JPH07200915A - Paper money transaction device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily mount a disinfecting means on paper money transaction device currently used. CONSTITUTION:Received paper monies are taken in from a money payment/ reception opening 1, discriminated by a discrimination part 3, and putt in money kind boxes 8 and 9. For payment, paper monies are separated from the money kind boxes 8 and 9 and discharged to the money payment/reception opening 1 through the discrimination part 3. A disinfecting part 11 is arranged on one side of a linear conveying mechanism part 2a in front of or behind the money kind boxes 8 and 9 in parallel in the conveyance direction and the disinfecting part 11 can be mounted without greatly altering the constitution of the existenting paper money transaction device. Further, by ON/OFF-controlling a gate 10 according to processing operation or a choice made by a clerk or user, selection on whether or not a disinfecting process, is performed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote transaction apparatus for conducting banknote in and out transactions by a user's operation and sterilizing and disinfecting banknotes during transaction processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Sterilization of bills in a bill transaction device having a function of sterilizing bills is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-209595, and as means for sterilizing bills, heating, ultraviolet rays,
A sterilization method by chemical application is shown. When sterilizing the banknotes by using the sterilization method by heating, a method of providing a banknote heating unit on the transport path and sterilizing the transported banknotes one by one is effective. As disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 114652/1992, as a bill sterilizing means by such heating, a heating roller having a heating means such as a heater built in a conveying path and a belt attached so as to be wound around the heating roller. The heat sterilization unit is provided, and the bills are fed from the conveyance path between the heating roller and the belt, and heated and sterilized by the holding unit between the heating roller and the belt.

[0003]

Banknote transaction apparatuses are widely used in financial institutions. In order to implement sterilizing and disinfecting means in this banknote transaction device, a banknote deposit / withdrawal port for depositing and withdrawing banknotes, a denomination box for storing banknotes by denomination, and Changing the configuration of the conveyance path that conveys banknotes between the gold mouth and the denomination box and the configuration of the discrimination section that discriminates banknotes on this conveyance path not only requires time for development, but also increases costs and increases the size of the device. May lead to

Further, if the sterilizing / disinfecting means is mounted in the banknote transaction apparatus and the sterilizing / disinfecting process is performed at the time of transaction of deposit and withdrawal, there is a possibility that the processing time is increased and the operation rate of the apparatus is lowered. .

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and to provide a banknote transaction apparatus in which the sterilizing / disinfecting means can be mounted on the current banknote transaction apparatus.

[0006] Another object of the present invention is to provide a banknote transaction apparatus which minimizes the deterioration of processing capacity due to sterilization and ensures a sufficient sterilization effect.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, a deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / withdrawing a bill, a denomination box for storing the bill, and a bill between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box. It has a conveyance path to convey, a discrimination section for discriminating bills to be conveyed, and a sterilization unit for sterilizing the conveyed bills, and the denomination box and the sterilization unit can be replaced with the same external shape Deploy.

Further, the presence / absence of sterilization / disinfection processing in the sterilization / disinfection unit can be selected for each transaction or each transaction processing operation.

[0009]

By arranging the denomination box and the sterilizing / disinfecting part so as to be interchangeable, the sterilizing / disinfecting means can be easily mounted on the current banknote transaction apparatus. In addition, by selecting the presence or absence of sterilization and disinfection processing for each transaction or according to the content of the processing operation, it is possible to minimize the deterioration of the processing capacity of the banknote transaction device equipped with the sterilization and disinfection means and to obtain a sufficient sterilization effect. Can be secured.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a banknote transaction apparatus equipped with a banknote sterilization unit.

In the deposit transaction, a user (customer) inserts a bill into the deposit / withdrawal port 1. The inserted banknotes are separated into individual sheets by a separating mechanism (not shown) in the deposit / withdrawal port 1, and are conveyed to the discrimination section 3 by the conveying mechanism 2. Identification section 3
Then, necessary discrimination such as denomination, authenticity, damage, number of sheets, etc. is performed, and further conveyed by the conveying mechanism 4 and accumulated on the temporary accumulating mechanism 5 on the separator 13. Here, when the transaction operated by the user is established, the banknote is separated by a separation mechanism (not shown), conveyed again to the discrimination section 3 by the conveyance mechanism 6 to perform discrimination, and passes through the conveyance mechanisms 4, 7 and 2. At this time, the gate 10 of the banknote sterilization unit 11 is switched, passes through the heating roller unit 14 of the sterilization unit 11, and is transferred to the denomination boxes 8 and 9 which are banknote storage units for each denomination, and is accumulated and stored. Ends the deposit transaction. In the withdrawal transaction, the banknotes required by the user from the denomination boxes 8 and 9 are separated one by one by a separating mechanism (not shown), and pass through the discriminating unit 3 and the conveying paths 4 and 7 to deposit and withdrawal ports 1. Are collected and released to end the withdrawal transaction.

When the amount of banknotes stored in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 becomes low, the banknotes are set in the removable banknote cassette 12, or the set banknotes are retracted from the separator 13. After that, the banknotes in the cassette 12 are fed out by a separating mechanism (not shown). Then, after passing through the transport mechanism 6 to the discriminating section 3, the discrimination section 3 performs denomination discrimination and counting, and then passes through the transport mechanisms 4, 7, and 2, at this time, the gate 10 of the banknote sterilization section 11. After passing through the heating roller unit 14, the denominations are stored in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 for each denomination, and the replenishment or the loading is performed.

Further, when one of the denomination boxes 8 and 9 is full, the bills are fed out from the full denomination boxes 8 and 9, and the discrimination section 3 performs denomination discrimination and counting,
The banknotes are stored in the cassette 12 and collected. Further, it is also possible to collect all the banknotes and perform a close inspection to count and confirm the amount of the banknotes in the apparatus. Further, it is possible to move the banknotes sequentially to the denomination boxes 8 and 9 and the banknote cassette 12 while passing through the discrimination section 3 and perform a close inspection to count and confirm the amount of banknotes in the apparatus.

This banknote transaction apparatus is originally a banknote transaction apparatus which does not have a sterilizing function as shown in FIG. 3, and one of the three denomination boxes 8a, 8 and 9 is provided.
The a is replaced by the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11, and the conventional device is not changed except for the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11.

If the denomination box 9 in FIG. 3 is replaced with the sterilizing / disinfecting section 11 to have the structure shown in FIG. 2, the sterilizing / disinfecting process can be performed at the time of withdrawal transaction. That is, the banknotes of the denominations required by the user are separated from the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and the banknotes pass through the heating roller section 14 of the sterilization / disinfection section 11 on the downstream side by the gate 10, and then the discrimination section 3 and the transport mechanism. It is accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port 1 through 4 and 7, and is withdrawn.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a transport mechanism 2a for the denomination boxes 8 and 9 and the sterilizing / disinfecting portion 11 is provided.
Is a straight line, and this linear transport mechanism 2
The denomination boxes 8 and 9 and the sterilization / disinfection section 11 are provided on one side of a.
Are juxtaposed side by side in the transport direction. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the sterilization unit 11 is arranged upstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9 and sterilized when the money is temporarily stored in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 from the temporary accumulation mechanism 5 during a deposit transaction (receipt of deposit). Sterilization and disinfection is performed in the disinfection unit 11. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 is used.
Is disposed on the downstream side of the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and the sterilization unit 11 sterilizes and disinfects the banknotes separated from the denomination boxes 8 and 9 during the dispensing transaction. The denomination boxes 8 and 9 and the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 have the same external shape, and are arranged side by side in the banknote transport direction on one side of the linear transport mechanism 2a, so that FIG. As shown, it is possible to configure a banknote transaction apparatus having a sterilizing function without changing the mounting configuration of the current banknote transaction apparatus.

FIG. 4 shows the construction of the banknote sterilization unit 11 mounted on the banknote transaction apparatus shown in FIGS. The banknote sterilization unit 11 surrounded by a thick frame has the same outer shape as the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and is housed in the device so as to be slidable by rollers or the like not shown.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a diameter 6 for heat-disinfecting bills.
A 0 mm aluminum heating roller, which is supported by a rotary bearing (not shown), and has a timing belt 16
Is connected to the heating roller driving motor 15 and is rotationally driven by the heating roller driving motor 15.

Reference numeral 17 denotes an electrothermal heater for heating the heating roller 14, which has a switch (S
It is supplied via SR) 18, and the electric heater 17 can be turned ON / OFF by the control unit 19. Reference numeral 20 denotes a temperature detector for measuring the surface temperature of the heating roller 14, and the measured temperature data is the control unit 1.
9 is input. In the control unit 19, S based on the temperature data input from the temperature detector 20
Control the SR 18 to turn on / off the electric heater 17.
Then, the surface temperature of the heating roller 14 is managed. Even if the temperature of the electric heater 17 rises above a predetermined temperature, the thermal protector 18a can prevent the electric heater 17 from operating due to a failure of the SSR 18 or the like.
Acts as a fuse when it cannot be turned off.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a heat-resistant belt wound around the heating roller 14, and a portion 22 in which the heat-resistant belt 21 and the heating roller 14 are in contact with each other under an appropriate tension.
However, it becomes the heating section 22 of the banknote, and the banknote is sterilized and disinfected in this portion. By rotating the heating roller 14 and the heat-resistant belt 21, the bill that has entered the heating unit 22 is conveyed.

Numeral 10 is a gate for switching the conveying path, and switches the conveyed bills to the sterilizing / disinfecting section or to go straight without being introduced to the sterilizing / disinfecting section. The gate 10 is driven by a solenoid 10a controlled by the device control unit 19.

Rollers 33a, 33 are provided in the sterilization unit 11.
A belt 32 that rotates with b and a belt 34 that rotates with rollers 35a and 35b are provided to form a part of the transport mechanism 2a, and banknotes transported from the upstream on the left side of the drawing are not sterilized. Sometimes, it is transported downstream in the drawing. These rollers 33a, 33b, 35a, 35b,
The belts 32 and 34 form a closed conveyance path inside the sterilization unit 11, and the sterilization unit 11 can be pulled out or pulled out and replaced.

23 and 24 outside the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 are exhaust and intake fans for preventing the ambient temperature of the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 from rising by being heated by the heating roller 14. Reference numeral 29 in the sterilization unit 11 is a fan for cooling the heating roller 14 in an emergency.

The heating roller 14 is constantly controlled at about 185 to 190 ° C. by the control unit 19 based on the information from the temperature detector 20. Further, the heating roller 14 rotates at a speed of 6.5 rotations per second. This is the transportation speed of 1.2 m / s of the transport mechanism 2, 4, 7 of this banknote transaction device, and the heating roller 14.
The outer peripheral velocities of the two are substantially the same. Further, the heat-resistant belt 21 is wound around the outer periphery of the heating roller 14 by about 180 degrees, and the bill conveyed between the heating roller 14 and the heat-resistant belt 21 is in contact with the heating roller 14 for about 0.08 seconds. Become. As a result, the bill is sufficiently heated and an effective sterilizing effect is obtained. In this bill transaction device, the transport mechanisms 2, 4, and 7 can be transported at an interval of 8 sheets per second, and the sterilization unit 11 can process them at the same speed.

In the present embodiment, even when the sterilization process is performed, the processing speed of 8 sheets / sec is maintained when the sterilization process is not performed. However, for example, the safety against heat and the reduction of power consumption are aimed at. The control temperature of the heating roller 14 to 10
There is also an example in which the temperature is set to 0 to 120 ° C. In this case, in the sterilization process, the rotation speed of the heating roller 14 is slowed down in order to secure the heating amount to the banknotes, and in accordance with this, the transport speeds of the transport mechanisms 2, 4, and 7 and the deposit / withdrawal port. 1. By changing the separating and feeding speed of the temporary accumulation mechanism 5 and the denomination boxes 8 and 9, an effective sterilizing effect can be obtained.

FIG. 5 shows the structure of the denomination boxes 8 and 9.
The denomination boxes 8 and 9 surrounded by a thick frame are the banknote sterilization unit 1.
It has the same outer shape as that of No. 1 and is slidably accommodated in the device by a roller or the like (not shown). The denomination box uses a belt 40 that is rotated by rollers 41a and 41b and has a transport mechanism 2a.
It receives a bill conveyed from the upstream on the left side of the drawing and conveys it to the downstream on the right side of the drawing. When the banknotes to be taken into this denomination box are conveyed, the gate 4
1 is switched and stored in the banknote storage unit 47 by the rollers 42 and 43. When the banknotes are separated and withdrawn from the denomination box, they are separated one by one from the banknote storage unit 47 by the feed roller 44, and are conveyed to the downstream of the denomination box by the rollers 45, 46 and the belt 40. The rollers 41a, 41b and the belt 40 form a conveyance path closed by a denomination box,
It is possible to pull out the denomination box or pull out and replace it.

FIG. 6 shows a block diagram of the bill transaction apparatus.
A user operation unit 51 and a staff operation unit 52 are connected to a main body control unit 50 that controls the entire banknote transaction apparatus. The user operation unit 51 includes a touch panel, displays operation contents on the touch panel, and allows the user to input. For example, an instruction is given to select and enter a transaction type such as deposit, withdrawal, and transfer, a secret code, an amount of money, etc., and the input is transmitted to the main body control unit 50. The clerk operation unit 52 is an operation unit for a bank clerk or the like to operate and maintain the banknote transaction device, and the bank clerk operates for setting the banknote cassette 12, an input unit for setting the number of banknotes, and an apparatus state. , An operation mode, a display section for displaying a failure location, and the like.

The main body control unit 50 further includes a device control unit 19
Are connected. The main body control unit 50 instructs the device control unit 19 via the line 53 to perform a processing operation. The processing operation to be instructed includes the following processing operations.

Deposit Count: The type of transaction is deposit, and banknotes inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 1 by the user are accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 5 through the transport mechanisms 2 and 2a, the discrimination section 3, and the transport mechanism 4, and deposited. The operation of counting the number of bills.

Deposit storage: When the user inputs a confirmation as a result of deposit count, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 5 are passed through the conveyance mechanism 6, the discrimination section 3, the conveyance mechanisms 4, 7, and 2. The operation of storing in the corresponding denomination boxes 8 and 9.

Withdrawal: The type of transaction is payout, and the banknote of the amount and denomination designated by the user is separated from the corresponding denomination boxes 8 and 9, and the transport mechanism 6, the discrimination unit 3, the transport mechanism 4, Withdrawal to the deposit / withdrawal port 1 through 7.

Loading: An operation of loading and replenishing bills from the bill cassette 12 into the denomination boxes 8 and 9 due to an instruction from a staff member or when the remaining amount of bills in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 has become small.

Collection: An operation of collecting banknotes from the denomination boxes 8 and 9 into the banknote cassette 12 by the instruction of a staff member or when the banknotes in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 are full.

The main body control unit 50 first instructs a deposit count processing operation as a processing operation in response to the selection and input of deposit as the type of transaction from the user operation unit 51, and as a result of the deposit count, When the confirmation is input from the person
Instruct the processing operation of deposit payment. In addition, the staff operation unit 52
The loading processing operation is instructed as the processing operation in response to the loading instruction input from. Further, in response to a recovery instruction input from the staff operation unit 52, a recovery processing operation is instructed as a processing operation.

Various device states are also input to the device control unit 19, and the device control unit 19 controls each mechanism in response to the instruction of the processing operation from the main body control unit 50 and the various device states. The various device states are, for example, the output of the temperature detector 20, the output of bill sensors provided at various places of the transport mechanism, and the like. As a signal for controlling each mechanism from the device control unit 19, the gate 10 of the sterilization unit 11 is turned on as illustrated.
N / OFF signal, denomination boxes 8 and 9 gate 41
ON / OFF signal, a signal for rotating the fan 29 in response to the temperature rise detection of the temperature detector 20, the sterilization / disinfection unit 1
There is a signal for rotationally driving the No. 1 motor 15 and other signals.

FIG. 7 shows an apparatus control unit 19 when the sterilization unit 11 shown in FIG. 1 is arranged upstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9.
Shows how to control ON / OFF of the gate 10 in response to the instruction of the processing operation from the main body control unit 50, and the relationship between the instruction of the processing operation and ON / OFF of the gate 10. . When the gate 10 is turned on, the banknotes are introduced from the transport mechanism 2a toward the heating roller 14 of the sterilizing / disinfecting section 11 and sterilized. When the gate 10 is OFF, the gate 10 is not guided into the heating roller 14 and is transported downstream through the linear transport mechanism 2a. FIG. 7 shows that the sterilization process is controlled only during the deposit operation process. During loading operation,
Although it is indicated as ON in the parentheses, when the banknote cassette 12 is loaded and replenished in the denomination boxes 8 and 9, the banknotes are sterilized by the sterilization unit 1.
Since it passes through the first transport mechanism 2a portion, the sterilization process may be performed when the loading process operation is instructed.

FIG. 8 shows an apparatus control unit 19 when the sterilization unit 11 shown in FIG. 2 is arranged downstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9.
Shows how to control ON / OFF of the gate 10 in response to the instruction of the processing operation from the main body control unit 50, and the relationship between the instruction of the processing operation and ON / OFF of the gate 10. . FIG. 8 shows that the sterilization process is controlled only during the dispensing operation. In the configuration of FIG. 2, since the banknotes pass through the transport mechanism 2a portion of the sterilization unit 11 even when the processing operation is deposit counting and collecting, the deposit counting and collecting processing operation is indicated as ON in (). A sterilization process may be performed when instructed.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the selection of whether or not the sterilization process is performed is controlled according to the content of the processing operation, but it can be made by the staff or the customer. For example, in the withdrawal processing operation of FIG. 8, the sterilization process is controlled, but when the customer inputs a withdrawal transaction operation, a guidance screen is displayed on the touch panel to select and specify whether to perform sterilization. You can let the customer choose. Further, in the case of loading according to the instruction of the clerk during the loading process operation in FIG. 7, or in the case of performing the collection according to the clerk's instruction during the collection process operation in FIG. 8, the clerk can select and input from the clerk operation panel. . If there is such a selection function, the customer,
This is useful for shortening the waiting time for users.

The selection of the sterilization process may be controlled so that it can be selected for each transaction. That is, each time the customer makes a withdrawal transaction, he or she selects and inputs from the touch panel whether or not to perform sterilization processing.

Further, the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 of this embodiment can change the route for sterilizing and sterilizing and the route for not performing sterilizing / disinfecting by switching the gate 10 by program control. The presence or absence can be set. Alternatively, by providing a means for measuring room temperature and humidity, it is possible to change the presence or absence of sterilization treatment according to the environmental conditions.

[0042]

According to the present invention, the sterilizing / disinfecting unit can be easily mounted on the current banknote transaction apparatus. In addition, it is possible to minimize a decrease in the processing capacity of the banknote transaction device equipped with the sterilization unit and to secure a sufficient sterilization effect.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a conventional banknote transaction device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of the sterilization unit of FIGS. 1 and 2.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a specific example of the denomination box shown in FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a banknote transaction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a relationship between a processing operation and a gate for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a relationship between a processing operation and a gate for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... deposit / withdrawal port, 2, 2a4, 6, 7 ... transport mechanism, 3 ...
Identification section, 8, 9 ... denomination box, 11 ... Sterilization / disinfection section, 1
0 ... Gate, 14 ... Heating roller, 19 ... Device control unit,

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / dispensing banknotes, a denomination box for storing banknotes, and a transport path for transporting bills between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box. In a banknote transaction device having a discriminating unit for discriminating bills and a sterilizing unit for sterilizing the conveyed bills, the denomination box and the sterilizing unit are arranged to be interchangeable as the same external shape. A banknote transaction device. 2. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / withdrawing banknotes, a denomination box for storing banknotes, and a transport path for transporting bills between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box. In a banknote transaction device having a discrimination unit for discriminating bills and a sterilization unit for sterilizing the conveyed bills, the denomination box and the sterilization unit are disposed on one side of the linear portion of the conveyance path. A banknote transaction device characterized in that they are juxtaposed side by side in the transport direction. 3. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / dispensing banknotes, a denomination box for storing the bill, and a transport path for transporting the bill between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box. In a banknote transaction device having a discrimination unit for discriminating bills and a sterilization unit for sterilizing the conveyed bills, it is possible to select whether or not sterilization treatment is performed in the sterilization unit for each transaction. A banknote transaction device. 4. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / dispensing banknotes, a denomination box for storing banknotes, and a transport path for transporting bills between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box. In a bill transaction apparatus having a discrimination unit for discriminating bills and a sterilization unit for sterilizing the conveyed bills, the presence or absence of sterilization treatment in the sterilization unit can be selected for each transaction processing operation. A bill transaction device characterized by the above. 5. The banknote transaction apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the presence / absence of the sterilization treatment is further selected by an input from an input means. 6. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / withdrawing a bill, a denomination box for storing the bill, and a transport path for transporting the bill between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box. In a banknote transaction device having a discrimination unit for discriminating bills and a sterilization unit for sterilizing the conveyed bills, the presence or absence of sterilization treatment in the sterilization unit is responsive to the contents of the transaction processing operation. A banknote transaction device characterized by being selected. 7. When the sterilization treatment is selected,
The bill transaction apparatus according to any one of claims 3, 4, 5, and 6, wherein the processing speed is made slower than when no sterilization treatment is selected.