JP5906685B2 - Bill deposit / withdrawal apparatus and bill collection control method - Google Patents

Description

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is used for depositing / withdrawing banknotes by connecting to a register installed at a checkout in a large-scale store such as a retail store such as a supermarket or a convenience store or a discount shop, or a POS (Point Of Sales) register. The present invention relates to a banknote deposit / withdrawal apparatus and a banknote collection control method using the same.

  In the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus having a deposit / withdrawal port, a storage, a reject storage, a recovery cassette, and a banknote discriminating unit, an operation of recovering banknotes from the storage into a recovery cassette is called a recovery transaction. Generally, in a collection transaction, after separating banknotes one by one from the storage, it is determined whether or not the banknotes are normal by the banknote discrimination unit. For example, it is conveyed as a reject banknote to a rejection store (for example, patent documents 1). In this control, even when banknotes cannot be separated one by one and transported in piles, or when the separation time interval is short and the discrimination control is not in time, these banknotes are transported to the reject store as reject banknotes. The

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  However, since the banknote conveyed to the rejection store by the collection transaction is handled as a banknote that cannot be recycled, there is a problem that the funding efficiency in the apparatus installation store is deteriorated. In order to re-discriminate the banknotes transported to the reject box, the banknotes in the reject box must be manually stored again in the storage box, and then separated from the storage box and fed out again for discrimination. For this reason, if the number of rejected banknotes increases, the transaction time increases.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved banknote depositing and dispensing apparatus capable of re-identifying rejected banknotes and the same. It is to provide a bill collection control method.

In order to solve the above problems, according to one aspect of the present invention, a billet is sandwiched between opposite conveyor belts and conveyed in a reversible manner, and provided at one end of the conveyer path. A deposit / withdrawal port that collects banknotes to be fed out and delivered to the transport path, and a storage that is provided at the other end of the transport path and stores banknotes in denominations and delivers banknotes to be dispensed to the transport path, Among the banknotes collected from the storage and the banknotes collected from the storage, and the banknotes collected from the storage, the banknotes collected from the storage A reject warehouse for collecting banknotes determined to be abnormal by the unit, a plurality of sensors for detecting the passage of banknotes conveyed through the apparatus, and a control unit for controlling the conveyance direction of the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path, includes, discriminator is predetermined distance in the conveying path Arranged Te, consists of a second discriminating unit for discriminating a first discriminating unit for discriminating the bill accommodating the storage box is turned from the cash slot, a bill fed from the repository, the repository When the stored banknotes are collected as collection banknotes in the collection cassette, the second discrimination unit discriminates the collection banknotes conveyed from the storage, and the control unit is normal based on the discrimination result by the second discrimination unit. The collected banknotes determined to be abnormal are transported to the recovery cassette, the recovered banknotes determined to be abnormal are transported to the deposit / withdrawal port as reject candidate banknotes, and the reject candidate banknotes accumulated at the deposit / withdrawal port are transported to the first discrimination unit. Then, the conveyance of the re-identified reject candidate banknote is temporarily stopped on the conveyance path between the first discrimination unit and the second discrimination unit, and based on the re-discrimination result by the first discrimination unit , Reject candidate banknotes determined to be normal Transported to yield cassette, characterized in that it transported to the reject storing the rejected candidate banknotes determined to be abnormal as rejected bills, the bill receiving and dispensing apparatus is provided.

  According to the present invention, when a banknote collected from a storage is discriminated, a banknote determined as a reject candidate banknote is temporarily stored in a deposit / withdrawal port. Then, the reject candidate banknotes stored in the deposit / withdrawal port are re-identified, and conveyed to the collection cassette or the reject storage based on the re-discrimination result. Thus, the fall of the recycling rate of a banknote can be prevented by enabling re-discrimination and reseparation of a rejection candidate banknote.

Furthermore, the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus may include a storage unit that stores the position and number of banknotes in the apparatus. At this time, the sensors are provided at least at the deposit / withdrawal port, the storage, the discrimination unit, and the banknote entrance / exit of the collection cassette, respectively, on the conveyance path between the discrimination unit and the storage, and each sensor detects the passage of the banknote. The number of banknotes that have passed through the storage unit is recorded each time it is detected, and the control unit conveys the reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port to the first discrimination unit for re-discrimination, and determines normality by re-discrimination. For rejected rejected banknotes, if the banknote with the specified recovery amount is not transported to the recovery cassette, it is transported to the recovery cassette, and the banknote with the specified recovery amount is already transported to the recovery cassette May be transported to the storage and reject candidate banknotes determined to be abnormal may be transported to the reject storage.

Moreover, in order to solve the said subject, according to another viewpoint of this invention, in the said banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus, the banknote collection | recovery control method which collects a banknote from a storage is provided. In such bill recovery control method, when integrated into the collection cassette bills stored in the storage box as collecting bills, the steps of discriminating recovered bills transported from the repository by the second discriminating unit, a second discriminating unit Based on the result of discrimination, a step of transporting the recovered banknotes determined to be normal to the recovery cassette, a step of transporting the recovered banknotes determined to be abnormal to the deposit / withdrawal port as reject candidate banknotes, and rejects accumulated at the deposit / withdrawal port Transporting the candidate banknote to the first discrimination section for re-discrimination , and temporarily stopping the transport of the rejected reject candidate banknote on the transport path between the first discrimination section and the second discrimination section ; based on the re-discrimination results by the first discriminating unit and transport the rejected candidate banknote is judged to be normal to the recovery cassette, lysine rejected candidate banknotes determined to be abnormal as a reject banknote Characterized in that it comprises the steps of conveying the transfected box, a.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus capable of re-identifying rejected banknotes and a banknote collection control method using the same.

It is the schematic which shows schematic structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the banknote collection process from a storage among the operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process which re-discriminates the banknote integrated | stacked on the deposit or withdrawal port as a rejection candidate banknote among the operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the same embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the collection | recovery operation | movement from a storage of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the same embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the re-discrimination operation | movement of the rejection candidate banknote of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the same embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows collection | recovery operation | movement based on the re-differentiation result of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process which re-identifies the banknote integrated | stacked on the deposit or withdrawal port as a rejection candidate bank among the operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. In the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which concerns on the embodiment, it is explanatory drawing which shows the operation | movement which returns the banknote of the excess money amount determined with the normal banknote by re-discrimination to a storage. It is the schematic which shows one modification of a structure of a banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus.

  Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in this specification and drawing, about the component which has the substantially same function structure, duplication description is abbreviate | omitted by attaching | subjecting the same code | symbol.

<1. First Embodiment>
[Schematic configuration of banknote deposit and withdrawal device]
First, with reference to FIG. 1, the schematic structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a banknote depositing and dispensing device 100 according to the present embodiment.

  The banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment is a banknote change machine connected to a register installed at a checkout office such as a retail store or a large mass retailer. As shown in FIG. 1, the banknote deposit / withdrawal device 100 includes a conveyance path 105, a deposit / withdrawal port 110, a deposit / recognition recognition unit 120, a withdrawal / recognition unit 130, a storage box 140, and a collection in a housing 102. A cassette 150.

  The conveyance path 105 conveys the bills between the opposite conveyance belts so as to be forward and reverse. The conveyance path 105 enables conveyance of banknotes between the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the storage 140, and the collection cassette 150, as will be described later.

  The deposit / withdrawal port 110 is provided at one end of the transport path 105 and is a deposit bill inlet and a withdrawal bill outlet. The deposit / withdrawal port 110 according to the present embodiment is a banknote (also referred to as a “reject candidate banknote”) that is determined to be an abnormal banknote as a result of discrimination by the withdrawal recognition unit 130 when the banknote stored in the storage 140 is collected. It also functions as a hangar that temporarily stores. For this reason, the deposit / withdrawal port 110 which concerns on this embodiment is provided with the separation mechanism which isolate | separates a banknote.

  The deposit / withdrawal port 110 is provided with a sensor 112 that detects passage of banknotes. The sensor 112 is provided between the stacking unit in which banknotes in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 are accumulated and the transport path 105 connected to the deposit / withdrawal port 110. Accordingly, it is possible to detect passage of banknotes fed from the stacking unit of the deposit / withdrawal port 110 to the transport path 105 and banknotes transported from the transport path 105 to the deposit / withdrawal port 110.

  Further, in order to prevent the user from taking out the reject candidate banknote temporarily stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the deposit / withdrawal port 110 is provided with an openable / closable shutter 104. When the user inserts banknotes or hands over the banknotes withdrawn from the storage 140 to the user, the shutter 104 is opened. At this time, the shutter 104 is accommodated between the deposit / withdrawal port 110 and the collection cassette 150. On the other hand, at the time of banknote collection transaction, the reject candidate banknote may be temporarily stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 110, so the shutter 104 is closed.

  The deposit recognition unit 120 is a discrimination / sensor unit used when depositing banknotes. It functions when the banknote inserted from the deposit / withdrawal port 110 is stored in the storage 140, detects the passage of the banknote of the deposit recognition unit 120 by the sensor function, and discriminates the banknote by the discrimination function.

  The withdrawal recognition unit 130 is a discrimination / sensor unit used when dispensing banknotes. It functions when the banknotes stored in the storage 140 are collected or withdrawn to the deposit / withdrawal port 110, and the passage of the banknotes of the withdrawal recognition unit 130 is detected by a sensor function, and the banknotes are collected by a discrimination function. Discriminate.

  The storage 140 is a unit that is provided at the other end of the transport path 105 and stores banknotes determined to be normal banknotes by the deposit recognition unit 120. The banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment stores a thousand ticket storage 142 for storing a thousand yen bill (also referred to as “thousand ticket”) and a five thousand yen bill (also referred to as “five thousand ticket”). And a ten thousand-yen bill storage 146 for storing 10,000 yen bills (also referred to as “ten thousand tickets”). Each storage 140 includes a separation mechanism that separates banknotes. Each storage 140 is provided with sensors 141, 143, and 145 that detect passage of banknotes.

  The recovery cassette 150 is a unit that is provided at the other end of the transport path 105 and stores banknotes transported from the storage 140 during recovery. In the collection cassette 150, banknotes determined to be normal by discrimination of the withdrawal recognition unit 130 (or by re-differentiation by the deposit recognition unit 120) are stored. Inside the collection cassette 150, a reject box 152 for storing reject banknotes is provided. In the reject box 152, banknotes determined to be abnormal as a result of re-discrimination by the deposit recognition unit 120 are stored. It should be noted that the reject box 152 also stores 2000-yen banknotes that have been distinguished from normal banknotes at the time of deposit. The collection cassette 150 is provided with a sensor 151 that detects passage of banknotes.

  The deposit / withdrawal port 110 and the storage 140 are configured to be able to transport banknotes by the transport path 105, and a deposit recognition unit 120 and a withdrawal recognition unit 130 are disposed between them. When the banknotes are deposited, the banknotes identified by the deposit recognition unit 120 and determined to be normal when the banknotes reach the withdrawal recognition unit 130, the switching blades 107 and 108 switch the banknote transport direction according to the denomination of the banknotes. Are switched and conveyed to a predetermined storage 140. When the banknotes are withdrawn, the banknotes that have been identified by the withdrawal recognition unit 130 and determined to be normal reach the deposit recognition unit 120, and the switching blade 106 is switched and conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 110.

  Further, both the recovery cassette 150 and the storage 140 are configured to be able to transport banknotes by the transport path 105, and a deposit recognition unit 120 and a withdrawal recognition unit 130 are disposed between them. At the time of the collection transaction, banknotes (also referred to as “collected banknotes”) drawn from the storage 140 are identified by the withdrawal recognition unit 130, and then passed through the deposit recognition unit 120, and the reject candidate banknotes are deposited / withdrawn. The bill is conveyed to the mouth 110 and the normal banknote is conveyed to the collection cassette 150. The conveyance direction of the banknote at this time is switched by the switching blade 106. Further, the reject candidate banknotes temporarily stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 are re-identified by the deposit recognition unit 120 and then conveyed to the collection cassette 150 or the reject box 152.

[Functional configuration of banknote deposit and withdrawal device]
In FIG. 2, the functional structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on this embodiment is shown. As shown in FIG. 2, the banknote deposit / withdrawal device 100 includes a deposit / withdrawal port 110, a storage 140, a collection cassette 150 including a reject storage 152, a recognition unit 160, a control unit 170, and a storage unit 180. Become. Here, the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the storage 140, and the collection cassette 150 have been described with reference to FIG.

  The recognition unit 160 is provided to manage the banknotes in the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100, and includes a sensor 162 that detects the passage of banknotes transported in the transport path 105, and a discrimination unit 164 that identifies the banknotes. Consists of. As described with reference to FIG. 1, the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 according to the present embodiment includes the deposit recognition unit 120 and the withdrawal recognition unit 130 as the recognition unit 160. The deposit recognition unit 120 is a sensor 162, and is a deposit sensor 122 for realizing a sensor function for detecting passage of banknotes in the deposit recognition unit 120 and a discrimination unit 164, which realizes a discrimination function for discriminating bills. And a deposit discrimination unit 124. Similarly, the withdrawal recognition unit 130 is a sensor 162, which is a withdrawal sensor 132 for realizing a sensor function for detecting passage of the banknote of the withdrawal recognition unit 130, and a discrimination unit 164, It comprises a withdrawal discrimination unit 134 for realizing a discrimination function for discrimination.

  The sensor 162 is an optical sensor in which a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit are opposed to each other, for example. The sensor 162 is turned on when light emitted from the light emitting unit is received by the light receiving unit when the bill does not pass through the detection location of the transport path 105, and light when the bill passes through the detection location. Is cut off and the light receiving unit does not receive light and is turned off. Therefore, when the detection result of the sensor 162 is turned off from on and then turned on, it can be determined that the bill has passed through the detection location of the sensor 162. In addition to the optical type, for example, a magnetic sensor can be used as the sensor 162.

  The discrimination unit 164 includes a discrimination sensor that discriminates abnormally conveyed banknotes such as banknote denominations, damages and double feeds, skews, and chains by pattern recognition, for example. The banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment is a first discrimination unit, which is a deposit discrimination unit 124 that discriminates banknotes at the time of depositing, and a withdrawal discrimination that is a second discrimination unit and discriminates banknotes at the time of withdrawal. Part 134. The deposit discrimination unit 124 and the withdrawal discrimination unit 134 may have the same discrimination performance, or may have different discrimination performances. In general, since banknotes that are identified at the time of deposit and are determined to be normal are stored in the storage, the discrimination performance of the withdrawal discrimination unit 134 may be lower than that of the deposit discrimination unit 124. In the present embodiment, the deposit discrimination unit 124 will be described as having a higher discrimination performance than the withdrawal discrimination unit 134.

  The controller 170 controls each component of the banknote depositing / dispensing device 100 to perform banknote transport control in order to enable deposit processing, withdrawal processing, collection transaction, and the like. For example, when depositing a bill into the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the control unit 170 separates and feeds the bills one by one from the deposit / withdrawal port 110, and drives the transport path 105 to feed the bills that have been fed out. It is conveyed to the deposit recognition unit 120. When the deposit sensor 122 of the deposit recognition unit 120 detects a bill, the control unit 170 causes the deposit discrimination unit 124 to identify the bill. And the control part 170 will reject the said banknote if it is an abnormal banknote, so that the banknote will be conveyed to the corresponding denomination storage 140 if it is a normal banknote, if the discrimination result by the deposit discrimination part 124 is received. The conveyance path 105 is controlled so as to be conveyed to the storage 152.

  For example, at the time of a withdrawal process, the control unit 170 separates and feeds out banknotes one by one from the storage 140 in which the designated banknotes are stored, and drives the transport path 105 to feed out banknotes that are fed out. It is conveyed to the withdrawal recognition unit 130. When the withdrawal sensor 132 of the withdrawal recognition unit 130 detects a banknote, the control unit 170 causes the withdrawal discrimination unit 134 to identify the banknote. And the control part 170 receives the discrimination result by the withdrawal discrimination part 134, and if it is a normal banknote, the said banknote will be conveyed to the deposit or withdrawal port 110, and if it is an abnormal banknote, the said banknote will be sent to the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 152. The conveyance path 105 is controlled so as to be conveyed.

  In addition, about the control at the time of the collection transaction by the control part 170, since it mentions later for details, description is abbreviate | omitted here.

  The memory | storage part 180 memorize | stores information required in order to make the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 function. In the storage unit 180, for example, the serial number and the number of banknotes in each location (for example, the storage 140, the recovery cassette 150, and the reject storage 152) in the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 are stored as management information. The control unit 170 recognizes the position of the banknote in the banknote depositing / dispensing device 100 and the number of banknotes stored in the storage 140 or the collection cassette 150 by referring to the banknote management information stored in the storage unit 180. can do.

[Explanation of operations during collection transaction]
In the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, rejected banknotes that are determined to be abnormal by the discrimination unit 164 among the collected banknotes fed from the storage 140 in the collection transaction are temporarily transferred to the deposit / withdrawal port 110. After the accumulation, the reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 are re-identified by the identification unit 164. Thus, it becomes possible to prevent a decline in the recycling rate of banknotes by re-discriminating reject candidate banknotes at the time of collection.

  Hereinafter, based on FIGS. 3-7, the operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on this embodiment is demonstrated. In addition, FIG. 3 is a flowchart which shows the banknote collection | recovery process from the storage 140 among operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on this embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a process of re-discriminating the banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 as reject candidate banknotes among the operations during the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing the collecting operation from the storage 140 of the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 according to the present embodiment. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a re-discrimination operation of reject candidate banknotes of the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a collecting operation based on the result of re-discrimination of the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 according to the present embodiment.

(1) Banknote collection process from storage First, the banknote collection process from the storage 140 at the time of a collection transaction is demonstrated based on FIG. 3 and FIG. In the collection transaction, first, the control unit 170 receives a collection transaction instruction from the user, and separates and conveys the banknotes one by one from the designated storage 140 (S100). Here, separating the banknotes one by one means that when a single banknote is separated by a sensor that detects the separation of banknotes, even if the separated banknotes are being conveyed, a predetermined banknote interval is used. When it opens, it means separating the next banknote. In this case, there may be a plurality of bills being conveyed at the same time. The collected banknotes fed out from the storage 140 are transported to the withdrawal recognition unit 130 through the transport path 105. When the banknote is detected by the withdrawal sensor 132 of the withdrawal recognition unit 130, the control unit 170 receives the detection result of the withdrawal sensor 132 and determines whether or not the banknote is a normal banknote with respect to the withdrawal discrimination unit 134. Is determined (S102).

  And the control part 170 drives the conveyance path 105 so that the said banknote may be conveyed to the collection cassette 150, when the discrimination result by the withdrawal discrimination part 134 is received (S104) and it determines with a normal banknote ( S106). On the other hand, when it determines with an abnormal banknote in step S104, the control part 170 drives the conveyance path 105 so that a collection | recovery banknote may be conveyed to the deposit or withdrawal port 110 as a rejection candidate banknote (S108). These banknotes are also used when the banknotes cannot be separated one by one in the storage 140 and a plurality of banknotes are stacked and conveyed, or when the time interval for separating the banknotes is short and the discrimination control is not in time. Is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 110 as a reject candidate banknote.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 5, for example, when collecting banknotes from the thousand-ticket storage 142, the collected banknotes fed out from the thousand-ticket storage 142 are identified by the withdrawal discrimination unit 134. And if it determines with a normal banknote from a discrimination result, it will be conveyed to the collection cassette 150, and if it determines with a rejection candidate banknote, it will be conveyed to the deposit or withdrawal port 110. At this time, the control unit 170 closes the shutter 104 of the deposit / withdrawal port 110 so that the user cannot handle reject candidate banknotes.

  The banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment includes a depositing and discriminating unit 124 and a dispensing discriminating unit 134 as the discriminating unit 164 for discriminating banknotes. In the present embodiment, banknote discrimination in the banknote collection process from the storage 140 is performed by the withdrawal discrimination unit 134. This is because the necessity of discriminating the banknotes once discriminated and stored in the storage 140 using the deposit discrimination unit 124 having high discrimination performance is low, and the banknotes are discriminated by the withdrawal discrimination unit 134. However, the present invention is not limited to such an example, and banknote discrimination in the banknote collection process from the storage 140 may be performed by the deposit discrimination unit 124.

(2) Re-discrimination processing of reject candidate banknotes and banknote collection processing based on re-discrimination results Next, in the banknote collection processing described in FIG. 3 based on FIG. 4, FIG. 6, and FIG. A re-discrimination process of reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the cash slot 110 and a banknote collection process based on the re-discrimination result will be described. First, the control unit 170 separates one reject candidate banknote accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 and conveys it to the deposit recognition unit 120 (S110).

  Here, separating one banknote means that when a sensor that detects separation of banknotes detects that one banknote has been separated, the separation motor that separates the banknotes is stopped, and the separated banknotes are conveyed. Means that the next banknote is separated after the completion of. Completion of conveyance of the banknotes separated in the present embodiment means that the re-discrimination of one reject candidate banknote separated from the deposit / withdrawal port 110 is completed, and the banknote is stored in the collection cassette 150, the reject storage 152, or the storage 140. Judged when stored. In order to perform the re-discrimination processing of the reject candidate banknotes and the banknote collection processing based on the discrimination results, it is necessary to reversely transport the banknotes at the deposit / withdrawal port 110. Therefore, in step S110, a process of separating one rejection candidate banknote Is done. In this way, by separating one banknote and controlling it so that a plurality of banknotes are not conveyed at the same time, it becomes possible to re-discriminate banknotes that have become short rejected banknotes with a short interval between the banknotes separated from the storage case 140. The possibility of being handled as normal banknotes is increased.

  When the banknote is detected by the deposit sensor 122 of the deposit recognition unit 120, the control unit 170 receives the detection result of the deposit sensor 122 and causes the deposit discrimination unit 124 to determine whether the banknote is a normal banknote. (S112). The re-discrimination process for reject candidate banknotes in step S112 is performed by the deposit discrimination section 124 with high discrimination performance. This is because the high-performance discrimination unit 164 is used to discriminate again whether or not the banknote once determined to be abnormal by the withdrawal discrimination unit 134 in the banknote collection process from the storage 140 is not a normal banknote. Based on the idea that it is better to be.

  When the re-identified banknote passes through the deposit discrimination unit 124, the control unit 170 once stops on the transport path 105 between the deposit recognition unit 120 and the withdrawal recognition unit 130 (S114). During this time, the re-discrimination process for reject candidate banknotes in step S112 is terminated. And the control part 170 acquires the re-differentiation result of a rejection candidate banknote from the money_receiving | payment recognition part 120, and confirms whether it is a normal banknote (S116).

  When it is determined that the reject candidate banknote is a normal banknote, the control unit 170 drives the transport path 105 so that the banknote is transported to the collection cassette 150 (S118). On the other hand, when it is determined in step S116 that the reject candidate banknote is also an abnormal banknote, the control unit 170 transfers the reject candidate banknote as a reject banknote to the reject box 152 of the collection cassette 150 so as to be transported. Is driven (S120). In the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, the reject box 152 is provided in the collection cassette 150, and when the processing of step S120 is performed, the reject banknote is conveyed to the collection cassette 150 and the collection cassette. The storage port of the reject box 152 is moved so that the reject banknotes conveyed to 150 are stored in the reject box 152.

  Thereafter, the control unit 170 checks the number of reject candidate banknotes stored in the storage unit 180 and confirms whether or not re-discrimination of all reject candidate banknotes in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 has been completed. (S122). And the control part 170 repeats from step S110, when a rejection candidate banknote remains in the deposit or withdrawal port 110, and complete | finishes the process of FIG. 4 when all the re-discrimination is complete | finished.

  The operation at the time of the collection transaction in the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 according to the present embodiment has been described above. According to the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 100, the banknotes that have been rejected when the banknotes collected from the storage 140 are identified are temporarily stored in the depositing / dispensing port 110. Then, after rejecting the reject candidate banknotes stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the reject candidate banknotes are temporarily stopped on the transport path 105, and then directly transferred to the collection cassette 150 or the reject box 152 based on the re-discrimination result. To do. Thus, by enabling re-discrimination and re-separation of reject candidate banknotes, it is possible to prevent a decline in the banknote recycling rate and improve the fund efficiency of the installation store. In addition, it is possible to reduce the storage time in the storage box 140 and the time for separating again from the storage box when re-discrimination of reject candidate banknotes.

<2. Second Embodiment>
Next, with reference to FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, the operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction in the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. In addition, FIG. 8 is a flowchart which shows the process which re-discriminates the banknote integrated | stacked on the deposit or withdrawal port 110 as a rejection candidate banknote among operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on this embodiment. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation of returning the excess amount of banknotes determined to be normal banknotes by re-discrimination to the storage 140 in the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 according to the present embodiment.

  In the collection transaction, there are a case where all banknotes in the storage 140 are collected and a case where a specified amount of banknotes is collected. In the conventional banknote deposit and withdrawal device, when collecting a specified amount of banknotes, when the banknotes are fed out from the storage case 140 in a state where a plurality of banknotes are overlapped, the total amount of banknotes finally accumulated in the collection cassette 150 May be more than the specified amount. Therefore, in the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, reject candidates in the depositing / dispensing port 110 that are determined to be abnormal banknotes by the withdrawal discriminating unit 134 among the collected banknotes fed from the storage 140 during the collection transaction. At the time of re-differentiation of banknotes, it is confirmed whether or not a specified amount of banknotes has been collected in the collection cassette 150, and the conveyance destination of the banknotes is determined according to the confirmation result and the re-differentiation result.

  Hereinafter, the operation | movement at the time of the collection transaction in the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 which concerns on this embodiment is demonstrated. In addition, since the structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 is the same as that of 1st Embodiment, description of an apparatus structure is abbreviate | omitted here.

[Explanation of operations during collection transaction]
(1) Banknote collection process from storage The banknote collection process from the storage 140 at the time of a collection transaction of the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment is the flowchart shown in FIG. 3 as in the first embodiment. Based on Therefore, description of such processing is also omitted.

(2) Re-discrimination processing of reject candidate banknotes and banknote collection processing based on re-discrimination results Next, in the banknote collection processing from the storage case described based on FIG. 3 based on FIG. 8 and FIG. The banknote collection process based on the re-discrimination process of the reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the above and the re-discrimination result will be described. First, the control unit 170 separates one reject candidate banknote accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 and conveys it to the deposit recognition unit 120 (S210).

  When the banknote is detected by the deposit sensor 122 of the deposit recognition unit 120, the control unit 170 receives the detection result of the deposit sensor 122 and causes the deposit discrimination unit 124 to determine whether the banknote is a normal banknote. (S212). When the rejected candidate banknote that has been re-identified passes through the deposit discrimination section 124, the control section 170 once stops on the conveyance path 105 between the deposit recognition section 120 and the withdrawal recognition section 130 (S214). During this time, the re-discrimination process for reject candidate banknotes in step S112 is terminated. And the control part 170 acquires the re-differentiation result of a rejection candidate banknote from the money_receiving | payment recognition part 120, and confirms whether it is a normal banknote (S216).

  If the reject candidate banknote is also determined to be an abnormal banknote in step S216, the control unit 170 drives the transport path 105 so that the reject candidate banknote is transported to the reject box 152 of the collection cassette 150 as a reject banknote. (S218). At this time, the control unit 170 conveys the reject banknote to the collection cassette 150 and moves the storage port of the reject box 152 so that the reject banknote transported to the collection cassette 150 is stored in the reject box 152.

  Note that the processing up to steps S210 to S218 can be the same as the processing of steps S110 to S116 and S120 shown in FIG.

  When it is determined in step S216 that the reject candidate banknote is a normal banknote, the control unit 170 checks whether or not the specified amount of banknote has already been collected in the collection cassette 150 (S220). The total amount of banknotes collected in the collection cassette 150 can be acquired from the storage unit 140 in which the collected banknotes are stored and the number of banknotes conveyed to the collection cassette 150 with reference to the storage unit 180. it can. When it is determined that the designated amount of banknotes has not yet been collected in the collection cassette 150, the control unit 170 conveys the banknotes to the collection cassette 150 (S222).

  On the other hand, when it determines with the banknote of the designated amount having been collect | recovered by the collection | recovery cassette 150 in step S220, the control part 170 conveys the said banknote to the storage 140 of a corresponding denomination (S224). . Thereby, while being able to collect | recover as the designated amount of money, the banknote withdrawn excessively from the storage 140 can be returned to the storage 140.

  Thereafter, the control unit 170 checks the number of reject candidate banknotes stored in the storage unit 180 and confirms whether or not re-discrimination of all reject candidate banknotes in the deposit / withdrawal port 110 has been completed. (S226). When the reject candidate banknote remains in the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the control unit 170 repeats the process from step S210, and when all re-discrimination has been completed, the control unit 170 ends the process of FIG.

  The operation at the time of the collection transaction in the banknote deposit and withdrawal device 100 according to the present embodiment has been described above. According to the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100, the banknotes that are rejected when the collected banknotes collected from the storage 140 are identified are temporarily stored in the depositing / dispensing port 110. Then, after rejecting the reject candidate banknotes stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 110, the reject candidate banknotes are temporarily stopped on the transport path 105, and when it is determined that there is an abnormality from the re-discrimination result, the reject box Transport to 152.

  When it is determined that the banknote is normal from the re-discrimination result, it is checked whether or not the specified amount of banknote has already been stored in the recovery cassette 150. If the specified amount of banknote has not been recovered yet, the banknote is recovered. Convey to 150. On the other hand, when the banknote of the designated amount has already been collected, the banknote is conveyed to the corresponding denomination storage 140. Thereby, while being able to collect | recover as the designated amount of money, the banknote withdrawn excessively from the storage 140 can be returned to the storage 140.

  When collecting banknotes of a plurality of denominations, the banknotes of each denomination are collected according to a specified amount by performing the processing shown in FIG. 8 for each denomination storage 142, 144, and 146, respectively. Can do.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to such examples. It is obvious that a person having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention pertains can come up with various changes or modifications within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims. Of course, it is understood that these also belong to the technical scope of the present invention.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the deposit discrimination unit 124 and the withdrawal discrimination unit 134 are provided as the discrimination unit 164, but the present invention is not limited to such an example. For example, as shown in FIG. 10, the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus 200 may be provided with a recognition unit 210 including a sensor 212 that detects passage of a bill and a discrimination unit 214 that discriminates a bill. That is, the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 200 is provided with one discrimination unit 214, and the discrimination unit 214 discriminates banknotes during deposit processing, withdrawal processing, and collection transaction. At this time, a sensor 220 that detects passage of banknotes on the transport path 105 is provided between the recognition unit 210 and the storage 140. The sensor 220 detects the banknote to be temporarily stopped in the banknote re-discrimination process at the time of the collection transaction so that the subsequent conveyance process can be performed.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 100 demonstrated as a small banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus connected to a register | resistor, this invention is not limited to this example, The length of the conveyance path 105 in which a banknote is conveyed. The present invention can also be applied to ticket machines, small ATMs, cash processing machines, and the like that are limited in length.

  Furthermore, in the said embodiment, although the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 152 was provided in the inside of the collection cassette 150, this invention is not limited to this example, You may make it provide a separate rejection store | warehouse outside the collection cassette 150.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 102 Case 104 Shutter 105 Conveyance path 110 Depositing / withdrawing port 120 Deposit recognition part 122 Deposit sensor 124 Deposit discrimination part 130 Deposit recognition part 132 Deposit sensor 134 Deposit discrimination part 140 Storage box 150 Collection cassette 152 Reject Warehouse 160 Recognition unit 162 Sensor 164 Discrimination unit 170 Control unit 180 Storage unit

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A transport path for transporting the bills in a reversible manner by sandwiching a bill between opposing transport belts;
A deposit / withdrawal port that is provided at one end of the transport path and that stacks banknotes to be fed out and withdrawn into the transport path;
A storage that is provided at the other end of the transport path and stores banknotes by denomination and withdraws banknotes to be withdrawn to the transport path;
A discriminating unit for discriminating banknotes conveyed along the conveyance path;
Among the banknotes collected from the storage, a collection cassette for collecting banknotes determined to be normal by the discrimination unit;
Among the banknotes collected from the storage, a reject warehouse for collecting banknotes determined to be abnormal by the discrimination unit;
A plurality of sensors for detecting the passage of banknotes conveyed in the apparatus;
A control unit for controlling the conveyance direction of banknotes conveyed along the conveyance path;
With
The discriminating unit is fed from the storage, and a first discrimination unit that discriminates the banknotes inserted from the deposit / withdrawal port and stored in the storage, which are arranged at a predetermined distance on the conveyance path. And a second discrimination section for discriminating banknotes,
When the banknotes stored in the storage are collected as the recovered banknotes in the recovery cassette, the second discrimination unit discriminates the recovered banknotes conveyed from the storage;
The controller is
Based on the discrimination result by the second discrimination unit, the recovered banknote determined to be normal is transported to the recovery cassette, the recovered banknote determined to be abnormal is transported to the deposit / withdrawal port as a reject candidate banknote,
The reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port are transported to the first discrimination unit for re-discrimination, and the re-discrimination of the reject candidate banknotes is transferred to the first discrimination unit and the second discrimination. The reject candidate banknotes that are temporarily stopped on the transport path between the first section and the first discriminating section are transferred to the recovery cassette based on the result of the re-discrimination by the first discrimination section , and are determined to be abnormal. A bill depositing / withdrawing apparatus, wherein the bill is transferred to the reject store as a reject bill. A storage unit for storing the position and number of banknotes in the apparatus;
The sensors are provided at least on the deposit / withdrawal port, the storage, the discrimination part and the banknote entrance / exit of the collection cassette, respectively, on the conveyance path between the discrimination part and the storage,
Each of the sensors records the number of banknotes passed to the storage unit every time it detects the passage of banknotes,
The controller is
The reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port are conveyed to the first discrimination unit for re-discrimination,
For rejected candidate banknotes determined to be normal by re-discrimination, if the banknote with the specified recovery amount is not transferred to the recovery cassette, it is transferred to the recovery cassette and the banknote with the specified recovery amount has already been If it is transported to the collection cassette, transport it to the storage,
The banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the reject candidate banknote determined to be abnormal is conveyed to the reject store as a reject banknote. The banknote deposit and withdrawal device according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the banknote collection control method collects banknotes from the storage.
When collecting the banknotes stored in the storage as the recovered banknotes in the recovery cassette, the step of identifying the recovered banknotes conveyed from the storage by the second discrimination unit;
Transporting the recovered banknote determined to be normal to the recovery cassette based on the discrimination result by the second discrimination unit, and transporting the recovered banknote determined to be abnormal to the deposit / withdrawal port as a reject candidate banknote; ,
The reject candidate banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port are transported to the first discrimination unit for re-discrimination, and the re-discrimination of the reject candidate banknotes is transferred to the first discrimination unit and the second discrimination. A step of temporarily stopping on the conveyance path between the unit and
A step of conveying reject candidate banknotes determined to be normal to the collection cassette based on a result of re-discrimination by the first discrimination unit, and transferring reject candidate banknotes determined to be abnormal to the reject store as reject banknotes; ,
The banknote collection | recovery control method characterized by including.

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