JPS58176772A - Bank note storing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the using efficiency of a bank note storing device and at the same time to reduce the load of an operator, by providing an input means which designates a count mode to count and return the bank notes and a returning means. CONSTITUTION:When a count mode is designated by a mode designation key 5a, a mechanism control part 19 drives a discriminating part 21 to count bank notes. Then a returning/transporting part 22 is driven, and the transport path is switched to the discharging side through a transport path switching part 9. As a result, the bank notes counted at the part 21 are discharged to a stacker part 7 along a belt 8'. When the counting is ended with all bank notes, a primary control part 15 reads out the counting result out of a memory 16 and then displays the number of sheets of bank notes or the counted amount at a display part 4. As a result, the counting of bank notes, the allotment of monetary sorts, etc. can be automated. Thus a note storing device can be applied to a wider range of purposes.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 0 Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote storage device, and more particularly to a banknote storage device that can more effectively utilize the banknote counting function in a banknote validating section.

0 Background of the Technology In banking, one of the essential operations is the management of cash deposited or withdrawn in customer transactions such as deposits and payments.

In recent years, this cash management has been carried out by automatic machines called deposit machines, withdrawal pockets, etc.

In particular, in the case of a deposit machine, banknote handling functions such as verifying the authenticity of banknotes received from customers or confirming the receiving bank account are required.

In addition, with the development of automatic machines, so-called automatic transaction machines that automatically handle transactions such as deposits and payments at locations other than counters have also become widespread.

a depository institution i-′ that conducts deposit transactions with this automatic transaction device;
r, 1. A banknote storage device is installed which performs a precise banknote twisting machine similar to the above-mentioned deposit machine.

・) I+l'-Yoneeda Technique and Problems The conventional banknote storage device has a discrimination section that separates the banknotes inserted through the slot. The banknotes that have been graded as 4.5 banknotes by this discrimination section are returned through the return slot and are structured as 5. In addition, the discrimination section counts the bills that have been discriminated from genuine bills, and is configured to deposit the bills into the storage section (safe) only when the counted hammer matches the deposit amount given in advance by another device or an operator. For example, in the case of a deposit machine, banknotes received from customers at the teller counter (deposited through deposit transactions, etc.) are transferred to the bank (
(to) 口) Inserted by the staff. In this way, only the banknotes to be stored in the banknote storage device are inserted into the banknote storage device, and if there is no deposit from the customer, the device will be in an idle state.
It was 1.

On the other hand, when considering the management of counter operations by clerks, banknote counting operations are frequently performed, such as counting banknotes received from customers or counting banknotes handed over to lit customers again. Further, when it is necessary to bundle banknotes into a predetermined number of banknotes according to a customer's request, the number of banknotes is counted manually. In this way, bank staff were left with a heavy burden of counting banknotes.

0 OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the conventional art by making it possible to use the banknote storage device for more purposes.
To provide a banknote storage device that not only improves the efficiency of use of banknotes, but also reduces the burden on counter staff and speeds up transaction operations.

0 Structure of the Invention In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the bill storage device of the present invention includes a bill slot, a discrimination section that discriminates the bills input from the crease slot and counts only genuine bills, and a bill storage device for the discrimination section. In a banknote storage device having a storage mechanism for storing counted banknotes and a return mechanism for returning banknotes that have been discriminated as counterfeit banknotes by the discrimination section, a counting mode is provided in which the banknotes input from the input slot are counted and returned. The present invention is characterized in that a manual means for specifying is provided, and a return means is provided for returning the banknotes counted by the discrimination section when the counting mode is specified.

The present invention will be explained in detail below using Examples.

・] Example XjI of the invention, Figure 1 is an external view showing the bill storage device of the present invention, Figure 2 is an internal configuration diagram of the banknote storage device 1 shown in Figure 1, and Figure 3
The figure is a control system block diagram of the device 1.

In the figure, 1 is a bill storage device, 2 is an input slot, 3 is a return slot, and 4
is the display section, 5 is the numeric keypad, 6 and 7 are the banknote stacker section, 8
1 is a conveyor belt, 9 is a conveyance path switching section, 10 is a primary door section, 11 is a safe, 12.1314 is a feed roller, 15 is a main control section, 16 is a memory, 17 is a line control section, 18 is a line, 19 is a 20 is a mechanism control section, 20 is an input conveyance section, 21 is a discrimination section, 22 is a return conveyance section, and 23 is a storage section.

#! The configuration of the device 10 shown in FIG. 2 may be considered to be the same configuration as a conventional banknote storage device. The normal banknote storage operation of the device 1 will be explained below.

As shown in FIG. 2, the banknote storage device is connected by a circuit 18 to an off-the-shelf transaction machine (OT'M). Normally, from this time 11118, the mechanism control unit 19 is activated via the main control s18 in response to a bill storage request manually inputted.

Further, it is also possible for the staff member to manually input a bill storage request by operating the numeric keypad 5.

The mechanism control section 19 first starts the input conveyance section 20 and opens a shutter (not shown) provided at the input port 2. The banknotes input into the input slot 2 are stacked on the stacker section 6. When the banknotes are completely stacked in the stacker s6, the input conveyance section 20 rotates the feed roller 12 and conveys the banknotes one by one to the discrimination section 21. #i discrimination 21 is the mechanism control unit 19
Under the control of the conveyor belt 8, the authenticity and denomination of banknotes conveyed by the conveyor belt 8 are determined. The validation unit 21 notifies the mechanism control unit 19 of the banknote validation results, and stores the XM banknote counting results (number of bills for each denomination, total number, etc.) in the memory 16 via the control unit 19. The banknotes that are identified as genuine banknotes by the recognition unit 21 are sent to the feeding roller 14 by the storage unit 23.
(by the rotation of), it is stored in the next door section 10. The conveyance path switching unit 9 is configured to store genuine banknotes that have been normally verified in the primary storage unit 10 via the feed rollers 14.
It forms a conveyance path. If the discrimination result of the discrimination h21 is a defective banknote, the mechanism control unit 19 returns the banknote to the return conveyance unit 22.
is driven. That is, the return conveyance section 22 outputs a conveyance path switching signal to the switching section 9. Based on this signal, the conveyance path switching section 9 disconnects the conveyance path to the intermediate pool 10 described above.
It is connected to the conveyance path to the conveyor belt driven by the feed row 213.

Accordingly, the defective banknotes are discharged to the stacker 7 by the conveyor belt by the rotation of the feeder roller 213.

The defective banknotes discharged to the stacker 7 can be taken out through the return slot 3. Similarly, when the discrimination section 21 finishes counting all the banknotes, the input conveyance section 20 closes the shutter of the input slot 2. Furthermore, the identification section 21
notifies the main control section 15 via the mechanism control section 19 of a signal indicating the end of counting. Further, the results of counting the number of banknotes for each denomination of banknotes that have been discriminated as genuine banknotes are stored in the memory 16 as described above.

The p main control section 15 receives the counting end signal from the mechanism control section 19.
sends a storage request from the line control section 17 to the number of coins data for each denomination stored in the memory 16 and transmits it to the nine transaction processing machines. The transaction processing machine confirms that the amount of money to be stored in the device 1, that is, the amount of nine banknotes to be inserted, is correct based on the received data on the number of bills. As a result, a storage command (from the transaction processing machine) is transmitted to the main control unit 15 via the transfer line 18.

With this storage command, the main control unit 15 controls the mechanism side mi, i.
- Outputs a signal to 19 indicating permission to store banknotes.

The machine #4 control unit 19 activates the storage unit 23 in response to the storage permission signal from the main control unit 15, and stores the banknotes stored in the next door 10 into gold J$111.

In this embodiment, in addition to the above-mentioned banknote storage operation (hereinafter referred to as "travel mode"), the operation will be described later. , t&X mode is added. This counting mode is selected and input using a mode designation key 5a provided on the numeric keypad 5.

- Also, the transaction processing machine is configured to specify the mode via the return 18.

The operation when the h1 number mode is set to (b) by pressing the mode designation key 5a will be explained.

If the main control section 15 is instructed to enter the counting mode by the mode key 5a, it notifies the mechanism control section 19 to that effect. Mechanism system #19, which has received the counting mode notification, starts the input conveyance section 20 and opens the shutter of the input port 2.

Furthermore, the input conveyance section 20 sends out the banknotes input into the stacker section 6 one by one to the discrimination section 21 through the feed row i2. The discrimination section 21 discriminates and counts the bills sent out. At this time, the discrimination section 21 may be configured to only count each denomination of the banknotes without performing the authenticity discrimination of the banknotes. The above operations can be considered to be the same as the normal mode operations described above.

However, in the counting mode, the banknotes counted by the discrimination section 21 are stored in the return stacker section 7 by the feed roller 13. That is, the mechanism control section 19 drives the discrimination section 21 to count banknotes, and also drives the return conveyance section 22. As described above, the return conveyance unit 22 switches the banknote conveyance path to the discharge side pressure using the conveyance path switching unit 9. As a result, the counting from the discrimination section 21 is completed and the nine banknotes are discharged to the stacker s7 along the conveyor belt.

When the discrimination section 21 completes counting of all the inserted banknotes, the main control section 15 reads out the counting results from the memory 1 and displays them on the display section 4. This display may also be a cumulative display such as the number of banknotes counted or the amount of money counted. Selection of these displays can also be specified using display selection buttons provided on the numeric keypad 5.

As described above, in this embodiment, through the skillful control of the mechanism control section 19, a counting mode is realized in which only the inserted banknotes are verified and counted and then returned. This makes it possible to count banknotes with conventional banknote storage devices.
The total amount can be calculated, and the banknote storage device can be used for many purposes.

Various modifications and applications of the face tree embodiment are possible.

That is, in the actual embodiment, the banknotes that have been counted are discharged to the stacker unit 7 for returning defective banknotes in the normal mode.
By providing a banknote return port in counting mode separately from a defective banknote return port, it becomes possible to sort out genuine and false banknotes.

Furthermore, by providing the numeric keypad 5 with a key for specifying and inputting the number of sheets to be counted, it becomes possible to count each desired number of sheets (for example, in units of 100 sheets).

Furthermore, since the secondary door section 10 is normally constructed so that it can be easily withdrawn, even if the counting operation ends with genuine banknotes stored in the primary door section 10 as in the normal mode, the amount and count data will not be displayed on the display. This can be known by the display on 4. Furthermore, by pulling out the next door section 10, the inserted banknotes can be recovered. Also, according to this method, it is possible to sort by each denomination. This is because the secondary door section 10 and safe 11 are often configured to store banknotes of each denomination.

0 Effects of the Invention As detailed above, according to the present invention, the banknote storage device can be used as it is for multiple purposes, which not only improves the usage efficiency of the device but also eliminates the need for manual counting and denomination of banknotes by bank employees. It is possible to provide a banknote storage device that exhibits excellent effects, such as being able to automate tasks such as processing.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing the banknote storage device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the banknote storage device 1 shown in FIG. 1IIJ1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the control system of the banknote storage device 1. . 1 is a banknote storage device, 2 is an input slot, 3 is a return slot, 5 is a numeric keypad, and 21 is a discrimination section. etc. 1 drawing, 2 drawings, 13 drawings

Claims (1)

[Claims] a banknote input slot; a discrimination section that discriminates the banknotes inserted through the input slot and counts the number of banknotes discriminated as genuine banknotes; and a storage mechanism that stores the banknotes counted by the discrimination section. In a banknote storage device having a return mechanism for returning banknotes that have been identified as counterfeit banknotes by the recognition unit, an input means is provided for specifying a counting mode for counting and returning nine banknotes inserted through the input slot. The banknote storage device is also characterized in that it is provided with a return means for returning the separated banknotes of the discrimination section when the counting mode is specified.