JPH0816944B2 - Paper handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a transaction, such as an automated teller machine, in which paper sheets introduced by a trader (customer) are stored in a storage unit in the apparatus, or , A paper sheet handling device that performs paper sheet transactions such as a transaction in which paper sheets stored in the device are released to a trader The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling device that can be restored.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional paper sheet handling apparatus, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 59-123965
As shown in the issue, although the status of each automatic machine and the occurrence of trouble are monitored, the device will stop if a jam problem actually occurs, so the staff will remove the jam paper and remove the device. Work such as returning to the initial state was required, and no consideration was given to the automatic restoration of the device.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned prior art does not consider automatic recovery of the device, and has a problem that unmanned operation cannot be performed when the device is operated on holidays.

The purpose of the present invention is the most frequent paper jam,
An object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet handling device that automatically removes stacking jam generated during the stacking of paper sheets and restores it unattended.

[Means for solving problems]

The above-mentioned purpose is a paper sheet trading unit, a storage unit for storing paper sheets, a counting unit for separating and discriminating and counting paper sheets one by one,
Depending on the type of paper sheet transaction performed through the transport mechanism section that collectively transfers and conveys the paper sheet between the paper sheet transaction opening section, the storage section and the counting section, and the paper sheet transaction opening section. According to the defined program, control the required parts of the above-mentioned paper sheet trading section, storage section, counting section and transport mechanism section,
And, in the paper sheet handling device having the control unit for collectively delivering and transferring the paper sheets between the required portions of the paper sheet trading section, the storage section, and the counting section in the transport mechanism section, The counting unit includes a separating unit that receives the sheets collectively from the transport mechanism unit and separates the sheets one by one, a detection unit that discriminates and counts the sheets separated by the separating unit, and a discriminating and counting sheet. Conveyance according to the discrimination / counting result, a conveying path for dividing the sheet, and a stacking section for collecting the sheets from the conveying path and collectively delivering them to the transport mechanism section.
The jam detecting means for detecting jam of the stacked paper sheets is provided, and the control means is accompanied by the jam detection of the jam detecting means, and the paper sheets accumulated in the accumulating portion where the jam occurs by the carrying mechanism section. It is achieved by arranging to take out all at once.

[Action]

The detection unit provided in the stacking unit detects a defective stacking caused by the jam of the paper sheet, notifies the control unit of the stacking unit in which the jam occurs, and the transport mechanism unit is instructed by the control unit.
The cause of the jam can be removed by grasping and taking out the paper sheet causing the jam near the stacking portion.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below by taking an automatic cash handling machine as an example. Each part will be described together with the operation.

In the case of taking in banknotes (banknote depositing), the banknotes introduced by the trader (customer) into the banknote trading opening 1 (paper sheet trading opening) in FIG. The counting unit 3 is held by the hand unit 2 which is a mechanical unit.
It is carried to the separating section 4 of.

The separating unit 4 separates the bills one by one and sends them to the detecting unit 5. The detection unit 5 discriminates and counts the type, damage, front and back, etc. of the bill, and sends it to the conveyance path 8 held by belts 6 and 7 as shown in FIG. Defective banknotes (unfit banknotes) that cannot be detected as genuine by the detecting unit 5 are accumulated in the accumulating unit 30. The banknotes of the type (for example, 10,000-yen bills) determined to be accumulated in the accumulating unit 31 by the detecting unit 5 are accumulated in the accumulating unit 31 by operating the gates 9 and 10 by driving a solenoid (not shown). Further, the banknotes of the type determined to be accumulated in the accumulating unit 32 are accumulated in the accumulating unit 32 only by operating the kate 9. The accumulated banknotes are gripped by the transport mechanism section 2 and transferred from the stacking section 30 to the banknote transaction opening section 1 as shown in FIG.
It is delivered from 1,32 to the bill storage unit 11.

The hand unit 2 can move up and down on the alternate long and short dash line.
In addition, the fingers 2a and 2b are configured to open and close to grip and release the bill, and the movement is controlled by the control unit 18.

In the separating unit 4, the accumulated bills are pushed down by the lever 4a and the pressing plate 4b, and arranged by the separating rollers 4c to 4e so that they can be easily separated one by one.

Next, taking out (payment) of bills will be described. In this case, after the transaction type of payment is designated by the customer and the payment amount is input, the bills are transported from the storage unit 11 to the transaction opening unit 1 and delivered to the customer.

Specifically, first, the hand unit 2 picks up and takes out a bill from the bill storage unit 11. Next, the bill is separated from the bill by the separating unit 4 of the counting unit 3.
Is transported to and deposited on this.

In the separating unit 4, one bill
The banknotes are separated one by one, and the detection unit 5 discriminates and counts the types, the damages, and the front and back of the banknotes, and the gates 9 and 10 are driven according to the results to transfer and stack the banknotes to a predetermined stacking unit. That is,
The unfit banknotes that are not detected by the detection unit 5 are counted and accumulated in the stacking unit 30, and the banknotes that are detected as normal bills (normal banknotes) are counted by the payment amount and transferred to the stacking unit 31. The banknotes stacked in the stacking unit 31 are handed to the customer who is in the transaction of payment by the hand unit 2
Then, it is conveyed to the banknote transaction slot as shown in FIG. The banknotes in the stacking unit 30 are carried to the collection box 16. Further, the banknotes of the separating unit 4 are left as a surplus in that case because the separation is stopped when the normal unit is counted by the counting unit for the payment amount designated by the customer. The remaining bills are returned to the bill storage unit 11 while being held by the hand unit 2.

By the way, the banknotes 20 used in various states by an unspecified number of people are as shown in FIGS.
It has tears 20a, bent corners 20b, wrinkles 20c, etc. When stacking such banknotes in the stacking section, the banknotes are transported through the transport path 8 as shown in FIG. 3 and deposited on the bottom plate of the stacking section by the stacking rollers 31a and 31b. Easy to bend. FIG. 4 shows a banknote 201 that is folded due to its buckling.

In this embodiment, when the bill is jammed in the stacking unit, attention is paid to the fact that the stack thickness of the banknote becomes uneven, and the bottom plate 12 of the stacking unit swings around the shaft 13 in the arrow (A) direction. Mounted movably. Therefore, when a jam occurs as shown in FIG. 4, the bottom plate 12 inclines about the shaft 13. This inclination is based on the fact that the detection piece 17 provided at one end of the bottom plate 12 is abnormally lowered, and the movement thereof is detected by the counter sensor 15 provided at the fixed portion of the stacking unit.

Next, the recovery operation of the device associated with the jam detection will be described by type.

(1) Jam detection at the time of taking (depositing, depositing) operation (a) When the counting unit is stopped by the jam detection After the jam is detected by the sensor 15, the counting unit 3 stops the separating operation, The transport path 8 is operated to remove the remaining banknotes in the transport path (transfer to the rear and deposit on the predetermined stacking unit).
Next, the banknotes in the stacking section where the jam has occurred are grasped by the hand section 2 and returned to the banknote transaction opening section 1. Then, the remaining banknotes in the separating section 4 are returned to the banknote transaction opening section 1 by the hand section 2. The banknotes returned to the banknote transaction opening section 1 are received by the customer, but it is up to the customer to prepare the banknotes and deposit them again in the transaction opening section 1 or to cancel the deposit. At this time, the apparatus guides the customer whether or not to re-deposit, and if the deposit is made, the operation is continued, and if not, the apparatus returns to the initial state.

(B) When the counting unit is not stopped by the jam detection After the jam is detected by the sensor 15, the banknotes are not transferred to the stacking unit where the jam is generated after that.
To switch the transport path, continue counting and discrimination, and finish to the end. After the occurrence of a jam, banknotes will be accumulated in another accumulation section. After the counting is completed, the entire count value (excluding the unfit banknotes) is shown to the customer, and when the customer presses the confirmation key, the hand section 2 holds the banknotes in the accumulating section where the jam has occurred, and the collecting box. The banknotes in the stacking section, which are conveyed to 16 and switched after the occurrence of a jam, are stacked in the storage box 11 by the hand section 2. If the confirmation key is not pressed, all the banknotes in the stacking unit are returned to the trading opening unit.

Since the stacking unit 30 is used for stacking unfit notes,
It is returned to the trading unit 1 by the hand unit 2 and returned to the customer. According to the above operation, only the banknotes excluding the unfit banknotes among the banknotes deposited by the customer are deposited.

(2) Jam detection during take-out (payment) operation (a) When the counting unit is stopped by jam detection After the separation operation is stopped by the jam detection before the count value reaches the payment amount, the same as the take-in operation After removing the bills in the transport path, the collection box that collects the bills in the stacking area
Collect to 16. Next, the bills remaining in the separating unit 4 are separated and counted again, and when the payment amount specified by the customer is reached, the bills are stopped and the counted bills are transferred from the stacking unit (31 or 32) to the trading unit 1
It is delivered by the hand unit 2. The customer can receive a predetermined amount of money from this trading unit 1.

(B) When the operation of the counting unit is not stopped by the jam detection After the jam is detected, the gates 9 and 10 are switched and driven so that the bills are conveyed to the stacking unit other than the jam occurrence, as in the case of the take-in operation. At this time, the count value does not reach the payment amount. After switching, the separation counting is continued and completed. The counting at this time is performed again after the stacking unit is switched due to the occurrence of a jam, and the switched stacking unit stacks the bills corresponding to the payment amount designated by the customer. When the bills in the separating unit 4 are exhausted before the amount of payment to the customer is reached by re-counting, the hand unit 2 replenishes the bills from the storing unit 11 to the separating unit.

After the counting is completed as described above, the banknotes corresponding to the payment amount are carried by the hand 2 to the transaction opening section 1 by the hand 2 and used for receipt by the customer. Next, the remaining banknotes in the separating unit 4 are returned to the storage unit 11, and the banknotes in the stacking unit in which the jam has occurred are collected in the collecting box 16. Since the storage unit 11 does not include any unfit banknotes, it is assumed that the stacking unit 30 has no banknotes.

As described above, the operation can be divided into various types,
The system that does not stop the operation of the counting unit by the jam detection can provide the service to the customer in a short time.
Also, the shut-down method requires fewer post-processing steps of the device after servicing the customer.

Further, in this embodiment, since the banknotes are grasped by using the hand portion 2, the banknote in which the jam has occurred can be taken together with other banknotes, so that the cause of the jam (jam banknote) can be reliably removed. It is possible.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when a jam occurs in the stacking unit, the jammed paper sheet can be removed, returned, and collected by the apparatus itself without performing an operation by a staff member, so that the operation rate is improved. And there is an effect that it can correspond to unmanned operation.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, the cause can be automatically removed even for the occurrence of a jam in the accumulating portion, which is relatively frequent, so that the counting portion can be separated and counted thereafter. In addition, the jam paper can be returned and collected by the device itself without the need for operator operation, which has the effect of significantly reducing the failure rate.
It also enables unmanned operation of the device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an automated teller machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view of a counting unit, FIG. 3 is a side view of a stacking unit, and FIG. 4 is a stacking unit showing a jammed state. Side view of the fifth
FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing the state of bills, FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing the operation of the transport mechanism portion, and FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the entire apparatus. 1: Paper trading unit, 2: Transport mechanism (hand), 3: Counting unit,
4: Separation unit, 11: Storage unit, 17: Control unit, 30 to 32: Stacking unit, 12
・ 15 ・ 17: Detection means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A paper sheet trading unit, a storage unit for storing paper sheets, and a counting unit for separating and discriminating and counting paper sheets one by one.
Depending on the type of paper sheet transaction performed through the transport mechanism section that collectively transfers and conveys the paper sheet between the paper sheet transaction opening section, the storage section and the counting section, and the paper sheet transaction opening section. According to the defined program, control the required parts of the above-mentioned paper sheet trading section, storage section, counting section and transport mechanism section,
And, in the paper sheet handling device having the control unit for collectively delivering and transferring the paper sheets between the required portions of the paper sheet trading section, the storage section, and the counting section in the transport mechanism section, The counting unit includes a separating unit that receives the sheets collectively from the transport mechanism unit and separates the sheets one by one, a detection unit that discriminates and counts the sheets separated by the separating unit, and a discriminating and counting sheet. Conveyance according to the discrimination / counting result, a conveying path for dividing the sheet, and a stacking section for collecting the sheets from the conveying path and collectively delivering them to the transport mechanism section.
The jam detecting means for detecting jam of the stacked paper sheets is provided, and the control means is accompanied by the jam detection of the jam detecting means, and the paper sheets accumulated in the accumulating portion where the jam occurs by the carrying mechanism section. A paper sheet handling device characterized by taking out all the sheets at once. 2. The carrying mechanism section has a hand for collectively gripping the paper sheets, and in association with the jam detection of the jam detection means,
The paper handling according to claim 1, wherein the hand grasps the paper sheets accumulated in the accumulating section in which the jam has occurred together with the paper sheet causing the jam, and collectively takes them out. apparatus.