JPH0585953B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a plurality of banknote automatic machines, such as automatic teller machines, automatic teller machines, and currency exchange machines, which are placed in each bank branch, etc., and which automatically deposit and withdraw money. Regarding a banknote processing system device that manages a group of handling machines and allows the banknotes to be recycled and reused, in particular, banknotes that can count and distribute the banknotes of each automatic banknote handling machine from a centralized machine at one location. The present invention relates to processing system equipment.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, various types of automation have progressed at banks, etc., and in the mechanized corner of each branch as well as the main branch of banks, there are automatic deposit and withdrawal machines that automatically deposit and withdraw funds for customers.
Automatic banknote handling machines such as ATMs), cash dispensers (CDs), and money changers are installed, and customers can automatically withdraw banknotes using transaction media such as cards or money transfers. The bank is now open for extended hours even after bank counters are closed. The number of automatic banknote handling machines has increased from a minimum of a few in each bank branch to two-digit numbers in many branches, and the number of such machines is expected to increase in the future. Moreover, in recent years, recycling automatic teller machines have been developed and put into practical use, allowing deposited banknotes to be recycled within the machine and withdrawn directly. There is also an Online Tellers Machine (OTM) exclusively for bank employees (tellers).

By the way, even though mechanization has progressed as described above, various automatic banknote handling machines are operated independently and are not mutually managed and operated. Therefore, in reality, there are differences in the amount of withdrawals and deposits for each automatic banknote handling machine, and these differences vary from day to day, and also vary depending on the environment of the cashier corner. Some machines have a lot of withdrawals, while others have a few withdrawals, and there have been problems with the machines running out of banknotes or overflowing during operation, forcing them to stop operating. In addition, in order to prevent such problems from occurring, bank employees must constantly manage the situation, which leads to an increase in the number of employees.
Furthermore, there was a drawback that funds could not be managed effectively, such as when one machine of a plurality of automatic banknote handling machines was short of banknotes, while the other machine had an excess of banknotes.

Therefore, in recent years, with the increase in the number of automatic banknote handling machines mentioned above, it is possible to improve the efficiency of operating funds by managing the various automatic banknote handling machines in appropriate groups and circulating the banknotes in these machines. There is a growing demand for a group recycling system. However, in order to realize this system, it was necessary to centrally manage operating funds so that banknote handling operations such as tabulation could be performed efficiently.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been developed in view of the above circumstances, and allows automatic monitoring of the storage status (full or insufficient) of banknotes inside each of a plurality of automatic banknote handling machines, and allows staff to store banknotes in each automatic banknote handling machine. There is no need to check the storage status of banknotes one by one, and when an automatic banknote handling machine is full or short of banknotes, the banknote storage cassette allows staff to collect or load the required number of banknotes without directly touching the banknotes. To provide a banknote processing system device that can be used simply and efficiently, and is useful for increasing the efficiency of banknote handling operations, preventing mistakes and troubles, and furthermore preventing excess or shortage of cash in each automatic banknote handling machine. The purpose is also

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the banknote processing system device of the first invention has a stacking unit for storing banknotes to be withdrawn or deposited banknotes, and a plurality of units for performing withdrawal transactions or deposit transactions. a banknote automatic handling machine, a banknote takeout/accumulation part provided in each of the plurality of banknote automatic handling machines and configured in common to each banknote automatic handling machine, and a banknote takeout/accumulation part inserted into the banknote takeout/accumulation part of each of the above-mentioned banknote automatic handling machines. A banknote storage cassette which is removably attached and receives and stores banknotes from the stacking unit in the automatic banknote handling machine when installed in the banknote takeout and stacking unit, and storage of banknotes in the plurality of automatic banknote handling machines. A central control device that monitors whether the banknote handling machine is fully distributed and instructs the automatic banknote handling machine for which it has been confirmed that the banknote handling machine is fully distributed how many banknotes to collect; The present invention is characterized by comprising means for collecting the banknotes stored in the stacking section in the automatic banknote handling machine into the banknote storage cassette based on the number of banknotes to be collected as instructed by the control device.

In order to achieve the above object, the banknote processing system device of the second invention has a stacking unit for storing banknotes to be withdrawn or deposited banknotes, and a plurality of units for performing withdrawal transactions or deposit transactions. a banknote automatic handling machine, a banknote takeout/accumulation part provided in each of the plurality of banknote automatic handling machines and configured in common to each banknote automatic handling machine, and a banknote takeout/accumulation part inserted into the banknote takeout/accumulation part of each of the above-mentioned banknote automatic handling machines. A bill storage cassette that is removably attached and stores bills to be loaded into the stacking section inside the automatic bill handling machine when it is attached to the bill taking out and stacking section; A monitoring device that monitors whether the banknotes are in a shortage state, an access device that stacks the required number of banknotes in the banknote storage cassette when the monitoring device confirms that there is a shortage of banknotes, and each automatic banknote handling machine. When a banknote storage cassette in which banknotes have been accumulated by the access device provided in each banknote is attached to the banknote takeout and stacking section of an automatic banknote handling machine that has been confirmed to be in short supply of banknotes, the banknotes in the banknote storage cassette are removed from the banknote storage cassette into the banknote handling machine. and means for loading the container into the accumulating section.

In the banknote processing system device having the configuration according to the first invention, the central control device automatically monitors whether or not the storage state of banknotes in each automatic banknote handling machine is full. Instructs the automatic banknote handling machine for which the number of banknotes to be collected is to be determined. Based on this instruction, the required number of bills stored in the stacking section of the automatic bill handling machine is automatically stored in the bill storage cassette installed in the bill collection section of the automatic bill handling machine, and the bills are collected together with the cassette. become able to. This eliminates the need for staff to check the storage status of banknotes in each automatic banknote handling machine, which helps prevent excess cash, and allows staff to easily and efficiently handle banknote storage cassettes without directly touching the banknotes. It is possible to collect banknotes from each automatic banknote handling machine, thereby increasing the efficiency of banknote handling operations and preventing mistakes and troubles from occurring.

In the banknote processing system device configured according to the second aspect of the invention, the monitoring device automatically monitors whether or not the storage state of banknotes in each automatic banknote handling machine is in a shortage state, and also confirms that there is a shortage of banknotes. If this happens, the access device automatically stacks the required number of banknotes in a banknote storage cassette, and this banknote storage cassette is attached to the banknote takeout and stacking section of the automatic banknote handling machine that has been confirmed to be in short supply of banknotes. The banknotes in the cassette can be automatically taken into and loaded into the stacking section inside the automatic banknote handling machine. This eliminates the need for staff to check the storage status of banknotes in each automatic banknote handling machine, which helps prevent cash shortages, and allows staff to conveniently and efficiently store each banknote storage cassette without directly touching the banknotes. It is possible to load banknotes into each automatic banknote handling machine, thereby increasing the efficiency of banknote handling operations and preventing mistakes and troubles from occurring.

[Embodiments of the invention]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The banknote processing system device of the present invention will be described below with reference to an illustrated embodiment. In addition, in this embodiment, as described later, a mobile safe such as a self-propelled robot is provided as a cassette transport means for transferring and transferring banknote storage cassettes between various automatic banknote handling machines and a central machine to achieve automation. However, in banks and the like where there is little space for the installation of rails and the like for mobile safes, bank employees may manually attach and detach bill storage cassettes between various automatic bill handling machines. First of all, Figure 1 is an example of a bank store, where 1 is the outer wall of the store, 2 is the lobby, and 3 is the outside wall of the store.
4 is the lobby counter, 4 is the step-in corner called the cash service corner, 5 is the teller's office, and 6 is the safe.

Various automatic banknote handling machines are installed in the above-mentioned stores. In other words, on the teller office 5 side of the counter 3, a plurality of online tellers machines 7 are installed side by side along the counter 3, so that each bank employee or two people can use one machine. There is. Further, in the step-in corner 4, several automatic teller machines 8 and automatic teller machines 9 are installed side by side. Furthermore, in the corner of the lobby 2, there is a currency exchange machine 10 with a free combination of banknotes and coins, and a lobby-type automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 11, and in the vault 6 there is a central machine (concentrated remote monitor; CRM). 12, and a banknote sorting and bundling machine (cash sorter; CS) 13 which can classify the good and bad of banknotes and also bundle them.

In addition, each online teller's machine 7 in the counter 3, an automatic teller machine 8 in the step-in corner 4, an automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9, an automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 11 in the lobby 2, a money exchange machine 10, a central machine 12 in the vault 6, Each automatic banknote handling machine of the banknote sorting and bundling machine 13 has a banknote storage cassette 16, which will be described later, and also serves as a cassette transport means for loading and unloading a common banknote storage cassette to and from the group of automatic banknote handling machines.
Two mobile safes (Group Recycling Modules; GRM) 14, such as traveling carts, are provided so as to be able to travel on rails 15 forming a conveyance path. Note that the rail 15 can be gradually extended and attached, and is finally laid so as to pass near the back surfaces of all of the automatic bill handling machines, etc. mentioned above. Further, another movable safe 14A is provided at one end of the rail 15 in a lead-in line. Reference numeral 17 in the figure is a banknote storage cassette shelf, on which the banknote storage cassettes 16 of the automatic banknote handling machines can be collected.

Next, Figure 2 shows the above Online Terrors Machine 7.
This is a cross-sectional view of the machine main body 18, which has three denomination-based bill ejection/accumulation sections 20, 2 arranged in upper, middle, and lower stages on the front side of the machine body 18.
1 and 22, and a banknote retrieval/accumulation section 23 for loading and examining banknotes is provided at the upper part of the rear side, each having a banknote accumulation/extraction mechanism 19 at its inner depth, and each of the banknote retrieval/accumulation sections 20, 21, 22 , 23, banknote storage cassettes 16 are set in the banknotes cassettes 16, which can be freely inserted and removed. Furthermore, an inspection section 24 is installed in the rear middle section of the machine body 18 to inspect the bills one by one while they are being conveyed.・Tape pasting) identification・
Inspect transportation pitch, skew, etc. In addition, in the figure, 25 is a reject banknote storage section provided at the lower front side of the machine body 18, 26 is a deposit port provided at the top, and 27 is a payout port. Bill conveyance paths with sorting gates are provided between each of the above-mentioned sections. Figure 3 shows the flow of banknotes in this online tellers machine 7.
This will be explained with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 shows the flow of banknotes P during the deposit operation, in which the banknotes P separated and taken in one by one from the deposit slot 26 pass through the inspection section 24 and are sorted by each denomination as shown by solid lines. For example, 1,000 yen banknotes, 1K,
As shown by 5K of 5,000 yen banknotes and 10K of 10,000 yen banknotes, the banknotes are temporarily accumulated and stored in the banknote collection and collection units 20, 21, and 22 according to predetermined denominations. Further, banknotes P that are determined to be reject notes by the inspection unit 24 are separated from the regular conveyance path and stacked at the withdrawal port 27 as shown by the dotted line in the figure.
The money is then transferred to the deposit slot 26 and the re-deposit operation is repeated. After the deposit operation is completed, the operator presses an approval button (not shown), and the transaction is established through online communication with another bank or branch.
The various banknotes P that have been temporarily stored are transferred to each denomination banknote collection unit 20, 21, 2.
The banknotes are stored in each of the two banknote storage cassettes 16. Further, when the operator presses a non-approval button (not shown), the above-mentioned transaction is not completed and the various banknotes P that have been temporarily stored are all returned to the withdrawal port 27 through the withdrawal route described below.

FIG. 4 shows the flow of banknotes P during a withdrawal operation. When an amount (denomination number) designation button (not shown) is pressed, online communication is performed, and then the banknote collection and collection units 20, 21, 22 for each denomination are The required number of coins are taken out in order, passed through the inspection section 24 one by one, and withdrawn to the withdrawal port 26. Further, banknotes P determined to be rejected by the inspection unit 24 as being inappropriate for withdrawal, etc., are rejected to the reject banknote storage unit 25 as shown by the dotted line in the figure. In addition, when the above-mentioned reject occurs, naturally, the corresponding amount of banknotes P is taken out again from the corresponding denomination banknote collection/accumulation section 20, 21, 22 and replenished.
The required amount is accumulated in the withdrawal port 27.

FIG. 5 shows the basic flow of banknotes P during an automatic inspection operation. The purpose of this operation is to take out all the banknotes P stored in the banknotes P and count them.The operation is to take out all the banknotes P stored in the banknotes one by one from the banknote storage cassette 16 of each denomination banknote takeout/accumulation section 20, 21, 22 in the same manner as in the withdrawal operation. All the bills are passed through the inspection section 24 and counted while being moved and accumulated in the bill storage cassette (group recycling cassette) 16 of the bill removal and accumulation section 23 for loading and inspection. Note that the banknotes P determined to be rejected by the inspection unit 24 are separated and stacked in the payout port 27 as shown by the dotted line, and if necessary, they are re-inserted from the deposit port 26 and re-scrutinized into the banknote storage cassette 16 of the banknote removal and stacking unit 23. It is also possible to do so.

FIG. 6 shows the basic flow of banknotes P during automatic loading operation, and automatic loading refers to the above loading. While inspecting and counting the carefully examined banknotes P in the banknote storage cassette of the banknote retrieval/accumulation unit 23 for inspection or set in the banknote storage cassette 16 for group recycling to be described later, the banknote retrieval/accumulation unit 20 for each denomination, The banknotes are distributed and stored in the banknote storage cassettes 16 21 and 22. That action is loading. The banknotes P are taken out one by one from the banknote storage cassette 16 set in the scrutinizing banknote retrieval/accumulation unit 23 and passed through the inspection unit 24 to be sorted by each denomination while being sorted into banknotes by denomination in the banknote retrieval/accumulation unit 20, 21, 22. into the banknote storage cassette 16. At this time, the banknotes P determined to be rejected by the inspection unit 24 are accumulated in the reject banknote storage unit 25.

In FIG. 2, the reference numeral 28a denotes a bill remaining insufficient detector, and the reference numeral 28b denotes a bill full detector, which are respectively provided at the bottoms of the denomination-specific bill takeout/accumulation sections 20, 21, and 22. Reference numeral 29 in the figure is a transmitter/receiver for optical communication provided on the rear surface of the machine main body 18, which transmits various command signals to be described later to the mobile safe.
4.

Next, the mobile safe (GRM) 14 of the cassette conveying means mentioned above will be explained with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. FIG. 7 is an external view of the movable safe 14, which is designed to run on two left and right rails 15 forming a conveyance path. In other words, numeral 30 in the figure is a lower unit in the form of a running trolley, and a driving wheel 31 is provided in this lower unit 30 so as to be rotationally driven by a driving drive motor 32, and the unit runs on the left and right rails 15 together with the driven wheel 31a. . This lower unit 30 has a built-in cable reel 34 for winding up the AC power cable 33 led out along the rail 15, and is wound by a reel drive motor 35.
It is now possible to rewind. Further, a power source section 36 for controlling the movable safe 14 is built into the lower unit 30. A safe section 37 is provided on the upper part of the lower unit 30 via a turning device 38 such as a turntable, and is driven to rotate 180 degrees reciprocatingly by a turning motor 38a. It is designed to be able to handle automatic banknote handling machines installed in The upper safe section 37 has a box-like shape with one end and the top open, and the inside is partitioned into front and back sections from the center, and a total of four cassettes are arranged in two upper and lower stages in each of the front and back sections. Storage parts A, B,
C and D, each of which can accommodate one banknote storage cassette (for group recycling) 16. In addition, the upper safe section 37 has front and rear upper and lower cassette storage sections A, B and C, respectively.
A lifting drive motor 39, a chain conveyor 40 interlocked with the driving motor 39, a lifting guide 41, and the like are provided as lifting means for vertically moving D by predetermined strokes. Furthermore, each bill storage cassette 16 in the front and rear upper and lower cassette storage sections A to D is pushed out from the open end side and loaded into a target automatic bill handling machine, or vice versa. The cassette insertion/removal means for pulling it out and taking it into its own cassette storage section includes a drive motor 42 for advancing and retracting the cassette, a transmission chain 43 interlocked with the drive motor 42, and a transmission chain 43 that rotates the chain 43 via, for example, a rack and pinion (not shown). The slide body 44 moves forward and backward in the direction shown by the arrow in FIG.
A push plate 45 is mounted on the slide body 44 to push out the banknote storage cassette 16, and a claw mechanism 46 is also installed at the tip of the slide body 44 to pull the banknote storage cassette 16 in. The claw mechanism 46 has a rotating claw 47 attached to the slide body 44 by rotatably pivoting the proximal end thereof.
When this rotary claw 47 is always rotated upwardly and advanced to the automatic banknote handling machine side, the banknote removal and accumulation section 2
Groove 1 formed at the bottom of bill storage cassette 14 in 3
6a, and a rotating claw 47 that resists the spring 48.
and a claw release solenoid 49 that operates to remove the claw from the groove 16a. With the above configuration, the banknote storage cassette 16 can be freely inserted into and removed from the banknote removal/accumulation section 23 for loading and inspection, which has different heights depending on the automatic banknote handling machine.

In FIG. 7, reference numeral 50 denotes a transmitter/receiver for optical communication, and the mobile safe 14 operates through optical communication with the transmitter/receiver 29 of each automatic banknote handling machine (self-running, stopping,
It transmits and receives command signals for rotation, elevation, insertion and removal by moving the banknote storage cassette forward and backward, etc.
It is provided not only on the open side of one end of the upper safe section 37 but also on the opposite side (not shown) if necessary, so as to cope with the case of turning 180 degrees.

9 is a schematic side sectional view of the automatic teller machine 8 exclusively for withdrawals installed in the step-in corner 4 in FIG. A power supply control section 53 is provided at the bottom of the dispensing unit 51, and a screen display device 54 for providing operational guidance is provided at the upper front side of the power supply control section 53. The above-mentioned dispensing unit 51 is arranged in two stages, upper and lower, on the rear side of the interior.
1K and 10K banknotes retrieval stacking sections 20 and 22, similar to those shown in the figure, are provided in the banknote retrieval mechanism 1, respectively.
9A, a banknote shortage detector 28a, and a banknote full detector 28b, each of which also serves as a banknote loading device, and separates banknotes P of 1,000 yen and 10,000 yen from the back side of each banknote. The stored banknote storage cassette 16 can be inserted and removed. Each of these banknotes P is stored in a banknote storage cassette 16.
The money is taken out from the bank, passed through the simple inspection section 24A, inspected for stacking, shape discrimination, skew, etc., and then accumulated in the temporary accumulation section 55 of the withdrawal port 27, after which it is handed over to the customer according to a predetermined operation procedure (known to the public). . Also, banknotes P that have been determined to be rejected by the simple inspection unit 24A
are accumulated in the reject banknote storage section 25, and banknotes P that the customer has forgotten to take in the temporary accumulation section 55.
is configured to be collected in a collection warehouse. A transmitter/receiver 29 for optical communication is also provided on the rear side of the automatic payment machine 8.

FIG. 10 is a schematic side sectional view of the banknote circulation type automatic teller machine (ATM) 9 installed in the step-in corner 4 in FIG. Printing device 6
1 is provided. Also, the deposit/withdrawal unit 6
0 has a banknote ejection/accumulation section 2 similar to that shown in FIG.
0, 21, 22, and 23 are bill stacking and taking out mechanisms 1, respectively.
9, a banknote shortage detector 28a, and a banknote full detector 28b, and a banknote storage cassette 16 is inserted into the banknote collection/accumulation section 20, 21, 22, 23 of each stage. . Note that the banknote takeout/accumulation section 23 at the top stage is for loading and examining banknotes, and the detectors 28a and 28b are not provided here.
A banknote storage cassette 16 for group recycling is designed to be removably inserted from the back side. In addition, the banknote removal and accumulation parts 20, 2 in the lower three tiers
Reference numerals 1 and 22 are for denominations in which banknotes P are stored in each banknote storage cassette 16, divided into denominations of 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen from the bottom. In the depositing operation of the automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9, the banknotes P inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port 62 provided at the upper part of the front side are taken in one by one by the taking-in roller 63, and the above-mentioned second
Inspection section 24B with front and back discrimination function added to the one shown in the figure
While various types of discrimination are made through the
The banknotes are stored in the banknote storage cassettes 16 of the respective denomination-based banknote takeout/accumulation sections 20, 21, and 22 for each denomination. In addition, the withdrawal operation is performed by taking out the required number of banknotes P one by one for each denomination from the banknote storage cassettes 16 of the denomination-specific banknote take-out/accumulation sections 20, 21, and 22 of each stage, and then taking out the required number of banknotes P one by one for each denomination. The money will be withdrawn to the deposit/withdrawal port 62 through the bank 24B. Furthermore, at the time of automatic inspection, all the banknotes P in the banknote storage cassettes 16 of the denomination-specific banknote collection/accumulation sections 20, 21, and 22 of each tier are taken out in order, and passed through the inspection section 24B to the top tier of banknotes for loading and inspection. The banknotes are stacked in the banknote storage cassette 16 of the take-out and stacking section 23. On the other hand, when automatically loading,
Banknotes P from inside the top banknote storage cassette 16
The bills are taken out one by one, passed through the inspection section 24B, sorted by each denomination, and then distributed and stored in the bill storage cassettes 16 of the denomination-specific bill removal and accumulation sections 20, 21, and 22 of the corresponding stage. . Note that this also includes a reject banknote storage section 25 and a collection warehouse 56 for forgotten banknotes similar to those described above. Further, a transmitter/receiver 29 for optical communication similar to the above is provided on the rear side.

FIG. 11 is a side sectional view of the lobby-type banknote circulation type automatic teller machine (ATM) 11 in FIG. 1, which is a modified version of the automatic teller machine 9 shown in FIG. Components having the same configuration as those in the above are given the same reference numerals, and explanations of their configuration and operation will be omitted. By the way, in the case of this lobby type, there are three denomination-based banknote collection/accumulation sections 20 for banknotes P,
21, 22 and the reject banknote storage section 25 are arranged at the front side of the deposit/withdrawal unit 60, so that it is convenient for the staff to maintain the banknote storage cassette 16 and the reject store of these sections from the front door 71 side. be. Further, the banknote retrieval/accumulation section 23 for loading and inspection is disposed at the upper rear side of the deposit/withdrawal unit 60, where the banknote storage cassette 16 cannot be directly maintained by the staff, and the banknote storage cassette 16 is connected to the movable safe 14 of the above-mentioned cassette conveying means. It is designed to be inserted and removed by Other than that, it is the same as the automatic teller machine 9 described above.

Furthermore, FIGS. 12 and 13 are an external perspective view and a side sectional view of the central bank machine (CRM) 12 installed in the vault 6 in FIG. The banknote storage cassette 16 carried by the mobile safe 14
In addition to extracting and replenishing the banknotes P from the banknotes, the banknotes P that have been replenished and sampled are inspected. This is for alignment. This access device 80 has a more complete configuration of the online teller's machine 7 shown in FIG. 2, and as shown in FIG. established,
A bill storage cassette 16 can be inserted into and removed from each of the cassettes from the rear side. In other words, it is possible to simultaneously replenish banknotes P of different denominations, or to inspect the banknotes with two banknote storage cassettes 16 set at the same time. In addition, a banknote aligning unit 82 is provided at the rear lower part of the inspection unit 24B, where the banknotes P determined to be backs by the inspection unit 24B can be stacked once as necessary and then taken out again to align the front and back sides. ing. Furthermore, an auxiliary inspection section 24C that discriminates only the denomination is provided so that the destination of the banknotes P accumulated in the banknote alignment section 82 can be determined. As with the online teller's machine 7 shown in Fig. 2, the deposit port 26 and the withdrawal port 27 are designed so that the clerk can manually load and take out banknotes P. The banknote storage cassette 16 by denomination can be inserted and removed by an attendant, and banknotes P can be set manually. Naturally, a transceiver 29 for optical communication is also provided on the rear side of the access device 80.

In addition to the above, the concentrator 12 has a journal printing device 90, as shown in FIG.
It is possible to display journal contents, display errors, and display input information from the keyboard 92. Although not shown, it is equipped with a floppy disk for storage, a line adapter for online connection, and a line connection with a central computer if necessary.

Further, all the automatic bill handling machines and the bill storage cassettes 16 that are inserted into and removed from the movable safe 14 described above are common.

Although the banknote sorting and bundling machine 13 installed in the vault 6 in FIG. 1 is not shown in detail, by setting the banknote storage cassette 16, the banknotes P inside it
The banknote storage cassette storage shelf 17 is configured to store the banknote storage cassettes 14 of each automatic banknote handling machine and the mobile safe 14, so that all banknotes can be stored at night or on holidays. It can be used to centrally and safely store the storage cassettes 14 in the vault 6, or to prepare and store a spare banknote storage cassette 14.

Control of the banknote processing system having the above-mentioned configuration will now be explained with reference to FIG. 14. First, the running control of the movable safe 14 of the cassette conveying means will be explained.
When an insufficient amount of ten thousand yen banknotes P is detected in 6, the automatic teller machine 8 transfers the money to the central machine 12 via one automatic teller machine 9 set as the group's master machine in the step-in corner 4. An alarm signal is sent to the automatic banknote handling machine monitoring device 100 of . In response to this alarm signal, the group recycling central control device 10
1 instructs the banknote storage cassette access device 80 of the central machine 12 to prepare 10,000 yen banknotes P, and the access device 80 loads the required number of 10,000 yen banknotes P into the banknote storage cassette 16 of its own banknote retrieval and accumulation section 23. Collect and prepare. At this point, the mobile safe 14 is on rail 1.
5, stops at a predetermined position behind the concentrator 12, and performs a receiving operation for the banknote storage cassette 16 in which the 10,000 yen banknotes P are prepared. The transmission/reception device 50 of the mobile safe 14 informs the central machine 12 via optical communication that the receipt of the banknote storage cassette 16 has been completely completed.
The central machine 12 sends back a running signal to the mobile safe 14 to go to the automatic teller machine 8. The mobile safe 14 then moves on its own, and at this time the automatic teller machine 8 continues to transmit the mobile safe stop signal from its transmitter/receiver 29, and the mobile safe 14 then moves on its own and stops. Stop when you receive a signal. That is, the banknotes P in the banknote storage cassette 16 arrive at the rear position of the automatic teller machine 8 where the remaining amount is insufficient and stop.

When the mobile safe 14 stops, the automatic teller machine 8 first sends the money to the withdrawal unit 51 from the transmitter/receiver 29.
A command is sent to the movable safe 14 to remove the banknote storage cassette 16 with an insufficient amount of ten thousand yen banknotes from the banknote takeout/accumulation unit 22 in the banknote collection unit 22 . The movable safe 14 which has received this command pulls and stores the banknote storage cassette 14 with insufficient amount of banknotes into the empty cassette storage section D of the safe section 37 shown in FIG. 7 using the claw mechanism 46. When this operation is completed, the movable safe 14 pushes out the banknote storage cassette 16, which has prepared and carried ten thousand yen banknotes P, in response to a command from the automatic payment machine 8, and transfers them to the banknote collection/accumulation section 22 of the automatic payment machine 8. It works when installed. When performing the cassette insertion/removal operation, the movable safe 14 reciprocates on the rail 15 and moves the cassette storage section up and down in accordance with the cassette insertion/removal position.

When the insertion/removal of the banknote storage cassette 16 is completed, the mobile safe 14 moves by itself to the original concentration machine 12 based on the return command sent from the central machine 12, and is transported by the same transmission and reception as described above. The banknote storage cassette 16 that has been received is sent to the empty banknote collection/accumulation section 23 of the access device 80 of the central machine 12, and the access device 80 that receives it removes the remaining banknote P in the banknote storage cassette 16 by one sheet. The banknotes are taken out one by one, passed through the inspection section 24B, and stored in the banknote storage cassette 16 of the denomination-specific banknote removal and accumulation section 22.

Next, to explain the case of the automatic teller machine 9 shown in FIG. All the banknotes can be carefully stored in the banknote storage cassette 16 of the top loading/scrutinizing banknote retrieval/accumulation section 23, and conversely, they can be stored in the banknote storage cassette 16 of the banknote retrieval/accumulation section 20, 21, 22 for each denomination.
Since the banknotes P can also be distributed and loaded into the cassettes 6 and 6, insertion and removal of the cassettes is performed only at the uppermost stage. For example, if it is detected that the banknotes P in any denomination banknote storage cassette 16 are full, the automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9 will stop the transaction with the customer and deposit the specified number of banknotes or the number of banknotes ordered by the central machine 12. The excess banknotes P are taken out from the full banknote storage cassette 16 and transferred to the banknote storage cassette 16 of the banknote takeout/accumulation section 23 at the top. When this transfer is completed, the automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9 starts transactions with the customer again, and at the same time, uses the same communication control as described above to cause the mobile safe 14 to carry the empty banknote storage cassette 16 and move on its own. command. When the movable safe 14 receives this and moves to the rear side of the automatic teller machine 9 and stops, the movable safe 14 first stores the excess banknotes P of the automatic teller machine 9 by mutual command transmission and reception. Banknote storage cassette 14
The user then pulls out the banknote storage cassette 14 toward himself and pushes the empty banknote storage cassette 14 carried thereinto into the top banknote takeout/accumulation part 23 of the automatic teller machine 9. The mobile safe 14 is a banknote storage cassette 1.
4, return to the concentrator 12 and load it into the banknote takeout/accumulation section 23 of the access device 80.
The access device 80 takes out the excess banknotes P in the accepted banknote storage cassette 16 one by one, sorts them by denomination, and separates them into banknotes taking out and stacking parts 20 and 2 for each denomination.
The banknotes are distributed and stored in 1 and 22 banknote storage cassettes 16.

In addition, as mentioned above, the automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9 is designed to stop transactions with the customer during banknote inspection/loading operations, but as another method, the automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9 can If it is detected that an operation (for example, card insertion) has been performed, the automatic examination and automatic loading of banknotes will be temporarily suspended, and the examination and loading will be resumed after the transaction with that customer is completed. That way, you won't have to keep your customers waiting. In this case, the banknote shortage detector 28a and the banknote full detector 28b of the automatic deposit/dispensing machine 8 are set with enough room for the transaction section at the lowest position.

In addition, the online teller's machine 7 located inside the lobby counter 3 in FIG. 16, the banknotes P are replenished or withdrawn.

Furthermore, since the exchange machine 10 shown in FIG. 1 is a so-called automatic deposit/withdrawal machine that accepts cash and releases exchange money, the drawing and explanation of the internal structure will be omitted, and the amount of banknotes remaining inside it will be omitted. The automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9 also performs banknote replenishment and withdrawal operations when the banknotes are insufficient or full.
Since it is similar to the case of , the explanation will be omitted.

Next, in the banknote storage cassette access device 80 of the central machine 12 shown in FIG.
The upper and lower two banknote collection stacking sections 2 of the automatic teller machine 8 shown in the figure
Since the banknote storage cassettes 16 0 and 22 are each for group recycling and can be inserted into and removed from the movable safe 14, it is desirable that the two banknote storage cassettes 16 can be accessed at the same time.
For this reason, for example, a thousand yen bill P at the automatic teller machine 8
If there is a shortage of 400, 600,000,000 yen banknotes P, the banknote retrieval/accumulation section 23 in the upper and lower two stages of the access device 80
The banknote storage cassette 16 containing 400 1,000 yen bills P and the banknote storage cassette 16 containing 600 600 yen banknotes P are simultaneously deposited in the mobile safe 14 and transported, and then transferred to the automatic teller machine 8.
The banknotes are loaded into two upper and lower banknote collection/accumulation sections 20 and 22. Therefore, the movable safe 14 also has a total of four cassette storage sections A to D so that two banknote storage cassettes 16 can be delivered at the same time.

For example, if the automatic teller machine 9 accessed by one banknote storage cassette 16 is out of two or more types of banknotes, for example, 400 1,000 yen banknotes,
Assuming that there are 600 1,000 yen bills, the access device 80 of the central machine 12 stores 1,000 yen bills in one bill storage cassette 16 of the banknote takeout/accumulation section 23 on either the upper or lower level.
Prepare a total of 1000 banknotes P, 400 banknotes and 600 million yen banknotes, and move this banknote storage cassette 16 to the safe 1.
4 receives the banknotes and transports and attaches them to the banknote shortage machine. Upon receiving this, the machine loads the 1000 banknotes P in the banknote storage cassette 16 by its own loading operation.
The banknotes are divided into respective denominations and distributed and replenished to the denomination-specific banknote collection units 20 and 22. Conversely, in the automatic deposit/withdrawal machine 9, etc., the banknote storage cassette 16 of the banknote ejection/accumulation section for each denomination has multiple stages.
Even if the banknotes become full at the same time, there is no need for support because the excess banknotes P of each denomination can be collected in the banknote storage cassette 16 of the banknote takeout/accumulation section 23 at one location and drawn out and conveyed by the movable safe 14.

Further, the movement, shortage, fullness, error occurrence, etc. of banknotes P during the operation of group recycling as described above are all monitored and controlled by the central machine 12. In other words, the automatic banknote handling machine monitoring device 10 of the central machine 12
0. The online teller's machine monitoring device 102 monitors whether the banknote storage cassettes 16 for each denomination of each automatic banknote handling machine are full, insufficient, presence or absence of banknotes, etc., and if there is an abnormality (full, insufficient, etc.), a notification will be sent to that effect. is displayed on the screen display device 91 to alert the staff, and is also recorded by the journal printing device 90. Furthermore, if a problem with group recycling occurs in any of the automatic banknote handling machines, the relevant automatic banknote handling machine is separated from the group recycling using a toggle switch on the keyboard 92 by manual operation by an attendant. Furthermore, although the above-mentioned group recycling is normally performed automatically, it can be manually switched by a switch on the keyboard or by inputting from a numeric keypad, and it is also possible to change the specified number of recycled sheets as necessary during automatic operation.

Next, each automatic bill handling machine can perform automatic inspection and loading at the end of the day's business or when necessary, but all these inspection and counting results can be displayed on the screen display device 91 of the central machine 12, and The data can be recorded using the printing device 90, making it easy to tally the data. At this time, the automatic teller machine 8 cannot be automatically inspected and loaded in the dispensing unit 51, so the automatic teller machine 8 is transferred to the central machine 1 via the mobile safe 14.
The banknotes P together with the banknote storage cassette 16 are carried into the banknote 2 and counted. Further, the banknotes of each denomination in the access device 80 of the central machine 12 can be automatically inspected and automatically loaded using the banknote storage cassette 16 for group recycling, so there is no problem in tabulating the banknotes.

Furthermore, as described above, all the banknotes P of each automatic banknote handling machine can be concentrated in the concentrator 12 if necessary, so that the banknotes P can be easily managed, and all banknote storage cassettes 16 of each banknote handling machine are the same Since these cassettes are set in a separate banknote sorting and bundling machine 13, the banknotes can be automatically sorted and bundled, reducing the need for staff to walk around the store carrying banknotes. Become.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, normally two mobile safes 14 are operated, but when there are many transactions and it is not possible to make it in time, a spare mobile safe 14A on the lead-in line of the rail 15 is also used.

In addition, if you do not want to confuse the banknotes P of the group of online teller's machines 17 with those of other groups because the people in charge of the automatic banknote handling machines are different, use a dedicated mobile safe 14 for each group. It is possible to avoid confusion of banknotes.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG.
However, since the group recycling centralized control device 101 is not directly connected to the central control device 103, each automatic banknote handling machine can be operated independently.
Pause is free.

It is also possible to separate the mobile safe 14 from the central machine 12 and operate it for small group recycling. For example, if you want to apply the group recycling method described above to the four online tellers machines 7 in the lobby counter 3, or the four automatic teller machines 8 and automatic deposit/withdrawal machines 9 in the step-in corner 4 as a small group unit, use the master Operates in slave mode. In other words, if one master machine in the small group is provided with the small group recycling control device 105 and the banknotes P are always kept in the mobile safe 14, banknote recycling operations can be performed in the small group. Become. Note that if the control device 105 is distributed and arranged in each automatic banknote handling machine, it can be realized without using the master-slave system. In this case, the number of banknotes is managed by the storage memory in the mobile safe 14 and notified to the staff. That is, the inflow and outflow of banknotes is inspected by each automatic banknote handling machine and the movable safe 14, and the number of banknotes is managed by the movable safe 14, and then the transceiver 29, 5
A signal is sent to the automatic banknote handling machine by optical communication via 0, and a conventional remote monitor alerts the staff to the shortage of banknotes, fullness of banknotes, etc., as well as informing them of the number of banknotes remaining to carry out management operations.

In the above embodiment, the mobile safe 14 has four cassette storage sections A to D, but it may have one or two cassette storage sections. However, if you cannot automatically inspect and load banknotes yourself, such as the automatic teller machine 8, please temporarily store the banknotes in the banknote storage cassette 1.
6 and move it to another location (such as the central bank 12), it is necessary to reinstall the bill storage cassette 16 from the mobile safe 14. Therefore, in this case, the time taken to move the mobile safe 14 increases, and the efficiency of group recycling decreases accordingly. If the dispensing unit 51 of the automatic teller machine 8 were configured to circulate banknotes like the automatic teller machine 9, the above-mentioned problems would be eliminated; however, this would make the automatic teller machine 8 complicated and large. This could lead to a significant increase in costs.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, the banknote storage cassette 16 is common to all automatic banknote handling machines for sorting denominations, checking and loading, and for group recycling inserted and removed by the mobile safe 14, making management and handling simple and easy for staff to handle. It is also possible to carry and manually set banknotes, and it also becomes possible to manually circulate banknotes between groups.

In addition, all the bill storage cassettes 16 of each automatic bill handling machine can be stored in the bill storage cassette storage shelf 17 by the movable safe 14, so that the banknotes P can be easily concentrated and safely stored in the vault 6. It can be stored in the back and can be effectively used for crime prevention when the store is closed at night or on holidays. Also, prepare and place a spare bill storage cassette 16, or use the bill storage cassette 1 of a malfunctioning automatic bill handling machine.
It is convenient because it can also be used to store 6.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Since the banknote processing system device of the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to automatically monitor the storage status (full distribution or shortage) of banknotes inside each of the plurality of automatic banknote handling machines, and the staff can automatically monitor each banknote handling machine. There is no need to check the storage status of banknotes in the handling machine, and for automatic banknote handling machines that are full or short of banknotes, the banknote storage cassette allows staff to store the required number of banknotes without directly touching the banknotes. It is possible to easily and efficiently collect or load paper money, which improves the efficiency of banknote handling operations, prevents mistakes and troubles, and also helps prevent excess or shortage of cash at each automatic banknote handling machine. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention.
The figure is a layout of various automatic banknote handling machines, etc. in a bank store that has adopted the group recycling method using the banknote processing system of the present invention, Figure 2 is a side sectional view of the online teller's machine, and Figure 3 is the same as in Figure 2. Deposit operation explanatory diagram showing the flow of banknotes during deposit operation of the online teller's machine, Figure 4 is also an explanatory diagram of withdrawal operation, Figure 5 is also an explanatory diagram of automatic scrutiny operation, and Figure 6 is also an explanatory diagram of automatic scrutiny operation.
7 is an external perspective view of the movable safe, FIG. 8 is a partially omitted mechanical diagram of the means for inserting and removing the bill storage cassette from the automatic bill handling machine of the movable safe, and FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of the automatic loading operation. Figure 10 is a side sectional view of the automatic teller machine, Figure 10 is a side sectional view of the automatic teller machine, and Figure 11 is a side sectional view of the automatic teller machine.
Figure 12 is a side sectional view of a lobby type automatic teller machine, Figure 12 is an external perspective view of a centralized machine, Figure 13 is a side sectional view of the banknote storage cassette access device of the central machine, and Figure 14 is a side sectional view of a lobby type automatic teller machine.
The figure is a block diagram showing the control of the banknote processing system. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11... automatic banknote handling machine, 1
2... Concentrator, 14, 15... Cassette conveying means, 1
6...Banknote storage cassette, P...Banknotes.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A plurality of automatic banknote handling machines that have a stacking section for storing banknotes to be withdrawn or deposited banknotes and perform withdrawal transactions or deposit transactions; and the plurality of banknotes described above. A banknote retrieval/accumulation section provided in each of the automatic banknote handling machines and configured in common to each of the automatic banknote handling machines; and a banknote retrieval/accumulation section removably installed in the banknote retrieval/accumulation section of each of the automatic banknote handling machines and installed in the banknote retrieval/accumulation section. a banknote storage cassette that receives and stores banknotes from a stacking section in the automatic banknote handling machine when the banknote is loaded; A central control device that instructs automatic banknote handling machines that have confirmed that the banknotes are fully distributed as to the number of banknotes to be collected, and a central control device installed in each automatic banknote handling machine based on the number of banknotes to be collected as instructed by the central control device. 1. A banknote processing system apparatus, comprising means for collecting banknotes stored in a stacking section in the automatic banknote handling machine into the banknote storage cassette. 2. A plurality of automatic banknote handling machines having a stacking section for storing banknotes to be withdrawn or deposited banknotes and performing withdrawal transactions or deposit transactions, and each of the plurality of automatic banknote handling machines mentioned above. a banknote retrieval/accumulation section provided and commonly configured in each of the automatic banknote handling machines; and a banknote retrieval/accumulation section of each of the automatic banknote handling machines that is removably attached to the banknote retrieval/accumulation section, and when the banknote is installed in the banknote retrieval/accumulation section. A banknote storage cassette that stores banknotes to be loaded into a stacking section in an automatic handling machine; a monitoring device that monitors whether the banknotes in the plurality of automatic banknote handling machines are insufficient; and the monitoring device an access device that stacks the required number of bills into a bill storage cassette when a shortage of banknotes is confirmed, and a banknote storage cassette provided in each automatic bill handling machine and into which banknotes are accumulated by the access device, when a banknote shortage is detected. A banknote handling system device characterized by comprising means for loading banknotes in a banknote storage cassette into a stacking unit in a verified automatic banknote handling machine when the banknote storage cassette is installed in a banknote takeout and stacking unit of the automatic banknote handling machine. .