JPH09153161A - Paper money receiving/paying device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove and return a foreign matter mixed together with paper money and to normally separate and take in the received paper money. SOLUTION: The device is provided with an excitation mechanism 8 for dropping a foreign matter 10 by mounting received paper money 2 on its surface and oscillating the money 2 and a guide 6 capable of coverting a take-in port for paper money 2 and guiding the foreign matter 10 to a foreign matter duct 11. A projected guide part 13 for inclining the foreign matter 10 so as to easily detect it is formed on the traveling face of the duct 11, a light emitting device 12a and a light receiving element 12b are adjacently arranged on one side face of the duct 11 and an optical path changing means 12c is arranged oppositely to the elements 12a, 12c.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device, and more particularly to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device having a function of removing foreign matter mixed in a received banknote.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are cases where coins and other foreign substances are mixed in bills fed into a bill receiving / dispensing apparatus. In the conventional banknote pay-in / pay-out device, the inserted banknotes are held in the customer service opening, and when foreign matter falls, the foreign matter is discharged to the outside through a foreign matter duct and returned to the customer.

[0003]

However, in the conventional apparatus, the contaminated foreign matter does not always fall, especially when foreign matter intervenes between bills, and the like. Foreign matter has fallen or entered the equipment, causing malfunction of the equipment.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a pickup roller which presses and rotates a side surface of a bill vertically received in a service opening to feed the bill, a bill press which presses the bill to the pickup roller, and a pickup roller. In a bill depositing / dispensing device that separates bills fed out by the pick-up port, a vibrating mechanism is provided at the bottom of the service port to hold the bills received on a plate-like surface having a gap and to vibrate the bills. The feature is that the mixed foreign substances are dropped and rejected when the bills are received.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1A and 1B are explanatory views of foreign matter removal according to the embodiment. FIG. 1A shows a state when foreign matter removal is performed, and FIG. 1B shows a state when bills are separated and conveyed. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a pickup roller, and the pickup roller 1 rotates in the clockwise direction in the drawing to separate and feed out the banknotes 2 pressed by a bill press described later one by one. 3 is a feed roller, which is a bill 2 fed by the pickup roller 1.
Transport and capture. The feed roller 3 is pressed against the reverse roller 4 to form a take-in port, and the reverse roller 4 rotates only in, for example, the clockwise direction in the drawing so as not to feed out two or more banknotes at the same time. There is.

The feed roller 3 is rotated clockwise as shown in the present embodiment to pay out bills, but it is rotated counterclockwise in the case of transaction such as withdrawal. A movable frame 5 moves the reverse roller 4 with the shaft of the reverse roller 4 fixed.
For example, if the end of the movable frame 5 is attached to the feed roller 3
Is rotatably fixed at the position of the rotation fulcrum, and the movable frame 5 is rotated to set the reverse roller 4 to the retracted position in FIG. 1A and the transport position in FIG. 1B. be able to.

A foreign matter guide 6 is a guide for guiding a foreign matter. One end of the foreign matter guide is rotatably fixed and a part of the foreign matter guide is connected to a movable frame 5 by a spring 7,
By rotating the movable frame 5, the foreign matter guide 6 can be set at the foreign matter removing position shown in FIG. 1A and the bill separating / conveying position shown in FIG. 1B. The foreign matter that has fallen into the foreign matter guide 6 is further guided by this guide 6 and falls into a foreign matter duct described later.

A vibrating mechanism 8 vibrates the received bill 2 to remove foreign matter. For example, this vibrating mechanism 8
The right end of the figure is supported by a shaft, and the bill 2 is vibrated by repeatedly rotating the shaft around this shaft in small steps. Further, the vibrating mechanism 8 is formed of a plate having a gap, and is formed by, for example, arranging a plurality of rod-shaped bodies in a comb shape in the depth direction of the drawing, so that the placed banknotes 2 can be securely held. In addition, the foreign matter can be dropped onto the foreign matter guide 6.

A bill press 9 is movable in the left-right direction in the drawing and can press the bill 2 against the pickup roller 1. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of foreign matter detection according to the embodiment. The foreign matter duct 11 for further sliding and discharging the foreign matter 10 from the foreign matter guide 6 is provided with a sensor 12 for confirming the passage of the foreign matter 10. The foreign matter duct 11 may be, for example, a gutter-shaped one.

The foreign matter duct 11 is connected to a foreign matter return port (not shown), and the foreign matter 10 is attached to the foreign matter duct 1.
Slide 1 to be discharged to the foreign matter return port. 2A is a side view of the foreign matter duct 11, and the foreign matter 10 slides from the upper left to the lower right in the figure. FIG. 2B shows the foreign matter duct 11
It is the figure which looked at the running surface of from above.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a protruding guide portion, which raises one side surface of the foreign matter 10 having a thin shape such as a coin so that the sensor 12 can be securely attached.
It is intended to be detected by. The sensor 12 is arranged so as to set two optical paths 14a and 14b across the traveling direction of the foreign material 10. For example, the sensor 12 includes a light emitting element 12a, a light receiving element 12b, and a prism 12c that is an optical path changing means. The light emitting element 12a and the light receiving element 12b are provided on one side of the foreign matter duct 11, and the light emitting elements on the opposite side of the foreign matter duct 11 are provided. A prism 12c is provided at a position corresponding to 12a and the light receiving element 12b,
The light from the light emitting element 12a crosses the foreign matter duct 11 and reaches the prism 12c (optical path 14a).
The light is turned back by 2c and crosses the foreign matter duct 11 to reach the light receiving element 12b (optical path 14b).

A mirror or the like may be used instead of the prism 12c which is the optical path changing means. 3A and 3B are explanatory views of the optical path changing means. FIG. 3A shows the case where a prism is used as described above, FIG. 3B shows the case where a two-sided mirror is used, and FIG. Shows the case where a one-sided mirror is used. Thus, the pair of light emitting / receiving elements can provide the two optical paths 14a and 14b.

Further, even when the positions of the light emitting element 12a and the light receiving element 12b are interchanged, two optical paths can be similarly set. The operation of this embodiment will be described below. First, as shown in FIG. 1A, the movable frame 5 is moved to set the reverse roller 4 to the retracted position and protect the foreign matter guide 6 by covering the intake port of the feed roller 3 and the reverse roller 4. Set to. Then, the bill press 9 is arranged on the right side of the drawing, a shutter (not shown) is opened to open the upper portion, the bill 2 is received, and the shutter is closed.

Next, the vibrating mechanism 8 is vertically vibrated to vibrate the banknote 2. Foreign object 10 inserted together with the bill 2
Is shaken off in this process, guided by the foreign matter guide 6 and dropped into the foreign matter duct 11, and slides on the traveling surface of the foreign matter duct 11. When the foreign matter 10 reaches the protrusion guide portion 13, the foreign matter 10 rides on the protrusion guide portion 13 and one side surface rises to block the sensor 12 and the sensor 12 detects the passage.

When the foreign matter 10 rides on the protruding guide portion 13, it may jump up as it is without tilting to the left or right with respect to the traveling direction. However, the optical path 14a and the optical path 14b.
Since the two are arranged at a predetermined distance, the foreign matter 10 shields either of them while landing on the running surface.
For example, even if the foreign material 10 jumps over the optical path 14a,
The light path 14b is blocked.

The foreign material 10 slides further and is discharged to a return port (not shown). As described above, when the sensor is shielded from light, the control unit (not shown) determines that the foreign matter has traveled in the duct 11, and displays the guidance on the display unit (not shown) to notify the customer and receives the foreign matter 10. Urge you to. After the foreign matter discharging process, the movable frame 5 operates to set the reverse roller 4 and the foreign matter guide 6 to the bill separating / conveying position shown in FIG. 1B to start taking in the bills 2.

[0017]

As described above in detail, since the foreign matter is removed by vibrating the bill by the vibrating mechanism before the bill is separated and conveyed, the foreign matter can be surely removed and the bill separating performance is improved. Has the effect of improving. Further, when removing the foreign matter, the guide covers the intake port and the guide reliably guides the foreign matter to the foreign matter duct. Therefore, there is an effect that the foreign matter can be surely removed without entering the device.

Further, a protrusion guide portion is provided on the foreign matter duct,
Since the foreign matter after riding on the protruding guide portion is caught by the plurality of optical paths, the foreign matter can be reliably detected. Further, by using the optical path changing means, a plurality of optical paths can be set by the pair of light emitting / receiving elements, and there is an effect of realizing a high-performance sensor at low cost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of foreign matter removal according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of foreign matter detection according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an optical path changing unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Pickup Roller 2 Banknote 6 Guide 8 Vibration Mechanism 10 Foreign Material 11 Foreign Material Duct 12a Light Emitting Element 12b Light Receiving Element 12c Optical Path Change Means 13 Projection Guides 14a, 14b Optical Path

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A pick-up roller that presses and rotates a side surface of a bill vertically received in a service opening to feed the bill,
In a bill press that presses bills against the pickup roller and a bill depositing / dispensing device that separates bills fed out by the pickup roller from a pickup port, the bill is received on a plate-like surface having a gap at the bottom of the service port. A bill depositing / dispensing device, which is provided with a vibrating mechanism that holds bills and vibrates the bills, and drops and removes mixed foreign matter when receiving bills. 2. The bill depositing / withdrawing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a guide capable of guiding the foreign matter that has fallen by covering the intake port to the foreign matter duct. 3. A bill depositing / dispensing apparatus having a foreign matter duct for sliding and discharging foreign matter that has been mixed into received bills and dropped into the apparatus, and a projecting guide portion for causing foreign matter during traveling is provided with a traveling surface of the foreign matter duct. A light emitting element is provided on one side of the foreign matter duct at a position closer to the discharge side than the projecting guide portion so that the optical path crosses, and a light receiving element is provided adjacent to the light emitting element. A bill inputting / discharging device, characterized in that an optical path changing means is provided at a position opposite to the optical path changing means, the optical path changing means receives the light from the light emitting element, changes the optical path, and reflects it as reflected light toward the light receiving element. Gold device.