JPH05114068A - Money receiving/returning device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the suability of this device and to eliminate necessity for preparing excessively many returning coins by executing money return with paper money and receiving two sheets of paper moneys. CONSTITUTION:In the case a paper money is inserted, a paper money reception control part 2 stores the paper moneys of an escrow part 9 in a paper money storing part 10 and carries the newly inserted paper money to the escrow part 9 when a coin residual amount corresponding to the number (Cr-1) of already inserted bills is detected based upon the counted result of a counter 13 and the number (Cr) of inserted paper moneys is the previously set number (2) of paper moneys to be received or less. Consequently money return can be executed with the paper moneys temporarily stored in the escrow part 9 and coins equivalent to the number of already inserted paper moneys other than the stored paper moneys, plural paper moneys can be received and the returning coins may be sufficiently prepare almost corresponding to the amount of the number (2) of receiving paper moneys.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a money accepting device for use in, for example, an automatic vending machine or the like, which identifies authenticity of inserted bills and coins and accepts them, or dispenses change or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In various automatic vending machines, there is a money accepting device for identifying authenticity of bills and coins inserted for purchasing products and accepting them, or paying change or the like according to the purchase of products. It is used. For example, as a money receiving and paying device for 1000-yen bills, conventionally, a bill receiving device of one escrow type and a coin mech are used in combination. That is, when one banknote is inserted, this banknote is temporarily held in the escrow section, and when a product purchase operation is performed in this state, the banknote in the escrow section is moved to the banknote storage section, and a predetermined amount is transferred from the coin mech section. Change, etc. will be paid out. On the other hand, when a new bill is to be inserted while the bill is held in the escrow section, the acceptance of the bill is stopped.

In such a conventional example, it is difficult to sell a relatively expensive commodity, or, for example, 1000
When a product is purchased in a combination with an amount exceeding the yen, it has to be divided into a plurality of times and has a problem of low usability.

Further, as another conventional model, a money accepting / dispensing device capable of accepting two or more banknotes is used. In this conventional model, the inserted banknotes are stored in the banknote accumulating section each time. If you cancel the purchase of goods and operate the return button etc. after inserting banknotes,
There is a problem that it is difficult to return the inserted banknotes, the money equivalent to the banknotes must be returned with coins in the coin mech section, it becomes a money changer, and it is necessary to prepare excessive return coins. is doing.

[0005]

As described above, all of the conventional money accepting / dispensing apparatuses are capable of returning in the form of bills and do not use a structure for accepting a plurality of bills, which is low in usability and excessively large. There is a problem that it is necessary to prepare various return coins.

[0006]

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION It is necessary to solve the above technical problems, improve the usability in that it is possible to return a bill and receive a plurality of bills, and prepare an excessive return coin. Is to provide a money accepting and dispensing device.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention conveys an inserted bill in a receiving / discharging direction along a first conveying path and a bill discriminating section for discriminating its authenticity and a first conveying passage. An escrow unit that conveys banknotes along the receiving / discharging direction along the continuous second conveyance path and holds the banknotes on the conveyance path, and a storage unit that stores and accumulates the banknotes held by the escrow unit. In a money accepting and receiving device comprising:
When the coin counting means for counting the remaining amount of coins used for returning and the remaining amount of coins corresponding to the amount equivalent to one banknote are detected based on the counting result of the coin counting means, the banknotes in the escrow section are It is a money receipt and payment device characterized by including a control means for storing a bill in a bill accumulating portion and conveying a newly inserted bill to an escrow portion.

[0008]

[Operation] According to the present invention, the inserted bill is conveyed in the receiving / discharging direction by the bill discriminating unit along the first conveying path set in the bill discriminating unit, and its authenticity is discriminated. Then, the banknotes are transported along the receiving / discharging direction along the second transport path that is continuous with the first transport path in the escrow unit, and the banknotes that have been inserted through the second transport path are held.

Here, the remaining amount of coins used for returning is
It is counted by the coin counting means. Based on the counting result of the coin counting means, the control means stores the banknotes in the escrow section in the banknote accumulating section and newly inserts them when the remaining amount of coins corresponding to one banknote amount is detected. The bills that have been removed to the escrow section.

As a result, the bills can be returned and two bills can be accepted. In this respect, the usability is improved, and the coin for return can be prepared by preparing the amount of one bill. , The need to prepare excessive return coins has been eliminated.

[0011]

1 is a block diagram illustrating the electrical construction of a vending machine 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The vending machine 1 includes a bill acceptance control unit 2 for controlling acceptance and return of bills, which will be described later.
Coin mech unit 3 that controls the payout of various coins for each denomination
And a main control unit 4 that transmits and receives signals between the bill acceptance control unit 2 and the coin-mech unit 3 to perform product sales processing.

The bill acceptance control unit 2 is connected to a counter 5 for counting the number of inserted bills as described later.
Further, a bill identifying unit 8 that holds and conveys the inserted bill and immediately ejects a bill that is identified as a non-genuine bill by magnetically or optically identifying the authenticity of the bill, and is identified as a genuine bill. The escrow unit 9 that further conveys the bills and temporarily holds the bills is connected to the bill accumulation unit 10 that accumulates the bills of the escrow unit 9 that have been moved and stored.

In the coin mech section 3, for example, 500 yen,
A plurality of payout mechanisms 12 for paying out one return coin prepared in advance for each denomination such as 100 yen, 50 yen, and 10 yen are connected, and the remaining amount of the return coin is denomination. A plurality of counters 13 for counting each are provided.

The main control unit 4 includes a plurality of product buttons 14 arranged on the front of the vending machine 1 for designating the products to be purchased and various products stored inside the vending machine 1. A transport mechanism 15 for each product that is transported to the outside and discharged.
When, for example, a plurality of product lamps 16 that display a product that can be sold at the input amount of money by lighting, or a plurality of banknotes, under the condition that new insertion as described later is impossible,
A plurality of display means 18 such as a display means 17 for displaying the bill unacceptable state is connected.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the banknote receiving device 19 provided in the automatic vending machine 1, and FIG. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the banknote receiving device 19 of the automatic vending machine 1. The bill receiving device 19
The bill inserted from the insertion slot 20 is conveyed along the conveyance path 21, and the bill identifying unit 8 for identifying the authenticity of the bill, and the bill identified as a genuine bill by the bill identifying unit 8 are The escrow section 9 that conveys along the conveyance path 22 that communicates with the conveyance path 21 and temporarily holds the escrow section 9 so that it can be ejected again from the insertion port 20, and the conveyance path 2 of the escrow section 9.
The banknotes are moved in the direction orthogonal to the transport direction in 2.
The banknote storage unit 10 for storing banknotes is provided.

The bill discriminating section 8 conveys a bill along the conveying path 21 and a motor 24 for driving the convey belt 23 in both the receipt and discharge of bills.
With. Detection elements 25 and 26 for detecting banknotes are arranged near the insertion slot 20 and near the end of the transport path 21, respectively. The detection signals of the detection elements 25 and 26 are input to the bill acceptance control unit 2 and the bill acceptance control unit 2 controls the motor 24.

The transport path 22 of the escrow unit 9 is, for example, 1
The 000-yen bill has a length for storing one bill in the vertical direction, is arranged at intervals of the width of the short side of the bill, and contacts both long sides of the bill so that the bill is conveyed along the transport path 22. A pair of conveyor belts 27 for conveying and a motor 28 for driving the conveyor belt 27 bidirectionally for receiving / discharging bills are provided. The transport path 22 includes a bill pressing plate 29 arranged between a pair of transport belts 27, and a front end portion 31 of a bill storage box 30 in which bills are stored in the bill storage unit 10 and the press plate 29 side is open. Composed of and. The pressing plate 29 is reciprocally driven by the motor 32 in a direction orthogonal to the transport path 22 at a timing to be described later, and the transport path 22 is driven.
The banknotes temporarily stored in the banknote storage box 30 are moved into the banknote storage box 30.

In the transport path 22, for example, bills detecting elements 33, 3 are provided on a 1000-yen bill at intervals of about the length of the long side.
4 are arranged. Detection signals from the detection elements 33 and 34 are input to the bill acceptance control unit 2 and the bill acceptance control unit 2 controls the operating states of the motors 28 and 32.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the vending machine 1, in which the variable Cr represents the number of banknotes whose insertion is detected by the detection element 25.

At step a1, the variable Cr is initialized to 0.

At step a2, it is determined whether or not a bill has been inserted through the insertion slot 20 based on the presence / absence of a detection signal from the detection element 25. If the determination at step a2 is affirmative, the variable Cr is incremented by +1 at step a3, and at step a4, the inserted banknote is conveyed into the conveyance path 21 by the conveyance belt 23.

At step a5, it is judged whether or not the variable Cr is 2, that is, whether or not one banknote is already inserted and held in the escrow section 9. If this determination is affirmative, the coin mech unit 3 (C
r-1) It is determined whether or not there is a coin with an amount equivalent to * 1000 yen, that is, whether or not there is a coin that can return the amount of one banknote already inserted. This determination is realized by referring to the count value of the counter 13 in the coin mech unit 3. If this judgment is affirmative, it is judged at step a7 whether or not the variable Cr is the preset acceptable number of sheets.

If the determination in step a7 is affirmative, the process proceeds to step a8, and the banknotes temporarily held in the escrow section 9 are moved to the banknote accumulating section 10. This movement is realized by the bill acceptance control unit 2 controlling the motor 32 of the escrow unit 9 to move the pressing plate 29 to the bill storage unit 10 side. At step a9, the motor 28 is driven to drive the conveyor belt 27 to travel in the bill receiving direction so that the bill conveyed by the bill discriminating unit 8 is moved to the escrow unit 9. Products can be sold in this state.

At step a10, it is judged whether the inserted bill is returned, such as when the return button is pressed,
If the result is affirmative, the process proceeds to step a11, in which the motors 24 and 28 are rotationally driven in the bill discharge direction, and the bill currently temporarily held in the escrow unit 9 is discharged from the discharge port 20.
At step a12, in the coin mech unit 3, (Cr-1)
* Pay out coins worth 1,000 yen. After this,
In step a13, the variable Cr is initialized to 0 and then step a
Return to 2.

If the determination in step a10 is negative, the process proceeds to step a14 and it is determined whether or not the product button 14 has been pressed. If this determination is negative, the process returns to step a2 and the above process is repeated. If the determination in step a14 is positive, the process proceeds to step a15, the banknotes temporarily held in the escrow unit 9 are moved to the banknote storage unit 10 by the above-described moving operation, and in step a16, the main control unit 4
Controls the transport mechanism 15 to perform product sales operation. After this, the process proceeds to step a13, and the above-mentioned process is performed.

When the judgment at step a2 is negative, it is judged at step a17 whether the variable Cr is 1 or more. That is, when the variable Cr is 0 and there is no inserted banknote, the process returns to step a2 to wait for the insertion of banknotes. If the variable Cr is 1 or more, it is in the waiting state for the insertion of the second bill, and the process proceeds to step a10. When the determination in step a5 is negative, the variable Cr is 1 and there is no banknote already inserted, and the banknote is inserted first. At this time, the process proceeds to step a9, the bill is conveyed to the escrow unit 9, and the above-mentioned processing is performed. That is, it is in either the return operation, the product sales operation, or the waiting state for inserting the second bill.

When the determination in step a6 is negative, the remaining amount of coins in the coin mech unit 3 is insufficient with respect to the amount of one already inserted banknote other than the newly inserted banknote. is there. In this case, when the newly inserted bill is accepted, when the return button is pressed thereafter and the return state is reached, the coin of the amount of the already inserted bill cannot be paid out.

For this reason, in step a18, the display means 17 displays the banknote unacceptable state, and in step a19, the newly inserted banknote is conveyed in the receiving direction through the transfer path 21 of the banknote discriminating section 8. The motor 24 is driven to rotate in the opposite direction and discharged from the discharge port 20 to the outside. Step a
At 20, the variable Cr is decremented by -1, the process proceeds to step a10, and the above process is performed.

The vending machine 1 which performs such processing can accept only the set number of two bills, for example, bills such as 1000-yen bills. This makes it possible to sell relatively high-priced products, or it is possible to sell products with a combination that costs more than 1,000 yen by one operation, which greatly improves usability. To be done.

Also, after the bills have been inserted, the purchase of goods is stopped,
When the return button or the like is operated, it is sufficient to return the inserted banknotes and prepare a coin for return having an amount equivalent to the amount of the banknotes that have already been inserted and moved to the banknote storage unit 10. It is possible to eliminate the need to prepare coins and prevent the vending machine 1 from becoming a money changer.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, the inserted bills are carried by the bill validator in the receiving / discharging direction along the first transport path set in the bill validator. The authenticity is identified, the banknotes are transported along the receiving / discharging direction along the second transporting path that is continuous with the first transporting path in the escrow unit, and the banknotes inserted in the second transporting path are held.

Here, the remaining amount of coins used for the return is
It is counted by the coin counting means. Based on the counting result of the coin counting means, the control means stores the banknotes in the escrow section in the banknote accumulating section and newly inserts them when the remaining amount of coins corresponding to one banknote amount is detected. The bills that have been removed to the escrow section.

As a result, it is possible to return the bills and receive two bills. In this respect, the usability is improved, and the amount of coins to be returned may be one bill. , The need to prepare excessive return coins has been eliminated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an electrical configuration of a vending machine 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a bill receiving device 19 of the vending machine 1.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a bill receiving device 19 of the vending machine 1.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the vending machine 1.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Automatic vending machine 2 ... Banknote acceptance control section 3 ... Coin mech section 4 ... Main control section 5, 13 ... Counter 8 ... Banknote identification section 9 ... Escrow section 10 ... Banknote storage section 19 ... … Banknote receiving devices 21, 22 …… Transport path

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A banknote discriminating section for conveying an inserted banknote in a receiving / discharging direction along a first conveying path, and a banknote discriminating section for discriminating its authenticity, and a second conveying path continuous with the first conveying path. A money receiving and returning apparatus, comprising: an escrow unit that conveys banknotes in a receiving / discharging direction and holds the banknotes in the conveying path; and a storage unit that stores and accumulates the banknotes held by the escrow unit. The coin counting means for counting the remaining amount of coins used for, and when the remaining amount of coins corresponding to the amount equivalent to one banknote is detected based on the counting result of the coin counting means, the banknotes in the escrow section are converted into banknotes. A currency accepting device, comprising: a control unit that stores a newly inserted bill and conveys a newly inserted bill to the escrow unit.