JPH08263719A - Paper money receiving/paying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a paper money receiving/paying machine capable of discriminating the existence of paper money in a cassette at a glance and suppressing the carrying of an empty cassette. CONSTITUTION: The paper money receiving/paying machine is provided with plural drive receiving parts 55 fixed to a paper money storing cassette 11 and allowed to receive driving force for opening/closing a shutter 30, a shutter detecting means for detecting the shutter opening/closing state of the cassette 11 loaded in a drawer unit 22 and a drawer locking means SD for locking the unit 22 in the undrawn state of the unit 22. The machine is also provided with a control part for checking the detection result of a paper money existence detecting means at the time of drawing out the unit 22, fully closing the shutter 30 of a cassette including paper money to lock the shutter 30 by driving an electric driving means turning the inside of a cassette including no paper money at least to an observable state and then controlling the means SD so as to unlock the means SD.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote depositing / dispensing machine used in a financial institution and the like, and more particularly to a banknote depositing / dispensing machine for mounting / dismounting a banknote storage cassette having a shutter at its opening to collect banknotes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a general banknote depositing / dispensing machine conventionally used in a financial institution or the like, for example, the actual bill shokai 60-1
A bill depositing / dispensing machine as shown in Japanese Patent No. 53377 is known.

This type of depositing / dispensing machine has a plurality of banknote storage cassettes, stores the deposited banknotes in a plurality of banknote storage cassettes by storing them according to denomination, and requires these cassettes at the time of withdrawal. It is designed to pay out and pay out various banknotes. Then, when the work of the day is completed, all the banknotes existing in the machine body are collected in the banknote storage cassette, and the next process, for example, the banknote storage cassette is taken out from the machine body and transported to the cash room or the cash processing center. Has been done.

The banknote storage cassettes are arranged in a drawer unit that can be pulled out from the front side of the machine body in an aligned state so as to be aligned in a vertical position. If this drawer unit is not pulled out, banknotes are stored. The storage cassette cannot be taken out. In addition, a shutter for opening and closing the opening for opening and closing bills on the upper surface of each bill storage cassette is provided, and the shutter is opened and closed and locked in conjunction with the drawer operation of the drawer unit. It is formed to be. That is, when the manual operation part is swung to pull out the drawer unit, the shutter is mechanically closed and locked, the drawer unit can be withdrawn, and the banknote storage cassette with the shutter closed is used as the drawer unit. The shutter is unlocked when it is loaded and the drawer unit is pushed into the fuselage, and the shutter is released when the manual operation part is returned from the swing state to the original position. It is designed so that it can be used.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional banknote depositing / dispensing machine, since the shutter of the banknote storage cassette is opened / closed and locked in association with the withdrawal operation of the withdrawal unit, the banknotes withdrawn from the machine body. Since the shutter of the storage cassette is always closed, it is impossible to determine whether the banknote storage cassette that has been taken out is empty or empty, and therefore whether or not there is a banknote in the banknote storage cassette. Regardless of whether or not all banknote storage cassettes are transported to the next process location such as a cash room or a cash processing center, and the person in charge at that process opens the banknote storage cassette, it becomes clear that it is an empty cassette. Therefore, there is an inconvenience that wasteful transportation work is performed.

Since the shutter of the bill storage cassette is mechanically opened and closed in association with the operation of pulling out the drawer unit, the shutter must be closed before loading the bill storage cassette into the drawer unit. Therefore, there is a problem in that it is impossible to distinguish whether the cassette is one in which a banknote is taken out and processing is completed or a cassette containing unprocessed banknotes.

In view of this, the present invention eliminates wasteful transportation work of the banknote storage cassette by checking at a glance whether or not the banknote exists in the banknote storage cassette before taking out the banknote storage cassette from the drawer unit of the machine body. An object of the present invention is to provide a bill depositing / dispensing machine that can perform

[0008]

As a means for solving the problems of the above-mentioned prior art, the present invention is a shutter in which an opening for inserting and withdrawing bills is formed on the upper surface, and the opening is closed and locked. A banknote storage cassette having a banknote, a banknote presence / absence detection unit for detecting whether or not a banknote exists in the cassette, and a banknote having a drawer unit detachably supported from the machine body and detachably supporting the banknote storage cassette. In the depositing / dispensing machine, a drive receiving portion which is provided in the banknote storage cassette and receives a driving force for opening and closing a shutter, an electric driving means which is provided in the withdrawing unit and applies a driving force to the drive receiving portion, and the withdrawing unit. Shutter detection means for detecting the open / closed state of the shutter of the banknote storage cassette to be mounted, and the drawer unit is locked when it is not pulled out. Drawer lock means, to confirm the detection result of the bill presence detection means at the time of pulling out the drawer unit, for cassettes where bills exist, drive the electrical drive means to lock the shutter fully closed, A cassette having no banknotes is characterized by comprising a control unit for controlling the unlocking of the drawer lock means after at least making the inside of the cassette visible.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the shutter detection means detects a fully open / fully closed state of the shutter and a half-open state that does not hinder the withdrawal of the withdrawing unit, and there is no banknote during control by the controller. Regarding the cassette, the shutter detection means stops the shutter at a position where it detects the half-open state of the shutter.

[0010]

When a drawer unit loaded with a banknote storage cassette is pulled out from the machine body, the presence or absence of banknotes in each cassette is detected by the banknote presence / absence detection means, and the detection result is confirmed to identify the banknote storage cassette. With regard to (1), the shutter of the cassette is fully closed and locked by the drive of the electric drive means. For banknote storage cassettes in which no banknotes exist, the drawer unit is unlocked after the shutter is at least visible in the cassette, and the drawer unit can be withdrawn.

When the drawer unit is pulled out, the empty banknote storage cassette with no banknotes is in a state where at least the shutter is visible to the inside of the cassette, so it is at a glance whether the banknotes are present in the banknote storage cassette. It is sufficient to take out only the cassette containing the banknote and carry it to the next step, and do not carry the empty cassette.

The opening and closing of the shutter of the banknote storage cassette is performed by transmitting the driving force from the electric drive means provided on the drawer unit side to the drive receiving portion provided on the banknote storage cassette side. Therefore, there is no restriction that the shutter must be closed when the banknote storage cassette is loaded, and the banknote storage cassette that has been emptied after the banknote is taken out has the shutter open so that the inside can be visually checked. You can check empty cassettes at a glance.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments showing the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an example of a banknote depositing / dispensing machine to which the present invention is applied. This banknote depositing / dispensing machine has a banknote P standing on a top surface of a machine body 1 in a horizontal position. There is a banknote loading section 2 for loading the banknotes into the loading section 2, and a feeding mechanism 6 including a kicker roller 3, a feed roller 4, a gate roller 5 and the like for feeding the banknotes P one by one into the feeding opening section of the loading section 2.
The banknote P fed into the machine body 1 by the take-up mechanism 6 passes through the conveyance path 7 disposed below the loading section 2 in the machine body 1 and is discriminated by the discriminating section 8 as a denomination. , Bills, authenticity, front and back, etc. are discriminated, and are fed through the downstream transport path 9 based on the discrimination result, and the flipped bills P are reversed by the front and back reversing mechanism 10 to make bill storage cassettes 11 of each denomination. 11 ... (hereinafter simply referred to as a cassette) is sent to a transfer path 13 to a temporary holding section 12, 12 ...
It is designed to be fed into each of the temporary holding units 12, 12 ... through 14 ... Further, at the position opposite to the distribution means 14, 14, ...
A payout mechanism 19, 19 ... Consisting of a kicker roller 15, a payout roller 16, a gate roller 17 (reverse rotation roller) provided opposite to the kicker roller 15, a payout roller 16 used when paying out the paper money P from inside 1 The banknotes P, which are respectively provided, are sent to the upstream side of the identification unit 8 and pass through the identification unit 8, and a payout port (also a deposit reject port) 20.
Be withdrawn to. The withdrawal reject banknote is discharged to the withdrawal reject port 21.

2, the cassettes 11, 11, ... Are loaded in parallel in a vertical position in a drawer unit 22 which is provided so as to be drawn from the front surface of the machine body 1, as shown in FIG. There is. In FIG. 2, SD is a solenoid for locking the drawer unit 22 when the drawer unit 22 is stored in the machine body 1. The SD is provided in the machine body 1 and the locking claw 23 swingable by the solenoid SD is drawn out. 22 is engaged with the hook 24 and locked so that it cannot be pulled out, and the engaging claw 23 is rotated clockwise in FIG. 2 by the excitation of the solenoid SD to release the engagement with the hook 24. The drawer unit 22 can be drawn out. In FIG. 1, 26
Is an operation unit disposed on one side of the upper surface of the machine body 1 at a biased position, 27 is a display, and 28 is a receipt issuing unit.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway view of one of the cassettes 11, which has a box shape having a vertically long rectangular cross-sectional shape, the upper surface of which is sufficient for bills P to enter and leave in a horizontal state. An opening 11a having a size is formed, and a handle 29 is attached so as to be able to be tilted so as to straddle the opening 11a in the longitudinal direction, and the opening 11a is opened and closed by a shutter 30 provided in the cassette 11. In addition, a stage 31 for accumulating and supporting the banknotes P on the upper surface is provided in the cassette 11 so as to be able to move up and down.

As shown in FIG. 4, the shutter 30 has a shutter-like shape that moves along guides 32 arranged on both sides of the opening 11a of the cassette 11 in the lateral direction. The shutter opening / closing belt 35 wound between the upper and lower pulleys 33 and 34 is attached to the shutter 30.
The base of the belt 35 is attached by a fixing tool 36,
4, the shutter 30 is rotated by the rotation in the direction of arrow A.
Is configured to move in a direction of closing the opening 11a.

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of an example of the stage 31 and its lifting mechanism 37. Stage 31 above
Has a rectangular shape made of a flat plate material, and has a surface approximately the same size as the bill P, the lower surface of which is supported by a substrate 39 by a pantograph 38, and the pantograph 38 is wound around an intersection axis 40 thereof. The coil spring constantly urges the stage 31 in a direction to push it upward.

At both ends of the substrate 39, mounting members 41,
42 are attached, and guide grooves 46a of the pulley support member 46 are provided above and below the outer surfaces of the attachment members 41, 42.
The guide rollers 43, 43 that fit in the shafts are respectively attached to the shafts. Further, a magnet 44 functioning for detecting the position of the stage 31 is attached to the side surface of the one attachment member 41 via a fixture 45 ', and the side surface of the other attachment member 42 is fixed to the lifting mechanism 37. A tool 45 is attached.

The elevating mechanism 37 of the stage 31 has a pulley supporting member 46, and the pulley supporting member 46 includes a first pulley 47 from the top and a second pulley 4 in the middle.
8, a third pulley 49, and a lower fourth pulley 50 are axially mounted, respectively, and the pulley 51 and the lower pulley 52 are axially mounted at upper and lower positions inside the cassette 11, respectively. A lifting belt 53 is wound around the pulley 51, the second pulley 48, the first pulley 47, the fourth pulley 50, the third pulley 49, and the lower pulley 52. The fixing member 45 of the stage 31 is fixed to the belt 53 by penetrating through a window hole 54 formed in the pulley supporting member 46 in the vertical direction.

The belt 53 is provided at symmetrical positions, and when the belt 53 rotates in the direction of the arrow B in FIG. 4, only the stage 31 initially rises, and the fixture 45 thereof is a window hole of the pulley supporting member 46. When it hits the upper end of 54, it is raised together with this pulley support member 46, so that the stage 31 moves up and down within a large stroke range from the most lowered position to the most raised position. The pulley support member 46 is the guide rail 1 on the inner surface of the cassette 11.
It goes up and down along 1b.

At the shaft end of the pulley 33 above the shutter opening / closing belt 35 and the shaft end of the upper pulley 51 of the stage lifting belt 53, as shown in FIG. It is provided so as to be exposed on the side surface, and when the cassette 11 is loaded in the drawer unit 22, it is jointed to transmission portions 55a and 56a provided on the drawer unit 22 side to receive the rotation transmission.

A pair of claws 57, 57, 58, 58 are provided on both sides of the opening 11a of the cassette 11 in the longitudinal direction of the shaft 5, respectively.
It is pivotally supported by 9, 60, and is provided in a standing posture so as to be able to fall down inside the cassette 11. One end of a link lever 62 is connected to a short arm 61 fixed to a shaft 60 of one of the claws 58, 58. The other end of the interlocking lever 62 is connected to the lower end of an operating lever 64 pivotally supported by the cassette 11 by a shaft 63, and when the shutter 30 is closed, the tip of the shutter 30 pushes down one of the pawls 57, 57 and then the operating lever. 6
4, press the upper end of 4, and pull the interlocking lever 62 to pull the claws 58, 58.
Is liable to fall inward of the cassette 11, and normally stands up by a spring (not shown) to guide the banknotes when the banknotes are stored in the cassette 11.

In the cassette 11, the stage 3
A bill presence / absence detecting means for detecting whether or not a bill is present on the 1 is provided. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, the detecting means in this embodiment is formed on the stage 31 at the central position in the longitudinal direction and at intermediate positions on both sides thereof, and is long in the lateral direction, and is long in the lateral direction. , Which are different in position, and through holes 66, 66, 6 which are formed at positions corresponding to the long holes 65, 65 ...
6 (shown in FIG. 3) and the through holes 66, 6 provided on the drawer unit 22 side and having one side when the cassette 11 is loaded.
6 ..., long holes 65, 65 ... of the stage 31, cassette 11
The optical axis 6 is inserted in the through holes 67, 67, 67 (shown in FIG. 6) on the other surface side.
8, 68, 68 are composed of optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ which are obliquely passed in a vertical plane and arranged at different positions in the vertical direction.

Further, in this embodiment, there is provided an optical sensor S ₄ which is arranged so that the optical axis 69 obliquely crosses the longitudinal direction of the stage 31 in a horizontal plane, which mainly curls bills and rises. It is provided for detection when there is.

A proximity sensor S ₅ for detecting that the stage 31 is located at a position in a predetermined range H where the optical sensors S _{1 to} S ₄ detect is provided in the drawer unit 22. This proximity sensor S ₅
Is operated to detect the magnetic force of the magnet 44 provided on the stage 31, and is provided for detecting that the stage 31 exists in the bill presence / absence detection range.

Detection signals from the above optical sensors are input to the control unit 70 (FIG. 10). The control unit 70 controls the drive system M ₂ of the elevating mechanism 37 of the stage 31, and also the optical sensors within a predetermined range H from when the proximity sensor S ₅ detects the stage 31 until when the proximity sensor S ₅ does not detect the stage 31. All optical axes 68, 68 ... 6 of S _{1 to} S ₄
It is determined that there is no bill on condition that 9 is not shielded from light.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 9, on the drawer unit 22 side, sensors S ₆ and S ₇ composed of reed switches and the like serve as shutter detection means for detecting the open / closed state of the shutter 30, that is, fully closed, half open, and fully open. , S ₈ are provided, the shutter opening / closing electric drive system M ₁ is used to fully open the cassette 11 after loading it, fully close it when the cassette 11 is taken out, and an empty state in which no banknotes are present in the cassette 11. At this time, the half-opening movement is controlled through the control unit 70.

In addition to the above, the control unit 70 issues a command to release the solenoid SD that controls the lock of the drawer unit 22.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

Pull out the drawer unit 22 from the machine body 1,
When the cassette 11 accommodating the banknotes P is loaded into the drawer unit 22, the shutter opening / closing electric drive system M ₁ and the stage lifting mechanism drive system M on the drawer unit 22 side are loaded.
The transmission units 55a and 56a of No. _{2 and} the drive receiving units 55 and 56 of the cassette 11 are jointed, and the transmission of rotation can be received. At this time, the shutter 30 is locked by a shutter lock mechanism (not shown).
The claws 57 and 58 are pushed inward by closing the. When the drawer unit 22 is pushed into the machine body 1, the locking claw 2
3 is engaged with the hook 24 and locked so that it cannot be pulled out.

When this lock is confirmed, the shutter opening / closing electric drive system M ₁ is operated through the control unit 70, the shutter opening / closing belt 35 is rotated in the direction opposite to the arrow A in FIG. Is in a fully opened state (FIG. 8 (A)). Then, the stage elevating mechanism drive system M ₂ is actuated to rotate the stage elevating belt 53 in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 4, thereby raising the stage 31 (FIG. 8 (B)), and further rotating the belt 53. Due to the movement, the pulley supporting member 46 rises, the stage 31 projects from the opening 11a of the cassette 11 (FIG. 8C), and the upper surface of the banknotes P accumulated on it is pressed against the kicker roller 15 of the feeding mechanism 19. . This pressing is appropriately maintained by the biasing spring of the pantograph 38 of the stage 31.

When a withdrawal command is issued, the above-mentioned payout mechanism 1
The banknotes 9 are driven to draw out the banknotes P on the stage 31 one by one, and the banknotes P are dispensed to the dispensing port 20 through the route shown in FIG.

In the above, the stage 31 passes through the region of the predetermined range H while moving upward, but the arrival of the stage 31 in the range H is the proximity sensor S ₅ and the stage 31.
Of the magnet 44 of FIG.

While the stage 31 passes through the predetermined range H, the optical axes 68, 68, 68 of the optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ ,
The elongated holes 65, 65, 65 of the stage 31 sequentially approach the position 68. At this time, when even one banknote P is placed on the stage 31, all or some of the optical axes 68, 68, 68 are cut off by the banknote P, and the presence of the banknote is detected. This detection is performed by the optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S
_Since the position of ₃ is different vertically, it is possible to detect even if a part of the banknote P is lifted up due to being folded.
The floating is also detected by an optical sensor S ₄ having an optical axis 69 that obliquely crosses the longitudinal direction of the stage 31.

In this way, during the period when the stage 31 moves in the predetermined range H, it is detected whether or not the banknote P exists, and the optical axis of any of the optical sensors S ₁ , S ₂ , S ₃ , S ₄ is detected. When 68, 68, 68, 69 are not cut off within the above range H, a signal indicating that there is no bill is input to the control unit 70, it is determined that there is no bill, and the stage elevating mechanism drive system M ₂ is controlled to control the stage 31. Is lowered to a predetermined position and the electric drive system M ₁ for opening and closing the shutter is controlled, and the sensor S
₇ detects the half-open state of the shutter 30, and the shutter closing drive system M ₁ is stopped by the signal. This shutter 30
Is opened halfway so that the claws 57 and 58 of the opening 11a of the cassette 11 are not tilted by the shutter 30 when the drawer unit 22 is pulled out, so that the inside of the cassette 11 can be pulled out as shown in FIG. This is because it is possible to immediately recognize that it is empty by visual inspection as in (c). Therefore, when the drawer unit 22 is pulled out, the presence of the empty cassette 11 can be immediately identified, and it is not necessary to open the shutter 30 and check the inside.
For the cassette 11 in which the banknotes P are stored, see FIG.
As shown in (B), the shutter 30 is fully closed and locked,
After the drawer unit 22 is pulled out, it functions as a safe even if it is pulled out from the drawer unit 22.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the drawer unit in which the banknote storage cassette is loaded is pulled out from the machine body, the presence or absence of banknotes in each cassette is detected,
According to the detection results, the shutter is fully closed and locked for cassettes containing banknotes, and the inside of the empty cassette without banknotes is made visible (for example, half-opened) and then the drawer unit is unlocked. Since it can be pulled out, when the drawer unit is pulled out, it is possible to immediately discriminate between cassettes containing bills and cassettes not containing bills, and only cassettes containing bills (shutter fully closed) You don't have to carry an empty cassette, just take it to the next step.

The shutter is opened and closed by transmitting the driving force from the electric driving means provided on the drawer unit side to the drive receiving portion provided on the cassette side to open and close the shutter, so that the shutter is always closed when the cassette is loaded. There is no restriction that it must be held, and a cassette that has been emptied by taking out banknotes has an advantage that the shutter can be opened so that the inside can be visually checked, and it is easy to check an empty cassette.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing an example of a banknote handling machine to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a situation where a bill storage cassette is loaded into the bill processing machine of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing one of the cassettes.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an example of a shutter opening / closing mechanism and a stage raising / lowering mechanism of the cassette.

5 is an exploded perspective view of the stage lifting mechanism of FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between an optical sensor arranged in the cassette and a stage.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 8A to FIG. 8C are explanatory views showing the ascending / descending state of the stage.

9A to 9C are explanatory views showing the opened / closed state of the shutter.

FIG. 10 is a control block diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Airframe 2 Paper sheet loading section 6 Retracting mechanism 8 Identification section 11 Banknote storage cassette 12 Temporary holding section 14 Sorting means 19 Discharging mechanism 20 Discharge port 21 Discharge reject port 22 Drawout unit 30 Shutter 31 Stage 35 For opening / closing shutter belt 37 stage elevating mechanism 44 magnet 46 the pulley support member 53 stage elevating belt 55 driving support member 55a, 56a transmitting portions 57 and 58 pawl S ₁ to S ₄ optical sensor S ₅ proximity sensor S ₆ to S ₈ shutter sensor

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A banknote storage cassette having a shutter for locking and closing a banknote and having a shutter for closing the opening, and a banknote for detecting whether or not a banknote is present in the cassette. In a banknote deposit / withdrawal machine having presence / absence detection means and a drawer unit detachably supported from the machine body and detachably supporting the banknote storage cassette, a drive receiving unit provided in the banknote storage cassette and receiving a driving force for opening / closing a shutter. Section, an electric drive means provided in the drawer unit for giving a driving force to the drive receiving portion, a shutter detection means for detecting a shutter open / closed state of a banknote storage cassette mounted in the drawer unit, and the drawer unit. Drawer lock means for locking the drawer unit when it is not drawn out, and a check for the bill presence / absence detection means when the drawer unit is drawn out. Confirm the result, for the cassette with the banknotes, the electric drive means is driven to lock the shutter by closing the shutter fully, and for the cassette without the banknotes, at least the inside of the cassette is made visible. A bill depositing / dispensing machine comprising: a control unit for controlling to unlock the withdrawal locking unit. 2. The shutter detecting means detects a fully open / fully closed state of the shutter and a half open state that does not hinder the withdrawal of the withdrawing unit, and for a cassette in which no banknote exists when controlled by the controller. 2. The bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is stopped at a position where the shutter detecting unit detects a half-open state of the shutter.