JPH1091838A - Paper sheet handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve the smoothing-down or sterilizing effect of a paper sheet in a paper sheet handling device having a means for operating the smoothing-down or sterilizing processing of the paper sheet. SOLUTION: Cash housed in denomination boxes 13 and 14 is temporarily transferred to a cash cassette 15 by a carrying mechanism 20, successively transferred to a heating and pressurizing part 23 of a cleaning mechanism part 12 by the carrying mechanism 20, and returned to the denomination boxes 13 and 14 after a smoothing-down or sterilizing processing is operated in a paper sheet handling device, for example, a paper money handling mechanism. At that time, the carrying speed of the cash is set less than 1.2m/s which is slower than usual, or this processing is operated plural times at a normal carrying speed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling apparatus for stretching or sterilizing paper sheets, and more particularly to an apparatus for depositing and withdrawing bills by a user's operation. The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling device that is suitable for an automatic cash handling device that provides sterilized bills.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 4-114652 discloses a heating and pressurizing conveying section comprising a heating roller having a heating means such as a heater built in a conveying path and an endless belt attached so as to wind around the heating roller. And a sheet handling apparatus having a function of performing wrinkle straightening and heat sterilization of the sheet sent from the preceding conveyance path to the heating and pressurizing conveyance section during the handling of the sheet.

[0003]

In the above prior art, a heating and pressurizing conveying section is provided in the conveying path, and the banknotes passing therethrough are wrinkled or sterilized.

However, in recent years, this type of apparatus has tended to increase the transport speed of paper sheets in order to shorten the processing time.
As a result, the time for the paper sheet to pass through the heating and pressurizing conveyance section is shortened, and it is becoming difficult to sufficiently stretch and wrinkle or sterilize.

[0005] It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet handling apparatus capable of obtaining a sufficient wrinkle-stretching or sterilizing effect even under the above-mentioned circumstances.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to reduce the wrinkling or sterilizing treatment of paper sheets by a conveying speed lower than that of normal processing, and to increase the speed of normal processing by an instruction from a control unit in the paper sheet handling apparatus. This is achieved by performing control at an arbitrary number of times at the transport speed or at an arbitrary number of times at a lower than normal transport speed.

Further, if these processes are performed outside of the handling time (time when the user uses the paper sheet handling apparatus), the wrinkles can be extended without increasing the handling time and the sterilizing effect can be improved. It is possible.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing an automatic teller machine for depositing and withdrawing banknotes by a user's operation. At the front of the automatic teller machine 1, a user inserts a magnetic card for transaction and a card insertion / discharge port 2 for discharging the card and a printed transaction statement. A passbook insertion / discharge port 3 for inserting and printing a deposit / withdrawal amount, a balance, etc., and releasing the bill, a deposit / withdrawal port 11 where a bill to be deposited is inserted by a user and a bill to be paid to the user is released, a use for performing a transaction. Guidance to the user,
In addition, a touch panel is provided with an operation unit 5 that allows the user to input the details of the transaction (type of transaction such as deposit, withdrawal, transfer, amount, etc.). Become.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a bill mechanism for transferring bills and the like in the internal structure of the automatic teller machine 1 shown in FIG. The banknote mechanism unit 10 includes denomination boxes 13 and 14 for storing deposited banknotes and banknotes to be dispensed. For example, the denomination box 13 stores 10,000 yen banknotes and the denomination box 14 stores 1,000 yen. Store bills. Bill cassette 1
Reference numeral 5 is detachable from the apparatus, and has a function of allowing a staff member to set and remove bills. When the remaining amount of the banknotes stored in the denomination boxes 13 and 14 becomes small, the banknotes are replenished or loaded from the banknote cassette 15 for each denomination. Furthermore, denomination boxes 13, 1
When 4 is full, full denomination boxes 13, 1
From 4, the bills are collected in the bill cassette 15.

The discriminating section 16 performs necessary discrimination such as denomination, authenticity, correctness, and number of bills. In the cleaning mechanism unit 12,
The heating / pressing unit 23 includes the heating roller 21 and the heating roller 2.
1 is an endless belt 22 which is pressed against and rotates in contact with it in a winding manner. By passing between the heating roller and the endless belt 22, the banknote is subjected to a wrinkle elongation or sterilization process.

The transport mechanism 20 for transporting bills transports bills at a speed of about 1.2 m / s in the direction of the arrow.

The bill mechanism 10 mainly includes a deposit transaction,
Four operations of withdrawal transaction, replenishment or loading, and collection are performed.
The mechanism 10 sends the banknotes to the cleansing mechanism section 12 at the time of a deposit transaction and replenishment or loading, and performs a wrinkle elongation and a sterilization process. Hereinafter, the four operations will be described, and at the same time, a method of improving the wrinkling and sterilizing effects, which is the subject of the present patent, will be described.

The deposit transaction consists of a process of counting the deposit (FIG. 6) and storing the deposit (FIG. 7).

In the deposit counting shown in FIG. 6, a user first inserts a bill into the deposit / withdrawal port 11. The inserted bills are
Each sheet is separated one by one by a separation mechanism (not shown) provided in the deposit / withdrawal port 11, and is conveyed to the discrimination unit 16 by the conveyance mechanism 20. The discrimination unit 16 performs necessary discrimination such as denomination, authenticity, fitness, and the number of sheets, and is further conveyed by the conveyance mechanism 20 and accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 17 (notes are conveyed in the direction of the arrow; the same applies hereinafter).

Here, the amount of money entered and discriminated is displayed on the operation unit 5, the user confirms it, and inputs a confirmation input to the operation unit 5, so that when the deposit transaction is completed,
The process proceeds to the next process, that is, the process of storing the deposit.

In the deposit storage shown in FIG.
The banknotes accumulated in 7 are separated by a separation mechanism (not shown), transported again by the transport mechanism 20 to the discrimination section 16 for discrimination, and further transported by the transport mechanism 20. At this time, the gate 18 of the cleaning mechanism unit 12 is switched, and the gate is passed through the pressurizing and heating unit 23, and the banknotes are wrinkled and sterilized. After the banknotes are cleaned, the banknotes are conveyed to the denomination boxes 13 and 14, which are storage units for the banknotes, and are accumulated and stored for each denomination. In this way, the deposit transaction, which enables the banknotes to be cleaned through the deposit counting and deposit storage shown in FIGS.

One of the features of the paper sheet handling apparatus of the present invention is that a processing for newly lowering the transport speed of bills is added to the depositing transaction processing. 3 will be described. S11 and S14 shown in FIG.
Is a step showing the processing of the above-mentioned deposit counting and deposit storage. Therefore, description is omitted.

Step S10 is a process for reducing the transport speed of bills during a deposit transaction. As shown in the figure, the transport speed lowering process (S13) for lowering the transport speed of the banknote can be performed by pressing the clean key or receiving an instruction from the control unit that controls the cleaning mechanism unit 12 (S12). The above-mentioned clean key is displayed on, for example, the touch panel shown in FIG. 2 so that the banknote can be cleaned when the user presses the clean key. The supplement may be made on the operation panel. The control unit instruction is a process for automatically cleaning the banknote, which will be described later.

In the transport speed lowering process (S13), the bill is cleaned by the cleaning mechanism unit 12, more specifically, the heating and pressing unit 23.
The time required to pass through the heating roller 21 is extended.
By rotating the and the endless belt 22 at a low speed (for example, less than 1.2 m / s), it is possible to further improve the wrinkle elongation or sterilization effect. On the other hand, a reduction in the transport speed leads to a delay in the processing time of the entire apparatus. If this delay is not allowed, the process in S12 can be omitted so that the transport speed reduction process (S13) is not performed. is there.

In the dispensing transaction shown in FIG. 8, the number of bills requested by the user is separated from the denomination boxes 13 and 14 one by one by a separating mechanism (not shown).
0, through the discrimination unit 16 and the transport mechanism 20, accumulated at the deposit / withdrawal port 11, and discharged to end the withdrawal transaction. At this time,
Since the cleaning mechanism 12 does not pass through, the banknote is not cleaned.

Next, a description will be given of how to clean bills at the time of replenishment or loading operation with reference to FIG. When the remaining amount of the bills stored in the denomination boxes 13 and 14 is low, the bills are set in the detachable bill cassette 15,
After retracting the separator 19, the banknotes in the banknote cassette 15 are fed out by a separation mechanism (not shown), sent to the discrimination section 16 by the transport mechanism 20, and denomination determination and counting are performed. Before the remaining amount of bills in the denomination box decreases,
This is possible even if the cassette 15 has already been set.

Thereafter, the gate 1 of the cleaning mechanism 12
8 and passed through the pressurizing and heating unit 23 to unwrinkle and sterilize the banknotes.
3 and 14.

In the replenishing or loading operation, as shown in FIG. 4, the bill conveying speed is reduced (S22).
By doing so, wrinkles can be extended and the bactericidal effect can be improved.
Note that the description is omitted because it is the same as the above-described payment transaction processing.

FIG. 10 is a view showing the operation of collecting bills.
When one of the denomination boxes 13 and 14 becomes full, the banknotes are fed from the full denomination boxes 13 and 14, the denomination discrimination unit 16 performs denomination discrimination and counting, and then stores the banknotes in the banknote cassette 15. I do. In this operation, the banknotes are not cleaned such as wrinkles and sterilization.

As described above, according to the present apparatus, during the depositing transaction (FIGS. 6 and 7) and the replenishment or loading (FIG. 9) operation, that is, the operation of expanding the wrinkles and disinfecting the paper money at the time when the bill enters the device from the outside. (Clean). At this time, if the above-mentioned bill conveyance speed is reduced, wrinkles can be increased and the sterilization effect can be further improved. The reason why the cleaning is performed when the bill enters the apparatus from the outside is that it is easy to reduce the waiting time for the user to handle the bill.

Next, the effectiveness of lowering the transport speed will be described.

The bills fed into the cleaning mechanism 12 by the transport mechanism 20 shown in FIG. 1 are heated and pressurized at the contact portion between the heating roller 21 and the endless belt 22, so that wrinkles are extended and sterilized at the same time. . For this reason, the wrinkle-stretching or sterilizing effect is increased as the temperature of the heating roller 21 becomes higher, or the length of the contact portion between the heating roller 21 and the endless belt 22 becomes longer. The effect increases as the heating and pressurizing time required in the step (2) is longer.

On the other hand, it is desirable that the temperature of the heating roller 21 be as low as possible from the viewpoint of safety and reliability of the apparatus.
Further, from the viewpoint of miniaturization of the apparatus, it is desirable that the diameter of the heating roller 21 be small and the length of the contact portion between the heating roller 21 and the endless belt 22 be short.

However, when the temperature of the heating roller 21 is reduced and the size of the heating and pressing unit 23 is reduced, wrinkles are elongated and the sterilizing effect is deteriorated. Therefore, lowering the speed at which the banknotes are conveyed solves the above-mentioned problems, and can increase the heating and pressurizing time, and can increase the wrinkles and enhance the sterilizing effect.

As described above, even if the cleansing mechanism section 12 is the same as the conventional one, it is possible to extend the wrinkles and improve the sterilizing effect by lowering the transport speed of the bill. Further, by reducing the transport speed, it is also possible to reduce the size of the cleaning mechanism 12 while maintaining wrinkle elongation and sterilization effects while maintaining the safety of the apparatus.

Next, a description will be given of the bill conveying speed.

The transport speed lowering process at the time of the deposit transaction in S13 of FIG. 3 and the transport speed lowering process at the time of replenishment or the like of S22 in FIG. This is a process of transporting the passing bill at a low transport speed. The low speed indicates that the banknote is conveyed at a speed of less than 1.2 m / s.

Further, instead of performing the above-described processing for lowering the transport speed for the entire apparatus, the cleaning mechanism 12 shown in FIG.
Only the transport speed may be reduced. In this case, the interval between bills being conveyed becomes smaller at the entrance of the cleaning mechanism unit 12,
After passing through the heating and pressurizing section 23 at a low speed, it increases at the exit of the cleaning mechanism section 12 and returns to the original value again.

As described above, when the transport speed of the entire apparatus is reduced, the processing time for depositing, replenishing or loading becomes longer, but the transport speed of the banknotes is reduced within the transport range of the cleaning mechanism unit 12. In this case, the processing time due to the handling of the payment does not significantly affect the user.

In the case of the above-mentioned deposit transaction, the processing time can be extended since the number of deposited banknotes is small on average. On the other hand, in the case of replenishment or loading, the number of processed banknotes is generally large, and there is a case where the processing time cannot be extended. In such a case, at the time of replenishment or loading, the transport speed is not reduced, the conventional one is maintained, wrinkling is increased, and reduction of the sterilizing effect is allowed to prevent the processing time from being extended first.

As described above, the transport speed is reduced during normal transaction processing of banknotes to reduce wrinkles and improve the effect of sterilization processing. However, when the transaction is not performed by the user, that is, when the apparatus is not operating. (During standby) at normal transport speed (1.2m
/ S or more) and performing the sterilization treatment, it is also possible to realize the improvement of the wrinkle expansion and the sterilization effect without increasing the transaction processing time. Hereinafter, this will be described.

FIG. 5 shows a state in which the banknotes are wrinkled while the apparatus is on standby, that is, outside the handling time of the automatic teller machine by the user.
It is a flowchart which shows performing a sterilization improvement process.

While the bill mechanism 10 in FIG. 1 is on standby (S31)
When the operator presses the clean key or receives an instruction from the apparatus control unit (S32), the process is divided into a route for lowering the transport speed in CASE1 and a plurality of transport processes in CASE2.

In CASE 1, the collecting operation (S33) shown in FIG. 10 described above is performed, and the bills in the denomination boxes 13 and 14 are temporarily accumulated in the bill cassette 15. Next, the processing for lowering the transport speed described above (S34) is performed, and the replenishment or loading operation (S35) shown in FIG. 9 is further performed.
Is performed, the banknote is sent to the cleaning mechanism unit 12. The banknotes are then returned to the original denomination boxes 13 and 14 after the banknotes are stretched and sterilized by the cleaning mechanism 12.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram of the transport path drive system of the bill mechanism showing the process of reducing the transport speed of the bill described above. In addition to the conventional system from the control unit 31 described above, each roller in the conveyance path is rotated by an AC motor 33 at a desired number of revolutions via an inverter 32 for making the conveyance speed variable to convey banknotes. Variable speed.
Also, when the transport path in the cleaning mechanism section 12 is made variable, the processing for reducing the transport speed of the banknote is performed under the control of the control section 31 via the driver 34 and the stepping motor 35.

Next, CASE 2 of FIG. 5 will be described. CASE 2 is a banknote cleaning process that is effective even when the inverter 32 cannot be mounted due to the space or cost of the device and the transport speed cannot be reduced. As described above, the operation of collecting bills (S3
6) and a replenishment or loading operation (S37) are performed, and it is then determined whether or not a predetermined number of clean-up processes such as wrinkle expansion have been performed (S38). If the predetermined number of times has not been performed, the banknotes are passed through the cleansing mechanism unit 12 a plurality of times, whereby the wrinkles can be sufficiently stretched and a sterilizing effect can be obtained. As described above, in the multiple-conveyance process in CASE2, an effect is obtained in that the control of each transport path is not complicated as compared with the transport speed reduction process.

[0043]

According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a sufficient wrinkle elongation or sterilization effect in a paper sheet handling apparatus having means for elongating or sterilizing paper sheets.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a bill mechanism unit 10 of an automatic teller machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing the automatic teller machine 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a deposit transaction process of the bill mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing of a replenishing or loading operation of the bill mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing clean processing for improving wrinkle elongation and sterilization effect during standby of the paper money mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a payment transaction (payment counting) operation of the bill mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a payment transaction (payment storage) operation of the banknote mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a dispensing transaction operation of the bill mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

9 is a diagram showing a replenishing or loading operation of the bill mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a collecting operation of the banknote mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

11 is a block diagram showing a transport system of the bill mechanism unit 10 shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Automatic teller machine, 2 ... Card insertion / discharge port, 3 ... Passbook insertion / discharge port, 5 ... Operation part, 10 ... Banknote mechanism part, 11 ...
Deposit and withdrawal opening, 12: Clean mechanism unit, 13, 14: Denomination box, 15: Banknote cassette, 16: Identification unit, 17:
Temporary stacking unit, 18 gate, 19 separator, 20
Conveying mechanism, 21: heating roller, 22: endless belt, 23
… Heating and pressing unit

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Yutaka Nagasawa 502 Kandachi-cho, Tsuchiura-shi, Ibaraki Pref.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A sheet handling apparatus having a cleaning mechanism for performing wrinkle elongation or sterilization of the sheet on a conveying path for conveying the sheet, wherein the sheet is less than 1.2 m / s. A sheet passing apparatus having a function of passing the cleaning mechanism at a transport speed of the paper sheet. 2. A storage section for storing paper sheets, a discriminating section for discriminating the paper sheets, and a cleaner for performing wrinkle expansion or sterilization of the paper sheets on a conveying path for conveying the paper sheets. In the paper sheet handling apparatus having a mechanism, the paper sheet passing through the cleaning mechanism is transported at a lower speed than the paper sheet passing between the storage section and the discriminating section. A paper sheet handling apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned. 3. A sheet handling apparatus having a clean-up mechanism for performing wrinkle expansion or sterilization of the sheet on a transport path for transporting the sheet, wherein the clean-up mechanism removes the sheet. A paper sheet handling apparatus having a function of passing a plurality of times. 4. The paper sheet handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the paper sheets pass through the cleaning mechanism, the paper usage time is outside the use time of the apparatus by a user. A sheet handling apparatus for performing a cleaning process on the sheet.