JPH0368432B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a cash handling device such as a recycling-type deposit/withdrawal machine used in financial institutions, etc., and in particular, when collecting cash from a cash storage section. The present invention relates to a cash handling device that can reliably manage cash.

Recently, as part of the computer banking system, deposit and withdrawal machines, etc., are used at counters of financial institutions, etc., to receive and deposit cash received from customers, and to dispense and dispense the stored cash. Teller device
Terminal) has been developed and put into practical use. Recently, devices that handle not only banknotes but also coins have been used.

These devices have a recycling system in which banknotes or coins deposited by customers are used for dispensing, thereby making effective use of cash. However, the deposit,
If transactions are performed with a bias towards either withdrawal, the cash storage section will become full or empty. In such a case, a detector detects this and notifies you, and cash is collected or replenished. Cash is also collected at the end of each day.

When collecting such cash, it is desired to have a method that can reliably control the number of withdrawals from the cash storage unit and the associated cash management.

[Conventional technology]

The conventional method will be described below with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5, using a bill depositing and dispensing machine as an example. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the bill depositing and dispensing machine, FIG. 4 is a side sectional view of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a control circuit in a conventional example.

As shown in Fig. 3, the deposit/withdrawal machine has an input slot 2 for inserting banknotes 1 into the upper part of the front front of the machine, a display 3,
A sorter pool handle 5e and an unfit bill slot 6a are provided below the operating button 4, and a withdrawal port 7 is provided on the top surface of the device.

As shown in Fig. 4, the inside of the device is shown in the upper part of the device, behind the input port 2 and to the right in the figure.
The inserted banknote 1 is 1 by the feeding roller R1.
A dispensing section 8 for dispensing bills one by one, a discriminating section 9 for discriminating the authenticity, denomination, and front and back of the bill 1, and a front-back reversing section 10 for aligning the front and back of the bill 1 whose front and back have been discriminated are arranged. At the center of the device are located sorter pool sections 5a to 5c for collecting banknotes 1 by denomination, that is, 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen notes, respectively, and a sorter pool section 5d for collecting collected banknotes.

At the bottom of the device, there are storage boxes 11a to 11c for each denomination,
and a collection box 12 are arranged. Collection box 12
is the feeding mechanism 13 at the bottom of the storage boxes 11a to 11c.
When the banknotes fed by a to 13c have a double feed or the like and are judged poorly by the discrimination section 9, they can be collected, or they can be stored in the storage boxes 11a to 11a at the end of work, etc.
When collecting banknotes in 11c, the banknotes to be collected are temporarily stored here.

In the sorter pool parts 5a to 5d, the part indicated by the two-dot chain line in the figure is a unit 5, which can be pulled out by a sorter pool part handle 5e.
Similarly, the storage boxes 11a to 11c and the collection box 12 have the unit 11 indicated by the two-dot chain line in the figure, and have the function of a safe that can be withdrawn.

The unfit bill box 6 is used to insert banknotes 1 which have been repeatedly judged incorrectly and rejected by the discrimination section 9 at the time of deposit. Also, a control section 14 is located above the rear of the device.
is provided.

The conveyance path of the banknote 1 includes feed rollers R2 to R12,
R16 to R21 and gates G1 to G4 are arranged. Feed roller R2~R12, R16~R
21 is connected to a motor (not shown), and the feed rollers R1, R13 to R15 are connected to the motor via a clutch (not shown), and are driven by a command from the control unit 14 that receives the result of the discrimination by the discrimination unit 9. The conveyance direction is switched and the banknote is conveyed along the intended route.

Such deposit/withdrawal machines are called Online Tellers Machines (hereinafter referred to as OTMs), which are not shown at the counters of financial institutions, etc.
The OTM is connected to the OTM via an information line, and deposits and withdrawals of banknotes are processed as follows according to withdrawal instructions entered from the OTM keyboard.

When depositing and storing banknotes in a deposit/dispensing machine having such a configuration and function, when banknotes 1 are inserted into the slot 2, a sensor (not shown) detects the banknotes, and the payout roller R1 is driven to release the banknotes from the payout section 8. The bill 1 is fed out and discriminated by the discrimination section 9, and the bill that has been turned upside down is reversed by the front and back inversion section 10 so that the front and back sides of the bill are aligned.If the bill is a genuine bill, it is passed through the route A to the sorter pool section 5a. ~5c and pooled by denomination.

Simultaneously with this operation, the control circuit 14 shown in FIG. 5 counts the amount of money. FIG. 5 shows a block diagram of parts related to the present invention. The discrimination section 9 discriminates the banknotes and notifies the control section 14 of the results. The control unit 14 controls the rollers on the banknote transport path to pool the banknotes into predetermined sorter pool units 5a to 5c, but at the same time, the main control unit 17 in the control unit 14 receives a signal from the discrimination unit 9 indicating the denomination type. The amount is received, and the storage box amount counters 19a to 19c provided for each denomination, that is, each of the storage boxes 11a to 11c, are updated. This counter has storage boxes 11a to 11c.
This means that the number of banknotes currently stored in each denomination is counted.

Further, the collection box amount counter 18 counts the number of denominations currently stored in the collection box 12 by denomination. Although one collection box balance counter 18 is shown in the figure,
The contents consist of a plurality of counters equal to the number of denominations.

Storage box collection counters 23a to 23c are storage box 1
The collection box collection counter 22 counts the cumulative number of banknotes collected from the collection boxes 12 by denomination, respectively. Like the collection box amount counter 18, the collection box collection counter 22 is composed of a plurality of counters for each denomination.

The number of coins for each denomination and the total amount counted as described above are displayed on the OTM display.

In one deposit transaction, the deposited banknotes are discriminated and classified as described above and sent to the sorter pool unit 5.
When the transaction is completed, the bottoms of the sorter pool sections 5a to 5c open downward and the banknotes are stored in the storage boxes 11a to 11c.

When the deposited banknote 1 is determined to be a defective banknote in the discriminating section 9, the gate G1 is switched and the banknote 1 is discharged through the route B to the dispensing port 7.

When dispensing banknotes, when the operator inputs the withdrawal amount by pressing a button from the keyboard of an externally connected control device (not shown), the control circuit 14 controls a dispensing mechanism that corresponds to the corresponding denomination. Feeding rollers R13~ of 13a~13c
Any one of R15 is sequentially driven to feed out the banknotes.
The banknotes are transported, verified by a verification section 9, counted, and sent to a withdrawal port 7. At this time, the main control unit 17 displays the corresponding denomination storage box balance counters 19a to 19c.
Subtract the number of sheets rolled out from the contents.

In this way, in the deposit/withdrawal machine, the cumulative amount of withdrawals and deposits are counted at all times according to the transaction, and the storage boxes 11a to 11c and the collection box 12
Banknotes stored in the bank are also counted.

In order to collect banknotes from such deposit/withdrawal machines at the end of the day's work, storage boxes 11a to 11 are used.
There are two methods: to directly collect the banknotes from each banknote, and to collect the banknotes after once transferring them to the collection box 12. When the front area of the device is narrow, the latter method is used because it requires only a small amount of pulling out of the unit 11.

In this case, by operating an operator button (not shown), the banknotes stored in the storage boxes 11a to 11c are sequentially transferred to the feeding mechanisms 13a to 13c.
The materials are fed out by the robot, are classified and counted by the classification section 9, and are stored in the collection box 12 via the route A. When storage is complete, pull out unit 11 and place it in collection box 1.
2 and collect the banknotes.

When the collection box 12 is set again after collecting banknotes, although the collection box 12 is empty, the storage box amount counters 19a to 19c and the collection box amount counter 18 remain in the same state as before the collection. Therefore, in order to match this, the teller selects the corresponding storage boxes 11a to 11c or collection box 12.
The collection is completed by clearing the balance counter.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

According to the conventional method described above, each time a banknote is collected, the teller must clear the balance counter in the corresponding storage box and collection box. There is a problem that there is a discrepancy between the number of banknotes in the box or collection box and the content in the balance counter, and the accuracy of cash management cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, the technical problem of the present invention is to configure a cash handling device so that the clearing process of the cash balance counter at the time of collection does not require any special operation by the operator for clearing, and the clearing operation can be started at an appropriate timing. There is a particular thing.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve such problems, the present invention provides a clearing means for clearing the count value of the counting means upon receiving a detection output from the detecting means for detecting that the cash storage section has been withdrawn. Equipped with.

When the detection means detects that the cash storage section is withdrawn, it notifies the clearing means.

The clearing means that has received the notification clears the count value of the counting means that counts the amount of cash stored in the cash storage section.

[Effect]

The detection means for detecting that a cash storage unit including a storage box used for depositing, withdrawing money and collection, or a collection box used for collection is pulled out from the cash handling device, detects that the cash storage box is pulled out. When detected, the cleared means that receives the notification clears the cash counter of the cash storage box, thereby preventing the teller from clearing the cash counter due to erroneous operation. That is, since it is cleared when the handling of cash is completed, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a mismatch between the contents of the cash storage box and the counter on the premise that there is no error in the collection of cash in the contents of the cash storage box.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the block diagram of FIG. FIG. 1 shows the conventional control circuit shown in the block diagram of FIG. 5, with the addition of a cash storage box withdrawal sensor, a balance counter clearing section, and a withdrawal counter. Further, the parts related to the present invention will be explained by taking as an example the structure of the deposit/disburse machine shown in FIG. 4, in which a collection box and a storage box removal detection sensor are added, although not shown. Fifth
The same reference numerals as in the figure indicate the same objects.

The collection box extraction sensor 15 and the storage box extraction sensors 16a to 16c are connected to the collection box 12 and the storage box 1.
This sensor detects that any one of 1a to 11c is removed from the unit 11 and outputs detection signals a to d. Although this sensor is not shown in FIG. 4, a photoelectric switch, micro switch, or the like is usually used.

When any of the detection signals a to d is input, the main control unit 17 transfers the contents of the balance counters 18, 21a to 21c of the corresponding storage box or collection box to the collection counters 22, 23a to 23c of the collection box or storage box. Add to.

In addition, the corresponding collection box sampling number counter 2
0, any one of the storage box extraction counters 21a to 21c is incremented by 1, and the input detection signal is notified to a balance counter clearing unit 35, which will be described later.
The balance counter clearing section 35 clears the corresponding storage box based on the detection signal notified from the main control section 17.
The amount counters 21a to 21c, 18 in the collection box are cleared. Therefore, for example, when the collection box 12 is removed, the collection box removal sensor 15 detects the removal and outputs a detection signal a. When this signal is input, the main control unit 17 controls the collection box removal counter 2.
0 is incremented by 1, the content of the collection box amount counter 18 is added to the count of the collection box collection counter 22, and the amount of money counter clearing unit 35 is notified that the detection signal a has been input. The collection box amount counter 18 is cleared to 0.

The operation of the apparatus of this embodiment having such a configuration and function when collecting banknotes will be described.

As a method of collecting banknotes, storage boxes 11a to 11
When each of c is extracted and collected by denomination,
There is a case where the banknotes are once transferred from each of the storage boxes 11a to 11c to the collection box 12, and then the collection box 12 is pulled out and collected.Here, the latter case will be explained as an example.

The operator instructs each storage box 11 from OTM.
Once the banknotes are transferred from a to 11c to the collection box 12, once this is completed, the unit 11 is pulled out from the device and the collection box 12 is removed. The collection box extraction sensor 15 detects this and outputs a detection signal a.

The main control unit 17 that has received the detection signal a controls a collection box amount counter 18 and a collection box removal counter 2.
0, and sends a signal to the collection box collection counter 22,
The collection box removal count counter 20 is incremented by 1, and then the contents of the collection box amount counter 18 are added to the contents of the collection box collection counter 22. When the addition is completed, the amount counter clearing section indicates that the detection signal a has been input. 3
5, and the amount counter clearing unit 35 clears the count of the collection box amount counter 18.

When data is collected from each of the storage boxes 11a to 11c, the corresponding counters for the amount in stock, the number of items sampled, and the collection are processed in the same way.

By doing this, the contents of each storage box and collection box match the contents of each counter. In addition, the number of times each storage box or collection box has been removed from the device is recorded as a history in each extraction counter.

Next, as a different embodiment, FIG. 2 shows a different generation method of the sampling detection signal. The same symbols as in FIG. 1 indicate the same objects.

The difference between the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 and the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is that the embodiment shown in FIG.
Immediately when 1c is removed, the collection box balance counter 1
9. While the collection box sampling number counter 21 and the collection box collection counter 23 operate, the collection box 12 or storage box is activated by a sampling valid signal after a set time has elapsed. The purpose is to prevent the counter from operating by immediately putting them back in when you realize that you made a mistake when you pulled them out.

That is, in FIG. 2, the timers 24 to 27 are each set to a predetermined time T seconds (for example, 2 seconds), and the detection signal of either the box sampling sensor 15 or the storage box sampling sensor 16a to 16c is set to the timers 24 to 27, respectively. a
~d, and the signal is activated after a predetermined time T seconds have elapsed.
Output a ₁ to d ₁ . Signals a ₁ to d ₁ are AND circuit 28
- 31, and if the signals a to d continue at that point, they are input to the main control unit 17 as signals having the same effect as the detection signals a to d in the embodiment of FIG. , and thereafter perform operations similar to those in the embodiment shown in FIG.

For example, even if the collection box 12 is removed by mistake when removing the storage box 11a, and the collection box removal sensor 15 outputs the detection signal a,
If the collection box 12 is reset to the unit 11 within the set time T seconds, the detection signal a disappears and the timer 2
4 is stopped and the signal _a1 is not output, so no signal is sent to the main control section 17 and the counters described above are not operated.

Therefore, even if there is an error in the extraction operation, the state before extraction can be maintained by resetting the extracted storage box in the unit 11 within T seconds.

The timer used for this purpose may be either a mechanical clock timer or a programmed timer.

In the above examples, we explained the case of a recycling-type bill depositing and dispensing machine, but it can also be applied to a depositing and dispensing machine that handles coins. A similar effect can be obtained.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, when the cash storage section is removed from the device and cash is collected, the cash balance counter indicating the contents of the cash storage section is automatically cleared, thereby preventing clearing mistakes due to erroneous operations by the operator. In addition, the number of times the cash storage section has been extracted is saved as a history, so
Cash management can be performed reliably.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a control circuit in an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a different embodiment,
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a conventional method using a bill depositing and dispensing machine as an example, FIG. 4 is a sectional side view of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a control circuit according to the conventional example. In the figure, 1 is a banknote, 3 is a display,
5 and 11 are units, 9 is a discrimination section, 11a to 11
c is a storage box, 12 is a collection box, 14 is a control unit, 15
16a to 16c are collection box extraction sensors; 17 is a main control unit; 18 is a collection amount counter; 19a to 19c are storage box amount counters; 20 is a collection box extraction counter; 21a to 21
c is a storage box sampling counter, 22 is a collection box collection counter, 23a to 23c are storage box collection counters,
Reference numeral 35 indicates an amount counter clearing unit, reference numerals 24 to 27 indicate timers, and reference numerals 28 to 31 indicate AND circuits.

[Claims]

1. Storage means for storing either a first state indicating a computation prohibited state or a second state indicating a computation inhibited state, and computation inhibiting data or a second state for setting the storage means in the first state. voice input means for inputting by voice at least one of the computation prohibition release data to bring the state into the state;
a determining means for determining the storage state of the storage means when data for calculation is input; and a determining means for determining the storage state of the storage means when data for calculation is input; and an arithmetic control means that prohibits execution of arithmetic processing on the data and executes arithmetic processing on the input data for the arithmetic instruction when it is determined that the second state is stored. Calculation data input device.