JPH05346981A - Bill teller machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the bill teller machine which is increased in money reception efficiency by increasing the permissible number of bills received in single money receiving operation. CONSTITUTION:The bill teller machine is equipped with a temporary storage part 22 wherein a bill received at a money entrance is discriminated by a discrimination part 21 and temporarily stored, a received money store part which is allowed to take bills out of the temporary storage part 22, and cartridges by the kinds of money which store bills fed from the received money store part by the kinds of money and sends out the fed bills to a money payment opening; when the discrimination part 21 discriminates the number of received bills which exceeds the storage capacity of the temporary storage part 22, received bills which are already discriminated and counted are discharged to the money payment opening 16 by a discharging and holding means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote depositing / dispensing machine in which a bank employee performs depositing and dispensing processing at a bank teller, and more specifically, it has a high depositing processing capability to improve customer service processing efficiency. It relates to a banknote deposit and withdrawal machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, when depositing money in a banknote depositing / dispensing machine of this type, a banknote deposited in a deposit port 81 is discriminated by a discriminating section 82 as shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 83
After aligning the front and back with, the temporary holding section 84 holds the money and waits for payment, and after the completion of the payment, the temporary holding section 84 transfers the money to the deposit store section 8.
5, and the stored banknotes are distributed and stored in the respective cartridges 86, 87, 88 of each denomination. When paying out, as shown by the diagonal lines in FIG.
The bills fed out from 6, 87, 88 are discriminated by the withdrawal discriminating section 89 and are ejected to the withdrawal port 90. In addition, the defective deposit banknotes and the canceled banknotes are returned to the return port 91, and the canceled banknotes are collected in the reject box 92.

[0003]

In this case, in the case of deposit
The permissible number of transactions per transaction was limited to the holding capacity allowed by the temporary holding unit inside the device. For this reason, when depositing a large number of sheets in excess of the storage capacity of the temporary storage unit, the deposit transaction cannot be performed at one time, so the deposit processing is divided into several times.

However, when divided into several times, there is a problem that the depositing operability is low such that the depositing operation is repeated, which is troublesome and time consuming, and causes an operation error.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a banknote depositing / dispensing machine in which the number of sheets processed at the time of depositing which can be handled and handled by one depositing operation is increased to improve the depositing processing efficiency.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a bill holding unit for discriminating bills deposited in a deposit opening by a discriminating unit and temporarily holding the bills, and a deposit store unit for allowing the bills to be taken in from the temporary holding unit. A banknote depositing / dispensing machine including a banknote dispensed from a depositing store section by denomination, and a denomination-type cartridge that dispenses the dispensed banknote to a dispensing port, and a temporary holding section at the time of depositing. When the discriminating unit discriminates the number of deposit transactions exceeding the storage capacity of 1), the discriminating unit is provided with a discharge holding unit for discharging the already-discounted already-deposited bills to the dispensing port.

[0007] Further, the banknotes deposited in the deposit port are discriminated by the discriminating section and the banknotes are temporarily suspended, the deposit store section for permitting the banknotes to be taken in from the suspension section, and the banknotes dispensed from the deposit store section. Banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a banknote that stores the stored banknotes by denomination, and a banknote type cartridge that dispenses the dispensed banknotes to the dispensing port, and the number of deposit transactions exceeding the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit at the time of depositing. When the discrimination section discriminates
It is characterized by comprising: a discharge holding means for discharging the already-discounted already-deposited received banknotes to the outlet, and a removal permitting means for allowing the already-discounted deposited banknotes released at the outlet to be taken out of the apparatus. ..

Further, a banknote deposited in the deposit port is discriminated by the discriminator to temporarily store the banknote, a banknote store section that allows banknotes to be taken from the bankbank, and a banknote store section that dispenses the banknote. Banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a banknote that stores the stored banknotes by denomination, and a banknote type cartridge that dispenses the dispensed banknotes to the dispensing port, and the number of deposit transactions exceeding the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit at the time of depositing. When the discrimination unit discriminates, the discharge holding means for discharging the already-discounted already-deposited banknotes that have been discriminated to the outlet, and the already-discounted deposited banknotes released to the outlet,
Take-out permission means for permitting take-out to the outside of the apparatus, and a temporary holding section in which a vacant space is formed by the discharge holding means
Alternatively, it is characterized in that a continuous holding means for continuing the holding operation with respect to any one of the dispensing ports having an empty space formed by the take-out allowing means is provided.

[0009]

According to the present invention, when the discriminating unit discriminates the number of deposit transactions exceeding the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit at the time of deposit,
The discharge holding means discharges the already-discounted, already-discounted-deposited banknotes held in the temporary holding unit to the outlet, thereby forming an empty space in the temporary holding unit.

When the withdrawal capacity of the withdrawal outlet is exceeded,
The take-out permitting means causes the already-counted deposit banknotes held in the payout port to be taken out of the apparatus to form an empty space in the payout port.

Further, when the depositing capacity of the temporary holding unit or the dispensing port is exceeded at the time of deposit, the continuous holding means continues the holding operation for either the temporary holding unit or the dispensing port having the empty space.

[0012]

[Effects of the Invention] Therefore, even when the number of deposit transactions per transaction exceeds the holding capacity of the temporary holding section, the holding banknotes of the temporary holding section can be transferred to the dispensing port, so that the temporary holding The department can continue to accept the deposit and continue the deposit process. As a result, it becomes possible to perform a deposit process that exceeds the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit.

Further, since the banknotes reserved in the dispensing port can be taken out to the outside of the apparatus, it is possible to continue to allow the banknotes in the dispensing port and to continue the transfer from the temporary storage section. As a result, there is no limit to the holding capacity for the temporary holding unit, and 1
Multiple deposits can be deposited by depositing once.

Further, since an empty space is formed in either the temporary holding unit or the withdrawal port to allow the holding operation at all times, the number of deposit processing is not limited, and one deposit transaction is unlimited. The number of deposits can be processed. As a result, the clerk can efficiently perform the deposit operation in a short time even when the number of deposits is large, and the deposit operability and the deposit processing capability are surely improved.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows a banknote deposit / withdrawal machine used as a teller machine shared by two people, sandwiched from both sides,
As shown in FIG. 1, this banknote depositing / dispensing machine is equipped with a staff operation key 12 such as a start key and a numeric keypad for setting depositing / dispensing, and a display unit 13 on both sides of an upper surface of an apparatus body 11 having a rectangular parallelepiped. In addition, the return port 14
And a deposit port 15 and a dispense port 16.

FIG. 2 shows the internal structure of the apparatus main body 11. A deposit / withdrawal transfer processing group 17 for transferring and processing banknotes is provided on the upper side of the apparatus main body 11, and a cartridge group 18 for accommodating / delivering banknotes is provided below. The upper and lower sides of the apparatus main body 11 are separated into a transport system and a storage system.

The above-mentioned deposit / withdrawal transfer processing group 17 includes the deposit port 1
The banknotes inserted into the banknotes 5 are deposited into the lower cartridge group 18 through the deposit path 19, and the banknotes fed from the cartridge group 18 are dispensed through the dispensing path 16 to the dispensing opening 16 through the dispensing opening 16. Withdrawal processing.

The banknotes inserted into the above-mentioned deposit port 15 are guided to a discrimination section 21 arranged at an upper middle position to discriminate between authenticity, denomination, number of sheets and front and back, and then arranged at a lower inner position. The temporary holding unit 22 is temporarily held. When it is determined that the bills are in the state of being conveyed on the back side at the time of taking in, the bills are guided to the front / back reversing unit 23 to align the front and back, and then guided to the temporary holding unit 22. It is returned to the return port 14 via the return path 24 that is branched and connected.

The above-mentioned temporary holding unit 22 is the deposit store unit 2
It is constructed integrally on the upper part of 5, and is temporarily held here for each deposit transaction and waits for return. Then, every time the deposit transaction is completed, the temporarily held banknotes are stored in the deposit store section 25 below.

From the depositing store section 25, the optimum replenishment timing for operation is selected to replenish the first to third cartridges C1 to C3 of the denominations, and when it is judged that the discrimination is defective, it is collected in the reject cartridge C4. is doing.

On the other hand, at the time of withdrawal, the banknotes fed from the first to third cartridges C1 to C3 are detected by the withdrawal detector 26 on the withdrawal path 20 and then ejected to the withdrawal port 16 and withdrawn. Processing.

The cartridge group 18 described above includes a deposit store section 25 having the above-mentioned temporary holding section 22 and first to third sections.
Cartridges C1 to C3 and reject cartridge C
4 and of which the first to third cartridges C
1 to C3 are equipped with a bill collection and payout function, and store three denominations of 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen by denomination, and the reject cartridge C4 is generated during withdrawal transactions and replenishment processing. Collected defective banknotes and banknotes that have been forgotten.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a control circuit of the bill depositing / dispensing machine, in which the CPU 31 controls each circuit device according to a program stored in the ROM 32, and the control data is RA.
It is stored so that it can be read by M33.

The main motor M drives and controls each conveyance path on the basis of a command signal from the CPU 31, and the conveyance processing state is detected and managed by the banknote detection sensors S arranged at each conveyance position. The distribution solenoid 34 distributes and drives the distribution plate disposed at the branch position of each conveyance path,
The conveyed banknotes are sorted in a predetermined direction. Communication unit 35
Communicates with the center at the time of deposit / withdrawal transaction and each time transaction is completed, and updates the transaction data of the customer.

By the way, when the CPU 31 takes in a large number of deposited banknotes from the deposit port 15 and holds them in the temporary holding section 22, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. For example, although the deposit is permitted up to 200, when the discriminating unit 21 discriminates the number of deposit transactions exceeding 200, the CPU 31 stores the discriminated already stored in the temporary holding unit 22 as indicated by a thick solid line in FIG. The already-discounted deposited banknotes are temporarily stored in the holding unit 22 → the discrimination unit 21 → the dispensing detection unit 26.
The temporary holding section 22 is provided with a transfer function for forming a vacant space.
As a result, even if the number of deposits for one time exceeds the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit 22, the temporary holding unit 22 continues to allow the deposit from the deposit port 16 by the transfer of the deposited banknotes to perform the deposit process. You can continue.

Further, when the CPU 31 reaches the withdrawal limit number of the dispensing port 16 at the time of transferring to the dispensing port 16, the shutter of the dispensing port 16 is opened and the already-counted deposited banknotes are transferred to the outside of the apparatus by a staff member. Withdrawal is allowed, and the withdrawal port 16 has a withdrawal allowing function to form an empty space. As a result, the withdrawal port 16 continues to allow the hold and the temporary hold unit 22
The transfer from can be continued.

Therefore, if an empty space is repeatedly formed in the temporary holding section 22 and the dispensing port 16 to allow the holding operation at all times, there is no limit to the number of deposit processing and the deposit processing is continuously executed. It is possible to process an unlimited number of deposits in one deposit transaction.

The deposit processing operation of the bill depositing / dispensing machine thus configured will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 6 and 7. Normally, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine waits in a state in which depositing or dispensing transactions are permitted (step n1),
When the clerk now deposits a bill into the deposit port 15 (step n2), the deposited bills are taken inside one by one, and when passing through the discrimination section 21 on the deposit path 19, the authenticity, After the denomination, the number of sheets, and the front and back are discriminated, they are guided to the temporary holding unit 22 and temporarily held. At this time, the discriminated data is displayed on the display 13, and when the banknote is on the back side, the front and back reversing section 23 aligns the front and back sides and then the banknote is held in the temporary holding section 22. Further, the banknote determined to be defective in discrimination is returned to the return port 14 through the return route 24 (steps n3 to n6).

At this time, the temporary holding section 2 is used for one deposit transaction.
When the CPU 31 detects that the number of deposit transactions exceeds the number of holding limit of 2 (step n7), this C
The PU 31 discharges the already-discounted, already-discounted-deposited banknotes stored in the temporary storage unit 22 from the temporary storage unit 22 to the dispensing port 16 so as to perform an evacuation operation.
As a result, a vacant space is formed in the temporary holding unit 22, the temporary holding unit 22 continues to allow the holding, and the deposit process is continued. In this case, not only the depositing port 15 but also the dispensing port 16 is temporarily used for the depositing processing section, so that the bill depositing / dispensing machine is used exclusively for depositing process (steps n8 to n11).

Further, when the transfer limit to the withdrawal port 16 is reached at the time of transfer to the withdrawal port 16, the shutter of the withdrawal port 16 is opened and the already-counted deposited banknotes are taken out of the apparatus by a staff member. A vacant space is formed in the dispensing port 16 and the withdrawal port 16 is allowed to continue holding, and the transfer from the temporary holding unit 22 is continued (steps n12 to n14).

As described above, the temporary holding section 22 and the dispensing port 16
By forming an empty space repeatedly and allowing the hold operation at all times, the number of deposit processing is not limited, and the deposit processing can be executed continuously, and an unlimited number of deposits can be made in one deposit transaction. Can be processed (step n15).

On the other hand, if the temporary holding section 22 does not exceed the holding limit number and does not cancel the deposit, the CPU 31 communicates with the center as a normal deposit transaction and updates the deposit transaction data of the customer account (step n16-). n18), then CPU
As the storing process, 31 stores the deposited banknotes in the temporary holding section 22 that have completed the transaction in the deposit store section 23, and then selects the optimal replenishment timing such as waiting from the deposit store section 23 to select the first denomination. ~ Third cartridge C1
~ C3 is replenished (step n19).

At this time, the withdrawal port 16
If the already-deposited deposited banknotes are still held, the banknotes are taken out of the apparatus by an attendant, and the deposited banknotes are held on standby outside the apparatus (steps n20 to n21).

If there are no withdrawal banknotes outside the device, the normal transaction standby state is returned to prepare for the next transaction (steps n22 to n23), and if the withdrawal banknotes are outside the device at the completion of the deposit transaction, This withdrawal holding banknote is used for the deposit port 15
Set to and take it in (steps n24 to n).
twenty five).

The bills thus taken in are discriminated by the discriminating section 21.
After the number of sheets and the front and back are discriminated, they are guided to the temporary holding unit 22, and while displaying the counted number of the re-deposited banknotes on the display 13, the temporary holding unit 22 stores them in the deposit store unit 23 for storage processing ( Steps n26 to n29).

As described above, even when the number of deposit transactions for one time exceeds the holding capacity of the temporary holding section, the holding banknotes of the temporary holding section can be transferred to the dispensing port. The holding unit can continue to accept the hold and continue the deposit process. As a result, it becomes possible to perform a deposit process that exceeds the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit. Further, since the banknotes reserved in the dispensing port can be taken out of the apparatus, it is possible to continue to allow the banknotes to be retained in the dispensing port and to continue the transfer from the temporary storage section. As a result, the holding capacity for the temporary holding unit is not limited, and a large number of sheets can be deposited in one depositing process.

Further, since an empty space is formed in either the temporary holding section or the withdrawal port to allow the holding operation at all times, the number of processed deposits is not limited, and one deposit transaction is unlimited. The number of deposits can be processed. As a result, the clerk can efficiently perform the deposit operation in a short time even when the number of deposits is large, and the deposit operability and the deposit processing capability are surely improved.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described one embodiment, the discharge holding means, the take-out allowing means and the continuous holding means of the present invention correspond to the CPU 31 of the embodiment, but the present invention is described above. It is not limited to the configuration of one embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a bill depositing / dispensing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic internal configuration diagram of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a conveyance explanatory view showing a deposit processing operation of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a conveyance explanatory diagram showing a deposit bill withdrawal operation of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a deposit processing operation of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a deposit processing operation of the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a schematic configuration diagram of a conventional banknote depositing / dispensing machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 15 ... Deposit port 16 ... Withdrawal port 21 ... Discrimination unit 22 ... Temporary holding unit C1 to C4 ... Cartridge 31 ... CPU

Claims (3)

[Claims] Claims: 1. A bill holding unit for discriminating bills deposited in a deposit opening by a discriminating unit, and temporarily holding the bills; a deposit store unit for allowing bills to be taken in from the temporary reserve unit; Banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a banknote that stores the stored banknotes by denomination, and a banknote type cartridge that dispenses the dispensed banknotes to the dispensing port, and the number of deposit transactions exceeding the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit at the time of depositing. A bill depositing / dispensing machine provided with a discharge holding means that discharges the already-counted deposited bills that have been discriminated to the dispensing port when the discriminating section discriminates them. 2. A temporary holding section for discriminating bills deposited in a deposit opening by a discriminating section and temporarily holding the bills, a deposit store section for permitting receipt of bills from the temporary reserve section, and a payout section dispensed from the deposit store section. Banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a banknote that stores the stored banknotes by denomination, and a banknote type cartridge that dispenses the dispensed banknotes to the dispensing port, and the number of deposit transactions exceeding the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit at the time of depositing. When the discrimination unit discriminates, the discharge holding means for discharging the already-discounted already-deposited banknotes to the outlet, and the already-accounted-deposited banknotes discharged to the outlet, and a removal permitting means for allowing the device to be taken out. Banknote deposit and withdrawal machine. 3. A bill holding unit for discriminating bills deposited in a deposit port by a discriminating unit and temporarily holding the bills, a deposit store unit for permitting receipt of bills from the temporary reserve unit, and a deposit store unit for delivering the bills. Banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a banknote that stores the stored banknotes by denomination, and a banknote type cartridge that dispenses the dispensed banknotes to the dispensing port, and the number of deposit transactions exceeding the holding capacity of the temporary holding unit at the time of depositing. When the discrimination unit discriminates, the discharge holding means for discharging the already-discounted already-deposited banknotes to the outlet, and the already-accounted-deposited banknotes discharged to the outlet, and a removal permitting means for allowing the device to be taken out. A banknote depositing / dispensing machine provided with continuous holding means for continuing the holding operation with respect to either the temporary holding part having the empty space formed by the discharging holding means or the dispensing port having the empty space formed by the take-out allowing means.