JP6515625B2 - Cash handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cash processing apparatus such as a simple cash dispenser which is installed in a financial institution such as a post office and performs cash deposit and withdrawal, sealing of a bill, and the like.

The conventional bill processing apparatus having a sealing unit for sealing 100 sheets of banknotes, which is a prescribed number of sheets, delivers the banknotes of the denomination to be sealed stored in the denomination storage and transports the banknotes to the discrimination unit. After the front and back sides are discriminated in the discrimination section, it is transported to the sealing section and accumulated, and when the number of accumulated sheets reaches 99 sheets, if the first transported banknote is facing backward, the 100th banknote is sealed as it is If the first bill is conveyed and bound to the part and the first bill is facing, the 100th bill that is discriminated as reverse facing in the discrimination part is transported and stored to the temporary storage part, and then conveyed Continue processing to store in the temporary holding unit until the bill is discriminated as the front direction in the discrimination unit, and when the conveyed bill is discriminated as the face direction, the bill is regarded as the 100th bill. It is required that at least one of the bill bundle be the front face of the bill by conveying and bundling to the sealing part To form a bundle of bills of China bill.
In addition, the front and back reversing mechanism is provided as a bypass on the conveyance path to the sealing portion, and the bill bundle is formed quickly by reversing the front and back of the 100th bill as necessary (for example, for example) Patent Document 1).

International Publication WO2009 / 118839 (paragraphs 0026, 0038-0041, 0045-0047, FIG. 1, FIG. 4, FIG. 5)

However, the above-described conventional technique is effective when the banknote to be sealed is a Chinese banknote, but when the banknote to be sealed is a Japanese banknote, all banknotes of the banknote bundle are, for example, selected. Since it is required to align and bind to the surface, when using the technique of cited document 1, the processing is continued until 100 banknotes discriminated as the front surface are fed out from the storage by denomination. And it takes time to form a bill bundle.
For this reason, if the front and back reversing mechanism is provided as a bypass on the transport path to the sealing portion, there is a problem that the apparatus becomes large.

In addition, in the case of bundling the bills inserted from the bill insertion port at the sealing portion, if all the bills are mistakenly aligned on the back side, for example, the transport operation is stopped until the bills in the insertion port disappear. There is a problem if you can not.
In addition, even when the front and back reversing mechanism is provided as a bypass, it is necessary to perform the reversing operation by the front and back reversing mechanism for all the inserted bills, and it takes time to seal the banknote. There is.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a means for shortening the processing time in the case of sealing a bill inserted from an insertion slot.

MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS In order to solve the above problems, the present invention solves the above problems, a cash handling device includes a customer service unit provided with an insertion slot into which a bill is inserted, a display unit having a display screen, and a discrimination unit that discriminates the front and back of a banknote In the case where the discrimination between the front and back by the discrimination unit is the reverse of the set front, the stacker is configured to accumulate the banknotes, and the banknotes discriminated as the reverse by the discrimination unit have predetermined conditions When it becomes, the conveyance of the bill from the above-mentioned insertion slot is stopped, the screen which urges the re-introduction of the bill after checking the front and back of the bill which remains in the above-mentioned insertion slot is displayed on the display screen of the above It is characterized by

  Thereby, according to the present invention, the front and back of the inserted banknote remaining in the insertion slot of the banknote can be confirmed before feeding of all inserted banknotes, as compared with the case where all inserted banknotes are reverse banknotes. The effect that the processing time in the sealing process of the inserted banknote can be shortened is obtained.

Explanatory drawing which shows the cash-receipt-and-disbursement apparatus of Example 1. Block diagram showing the cash deposit and withdrawal apparatus of the first embodiment

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a cash processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The cash deposit and withdrawal device of the present embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
The cash depositing and dispensing apparatus as the cash processing apparatus of the present embodiment is installed at a financial institution such as a post office, and a clerk such as a post clerk can deposit cash (banknotes and coins) received from a customer, or cash for the customer. It is a simple cash handling machine that performs sealing, etc. of banknotes and money exchange banknotes according to the customer's request, and as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the banknote processing unit 1, coin processing unit 2, main control A unit 3, a storage unit 4, an operation display unit 6, a card reader 7, a printing unit 8 and the like are provided.

The main control unit 3 controls each unit such as the bill processing unit 1 and the coin processing unit 2 of the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus to execute a dispensing process, a depositing process, a sealing process and the like.
The storage unit 4 stores programs executed by the main control unit 3, processing results by the main control unit 3, and the like.
The operation display unit 6 includes a display screen such as an LCD and an input unit such as a touch panel provided on the display screen, and the clerk can perform a deposit process, a withdrawal process, a sealing process, etc. on the display screen. It has a function of displaying an instruction button or the like for instructing to receive an input from a person in charge, a function of displaying a state of the apparatus, and the like.

The card reader 7 has a function of reading card information such as an employee ID recorded on an IC chip or a magnetic stripe when the attendant card passes an attendant card carried by the attendant.
The printing unit 8 includes a printer and the like, and has a function of printing and discharging a result of a transaction such as the amount of money received and paid by the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus on a receipt.
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the bill processing unit 1 includes a control unit 11, a bill depositing / dispensing unit 12, a bill discrimination unit 13, a bill escrow unit 14, a bill storage unit 15, a withdrawal storage 16, and a banknote reject storage 17. , And a seal portion 18, a bill conveyance path 19 and the like.

The control unit 11 has a storage area 11a, and controls various units in the bill processing unit 1 according to commands from the main control unit 3 to control various processing operations such as conveyance, storage, and sealing of bills. Do.
In the storage area 11a of the control unit 11, a face (referred to as a front) set as a face (for example, a front face) to be aligned at the time of formation of the bill bundle is stored as sealing face information. In addition, denomination of banknotes to be sealed, correct banknotes (normal banknotes) or unfit banknotes (banknotes with stains, tears, etc.), or mixture of harmless banknotes selected and inputted by clerk at the time of sealing process A sealing information storage area for storing sealed banknote information such as a sealing type and a circulation degree contamination level which is a contamination level of a banknote to be sealed is previously secured.

In addition, in the storage area 11a, a sealed bill accumulated sheet count number area or the like for counting the accumulated number of sealed bills accumulated in the sealed bill accumulating part 18a of the sealed part 18 is secured in advance.
The bill depositing / dispensing unit 12 has a bill insertion port 12a provided on the front side (right side in FIG. 1) of the bill processing unit 1 with 100 or more bills, and a bill reject unit 12b with about 20 to 30 sheets. The bill insertion slot 12a has a feeding mechanism for feeding out the inserted bills inserted by the clerk one by one, a returned bill at the time of deposit cancellation in the deposit process, and a dispensed bill delivered to the clerk at the time of dispensing processing. An integration mechanism is provided to accumulate.

The bill reject unit 12b as an accumulation unit is provided adjacent to the bill insertion slot 12a, and is a deposit reject bill at the time of deposit processing, and the front set as the sealing surface information at the bill discrimination unit 13 at the time of the seal processing There is provided a stacking mechanism which is a transport destination for transporting the banknotes discriminated from the opposite surface (referred to as the reverse surface), and for stacking the transported banknotes in the thickness direction and accumulating them.
Further, the bill reject portion 12b is provided with a conveyance mechanism constituted by a roller pair or a belt pair or a combination of a roller and a belt for conveying the accumulated bills while being stacked in the bill insertion slot 12a. There is.

The transport mechanism may be a transport mechanism that feeds out and transports the stacked banknotes one by one.
The bill discrimination unit 13 has a function of discriminating the authenticity of a conveyed bill, integrity, denomination, front and back, and the like to count the denomination.
The bill escrow unit 14 is inserted into the bill insertion slot 12a, and a stacking mechanism for accumulating and temporarily storing the bills discriminated and counted by the bill discrimination unit 13 and feeding out the temporarily held bills one by one A mechanism is provided, and at the time of sealing processing, it functions as a temporary storage destination of banknotes contrary to the sealed banknote information selected and inputted by the clerk at the banknote discrimination unit 13.

  The bill storage 15 is a safe which is detachably attached to the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus, and stores bills of denomination (seven thousand, five thousand, and ten thousand notes in the present embodiment) used for dispensing. Denomination type storage, that is, a thousand ticket storage 15a for storing thousand yen banknotes, a 5000 ticket storage 15b for storing five thousand yen banknotes, and a universal ticket storage 15c for storing 10,000 yen banknotes. , Each denomination storages 15a to 15c are stored at the time of payment processing and sealing processing, respectively, the accumulation mechanism for internally accumulating the banknotes that have been discriminated and transferred as genuine banknotes by the banknote discrimination unit 13 at the time of deposit processing A feeding mechanism is provided for feeding the bills one by one.

  The storage 16 is a safe which is detachably attached to the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus, and the denominations of the banknotes stored in the 1000 banknote storage 15a, the 5000 banknote storage 15b, and the 10,000 banknote storage 15c are classified by denomination. It is a safe that is fed out from the denomination storage 15a, 15b or 15c storing the denomination to be counted at the time of the automatic counting process to be counted, and transports and temporarily retracts the bills discriminated and counted by the bill discrimination unit 13. A stacking mechanism is provided for stacking the transported banknotes inside, and a feeding mechanism is provided for feeding the banknotes one by one when returning the banknotes temporarily evacuated during the automatic counting process to the original denomination storages 15a, 15b or 15c. ing.

  The bill reject box 17 is conveyed from the bill temporary storage unit 14 to the bill discrimination unit 13 at the time of deposit processing, or conveyed from the bill storage 15 to the bill discrimination unit 13 at the time of withdrawal processing, or bill storage at the time of automatic counting process. It is a collection destination of rejected banknotes which are transported from the storage unit 15 to the banknote discrimination unit 13 and discriminated as double feed etc. by the banknote discrimination unit 13 and are configured to allow access by a clerk, and to transport the transported banknotes. An accumulation mechanism is provided to accumulate inside.

The sealing unit 18 includes a sealed banknote stacking unit 18a having a stacking mechanism for stacking and stacking the conveyed banknotes to be sealed in a specified number (100 in this embodiment) in the thickness direction, and sealed banknotes. A banknote bundling unit 18b for bundling the banknotes transported in the stacked state from the unit 18a in a bundling band, a bill bundle outlet port 18c for discharging a bill bundle bundled in the bundling band, and the like are included.
Further, the sealed banknote stacker 18a is configured to allow access by a clerk.

The bill conveyance path 19 is a conveyance path which connects between each part in the bill processing unit 1 by a conveyance path shown by a broken line in FIG. 1, and switches the bill conveyance direction to each branch portion of the bill conveyance path 19 A switching mechanism (not shown) is provided, and an appropriate portion of the bill conveyance path 19 is provided with a bill detection sensor (not shown) for detecting passage of the bill.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the coin processing unit 2 includes a control unit 21, a coin deposit and withdrawal unit 22, a coin discrimination unit 23, a coin sorting unit 23a, a coin escrow unit 24, a coin storage 25, and a coin reject opening. 26, a coin dispensing box 27, a coin return box 28, and the like.

The control unit 21 has a storage area 21a, and controls each unit of the coin processing unit 2 to control various processing operations such as conveyance and storage of coins according to an instruction from the main control unit 3.
The coin depositing unit 22 is composed of a coin insertion slot 22a in which a clerk inserts coins in a batch, and a coin feeding unit 22b provided with a feeding opening for feeding out coins inserted from the coin insertion slot 22a one by one. .
The coin discriminating unit 23 has a function of discriminating the authenticity, the damage, the denomination, and the like of the coin fed out from the coin feeding unit 22b and counting it as the denomination.

The coin sorting unit 23a is a transport path for sorting coins while transporting them based on the discrimination result of the coin discrimination unit 23, and a reject port (not shown) and a sorting port of denomination are arranged in order from the upstream side of the coin transport direction. The reject port and each sorting port are provided with sorting gates for opening and closing the respective openings.
The coin escrow unit 24 opens the sorting gate of the sorting port corresponding to the coin sorting unit 23a according to the discrimination result in the coin discrimination unit 23, and drops it through the transport chute of the denomination not shown. The coins are accumulated into denominations and temporarily stored, and the temporarily stored coins are dropped into the coin return box 28 or the coin storage 25.

  The coin storage 25 is a safe attached detachably to the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus, and is discriminated as a normal coin by the coin discrimination unit 23 at the time of deposit processing, and is sent to the coin escrow unit 24 via the coin sorting unit 23a. It is equipped with denomination storage department which stores coins of denomination (500 yen, 100 yen, 50 yen, 10 yen, 5 yen, 1 yen in this example) to be used for withdrawal by coin by denomination with coins temporarily reserved Each denomination storage unit is provided with a feeding mechanism for feeding out the coins stored at the time of dispensing processing one by one.

The coin reject port 26 is discriminated as a fake coin or foreign coin by the coin discrimination unit 23, and is a collection destination of rejected coins dropped from the reject port of the coin sorting unit 23a via a transport chute (not shown). The rejected coins are returned to the clerk.
The coin dispensing box 27 is a storage box detachably mounted on the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus, and the dispensing coins delivered from the respective storage sections of the coin storage 25 are accumulated at the time of dispensing processing.
The coin return box 28 is a storage box detachably mounted on the cash depositing / dispensing device, and does not show from the coin escrow unit 24 counted coins at the time of counting process, return coins at the time of deposit cancellation in the depositing process. Drop and collect through the transport chute.

Below, about the sealing process of the banknote using the banknote processing part 1 of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of a present Example, the case where the inserted banknote inserted in the banknote insertion port 12a is sealed by the sealing unit 18 will be described as an example .
When the clerk who seals the banknote passes the carried clerk card to the card reader 7, the main control unit 3 reads the card information such as the clerk ID recorded on the clerk card by the card reader 7.

The main control unit 3 having read the card information extracts the corresponding employee ID etc. from the clerk registration information of the storage unit 4 based on the clerk ID of the card information, and the clerk ID of the extracted clerk registration information and the card information clerk The legitimacy of the clerk is judged by the coincidence with the ID, and the menu screen displaying the contents of the work for which the clerk is permitted to operate is displayed on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, and the clerk And press the selection button for "inserted banknote sealing".
As described above, in the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present embodiment, the determination of the legitimacy of the clerk is performed without requiring the input of a password or the like.

The main control unit 3 recognizing the execution of the sealing process of the inserted banknote by pressing the selection button displays the selection screen of the sealed banknote information on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, and the clerk operates the operation display unit 6 Enter the denomination, sealing type and circulation degree of the bill to be sealed by selection.
The main control unit 3 that has received this selection input temporarily stores the input sealed banknote information in the storage unit 4, and the display screen of the operation display unit 6 indicates that the inserted banknotes are being sealed. While displaying the insertion bill sealing processing in progress screen which displayed the wording etc., execution command of the sealing process of the insertion bill which attached the sealed bill information temporarily stored to control part 11 of bill processing part 1 is transmitted.

  The control unit 11 that has received the execution instruction of the sealing process of the inserted banknote stores the sealed banknote information of the execution instruction in the sealed information storage area of the storage area 11a and makes the banknote deposit and withdrawal unit 12 to the bill insertion slot 12a. After waiting for the bill to be inserted and waiting, when the clerk inserts a plurality of bills to be sealed into the bill insertion slot 12a, the control unit 11 having recognized this inserts the inserted bill 1 by the feeding mechanism of the bill insertion slot 12a. Each sheet is fed to the bill conveyance path 19 and conveyed to the carry-in end of the bill discrimination unit 13 (the end on the right side of the bill discrimination unit 13 in FIG. 1). Identify the front and back.

When the discrimination result by the bill validator 13 is a fake bill such as a fake bill or a foreign bill, the control unit 11 conveys the deposit reject bill to the bill temporary holding unit 14 by the bill conveyance path 19 and temporarily holds it.
In the case of a bill that violates the sealed banknote information stored in the sealed information storage area of the storage area 11a, that is, any one of the denomination of the sealed banknote information, the sealed type and the distribution degree contamination level In the case of a non-sealable bill that is different in the number or exceeds the input level, the control unit 11 conveys the non-sealable bill to the bill temporary holding unit 14 and temporarily holds it.

In the case where the discrimination result is a sealed banknote, that is, the banknote conforming to the sealed banknote information, and in the case of a front banknote set as sealed surface information stored in the storage area 11a, the control unit 11 performs the sealing. The banknotes are transported from the discharge end of the banknote discrimination unit 13 to the sealed banknote stacking unit 18a of the sealing unit 18 by the banknote conveyance path 19 and accumulated, and the sealed banknotes are counted by the sealed banknotes accumulation number counting area of the storage area 11a. The number of stacked banknotes stacked in the stacking unit 18a is counted.
When the discrimination result of the front and back of the bill is the reverse face opposite to the front set as the sealing surface information stored in the storage area 11a, the control unit 11 performs the reverse face bill from the discharge end of the bill discriminating portion 13 to the bill The sheet is conveyed to the bill reject unit 12 b by the conveyance path 19 and accumulated.

  Then, when the bills accumulated in the bill reject unit 12b reach the capacity of the bill reject unit 12b, the conveyance of the inserted bill from the bill insertion slot 12a is temporarily stopped, and the bills accumulated in the bill reject unit 12b are stacked. After being transported to the bill insertion slot 12a by the transport mechanism as it is and accumulated in the stacked state above the inserted bills remaining in the bill insertion slot 12a, delivery of bills from the bill insertion slot 12a is resumed.

  When the delivery of bills from the bill insertion slot 12a is finished and the conveyance of bills is stopped when the bills accumulated in the bill reject unit 12b do not reach the capacity of the bill reject unit 12b, the bill reject unit 12b is used. The stacked bills are conveyed to the bill insertion slot 12a by the transport mechanism in the stacked state, and after being stacked in the stacked state in the bill insertion slot 12a, delivery of the bills from the bill insertion slot 12a is resumed.

  In this case, the banknotes accumulated in the banknote rejection unit 12b are conveyed to the banknote insertion slot 12a in the stacked state, and are fed out from the banknote insertion slot 12a, whereby the banknotes discriminated as the reverse banknotes by the banknote discrimination unit 13 are The bill is discriminated to be a sealed banknote in the bill discrimination unit 13 because it is conveyed to the bill discrimination unit 13 in a state where the front and back is reversed, that is, a front condition, and the sealed bill is sealed in the same manner as described above. The stacked banknotes are conveyed and stacked to the sealed banknote stacking unit 18a, and the number of stacked banknotes is counted.

  Then, when the counted number of the sealed bill accumulated number counting area in the storage area 11a reaches the prescribed number (100 in the present embodiment), the control unit 11 goes to the sealed banknote accumulating part 18a of the sealed portion 18 When the number of stacked sheets reaches the specified number, feeding of banknotes from the bill insertion slot 12a is stopped, and the sealed banknotes stacked in the sealed banknote stacking unit 18a are conveyed to the banknote binding unit 18b in a stacked state The bill bundle is formed, and the bill bundle is discharged from the bill bundle outlet 18c and handed over to a clerk.

  After the delivery of the bill bundle, if it is not necessary to continue the sealing process, that is, when the clerk has performed the processing end operation by the operation display unit 6, the control unit 11 determines the presence or absence of the bill remaining in the bill insertion slot 12a. , And the existence of deposit rejected banknotes temporarily reserved in the banknote escrow unit 14 and non-sealable banknotes, and there is no banknote in the banknote escrow unit 14, and residual banknotes remain in the bill insertion slot 12 a. If it does not exist, the sealing process of the present inserted banknote is ended.

  In the case where there is no bill in the bill escrow unit 14 and there is a remaining bill in the bill insertion slot 12a, the main control unit 3 is notified of the presence of the remaining bill in the bill insertion slot 12a, and this notification The main control unit 3 that has received the message displays a residual banknote extraction request screen on which the message to prompt the removal of the banknote of the banknote insertion slot 12a is displayed on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, and confirms receipt by the clerk , Finish the sealing process of the inserted bill this time.

  When a bill is present in the bill escrow unit 14, the bill present in the bill escrow unit 14 is fed out to the bill conveyance path 19 by the feeding mechanism, conveyed to the bill insertion slot 12a, and the residual bills are stored in the bill insertion slot 12a. If it exists, it is accumulated on the residual bills, and if no residual bills are present in the bill insertion slot 12a, it is directly accumulated in the bill insertion slot 12a, and after accumulation of all bills in the bill escrow unit 14 The main control unit 3 notifies the main control unit 3 of the accumulation of bills not to be sealed in the bill insertion slot 12a, etc., and the main control unit 3 having received this notification causes the display screen of the operation display unit 6 to display A non-sealable bill etc. removal request screen displaying a message to prompt removal of the non-sealable bill etc. is displayed, confirmation of receipt by a clerk is confirmed, and sealing processing of the currently inserted bill is ended.

In addition, when a clerk performs continuation operation of a process by the operation display part 6, the control part 11 continues the sealing process of an insertion banknote similarly to the above.
Further, the control unit 11 sends the main control unit 3 to the main control unit 3 when the inserted bills in the bill insertion slot 12a disappear when the count number of the sealed bill accumulated number counting area in the storage area 11a does not reach the specified number. The main control unit 3 notified that it is necessary to additionally insert a bill into the bill insertion slot 12a, prompts the display screen of the operation display unit 6 to prompt the additional insertion of a bill into the bill insertion slot 12a. Is displayed, and when the clerk inserts a bill to be additionally inserted into the bill insertion slot 12a, the control unit 11 that recognizes the same performs the sealing process of the inserted bill in the same manner as described above. To continue.

  In this case, after the control unit 11 notifies the main control unit 3, even if a predetermined time (30 seconds in this embodiment) has elapsed, the addition of bills can not be recognized, or a person in charge operates the operation display unit When the cancellation operation of the process is performed by 6, the sealed banknotes accumulated in the sealed banknote stacking unit 18a of the sealed unit 18 are kept in the stacked state, and when the banknotes are stored in the banknote escrow unit 14 In the same manner as described above, the bill is delivered from the bill insertion slot 12a to the clerk, confirmation of receipt by the clerk is confirmed, and the sealing process of the currently inserted bill is ended.

On the removal request screen for non-sealable objects such as banknotes displayed in this case, the wording to urge the removal of the target banknotes for the sealed banknote stacker 18a is additionally displayed, and the clerk Remove the stacked banknotes by hand from 18a and receive them.
During the processing operation of the sealing process of the inserted banknotes, the control unit 11 causes the banknote discrimination unit 13 to continuously continue the predetermined number of reverse banknotes (10 in this embodiment), which is the predetermined condition of the present embodiment. When it is recognized that the sheet has been conveyed to the bill reject portion 12b, the inserted bill not yet fed out from the bill insertion slot 12a is also likely to be a reverse face bill, and it is highly probable that the bill has been conveyed from the bill insertion slot 12a. The conveyance of the bill is stopped, and the main control unit 3 is notified that the conveyance of the bill from the bill insertion slot 12a is stopped.

The main control unit 3 having received this notification confirms that the conveyance of the bill from the bill insertion slot 12a is stopped on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, and confirms the front and back of the inserted bill of the bill insertion slot 12a while the conveyance is stopped. The bill re-entry request screen displaying the wording prompting re-entry of the bill after confirmation is displayed, and the clerk who visually recognizes the bill re-entry request screen checks the front and back of the bill remaining in the bill entry port 12a. The controller 11 aligns the banknotes in the set front and reinjects the banknotes into the banknote insertion slot 12a, and the control unit 11 recognizes the resumption of transport of the reintroduced banknotes from the banknote insertion slot 12a.
In this way, the sealing process of the inserted bill of this embodiment is performed.

  In addition, in the case of the sealing process of the dispensed banknote, when the clerk presses the selection button of “disbursed banknote seal” from the menu screen, the main control unit 3 of the cash processing apparatus causes the operation display unit 6 to Of the withdrawal banknotes are displayed, and the display of the payment banknote in-sealing in progress screen showing the wording etc. indicating that the withdrawal The control unit 11 which has sent the execution command of the sealing process and received it stores the payment amount of the execution command in the storage area 11a and stores the sealed banknote information in the sealed information storage area, and the gold of the sealed banknote information The denomination storage of the bill storage 15 is specified based on the type, the number of delivered sheets is calculated, and the dispensed bills are delivered one by one to the bill conveyance path 19 by the delivery mechanism of the denomination storage to discriminate the bills. The sheet is conveyed to the carry-in end of the part 13, and the bill discrimination part 13 checks the damage of the bill, denomination, front and back etc. Discrimination to.

The subsequent processing operation is the same as in the case of the above-mentioned inserted bill, so the description thereof is omitted.
In the sealing process of the dispensed banknotes, the processing operation when the above-described reverse-facing banknotes are continuously conveyed to the banknote reject unit 12 b is not performed.
In this manner, the sealing process of the deposited banknotes of the present embodiment is performed. The same applies to the case where sealing is necessary at the time of withdrawal processing of exchange banknotes.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, when conveyance of a predetermined number of bills to the bill insertion slot 12a occurs continuously in the sealing process of the inserted bills, the inserted bill from the bill insertion slot 12a is automatically generated. Is temporarily displayed, and a screen prompting re-insertion after confirmation of a bill remaining in the bill insertion slot 12a is displayed on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, so that all billed bills are delivered from the bill insertion slot 12a. Before and, it is possible to check the front and back of the inserted banknote remaining in the banknote insertion slot 12a, and to shorten the processing time in the sealing process of the inserted banknote as compared to the case where all the inserted banknotes are reverse banknotes. Can.

Hereinafter, the sealing process of the inserted banknote in the banknote processing unit 1 of the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus of the present embodiment will be described.
The same parts as in the first embodiment are given the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. Moreover, since the processing operation of the sealing process of the payment | withdrawal banknote of a present Example is the same as that of the case of the said Example 1, the description is abbreviate | omitted.
Sealing surface information similar to that of the first embodiment is stored in the storage area 11a of the control unit 11 of the present embodiment, and a sealing information storage area similar to that of the first embodiment and a sealed bill accumulated sheet count number area Etc. are secured in advance.

In the processing operation in the sealing process of the inserted banknote by the main control unit 3 of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present embodiment and the control unit 11 of the banknote processing unit 1, the predetermined number of reverse banknotes described in the first embodiment Since the process is the same as in the case of the first embodiment except for the processing operation when being conveyed to the bill rejection unit 12b, the description will be omitted.
During the processing operation of the sealing process of the inserted bill, the control unit 11 recognizes that the bill discriminating unit 13 continuously conveys the reverse-faced bill to the bill reject unit 12 b by a predetermined number (10 in the present embodiment). When it is determined that the inserted banknotes that have not been fed out from the banknote insertion slot 12a are also likely to be reverse-sided banknotes, the main control unit 3 stops the conveyance for stopping the conveyance of the banknotes from the banknote insertion slot 12a. Send a button display request.

  The main control unit 3 having received this display request additionally displays the transfer stop button on the inserted banknote sealing process-in-progress screen displayed on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, and the banknotes from the banknote insertion slot 12a Is stopped by the conveyance stop button to confirm the front and back of the inserted bill, and additionally displays a wording prompting reintroduction of the bill after confirmation, and a clerk visually recognizes the additionally displayed word and the conveyance stop button, When the conveyance stop button is pressed, the control unit 11 stops the conveyance of the bill from the bill insertion slot 12a, the clerk confirms the front and back of the bill remaining in the bill insertion slot 12a, and aligns the bill to the set front When the bill is re-inserted into the bill insertion slot 12a, the control unit 11 recognizing the resumption restarts the transport of the re-inserted bill from the bill insertion slot 12a.

When the stop button is displayed on the display screen of the operation display unit 6, even after a predetermined time (30 seconds in this embodiment) elapses after the control unit 11 transmits the display request to the main control unit 3. When it is not possible to recognize that the person in charge has pressed the conveyance stop button, sealing is performed in the same manner as when the additional insertion of the banknotes can not be recognized in the case of displaying the banknote addition input request screen described in the first embodiment. The sealed banknotes accumulated in the banknote accumulation unit 18a and the banknotes present in the banknote escrow unit 14 are handed over to the clerk, confirmation of receipt by the clerk is confirmed, and the sealing process of the present inserted banknote is ended.
Thus, the sealing process of the inserted banknote according to the present embodiment is performed.

As described above, in this embodiment, in addition to the same effects as those of the first embodiment, after the clerk recognizes the stoppage of conveyance of the inserted bill from the bill insertion slot 12a, the conveyance of the inserted bill is temporarily stopped. It is possible to prevent confusion due to a sudden stop of the bill processing unit 1.
In each of the above-described embodiments, it has been described that the predetermined condition is that a predetermined number of bills discriminated as the reverse-faced bill in the bill discrimination unit 13 are continuously conveyed and accumulated in the bill reject unit 12b. The predetermined condition may be that a bill discriminated as a reverse-faced bill by the bill validator 13 is conveyed to a predetermined number (for example, 10) bill reject unit 12b and accumulated.

  In this case, in the inserted bill remaining in the bill insertion slot 12a, as in the case where the bill accumulated in the bill reject unit 12b reaches the capacity of the bill reject unit 12b described in the first embodiment. After accumulating a predetermined number of bills conveyed in the stacked state from the bill reject unit 12b in the upper direction, delivery of the bills from the bill insertion slot 12a is resumed.

In each of the above embodiments, the input means has been described as a touch panel provided on the display screen of the operation display unit 6. However, the clerk instructs that the deposit process, the withdrawal process, the sealing process, etc. be performed. An input unit may be provided which includes an operation key for setting the amount of money, a numeric keypad for inputting the amount of money to be dispensed, or the like, or the input unit and the touch panel may be used in combination.
Furthermore, although the cash handling apparatus has been described as being a simple cash dispenser in each of the above embodiments, it is also possible to apply to a bill receipt arrangement apparatus or the like installed in a post office or the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 banknote processing unit 2 coin processing unit 3 main control unit 4 storage unit 6 operation display unit 7 card reader 8 printing unit 11, 21 control unit 11 a, 21 a storage area 12 bill depositing / dispensing unit 12 a bill insertion slot 12 b bill reject unit 13 bill Discrimination unit 14 Banknote temporary storage unit 15 Banknote storage 15a to 15c Classification storage 16 Reservoir 17 Banknote reject storage 18 Sealed portion 18a Sealed banknote accumulation portion 18b Banknote bundling portion 18c Banknote bundle outlet 19 Banklet conveyance path 22 Coin depositing unit 22a Coin insertion slot 22b Coin feeding unit 23 Coin discrimination unit 23a Coin sorting unit 24 Coin temporary storage unit 25 Coin storage 26 Coin reject opening 27 Coin dispensing box 28 Coin return box

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A customer service unit provided with an insertion slot into which bills are inserted;
A display unit having a display screen,
A discrimination unit that discriminates the front and back of a bill;
And a stacking unit configured to stack the banknotes when the discrimination between the front and back by the discrimination unit is reverse to the set front.
When the bill discriminated as the reverse side by the discrimination unit becomes a predetermined condition, the conveyance of the bill from the insertion slot is stopped, and the bill after confirmation by confirming the front and back of the bill remaining in the insertion slot A cash processing device for displaying a screen for prompting re-insertion on the display screen of the display unit. In the cash processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
When the bill discriminated as the reverse side by the discrimination unit becomes a predetermined condition, a conveyance stop button for stopping conveyance of the bill from the insertion port is displayed on the display screen of the display unit, and the conveyance is performed. A cash processing apparatus characterized by stopping conveyance of a bill from the insertion slot when a stop button is pressed. In the cash handling apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
A cash processing apparatus characterized in that the predetermined condition is that a predetermined number of banknotes discriminated as the reverse side by the discrimination unit are continuously accumulated in the accumulation unit. In the cash handling apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
A cash processing apparatus characterized in that the predetermined condition is that a predetermined number of banknotes discriminated as the reverse side by the discrimination unit are accumulated in the accumulation unit. The cash processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4.
A cash processing apparatus characterized in that the accumulation unit is provided in the customer service unit. In the cash processing apparatus according to claim 4,
Provide a sealing unit that binds a specified number of banknotes to form a banknote bundle,
A cash processing apparatus characterized in that the set front bill is transported from the discrimination unit to the sealing unit to form a bill bundle.

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