JPH11259722A - Bar of coins receiving and paying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To unnecessitate reject collection processing by an operator by storing a discriminated bar of coins in a corresponding cassette after taking out the bar of coins from the cassette of a corresponding denomination by a bar of coins paying mechanism when the cassette corresponding to the discriminated denomination is full. SOLUTION: When an inspecting part finishes discriminating denominations, the full state of a cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination is detected by reading the state of a sensor. When the cassette 20 is not full, an elevator 7 is moved to the position of the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination. When the cassette 20 corresponding to the discriminated denomination is full, the elevator 7 is moved to a money paying position of the corresponding cassette 20 and a piece of the bar of coins is taken out from the cassette 20 and is ejected to a hopper 65. In such a case, the residual bars of coins are pressed against a bar of coins shutter 21 by the force of a backup 26 to be in a standby state in which the next money bar can be taken out within the cassette 20 where the bar of coins is taken out.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coin-rolling and dispensing apparatus for depositing and dispensing coins in which a predetermined number of coins are packed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the field of handling a large number of bills and coins, such as financial institutions and department stores, the efficiency of cash management and the efficiency of cash processing operations are increased by mechanization. In such a field, a number of coins wrapped with 50 stacked coins with paper, vinyl, or the like are widely used because they are easier to handle than loose coins. These coin-rolls are processed and managed by a coin-roll depositing / dispensing device.

[0003]

The coin-roll depositing / dispensing apparatus has a coin-roll storing cassette for accommodating the coins set in the apparatus. The coins are housed in a housing cassette, and at the time of dispensing, the coins are taken out from the coin-stocking cassette and discharged.

However, in the conventional apparatus, during the deposit operation, when the coin-roll storing cassette of the discriminated denomination is full, the discriminated coin-roll can no longer be stored in the coin-roll storing cassette. Also, it cannot be returned to the cash slot. For this reason, the discs that have been discriminated have to be stored in the reject unit as cassettes that cannot be deposited.

[0005] However, in order to remove the cassette rejectable coins stored in the reject section, the operator must perform a reject collection process, which causes a problem that the operator performs extra work.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances. It is an object of the present invention to reject a coin-roll storing cassette even if it is detected that a coin-roll accommodating cassette is full when depositing the coin-roll. It is an object of the present invention to provide a coin-roll-in / pay-out device provided with a depositing mechanism that can be returned to an operator without being stored in a storage device.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a plurality of cassettes for storing coins for each denomination, and coins to be fed and ejected. A bar having a hopper from which a plurality of cassettes are discharged, a bar-roll unloading mechanism for unloading the bar in the plurality of cassettes into the hopper, and a bar-roll-in mechanism for loading the bar in the hopper into the cassette. In the money receiving and dispensing apparatus, a discriminating unit for discriminating a denomination of the coin bar carried in by the coin bar carrying unit, and detecting whether or not a cassette corresponding to the coin type discriminated by the discriminating unit is full. Full detection means, first storage means for storing the discriminated coin in a cassette of a corresponding denomination when fullness is not detected by the fullness detection means, and fullness detection by the fullness detection means; When it is determined that After unloading the at least one coin from the seed of the cassette by said coin delivery mechanism, a second for housing the discriminated coin rolls into the corresponding denomination cassette
Storage means.

In the above configuration, even if the coin-roll storing cassette judged by the discriminating section is full, after the coin-roll is dispensed from the cassette, the discriminated coin can be stored in the cassette of the corresponding denomination. In addition, even if the cassette is full, there is no need to store the discriminated bar in the reject storage unit, and the reject collection process by the operator is not required.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view of a deposit and withdrawal device 1 of the present embodiment. In the drawing, reference numeral 2 denotes a housing of the depositing / dispensing device 1, and a door 3 is provided on a front surface of the housing 2. This door 3 can be opened and closed freely, and as shown in FIG.
By opening the cashier, the operator can
It is possible to approach various operating mechanisms (described later) installed in the inside.

[0010] As shown in FIG. 1, on the upper surface of the housing 2, a deposit and withdrawal port 4 for inserting and removing a coin bar into and from the depositing and dispensing device 1, and the deposit and withdrawal port 4 are opened and closed. And a display unit 6 for displaying the remaining amount of the bar money inside the cash-receipt-and-disbursement device 1 and the normal / abnormal state of the cash-receipt-and-disbursement device 1.

The shutter 5 opens and closes on the back side of the apparatus 1, and the opened state is shown in FIG. When the shutter 5 is opened in this manner, the upper opening of the hopper 65 of the box-shaped elevator 7 (see FIG. 3) that conveys the bar is opposed to the deposit / withdrawal port 4, and the hopper is passed through the deposit / withdrawal port 4. It is possible to set a coin bar in the coin 65 and take out the coin bar from the hopper 65. The shutter 5 is provided with a lock mechanism (not shown). When the power is turned off while the shutter 5 is closed, the lock mechanism prevents the shutter 5 from being opened.

Next, an elevator mechanism for transporting coins will be described with reference to FIG. An elevator 7 for transporting coin bars is provided on the inside front side of the cash-receipt-and-disbursement device 1 so as to be movable in the vertical direction. That is, the elevator 7 is slidably attached to the two shafts 8 and 9 erected in the depositing and dispensing device 1, and the operation direction thereof is restricted only in the vertical direction by the shafts 8 and 9. ing. Also, the elevator 7 has a motor 1
1 is fixed to a belt 10 wound around one driving pulley 13 attached to and driven by a plurality of driven pulleys 12, and the motor 1 is driven to drive the belt 1
When 0 is rotated forward or backward, the elevator 7 moves up and down following the movement of the belt 10.
The belt 10 is provided with a balance weight 14 that operates in a phase opposite to that of the elevator 7. Therefore, when the elevator 7 moves upward, the balance weight 14 operates downward, so that the motor 11
Can be reduced.

A latch 15 is attached to the elevator 7, and the latch 7 is engaged with a latch plate 16 having a number of latch grooves so that the elevator 7 can be held at an arbitrary position. In this case, the engaged state between the latch 15 and the latch plate 16 is released by exciting the latch solenoid 17. Therefore, in order to move the elevator 7 held at a predetermined position up and down, the latch solenoid 17 is excited to activate the latch 1.
The engagement between the latch plate 5 and the latch plate 16 may be released. Note that a detecting means for detecting the position of the elevator 7 is attached at a predetermined position. As shown in FIG. 4, a plurality of cassettes 20 for setting coin bars are provided on a shelf-shaped cassette table 25 (see FIGS. 6 and 7) in the depositing and dispensing device 1 on the back side of the elevator 7. In the held state, it is provided adjacent to the elevator 7 (the cassette table 25 is not shown in FIGS. 4 and 5). These cassettes 20
It is arranged up and down along the moving path of the elevator 7,
It is configured to be able to take in and out bar money. Each cassette 2
No. 0 has a different inner height and width depending on the denomination, and since there are currently six denominations in Japan, at least six cassettes 20 are required.
Needs to be provided. Therefore, in this embodiment,
Six or more cassettes 20 are vertically arranged, and
With these cassettes 20, coins can be set for each denomination.

As shown in FIG. 5, a reject unit 60 is provided below the row of the cassettes 20 for storing coins which cannot be denominated. As shown in FIG. 6, the cassette 20 has a substantially open upper surface,
5 is set so that it can be inserted and removed.
That is, a cassette latch (not shown) for holding the cassette 20 is attached to the cassette table 25, and the cassette 20 can be removed from the cassette table 25 by releasing the cassette latch.
Further, a sensor is attached to the cassette latch so that it can be detected whether or not the cassette 20 is set normally.

On the front face of the cassette 20, a coin-rolling shutter 21 for holding the coin-roll set in the cassette 20 is attached. Here, FIG. 7 shows a state in which the elevator 7 is arranged adjacent to a predetermined cassette 20, and FIG.
FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of the elevator 7 and a portion of the cassette 20 on the shutter 21 side. As shown in these drawings, the coin-rolling shutter 21 is rotatable about the shaft 24 inward of the cassette 20, and is urged by a spring 23 in a rising direction (outward). Therefore, the coin-roller shutter 21 keeps a state of being raised by the urging force of the spring 23 unless another external force acts, and comes into contact with the coin-roll P in the cassette 20 to move the coin-roll P into the cassette 20. Can be held.

In such a configuration, when the operator directly sets the coin bar P in the cassette 20, the coin bar P is inserted into the cassette 20 from the opening of the cassette 20 so that about 20 bars P are aligned. The bar P is loaded into one cassette 20
Can be set to On the other hand, when the bar P is mechanically set in the cassette 20, the bar P to be set is pushed into the cassette 20 from the front of the bar shutter 21, as described later. That is,
The bar P is pressed against the front surface of the bar shutter 21 and the spring 23 is pressed.
The coin bar P is pushed into the cassette 20 while rotating the coin bar shutter 21 inward against the urging force.

The cassette table 25 is provided with a backup 26 which can urge the bar P in the cassette 20 set therein toward the elevator 7. This biasing force is generated by a spring 30 that biases the backup 26 toward the elevator 7. Therefore, when the cassette 20 containing the coins P is set on the cassette table 25, the coins P are pressed against the coin-rolling shutter 21 by the backup 26. That is, the cassette 20 is moved to the cassette table 25.
, The bar P located at the innermost end of the cassette 20 comes into contact with the pressing plate 26 a of the backup 26, and the backup 26 is pushed inward against the urging force of the spring 30. In this case, the spring 30 is actuated by its urging force.
With the pressing plate 26 a of the backup 26 pressed against the bar P located at the innermost end of the cassette 20, the foremost bar P of the cassette 20 is pressed against the bar shutter 21. That is, all the bars P in the cassette 20 are urged in the direction of being pushed out of the cassette 20. When the cassette 20 is further pushed into the cassette table 25 in this state, the cassette 20 is held in the cassette table 25 by the above-described cassette latch.

Further, as shown in FIG.
5 is provided with a cassette full sensor 101 for detecting the full state of the coins in the cassette 20. The cassette full sensor 101 can detect a full state in the cassette 20 by detecting, for example, the position of the backup 26. That is, in a state where the cassette 20 is not full, the backup 26 as shown in FIG.
16C, the photo interrupter of the cassette full sensor 101 is not interrupted. On the other hand, when the cassette 20 is full, the rear end of the backup 26 interrupts the photo interrupter of the cassette full sensor 101 as shown in FIG.
It is detected that it is full. Next, elevator 7
Will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. FIG.
The elevator 7 mainly includes a hopper 65 which is opened at an upper portion of the elevator 7 to receive a bar, and a bar transport section 70 provided below the hopper 65. Among them, the hopper 65 can hold a coin bar removed from the cassette 20 or a coin bar to be set in the cassette 20. Further, the coin-roll transporting unit 70 can receive the coin in the hopper 65 and determine the denomination, and can transport the determined coin to a predetermined cassette 20.

On the cassette 20 side of the elevator 7, a take-out lever 27 for taking out a bar from the cassette 20 is attached. The take-out lever 27 is rotated in the direction of the arrow by a motor (not shown) or the like, and
One of the most advanced bar bars can be pushed up and dropped into the hopper 65. The elevator 7 is provided with a dispensing confirmation sensor 28 for detecting the coins removed from the cassette 20. The dispensing confirmation sensor 28 includes, for example, an LED 28a and a photodiode 28b.
Thus, it can be detected whether the cassette 20 has been transferred from the cassette 20 to the elevator 7. The hopper 65
Is provided with a residual detection sensor 66 for detecting the presence or absence of a bar in the hopper 65. The residual detection sensor 66 also includes, for example, an LED 66a and a photodiode 66b.

The inner diameter of the hopper 65 gradually decreases from the upper end opening to the lower part. That is, the inner surface of the hopper 65 is formed as a tapered surface having a step. At the lowermost part of the hopper 65, a carry-out port 72 that opens to the transfer section 70 is provided. The metal bars in the hopper 65 are carried out to the transport unit 70 through the carry-out port 72. Exit 7
2 is openable and closable by two separation shutters 44 and 45. In this case, the separation shutters 44 and 45 are divided into left and right and open. A separation elevator 46 is provided below the carry-out port 72 so as to be vertically movable. The separation elevator 46 can receive the coin-rolls falling from the inside of the hopper 65 through the carry-out port 72 in a state where the elevator is raised to the position of the carry-out port 72 by the drive mechanism, that is, at the upper end position of the moving path. The separation elevator 46 and the separation shutters 44 and 45 operate in conjunction with each other, and constitute separation means for separating the bars in the hopper 65 one by one as described later.

As shown in FIG. 9 (b), the receiving surface 46a of the separation elevator 46 that receives the bar is formed in an arc shape. In this case, the diameter of the receiving surface 46a is smaller than the diameter (26.5 mm) of the 500-yen coin A having the largest diameter, and the diameter (23.6 mm) of the next largest 10-yen coin B.
Is bigger than. Therefore, when the 500-yen coin A is placed on the receiving surface 46a, the 500-yen coin A floats from the lower surface of the receiving surface 46a as shown by a solid line in the drawing. When a coin other than the 500-yen coin A is placed on the receiving surface 46a, a coin (10-yen coin B in the figure) comes into contact with the lower surface of the receiving surface 46a as shown by a dotted line in the figure. .

The separating elevator 46 is provided with a coin discriminating sensor 82 for discriminating coins by utilizing the shape of the receiving surface 46a. FIG. 9B shows a sensor 82 composed of a microswitch. in this case,
The coin can be discriminated by opening and closing the switch. That is, when the coin is floating from the lower surface of the receiving surface 46a, the switch is not closed,
In this case, it can be recognized that the coin is a 500-yen coin A. When the coin contacts the lower surface of the receiving surface 46a,
The switch is closed, and in this case, the coin can be recognized as a coin other than the 500-yen coin A.
Of course, such a sensor 82 is not limited to a microswitch, and may be composed of an LED and a photodiode. In this case, the coin can be determined based on whether or not the light is blocked.

On the other hand, at the lower end position of the moving path of the separation elevator 46, a bar bar transport block 47 for receiving and transporting the bar on the receiving surface 46a of the separation elevator 46 is arranged in a standby state. The receiving surface of the coin-roll transporting block 47 for receiving coin-rolls is formed in, for example, a V-shape. When the separation elevator 46 descends to the lower end position of the moving path, the coin-roll on the receiving surface 46a is changed to the coin-roll transporting block 47. On the receiving surface. Note that the coin-roll transporting block 47 includes, for example, a belt-driven moving mechanism 50.
Is moved toward the right side in the figure.

At the end position (right end position in the figure) of the moving path of the coin-roll transporting block 47, a lift 48 is arranged in a standby state. The lift 48 can be moved up and down.
7 can be pushed up and conveyed upward. In addition, the lift 48 which receives the bar money
Is formed in, for example, a V-shape so that the transfer of the bar from the bar transport block 47 to the lift 48 can be surely performed.

A bar pusher 52 is provided at the upper end position of the moving path of the lift 48. This coin pusher 52
Can move forward and backward in a direction perpendicular to the moving path of the lift 48, and can push a bar mounted on the lift 48 into the cassette 20 located on the right side in the figure.

The bar pusher 52 is provided on the side opposite to the direction in which the bar pusher 52 is pushed in (rightward in the figure).
In opposition to the above, there is provided a coin-roll bale breaking cam 78. The coin-roll bale breaking cam 78 is pushed out into the hopper 65 by the coin-roller pusher 52, so that the arrangement state of the coin bars (see FIG. 10) stacked in the hopper 65 can be broken. This is because, depending on the stacking state of the coins in the hopper 65, the coins may not fall to the carry-out port 72. (Left and right directions in the figure)
By changing the position of the bar in the hopper 65, the position of the bar in the hopper 65 is changed so that the bar located at the lowermost position in the hopper 65 is always located at the carry-out port 72.

In this configuration, when the coin-roller pusher 52 is retracted in the direction opposite to the direction in which the coin-roll is pushed, the coin-roller pusher 52 comes into contact with the back surface of the coin-roller collapsing cam 78, and the coin-roller collapsing cam 78 is moved to the hopper. It is pushed inward. When the pusher 52 is advanced in the reverse direction, that is, in the push-in direction, in this state, the stick-barrel breaking cam 78 is returned to the original initial position following the operation.

It should be noted that such a cam pushing operation of the bar pusher 52 may be performed after or before the bar is pushed into the cassette 20, or may be periodically performed at a certain time interval. May be performed.

By the way, in order to change the arrangement state of the bar in the hopper 65 and to ensure that the bar is located at the carry-out port 72, the inner surface of the hopper 65 together with the bar-barrel breaking cam 78 is required. Is an important factor. Therefore, in this configuration, the hopper 6 located near the carry-out port 72 is
A step 79 is provided on the inner surface of 5 so that the lowermost bar can be easily dropped to the carry-out port 72 when the barn breaking cam 78 is driven.

On the other hand, an inspection unit 49 is provided in the middle of the moving path of the lift 48 for discriminating the denomination of coins.
The inspection unit 49 determines the denomination by detecting the material and outer diameter of the bar.

As shown in FIG. 11, the inspection unit 49 is movably provided and has an inspection coil 41 to which a sine wave voltage is applied, and an inspection coil 41 which is disposed to face the inspection coil 41 and is provided. Width shift plate 4 that moves in synchronization with the movement of
2 is provided. When the bar P placed on the lift 48 is located between the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42, the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42 approach each other (see FIG. 11A). ), The bar P is clamped, and the end of the bar P to be inspected is inserted into the inspection coil 41 (FIG. 1).
1 (b)).

Here, as shown in FIGS. 11 (d) and 11 (e), a sensor 102 comprising a microswitch and a detection plate 103 are provided inside the inspection coil 41. Then, the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42 are
When the metal bar P is turned on the sensor 102 via the detection plate 103, the end of the metal bar P is
1 can be reliably detected. On the other hand, if the sensor 102 is not turned on even though the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42 are close to each other, it is detected that the bar is not at the correct position. In this way, it is detected whether or not the coin bars are aligned at the correct position when the coin type of the coin bars is determined. Note that the sensor 102 is not limited to a micro switch, and may be a photo interrupter. When the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42 approach each other,
At the same time, the bar P is centered. In this configuration,
All the coins P can be arranged at a common center regardless of the denomination. When the inspection is completed,
The inspection coil 41 and the width shifting plate 42 move in a direction away from each other (see FIG. 11C), and the lift 48 can be moved thereafter.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram of an electric circuit of the inspection unit 49. The sine wave transmitter 200 is the driver 20
1 is connected to the inspection coil 41. The output terminal of the inspection coil 41 is connected to the subtractor 20 via the amplifier 202.
3 is connected. Further, the subtractor 203 is connected to the amplifier 2
04 and an A / D converter 205 are electrically connected to a control device (CPU) (not shown).

Next, the dispensing operation and the depositing operation of the depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 having the above-described configuration will be described. First, the dispensing operation will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 13A, the elevator 7 is initially waiting at the lowermost part in the apparatus 1. In response to a withdrawal command from a host controller, the elevator 7 is driven by the motor 11 (see FIG. 3) to move up to a predetermined cassette 20 position corresponding to the withdrawal command and stopped (see FIG. 13B). . At this stage, after the latch 15 of the elevator 7 is engaged with the latch plate 16 (see FIG. 3) and the stop position of the elevator 7 is confirmed by a stop position confirmation sensor (not shown), the take-out lever shown in FIG. 27 rotates. When the take-out lever 27 rotates (see FIG. 13C), one of the leading bars of the cassette 20 is pushed up. The pushed bar moves over the bar shutter 21 (see FIG. 8) and falls into the hopper 65 of the elevator 7. At this time, in the cassette 20 from which the coin-roll has been removed, the remaining coin-roll is pressed against the coin-roll shutter 21 by the force of the backup 26 (see FIGS. 7 and 8), and a standby state in which the next coin-roll can be taken out. Becomes When the dispensing confirmation sensor 28 detects that the coin bars have been removed, the removal lever 27 rotates in the reverse direction and returns to its initial position (see FIG. 13D). For example, when two coins are to be taken out, the take-out lever 27 is rotated again from this state, and the next coin is fed to the elevator 7.
Is dropped into the hopper 65.

When the removal from the target cassette 20 is completed, the latch solenoid 17 (see FIG. 3) is excited.
As a result, the latching state between the latch 15 and the latch plate 16 is released, and the elevator 7 becomes operable.

After that, the elevator 7 sequentially operates the predetermined cassettes 20 in accordance with the amount and the number requested by the higher-level control device.
At the position, and at the time when all take-outs are completed, it stops at the uppermost end of the moving route and is located immediately below the deposit / withdrawal port 4 (see (e) of FIG. 13).

When the elevator 7 is located immediately below the deposit / withdrawal port 4, the shutter 5 is opened, so that the operator can take out the coins carried by the elevator 7. At the stage where it is confirmed by the residual sensor 66 (see FIG. 9) that no coin-roll remains in the elevator 7, the shutter 5 is closed and the elevator 7 is returned to the lowermost initial position ((f in FIG. 13). )reference).

By performing the above-described series of operations, it is possible to dispense the required coin type and number of coins. next,
The deposit operation will be described.

When the operator sets the coins on the cassette 20 in the depositing and dispensing apparatus 1 by himself, the door 3 is opened to take out the cassette 20, and the coins P are aligned from the opening of the cassette 20 into the cassette 20. I just need to enter.

Hereinafter, a case in which the setting of the metal bars in the cassette 20 is automatically performed will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 14A, the elevator 7 is initially waiting at the lowest position in the apparatus 1. The elevator 7 is raised to the top of the apparatus 1 by the driving of the motor 11 (see FIG. 3) and stopped (see FIG. 14 (b)) in response to a deposit command from the host controller (S1). Then, in this state, the shutter 5 is opened (S2). At this time, the apparatus 1 is in a standby state waiting for the operator to insert the coins into the hopper 65 of the elevator 7.

Thereafter, the operator puts a predetermined number of bars into the hopper 65 (S3) and closes the shutter 5 (S3).
4), the bar setting work by the elevator 7 is started. Alternatively, when the operator inputs that the setting of the coins in the hopper 65 is completed to the higher-level control device, the shutter 5 is closed, and the coins setting operation by the elevator 7 is started.

When the shutter 5 is closed, the bar set in the hopper 65 of the elevator 7 separates the shutters 44, 4 from each other.
5 are separated one by one by the separation elevator 46 (S5), and the elevator 7 moves to the position of the cassette 20 corresponding to the coin type. Hereinafter, this will be described in detail.

In order to separate the bars, as shown in FIG. 15A, the separation shutters 44 and 45 are set in a state where the separation elevator 46 is raised to the upper end position of the moving path.
open. This causes only one bar to drop into the separation elevator 46. Thereafter, the separation shutters 44 and 45 are closed in conjunction with moving the separation elevator 46 downward, so that only one bar is removed from the separation elevator 46.
Side can be separated. This state is shown in FIG.
To (d) of FIG.

In particular, in this embodiment, in a certain case,
Without completely closing the separation shutters 44 and 45, the separation shutters 4 and 45 are kept closed and the separation shutters 4 and 45 are closed.
A slight gap 90 is formed between the 4, 45 members (see (c) and (d) of FIG. 15). This is because when the roll of paper is peeled off, the peeled portion is caught between the shutters 44 and 45 when the separation shutters 44 and 45 are closed, so that the bar does not drop into the separation elevator 46. Because there is.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, when a plurality of bars loaded in the hopper 65 are continuously separated,
The separation shutters 44 and 45 are not completely closed. That is, when the residual detection sensor 66 detects that there is no coin bar in the hopper 65, the separation shutter 4
When the separation shutters 44 and 45 are closed, when the separation shutters 44 and 45 are closed, when the separation shutters 44 and 45 are closed. A gap 90 is formed between the separation shutters 44 and 45 so that the peeled portion can pass through.

In such a separation step, the sensor 82 on the separation elevator 46 side detects the separation elevator 46.
If the top bar is determined to be a 500 yen coin,
After lowering the separation elevator 46 by about 5 mm, the shutter 4
4, 45 should be closed. This is because, as described above, since the diameter of the receiving surface 46a of the separation elevator 46 is smaller than the diameter of the 500-yen coin, the 500-yen coin is placed in a floating state on the receiving surface 46a. Therefore, if the separation elevator 46 is not lowered before closing the separation shutters 44 and 45, the separation shutters 44 and 45 will pass below the barycenter position of the bar and the separation operation cannot be performed. When the sensor 82 determines that the coins on the separation elevator 46 are other than 500 yen coins, the separation shutters 44 and 45 may be closed almost simultaneously with the lowering of the separation elevator 46. In this case, since the separation shutters 44 and 45 pass above the barycenter position of the bar, the bar can be reliably separated.

The bars separated as described above are shown in FIG.
As shown in (2), at the lower end position of the moving path of the separation elevator 46, it is delivered to and transported to the coin-roll transport block 47. Thereafter, the coin-roll is transferred from the coin-roll transport block 47 to the lift 48, and transported to the inspection unit 49 by the lift 48 (S6).

When the lift 48 is lifted and the bar P placed on the lift 48 is located between the inspection coil 41 of the inspection unit 49 and the width adjusting plate 42, the inspection coil 41 and the width adjusting plate 42 Are close to each other and clamp the bar, whereby the end of the bar to be inspected is inserted into the inspection coil 41 (see FIG. 11).

At this time, the sensor 102 in the inspection coil 41 determines whether or not the bar to be inspected is aligned at a correct position.
Is detected by This detection operation will be described with reference to FIG. That is, the inspection coil 41 and the width shift plate 42
Are closer to each other (S101), the sensor 102
When is turned on (S102), the coin type is discriminated by the inspection unit 49 because the coin bar is at the correct position (S103). On the other hand, the inspection coil 41 and the width shift plate 4
2 are close to each other, the sensor 102
When N has not been performed (S102), the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42 are once moved in a direction away from each other (S102).
104), a redo operation of moving in the approaching direction again is performed. If the sensor 102 fails to detect that the coin P is at the correct position even after repeating the redo operation a predetermined number of times, the material and the outer shape of the coin, which serves as a base for discriminating the denomination, cannot be reliably measured. Therefore, it is determined that the denomination is impossible and the rejected coin is determined (S10).
6).

Next, a description will be given of a method in which the inspection unit 49 determines the denomination of coins. As a method of discriminating the denomination, for example, a bar is inserted into a coil to which a sine wave voltage is applied to measure a specific output fluctuation accompanying the material of a coin, or an optical sensor is moved to move the bar. There are various methods such as measuring the diameter.

In this embodiment, the former method is used. A sine wave voltage is applied to the inspection coil 41 to generate a magnetic field, and the material and the outer shape of the bar inserted into the coil 41 are generated. , The degree of disturbance of the magnetic field is detected, and the denomination is determined by comparing the detected value with reference data. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 12, a sine wave is transmitted from the sine wave transmitter 200 to excite the inspection coil 41 via the driver 201. And the coil 41
Output value from the amplifier 202, the subtractor 203, the amplifier 2
The digital signal is taken into the A / D converter 205 via the A / D converter 04 and digitized, and the signal is taken into the CPU. Then, the denomination is determined by comparing the data taken into the CPU with an absolute value set according to the denomination.

By the way, the frequency of the sine wave applied to the inspection coil 41 is preferably 5 KHz or less when the material is different depending on the denomination such as a bar. This is because, at a frequency of 5 KHz or more, the influence of the skin of the metal bar appears greatly, and the influence of the scratches or bending of the metal bar may be picked up. Therefore, the frequency is 5 kHz
With the following, the magnetic flux enters the inside of the bar, so that the denomination can be accurately determined.

However, even when a sine wave having a frequency of 5 KHz or less is used, the sine wave or the like may affect the output value from the inspection coil 41. In such a case, the six denominations are surely used. Cannot be determined,
That is, there is a possibility that a sufficient resolution cannot be obtained.
Further, even at a frequency of 5 KHz or less, when the frequency is high, the effect of the material is small and the effect of the outer shape is large, but when the frequency is low, the effect of the material is large. There is a possibility that accurate inspection cannot be performed only by using the sine wave of the frequency. That is, these two problems are solved by using sine waves of two or more kinds of frequencies.

Therefore, in this embodiment, two or more types of frequencies are used, utilizing the characteristic that the material and the outer shape are different depending on the denomination and the amount of change in the output is different depending on the frequency of the sine wave applied to the coil 41. Use the sine wave of For example,
When using two types of sine waves, the coil 4
The first data is obtained by applying the frequency A with the bar inserted in the first position, and the second data is obtained with the frequency B different from the frequency A being applied. The denomination is determined. That is, the denomination of the coin bar is performed by performing a relative comparison between the two data.

Alternatively, the denomination may be determined by comparing each data with an absolute value set according to the denomination. In this way, if sine waves of two or more types of frequencies are applied to one bar, the relative amount of change can be measured, and problems caused by failure of the measurement system can be reduced. .

Note that a sensor 100 (see FIG. 9) for detecting a hole in the bar is provided inside the coil 41, whereby a bar having a hole can be selected. When the denomination of the denomination by the inspection unit 49 is completed as described above (S7), the full state of the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination is detected by reading the state of the sensor 101 (see FIG. 16) (S8). . If the cassette 20 is not full, the elevator 7 moves to the position of the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination (see (c) of FIG. 14) (S9).
At the same time, the inspection coil 41 and the width shift plate 42 move in a direction away from each other (see (c) of FIG. 11), and the lift 48 rises toward the bar pusher 52.

When the elevator 7 moves to the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination and the lift 48 moves to the upper end position of the moving path, that is, the position of the bar pusher 52, the bar pusher 52 is driven to drive the bar on the lift 48. Gold cassette 20
(See (d) of FIG. 14) (S10). The loading operation will be described in detail. First, the bar pusher 52 pushes the bar raised to the position of the bar pusher 52 by the lift 48 toward the cassette 20. At this time, the coin bar is conveyed while pushing the coin bar shutter 21 located on the front surface of the cassette 20 and the coin bar in the cassette. The coin-roller pusher 52 stops at a position where the loaded coin-roller completely exceeds the coin-roller shutter 21 (detected by a sensor), and thereafter returns to the elevator 7 side. At this time, the coin-rolling shutter 21 is raised by the urging force of the spring 23, and the loaded coin-roll is removed from the cassette 2.
Set to 0.

The above-described operation is repeated until there is no coin-roll left in the elevator 7 (S11), thereby completing the deposit operation. When the deposit operation is completed, the elevator returns to the initial position (see (e) of FIG. 14) (S12).

Detecting the cassette full state (S8)
If the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination determined in step (1) is full, the elevator 7 is moved to the dispensing position of the corresponding cassette 20 (S13), one bar is removed from the cassette 20, and the hopper 65 is removed. (S14).
Specifically, after the elevator 7 moves to the dispensing position of the cassette 20 and the stop position of the elevator 7 is confirmed by a stop position confirmation sensor (not shown), the takeout lever 27 shown in FIG. 8 rotates. . Eject lever 27
When is rotated, one of the leading bars of the cassette 20 is pushed up. The pushed bar is a bar shutter 21.
And rolls down into the hopper 65 of the elevator 7. At this time, in the cassette 20 from which the coin-roll has been removed, the remaining coin-roll is pressed against the coin-roll shutter 21 by the force of the backup 26, and a standby state in which the next coin-roll can be removed. When the dispensing confirmation sensor 28 detects that the coin bar P has been removed, the removal lever 27 rotates in the reverse direction and returns to its initial position.

When the removal of the coins is completed, the elevator 7 is moved to the corresponding deposit position of the cassette 20 (S15), and the coins remaining in the inspection unit 49 are loaded (stored) (S16). . That is, the elevator 7 moves to the deposit position of the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination (see (c) of FIG. 14) (S15), and the inspection coil 41 and the width approaching plate 42 move in a direction away from each other. Then, the lift 48 rises toward the coin-roller pusher 52 (see FIG. 11C).

When the elevator 7 moves to the cassette 20 corresponding to the denomination and the lift 48 moves to the upper end position of the moving path, that is, the position of the bar pusher 52, the bar pusher 52 is driven to drive the bar on the lift 48. Gold cassette 20
(See (d) of FIG. 14). In this loading operation, first, the coin bar pusher 52 pushes the coin bar raised to the position of the coin bar pusher 52 by the lift 48 toward the cassette 20. At this time, the coin bar is conveyed while pushing the coin bar shutter 21 located on the front surface of the cassette 20 and the coin bar in the cassette. The coin-roller pusher 52 stops at a position where the loaded coin-roller completely exceeds the coin-roller shutter 21 (detected by a sensor), and thereafter returns to the elevator 7 side. At this time, the coin bar shutter 21 is raised by the urging force of the spring 23, whereby the loaded coin bar is set in the cassette 20.

When the loading is completed, the elevator 7 moves to the uppermost position (S17), and the shutter 5 is opened (S18), so that the bar in the hopper is releasably released. Thereby, the operator can take out the bar stock in the hopper 65 of the elevator 7.

Thereafter, the operator removes the coin bar from the hopper 65 (S19), and when it is confirmed by the residual sensor 66 that the coin bar does not remain in the hopper 65, the shutter 5 is closed (S20). , Elevator 7
Returns to the initial position (S21). When the cassette 20 is returned full, the denomination of the full cassette is displayed on the display unit 6 so that the operator can check the full money among the bar money returned to the hopper 65. It is also possible to remove the coins of the seed and to put the coins of another kind into the hopper 65 again to perform the deposit processing.

Further, the coin bars, for which the denomination cannot be determined by the inspection unit 49, are loaded into the lowermost reject unit 60 (see FIG. 5) by the same operation as described above and stored there. .

[0065]

As described above, the coin-rolling / dispensing apparatus of the present invention detects a full state of a cassette corresponding to a denomination determined by the inspection unit during a deposit operation, and determines that the cassette is not full. Is stored in the cassette of the corresponding denomination, and when the cassette corresponding to the discriminated denomination is full, the coin-depositing mechanism removes the coin from the cassette of the corresponding denomination. After being taken out, the determined coin is stored in a corresponding cassette. Therefore, the coins conveyed to the inspection unit are not stored in the reject storage because the cassette is full, and the reject collection process by the operator is not required thereafter.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a coin-rolling and dispensing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which a shutter of a cash slot of the coin-roll depositing and dispensing apparatus of FIG. 1 is opened.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a part of the internal structure of the coin-roll-in / pay-out device of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which a cassette row is set inside the coin-roll-in / pay-out device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a side view schematically showing the internal structure of the coin-roll depositing / dispensing apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing how a cassette is set on a cassette base.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing an internal structure of the elevator and the cassette, showing a state where the elevator is positioned adjacent to a predetermined cassette.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is an internal configuration diagram of an elevator.

FIG. 10 is a state diagram showing a state in which a plurality of coin bars are accommodated in a hopper of an elevator.

FIGS. 11A and 11B are a perspective view and a cross-sectional view illustrating an operation of an inspection coil and a width shift plate included in the inspection unit. FIGS.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram of an electric circuit of the inspection unit.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a procedure of a dispensing operation.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a procedure of a deposit operation.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an interlocking mechanism between a separation shutter and a separation elevator.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a full state detection sensor of the cassette unit.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating a deposit operation.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart illustrating a position detecting operation in a denomination determining unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Payment and withdrawal device, 7 ... Elevator, 20 ... Cassette, 2
7 ... take-out lever (roll-out mechanism), 49 ... inspection unit, 5
2 ... bar pusher (bar feed mechanism), 65 ... hopper, 1
01 ... cassette full sensor (full detection means), 102 ...
Sensor (alignment detection means).

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of cassettes for storing coins for each denomination, a hopper for receiving coins to be received and discharging coins to be dispensed, and a coin in the plurality of cassettes. In a coin-rolling and dispensing apparatus including a coin-roll discharging mechanism for unloading the coin into the hopper and a coin-rolling-in mechanism for transferring the coin in the hopper into the cassette, the rod loaded by the coin-rolling means. A discriminating unit for discriminating the denomination of gold; a full detecting unit for detecting whether or not a cassette corresponding to the denomination determined by the discriminating unit is full; and a full state is not detected by the full detecting unit. When
First storage means for storing the discriminated coin in a cassette of a corresponding denomination; and when the full state is detected by the fullness detecting means, the coin disc unloading mechanism from the discriminated cassette of the discriminated denomination. And a second storing means for storing the discriminated bar in a cassette of a corresponding denomination after carrying out the bar in accordance with the above. 2. The coin-roll depositing / dispensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disc-stick in the hopper is stored in the cassette whose fullness is detected by the second storage means. A coin-roll-in / pay-out device, further comprising return means for releasably releasing the device to the outside of the device. 3. A plurality of cassettes for storing coins for each denomination, an elevator provided with a hopper capable of accommodating the coins and vertically moving adjacent to the plurality of cassettes, and A coin-rolling and dispensing apparatus including a coin-roll discharging mechanism for unloading a rod in an elevator hopper and a rod-rolling-in mechanism for transferring a rod in the elevator into the cassette, wherein the elevator has a bottom opening of the hopper. The open / close shutter which is arranged in the hopper, the coin-roll separating mechanism which receives the coins under the shutter and separates the coins in the hopper one by one, and receives the coins separated by the coin-roll separating mechanism. A transport mechanism for transporting the transported bar to the coin feeding mechanism, a discriminating unit provided in the transport path of the transport mechanism for discriminating the denomination of the coins transported by the transport mechanism, Full detection means for detecting whether the cassette corresponding to the denomination determined by the full is full, and when full is not detected by the full detection means,
First storage means for storing the discretionary bar in a cassette of a corresponding denomination, and when the fullness detection means detects fullness, the barn unloading mechanism from the discriminationary cassette of the denomination. And a second storing means for storing the discriminated bar in a cassette of a corresponding denomination after the bar is conveyed out by the apparatus. 4. The coin-roll depositing / dispensing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the discriminated bar is stored in a cassette in which the second storing means has detected that the bar is full, and then the elevator is moved to move the elevator. A coin-rolling / dispensing apparatus, further comprising a return means for releasing the coin-rod in the hopper to the outside of the apparatus so as to be able to be taken out.