JPS58114187A - Integrator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a collecting device, such as a cash sorting and counting machine, which accepts banknotes and coins, automatically detects them, and sorts and counts them.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Conventionally, in this glazed cash sorting and counting machine, if a fault occurs in the banknote jamb 9 or piece sorting during counting, the return button on the operating section is pressed to recover the fault. There is.
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That is, as shown in FIG. 1, when the return button is pressed, it is checked whether or not the bill section and the coin section have been counted. If the bill section and the coin section have been counted, the bill section is checked. The return process is determined to be complete by opening the respective return doors for the coin section and closing the return doors for the banknote or coin section from which bills or coins have been removed.

However, in such a device, even if a failure occurs in stacking banknotes when the return button is pressed, it is necessary to process the return of banknotes and also process the return of coins. , it became very troublesome.

Purpose of the Invention This invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to solve the problem of problems occurring during the counting of one object in a device that performs numerical processing and accumulates data on multiple objects. An object of the present invention is to provide an accumulation device that can facilitate response processing in the event of a request.

Summary of the Invention This invention provides a method for detecting the opening of at least one return door using a door opening/closing detection means, then detecting that there is no residue using a non-residue detection means corresponding to that return door, and then detecting the absence of a residue corresponding to that return door. The In opening/closing detection means detects the closing, and at 9 o'clock, it is determined that the return process for the storage warehouse corresponding to the opened return door is completed.

Embodiments of the Invention Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an accumulation device of the present invention, for example, for cash, i.e.
The banknote processing device flkl and the coin processing device &2 are connected to form a single unit. The structure of the banknote processing device fjjtx will be schematically shown below. Then, a display/operation section 4 is provided on the upper part of the mounting/mold main body 3, and an input port 5 and a reject port 6 are provided in parallel in front of this. A take-out section 7 is provided in the device main body 3 facing the input port 6, and a longitudinal conveyance section 8 is provided facing the take-out direction. The denomination and authenticity of the banknotes are determined during transport by the longitudinal transport section 8, and abnormal banknotes are sent to the reject port 6, while normal banknotes are transferred in the transverse direction. . Further, a transversal conveying section 9 is provided for conveying banknotes whose conveying direction has been switched in the transverse direction, and the banknotes are sorted by denomination. Below the short-side conveyance section 9, there is a stacking section 10 that stacks banknotes sorted by denomination in a layered manner in the plane direction, and a stacking section 10 that stacks banknotes sorted by denomination in a layered manner in the surface direction. A storage section 11 is provided for storing the items all at once, and can be taken out by opening the door J2 and K. On the inside of the return door 12, a door opening/closing detector 13 composed of, for example, a microswitch is provided to detect opening/closing of this door.

In addition, the upper i'c display operation section 4, as shown in No. 3 Show 1,
It consists of a cabinet switch 21, a mode designation switch 22, a confirmation key 23, a numeric keypad 24, a group of operation keys 25, a display section 26, a card insertion slot 22, and a slip issuing slot 28. The mode finger switch 22Fi is used to designate a processing mode such as classification, front and back, argument, front and back classification counting, or counting classification. The above operation key group 25 is a denomination specification key group 25110 number key 25b1 processing number key 25c1 operator number key 25d, print key 25e, start key 25f1 strike, park key 25g
It is composed of a 1-accumulation key 25b, a return key 261, and the like. In addition, a display 626b that displays the number of sheets accumulated in each display section 26/d, a display 626b that displays the number of sheets accumulated in each accumulation section, and a display 2 that displays the total amount.
It is composed of a display 26d1 that displays the total number of 6c1 sheets and a display 26e that displays the number of numeric keypads.

The take-out section 2 and the longitudinal conveyance s8 will be explained based on FIG. 4. In the figure, it is a supply unit that collectively supplies a plurality of banknotes P stacked in the 31Fi (3) direction. The pack 7 is erected on the base plate 32 in an upright position in contact with the side plate 33, and is held by a plate 34. Note that this back-up plate 34 is connected to a biasing mechanism (not shown), and is indicated by arrow A.
It is designed to be elastically pressed in the direction. The fill K facing the back-up plate 34 is configured such that a Masuda belt 36 stretched around a plurality of rollers 35 is rotationally driven in the direction of arrow B.
A friction feed-out roller 37 that rotates in a counterclockwise direction is provided at the front end in the longitudinal direction of the banknote P that is in contact with the banknote.
A sheet slip prevention portion 38 is provided.

Further, the longitudinal conveyance section 8#: includes a longitudinal conveyance section 40 that grips and conveys the banknotes P sent out from the friction sending roller 32 of the takeout device 7 in the longitudinal direction;
It is composed of a detection section 41 and a direction conversion section 42 provided in the middle part of. The longitudinal conveyance section 40 is constructed by endlessly running conveyor belts 44, 45, 46, 47 wrapped around a plurality of idle rollers 43, and the banknote P is held between these conveyor belts 44 to 47 in the direction of arrow C. It is designed to be transported to The detection unit 41d determines the denomination, authenticity, front and back, etc. of the banknotes conveyed by the conveyance unit 40, and reads the pattern by optically scanning the surface of the banknote P being conveyed. It is configured so that discrimination can be made by comparing the value obtained by integrating the read/mother turn with the value obtained by integrating the standard pattern of the surface forward and reverse four directions for each denomination that has been set in advance. ing.

The banknote P, which is normal as a result of the determination by the direction conversion unit 42Fi and the detection unit 41, is stopped by an appropriate means, and both sides of the banknote are held between the banknotes by an appropriate means, and the banknote is switched to lateral conveyance. has been done.

The longitudinal conveyance section 8 configured in this way is connected to the take-out section 7.
The bill P sent out from the worn out delivery roller 37 is conveyed while being held in the longitudinal direction, and during the conveyance, the detecting section 4
1, the authenticity, etc. of the banknotes P are determined, and as a result of the determination, normal banknotes P are switched to short-side conveyance by the direction conversion unit 42, and abnormal banknotes P pass through the direction conversion unit 42 and are transported forward. It will be rejected by Jectro 6.

The short conveyance section 9, the accumulation section 10 and the storage section 11 are arranged in the fifth section.
This will be explained based on the diagram. This is the direction changing section of the longitudinal conveyance section 8! 2, and a sorting section 5 that sorts the banknotes P that have been transported in the short direction by denomination by denomination. The conveying section 50 includes a plurality of idle rollers 52.
t 52 & $ 6: Conveyor belt 53゜5 on l b
4 * 55 e 56 t 57 are strung together so as to run endlessly, and the banknotes P are carried on these conveyor belts 53.
57 and is conveyed in the direction of the arrow, and extends downward from the direction changing section 42 and horizontally from the lower end. Said division part 5
1 is a section ``1'' provided near each of the guide rollers 52a and capable of swinging.58 m, 58 b e 5
8e and a division guide 59 fixedly provided in the vicinity of the guide roller 52b, the division gates 58a to 58c#i are fitted onto the rotating shaft of a rotary solenoid (not shown) and can be rotated. ing.

The short-side conveying section 9 configured in this manner transports the banknotes P sent out from the direction changing section 42 by 1° before the delivery belt 53.
~ 51, while being held in the short direction. As a result of the business determination by the detection unit 41, if the denomination of the banknote being conveyed on the short side is, for example, a 100 yen banknote, the rotary solenoid (not shown) is energized and the front fL division dirt 58m is placed in the fifth position. The bill is rotated upward from the state shown in the figure, and the banknote is guided by this section 1'-5Bm and conveyed downward in FIG. is suddenly returned to the state shown in Figure 5. For 5,000 yen bills, go to the classification gate 58.
b operates in the same way as above, and in the case of a 1,000 yen bill, the numerator -)
58e operates in the same manner as described above. In the case of a 500 yen bill, it is naturally guided by the sorting guide 59 and conveyed downward. The banknotes being conveyed laterally are thus sorted by denomination by the sorting section 51.

In addition, the first accumulation section 6oa provided below the accumulation section 10/d said section 1"-) 58 m, and said section gate 5
8b, a third accumulation section 60c provided below the section gate 58c, and a fourth accumulation section 60a provided below the section gate 59. each of the stacking parts 60a to 60tllfi has substantially the same configuration, and the partition darts 581 to 58e and the partitions are guided by the id 59, and an impeller mechanism 61 for folding banknotes in the surface direction; It is composed of a stacking box (accumulating warehouse) 62 in which banknotes are stacked with their edges tucked inside. Each stacking box 62 is provided with a residual detector 90 that detects the remaining stacked banknotes via partition plates 71 and 72, which will be described later. For example, it is a well-known device consisting of a light emitting element and a light receiving element.

As shown in FIG. 6, the storage section x11d includes a partition section 63 made up of a plurality of partition plates, a relative movement mechanism section 64 that relatively moves each partition plate back and forth, and a drive section 6 that moves the partition plates.
A partitioning machine @ee consisting of
It is arranged below the .

The specific configuration of the partition mechanism 66 is shown in FIG. That is, the partition portion 63#i is composed of a first partition plate 71 and a second partition plate 22, both of which (not shown) can engage with an ID groove and move back and forth, and the second partition plate 72 are arranged so as to be movable on the first partition plate 71. Said #! The second partition plate 72 is
The center portion is bent to form a convex portion (not shown), and a protrusion 73 is attached to the front side.

This protrusion 73 floats the front end of the banknotes P stacked on the cutting plates 71 and 72, and is used to remove the stacked banknotes (necessary when banknotes are not stored in the safe 67, which will be described later). This is to simplify and speed up the process. Note that it is possible to obtain substantially the same effect as when the protrusion 73 is provided by the convex portion formed on the second partition plate 72.

The drive unit 65 has a front bracket and a door 5 attached to a side holder 74 attached to the main body 3, and a reversible motor 76 is disposed on the front bracket and door 5. A spring cam 77 is attached to the motor shaft of this reversible motor 76.
There is one stuck in place. 1. One end of a cam lever 78 is swingably supported on the front bracket 25, and a cam 7 lower 79 is attached to the middle part of the cam lever 78 and engaged with the cam 11177m of the grooved cam 77. Ori,
The other end of the cam lever 28 is engaged with an engagement hole 72b provided in the partition plate 7.2 of the second section. In addition, the lower end of the collection & warehouse 62 is closed 1tl by the above-mentioned cutting boards 71 and 72.
62 m and the upper end opening 67m of the safe 62, which will be described later, are completely closed, that is, when the cam follower 29 is at the starting end 17b of the cam ceramic 77m, the reversible motor 26
Since @&I connecting the axis of the cam follower 79 and the center of the cam follower 79 is almost parallel to the moving direction of the cutting plates 71 and 72 to form a dead center, manual closing of the cutting plates 71 and 72 can be prevented. This has the unique effect of ensuring the safety of banknotes stored in the gold fIL 67, which will be described later. Although not shown, a timing cam is attached to the tip of the motor shaft of the reversible motor 76, and the cam follower 2
When the cam groove 9 reaches the starting end ryb and the terminal end 77c of the cam groove 77&, a microswitch (not shown) is activated, and based on the output from this microswitch, the reversible operation is performed via an appropriate control device. The rotation of the motor 76 is controlled.

The concrete structure of the gold 1L67 is shown in FIG. 6, and is located below the partition portion 63 and detachably attached to the main body 3. This safe 67d upper end opening 62
A and a storage chamber 67b formed inside, and a #167 for guiding the lid plate along the upper edge.
c is provided, and the upper end opening 6 of the safe is provided as necessary.
7a can be closed and locked. A transparent hole 67d for the detector 80 is located near the upper end of the safe 67.
are bored facing each other. Inside the safe 67, a Pazuqua and a board 81 are inserted. Konoba, Kua, Gu board 81
One end of the safe 67 protrudes from a guide hole 82 in the form of a vertically elongated hole formed in the -l1ll wall of the safe 67. The elevator mechanism 83 is engaged with this protruding end. That is, up and down -
A belt 85 is attached to two pulleys 84 that are pivotally supported apart from each other in the direction.
The pulley 84 is connected to a drive motor 86 that can freely rotate in forward and reverse directions. The belt 86
A hook 87 having a recess of 87 m is attached to a part of the hole. Further, the protruding ends of the above-mentioned P, C, and F plates 81 are attached to the hooks 82.
When the detector 80 detects the passage of a banknote, the drive motor 86 is driven, and the back-up plate 81 can be gradually lowered within the banknote 67.

When the safe 67 is moved in the direction of the groove 87h, the back-up plate 81 becomes a trap so that it can be engaged with and removed from the groove 87h.

When the grooved cam 77 is rotated in the direction of the arrow J via the reversible motor 76, the storage section 11 constructed in this way can be operated as follows.
The cam lever 78 is rotated in the direction of the arrow by the action of the cam follower 290 that engages with the cam groove 77m. The rotation is transmitted to the second partition plate 12 via the retaining hole 72b.

Such a storage section 11 is equipped with a two-stage partition mechanism 66 consisting of first and second partition plates 7z, 72, etc., so that the internal partitions 71, 72 can be opened and closed. The size of the movable storage device can be reduced to about half that of the conventional one-stage type, and as a result of the narrowing of the space between the safes 67, it is possible to downsize the storage device.

On the other hand, the coin processing device f12 is constructed as shown in FIG. A sorting plate 102 inclined diagonally downward is provided at the lower end opening of this hopper 101, so that the coins C thrown into the hopper 101 can be guided one by one along the inclination. The sorting plate 102 is provided with sorting holes 103 of different sizes in stages, so that the guided coins C are dropped according to their sizes. Sorting board 102
A stacking box 5104 is provided in the lower part of the banknote processing apparatus k1, which has a stacking box 105 and a stacking box 5104 having the same structure as the banknote processing apparatus k1.
. . . and a safe 106 . A reject inspection section 107 is provided adjacent to the collector section 106, and this includes a shade 108 installed in parallel with the collection box 105, and a clamping conveyor belt 109 provided at the edge of the shade 108.
and the reject storage box 110. Reject storage box J 7 o/ri This box is provided near the above-mentioned hot/'/101, and is closed by a lid (not shown) so that it can be opened and closed. The above collection & box 105Fi is equipped with a return door 111' @: 8 to be taken out by opening the return #l11, which is installed on the main body 100. Inside the above return #l11, there is a micro switch that detects the opening and closing of this door. A JS opening/closing detection 6112 configured as shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 shows the outline of the electric circuit of this cash sorting and counting machine. That is, the control section 120Fi, the detection section 41
The total amount of processed banknotes, the number of dowels, Quantity for each denomination or each # & box 6W
The number of sheets and the like are cumulatively stored in the storage unit 21, and each display @26m of display s16.

...is displayed. In addition, the control section 1
20Fi causes the printer 122 to print various stored contents in response to signals from the print key 25e.

Next, the operation in this configuration will be explained. That is, the operator inserts his or her own ID card into the card insertion slot 27 and inputs the identification number into the numeric keypad 24. The entered No. is displayed on the display panel 25 and can be confirmed.

Next, the banknotes P and the coins C are separated into banknotes P and coins C, and the banknotes P#i direction are aligned, and they are all thrown into the slot 5 in a standing position. Coins are put into the hopper 1011. Thereby, the banknote P is conveyed to the detection unit 41 on the longitudinal conveyance path 8, and the detection unit 4) detects the denomination, authenticity, etc. of the banknote P that has been conveyed. Accordingly, the control unit 120 counts the number of coins for each denomination, calculates their total amount, and stores them together with the account number in the memory@727. Also, at this time, the control unit 120 controls the collection boxes 62 . -. The display 261A displays the sheet 1 of the meeting and the box, the display 26b displays the stacking section 1 for the collection & melody 2, and the total amount is displayed on the display 26e.

Then, when the sorting of all banknotes P input into the input slot 5 at once is completed, the first and second partition plates 71 and 72 slide to protrude from the stacking box 62, so that the accumulated banknotes pFi Vavkua .

It falls onto the 8th board. The detector 80 detects this and lowers the bank plate 81 to stop it at a position where it no longer detects the banknote P. How are the banknotes P accumulated in the safe 67?

In addition, the coins C inserted into E and D 101 are sequentially placed on the sorting board 1.
At this time, the controller 1i11 section 120Fi displays the number of coins for each piece of hardware on the display 26h, and displays the total amount on the display 26eK. The reject coin CI is guided from the shade 10B2 to the reject storage box 110 via the clamping conveyor belt 109. And hopper 101
Since the partition plate (not shown) slides so as to protrude from the collection box 105, the collected coins C are gold jik10.
Gather and finish within 6.

When the operator inserts the print key 25e, the controller 120/d prints out a slip containing the date, time, total number of banknotes P and coins C by denomination, and amount by the printer 123, into the slip issuing slot 28. mosquito,
At the same time, it is displayed on the display operation section 4.

In a device in which such an operation is performed, it is assumed that at 1 o'clock on the sorting side of banknotes P, an erroneous classification is displayed in the middle of the sorting. Then, the operator opens the return door J2 of the banknote processing device 1.
open. Accordingly, return #12 from door opening/closing detector J3
A detection signal indicating the opening of is supplied to the control section 120. Thereafter, the operator removes the classified banknotes P from each elephant core box 62. Then, a detection signal from the residual-free detector 90 is supplied to the control section 120. Then, the operator closes the return door 12. Then, a detection signal indicating the closing of the return 11xz is supplied from the door opening/closing detector 13 to the control 5120. Therefore, the control unit 120 determines that the return processing for the banknote P is completed when each of the detection signals described above is sequentially supplied.

Further, when sorting and counting the coins C, even if a failure such as one sorting occurs during the sorting, the same return process as in the case of the banknotes P is performed.

A flowchart for explaining the above operation is shown in FIG.

As mentioned above, when a failure such as misclassification occurs during classification and counting of banknotes P or coins C, return processing can be performed by returning only the banknote P or coin C in which the failure has occurred, without returning the other. Therefore, fewer operations are required for the return process.In addition, in the above embodiment, there were only banknotes and coins, but this was further subdivided and a return #In was provided for each denomination.
Although the present invention has been described as a cash counting board that allows individual returns to be processed, it can also be applied to a counting machine for postal items such as postcards and envelopes, and merchandise.

Effects of the Invention Provides an accumulating device that can facilitate the return process when a failure occurs during counting of one object, in which the invention #'' is accumulated by performing counting processing on counting objects. can.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining the conventional operation.
Figures 2 to 9 show an embodiment of the present invention containing water.
2 is a schematic perspective view of the banknote processing device and the coin processing device, FIG. 3 is a plan view of the display operation section, FIG. 4 is a schematic top view showing the takeout section and the longitudinal conveyance section, and FIG. 5 is the short FIG. 6 is a schematic front view showing the storage section, FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the main parts of the coin processing device, and FIG. 8 shows the main parts of the electric circuit. a block diagram schematically showing the parts;
FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining the main part of the operation. P... banknotes (object), C... coins (object), 12...
...Return door, 13...Door opening/closing detector, 62...Collection box (collection warehouse), 9Q...No residue detector, 105...
・Collection box (collection warehouse), 111...Return door, 112...
- Door opening/closing detector, 120...control unit. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] A plurality of collection warehouses for collecting the number of objects t'l, a plurality of return doors for returning the object tubes in the stiff collection warehouse, and a plurality of doors for detecting the open/closed states of these return doors. a closed detection means, a no-remaining detection means for detecting a state in which there is no object left in at least one of the # storage storages, and when the # opening/closing detection means detects that at least one return door is opened, after When the no-residue detection means corresponding to the return door detects that there is no residue left, and the door opening/closing detection means corresponding to the return door detects that the door is closed, the collection & warehouse corresponding to the opened return door is returned. An accumulation device characterized by comprising means for determining that processing has ended.