JPH06274743A - Paper money receiving/dispensing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a paper money receiving/dispensing machine which can be connected to a POS register, can minimize the jam faults, and can be effectively applied in such places as a service station, a 'convensience store' (24-hour open supermarket), etc. CONSTITUTION:A selector means is provided to select a reflux mode where the received paper money is reused as that to be dispensed, and a non-reflux mode where both received and dispensed paper money are individually treated. In a non-reflux mode, the paper money received as the main notes are all stored in a stacker 18 and the Yen1000 and Yen5000 notes used as the balance are dispensed from the reflux stackers 15 and 16. In other words, no paper money is sent back to both stackers 15 and 16 and these stackers are exclusively used for the paper money to be dispensed in the non-reflux mode. Therefore the jam faluts caused in the reflux mode can be decreased.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill depositing / dispensing machine used by connecting to a POS cash register.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, a coin depositing / dispensing machine shown in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-294480 has been known as a coin depositing / dispensing machine used by connecting to a POS register. This coin depositing / dispensing machine distinguishes coins inserted from the deposit port,
It has a depositing mechanism for selectively storing in a coin storage cylinder provided for each type of money and a dispensing mechanism for dispensing the coins stored in the coin storage cylinder to a dispensing port. The money mechanism is connected to a POS cash register, which is a higher-level machine, for calculating the price of purchased products by POS. In such a coin depositing / dispensing machine, of the money received from the customer, the coin portion is received from the deposit port, the received coins are classified into denominations and stored in the coin storage cylinder, and received from the customer. If there is a difference between the purchase price and the purchase price of the product, the change instruction for paying out the coin portion is output from the POS cashier, and the predetermined amount of coin is issued based on this change instruction. I try to pay it out from the money gate.

[0003]

By the way, the coin depositing / dispensing machine shown in the above publication handles only coins, but at present, not only coins but also a bill depositing / dispensing machine which can be used by connecting to a POS cash register. There has been a growing demand for such a banknote depositing / dispensing machine, and it has also been demanded that such a banknote depositing / dispensing machine can be used without trouble even at a gas station or a convenience store where cash managers tend to be absent.

However, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device is only used at the financial institution where the cash manager is always present at present, and the usage range is extremely narrow. That is, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine widely used in financial institutions and the like is a return type that dispenses deposited banknotes as dispensed banknotes, and in such a circulation type banknote depositing / dispensing machine, Since the flow is complicated, jam jams often occur, and if a jam occurs, the jam trouble cannot be solved without opening the inside of the machine to remove the jam banknotes and manually removing it, but in principle Only cash managers can vacate the bills, and therefore gas station of this type is often used only by part-time clerk.
It couldn't be installed in a convenience store as it was.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is possible to connect to a POS cash register and to minimize the occurrence of jam troubles, so that there is no cash manager such as a gas station or a convenience store. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a bill depositing / dispensing machine that can be effectively used even in a apt place.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, in the first invention, a banknote transport path for transporting deposited banknotes inserted into a deposit port, and a deposited banknote provided in the middle of the banknote transport path. Denomination, authenticity, is connected to a deposit discriminating section for discriminating double conveyance, etc., and a banknote conveying path on the downstream side of the deposit discriminating section,
Provided in a return stacker capable of sorting and storing deposited banknotes based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating section and sending the stored deposited banknotes to the banknote transport path as a dispensed banknote, and a banknote transport path downstream of the reflux stacker. Connected to the withdrawal discriminating section for discriminating double-delivery of the dispensed bill and the like, and the bill conveying path on the downstream side of the withdrawal discriminating section, and discriminated as double-conveyance etc. by the withdrawal discriminating section. Based on a storage stacker for storing dispensed banknotes, a dispense / reject port provided at the end of the banknote transport path for dispensing dispensed banknotes, and the like, based on a command from the POS cash register, which is a higher-level machine, A banknote pay-in / pay-out device having a control unit for performing money processing, wherein a return mode for reusing a received banknote as a paid banknote and a non-reflux mode for individually handling the received banknote and the withdrawn banknote are selected. The selection means to
When the recycle mode is selected by the selection unit by the control unit, the deposited bills that have been discriminated as genuine bills and 5,000 bills by the deposit discriminating unit are used as recycle stackers for 1,000 and 5,000 bills. Each of them is stored, and the deposited banknotes that have been discriminated from the original 100,000 bills are stored in the storage stacker.
The five thousand notes are dispensed from the return stacker, and the dispensed banknotes that have been discriminated as normal by the dispenser discriminating unit are conveyed to the dispense / reject port while the dispenser rejects them. When the return mode is selected, all the deposited banknotes that have been discriminated as genuine by the deposit discriminating unit are stored in the storage stacker, and the change 1,000 and 5,000 notes are withdrawn from the return stacker. Among the dispensed banknotes, the dispensed banknotes that are determined to be normal by the dispenser determination unit are conveyed to the dispense / reject port.

In the second aspect of the invention, the control section causes the reject banknote of the deposited banknote, which is discriminated as a counterfeit banknote, a double-conveyed banknote, or the like by the deposit discriminating section, to be conveyed to the withdrawal / reject port,
In addition, reject bills of dispensed bills that are determined to be double-conveyed by the dispense determination unit are stored in the storage stacker.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the return mode is selected by the selecting means, the deposit discriminating unit discriminates the genuine bill and the deposited bills which are discriminated as 5,000. Deposited banknotes that have been stored in respective return stackers for tickets and that have been discriminated as genuine 100,000 bills are stored in the storage stacker, and 1,000 and 5,000 notes that are to be changed are withdrawn from the return stacker. Among the dispensed banknotes, the dispensed banknotes that are determined to be normal by the dispenser determination unit are conveyed to the dispense / reject port.
On the other hand, when the non-refunding mode is selected by the selecting means, all the deposited banknotes that have been discriminated as genuine by the deposit discriminating unit are stored in the storage stacker. Among these dispensed banknotes, the dispensed banknotes that have been determined to be normal by the dispenser determination unit are conveyed to the dispense / reject port. That is, in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the selection unit is free to perform the return mode in which the paid-in banknotes are reused as the paid-out banknotes and the non-returning mode in which the paid-in banknotes and the paid-out banknotes are individually handled. Since it can be selected, if the non-return mode is selected by the selecting means, it is possible to suppress the jam trouble that is likely to occur in the case of the recirculation type (in the recirculation mode) in which the flow of bills is complicated.

In the second aspect of the invention, the deposit discriminating section makes a fake bill,
The reject banknotes of the deposited banknotes that have been distinguished from the double-conveyed banknotes are conveyed to the withdrawal / reject port, and the reject banknotes of the withdrawn banknotes that are determined to be double-conveyed by the withdrawal determination unit,
Since the bills are transferred to a storage stacker that stores bills and bills, a dedicated reject stacker is not necessary for depositing and withdrawing.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A coin depositing / dispensing machine according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
A description will be given based on FIG. First, the overall configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 1. In these figures, reference numeral 1 is a POS cash register operated by a cashier. Moreover, what is shown with the code | symbol 100 is the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 101,
A coin depositing / dispensing machine composed of a coin depositing / dispensing machine 102, wherein the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101 and the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102.
Means that the deposit / withdrawal process is performed according to an instruction from the POS cash register 1. Further, the width dimension of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 101 and the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102 are respectively set to 1/2 of the width dimension of the POS cash register 1.

The POS cash register 1 is based on a bar code of a product read by a bar code reader (not shown), and has a calculation function for calculating the total price of the product. Together with), a total key 2 for ending the barcode reading operation, an amount input key 3 for inputting the amount of cash deposited by the customer, and a display unit 4 for displaying the calculated total amount of the product. A printing unit 5 for printing the name of a purchased product, the amount of the product, the total amount of the product, etc. corresponding to the barcode is provided. And at this POS cash register 1, the calculation of the product is completed,
When the total key 2 is pressed, the POS register control unit C
After displaying the total price of the product on the display unit 4 by 1 (the cashier informs the customer of the total price of the product by referring to the display unit 4), the price received from the customer and the purchase price of the product If there is a difference between the price paid by the customer and the purchase price of the product, a change command is issued to pay out the difference of money (banknote, coin). In addition, this POS cash register 1 is a coin depositing / dispensing machine 100 described later.
It is designed to be mounted on the POS register mounting portion 6 on the upper surface of the.

Next, the construction of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 101 is shown in FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. This banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 101
A deposit port 8 provided on the upper front surface of the machine body 7 for receiving the deposited banknotes and feeding out the deposited banknotes one by one, and a withdrawal / dispensing unit provided on the front surface of the machine body 7 located below the deposit port 8.
The reject port 9 and the deposit port 8 are horizontally arranged in the depth direction of the machine body 7, and after making a U-turn in the middle, they are horizontally arranged toward the front surface of the machine body 7 and finally withdrawal / rejection. The banknote transport path 10 leading to the mouth 9 and the return side route of the banknote transport path 10 are connected via the deposit contact paths 11 and 12 and the withdrawal contact paths 13 and 14, and the deposit contact path 11.
In addition to accumulating and storing banknotes deposited through 12,
A plurality of circulation stackers 15 and 16 for paying out the stored banknotes as payout banknotes through the payout communication paths 13 and 14.
And a storage stacker 18 connected to the banknote transport path 10 located on the downstream side of the return stackers 15 and 16 via a communication path 17, and a banknote transport path located between the deposit port 8 and the return stackers 15 and 16. 10, a bill validator 19 for discriminating the denomination, authenticity, double transport, etc. of the deposited banknotes transported by the banknote transport path 10, and banknotes between the return stackers 15 and 16 and the storage stacker 18. Provided on the transport path 10,
Withdrawal determination unit 20 for determining double-delivery of dispensed banknotes transported by the banknote transport path 10, and a banknote deposit / withdrawal control unit C2 for controlling the banknote transport path 10, return stackers 15 and 16 (FIG. 3)) and the main components.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out device 101 has a selection for selecting either a return mode in which the paid-in banknotes are reused as the paid-out banknotes, or a non-returning mode in which the paid-in banknotes and the paid-out banknotes are individually handled. Means 45 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) are provided. In these selecting means 45, either the return mode or the non-return mode is selected by operating the keys of the cash manager.

In such a bill depositing / dispensing machine 101, as shown in FIG. 4, the bill transport path 10 and the deposit communication path 1 are connected.
The distribution forks 21 and 22 are provided at the respective branch portions with 1 and 12, and the distribution forks 23 are provided at the branch portion between the banknote transport path 10 and the communication path 17. 23 is driven by the banknote pay-in / pay-out control unit C2 based on the selection of the return / non-return mode by the selection unit 45, the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating unit 19, and the discrimination result of the dispensing discriminating unit 20.

That is, in the banknote pay-in / pay-out control unit C2, when the return mode is selected by the selecting means 45, the deposit discriminating unit 19 (1) discriminates the deposited bill as a genuine bill. In the case of doing, only the sorting fork 21 is driven, and the 1,000 tickets are returned to the circulation stacker 1 through the deposit communication path 11.
5) and (2) when the deposited banknote is identified as a genuine 5000 note, only the sorting fork 22 is driven to pass the 5000 note to the return stacker 16 through the deposit communication path 12. (3) When the deposited banknotes are discriminated as genuine bills, the sorting fork 23 is driven to store the 10,000 bills in the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17. ) When the deposited banknote is discriminated as a reject banknote such as a counterfeit banknote or double-conveyance, the sorting forks 21 to 23 are not driven and the reject banknote is moved straight to the dispense / reject port 9. Refund, (5) Reflux stacker 15.1
When it is determined that the return stackers 15 and 16 are full based on the output from the counting unit (not shown) that manages the number of stored bills in the bank 6, only the sorting fork 23 is driven to The deposited bills of genuine bills (1) to (3) are stored in the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17. In addition, the judgment of fullness by the counting means is made by the deposit communication path 11.1
2. An optical sensor (not shown) that directly detects the amount of banknotes in the circulation stackers 15 and 16 even if it is based on the count value of a counting sensor (not shown) provided in the middle of the withdrawal communication paths 13 and 14. It may be based on the detection signal of.

On the other hand, in the banknote deposit / withdrawal control section C2, when the non-reflux mode is selected by the selecting means 45, the deposit discriminating section 19 (1) deposits banknotes in the form of genuine notes,
When it is discriminated that it is 5,000 or 10,000, only the sorting fork 23 is driven to store these genuine bills in the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17. When it is determined that the bill is a reject bill such as heavy transport, the sorting forks 21 to 23 are not driven and the reject bill is moved straight to be paid out from the withdrawal / reject port 9.

Further, the banknote deposit / withdrawal control section C2, when carrying out the dispensing process, sends a thousand tickets from the return stacker 15
Five thousand notes are paid out from the circulation stacker 16. However, when the withdrawal determination unit 20 determines (1) double-conveyed banknotes during the transportation of these thousand and five thousand notes, By driving only the minute fork 23, the bill is rejected to the storage stacker 18 through the communication path 17.
(2) When it is determined that the normal ticket is not double conveyed, the sorting fork 23 is not driven and the normal ticket is paid out from the dispensing / rejecting port 9. Note that the withdrawal process by the bill deposit / withdrawal control unit C2 is the same regardless of whether the recirculation mode or the non-recirculation mode is selected by the selection unit 45.

When the recycle mode is selected, the recycle stackers 15 and 16 store 1,000 and 5,000 notes, respectively, because these bills can be used as change during withdrawal. Therefore, the 10,000-yen bill is stored again in the storage stacker 18 that cannot be withdrawn, together with the withdrawal reject bill.

Next, the structure of the reflux stackers 15 and 16 will be described. These circulation stackers 15 and 16 include deposit and withdrawal paths 24 and 25 connected to the deposit and withdrawal communication paths 11 and 12, and storage sections 26 and 27 connected to these deposit and withdrawal paths 24 and 25. And these storage parts 26 and 27
An elevator plate 28/29 that is vertically movable inside and placed on the upper surface of the banknote, and is provided in the vicinity of the deposit / withdrawal passages 24/25 so that the bills can be inserted / removed and conveyed through the deposit / withdrawal passages 24/25. Lifting plates 28/29 in the storage units 26/27 for the deposited banknotes
Impellers 30 and 31 scraped off one by one, and the storage unit 2
It is provided at the upper position of 6.27 and has kicking rollers 32 and 33 for sending the bills on the lifting plates 28 and 29 toward the payout communication paths 13 and 14.

And such a reflux stacker 15.1
In 6, the impellers 30 and 31 are connected to the deposit / withdrawal path 24 /
25, and the impellers 30 and 31 are rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 4 in accordance with the conveyance of banknotes, so that the deposit connecting passage 11 and 12 and the deposit and withdrawing passage 24.2.
The banknotes conveyed through the respective 5 are impellers 30.3
The sheets are scraped off by 1 and are stacked one by one on the elevating plates 28 and 29 (the elevating plates are in the lowered position) in the storage units 26 and 27. On the other hand, at the time of withdrawal, the impellers 30 and 31 are retracted from the withdrawal and withdrawal paths 24 and 25, and the elevating plates 28 and 29 that were in the lowered position are arranged such that the uppermost surface of the banknote placed on the upper surface thereof is the ejection roller. It is moved up until it comes into contact with 32/33 (by detection of a sensor not shown), and in this state, the kick rollers 32/33 are rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 24 banknote deposit and withdrawal channels
.. 25, and after going straight up and down the deposit / withdrawal passages 24/25, the bill transport passage 1 via the dispensing / withdrawing passages 13/14.
Transported to 0. In addition, the reflux stacker 15 as described above
-Detailed structure of 16 is described in Japanese Patent Application No. 4-248267 filed by the applicant earlier.

Next, the structure of the storage stacker 18 will be described. The storage stacker 18 includes a deposit path 34 connected to the communication path 17 and a storage section 35 connected to the deposit path 34.
And an elevating plate 36 that is provided in the storage section 35 and places the banknotes on its upper surface, and a banknote that is provided in the vicinity of the deposit path 34 and that is transported through the deposit path 34.
Comprising an impeller 37 for scraping off one by one on the upper side, the elevating plate 36 is supported from below by a spring 38, and when a banknote is placed on the upper surface thereof,
It is designed to gradually descend depending on the weight of the bill.

The impeller 37 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 4 in accordance with the conveyance of bills, whereby the bills are scraped off one by one on the elevating plate 36 in the storage section 35. It is supposed to be accumulated. The storage stacker 18 is detachably attached to the machine body 7 and is configured to be detachable from the machine body 7 by operating the key 18A, and manages the keys when the work is completed. Banknotes that were removed from the machine body 7 and stored inside by the person
It has become possible to collect 5,000 banknotes.

Next, the structure of the withdrawal / reject port 9 will be described. The withdrawal / reject port 9 has a separator 41 rotatably supported by a shaft 40 provided on the machine body 7. The upper side partitioned by the separator 41 is the reject port 9A and the lower side is the withdrawal port. 9B. Further, a bill collecting plate 42 and a supporting plate 43 are provided at the rear of the dispensing / rejecting port 9. The banknote collecting / placing plate 42 comes into contact with the rear end of the banknotes accumulated in the dispensing port 9B to collect the accumulated banknotes. The support plate 43 is provided on the shaft 4 provided on the machine body 7.
4 is rotatably supported, and when it is rotated to a tilted position, it forms the same plane as the bottom surface of the dispensing port 9B, while when it is rotated to an upright position,
The stacked banknotes are collected by contacting the rear end of the stacked banknotes stacked in the reject port 9A.

In the dispensing / rejecting port 9 having the above-described structure, the separator 41 is lowered and the support plate 43 is arranged in a standing position at the time of depositing, whereby the depositing port 8 is deposited. Among the bills, reject bills that have been discriminated as counterfeit bills, double-conveyance, etc. are guided to the upper reject port 9A. At this time, the reject bills that are guided and accumulated in the reject port 9A are arranged at the rear end portion by the support plate 43. On the other hand, at the dispensing / rejecting port 9, the separator 41 is raised and the support plate 43 is arranged at a tilted position at the time of dispensing, whereby the dispensing banknotes fed out from the return stackers 15 and 16 are Then, only normal bills that are not double-fed are
Will be guided to. At this time, the dispensing banknotes guided by the dispensing port 9B and accumulated are arranged at the rear end thereof by the banknote arranging plate 42.

Next, the structure of the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102 is shown in FIG.
~ It demonstrates with reference to FIG. This coin depositing and dispensing machine 102
Is provided in the upper part of the machine body 50, and is provided so as to be rotatable in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis and a depositing port 51 for receiving depositing coins. The depositing coins deposited through the depositing port 51 are stored and centrifugalized during rotation. A rotary disc 52 that ejects the deposited coins by force, a deposit transport path 53 that continuously transports the deposited coins that are dispensed from the rotary disc 52 one by one, and a deposit transport path 53 that is connected to the deposit transport path 53. Sorting passages 54 for sorting the received deposited coins by denomination, chutes 55-60 for guiding the deposited coins sorted by denomination by the sorting passages 54, and chutes 55-6, respectively.
The return type hoppers 61 to 66 for receiving and storing the received coins guided by 0 and discharging the stored received coins as withdrawal coins, and the return type hoppers 61 to 61.
A withdrawal conveying path 67 for conveying the withdrawal coins withdrawn from 66, and a withdrawal opening 6 provided at the lower front portion of the machine body 50 for withdrawing withdrawal coins conveyed by the withdrawal conveying path 67.
8, the rotary disk 52, the recirculation hoppers 61 to 66, the coin transfer passage 67, and the like for coin deposit / withdrawal control unit C3 (see FIG. 6).
See) and.

The depositing / conveying path 53 is entirely provided horizontally, and a bending portion 53 which is strongly bent by 90 ° is provided in the middle thereof.
A is provided, and at this bent portion 53A, the coin carried by the deposit carrying path 53 is made to follow a reference rail 73 which will be described later. In addition, a deposit discriminating section 69 (see FIG. 7) for discriminating the authenticity of coins, denominations, etc. is provided in the deposit conveying path 53 located on the upstream side of the bent section 53A. A reject gate 70 and an overflow gate 71, which are opened and closed based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating section 69, are sequentially provided in the deposit conveying path 53 located on the downstream side in the coin conveying direction (see FIG. 9). ).

The reject gate 70 is opened when the deposit discriminating unit 69 determines that the coin is false, and drops the coin determined to be false into the reject gate 70. Reference numeral 71 indicates that when coins of the denomination discriminated by the deposit discriminating unit 69 are already full in the reflux hoppers 61 to 66 (described later), they are opened and dropped into the overflow gate 71. is there. In addition, these reject gates 7
0, opening and closing of the overflow gate 71 is performed by the coin deposit / withdrawal control unit C3.

A storage box 72 (see FIGS. 1, 4, 6, and 9) is detachably provided below the reject gate 70 and the overflow gate 71, and the storage box 72 divides the inside into two parts. Is divided into
The reject coins sorted by the reject gate 70 are supplied to the one storage unit through the chute 70A, and the overflow coins sorted by the overflow gate 71 are supplied to the other storage unit through the chute 71A. ing. And this storage box 7
2 is provided with a key 72A, and the storage box 72 is detached from the machine body 50 by key operation.

Next, the sorting passage 54 for sorting the deposited coins conveyed through the deposit conveying passage 53 by denomination will be described. As shown in FIG. 7, the sorting passage 54 is provided along the coin conveying direction, and is conveyed to the reference rail 73 for guiding the coin and the passage surface 54A at a position slightly separated from the reference rail 73. And the selection holes 74 to 79, which are formed in order from the small-diameter denomination in order from the small-diameter denomination at regular intervals to sort coins in the small-diameter order, and are provided above the passage surface 54, and are provided on the passage surface 54. A deposit transfer belt 80 for transferring coins while pressing them against each other. The deposit transfer belt 80 is arranged such that the interval between the coin transfer belt 80 and the reference rail 73 is gradually narrowed in the coin transfer direction.
Thereby, the peripheral edge of the coin is brought into contact with the reference rail 73. Further, this sorting passage 54 is
As can be seen from the plan view of FIG. 7, the coins are provided so as to gradually approach toward the central portion of the machine body 50 in the coin transport direction, and the end of the sorting passage 54 is located at the central portion of the machine body 50. Has reached.

On the other hand, the reflux type hoppers 61 to 66 are provided with sloping discs for receiving coins supplied through the chutes 55 to 60 through their openings (not shown). This swash disk is rotatably provided in an inclined state, and has a plurality of protrusions for locking and scraping coins one by one on the inner peripheral surface. The coins scraped by the protrusions on the
It is adapted to be paid out to the dispensing and conveying path 67 via a delivery port (not shown). In addition, these reflux type hoppers 6
1 to 66 are arranged in two rows on both sides of the sorting passage 54 as shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, and 1-yen coins are fed to the reflux-type hopper 61 and to the reflux-type hopper 62. Is a 50 yen coin, a reflux hopper 63 is a 5 yen coin, a reflux hopper 64 is a 100 yen coin, a reflux hopper 65 is a 10 yen coin, and a reflux hopper 66 is a 500 yen coin.
Yen coins are stored in each. Also,
The withdrawal conveying path 67 is configured by a belt conveyor horizontally arranged in the front-rear direction in the center of the lower portion of the machine body 50, and withdraws coins withdrawn from the reflux hoppers 61 to 66. By placing it on the belt conveyor, it is transported to the dispensing port 68.

Deposit coins counting sensors (not shown) are provided in the middle of the chutes 55 to 60, respectively, and the deposits supplied to the recirculation type hoppers 61 to 66 based on the counts of the deposit coin counting sensors. The number of coins is counted by denomination. In addition, pay-out coin counting sensors (not shown) are provided in the vicinity of the delivery ports of the reflux type hoppers 61 to 66, respectively, and based on the counts of the pay-out coin counting sensors,
The number of coins dispensed from the reflux hoppers 61 to 66 is counted by denomination. Then, the counting results of the depositing coin counting sensor and the dispensing coin counting sensor are supplied to the coin depositing / dispensing control unit C3, and in this coin depositing / dispensing control unit C3, based on the calculation results of these counting sensors, When the number of coins stored in each of the reflux type hoppers 61 to 66 is calculated, it is determined whether or not the reflux type hoppers 61 to 66 are full, and further it is determined that the return type hoppers 61 to 66 are full. , Full information is output. And
In the coin depositing / dispensing control unit C3, when the denomination indicated by the full information is discriminated by the deposit discriminating unit 69, the overflow gate 71 is opened to sort the coins of the denomination into the storage box 72. To do.

Next, the POS by the POS register control unit C1
The banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101 by the banknote depositing / dispensing control section C2 and the coin depositing / dispensing machine 1 by the coin depositing / dispensing control section C3 based on the operation contents of the cash register 1 and the instruction from the POS cash register control section C1.
The operation contents of 02 will be described.

(1) If the cashier reads the bar codes of all the products purchased by the customer with a bar code reader (not shown) and presses the total key 2 of the POS cash register 1, The total amount of money is displayed on the display unit 4. (2) The cashier informs the customer of the total amount displayed on the display unit 4, and upon receipt of cash from the customer, inputs the total amount into the POS cash register 1 using the amount input key 3. (3) The difference between the purchase price and the received amount is calculated by the POS cash register 1, and if there is a change, the POS cash register 1 of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101 and the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102 are operated by the POS cash register 1. A change command is output to each coin deposit / withdrawal control unit C3, and cash (banknotes and coins, either banknotes or coins) corresponding to the change amount is paid out from each deposit / withdrawal machine 101/102. When the POS cash register 1 calculates that the difference between the purchase price and the received money amount is 0, the change command is not output from the POS cash register 1,
The following operation (4) is performed.

When the change indicated by the change instruction of the POS cash register 1 is a 1,000 note, the kicking roller 32 is driven to make the 1000 note in the return stacker 15 into the deposit / withdrawal path 24 and the withdrawal connection path. 13, withdrawal / reject port 9 through banknote transport path 10
To the withdrawal port 9B. When the change is 5,000 notes, the kick roller 33 is driven to withdraw / reject the 5,000 notes in the return stacker 16 through the deposit / withdrawal path 25, the withdrawal communication path 14, and the banknote transport path 10. A predetermined number of coins are paid out to the withdrawal mouth 9B of the mouth 9. In addition, when the withdrawal determination unit 20 detects the double-conveyance during the withdrawal of such 1,000 or 5,000 notes, the sorting fork 23 is driven to store the double-conveyed bills in the storage stacker 18. Store. On the other hand, change is 1 to 500 yen
If the coin is a yen coin, the corresponding reflux hopper 61
˜66 slanted discs are driven to rotate so that the reflux hoppers 61 to
Coins are paid out from the pay-out port of 66, and the coins are paid out from the pay-out port 68 via the pay-out transfer path 67.

(4) Withdrawal port 9 of the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 101
B, if the change (the bill or the coin or the bill or the coin) delivered from the dispensing port 68 of the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102 is delivered to the customer, the cashier converts the cash received from the customer into the bill and the coin. Separately, each deposit / withdrawal machine 101
・ Inject to the deposit port 8 ・ 51 of 102. Further, in this case, when the cash received from the customer is either a banknote or a coin, the cashier inserts the banknote or the coin into the depositing port 8.51 of the corresponding depositing / dispensing machine 101/102. Further, when there is no need to pay the change, the cashier only inserts the cash received from the customer into the depositing port 8.51 of the depositing / dispensing machine 101/102.

The deposit processing of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 101 and the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102 will be described. (I) When the recirculation mode is selected by the selection means 45, first, in the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 101, the banknotes inserted into the deposit port 8 are fed out one by one toward the inside of the banknote transport path 10.
The banknotes are conveyed along the line, and the banknotes are discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 19 during the conveyance. Then, based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating unit 19, the highest amount of bills (10,000 bills) among the bills that are discriminated as true cannot be reused as change, so that the inside of the storage stacker 18 in front of the withdrawal discriminating unit 20. The bills (thousands and fifty thousandths) of the maximum amount or less are sorted and stored in the circulation stackers 15 and 16 of each denomination. In addition, the bill discriminated by the deposit discriminating unit 19 as false or double conveyance is paid out to the reject / reject port 9A of the withdrawal / reject port 9 as a reject ticket.

(II) When the non-return mode is selected by the selection means 45, first, in the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 101, the banknotes inserted into the deposit port 8 are fed one by one toward the inside of the machine, and the banknote is conveyed. Road 10
The banknotes are conveyed along the line, and the banknotes are discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 19 during the conveyance. Then, based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminating section 19, all the banknotes (10,000, 5000, 1,000) that are discriminated as true are stored in the storage stacker 18, and also false or double conveyance is performed. The discriminated banknotes are
As a reject ticket, the withdrawal / payment to the reject port 9A of the reject port 9 is performed.

On the other hand, in the coin depositing and dispensing machine 102, the deposit port 5
The coins inserted in 1 are fed one by one to the deposit transfer path 53 by the centrifugal force of the rotary disk 52, and the coins are discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 69 during the transfer of the coin transfer path 53. And, as a result of the discrimination by the deposit discriminating section 69, it is true that
The coins that are determined not to overflow in the reflux hoppers 61 to 66 are sent to the sorting passage 54, and the sorting holes 74 to 79 of the sorting passage 54 sort the coins according to the diameter of the coin. Then, the coins sorted in the sorting passage 54 are guided to the return type hoppers 61 to 66 of the respective denominations through the chutes 55 to 60. Further, the coin discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 69 and the coins judged to have overflowed in the return hoppers 61 to 66 are guided to the storage box 72 by the respective reject gates 70 and overflow gates 71.

According to the bill depositing / dispensing machine 101 as described above, when the non-return mode is selected by the selecting means 45, all the deposit bills of genuine bills are stored in the stacker 18.
In addition, the withdrawal banknotes of 1,000 and 5,000 notes, which will be used as change, will be paid out from the recirculation stackers 15 and 16. As a result, in the non-return mode, the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 can be used as a withdrawal-dedicated stacker without depositing banknotes into the recirculation stackers 15 and 16.
It is not necessary to cause these circulation stackers 15 and 16 to perform complicated deposit and withdrawal operations that cause a failure. In other words, in a normal banknote depositing / dispensing machine, when a jam problem occurs in the machine, the machine inside must be opened to remove the jam banknote, and the machine must be manually removed. , You must be a cash manager only. Therefore, with such a non-circulation method, the frequency of failures can be suppressed to a low level, so that it is not necessary to have a cash manager, and thus, the crime prevention management of cash is surely performed without a cash manager. For example, even if only a part-time job clerk such as a convenience store or a gas station that is open late at night works, the POS does not interrupt product calculation and sales operations, and smooth operations can be performed. Become.

By operating the selection means 45 by a key,
When changing the mode from the return mode to the non-return mode, the cash manager needs to store the thousand and five thousand notes to be dispensed bills in the return stackers 15 and 16 without excess or deficiency. Before such a mode change, 1,000-thousand and five-thousand notes are stored in the return stackers 15 and 16 from the deposit port 8 through the banknote transport path 10 in advance. In order to reliably manage the number of bills stored in the return stackers 15 and 16, the return stackers 15 and 16 allow all the bills previously stored to be dispensed. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and is not limited to this, and the bills are fed from the deposit port 8 until the recirculation stackers 15 and 16 are full without discharging the bills previously stored. But good.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, in the recycle mode, all of the genuine bills in the deposited bills and reject bills (thousands, 5,000 bills) in the dispensed bills are stored in the deposited bills in the non-return mode. Although the reject bills (thousands and fifty thousand bills) of the genuine bills and the dispensed bills are stored together in the storage box 18, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, a reject stacker that stores reject bills exclusively, It is also possible to separately provide a 10,000-note stacker for storing the 100-note banknotes and store the reject banknotes and the 10,000-notes in the dedicated reject stacker and the 10,000-note stacker.

The POS cash register control unit C1 of the POS cash register 1, the banknote depositing / dispensing control unit C2 of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 101, and the coin depositing / dispensing control unit C3 of the coin depositing / dispensing machine 102 have the following data. It also processes and controls. That is, PO
In the control section of the S cash register 1, when the deposit processing of the deposited banknotes and coins is completed, the deposit amount based on the discrimination data of the deposit discriminating sections 19 and 69 and the deposit input by the amount input key 3 of the POS cash register 1 It collates with the data and manages whether the cashier has made an operation mistake. And
At this time, if there is a difference (operation error) between the discrimination data and the deposit data, the data indicating the error (for example, difference amount, time, person in charge, etc.) is set to P.
The data is written in the memory of the OS register 1, and the data can be output in response to a request.

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As is apparent from the above description, in the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the first aspect of the invention, the selecting means recycles the pay-in banknote as the pay-out banknote, and the pay-in banknote and the pay-out banknote. It is possible to freely select the non-reflux mode that handles each separately, so if there is no cash manager at a gas station, convenience store, etc. Jam troubles that tend to occur in the case of complicated reflux type (in reflux mode) can be kept low, which enables sales of products by POS even when there are only part-time staff at gas stations, convenience stores, etc. The effect that management can be done without any problems is obtained.

In the second aspect of the invention, the deposit discriminating section makes a fake bill,
The reject banknotes of the deposited banknotes that have been distinguished from the double-conveyed banknotes are conveyed to the withdrawal / reject port, and the reject banknotes of the withdrawn banknotes that are determined to be double-conveyed by the withdrawal determination unit,
Since the bills and the like are conveyed to the storage stacker that stores the bills and the like, a dedicated reject stacker is not necessary for depositing and withdrawing, and thus the apparatus can be simplified and compact.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a positional relationship between a bill depositing / dispensing machine according to the present invention, a coin depositing / dispensing machine, and a POS register.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an appearance of a banknote depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a flow of bills in the bill depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an internal configuration of a bill depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an appearance of a coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing the flow of coins in the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the coin depositing / dispensing machine with the upper surface of the casing removed.

8 is a side view of FIG. 7 viewed from an arrow VIII.

9 is a side view of FIG. 7 viewed from an arrow IX.

FIG. 10 is a front view of FIG. 7 viewed from an arrow X.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 POS Cash Register 2 Total Key 3 Amount Input Key 6 POS Cash Register Placement Section 7 Aircraft 8 Deposit Port 9 Outgoing / Rejecting Exit 10 Banknote Transfer Path 15 Return Stacker 16 Return Stacker 18 Storage Stacker 19 Deposit Checking Section 20 Disbursement Discriminating Section 45 Selector 100 Money deposit / withdrawal machine 101 Banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 102 Coin deposit / withdrawal machine C1 POS cash register control section C2 Banknote deposit / withdrawal control section C3 Coin deposit / withdrawal control section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A banknote transport path for transporting a deposited banknote inserted into a deposit port, and a deposit discriminating section provided in the middle of the banknote transport path for discriminating denomination, authenticity, double transport, etc. of the deposited banknote. When,
It is connected to the banknote transport path on the downstream side of the deposit discriminating section, sorts and stores the deposited banknotes based on the discrimination result of the deposit discriminator, and can return the stored deposited banknotes to the banknote transport path as the dispensed banknotes. A stacker, a banknote transport path on the downstream side of the return stacker, and a withdrawal determination section for determining double transport of dispensed banknotes, and a banknote transport path downstream of the withdrawal determination section. And a storage stacker for storing the dispensed banknotes that have been determined to be double-conveyed by the dispenser determination unit, a dispenser / reject port that is provided at the end of the banknote transport path for dispensing dispensed banknotes, and the like. It is a banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a control unit for performing depositing / dispensing processing based on a command from a POS cash register, which is a machine, and a return mode in which a deposited banknote is reused as a dispensing banknote and a depositing banknote. Select non-return mode to handle withdrawal bills individually The control unit has a selecting unit to be selected, and when the return mode is selected by the selecting unit, the deposit discriminating unit discriminates genuine bills and 5,000 bills for deposit. , Each of them is stored in a return stacker for 5,000 tickets, and the deposited banknotes that have been discriminated from the original 100,000 notes are stored in the storage stacker, and the change 1,000 and 5,000 notes are withdrawn from the return stacker. Among the dispensed bills, the dispensed bills, which are determined to be normal bills by the dispense determination unit, are conveyed to the dispense / reject port, and when the non-reflux mode is selected by the selection unit, the deposit discrimination unit Store all deposited banknotes that have been identified as genuine by the storage stacker,
Withdraw 1,000 or 5,000 tickets that will be change from the recycle stacker,
A bill depositing / dispensing machine, characterized in that, among the dispensed bills, the dispensed bills which are discriminated as normal bills by the dispenser discrimination unit are conveyed to the dispense / reject port. 2. The control unit is a counterfeit bill by a deposit discriminating unit,
Rejected banknotes in deposited banknotes that have been distinguished from double-conveyed banknotes, etc. are transferred to the withdrawal / reject port, and reject banknotes in the withdrawn banknotes that have been determined to be double-conveyed by the withdrawal determination unit are stored in the storage stacker. It is made to store, Claim 1
The described banknote depositing and dispensing machine.