JPH0831171B2 - Cash deposit / withdrawal device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cash deposit / withdrawal device installed in a financial institution or the like.

(Prior Art) Among the counter services and automatic transaction services in financial institutions such as banks, in recent years, cash deposit / withdrawal devices have been widely used for handling cash with customers. In addition, the deposit function and the withdrawal function are integrated, and among the deposited money, the reusable currency for withdrawal is again distributed to the withdrawal type-specific storage and used for withdrawal transaction. A series of cash deposit and withdrawal devices have been announced one after another.

In such a device, first, the money required for the withdrawal transaction is first set in one collective storage box, and the collective storage box is attached to the depositing / dispensing apparatus. After that, by operating the switches for instructing the loading operation, it is possible to automatically distribute and load money from the collective storage into each storage for each type of money arranged for withdrawal. Therefore, the loading operation of the coins only needs to be performed by mounting the collective storage.

Further, when the work is completed, the collecting operation opposite to the loading operation can be performed by operating the switches for instructing the collecting operation.

That is, if the coins are sequentially collected from the money-type storages to the collective storage, the only storages to be taken out from the depositing / dispensing device are the collective storage and the reject storages that store the rejected money. Thus, the convenience of the operator is achieved (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-289488).

Further, a memory for storing the number of coins counted by the depositing / dispensing device during the loading operation and the collecting operation is provided, and is displayed on the display provided in the operation unit of the apparatus main body. The operator reads this, records it, and inputs the number of sheets to be loaded from the operating section during the loading operation so that the number of sheets to be loaded and the number of sheets to be collected can be managed and operated (Shokai 57-106057). Issue).

<Structure of Conventional Apparatus> Hereinafter, a conventional depositing / dispensing apparatus described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-289488 will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an example of a conventional depositing / dispensing device. This device is mounted on the teller terminal device.

The deposit / withdrawal device 105 includes an upper unit 110, an intermediate unit 111,
And the lower unit 112.

The upper unit 110 is provided with a bill insertion slot 113 and a bill ejection slot 114 on the upper front surface. A depositing / separating mechanism 115 for separating the bills that have been thrown in at once and taking in one by one is provided on the bottom side of the input port 113, and one by one behind the input port 113 when viewed from the input port 113. The authenticity, damage, and
On the front and back sides, a discrimination section 116 provided for discriminating and detecting overlapping (overrunning) of two or more sheets and skewing is arranged.
Further behind, a front-back arrangement mechanism 117 is provided, and in the case of a banknote determined to be the back side by the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, the switching blade 122 is operated by driving a magnet (not shown) to drive the traveling path. Switching the front and back alignment section
It is configured to be sent to 117 and aligned with the surface.

The traveling path 119 is a conveying path provided to deliver the bills guided and conveyed by the switching gate 123 to the intermediate unit 111, and the traveling path 118 is a traveling path of the lower unit 112 and the intermediate unit 111. This is a transport path for inheriting the banknotes transported by and sending them to the discrimination section 116. Further, when the switching gate 123 operates by driving a magnet (not shown), the banknotes conveyed through the discriminating section 116 are sent to the traveling path 120 and the traveling path 120.
Release stacking part 121 disposed on the back side of the upper surface of the discharge port
Be transported to. The bills conveyed to the discharge accumulation section 121 are accumulated at the discharge port 114, and the teller can collectively extract the bills.

The intermediate unit 111 is mainly a temporary holding section for each denomination and loss, and a stacking section 124,125,126,127 for bills to be taken in and a temporary holding section 128,129,130,131 for each denomination and loss, denomination separating gates 136,137,138,139, and withdrawal reject bill banknotes. It comprises a recess 140 and a runway 141 from the lower unit 112 to the upper unit 110.

At the time of deposit, the banknotes conveyed from the traveling path 119 of the upper unit 110 are received and are conveyed in the direction of the arrow by the traveling path 141.

Here, when the conveyed bill is determined to be a 5,000 yen bill by the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, the magnet (not shown) is driven to operate the 5,000 yen bill separating gate 139. Then, it is sent to the 5000-yen banknote stacking unit 127. The 5,000 yen ticket stacking unit 127 sequentially stacks the sent banknotes in the 5,000 yen ticket temporary storage unit 131. Similarly, when it is determined that the ticket is a 1,000-yen ticket, the 1,000-yen ticket dividing gate 138 is activated to send it to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 126, which temporarily holds the 1,000-yen ticket. The parts are sequentially accumulated in the unit 130. If it is determined that the ticket is a ten thousand yen ticket, the ten thousand yen ticket separation gate 137
And send it to the 10,000-yen ticket stacking unit 125, and then
25 are sequentially accumulated in the 10,000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 129.

Note that, in the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 116, a bill determined to be an unfit banknote or a non-refundable bill (for example, a 500-yen bill) and a collection process from a storage of a denomination described later to a collective storage Does not operate any of the denomination separating gates 137, 138, 139, activates the batch / payment separating gate 136 and sends it to the batch / paying stacking unit 124,
Accumulates the banknotes in batch / payment temporary holding section 128 sequentially.

The withdrawal reject banknote dropping unit 140, when the banknote taken out from the storage of the denomination to be described later in the withdrawal transaction passes through the discrimination unit 116 and is determined to be a non-withdrawal banknote, the later-described reject banknote. It is a transport unit for sending to a storage. The temporary storage shutters 132, 133, 134, 135 are connected to one magnet (not shown), and by driving the magnets, the temporary storages 128, 129,
With the part connected to the side surface of 130, 131 as the center of rotation,
The central part rotates downward. With this operation, the temporary holding unit 128,
The banknotes accumulated in 129, 130, 131 are dropped and stored in each storage of the lower unit 112.

In the deposit transaction, after the deposit count, when the banknotes are accumulated in the temporary holding units 128, 129, 130, 131 and the teller performs the cancel operation, the intermediate unit 111 is unlocked and the intermediate unit 111 is pulled out forward. Thus, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding units 128, 129, 130, 131 can be taken out. Further, by using the inspection key, it is possible for the staff member to take out the banknotes remaining in each part of the intermediate unit by the intention of the staff, so that the banknotes can be taken out even when a jam occurs.

The lower unit 112 includes a batch / payment storage 143, storages 144,145,146 for each type of money, and a separating / separating mechanism 147,14 from the storage.
8, 149, 150, a reject banknote storage 142, and a traveling path 151 for conveying the banknotes taken out one by one from the storage.

The 5000-yen ticket storage 146 has a function of receiving and accumulating the banknotes from the 5000-yen ticket temporary holding unit 131 and a separating mechanism 150 to
It is a storage room for 5,000 yen bills that has the function of feeding out bills one by one.

Similarly, 145 is a storage of 1,000 yen ticket, 149 is a separation mechanism of 1,000 yen ticket, 144 is a storage of 10,000 yen ticket, 148 is a separation mechanism of 10,000 yen ticket, and 143 is a lump sum / receipt return. Storage for possible tickets, 1
Numeral 47 denotes a separation mechanism for collectively stored tickets.

The reject banknote storage 142 is the discrimination unit 1 of the banknotes fed out from the storages 144, 145, 146 for each type of money in the withdrawal transaction.
This storage unit stores banknotes that have been detected as skewing or two or more overlaps (double running) based on the 16 discrimination results and have been determined to be dispensable.

Runway 151 is a lump sum / deposit storage 143 and denomination-based storage 14
The banknotes fed out from 4,145,146 are conveyed to the intermediate unit 111.
It is a conveyance path for feeding to the traveling path 141 of.

The full / payment storage 143 and the denomination-based storages 144, 145, and 146 each have a full bill detector 15 as an optical sensor.
4a, 154b, 154c, 154d and near full detector 155a, 155b, 155c,
155d, near-end detectors 156a, 156b, 156c, 156d, and end detectors 157a, 157b, 157c, 157d are attached and serve as means for managing the amount of bills in the storage. In addition, the reject bill storage 142 has a full bill detector 1
53 is installed, and optically rejects bill storage
142 full banknotes are detected.

A door (not shown) is provided on the front surface of the lower unit 112, and by using an inspection key, the storage rack (not shown) can be pulled out forward by opening the door.

By pulling out the storage racks, the above storages are arranged so as to be removed.

A common lock is attached to each of the storages, and a door can be opened with a key to perform bill loading and withdrawal operations. In the upper unit 110 and the intermediate unit 112, independent motors (not shown) are mounted as power sources for separating, stacking, and transporting banknotes, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the above-described device, for example, one batch storage box can be attached to a plurality of cash depositing / dispensing devices at appropriate times to distribute or collect money. On the side of the cash deposit / withdrawal device, the number of pieces of cash replenished from or collected in the collective storage is individually managed.

On the other hand, the collective storage is often removed from the main body of the apparatus and attached to another apparatus, or the excess cash stored inside is withdrawn or newly replenished. Therefore, the increase / decrease in the amount of cash in the collective storage cannot be managed by the device body side. In this case, even if the cash is unlawfully taken out from the batch storage, it cannot be recognized by the device body side, and there is a problem that the responsibility is not clear.

Also, when cash is replenished in the batch storage, if the staff mistakenly records the number of replenishment, etc., investigate the cause such as a simple mistake, device failure, or fraudulent activity. There must be. Therefore, it becomes necessary to scrutinize the amount of cash in the bulk storage as often as possible,
There is a problem that management becomes complicated.

In addition, there is also a problem that once a trouble is discovered, the follow-up investigation also takes a very long time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides a cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus for strengthening management of cash in a batch storage and for simplification of cause investigation when a trouble occurs. It is intended.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention is provided with a collective storage that is capable of accommodating cash for loading and replenishment or collected cash in a batch and is detachably attached to the apparatus main body. In a cash deposit / withdrawal device that loads, replenishes, or collects cash between a cash box and a denomination-specific storage box, a timekeeping unit that keeps time in the batch storage box and the number of cash types stored in the batch storage box And a non-volatile storage management memory that stores the door opening / closing time provided in the batch storage, and when the opening / closing of the door of the batch storage is detected, the time is stored as the door opening / closing data in the storage management memory. Provided with a door opening / closing monitoring means for storing,
In the cash deposit / withdrawal device, a discrimination section for discriminating the denomination of cash to be conveyed, a first conveying path for conveying the cash delivered from the collective storage to the discrimination section, and the cash discriminated by the discrimination section. In the case where the second storage path for transporting to the collective storage and the collective storage are installed, and the door is opened and closed between the time when the collective storage is removed and the time when it is installed again, the storage management is performed. When it is recognized based on the door opening / closing data of the memory, the cash stored in the batch storage is taken out from the batch storage and the first
Of the denominations stored in the batch storage box by counting the number of denominations stored in the batch storage box by transporting them through the transfer path, the discriminating section, and the second transfer path of the storage box and storing them in the batch storage box. In addition, the control unit stores the number of denominations stored in the batch storage box and stores the calculation result in the storage box management memory when replenishment or collection is performed. It is characterized by

(Operation) In the above apparatus, the cash stored in the batch storage is always managed in the storage management memory before the batch storage is removed. Then, when the collective storage is removed from the apparatus main body and mounted again on the apparatus main body, the cash stored in the collective storage is counted again. It should be noted that this is executed only when there is a history that the door of each storage case has been opened after removal and before mounting. If the number of stored cash before and after this removal is clarified and saved, the number of cash that has been removed from the batch storage by opening and closing the door or the amount of cash replenished in the batch storage while being removed, etc. Can be recognized at any time. As a result, the device body can surely recognize the input error of the replenishment number and the occurrence of the illegal act, and the highly reliable cash management is realized.

(Examples) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples of the drawings.

 FIG. 1 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

This device has a customer service entrance 3, an appraisal unit 4, and a deposit / withdrawal unit 1.
8, a mechanism such as a batch storage 11, denomination storages 8, 9, and 10, a reject cassette 7, and the like. Further, the collective storage 11 is integrated with a storage management memory 99 that stores the number of cash types stored in the collective storage 11, the door opening / closing data when the door is opened / closed, and the like. There is.

The operation of the entire apparatus is controlled by the counting management section 80a, the cash collecting means 80b, the cash distributing means 80c, etc. of the control section separately built in the apparatus main body 50. Further, on the side of the collective storage 11 is provided a door opening / closing monitoring means 210 for performing an operation of storing the fact that the door is opened / closed in the storage management memory 99 as door opening / closing data.

Further, in addition to this, when the collective storage 11 is mounted on the apparatus main body 50, a collective storage mounting detection means 201 for detecting the mounting is provided.

FIG. 3 shows an external view of the case where the collective storage is taken out from the apparatus main body.

The collective storage 11 has a structure in which the door 11a can be opened and closed to take out the cash stored inside or to replenish with new cash. The door 11a is normally locked, and when the door 11a is opened / closed, the door open / close detection sensor 205 operates, and the control unit 11b processes the information.

 FIG. 4 shows a block diagram of the control unit of the collective storage.

The control section 11b is connected to a collective storage interface circuit 90 provided on the apparatus main body 50 (FIG. 1) side via a removable connector 203.

In the control unit 11b, in addition to the collective storage mounting detection means 201 described above, a collective storage control unit 202 that manages and controls the entire collective storage, a cash deposit / withdrawal device interface circuit 200,
Door open / close detection circuit 204, door open / close detection sensor 205, timekeeping unit 206
And a power supply switching circuit 208. Further, the storage management memory 99 described above is the collective storage control unit 202.
It is installed so that its contents can be read and written. In the figure, in addition to this, a data group 96, a switch group 97,
A photosensor group 98 is shown, but a description of these will be given later.

In the present invention, the door opening / closing detection circuit 204 and the door opening / closing detection sensor 205 are collectively called a door opening / closing monitoring means 210, which is shown in FIG.

The collective storage control unit 202 is composed of a microprocessor and the like. Cash deposit / withdrawal device interface circuit 200
Is composed of an interface circuit for exchanging various control data with the apparatus body. Bulk storage installation detection means 201
Is a circuit for determining whether or not the collective storage is attached to the apparatus main body depending on whether the terminal on the connector 203 side is high level or low level, and notifies the collective storage control unit 202 of the result.

In the illustrated embodiment, when the collective storage is attached to the apparatus main body, the terminal on the connector 203 side is grounded and becomes low level. Further, when the collective storage is removed from the main body of the apparatus, the terminal on the connector 203 side is opened and becomes high level.

As shown in FIG. 3, the door open / close detection sensor 205 is arranged in the vicinity of the door 11a and includes a switch that is turned on / off when the door is opened / closed. The door open / close detection circuit 204 is composed of a logic circuit or the like that outputs a signal for identifying whether or not the door is opened to the collective storage control unit 202 depending on whether the switch is on or off. The timer unit 206 is a circuit that measures the current time and outputs the time data to the collective storage control unit 202.

The power supply switching circuit 208 connects the battery 207 built in the batch storage to each circuit of the control unit 11b, or powers the device main body to the control unit 11b via the batch storage interface circuit 90. It is a circuit that automatically switches whether to connect to each circuit. That is, while the collective storage is attached to the apparatus main body, in order to prevent the battery 207 from being consumed,
Power is supplied from the apparatus main body side to operate each unit of the control unit 11b.

 Next, the storage management memory 99 will be described.

FIG. 5 illustrates the data format of the storage management memory.

In the memory of this embodiment, data management is performed with data stored at 32 addresses as one set, such as m to m + 31, m + 32 to m + 63, m + 64 to m + 95, .... This data can be stored in the storage management memory, for example.
It is assumed that about 100 sets can be stored in 99. For example, when 100 sets of data are already stored, the next data is rewritten to the oldest stored set of data.

Here, the one set of data is as shown in FIG.
Collective storage at m and m + 1 at the time of removal 10,000 yen tickets at the time of removal, similarly 5,000 yen at m + 2 to m + 3, 1,000 yen at m + 4 to m + 5, and collective storage at m + 6 to m + 10 Data showing the removal date and time such as year, month, day, hour, and minutes, door opening and closing data that also shows the opening date and time of the first collective storage door at addresses m + 11 to m + 15,
Door opening / closing data showing the closing time and date of the last batch storage box from m + 16 to m + 20 in the same way, the date and time of completion of the high count after installing the batch storage from m + 21 to m + 25, from m + 26 to m +
The number of 10,000-yen tickets at the time of installing the collective storage at 27, m + 28 to the number of 5,000-yen tickets at the time of installing the collective storage at m + 29, m + 30
From m to m + 31, store the number of 1,000-yen tickets at the time of installing the batch storage box.

A more specific format of the number-of-money data will be described later with reference to FIGS. 14 to 18.

 This storage management memory 99 is used as follows.

First of all, from the mth address to the m + 5th address, the initial storage bin 11
The number of cash types stored in is stored. After that, when the collective storage 11 is attached to the apparatus main body and the apparatus main body side is replenished with cash or the cash is collected from the apparatus main body side, these data are updated each time. Then, the time data is stored from the address m + 6 to the address m + 25 until the collective storage 11 is detached and attached again. Of these time data, the first batch storage door opening date and time and the last batch storage door closing date and time are called door opening / closing data.

When the collective storage 11 is attached to the apparatus main body, when the door opening / closing data is stored, the counting management unit 80a shown in FIG. 1 causes all the cash stored in the collective storage 11 to be stored. It is once taken out from the collective storage 11 and counted. The counting result is input to the collective storage control unit 202 via the collective storage interface 90 shown in FIG. 4, and m + 2 shown in FIG.
Stored from address 6 to m + 31.

When the door opening / closing data is not stored, all the data at the addresses m + 6 to m + 31 are canceled, and the data from the addresses m to m + 5 are used again as the management data. On the other hand, door opening / closing data is stored, and m
When the counting result is stored in the addresses +26 to m + 31, the data in the addresses m to m + 31 is stored as it is, and the data in the addresses m + 26 to m + 31 is transferred to the addresses m + 32 to m + 37. Then, this time, the cash stored in the collective storage 11 is managed using the data from the addresses m + 32 to m + 37. That is, these data
As described above, it is updated immediately after the replenishment or collection operation and used for cash management. The addresses m + 38 to m + 63 are used when the collective storage 11 is again removed from the apparatus main body.

In a similar manner, data is sequentially stored below the address m + 64 (not shown).

It should be noted that only the first storage door opening date and time and the last storage door closing date and time are stored as the door opening / closing data until the collective storage 11 is removed and then reattached to the apparatus main body. In addition, it is unknown how many times the door will be opened and closed, and if all the opening and closing data is stored, the amount of data for one set becomes significantly large.

Further, if the system is such that the device is attached and detached twice a day, and the stored contents are read out and printed out in a cycle of 6 days, 12 sets of data areas will be sufficient.

This printout is executed by the clerk pressing an output key (not shown) provided in the collective storage 11.
When the output key is pressed, the stored contents are stored in the batch storage control unit.
It is transferred to the control unit of the apparatus main body via 202 and the collective storage interface circuit 90. Printing is performed by a card reader / writer, a passbook entry unit, or the like. After that, the contents of the storage management memory 99 are cleared by a command.

<Operation of Device> The operation of the cash depositing / dispensing device of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 6.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the device of the present invention.

First, based on the distribution and collection operation of the cash taken in the collective storage 11 via the collective storage interface circuit 90 and the cash deposit / withdrawal device interface circuit 200 of FIG. The number of denominations of cash stored in the collective storage 11 is stored (step S1). This is from the addresses m to m + 5 and m- (not shown) in FIG.
This corresponds to the data stored at addresses 6 to m-1.

The initial value of the number of denomination-type coins is stored, for example, when the apparatus main body is started up, and then updated by replenishment, collection or the like. That is, when the apparatus main body is powered on with the collective storage 11 mounted, the counting management unit 80a automatically counts the amount of cash. Then, the result is stored.

The more specific operation will be described in the section of conventional <loading> or <update of storage management memory>.

On the other hand, the collective storage control unit 202 monitors whether or not the collective storage 11 has been removed from the apparatus main body via the collective storage mounting detection means 201 (step S2). When the removal is detected, the time data is read from the time counting unit 206 and the removal date and time is stored in the storage management memory 99 (step S3). This corresponds to the data stored in the addresses m + 6 to m + 10 shown in FIG.

This time, the door opening / closing monitoring means 210 starts the monitoring operation, and thereafter it is continuously monitored whether or not the door is opened (step S4).
When the door is opened, the date and time when the door was opened is stored in the storage management memory.
It is stored in 99 (step S5). This is shown in FIG.
Corresponds to the data stored in addresses 15 to 15.

Then, this time, it is determined whether or not the door is closed (step S6). When the door is closed, the date and time when the door is closed are stored in the storage management memory 99 (step S7). This corresponds to the data stored at addresses m + 16 to m + 20 in FIG.

After that, when the door is opened again and then the door is closed, the date and time of closing the door are updated (step S8). Then, it is monitored whether or not the collective storage 11 is attached to the apparatus main body (step S9). When the door is opened again and the door is closed, the latest door closing date and time is stored in step S8. Then, when the mounting of the collective storage 11 is detected (step S9), the collective storage control unit 202 causes the storage management memory 99 to store the door opening / closing data stored at addresses m + 11 to m + 20 in FIG. Is read (step S10).

Then, it is determined whether or not these door opening / closing data are present (step S11). If there is no door opening / closing data,
The fact is notified to the counting management unit 80a (FIG. 1) through the batch storage interface circuit 90, and as described above, the batch storage using the data from the addresses m to m + 5.
Continue managing cash within 11. When the door opening / closing data is present, the counting management unit 80a receives the notification to that effect and takes out cash from the collective storage 11 and counts it (step S1).
2). Then, the result is notified to the collective storage control unit and stored in the addresses m + 26 to m + 31 shown in FIG. Then, as described above, the data having the same content is transferred from the address m + 32 to the address m + 37, and the cash is managed in the batch storage box 11 again by using the data. That is, the data from the address m to the address m + 31 is stored as it is (step S13).

If the above-mentioned data is stored in the storage management memory, if the number of cash types in the batch storage 11 does not match the actual number due to close inspection, etc. The time when the storage is removed, the time when the storage is installed, and the number of denominations increased / decreased by opening and closing the door during that time are immediately calculated. As a result, the responsibility is clarified, and data input errors can be easily found.

The detailed configuration and operation of the apparatus of the present invention as a whole will be described below.

<Cash automatic transaction device> Before describing the detailed configuration and operation of this device, first,
A configuration of an automatic teller machine using a cash dispenser will be described.

 FIG. 7 is an overall view of the automatic teller machine.

FIG. 7 (a) is a front view of this automatic teller machine.
51 includes a cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 and a card reader / writer unit 52.
A passbook entry machine 53 and a customer operation unit 54 are provided.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 is a device that receives bills deposited by a customer or performs processing for paying bills to the customer. The card reader / writer unit 52 is a device that performs processing such as identification of a cash card inserted by a customer, printing of results of deposit transactions, payment transactions, etc. on paper.
The passbook recorder 53 is a device for identifying the passbook inserted by the customer and for printing the deposit transaction, payment transaction result, and the like. The customer operation unit 54 is an operation key operated by the customer to input a deposit amount, a payment amount, a personal identification number, or the like,
This is a device having a display unit for displaying illustrations and characters for input amount of money, operation guidance, and the like.

Further, FIG. 7 (b) is a rear view of the apparatus, in which an internal operation section 55 is attached.

The internal operation unit 55 displays operation keys for inputting items and data corresponding to each transaction, data input by the operation keys, processing results, etc., when a clerk performs processing such as charging, replenishing and collecting of banknotes. Then, it is configured by a display unit or the like for guiding the operation of the staff.

Further, in FIG. 7 (a), the control unit 56 indicated by a broken line is
The automatic teller machine 51 includes a processor and the like provided to control the operation of each device.

Further, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 shown in FIG. 1 has an automatic cash transaction apparatus 51 shown in FIG. 7 in order to attach / detach the collective storage 11 or the like, or to remove a jam on a conveying path for conveying banknotes.
It can be detached from the main body and independently pulled out. Normal,
The rear panel of the automatic teller machine shown in FIG. 7 is opened to take it out.

<Block Configuration of Apparatus> FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention.

This device has a cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit via a host device control unit interface 81 by a control unit 56 (FIG. 7).
It is controlled by a control signal input to 80.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 includes a microcomputer for controlling the operation of the entire cash deposit / withdrawal device and its peripheral circuits.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 is connected to the I / O via the bus line.
An O interface circuit 82, a collective storage interface circuit 90, a read only memory (ROM) 83, and a random access memory (RAM) 84 are connected.

The ROM 83 is a memory that stores an operation program for the cash deposit / withdrawal device controller 80. The RAM 84 is a memory for temporarily storing parameters and the like necessary for the operation of the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80.

The I / O interface circuit 82 includes a motor driver 85,
A magnet driver 86, a switch reading circuit 87, a photo sensor reading circuit 88, and a bill discrimination control unit 89 are connected.

The motor driver 85 is connected to the motor group 91 of each part of the apparatus and the motor group 96 provided in the collective storage 11, and is a circuit for driving and controlling various motors according to each operation mode. The magnet driver 86 is a circuit that is connected to the magnet group 92 of each part of the device and that turns on or off each magnet according to the operation mode.

The switch reading circuit 87 is connected to the switch group 93 of each part of the apparatus and the switch group 97 of the collective storage 11, and whether or not the collective storage 11, the denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10 and the reject cassette 7 are mounted. And a circuit for reading the states of switches and the like for detecting the position of each stage. The photo sensor reading circuit 88 is connected to the photo sensor group 94 of each part of the apparatus and the photo sensor group 98 provided in the batch storage box 11, and the batch storage box 11 or the storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 by denomination, or reject. It is a circuit that reads information from a photosensor group that is provided in the cassette 7 and that monitors the stacking state of banknotes.

The bill discrimination control unit 89 is connected to the bill discrimination sensor group 95. The banknote discrimination sensor group 95 is composed of various sensors provided inside the discrimination unit 4 shown in FIG. 1, and is for authenticity, denomination, damage, front and back, and weight of bills sent to the discrimination unit 4. It is a circuit provided for differentially detecting running and skewing.

The batch storage interface circuit 90 reads the storage contents of the storage management memory 99 attached to the batch storage 11 and transfers the storage contents to the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 or an instruction of the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80. It is a circuit that receives and updates the contents of the storage management memory 99.

The storage management memory 99 is composed of a semiconductor memory or the like that is backed up by a battery or the like and is directly accessed by the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80. The storage management memory 99 is integrated with a control means such as a microcomputer in addition to the above, and transmits / receives data to / from the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 via the collective storage interface circuit 90. May be

The memory used for the storage management memory 99 is a semiconductor random access memory with battery backup.
In addition to memory, EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read
It may be a magnetic recording medium such as an only memory) or a magnetic disk or a magnetic tape. The storage management memory 99 stores the number of banknotes stored in the batch storage 11 for each denomination individually.

In addition to this, in order to control various operations of the cash deposit / withdrawal control unit 80, a counting management unit 80a, a cash collection unit 80b, and a cash distribution unit 80c are provided. All of these means, through the I / O interface circuit 82 in a predetermined procedure,
It is composed of a sequence program for controlling the circuit of each part of the device and for executing and controlling the operation described later.

The counting management unit 80a counts the banknotes collected in the batch storage box 11 or distributed from the batch storage box 11, and updates the storage box management memory 99 each time. The cash collecting means 80b controls the operation of taking out and transporting the cash stored in the denomination-based storage, and collecting it in the collective storage 11. The cash distributing means 80c confirms the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99 when there is a shortage of banknotes in each denomination-based storage, and within the range, it is necessary for each denomination-based storage. Controls the operation of distributing and replenishing various banknotes.

<Customer Service Port> Hereinafter, the configuration of each part of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described step by step.

First, at the upper front portion of the apparatus main body 50 shown in FIG. 1, there is provided a customer service opening 3 through which a customer can insert and withdraw bills.

 FIG. 9 shows a sectional view for explaining the operation of the service port.

As shown in FIG. 9 (a), the service opening 3 is a bill guide.
And a banknote separating mechanism 49 for separating banknotes one by one. As shown in FIGS. 9 (b) and 9 (c), the banknote guide 57 is rotated about its center as an axis. Has a body structure.

The service port 3 is rotationally driven by a motor (not shown), and various sensors are attached to it for confirming the shift to each position.

 The service port 3 having the above-described configuration operates as follows.

First, FIG. 9 (a) illustrates a deposit position waiting for a customer to insert a bill. In this case, the shutter 42
Is opened, and the bill guide 57 is opened upward.

Further, FIG. 9 (b) shows a separating position for separating the inserted banknotes one by one. In this case, the shutter 42
The banknotes that have been inserted all together in the banknote guide 57 are closed,
The sheets are separated one by one by the bill separating mechanism 49 and sent out of the customer service opening 3 in the direction shown by the arrow in the figure. After that, the deposit process is executed for the bill.

FIG. 9C shows a receiving position when the banknotes are collectively received from the banknote arranging mechanism 5 to the banknote guide 57 as a pre-stage of dispensing the banknotes to the customer.

In the bill collecting mechanism 5, bills to be dispensed are stacked with their front and back aligned. This is sent out to the right side of the drawing and stored in the bill guide 57.

FIG. 9D shows a dispensing position for dispensing the banknotes stored in the banknote guide 57 to the customer. in this case,
The shutter 42 is opened, and the bills are sent from the bill guide 57 to the customer.

The setting and selection of each position and the operation of shifting to each position are controlled by the control unit of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus described later.

<Discrimination Section and Front / Back Arrangement Mechanism> Returning to FIG. 1 again, a discrimination section 4 is provided on the lower left side of the service opening 3. The discriminating unit 4 is a device for discriminating and detecting the authenticity, damage, front and back, overlapping (overrunning) of two or more sheets, skew, and the like of the fed bills. This device also determines the denomination and the like.

Further, on the left side of the service opening 3, a front / back arrangement mechanism 5 is provided. A switching blade 6 is provided in the front / back arrangement mechanism 5. When the bills judged to be the back side by the discriminating section 4 are fed into the front and back side aligning mechanism 5, the switching blade 6 is driven by a magnet (not shown), and the traveling path is changed each time so that all the bills face the front side. Stacked on.

<Batch Storage> In the left corner of the device main body 50, a batch storage 11 is arranged. The collective storage 11 is provided with a stage 70 on the upper part thereof, and a collective separation mechanism 23 is provided for separating the banknotes placed on the stage 70 one by one and taking them out to the outside during the banknote distribution operation. It is provided. The amount of bills stacked on the stage 70 is determined by the near full detector 38d and the full detector 3d.
It is detected by 7d and the end detector 39d.

Further, below the collective storage 11, a collective stacking unit 30 into which the banknotes are sent during a banknote collection operation, a partition plate 33 that stacks the sent banknotes, and a drive that stacks the banknotes on the partition plate 33. A lever 71 is arranged. The end detector 39d is a detector for detecting that the absolute amount of banknotes stored in the batch storage box 11 has decreased.

Below the partition plate 33, of the banknotes distributed from the batch storage box 11, there is provided a batch reject stacking section 68 into which the banknotes classified as undispensable in the classification section 4 are fed. The amount of bills in the batch reject unit 62 is detected by the full detector 40a.

In this collective storage 11, the stage 70 moves to the lower side of the drive lever 71, the drive lever 71 opens left and right, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage 70 are placed on the stage 70.
Is performed again. Although this operation will be described later with reference to FIG. 17, various position sensors (not shown) detect various positions set during the operation of the stage 70 and the operation of the drive lever 71. It is provided. Further, some drive motors are built in for the operation of the stage 70 and the drive lever 71.

<Deposit-Specific Storage and Deposit / Deposit Unit> Deposit-specific storages 8, 9, and 10 are arranged below the apparatus main body 50.

The money type storage 8 is a storage for storing 1,000-yen tickets.
The money type storage 9 is a storage for storing 10,000 yen tickets. The denomination-type storage 10 is also a storage for storing a ten-yen ticket.

A deposit / withdrawal unit 18 is arranged above these denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10.

The deposit / withdrawal unit 18 includes a temporary holding section 24 for 1,000-yen tickets, a temporary holding section 25,26 for 10,000-yen tickets, a collecting section 27 for 1,000-yen tickets, and a collecting section 28,29 for 10,000-yen tickets. A yen ticket separating mechanism 20 and ten thousand yen ticket separating mechanisms 21 and 22 are provided. In addition to this,
The denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are provided along the bill traveling path 49.

The denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are driven by a magnet or the like (not shown).

After the bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 4, when the bill is conveyed to the traveling path 49, the denomination separating gates 32, 31, 57 are operated, and for example, in the case of a 1,000-yen bill, it is sent to the 1,000-yen bill accumulating unit 27. Be done. The 1,000-yen ticket accumulating unit 27 accumulates the 1,000-yen tickets in the temporary holding unit 24.
On the other hand, the 1000-yen tickets taken out from the denomination-based storage 8 are separated one by one by the 1,000-yen ticket separating mechanism 21 and sent to the traveling path 49.

 The 10,000-yen ticket also has the same structure.

In addition, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding section 24, 25, 26 are
The shutters 34, 35, 36 are driven by a motor (not shown) and are pulled out all at once, so that the shutters 34, 35, 36 drop into the coin-type storage boxes 8, 9, 10.

There are full detectors 37a, 37 in the gold type storage boxes 8, 9 and 10, respectively.
b, 37c, near full detector 38a, 38b, 38c, end detector
39a, 39b, 39c are provided, and the amount of bills in each storage is managed.

<Reject Cassette and Others> Further, between the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 and the collective storage 11, collective separation gates 16 and 15 are arranged. Transport path 60
The banknotes that have been conveyed to the batch cutting gate 15 are stored in the batch storage box 11 when they are stored in the batch cutting gate 15.
It is guided to the collective collecting unit 30 side by the operation of 15. Also,
The banknotes sent to the coin-type storage boxes 8, 9, 10 are sent to the traveling path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 described above by the collective dividing gate 16.

In addition, the rejected banknotes will be collected at the batch separation gate 69.
Collective reject unit 62 provided in the collective storage 11 by
Alternatively, it is sent to the reject cassette 7 provided in the left corner of the apparatus main body 50.

The collective reject unit 62 provided in the collective storage 11 is a banknote fed out from the collective separating unit 23 of the collective storage 11 when the discrimination unit 4 determines that the banknote is overrun or skewed. It is provided for storing. The reject cassette 7 is provided to store banknotes that are determined to be unable to be dispensed or collected due to various reasons.

Inside the reject cassette 7, stacking units 66 and 64 and full detectors 40b and 40c are also provided. Rejection part 67
Stores rejected banknotes, and the reject unit 68 stores other rejected banknotes. Further, a door 41 is provided on the back surface of the apparatus body 50, and by opening the door 41, the collective storage 11 is pulled out to the outside. When the collective storage box 11 is pulled out to the outside, the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 can be further pulled out.

The reject cassette 7 is arranged so that it can be removed separately without opening the door 41.

A common lock is attached to each of the collective storage 11 and the denomination-based storages 8, 9 and 10, and the door of each storage (not shown) is opened by using the inspection key to perform bill loading and withdrawal operations. be able to.

A large number of motors and the like are mounted as power sources for separating and stacking and transporting banknotes, and a power transmission mechanism is arranged in each part of the apparatus shown in FIG.

The operation of the above apparatus will be described in order based on the procedures of deposit transaction, withdrawal transaction, supplemental loading process, and recovery process.

<Payment Transaction> FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a deposit transaction.

First, the customer presses a deposit / withdrawal key (not shown),
When the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer section 52 shown in FIG. 7 or the passbook is inserted into the passbook entry machine 53 shown in FIG. 7, communication is performed between the automatic teller machine 51 and the center. . When the identity is confirmed as a result of this communication, the control unit 56 of the automatic teller machine 51 shown in FIG. 7 sends a command to start the deposit process to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

In FIG. 10, when the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus main body 50 receives a depositing processing start command, it switches its internal state to the depositing mode and waits for the customer to set banknotes. In this case, the deposit position of FIG. 9 (a) described above is selected as the service port 3. When it is detected that the customer has set the bill, the shutter 42 of the customer service opening 3 is closed.

The control unit 56 shown in FIG. 7 periodically transmits a sense command to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50. The cash depositing / dispensing device 50 adds the information "a bill is set in the service port" to the sense command, and returns a response message (response).

Next, the control unit 56 transmits a deposit count command to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50, and instructs the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 to count the banknotes set in the customer service slot 3. Here, the service port 3 takes the separating position shown in FIG. 9 (b), and the service port separating mechanism 49 shown in FIG. 9 (b) separates the banknotes one by one and takes them into the apparatus. . This bill is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the routes indicated by arrows. The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs the authenticity discrimination, the damage determination and the traveling state detection of the conveyed banknotes, and sends the bills backward. Those discriminated by the discriminating unit 4 as fake bills or abnormal conveyance bills are traced along the routes indicated by the arrows and are conveyed to the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 and accumulated one by one. Then, the customer service opening 3 is set at the receiving position shown in FIG. 9C, and the banknotes accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 are sent to the customer service opening 3.

In this way, the deposited reject banknote is returned to the customer via the dispensing position shown in FIG. 9 (d).

On the other hand, the bill discriminated by the discriminating unit 4 as a genuine bill or an unfit bill (non-circulation target bill) is operated to the transfer path 60 as indicated by an arrow by operating the switching gate 43. here,
The genuine 1,000 yen note is conveyed toward the traveling path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18 as shown by the arrow, and is operated to operate the 1,000 yen ticket separation gate 57 to be sent to the 1000 yen note accumulation unit 27. Thus, the 1,000-yen tickets are accumulated in the temporary holding unit 24.

Similarly, the genuine bills of 10,000 yen bills are accumulated in the temporary holding unit 25 via the accumulation unit 28 by the operation of the dividing gate 31. Also,
The 5,000 yen bill and the unfit bill are sent to the stacking unit 29 by operating the switching gate 32, and are stacked in the temporary holding unit 26.

By the above operation, when the deposit counting process of the bills set by the customer in the service opening 3 is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing device 50
A response indicating the end of the deposit count is returned to the control unit 56 shown in FIG. To this response, data indicating the number of counted bills for each denomination is separately displayed for the rebate bills and the rebate target bills and added.

Upon receiving this data, the control unit 56 calculates the amount of money by denomination and the total amount of money, and displays it on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. Further, this data is counted and stored as the number of deposits.

When the customer confirms the amount of money displayed on the display of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 7 and presses the confirmation button of the customer operation unit 54, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 receives the command, Deposited banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding sections 24, 25 of the denomination storing boxes 8, 9 are stored in the denomination storing boxes 8, 9 by simultaneously pulling out the shutters 34, 35 of the temporary holding sections.

Next, the 5,000-yen bills and the unfit bills accumulated in the temporary holding section 26 of the denomination-based storage 10 are separated one by one by the separating and taking out mechanism 22, and conveyed in the arrow direction from the conveying path 49 to discriminate the discriminating section. Send to 4. Then, the switching blades 43 and 63 are actuated to move the deposit / withdrawal reject stacking unit 64 below the reject cassette 7.
And is accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal reject unit 65.

 This completes the deposit transaction processing.

<Payment Transaction> FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a payment transaction.

When the customer presses the withdrawal transaction key of the customer operation unit 54 shown in FIG. 7, the cash card is inserted into the card reader / writer unit 52, and the personal identification number is input, the control unit 56
Sends a command for starting the withdrawal process to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

When the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 receives the command to start the dispensing process, it switches the internal state to the dispensing mode and waits for an instruction of the denomination and the number of bills to be discharged.

For example, if the customer inputs the amount of m-million-yen tickets and n-thousand-yen tickets, the end detectors 39a, 39b, and 39c of the deposit boxes 8, 9, and 10 respectively detect the end. It is determined whether it has not been performed. When the end detection is made in any one of the money type storage boxes, the information indicating that the withdrawal is impossible is added to the command and the response is returned. If you have not detected the end, follow the instructions for withdrawal counting, for example,
Activate the million-yen ticket take-out / separation mechanism 21 to feed out m-yen tickets. The fed banknote is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the travel path indicated by arrows. The discriminating section 4 discriminates whether the bill is a designated bill or not, and if it is a designated bill, the bill is sent to the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 along the arrow, by operating the switching gate 43. In the discrimination section 4,
Since the front and back of the banknote are determined, the switching gate 6 is operated based on the determination result, and the front and back are sorted one by one and stacked on the front and back sorting mechanism 5.

In the discriminating section 4, the bill discriminated from the abnormal transport ticket is operated by the switching gates 43 and 63, follows the route indicated by the arrow, is sent to the accumulation section 64 of the reject cassette 7, and is sent to the deposit / withdrawal reject section 65. Be accumulated.

The above-described operation is repeated until the previously designated m ten thousand-yen bills are taken out from the denomination-based storage 9 storing the ten-thousand-yen bills, discriminated, and accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5.

When the stacking of the 10,000-yen tickets is completed, next, n 1,000-yen tickets are taken out from the denomination storage 8 storing the 1,000-yen tickets.

As a result of the above operation, when m-million-yen notes and n-thousand-yen notes specified by the customer are accumulated in the front-back arrangement mechanism 5, ninth
The service port 3 is set at the receiving position shown in FIG. 3C, and the dispensed banknotes accumulated in the front and back arrangement mechanism 5 are serviced by the service port 3.
Then, the shutter 42 is opened by switching to the dispensing position shown in FIG. 9 (d), the bill is delivered to the customer, and then the shutter 42 is closed.

When the designated number of withdrawal from the control unit 56 is completed, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus 50 returns a response of the processing end to the control unit 56. At that time, the data of the released denomination and its number are added. The control unit 56 receives this, counts it as the number of withdrawals, and stores it.

 This is the end of the withdrawal transaction processing.

If the customer forgets to pick up the banknotes at the service port 3, the banknotes that have been forgotten at the service port 3 are re-separated, fed one by one in the direction of the arrow of the appraisal unit 4, and the switching blades 43, 69 and 63 are operated. Then, this time, the reject cassette 7 is sent to the forget-to-take-collection section 66 and is collected at the forget-to-take section 67.

<Loading> FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view showing a dispensing operation of the cash depositing and dispensing apparatus of the present invention, that is, a loading and replenishing operation.

First, the staff member attaches the collective storage 11 to the apparatus main body 50 before starting the work. A predetermined amount of banknotes are collectively set from the original in the collective storage 11. The clerk
After the batch storage 11 is mounted, the loading key of the operation keys of the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG. 7 is pressed. In response to this input, the control unit 56 sends a command to start the loading operation to the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50.

Upon receipt of the loading operation start command, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 switches the internal state to the loading mode. Then, it is confirmed that the end detector 39d of the collective storage 11 has not detected the end. Banknotes to be loaded are stored in advance in batch storage 11
This is to confirm that it is set to. If the end has been detected, the control unit 56
Send a response to. In that case, the loading operation is stopped. When it is confirmed that the end is not detected, the loading operation is started.

At this time, the storage content of the storage management memory 99 provided in the collective storage 11 does not always match the denomination and the number of banknotes actually stored in the collective storage 11.

When the loading operation is started, in FIG. 8, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80, via the I / O interface circuit 82 and the motor driver 85, the collective withdrawal illustrated in the collective storage 11 of FIG. The drive motor of the separation mechanism 23 is operated. As a result, the banknotes set in the batch storage 11 are fed out one by one in order from the upper side and sent to the discriminating section 4 along the route indicated by arrows.

The discriminating unit 4 performs denomination discrimination, genuine / counterfeit discrimination, damage determination, and running state check for each of the sequentially fed bills, and the conveyed bills are further forwarded. If the result of the discrimination by the discriminating unit 4 is a genuine one-thousand-yen note (a bill that has no damage or is a small bill that can be used for withdrawal), the bill is routed by arrows, and Follow the path 49 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 18
It is sent to the 1,000-yen ticket accumulation unit 27 via 57. Thus
Thousand yen tickets are directly accumulated on the stage 45 of the thousand yen ticket storage 8.

Incidentally, in this way, in the loading operation, the shutters 34, 35, 36 of the denomination storing boxes 8, 9, 10 are opened in advance, and the stages 45, 46, 47 are set in a system for receiving the bills to be loaded. ing.

If the discrimination result is a genuine 10,000-yen note, the bill is sent to the 10,000-yen stacking unit 28 or 29 by operating the 10,000-yen ticket switching gate 31 or 32. Then, they are directly integrated on the stages 46 and 47.

The above operation is repeated for each of the money-type storage boxes 8, 9, 10 until the preset appropriate number of loaded sheets is reached.

During this operation, when the number of stacked sheets on any of the stages 45, 46, 47 reaches the holding allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the batch take-out separation mechanism 23 of the batch storage 11 is interrupted.
Then, the stage 45, 46 or 47 that reached the hold limit
Is lowered by a motor (not shown) by a thickness equivalent to the hold allowable value. When the stage descends, the collective take-out separation mechanism 23 is activated again, and the loading operation is repeated.

For example, when a denomination-based storage 9 is loaded with 10,000-yen bills for the first time, a predetermined appropriate number of 10,000-yen tickets are stored in the denomination-based storage 9 until the full detector 37b fully detects it. Loading continues until it is stored.

Similarly, when the 1000-yen bills are stored in the denomination-based storage 8, loading is continued until the appropriate number is reached.

The appropriate number of sheets is set to, for example, an appropriate number of sheets after the banknote is loaded and in a deposit transaction, leaving a space for storing the banknotes to be deposited. This may be set empirically uniformly, or may be arbitrarily set according to the peculiarity of the installation environment of the automatic teller machine or when the transaction date is at the end of the month. The setting may be made, for example, by a staff member inputting and setting from the internal operation unit 55 shown in FIG.

By the way, even if the banknotes have been loaded to the denomination-specific storage boxes 8 and 9 up to the predetermined appropriate number of loadings, if the denominations still remain in the batch storage box 11, the switching gates 15 and 16
Is operated to collect the conveyed banknotes in the accumulating section 30 of the collective storage 11 through the route indicated by the arrow.

This operation is for the banknotes on the stage 70 of the batch storage 11,
,,,,,, while appraising through the route, it continues until there are no banknotes on the stage 70.
When the banknotes are exhausted, the batch take-out / separation mechanism 23 and the transport operation of each traveling path are stopped.

If the discriminating unit 4 determines that the banknote is deemed to be an unfit banknote or a denomination with no denomination storage, for example, a 5,000 yen ticket in this embodiment, the bill activates the switching gates 15, 16, and 69. Through the route indicated by the arrow,
Sent to. Then, the unfit bills and the like are accumulated in the collective reject unit 62.

When the above series of operations is completed, the stages 45, 46, 47 are lowered all at once, and the banknotes accumulated on these stages are stored in the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 and the loading operation is completed. To do. When the operation ends, the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 returns a device end response to the control unit 56. At this time, the number data of the denominations loaded in the denomination storage units 8, 9, and 10 is transmitted.

On the other hand, the counting management unit 80a, when the door opening and closing data is stored at the time of mounting the collective storage 11, counts the number-of-banknotes number data of the banknotes stored in the collective storage 11, and the data Data is stored from the addresses m + 26 to m + 31 of the storage management memory 99 through the collective storage interface circuit 90 shown in FIG. Further, this counting management unit 80a, after the expected number of bills are stored in each denomination-based storage 8, 9, 10, after the number data of each denomination of the banknotes collected in the batch storage 11 again without distribution Count and count the number of sheets in the same way as the storage management memory
Store from address m to address m + 5 of 99. Further, the counting management unit 80a counts the sum data of the number-of-sheets data for each denomination distributed to the respective denomination-based storages 8, 9, 10 and the sum data is also not shown in the storage management memory 99. , For example, m-6
Store from address to address m-1.

<Storage Management Memory> FIGS. 14 to 16 show the data format of the storage management memory 99. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 14, for example, it is assumed that the storage management memory 99 can store 4-word data. Here, the data of the number of 10,000 yen tickets is stored in the addresses m and m + 1. In addition, at the addresses m + 2 and m + 3,
Stores data on the number of 1,000-yen tickets.

As shown in FIG. 15, each number data is 1 word 8
Since it has a bit configuration, it can be converted into a binary number and up to 2 ¹⁶ −
One, that is, up to 65,535 can be expressed.

FIG. 16 shows an example of data actually stored. That is, the data of the number of ten thousand yen tickets is "01000101" at the address m,
The value "11011100" is stored in the address m + 1. That is, it displays 1,500 sheets in decimal.

On the other hand, the number data of the 1,000 yen ticket is “10” in the address m + 2.
The value "11110100" is stored at 000001 "and the address m + 3. This indicates that the number is 500 in decimal.

That is, after the end of the loading operation, if the data stored in the storage management memory 99 has the content shown in FIG. 16, the storage cannot be distributed to the storages 8, 9 and 10 for each denomination, and the data is stored again. The total number of banknotes collected in the collective storage 11 is 1,500,000 yen
It shows that 500 tickets and 1,000 yen tickets were sold.

<Operation of Collective Storage> During the above loading operation, the collective storage operates as follows.

 FIG. 17 is an operation explanatory view of the collective storage.

Collective storage 11 to storage 8, 9 and 10 for each denomination (Fig. 12)
At the start of the operation of loading banknotes into the banknote, as shown in FIG. 17A, the banknotes on the stage 70 are taken out and delivered by the batch takeout separation mechanism 23.

On the other hand, the banknotes that are collected without being stored in the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 are sent to the batch stacking unit 30 and stacked on the batch partition plate 33. Here, the banknotes are allowed to accumulate, for example, 100
When the number of sheets is reached, the operation of the collective take-out separation mechanism 23 is temporarily stopped.

The drive lever 71 is preset to the position 71 in FIG. 17 (b), and when receiving the instruction that the stacking allowable value has been reached, the drive lever 71 rotates to the position 71 in the drawing and the collective partition plate. 33 Clamp the banknotes accumulated on top.
Then, a motor (not shown) is driven to lift the drive lever 71 from position 71 to position 71 in the figure. Next, the batch take-out / separation mechanism 23 stopped earlier is operated, and the banknotes are continuously stacked on the batch partition plate 33 up to the stacking allowable value.

When the stacking allowable value is reached again, the batch take-out separating mechanism 23 is stopped, the drive lever 71 is rotated from the position 71 to the position 71, and the banknotes lifted by the drive lever 71 are stacked on the batch partition plate 33. Drop it on the banknote. Then, the motor (not shown) again lowers the drive lever 71 at the position 71 to move it to the position 71. After that, the drive lever 71 is rotated again to the position 71, and the bill is lifted to the position 71.

Such an operation is repeated until the end detector 39d detects that the banknotes on the stage 70 are exhausted. When the end is detected, the operation of the collective take-out separation mechanism 23 is stopped, and the drive lever 71 lifts the banknote to the position of 71 by a motor (not shown).

On the other hand, the stage 70 is driven by a motor (not shown)
It is rotationally driven from the position of 70 to the position of
Further down to the 70 position. Then, it is rotationally driven to the position 70 and is arranged below the drive lever 71. Then, the drive lever rotates to the position of 71, and the bill clamped and lifted first is placed on the stage 70. Thereafter, the stage 70 is driven by a motor (not shown) and moves up to the position 70 in the figure.

By the above operation, the collected banknotes can be distributed from the collective storage 11 again.

<Update of storage management memory> In the above distribution operation, all banknotes are once sent out from the batch storage box 11, and all the banknotes that cannot be distributed are collected in the batch storage box 11 and the number of denominations is changed. The data was stored as is in the storage management memory. However, even when it is determined that the contents of the storage management memory 99 are abnormal even in cases other than the distribution operation, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit
80 (FIG. 8) detects this and automatically updates the contents of the storage management memory 99.

As such a case, for example, when the collective storage 11 is attached to the cash deposit / withdrawal device and the contents of the deposit management memory 99 are doubtful, the power has just been turned on to the cash deposit / withdrawal device, and the deposit management memory is still available. If the content of 99 is unreliable, the sum of the data of the number of denominations in the storage management memory 99 is “0” or the batch is not detected even though the end detector 39d of the batch storage 11 has not detected the end. The number of sheets data that exceeds the number of sheets that can be stored in the storage box 11 is stored in the storage box management memory 99.
In the case where a state such as a parity error is detected in the access address of the storage management memory 99.

In the above-mentioned case, similarly to the distribution operation, the banknotes are sent out from the batch storage box 11 to be conveyed, discriminated, counted for each denomination, and the banknotes are circulated to the batch storage box 11 again for collection. Then, the calculated number-of-money data is stored in the storage management memory, and the process ends.

<Replenishment Operation> Since the replenishment operation is the same as the loading operation in the drawing, the replenishment operation will be described again with reference to FIG.

When the clerk presses the replenishment key with the operation key of the internal operation unit 55 (Fig. 7), the control unit 56 (Fig. 7) receives this input and instructs the cash deposit / withdrawal device 50 (Fig. 7). Send the command to start the refill operation. Cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit
80 (FIG. 8) sends a command to start the replenishment operation to the control unit 56.
When receiving from (FIG. 7), the operation mode is set to the supplement mode. The replenishment mode is a forced replenishment mode in which it is instructed in advance to replenish the designated number of coins for the designated denomination, and the remaining amount of bills in any of the denomination storage boxes 8, 9 and 10 during the trading operation. However, there is an automatic replenishment mode in which it is automatically executed when it is detected that the number of sheets has dropped below a predetermined number.

At the start of the replenishing operation, it is confirmed that the end detector 39d of the batch storage 11 has not detected the end, that is, the bill has been set in advance. Furthermore, referring to the data stored in the storage management memory 99, the collective storage
Check whether the bills to be refilled are stored in 11 or not.

In the case of the end detection in the forced replenishment mode, the response with the information indicating that it is not in the operable state is returned to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). In this case, since the contents of the storage management memory 99 may not be reliable,
Clear all the number of denominations in the storage management memory 99 and stop the processing. Of course, the same processing is performed even in the automatic replenishment mode.

On the other hand, the end is not detected, and the storage management memory 99
When it is determined that the replenishment can be executed within the range of the number of coins stored in (4), the replenishment operation is started. In this case, in FIG. 12, the collective take-out separation mechanism 23 at the upper part of the collective storage 11 is operated to take out the bills set in the collective storage 11 one by one from the upper side. This banknote is sent to the discriminating section 4 through the route of arrows ,.

The discriminating unit 4 sequentially performs a denomination determination, a true / false determination, a fitness determination, and a running state check on the fed bills. For example, when the replenishment target bill is one denomination of any of the 10,000-yen bill and the 1,000-yen bill, the bill determined to be a non-genuine bill of the replenishment target bill as a result of the discrimination by the discrimination unit 4 is:
, And the separation gates 15 and 16 are operated to be sent to the stacking unit 30 of the batch storage 11.

Then, as described in the loading example, the bulk storage 11
Is collected again in the collective storage 11 by the operation inside. In this case, it goes without saying that the counting management unit 80a manages the contents of the storage management memory 99 so that they do not change.

The banknotes whose discrimination results are determined to be rejected banknotes are sent to the stacking unit 68 by operating the switching gates 15, 16 and 69 to follow the route. The banknotes are accumulated in the collective reject unit 62.

When the correct bills to be replenished are conveyed, as described in the section of loading, if the bills are 1,000-yen bills, the 1,000-yen note sorting gate 57 is operated to activate the 1,000-yen note accumulation unit 27. It is sent to and is collected directly on the thousand yen ticket stage 45. If it is a 10,000-yen ticket, activate the 10,000-yen ticket dividing gate 31 or 32 to collect the 10,000-yen ticket.
Sent to 28 or 29. Then, they are directly accumulated on the 10,000 yen ticket stage 46 or 47.

The above operation is continued until the target number of sheets is replenished.However, when the number of stacked sheets in any of the stages 45, 46, 47 reaches the holding allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the batch ejection separating mechanism 23 The operation of (1) is interrupted, the stage of the cassette which has reached the hold allowable value is lowered by a motor (not shown) by an amount corresponding to the hold allowable value, the collective take-out separating mechanism 23 is operated again, and the replenishing operation is repeated.

Even if the replenishment number reaches the target value or before the target value, if all of the replenishment target banknotes in the collective storage 11 are replenished with reference to the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory 99, The take-out separation mechanism 23 stops. Then, when the last bill reaches the stages 45, 46, 47, the carrying operation is stopped. Of the stages 45, 46, and 47, the stage that has performed the refill operation moves down, and the banknotes accumulated on the stage are stored in any of the corresponding denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, and 10 and the refill operation ends. .

When the replenishment operation is completed, the number of replenishment sheets is counted, and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are updated based on the result. In this case, the number obtained by subtracting the counting result of all the denominations collected in the collective storage 11 again from the counting result of all the denominations extracted from the collective storage 11 is based on the original data in the storage management memory 99. Is subtracted.

FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the storage management memory before and after the replenishing operation.

For example, it is assumed that the bill storage state in the batch storage 11 and the contents of the storage management memory 99 before the replenishment operation are as shown in FIG. 18 (a). That is, before replenishment operation, 1,500,000 yen ticket
It is assumed that the number of tickets is 500 yen. Here, when replenishing each of the 1,000-yen and 10,000-yen tickets to each denomination-type storage container by 300, as shown in FIG.
There will be 0 tickets and 200 yen tickets.

<Collecting Operation> FIG. 13 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention at the time of a collecting operation.

When the operator pushes the internal operation unit 55 (the operation key in FIG. 7) and the recovery key is pressed, the control unit 56 (FIG. 7).
Receiving this input, sends a command instructing the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus 50 (FIG. 7) to start the collecting operation.

When the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (Fig. 8) receives the command to start the collection operation from the control unit 56 (Fig. 7), it determines whether this is forcible collection or automatic collection. In the case of forced collection, all banknotes are unconditionally collected from the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 to the batch storage box 11. Further, the automatic collection is executed when the number of stored bills in any of the denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 exceeds a predetermined number. In these cases, it is confirmed that the operation mode is set to the collection mode and the near full detector 38d of the batch storage 11 does not detect near full.

Further, the stored contents of the storage management memory 99 are referred to, and it is confirmed that there is still a recoverable space in the collective storage 11 and the number of actually recoverable sheets. Here, when it is detected in the forced collection mode that no space that can be collected in the collective storage 11 is left, a response including state information indicating that operation is disabled is transmitted to the control unit 56 (FIG. 7). Processing is aborted. The same applies to automatic collection.

On the other hand, when it is confirmed that the collectable space remains in the collective storage 11, the collecting operation is started.

First, when collecting banknotes from the denomination-based storage box 10 that stores 10,000-yen tickets, operate the 10,000-yen ticket take-out separation mechanism 22,
The bills stored in the ten-yen ticket storage box 10 are
Dispensing one by one, the discrimination unit 4 through the route of ,,
Send to. The discriminating unit 4 sequentially detects the authenticity and the traveling state of the sent bills and sends the bills backward.

As a result of discrimination by the discrimination section 4, two or more sheets overlap (overrun),
The banknote for which the skew has been detected is passed through the route, and the switching gates 16 and 15 are operated to be fed into the reject cassette 7 by the route.

As a result of discrimination, normal banknotes are counted and collectively collected.
Sent to 30. The banknotes sent to the collective stacking unit 30 are sequentially stacked on the collective partition plate 33. This operation is repeated until the collection target number is reached, or there are no banknotes set in the denomination-based storage box 10 that stores 10,000-yen tickets.

Incidentally, when the number of stacked sheets on the batch partition plate 33 reaches the stacking allowable value, for example, 100 sheets, the operation of the 10,000-yen ticket taking-out separating mechanism 22 is interrupted, and the batch storing described previously at the time of the replenishing operation is performed. The operation in the cabinet 11 is executed. Other money type storage
The same applies to the collection operation for 9,8.

During the collection operation, the full detector 37
When d fully detects, the collection operation is interrupted and the information is returned to the control unit 56 (Fig. 7). The control unit 56 displays this on a display unit (not shown).

The clerk, looking at the display indicating that the batch storage box 11 is full, discharges the banknotes stored in the batch storage box 11. In this case, the clerk opens the door 41 on the rear surface of the device main body 50 of the cash depositing / dispensing device, removes the collective storage 11, and uses the inspection key to open the door and take out all the banknotes. afterwards,
The batch storage 11 is set by the reverse operation of the
Is closed and the contents of the storage management memory 99 are all cleared to "0", and then the collection operation is restarted. After that, when the end detectors 39c, 39b, 38a of all denomination-based storage boxes 8, 9, 10 detect the end, each take-out mechanism 20, 21, 22 is stopped, and the last banknote arrives in the batch storage box 11. After that, the transport operation is stopped.

The cash deposit / withdrawal device that has completed the above processing is controlled by the control unit 56.
In response to (Fig. 7), a response indicating the end of collection is returned, and the number of collected coins for each denomination is added to the response.
The control unit 56 receives this and counts and stores the number of collected sheets.

On the other hand, when the collecting operation is completed, the cash deposit / withdrawal device control unit 80 (FIG. 8) displays the number of collected coins of each coin type collected from each coin storage 8, 9, 10 and the storage management memory 99. The number of stored coins of the denomination stored in is added to update the contents of the storage management memory 99.

The device of the embodiment of the present invention described above has the following operational effects.

(1) The banknotes of two or more denominations used in the device are stored in the collective storage, distributed to the denomination storage at any time after the cash deposit / withdrawal device is attached, and collected as needed. ,
Banknotes can be managed by attaching and detaching only the bulk storage.

(2) The collective storage has a structure in which a collection port and a withdrawal port are separately provided so that banknotes can be circulated, and deposited banknotes are sequentially stored and reused for withdrawal and the like. Therefore, the banknotes can be efficiently used. Further, even with a small and simple mechanism, there is no excess or deficiency of bills.

(3) A storage management memory is integrally provided in the collective storage, and the number of banknotes of each denomination is stored therein. Therefore, the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus can smoothly and surely perform its operation at the time of cash distribution or cash collection.

(4) When a shortage of remaining banknotes in the denomination-based storage is detected, the device refers to the number of denominations stored in the storage management memory and automatically replenishes the batch storage within that range at any time. Can be done. Therefore, the number of stored banknotes in each denomination storage could be properly maintained. In addition, the maintenance and management of the staff becomes easy.

(5) When any one of the denomination-based storages has an excessively large number of storages due to a deposit transaction or the like, the collecting operation can be automatically performed. In this case, the contents of the storage management memory are updated in accordance with the number of collections, so that the operation of the attendant is not required unless the batch storage is full, so that the power saving effect is extremely high.

(6) The same operation can be performed using not only banknotes but also coins and the like.

(7) Also, when operating a plurality of cash deposit / withdrawal devices,
By referring to the storage management memory of the collective storage mounted on each device, the collective storage can be exchanged as necessary, and appropriate accommodation can be achieved. Therefore, the funds can be efficiently managed with a simple operation.

(Effects of the Invention) In the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention described above, when the door is opened and closed by the time the collective storage is removed from the apparatus main body and mounted again in the apparatus main body, As I tried to save the number of cash storage before and after removing the bulk storage,
The cash deposit / withdrawal history made by the staff is automatically stored and managed in the collective storage. As a result, cash management errors and fraud can be prevented, and cash management with high reliability becomes possible. In addition, if the time and date of opening and closing the doors and opening and closing the doors are stored in the storage management memory, if cash is insufficient or insufficient, the staff and investigation scope will be limited by date and time, and the responsibility will be clarified. It becomes possible to

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FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of a cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a conventional apparatus, FIG. 3 is an external view of a collective storage suitable for carrying out the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a control unit of a collective storage of the device of the present invention, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a data format of a main part of the storage management memory, FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the device of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is an automatic cash transaction. Overall view of the apparatus, FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 9 is a sectional view for explaining the operation of a customer service port, and FIG. 10 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a deposit transaction. FIG. 11 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / dispensing apparatus of the present invention during a withdrawal transaction, FIG. 12 is a sectional view of the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus of the present invention during a loading (replenishing) operation, and FIG. 13 is a cash deposit / withdrawal of the present invention. 14 to 16 are sectional views of the gold device during a collecting operation, and the data format of the storage management memory of the device of the present invention. Akirazu, FIG. 17 is collectively repository operational illustrations, FIG. 18 is a description diagram of a repository management memory of the device before and after the refill operation. 8,9,10 …… Storing container by denomination, 7 …… Reject cassette,
11 ... Collective storage, 50 ... Device main body, 80a ... Count management unit, 80b ... Cash collecting means, 80c ... Cash distributing means, 89a
...... Discrimination result identification means, 89b ...... Gate control means, 99 ...
... storage management memory, 201 ... collective storage installation detection means, 210 ... door opening / closing start means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A batch storage box that stores the cash for loading and replenishment or the collected cash in a batch and is detachably attached to the apparatus main body, and between the batch storage box and the denomination-based storage box. In a cash deposit / withdrawal device for loading, replenishing, or collecting cash at A non-volatile storage management memory that stores a door opening / closing time of a provided door; and a door that stores the time as door opening / closing data in the storage management memory when opening / closing of the door of the collective storage is detected. An opening / closing monitor is provided, and a discrimination section for discriminating the denomination of cash to be conveyed in the cash depositing / withdrawing apparatus, and a first section for conveying the cash paid out from the collective storage to the discrimination section. Conveyance path and the discrimination A second transport path for transporting the cash discriminated in step 1 to the batch storage box, and the case where the batch storage box is mounted, between the removal of the batch storage box and the mounting of the same again. When it is recognized that the door has been opened / closed based on the door opening / closing data of the storage management memory, the cash stored in the collective storage is taken out from the collective storage, the first transport path,
The number of denominations stored in the collective storage is counted by transporting through the discrimination unit and the second transport path and re-storing in the collective storage, and the counting result is stored in the storage management. A control unit that stores the result in the memory and, when replenishment or collection is performed thereafter, calculates the number of denominations stored in the collective storage and stores the calculation result in the storage management memory. A cash deposit / withdrawal device, which is equipped with.