JPH1153651A - Abnormality reporting device for cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper money detection means in a cash register without the need of power supply by a battery in an automatic reporting device for detecting the pull-out of paper money, judging the occurrence of an abnormal situation based on it and automatically reporting the abnormal situation thereby. SOLUTION: A first tag 6 attached to a paper money 10 or a piece of paper 11 of almost the same size as the paper money, which resonates and oscillates response waves when receives an intrinsic frequency, is inserted to a paper money placing part 41 of the cash register 1. A first antenna part 7 which outputs detection waves composed of the intrinsic frequency for detecting the first tag 6, and for receiving the response waves from the first tag 6 is arranged at the lower part of drawer 2. In a judgement part 8, the presence/absence of the first tag 6 are detected based on the received result of the first antenna part 7, and when the first tag 6 is not detected any more, the occurrence of the abnormal situation is judged and reporting signals are outputted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an abnormality notifying device for automatically notifying the occurrence of an abnormal situation when an abnormal situation such as a burglary occurs in a supermarket, a small store, a convenience store, etc. The present invention relates to an abnormality notification device that detects that a bill has been extracted from a bill compartment, determines that an abnormal situation has occurred, and automatically detects the occurrence of an abnormal situation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a store such as a supermarket, a small store, a convenience store, etc., as a means for notifying the occurrence of an abnormal situation to the outside when an abnormal situation such as robbery occurs,
There is an emergency push button provided on the back of the cashier counter or the like, and a store clerk notifies the occurrence of an abnormal situation by pressing the button.

However, with the recent violence of crimes, criminals who carry weapons such as blades and handguns in convenience stores and the like at midnight are increasingly robbed.
In such a case, the clerk is put into a state where he cannot move, cannot operate even if the emergency push button is provided, and cannot notify the outside of the occurrence of the abnormal situation. In addition, if the clerk tries to press the emergency push button while looking at the prisoner's plow, the clerk may be exposed to the danger of the clerk if the criminal detects it.

[0004] Therefore, instead of providing an emergency push button, the fact that bills have been extracted from the cash register is detected by bill detection means provided in the bill compartment of the cash register. An automatic notification device that makes a judgment and notifies the occurrence of an abnormal situation has been considered. FIG. 8 shows a conventional cash register 20 provided with a mechanism for detecting withdrawal of bills.
The cash register 20 includes a drawer 21 having a tray 22 therein. Bill compartment 2 of tray 22
2a, a money clip 25 having an electrical contact 26 at the tip and a receiving electrical contact 27 provided at the bottom of the tray.
, A battery power supply 28, an electric circuit as a bill detecting means is constituted by the contacts 26 and 27, the power supply 28, and the wiring 29, and is connected to a transmitting means 30 composed of an infrared LED. At the rear end of the insertion portion of the drawer 21, a receiving means 31 comprising an infrared light receiving element for receiving a signal from the transmitting means 30 is attached.

The bill 10 is accommodated between the receiving electrical contact 27 and the money clip 25,
The presence or absence of a bill is detected based on whether or not 7 is connected.
When a bill is stored, the connection of the contact is cut off by the bill. Then, the detection signal is transmitted from the transmitting means 30 to the receiving means 31 when the bill 10 is removed.

[0006]

By the way, in the automatic alarm device, the cash register tray (portion for putting money) 22 can be removed, and the drawer 21 can be removed. It has been very difficult to connect the tray 22 or drawer 21 provided with the means and the cash register body by wiring.

Therefore, as means for transmitting the detection signal output from the bill detecting means to the cash register main body side, the transmitting means 30 using radio waves or infrared rays as described above has been considered, but the bill detecting means and the transmitting means have been considered. In order to operate, it was necessary to provide a power supply in the drawer portion.
In addition, batteries and batteries are used as power sources, which need to be periodically replaced or charged, and performing such operations is troublesome in terms of operation. Also, if the replacement or charging of the battery or battery is forgotten and the battery runs out or the battery runs out, when the bill is removed, the bill detecting means and the transmitting means do not operate, and it is detected that the bill has been removed. In addition, there was a problem that information could not be notified.

[0008] In a 24-hour convenience store or the like, sales are totaled at an arbitrary timing during business hours. At that time, in order to minimize the time during which the cash register cannot be used for the aggregation work, or to clarify the responsibility, the tray containing the sales proceeds up to that point is stored in the cash register for each case. After taking out from the drawer portion, the tray containing fishing tags, change, and the like may be returned to the drawer portion of the cash register for each case, and the sales may be counted.

[0009] In such a case, even if the tray is taken out in order to perform the totalization of sales in a normal business, the bill detecting means judges that the bill has been removed, and an erroneous abnormal situation is reported. I will be. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a cash register with a bill detecting means to detect the withdrawal of a bill and determine the occurrence of an abnormal situation based on the detection. Another object of the present invention is to provide a bill detecting means which does not require a battery or a power supply in an automatic notifying device for automatically notifying occurrence of an abnormal situation.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a banknote detecting means in a cash register to detect the withdrawal of a banknote, determine the occurrence of an abnormal situation based on the detection, and automatically notify the occurrence of the abnormal situation. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic notification device that does not erroneously report occurrence of an abnormal situation when totaling sales in a normal business.

[0011]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the automatic notification device according to the first aspect of the present invention, a first tag having a unique resonance frequency is attached to a bill register portion of a cash register together with other bills. To be stored. Also, a first antenna unit is provided on the cash register main body side, and outputs a detection wave for detecting the first tag,
A response wave returned from the first tag is detected.

The first judging section detects the presence of the first tag based on the output from the first antenna section, and judges that the bill has been removed when the first tag is no longer detected. Then, a notification signal for notifying the occurrence of an abnormal situation is output. Further, in the automatic notification device according to the second aspect of the present invention, in a normal business, in order to prevent the occurrence of an abnormal situation from being erroneously notified at the time of totalizing sales, a case in which a bill compartment is accommodated is included. Attach 2 tags,
A second antenna unit is provided on the main body side of the cash register.

The second tag has a resonance frequency different from that of the first tag, and the second antenna unit outputs a detection wave for detecting the second tag and is returned from the second tag. Detect the response wave. In the second determination unit, based on outputs from the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit,
The presence of the first tag and the second tag is detected, and when the first tag is not detected while the second tag is detected, it is determined that the bill has been removed, and the occurrence of an abnormal situation is determined. A notification signal for notification is output.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the first or second aspect.
In the cash register abnormality notification device, the first tag is attached to a bill or a thin piece having substantially the same size as a bill using at least one of a clip, a seal, and an adhesive. Further, the invention of claim 4 is based on claim 1
Or 2 in the cash register abnormality notification device,
The first tag is incorporated in a thin piece having substantially the same size as a bill.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, a description will be given with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an external view of the cash register 1. The drawer 2 of the cash register 1 is provided with a tray 4. The tray 4 is formed with a bill holder 41 for storing bills on the back side and a bill holder 42 on the front side for storing bills. These are housed in a case and then stored in the cash register drawer.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the abnormality notification device according to the first aspect of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram thereof. The cash register 1 has a bill tray 41 inside.
And a drawer 2 having a case 3 for accommodating a tray 4 including a coin tray 42. A money clip 5 is provided on the bill tray 41 of the tray 4. A first antenna 7 is provided on the bottom of the cash register 1. The first antenna 7 is a judgment unit 8
It is connected to the.

The first tag 6 is stored in the bill tray 41 together with the bill 10. The first tag 6 constitutes a bill detecting means together with the first antenna 7 as described later, and has the same size as a bill or a bill so as to be stored together with the bill in a bill holder portion of the cash register. Attached to a piece of paper, when receiving a detection wave having the first frequency, it resonates and returns a first response wave.

Here, referring to FIG. 3, the first tag 6,
The functions of the first antenna 7 and the first determination unit 8 will be described. The first tag 6 is a cash register tray 4
When a detection wave having the first frequency is received, the first resonance wave is returned and a first response wave is returned.

The first antenna unit 7 outputs a detection wave having a first frequency for detecting the first tag, and receives a first response wave returned from the first tag 7. I do. The first judging unit 8 detects the first tag 7 based on the output from the first antenna unit 7, and judges that the bill has been removed when the first tag is no longer detected. A notification signal for notifying the occurrence is output.

In the above configuration, when the bill 10 to which the first tag 6 is attached is housed together with another bill 10, when an outsider takes out a bundle of bills from the drawer 2 of the cash register 1, the bill 10 At the same time, the first tag 6 is also taken out of the bill tray 41. Then, the first tag moves out of the detection range of the first antenna. As a result, the response wave from the first tag 6 is not received by the first antenna 7. The judging unit 8 detects this, judges that the bundle of banknotes has been removed, and outputs a notification signal for reporting an abnormal situation. By doing so, it is not necessary to provide a power supply at the drawer portion of the cash register, and it is possible to provide a bill detecting means that does not require wiring between the drawer portion and the cash register main body. And
By using such a bill detecting means, troublesome maintenance work such as battery replacement or battery replacement becomes unnecessary,
In addition, it is possible to provide a highly reliable abnormality notification device that does not stop functioning due to battery exhaustion or the like.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of an embodiment of the abnormality notification device according to the second aspect of the present invention. 4, the same components as those in FIG. 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted for convenience of description. The first tag 6 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 is inserted into the bill tray 41 together with the bill, and the second tag 12 is attached to the case 4 in which the bill compartment and the bill compartment are stored. A first antenna 7 and a second antenna 13 are arranged below the drawer 2. The first and second antenna units 7 and 13 output detection waves for detecting the first tag 6 and the second tag 12, respectively, and output the detection signals from the first tag 6 and the second tag 12 respectively. And detects the first tag and the second tag. The determination unit 14 detects the presence / absence of the first tag and the second tag based on the output from the antenna units 7 and 13, and when the second tag is detected, the first tag is not detected. And that a bill has been removed, and outputs a notification signal for notifying the occurrence of an abnormal situation.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the abnormality notification device according to the second aspect of the present invention. The first tag 6 is stored together with the bills in the bill tray 41 of the cash register, and upon receiving a detection wave having the first frequency, resonates and returns a first response wave. The second tag 12 is attached to the case 4 of the cash register in which the bill tray and the money tray of the cash register are stored. When the second tag 12 receives the detection wave having the second frequency, it resonates and returns the second response wave.

The first antenna unit 7 outputs a detection wave having a first frequency to detect the first tag, and receives a first response wave returned from the first tag. . The second antenna unit outputs a detection wave having the second frequency to detect the second tag,
The second response wave returned from the second tag is received.

The second judging section 14 is provided with the first antenna section 7
And the first tag 6 and the second tag 12 are detected based on the output from the second antenna unit 13, and when the first tag is not detected when the second tag is detected, the bill is Judgment is made that it has been extracted, and an information signal for notifying the occurrence of an abnormal situation is output. In addition, in normal business, when an insider takes out a bill for each case to perform sales aggregation,
Since the second tag 12 is also carried out together with the case 3, it is out of the detection range of the second antenna 13. In this case, the first tag is also out of the detection range of the first antenna 7 at the same time, but since the second tag has not been detected, the determination unit 14 does not determine that an abnormal situation has occurred.

Although FIGS. 4 and 5 show the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit separately, FIG.
When the first tag and the second tag are included in the detection range of one antenna, it is not necessary to separately provide antennas. In that case, the detection wave composed of the first frequency and the second
May be output alternately, and the detection of the first tag and the detection of the second tag may be performed alternately.

As described above, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the first tag is attached to the bill and the second tag is attached to the case, and the respective tags are detected by the second antenna and the second antenna. I do. The second determination unit detects the presence or absence of the first tag and the second tag based on the output from each antenna unit, and detects the first tag when the second tag is detected. When it disappears, the occurrence of an abnormal situation is determined, and an information signal for notifying the abnormal situation is output. As described above, the invention according to claim 2 outputs a notification signal for notifying the occurrence of an abnormal situation when detecting that only a banknote has been extracted, and bills for each case in order to collect sales in a normal business. This prevents the occurrence of an abnormal situation from being inadvertently notified when the user takes out the server.

By doing so, it is possible to prevent the output of an erroneous notification signal without the need for a special operation when taking out bills in order to perform the totalization of sales in normal business. In addition, when only the bill is extracted, a notification signal can be output. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a first tag according to the present invention.

The first tag 6 according to the present invention comprises at least one of a clip-like stop, an adhesive tape or an adhesive.
It is attached to the banknote 10 by one attachment means. FIG.
Fig. 4 specifically shows another mounting method of the first tag of the present invention. In this example, the tag 6 is attached so that the tag is incorporated in a paper piece 11 having substantially the same size as a bill. As a result, the tag is placed on the bill tray 41 in the first place.
When the tag 6 is stored, it can be prevented from being noticed by an outsider.

In order to implement the present invention more effectively, it is important to keep robbers from noticing the presence of the tag. Therefore, when attaching a tag to a bill, it is preferable that the tag does not protrude from the bill, and when using a piece of paper with a built-in tag, the size and color are preferably the same as the bill to be inserted. is there. In the block diagrams of the first and second aspects of the present invention shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, the notification signals output from the respective determination units are input to signal transmission means (not shown).

When the notification signal is input, the signal transmission means
A notification signal is transmitted to a notification destination via a telephone line or a network, or the notification signal is input to a security system installed separately from the abnormality notification device of the present invention. In some cases, a notification signal is input as an activation signal to those control devices in order to operate a threatening bell, a siren, or a rotating light installed in a store.

As described above, by using the signal transmission means in accordance with the situation at the site where the abnormality notification device is used or according to demand, it is possible to provide a system suitable for various situations at the site. In the description of the present invention, a place for accommodating bills to which the first tag is attached is described as a bill tray 41, but in some cases, bills are moved under the tray and stored. In such a case, the first tag may be attached to the transferred banknotes and the removal of those banknotes may be detected.

Further, a plurality of first tags and first antennas are provided, and a plurality of bill trays 41 (for example, a portion for storing 5,000 yen bills and a portion for storing 10,000 yen bills) are provided. The first tag provided to detect the removal or the plurality of first tags provided above is provided so as to be identifiable (the first tag).
(Not shown) of the tags 6A, 6B, 6C (not shown), and the first antenna is also provided corresponding thereto (the first antenna 7A,
7B, 7C... (Not shown)), it is sufficient to detect the extraction of the bill.

In the description of the embodiment of the invention, an example in which a paper piece is used as a thin piece is used. However, the material is not limited to paper. Any material may be used as long as it is made of a small number of materials, for example, plastic, vinyl chloride, rubber, cloth or the like formed in a sheet shape. The reason for using a piece of paper as an example is to make it difficult for a criminal to notice the presence of the tag. The present invention detects the removal of a bill and notifies the occurrence of an abnormal situation. When a criminal grasps a tag (flake) together with another bill, the criminal notices the presence of the tag if there is a sense of incongruity. . Therefore, it is desirable that the property such as the ease of folding is similar to that of a bill.

Therefore, it is optimal that the material is the same as the paper money, but it is possible to carry out a suitable implementation as long as the properties at the time of gripping are the same as those of the paper.

[0035]

According to the abnormality notification device of the present invention, even if the clerk cannot move due to the weapons possessed by the robbers,
The occurrence of an abnormal situation can be determined by detecting that a bill has been extracted from the cash register, and the occurrence of the abnormal situation can be automatically notified. According to the abnormality notification device of the invention described in claim 1 of the present application, when the conventional bill detecting means is provided, in order to operate the bill detecting means and the transmitting means, a power source by a battery or a battery must be provided in the drawer portion. However, the trouble notification device of the present invention does not need to provide a power source in the drawer portion, and thus does not require such troublesome maintenance work such as battery replacement or battery charging.

Further, unlike the related art, since there is no possibility of running out of battery or running out of battery, the device does not stop functioning for these reasons, and a highly reliable abnormality notification device can be provided. According to the abnormality notification device of the invention described in claim 2 of the present application, it is possible to prevent a notification signal for erroneously notifying the occurrence of an abnormal condition from being output without performing a special operation when performing sales aggregation in a normal business. I do.

According to the tag of the invention described in claim 3 of the present application,
A tag can be attached to a bill at low cost and easily. According to the tag of the invention described in claim 4 of the present application, it is possible to prevent a burglar or the like from easily noticing that the tag is used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a cash register.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the abnormality notification device according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the abnormality notification device according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of an abnormality notification device according to claim 2;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an abnormality notification device according to claim 2;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a tag according to claim 3;

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a tag according to claim 4;

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional technique.

[Description of Signs] 1 Cash register 2 Drawer 3 Case 4 Tray 41 Banknote storage unit 5 Money clip 6 First tag 7 First antenna 8 First judgment unit 10 Banknote 11 Sheet of paper 12 Second tag 13 Second antenna 14 Second judgment part

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An abnormality notification device for a cash register, which detects that a bill has been removed from a bill compartment of a cash register and notifies the occurrence of an abnormal situation. A first tag that resonates and oscillates a response wave when it receives a specific frequency attached to a thin piece having a size substantially the same as that of the first tag, and outputs a detection wave having a specific frequency to detect the first tag. A first antenna unit for receiving a response wave from the first tag; and detecting presence / absence of the first tag based on a reception result of the first antenna unit. A first determining unit that determines the occurrence of a situation and outputs a notification signal; 2. An abnormality notification device for a cash register, which detects that a bill has been removed from a bill compartment of a cash register and notifies the occurrence of an abnormal situation. The first tag, which resonates and oscillates a response wave when it receives a specific frequency attached to a thin piece of approximately the same size as the one above, and is installed in a case section housed in a cash register drawer and receives a specific frequency A second tag that resonates and oscillates a response wave, and a first antenna unit that outputs a detection wave having a unique frequency for detecting the first tag and receives a response wave from the first tag A second antenna unit that outputs a detection wave having a unique frequency for detecting the second tag and receives a response wave from the second tag; The presence / absence of the first tag and the second tag is detected based on the reception results of the antenna unit and the second antenna unit, and when the presence of the second tag is detected and the first tag is no longer detected. A second judging unit for judging the occurrence of an abnormal situation and outputting an alarm signal; 3. The cash register abnormality notification device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first tag is substantially the same as a bill or a bill using an attachment means of at least one of a clip, a seal, and an adhesive. An abnormality notification device for a cash register, wherein the device is attached to a thin piece of size. 4. The cash register abnormality notification device according to claim 1, wherein the first tag is incorporated in a thin piece having substantially the same size as a bill. .