JPS5839393A - Paper sheet receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to an apparatus for receiving two paper sheets such as banknotes and cards.

In order to save labor at counter operations at banks and other financial institutions6
．． Automatic deposit machines, automatic teller machines, etc. are installed and in use. These automatic teller machines and automatic teller machines are equipped with a part where customers insert banknotes when making deposits, that is, a banknote receiving part, and the banknotes inserted into this banknote receiving part are checked to determine the denomination and authenticity of the banknotes. The banknotes are configured to be transported from the banknote receiving section to the next banknote processing section via a feeding mechanism for other processing. However, in the bill receiving section provided in conventional automatic teller machines and automatic teller machines, the customer has to hold the bill in his hand and insert it all the way to the bottom. It was extremely difficult to operate.

Additionally, automatic teller machines and automatic teller machines have machine-based limits on the number of bills that can be inserted at one time.

In addition, for operational purposes, we have set limits on the number of coins that can be inserted at one time, and we urge you to be careful not to exceed these limits through displays and instructions. However, since the bill receiving opening, ie, the input port, is large, sometimes bills exceeding the limit may be inserted.

If banknotes are inserted in excess of the limit, the excess banknotes will be returned, but whether or not the banknotes are excessive will be determined by counting them after passing through the feeding mechanism, and the excess will be determined at that stage. However, there were problems such as excess paper banknotes clogging.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the applicant of this application published a previous application (Utility Application No. 56-19634) to determine the thickness of banknotes by detecting the position of the banknote holding plate provided at the bottom of the banknote receiving section. We have proposed a bill accepting device that rejects a single bill if the thickness of the bill exceeds a certain thickness. Although this bill accepting device is an improvement over the conventional one.

In cases where there is a distance between the customer service side and the delivery side.

When returning banknotes, it is necessary to release the banknote holding plate before returning the banknotes, which has the disadvantage that there is a lot of processing time loss.

Therefore, the first object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet receiving device that allows easy insertion and removal of paper sheets, that is, excellent operability.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet receiving device that can detect and promptly return paper sheets of a certain thickness or more when they are inserted.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned first object, the paper sheet receiving device of the present invention is provided with a removable stopper in the middle space of one paper sheet receiving section, and in the first stage of feeding, this stopper stops the banknotes at a predetermined position. If the check is OK, the stopper is removed and the paper sheet is sent out to the bottom of the paper receiver using the take-in roller.

Father In order to achieve the above-mentioned second object, the paper sheet receiving device of the second invention is provided with a stopper that can be freely inserted and removed in the middle space of one sheet receiving section, and a stopper that can be freely inserted and removed between the receiving opening and the stopper of the nine sheet receiving sections. It is equipped with a pair of intake rollers, one of which can move toward and away from the other, and a detector that detects the thickness of the paper sheet based on the distance between the intake rollers. At the same time, the paper sheet is held between the pair of take-in rollers and the thickness of the paper sheet is detected by the thickness detector. 9 If the thickness of the paper sheet is above a certain level, the acceptance of thousand banknotes will be refused, and if it is below a certain level, the paper sheet will be rejected. The feature is that the stopper is pulled out and the take-in roller is driven to send the paper sheet to the bottom of the receiving section.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a bill receiving device showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, bill receiving section 1. is a receiving plate 2 which partly constitutes a side wall. Upper edge plate forming part of the other side wall 3. It is formed by a bottom part 4 and a banknote pressing plate 5. Bill acceptance section 1
A shutter 6 is provided above to open and close the reception port 1a. Also, a stopper 7 is located approximately in the center of the bill receiving section 1.
It is provided so that it can be controlled to be freely inserted and removed. The insertion and removal of the stopper nozzle 7 is controlled by turning on and off a stopper solenoid 8. That is, when the stopper solenoid 8 is turned off, the stopper is projected into the intermediate space of the bill receiving section 1, and when the stopper solenoid 8 is turned on, the stopper is removed from the intermediate space of the bill receiving section 1. A pair of take-in rollers consisting of a driven take-in roller 9 and a driven take-in roller 10 are disposed between the acceptance opening 1a of the bill acceptor 1 and the midway space of the bill acceptor 1 where the stopper 7 is protruded. ing. The drive intake roller 9 is configured to be rotatable in both forward and reverse directions. Further, the driven roller 10 is supported by one end of a V-11 which is pivoted at a dogleg-shaped bent portion. The other end of the lever 11 is the intake solenoid 12
At the same time, when the intake solenoid 12 is turned off, the return spring 13 returns to its original state.

When the take-in solenoid 12 is turned off, the driven take-in roller 10 moves toward the drive take-in roller 9 due to the return force of the return spring 13, and clamps the nine banknotes 14 that have been inserted.

Piece 11b to which the intake solenoid 12 of the lever 11 is connected
A bill detection sensor 15 is provided near the east bank of the banknote.

This banknote east side detection sensor 15 is a photoelectric type detector, and when the thickness M of the banknote bundle is less than a certain value, the driven take-in roller 10 approaches the drive take-in roller 9 due to the return force of the return spring 13. When the piece 11b of the lever 11 is raised upward, the detection sensor 15 does not derive an output signal, but when the thickness M of the banknote bundle 14 exceeds a certain value, the driven roller 10 does not approach the drive take-in roller 9 due to the thickness. Therefore, lever 11
The piece 11b also does not rise upwards, and the detection sensor 15 outputs a signal indicating that the banknote bundle is about 2" thick.

The banknote holding plate 5 is supported by a supporter 16 and freely slides on the il+17 from side to side. The supporter 16 moves to the right by the return force of the return spring 19 when the banknote presser plate solenoid is turned off for one day, and the banknote presser plate 5 also moves to the right. On the other hand, when the solenoid 18 is turned on, the supporter 16 is pulled to the left by its suction force, so that the bill pressing plate 5 also moves to the left.

The space between the lower part of the receiving plate 2 and the bottom part 4 is a banknote feeding opening 2°. A bill dispensing roller 21 is provided near the bill dispensing port 2o. Further, a double-sheet prevention roller 22 is provided in contact with the banknote and feed-out roller 21. The two rescue prevention rollers 22 are supported by one end of a support lever 23, and the support lever 23 is pivotally mounted at the other end. 2 The rescue prevention roller 22 is biased by the force of the spring 24 and the bill feeding roller 2
1 is pressed. Note that 25 is a photoelectric detection sensor for detecting insertion of banknotes.

Next, the operation of the embodiment apparatus configured as described above will be explained with reference to the flow shown in FIG.

When inserting banknotes, the customer inserts his or her own magnetic card into a card slot (not shown) and specifies a deposit transaction. In step 3o, a transaction enable signal is generated, and in step 31, the transaction is confirmed. The intake solenoid 12 is turned on, and the piece 11b of the lever 11 is sucked downward to remove the driven intake roller 1.
0 is separated from the drive take-in roller, and the shutter 6 is further opened.

At this time, the stopper 7 protrudes into the midway space of the bill receiving section 1. When the shutter 6 opens, the customer puts the banknote bundle 14 into the receiving port 1a of the banknote receiving section 1. The banknote bundle 14 is inserted up to the stopper 7 and stopped, so that about half of the banknotes protrude beyond the customer service surface, as shown in FIG.

When a banknote is inserted up to the stopper 7, the detection sensor 25 detects this. Therefore, if the determination in step 32 as to whether the person detection sensor is on is YES, the operation proceeds to step 33, where the take-in solenoid 12 is turned off and the drive take-in roller 9 and the driven take-in roller 10 clamp the banknote bundle. If a banknote bundle is not inserted at step 32, the human detection sensor 25 will not output a detection output, so if the judgment is No, the process moves to step 39, and a message such as ``Please insert banknotes'' is displayed.

After the intake solenoid 12 is turned off in step 53, it is determined in step 34 whether or not the thickness detection sensor 15 is turned off. If the thickness of the input banknote bundle 14 is within a certain range, the thickness detection sensor 15 will not turn off, so the judgment is OK and the process moves to the next step 35, turning on the stopper solenoid 11 to remove the stopper 7 from the banknote receiving section 1, and to take in the drive. The drive motor of the roller 9 is rotated in the forward direction, and the banknote presser plate solenoid 18 is also turned on to move the banknote presser plate 5 to the left.
The banknote bundle 14 is sent out to the bottom 4. and step 36
Then, the take-in solenoid 12 is turned on again to separate the driven take-in roller 10 from the driving take-in roller 9. Then, in step 38, the bill 14 is fed out, the friction roller 21 is rotated in the normal direction, and the bill 14 is fed out.
are fed out one by one from the feeding port 20 to the next processing section.

Two rescue prevention rollers 22 are pressed against the feeding friction roller 21, so that two bills are not fed out from the feeding opening 20 at the same time.

In step 34, if the thickness of the inserted banknote bundle 14 is larger than a predetermined thickness, the lever 110 piece 11b does not rise upward, so the thickness detection sensor 15 is turned on. Therefore, the determination in step 55 is No, and the process moves to step 40, for example, the number of banknotes inserted exceeds the specified number. ' is displayed. Upon seeing this, the customer immediately pulls out the bill bundle, reduces the number of bills, and inserts it again. The thickness of the reinserted banknote bundle is within the specified value.

The machine goes through step 34 → step 35 →...
...The operation of step 38 will proceed.

As described above, according to the present invention, a stopper is provided that protrudes from the midway space of the banknote receiving portion so as to be freely inserted and removed.

As the first step of inserting bills, the customer only needs to insert the bills up to the stopper, so there is no need to put their hands into the bill receiving section, and they can insert and withdraw bills until they have their hands outside the customer service area. Easier entry and exit. In other words, operability is improved. Furthermore, even if foreign objects such as paper clips or coins are caught between the banknotes, they can be detected at the stage of insertion into the sweeper, and the abnormal object can be removed immediately.

Further, according to the second invention, the thickness of the banknote bundle is detected from the distance ff of the pair of take-in rollers provided between the reception opening of the banknote reception unit and the stopper, and the stopper is pulled out when the thickness is less than a certain thickness. Since the banknotes are delivered to the bottom of the banknote receiving section, even if a bundle of banknotes with a thickness exceeding a certain value is thrown in, the banknotes are rejected, thereby preventing the occurrence of jams or the like due to overloading of banknotes. Furthermore, if excessive banknotes are inserted, they can be returned immediately, so that the return process can be carried out quickly.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a bill receiving device showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 1: Bill receiving part, 4: Bottom part, 5; Bill holding plate,
6: Shutter, 7: Stopper. 8: Stopper solenoid, 9: 1lKU take-in roller, 10: Driven take-in roller, 12: Take-in solenoid, 14: Banknote, 15: Thickness detection sensor, 18
:Banknote holding plate solenoid. 21: Exclusion friction roller, 22: 2 rescue prevention roller,
25: Insertion detection sensor. Figure 2 Kasuda shi

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A paper sheet receiving section and a stopper which is protrudingly provided in the midway space of the paper sheet receiving section and can be freely controlled for insertion and removal, in order to stop the paper sheets inputted into the sheet receiving section midway through the paper sheet receiving section. A pair of take-in rollers provided between the receiving opening of the paper sheet receiving section and the stopper and capable of moving toward and away from each other, and a feeding mechanism provided near the bottom of the paper sheet receiving section for feeding out the paper sheets, A first stage of banknote acceptance is constituted, and a second stage of banknote acceptance is constituted by sending the paper sheet to the bottom of the paper sheet reception part by the taking-in roller after the stopper is removed from the paper sheet reception part. A paper sheet receiving device, characterized in that the paper sheet is fed out from the bottom of the paper sheet receiving portion by the feeding mechanism. (2) Paper sheet receiving section and 9 A stopper that protrudes into the midway space of the paper sheet receiving section and can freely control insertion and removal, in order to stop the paper sheets inputted into the sheet receiving section midway through the sheet receiving section. a pair of take-in rollers provided between the receiving opening of the paper sheet receiving section and the stopper, one of which is movable toward and away from the other; and a detector that detects the distance between the take-in rollers and the thickness of the paper sheet. Equipped with. The stopper constitutes a first stage of paper sheet reception, the bottom of the paper sheet receiving section constitutes a second stage of paper sheet reception, and after the paper sheet is received at the first stage, the pair of intake rollers A paper sheet receiving device that holds a paper sheet, detects the thickness of the sheet with the detector, and if the thickness is less than a certain value, removes the stopper and sends the sheet to a second stage of the sheet receiver. .