JPH0831149B2 - Forgotten money recovery device for money handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention discharges the number of banknotes designated by a withdrawal command to a customer service section, such as an automatic teller machine used in banking. In a money handling apparatus, the present invention relates to a forgotten money collecting apparatus of a money handling apparatus, which collects the forgotten banknotes in a forgotten banknote collection section when a customer forgets the banknotes.

(B) Conventional Technology In the automatic teller machine of the above-mentioned example, when the customer forgets the banknote, it was conventionally configured to collect the banknote and collect it in the collecting section. When multiple collections occur (multiple times), these banknotes are simply collected and accumulated in the collection section, so it is not possible to determine which part of the collected banknotes is the forgotten banknote in the transaction with which customer. Therefore, if you forget to take it for the second time, stop the device,
Collection processing was performed by the staff.

For this reason, the operating rate of the device is reduced, and under the recent circumstances where unmanned operation is progressing and work is performed on holidays, if the device is stopped as described above, the device cannot be used until a staff member can go to work. There was a big problem.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention This invention is a forgotten item edited with currency data such as denomination, number, and amount of money, and customer data such as an account number indicating a customer who has forgotten the currency. By storing the data, it becomes possible to collect the forgotten money multiple times, and if it becomes difficult to separate the amount of the forgotten money, by stopping the subsequent forgotten collection, An object of the present invention is to provide a forgotten money collecting device for a money handling device, which can prevent post-processing from being confused and ensure high reliability of the device.

(D) Means for Solving the Problem The present invention is a money handling apparatus having a function of transporting and collecting the money that has been forgotten at the money discharge port to the forgotten recovery unit, and recovering the forgotten money. At the time of transportation, a discrimination unit for discriminating forgotten currency is provided, and the denomination of money based on this currency discrimination,
A storage means is provided for storing the forget-to-take data edited with the money data such as the number of sheets and the amount of money, and the customer data such as the account number indicating the customer who trades the forget-to-take money, and the collected money is identified by the above-mentioned identification unit. As a result, it is a forgotten currency collecting device of a money handling apparatus having a stopping means for stopping the subsequent forgotten recovery when an amount of recovered money of unknown amount occurs.

(E) Operation and Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, even if the forgotten money is collected multiple times in the forgotten collection unit and the money is mixed, the forgotten data for each time, that is, the data of the forgotten money is collected. Since the data of the trading customer is described in the storage means, post-processing can be easily performed based on the stored forget-to-take data, and as a result, the forget-to-go currency can be used multiple times without stopping the device. Can be recovered, and the operating rate of the device can be significantly improved.

Furthermore, when performing the withdrawal process, by effectively using the currency discriminating section used for discriminating the denomination of the dispensed money as the aforementioned forgotten currency discriminating section, no special mechanism is required, and the software The device can be easily configured by modification.

Moreover, the above-mentioned stop means stops the subsequent forgetful collection when the collected money is discriminated by the discriminating unit as a result of the discernment of the collected money, so that the confusion of the post-processing is prevented in advance, and the device This has the effect of ensuring high reliability.

In short, the operation of the money handling machine can be continued when a number of forgetting mistakes occurs more than once, and a high operation rate can be secured. This has the effect of preventing processing confusion and ensuring high reliability of the device.

(F) Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawing shows a banknote processing device incorporated in an automatic teller machine as an example of a money processing device. In FIG.
The front and rear guide plates 2 and 3 forming the entrance / exit 1 of A ... are provided, and the fixed guide 4 extending downward from the lower end of the guide plate 2 is disposed at the lower part of the front guide plate 2 and the rear side. At the lower part of the guide plate 3 is provided a movable guide 5 which is opened as indicated by a phantom line in FIG.

Further, the receiving plate 6 is horizontally arranged below the entrance 1 and the front end of the receiving plate 6 is bent downward to integrally form a guide piece 6a for forming a passage 7 between the fixed guide 4 and the guide piece 6a. are doing.

Then, the take-in roller 8 and the friction roller 9 are opposed to each other in the above-mentioned passage 7, and a part of the peripheral surface of the auxiliary take-in roller 10 disposed above the take-in roller 8 is projected into the above-mentioned inlet / outlet 1 by a predetermined amount. , The banknote A inserted into the doorway 1 ...
Is formed so that the above rollers 8, 9 and 10 can sequentially take in one by one.

Below the lower end of the above-mentioned passage 7, a first conveying path for conveying the banknote A to the discriminating section 13 by the first belt 11 arranged diagonally and the second belt 12 opposite to the belt 11. 14
Is formed.

The above-mentioned discrimination section 13 is disposed next to the opposing rollers 15 and 15 disposed at the feed end portion of the first conveying path 14, and the third belt 16 and the third belt 16 are disposed next to the discrimination section 13. A second conveying path 18 is formed by the fourth belt 17 and the third belt 16.

At a position facing the feed end portion of the second conveyance path 18, a fifth belt 19 arranged vertically and a sixth belt 20 opposed to the fifth belt 19 form a third conveyance path. twenty one
And the seventh belt 22 that is opposed to the rear belt portion 20a of the sixth belt 20 described above is formed.
The second conveyance path 23 is formed by 2, and the bills discriminated by the discrimination section 13 are once conveyed to the pool section 24.

The eighth belt 25 is provided above the seventh belt 22 described above.
And, the opposed rollers 26, 27, 28, and the guide 29, 30 to form the front and back reversing mechanism 31 of the bill, only when it is determined that the bill discrimination backside conveyance state in the discrimination unit 13 described above, this conveyed bill. The above-mentioned reversing mechanism 31 reverses the inside and outside so that the bills are once conveyed to the pool unit 24 with the front and back aligned.

The above-mentioned temporary pool section 24 includes the receiving plate 32, the pressing plate 33 that moves back and forth on the receiving plate 32, and the feeding roller arranged on the feeding side.
34 and a friction roller 35.

At the upper end of the sixth belt 20 described above, a ninth belt 36 that opposes the belt 20 is provided, and a fifth transport path 37 is formed by both belts 20 and 36, and at the discrimination unit 13 described above. The banknotes that have been discriminated to be defective are configured to be conveyed to the determination failure temporary store section 38.

The temporary store section 38 includes opposing rollers 39, 39 arranged at the store entrance, a movable plate 40 that can swing, and the movable plate 40.
A store receiving plate 41 disposed below the belt, a tenth belt 42 that can move up and down, and the tenth belt 42 in the upper moving position.
When the movable plate 40 is moved downward as shown by the solid line in FIG. 1, the banknotes A, which are not correctly judged, are temporarily stored in the above-mentioned store receiving plate 41. When the depositing process is completed, the movable plate 40 and the tenth belt 42 are moved upward as shown by phantom lines in the figure to collectively return a plurality of defective banknotes A.

An eleventh belt 44 and a twelfth belt 45, which are arranged obliquely toward the front, are provided opposite to each other at the outlet of the above-mentioned temporary store section 38 to form a sixth conveyance path 46.

A thirteenth belt 47, which opposes the upper belt portion of the second belt 12 described above, is provided at a position facing the feed end portion of the sixth conveyance path 46.
And each of these belts 12 and 47 form a seventh transport path 48 for transporting the discharged banknote to the doorway 1 side.

Further, a 14th belt 49 is arranged between the feed end portion of the seventh transport path 48 and the midway portion of the receiving plate 6 described above.

By the way, below the above-mentioned sixth belt 20, there is provided an eighth transport path 52 in which the feed roller 50 and the fifteenth belt 51 are provided in a pair, and the deposited banknote is provided by this eighth transport path 52 and a transport path described later. Are configured to be stored and collected in the storing units 53, 54, 55, the dispensing error banknotes and the defective banknotes in the defective collection unit 56, and the uncollected banknotes in the doorway 1 in the uncollected collection unit 57, respectively. There is.

The sixteenth belt 58 and the seventeenth belt 59 are arranged in a substantially straight line between the front of the feed roller 50 and the lower portion of the first belt 11 described above. The eighteenth belt 60, the nineteenth belt 61 and the seventeenth belt, which are opposed to each other, respectively.
A twentieth belt 62 is provided below the belt 59, and the ninth, tenth, and first belts are provided between the belts 58, 60, 58, 61, 59, 62, respectively.
1 conveying paths 63, 64, 65 are formed.

The rollers 66 are provided on the lower front and rear of the belts 60, 61 and 62 described above.
, And the guides 67 and 68 facing each other between the front end of the 18th belt 60 and the roller 66, and the opposed rollers 70 and 70 driven by the 21st belt 69 under the guides 67 and 68. Is installed,
Banknotes, for example, 5,000 yen bills conveyed from the ninth conveyance path 63 are configured to be stored in the storage section 53.

Further, the guides 71 and 72 facing each other are provided between the rear end of the eighteenth belt 60 and the roller 66, and the opposing rollers 73 and 73 are arranged below the respective guides 71 and 72 to correspond to the dispensing operation. Storage part 5 mentioned above
The banknote A in 3 is fed to the ninth transport path 63.

Similarly, guides 74 and 75 facing each other are provided between the front end of the 19th belt 61 and the roller 66, and the guides 74 and 75 are provided below the guides 74 and 75, respectively.
22 Opposing rollers 77, 77 driven by the belt 76 are arranged,
Banknotes transported from the tenth transport path 64, for example, 1,000-yen bills are configured to be stored in the storage unit 54, and guides 78, 79 facing each other are provided between the rear end of the nineteenth belt 61 and the roller 66, Opposite rollers 80, 80 are arranged below the respective guides 78, 79 so that the banknote A in the above-mentioned storage section 54 is delivered to the tenth transport path 64 in response to the dispensing operation. There is.

Further, guides 81, 82 facing each other are provided between the front end of the twentieth belt 62 and the roller 66, and the guides 81, 82 are provided below the guides 81, 82.
23 By disposing opposite rollers 84, 84 driven by the belt 83,
Banknotes, such as 10,000-yen bills, conveyed from the eleventh conveyance path 65 are configured to be stored in the storage unit 55, and guides 85 and 86 facing each other are provided between the rear end of the twentieth belt 62 and the rollers 66. , The opposing rollers 87, 87 are provided below the respective guides 85, 86, and the banknote A in the above-mentioned storage portion 55 is accommodated in response to the dispensing operation.
Is configured to be delivered to the eleventh transport path 65.

Here, each of the above-mentioned storage portions 53, 54, 55 has front and rear side plates 88, 8
8 and a pressure plate 8 that slides vertically along the rear side plate 88.
9 and a movable plate 90 which is disposed on the payout side and is operated to the solid line position in FIG. 1 when the banknote is stored and to the virtual line position in the drawing when the banknote is paid out.

The 17th belt 59 and the first belt above the belt 59.
The front end of 11 has the 24th belt opposite to these belts 59 and 11.
The belt 91 is arranged in the up-down direction to configure a twelfth transport path 92 that transports the dispensed banknote from the eleventh transport path 65 to the first transport path 14.

By the way, at the lower part of the above-mentioned eighth conveyance path 52, there is provided a roller 93 which opposes the lower end front part of the fifteenth belt 51.
A pair of front and rear guides 94, 94 facing each other are provided between the 93 and the above-mentioned fifteenth belt 51, and the first and second guides 94, 94 are provided at the lower part of the guides 94, 94.
25. Opposite rollers 96, 96 driven by the belt 95 are provided, and the above-mentioned defective collection section 56 is arranged below the pair of opposed rollers 96, 96 to collect the withdrawal error banknotes and defective banknotes. It is configured to be recovered.

Further, the above-mentioned 25th belt 95 is installed in a substantially horizontal direction from the opposing roller 96 toward the rear, and a roller 97 is provided which is opposed to the rear end of the lower belt portion of the 25th belt 95. belt
The defective L collection part 56 and the forgotten collection part 57 formed by partitioning are arranged by the inverted L-shaped guide 98 in the collection direction with respect to 95, and the banknotes that the user forgets to collect at the doorway 1 are collected. The part 57 is configured to perform recovery processing.

In addition, sensors S1 to S11 configured by photoelectric sensors, for example, for detecting the presence or passage of banknotes are provided at necessary locations on each of the transport paths.

Further, a first flapper F1 is provided between the lower portion of the lower belt portion 20b of the sixth belt 20 and the upper portion of the eighth transport path 52 so that the banknote A transported from the third transport path 21 can be transferred. Arrow d
It is configured to be divided into a direction and an arrow l direction,
Another flapper with the same function as this first flapper F1
F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7 and F8 are arranged at the respective branch parts of the bill transport.

Then, due to the switching action of each flapper described above, the deposited banknote A is transported to each of the transport paths 14, 18, 21, 23 in the directions of the arrows a, b, c, d, e, f, and is temporarily transported to the pool section 24. It is configured accordingly.

Further, the flipped banknote A is turned upside down by the upside-down inversion mechanism 31 and is once conveyed to the pool section 24.

Further, the banknotes in the pool section 24 described above are transferred to the respective transport paths 23, 3
It is configured to convey 7,46,18,21,52,63,64,65 in the directions of arrows h, i, k, c, l, m and store them in the storing parts 53,54,55 by denomination. There is.

Furthermore, at the time of depositing, the banknote A that has been determined to be defective in the discriminating unit 13 is conveyed in each of the conveying paths 18, 21, 23, 37 in the directions of arrows c, d, e, h, n and stored in the temporary storing unit 38. In addition to the above configuration, the defective banknotes in the temporary defective storage section 38 are configured to be conveyed in the directions j and p in the respective conveyance paths 46 and 48 at the time of completion of the deposit processing and to be returned to the doorway 1.

On the other hand, at the time of withdrawal, the banknotes in the respective storage units 53, 54, 55 are transferred to the respective transfer routes 63, 64, 65, 92, 14, 18, 21, 21, 23, 37, 46, 48 through the arrows q, b, c,
It is configured to carry out in the d, e, h, j, p directions and to discharge the withdrawal to the entrance / exit 1.

Further, the withdrawal error banknote that has an error at the time of withdrawal is configured to be conveyed to each of the conveying paths 18, 21, 52 in the directions of arrows c, l, r, and s and to be collected by the defective collecting section 56.

After the withdrawal, the forgotten banknotes of the doorway 1 that the user forgot to take are collected by forgoing the forgotten banknotes at the entrance 1 by carrying the respective transportation routes 14, 18, 21, 52 in the directions of arrows a, b, c, l, r, and t. The part 57 is configured to perform recovery processing.

The detection of the banknotes that have been forgotten is detected by the sensor S11 provided in the doorway 1 detecting the banknotes after the elapse of the set time.

Fig. 2 shows the control circuit of the automatic teller machine, CPU100
Drives and controls each circuit device according to a program stored in the ROM 101, and the RAM 102 stores and reads necessary data.

The CRT 103 displays operating procedures and other guidance, and the touch panel 104 is used to input various transaction types such as deposit, payment, bookkeeping, and verification, and other necessary items.

The card processing unit 105 performs magnetic processing of reading card data recorded on a card inserted by a customer and updating card data based on transactions.

The passbook printer 106 prints the transaction data of this time or the unregistered book data on the passbook entered by the customer.

The banknote processing unit 107 controls the withdrawal and deposit processing operations of the banknote processing apparatus, the collection processing operation of the banknotes that have been forgotten, and the drive control of the discrimination unit 13 shown in FIG. The discrimination unit 13 performs authenticity determination and denomination determination of deposited bills, dispensed bills, and collected bills.

The coin processing unit 108 controls processing of each operation of depositing and withdrawing coins, the slip processing unit 109 prints transaction data on a receipt and a journal, and releases the receipt, and the communication processing unit 110 communicates with the center. Connect the communication circuit.

The circuit devices 103 to 110 are connected to the interface 111.
Is connected to the CPU 100 via.

Here, when the CPU 100 discriminates the collected currency (see the banknote A) by the discrimination unit 13 described above, and when a collected banknote with an unknown amount is generated, a stop means (see FIG. 4) for stopping the subsequent forgotten collection. It also serves as step 132 of the flowchart shown).

FIG. 3 shows the data area of the RAM 102 in the recovery processing of the forgotten banknotes. As the forgotten banknote recovery response data, when the forgotten banknotes are discriminated by the discriminating unit 13, a flag R1 of an unknown amount caused by a reading failure of the banknotes. Further, it is the amount R2 of the forgotten collection and the number R3 of the forgotten collection numbers.

Furthermore, the forget-to-take recovery data is a forget-to-take prohibition flag R4, that is, a flag for prohibiting the collecting operation of the forget-to-take banknotes, shutting down the device, and moving to the processing of the attendant. When the number of the collecting operations of (1) exceeds the limit number of 5 times, or when the total number of the forgotten banknotes exceeds the limit number of 50, the forgotten forgetting flag is set.

In addition, the total number of forgetting times R5,
Forgotten banknotes R6, which is the total number of forgotten banknotes, and further forgotten data R7, R8 ... Rn for individual customers, that is, customer data such as an account number indicating a customer who has forgotten banknotes, and forgotten banknotes. It is the forget-to-take data edited with the bill data by the amount of money.

The operation of recovering a forgotten banknote by the money handling apparatus thus configured will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

Before the withdrawal of dispensed banknotes occurs at the doorway 1, the payment transaction is naturally executed before that.

Therefore, in a predetermined area of the RAM 102, transaction data at the time of payment transaction, that is, necessary transaction data such as account number, payment amount, denomination and number of customers of the transaction are stored. .

The banknotes A for payment are fed out from the required storages of the storages 53, 54, 55 of the required number of denominations of banknotes (step 121) and discharged to the doorway 1 (step 122).

When the payment banknote A is discharged to the doorway 1, a timer built into the CPU 100 starts counting a predetermined time, and when the withdrawal of the banknote A is detected by the sensor S11 within the time counting time,
It is determined that the payment transaction has been completed normally (step
one two Three).

However, if the presence of the banknote A in the doorway 1 is recognized by the sensor S11 even after the lapse of a predetermined time, the banknote A is determined to be a forgotten banknote (step 124).

When it is determined that banknote A has been forgotten,
Whether it is set in area R4 of RAM102, or the number of times of forgetting is read from area R5 of RAM102, and the limit number of times is 5
It is judged whether the number of times exceeds the number of times (steps 125 and 126). If any of them is restricted, it is judged to be abnormal and the operation of collecting the forgotten banknotes is stopped (step 127), and the operation is finished and the staff member performs processing. Entrust.

However, when it is determined that the recovery operation is possible,
The number of forget-to-go counts is incremented by 1 to the area R5 of the RAM 102 (step 128), and then the data of the forgotten customer, that is, the account number at the time of the payment transaction and other transaction data are free in the areas R7, R8 ... Rn of the RAM 102. Stored in the area (step 129).

Next, the operation of collecting the banknote A that has been forgotten at the doorway 1 is executed (step 130).

This recovery operation is executed according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

That is, the uncollected-collection response data in the areas R1, R2, and R3 of the RAM 102 is cleared (step 141), and then the rollers 8 and 10 of the entrance / exit 1 are driven in the intake direction to make the entrance / exit 1
The banknote A which has been forgotten is taken in and the banknote A is forgotten and conveyed to the forgotten collection section 57 (step 142).

That is, the respective conveying routes 14, 18, 21, 52 are indicated by arrows a, b, c, l, r, t.
Drive control in the direction, convey the banknote A, and forget to collect it 57
To collect.

During this transportation, the collected banknote A is discriminated by the discrimination section 13 (step 143) and its denomination is discriminated (step 14).
4) If the result of the discrimination is unknown (step 14)
5) The amount unknown flag is set in the area R1 of the RAM 102 (step 146), and if the amount can be determined, the amount is stored in the area R2 of the RAM 102 (step 147).

Next, +1 is added to the forgotten collection number in the area R3 of the RAM 102 (step 148). When the banknote A thus processed is collected by the collection section 57, the sensor S11 determines whether all the banknotes have been collected. Based on the determination (step 150), if it is recognized that the forgotten banknote A still exists in the doorway 1, the process returns to step 142 and the above-mentioned processing is repeated.
The collecting operation is executed until all the uncollected banknotes are collected.

In the flowchart of FIG. 4, when the collection of the forgotten banknote A is completed as described above, it is determined whether the amount unknown flag is set in the area R1 of the RAM 102 (step 131), and the flag is set. RAM 102 when
Set the forgotten to leave flag in area R4 of
132) End the collection operation.

In this case, if the collection process is continued with the amount of money unknown, it will be difficult to confirm the banknotes at the time of confirming the forgotten banknotes later, so the collection operation is stopped at that point.

If the amount unknown flag is not set in step 131 described above, RA is set as the banknote data in the forgotten forgotten recovery amount stored in the area R2 of the RAM 102.
Of the areas R7, R8 ... Rn of M102, the data is stored corresponding to the customer data already stored (step 133), and the forgotten collection number stored in area R3 of RAM102 is stored in area R6 of RAM102. Add to the forgotten number (step
134).

Then, it is judged whether or not the number of forget-to-take sheets exceeds 50 (step 135), and when it exceeds the limit number, the forget-to-take prohibition flag is set in the area R4 of the RAM 102 in the same manner as in step 132 described above. When the operation is completed and the number of sheets does not exceed the limit, the normal recovery operation is completed.

In addition, when paying back the forgotten banknote A to the customer and clearing the collection, the forgotten data based on the customer data and banknote data is printed on the slip as shown in FIG. 6 (step 15
1) Clear the forgotten collection data stored in the areas R4 to Rn of the RAM 102.

According to this embodiment, even if the forgotten banknotes A are collected by the forgotten banknote collection unit 57 a plurality of times and the banknotes are mixed, the forgotten banknote data for each time, that is, the data of the forgotten banknotes and the transaction thereof. Since the customer's data is stored in the RAM 102, post-processing can be easily performed based on the stored forget-to-take data, and as a result, the forget-to-take bills can be collected multiple times without stopping the device. It is possible to remarkably improve the operation rate of the device.

In addition, the above-mentioned stop means oil step 132) discriminates the collected currency (see the banknote A) by the discrimination section 13 and as a result, when the collected currency with the unknown amount is generated, the forgotten recovery is stopped, so the post-processing Therefore, there is an effect that the confusion of the device can be prevented and the high reliability of the device can be secured.

In short, the operation of the money handling machine can be continued when a number of forgetting mistakes occurs more than once, and a high operation rate can be secured. This has the effect of preventing processing confusion and ensuring high reliability of the device.

In the correspondence between the structure of the present invention and the structure of the above-described embodiment, the coin outlet of the present invention corresponds to the doorway 1 of the embodiment, and hereinafter, similarly, the money handling device corresponds to the banknote handling device, The currency corresponds to the bill A, the storage means corresponds to the RAM 102, the stopping means corresponds to step 132 (see FIG. 4) under the control of the CPU 100, and the other corresponds to parts having the same names in the embodiment. The present invention is not limited to the configuration of the embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

 FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of the inside of the money handling apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a control circuit block diagram, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an area of RAM, FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart. 1 …… Gateway, 13 …… Discrimination section 57 …… Forgotten collection section, 102 …… RAM 132 …… Stopping means

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A money handling apparatus having a function of transporting and collecting money (A) forgotten in the money discharge port (1) to a forgotten recovery unit (57). ) Is provided with a discrimination section (13) for discriminating forgotten currency (A), and currency data such as denomination, number, and amount of currency (A) based on this currency discrimination, and forgotten currency (A). ) Is provided with a storage means (102) for storing the forgotten data edited with the customer data such as the account number indicating the trading customer, and the collected money is discriminated by the discriminating section (13). A forgotten money collecting device of a money handling device, comprising a stopping means (132) for stopping the subsequent forgotten collection when collected money occurs.