JPH0342294A - Automatic page turning method for booklet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent a booklet from becoming useless and also prevent a secondary fault from occurring by suspending the transport of the booklet interpreting the changeover of a page detection device from a detection status to a non-detection status as a page turning fault after the flipping action of a page turning roller and reversing the booklet to an introduction/discharge aperture, if the page detection device does not detect a page after retrying. CONSTITUTION:If a booklet 5 is transported to a position of interpreting page turning from a status where it is turned in a loop from without slipping the free end of a page 5', the page 5' moves downward from a page detection sensor 10 at a position to which the page 5' has been transported over some distance. Therefore, a page detection sensor 10 is turned OFF from an ON position. In this case, a control part 14 interprets that page turning fault has occurred, stopping a motor 9 immediately and at the same time, suspending the transport of the booklet 5. In the meantime, if the page detection sensor 10 is not turned ON when the page turning action is retired, said action is retried a maximum n times. However, if the sensor 10 remains to be OFF as yet, the control part 14 rotates the motor 9 backward, interpreting that page turning is impossible. Then the part 14 transports the booklet 5 backward and discharges it from an introduction/discharge aperture.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for turning the pages of a booklet using an automatic page turning device using rollers.

[Conventional technology]

For example, a bankbook entry machine installed in a financial institution is equipped with an automatic page turning device for automatically turning over a booklet such as a bankbook.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing an example of the configuration of an automatic page turning device using rollers. In the figure, 1 is a conveyance path for conveying a booklet;
2 is an insertion/ejection port provided at one end of this conveyance path 1;
4 is a motor for driving the page turning roller 3; 5 is a booklet; and 6 is a conveying path l facing the page turning roller 3. Conveyance roller 7a arranged under the
and 7b, 8a, and 8b are conveyance rollers disposed before and after the page turning roller 3 and the conveyance roller 6, respectively, so as to face each other vertically via the conveyance path l; 9 is the respective conveyance roller 6.7a; 7b.

The distance between the conveying rollers 6a, 6b and 7a, 7b is set to be shorter than the length when the booklet 5 is opened, and the conveying rollers 6 and 7a are , 8a can be moved up and down by a drive mechanism such as a plunger magnet (not shown).

Reference numeral 10 denotes a page detection sensor serving as a page detection means for detecting the page of the booklet 5 turned over by the page turning roller 3 at a position between the page turning roller 3 and the conveying roller 7a; The sensor 10 is composed of a pair of light emitting element and light receiving element that are arranged horizontally opposite each other at a predetermined height from the conveyance path 1.

Reference numerals 11 and 12 are position detection sensors each consisting of a light emitting element and a light receiving element for detecting the position of the booklet 5, and one position detection sensor 11 is connected to the page turning roller 3. Conveyance roller 6 and conveyance roller 7a.

7b, and the other position detection sensor 12 is located between the conveyance rollers 8a and 8b.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a display for displaying operation guidance and the like to the operator.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of the control system of the automatic page turning device shown in FIG.
M), 16 is input/output I for motor drive and sensor status determination
10 ports, 17 a driver for driving the motor 4, 18 a driver for driving the motor 9, 19 a driver for driving the display 13, and these are under the control of the control section 14. ing.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a conventional page turning method carried out by an automatic page turning device having the above-mentioned configuration, and FIGS. 6(a) to 6(d) are side views showing the page turning process according to FIG. This page turning method will be explained below using the above-mentioned figures and in the order of steps indicated by S in FIG. 5.

First, a booklet 5 is inserted in an open state from the insertion/ejection port 2, and after being processed by a card reader/writer section and a printing section (not shown), the booklet 5 is sent to an automatic page turning device. The transport roller 7a is lowered by the drive mechanism that does not move, and the leading end of the booklet 5 is sandwiched between the transport rollers 7a and 7b.

Here, the motor 9 is driven in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 14, and as a result, the both conveyance rollers 7a and 7b rotate forward, and the booklet 5 is conveyed toward the page turning roller 3 side. When the motor 9 rotates for a predetermined pulse amount from the time when is detected by the sensor 11, the rotation of the motor 9 is stopped, and the booklet 5 is moved to the page-turning position between the page-turning roller 3 and the conveyance roller 6. (SIOI).

Next, as shown in FIG. 2(a), the transport roller 6 is raised by a drive mechanism (not shown) and pushes up the booklet 5 from below, thereby printing the top page of the booklet 5, for example, all the lines. When the completed page 5' is pressed against the page turning roller 3, the motor 4 is driven by a predetermined number of pulses according to an instruction from the control unit 14, and the page turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount to perform a page turning operation (S102). ).

As a result of this page turning operation, the page 5' is turned up in a loop as shown in FIG. The control unit 14 determines that the page 5' has been turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10, but if the page detection sensor lO does not detect the page 5', the height of the page detection sensor 10 is still high. It is determined that page 5' has not been turned up (S103).

The control unit 14 has a number of n times of pasting trials set in advance, and as described above, a page 5 is set up to the height of the page detection sensor 10.
' is not turned up, the control unit 14 judges whether the page turning operation has reached n times (3104), and if the page turning operation has not reached n times, the control unit 14 starts the motor 4 again.
is driven by a predetermined number of pulses and the page turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount to retry the page turning operation (S105), and then it is determined whether the page 5' has been turned up again.

This operation is repeated and even if you try n times, the page detection sensor 1
If the page 5' cannot be turned up to the height of 0, a display to that effect is displayed as an abnormality in the apparatus, and the process ends abnormally, after which the operator or the like performs necessary processing such as repair.

On the other hand, when the page 5' is detected by the page detection sensor 10 and the control section 14 determines that the page 5' has been turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10, the rotation of the page turning roller 3 is temporarily stopped, and then After the conveyance roller 6 is lowered, the motor 4 is driven again by a predetermined number of pulses, and the page turning roller 3 is driven again.
is rotated by a predetermined amount, thereby causing the free end of the page 5' to flip up onto the page turning roller 3 (S106).

Thereafter, the motor 9 is driven according to instructions from the control unit 14.
As the transport rollers 6, 7a, and 7b rotate forward, the booklet 5 is transported to the transport rollers 8a, 8b side, and the leading edge of the booklet 5 reaches between the transport rollers 8a, 8b and is detected by the sensor 12. When detected, the transport roller 8a is lowered by a drive mechanism (not shown).

As a result, the booklet 5 is sandwiched between the conveyance rollers 8a and Bb, and from this point on, the motor 9 rotates by a predetermined pulse amount, thereby conveying the booklet 5 to the page-turning determination position (S107).

During this time, the control unit I4 monitors for each pulse whether or not the page detection sensor 10 maintains the ON state (detection state).
If the page detection sensor 10 does not switch to 0FF (non-detection state) during the process, it is determined that the page turning has been performed normally, but if it does, it is determined that the page turning has not been performed normally and a page turning failure has occurred. (3108).

Here, if it is determined that a page turning failure has occurred, the motor 9 is continuously rotated to transport the booklet 5 to a predetermined page turning end position (5109), and then the rotation of the motor 9 is stopped and the display 13 is Displays page turning failure (SIIO).

Thereby, the operator performs necessary processing such as opening a predetermined part of the apparatus and removing the booklet 5 from the apparatus.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the page turning has been performed normally, that is, the free end of page 5' is lifted up by the previous page flip-up operation as shown in Fig. 6 (C
), if the page detection sensor 10 remains in the ON state while the booklet 5 is being flipped up onto the page turning roller 3 and transported to the page turning determination position, the motor 9 must continue to rotate. The booklet 5 is transported to a predetermined page turning end position (Sill).

As a result, the page 5' falls to the opposite side as shown in FIG. It is then sent back to a processing unit such as a printing unit (5112) to perform the next processing such as printing.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in the conventional technology described above, even if the free end of the page 5' is not flipped up normally in the page flipping operation 5106 in FIG. The problem described arises.

That is, FIG. 7 is a side view showing the problems of the prior art.
If the free end of the page 5' is not flipped up normally, when the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page-turning determination position, the page 5' remains in a looped state as shown in the figure, and the page-turning roller 3
If the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page-turning end position in this state, the page 5' will be damaged and the booklet 5 will become unusable.

Furthermore, even if the booklet 5 does not become unusable, the pages 5' are creased, so that when the operator removes the booklet 5 from the device and then reinserts the booklet 5 for printing or other processing, the creases There is also the problem of secondary failures such as poor printing.

The present invention was made to solve these problems, and prevents the pages from being damaged or folded due to pages not being flipped up properly, thereby preventing the booklet from becoming unusable and causing secondary damage. The purpose of this invention is to realize an automatic method for turning over booklets that can prevent the occurrence of failures.

[Means and operations for solving the problem] In order to achieve this object, the present invention sandwiches the booklet conveyed from the insertion/ejection port between a vertically opposed face-up roller and a conveyance roller, and By rotating the turning roller a predetermined amount, the pages of the booklet are turned over in a loop, and when the page detection means detects that the top of the loop has been turned up to a predetermined height, the page turning roller is turned again. In the method for automatically turning a booklet, the free end of the page is flipped up by rotating the page by a predetermined amount, and then the booklet is conveyed to a page-turning end position set in a direction away from the insertion/ejection port. After the flip-up operation, when the page detection means switches from a detection state to a non-detection state while the booklet is being transported to a page-turning judgment position set on the way to the page-turning end position, it is regarded as a page-turning failure. Stop transporting the booklet.

Then, the page flipping operation by the page turning roller is retried at least once, and if the page detection means does not detect the page after the retry, the booklet is returned to the insertion/ejection port and the page is turned manually. conduct.

Therefore, according to this, even if page turning failure occurs due to the free end of the page not being flipped up normally during the page flipping operation after the page turning operation, damage or folding of the page due to this can be prevented. This makes it possible to prevent the booklet from becoming unusable and from causing secondary failures.

〔Example〕

Examples will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the automatic booklet turning method according to the present invention, and FIGS. 2(a) to (i) show page turning steps of an automatic turning device corresponding to the embodiment of FIG. FIG.

The automatic tool turning device used in this example is the same as that shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, so FIGS. 3 and 4 will be used together with FIGS. The explanation will be made according to the steps indicated by S in FIG.

First, the booklet 5 is inserted in an open state through the insertion/ejection port 2 shown in FIG. When the booklet 5 reaches the conveyance roller 7a, the conveyance roller 7a is lowered by a drive mechanism (not shown), and the leading end of the booklet 5 is brought down by the conveyance roller 7a.
and sandwiched between 7b.

Here, the motor 9 is driven in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 14, and the conveying rollers 7a and 7b are rotated in the forward direction, so that the booklet 5 is conveyed to the side of the page-turning crawler 3, and the leading edge of the booklet 5 is When the motor 9 has rotated for a predetermined number of pulses from the time detected by the sensor 11, the motor 9
The rotation of the booklet 5 is stopped, and the booklet 5 is thereby conveyed to a page-turning position between the page-turning roller 3 and the conveying roller 6 (Sl).

Next, as shown in FIG. 2(a), the transport roller 6 is raised by a drive mechanism (not shown) to push up the booklet 5 from below, thereby printing the top page of the booklet 5, for example, all lines. When the completed page 5' is pressed against the page turning roller 3, the remoter 4 is driven by a predetermined pulse amount according to an instruction from the control unit 14, and the page turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount to perform a page turning operation (S2 ).

As a result of this page turning operation, the page 5' is turned up in a loop as shown in FIG. The control unit 14 determines that the page 5' has been turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10, but if the page detection sensor 10 does not detect the page 5', the control unit 14 determines that the page 5' has been turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10. It is determined that the page 5' has not been turned up to the height of the sensor IO (s3).

The control unit 14 is preset with the number of times n times of pasting attempts, and as described above, the page 5 is set up to the height of 1° of the page detection sensor.
′ has not been turned up, the control unit 14 judges whether the page turning operation has reached n times (34), and if the page turning operation has not reached n times, the motor 4 is driven again for a predetermined number of pulses. After the page turning opening 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount and the page turning operation is retried (35), it is again determined whether the page 5' has been turned up.

This operation is repeated and even if you try n times, the page detection sensor 1
If the page 5' cannot be turned up to the height of 0, a message to that effect is displayed on the display indicating that there is an abnormality in the apparatus, and the process ends abnormally, and the operator or the like performs necessary processing such as repair.

On the other hand, when the page 5' is detected by the page detection sensor 10 and the control section 14 determines that the page 5' has been turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10, the rotation of the page turning roller 3 is temporarily stopped, and then After the conveyance roller 6 is lowered, the motor 4 is driven again by a predetermined number of pulses, and the page turning roller 3 is driven again.
rotates by a predetermined amount, thereby causing the free end of the page 5' to fly up onto the page-turning crawler 3 (S6).

Thereafter, the motor 9 is driven according to instructions from the control unit 14.
As the conveying rollers 6, 7a, and 7b rotate forward, the booklet 5 is conveyed toward the conveying rollers 8a and 8b, and the leading edge of the booklet 5 reaches between the conveying rollers 8a and Bb and is detected by the sensor 12. When detected, the transport roller 8a is lowered by a drive mechanism (not shown).

As a result, the booklet 5 is sandwiched between the conveyance rollers 8a and Bb, and from this point on, the motor 9 rotates by a predetermined pulse amount, and the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page-turning determination position (S
7).

During this time, the control unit 14 monitors for each pulse whether or not the page detection sensor 10 maintains the ON state (detection state).
If the page detection sensor lO does not switch to 0FF (non-detection state) during the process, it is determined that the page turning was performed normally, but if it does, it is determined that the page turning was not performed normally and a page turning failure occurred ( S8).

Here, the process when it is determined that a page turning defect has occurred will be described in detail later.

When it is determined that the page turning has been performed normally, that is, the free end of the page 5' is flipped up onto the page turning roller 3 as shown in FIG.
As shown in (b), when the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page turning determination position A on the conveyance path 1 and the interpage detection sensor 10 is kept in the ON state, the booklet is 5 to a predetermined page turning end position (S9).

As a result, the page 5' falls to the opposite side as shown in FIG. The booklet 5 is sent back to a processing section such as a printing section (5IO), and the next processing such as printing is performed.

On the other hand, if the free end of the page 5' is not flipped up in S6, and the booklet 5 is conveyed toward the page-turning determination position A from the looped-up state shown in FIG. 2(B), At a position where the page 5' has been conveyed to a certain extent, the page 5' moves below the page detection sensor 10 as shown in FIG. 2(f), so the page detection sensor 10 is switched from ON to OFF.

In this case, the control unit 14 determines in S8 that <14 causes a page turning failure as described above, and immediately stops the rotation of the motor 9 to stop conveying the booklet 5 (311).

The control unit 14 is set with the number of attempts to turn up the page n times (even one time), similar to the number of attempts to turn up the page, and after stopping the conveyance of the booklet 5 as described above,
Determine whether the page flip operation has reached n times (3
12).

If the number of times has not reached n, the motor 4 is driven again by a predetermined number of pulses, thereby rotating the page turning roller 3 by a predetermined amount and retrying the page flipping operation (S13).
Further, it is determined whether the page 5' has been flipped up, that is, whether the page detection sensor 10 has been turned on (314).
.

Here, if the page detection sensor 10 is turned ON, that is, if the free end of the page 5 is flipped up and extended as shown in FIG. 2 (8), the step S7. The process of S8 is performed, and if the control unit 14 determines in this S8 that the page turning has been performed normally, the process goes through S9° SIO to the next process.

On the other hand, if the page detection sensor 10 does not turn ON even after the page flipping operation is retried, the page flipping operation is retried up to n times.

If the page detection sensor 10 does not turn ON even after n attempts, the control unit 14 considers that the page cannot be flipped up, rotates the motor 9 in the reverse direction, and reversely feeds the booklet 5 to eject it from the insertion/ejection port 2. (S15) At this time, the page 5' changes from the loop state shown in FIG. 2(B) to the state shown in FIG.
), the state changes to a mountainous state, and the conveying roller 7
Since the page 5' returns to its original state before the page is turned while being sandwiched between the pages a and 7b and being fed, the page 5' will not be folded.

During this time, the control unit 14 instructs the operator to turn the pages on the display 13, and when the booklet 5 is ejected from the insertion/ejection port 2, the operator
The booklet 5 is pulled out and page 5' is turned over (S16), and the booklet 5 is reinserted into the insertion/ejection port 2 (317).

Thereby, the booklet 5 is conveyed to a processing section such as a printing section, and the next processing such as printing is performed.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments,
For example, it is not the operator who turns over page 5' of the booklet 5 ejected from the insertion/ejection port 2, but the customer (in the case of an ATM).
You can also use it as

In addition, page turning is not limited to the inner page of the booklet 1, and similar processing can be performed on the cover, and the booklet 1 is not limited to a bankbook, but can be applied to various other types.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention provides an automatic page turning method using a page turning roller, after the page turning roller performs an operation of flipping up the pages of a booklet, the booklet is turned on its way to the page turning end position. If the page detection means switches from the detection state to the non-detection state while the booklet is being transported to the page turning judgment position set in The operation is retried at least once, and if the page detection means does not detect the page after the retry, the booklet is reversely fed to the insertion/ejection port so that the pages can be turned manually.

Therefore, according to this, in the page flip-up operation after the page-turning operation, the free end of the page is not flipped up normally;
As a result, even if a page turning failure occurs, damage or folding of the pages due to this can be prevented, which has the effect of preventing the booklet from becoming unusable and preventing secondary failures from occurring. can get.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the automatic page turning method for a booklet according to the present invention; FIG. 2 is a side view showing the page turning process of an automatic page turning device corresponding to the embodiment of FIG. 1;
Fig. 3 is a side view showing an example of the configuration of an automatic page turning device, Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a control system of the automatic page turning device shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 shows a conventional automatic page turning method. FIG. 6 is a side view showing the page turning process shown in FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a side view showing the problems of the prior art. 1: Conveyance path 2: Insertion/ejection port 3: Page turning roller 4: Motor: Booklet 5. 2 pages 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b: Conveyance roller: Motor
lO: Page detection sensor 1.12: Position detection sensor 4: Control unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) The booklet conveyed from the insertion/ejection port is sandwiched between a page-turning roller and a conveyance roller that face each other vertically, and the page-turning roller is rotated by a predetermined amount to form a loop of the pages of the booklet. When the page detecting means detects that the top of the loop has been turned up to a predetermined height, the free end of the page is flipped up by rotating the page turning roller again by a predetermined amount, and then the booklet is turned over. In the automatic page-turning method for a booklet in which the booklet is transported to a page-turning end position set in a direction away from the insertion/ejection port, after the flip-up operation of the page-turning roller, the booklet is transported to the page-turning end position set in the direction away from the insertion/ejection port. If the page detection means switches from the detection state to the non-detection state while the page is being transported to the page-turning determination position, it is assumed that the page-turning is defective, and transporting of the booklet is stopped, and the page-turning roller is turned off at least once. An automatic page-turning method for a booklet, characterized in that the method retries the page twice, and if the page detection means does not detect the page after the retry, the booklet is reversely fed to the insertion/ejection port.