JPH04454Y2 - - Google Patents

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[Detailed explanation of the invention] "Industrial application field" This invention relates to a banknote sorting machine that bundles and organizes banknotes in groups of 100 by denomination. This invention relates to a banknote sorting machine that can bundle banknotes with their front and back faces and directions aligned.

``Conventional technology'' As a conventional banknote sorting machine, for example,
The device described in Publication No. 53-39974 or Utility Model No. 56
A device described in Japanese Patent No. 23730 is known.

The former device includes a separator device that separates and stacks paper sheets, and means for sealing the stacked bundles of paper sheets, and is used to bundle paper sheets of a predetermined type into predetermined numbers.

On the other hand, the latter device uses sorting guides G1 to G4.
Using the , each denomination is mixed and separated into each denomination from the group of banknotes, the orientation of each denomination is aligned, and the number of banknotes is counted for each denomination whose orientation is aligned in units of 100. It performs operations discontinuously.

``Problems to be solved by the invention'' By the way, in the former device mentioned above, the front and back sides of the first and 100th banknotes were aligned, but it was not possible to align the directions.

In addition, in the latter device, after first classifying and storing the denominations, the stored banknotes are returned to the stacking tray 1 again, aligned and stored, and then the stored banknotes are returned to the stacking tray 1 again. The denominations, front and back sides of all 100 banknotes were determined only through complicated and repeated manual operations.
It was designed to take out items with all directions aligned.

In other words, for 100 banknotes of the same denomination,
All of the pieces were made to have their fronts and backs aligned in the same direction. Therefore, each banknote was classified into four types (front, back, forward, and reverse), and when making bundled banknotes, it was difficult to reach 100 banknotes, resulting in a problem of poor efficiency. In addition, it required complicated manual operations in the middle of the process, resulting in poor work efficiency.

In view of the above-mentioned circumstances, the purpose of this invention is to provide a banknote sorting machine that can align not only the front and back sides of banknotes on the top and bottom sides (i.e., the 1st and 100th banknotes) of bundled banknotes, but also the directions. It is said that

"Means for solving the problem" In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention
The banknotes are separated and conveyed one by one, their denominations and front and back sides are determined, and then sorted, and the banknotes of the pre-specified denomination are sorted, and the denominations and front and back sides of the 1st to 100th banknotes are aligned to 100 sheets. In a banknote sorting machine for bundling banknotes, a discriminating means for discriminating the denomination, front and back, and direction of the banknotes, and based on the determination result of the discriminating means, sorting the banknotes of the denomination to be bundled as genuine bills,
a sorting means for matching the front and back sides of the genuine notes or selecting and carrying out the genuine notes with the same faces and backs; a storage means for storing the direction of the first genuine note conveyed from the sorting means; 99 pieces; After sorting the genuine notes,
The discrimination result of the discriminating means and the first proper note stored in the storage means are combined so that the direction of the 100th proper note matches the direction of the first proper note stored in the storage means. a selection means for further comparing the directions of the bills and controlling the sorting means based on the comparison result to convey the correct bills with matching directions; The present invention is characterized by comprising a bundling part for accumulating and bundling up to genuine bills.

"Operation" According to the above configuration, the denomination, front and back, and direction of the first banknote are determined, and the direction is stored.
Then, a banknote that matches the denomination, front and back, and direction of the first banknote is selected as the 100th banknote. Therefore, the denominations, front and back sides, and directions of the first and 100th banknotes can be made the same.

"Embodiments" Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Configuration of First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing the configuration of a mechanical section of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a banknote supply unit that supplies loaded banknotes to the receiving unit 2. The taking-in section 2 separates bills one by one from the bill supply section 1 and feeds them into the conveyance path 3. This conveyance path 3 has a main path 4 and a branch path 4 at the terminal side.
Divided into three paths, a and 4b, the ends of each path 4, 4a, and 4b are provided with rotary conveyors 5, 5a, and 5b.
A binding accumulation section 6, an accumulation section A, and an accumulation section B are provided, respectively. Here, the rotary conveyance bodies 5, 5a, 5b
The banknotes are held between holding plates provided on the outer periphery of the cylindrical body and sent to the respective stacking sections 6, A, and B.
On the other hand, a branch path 4c is formed approximately at the center of the conveyance path 3, and an accumulation section C is provided at the end of the branch path 4c. In addition, main road 4 and branch road 4a, branch road 4a and 4
Sorting forks 7a, 7b, and 7c are provided in each branch path of the transport path 3 and the branch path 4c.

Next, sensors 8a, 8b, and 8c are sequentially provided in the transport direction of the transport path 3 (to the right in the figure), and the sensor 8
The sensor 8c notifies the sorting forks 7c, and the sensor 8c notifies the sorting forks 7a and 7b of the passage of the bill in advance, while the sensor 8c confirms the bill that has come out of the receiving section 2. Further, sensors 9, 9a to 9c are provided on the main path 4 and the branch paths 4a to 4c, respectively, to confirm the passage of banknotes. Note that the sensors 8a to 8c, 9, and 9a to 9c are all optical sensors consisting of a light emitting element and a light receiving element, which are provided facing each other so as to sandwich each path.

Next, a determination unit 10 is provided at a position between the sensors 8a and 8b of the conveyance path 3. The discriminating unit 10 has a discriminating sensor consisting of a transmissive sensor, a reflective sensor, and a magnetic sensor, and extracts the characteristic pattern of the banknote to determine the denomination, front and back, and vertical direction of the banknote, and determines whether the banknote is suitable for circulation. This is used to distinguish between lost and unfit bills and counterfeit bills. Here, as the characteristic pattern for distinguishing the front and back and up and down directions, a reflective pattern or a magnetic pattern is preferable, and it is also possible to use a reflective pattern or a magnetic pattern by detecting the position of an emboss (irregularity provided on a new banknote) on the banknote. is also possible.

On the other hand, on the output side of the bundling accumulation section 6, a bundling section 11 is provided.
is provided to bind 100 banknotes at a time to form bundled banknotes 12.

Next, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control system of this embodiment. In this figure, 20 is a conveyance control section, 30 is a bundling control section, and 4 is a discrimination section.

First, the conveyance control section 20 includes a separation conveyance drive section 21 that controls driving/stopping of the intake section 2 and the respective conveyance paths 3, 4, 4a to 4c, and a separation fork 7a to 7a for distributing forks 7a to 7.
a distribution drive unit 22 that controls driving/stopping of c;
It has a display operation section 23 that specifies the bundling denomination and makes various displays, and each of these sections 21 to 23 includes:
It is controlled by the CPU 25 via the I/O port 24. That is, the CPU 25 is
Based on the program stored in ROM26,
The following processing is performed using the RAM 27 as a work area. In this case, each data on the denomination, front and back, and direction of the banknote is supplied from the discriminator 4 via the data bus 28, and the transport position of the banknote is determined by sensors 8a to 8c, 9, and 9a provided in each transport path. ~9c.

After determining the denomination, predetermined sorting forks 7a to 7c are driven/stopped, and each banknote is guided to a predetermined stacking section 6, A to C (FIG. 1).

The number of banknotes guided to the bundling stacking section 6 is counted, and the direction of the first banknote is determined.
Store in RAM27. Then, the 100th banknote is sorted and guided to the bundling/accumulating unit 6, with the same denomination, front and back, and orientation as the first banknote.

After the 100th banknote is sent to the bundling/accumulating section 6, the taking-in section 2 is stopped to stop separating the banknotes, and each of the transport paths 3, 4, 4a to 4c is stopped.

The 100 banknotes stacked in the bundling and stacking section 6 are transferred to the bundling section 11.

In this way, the banknotes transferred to the bundling section 11 are bundled under the control of the bundling control section 30.
Here, the bundling control section 30 includes a bundling drive section 31,
I/O port 34 connects this to CPU 35,
ROM36 storing the binding program and CPU
The CPU 35 can exchange data with the transport control section 20 via the I/O port 34 and the data bus 28. Note that the configurations of the bundling section 11 and the bundling control section 30 are the same as those of the prior art, so detailed explanations will be omitted.

Next, the discrimination section 4 provides the already explained discrimination section sensor 41, an I/O port 44 for connecting this to the CPU 45, a ROM 46 for storing discrimination programs and characteristic patterns of each banknote, and a work area for the CPU 45. By comparing the characteristic pattern of the banknote extracted by the discrimination unit sensor 41 with the characteristic pattern stored in the ROM 46, the denomination, front and back, and direction of the banknote are determined.

Operation of the first embodiment Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Now, the banknote supply unit 1 is loaded with various types of banknotes, and a case where only 1,000 yen banknotes are selected and bundled will be described as an example. in this case,
The specification of bundled banknotes is made from the display operation section 23 to the CPU 25.
This is done by keying in.

Now, when the start button (not shown) for the binding operation is operated, in step SP1 of FIG.
The taking-in section 2 separates one bill from the bill supply section 1 and sends it into the conveyance path 3. The banknote is conveyed to the right in the drawing by the conveyance path 3 and passes through the discrimination section 4, where the denomination, front and back, and direction of the banknote are discriminated.The discrimination data is transmitted via the data bus 28 to the conveyance control section. 2
8 (step SP2).

On the other hand, in the conveyance control section 20, the CPU 25
determines the denomination of the banknote based on the determination data, and performs the following processing.

If the transported banknote is a normal banknote (in this case, a 1,000 yen banknote) (step SP3), the number of banknotes is incremented by 1.

If the fair note is the first proper note (step SP
4) The vertical direction is stored in the RAM 27 (step SP5). Then, the sorting forks 7a to 7c are controlled to guide the normal bills to the bundling and stacking section 6 via the conveyance path 3 and main path 4 (step SP6).

Further, if the fair note is the 2nd to 99th bill (step SP7), it is guided to the bundling stacking section 6 in the same manner as above (step SP6), while if it is the 100th bill, it is guided to the first bill. Sorting is done until a banknote with the same direction as the first genuine note is found, and the banknote with the same direction is sent to the bundling/accumulating unit 6 (step SP7,
SP8, SP6). As a result, the 1st and 100th banknotes in the bundling stacking section 6 are of course different in denomination.
The front and back sides and directions also match.

In this way, when 100 genuine bills are collected in the bundling/accumulating section 6 (step SP9), the CPU 25 stops the separating and conveying drive section 21 and interrupts the separation and feeding of the bills (step SP10).

Next, the CPU 25 notifies the CPU 35 of the bundling control unit 30 via the data bus 28 that the bundling preparations have been completed.

As a result, the CPU 35 drives the bundling drive unit 31 and cooperates with the separation and conveyance drive unit 21 to transfer the 100 banknotes to be bundled from the bundling stacking unit 6 to the bundling unit 11 (step SP11). Binding processing is performed (step SP12). In this way, 100 yen banknotes
A bundle of banknotes 12 is formed.

On the other hand, the banknotes that are not determined to be the front side of normal banknotes in step SP3 are classified into three types: back side of normal banknotes, damaged banknotes or different types of banknotes (i.e., banknotes other than 1,000 yen banknotes), and invalid banknotes. You will be guided to C. That is, in steps SP13 and SP14, the genuine bills with the back side exposed are sent to the stacking section A, and then
In step SP15 and SP16, unfit bills and different types of bills are guided to the stacking section B, and in step SP17, unfit bills other than the above are sent to the stacking section C. Note that these distributions are performed by the distribution drive section 22 and the distribution forks 7a to 7c under the control of the CPU 25.

In this way, steps SP1 to SP17 are repeated, and bundled banknotes 12 each consisting of a bundle of 100 banknotes are produced one after another. Further, the genuine bills accumulated in the stacking section A are loaded into the bill supply section 1 again and bundled by the above-described process.

In the above embodiment, the denomination, front and back, and direction of the first and 100th banknotes were all made to match. It is also possible to bind the 1st and 100th banknotes so that only their denominations and front and back sides are the same. When the changeover switch is provided, the steps in the process shown in FIG.
When the judgment at SP4 is 'Y', the process proceeds to step SP6 without performing the process at step SP5, while when the judgment at step SP4 is 'N', the process does not process at step SP8. It is sufficient to control the process to proceed to step SP6.

Configuration of Modified Example of First Embodiment Next, FIG. 4 is a schematic side view showing the configuration of a modified example of the first example shown in FIG. 1. This modification differs from the first embodiment in that a front-back reversing section 13 is provided between the sensor 8b and the sorting fork 7c. This front-back reversing portion 13 has a groove 13a having a substantially V-shaped cross section, and the upper end thereof is in contact with the conveyance path 3. Then, banknotes are taken in from the take-in part 13b at the upper left end, and the inverted banknotes are sent back to the conveyance path 3 from the outlet 13c at the upper right end. In this case, a sorting fork 13d is provided at the intake port 13b, and the sorting fork 13d takes in banknotes from the conveyance path 3 when driven. In this way, the banknotes taken into the groove 1
3a, the upper end of the banknote is kicked by the roller 13e, and the banknote is sent out to the conveyance path 3 in an inverted state from the outlet 13c opposite to the inlet 13b. Note that the sensor 1 is located at the bottom of the groove 13a.
3f is provided to detect when the lower end of the banknote reaches the bottom of the groove 13a. This front/back reversal part 13
is controlled by a conveyance control section 20 shown in FIG.

Operation of the above modified example Next, FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of this modified example. This flowchart differs from the flowchart of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 3 in the handling of banknotes that were not determined to be the front side of a normal banknote at step SP3. That is, the banknote determined to be the back of a normal note in step SP21 is inverted in the front/back format reversing unit 13 to reveal the front side (step SP22), and thereafter undergoes the same processing as the front side of a normal note (steps SP4 to S12).
On the other hand, banknotes other than normal banknotes are classified into damaged banknotes, foreign banknotes, and invalid banknotes, and are guided to stacking sections A to C (steps SP23 to SP27). In this way, according to this modification, as long as the bills are correct, all the bills are exposed and sent to the bundling and collecting section 6, so there is an advantage that the processing efficiency is improved compared to the first embodiment.

"Effects of the invention" As explained above, according to the invention, banknotes are separated and conveyed one by one, their denominations and front and back sides are determined, sorted, and banknotes of pre-specified denominations are sorted out and the banknotes are separated and conveyed one by one. In a banknote sorting machine that aligns the denominations and front and back sides of the first to 100th banknotes and bundles them in groups of 100 banknotes, a discriminating means for discriminating the denomination, front and back sides, and direction of the banknotes, and a determination result of the discriminating means Based on this, the banknotes of the denomination to be bundled are sorted as genuine banknotes,
a sorting means for matching the front and back sides of the genuine notes, or for selecting and carrying out genuine notes with matching faces and backs; a storage means for storing the direction of the first genuine note carried out from the sorting means; 99 pieces; After sorting the genuine notes,
The discrimination result of the discriminating means and the first proper note stored in the storage means are combined so that the direction of the 100th proper note matches the direction of the first proper note stored in the storage means. a selection means for further comparing the directions of the tickets and controlling the sorting means based on the comparison result to output the genuine bills with matching directions; Since the present invention is configured to include a bundling section for accumulating and bundling up to genuine bills, the following effects can be achieved.

Because it is possible to match not only the front and back sides of the banknotes on the top and bottom sides of the bundled banknotes, but also the direction, it is possible to match not only the front and back sides of the banknotes, but also the direction, which is common in banks and other financial institutions. However, for the banknotes between the top and bottom of the banknote bundle (2nd to 99th banknotes), only the front and back sides are aligned, but the direction is not. Therefore, it is possible to provide an apparatus with high banknote processing efficiency.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a schematic side view showing the structure of the mechanism of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of the control system of the embodiment, and Fig. 3 explains the operation of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a schematic side view showing the configuration of a mechanical section of a modification of the above embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the modification. 4...Discrimination unit (discrimination means), 27...RAM (storage means).

Claims (1)

[Scope of Utility Model Registration Request] Separate and transport banknotes one by one, determine their denominations and front and back, sort them, and sort banknotes of pre-designated denominations from the 1st to the 100th banknote. A banknote sorting machine that arranges the denominations and front and back sides of banknotes and bundles 100 banknotes at a time, the banknote sorting machine comprises a discriminating means for discriminating the denomination, front and back sides, and direction of the banknotes, and a denomination to be bundled based on the determination result of the discriminating means. a sorting means for sorting out the banknotes as fit notes, matching the front and back sides of the fit notes, or selecting and carrying out the fit notes whose front and back sides match; and a direction for the first fit note to be carried out from the sorting means. and the discriminating means so that after sorting the 99 fit notes, the direction of the 100th fit note matches the direction of the first fit note stored in the storage means. further compares the determination result with the orientation of the first regular bill stored in the storage means, and controls the sorting means based on the comparison result to carry out the regular bill with the matching orientation. A banknote sorting machine, comprising: means; and a bundling section for accumulating and bundling the first to 100th fit bills.