JPH01246690A - Money housing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely execute the processing of the charging and collecting of money by integrating the number of money charged from a safe to a box, collecting the money to remain at the box to the safe after the pay-in/pay-out transaction of the money and integrating the number of money collected from the box to the safe. CONSTITUTION:At the time of starting a transaction work, a housing box 3 is mounted at an accounting machine 1. Thereafter, when the number of money housed in the housing box 3 is inputted by a keyboard 5, the paper money of the number designated from safes 25a and 25b is charged into the housing box 3 and the number of the charged paper money is integrated. After the pay-in/pay-out transaction, the paper money to remain in the box 3 is collected to the safes 25a and 25b and the number of the paper money is integrated. A main control arithmetic part 11 executes the account-matching from the charged paper money and the collected paper money and the result is displayed by a display.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a money storage device used in an automatic transaction device such as an automatic teller machine or an automatic teller machine.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, in automatic teller machines or automatic teller machines, an electronic money storage box for managing money stored in a storage box body disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 61-229181 has been used. There is. In this electronic money storage box, banknotes are stored by an attendant, and the number of stored banknotes is entered manually. The input number of sheets is displayed on the display and stored in the memory element.

The electronic money storage box containing banknotes is set in the dispensing unit, and transaction operations are started to perform the dispensing transaction. After the transaction is completed, the clerk accounts for the banknotes remaining in the electronic money storage box, the banknotes paid in the transaction, and the banknotes previously stored in the electronic money storage box. In this way, JP-A-61-
229181 is for managing banknotes stored in the electronic money storage box itself.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) Conventionally, the electronic money storage box disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-229181 has been designed to store banknotes by the operation of an attendant, manually control the number of stored banknotes, and after the completion of transaction operations. The remaining banknotes were being collected.

For this reason, the operational burden on the clerk is heavy, and furthermore, there is a possibility that an error in inputting the number of stored banknotes may occur, and a countermeasure against this problem has been desperately needed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and its object is to provide a coin storage device that quickly and reliably loads coins into a safe from a box or collects coins from a safe into a box. It is about providing.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a box for storing coins inside a safe containing a large number of coins before depositing and withdrawing the coins. loading means for loading a specified number of coins into the box; first loading means for adding up the number of coins loaded into the box from the safe by the loading means; The object of the present invention is to include a collecting means for collecting remaining coins into the safe, and a second integrating means for adding up the number of coins collected from the box into the safe by the collecting means.

<Function> In the money storage device having the above configuration, before a money deposit/withdrawal transaction, a specified number of coins are loaded from a safe containing a large number of coins into a box that stores the coins inside. , total the number of coins loaded into the box from the safe. After depositing and withdrawing money, the coins remaining in the box are collected into the safe and the number of coins collected from the box into the safe is totaled. Processing can be done reliably.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the money storage device of the present invention.

In the figure, a keyboard 5 for inputting the number of banknotes P to be stored in the storage box 3 is displayed in the center of the front of the teller machine 1 which has a large number of banknotes, and the number inputted from this keyboard 5 is displayed. It is equipped with a display 7. A storage box 3 that stores a large number of IffPs is detachably attached to the bottom of the keyboard 5 and the like. The storage box 3 that is attached to the teller 111 and stores banknotes P is attached to the later-described dispensing unit 53 of the automatic cash payment I19 and when a transaction operation is started, the payment of the banknotes P is performed and the transaction operation is completed. Then, it is attached to the teller machine 1 again.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing the configuration of the storage compartment 11. As shown in FIG.

The storage box 3, which is mounted slightly below the front center of the teller machine 1, has a take-out roller 13 at the rear of the box body that takes in banknotes P during loading and stores them one after another, or takes out banknotes P one by one during collection. We are prepared.

A keyboard 5 for specifying the number of banknotes P to be stored in the storage box 3 and a display 7 for displaying the specified number are provided on the top of the storage box 3.

The main control calculation section 11 is provided at the lower part of the storage box 3, below the curved surface of the teller ta1, and performs various controls such as taking out banknotes P from the storage box 3 and displaying them on the display 7.

The banknotes P taken out from the storage box 3 are transported by a transport path 15 extending throughout the teller machine 1, are judged as front or back, and are temporarily stacked in a front/back stacking section 17 with the front side facing up. be done.

At the bottom of the front and back stacking section 17 and in the vicinity of the main control calculation section 11 , there are provided on both sides of the conveyance path 15 , which determine whether the banknotes P are unfit or not, which are transported from the front and back stacking section 17 .

The banknotes P discriminated by the appraiser 19 are stored in an unfit note storage section 21a1 that stores unfit notes of 10,000 yen notes on the lower side of the rear of the teller machine 1 on the lower right side in the figure. A 10,000 yen storage section 23a is provided adjacent to the . Unfit note storage section 21a
A 10,000 yen bill deposit box 25a is provided adjacent to the upper side of the 10,000 yen storage section 23a, and the 10,000 yen bill transported from the appraisal section 19 is stored and transferred to a storage box.

There is an unfit note storage section 21b for storing unfit notes of 5,000 yen notes in the upper part of the cash register 1!25a, and a 5,000 yen storage section 2ab1M note storage section 21b adjacent to the IC'S note storage section 21b on the right side in the figure. The teller safe 25 is in contact with II4 above the 5,000 yen storage section 23b.
b is provided.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing control of the teller machine 1 explained in FIG. 2.

First, when storing in the storage box 3 at the start of a trading operation, when the storage box 3 is attached to the teller machine 1, the main control calculation unit 11
Banknotes P stored in the storage box 3 from the input/output control unit 31
The number of sheets is obtained and stored in the storage element 33. When the clerk inputs the number of sheets to be stored in the storage box 3 from the keyboard 5, the main control FA calculation section 11 displays the number on the display section (display) 7 from the display control section 35. After displaying, the main I1Il control calculation section 11 uses the loading and recovering unit 27 from the loading and recovering unit control section 29 to calculate the amount of money to be paid and disbursed! A specified number of faIMP sheets are loaded into the storage box 3 from 25a and 25b.

Next, after the trading operation is completed, the main control calculation unit 11
The remaining banknotes P are taken out one by one from the take-out roller 13 and collected into the 5,000 yen storage section 23b and the 10,000 yen storage section 23a using the loading and collecting unit 27 via the loading and collecting unit control section 29.

After collection, the main and sub-n calculation unit 11 calculates the number of banknotes P collected from the storage box 3 and the number of reject tickets stored in the reject box 63 of the automatic teller machine 9, which will be described later, and which is input by the staff from the keyboard 5. Calculate hti. Based on the calculation p, the main control calculation section 11 reads out the number of banknotes P loaded in the storage box 3 in advance from the storage element 33, and performs accounting calculation. The account results are transmitted to a host computer (not shown) via a transmission control section 37.

Thereby, the loading and collection of banknotes P into the storage box 3 can be performed without the manual operation of an attendant as in the conventional case, so that it is possible to prevent operational errors and the like associated with loading and collecting operations.

FIG. 4 shows the storage box 3. That is, 38 is a box body having a space for storing banknotes P therein, the upper part of which is open, and the banknotes P are stored through this opening. Furthermore, a lid 40 that can be opened and closed around a rotating wheel provided at the rear side of the box 38 is attached to the top opening of the box 38 . Handles 39a and 39b are provided on the front surface of the box body 38 (right side in the drawing) and on the top surface of the lid body 40, respectively, and the device can be carried freely by these handles 39a or 39b. The above-mentioned take-out roller 13.13 provided in the rear part of the box body 38 is driven from the outside and rotates. When the take-out roller 13.13 rotates, the bills P are taken out one by one due to the frictional force with the roller. It is designed to be taken out and taken out to the outside.

FIG. 5 shows the electric circuit of the storage box 3.

That is, the control section 43 includes an input/output control section 45, a calculation section 47 connected thereto, and a storage element (memory) 49, which are integrated circuits. A contact point 41 is connected to the input/output control section 45 . Note that 51 is a battery for supplying power to each part, and is housed in a battery storage section (not shown).

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the control of the automatic teller machine 9 to which the storage box 3 configured as described above is attached. That is, 53 is a dispensing unit, for example, for 10,000 yen notes,
It accommodates two cash cassettes 3A and 3B for thousand yen notes. Banknotes P taken out from these cash cassettes 3A and 3B
are transported by a transport path 55, and along the way, they pass through a detection section 57 that detects the skew, thickness, length, etc. of the banknotes.Normal bills are temporarily stacked in a temporary stacking section 59, and abnormal bills are collected at a gate 61. Guided to the reject box 63, -time accumulation section 59
When a specified number of coins are temporarily accumulated, they are discharged all at once to the payment slot 65. A dispensing unit control section 67 controls the above operations, and is connected to a main control section 69 that controls the entire payment machine. In addition, the main control unit 69
The card reader 7 via the card/message control unit 71
3 and a slip printer 75 are connected thereto, and a customer service section 79 is connected via a customer service control section 77. Furthermore, 81 is an internal monitor panel, which is connected to the main control section 69 via the monitor control section 83, and can be operated by an attendant to open or open stations, or when a failure occurs or when a banknote, slip, etc. It has a function to notify that the medium is empty, and is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal character display 85 and a keyboard 87.The main control section 69 controls the transmission control section 89 and the communication line 91. It is connected online to a central computer that serves as a deposit ledger.

Next, the operation of this eggplant example will be explained using the processing flowchart of FIG.

First, at the start of a transaction, after turning on the power to the teller 1111.1 fully automatic payment machine 9, etc., the clerk attaches the storage box 3 to the teller machine 1. After loading, the clerk inputs the number of bills P to be stored in the storage box 3 from the keyboard 5 of the teller machine 1. Based on the input number, the main control calculation unit 11 loads the banknotes P in the number input by the clerk from the loading/recovery unit 27 into the storage box 3 (steps 100 to 110).

After loading, the main control calculation unit 11 inputs the banknote P input from the clerk.
The number of sheets is stored in the storage element 33. The clerk takes out the storage box 3 from the teller machine 1 and loads it into the dispensing unit 53 of the automatic teller machine 9. After loading, transaction operations are started (steps 120 to 140). When the withdrawal amount is input by the customer, the main control section 69 transfers the banknotes P corresponding to the withdrawal amount from the withdrawal unit control section 67 to the storage boxes 3A, 3B. from the conveyor path 55 and pay out from the payment port 65 all at once. The main control unit 69 calculates the total amount of banknotes P paid out from the payment port 65 in the storage box 3A.
, 3B is stored in the memory element 49. The above operations are carried out during the transaction, and when the transaction is completed, the clerk
B is taken out from the dispensing unit 53 of the automatic teller machine 9 and attached to the teller 1 (steps 150 to 160).

When the storage boxes 3A and 3B are received, the main control calculation unit 11 of the teller machine 1 performs a transaction with the number of banknotes stored in the reject box 63 of the automatic teller machine 9 from the memory element 49 of the storage box 3. and the number of banknotes. After the addition, the main control calculation unit 11 calculates the storage box 3A.

The banknotes P remaining in 3B are collected into the loading and collecting unit 27. When the collection is completed, the main control calculation unit 11 adds the traded banknotes P, the banknotes P stored in the reject box 63, and the collected banknotes P.

The main control calculation unit 11 reconciles the accounts by comparing the added value with the number of banknotes P loaded in the storage boxes 3A and 3B at the start of the transaction. The main control calculation unit 11 displays the added value and the result of account reconciliation (steps 170 to 2).
10).

As a result, it is possible to omit the loading and collecting of banknotes P into the storage box 3 by an attendant as in the conventional method, and the accuracy of the work of loading and collecting banknotes P into the storage box 3 is eliminated. can be improved.

The present embodiment is not limited to automatic cash payment [9], but can be applied to automatic transaction devices such as automatic deposit boxes.

Furthermore, in recent years, when automatic transaction devices are operated on holidays of banks and other financial institutions, and when the management of the storage box 3 is outsourced to an outside company, it is extremely convenient to be able to reconcile the accounts just by using the storage box 3. It is rich in sexuality.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to the storage box 3 for storing banknotes has been described, but it can also be applied to the case of the storage box 3 for storing coins.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, before a money deposit/withdrawal transaction, a specified number of banknotes are loaded into a box from a safe,
Load the number of loaded coins. - On the other hand, after the deposit/withdrawal transaction, the coins remaining in the box are collected into the safe and the number of collected coins is totaled. Can be done quickly and reliably.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the money storage device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing a teller machine, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing control of the teller machine shown in FIG. Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the storage box, Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing the control of the storage box shown in Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is a block diagram showing the control of the automatic teller machine, and Fig. 7 is a block diagram showing the control of the storage box shown in Fig. 4. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the invention. 1...Teller machine 3.3A, 3B...Storage box 5...Keyboard 7...Display 11...Main control calculation section 23a, 23b...10,000 yen storage section 25a, 25b... Accounting safe 27...Loading and recovery unit 29...Loading and recovery unit control section 33.49...Storage element 69...Main control section

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Loading means for loading a specified number of coins from a safe containing a large number of coins into a box for storing the coins therein before a deposit/withdrawal transaction; a first accumulating means for accumulating the number of coins loaded into the box from the safe; a collecting means for collecting the coins remaining in the box into the safe after a coin deposit/withdrawal transaction; A money storage device comprising: a second integration means for adding up the number of money collected from the bank into the safe.