacked on the banknote stacking unit 20c through the transport paths 10d and 10c. By the operation of the withdrawal process from the loading container so far, the transport paths 10a, 10d, 10e, 30a, 50a, and the second transport path 50b of the first transport path transport bills in the first transport direction. To work.

  When it is determined that the banknote cannot be withdrawn, the banknote sorting gate 13 is switched so that the transport path 10d and the transport path 10e are connected as shown in FIG. The discrimination of the withdrawal bill and the switching of the bill sorting gate 13 based on the discrimination result are completed while the bill is being transported on the transport path 10d. And the banknote (reject banknote) which cannot be withdrawn is accommodated in the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 60 through the conveyance paths 10e, 10f, 50b, 60a.

  With reference to FIG. 12, the conveyance operation | movement of a reject banknote is demonstrated a little in detail. Once it is determined that the banknote is rejected, the feeding of the banknote from the loading cabinet 70 is stopped. After that, all the banknotes on the transport paths 70a and 50b pass, and the transport of the transport paths 70a and 50b is stopped as soon as there are no more banknotes on the transport paths 70a and 50b. After the conveyance path 50b is stopped, the conveyance direction is switched and operated so that the conveyance path 50b conveys banknotes in the second conveyance direction. Simultaneously with the switching of the transport direction of the transport path 50b, the banknote sorting gate 15 is switched to connect the transport path 50b and the transport path 10f. Note that the switching of the transport direction of the transport path 50b and the switching of the banknote sorting gate 15 are completed while the banknote determined to be rejected is transporting the transport paths 10e and 10f.

The reject store 60 may be used as a forgotten collection store for storing banknotes that the customer forgot to pull out. In this case, rejected banknotes may be stored in the banknote storage 74 by switching the transport path at the banknote sorting gate 54.
The loading cabinet 70 can be detached from the back of the apparatus without stopping the ATM operation. When the bill capacity inside the device is empty or decreases, by loading the bill handling device 1 with the bill storage 70 storing bills, the bills can be directly loaded from the bill stock 70 without being distributed and loaded into the bill bill storage 71-73. It is possible to withdraw money in a short time.

As another example, the bill storage box 74 may be used as a loading box. In that case, the bill sorting gate 54 is switched, and bills are fed from the bill storage box 74 to the transport path. The subsequent banknote transport operation is the same as described above. Note that banknotes fed out from the banknote storage 74 and determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit 30 are stored in the reject storage 60.
With the above operation, the banknotes that are determined to be unsuitable to be stored in the banknote storages 71 to 74 are directly stored in the temporary storage unit 40, the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 30, etc. Or it can convey directly to the banknote storage 74, and the processing time of an apparatus can be shortened.

  When reject banknotes are generated during the withdrawal processing operation from the loading storage so far, the transport paths 10d, 10e, and 10f of the first transport path are transported in the second transport direction while the banknotes are transported. The second transport path 50b reverses the banknote transport direction from the first transport direction to the second transport direction.

Next, with reference to FIG. 13, the collection processing operation | movement of the banknote forgetting to remove is demonstrated.
This process is an operation of collecting the banknotes in the reject store 60 (or banknote storage 74) when the user forgets to remove the banknotes withdrawn from the deposit / withdrawal port 20.
The banknotes withdrawn and forgotten to be taken out by the banknote stacking unit 20c are fed to the transport path 10b one by one while being pushed by the pressing plate 22 in the banknote stacking unit 20c and moving in front of the deposit / withdrawal port. The banknotes pass through the transport paths 10a, 30a, 10d, 10e, 10f, 50b, 60a and are stored in the reject store 60.

As another example, forgotten banknotes may pass through the transport path 50 b and then be connected to the transport path 74 a and stored in the banknote storage 74.
In the collection processing operation of banknotes forgotten so far, the transport paths 10a, 30a, 10d, 10e, and 10f of the first transport path transport banknotes in the first transport direction, and the second transport path 50b is A banknote is conveyed in the 2nd conveyance direction.

Next, with reference to FIG. 14, an operation for collecting deposited banknotes according to another example will be described.
In the example of FIG. 5, the banknote determined by the banknote determination unit 30 as being unsuitable for redistribution, such as a counterfeit bill, during the deposit counting process is stored in the temporary storage unit 40 by switching the banknote sorting gate 14. According to this alternative example, it is possible to store the unsuitable recirculation banknotes in the reject store 60 through the transport paths 10d, 10e, 10f, 50b, and 60a without storing them in the temporary storage unit 40. Note that the switching of the banknote sorting gate 14 is completed while the banknote is being transported on the transport path 10d.

  In the collection processing operation using the reject banknote 60 thus far, the transport paths 10a, 30a, 10d, 10e, and 10f of the first transport path transport the banknotes in the first transport direction, The conveyance path 50b conveys banknotes in the second conveyance direction.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the temporary storage unit 40 is disposed in the upper rear part of the apparatus, the reject container 60 is disposed in the middle part, and the loading container 70 is disposed in the lower part. The bi-directional conveyance path 10a, 10d, 10e, 10f, 50a that connects the bills is transported to the bidirectional conveyance path 50b at the end of the conveyance path regardless of whether the banknote is conveyed in the first conveyance direction or the second conveyance direction. The banknote deposit / withdrawal port part 20, the temporary storage part 40, the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 60, the loading store | warehouse | chamber 70, and the banknote storage boxes 71-74 are connected to those conveyance paths, and it is "8 like a prior art. It is possible to simplify the conveyance path instead of the character-shaped conveyance route. A conveyance path can be shortened and the small and large-capacity banknote handling apparatus can be realized.

  Moreover, according to the present Example, the collection | recovery process which collect | recovers a banknote from the banknote storage 71-74 to the loading store 70 conveys the bidirectional | two-way conveyance path 10a, 10d, 10e, 10f, 50a in a 1st conveyance direction. Since the loading process for loading banknotes from the loading storage 70 to the banknote storage 71-74 is configured to be transported in the second transport direction, the recovery process is performed from the banknote recycling storages 71-74 to the banknote discrimination unit 30, The banknotes are conveyed in the order of the loading cabinet 70, and the loading process can convey the banknotes from the loading cabinet 70 in the order of the banknote discriminating unit 30 and the bill storage bins 71 to 74. Therefore, the operation of collecting or loading the bill after discriminating the bill can be executed with efficient conveyance without waste.

Further, according to the present embodiment, reject banknotes that cannot be withdrawn to the banknote stacking unit 20 c can be directly conveyed to the reject store 60 by switching the banknote sorting gate 13 during the withdrawal transaction process. That is, it is not necessary to store temporarily in the temporary storage part 40, and it can process efficiently.
Further, according to the present embodiment, there is no need to temporarily store banknotes in the temporary storage unit 40 during the loading process, and any of the banknote storages 71 to 73 directly from the loading store 70 through the banknote determination unit 30. Can be stored in one. Moreover, the banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote discriminating unit 30 does not need to be temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 40 and can be directly stored in the reject store 60 or the banknote store 74 and can be processed efficiently. .

Moreover, it is not necessary to temporarily store banknotes in the temporary storage unit 40 during the collection process, and the banknotes can be stored directly from the banknote storage boxes 71 to 73 into the loading box 70 through the banknote determination unit 30. Can be processed well.
Moreover, the banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote discriminating unit 30 during the collection process does not need to be temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 40 and can be directly stored in the reject store 60 and can be processed efficiently. .
Moreover, the conveyance path connection port for giving / receiving a banknote to each conveyance path of the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 60, the loading store | warehouse | chamber 70, and the banknote storage 71-74 becomes a structure one each, and can simplify a structure. The hierarchy of the lower conveyance path of the temporary storage part 40 and the deposit / withdrawal port part 20 can be reduced, and an apparatus can be reduced in size.

The loading storage 70 connected to the transport path 50b has not only a function as a loading storage for collecting banknotes in the banknote storage and collecting banknotes in the banknote storage, but also a function as a banknote storage. Can do.
Moreover, the banknote storage 74 connected to the conveyance path 50b is not only a function as a banknote storage, but also as a loading storage for loading banknotes into the banknote storages 71 to 73 and collecting banknotes in the banknote storages 71 to 73. The function can be provided.
That is, the loading storage 70 or the bill storage 74 connected to the two-way transport path 50b has a plurality of functions such as a loading storage function, a bill storage storage function, and a rejection storage function depending on operations required for the ATM. It is possible to take a form, and in a small device, it is possible to simultaneously realize a large capacity of bills and a multi-function according to device operation.

  According to the present embodiment, the reject storage 60 is disposed below the temporary storage unit and installed downstream in the first transport direction in the first transport path, so that the banknote storages 71 to 74 can receive the bills at the time of deposit counting. Banknotes that are unsuitable for storage and inappropriate for return to the deposit / withdrawal port can be stored directly in the reject box 60 without using a dedicated transport path. Thereafter, the rejected banknotes generated during other transactions, such as a withdrawal transaction, are stored in the banknote storage 74 instead of the reject storage 60, whereby the rejected banknotes in the apparatus can be classified.

By installing the reject store 60 and the loading store 70 on the rear surface of the banknote handling device 1, the reject store 60 and the loading store 70 can be detached from the rear surface of the banknote handling device 1 without temporarily stopping the ATM customer operation transaction. This improves convenience and equipment availability.
Moreover, the tray 111 which can attach and detach the loading warehouse 70 and the banknote storage 71-74 simultaneously can be implement | achieved by arrange | positioning the loading warehouse 70 and the banknote storage 71-74 in the lower part of the banknote handling apparatus 1 back and forth. Easy to operate.
Further, by aligning the height of the upper ends of the loading storage 70 and the banknote storage 71-74, the tray 111 can be freely pulled out rearward or forward of the ATM 101 as shown in FIGS. Will improve.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, the banknote handling apparatus 1 is configured such that the banknote handling apparatus 1 has a banking path 70 a serving as a banknote entrance / exit for transferring banknotes to the transporting path 50 b of the banking box 70. Located near the front. If the conveyance path 70a is arranged closer to the rear surface of the bill handling apparatus 1 than the center of the loading container 70, a conveyance path for connecting to the conveyance path 70a is added between the lower surface of the reject container 60 and the upper surface of the loading container 70. Must be configured. For this reason, the component can be omitted more in the present embodiment.

Moreover, the conveyance path 71a-74a used as the banknote entrance / exit part for the banknote transfer to the conveyance path 50a or 50b of the banknote storage 71-74 is arrange | positioned near the rear surface of the banknote handling apparatus 1 from the center of each banknote storage. doing. The banknote storages 71 to 74 are arranged in the opposite direction to the banknote loading storage 70.
Thereby, when an attendant sets a banknote in the loading storage 70 face up, when a banknote is loaded into any of the banknote storage 71 to 74, the banknote is set face up in the banknote storage. When a banknote is set face-down in 70, the bill is set face-down when loaded into the banknote storage 71-74.

Thus, since the front and back of a banknote does not invert even after the banknote set by the clerk is loaded in the banknote storage, it is easy to understand in terms of the clerk's device operation.
On the other hand, if the conveyance path 71a of the banknote storage 71 is arranged from the center of the banknote storage 71 from the front of the banknote handling apparatus 1, the conveyance path 50a is extended to the front of the banknote handling apparatus 1 and the conveyance path. It is necessary to connect to 71a. For this reason, according to the present embodiment, the length of the conveyance path 50a can be shortened, and the components can be omitted.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. 15, in the configuration in which the loading storage 70 and the banknote storages 71 to 74 are arranged in the front and rear, even when another banknote storage is additionally arranged in front of the banknote storage 71. The position of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port in the height direction does not change, and the operability for the user does not deteriorate. However, if there is a plan to arrange the reject store 60 in the lower stage of the loading store, a dedicated transport path for transporting banknotes from the upper surface of the loading store is required, and the number of component parts and Although the volume of a banknote handling apparatus will increase, according to a present Example, it can prevent.

In addition, if there is a plan to arrange the temporary storage unit 40 in the lower stage of the loading cabinet 70, a dedicated conveyance path for conveying bills from the upper surface of the loading cabinet to the lower side is also necessary in this case. The score and the volume of the bill handling device increase.
In particular, the loading storage 70 has a role of loading banknotes 71 to 74 with banknotes and collecting banknotes from the banknote storages 71 to 74, and has a larger capacity than the temporary storage unit 40 and the reject storage 60. Required. Therefore, in order to reduce the number of components in the transport path to the temporary storage unit 40, the reject storage 60, and the loading storage 70 while securing the capacity of the loading storage 70, the loading storage 70 is configured as in this embodiment. It is optimal to arrange the banknote handling device 1 on the lower side of the rear surface.

  Next, if there is a plan in which the temporary storage unit 40 is arranged in the middle stage of the banknote handling apparatus 1, the reject box 60 is arranged in the upper stage, and the loading box 70 is arranged in the lower stage, in that case, in the banknote storage process, After the banknote fed out from the temporary storage unit 40 passes through the banknote determination unit 30, when it is determined to be rejected, it passes through the banknote determination unit 30 separately from the conveyance path that is determined to be normal and conveyed to the lower banknote storage. After that, a separate transport path for transporting the bill once upward and connecting to the upper reject box 60 is required, and the number of components increases and the transport mechanism becomes complicated. According to the present embodiment, such a conveyance mechanism can be prevented from becoming complicated.

  Moreover, if there exists a plan which arrange | positions the temporary storage part 40 after the middle stage of the banknote handling apparatus 1, the door for removing a banknote will be arrange | positioned in the side surface of the banknote handling apparatus 1 in that case. At that time, the opening is approximately the height of the person's waist. Moreover, since the banknote in the temporary storage part 40 arrange | positioned after the middle step of the banknote handling apparatus 1 becomes a back place of the banknote handling apparatus 1, the space with a banknote does not receive light but is dark. For this reason, the clerk must bend down and pull out the banknote while visually checking the inside of the dark device, and the workability is poor, and it is easy to induce a work mistake such as overlooking the left banknote. Therefore, it is optimal to arrange the temporary storage unit 40 in the upper stage of the banknote handling apparatus as in this embodiment.

1: banknote handling apparatus, 10a to 10f: transport path, 20: deposit / withdrawal port, 30: banknote discriminating section, 40: temporary storage section, 50a-50b: transport path, 60: reject storage, 70: loading storage, 71- 74: Banknote storage.

Claims (5)

A banknote handling apparatus for handling banknotes for depositing and withdrawing,
Banknote deposit and withdrawal,
A bill discriminating unit for discriminating the denomination of the bill;
A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the banknotes determined by the banknote determination unit;
A plurality of banknote storages for storing banknotes;
A loading storage for storing banknotes to be replenished with respect to the banknote storage;
A reject storage for storing banknotes determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit;
A first transport path that passes through the banknote discriminating section and transports banknotes to any of the banknote deposit / withdrawal port, the temporary storage section, or the plurality of banknote storages;
A second transport path that connects between the first transport path and the loading storage or the reject storage;
The temporary storage unit, the loading storage, and the rejection storage are disposed at positions opposite to the banknote determination unit with respect to the banknote determination unit in the front-rear direction of the banknote handling device ,
Both ends of the first transport path are connected to one end of the second transport path at a connection portion ,
A first switching unit that is arranged in the second transport path and switches whether the banknotes are transported from the second transport path to the reject storage or the loading storage ;
A second switching unit that is arranged in the first transport path and switches whether the banknote is transported from the first transport path to the banknote deposit and withdrawal port;
A third switching unit that is arranged in the first transport path and switches whether the banknotes are transported from the first transport path to the temporary storage unit;
With
In the front part of the banknote handling device, the banknote deposit / withdrawal port is arranged,
In the rear part of the banknote handling device, the temporary storage unit is arranged,
The first transport path is
Deposit counting process for transporting banknotes separated from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port to the banknote discriminating unit, withdrawal transaction process for transporting banknotes separated from the banknote storage to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port, and the banknotes A first transport direction that is a transport direction of banknotes in a recovery process of transporting banknotes separated from a storage to the loading storage;
It is the conveyance direction of the banknote in the depositing storage process which conveys the banknote isolate | separated from the said temporary storage part to the said banknote storage, and the loading process which conveys the banknote isolate | separated from the said loading storage to the said banknote storage. , Transport in a second transport direction, which is a transport direction different from the first transport direction ,
Between the rear side of the banknote handling device in the banknote discriminating section and the connecting section, the banknote branches in the second switching section downstream of the banknote identifying section in the first transport direction. A bill handling apparatus, wherein the bill handling device is transported to a deposit / withdrawal port, branched at a third switching unit and transported to the temporary storage unit . Wherein the rear part of the bill handling apparatus, characterized in that it placed before Symbol reject box, and the loading box, a bill handling apparatus according to claim 1. It has a collection box to store banknotes forgotten by customers,
At the rear of the bill handling apparatus, and before Symbol recovery box, and the loading box arranged,
The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reject box is arranged in front of the banknote handling apparatus from the loading box.   The banknote handling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the loading storage is disposed on a rear surface portion of the apparatus, and a plurality of the banknote storages are disposed in front of the loading storage. .   The banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit in the withdrawal transaction process and the collection process is stored in the reject box via the connection unit in the first transport direction, and the deposit storage process The banknote determined to be rejected by the banknote determination unit in the loading process is stored in the reject storage via the connection unit in the second transport direction. The banknote handling apparatus of any one of -4.

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