JPH11224362A - Paper money handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive paper money handling device with improved operability and reliability wherein a conveying path is simplified, and a temporary preservation cabinet can be miniaturized. SOLUTION: A temporary preservation cabinet 4 successively winds sheets of paper money around a rotary drum 41 through a guide tape 43 and preserves, them, the discrimination information or position information of received paper money conveyed by a storage means in a control part 11 is successively stored and the rotary drum 41 performs the control of start/stop corresponding to the presence/absence of paper money stored in the temporary preservation cabinet 4. Thus, the density of winding the paper money around the rotary drum 41 is improved. After the transaction of reception is established, the rotary drum 41 is rotated backward, the paper money is discharged from the temporary preservation cabinet 4 to a paper money conveying path 50 in order reverse to the time of winding and based on the information in the storage means, the sheets of paper money are stored one by one while selecting any one of reception cabinet 6, recycle cabinet 8 and reject cabinet 9 for each piece.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus (for example, an automatic cash transaction apparatus used in a financial institution, etc.) in which a general user can use a card or a passbook to directly deposit cash. In particular, the present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus suitable for handling banknotes of different sizes, in which a transport path is simplified, malfunctions are reduced, and the size is reduced.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, when performing a deposit transaction using a bill handling device, a deposited bill is inserted into a deposit port by a user. After the inserted bills are separated one by one, it is determined whether or not the bills can be accepted by a bill discriminating section. Banknotes determined to be acceptable are temporarily stored in a temporary storage, and banknotes determined to be unacceptable are returned to the user. Thereafter, when the user confirms the amount of the banknotes stored in the temporary storage, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage are separated into storages or reject storages of respective denominations provided in the banknote handling device. Stored separately.

In the above-described deposit transaction, a temporary storage system for temporarily storing banknotes determined to be acceptable by the banknote discriminating section is carried, for example, as described in JP-A-6-9108. Stack and store banknotes,
When the amount is confirmed by a user, a method of separating the sheets one by one again and sending the separated sheets to a transport path has been common. Further, as a special example, there is a type in which bills are wound around a large drum and stored as described in JP-A-60-167089.

[0004]

With the spread of ATMs and the like, there is an increasing need for banknote handling apparatuses to be smaller, lower in cost and easier to use, while maintaining the conventional functions and performance. On the other hand, with regard to banknotes to be handled, a device capable of handling not only Japanese yen banknotes but also foreign banknotes is demanded in accordance with an increase in the handling of foreign banknotes in Japan and a growing need for banknote handling devices outside of Japan. In the above-mentioned conventional technology, in a temporary storage of a type in which deposited banknotes are stacked and temporarily stored, when the deposited banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage and the banknotes stored in the temporary storage are stored in storages of each denomination. Since it was necessary to transport the bills to the bill validator both at the time of storage, the configuration of the transport path was complicated, and the cost of the bill handling apparatus was increased. In addition, since the configuration of the transport path is complicated, the operability for removing jammed banknotes staying in the transport path during transport is poor. Furthermore, although the temporary storage of the type which stores in a stack is high in the storage efficiency per volume, when handling foreign banknotes with a wide range of banknote sizes and banknote states, they are stored in one temporary storage, so they are temporarily stored. The structure of stacking and separating banknotes in the warehouse becomes complicated. On the other hand, in a temporary storage of a type in which deposited banknotes are wound around the periphery of a large drum and stored, it is necessary to shift the winding position on the periphery of the drum for each denomination. There was a problem that the drum became large and the temporary storage became large.

[0005] A first object of the present invention is that, in a deposit transaction, a bill discriminating section is passed only when the deposited banknote is temporarily stored in a temporary storage, and the banknotes stored in the temporary storage are denominated for each denomination. It is an object of the present invention to realize a low-cost banknote handling apparatus which does not discriminate when stored in a storage, simplifies a transport path, has excellent operability, and is low in cost. Second embodiment of the present invention
It is an object of the present invention to provide a bill handling device which can handle bills of various sizes and states and has a high storage efficiency as a device.

[0006]

In order to achieve the first object, in the present invention, a plurality of banknote storages are stacked and stored, and the banknotes determined by the banknote determination unit are stored. While temporarily stored in a temporary storage where the rotary drum and the derivative wound around the rotary drum are sequentially wound and stored in the order of transport, the banknote discrimination information from the banknote discriminating unit is stored in the storage means in the order in which the banknote discrimination information is wound and stored in the temporary storage. In response to the completion of the deposit transaction, the rotating drum is reversed, the banknotes are sequentially taken out from the temporary storage in the reverse order of the winding, and the banknote discrimination information is similarly read out from the storage unit in the reverse order, and the read banknotes are read out. The bills are stored in one of the bill storages corresponding to the discrimination information. This eliminates the necessity of re-discrimination of bills by the bill discriminating unit in the bill storage operation from the temporary storage, thereby realizing a bill handling device that can simplify the transport path and is low cost and excellent in operability.

Further, when winding the conveyed bill around the rotary drum together with the derivative, the winding position of the bill starting from the winding start position of the derivative is recognized and stored together with the sequentially stored bill information, thereby completing a deposit transaction. Thereafter, when the rotating drum is rotated in the reverse direction, and the paper is discharged from the temporary storage to the banknote transport path in the reverse order of the winding, the position of the banknote at the time of release and the stored banknote are stored. By comparing the position information, it is checked whether the released bill is the stored bill. Thereby, in the storing operation, the consistency between the bills discharged from the rotating drum and the information of the storage means can be improved, and the reliability of the storing operation can be improved.

In order to achieve the second object, in the present invention, the temporary storage is a rotary drum winding system, and the banknote storage is a system for stacking and storing banknotes. By using a rotating drum wrapping method for the temporary storage, it is possible to handle various sizes of banknotes, and a high storage efficiency can be achieved by using a method in which the banknote storage is stacked and stored. Becomes

[0009]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an automatic teller machine equipped with the bill handling apparatus of the present invention. In the upper part of the main body housing 101 of the automatic teller machine, the card is communicated with a card slot 102a provided in an upper front plate 101b of the housing 101 to process a user's card, print a transaction statement, and discharge it. Card and statement processing mechanism 10
2 and a passbook processing mechanism 103 that communicates with the passbook slot 103a and processes the user's passbook. A bill handling device 1 for processing bills is provided at a lower portion of the main body housing 101.
The middle section is provided with a customer operation section 105 for displaying and inputting details of the transaction. 10
Reference numeral 6 denotes a main body control unit which controls the entire automatic teller machine.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the control relationship of the automatic teller machine. As described above, the card / statement processing mechanism 102, the passbook processing mechanism 103, the bill handling device 1, and the customer operation unit 105 housed in the main body housing 101.
Is connected to the main unit control unit 106 via the bus 106a, and performs necessary operations under the control of the main unit control unit 106. The main body control unit 106 includes an interface unit 106b, a clerk operation unit 106c, an external storage device 1
06d is also connected by a bus 106a and exchanges necessary data. However, detailed description is omitted because it has no direct relation to the features of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 101d denotes a power supply unit for supplying electric power to each of the above mechanisms and components.

FIG. 3 shows the automatic teller machine of FIG.
It is a side view showing composition of bill handling device 1 concerning the present invention. The bill handling apparatus 1 includes a deposit / withdrawal port 2 for a user to insert and remove bills, a deposited bill discriminating unit 3 for discriminating deposited bills, and a temporary storage for temporarily storing deposited bills until a transaction is established. A storage 4, one deposit box 6 for storing banknotes for which transactions have been made at the time of deposit, and 2 for storing banknotes for withdrawal.
7 safes and 1 recycle box 8 for deposit and withdrawal
And two reject bins 9 for storing deposited banknotes not stored in the deposit box 6 and banknotes not dispensed out of the banknotes fed out of the deposit box 7, and a dispensing banknote discriminating section 10 for discriminating banknotes for dispensing. Through the deposit banknote discriminating section 3, the temporary storage 4, the recycle box 8, the outbox 7, the deposit box 6, and the outgoing banknote discriminating section 1.
0, a reject storage 9, and a bill transfer path 5 for sequentially transferring bills to the deposit and withdrawal port 2, and a control unit 11.

The control unit 11 controls the banknote handling apparatus 1 in response to a command from the main body control unit 106 of the automatic teller machine and the state detection of the banknote handling apparatus 1 and, if necessary, the banknote handling apparatus 1. Is transmitted to the main body control unit 106. Although the banknote transport path 5 is indicated by a line in the figure, a switching gate is provided at a branch point of the transport path 5 and transports the banknote in one direction indicated by an arrow. These transports are controlled by the control unit 11 based on the discrimination results from the incoming banknote discriminating unit 3 and the dispensing banknote discriminating unit 10.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the structure of a temporary storage, FIG. 5 is a side view of an incoming safe, FIG. 6 is a side view of an outgoing safe, FIG. 7 is a side view of a recycle store, and FIG. Side view,
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a control relationship of the bill transaction apparatus.

Next, each of the above components 2 to 11 of the present embodiment is described.
Will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 9. The deposit / withdrawal port 2 has a shutter 26, and slides the shutter 26 to open and close so that a user can take out a bill at the time of dispensing and insert a bill at the time of deposit.
The inserted bill is pressed in the direction of the feed roller 21 by the pressing plate 23, and is sent out by the rotation of the feed roller 21, and the feeding of two bills is prevented by the gate roller 22, which does not rotate in the feeding direction. In this way, the banknotes in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 are fed to the banknote transport path 5 and are taken into the apparatus. In this device,
By rotating the feed roller 21 10 times per second, bills are fed at a speed of 10 sheets / sec. Further, bills dispensed from the inside of the apparatus and bills that are rejected because they cannot be discriminated at the time of deposit are sent between the stack roller 25 and the brush roller 24 via the bill conveying path 5 and continuously. The bills to be conveyed are stored without interference and can be taken out by the user. The storage space of the deposit and withdrawal port 2 of the present apparatus is set to about 25 mm in order to store 100 bills.

The deposited banknote discriminating section 3 is composed of a pair of rollers, and detects the displacement of the rollers when the banknote is conveyed between the rollers, and detects whether or not two sheets are overlapped.
And a discriminating unit 32 that detects printing or the like of the bill by an image sensor or the like and discriminates the denomination and authenticity of the bill, and reports the discrimination result of each passing bill to the control unit 11.

As shown in FIG. 4, the temporary storage 4 has a guide tape 43 made of a stainless steel sheet, a rotating drum 41 for winding the banknote conveyed together with the guide tape 43, and a winding for winding only the guide tape 43. It comprises a take-up shaft 42, an entrance roller 45 that guides the entry of a bill to the rotating drum 41, rotates together with the guide tape 43, and a backup roller 44 facing the same. The rotating drum 41 and the take-up shaft 42 supporting both ends of the guide tape 43 are connected to separate drive sources (not shown), and a torque limiter is provided between the take-up shaft 42 and the drive source. The length of the portion of the guide tape 43 wrapped around the rotating drum is at least the length required for one deposit counting operation determined from the bill separating speed from the deposit and withdrawal port, the transport speed of bills, and the maximum number of coins that can be inserted into the deposit and withdrawal port. At least. For example, in the present apparatus, assuming that the maximum number of deposits per deposit port is 100, the separation speed is about 10 sheets / sec, and the conveyance speed is about 1.6 m / sec.
At least 1.6 m / sec × 100 sheets / 10 sheets / sec = 16 m or more. Normally, the length should be the sum of this and a margin. More specifically, in the case of an apparatus configuration capable of handling a total of 200 sheets in a single transaction up to twice, 1
A margin is added to the maximum number of deposits per deposit and the length can accommodate 2.5 times. 1.6m / sec x 250 sheets / 10 sheets / sec = 40m From 45m including the margin of 5m I do.

An initial position sensor (not shown) for detecting the initial position of the guide tape 43 and a near full sensor (not shown) for detecting near the end of the guide tape 43 are attached. An encoder B302 for detecting the current winding amount of the guide tape 43 based on the initial position of the guide tape 43 is attached to the entrance roller 45. Further, a temporary storage passage sensor 311 is mounted on the conveyance of the rotary drum 41 side from the entrance roller 45. If the temporary storage passage sensor 311 is composed of two sensors 311a and 311b provided on both sides of the guide tape 43, the inclination of the bill can be detected as described later, and the bill that cannot be recirculated is discriminated to the reject cabinet. It becomes possible to store. Before the payment transaction, the guide tape 43 is wound up on the winding shaft 42 side to the initial position. When taking in the deposited banknotes into the temporary storage 4, the rotating drum 41 is rotated in the direction of winding the guide tape 43 so that the running speed of the guide tape 43 becomes substantially the same as the entering speed of the banknotes, and the deposited banknotes are sequentially moved. It is wound around a rotating drum 41. On the other hand, the winding shaft 42 is wound in a direction in which the guide tape 43 is wound by another drive source, that is, so that tension is applied to the guide tape 43.
The guide tape 43 is driven via a torque limiter, and is wound around the rotating drum 41 together with the bill without sagging. At this time, the bill wound around the rotating drum 41 is a bill whose denomination or the like has been discriminated by the deposited bill discriminating unit 3, and the control unit 11 monitors the entry of the bill into the temporary storage 4. The denomination information is stored for each sheet. When the deposit transaction for the banknotes stored in the temporary storage 4 is completed, the rotating drum 41 is rotated in the reverse direction, and the winding shaft 42 is wound in the winding direction via the torque limiter.
The wound banknotes are sent out to the banknote transport path 5 in the reverse order of the storage when the tension is applied to the banknotes 3.

In the present embodiment, one in-safe box 6 is mounted, and as shown in FIG. 5, a rotating stack roller 61 driven via a gear from a drive source (not shown) outside the safe.
, Backup rollers 62, 63 facing the stack roller 61, a brush roller 64 on the same axis as the backup roller 63 and having elastic members radially arranged, and a stack guide 65, and constitute a stack mechanism. The banknotes conveyed in the direction of arrow 69 are conveyed by the rotation of the stack roller 61, and are pressed by the rotation of the brush roller 64 toward the stack guide 65 to enter, and the lower end of the stacked banknotes is brushed by the brush roller. 64 is stored in such a manner that bills do not interfere with each other while being pushed in a direction away from the stack guide 65. The stored banknotes are stored in a storage space surrounded by a bottom plate 68, a push plate 66, a bottom belt 67 suspended above the bottom plate 68 to support the lower surface of the banknote, and a stack guide 65. The push plate 66 and the bottom belt 67 are integrally moved in the storage space, and are stored by a driving source outside the safe (not shown) so that the entered banknotes and the stored banknotes do not interfere with the increase of the stored banknotes. The movement of the bill is controlled to move away from the stack guide 65.

In the present embodiment, two outgoing safes 7 are mounted, and as shown in FIG. 6, a rotating feed roller 71 driven via a gear from a drive source (not shown) outside the safe.
, A backup roller 72 that rotates to face the feed roller 71, a gate roller 73 that faces the feed roller 71 and does not rotate in the feeding direction, and a separation guide 75 constitute a separation mechanism. The banknotes for dispensing are aligned by a staff member in a storage space surrounded by a bottom plate 78, a push plate 76, a bottom belt 77 suspended above the bottom plate 78 to support the lower surface of the banknote, and a separation guide 75. The frontmost banknote is pressed against the feed roller 71 by the pressing leaf spring 70. The push plate 76 and the bottom belt 77 are integrally moved in the storage space,
The stored bills are moved by the pressing plate spring 70 so that the fed bills exert a predetermined pressing force on the feed roller 71 as the stored bills decrease. The bill pressed against the feed roller 71 is sent out by the rotating feed roller 71, and is sent out by the gate roller 73 that does not rotate in the feeding direction.
Sheets are conveyed one by one in the direction of arrow 79 while preventing sheet feeding.

In this embodiment, one recycle box 8 is mounted, and FIG. 7 shows the configuration. The recycle box 8 has a function of an in-box 6 for continuously storing bills and an out-box 7 for continuously separating and feeding bills. A stack feed roller 81 having the same shape as the separation mechanism, a backup roller 82 that rotates, a gate roller 83 that rotates in the stacking direction and does not rotate in the feeding direction, and an elastic member that is on the same axis as the gate roller 83 and has an elastic member. A stacking / separating mechanism is constituted by brush rollers 84 arranged radially and a separating / stacking guide 85 movable at the time of separating and stacking. Banknotes are stored in a storage space surrounded by a bottom plate 88, a push plate 86, a bottom belt 87 suspended above the bottom plate 88 to support the lower side of the banknote, and a separation / stack guide 85.

During the separation operation, the separation / stack guide 8
5 moves to the position shown by the dashed line 85a, the push plate 86 and the bottom belt 87 move integrally in the storage space, and the pushed-out spring 80 moves the fed bill to a predetermined position on the stack feed roller 81. The stored bill is moved so as to apply the pressing force. The bills pressed against the stack feed roller 81 are sent out by the rotating stack feed roller 81 and are not rotated in the feeding direction.
In step 3, the sheet is conveyed one by one in the direction of arrow 89a while preventing two sheets from being fed. During the stacking operation, the separation / stack guide 85 moves to the position indicated by the solid line 85, and the push plate 86 and the bottom belt 87 are integrally moved by a drive source outside the safe (not shown) in the storage space. The stored banknotes are separated and stacked so that the incoming banknotes conveyed in the direction of arrow 89 and the stored banknotes do not interfere with the increase of the stored banknotes.
The movement is controlled in the direction away from the camera.

The reject storage 9 has the same configuration as the safe 6, and in the present embodiment, two are installed. By mounting two reject boxes 9, one reject box becomes full or the like, and even if the reject box is pulled out, the other reject box remains, so that the operation can be continued.

The dispensing banknote discriminating section 10 discriminates banknotes fed from the dispensing box 7 and the recycle box 8 at the time of dispensing transaction. The banknote No. 8 is separated for each denomination, and it is unnecessary to determine the denomination and authenticity, and it is only necessary to determine whether or not two sheets are overlapped. , And detects the displacement of the rollers when the bill is conveyed between the rollers to detect whether or not two sheets overlap.

As shown in FIG. 3, the banknote transport path 5 includes a main transport path 50 that passes through the incoming banknote discriminating section 3 and the dispensing banknote discriminating section 10 and conveys the vicinity of each unit in one direction in a ring shape.
Branching from the middle of the main transport path 50, the temporary storage 4,
It comprises unit transport paths 51-59 for storing or unwinding between the recycle box 8, the deposit box 7, the deposit box 6, the reject box 9, and the deposit / withdrawal port 2. The main transport path 50 includes an upstream main transport path 50a indicated by a bold dotted line in the figure from the deposit / withdrawal port 2 to the branch point of the temporary storage 4 through the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3, and a branch of the temporary storage 4 From the point, it is divided into a downstream main transport path 50b indicated by a bold solid line in FIG.

The upstream main transport path 50a, the unit transport path 51 of the temporary storage 4, and the unit transport path 59 of the separation section of the deposit / withdrawal port 2 are driven by rotating a first drive motor (not shown) in one direction. . The unit transport paths 52 to 57 of the downstream main transport path 50b and the recycle box 8, the outgoing safe 7, the incoming safe 6, and the reject store 9 are driven by rotating a second drive motor (not shown) in one direction.

An encoder A301 and an encoder C are provided in the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b, respectively.
303 is provided, and it is possible to monitor the feed amount of bills. A downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312 and a downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 are attached to the entrance and exit of the downstream main transport path 50b, respectively. A deposit / withdrawal port stack entrance sensor 314 is attached to the unit transport path 58. The entrance safe 6, the recycle store 8, and the reject store 9 are each provided with a stack entrance sensor (not shown). At the time of a deposit transaction, usually, only the first drive motor rotates and temporarily stores the banknotes in the temporary storage 4, but the banknotes that could not be discriminated by the deposit banknote discriminating unit 3 or the rejected banknotes in which the inclination or the interval between the banknotes became abnormal. Does not take in the temporary storage 4, rotates the second drive motor and conveys it to the downstream main conveyance path 50b. If the subsequent bill is not a rejection, the second drive motor is stopped and the deposit is stopped. The rejected bill is retained on the downstream main transport path 50b.

The unit transport paths 51 to 57 have a common configuration as shown in FIG.
07, a conveyor belt (not shown) is suspended and a solid arrow 50
4. A storage gate 501 that forms a transfer path indicated by a broken arrow 504a and switches branching from the main transfer path 50, and an S / F switch gate 502 that switches storage and unloading to and from a unit are each illustrated by an electromagnetic solenoid (not shown). Are switched to the positions of the solid line and the broken line (501 and 501a, 502 and 502a). When stored in the unit, both the storage gate 501 and the S / F switching gate 502 are transported as indicated by solid arrows 505, 504, and 503 at the positions of the solid lines. At the time of extension from the unit, the storage gate 501a,
At the position of the F-switching gate 502a and the broken line,
a, 504a, and 505a.

As shown in FIG. 9, the control section 11 is connected to the main body control section 106 of the apparatus via a bus 106a, and receives a command from the main body control section 106 and detects the state of the banknote handling apparatus 1 so as to handle the bill handling apparatus. 1 and sends the state of the bill handling apparatus 1 to the main body control unit 106 as necessary. In the bill handling apparatus 1, each unit (the deposit / withdrawal port 2, the deposited bill discriminating unit 3, the temporary storage 4, the bill transport path 5,
It is connected to the drive motors, electromagnetic solenoids, and sensors of the incoming safe 6, outgoing safe 7, recycle store 8, reject store 9, and dispensing banknote discriminating unit 10), and controls the drive of the actuator while monitoring the state with the sensor according to the transaction. I do.

Next, the banknote handling device 1 at the time of deposit and withdrawal
Will be described with reference to the flow chart of the deposit transaction shown in FIG. 10 and FIGS. At the time of the deposit transaction, the guidance display (step S1) displays the deposit limit number and the like on the customer operation unit 105. In the case of the present embodiment, the capacity of the temporary storage 4 is 250 for the capacity of 100
Since there are a number of sheets, it is possible to divide the maximum number of payable sheets into 200 sheets and to take in 100 sheets twice, with a margin.
Therefore, for example, guidance such as "You can trade up to 200 coins with one deposit. Please set 100 coins in two steps." Next, the shutter 26 is opened by the shutter opening process (step S2), and in step S3, it is waited that a deposit banknote is set in the deposit / withdrawal port 2.
When a bill is inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 2, the shutter 26 is closed by the shutter closing process (Step S4), and a deposit counting process for counting the deposited bills (Step S5) is performed.

In step S5, the bills inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 2 are separated one by one and conveyed to the deposited bill discriminating section 3 through the upstream main transport path 50a, where the bill type, authenticity, etc. Is determined, and the banknotes that have been determined to be depositable by the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage 4. The banknotes that could not be discriminated by the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 or the rejected banknotes in which the inclination or the interval between the bills became abnormal are not taken into the temporary storage 4 and the second drive motor is driven to drive the downstream main transport. If the bill is conveyed to the path 50b and the subsequent bill is not a deposit reject, the second drive motor is stopped and the deposit reject bill is retained on the downstream main transport path 50b. The drive and stop of the downstream main transport path 50b are repeated each time a deposit reject occurs, and the deposit reject banknotes are arranged at intervals on the downstream main transport path 50b and held.

During the deposit counting process, the downstream main transport path 50
When the deposit reject is full on b or when the deposit limit is exceeded, the deposit counting process is interrupted. If the payment counting process is interrupted in step S6, and if the payment rejection is generated in step S17, the push plate 23 of the cash slot 2 is moved to prepare the stack of the cash slot 2 and the downstream main transport is performed. The path 50b is driven to perform a deposit rejection return process (step S18) in which the banknotes held on the transport path are stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 2. Thereafter, in step S19, guidance for notifying the user that the deposit counting process has been interrupted is displayed on the customer operation unit 105, a shutter opening process (step S20) is performed, and in step S21, it is confirmed that a bill is to be removed, and the shutter is closed. The processing (step S22) is performed, and the deposit reject bill is returned to the user.

[0032] Payment rejection return processing (step S1)
8) As the later guidance, for example, "Guide in front and XX in back are abnormal banknotes", etc., so that the user can know which banknote returned to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 could not be taken in. May be displayed. In addition, when the banknote is set in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 and the transporting state is deteriorated and the banknote is rejected, a re-set banknote is displayed with a guidance display or a banknote that cannot handle a denomination. In such a case, a guidance display such as "The banknote cannot be handled." After returning the deposit reject bill, step S2
If the payment counting process is accepted again by step 3, the process returns to the guidance process of step S1, and if the payment counting process is not accepted, the process proceeds to the guidance process of step S7.

Next, when the deposit counting process is normally completed in step S6, guidance such as the number of bills counted in the deposit counting process (step S5) is displayed on the customer operation unit 105 in step S7. At this time, the number of bills counted as guidance may be displayed, and if the maximum number of deposits has not been paid, the remaining number of tradeable coins such as "up to XXX can be paid." When the user is confirmed in step S8, the center communication (step S9) is performed, the deposit transaction is established, the deposit storing process (step S10) is performed, and the deposit transaction is completed.

In the deposit storing process (step S10), the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b are driven, and when the rotating drum 41 of the temporary storage 4 is rotated in the opposite direction to the counting of the deposit, the rotating drum 41 is rotated. The rolled-up banknotes are stored in the downstream main transport path 5 in the reverse order of the storage in the temporary storage.
0b, according to the denomination information stored at the time of storage in the temporary storage 4, the safe 6, the recycle 8 and the reject 9
Is carried out. When the user does not select the confirmation in step S8 and selects the cancellation of the deposit in step S11, the push plate 23 of the deposit and withdrawal port 2 is moved, and the rotary drum 41 of the temporary storage 4 is rotated in reverse, and The main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b are driven to perform a cancellation / return process (step S12) for transporting the banknote wound up by the rotating drum 41 to the deposit / withdrawal port 2.

Thereafter, a shutter opening process (step S1)
3) is performed, it is confirmed that the bill is extracted in step S14, the shutter closing process (step S15) is performed, and the deposited bill is returned to the user. If re-entry is permitted in step S16, the process returns to the guidance display of step S1, and if re-entry is not permitted, the deposit transaction is terminated. Although not described in the flow chart, in the present embodiment, the maximum number of banknotes in the temporary storage 4 is twice as large as that of the deposit / withdrawal port 2, so that the number of banknotes exceeding the maximum number of deposit / withdrawal ports 2 is deposited. In this case, it is possible to increase the maximum number of deposits by performing the deposit counting process again after the end of the deposit counting process.

At the time of withdrawal, a predetermined number of bills are paid out from the safes for each denomination of the withdrawal bank 7 and the recycle box 8, and the withdrawal banknote discriminating section 10 checks only multi-feeding of the banknotes, and determines that the banknote can be withdrawn. The bills stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 are paid to the user. The rejected banknotes which are determined to be dispensable by the dispensing banknote discriminating unit 10 are stored in the reject storage 9, and the banknotes with a shortage in the number of payments are additionally fed out from the bank safe 7 and the recycle storage 8. Further, if the user forgets to take the bill in the deposit / withdrawal port 2, the transaction can be stopped as a device abnormality by leaving the bill in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 as it is. May be separated from the deposit / withdrawal port 2, discriminated by the deposited bill discriminating unit 3, and stored in the reject storage 9.

Next, the deposit counting process will be described in more detail. FIG. 11 is a detailed flowchart of the deposit counting process (step S5 in FIG. 10). First, it is determined whether or not the deposit banknote is in the temporary storage 4, and if there is no deposit banknote (step S31: N), it is assumed that the first deposit is counted, and the guiding tape is wound up to the initial position (step S32). After resetting the counter value of the encoder B302 (step S33), the upstream main transport path 50 is reset.
is driven (step S34). If there is a deposited banknote (step S31: Y), the upstream main transport path 50a is immediately driven since the second payment is counted (step S31).
34).

When the upstream main transport path 50a is driven,
At each part of the device, in order to perform processing on the conveyed bills, a deposit / withdrawal port separation process (step S35), a bill discrimination process (step S36), a rotating drum start / stop process (step S37), a temporary Storage registration processing (Step S38), downstream main transport path start / stop processing (Step S39), gate control (Step S4)
Each process of 0) is started in parallel. Details of each of these processes will be described later. The deposit / withdrawal port separation process is completed for all the banknotes at the deposit / withdrawal port (step S41:
Y), when all the bills pass through the deposited bill discriminating section 3 (step S44), a stop command is issued to each of the above processes.

Before the deposit / withdrawal port separation processing is completed for all bills at the deposit / withdrawal port (step S41: N),
If there is a report of reject full from the bill discrimination processing or the downstream main transport path start / stop processing (step S42:
Y), issue a stop instruction to the deposit / withdrawal port separation process, and deposit / withdrawal port 2
Is stopped (step S43), and when all the banknotes remaining in the transport path have passed through the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 (step S44: Y), a stop instruction is issued to each of the above-described processes.
In each of the processes 1 to 3, the stop instruction is received, and when the processes on all the banknotes remaining in the transport path are completed, the respective processes are terminated (steps S45 to S49), and then the drive of the upstream main transport path 50a is stopped. (Step S50).

Next, the deposit / withdrawal port separation process (step S3)
5) will be described in detail. FIG. 12 is a flowchart of the deposit / withdrawal port separation process. The feed roller 21 is driven (step S51), and when the deposit and withdrawal port 2 becomes empty (step S52: Y), the drive of the feed roller 21 is stopped (step S53). Even if the deposit and withdrawal port 2 does not become empty, if there is an instruction to stop the deposit and withdrawal port from step S43 in FIG. 11 (step S54: Y), the drive of the feed roller 21 is stopped (step S53).

Next, bill discrimination processing (step S36)
Will be described in detail. FIG. 13 is a flowchart of the bill discrimination process. In the memory of the control unit 11, a deposited bill information table 400, a gate control table (payment counting) 600, a gate control table (payment storage) 70
0, a rotary drum control table 800 and a downstream main transport path control table 900 are prepared. As shown in an example in FIG. 25, the deposited bill information table 400 includes a deposited bill number (NO = TA) 401, denomination information 402 (type of bill) stored at the time of counting the deposited money, and recirculation information 403 (recyclable / non-recyclable). ), Encoder B value 404 (count value),
Banknote length (unit: mm) 405, value 406 (count value) of encoder B stored at the time of deposit storage, banknote length (unit: mm) 407, correction NO 408, destination information 409
(E.g., destination storage).

Gate control table (payment counting) 600
26 is a table for controlling ON or OFF of the gate at the entrance of the temporary storage 4, and includes a table address TG601, a gate ON timing 602, and a gate OFF timing 603, as shown in an example in FIG. The gate control table (receipt storage) 700 is a table for controlling ON / OFF of the entrance gate of the deposit safe 6 and the entrance gate of the recycle box 8 at the time of deposit receipt.
As shown in FIG.
Gate ON timing 702, Gate OFF for entrance safe
It comprises a timing 703, a gate ON timing 704 for the recycle box, and a gate OFF timing 705.
As shown in FIG. 28, the rotary drum control table 800 includes a bill number (NO = TB) 801 and a start timing 802. The downstream main transport path control table 900 includes a rejected banknote number (NO = NRJ) 901 and a start timing 902, as shown in an example in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 13, first, an initial value indicating the address of each table is set (step S55).
In this step, the banknote numbers of the deposited banknote information table and the rotary drum control table are set. TA = 1, TB = 1,
Table address of gate control table, TG = 1,
The rejected banknote NO. In the downstream main transport path control table
Set NRJ = 1. The following processing is continued until there is a bill discrimination stop instruction (from step S45 in FIG. 11) (step S56). It is checked that a bill has come to the deposited bill discriminating section 3 (step S57), and if a bill has come, the bill is discriminated (step S58).

As a result of the bill discrimination, when it is determined that the bill is a genuine bill, that is, a bill that can be accepted (step S59: Y), the discriminated information is set in the row (address) of the bill in each table. That is, the TG 601 and the gate ON timing 602 are moved to the address indicated by the table address TG of the gate control table (for deposit counting) 600.
Is registered (step S60), and the deposited bill information table 4
00 bill NO. To the address indicated by TA, TA 401, denomination information 402 determined by the deposited banknote determination unit 3, recirculation information 4
03 (step S61), and the banknote No. of the rotary drum control table 800 is registered. TB8 to the address indicated by TB
01 and the start timing 802 are registered (step S6).
2). The bill NO. In the deposit bill information table 400 is displayed. TA and the bill NO. Of the rotary drum control table. TB + 1 each
(Step S63), and updates the table address TG of the gate control table by +1 (step S64), and returns to step S56.

If it is determined that the bill is not a genuine bill, that is, it is determined that the bill is a rejected bill (step S59:
N), the row (address) of the bill in each table
Is set to the determined information. That is, the TG 601 and the gate OFF timing 60 are transferred to the address indicated by the table address TG of the gate control table (payment counting).
3 (step S65), and registers the NRJ 901 and the start timing 902 at the address indicated by the rejected bill NO = NRJ in the downstream main transport path control table 900 (step S66). Reject banknote NO = NRJ
Has reached a preset number of rejected full rejects, a reject full report is made in the remittance counting process (steps S67 to 68: see step S42 in FIG. 11). (Step S69), and updates the table address TG of the gate control table (payment count) by +1 (step S64), and returns to step S56. Thus, while updating the table address of each table, the control information for transporting and storing each bill one after another is registered in each table. The gate ON / OFF timing of the gate control table (receipt storage) 600 and the activation timing set in the rotary drum control table 800 will be described later with reference to FIG. Further, the activation timing set in the downstream main transport path control table 900 will be described later with reference to FIG.

Next, the rotating drum start / stop processing (step S37) will be described in detail. FIG. 14 is a flowchart of the rotating drum start / stop processing. First, TC is initially set to 1 (step S71). TC
Is the bill NO. Of the rotary drum control table 800. TB
Similarly, the table address indicates the address of the rotary drum control table 800. When there is an instruction to stop the rotating drum (see step S46 in FIG. 11), and the processing for all the bills registered in the rotating drum control table 800 has been completed (step S72: Y).
This processing is ended, and otherwise, the processing after step S73 is continued. Banknote N on rotary drum control table
O = From the point in time when the rotating drum activation timing 802 registered at the address indicated by TC is reached, the rotating drum 41
(Steps S73 and S74), the traveling speed of the guide tape 43 is rotated to a speed substantially equal to that of the upstream main transport path 50a, and the deposited bills are sequentially rotated by the rotating drum 4.
Roll up to 1. For example, when TC = 1, the activation of the rotating drum 41 is started at the registered activation timing EN1 + z.

After a predetermined time has elapsed after the trailing end of the bill of bill NO = TC is detected by the temporary storage passage sensor 311, the rotating drum is stopped (steps S 75 and S 76), and the bill N
After updating O = TC (step S77), step S77 is executed.
Return to 72. Until a predetermined time passes after the trailing end of the bill of bill NO = TC is detected by the temporary storage passage sensor 311 (step S75: N), the rotating drum control table 8
If the processing of all the banknotes registered in 00 has been completed and a stop instruction has been issued (step S78: Y), the rotation drum 4
1 is stopped (step S81). If all of the rotary drum control tables 800 are not ended and not a stop instruction (step S78: N), unless the banknote NO = TC + 1 rotary drum start timing of the rotary drum control tables 800, the rotary drum control tables If the banknote NO = TC + 1 is the rotating drum activation timing, the banknote NO = TC is updated (step S80).
It returns to step S75. That is, the bill NO = TC before the rotation drum stop timing of the bill NO = TC
When +1 (the next bill) reaches the rotation drum activation timing, the rotation drum is kept rotating.

Next, the temporary storage registration processing (step S
38) will be described in detail. FIG. 15 is a flowchart of the temporary storage registration processing. TD is initialized to 1 (step S91). TD is a table address indicating an address (row) of the deposited bill information table 400, like TA. If the temporary storage registration processing stop instruction is issued (see step S47 in FIG. 11) and the processing for all the bills registered in the deposited bill information table 400 is completed (step S92: Y), this processing is completed. Otherwise, the processing after step S93 is continued. When the banknote arrives at the temporary storage passage sensor 311 (step S93), the banknote NO in the deposited banknote information table is displayed.
401 = count value 4 of encoder B302 in the row of TD
04, length 405 of the bill detected by encoder B302
Is registered (step S94), and after updating the bill NO = TD (step S95), the process returns to step S92. The length of the bill is calculated from the difference in the value of the encoder B302 when the bill passes through the sensor 311 at the leading end and the trailing end of the bill. A counter value may be used instead.

Next, the downstream main transport path start / stop processing (step S39) will be described in detail. FIG.
8 is a flowchart of a downstream main transport path start / stop process. NRJ 'is initialized to 1 (step S1
01). NRJ 'is a table address indicating an address (row) of the downstream main transport path control table 900, like NRJ. When there is an instruction to stop the downstream main transport path start / stop processing (see step S48 in FIG. 11), and the processing for all the banknotes registered in the downstream main transport path control table 900 is completed (step S10).
2: Y), this process ends, and otherwise, the processes after step S103 are continued. Banknote NO of the address of the downstream main transport path control table 900 indicated by NRJ '
The activation of the downstream main transport path 50b is started from the point in time at which the downstream main transport path activation timing registered in step S103 is reached (steps S103 and S104), and the downstream main transport path 50b is started.
Is rotated to approximately the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a, and the rejected bills are sequentially stored in the downstream main transport path 50b. Then, when the deposit reject bill is stored and the downstream main transport path 50b is almost full of deposit reject bills that can be stored, the first deposit reject bill reaches the position of the deposit reject full sensor 313 '. Therefore, when a bill is detected by the deposit rejection full sensor 313 ', the reject full is reported (steps S105 and S10).
6; see step S42 in FIG. 11).

When a predetermined time has passed after the trailing end of the bill of the rejected bill NO = NRJ 'has been detected by the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312, the rejected bill has advanced by a certain amount. Main transport path 50b
Is stopped (steps S107 and S108), and the rejected banknote NO = NRJ 'is updated (step S10).
9), and return to step S102. Reject banknote NO =
After a predetermined time passes after the trailing end of the NRJ 'bill is detected by the downstream main transport path entrance sensor (step S10).
7: N), if all of the downstream main transport path control tables are completed and a stop instruction is issued (step S110: Y),
The downstream main transport path is stopped (Step S113). If all of the downstream main transport path control tables are not ended and not a stop instruction (step S110: N), reject banknotes NO = N in the downstream main transport path control table 900
Immediately if it is not the timing of starting the downstream main transport path of RJ '+ 1, and if it is the timing of starting the rejected banknote NO = NRJ' + 1 in the downstream main transport path control table, the rejected banknote NO = NRJ 'is updated. Thereafter (step S112), the process returns to step S105. That is, if the rejected banknote NO = NRJ '+ 1 (next rejected banknote) arrives at the downstream main transport path activation timing before the downstream main transport path stop timing of the banknote of the rejected banknote NO = NRJ', it is downstream as it is. The main transport path is kept driven. In this way, every time a deposit reject banknote is generated, the start and stop of the downstream main transport path 50b are repeated, and the downstream main transport path 5b
The deposit reject banknote is stored at 0b.

Next, gate control processing (step S4)
0) will be described in detail. FIG. 17 is a flowchart of the gate control process. This gate control process
ON / OFF of the gate at the entrance of the temporary storage 4 (corresponding to the gate 501 in FIG. 8) is controlled. By turning on the gate, the banknotes conveyed through the upstream main conveyance path 50a are guided to the temporary storage 4. That is, the gate is turned on when the bill is a genuine bill (payment bill). The gate is OF
By performing F, the bills conveyed on the upstream main conveyance path 50a are guided to the downstream main conveyance path 50b without being guided to the temporary storage 4. That is, when it is determined that the banknote is a rejected banknote, the gate is turned off. First,
Initially, TG '= 1 is set (step S121). T
G 'is a gate control table (payment count), like TG.
This is a table address indicating 600 addresses (rows). There is a gate control stop instruction (step S4 in FIG. 11).
9) and a gate control table (payment counting) 60
If the processing for all the banknotes registered as 0 has been completed (step S122: Y), the gate is turned off (step S123), and this processing is completed. Otherwise, the processing from step S124 is continued. The gate O registered in the area 602 for the banknote at the address of the gate control table (payment count) 600 indicated by TG '
When the N timing has been reached (step S124), the gate is turned on to lead the temporary storage 4 (step S12).
5) After updating the bill NO = TG '(step S12)
6) Return to step S122.

If the banknote at the address indicated by TG 'is a reject banknote, the ON timing is not registered in the area 602.
Go to 7 and turn off the gate registered in area 603
Wait until the timing is reached, and when it arrives (step S127: Y), the gate is turned off to allow the deposit reject banknotes held in the downstream main transport path to pass (step S128), and the process proceeds to step S126. If it is not the gate OFF timing (step S127: N), the process returns to step S122.

Next, the payment rejection return process will be described. FIG. 18 is a flowchart of a deposit rejection return process (step S18 in FIG. 10) performed when a deposit reject bill is generated in the deposit counting process. First, the downstream main transport path 50b is activated (step S131), and after confirming that all the banknotes on the downstream main transport path 50b have been moved to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 (step S13).
2: Y), the downstream main transport path 50b is stopped (step S133). There are several ways to confirm whether or not all have been moved to the deposit / withdrawal port. For example, since the number of deposited rejected bills is known, the sensor 3
It can be confirmed by the number of sheets passing through 13 or 314. Alternatively, the downstream main transport path 50b may be driven for a predetermined time.

Next, the deposit storage processing will be described. FIG. 19 is a flowchart of a deposit storing process (step S10 in FIG. 10) for performing a deposit counting process and storing receivable bills. First, the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b are driven (step S141). In each part of the apparatus, the temporary storage processing (step S142), the entrance safe gate control (step S143), and the recycle storage gate control (step S144) are operated in parallel in order to process the conveyed bills. . Details of each of these processes will be described later.

When all the bills wound in the temporary storage 4 are released and the temporary storage processing is completed (step S
145) A stop instruction is issued to the entrance safe gate control and the recycle warehouse gate control. The control is stopped in the entrance safe gate control and the recycle store gate control that have received the stop instruction (steps S146 and S147). Then, the drive of the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b is stopped (step S148).

Next, the temporary storage processing (step S14)
2) will be described in detail. FIG. 20 is a flowchart of the temporary storage processing. First, the correction NO. TA '
= 1, TA = n (step S151).
That is, at the time of deposit storage, the deposit bill information table 400
Are discharged in order from the last data of the bill, so the last number of the bill NO in the table is set as the initial value of TA. The rotating drum 41 is driven to rotate in the reverse direction, and the bill wound around the rotating drum 41 is discharged (step S152).
The processing from step S155 is repeated until the end of the deposited bill information table, that is, until the end of the first bill in the table, and when the last bill is reached (step S15
3: Y), and stop the rotating drum 41 (Step S15)
4), this process ends. If the bill is not the last of the deposited bill information table (step 153: N), if a bill comes to the temporary storage passage sensor 311 (step S155:
Y), the count value 406 at the time of arrival of the temporary storage storage passage sensor 311 of the encoder B for storing the deposit in the table of the bill NO = TA (the first sheet is n) in the deposit bill information table,
The length 407 of the bill and the correction NO = TA '(the first first bill is 1) 408 are registered (step S156).

Next, one of the following processes (a), (b) and (c) is performed (step S157). (A) <Encoder B at the time of counting and storing the deposit
302 are equal (404 = 406), and the lengths of the banknotes at the temporary storage passage sensor 311 are also equal (4
05 = 407) Case> This indicates that the banknote has been rewound in the same state and position as when it was wrapped during the counting of deposits. -Banknote NO = TA return information 4 in the deposited banknote information table
03 and destination information 409 from the information of the encoder value 404.
Register・ TA ′ according to destination information 409 of the deposited bill information table
ON / OFF timing of the gates of the deposit box 6 and the recycle box 8 and the gate control table (receipt storage) 700
Are registered in the areas 701 to 705. Next, update to TA = TA-1, TA '= TA' + 1.

(B) <The count value of the encoder B302 at the time of counting the receipt and at the time of storing the receipt is not equal (404).
(# 406), the bill lengths of TA + 1 and TA are equal (4
05 = 407) Case> This indicates that one banknote has been rewound while being shifted from the position wound at the time of counting the deposit, and if one banknote is completely overlapped with the previous or subsequent banknote, There is a case where one sheet has been lost, and there is a possibility that the order and the number of sheets determined at the time of deposit counting are not guaranteed.・ Therefore, banknote NO = TA + 1 in the deposited banknote information table
A reject storage is registered in all the destination information 409 from to 1. Since the banknotes are stored in the reject box 9, the timing of turning off the gates of the deposit box and the recycle box and TA 'are set in the area 70 of the gate control table (payment storage) 700.
1 to 705 are registered. Next, update to TA = TA-1, TA '= TA' + 1. -Designate all destination information 409 of subsequent bills in the reject box.

(C) <The count value of the encoder B302 is not equal between the time of counting the payment and the time of storing the payment (404).
{406), when the bill length of TA + 1 and TA is not equal (405 ≠ 407)> This means that the bill was rewound out of the position wound at the time of counting the deposit and that the bill partially overlapped with the later bill. Show. -The banknote No. in the deposited banknote information table is regarded as one having a long detected banknote shifted to the banknote side attached thereto. TA and TA
The destination information of the one with the long bill detected by +1 is designated to the reject storage. Since this bill is stored in the reject box 9, the gate OFF timing of the safe and the recycle box and the table address TA 'are registered. • Update to TA = TA−2, TA ′ = TA ′ + 1. In this way, all the banknotes held in the temporary storage 4 are sent out from the temporary storage 4 for deposit storage, and stored in the deposit safe, recycling store, or reject store specified by the destination information in the following process. You.

Next, the entrance safe gate control (step S1)
43) will be described in detail. FIG. 21 is a flowchart of the safe deposit control. When the gate is turned on, the destination of the banknotes is switched to a direction in which the banknotes are stored in the safe, and when the gate is turned off, the destination of the banknotes is switched in a direction in which the banknotes are not stored in the safe.

First, TA ″ = 1 is initialized (step S161). Gate control table (payment storage) 70
0 only when the processing for all the banknotes registered in “0” is completed and there is an instruction to stop the control (step S1).
62: Y), turn off the entrance safe gate (step S)
163), and the process ends. Otherwise (step 162: N), if the incoming safe gate with the table address = TA ″ of the gate control table (payment storage) is ON (step S164: Y), the incoming safe gate is turned ON. (Step S165) After updating T ″ (Step S166), the process returns to Step S162.

If the banknote indicated by the table address of the gate control table (payment storage) = TA ″ is not to be stored in the deposit safe 7, the timing of turning on the deposit safe gate is not set (step S164: N), table address of gate control table (payment storage) = T
Open the A ″ entrance safe gate at the OFF timing of 703
FF is set (step S168), and the process proceeds to step 166. If it is not the timing for turning off the safe gate in step 167, the process returns to step S162. FIG. 27 shows a case where there is only one safe, but when a plurality of safes are provided, each safe is distinguished from each other and each ON / O is checked.
It is configured to register the FF timing.

Next, the recycle store gate control (step S144) will be described in detail. FIG. 22 is a flowchart of the recycle store control. When the gate of the recycle box is turned on, the destination of bills is switched to a direction in which the banknotes are stored in the recycle box.

First, TA ″ ′ = 1 is initialized (step S171). Gate control table (payment storage) 7
Only when the processing for all the banknotes registered in 00 is completed and there is an instruction to stop the control (step S
172: Y), the recycle store gate is turned off (step S173), and the process ends. Otherwise (step 172: N), when the safe box gate of the gate control table (payment storage) having the table address = TA '''is ON (step S174: Y), the recycle store gate is turned ON. (Step S175),
After updating T ″ ′ by +1 (step S176), the process returns to step S172.

If the banknote indicated by the table address of the gate control table (payment storage) = TA ″ ′ is not to be stored in the recycle box 8, the timing of turning on the recycle box gate is not set (step S174). :
N), the recycle store gate is turned off at the timing of OFF of 705 of the table address of the gate control table (payment storage) = TA ″ ′, and the recycle store gate is passed so as not to be stored in the recycle store 8 (step S178), and the above-mentioned step S176 is performed. Proceed to. If it is not the timing for turning off the recycle bin gate in step S177, step S172
Return to

Next, control of the bill handling apparatus 1 which is a feature of the present embodiment at the time of a deposit transaction will be described in detail. First, the control of the temporary storage 4 during the deposit processing will be described. The temporary storage 4 is a mechanism for winding and storing a banknote around the rotating drum 41 with a guide tape 43,
If the length of the bill is made sufficiently long in consideration of the number of deposit transactions and the time of non-picking of bills generated in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 at the time of counting the deposit, the rotating drum 41 may be kept rotating during the counting of deposits. With a simple design, the temporary storage 4 is much larger than the normally required capacity. Therefore, in order to efficiently store the bills in the temporary storage 4, as described in the control of FIG. 14, the rotating drum 41 is rotated only when the banknotes to be stored in the temporary storage 4 are conveyed.
If there is no banknote to be stored in the temporary storage 4, the rotating drum 4
1 is stopped.

FIG. 23 is a diagram for explaining specific start / stop control of the rotary drum 41. The transfer speed of the main transfer path at the time of deposit count is vmm / ms,
Is the time required to rise to the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a, t1ms, the movement amount eamm / count of the transport path per count of the encoder A301, and the transport from the deposited banknote discriminator 3 to the entrance of the guide tape 43 of the temporary storage 4. The road length is L1 mm. While the rotating drum 41 rises to the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a, the temporary storage 4
The travel distance of the bills stored in the temporary storage 4 is (v × t1) mm, so that the bills stored in the temporary storage 4 reach (v × t1 + α) mm before α from the entrance of the guide tape 43. Then, if the rotation drum 41 is activated, when the banknote reaches the guide tape 43, the rotation drum 41 has reached the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a.

This position is set to the rotation drum start timing 35.
Set to 1. The timing of starting the rotating drum is shown in FIG.
Startup timing 8 in the rotary drum control table 800 of FIG.
02 is registered. The distance from the deposited banknote discriminating section 3 to the rotating drum activation timing 351 is (L1− (v × t1)
+ Α)) mm. Therefore, the count of the encoder A301 starts when the leading end of the bill conveyed to the temporary storage 4 has passed the deposited bill discriminating unit 3, and the encoder A3
01 is ((L1− (v × t1 + α)) / e
a) The count is counted and the bill starts rotating drum 3
When the rotation drum 51 is reached, the start of the rotation drum 41 is started (FIG. 23A), and the running speed of the guide tape 43 is rotated to approximately the same speed as the upstream main conveyance path 50a.
The deposited bills are sequentially wound around the rotating drum 41. Thereafter, when the trailing end of the bill stored in the temporary storage 4 has passed the temporary storage passage sensor 311, the rotation drum 41 is stopped (FIG. 23B).

If the next banknote to be stored in the temporary storage 4 reaches the rotation drum activation timing 351 while the rotation drum 41 is stopped, the rotation drum 41 stops being stopped and the rotation drum 41 is immediately stopped. Start up and guide tape 4
The speed of No. 3 is increased to the same level as that of the upstream main transport path 50a (FIG. 23C). As described above, the rotating drum 41 is started only when the banknotes are stored in the temporary storage 4, and the rotary drum 41 is stopped so as to stop the rotating drum 41 when there is no banknote stored in the temporary storage 4 for a certain period of time. By doing so, the length of the guide tape 43 of the temporary storage 4 can be designed to be necessary and minimum, the storage capacity of the temporary storage 4 can be implemented in a necessary and minimum mounting space, and It is possible to reduce the size.

Next, the order management of the bills stored in the temporary storage 4 will be described in detail. The banknote handling apparatus 1 of the present invention is configured to directly store in the deposit safe 6 or the recycle box 8 without passing through the banknote discriminating section at the time of deposit storage. The storage order and bill information are stored in the memory of the control unit 11, and the control for sorting and storing bills in the deposit safe 6 or the recycle box 8 in accordance with the information stored in the memory is performed when depositing.

First, as described above with reference to FIG. 11, the guide tape 43 of the temporary storage 4 is wound around the winding shaft 42 to the initial position before counting the number of payments, and the value of the encoder B302 is read at the initial position of the guide tape 43. Reset. When the counting of deposits is started, the bills for counting the deposit are conveyed to the deposit bill discriminating section 3 and the denomination, authenticity and the like of the bills are discriminated. Here, the bill determined to be normal is a bill NO.
Reference information 401, denomination information 402, and recycle information 403 for distinguishing recyclable bills are registered in a deposit bill information table, an example of which is shown in FIG. 25, and a gate control table (receipt count) 600 and a rotating drum. The various timings described above are also registered in the control table 800, and are conveyed to the temporary storage 4.

The banknotes judged to be genuine bills (deposited banknotes) conveyed to the temporary storage 4 are turned on at the rotating drum start timing 35.
When it reaches 1, the motor of the rotary drum 41 is driven. When the rotating drum 41 starts rotating, the counting of the encoder B302 is started. When the banknote determined to be conveyed to the temporary storage 4 by the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 passes through the temporary storage passage sensor 311, the count value 404 of the encoder B 302 at the time when the banknote passes through the temporary storage passage sensor 311.
And the banknote length 4 detected by the temporary storage passage sensor 311
05 is registered in the deposited bill information table 400 of FIG.

FIG. 25 stored at the time of counting payments as described above.
Is stored in accordance with the received bill information. At the time of deposit storage, the bill stored in the temporary storage 4 is sent out to the transport path 5 from the last stored banknote in reverse to the order in which the banknotes are stored in the temporary storage 4 at the time of counting the deposit. After the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b have risen, the rotating drum 41 and the take-up shaft 42 of the temporary storage 4 rotate in the opposite direction to that at the time of deposit counting. When the rotating drum 41 starts rotating, the count value of the encoder B302 is decremented in reverse to that at the time of counting payment. The bill wound around the rotating drum 41 passes through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 and is sent to the transport path 5 as the guide tape 43 is wound around the winding shaft 42.

At this time, the count value 4 of the encoder B 302 at the time when the bill has passed the temporary
06 and the bill length 407 are stored in FIG. Since the count value 406 of the encoder B302 when the banknote arrives at the temporary storage passage sensor 311 matches the count value 404 of the encoder B302 stored at the time of deposit counting, the count values 404 and 406 of the encoder B302.
While checking the denomination information 402 of FIG.
Reflux information 403 and gate control table (payment storage) 7
At the timing of 00, the banknotes are sorted into the safe 6, the recycle box 8, and the reject box 9, and the deposit storage processing is performed.

It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the banknote handling apparatus 1 is configured to include only a deposit box, and that all the deposited banknotes are stored in a single deposit box without discriminating the denominations. It is not necessary to control the order of the deposited banknotes as described in the above section, and it is sufficient to fix the gate of the deposit box to the deposit box side and store all the deposits in the deposit box when depositing.

Next, detection of a bill state by the temporary storage passage sensor 311 at the time of deposit storage will be described. First, the banknote sent out from the temporary storage 4 is checked by the temporary storage passage sensor 311, and when the banknotes are stacked in the recycle storage 8, the state of the stack in the recycle storage 8 deteriorates.
Banknotes that may not be recirculated are stored in the reject box 9, and only banknotes that are hardly tilted are stored in the recycle box 8.
And stack on the deposit box 6. The banknote tilt is
The temporary storage passage sensor 311 is composed of two sensors (311a, b) attached to both sides of the guide tape 43, and the two sensors monitor bills sent from the temporary storage 4, and either one of them is used for monitoring. The count of the encoder B302 starts when the sensor becomes dark and a bill is detected, and stops counting when the other sensor becomes dark. If the count value exceeds a predetermined value, it can be checked that the inclination is too large. Further, as described in the control of FIG. 20, the temporary storage pass sensor 311 at the time of deposit storage checks the bill length 407 and the count value 406 of the encoder B302, and stores the temporary storage pass sensor stored at the time of the deposit count. The bill length 405 at 311 and the count value 404 of the encoder B302
Then, the following displacement check of the bill is performed.

Encoder B302 stored at the time of counting the deposit
Count value 404 and the encoder B302 at the time of deposit storage
If the count value is deviated by comparing the count value 406, the banknote with the deviated count value and the lengths 405 and 407 of the banknotes before and after the banknote are checked, and the length of the banknote at the time of deposit storage is checked. If 407 is the same as the banknote length 405 stored at the time of counting the deposit, it is not clear whether the misaligned banknote has completely overlapped or lost with the preceding and following banknotes, so it is considered abnormal and the deposit storage operation is stopped. In addition, since the order management of the banknotes cannot be performed normally, all the banknotes after the banknote before the banknote whose count value is shifted are rejected.
(See (b) of step S157 in FIG. 20 described above). If the preceding and following bills are detected to be longer than the length stored at the time of deposit counting, the longer detected bills are rejected as sticking to the detected bills shifted to the bill side, and the subsequent bill storage is corrected by one sheet. (See (c) of step S157 in FIG. 20 described above).

After the banknotes are displaced at the time of deposit storage, the banknotes in the temporary storage 4 are temporarily stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 without rejection or abnormality, and are separated from the deposit / withdrawal port 2 again to determine the deposited banknote discriminating section. It is also possible to stack at the safe 6 or the recycle box 8 by judging at 3.

Next, a description will be given of a method of detecting an abnormality of a banknote in the temporary storage 4 at the time of counting the number of received money and storing the received money. First, a description will be given of a banknote stay check from the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 to the temporary storage 4 at the time of deposit counting. At the time of counting receipts, the count value of the encoder A301 when the bill passes through the deposited bill discriminating unit 3 and the temporary storage passage sensor 311 is monitored.
Encoder A301 when a bill that has passed through deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 reaches temporary storage pass sensor 311 from the distance between deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 and temporary storage pass sensor 311
Can be estimated, so that when the count value of the encoder A301 when the bill passes through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 is substantially the same as the estimated count value, it is determined to be normal. Is not passed through the temporary storage passage sensor 311.
It is assumed that the banknotes are staying at the subsequent positions, the upstream main transport path 50a is immediately stopped, and the payment counting process is interrupted.

Next, a description will be given of the banknote stay check from the temporary storage 4 to the deposit safe 6, the recycle store 8, and the reject store 9 when receiving money. First, from the rotating drum 41 to the temporary storage passage sensor 311, when the count value of the encoder B 302 when the banknotes at the time of deposit storage reach the temporary storage passage sensor 311 is transferred to the temporary storage 4 at the time of deposit counting. Since the count value is substantially the same as the count value of the encoder B302 stored in the storage unit, the banknote is detected when the banknote does not pass through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 even when the count value reaches the expected value at the time of depositing and storing. .

Next, regarding the safe deposit box 6, the recycle box 8, and the reject box 9 from the temporary storage box passing sensor 311,
The count value of the encoder C303 when the bill passes through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 and each stack entrance sensor is monitored, and each stack is counted based on the value of the encoder C303 when the bill passes through the temporary storage passage sensor 311. The count value of the encoder C303 when passing through each stack entrance sensor is estimated from the distance to the entrance sensor, and if the banknote does not arrive even after reaching the estimated count value, the accumulation of the banknote is detected. As described above, when the accumulation of banknotes is detected, the deposit storage processing is immediately stopped.

Next, a description will be given of the check of the banknotes when the deposit is stored. First, in deposit storage, by switching the reject warehouse gate to the reject warehouse 9 side, it is possible to prevent the deposited receipt banknote from being erroneously conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 2. Using the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 located downstream of the reject warehouse gate, the spring of the deposited bill is detected. If the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 detects that the deposit storage bill has been erroneously transported, the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b are immediately stopped, and the deposit storage processing is interrupted.

Next, a description will be given of the check of the number of banknotes at the time of deposit storage. Temporary storage passage sensor 3 when counting payments
The number of bills passing through 11 is counted. At the time of deposit storage, the number of bills passed through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 and the number of bills passed through the stack entrance sensors of the deposit safe 6, the recycle box 8, and the reject box 9 are counted. At this time, if the above-described correction based on the positional displacement of the bills is performed, the number of sheets passed by the temporary storage passage sensor 311 and the stack entrance sensor of the reject warehouse 9 is corrected. Using the number of sheets passed, it is checked whether the number of banknotes passing through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 and the total number of sheets passing through the stack entrance sensors of the deposit safe 6, the recycle box 8, and the reject box 9 match. Also, it is checked whether the number of bills passed through the temporary storage passage sensor 311 at the time of deposit counting matches the number of bills passed through the temporary storage pass sensor 311 at the time of deposit receipt. In both cases, the check is normal if the numbers match, but if the numbers do not match, it is determined that the banknotes are not normally stacked in each box, and the process ends abnormally.

As described above, when the banknotes are checked for retention or the number of sheets, if the mounting position and the number of the sensors in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the sensor used for the check do not match, the number of the banknotes will be reduced. Since there is a possibility of erroneous detection and erroneous detection of an abnormality, it is preferable that the mounting position in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction and the number of mounted units match each other.

As described above, the temporary storage 4 is wound up around the rotating drum 41 and the guide tape 43 instead of temporarily stacking and storing the banknotes. By performing order management,
The deposit can be stored without re-discriminating the bill, the transport path can be simplified, and the bill handling apparatus 1 can be manufactured at low cost.
Can be realized. Furthermore, by performing the state detection and the abnormality detection of the banknote, the banknote handling device 1 that stores the banknote without discriminating the banknote at the time of storing the banknote prevents a malfunction of storing a different kind of money in the bank safe 6 or the recycle box 8 at the time of storage. Further, it is possible to improve the reliability at the time of dispensing in the banknote handling apparatus 1 that does not discriminate the denomination at the time of dispensing. Further, as another storage method of the banknotes in the temporary storage 4, the banknotes stored in the temporary storage 4 are temporarily stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 without performing the order management of the banknotes stored in the temporary storage 4 described above. Alternatively, a method is also possible in which the banknote is discriminated again by the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3 and the banknotes are sorted and stored in the deposit safe 6, the recycle box 8, and the reject box 9.

Next, the control of the downstream main transport path 50b during the deposit counting process described in the control of FIGS. 13 and 16 will be described. At the time of counting the number of payments, the rejected banknotes activate the downstream main transport path 50b one by one and hold them on the downstream main transport path 50b. Downstream main transport path 50b
When the rejected banknotes stored in the banknotes are stacked in the cash slot 2 at the time of return, if the interval between the banknotes is not sufficiently wide, the banknotes that have previously stacked will collide with subsequent banknotes, and the stacking performance will deteriorate. Therefore, the downstream main transport path 50
It is preferable that the interval between the deposit reject banknotes to be retained in b holds an optimal interval for the stack of the deposit and withdrawal port 2.
In addition, since the length of the downstream main transport path 50b cannot be increased in order to reduce the size of the apparatus, the deposited reject banknotes are transported in order to hold the deposited reject bills in the downstream main transport path 50b as much as possible. The control is performed to rotate the downstream main transport path 50b only when it is performed, and to stop the downstream main transport path 50b when there is no deposit reject bill.

FIG. 24 is a diagram for explaining specific start / stop control of the downstream main transport path 50b. The transfer speed of the main transfer path at the time of deposit counting is vmm / ms, the time for the downstream main transfer path 50b to rise to the same speed as the upstream main transfer path 50a is t3 ms, and the encoder A (30)
1) The movement amount eamm / count of the transport path per count, and the downstream main transport path 50b
The length of the transport path up to the entrance of is set to L2 mm. The distance that the deposit reject bill moves while the downstream main transport path 50b rises to the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a is (v
× t3) mm, so α is added as a margin from the entrance of the downstream main transport path 50b (v × t3 + α) mm
By starting the downstream main transport path 50b when the deposit reject banknote arrives shortly before, the downstream main transport path 50b is activated when the banknote reaches the downstream main transport path 50b.
b has reached the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a. This position is set to the downstream main transport path activation timing 352.
Set as This activation timing is registered as the activation timing 902 in the downstream main transport path control table 900 in FIG.

The distance from the deposited banknote discriminating section 3 to the downstream main transport path activation timing 352 is (L2− (v × t3 +
α)) mm. Therefore, the count of the encoder A301 starts when the leading end of the banknote conveyed to the downstream main conveyance path 50b passes through the deposited banknote discriminating unit 3, and the count value of the encoder A301 becomes ((L2− (v × t3 +
α)) / ea) When the count is reached and the bill reaches the downstream main transport path activation timing 352, the activation of the downstream main transport path 50b is started (FIG. 24A), and the traveling speed of the downstream main transport path 50b is reduced. The banknote is rotated to approximately the same speed as the upstream main transport path 50a, and the rejected banknotes are sequentially held in the downstream main transport path 50b. The rear end of the deposit reject bill is the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 31
2, after a certain amount, the downstream main transport path 5
0b is stopped (FIG. 24B). When the next rejected banknote arrives at the downstream main transport path activation timing 352 while the downstream main transport path 50b is stopped, the stop of the downstream main transport path 50b is stopped, and the downstream main transport path 50b is immediately activated. And the downstream main transport path 50
The speed of b is increased to the same level as that of the upstream main transport path 50a (FIG. 24C).

Only when the deposit reject banknote is transferred to the downstream main transport path 50b, the downstream main transport path 5
0b is activated, and if a deposit reject banknote does not come, by controlling the sensor to detect the trailing end of the banknote conveyed to the downstream main transport path 50b and then stopping the downstream main transport path 50b, It is possible to accumulate the maximum amount of rejected bills at substantially equal intervals in the downstream main transport path 50b in correspondence with the bills of the above.

Next, a method of detecting an abnormality of a rejected ticket held in the downstream main transport path 50b during the deposit counting process will be described. First, detection of the fullness of a deposit reject bill will be described. The detection of the fullness of the deposit reject bill can be performed by a method based on the number of sheets or by a physical fullness detection. In the method of performing full detection by the number of sheets, a rejection full detection number is set in advance, and when the rejection number determined by the deposit note discriminating unit 3 becomes the number of rejection detections, the full rejection banknote is detected. The payment counting process is interrupted (step S67 in FIG. 13).
Processing).

In the method of physically detecting the full state, a deposit rejection full sensor 313 'is attached before the end of the downstream main transport path 50b, and the deposit rejection suspended in the downstream main transport path 50b is first inserted. When the banknote reaches the deposit rejection full sensor 313 ', the full is detected and the deposit counting process is interrupted. In this manner, a full reject banknote is detected. In this case, the rejection-full sensor 313 ′ may be used also as the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 or may be provided separately before the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 (step in FIG. 16). Processing of S105).

Next, the jam check of the deposit reject bill will be described. Using the count value of the encoder C303 provided in the downstream main transport path 50b,
It manages the positions of bills that are held during intermittent driving of the downstream main transport path 50b during counting of payment. Encoder C
A counter 303 counts while the downstream main transport path 50b is driven, and stops counting when the downstream main transport path 50b stops. The bill transported to the downstream main transport path 50b is detected by the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312 provided at the entrance of the downstream main transport path 50b. The count value of the encoder C303 at the time when the leading end of the bill is detected by the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312 is stored in the memory of the control unit 11.

From the distance from the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312 to the deposit rejection full sensor 313 ',
The deposit reject bill is detected by the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 31.
After passing through 2, deposit rejection full sensor 31
Since the count value of the encoder C303 until it reaches 3 ′ can be calculated, the deposit rejection full sensor 31
If the rejected banknote cannot be detected even when the count value of the encoder C303 scheduled to pass through 3 'has been reached, an abnormality is detected as remaining in the downstream main transport path 50b, and the remittance counting process is immediately interrupted.

Next, the check of the rejection of the deposit reject bill will be described. First, at the time of deposit counting, deposit and withdrawal port 2
Deposit port 2 in front of the stack entrance of the stack
By switching the side to the closing direction, it is possible to prevent the deposit reject bill from being erroneously conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 2. A spring check sensor 315 for detecting the spring of the deposit reject banknote is attached to the transport path downstream of the outlet gate. The check of the transfer path on the side of the deposit / withdrawal port 2 is checked using the deposit / withdrawal port stack entrance sensor 314. If the check sensor 315 and the deposit / withdrawal stack entrance sensor 314 detect that the deposit reject banknote has been transported by mistake, the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path are immediately stopped, and the deposit counting process is performed. Interrupt. As described above, the reliability of the apparatus can be improved by detecting the abnormality of the rejected ticket on the downstream main transport path during the payment counting process.

As described above, the deposit reject bill held in the downstream main transport path 50b at the time of deposit counting is transported to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 and returned to the user during the deposit reject return process. In the deposit rejection return process, after the push plate 23 of the deposit and withdrawal port 2 is moved to prepare the stack of the deposit and withdrawal port 2, the downstream main transport path 50b is driven, and the bills held on the downstream main withdrawal path 50b are transferred to the deposit and withdrawal port. 2 is performed. At this time, the interval between bills is detected by the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313, and if bills that are not sufficiently spaced are detected, the downstream main transport path 50 b is closed before the bills are stacked in the deposit / withdrawal port 2. It is also possible to perform control to reduce the speed and extend the interval time between the banknotes stacked earlier. Further, the rejection factors of the deposit reject banknotes are stored in the order of rejection at the time of counting the deposit, and when the deposit rejection is returned, the rejected banknotes of which the transport state is poor are returned to the deposit / withdrawal slot 2 and the bills are rejected. The banknotes whose discrimination was not successfully performed are not directly conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 but are once conveyed to the upstream main conveying path 50a side, and the rejected banknotes for judging the banknotes again by the receivable banknote discriminating unit 3 are re-examined. Is also possible.

Next, the detection of an abnormality during the payment rejection return process will be described. First, the jam check of the deposit reject bill will be described. Downstream main transport path 50b
From the count value of the encoder C303 at the time of passing the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312 stored in the memory at the time of counting the number of deposits, the encoder C303 that passes through the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 at the time of deposit rejection is returned. If the banknote does not reach the downstream main transport path exit sensor 313 even when the count value reaches the scheduled count value, the banknote is detected as being stagnant in the downstream main transport path 50b, and an abnormality is immediately detected. The main transport path 50b is stopped, and the payment rejection return process is interrupted.

Next, the check of the number of deposited reject bills will be described. At the time of deposit counting, the number of deposit reject banknotes passed through the downstream main transport path entrance sensor 312 and the deposit / withdrawal stack entrance sensor 31 at the time of deposit reject return.
The number of deposited rejected banknotes passing through No. 4 is compared, and if they match, it is assumed that there is no jam etc. and the rejected banknotes are correctly stacked in the deposit / withdrawal port 2, and if they do not match, the banknotes stay somewhere. Since there is a possibility that the payment has been rejected, it is regarded as abnormal, and the payment rejection return processing is interrupted. As described above, by performing the abnormality detection during the payment rejection return process, it is possible to improve the reliability of the device. Further, in order to improve the stack performance at the time of the deposit rejection return process, the downstream main transport path drive motor is driven at a speed lower than the normal transport, and the banknotes retained in the downstream main transport path 50b are moved to the deposit / withdrawal port 2. I also do.

By managing the rejected bills as described above, it is possible to improve the reliability of an apparatus for temporarily storing the rejected bills on the transport path and directly collecting the bills in the deposit / withdrawal port 2. This makes it possible to realize a simple and low-cost device that does not require a temporary holding space.
Further, in the bill handling apparatus 1 described above, the deposit reject bill is temporarily stored in the downstream main transport path 50b, but the deposit reject bill is directly separated into the deposit / withdrawal port 2 without temporarily retaining the deposit reject bill. It may be returned after being stacked on the back side of the incoming bill, or another stacker for stacking the incoming reject bill is provided, and once the incoming reject bill is stacked, the incoming reject bill is inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 2. It may be moved and returned.

Finally, a description will be given of the recovery processing of the bill handling apparatus 1 after the abnormality is detected. After the abnormality is detected, the operations for restoring the banknote handling apparatus 1 include: the gates on the unit transport paths 51 to 57 of the temporary stacking unit 4, the in-box 6, the out-box 7, the recycle box 8, and the reject box 9 are all closed. The gate in the unit transfer path 58 of the deposit and withdrawal port 2 faces the deposit and withdrawal port 2 side. The deposit / withdrawal port 2 is prepared in a stacked state, and the upstream main transport path 50a and the downstream main transport path 50b are simultaneously driven. At this time, if there are any remaining banknotes in the unit transport path 51 of the temporary storage 4, the rotating drum 41 of the temporary storage 4 is simultaneously driven in the same direction as the counting of the deposit. When the banknotes remain in the unit transport path 51 of the temporary storage 4, if the banknotes remain on the side where the banknotes are transported to the temporary storage 4, the remaining banknotes are transported to the temporary storage 4 side. Wrap around 41. If bills remain on the side to be sent to the downstream main transport path 50b, they are sent to the downstream main transport path 50b, and are stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 2.

As described above, the rotary drum 4 of the temporary storage 4
1 is necessary to take up the banknotes in the delivery conveyance path during the recovery process in the event of an abnormality.
In the near full detection of No. 3, it is necessary to set the near banknote as close as possible so that the remaining banknotes in the unit transport path 51 can be wound up in the recovery operation from the true full position. Further, in a state where the true full position of the guide tape 43 is detected, if there is still a remaining bill in the unit transport path 51 of the temporary storage 4, the recovery operation is not performed until the remaining bill is removed. By operating in this manner, the banknotes remaining in the transport path 5 are
And the remaining banknotes in the unit transport path 51 on the side stored in the temporary storage 4 are transferred to the temporary storage 4.

After this operation is completed, if there is no bill in the temporary storage 4, the guide tape 43 in the temporary storage 4 is returned to the initial position. In addition, after the above operation, if there is a bill in the temporary storage 4, there is a possibility that a staff member touches the bill in the temporary storage 4 in the processing after the abnormality, and the order of the bills wound around the temporary storage 4 is changed. The banknotes are not stored in the deposit safe 6 or the recycle box 8 because they are illegal. By performing the recovery operation as described above, the remaining banknotes are always stored in the deposit / withdrawal port 2 after the recovery operation, and the temporary storage 4 can be set in the initial state.

The storage of the above-mentioned banknote handling apparatus 1 is composed of a deposit box 6, a deposit box 7, a recycling box 8, and a reject box 9. However, it is assumed that only the deposit box 6 is dedicated to depositing money. Is also possible.

In the above embodiment, the transport path for storing the banknotes stored in the temporary storage in the storage according to the determination by the banknote determination unit and the transport path for storing the deposit reject banknotes are the same. Although the downstream main transport path is also used, the downstream main transport path for which the timing control as described with reference to FIG. 16 is performed may be provided separately from the transport path for storing the deposited bills. Further, in the above embodiment, the deposit reject banknotes are stored on the downstream main transport path. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a deposit reject bank may be provided and temporarily stored therein.

[0104]

According to the present invention, a bill is discriminated again by adopting a temporary storage of a type in which a bill is wound around a rotating drum and managing the order of the bills stored in the temporary storage at the time of counting of deposits. This makes it possible to store money without having to perform the operation, to simplify the conveyance path, to realize an excellent operability, and to realize a low-cost banknote handling apparatus. Furthermore, by detecting the state and abnormalities of the banknotes, the banknote handling device that stores the banknotes without discrimination at the time of storing the banknotes can prevent the malfunction of storing different kinds of banknotes in a safe or a recycle box. The reliability of the operation and the dispensing operation can be improved. In addition, the rotation drum is activated only when storing banknotes in the temporary storage, and the rotation drum is stopped when there is no banknote stored in the temporary storage for a certain period of time. Thus, the required storage capacity can be realized in a minimum mounting space, and the size and function of the device can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic teller machine equipped with a bill handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control relationship of the device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a configuration of the bill handling device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a temporary storage according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the safe box according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view of the exit safe according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the recycle box according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a side view of the unit transport path according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a control relationship of the bill transaction apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining a deposit transaction according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating a deposit counting process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a deposit / withdrawal port separation process in a deposit counting process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating a bill discriminating process in a deposit counting process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart for explaining a rotating drum start / stop process in a deposit counting process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart illustrating a temporary storage registration process in the deposit counting process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart for explaining a downstream main transport path start / stop process in the deposit counting process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating a gate control process in a deposit counting process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart illustrating a payment rejection return process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart illustrating a deposit storage process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating a temporary storage process in a deposit storage process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart for explaining a deposit safe gate control process in the deposit storage process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a flowchart for explaining a recycle store gate control process in the deposit storage process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is an explanatory diagram of start / stop control of the rotating drum of the temporary storage.

FIG. 24 is an explanatory diagram of start / stop control of the downstream main transport path.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an example of a deposited bill information table stored in a memory of the control unit.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing an example of a gate control table (payment counting) for counting payments stored in a memory of the control unit.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing an example of a gate control table (payment storage) for receiving money stored in the memory of the control unit.

FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating an example of a rotary drum control table stored in a memory of a control unit.

FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating an example of a downstream main transport path control table stored in the memory of the control unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Banknote handling device, 2: Cash slot, 21: Feed roller, 22: Gate roller, 23: Push plate, 24: Brush roller, 25: Stack roller, 26: Shutter, 3: Banknote discriminating section, 31: 2 sheet detection unit, 32: discrimination unit, 30
1: Encoder A, 302: Encoder B, 303: Encoder C, 311: Temporary storage passage sensor, 312:
Downstream main transport path entrance sensor, 313: downstream main transport path exit sensor, 313 ': deposit reject full sensor,
314: deposit / withdrawal port stack entrance sensor, 315: spring check sensor 4: temporary storage, 41: rotating drum, 42: winding shaft, 43: induction tape, 44: backup roller, 4
5: entrance roller, 5: bill transport path, 50: main transport path, 50a: upstream main transport path, 50b: downstream main transport path, 51 to 58: unit transport path, 6: input safe, 7:
Deposit box, 8: Recycle box, 9: Reject box, 10:
Dispensing banknote discriminating unit, 11: control unit.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Itsuki Utsumi 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Prefecture Inside the Information Equipment Division, Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd.Information Equipment Division

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A bill handling apparatus for discriminating inserted bills for depositing in a bill discriminating section and stacking and storing the bills in a plurality of bill storages according to a discrimination result. A temporary storage in which the banknotes are sequentially wound and stored temporarily by a rotary drum and a derivative wound around the rotary drum in a transporting order, and storage means for storing the banknote discrimination information from the banknote discriminating unit in the order in which the banknotes are wound and stored in the temporary storage. In response to the completion of the deposit transaction, the rotating drum is reversed, the banknotes are sequentially taken out of the temporary storage in the reverse order of the time of the winding, and the banknote discrimination information is similarly read from the storage means in the reverse order, A bill storage unit for selecting a bill storage in which the bill should be stored in accordance with the read bill discrimination information, and having means for storing the bill in the selected bill storage; Handling equipment. 2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the banknotes conveyed to the temporary storage are wound around the rotary drum together with the derivative, a winding starting position is a winding start position of the derivative. Derivative position recognizing means capable of recognizing is provided.In the storage means, the deposit position information is stored sequentially in addition to the discrimination information of the deposited bill to be conveyed at the time of a deposit transaction, and further, the derivative position information at the time of winding by the derivative position recognizing means. When the rotating drum is rotated in the reverse direction, and when discharged from the temporary storage to the banknote transport path in the reverse order of the winding, the discharge position information by the derivative position recognition means is stored in the storage means for each sheet. A bill handling device for comparing and determining with the winding position information at the time of winding, and selecting a bill storage in which the bill should be stored in accordance with a result of the comparison and determination; . 3. A bill handling device for discriminating inserted bills for depositing in a bill discriminating section and storing the bills in a plurality of bill storages according to the discrimination result, wherein the bills discriminated in the bill discriminating section are conveyed. A temporary storage for temporarily storing the rotary drum and the derivative wound around the rotary drum in order and temporarily storing the banknote; and a deposit banknote that can be handled by the banknote discriminating unit in a banknote discriminating unit in the order of transport of the banknotes continuously transported from the deposit port during a deposit transaction. And, it is discriminated to be a rejectable banknote that cannot be handled, and the banknote discriminating unit stores only the deposited banknote by winding it around a rotating drum and a rotating drum of a temporary storage that sequentially winds and stores it with a derivative wound around the rotating drum. The transfer to the temporary storage and the start and stop of the rotary drum are controlled for each deposited banknote in response to the discrimination with the deposited banknote and the timing of the transfer to the temporary storage. Bill handling apparatus characterized by comprising control means for. 4. The bill handling device according to claim 1, wherein a length of a portion of the derivative wound around the rotary drum is:
A bill handling apparatus characterized in that the bill handling apparatus has at least a length necessary for one counting operation obtained from a bill separating speed, a conveying speed, and the maximum number of coins to be inserted into the deposit port.