JPH0646426B2 - Banknote processor - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a method of loading banknotes in a banknote handling machine used in a banknote handling machine such as an automatic vending machine or a currency exchange machine.

(B) Conventional Technology In recent years, there is an increasing demand for vending machines and currency exchange machines that receive high-value banknotes and pay out low-value banknotes as change currency or currency exchange money. As described above, as a bill processing device capable of processing two types of bills, one type of bills to be inserted is stored in the escrow unit, and when there is a request to return the bills, it is taken out from the escrow unit and paid out. Kaisho 59-1609
There is a device disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 4 publication. In the device of this publication, since the dispensed banknotes are covered only by the inserted banknotes, a large amount cannot be dispensed, and it is unsuitable as a device for dispensing change currency or currency exchange currency. Therefore, a loading function is indispensable in a bill processing device that dispenses bills as change currency or currency exchange currency. However, loading in the banknote handling apparatus is generally performed by exchanging a banknote cassette that is filled with supplementary banknotes in advance, and in this case, the apparatus is required to perform a stable payout operation in order to removably install the cassette. There is a drawback that the device becomes complicated and a storage unit for storing the inserted bill is required in addition to the cassette, and the device becomes large.

(C) Object of the Invention The present invention provides a banknote handling apparatus capable of loading banknotes into a banknote storage portion for input banknotes.

(D) Configuration of the Invention The present invention is a bill processing apparatus incorporated in a bill handling machine as a separate device, and an insertion slot into which at least two types of bills, a high-priced bill and a low-priced bill, are inserted, and a bill inserted into the insertion slot. A bill discriminating unit that discriminates the appropriateness and type of bills, a bill stack unit that stores low-price bills in a stack, and a bill stored in the bill stack unit in response to a control signal from the bill handling machine. An ejection device, a bill storage unit that receives high-value bills, and a bill that is controlled by the bill handling machine and that is inserted into the insertion slot is transferred to the bill identification unit, and appropriate according to the determination result of the identification unit. A transfer device for transferring the determined banknote to the banknote stack section or banknote storage section, a banknote loading switch, and the insertion regardless of the banknote handling machine in response to operation of the banknote loading switch. A structure in which small amount bill to be more turned is composed of a processing circuit for controlling the transport device to be introduced into the stack unit.

(E) Embodiment of the Invention FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 respectively show a side sectional view and a plan view of a banknote handling machine according to the present invention. The transfer device (2) communicating with the bill insertion slot (1) provided outside the housing (10) is equipped with a pair of pull-in rollers (11) and (12) at the rear of the insertion slot (1). An endless belt (17) is stretched around the drive roller (15) and the guide roller (16) mounted on the output shaft (14) of the roller (12) and the reduction motor (13). (19) and (20) are arranged so as to rotate as the belt (17) moves. And transfer device (2)
Forms a banknote transport path up to a pair of pull-in rollers (11) and (12) and a guide roller (16), and a detection head (21) for detecting the magnetic pattern of the transported banknote is placed in the middle of the transport path. is doing. The detection force of the detection head (21) is introduced into the identification circuit to identify the properness and type of the conveyed bill. Transfer device
At the rear of the guide roller (16) and roller (20) of (2),
An oscillating guide piece (23) is arranged with the fulcrum (22) as a fulcrum, and a guide belt (24) is further provided facing the guide piece (23). The guide piece (23) has an end portion on the swing side which is the guide belt (24).
It is urged by a relatively weak spring (25) in the direction in which it separates from. The induction belt (24) is a deceleration motor (26).
It is stretched around a pair of pulleys (29) and (30) mounted on a rotary shaft (27) and a support shaft (28) which are interlocked with each other. Further, pulleys (68) (80) are fixedly mounted on the rotary shaft (27), and an arm (34) rotatable about the shaft (27) is attached. A belt (33) continuous with the guide belt (22) is stretched between the pulley (68) and the pulley (32) provided on the support shaft (31) to convey the conveyor device.
Forming (6). The banknote stacking unit (8) for holding low-value banknotes is provided opposite the sandwiching belt (33) with the guide board (3), and one banknote is longitudinally provided by the upper wall (36) and the lower wall (37). Spaces are formed in which they are stacked alternately in a staggered manner, and the reserved banknotes are held by being pressed toward the guide wall (3) by a partition plate (39) urged by a spring (38). As shown in FIG. 3, the guide wall (3) is provided with an opening (4) substantially corresponding to one bill in the center thereof, and passes through a notch (40) formed in the side edge. A roller (41) is arranged to reduce sliding friction of bills. Stack board (42)
Has a guide part (44) that swings a guide pin (43) fixedly mounted on the housing (10), and is normally biased by a spring (45) to retreat in the direction opposite to the opening (4). It is held in the opened state. The cams (47A) and (47B) that press the stack plate (42) against the spring (45) are fixed to the rotation shaft (85) connected to the reduction motor (46) and the support shaft (86). , Further these axes (85)
The belt (89) is attached to the pair of pulleys (87) (88) attached to (86).
Is stretched. By rotating the cams (47A) and (47B), the stack plate (42) moves toward the opening (4), and the belt (33).
The banknote held between the guide wall (3) and the guide wall (3) is pushed into the banknote stack section (8) through the opening (4). The pair of upper and lower claw members (48) and (49) for holding the stored banknotes in the banknote stacking section (8) are mounted on the side plates (50) and (51) and the rotary shaft (52).
The claw members (48) and (49) are supported by (53), and the rotation angles of the claw members (48) and (49) are set to be 180 ° apart from each other, as shown in FIG. The rotating shaft (53) is directly connected to the reduction motor (54), and the pulleys (55) mounted on the rotating shafts (52) and (53), respectively.
A timing belt (57) is stretched around (56), and the pawl members (48) and (49) are rotated by 180 ° by the rotation of the motor (54) to rotate cyclically. Claw member (48) (4
The position where 9) rotates and stands still is the state in which it extends toward the inside of the banknote stack section (8) and the banknote stack section (8) as shown in FIGS. 4, 5, and 6. There are three ways, the state of extending toward the outside and the state of extending toward the opening (4). Therefore, in order to detect the moving position of the claw members (48) (49) due to the rotation of the rotating shafts (52) (53), a cam is attached to the rotating shaft (52) and a switch It is configured to detect the rotational position of the shaft (52). The locking member (58) is rotatably supported by a shaft (60), but is normally biased by a torsion spring (61) toward the pawl member (48).
And the locking member (58) is twisted by the rotation of the cam (62).
Although it moves against (61), at this time, the shaft (63) equipped with the cam (62) is configured to rotate in synchronization with the rotating shaft (52) by a predetermined gear mechanism (not shown). There is. Similarly, the locking member (59), which is pivotally supported (64), is a torsion spring (65).
It is urged in the direction of the claw member (49) by the shaft (6) which is also rotated by the predetermined gear mechanism in synchronization with the rotation shaft (53).
It moves against the rotation of the cam (67) attached to 6) against the torsion spring (65). At the end of the arm (34) that is biased by the spring (35), the pulley (81) and the roller (9) are attached.
Is pivotally supported, and the other end is connected to an operating rod of a solenoid (36) fixedly installed in the housing (10). Laura (9)
This is a take-out device that guides the uppermost bill of the bill stack section (8) to the transfer device (2) when paying out low-value bills, and is rotated by a belt (82) stretched around pulleys (80) (81). Also, the pulley (90) attached to the shaft (31) and the pulley (9
A delivery roller (71) is fixedly mounted on the shaft (93) provided with (2), and the roller (71) rotates by contacting the delivery roller (70) rotatably supported by the plate (94). Move. And the delivery roller (70) (7
A banknote storage section (7) for high-value banknotes is arranged behind 1).

The operation of the above configuration will be described. First, when inserting a bill into the insertion slot (1), the belt is rotated by the rotation of the pull-in rollers (11) (12).
This bill is taken into the transfer device (2) by the carrying operation (17). Then, the detection head (21) generates a detection force corresponding to the conveyed bills, and the above-mentioned discrimination circuit discriminates the properness and type of the bills. Then, when the identification circuit determines that the conveyed bill is not suitable, the deceleration motor (13) reversely drives the belt (17) in the opposite direction, and the bill is inserted into the insertion slot (1).
Is returned to the outside of the aircraft. On the other hand, if appropriate, the deceleration motor (26) is driven when the tip of the bill reaches the sensor (69A) consisting of a set of LED and phototransistor, and the bill is fed by the belt (33) and the guide wall (3). It is taken into a bill receiving path (5) formed between the one surfaces of the two. If the bill is a high-value bill, the belt (33) continues to be driven, so that the bill is conveyed in the receiving direction and then introduced into the bill storage unit (7) by the sending rollers (70) and (71). And the deceleration motor (26)
It stops after a lapse of a predetermined time after the trailing edge of the bill has passed through the sensor (72) consisting of a set of LEDs and a phototransistor.

If the bill is a low-value bill, this bill will be detected by the sensor (69).
Belt (33) is stopped when passing the
The bills taken into (5) are guided to the bill stack section (8), but there are two timings for stopping this conveyance. That is, the banknote stacking unit (8) holds the adjacent banknotes in a state of being alternately shifted in the longitudinal direction, but as shown in FIG. 6, the banknotes are stored by the claw member (49) and the locking member (59). , The deceleration motor (26) is stopped immediately after the rear end of the low-value banknote taken in by the belt (33) has finished passing through the sensor (69). As shown, when the upper end of the stored bill is held by the claw member (48) and the locking member (58), the rear end of the bill taken by the belt (33) passes through the sensor (69). The deceleration motor (26) is stopped after a short delay time. Now, assuming that the banknotes in the banknote stack section (8) are being held by the claw member (48) and the locking member (58) and the low-value banknotes have been taken in by the belt (33), the banknotes (7
3) has passed the sensor (69) and after a delay time, the motor
Since the bank (26) is stopped, the bill (73) is taken up to a position where the leading end of the banknote (73) approaches the lower wall (37) of the banknote stack section (8). Then, the deceleration motor (54) is driven to rotate the rotary shafts (52) and (53) counterclockwise by 90 °, and the claw members (48) and (49) are opened in the opening (4) as shown in FIG. Extend in the direction. At this time, since the cams (62) (67) rotate 90 ° clockwise in conjunction with the rotation of the rotary shafts (52) (53), the locking members (58) (59) are separated by the partition plate (3).
Exit behind 9). Therefore, the claw members (48) (49) and the locking members (58) (59) for the banknotes stored in the banknote stack section (8)
All the pressing of is released.

FIGS. 7 to 10 are sectional views showing the operation of pushing the low-value banknotes into the banknote stacking section (8). In the standby state shown in FIG. 7, the stack plate (42) has exited from the opening (4), and the banknotes (74) stored in the banknote stacking section (8) are belts.
It is held between the roller (33) and the roller (41). Then, by rotating the cam (47) by driving the deceleration motor (46), the stack plate (4
When the guide portion (44) of 2) comes into contact with the protrusion of the cam (47), as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the stack plate (42)
Moves through the opening (4) into the bill stack (8) and pushes the bill against the spring (38). Tete cam (47)
When it is confirmed that the cam has returned to the standby position by the cam (75) and the position detection switch (76) that are rotated once and coaxially fixed, the deceleration motor (46) is stopped. In this way the transfer device
When the take-in of the low-value banknotes introduced from (2) by the belt (33) is completed, the deceleration motor (46) is rotated once to introduce the banknotes into the banknote stack section (8).

Then, when the deceleration motor (54) is driven and the rotary shafts (52) and (53) are further rotated counterclockwise by 90 °, the claw member (49) extends inward of the bill stacking section (8). At the same time, the locking member (59) is projected toward the partition plate (39) by the rotation of the cam (67) which is interlocked with the rotating shaft (53). Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6, the bills stored in the bill stacking portion (8) have a lower end portion with a claw member (49).
And it is clamped by the locking member (59), but at this time, the claw member (48).
The locking member (58) is open. However, when the next low-value banknote is conveyed by the belt (33) in this state, the motor (26) is stopped immediately after the passage of the sensor (69) of this banknote, so that the banknote has its rear end portion. Is taken in only to a position slightly separated from the upper wall (36) of the bill stacking section (8).
Thereafter, the rotary shafts (52) (53) are rotated clockwise by 90 ° to bring the pawl members (48) (49) and the locking members (58) (59) into the state shown in FIG. The banknote is pushed into the banknote stack section (8) by rotating the (47) once. Then, the rotary shafts (52) (53) are further rotated clockwise by 90 ° so that the upper ends of the stored bills in the bill stacking portion (8) are held by the claw member (48) and the locking member (58). As described above, the banknote stacking unit (8) is stacked while being sequentially staggered each time a low-value banknote is introduced, and one of the claw members (48) (49) is a banknote stacking unit (8). It is configured to abut one end of the banknotes that extend inward and are stacked on top.

Next, the operation of taking out low-value banknotes from the banknote stack section (8) will be described. By the way, since the uppermost banknote of the banknote stack section (8) is held by one of the claw members (48) and (49), first, the switching operation of the claw members is performed in order to put the uppermost banknote in a free state. . Therefore, as shown in FIG.
(48) and the locking member (58) when holding the stored bill, the switching operation is performed by rotating the rotary shafts (52) and (53) counterclockwise by 180 degrees, respectively.
The uppermost banknote is rotated by rotating it for a second time, and the second and subsequent banknotes are held by the claw member (49) and locking member (59) shown in FIG. . On the contrary, the switching operation when the stored bill is held by the claw member (49) and the locking member (59) is performed by rotating the rotary shafts (52) and (53) 180 degrees clockwise respectively.
The uppermost banknote is turned by rotating it by a degree, and the second and subsequent banknotes are held in a state of being held by the claw member (48) and the locking member (58) shown in FIG. After freeing the top banknote in this way, the deceleration motor (13) is rotated in the reverse direction to move the belt (17) in the return direction as shown in FIG. 11, and the deceleration motor (28) is rotated in the reverse direction. roller
Turn (9) clockwise. Next, the solenoid (36) is excited to rotate the arm (34) in the direction of arrow A, and the roller (9)
Is pressed against the surface of the topmost banknote (77) that has become free, and is urged toward the guide piece (23). Therefore, the bill (77) moves while being guided by the bill stack portion (8) side surface of the guide wall (3), and the leading end of the bill (77) resists the spring (25).
To reach the guide rollers (16) and (20) of the transfer device (2). And the bill (77) is inserted into the insertion slot (1) by the belt (17).
However, when the sensor (69A) is passed through, the solenoid (36) and the deceleration motor (26) are deactivated to stop the operation of taking out the bills from the bill stacking unit (8). The reverse rotation operation of the deceleration motor (13) is continued until the bill (77) is ejected from the insertion slot (1) to the outside of the machine.

FIG. 12 shows a bill handling machine having such a configuration,
For example, it shows a control circuit configuration when applied to an automatic vending machine, where (100) is a banknote processing device side circuit section and (101) is a main body control circuit of the automatic vending machine. The processing circuit (102) of the banknote processing device side circuit section (100) is connected to the main body control circuit (101) through the control bus (109), and is controlled by the gate circuit (108) arranged on the way between the two. From the processing circuit (102) of the banknote processing device side circuit section (100), the number data of the low-value banknotes and the payout completion signal are sent to the main body control circuit (1
From 01), a sales end signal, a return signal, and a low-value bill payout signal are transmitted and received as control signals from the bill handling machine.
Then, the processing circuit (102) gives a control signal to each drive motor and solenoid of the banknote processing apparatus through the control signal line (107) and inputs a detection signal from each sensor. The identification circuit (104) is for determining the appropriateness and type of the bill based on the detected forces from the detection head (21).
The type data of the banknote determined in (109) is output and introduced into the main body control circuit (101) through the gate circuit (108), and when the banknote is a low-value banknote, a count signal is output to the counter (106). . Therefore, the counter (106) is the banknote stack section (8)
It counts and stores the number of low-value banknotes in the main control circuit (1
01) holds this number data, which is periodically transmitted from the processing circuit (102).

In the above control circuit, when the bill inserted from the insertion slot (1) is determined to be a low-value bill by the identification circuit (104),
A count-up signal is output to the counter (106), the number of low-value banknotes is incremented by 1, and the banknote stacking unit (8) of the banknote processing apparatus is automatically replenished with low-value banknotes. Then, when the type data from the identification circuit (104) indicates that the inserted bill is a low-value bill, the main body control circuit (101) adds and counts this amount to the inserted amount to perform predetermined sale control. Further, when the main body control circuit (101) indicates that the inserted banknote is a high-value banknote by the type data from the identification circuit (104), the main body control circuit (101) determines whether to accept the high-value banknote. Judgment is made in relation to the number data of the low-value banknotes of the section (8) and the selling price of the product. That is, if there is no low-value banknote corresponding to the difference between the inserted banknote amount and the selling price, the main body control circuit (10
1) is a processing circuit for the return signal (102)
Send to. When this return signal is introduced, the processing circuit (10
In 2), similar to the case where the inserted bill is returned improperly, a reverse rotation signal is output to the deceleration motor (13) through the control signal line (107) to return the inserted high-value bill. Then, when it is acceptable, the inserted high-value banknotes are introduced into the banknote storage unit (7), and the main body control circuit (101) performs the predetermined sales control by adding and counting the banknote amounts. When the vending machine sells a product and needs a change, the main body control circuit (101) sends a low-value bill payout signal to the processing circuit (102) through the gate circuit (108). At this time, the processing circuit (102) outputs a series of signals necessary for taking out the low-value banknotes from the banknote stack section (8) by the roller (9), which is a takeout device, and guiding them to the transfer device (2). The data is output to the bill processing device by (107). That is,
The processing circuit (102) outputs a drive signal to the deceleration motor (54) that drives the rotary shafts (52) (53) to make the topmost banknote of the banknote stack section (8) free, and to the solenoid (36). An urging signal is output and a reverse rotation signal is output to the deceleration motor (26) to rotate the roller (9) clockwise. And the processing circuit (10
2), the transfer device (2) is equipped with a control means for reverse transfer of low-value banknotes taken out from the banknote stack section (8) toward the insertion slot (1), and a processing circuit during such control operation. (Ten
2) outputs a reverse rotation signal to the deceleration motor (13) through the control signal line (107) to move the belt (17) in the returning direction.
When the low-value banknotes taken out from the banknote stacking section (8) are discharged from the insertion slot (1) by such control, the processing circuit (102) outputs a countdown signal to the counter (106) and outputs "1" from the number of low-value banknotes. ”, And the main control circuit (1
The payout end signal is output to 01). When the payout end signal is input, the main body control circuit (101) subtracts the discharged bill amount from the calculated change amount, and repeats the above-described operation when it is necessary to pay the lower bill amount.

Then, when the banknote loading switch (105) is operated,
Although the processing circuit (102) is in the bill loading mode,
At this time, the gate circuit (108) becomes non-conductive by turning on the switch (105), and the processing circuit (102) is disconnected from the control of the main body control circuit (101). Then, in the loading mode, the banknote processing device introduces the low-value banknotes inserted from the insertion slot (1) into the banknote stack section (8), and the processing circuit (102) outputs a series of signals necessary for the operation of the processing device. A loading control means for outputting is provided. Therefore processing circuit (102)
Outputs a drive signal to the deceleration motors (13) and (26) through the control signal line (107), and when the bill detection signal is input through the control signal line (107) corresponding to the sensor (69), the deceleration motor (26) Stop the driving of the banknote, then output a drive signal to the deceleration motor (54) to free the banknotes stored in the banknote stack section (8), and then output a drive signal to the deceleration motor (46) to insert the low-value banknotes. Is pushed into the banknote stack section (8), and a drive signal is further output to the deceleration motor (54) so that one of the claw members (48) (4
The bills stored in the bill stack unit (8) are held at 9). As described above, in order to hold the banknotes stored in the banknote stack section (8) in the state of being alternately shifted in the longitudinal direction,
The processing circuit (102) alternately repeats the control of immediately stopping the drive of the deceleration motor (26) and the control of stopping it after a delay time each time a bill passes through the sensor (69). When the banknotes loaded in the banknote stack section (8) pass through the detection head (21) and output is output to the identification circuit (104), the counter (106) counts up and the banknote stack section (8) of the banknote stack section (8) is counted. Count the number of bills stored. The type data generated in the identification circuit (104) when loading this bill is
Due to the non-conduction of the gate circuit (108), it is not transmitted to the main body control circuit (101) and is not added as the amount of money to be deposited.

In this example, it is assumed that all the bills inserted from the insertion slot (1) at the time of loading are low-price bills, and the processing circuit (102) introduces all the inserted bills into the bill stack unit (8). However, bills other than loading bills may be mistakenly inserted, and the processing circuit (10
In 2), it is preferable to judge the introduction into the banknote stack section (8) based on the type data indicated by the identification circuit (104). In this case, the processing circuit (102) returns the bill or introduces it into the bill storage unit (7) when the bill inserted into the loading is indicated by the identification circuit (104) as a high-price bill. Therefore, when returning the processing circuit (102),
When a reverse rotation signal is output to the deceleration motor (13) through the control signal line (107) to cause the transfer device (2) to perform a reverse transfer operation, and when the transfer device (7) is introduced into the banknote storage unit (7), the control signal line (107) is used. Outputs drive signal to deceleration motor (26), and sensor (72)
The output of the drive signal is stopped after a fixed time has elapsed after the passage end of the bill is detected by the control signal line (107) corresponding to.

(F) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, in order to electrically disconnect the banknote handling device from the banknote handling machine by operating the banknote loading switch, even if a loading banknote is inserted through a normal banknote insertion slot, the loaded banknote information. Is not transmitted to the bill handling machine, and no special loading bill setting means is required. Moreover, since the inserted bill and the loading bill can be inserted from the same insertion slot, the storage unit (the bill stack unit) can be shared and the device can be downsized, and the loading bill can be reliably set in the bill processing device. This has the effect of stabilizing the payout operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of an apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view, FIG. 3 is a view showing a relationship between a guide wall and a stack plate, and FIG.
The figure is a side sectional view showing a state in which the bills of the bill stacking portion are held by the claw member (48), FIG. 5 is a side sectional view showing the bill receiving state of the bill stacking portion, and FIG. 6 is a bill stacking portion. A side cross-sectional view showing a state in which the banknote of is held by a claw member (49),
7 to 10 are front sectional views showing the operation of introducing a bill into the bill stack portion, FIG. 11 is a side sectional view showing the bill ejection of the bill stack portion, and FIG. 12 is a control circuit diagram. (1) …… Insertion port, (2) …… Transfer device, (7) …… Bill storage unit, (8) …… Bill stack unit, (9) …… Ejection device, (101)
...... Main body control circuit, (102) ...... Processing circuit, (104) …… Identification circuit, (105) …… Banknote loading switch, (109) ……
Control bus.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A bill processing apparatus incorporated into a bill handling machine as a separate device, wherein at least two types of bills, high and low, are inserted and an appropriateness and type of bill inserted into the insertion port. A bill discriminating unit for discriminating the bill, a bill stacking unit for accumulating and storing low-price bills, a take-out device for paying out the bills stored in the bill stacking unit in response to a control signal from the bill handling machine, and a high-priced bill. A banknote storage unit that receives banknotes, a banknote that is controlled by the banknote handling machine, transfers a banknote inserted into the insertion slot to the banknote identification unit, and is determined to be appropriate according to the determination result of the identification unit. A transport device for transferring the bill stack unit or bill storage unit,
A banknote loading switch, and a processing circuit which controls the transport device so that low-value banknotes inserted from the insertion slot regardless of the banknote handling machine are introduced into the stack section in response to operation of the banknote loading switch. A bill handling device.