JPH07119155B2 - How to turn pages automatically - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a method for turning a page of a booklet by an automatic page turning apparatus using a roller.

[Conventional technology]

For example, a bankbook entry machine installed in a financial institution is equipped with an automatic page-turning device for automatically turning pages of a booklet such as a bankbook.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing an example of the structure of an automatic page-turning apparatus using rollers, in which 1 is a conveyance path for booklet conveyance,
2 is an insertion / ejecting port provided at one end of the conveying path 1, 3
Is a page-turning roller arranged above the conveying path 1 at a predetermined position, 4 is a motor for driving the page-turning roller 3, 5 is a booklet, and 6 is the conveying path 1 so as to face the page-turning roller 3. Transport roller, 7a
7b, 8a and 8b are conveying rollers arranged in front of and behind the page-turning roller 3 and the conveying roller 6 via the conveying path 1, respectively, and 9 is the conveying rollers 6, 7a, 7b. , 8a, 8b, the distance between the transport rollers 8a, 8b and 7a, 7b is set to be shorter than the length when the booklet 5 is opened. 7a and 8a can be moved up and down by a drive mechanism such as a plunger magnet (not shown).

Reference numeral 10 is a page detection sensor as a page detection means for detecting the pages of the booklet 5 turned over by the page turning roller 3 at a position between the page turning roller 3 and the conveying roller 7a,
The page detecting sensor 10 is composed of a pair of a light emitting element and a light receiving element which are horizontally opposed to each other at a predetermined height from the conveyance path 1.

Reference numerals 11 and 12 denote position detecting sensors each of which includes a light emitting element and a light receiving element for detecting the position of the booklet 5. One of the position detecting sensors 11 is a page turning roller 3, a conveyance roller 6 and a conveyance roller 7a. 7b, and the other position detection sensor 12 is arranged at the position of the transport rollers 8a, 8b.

Reference numeral 13 is a display for displaying operation guidance to the operator.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a control system of the automatic page-turning apparatus shown in FIG. 3, 14 is a control unit (CPU), 15 is a memory (ROM or RAM) storing control programs, and 16 is a motor. Input / output I / O ports for driving and sensor state determination, 17 is a driver for driving the motor 4, 18 is a driver for driving the motor 9, and 19 is a driver for driving the display 13. Are under the control of the control unit 14.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a conventional page turning method which is carried out by the automatic page turning apparatus having the above-described structure, and FIGS. 6 (a) to (d) are side views showing the page turning process shown in FIG. This page turning method will be described below in the order of steps shown by S in FIG.

First, when the booklet 5 is inserted from the insertion / ejection port 2 with the booklet 5 opened and undergoes processing in a card reader / writer unit and a printing unit (not shown), the booklet 5 is sent to an automatic page-turning device. The drive mechanism does not move the transport roller 7a downward, and the leading end of the booklet 5 is sandwiched between the transport rollers 7a and 7b.

Here, the motor 9 is driven by an instruction from the control unit 14,
As a result, both of the transport rollers 7a and 7b rotate in the forward direction, and the booklet 5 is transported to the page turning roller 3 side. And
The rotation of the motor 9 is stopped at the time when the motor 9 rotates by a predetermined pulse from the time when the front end of the booklet 5 is detected by the sensor 11, whereby the booklet 5 is separated from the page-turning roller 3 and the conveyance roller 6. It is transported to the page turning position between (S1
01).

Next, as shown in FIG. 6 (a), the transport roller 6 is raised by a drive mechanism (not shown) and pushes up the booklet 5 from below, whereby the page, for example, all lines are printed on the top of the booklet 5. When the finished page 5'is pressed against the page-turning roller 3, the motor 4 is driven by a predetermined pulse according to an instruction from the control unit 14, and the page-turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount to perform the page-turning operation (S102). ).

When this page turning operation causes the page 5'to be turned up in a loop as shown in FIG. 2B, and the upper portion of the loop is detected (ON) by the page detection sensor 10, the detection signal is output. As a result, the control unit 14 causes the page detection sensor 10
It is determined that the page 5'is turned up to the height of the page, but if the page detection sensor 10 does not detect the page 5 ', the page 5'is not turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10. (S103).

The number of retries is set in advance in the controller 14 and if it is determined that the page 5'is not turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10 as described above, the page turning operation is performed n times. The control unit 14 determines whether or not it has reached (S10
4) If it has not reached n times, the motor 4 is driven again for a predetermined number of pulses and the page turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount to retry the page turning operation (S10).
5) It is again determined whether page 5'is turned up.

This operation is repeated, and even if it is retried n times, the page detecting sensor 10 is reduced due to a reduction in the frictional force of the page turning roller 3
If the page 5'cannot be turned up to the height of, the display will be displayed on the display as an abnormality of the apparatus and the processing will end abnormally, after which the operator or the like will perform necessary processing such as repair.

On the other hand, if the page 5'is detected by the page detection sensor 10 and the control unit 14 determines that the page 5'is turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10, the rotation of the page turning roller 3 is temporarily stopped, and After the transport roller 6 is lowered, the motor 4 is driven again by a predetermined pulse, and the page-turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount, so that the free end of the page 5'is flipped up onto the page-turning roller 3. Perform (S106).

After that, the motor 9 is driven according to an instruction from the control unit 14, and the booklet 5 is carried to the carrying rollers 8a and 8b side by the forward rotation of the carrying rollers 6 and 7a and 7b, and the leading edge of the booklet 5 is further advanced. When it reaches between the transfer rollers 8a and 8b and is detected by the sensor 12, the drive roller (not shown) lowers the transfer roller 8a.

As a result, the booklet 5 is sandwiched between the transport rollers 8a and 8b, and the motor 9 is rotated by a predetermined number of pulses from this point, so that the booklet 5 is transported to the page-turning determination position (S107).

During this period, the control unit 14 monitors whether or not the page detection sensor 10 maintains the ON state (detection state) for each pulse, and if the page detection sensor 10 does not switch to the OFF state (non-detection state) during the process. It is determined that the page turning is normally performed, but when the page is switched, the page turning is not performed normally, and it is determined that the page turning defect occurs (S108).

If it is determined that a page turning failure has occurred, the motor 9 is continuously rotated to convey the booklet 5 to a predetermined page turning end position (S109), and then the rotation of the motor 9 is stopped to display the book. The page turning defect is displayed on page 13 (S1
Ten).

As a result, the operator performs a necessary process such as opening a predetermined portion of the device and removing the booklet 5 from the device.

On the other hand, when it is determined that the page turning is normally performed, that is, the free end of the page 5'is flipped up on the page turning roller 3 as shown in FIG. If the ON state of the page detection sensor 10 is maintained during the conveyance to the page-turning determination position, the motor 9 is continuously rotated to convey the booklet 5 to a predetermined page-turning end position (S111). ).

This causes the page 5'to fall to the opposite side as shown in FIG. 6 (d), so that the rotation of the motor 9 is stopped when the booklet 5 reaches the page turning end position, and the motor 9 is further rotated in the reverse direction. The data is sent back to the processing unit such as the printing unit (S112) and the next process such as printing is performed.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

However, according to the conventional technique described above,
Even if the free end of the page 5'is not normally flipped up by the page flipping operation in S106, the booklet 5 is still conveyed to the page turning end position, and the following problems occur.

That is, FIG. 7 is a side view showing the problems of the prior art,
When the free end of the page 5'is not normally flipped up, when the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page-turning judgment position, the page 5'is kept in the loop state as shown in the figure, and the page-turning roller 3 is held.
When the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page-turning end position in this state, the page 5'is damaged and the booklet 5 becomes unusable.

Even if the booklet 5 is not unusable, the page 5'has a crease. Therefore, when the operator removes the booklet 5 from the apparatus and then reinserts the booklet 5 to perform a process such as printing, the crease causes There is also a problem that secondary failures such as printing defects occur.

The present invention has been made in order to solve these problems, and prevents damage or breakage of a page due to the fact that the page is not normally flipped up, making the booklet unusable or secondary. It is an object of the present invention to realize an automatic page-turning method for booklets that can prevent the occurrence of troubles.

[Means and Actions for Solving the Problems]

To achieve this object, the booklet automatic page turning method of the present invention, by sandwiching the conveyed booklet between the vertically facing page turning roller and the conveying roller, by rotating the page turning roller When the pages of the booklet are turned up in a loop, and the page detection means does not detect that the upper part of the loop of the page has been turned up to a predetermined height, the page turn-up operation by the page turning roller is performed. After retrying, when the page detecting means detects that the upper part of the page loop is turned up to a predetermined height, the page turning roller is rotated again to perform the flipping operation of the free end of the page, and thereafter. While conveying the booklet to the page-turning end position in the same direction as the sheet-feeding, and to the page-turning determination position set on the way to the page-turning end position, If the page detection means is in the detection state, it is regarded as normal, and after the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning end position, the booklet is conveyed in the opposite direction, and while the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning determination position, When the page detection means is switched from the detection state to the non-detection state, it is regarded as a page turning failure, the conveyance of the booklet is immediately stopped, and the flipping operation of the page free end by the page turning roller is retried at least once, After the retry, when the page detection unit detects the page, the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning end position, and then the booklet is conveyed in the reverse direction, and after the retry, the page detection unit detects the page. If not, the booklet is fed back from the retry position.

Therefore, according to this, even if the free end of the page is not flipped up normally in the page flipping operation after the page flipping operation and a page turning defect occurs, the damage or folding of the page resulting from this can be prevented. Therefore, it becomes possible to prevent the booklet from becoming unusable and the occurrence of a secondary failure.

In addition, since the retry operation is performed for each of the page-turning operation and the page-free-end flipping operation, the reliability of page-turning is improved, and further, after the page-turning roller flip-up operation retry by the page-turning roller, the page detection means is operated. When a page is not detected, the booklet is conveyed in the reverse direction from the retry position, so the booklet discharged by this conveyance in the reverse direction is manually turned over and reinserted without stopping the operation of the device. Since processing can be continued, processing efficiency can also be improved.

[Examples] Examples will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of an automatic page turning method of a booklet according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 (a) to (i) shows a page turning process of an automatic page turning apparatus corresponding to the embodiment of FIG. It is a side view.

Since the automatic page turning apparatus used in this embodiment is the same as that shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are used together with FIG. 1 and FIG. A description will be given according to the step indicated by S in FIG.

First, the booklet 5 is inserted from the insertion / discharge port 2 shown in FIG. 3 in an open state, and after being processed by a card reader / writer unit and a printing unit (not shown), the booklet 5 is sent to an automatic page turning device. Then, the driving mechanism (not shown) lowers the carrying roller 7a so that the leading end of the booklet 5 is carried by the carrying rollers 7a and 7b.
Sandwiched between.

Here, the motor 9 is driven according to an instruction from the control unit 14 so that the transport rollers 7a and 7b are rotated in the forward direction so that the booklet 5 is transported to the page turning roller 3 side, and the leading edge of the booklet 5 is moved. The rotation of the motor 9 is stopped when the motor 9 rotates by a predetermined pulse from the time detected by the sensor 11, whereby the booklet 5 is moved to the page-turning position between the page-turning roller 3 and the conveyance roller 6. It is transported (S1).

Next, as shown in FIG. 2 (a), the transport roller 6 is raised by a drive mechanism (not shown) and pushes up the booklet 5 from below, whereby the top page of the booklet 5, for example, all lines are printed. When the finished page 5'is pressed against the page-turning roller 3, the motor 4 is driven by a predetermined pulse according to an instruction from the control unit 14, and the page-turning roller 3 rotates by a predetermined amount to perform the page-turning-up operation (S2). .

When this page turning operation causes the page 5'to be turned up in a loop as shown in FIG. 2B, and the upper portion of the loop is detected (ON) by the page detection sensor 10, this detection signal is output. As a result, the control unit 14 causes the page detection sensor 10
It is determined that the page 5'is turned up to the height of the page 5 ', but if the page detection sensor 10 does not detect the page 5', the control unit 14 still turns the page 5'to the height of the page detection sensor 10. It is determined that it has not been raised (S3).

The number of retries is set in advance in the controller 14 and if it is determined that the page 5'is not turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10 as described above, the page turning operation is performed n times. The control unit 14 determines whether or not it has reached (S4),
If it has not reached n times, the motor 4 is driven again for a predetermined number of pulses, the page-turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount and the page-turning operation is retried (S5), and then the page 5'is turned-up again. Whether or not it is determined.

This operation is repeated, and even if it is retried n times, the page detecting sensor 10 is reduced due to a reduction in the frictional force of the page turning roller 3
If the page 5'cannot be turned up to the height of, the display is displayed as an abnormality of the apparatus and the processing ends abnormally, and necessary processing such as repair is performed by an operator or the like.

On the other hand, if the page 5'is detected by the page detection sensor 10 and the control unit 14 determines that the page 5'is turned up to the height of the page detection sensor 10, the rotation of the page turning roller 3 is temporarily stopped, and After the transport roller 6 is lowered, the motor 4 is driven again by a predetermined pulse, and the page-turning roller 3 is rotated by a predetermined amount, so that the free end of the page 5'is flipped up onto the page-turning roller 3. Do (S6).

After that, the motor 9 is driven according to an instruction from the control unit 14, and the booklet 5 is carried to the carrying rollers 8a and 8b side by the forward rotation of the carrying rollers 6 and 7a and 7b, and the leading edge of the booklet 5 is further advanced. When it reaches between the transfer rollers 8a and 8b and is detected by the sensor 12, the drive roller (not shown) lowers the transfer roller 8a.

As a result, the booklet 5 is sandwiched between the transport rollers 8a and 8b, and the motor 9 is rotated by a predetermined pulse from this point, so that the booklet 5 is transported to the page-turning determination position (S
7).

During this period, the control unit 14 monitors whether or not the page detection sensor 10 maintains the ON state (detection state) for each pulse, and if the page detection sensor 10 does not switch to the OFF state (non-detection state) during the process. It is determined that the page turning is normally performed, but when the pages are switched, it is determined that the page turning is not performed normally and a page turning defect occurs (S8).

Here, the processing when it is determined that the page turning defect occurs will be described in detail later.

When it is judged that the page turning is normally performed, that is, the free end of the page 5'is flipped up on the page turning roller 3 as shown in FIG. When the ON state of the page detection sensor 10 is maintained while the booklet 5 is conveyed to the page-turning determination position on the conveyance path 1 as shown in (), the booklet 5 is continuously rotated by rotating the motor 9. The sheet is conveyed to a predetermined page-turning end position (S9).

As a result, the page 5'is tilted to the opposite side as shown in FIG. 2 (e). When the booklet 5 reaches the page-turning end position, the rotation of the motor 9 is stopped and the motor 9 is rotated in the reverse direction. The booklet 5 is sent back to the processing unit such as the printing unit (S10), and the next process such as printing is performed.

On the other hand, in S6, the free end of page 5'is not flipped up,
When the booklet 5 is conveyed from the state of being turned up in a loop shown in FIG.
Since the page 5'moves below the page detection sensor 10 as shown in FIG. 2 (f) at the position where it has been conveyed to some extent, the page detection sensor 10 switches from ON to OFF.

In this case, the control unit 14 determines in S8 that the page turning defect has occurred in S8 as described above, and immediately stops the rotation of the motor 9 to stop the conveyance of the booklet 5 (S11).

The number of retries for page flipping n times (even once) is set in the control unit 14 in the same manner as the number of retries for page flipping, and the page flipping operation is performed after the conveyance of the booklet 5 is stopped as described above. Determines whether the number has reached n (S1
2).

If it has not reached n times, the motor 4 is driven again for a predetermined number of pulses to rotate the page turning roller 3 for a predetermined amount and retry the page flipping operation (S13). It is determined whether or not, that is, whether or not the page detection sensor 10 is turned on (S14).

Here, when the page detection sensor 10 is turned on, that is, when the free end of the page 5 is flipped up and extended as shown in FIG. 2 (g), the processes of S7 and S8 are performed, Furthermore this S8
When the control unit 14 determines that the page turning is normally performed in step S9 and S10, the next process is performed.

On the other hand, if the page detection sensor 10 does not turn on even after the page flipping operation is retried, the page flipping operation is retried up to n times.

When the page detection sensor 10 does not turn on even after retrying n times, the control unit 14 considers that the page cannot be flipped up, reversely rotates the booklet 9, reversely feeds the booklet 5, and ejects it from the insertion / ejection port 2 ( S15) At this time, the page 5'changes from the loop state shown in FIG. 2 (h) to the mountain state as shown in FIG. Since the original state before the page turning is returned while being sandwiched by 7 and 7b, the page 5'is not folded.

During this time, the control unit 14 instructs the operator to turn the pages through the display 13, and when the operator ejects the booklet 5 from the insertion / ejection port 2, the operator removes the booklet 5 and turns the page 5 '(S16 ), And then reinsert the booklet 5 into the insertion / ejection port 2 (S17).

As a result, the booklet 5 is conveyed to a processing unit such as a printing unit and the next process such as printing is performed.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and for example, it is not the operator but the customer (in the case of ATM) who may turn the page 5'of the booklet 5 discharged from the insertion / discharge port 2.

Further, the page turning is not limited to the inner sheet of the booklet 1, and the same processing can be performed on the cover sheet. Further, the booklet 1 is not limited to the passbook, and various types can be applied.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the conveyed booklet is sandwiched between the vertically-opposing page-turning roller and the conveying roller, and the page-turning roller is rotated to form a page of the booklet in a loop shape. If the page detecting means does not detect that the upper part of the loop of the page has been turned up to a predetermined height, the page turning operation by the page turning roller is retried, and the page looping operation is performed. When the page detection means detects that the upper part has been flipped up to a predetermined height, the free end of the page is flipped up by rotating the page turning roller again, and then in the same direction as the conveyance. While the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning end position and is conveyed to the page-turning judgment position set on the way to the page-turning end position, the page detection means is in the detection state. If so, it is regarded as normal, and after the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning end position, the booklet is conveyed in the opposite direction, and while the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning determination position, the page detection means is detected. When it is switched to the non-detection state, it is regarded as a page turning failure, the conveyance of the booklet is immediately stopped, the flipping operation of the page free end by the page turning roller is retried at least once, and after the retry, the page detecting means When the page is detected, the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning end position, then the booklet is conveyed in the reverse direction, and after the retry, when the page detection unit does not detect the page, the page is detected from the retry position. I try to send the booklet back.

Therefore, according to this, the free end of the page is not normally flipped up in the page flipping up operation after the page flipping up operation,
As a result, even if a page turning defect occurs, it is possible to prevent damage or folding of the page due to the page turning defect, so that it is possible to prevent the booklet from becoming unusable and the secondary failure from occurring. can get.

Further, since the retry operation is performed for each of the page-turning operation and the page-free-end flipping operation, the effect of improving the page-turning reliability can be obtained, and further, after the page-turning roller flip-up operation retry by the page-turning roller, When the detection unit does not detect a page, the booklet is conveyed in the reverse direction from the retry position, and the booklet discharged by the conveyance in the opposite direction is manually turned to stop the operation of the device by re-inserting it. Since it becomes possible to continue the processing without doing so, it is possible to obtain an effect that the processing efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of an automatic page-turning method for booklets according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view showing a page-turning process of an automatic page-turning apparatus corresponding to the embodiment of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a side view showing an example of the structure of an automatic page turning apparatus, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a control system of the automatic page turning apparatus of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 shows a conventional automatic page turning method. FIG. 6 is a side view showing the page turning process shown in FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a side view showing the problems of the prior art. 1: Transport path, 2: Insert / eject port 3: Page turning roller, 4: Motor 5: Booklet, 5 ': Page 6,7a, 7b, 8a, 8b: Transport roller 9: Motor, 10: For page detection Sensors 11, 12: Sensor for position detection 14: Controller

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A booklet that has been conveyed is sandwiched between a page-turning roller and a conveying roller that face each other vertically, and the page-turning roller is rotated to turn up the pages of the booklet in a loop shape. However, when the page detecting means does not detect that the upper part of the page loop is turned up to a predetermined height, the page turning operation by the page turning roller is retried, and the upper part of the page loop is moved to a predetermined height. When the page detection means detects that the page has been turned up, the free end of the page is flipped up by rotating the page turning roller again, and then the booklet ends in the same direction as the conveyance. If the page detection means is in the detection state during the transportation to the position and the transportation to the page-turning determination position set on the way to the page-turning end position, it is regarded as normal. Then, after the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning end position, the booklet is conveyed in the opposite direction, and while the booklet is conveyed to the page-turning determination position, the page detection means changes from the detection state to the non-detection state. When the page is switched, it is regarded as a page turning failure, the conveyance of the booklet is immediately stopped, and the flipping operation of the page free end by the page turning roller is retried at least once, and after the retry, the page detection unit detects the page. When the booklet is transported to the page-turning end position, the booklet is transported in the reverse direction, and when the page detection unit does not detect the page after the retry, the booklet is transported backward from the retry position. An automatic page-turning method for booklets.