JPH0379750B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (a) Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote deposit machine that saves labor in depositing banknotes at counters of banks, etc., and particularly relates to a banknote discriminating function of the banknote deposit machine. The present invention relates to a bill counting control method for a bill depositing machine that can be used not only for depositing bills but also as a bill counting machine.

(b) Prior Art and Problems The conventional technology will be explained using a banknote deposit machine installed at a bank or other counter as an example. Such a deposit machine is usually connected to an online teller's machine, and is configured to deposit banknotes under its control. In other words, the teller operator (or teller in the case of a bank teller) is controlled based on the information input from the online teller's machine, and when depositing money, the machine determines which banknotes are inserted through the slot, and based on the results of this determination, the banknotes are correct. The bills are counted by denomination, unidentifiable bills are returned, genuine bills are lined up front and back and stored in a safe by denomination, and unfit bills are stored separately.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the main operations of the bill depositing machine. Such a bill depositing/dispensing machine which is also capable of dispensing money is described in detail in Japanese Patent Application No. 57-113573 filed by the present applicant.

To give an overview of the deposit operation, after the teller completes procedures such as account confirmation through communication with the central computer system via the online teller's machine, the teller inserts the banknotes to be deposited into slot 1. The deposit machine takes in the banknotes inserted into the slot 1 one by one, and the identification unit 3 performs authentication, denomination, unfitness, counting by denomination, and counting unfit bills. The normal bills are returned to the exit 2, the front and back sides are aligned in the front-back reversing unit 4, and the tickets are transferred to the primary storage units 5, 6,
They are classified into 7 and 8 denominations and put on hold. In addition, unfit notes are also held in the primary holding section 8. In this example, various banknotes of 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen can be accepted for deposit. Here, the online tellers machine is notified of the counting results. When the online teller's machine completes the transaction with the central computer system, it instructs the bill deposit machine to deposit the bill into the safe. For example, safe 9 is for 10,000 yen notes, safe 10 is for 5,000 yen notes,
If the safe 11 is for 1,000 yen notes, the primary storage section 5,
The banknotes held in banknotes 6 and 7 are stored in various safes 9 to 11 according to their respective denominations. In addition, unfit bills and 500 yen bills are stored in the unfit bill storage section of the safe 12.

By the way, banks generally separate banknotes by denomination.
They are stored and transported in bundles of 100 sheets. In this way, it is necessary to count the number of banknotes in order to group them into 100 banknotes for each denomination, and for this purpose, there have conventionally been dedicated machines for counting banknotes. However, such dedicated machines simply count the number of banknotes at high speed, and like the banknote deposit machines mentioned above, they do not handle mixed types of banknotes or unidentifiable bills (the identification part of the deposit/withdrawal machine cannot identify them). Since it is not possible to detect and point out the mixture of items (for example, counterfeit bills, etc.),
It has been desired to provide the above-mentioned banknote deposit machine with a function of counting the number of banknotes.

(c) Purpose of the Invention Based on the above-mentioned request, the purpose of the present invention is to utilize the function of a bill depositing machine to eject unidentifiable bills for return, and when counting the number of bills, it is possible to use the function of the bill depositing machine to eject unidentifiable bills for return. After the banknotes are counted and discriminated by the identification unit, the banknotes are prohibited from being sent to the primary holding unit, and the counted banknotes are sent to the dispensing port by the return/discharge function, and the banknotes are discriminated by the denomination by the identification unit. An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote deposit machine capable of indicating a mixture of banknote types based on the results.

(d) Structure of the Invention The above-mentioned object is provided with an identification unit that determines the authenticity and denomination of an inserted banknote, and a conveying means for transporting the identified banknote, and a Unidentifiable tickets will be transported to the exit and returned.
This is a bill deposit machine that transports and stores genuine bills in a safe.
a mode instruction section for instructing a counting operation and a counting unit for input banknotes; a number counting section for counting the number of banknotes taken into the identification section when a counting operation is instructed by the mode instruction section; and the number counting section. a display unit for displaying the status of the banknotes; and upon receiving an instruction for counting the number of banknotes and a counting unit from the mode instruction unit, the controller controls the transporting means to transport the banknotes that have been inserted and passed through the identification unit to the output port. and causes the counting unit to count up to the number of sheets counted by the counting unit while receiving the counted value by the number counting unit, displays the counted number on the display unit, and causes the identification unit to count the number of sheets within the specified number of sheets to be counted. A banknote depositing machine for counting the number of banknotes, characterized in that the control unit controls the counting operation to stop when the denomination of the seed is determined, and the number of banknotes to be counted being displayed on the display unit to blink. This is achieved through a control method.

(e) Embodiment of the Invention As an embodiment of the present invention, upon receiving an instruction for counting input banknotes and a counting unit from the mode instruction unit, the control unit of the banknote deposit machine performs a banknote counting operation instead of a banknote depositing operation. In other words, the operation mode is switched from the banknote deposit mode to the banknote counting mode, and the transport path for transporting banknotes from the front/back reversing unit 4 shown in FIG. The banknotes are switched to the discharge side so as to be carried out to the exit 2 and held, and the denominations and unidentifiable banknotes are identified based on the first banknote taken in from the banknotes inserted into the slot 1. For example, the number of sheets in the counting unit
Counting is stopped every time 100 coins (hereinafter simply referred to as the designated number of coins) are delivered to the outlet 2, and at this time, the total number of coins is displayed on the display, and the first coin and denomination are displayed. A system will be described below in which, when different banknotes or unrecognizable banknotes are received, the total number on the display unit is displayed blinking to warn the person handling the banknote count.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of essential parts showing such an embodiment of the present invention, and the same parts as in FIG. 1 are given the same reference numerals. In the figure, 16 is a sheet counting button which serves as a mode instruction section for instructing the sheet counting mode and the counting unit (for example, the above-mentioned 100 sheets), 17 is a display section that displays the cumulative number of sheets counted, and 13 is an identification section 3. A counting section 14 counts the number of all banknotes taken into the bank, and is connected to a conveyance path for conveying banknotes conveyed from the front/back reversing section 4 shown in FIG. 15 is a control section which switches and holds the conveyance path as shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart. The operation will be described below with reference to the same figure. When the number counting button 16 of the mode instruction section is pressed to instruct the number of sheets counting mode and the counting unit number M, the control section 15 enters the counting mode and starts the operation of the counting mode, and the conveying path switching section 14 is switched and fixed so that all bills are conveyed to the outlet 2, and the count value of the bill counter is set to zero.

When a banknote is inserted into the input slot 1 and the insertion is detected, the control unit 15 controls the counter unit 13 to sequentially take in the banknotes one by one and start reading them. The bill is incremented by 1 and incremented, and the count value is displayed on the display section, and the denomination of the banknote passed through the counting section 13 is discriminated by the identification section 3.

The first identification part 3 read by the counting part 13
The denomination discrimination result is set and stored in the control section 15.

From the second sheet onward, the reading progresses by incrementing the count value and displaying the count value on the display section in the same way as the first sheet, but the denomination discrimination result at the identification section 3 is stored in the control section 15. The difference is that it is compared with the denomination discrimination result of the first sheet, and by this denomination comparison, the mixture of different denominations, including unidentifiable notes, can be monitored and detected during counting.

If the denominations match, that is, if a banknote of the same denomination as the first banknote taken in continues, the operation continues, the front and back sides are aligned in the front and back reversing unit 4, and the transfer path switching unit 14 switches the banknotes. If the instructed number M is 100, then 100
When the banknotes are counted, the banknotes are stopped from being taken in from the slot 1 while the count is displayed.

Note that in this embodiment, the control unit 15 controls the dispensing port 2.
When it is detected that the counted banknotes have been removed,
The above-mentioned counting of the number of coins is restarted again, and the count value displayed on the display can also display the cumulative number of coins, and this repeated operation when there is no denomination mixed in is possible only when the input slot 1 The system repeats this until it detects that there are no more banknotes, at which point the counting ends and the mode returns to normal deposit mode.

If the above-mentioned denomination comparison detects that a banknote of a different denomination than the originally imported banknote is mixed in, the control unit 1
5 stops taking in banknotes from the input slot 1 and stops counting, and also flashes the count value displayed on the display section 17 to issue a warning to the person handling the banknote count.

In this embodiment, the mixing of different denomination notes or unidentifiable notes is monitored and detected during counting, but the mixing of unfit notes is not monitored and detected. Unfit notes are banknotes that should be collected at banks and are not used for general dispensing; however, if necessary, the inclusion of unfit notes can also be monitored and a warning can be issued.

Further, in this embodiment, an example is shown in which the number counting unit 13 is placed on the banknote conveyance path, but if the identification unit 3 is adapted to count not only the number of bills by denomination but also the number of unidentifiable bills. Alternatively, a number counting section for totalizing the counting results of each denomination and unidentifiable notes may be placed between the identification section and the control section.

(f) Effects of the invention As explained above, according to the present invention, it becomes possible to count the number of banknotes by using the banknote authenticity recognition machine and denomination discrimination function of the banknote deposit machine. The person in charge can bundle the predetermined number of sheets required.
Moreover, since it is possible to prevent banknotes of different denominations from being mixed into the bundle, it is possible to bundle banknotes of the correct denomination.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a diagram explaining the operation of the banknote deposit machine, Figure 2
The figure is a block diagram of essential parts showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an operational flowchart. In the figure, 1 is the input port, 2 is the output port, 3 is the identification section, 4 is the front/back reversal section, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are the primary storage section, 9, 10, 11, and 12 are the safe, and 13 is the 14 is a conveyance path switching section; 15 is a control section;
16 is a number counting button, and 17 is a display section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An identification unit that determines the authenticity and denomination of the inserted banknotes, and a conveying means for transporting the identified banknotes, and the banknotes that cannot be identified as determined by the identification unit are A bill depositing machine that transports and returns genuine bills to a deposit box and stores them in a safe, the machine comprising: a mode instruction section that instructs a counting operation and a counting unit for input bills; and a mode instruction section that instructs the counting operation. In this case, a number counting unit that counts the number of banknotes taken into the identification unit, a display unit that displays the status of the number counting, and upon receiving an instruction for a banknote number counting operation and a counting unit from the mode instruction unit, The conveying means is controlled to convey the inserted banknotes that have passed through the identification unit to the input slot, and the banknotes are counted up to the counting unit number while receiving the counted value by the banknote counting unit, and the banknotes are displayed as shown in FIG. When the identification section identifies multiple denominations within the specified limit of the number of coins to be counted, the counting operation is stopped and the number of coins currently being counted is displayed on the display section. A bill depositing machine, comprising: a control unit that controls blinking; and a bill depositing machine.