JPH0222433B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] "Industrial application field" This invention relates to an automatic deposit machine.

"Conventional technology" Conventionally, as a device for depositing banknotes,
- The teller deposit device shown in Publication No. 70982 is known.

As shown in Fig. 1, this teller deposit device separates banknotes inserted into a deposit slot one by one by a sending unit and sends them to a discriminating unit, which determines authenticity, denomination, etc. The notes that are judged to be genuine are temporarily stored in the pool, and the notes that are not judged to be genuine are sent to the return slot and returned.After the discrimination is completed and the amount has been confirmed by the customer, According to the customer's instructions, the banknotes in the pool are sent to a deposit box inside the machine for storage, or sent to a return slot for return.

The discrimination section of the above-mentioned counter deposit device is a transparent type.
It uses reflective optical sensors, magnetic sensors, etc. to identify counterfeit and altered bills, and requires high accuracy. Additionally, an automatic currency transaction device (Utility Model Application Publication No. 108397/1983) has already been proposed as this type of deposit device. This proposal involves storing deposited banknotes in a standing position in a banknote receiving box, transporting the stored banknotes to a receiving conveyance path and discriminating them, and returning rejected banknotes based on the results of the discrimination through a return path. After the banknotes are placed in a horizontal state on the rejected banknote receiving plate, the rejected banknote receiving plate is rotated from a horizontal state to a vertical state about a support shaft, and the banknotes are dropped into a banknote receiving box. .

"Problems to be Solved by the Invention" By the way, in the teller deposit device shown in FIG. Most of the items are items that have been found to be abnormal due to being moved or fed diagonally, or items that have accidentally become abnormal during transportation. and,
Financial institutions such as banks that employ automatic deposit machines and their customers are demanding automatic deposit machines that do not return genuine notes by mistake.
In addition, in the automatic currency transaction device, the rejected banknote receiving plate is rotated from a horizontal state to a vertical state to drop the banknote and store it in the banknote receiving box. There is a risk that the banknotes may not be stored in an orderly manner, especially when the number of banknotes on the rejected banknote receiving plate is small. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned points, and the present invention is a device for re-discriminating returned banknotes. The purpose of this is to enable the transfer to the deposit section in an orderly and stacked state.

``Means for Solving the Problems'' The present invention provides for feeding banknotes downward along the slope from a depositing section where banknotes are stacked in an inclined state with the banknote surface facing upward, and feeding the banknotes into a discrimination conveyance path. In an automatic teller machine configured to perform banknote discrimination on a discrimination conveyance path, an internal conveyance path conveys banknotes that are discriminated as normal banknotes on the discrimination conveyance path into the machine body, and a banknote that is discriminated as abnormal banknotes on the discrimination conveyance path. a return conveyance path that conveys the banknotes and sends them out above the depositing section, a switching mechanism that switches the conveyance direction of the banknotes to the internal conveyance path or the return conveyance path based on the discrimination result in the discrimination conveyance path, and the depositing banknote. The banknote mounting section is provided at a standby position above the banknote depositing section with a slope similar to the banknote mounting surface of the depositing section, and rotates from the standby position to the return position around a support shaft provided at the lower end. and is slidable from the standby position to a retracted position along the inclination direction and spaced apart from above the metal filling part,
and a banknote temporary storage unit that temporarily stores banknotes sent out from the return conveyance path, and the banknote temporary storage unit moves from the standby position to the return position when an instruction is given to return the temporarily stored banknotes. It is characterized in that while it rotates, it slides from the standby position to the retracted position when a re-discrimination of temporarily stored banknotes is instructed.

"Function" According to the present invention, when an instruction is given to return the temporarily stored banknotes in the temporary banknote storage section, the temporary banknote storage section rotates about the spindle from the standby position to the return position, so that the banknotes can be taken out. becomes possible. Also,
When an instruction is given to re-identify the temporarily stored banknotes in the banknote temporary storage section, the temporary banknote storage section slides from the standby position to the retracted position, so that the temporarily stored banknotes are placed directly below with the banknote surface facing upward. The banknotes are dropped into the depositing section where the banknotes are placed, so that even if the banknotes are circulation notes, they are smoothly and orderly stored in the depositing section in a stacked state.

Thereafter, the banknotes that have been identified as abnormal pass through the identification conveyance path again.

"Embodiment" The present invention will be described below based on an embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an automatic teller machine, and the reference numeral 1 in the figure is a depositing section. The deposit section 1 is provided with a bottom plate 1a on which banknotes 2 are placed, and the banknotes 2 are placed below the bottom plate 1a.
A roller 1b is provided for sending out. Also,
A delivery part 3 is provided at the exit part of the deposit part 1, and the delivery part 3 sends banknotes 2 one by one to a deposit discrimination conveyance path 4.
It is now being sent to The deposit discriminating conveyance path 4 is provided with a discriminating device 4a for discriminating the authenticity, denomination, etc. of the banknotes 2, and furthermore, at the exit portion of the deposit discriminating conveyance path 4, there is a guide surface along the upper belt roller 4b and a lower guide surface along the upper belt roller 4b. A gate 5 having a guide surface along the side belt roller 4c is provided. Further, above the exit of the deposited money discrimination conveyance path 4, banknotes 2 are placed above the exit of the deposited money discrimination conveyance path 4. A conveyance path 6 is provided, and the return conveyance path 6 is provided at right angles to an ascending conveyance path 6a that conveys banknotes 2 directed upward along the belt roller 4b, and this upward conveyance path 6a. This retreating conveyance path 6 and the deposited metal discriminating conveyance path 4 are arranged in a U-shape as shown in the figure. A stopper 7 is provided at an interval in the direction in which the return conveyance path 6 sends out the banknotes 2 to the payment section 1.
Bills 2 are caused to collide and fall onto a pool shelf 8 provided above the bottom plate 1a of the depositing section 1. Moreover, this pool shelf 8 slides from the upper left to the lower right in the figure, and is supported so as to be freely pivotable around a pin 8a.

On the other hand, below the deposited money discrimination conveyance path 4, banknotes that have been discriminated as normal are stored in the payment section 9 or the pool section 1.
A payment conveyance path 11 is provided in which the banknotes 2 are transferred to the payment section 9 or a pool section 10, and a gate 12 is provided in the middle of the payment conveyance path 11 to transfer the banknotes 2 to the payment section 9 or the pool section 10. banknotes 2
The banknotes are sorted into reusable banknotes and non-reusable banknotes, and are respectively accumulated in the pool section 10 and the payment section 9 via the accumulation car 11a. The payment unit 9 uses, for example, the "bill storage device" of Japanese Patent Application No. 54-67068 (see Japanese Patent Publication No. 62-26067), which was previously proposed by the applicant. '' consists of a pressing device 13 provided above the payment section 9, and a deposit box 15 provided with a placing plate 14 for receiving the banknotes 2 that are pushed down by the pressing device 13 and dropped. The payment section 9 is provided with a receiving plate 9a on which the banknotes 2 are placed and an aligning plate 9b for aligning the end faces of the banknotes 2 so as to be slidable horizontally and vertically, respectively, and a shutter 9 for opening and closing the payment section 9.
c is attached so that it can slide vertically. The pool portion 10 includes a bottom plate 10a on which the banknotes 2B are placed and an alignment plate 1 that aligns the end faces of the banknotes 2.
0b, and each of these is separately provided so as to be freely slidable horizontally. Further, below the pool portion 10, an elevating plate 17 is provided which can be raised and lowered and slid horizontally to receive the banknotes dropped by the sliding of the bottom plate 10a and send them to the lower dispensing box 16A. .

Further, a payout box 16B is provided below the payout box 16A, and these payout boxes 1
The banknotes stored in 6A and 16B, respectively, are sent to the dispensing discrimination conveyance path 20 via the sending units 18A and 18B and the dispensing conveyance paths 19A and 19B, and are further guided by the gate 21 at the exit of the dispensing discriminating conveyance path 20. Then, the banknotes are sent to the payment unit 9 via the payment conveyance path 11 and temporarily stored, and the payment operation is performed by disbursing the banknotes only when a predetermined number of banknotes are stored without identifying any abnormalities.

The depositing operation of the automatic teller machine configured as described above will be explained below.

The banknotes 2 deposited onto the bottom plate 1a of the deposit section 1 are sent out by a feed re-roller 1b, and then sent one by one through the delivery section 3 to a deposit discrimination conveyance path 4 where they are discriminated. If an abnormality is detected, the gate 5 is moved to the position shown by the solid line in the figure, and the bill 2 is sent into the return conveyance path 6, and while being transferred from the ascending conveyance path 6a to the horizontal conveyance path 6b, it is turned upside down and placed in the deposit section. 1. Then, the banknotes 2 sent out from the return conveyance path 6 collide with the stopper 7 and fall directly onto the pool shelf 8 shown by the solid line in the figure, where they are temporarily stored. If the banknote 2 is determined to be normal, the banknote 2 is sent into the payment conveyance path 11 with the gate 5 at the position shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure and the gate 21 at the position shown by the solid line in the figure.
By switching, banknotes to be reused are sent to the pool section 10 and banknotes not to be reused are sent to the payment section 9, respectively. After all the banknotes 2 are discriminated, the banknotes 2 stored on the pool shelf 8 are returned or re-discriminated according to the customer's instructions. That is, when returning the banknotes, the pool shelf 8 is rotated to the horizontal position shown by the broken line in the figure to move the banknotes 2 to a position suitable for the customer's withdrawal operation, and when re-identification is required, the pool shelf 8 is moved to the horizontal position shown by the broken line in the figure. The banknote 2 is slid to the position indicated by the chain line and pulled out to drop onto the bottom plate 1a, and the above-described deposit operation is performed again for verification.

After the returned banknotes are processed in this manner, the customer is asked to confirm the amount, and depending on the customer's judgment, the banknotes are accepted or returned in the following manner. That is, when the customer wishes to make a payment, the alignment plate 9b of the payment section 9 is raised as shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure, and the alignment plate 10b of the pool section 10 is moved to the left in the figure and placed on the bottom plate 10a. After pushing out the banknotes 2 onto the banknotes 2 in the payment unit 9 and raising the shutter 9c as shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure to the "open" state, these banknotes 2 are placed between the bottom plate 9a and the aligning plate. 10b
If the customer wishes to deposit money, the banknotes 2 in the payment section 9 are moved to the left as shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure to be dispensed. Then, move the bottom plate 10a of the pool part 10 to the left and right as shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure, and remove the bottom plate 1.
Drop the bill 2 on 0a onto the elevating plate 17, lower the elevating plate 17 as shown by the broken line in the figure, and then slide it to the right in the figure and pull it out as shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure. Withdraw banknote 2 to box 16A
It is sent to.

After the deposited banknotes are accepted or rejected in this way, the bottom plate 9a of the payment section 9 is slid to the right in the figure, the shutter 9c is lowered, and the alignment plate 10b of the pool section 10 is moved to the right in the figure. further lower the alignment plate 9b of the payment section 9 to the position shown by the solid line in the figure, slide the bottom plate 10a of the pool part 10 to the left in the figure to the position shown by the solid line, and then lower the elevator plate 9b to the position shown by the solid line in the figure. 17 is raised to the position shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure, and then slid to the left to the position shown by the solid line in the figure to prepare for the next deposit operation.

In addition, when a banknote is returned to the deposit department, it is automatically re-identified once or several times.
It may also be possible to return only banknotes that are found to be abnormal even after repeated re-verification.

In the automatic deposit machine configured as described above, the banknotes inserted into the depositing section 1 are discriminated, and the bills that have been identified as having an abnormality are returned to the depositing section 1 via the return conveyance path 6.
At the same time as feeding the banknotes upward, the fed bills are temporarily stored on the pool shelf 8, and then
Since it is sent from the beginning to the depositing section 1 for re-identification, by double feeding, diagonal feeding, etc.
It becomes possible to re-identify and accept a banknote that has been accidentally identified as having an abnormality, and it is possible to prevent genuine banknotes from being returned by mistake.

"Effects of the Invention" As is clear from the above description, the present invention provides for discriminating and conveying bills by feeding them downward along the inclination from the depositing section where the bills are stacked in a tilted state with the bill surface facing upward. In an automatic teller machine configured to feed banknotes into a banknote and discriminate the banknotes on the discrimination transport path, an internal transport path transports banknotes that have been discriminated as normal banknotes on the discrimination transport path into the machine body; a return conveyance path that conveys banknotes that have been discriminated as abnormal banknotes and sends them out above the depositing section; and a switching mechanism that switches the conveyance direction of the banknotes to the internal conveyance path or the return conveyance path based on the discrimination result in the discrimination conveyance path. and is provided at a standby position above the depositing part where the banknote placement surface is inclined to be similar to the banknote placement surface of the depositing part, and from the standby position about a support shaft provided at the lower end. Banknotes that are rotatable to a return position and slidable from the standby position to a retracted position along the inclination direction and spaced apart from above the deposit section, and temporarily store banknotes sent out from the return conveyance path. and a temporary banknote storage section, the banknote temporary storage section comprising:
When the return of temporarily stored banknotes is instructed, it rotates from the standby position to the return position, and when the re-discrimination of temporarily stored banknotes is instructed, it slides from the standby position to the retreat position. , has the following effects.

By double feeding, diagonal feeding, etc., it is possible to re-identify and accept banknotes that happen to be abnormal, preventing problems such as returning genuine notes by mistake, and improving the reliability of automatic deposit machines. can be improved.

In addition, when dropping banknotes from the temporary banknote storage unit into the depositing unit in order to re-identify banknotes, dropping the temporarily stored banknotes into the depositing unit with the banknote side facing upward allows the banknotes to be transferred to the circulating banknotes. Even in this case, it is possible to smoothly and orderly place the deposits in a stacked state on the deposit section.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the operation of a conventional automatic deposit machine. FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention, and is an explanatory diagram of the structure and operation of an automatic deposit machine. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Deposit part, 2... Banknote, 4... Deposit discrimination conveyance path (discrimination conveyance path), 4a... Discrimination device, 5... Gate (switching mechanism), 6... Return conveyance path, 7... Stopper, 8...
Pool shelf (temporary bill storage), 8a...pin (spindle), 11...payment conveyance path (internal conveyance path).

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Feeding the banknotes downward along the slope from the depositing section where the banknotes are stacked in a tilted state with the banknote surface facing upward, and feeding the banknotes into a discrimination conveyance path, where the banknotes are discriminated. An automatic deposit machine configured to carry out the following: an internal conveyance path for conveying banknotes that are discriminated as normal banknotes on the discrimination conveyance path into the machine body; and an internal conveyance path that conveys banknotes that are discriminated as abnormal banknotes on the discrimination conveyance path. a return conveyance path that sends the banknotes out above the depositing section; a switching mechanism that switches the conveyance direction of banknotes to the internal conveyance path or the return conveyance path based on the discrimination result in the discrimination conveyance path; A banknote placement surface is provided at a standby position with an inclination similar to the banknote placement surface of the deposit section, and is rotatable from the standby position to a return position about a support shaft provided at the lower end; a banknote temporary storage part that is slidable from the standby position to a retracted position along the inclination direction and spaced apart from above the depositing part, and temporarily stores banknotes sent out from the return conveyance path; The temporary banknote storage unit rotates from the standby position to the return position when the return of the temporarily stored banknotes is instructed, and from the standby position to the retreat position when the re-discrimination of the temporarily stored banknotes is instructed. An automatic deposit machine that features a sliding mechanism.