JPH04344590A - Paper money depositer/dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To protect a paper money depositer/dispenser from irregularity of paper money accumulated in an accumulating section, the occurrence of jam in accumulating paper money, and conveying failure caused by the occurrence of jam in accumulating paper money. CONSTITUTION:This paper money depositer/dispenser is provided with the first positions C that are opposite in mutually parallel to each other at both sides of sheets of paper money accumulated in their longitudinal direction and that are distant the same as the longitudinal width of accumulated sheets of paper money from each other, side guides 107a and 107b that reciprocally move between the first positions C and the second positions D which are distant wider than the distance between the first positions C keeping their mutual parallelism, a motor 121 for driving these side guides 107a and 107b, a side guide inner side detecting means and side guide outer side detecting means for recognizing positions of moving side guides, and a CCAD control section for controlling these side guides and detecting means.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a bill depositing and dispensing device installed in an automatic transaction device installed in a financial institution such as a bank, and in particular, a structure for arranging bills in a stacking section for stacking bills to be delivered to a customer. It is related to.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 6 is a side sectional view showing the schematic structure of a bill depositing and dispensing device. In the figure, 1 is a bill depositing and dispensing device, and 2 is provided on the front side (customer side) of the bill depositing and dispensing device 1, so that a customer can input deposited bills all at once from the outside during a deposit transaction, or make a deposit during a deposit transaction. The customer service port, which releases unsuitable banknotes and banknotes to be withdrawn from the machine to the customer at the time of a withdrawal transaction, can now hold banknotes deposited from outside and banknotes discharged from the machine in bulk. Although not shown, it is comprised of a guide for guiding and holding banknotes, a separation mechanism for separating banknotes one by one and taking them into the apparatus, and the like. Reference numeral 2c denotes a shutter provided above the customer service opening 2 so as to be openable and closable. When the shutter 2c is in the closed state, it blocks the outside from the inside of the bill depositing and dispensing device 1, and when it is in the open state, it blocks the inside of the bill depositing and dispensing device 1. It is possible to insert and receive banknotes at the customer service port 2.

The customer service opening 2 has a rotating body structure (not shown), and includes a deposit position where the shutter 2c is opened and the customer waits for bills to be inserted, and a deposit position where the shutter 2c is closed after the bills have been inserted. Holds the inserted banknotes, 1
A separation position where bills are separated one by one and delivered into the device, a receiving position where bills are received from the stacking section of the front-back reversing mechanism (to be described later), and a receiving position where bills are received all at once from the front-back reversing mechanism, and then the shutter 2c is opened and the banknotes are delivered to the customer in bulk. It is designed to stop at four withdrawal positions. Here, since the banknotes are inserted into and discharged from the customer service port 2 from the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the banknotes, the width of the customer service port 2 is determined corresponding to the width of the banknotes in the longitudinal direction. Considering that when high-denomination banknotes are issued, the longitudinal width of the banknotes will be wider than the 10,000-yen banknote, which is the widest among the current banknotes, the longitudinal width of the 10,000-yen banknote is It is slightly wider than it is wide.

[0004] Reference numeral 3 denotes a discrimination section that discriminates and detects whether the bills being conveyed through the conveyance path 4 are genuine or false, whether they are correct or defective, whether they are front or back, overlapping two or more bills (double feeding), and whether they are skewed. 5 is a front-back reversing mechanism; 6 is a transport path leading to the front-back reversing mechanism 5; 7 is a blade that switches the transport direction of banknotes from the transport path 6 to the transport path 8 or 9; and 5c is the transport path 8 or transport This is a stacking section where banknotes conveyed along the path 9 are stacked, and the details of the stacking section 5c of the above-mentioned front/back reversing mechanism 5 will be explained below.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the stacking section and the side guide provided in the stacking section. Reference numeral 101 denotes a front guide provided on the customer service port 2 side of the stacking section 5c, which extends upward from the customer service port 2 side around a fulcrum (not shown) from the position A, which serves as a guide when stacking banknotes in the stacking section 5c. and rotate,
It is opened to the position B shown by the two-dot chain line. A rear guide 102 faces the front guide 101 and is located at the rear of the stacking section 5c.The front guide 101 at the position A and this rear guide 102 serve as front and rear guides in the banknote stacking direction in the stacking section 5c. Here, the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 8 or the conveyance path 9 are conveyed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof, and the front guide 101 and this rear guide 102 regulate the width of the stacked banknotes in the lateral direction. Become a guide. 103 is a conveyor belt located above the stacking section 5c; 104 is a conveyor belt located between the front-back reversing mechanism 5 and the customer service port 2; 105 is a conveyor belt that extends from the front-back reversing mechanism 5 to the customer service port 2;
The conveyor belts 103 and 104 are moved toward and away from the conveyor belt 105 by a drive means (not shown).

Reference numerals 107 denote side guides provided in pairs to serve as guides in the stacking direction of banknotes in the stacking section 5c, that is, in the longitudinal direction of the stacked banknotes, and for regulating the width in the longitudinal direction of the stacked banknotes. A pair of side guides located in the same direction are not shown), and slopes are formed at the front and rear ends and at the top so that banknotes can be easily inserted. By setting the interval between the side guides 107 to be the same as the width of the customer service port 2, bills whose longitudinal width is regulated by the side guides 107 can be prevented from getting caught in the customer service port 2 in the width direction. It is now possible to transport it to customer service port 2.

[0007] According to the above structure, when a predetermined number of banknotes is accumulated in the stacking section 5c, the conveyor belt 103 descends to a position where it contacts the accumulated banknotes, clamps the accumulated banknotes between it and the conveyor belt 105, and further The front guide 101 changes from A to the open state shown in B. When the front guide 101 is in the open state, the conveyor belts 103 and 105 are rotated to convey the stacked banknotes toward the two customer service ports. Next, when a detection means (not shown) detects that the accumulated banknotes have been conveyed below the conveyor belt 104, the conveyor belt 104 is lowered by a driving means (not shown) so as to come into contact with the accumulated banknotes, thereby conveying the accumulated banknotes. It is held between the belt 105 and conveyed to the customer service port 2.

Furthermore, the conveyance direction of the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 6 can be changed between the conveyance path 8 and the conveyance path 9 by switching the blade 7.
By sorting the banknotes into the stacking section 5c, the banknotes are stacked with their front and back sides reversed when they are conveyed through the conveyance path 8, and are stacked without their front and back sides being reversed when conveyed through the conveyance path 9. It has become.

Returning to FIG. 6, 10a to 10c are cassettes for each denomination that feed and store banknotes and accumulate them on a stage (not shown). Here, 10a is a cassette for thousand yen notes, and 10b and 10c are cassettes for ten thousand yen notes. It is used as a ticket cassette.

[0010] Reference numeral 11 indicates the denomination-specific cassettes 10a to 10c.
The deposit/withdrawal units 12a to 12c provided above are the denomination-specific cassettes 10a in the deposit/withdrawal unit 11.
~10c is provided so as to be openable and closable, and in the closed state closes the upper part of the denomination cassettes 10a~10c,
In the open state, this stage opens the upper part of the denomination cassette 10. Here, the deposit/withdrawal unit 11
The blades 14a, 14b,
14c, the denominations are sorted by denomination and temporarily accumulated on the stages 12a to 12b.
It has a function of opening the denominations a to 12c and storing them in the denomination-specific cassettes 10a to 10c, and a function of feeding and conveying the denomination desired by the customer from the predetermined denomination-specific cassettes 10a to 10c during a withdrawal transaction.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a blade that switches the direction of conveyance of the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 4 in which the discrimination section 3 is provided to either the conveyance path 6 leading to the front/back reversing mechanism 5 or the conveyance path 13 leading to the deposit/withdrawal unit 11. be. Reference numeral 16 denotes a batch cassette provided on the back side of the device, which stores multiple denominations of banknotes at once, and can be used as needed in the denomination-specific cassettes 10a to 1.
0c, or denomination cassettes 10a to 10c.
It has functions such as collecting banknotes from banks. Reference numeral 17 denotes a reject cassette, which stores banknotes that are not subject to circulation and which are identified as 5,000 yen notes or unfit notes by the identification unit 3 during deposit transactions, and banknotes which are identified as abnormally conveyed notes by the identification unit 3 during withdrawal transactions. and a storage section for storing banknotes left behind by the customer during a withdrawal transaction. Reference numeral 18 denotes a conveyance path from the conveyance path 13 to the reject cassette 17, and numeral 19 denotes a blade that switches the conveyance direction of banknotes from the conveyance path 13 to the conveyance path 18. 20 is a door provided on the back side of the bill depositing and dispensing device 1 so that it can be opened and closed; by opening this door 20,
The batch cassette 16 can be inserted into and removed from the bill depositing and dispensing device 1 . Bill depositing and dispensing device 1 as described above
is housed in an automatic transaction device having a customer operation section, a passbook processing device, a card processing device, etc. (not shown), so that deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions can be performed.

[0012] The flow of banknotes during conventional deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions in the above-mentioned banknote deposit and withdrawal device will be explained below. FIG. 8 is a side sectional view of the bill depositing and dispensing device showing the flow of bills during a deposit transaction. For deposit transactions, when the customer presses the deposit transaction key provided on the operation key of the customer operation section of the automatic transaction device and inserts the card into the card processing device or passbook processing device, the automatic transaction device is controlled. Communication is carried out between the department and the center, and when it is confirmed that there are no problems, the control section of the automatic transaction device transmits a command to start the deposit processing to the control section of the bill depositing and dispensing device. When the control unit of the banknote deposit/withdrawal device receives the command to start deposit processing, it switches the internal state to deposit mode and closes the customer service port 2.
is rotated to a deposit position (not shown), the shutter 2c provided above is opened, and the banknotes are waited for to be deposited.

[0013] When it is confirmed that the customer has inserted banknotes into the customer service port 2, the shutter 2c is closed and the customer service port 2 is placed in the separation position. When customer service entrance 2 is in a separate position,
A separating mechanism (not shown) provided at the customer service opening 2 separates the inserted banknotes one by one, and the bills are transported to the discrimination section 3 via the transport path 4 . The discrimination section 3 discriminates the authenticity of the transported banknotes, determines whether they are fit or not, and detects the running state.

[0014] Deposit-rejected banknotes that are determined to be counterfeit bills or abnormally conveyed bills by the discriminating unit 3 and are not suitable for deposit are conveyed to the front-back reversing mechanism 5 by the conveyance path 6 by switching the blade 15, and are transferred to the stacking unit 5c. They are accumulated one by one. At this time, as explained with reference to FIG. 7, the longitudinal direction of the deposit reject banknotes stacked in the stacking section 5c is aligned by the side guide 107, and the width of the deposit reject banknotes in the longitudinal direction is larger than the width of the customer service opening 2. , as will be described later, is regulated so that rejected banknotes are not caught when being conveyed to the customer service opening 2.

[0015] The banknotes determined by the discriminating section 3 to be genuine, 5,000 yen bills, or damaged banknotes (banknotes not subject to circulation) and suitable for deposit are conveyed to the conveyance path 13 by switching the blade 15. Here, the stages 12a to 12c provided in the deposit/withdrawal unit 11 are closed, and if the bill being conveyed is discriminated by the discrimination section 3 as a genuine 1,000 yen bill,
The blades 14a are switched to collect the thousand yen bills from the conveyance path 13 on the stage 12a on the denomination-specific cassette 10a that stores them. When the discriminating unit 3 distinguishes the conveyed banknotes as genuine 10,000 yen bills, the blade 14b is switched to stack the banknotes from the conveyance path 13 on the stage 12b on the denomination-specific cassette 10b that stores the 10,000 yen bills. . When the discriminating unit 3 distinguishes the conveyed banknote from a 5,000 yen note or an uncirculated banknote, such as a damaged note, the blade 14c is switched and the denomination-specific cassette 10c stores another 10,000 yen note from the conveyance path 13. It is accumulated on the upper stage 12c.

[0016] Here, the banknotes are counted in the discrimination section 3, and all the banknotes inserted into the customer service slot 2 are stacked on the stages 12a to 12c on the denomination cassettes 10a to 10c, and further on the stacking section 5c. Tara, banknote deposit and withdrawal device 1
The control unit transmits a response indicating that the counting of deposited banknotes has been completed to the control unit of the automatic transaction device, and uses the data to calculate the number of banknotes counted for each denomination as circulating banknotes, which are genuine 1,000-yen notes and 10,000-yen notes. They will be added separately to banknotes that are not subject to circulation, such as 5,000 yen notes and unfit notes. The control section of the automatic transaction device receives this data, calculates the amount for each denomination and the total amount, displays it on a display section (not shown) provided in the customer operation section of the automatic transaction device, and also counts and stores it as a deposit count. I'll keep it.

At this time, if deposit reject banknotes are accumulated in the stacking section 5c of the front/back reversing mechanism 5, the customer service opening 2
is rotated to the receiving position, and the accumulated rejected banknotes are conveyed all at once to the customer service port 2 as explained with reference to FIG. After that, the customer service port 2 is rotated to the withdrawal position, the shutter 2c is opened, and the product is returned to the customer, or it is transported from the customer service port 2 to the discrimination section 3 again for re-identification, and as a result of the re-discrimination, it is determined that it is suitable for depositing. If it is determined that it is not suitable for deposit, it is accumulated on a predetermined stage and the display and memory of the deposit amount is updated, and if it is determined that it is not suitable for deposit, it is accumulated in the accumulation part 5c of the front-back reversing mechanism 5 and returned to the customer from the customer service gate 2. do.

[0018] The customer confirms the displayed amount, presses the confirmation button on the customer operation section, and receives rejected banknotes from the customer service port 2.
By opening the stages 12a and 12b, the 1,000 yen note on stage 2a and the 10,000 yen note on stage 12b are stored in a denomination-specific cassette 10a and a denomination-specific cassette 10b, respectively. Further, the 5,000 yen bills and unfit bills accumulated on the stage 12c are fed out one by one again and conveyed to the discrimination section 3, and the blades 15 and 19 are switched to store them in the reject cassette 17 via the conveyance path 18. Alternatively, after performing predetermined processing on the passbook, it is returned to the customer, and the processing of the deposit transaction is completed.

FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of the bill depositing and dispensing device showing the flow of bills during a withdrawal transaction. For a withdrawal transaction, the customer presses the withdrawal transaction key on the customer operation section, inserts the card into the card processing device, enters the PIN number, and communicates between the control section of the automatic transaction device and the center. When it is confirmed that there is no problem, the control unit of the automatic transaction device sends a command to start the withdrawal process to the control unit of the bill depositing and dispensing device. When the bill depositing and dispensing device receives a command to start the dispensing process, it switches its internal state to a dispensing mode and waits for instructions on the denomination and number of bills to be dispensed.

When the customer inputs the amount to be withdrawn, ten thousand yen notes and thousand yen notes are dispensed from the denomination cassette 10 according to the amount to be withdrawn. First, a predetermined number of 10,000 yen bills are fed out from the denomination cassette 10b or 10c by activating the separation mechanism provided in the deposit/withdrawal unit 11 corresponding to each denomination cassette 10. The fed-out banknotes are conveyed through the conveyance path 13 and sent to the discrimination section 3, where the discrimination section 3 distinguishes whether the banknotes are as specified, whether they are front or back, and whether they are fit or not.If they are as specified, the blade 15 is passed through the conveyance path 6. direction and conveyed to the front/back reversing mechanism 5. Here, the blade 7 is
If the paper is determined to be on the back side, the paper is transported through the transport path 8 and stacked in the stacking section 5c with its front and back sides reversed.If it is determined that the paper is on the front surface, it is transported through the transport path 9 and reversed. Accumulate without.

Note that the banknotes that are identified as abnormally conveyed banknotes by the discrimination section 3 are stacked in the reject cassette 17 by switching the blade 15 so that the banknotes are conveyed in the direction of the conveyance path 13 . Then again, the denomination cassette 10b or 10
The process of dispensing ten thousand yen bills from c and the discrimination in the discrimination section 3 is repeated until the required number of ten thousand yen bills are accumulated in the accumulation section 5c. When the stacking of 10,000 yen bills is completed, the required number of 1,000 yen bills are fed out from the denomination cassette 10a by the same operation as for the 10,000 yen bills and stacked in the stacking section 5c. When stacking ten thousand yen banknotes and thousand yen banknotes in the stacking section 5c as described above, FIG.
As explained in , the longitudinal direction of the stacked withdrawal banknotes is aligned by the side guide 107, and the width of the withdrawal banknotes in the longitudinal direction is larger than the width of the customer service port 2, so that the banknotes are stacked at the customer service port 2 as described later. It is regulated so that the disbursed banknotes do not get caught when being conveyed.

When the designated banknotes have been stacked, the customer service port 2 is rotated to the receiving position, and the stacked banknotes are fed into the customer service port 2 at once through the front-back reversing mechanism 5 by the action explained with reference to FIG. Once the banknotes are fed into the customer service port 2, the customer service port 2 is rotated to the withdrawal position, the shutter 2c is opened, and when it is detected by a sensor (not shown) that the customer has taken out the banknote, the shutter 2c is closed. . When the designated number of bills has been withdrawn, the control section of the bill depositing and dispensing device returns a completion response to the control section of the automatic transaction device, and adds the discharge denomination and the number of bills as data. The control unit of the automatic transaction device receives this, counts it as the number of coins to be withdrawn, and stores it. In addition, if the customer forgets to take a banknote, the banknote is stored in the reject cassette 17 as a banknote that was left behind.

[0023]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the above-described bill depositing and dispensing device has the following problems. That is, by making the interval between the side guides 107 and the width of the customer service port 2 the same, and by aligning the widths of the banknotes stacked in the stacking section 5c in the longitudinal direction by the side guides 107,
The width of the customer service port 2 is larger than the current width in the longitudinal direction, taking into account high-value banknotes that will be used in the future. The interval between the side guides 107 is also larger than the width of the current banknotes in the longitudinal direction, which poses a problem in that the banknotes paid to the customer are not aligned in the longitudinal direction.

Furthermore, if the interval between the side guides 107 is adjusted to the width of the current banknotes in the longitudinal direction, the banknotes that are conveyed in a somewhat bent state and stacked in the stacking section 5c will be stacked while riding on the side guides 107. When the banknotes are transported to the customer service port 2, the width in the longitudinal direction becomes larger than the width of the customer service port 2, and the banknotes get caught in the customer service port 2. There is a problem in that it causes transportation defects. The present invention solves the problem of irregularities in the stacked banknotes that occur due to the width of the side guides being wider than the width of the current banknotes, and the problems that occur when banknotes are stacked by making the width of the side guides the same as the width of the current banknotes. This was developed to solve problems such as stacking jams and poor conveyance due to jams.It prevents stacked banknotes from being misaligned, jams during stacking, and poor conveyance due to jams during stacking, and improves reliability. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a bill depositing and dispensing device with high performance.

[0025]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a storage unit that dispenses banknotes and accumulates them so that they can be stored, and a storage unit that delivers withdrawn banknotes and returned banknotes to a customer in bulk, A customer service slot into which banknotes are deposited in bulk, and a service slot that distinguishes whether or not the banknotes conveyed one by one from the storage section are suitable for withdrawal during withdrawal transactions, and a service slot for depositing banknotes at the customer service port during deposit transactions. A discrimination unit that discriminates whether or not the banknotes conveyed one by one are suitable for deposit; and based on the discrimination result in the discrimination unit, during a withdrawal transaction, the banknotes that are determined to be suitable for withdrawal are sequentially accumulated, and , the banknote depositing and dispensing device having a stacking unit that stacks banknotes determined to be unsuitable for deposit during a deposit transaction, and transports the stacked banknotes in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof and sends them to the customer service port; A first position where the banknotes stacked in the stacking section are parallel to each other on both sides in the longitudinal direction and have an interval equal to the width of the banknotes in the longitudinal direction; a side guide that moves back and forth while maintaining parallelism between the side guide and a second position having the same interval as the width of the mouth; a drive means that moves the side guide back and forth; a first detection means for detecting whether the side guide is in the second position; a second detection means for detecting whether the side guide is in the second position; While reciprocating between the first position and the second position, the banknotes that are determined to be suitable for withdrawal are accumulated, and when the accumulation is completed, the side guide is stopped at the first position, and at the time of deposit transaction, The position of the side guide is recognized by the first and second detection means, and if the side guide is in the second position, it is held in that state, and if it is in the first position, it is moved to the second position. The present invention is characterized in that a control means is provided for accumulating banknotes determined to be unsuitable for deposit.

[0026]

[Operation] The present invention having the above-mentioned configuration is such that during a withdrawal transaction, by reciprocating the banknote stacking side guide between the first position and the second position, the banknotes to be stacked are The width is approximately equal to the width in the direction and is aligned by the side guide. In addition, during deposit transactions, the side guides are moved to the second position with the widest interval, and while maintaining this position, banknotes that are not suitable for deposit are accumulated, thereby preventing the banknotes from being conveyed in a crooked state. Even in the case of banknotes, they are stacked between the side guides without riding on the side guides.

[0027]

[Embodiment] An embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings. The overall mechanical structure of the bill depositing and dispensing device is almost the same as that explained in the conventional technical drawing 6, so the same reference numerals are given and detailed explanation thereof will be omitted. Fig. 1 is a control block diagram for operating a side guide in a bill depositing and dispensing device showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a side view showing details of the side guide and the stacking section, and Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the side guide. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the operating mechanism. In FIGS. 2 and 3, reference numeral 101 is a front guide provided on the customer service port 2 side of the stacking section 5c, and the front guide 101 serves as a guide for stacking banknotes in the stacking section 5c. It rotates upward from the mouth 2 side and opens to position B shown by the two-dot chain line. 102 is a rear guide located opposite to the front guide 101 and behind the stacking section 5c, and the front guide 101 located at the position A and this rear guide 102 serve as front and rear guides in the stacking direction of banknotes in the stacking section 5c. . Here, the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 8 or the conveyance path 9 are conveyed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof, and the front guide 101 and this rear guide 102 regulate the width of the stacked banknotes in the lateral direction. Become a guide. 103 is a conveyor belt located above the stacking section 5c, 104 is a conveyor belt located between the front-back reversing mechanism 5 and the customer service area 2, and 105 is the front-back reversing mechanism 5
This is a conveyor belt that extends from the customer service entrance 2 and is provided facing the conveyor belts 103 and 104.
104 is moved in the direction toward and away from the conveyor belt 105 by a drive means (not shown).

107a and 107b are conveyance paths 8 or 9
These are side guides that act as guides in the left and right directions of conveyance of the banknotes that are conveyed and are stacked in the stacking section 5c, that is, in the longitudinal direction of the stacked banknotes, and that regulate the width of the stacked banknotes in the longitudinal direction. A slope is formed to make it easier for banknotes to enter, and it is movable using the link mechanism described below. 108 is a lever fixed to the side guide 107b, 109 is a lever fixed to the side guide 107a, 110 is a link that rotates around a fulcrum 113, and 111 is a link that rotates around a fulcrum 112. The link 110 has one end connected to the end of the lever 109 and the pin 116.
The other end is rotatably connected via a pin 117 in the middle of the lever 108. One end of the link 111 is rotatably connected via a pin 114 in the middle of the lever 109, and the other end is rotatably connected to the end of the lever 108 via a pin 115.

Here, the distance between the pins 114 and 115 is equal to the distance between the pins 116 and 117, and the distance between the pins 114 and 115 is equal.
Since the distance between 4 and pin 116 is equal to the distance between pin 115 and pin 117, lever 108 and lever 109 are parallel, link 110 and link 111 are also parallel, and link 1
Even when the lever 10 and the link 111 rotate around the fulcrum 113 and the fulcrum 112, the levers and the links move in a state where the parallelism between them is maintained. As a result, the side guide 107a fixed to the lever 109 and the side guide 107b fixed to the lever 108 also move while maintaining parallelism to each other. 119 is a lever that rotates around a fulcrum 120; 121 is a motor that drives the link mechanism to move the side guides 107a and 107b;
122 is an arm fixed to the shaft of this motor 121;
23 is a pin protruding from the end of this arm 122.

The pin 12 is attached to one end of the lever 119.
An elongated hole is drilled at the other end so that the pin 118 can be moved in the extending direction of the lever 119, and a U-shaped groove is formed at the other end so that the pin 118 that protrudes in the middle of the lever 109 can be moved in the extending direction of the lever 119. is provided, and when the motor 121 rotates, the lever 119 swings about the fulcrum 120. As a result, levers 108 and 109, links 110 and 111
A link mechanism consisting of
Parallel movement is repeated while changing the interval up to position D. Note that the distance between the side guides 107a and 107b at the first position C shown by the solid line is the same as the width in the longitudinal direction of the banknote (the widest 10,000 yen banknote among current banknotes), and the distance between the side guides 107a and 107b at the first position C shown by the solid line is the same as the width in the longitudinal direction The interval at position D of 2 is approximately the same as the width of the customer service entrance 2.

In FIG. 1, 121 is a motor for driving the side guides 107a, 107b to reciprocate as described above, and 125 is a motor for driving the side guides 107a, 107b to the first position C by a sensor (not shown). A side guide inner side detection means 126 detects whether or not there is a side guide 10 by a sensor (not shown) or the like.
Side guide outer detection means for detecting whether or not 7a, 107b are in the second position D; 127 is the above-mentioned side guide inner detection means 125 and side guide outer detection means 126;
, is connected to the side guide drive motor 121 and each part of the bill depositing and dispensing device, and is also connected to the control section of the automatic transaction device in which the bill depositing and dispensing device is installed, and receives commands from the control section of the automatic transaction device. This is a CCAD control unit that receives the information and controls each part of the bill depositing and dispensing device.

[0032] Here, to explain the general operation of the side guides 107a and 107b by the above-mentioned control system, a command to start deposit processing is sent from the control unit of the automatic transaction device, and the CCAD control unit 127 checks the internal state. When switching to the deposit mode, the CCAD control unit 127 detects the side guide inner side detection means 125 and the side guide outer side detection means 1.
26, the positions of the side guides 107a and 107b are recognized. The positions of side guides 107a and 107b are shown in Figure 3.
If it is determined that the side guides 107a and 107b are at the second position D indicated by the two-dot chain line, the motor 121 is not rotated and the side guides 107a and 107b are held at the second position D. However, if it is determined that the positions of the side guides 107a and 107b are at the first position C shown by the solid line in FIG. D, the motor 121 is stopped, and the side guides 107a and 107b are held at the second position D. In this manner, during a deposit transaction, the side guides 107a and 107b accumulate deposit rejected banknotes in the second position D shown by the two-dot chain line.

[0033] Further, a command to start withdrawal processing is transmitted from the control unit of the automatic transaction device, and the CCAD control unit 127
When the internal state is switched to the dispensing mode, the CCAD control unit 127 rotates the motor 121 to reciprocate the side guides 107a and 107b between the first position C and the second position D. Then, the banknotes determined to be suitable for withdrawal are accumulated in the accumulation section 5c. In this way, during a withdrawal transaction, the side guides 107a, 1
07b is reciprocating while banknotes are being stacked.

The processing of the withdrawn banknotes during the withdrawal transaction in this embodiment will be explained below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When a withdrawal transaction key (not shown) is pressed by the customer to start a withdrawal transaction (SA1), the CCAD control unit 127
The internal state is switched to the dispensing mode, and while waiting for instructions on the denomination and number of bills to be dispensed, the motor 121 is rotated to start reciprocating movement of the side guides 107a and 107b (SA2). When the customer inputs the withdrawal amount, the banknotes are fed out from each denomination cassette 10a to 10c based on the customer's instructions, and the banknotes are discriminated by the discrimination unit 3, as explained in FIG. A predetermined dispensing process is performed (SA3), and the coins are transported to the front-back reversing mechanism 5, and the front and back sides are arranged and stacked in the stacking section 5c (SA4).

[0035] Here, the side guides 107a, 107b
is reciprocating between the first position C and the second position D, so the side guides 107a and 107b are in the first position C, and at this time, the banknotes are accumulated and the side guide 107
Even if the banknotes run on the slopes of side guides 107a and 107b, the side guides 107a and 107b move to the second position D, so the banknotes that have been riding on them slide down the slopes of side guides 107a and 107b, and then move to the second position D. 107a
, 107b return to the first position C, so the width in the longitudinal direction is equal to the interval between the side guides 107a and 107b at the first position C, that is, the width of the 10,000 yen bill, which is the widest in the longitudinal direction among the current banknotes. This will lead to the accumulation of waste.

[0036] When the amount specified by the customer has been accumulated in the accumulation section 5c (SA5), the side guides 107a, 1
07b is detected by the side guide inner side detection means 125, and the motor 121 is stopped at the first position C shown by the solid line in FIG. is regulated within the interval at position C (SA6). Next, the conveyor belt 103 is lowered to a position where it touches the stacked banknotes, and the side guide 107a
, 107b, the stacked banknotes whose longitudinal width is regulated are held between the upper and lower sides in the stacking direction (SA7), and the front guide 101 is brought into the open state shown in B.

[0037] Then, side guide outer detection means 126
The motor 121 is rotated while detecting the position, and the side guides 107a and 107b are moved to the second position D so as not to interfere with the conveyance of banknotes (SA8
). Here, the accumulated banknotes are transferred to conveyor belts 103 and 105.
Since the side guides 107a, 107
Even if b is moved to the second position D, the regulated width in the longitudinal direction does not change, and the conveyor belts 103 and 105 are rotated to convey the stacked banknotes toward the conveyor belt 104 at a low speed.

Next, when the detection means (not shown) detects that the stacked banknotes are below the conveyor belt 104, the conveyor belt 104 is lowered by the drive means (not shown), and the banknotes are clamped between it and the conveyor belt 105. , and then conveyed at low speed in the two directions of the customer service area (SA9). And customer service entrance 2
is rotated to a receiving position (not shown), and the accumulated banknotes are sent in bulk to the customer service opening 2 through the front-back reversing mechanism 5, and refunded to the customer (SA10).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation at the time of deposit transaction in this embodiment. When a deposit transaction is started by a customer pressing a deposit transaction key (not shown), etc. (S
B1), the CCAD control unit 127 switches the internal state to the deposit mode and waits for the insertion of banknotes into the customer service slot 2, and also controls the side guide 107 based on the information from the side guide inner side detection means 125 and the side guide outer side detection means 126.
The positions of a and 107b are recognized (SB2).

In the SB2, the side guide 107
If it is determined that the positions of a and 107b are the second position D indicated by the two-dot chain line, the CCAD control unit 127
21 without rotating the side guides 107a, 1.
07b is held at this second position D (SB3). S.B.
1, if it is determined that the positions of the side guides 107a and 107b are at the first position C shown by the solid line, the CC
The AD control unit 127 rotates the motor 121 and moves the side guides 107a and 107b to a second position D shown by a two-dot chain line.
to stop the motor 121 (SB4)
.

[0041] The banknotes that have been inserted into the customer service slot 2 in bulk by the customer are separated into individual bills and fed out from the customer service port 2 (SB5), and then sent to the discrimination section 3 where they are discriminated (SB5).
SB6). If it is determined that the banknote conveyed at SB6 is not a deposit-rejected banknote, that is, if it is determined that it is a genuine banknote, a 5,000 yen banknote, or a banknote that is not subject to circulation, the banknotes are processed in the same way as described in the conventional example. They are kept on standby until the transaction is finalized, and once the transaction is finalized, they are stored in each cassette, so a detailed explanation will be omitted here.

If the banknotes conveyed at the SB6 are determined to be deposit-reject banknotes, the blades 15 shown in FIGS. 6 and 8 are switched to convey the banknotes through the conveyance path 6 and stack them in the stacking section 5c of the front-back reversing mechanism 5. (SB7) At this time, the side guides 107a and 107b are held at the second position D, and even the rejected banknotes that are being conveyed crookedly enter between the side guides 107a and 107b. When all the banknotes inserted by the customer are fed out from the customer service opening 2 (SB8) and there are deposited rejected banknotes in the stacking section 5c, the conveyor belt 103 is lowered to a position where it touches the stacked banknotes and moves the deposited rejected banknotes up and down in the stacking direction. (SB9), and the front guide 101 is brought into the open state shown in B. And side guides 107a, 107
b holds the second position D and moves the conveyor belt 103,
105 is rotated to convey deposit rejected banknotes toward the conveyor belt 104 at low speed.

Next, when a detection means (not shown) detects that the rejected banknote has come below the conveyor belt 104, the conveyor belt 104 is lowered by a drive means (not shown), and the rejected banknote is sandwiched between it and the conveyor belt 105. SB
10). Then, the customer service port 2 is rotated to a receiving position (not shown), and the deposited rejected banknotes are fed into the customer service port 2 all at once through the front/back reversing mechanism 5, and returned to the customer, or one by one again as explained in the conventional technique. It is separated and sent to the discrimination section 3 for re-discrimination (SB11).

[0044]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention has a storage unit that dispenses banknotes and accumulates them so that they can be stored, a storage unit that delivers banknotes to be withdrawn and a banknote to be returned at once, and a system that allows the customer to deposit banknotes at once. A customer service port for inserting banknotes and a banknote that is conveyed one by one from the storage section during a withdrawal transaction to determine whether or not the banknote is suitable for withdrawal. A discrimination unit that discriminates whether or not the incoming banknotes are suitable for deposit, and based on the discrimination result in the discrimination unit, the banknotes that are discriminated as suitable for withdrawal are accumulated in sequence during a withdrawal transaction, and during a deposit transaction, the banknotes are sequentially accumulated. In a bill depositing and dispensing device, the bill depositing and dispensing device includes a stacking unit that stacks banknotes that are determined to be unsuitable for deposit, and transports the stacked bills in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the banknotes and sends them to the customer service port. The first two are parallel to each other on both sides in the longitudinal direction of the banknote, and are spaced at the same interval as the width in the longitudinal direction of the banknote.
and a second position that is wider than the first position and has the same spacing as the width of the customer service opening, and a side guide that moves back and forth while maintaining parallelism to each other; a driving means for reciprocating movement; a first detection means for detecting whether the side guide is in a first position; and a second detection means for detecting whether the side guide is in a second position. During a withdrawal transaction, the side guide is reciprocally moved between the first position and the second position by the driving means to accumulate banknotes that have been determined to be suitable for withdrawal, and when the accumulation is completed, the side guide is moved back and forth between the first position and the second position. In addition to stopping the guide at the first position, when making a deposit transaction, the guide is stopped at the first and second position.
The position of the side guide is recognized by the detection means, and if the side guide is in the second position, the state is maintained;
A control means is provided for moving the banknotes to the second position when the banknotes are in the first position and stacking banknotes determined to be unsuitable for deposit.

[0045] Therefore, during a dispensing transaction when the conveyance condition is good, by stacking the banknotes while reciprocating the side guide, it is possible to obtain the effect of improving the alignment of the stacked banknotes in the longitudinal direction. In addition, during deposit transactions, by stacking the side guides while holding them in the second position, even when stacking deposit-rejected banknotes that may not be conveyed in a good manner, the banknotes may run on the side guides. This prevents the accumulation of jams from occurring, and since the accumulation of jams does not occur, it is possible to prevent conveyance defects caused by accumulation of jams.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a control block diagram for operating a side guide in a bill depositing and dispensing device showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing details of a side guide and a collecting section in this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing details of the operating mechanism of the side guide of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of a withdrawal transaction in this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of a deposit transaction in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a side sectional view showing a schematic configuration of the bill depositing and dispensing device.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a conventional side guide and an accumulation section.

FIG. 8 is a side sectional view of the bill depositing and dispensing device showing the flow of bills during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of the bill depositing and dispensing device showing the flow of bills during a withdrawal transaction.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 Customer service entrance 3 Identification Department 5c Accumulation section 107a, 107b Side guide 121 Motor 125 Side guide inside detection means 126 Side guide outer detection means 127 CCAD control section C First position D Second position

Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] A storage unit for dispensing banknotes and accumulating them in a storage manner; a customer service opening for handing withdrawn banknotes and returned banknotes to the customer at once; and for the customer to insert deposited banknotes at once; During a gold transaction, it is determined whether the banknotes conveyed one by one from the storage section are suitable for withdrawal, and during a deposit transaction, whether the banknotes conveyed one by one from the customer service opening are suitable for deposit. and a discrimination unit that discriminates whether or not the banknotes are suitable for withdrawal, and based on the discrimination results of the discrimination unit, the banknotes that are judged to be suitable for withdrawal are accumulated in sequence during a withdrawal transaction, and the banknotes judged to be unsuitable for deposit during a deposit transaction are accumulated. In the banknote deposit/withdrawal device, the banknote depositing and dispensing device has a stacking unit that stacks banknotes, transports the stacked banknotes in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the banknotes, and sends the stacked banknotes to the customer service port. A first position that faces parallel to each other and has the same spacing as the longitudinal width of the banknote, and a second position that is wider than the spacing in the first position and has the same spacing as the width of the customer service opening.
a side guide that reciprocates while maintaining parallelism between the side guides, a drive means that reciprocates the side guides, and a first side guide that detects whether or not the side guides are in the first position. a second detection means for detecting whether or not the side guide is in the second position; and a drive means to move the side guide between the first position and the second position during a withdrawal transaction. While moving the banknotes back and forth, the banknotes that have been determined to be suitable for withdrawal are stacked, and when the stacking is completed, the side guide is stopped at the first position, and during a deposit transaction, the side guide is moved back and forth by the first and second detection means. The position of the guide is recognized, and if the side guide is in the second position, it is held in that state, and if it is in the first position, it is held in the second position.
1. A bill depositing and dispensing device, comprising: a control means for moving bills to a position and stacking bills determined to be unsuitable for deposit.