JPS61177591A - Inadvertently left paper money recovery unit for automatic transactor - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a forgotten bill collection device for an automatic transaction device used in banking operations, such as an automatic teller machine.

(b) Background of the Invention Conventionally, as automatic transaction devices, the following devices are known, for example.

In addition, an insertion port that also serves as a bill ejection port is provided on the front side of the device body, and a pill checker is used to identify the authenticity and denomination of the bills inserted through this insertion port, and the verified bills are sent through a return conveyance path. The banknotes are once pooled in the H pool section, and at the time of deposit, the banknotes in the -H pool section are transferred through the above-mentioned return conveyance path and the conveyance path of the dispensing section to the banknote cartridge of the dispensing section arranged in multiple stages above and below. The banknotes are stored by denomination, and at the time of payment, the payment banknotes are discharged from the above-mentioned feeding section to the above-mentioned discharge port via the return conveyance path.

In the above-mentioned conventional device, the abnormal banknotes that caused an error in feeding from the feeding unit and the forgotten banknotes that the customer forgot to take out of the ejection port are stored in the lower part of the banknote cartridge, which corresponds to the odor part of the main body of the device. Since the banknotes were configured to be collected all at once in one collection unit, it was not only difficult to distinguish between abnormal banknotes due to feeding errors and banknotes left behind, but also the distance between the above-mentioned collection unit and the discharge port was long. Therefore, there was a problem in that it took a long time to collect the forgotten banknotes.

(c) Purpose of the Invention This invention shortens the conveyance path for collecting forgotten banknotes by providing a collection section exclusively for forgotten banknotes near the banknote discharge port, thereby shortening the time required to collect the forgotten banknotes. It is an object of the present invention to provide a forgotten banknote collection device for an automatic transaction device, which is capable of shortening the amount of money and is also capable of distinguishing between abnormal banknotes caused by a feeding error and forgotten banknotes.

(D) Summary of the Invention The present invention is a forgotten bill collection device for an automatic transaction device, which is provided with a forgotten bill collection section that branches off from the conveyance path near the bill discharge port and collects forgotten bills. Features.

(E) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, since the forgotten banknote collection unit is provided near the above-mentioned discharge port, the conveyance path between the discharge port and the collection unit is shortened, and the forgotten banknotes can be collected. This has the effect of reducing time.

In addition, since the above-mentioned collection unit is a collection unit exclusively for forgotten banknotes, only the forgotten banknotes can be stored separately from abnormal banknotes due to feeding errors.

(f) Examples of the invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

The drawing shows a forgotten banknote collection device of an automatic transaction device, and the first
In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes the main body of the device, which has a discharge port 2 which also serves as a banknote insertion slot on its front surface (top right side in FIG. 1). A loop-shaped return conveyance path 4 is connected to the banknote tape 3.

This return conveyance path 4 has an outgoing path 4a leading to a pill checker 5 that discriminates the authenticity and denomination of banknotes, and a return path 4b is provided with a -H pool section 6 for -H pooling the received banknotes.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a payout section for dispensing banknotes, which is installed in the innermost part of the device main body 1 described above. The dispensed banknotes are sent to the above-mentioned return conveyance path 4 through the carry-out path 11, and then pass through the above-mentioned pill checker 5.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a collection section for abnormal banknotes provided at the lower part of the banknote cartridge 10 described above, and this collection section is connected to the collection section 2 from the above-mentioned feeding section 7.
Abnormal banknotes fed out in an overlapping state or in a two-sheet state are collected through a storage path 14 from below an abnormality collection flapper 13 disposed in the middle of a return conveyance path 4.

Reference numeral 15 refers to the return conveyance path 4 for the received banknotes on the banknote table 3.
16 is a feeding belt for feeding the payment banknotes from the return conveyance path 4 to the banknote table 3;
17 is a feeding roller for feeding the pool banknotes on the -11 pool section 6 to the return conveyance path 4; 18 is the return conveyance path 4;
This is a feeding belt that feeds banknotes from -H into the pool section 6, and the banknotes inserted into the banknote table 3 from the discharge port 2, which also serves as an insertion port during depositing, are sent to the return conveyance path 4 by the feeding roller 15. Rarely, pill checker 5 is sent via the same route 4.
When the banknotes are transported to the placement position, the authenticity and denomination of the banknotes are determined here, and then the banknotes are transferred from the return path 4b of the return transport path 4 to the -H pool section 6 via the feed belt 18. pooled.

When the transaction is completed, the coins in the pool section 6 are once turned by the feeding roller 17! 15) After being fed into the conveyance path 4 and passing through the pill checker 5, the flapper is conveyed from below the abnormality collection flapper 13 through the storage path 14, and is provided at the branch point between the storage path 14 and the conveyance path 11. The banknotes are carried into the receiving side of the banknote cartridges 8, 9 and 10 by denomination via the above-mentioned transport path 11 from the upper side of the banknote 19.

By the way, in the vicinity of the above-mentioned discharge port 2, above the above-mentioned banknote cartridge 8, there is provided a forgotten collecting section 20 which branches off from the return conveyance path 4 and collects the forgotten banknotes. At any branch point of the collection conveyance path 21 for collecting and conveying the forgotten banknotes to the banknotes 20 and the above-mentioned return conveyance path 4, a left banknote collection flapper 22 for collecting the left banknotes is disposed.

Figure 2 shows the control circuit of the forgotten banknote collection device, in which the CPU
23 drives and controls the conveyance drive circuit 25, the abnormal discharge detection circuit 26, the abnormal collection flapper drive circuit 27, the banknote removal detection circuit 28, and the forgotten collection flapper drive circuit 29 according to the program stored in the ROM 24, and the RAM
30 stores necessary data such as the number of banknotes to be dispensed.

Here, the above-mentioned transport drive circuit 25 moves each transport route 4, 11° 1/1.21 in FIG. 1 based on a command from the CPU 23.
In addition, the above-mentioned abnormal discharge detection circuit 26 drives and controls the paper iM two-sheet overlap sensor 32 set on the feeding side of the banknote cartridges 8, 9, and 10, and the paper iM two-sheet overlap sensor 32, which is the drive source for the It is controlled based on the abnormality detection signal from 33.

The above-mentioned abnormality collection flapper drive circuit 27 operates the abnormality collection flapper 13 via the first solenoid 34, and the two aforementioned forgotten collection flapper drive circuits operate the forgotten collection flapper 22 via the second solenoid 35. operate.

Roughly speaking, does the banknote extraction detection circuit 28 described above detect the banknote extraction from the sensor 36 disposed at the discharge port 2? 3.

As this sensor 36 and each of the above-mentioned sensors 32 and 33, a photoelectric sensor consisting of a light emitting element, a light receiving element, etc. is used.

The operation of the forgotten banknote collecting device configured as J: will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In a first step 41, the CPLJ 23 waits to receive a banknote discharge command corresponding to the payment, and in a second step 42, the CPU 23 determines whether or not the above-mentioned banknote discharge command has been input to the CPU 23, and determines whether or not the banknote discharge command has been received. If it is determined that there is no such message, the process returns to the first step 41, and if it is determined that the message has been received, the process proceeds to the next third step 43.

In this third step 43, the CPU 23
5, the motor 31 is rotated, and each transport path 4, 11, 14 in FIG. 1 is driven in the direction of the arrow in the figure.

Next, in a fourth step 44, the CPU 23 inputs the abnormality detection signals from the two-bill banknote sensor 32 and the two-bill banknote sensor 33, which detect a feeding error, to the CPLI 23 via the abnormal discharge detection circuit 26. When it is determined that the paid bills are being abnormally ejected in the above-mentioned two overlapping or two continuous states, in the next fifth step 45, the abnormal collection flapper drive circuit 2
7, the first solenoid 34 is activated to switch the abnormal zero receipt flapper 13 to the collection side, and the abnormal banknotes conveyed via the carry-out route 11 and the return conveyance route 4 are transferred to the above-mentioned flapper 13. After passing through the lower side of the container, it is collected into the collection section 12 via the storage path 14.

Next, in the sixth step 46, it is determined whether or not the CPtJ23 can retry. If the retry is possible, the process returns to the third step 43, and if the retry is not possible, the process returns to the third step 43. After creating the error occurrence end information in step 47, the end information is transmitted in the next step 48, and the process returns to step 41.

When it is determined in the fourth step 44 that there is no bill feeding error, the bill to be paid is conveyed to the discharge port 2 in the next ninth step 49.

That is, the payment banknotes fed out from the banknote cartridge 8.9.10 are transferred to the output path 11 and the outgoing path 4 of the return conveyance path 4.
a to the return path 4b through the upper side of the abnormal collection flapper 13 located at the solid line position in FIG. By controlling the table 3 to move up and down using an elevating means (not shown), the bill to be paid on the bill table 3 is positioned in a state where it can be extracted into the discharge port 2.

In this way, when the banknotes are conveyed to the discharge 1"2, in the next 10th step 50, the CPU 23 waits for the customer to take out the payment banknotes, and in the next 11th step 51, the CPU 23 waits for the customer to withdraw the payment banknotes, and in the next 11th step 51, the CPU 23 The banknote removal signal from '36 is sent to the CPU via the banknote removal detection circuit 28.
23, and if the banknote has been extracted, the banknote extraction completion information is created at the next twelfth step 52, and the process proceeds to the aforementioned eighth step 48.

If it is determined in the above-mentioned 11th step 51 that the banknote has not been removed, in the next 13th step 53, a built-in timer of the CPU 23 determines whether a preset time has elapsed. , if the time is not over, the above-mentioned eleventh step 51
If it is determined that the time has elapsed, that is, the banknote has been forgotten, the process returns to G, L, and the next 14th step 54.
It will move to .

In the fourteenth step, the CPU 23 drives the second solenoid 35 via the left-behind collection flapper drive circuit 29 to switch the left-behind collection flapper 22 to the collection side.

Next, in a fifteenth step 55, the CPU 23 drives the collection V9 feeding path 21 and the like to collect the forgotten banknotes to the forgotten banknote collection unit 20 near the discharge port 2.

First of all, first, use the table lifting means (as shown in the figure).
The banknote table 3 is lowered to its original position as shown by the solid line in FIG. After conveying the forgotten banknotes on 3 through the return conveyance path 4 to the branch point between the path 4 and the collection Wll transport path 1, the banknotes on the left banknotes are passed through the upper side of the forgotten banknote collection flapper 22 at this branch point. The left banknotes are received by the collection conveyance diameter 21 and collected by the aforementioned left banknote collection unit 201 via the same path 21.

Next, in the 16th step 56, the CPLJ 23 creates forgotten banknote collection completion information, and then proceeds to the 8th step 48 described above.

In short, since the forgotten banknote collection unit 20 is provided near the discharge port 2, the conveyance path between the discharge port 2 and the forgotten banknote collection unit 20 is shortened, and the time required to collect the forgotten banknotes can be shortened. In addition, since the above-mentioned collection unit 20 is a collection unit exclusively for forgotten banknotes, it is possible to classify the forgotten banknotes as abnormal banknotes due to feeding errors and take only the forgotten banknotes into the above-mentioned collection unit 20. It is possible to prevent banknotes and abnormal banknotes from being mixed together.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the discharge port 2 which also serves as the insertion port
Although the explanation has been given using an example of an automatic transaction device equipped with an insertion port and a discharge port, it is of course possible to use an automatic transaction device with separate insertion ports and discharge ports. It is not limited to this configuration.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is an internal side view showing a forgotten bill collecting device of an automatic transaction device; FIG. 2 is a control circuit block diagram; and FIG. 3 is a flowchart. 2...Discharge port 4...Transport route 20...
・Forgotten Collection Department Figure 2 Misery '11th Error 10 Reasons

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An automatic transaction device equipped with a banknote discharge port, Branch off from the conveyance route near the above discharge port. A forgotten banknote collection department will be set up to collect forgotten banknotes. Keta A device for collecting forgotten banknotes from automated teller machines.