JPH04284593A - Open/close door lock structure for temporary hold part of paper money processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To open/close the open/close door of the temporary hold part by anybody even without a special clerk and simultaneously to prevent an illegal action to an operation cartridge by providing a regulation lever movable by opening/closing the shutter of the cartridge and a lock lever to regulate the open/close of the open/close door. CONSTITUTION:An open/close door 33 of a temporary hold part 30 is laterally opened/closed by a pivot shaft 34 and equipped with a key 35 for releasing the lock. A cartridge 31 to be loaded/unloaded to the lower part of the temporary hold part 30 is equipped with a shutter 38 on the upper face and a regulation lever 58 made movable by opening/closing the shutter 38. When the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is opened, the regulation lever 58 makes an operation lever 53 movable and the open/close door 33 is locked by a lock lever 44. When the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is closed, the regulation lever 58 is set at an unoperatable position, and the lock lever 44 is made movable to a position for releasing the lock. Thus, when the shutter 38 is closed, the open/close door 33 of the temporary hold part 30 can be opened/closed in a keyless state.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention has a temporary holding section for temporarily holding deposited banknotes, such as an automatic teller machine or automatic teller machine, and the banknotes held in this temporary holding section are artificially stored. The present invention relates to an opening/closing door lock structure in which an opening/closing door is formed on one side of the temporary storage part so that the temporary holding part can be taken out.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a banknote processing apparatus that can carry out deposit and withdrawal processing as shown in FIG.

That is, the deposit/withdrawal port 1 of the banknote processing device 10
1 is configured to be rotatable between a position where a customer inserts and takes out banknotes and a position where a customer takes in banknotes or receives banknotes from the inside.

The above-mentioned deposit/withdrawal port 11 is connected via a conveyance line a to a discrimination section 12 for determining authenticity, denomination, and front/back discrimination, and the discrimination section 12 is connected via conveyance lines b, c to , is connected to a temporary holding section 14 that temporarily holds banknotes.

The aforementioned conveyance line b is connected to a simulated banknote storage section 13 and a bulk storage section 15 via a conveyance line d, and the simulated banknote storage section 13 dispenses and collects simulated banknotes for test runs, and stores them in bulk. The holding section 15 has a function of discharging the held banknotes all at once and a function of passing the transported banknotes, and is connected to the deposit/withdrawal port 11 via the conveyance line e.

The above-mentioned conveyance line e is connected to the above-mentioned conveyance line a via the conveyance line f, and furthermore, the above-mentioned temporary holding section 14 is connected to the conveyance line d by reversing the conveyance line c. .

The conveyance line b from the above-mentioned discrimination section 12 is connected via a deposit conveyance line g to denomination-specific storage sections 16 provided for each denomination, and furthermore, these conveyance lines g are It is connected to the aforementioned transport line a via a gold transport line h, and these transport lines a, b, g, and h form a loop.

[0008] By connecting the conveyance line i branching from the conveyance line h to the conveyance line e, the deposit/withdrawal port 11
Furthermore, a collection box 17 is connected via a transport line j branched from the transport line g, and this collection box 1
7 collects banknotes that have made a feeding error during withdrawal or have been left behind. The above-mentioned transport lines a to j are constructed by appropriately combining transport belts, guide rollers, guide plates, distribution plates, and the like.

[0009] At the bottom side of the above-mentioned temporary storage section 14, there is an operating cartridge 1 having a banknote replenishment function and a banknote collection function.
8 is removably attached. Further, inside the temporary holding section 14, there is a separator 19 for accumulating banknotes, and this separator 19 is provided to be movable in the vertical direction and to be taken out to the outside. Driven in the backward direction.

Furthermore, when the banknotes stored in the operational cartridge 18 mentioned above are delivered to the banknote processing device 10 side, and when the banknotes from the device 10 are stored in the operational cartridge 18, the upper temporary storage section 14 is used. This is done using the loading and unloading mechanism. At this time, the separator 19 of the upper temporary storage section 14 is pulled out and evacuated.

The banknote processing apparatus 10 configured as described above receives banknotes from the operation cartridge 18 as a reserve, and passes them through the temporary holding unit 14 and the transport lines c, d, f, and a, and then the discrimination unit 12 determines the denomination. Then, the banknotes are stored in the corresponding denomination storage section 16 via the conveyance line g, and the banknotes stored in the denomination storage section 16 are used for withdrawal.

Further, the banknotes taken in from the deposit/withdrawal port 11 are passed through a conveyance line a to a discrimination section 12 for authenticity determination, denomination determination, etc., and then conveyed through conveyance lines b and c to a temporary storage section 14. The operation will be temporarily put on hold until the next user. Then, when the next customer operates, the separator 19 is pulled out at the initial stage of the operation, and the banknotes that have been reserved are stored in the operation cartridge 18. Note that when the banknotes in the denomination storage units 16 run out due to the withdrawal process, the banknotes stored in the operational cartridge 18 are used as replenishment banknotes in each denomination storage unit 16 .
The banknotes that have been temporarily held in the temporary holding unit 14 are not stored in the respective denomination storage units 16 for each deposit process.

[0013] The purpose of this is to speed up the deposit processing and to minimize the transport distance of banknotes to prevent banknote jams.

[0014] In the above-mentioned deposit processing, the transport lines a,
When the banknotes are jammed in steps b and c and the processing is down, it is necessary to take out the banknotes that were temporarily held in the holding section 14 and return them to the customer.

[0015] For this purpose, on the side of the temporary storage section 14,
It has an opening/closing door 20 for opening and closing the section 14, and this opening/closing door 20 is provided with a key 21 for locking it. That is, there is an operation cartridge 18 at the lower part of the temporary storage section 14, and when the separator 19 of the upper temporary storage section 14 is pulled out, it is possible to easily take out the banknotes stored inside this operation cartridge 18. Therefore, a key 21 is provided for the purpose of preventing this fraud.

[0016]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, when the key 21 is provided on the door 20 as described above, the door 20 can only be opened by a management staff member who has a key piece for unlocking the door 20. Therefore, if the device 10 goes down during the deposit processing as described above, the staff member who does not have the key piece will not be able to handle the down process, and the staff who will carry out this process will be identified and the system will be able to quickly handle the down process. There is a problem that it cannot be done.

[0017] Therefore, the present invention provides a locking structure for the door of the temporary storage section of a banknote processing apparatus, which allows the opening and closing door of the temporary storage section to be opened and closed without a specific staff member, and at the same time, can reliably prevent unauthorized use of the operating cartridge. The purpose is to provide.

[0018]

[Means for Solving the Problems] A first aspect of the present invention is to provide a temporary holding section for temporarily holding accepted banknotes, and to form an opening/closing door on the side surface of the temporary holding section for opening and closing the section. A cartridge storing banknotes is installed in the lower part of the temporary holding part, a shutter is formed at the connection opening between the cartridge and the temporary holding part, and the banknotes stored in the cartridge are placed in the upper temporary holding part. The banknote handling device is loadable, and includes a regulation lever that is movable by opening and closing the shutter of the cartridge, and a lock lever that regulates opening and closing of the door, and the regulation lever and the lock lever are connected to each other by the shutter. The present invention is characterized by an opening/closing door locking structure of a temporary storage section of a banknote processing apparatus connected by an operation lever that locks the opening/closing door when the shutter is opened and unlocks the opening/closing door when the shutter is closed.

A second invention of the present invention, in addition to the above-mentioned first invention, provides an opening/closing door locking structure for a temporary holding section of a banknote handling device, in which the opening/closing door is provided with a key for unlocking and operating the lock lever. It is characterized by

[0020]

[Operation] The first aspect of the present invention is that when the cartridge shutter is open, the regulating lever moves the operating lever and the lock lever locks the opening/closing door, and when the cartridge shutter is closed, the regulating lever moves the operating lever and locks the opening/closing door. The regulating lever is in the inactive position and the lock lever is moved to the unlocking position. Therefore, when the shutter is closed, the door of the temporary holding section can be opened and closed without a key.

[0021] The second aspect of the present invention is that the lock lever door can be unlocked by releasing the key, and even when the shutter of the cartridge is open, the staff member in possession of the key piece can The door of the temporary storage section can be opened.

[0022]

As a result of the above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when the shutter of the cartridge is closed,
Since the opening/closing door is not locked, when the device is being downed, an unspecified staff member can open/close the opening/closing door of the temporary storage section, take out the temporarily stored banknotes inside, and execute the down process quickly. At the same time, unauthorized removal of banknotes stored in the cartridge can be prevented by closing the shutter.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, even if the shutter of the cartridge is opened and the opening/closing door of the temporary holding section is locked, a specific management staff member in possession of the key can access the door. The banknotes inside can be taken out by unlocking the opening/closing door, and the inconvenience caused by the locking of the opening/closing door can be eliminated.

[0024]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

The drawings show the opening/closing door lock structure of the temporary holding section of a banknote processing device, and in FIGS. 1 and 2, the banknote processing device in this embodiment corresponds to the prior art banknote processing device 10 shown in FIG. Similarly, the temporary holding section 3
0 corresponds to the temporary storage section 14, and the cartridge 31 is
The operating cartridge 18 corresponds to the separator 32, the separator 32 corresponds to the separator 19, and the opening/closing door 33 corresponds to the opening/closing door 20.

The opening/closing door 33 of the above-mentioned temporary storage section 30 is opened and closed horizontally by a pivot 34, and a key 35 for unlocking is used.
It is equipped with In addition, feed rollers 36 and 37 are installed approximately at the center of the upper side of the temporary holding section 30 and on one side thereof, and these feed rollers 36 and 37 are controlled in forward and reverse directions to take in banknotes for temporary holding. When the banknotes are taken in, the lower separator 32 is moved to the lower position to form a holding space, and when the banknotes are sent out,
The separator 32 is moved to the upper position to force the reserved banknotes against the feed rollers 36 and 37.

The cartridge 31, which is attached to and removed from the lower part of the above-mentioned temporary storage section 30, has a shutter 38 on its upper surface.
This shutter 38 opens and closes by sliding the connection port with the temporary storage section 30 at the top, and is driven by an appropriate motor (not shown).
This is done using power.

Further, a closing detection switch 39 for detecting the closed position of the shutter 38 is provided at the sliding position of the shutter 38;
Open detection switch 4 that detects the open position of the shutter 38
0, and an actuating lever 41 opposite to the closed position of the shutter 38 and movable when the shutter 38 is closed.
is pivotally connected by a pin 42, and the actuating lever 41 is biased toward the opening side of the shutter 38 by a spring 43.

The lock lever 44 locks the above-mentioned opening/closing door 33 and is disposed at a lower position of the opening/closing door 33. This lock lever 44 has a bent intermediate portion connected to a pin 45.
It is pivotally attached to a main body side fixed panel 49 of the banknote handling device, and biased in the locking direction by a spring 46. Further, a roller 48 is pivotally attached to a locking piece 47 at the end extending downwardly of the opening/closing door 33, and the locking piece 47 locks and unlocks the opening/closing door 33.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the above-mentioned lock piece 47 moves in and out of the upper surface of the fixed panel 49 and engages and disengages with the locking opening 50 at the lower edge of the opening/closing door 33. The kicker 51 of the key 35 provided on the opening/closing door 33 can be rotated by the key piece 52 to push the upper part of the lock piece 47 in the locked state into the fixed panel 49 to release the locked state. Note that the roller 48 of the lock piece 47 moves when the door 33 is closed with the lock piece 47 protruding.
To smoothly make contact with the opening/closing door 33.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, an operating lever 53 is arranged at the lower position of the lock lever 44, the intermediate portion of which is pivotally connected to a fixed panel 49 with a pin 54, and the operating lever 53 is secured with a spring 55. A solenoid 64 is biased in the lock release direction, and further has a solenoid 64 on its lower end that sucks in the lock direction.
are connected. A locking piece 57 is bent in the portion of the operating lever 53 that faces the lower end engaging piece 56 of the lock lever 44, and this engaging piece 57 engages with the engaging piece 56 of the lock lever 4. , operate the lock lever 44 in the unlocking direction.

A regulating lever 58 is disposed at the upper end of the operating lever 53, and one lower end of the regulating lever 58 is pivotally connected to the fixed panel 49 with a pin 59, and a spring 60
is biased toward the free position. A locking piece 61 is bent at the other end of the regulating lever 58, and the locking piece 61 engages the engaging piece 62 set at the upper end of the operating lever 53. can be regulated to the lock operation position.

The above-mentioned regulation lever 58 is formed with a continuous portion extending upward from its intermediate portion, and this continuous portion is connected to the actuation lever 4 formed at the mouth edge of the cartridge 31 described above.
An abutment piece 63 is formed to face and abut against 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is in the closed state and the operating lever 41 is in a horizontal position, the abutment piece 63 of the regulating lever 58 is moved against the operating lever 41 by the action of the spring 60. It is placed in contact with Therefore, since the locking piece 61 of the regulation lever 58 is pulled upward, it does not come into contact with the engaging piece 62 of the operating lever 53, and the operating lever 53 can be moved in the unlocking direction.

However, as shown in FIG. 6, when the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is opened and the operating lever 41 is tilted by the spring 43, the contact piece 63 of the regulating lever 58 is pushed down against the spring 60. 5, the locking piece 61 of the regulation lever 58 moves downward, and the control lever
No. 3 engaging piece 62 is engaged to restrict the operation of the operation lever 53 in the unlocking direction, and substantially restrict the position to lock operation.

FIG. 7 is a control circuit block diagram of the opening/closing door lock structure for driving and controlling the solenoid 64 and the opening/closing drive motor of the shutter 38, in which the CPU 65 is connected to the RO
Control operations are executed in accordance with the program stored in M66, and RAM 67 stores and reads necessary data such as switch signals. The shutter drive motor 68 is a forward/reverse motor, and is used to drive the shutter 3 of the cartridge 31.
8 to open and close.

The operation of the locking structure of the opening/closing door 33 constructed in this way will be explained below. The operation of changing the opening/closing door 33 from the open/close free state to the locked state will be described with reference to the flowchart of the opening operation of the shutter 38 in FIG. First, the lock lever 44 when the opening/closing door 33 is unlocked,
The operating lever 53 and the regulation lever 58 are in the state shown in FIG. 1, and the opening/closing door 33 is in a state where it can be freely opened and closed.

For example, when storing banknotes stored in the temporary storage section 30 into the lower cartridge 31, or when storing banknotes stored in the lower cartridge 31 into the inside of the device via the upper temporary storage section 30, When replenishing, it is necessary to open the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31.

For this purpose, it is necessary to lock the opening/closing door 33 so that it cannot be opened.
U65 drives solenoid 64 (step n1). When the solenoid 64 is turned on, the upper locking piece 57 of the operating lever 53 is pushed forward to the locking position as shown in FIG. 5, and the engaging piece 56 of the lock lever 44 is disengaged. The lever 44 moves the lock piece 47 upward by the action of the spring 46, and as shown in FIG.
Lock 3.

Next, the CPU 65 drives the shutter drive motor 68 to open the shutter 38 from the state shown in FIG. 1 to the state shown in FIG. 5 (step n2). When the shutter 38 is opened, as shown in FIG.
As a result, the abutting piece 63 of the regulating lever 58 is pushed down against its spring 60.

For this purpose, the locking piece 61 of the regulation lever 58
moves downward and engages the engagement piece 62 of the lower operation lever 53 to restrict the operation lever 53 to the lock operation position and prevent it from moving to the unlock position.

When the shutter 38 is opened and this opening is detected by the open detection switch 40 (step n3),
The CPU 65 stops driving the shutter drive motor 68,
The driving of the solenoid 64 is also stopped (step n4).

As described above, even if the solenoid 64 is turned off, the operating lever 53 is regulated to the lock operating position by the regulating lever 58, as shown in FIG. 5, so the locked state of the door 33 is maintained. Ru.

Therefore, in this state, the cartridge 31
It stores banknotes and sends out banknotes. Furthermore, even if the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is open,
Since the opening/closing door 33 is locked, the cartridge 31
It becomes impossible to remove the banknotes inside the cartridge 31.
Safety can be ensured.

Furthermore, in order to open the door 33 when it is locked as described above, insert the key piece 52 into the key 35 of the door 33 and open it, as shown in FIG. Thus, the kicker 51 pushes down the lock piece 47 to disengage from the locking port 50 of the opening/closing door 33, and the lock is released. Note that when the lock piece 47 is pressed down, the lock lever 44 rotates counterclockwise in FIG. Thus, rotation of the lock lever 44 is permitted.

Therefore, even when the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is open and the opening/closing door 33 is locked, the opening/closing door 33 is locked by the key piece 52.
Since the opening and closing of the door 33 can be permitted, inconveniences caused by locking the opening/closing door 33 can be avoided by having this key piece 52 in the possession of a specific staff member such as a management staff member.

Next, referring to the flowchart of the closing operation of the shutter 38 in FIG. 9, the operation of changing the opening/closing door 33 from the locked state to the free opening/closing state will be described. First, the opening/closing door 33
When the lock lever 44, the operation lever 53, and the restriction lever 58 are locked, they are in the state shown in FIG. 5, and the opening/closing door 33 is in a state where it cannot be opened or closed.

When the state changes from using the cartridge 31 to using only the temporary storage section 30, the opening/closing door 33
The door 33 is unlocked so that the door 33 can be opened and closed freely. The CPU 65 drives the shutter drive motor 68 to open the shutter 38 from the state shown in FIG. 5 to the state shown in FIG. 1 (step n11). When the shutter 38 is closed,
As shown in FIG. 6, since the actuating lever 41 is placed in a horizontal state by the shutter 38, the pressure on the abutting piece 63 is released, and the regulating lever 58 is moved to an upper position where it is not regulating by the action of its spring 60.

For this purpose, the locking piece 61 of the regulation lever 58
moves upward to disengage the engagement piece 62 of the lower operation lever 53, and this operation lever 53 is moved to the lock release position by its spring 55, and this movement causes the lock lever 4 to move upward.
4 to the lock release position via the mutual locking piece 57 and engagement piece 56, and the lock piece 47 is moved down to remove it from the locking opening 50 of the opening/closing door 33, and the opening/closing door 33 is locked. unlock. When the shutter 38 is closed and this closure is detected by the closure detection switch 39 (step n12), the CP
U65 stops driving the shutter drive motor 68.

[0050] By unlocking the opening/closing door 33 in this manner, it becomes possible to take out the banknotes temporarily reserved inside.

Next, the locking and unlocking operations of the opening/closing door 33 will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 10 showing the opening and closing operations of the shutter 38 during banknote processing. First, C
The PU 65 detects the outputs of the close detection switch 39 and the open detection switch 40, and detects whether the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is closed (step n31).
).

When the closure detection switch 39 detects the closure of the shutter 39, each lever 44,
53 and 58, and the opening/closing door 33 is unlocked, so the opening/closing door 33 can be opened and closed freely.
The banknotes in the temporary holding section 30 can be taken out, and banknote processing down can be dealt with.

However, when the open detection switch 40 detects the opening of the shutter 38, the levers 44, 53, and 58 are in the state shown in FIG. 5, and the door 33 is locked. 33 cannot be opened and closed freely. Therefore, the CPU 65 controls the shutter drive motor 6.
8 to close the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31, and when the closure detection switch 39 detects the closure of the shutter 38, the drive of the shutter drive motor 68 is stopped.

When the shutter 38 described above is closed, FIG.
Since the levers 44, 53, and 58 move to the state shown in FIG. and can deal with banknote processing down.

As described above, according to the above embodiment, when the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is closed,
Since the opening/closing door 33 is not locked, an unspecified staff member opens/closes the opening/closing door 33 of the temporary holding section 30 during the down processing of the device, takes out the temporarily held banknotes inside, and executes the quick down processing. At the same time, the banknotes stored in the cartridge 31 can be prevented from being taken out illegally by closing the shutter 38.

Furthermore, even if the shutter 38 of the cartridge 31 is opened and the opening/closing door 33 of the temporary holding section 30 is locked, a specific management staff member who possesses the key piece 52 can lock this opening/closing door 33. It is possible to release the banknotes and take out the banknotes inside, thereby eliminating the inconvenience of work caused by locking the opening/closing door 33. Note that the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing the lock structure of the opening/closing door of the temporary storage section.

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the cartridge.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional side view of the key part of the opening/closing door.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional side view showing unlocking of the opening/closing door using a key.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing the locked state of the opening/closing door lock structure.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the cartridge in a shutter open state.

FIG. 7 is a control circuit block diagram of the opening/closing door lock structure.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of shutter opening operation.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of shutter closing operation.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of shutter opening/closing operations.

FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram of a prior art banknote processing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

30...Temporary holding department 31... Cartridge 33...Opening/closing door 35...key 38...Shutter 44...Lock lever 47...Lock piece 53...Operation lever 58...Regulation lever

Claims (2)

[Claims] Claim 1: A temporary holding section for temporarily holding the taken banknotes is provided, and an opening/closing door for opening and closing the part is formed on the side of the temporary holding section, and the banknotes are stored in the lower part of the temporary holding section. A banknote processing device, in which a cartridge is installed, a shutter is formed at a connection port between the cartridge and a temporary storage section, and banknotes stored in the cartridge can be loaded into an upper temporary storage section, A regulation lever is provided that moves when the shutter of the cartridge is opened and closed, and a lock lever is provided to regulate opening and closing of the opening/closing door, and these regulation levers and the lock lever lock the opening/closing door when the shutter is open, and the shutter is closed. An opening/closing door lock structure of a temporary holding section of a banknote processing device connected by an operating lever that unlocks the opening/closing door when the door is unlocked. 2. An opening/closing door locking structure for a temporary holding section of a banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said opening/closing door is provided with a key for unlocking and operating a lock lever.