JPH0612542A - Paper money counting machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely take out a desired amount of money by comparing whether or not the counted value of paper money of the 1st kind of money matches a preset value while stopping a payoff and conveyance driving part. CONSTITUTION:Driving signals for driving a kick-out roller 2, a payoff roller 3, a separation belt 4, and the conveyor belt of a conveyance path 5 are outputted to the payoff and conveyance driving part. Further, decision data on paper money decided by a decision part 6 are inputted. Further, it is decided which of a 1st and a 2nd paper money the inputted decision data are concerned in. When the data are concerned in the 1st paper money, the output of the driving signal for driving the rollers 2 and 3, the belt 4, and the belt of the conveyance path 5 is stopped. At this time, the kick-out roller 2, payoff roller 3, and separation belt 4 stop before the conveyance belt of the conveyance path 5, so paper money in a stacker part 1 are never paid off after the output of the driving signals is stopped.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill counting machine for counting bills and paying them out.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A bill counting machine of this type is one in which bills to be inserted into a stacker unit are fed out and conveyed one by one, and after discriminating the denomination, authenticity, etc. of the bills, the bills are successively collected in a stacking unit. What is known is. And, as a function of such a banknote counting machine, the banknotes in which the denominations are in a mixed state are processed to calculate the total amount of money, etc.
While detecting bills of different denominations mixed therein (error stop when different denominations are detected), a desired number of bills of the same denomination were taken out (batch processing).

[0003]

By the way, since the above-mentioned bill counting machine does not have a function of presetting the amount of money, the bills loaded in the stacker section (a group of bills of almost the same denomination) When counting and taking out a desired amount of bills, both the denomination and the number of bills are designated in advance, and the bills are discriminated based on these designated conditions (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-91794). ). Therefore,
In the banknote counting machine as described above, if the desired amount of money is preset and the counting is determined, for example, when the desired amount of money is reached with the first one, at the time when the first banknote is determined. , Even if the feeding / conveying of the bills after that is stopped, a few bills have already been fed / conveyed to the conveying path during that period, and as a result, bills having a desired amount or more are accumulated in the accumulating unit. There was a problem of being lost. this is,
This is because the bills are being processed at high speed, so that when the comparison process ends, the next bill has been delivered from the stacker unit.

In order to solve such a problem, the amount of money is preset and the denomination of the bill to be discriminated,
You can also enter the number of bills to be paid out,
When inputting such a plurality of data, there is a problem that the operability of the bill counting machine itself is deteriorated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and prevents the banknotes having a preset value or more from being fed out from the stacker section, and thereby reliably assures only the banknotes of a preset desired amount. An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote counting machine which can be paid out to a user with good operability.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a feeding / conveying drive unit for feeding out bills one by one from a stacker unit and conveying the bills to a stacking unit via a conveyance path. In the banknote counter having a discriminating unit that discriminates the bills fed to the transport path and outputs the discrimination result as discrimination data, a preset mode designation key for designating a preset mode and a preset mode are designated. Discriminating denomination storage unit that stores the denomination of the first bill fed out from the stacker unit as the discriminating denomination when the operating unit has a numeric keypad for inputting a preset value that is the desired payout amount. And a discriminant number storage unit that stores the number of bills discriminated by the discriminating unit as the discriminant number every time the bill is discriminated, and a preset value, the denomination of the first bill. Counting number calculating means for calculating the counted number of bills to be discriminated by dividing, counting number storage section for storing the counting number calculated by the counting number calculation means, and preset mode designated by the operation section Under the condition,
And a counting process control unit for controlling the counting number storage unit,
Based on the discrimination data from the discriminating unit, the counting processing control unit determines whether or not the bill fed out from the stacker unit is the first bill, and when the bill is the first bill, the feeding / conveying is performed. The drive unit is temporarily stopped, and the counted number calculation unit is caused to calculate the counted number of bills to be discriminated by dividing the preset value by the denomination of the bill, and the counted number storage unit is caused to count the counted number. When the number of banknotes output from the stacker unit is two or more, the first counting determination processing function of storing the number of banknotes stores the number of banknotes in the determination number storage unit every time the determination data is input. It is stored as the number of discriminated sheets, and it is determined whether or not the discriminant data of the discriminator matches the discriminant denomination stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit. Counts stored in the copy It has a second counting judgment processing function for judging whether or not they match, and further, the counted number of sheets calculated by dividing the preset value by the judgment money type is 1 by the first counting judgment processing function. If there is a certain number, the banknote counting determination process is terminated, and if it is a natural number other than 1, the determination denomination storage unit stores the denomination of the first banknote as the determination denomination in the determination denomination storage unit. Further, when the discrimination data coincides with the discrimination denomination and the discriminated number does not coincide with the counted number by the second counting discriminating processing function, the feeding / conveying drive unit carries out the feeding / conveying of the bill. On the other hand, when the discriminating data does not match the discriminating denomination or the discriminating number matches the counted number, the feeding / conveying drive unit is made to stop the feeding and conveying of the bills.

[0007]

According to the present invention, it is determined whether or not the bill output from the stacker is the first bill based on the discrimination data from the discriminating unit, and when the bill is the first bill, it is fed out.・
The transport drive unit is temporarily stopped, and (1) the denomination of the bill is stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit as the discriminant denomination. When the counted number of bills to be discriminated is calculated by dividing by (3), when the counted number is 1, the bill discriminating process is ended, and when it is a natural number other than 1, the discriminant denomination storage unit On the other hand, the denomination of the first bill is stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit as the discriminant denomination. That is, with respect to the first denomination, the processes (1) to (3) for comparing whether or not the count value of the bill matches the preset value are performed by stopping the feeding / conveying drive unit. Therefore, when this banknote delivered from the stacker unit reaches the preset value with this one banknote, no more banknotes are delivered into the transport path, and thus the banknote of the preset desired amount of money is taken out to the stacking unit. You can

When there are two or more banknotes output from the stacker unit, every time the banknote discrimination data is output, the discrimination data is stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit. Of the banknotes paid out from the stacker unit by determining whether or not the number of banknotes discriminated and the number of discriminated banknotes coincide with the counted number stored in the counted number storage unit. It was determined whether the total amount of money matches the preset value. That is, it is determined whether or not the bill discriminating data matches the discriminating denomination (stored in the discriminating denomination storage unit), and the discriminating number of the bills is stored in the counted number (stored in the counted number storage unit). It is determined whether or not the bills paid out from the stacker unit match the preset value by the two comparisons and determinations of comparing whether the bills match with the preset value. It is possible to shorten the time required for. Therefore, when the total amount of bills matches the preset value, it is possible to immediately output an instruction to stop feeding / conveying, and to prevent bills having the preset value or more from being fed from the stacker unit. The preset desired amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. First, the schematic configuration of the bill counting machine will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a stacker unit in which banknotes (banknotes of almost the same denomination) are loaded in an accumulated state, and the stacker unit 1 has a lower portion at the bottom of the accumulated banknotes. A kicking-out roller 2 for kicking out the located banknote is provided.
The bills kicked out by the feeding roller 3 and the separating belt 4 are fed to the conveying path 5 one by one. The surface of the separating belt 4 on the side in contact with the feeding roller 3 is moved in the direction opposite to the direction in which the banknotes are conveyed, whereby two banknotes kicked out by the kicking roller 2 are superposed. In order to prevent the above, the sheets are separated one by one and sent to the conveyance path 5.

A discriminating unit 6 is provided in the middle of the conveying path 5. The discriminating unit 6 discriminates the denominations of the bills sent out one by one, and the bills are different denominations. Whether it is a bill of a denomination different from the majority of denominations loaded in the stacker unit 1 or not, it is determined whether or not it is a genuine note. At the end of the transport path 5, a collection vehicle 7 is installed.
Are provided, and the banknotes conveyed one by one by the stacking car 7 are stacked in the stacking unit 8. In FIG. 1, the reference numeral 9 is a detection sensor for detecting the presence or absence of banknotes in the stacker unit 1. Further, the bill counting machine includes an operation unit 10 (see FIG. 2) as an input unit, a display unit 11 as an output unit, and an alarm unit 1.
2 (see FIG. 2) are provided.

Next, a control mechanism for controlling the bill counter of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. The control mechanism has a counting process control unit 100, and inputs and outputs signals to and from the counting process control unit 100. The determination unit 6, the operation unit 10, the display unit 11, the alarm unit 12, and the determination information storage unit 1
3, a counted number calculation unit 14, a counted number storage unit 15, a stacker unit bill detection unit 16, and a feeding / conveying drive unit 17. Each of these components will be described.

The operation unit 10 has a ten-key pad 10A, an amount counting mode designating key 10B, and a preset mode designating key 10C. The amount counting mode designating key 10 is used to operate the bill counting machine shown in FIG. 1 is designated by the preset mode designation key 10C in advance (that is, preset) by the preset mode designation key 10C.
A preset mode for paying out a desired amount of bills is designated. The desired amount of money to be paid out when the preset mode is specified (that is, the preset value)
Is set by the ten keys 10A. Further, these keys 10A to 10C are operated by the operator.

The discriminating information storage unit 13 stores the discriminating number storage unit 13A which increments the "discrimination number" of the bills discriminated by the discriminating unit 6 by one each time the bills are discriminated.
Then, among the bills discriminated by the discriminating unit 6, after the discrimination is started, the discriminant denomination storage unit 13B that stores the data as a reference, that is, the “discriminate denomination” as the denomination of the first bill. I have. In addition, this discrimination denomination storage unit 13B
As the data to be stored in, for example, a pattern obtained by optically reading the first bill may be stored as it is, and denominations such as 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen may be stored. The counted number calculation unit 14 divides the desired amount of money set in the operation unit 10 by the denomination stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit 13B at the time when one bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 6, The number of bills to be discriminated by the discriminating unit 6 is calculated as the "counted number". Further, the counted number storage unit 15 stores the “counted number”, which is the number of bills to be discriminated, which is calculated by the counted number calculation means 14.

The stacker banknote detecting means 16 detects the presence or absence of banknotes in the stacker section 1 based on the detection signal output from the detection sensor 9. Feeding / transporting unit 1
Reference numeral 7 drives the kicking roller 2, the feeding roller 3, and the separation belt 4, and also drives a conveyor belt (not shown) that constitutes the conveyor path 5. By these drives, banknotes are transferred from the stacker unit 1. The bills are fed one by one and the bills are conveyed to the stacking unit 8 through the conveying path 5. On the other hand, the display unit 11 displays the total amount of bills discriminated by the discriminating unit 6 and the content of the error when an error occurs in the counting discrimination process. The alarm unit 12 informs the operator of the occurrence of an error by an alarm.

Next, the discriminating section 6, the operating section 10, and the display section 1
1, the alarm unit 12, the discrimination information storage unit 13, the counted number calculation unit 14, the counted number storage unit 15, the stacker unit bill detection unit 16, the control contents of the counting process control unit 100 for controlling the feeding / conveying drive unit 17. Will be described step by step with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In addition,
The flowchart shown in FIG. 3 is executed when the preset mode is designated by the preset mode designation key 10C.

<< Step 1 >> A drive signal for driving the kicking roller 2, the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance belt (not shown) of the conveyance path 5 is output to the feeding / conveying drive unit 17. To do. << Step 2 >> The discrimination data of the bill discriminated by the discrimination unit 6 is fetched. << Step 3 >> It is determined whether the discrimination data fetched in Step 2 is for the first bill or for the second and subsequent bills, and if YES (first bill), Step 4 If NO (second sheet or more), go to step 10.

<< Step 4 >> The kicking roller 2 for the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 output in Step 1 above,
The output of the drive signal for driving the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance path 5 is stopped. At this time, the kick roller 2, the feeding roller 3, and the separation belt 4 are configured to stop first with respect to the transport belt of the transport path 5, so that the output of the drive signal is stopped and then the stacker unit 1 is stopped. The bills of No. will not be delivered to the transport path 5. This also applies to step 12. << Step 5 >> The denomination of the bill is discriminated from the discrimination data fetched in Step 2. In this step 5, the discrimination data is compared with the reference data for the front and back sides of the thousand, five thousand, and ten thousand tickets that have been stored in advance. Species "). Further, the counting number calculating means 14 is caused to calculate the number of bills discriminated by the discriminating section 6. That is,
By calculating "preset amount of money ÷ discrimination type",
The number of bills to be paid out from the stacker unit 1 (“counted number”) is calculated. Further, the counted number calculated at this time is stored in the counted number storage unit 15.

<< Step 6 >> In the calculation of "preset amount / discrimination denomination" in step 5, it is determined whether or not "remainder" is present, that is, whether or not it is a natural number, and YES.
If it is (not a natural number), it is regarded as an abnormal one and the process proceeds to step 7. If it is NO (is a natural number), it is regarded as a normal one and the process proceeds to the next step 8. << Step 7 >> An alarm signal indicating that an abnormality has occurred is output to the display unit 11 and the alarm unit 12. << Step 8 >> It is judged whether or not the counted number is 1 based on the "counted number" which is the calculation result of the step 5, and in the case of YES, it is determined that the preset desired amount of bills has been paid out. Finish this flowchart,
In the case of NO, it is determined that the desired amount has not been reached yet, and the process proceeds to the next step 9.

<< Step 9 >> The discrimination denomination storage unit 13B stores the denomination of the first bill discriminated in step 5 as the discrimination denomination, and thereafter returns to the original step 2. << Step 10 >> It is determined whether or not the discrimination data acquired in Step 2 is the same as the denomination (see Step 9) of the first bill stored in the discrimination denomination storage unit 13B,
As a result, in the case of YES, the process proceeds to the next step 11, and in the case of NO, the process proceeds to step 7 to output an alarm signal indicating that an abnormality has occurred to the display unit 11 and the alarm unit 12, and The output of the drive signal for driving the kicking roller 2, the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveying path 5 to the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 is stopped. << Step 11 >> The number of discriminated bills is detected from the number of discrimination data fetched in the step 2, and the discriminated number storage unit 13A stores the discriminated number. That is, each time this step 11 is performed, the "discrimination number" stored in the discrimination number storage unit 13A is incremented by one. On the other hand, it is determined whether or not the "determined number" matches the "counted number" stored in the counted number storage unit 15 (see step 5). If YES, the process proceeds to the next step 12, or N
If O, go to step 13.

<< Step 12 >> The kicking roller 2 for the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 output in Step 1 above,
The output of the drive signal for driving the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance path 5 is stopped. << Step 13 >> Based on the output of the stacker section bill detecting means 16, it is judged whether or not there is a bill in the stacker section 1, and if YES, the process returns to the original step 1, and
If NO, go to the next step 14.

<< Step 14 >> The kicking roller 2 for the feeding / conveying drive unit 17 output in Step 1 above,
The output of the drive signal for driving the feeding roller 3, the separation belt 4, and the conveyance path 5 is stopped. << Step 15 >> The display unit 11 is caused to display the bills to be inserted into the empty stacker unit 1 so that the operator inserts new bills into the stacker unit 1. wait. << Step 16 >> Based on the output of the stacker banknote detecting means 16, it is determined whether or not a banknote has been inserted into the stacker section 1. If NO, wait for the insertion of banknotes, and if YES, the original step 1 Return to.

As described in detail above, according to the bill counting machine shown in the present embodiment, the process for comparing whether or not the count value of bills matches the preset value for the first denomination ( Steps 5 to 8) are performed by stopping the feeding / conveying drive unit (see Step 4). Therefore, when this banknote fed from the stacker unit 1 has a preset value No more bills are fed out into the transport path, so that the preset amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit 8.

In the present embodiment, steps 1 to 9 of the flowchart of FIG. 3 correspond to the "first counting determination processing function of the counting processing control section" shown in the claims. Also, steps 1 to 3, step 7, step 10
Nos. 16 to 16 indicate "the second of the counting processing control section".
Corresponding to "count determination processing function".

[0024]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the bill counting machine of the present invention, the process of comparing whether or not the count value of bills matches the preset value for the first denomination. Is performed by stopping the feeding / conveying drive unit, so when one of the bills fed from the stacker unit reaches a preset value, no more bills are fed into the feeding path, and With this, it is possible to reliably take out the banknotes of the desired amount preset by the stacking unit. On the other hand, the bill counting machine of the present invention is configured so that the preset desired amount of bills can be reliably taken out to the stacking unit only by inputting the preset value, that is, the preset value and the amount of bills to be paid out. Since it is not necessary to input the seed and the number of sheets, high operability is obtained in this respect.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a bill counting machine.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control mechanism of the bill counting machine.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the control contents of a counting process control unit of the control mechanism shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 6 Discrimination Section 10 Operation Section 10A Numeric Keypad 10B Preset Mode Designation Key 13 Discrimination Information Storage Section 13A Discrimination Number Storage Section 13B Discrimination Kind Storage Section 14 Counted Number Calculation Means 15 Counted Number Storage Section 17 Feeding / Conveying Drive Section 100 Counting Processing Control Section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A feeding / conveying drive unit for feeding out bills one by one from a stacker unit to convey the bills to a stacking unit via a conveyance path, and discriminating the bills fed out to the conveyance path. To input a preset mode designation key for designating a preset mode and a preset value, which is a desired amount of money to be paid out, when a bill counting machine having a discrimination unit for outputting a result as discrimination data is designated. A numeric keypad, a discrimination denomination storage unit that stores the denomination of the first bill fed from the stacker unit as a discrimination denomination, and the number of bills discriminated by the discrimination unit. The number of bills to be discriminated is calculated by dividing the preset number storage unit that stores the number of bills to be discriminated each time it is discriminated and the preset value by the denomination of the first bill. Counting number calculation means, a counting number storage section for storing the counting number calculated by the counting number calculation means, and the feeding / conveying drive section and the discriminating section on condition that the preset mode is designated by the operation section. , A discriminant denomination storage unit, a discriminated number storage unit, a counted number calculation unit, and a counting process control unit for controlling the counted number storage unit, wherein the counting process control unit is based on the discrimination data from the discriminating unit. , It is determined whether the bill fed out from the stacker unit is the first bill, and when the bill is the first bill, the feeding / conveying drive unit is temporarily stopped, and A first counting discrimination processing function of calculating the counted number of bills to be discriminated by dividing the preset value by the denomination of the bill, and storing the counted number in the counted number storage unit; and a stacker unit Output from When the number of bills is two or more, each time the discrimination data is input, the discrimination number storage unit stores the number of bills as the discrimination number, and the discrimination data of the discrimination unit is Determines whether or not the discriminant denomination stored in the discriminant denomination storage unit matches, and also determines whether or not the discriminated number matches the counted number stored in the counted number storage unit. And a second counting determination processing function, wherein the first counting determination processing function ends the bill counting determination processing when the counted number of sheets calculated by dividing the preset value by the determination denomination is 1. However, when it is a natural number other than 1, the discriminant denomination storage unit stores the denomination of the first banknote as the discriminant denomination in the discriminant denomination storage unit. , The discrimination data matches the discrimination denomination, and When the number of coins does not match, the feeding / conveying drive unit continues to feed and convey the bill, and when the discrimination data does not match the discrimination denomination, or when the discrimination number matches the counted number, the bill is fed out. A bill counting machine characterized in that feeding and feeding of bills is stopped by the feeding drive unit.