JPH05342457A - Paper money treating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make the device adaptable to both a front operating type ATM and a rear operating type ATM and to constitute a customer service part of one chamber. CONSTITUTION:The customer service parts 2, 3 are arranged at the front and rear of the device, and safe boxes 10-12 and a reject box 13 are arranged at a side where the customer service part 2 is arranged, and they are connected to a discrimination part 5 and a surface/back turning part 6 with carrier paths 20-45 so that money can be thrown in and taken out from both the customer service parts 2 and 3. Thereby, it is possible to adapt to both the front operating type ATM and the rear operating type ATM by locating either the customer service part 2 or 3 at the operating side of a customer. Also, it is possible to constitute the customer service part of one chamber by sending a forged paper money or an undiscriminating one passing through the discrimination part 5 when it is thrown in to the customer service part on one side and sending it out from the customer service part for re-discrimination.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automated teller machine capable of depositing and withdrawing money.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote processing device used for a ler machine (hereinafter abbreviated as ATM) or the like, and particularly to a banknote processing device having an improved device configuration and a banknote transport path configuration.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, ATMs, which are widely used in stores (service corners) of financial institutions such as banks, can be used for cash payments and deposit transactions by operating with a cash card or a bankbook. You can do it. This kind of ATM is equipped with a customer service section for the customer to carry out operations such as payment and deposit, and a safe for storing banknotes and supplying and collecting banknotes to and from the ATM by the operation of a bank clerk or the like. However, depending on the state of the installation location of the ATM, a front operation type ATM in which an attendant operates the safe from the same side as the customer service department and a rear operation type ATM in which an attendant operates the safe from the opposite side to the customer service department And two types are required.

A conventional front operation type ATM 1c is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the customer service unit 4 having the depositing unit 91 and the dispensing unit 92, the discriminating unit 5, the front and back reversing unit 6, the holding units 7, 8, 9 and the safes 10, 11, 12 and the reject box 13 are provided. , Are mutually connected by transport paths 51 to 69.
In addition, safes 10, 11, 12 and reject box 1
3 is arranged on the same side as the customer service section 4. Customer service department 4
Takes in and sends out the bills inserted into the depositing unit 91 at the time of depositing, and when the captured bills are defective or indistinguishable, the bills are returned to the dispensing unit 92, and the depositing unit 92 to the depositing unit 91.
After returning to the discriminating unit 5, the bill is again sent to the discriminating unit 5 or returned to the customer, and at the time of withdrawal, the bill is taken into the withdrawing unit 92 and sent to the depositing unit 91 to pay the bill to the customer.

The discriminating section 5 discriminates the authenticity of bills, the front and back discrimination,
It has functions such as double feed (two-sheet feed) discrimination, bill folding discrimination, and sheet counting. The front / back reversing unit 6 is a unit that aligns the front and back by rotating a part of the transport path in the forward / reverse direction and changing the traveling direction of the banknote based on the front / back information of the banknote that has been discriminated by the discriminating unit 5. Each of the holding units 7, 8 and 9 has a function of taking in the deposited banknotes at the time of deposit and pushing it into the safe, and a function of sending out the banknotes supplied from the safe one by one at the time of withdrawal. The safes 10, 11, 12 are ATs
It can be attached to and detached from the main body of M, and stores bills from the holding unit when making a deposit and supplies bills to the holding unit when making a withdrawal.
Before the start of business at a bank or other bank, store banknotes in the bank and attach them to the ATM to supply banknotes to the ATM. After business, remove the bank from the bank and remove the banknotes from the bank to remove the banknotes from the ATM. Banknotes can be collected.

The reject box 13 is divided into two by a partition plate that moves one box back and forth, and accommodates unidentifiable banknotes, broken banknotes, banknotes that have been forgotten by the customer service section 4, and the like. ing. Further, the reject box 13 is attachable to and detachable from the ATM main body.
Since the safes 10, 11, 12 and the reject box 13 are arranged on the same side as the customer service section 4, as described above,
The clerk will operate the safe from the arrangement side (front side) of the customer service section 4.

The above is the outline of the conventional front operation type ATM 1c, and the depositing / withdrawing operation of the front operation type ATM 1c is as follows.

(A) Deposit operation of the conventional front operation type ATM 1c In FIG. 4, when the bill inserted in the deposit section 91 of the customer service section 4 is taken in, the bill is passed to the discriminating section 5 through the conveying paths 51, 52 and 53. It is sent and a discrimination operation is performed. As a result, the counterfeit banknotes and the defective banknotes are sent to the dispensing unit 92 through the transport paths 54, 56, 57. The banknotes sent to the withdrawal section 92 are
Initially, after all the bills inserted into the depositing unit 91 have been sent out, they are returned to the depositing unit 91 and sent again to the discriminating unit 5 for re-discrimination or returned to the customer. The other discriminated normal banknotes are sent to the front / back reversing unit 6 through the transport paths 54, 59, 61. The front and back reversing unit 6 conveys the front bill as it is based on the front and back information discriminated by the discrimination unit 5, and reverses the front and back of the front bill by reversing the traveling direction of the bill by partially rotating the conveyance path in the reverse direction. .. After this, the front and back reversing unit 6
The banknotes exiting are passed through the transport paths 62, 63, 65, 67, 69, respectively, and are taken into the holding units 7, 8, 9 and the banknotes taken into the holding units 7, 8, 9 are respectively in the safes 10, 1.
It is pushed into Nos. 1 and 12 and stored.

(B) Dispensing operation of the conventional front operation type ATM 1c In FIG. 4, banknotes are supplied from the safes 10, 11, 12 to the holding sections 7, 8, 9 respectively, and the banknotes corresponding to the payment amount are held. 7, 8, 9 to the conveying paths 64, 63, 66, 68,
It is sent to the discriminating section 5 through 59, 60 and 53, and it is confirmed whether or not the bill is a normal bill. As a result, the defective banknotes and the unidentifiable banknotes are sent to the reject box 13 through the transport paths 54, 56, 58, and the normal banknotes are transported by the transfer paths 54, 5.
It is sent to the payment section 92 of the customer service section 4 through 6, 57, is sent from the payment section 92 to the payment section 91, and is taken out by the customer. If the banknote sent to the customer service section 4 is forgotten, it is sent to the reject box 13 from the deposit section 91 through the transfer paths 51, 52, 53, the discrimination section 5, and the transfer paths 54, 56, 58. ..

The conventional rear operation type ATM 1d will be described below with reference to FIG.
1d is a customer service unit 4 having a depositing unit 91 and a dispensing unit 92,
Discrimination section 5, front / back reversing section 6, holding sections 7, 8, 9 and safe 1
It is provided with 0, 11, 12 and the reject box 13, and they are connected to each other by the transport paths 71 to 88. still,
Customer service section 4, discrimination section 5, front and back reversing section 6, holding sections 7, 8,
9, safes 10, 11, 12, reject box 13
Have the same functions as the above-described conventional front operation type ATM 1c. Also, safes 10, 11, 12
And the reject box 13 is on the opposite side of the customer service section 4 (rear surface)
The clerk operates the safe from the opposite side (rear surface) from the customer service section 4.

The above is the outline of the conventional rear operation type ATM 1d. The depositing and withdrawing operations of the rear operation type ATM 1d are as follows.

(C) Deposit operation of the conventional rear operation type ATM 1d In FIG. 5, when a bill inserted in the deposit section 91 of the customer service section 4 is taken in, the bill is passed to the discriminating section 5 through the conveying paths 71, 72, 73. It is sent and a discrimination operation is performed. As a result, the counterfeit banknotes and unidentifiable banknotes are sent to the dispensing unit 92 through the transport paths 74, 76, 77. The banknotes sent to the withdrawal section 92 are
After all the bills initially inserted in the depositing unit 91 are sent out, they are returned to the depositing unit 91 and sent again to the discriminating unit 5 for re-discrimination or returned to the customer. The other discriminated normal banknotes are sent to the front-back inverting section 6 through the transport paths 74, 76, 78, and the front-back lining is performed. After that, the bills that have come out of the front / back reversing unit 6 are transported by the conveyance paths 79, 80, 84, 86, 88.
Through the holding units 7, 8 and 9, and the holding unit 7,
The banknotes taken into 8 and 9 are safes 10 and 11, respectively.
It is pushed into 12 and accommodated.

(D) Withdrawal operation of the conventional rear operation type ATM 1d In FIG. 5, banknotes are supplied from the safes 10, 11, 12 to the holding sections 7, 8, 9 respectively, and the banknotes corresponding to the payment amount are stored in the holding section. 7, 8 and 9 are sent to the discriminating unit 5 through the conveying paths 83, 85, 87 and 81, and the defective banknotes and the unidentifiable banknotes are sent to the reject box 13 through the conveying paths 74, 75, 72 and 82. , Normal bills are conveyed in the transport paths 74, 76, 77.
Is sent to the withdrawal section 92 of the customer service section 4, through the withdrawal section 92 to the withdrawal section 91, and taken out by the customer. still,
When the bill sent to the customer service unit 4 is forgotten, it is sent from the depositing unit 91 to the reject box 13 through the transport paths 71, 72, 82.

[0013]

However, the above-mentioned prior art has the following problems. In the conventional ATM, the front-side operation type ATM and the rear-side operation type ATM require different device configurations and different transport paths. Therefore, there are problems that the number of parts increases and separate assembling steps are required. In addition, during the deposit operation, the customer service section needs to have a function of re-acquiring defective banknotes and unidentifiable banknotes output from the discriminating section while sending out the banknotes to the discriminating section. It is necessary to divide it into two rooms. For this reason, there have been problems that the mechanism of the customer service section becomes complicated and the customer service section becomes large.

[0014]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems.
By supporting both front-side operation type ATM and rear-side operation type ATM, the number of parts can be reduced and the assembly process can be completed in one process. Furthermore, the customer service section can be used as one deposit / withdrawal section. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote processing device that simplifies the mechanism of the customer service unit and downsizes it.

[0015]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention according to claim 1 is a banknote processing apparatus configured to perform automatic deposit and automatic payment of banknotes. The customer service section for refunding the money is arranged on the front side and the rear side of the main body of the apparatus, and the safe used for supplying and collecting banknotes is arranged on either the front side or the rear side of the apparatus main body. , A banknote transport path that is connected to each of the two customer service sections and that transports banknotes deposited from one of the customer service sections and transports banknotes that are returned to the customer service section. According to the present invention of claim 2, after the banknotes deposited from one of the two customer service sections are discriminated, the normal banknotes that have been verified are conveyed to the safe, and the other customer service section is delivered. It is configured to include a bill conveyance path that conveys unidentifiable bills and conveys re-discrimination target bills from the other customer service section.

[0016]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the customer service portions are arranged in front of and behind the main body of the apparatus, and the safes are disposed on either the front side or the rear side of the main body of the apparatus. Since it has a configuration in which a banknote transport path capable of depositing and withdrawing banknotes is arranged from any of the above, one type of banknote handling apparatus, one of front-side operation type ATM and rear-side operation type ATM
It is also possible to support TM, and as a result, the number of parts can be reduced as compared with the conventional banknote handling apparatus, and one assembly process is sufficient. According to the present invention of claim 2, after the banknotes deposited from one of the customer service sections are discriminated, the normal banknotes that have been discriminated are conveyed to the safe, the unidentifiable banknotes are conveyed to the other customer section, and Since the bill conveyance path for conveying bills for reclassification from the customer service section is arranged, the customer service section does not need the function of taking in the banknotes while sending out the banknotes. It is not necessary to divide into two parts, a deposit part and a dispense part, the mechanism of the customer service part can be simplified, and the structure can be downsized.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment to which the bill processing apparatus of the present invention is applied will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the banknote handling apparatus of this embodiment. In the banknote handling apparatus, a customer service section 2 and a customer service section 3 each composed of one depositing / dispensing section are provided on the front and rear sides of the apparatus. Two
In addition to being arranged at a location, the apparatus is provided with a discrimination section 5, a front / back reversing section 6, storage sections 7, 8, 9 and safes 10, 11, 12 and a reject box 13, and the conveyance path 20 to each section. They are connected by 45. In this case, safe 1
The 0, 11, 12 and the reject box 13 are arranged on the arrangement side of the customer service section 2.

The customer service section 2 and the customer service section 3 take in and send out the inserted banknotes at the time of deposit, and take in the banknotes sent at the time of withdrawal and pay them to the customer. When one of the customer service sections sends out the inserted bills at the time of deposit, the other customer service section can take in the unidentifiable banknotes and send it out to the discrimination section 5 again. Since the discriminating unit 5, the front and back reversing unit 6, the holding units 7, 8, 9 and the safes 10, 11, 12 and the reject box 13 have the same functions as the respective units of the conventional banknote handling apparatus, The description is omitted.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the bill processing apparatus of this embodiment, the customer service section 2 is set to the customer service side operated by the customer, so that the staff members are in the safes 10 and 1 from the side (front surface) where the customer service section is located.
It is possible to configure a front operation type ATM 1a capable of operating the Nos. 1 and 12 and the reject box 13. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, by setting the customer service section 3 as the customer service side operated by the customer, the clerk can operate the safes 10, 11, 12 and the reject box 13 from the side (rear surface) opposite to the side having the customer service section. The rear operation type ATM 1b can be configured.

The above is the outline of the banknote handling apparatus of the present embodiment. The depositing and dispensing operations of the front side operation type ATM1a and the rear side operation type ATM1b of the banknote handling apparatus are as follows.

(1) Front operation type ATM1 of this embodiment
2 a deposit operation In FIG. 2, when the bill inserted in the customer service section 2 is taken in, it passes through the transport paths 39, 22, 23, 24, and the discrimination section 5
Is sent to and a discrimination operation is performed. As a result, the non-discriminating bills are taken into the customer service section 3 through the conveying paths 25, 27, 28, and the other discriminated normal bills are conveyed by the conveying paths 25, 2.
It is sent to the front and back reversing unit 6 through 7 and 29 and front and back alignment is performed. After that, the banknotes exiting the front / back reversing unit 6 are conveyed to
Passing through 31, 41, 43, 45 respectively, the holding section 7,
8 and 9 are taken in. After that, the non-discrimination bills and the counterfeit bills taken into the customer service section 3 are sent out from the customer service section 3, passed through the transport paths 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and sent to the discrimination section 5 for re-evaluation and again. Banknotes that have been discriminated as counterfeit banknotes or bills that have not been discriminated again are conveyed in the transport paths 25, 27,
29, front / back reversing unit 6, transport paths 30, 31, 32, 34,
The bills, which have been passed through 36 and 38, are taken into the customer service section 2, returned to the customer, and correctly discriminated after the re-discrimination, are conveyed to the transport path 25,
After passing through 27 and 29 and being fed to the front / back reversing unit 6 and aligned on the front and back sides, they are additionally taken into the holding units 7, 8 and 9 through the conveying paths 30, 31, 41, 43 and 45, respectively, and taken in first. With the banknotes that were stored
It is pushed into 2 and accommodated.

(2) Front operation type ATM1 of this embodiment
Withdrawal operation of a In FIG. 2, banknotes are supplied from the cashboxes 10, 11, 12 to the storage units 7, 8, 9 respectively, and banknotes corresponding to the payment amount are transferred from the storage units 7, 8, 9 to the transport paths 40, 31. , 42, 44,
The defective bills and the non-discriminating bills are sent to the discriminating unit 5 through 32, 33, and 24, and the defective bills and the non-discriminating bills are conveyed to the conveying paths 25, 26, 21, 22, 3, and 3.
5, 36, 37 are sent to the reject box 13, and the normal banknotes are conveyed to the transport paths 25, 26, 21, 22, 35,
It is sent to the customer service section 2 through 36 and 38 and paid to the customer.
When the banknote sent to the customer service section 2 is forgotten, it is sent to the reject box 13 from the customer service section 2 through the transport paths 39, 22, 35, 36, 37.

(3) Rear operation type ATM1 of this embodiment
Depositing Operation of b In FIG. 3, when the bill inserted in the customer service section 3 is taken in, it is sent to the discriminating section 5 through the conveying paths 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and the discriminating operation is performed. As a result, the counterfeit banknotes and unidentifiable banknotes are taken into the customer service section 2 through the transport paths 25, 27, 29, the front / back reversing section 6, and the transport paths 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 38, and are discriminated from each other. The returned normal banknotes are sent to the front / back reversing unit 6 through the transport paths 25, 27, 29, and are aligned on the front and back sides, and then the transport paths 30, 31, 41, 4, 4.
It is taken into the holding units 7, 8 and 9 through 3 and 45, respectively. After that, the non-discrimination bills and the counterfeit bills taken in the customer service section 2 are sent out from the customer service section 2 and conveyed to the transport paths 39, 2.
The banknotes that have been passed through 2, 23, and 24 and then sent to the classification section 5 for reclassification, and that have been classified as counterfeit banknotes again, and banknotes that cannot be distinguished, are returned to the customer service section 3 through the transport paths 25, 27, and 28. The bills that have been sorted, returned to the customer, and correctly discriminated after the re-discrimination pass through the conveyance paths 25, 27, and 29, are sent to the front / back reversing unit 6, and are front-back aligned, and then the conveyance paths 30, 31, 41, 43 ,. Four
5, the banknotes are additionally taken into the holding sections 7, 8 and 9 and the banknotes previously taken into the safe 1
It is pushed into 0, 11, and 12 and stored.

(4) Rear operation type ATM1 of this embodiment
Withdrawal operation of b In FIG. 3, banknotes are supplied from the cashboxes 10, 11, 12 to the storage units 7, 8, 9 respectively, and banknotes corresponding to the payment amount are transferred from the storage units 7, 8, 9 to the transport paths 40, 31. , 42, 44,
The defective bills and the non-discriminating bills are sent to the discriminating unit 5 through 32, 33, and 24, and the conveying passages 25, 26, 21, 22, and 3 are conveyed.
5, 36, 37 are sent to the reject box 13, and normal banknotes are sent to the customer service section 3 through the transport paths 25, 27, 28 and paid to the customer. In addition, when the banknotes sent to the customer service section 3 are forgotten, the customer service section 3 transfers the paper to the transport path 2.
It is sent to the reject box 13 through 0, 21, 22, 35, 36 and 37.

As described above, according to the bill processing apparatus of this embodiment, the customer service sections 2 and 3 arranged at two locations on the front side and the rear side of the apparatus and the customer service sections at the two locations are used. Since the transport paths 20 to 45 capable of depositing and dispensing operations are provided, the front operation type A can be performed by one type of device.
Any ATM of TM1a and rear operation type ATM1b
It becomes possible to cope with. As a result, it is possible to reduce the number of parts as compared with the conventional banknote handling apparatus, and it is possible to improve effects such as one assembly process.

Further, among the banknotes sent from one customer service section at the time of deposit, forged banknotes and non-discriminating banknotes are taken into the other customer service section and sent again to perform reclassification and return.
The customer service section does not need a function of taking in bills while sending them out. As a result, it is not necessary to separate the customer service section into two chambers, a deposit section and a withdrawal section, as in a conventional banknote handling apparatus, so that the mechanism of the customer service section can be simplified and downsized. The effect can be improved.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The effects of the following items are achieved. Since the customer service portion is arranged at each of two positions on the front surface side and the rear surface side of the banknote processing device, and the transport path that enables the deposit and withdrawal operations from any of the two customer service portions is arranged, One type of device can support both front-side operation type ATM and rear-side operation type ATM. As a result, it is possible to reduce the number of parts as compared with the conventional banknote handling machine, and there is an effect that one assembly process is sufficient. Also, of the banknotes sent from one of the customer service departments at the time of deposit,
Since it is possible to take in forged bills and unidentifiable bills to the other customer service section and send them out again for re-discrimination and return, the customer service section does not need the function of taking in bills while sending them out. As a result, it is not necessary to divide the customer service section into two, a deposit section and a withdrawal section, as in the conventional bill processing apparatus, so that the mechanism of the customer section can be simplified and the structure can be downsized. There are effects such as being able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a banknote handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a front operation type ATM according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a rear operation type ATM according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a front operation type ATM of a conventional example.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a rear operation type ATM in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a, 1c Front operation type ATM 1b, 1d Rear operation type ATM 2, 3 Customer service section 5 Discrimination section 6 Front and back reversing section 7-9 Holding section 10-12 Safe 13 Reject box 20-45, 51-69, 71-88 Transport Road 91 Payment Department 92 Payment Department

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A bill processing apparatus configured to automatically deposit and pay bills, wherein a customer service section for depositing and refunding bills is provided on each of a front side and a rear side of a main body of the apparatus. A safe used for supplying and collecting banknotes is installed on either the front side or the rear side of the main body of the apparatus, and is connected to each of the two customer service sections. A banknote processing device comprising a banknote transport path for transporting deposited banknotes and transporting banknotes returned to the customer service section. 2. After the banknotes deposited from one of the two customer service sections are discriminated, normal banknotes that have been verified are conveyed to the safe, and the other customer service section cannot be verified. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a banknote transport path that transports the banknotes and the reclassification target banknotes from the other customer service section.