JPS6214292A - Group type paper money identifier/storage - 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 (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention relates to a banknote identification storage device used in a vending machine or the like, and particularly to a banknote identification storage device that is a combination of a plurality of banknote recognition devices and a common banknote recognition storage device. The present invention relates to a banknote identification storage device.

(Background of the Invention) Recently, there have been an increasing number of vending machines that can also handle banknotes. These vending machines accept banknotes inserted through the insertion slot, identify the banknotes, and when they are determined to be normal, allow the sale of the item, and also stack and store the banknotes. There is provided a banknote identification and storage device configured. Conventionally, one bill recognition and storage device is built into one automatic vending machine.

By the way, in a pachinko parlor, a pachinko ball vending machine is attached to every #1 pachinko machine or every other pachinko machine. Currently, this pachinko ball vending machine only handles coins, but there is a strong demand for it to be able to handle banknotes as well.

Pachinko vending machines attached to pachinko machines must be small because the installation space is very small. In addition, since there are a large number of units installed, it is also important that the unit be inexpensive. For these reasons, the structure of the banknote identification and storage device in a general vending machine cannot be directly applied to a pachinko ball vending machine. Another problem is that when a conventional bill recognition and storage device is installed in each of a large number of pachinko ball vending machines, it is extremely difficult to collect the bills from the bill storage portion of each device.

(Object of the invention) This invention was made under the above-mentioned contradiction,
The purpose is to make the banknote storage device common to multiple banknote recognition devices, and to make the individual parts smaller and standardize the storage device when applied to pachinko ball vending machines attached to pachinko machines. To provide a collective banknote identification storage device which can keep the overall price low and also facilitate collection of stored banknotes.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a collective banknote recognition/storage device that prevents paper jams caused by competition between banknotes during the conveyance process from a plurality of banknote recognition devices to a common banknote storage device. .

(Structure of the Invention) A collective banknote identification and storage device according to the present invention includes a banknote storage device that stacks and stores banknotes sent in, a common conveyance mechanism that feeds banknotes into this storage device, and a conveyance path of this common conveyance mechanism. It consists of a plurality of banknote recognition devices connected in the middle.

The banknote recognition device takes in the banknotes inserted through the insertion slot to the recognition position, and moves the individual transport mechanism, which is controlled to transfer the banknotes to the above-mentioned common transport mechanism or return them to the above-mentioned insertion slot, according to the recognition result, to the right or left. do.

Further, the common conveyance mechanism is provided with a detection means for detecting whether or not banknotes are present in a predetermined section before and after the connection point with the individual conveyance mechanism on the conveyance rod. Further, when the detection means detects the presence of a banknote, the control means temporarily stops the operation of transferring the banknote from the individual transport mechanism to the common transport mechanism.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a banknote transport system of an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 10a and 10b indicate two banknote identification devices, which are provided in large numbers. 12 is one banknote storage device, and 14 is each banknote identification device 10a.

This is a common conveyance mechanism that guides banknotes from 10b to banknote storage device 12. The banknote identification devices 1Qa and 10b are attached to, for example, a pachinko ball vending machine attached to the side of a pachinko machine, and the common conveyance mechanism 14 is installed long inside the row of pachinko machines along the row, and the banknote storage device 12 is installed inside one end of the row of pachinko machines.

The common conveyance mechanism 14 includes a main belt V1 which is passed around pulleys P1 to P6, and presser bells 1 to V2 . It is composed of V3°v4. Presser foot bell 1~V2°V3. V4 is hung between pulleys P7 and P8, P9 and Plo, and Pll and PI3, respectively, and is in contact with the upper surface of main belt V1 with appropriate pressure by a spring. Although not shown, common l! ! A predetermined one of the boars of the second feed mechanism 14 is rotationally driven in the direction of the arrow by a motor, and the main bells 1 to 1 are rotated in the direction of the arrow.
V1 and presser belt V2. V3. V4 is continuously rotated at a constant speed in the direction of the arrow.

The banknote identification devices 10a and 10b have the same configuration, and have 18
20 is an insertion slot for banknotes, and 16 is an exit for banknotes determined to be normal. Showing the banknote guide. Main belt V
5 is connected to pulleys P13 to P16, and is driven to rotate in forward and reverse directions by a motor 22 shown in FIG. Presser belt V
6 is passed through pulleys P17 to P20, pressed against the surface of main belt V5 by a spring, and rotated by motor 22 at the same speed as main belt V5.

FIG. 2 shows the electrical configuration of the banknote identification devices 10a, 10b. The banknote identification devices 10a and 10b have an insertion slot 2.
a plurality of photoelectric switches 24 for detecting insertion of a banknote into the banknote and detecting the position of the banknote taken in;
A magnetic head 26 that collects information for identifying whether the banknotes taken into the interior by the individual conveyance mechanism 18 are good or bad, a reading circuit 28 of the magnetic head 26, and an operation switch 30 for issuing a cancellation command, etc. A display 34 for informing the customer of the operating status of the device, a drive circuit 42 for the motor 22, and a photoelectric switch 36a for detecting banknotes, which will be described later.
36b, 36c, and a micro combi coater 38 that performs overall control of signal processing and other devices for banknote identification;
An interface 40 for coupling each input/output device to the micro combi coater 38 is provided.

As shown in FIG.
is connected to the common conveyance mechanism 14 from between presser belts v2 and V3. Similarly, the guide 16 of the banknote identification device 10b
is connected to the common conveyance mechanism 14 from between presser belts V3 and V4. The bar conveyance mechanism 14 always rotates in the direction of the arrow, and when a banknote is sent out through the guide 16 from the individual conveyance mechanism 18 of the banknote identification devices 10a, 10b, the banknote is transferred to the common conveyance mechanism 14. and transported to the banknote storage device 12. The banknote storage device 12 stacks and stores the incoming banknotes. The configuration of this storage device 12 may be the same as the conventional one, and the explanation will be omitted here.

The aforementioned three photoelectric switches 36a, 36b, 36C
is the individual transport l on the transport route of the common transport mechanism 14.
It is provided to detect whether or not a banknote exists in a predetermined section before and after the connection point with Nl118. The above-mentioned predetermined section is the section indicated by D in FIG. 1, and this section is about 1.5 times the length of the banknotes to be handled. The distance between the photoelectric switches 36a and 36b and the distance between 36b and 36c is made shorter than the length of the banknote, and the photoelectric switch 36a
The door 36b is installed upstream from the banknote delivery point by the guide 16, and the photoelectric switch 360 is installed slightly downstream.

It is assumed that a banknote is transferred from the banknote identification device 10b side to the common conveyance mechanism 14, and is conveyed toward the banknote storage device 12 in the direction of the arrow until it reaches the section shown in FIG. When the banknotes are transferred from the banknote identification device 10a side to the common transport mechanism 14 in this state, two banknotes are transferred to the common transport mechanism 14.
This can cause paper jams. The photoelectric switches 36a, 36b, and 36C described above are used for control in the following manner to prevent this conflict.

FIG. 3 shows the control procedure carried out by the computer 38 of one bill validating device 10a or 10b. When a banknote is inserted into the insertion slot 20, it is detected by the photoelectric switch 24, and in step 101 it is recognized that the banknote has been inserted.

Then, the process proceeds to step 102, where the motor 22 of the individual conveyance all mechanism 18 is rotated in the normal direction, and the inserted bill is taken into the inside. Next, in step 103, the information collected from the received banknote by the magnetic head 26 is read through the reading circuit 28, and in step 104, it is determined whether the banknote is a normal banknote or a defective banknote based on the information.

If the determination result is "r defective", the process proceeds to step 109, where the motor 22 is reversed to return the defective banknote from the insertion slot 20, and if the completion of the return operation is detected in step 110, the process proceeds to step 108. Stop the motor.

If the determination result in step 104 is "normal", the process advances to step 105, and the photoelectric switch 36a.

It is checked whether any one of 36b and 36c is on, that is, whether there are banknotes in the section of the common conveyance mechanism 14. If a bill exists in the section, step 105 is repeated and the bill passes through this section. In other words, the delivery of banknotes determined to be "normal" to the common conveyance mechanism 14 is temporarily stopped.

If it is confirmed in step 105 that there are no banknotes in the section, the process proceeds to step 106, where the motor 22 sends out the banknotes from the guide 16 and receives them into the common conveyance mechanism 14.

After checking that the transfer has been completed by the output of the photoelectric switch 24 that detects the position of the banknote, step 10
7 to step 108, and the motor 22 is stopped.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained in detail above, this invention makes the banknote storage device common to multiple banknote recognition devices, so when applied to a pachinko ball vending machine attached to a pachinko machine, etc. Mechanisms incorporated into each vending machine are extremely miniaturized, and the entire mechanism is extremely simple and inexpensive compared to a system in which each vending machine is provided with a banknote storage device. Further, since banknotes from a large number of banknote recognition devices are stored in a common storage device, the task of collecting banknotes becomes very simple. In addition, since the structure is designed to avoid conflict between the common conveyance mechanism and the individual conveyance mechanisms that guide banknotes from the individual bill recognition devices to the common storage device, bills do not overlap on the common conveyance mechanism and the bills can be smoothly handled. can be guided to the storage device side.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a conveyance system of a dyed trapezoidal banknote recognition and storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electrical configuration for signal processing and control in one banknote recognition device. , FIG. 3 is a flowchart 1 showing the control procedure executed by the micro combi coater in FIG. 1Qa, 1ob...Banknote identification device 12...
...Banknote storage device 14...Common w1 feeding mechanism 1
8...Individual conveyance mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A banknote storage device that stacks and stores banknotes sent in, and a common conveyance mechanism that sends banknotes to this storage device,
The common conveyance mechanism is composed of a plurality of banknote recognition devices coupled in the middle of the conveyance path; The banknote recognition device takes in the banknotes inserted through the insertion slot to the recognition position, and reads the recognition results. The common conveyance mechanism has an individual conveyance mechanism that is controlled to transfer the banknote to the common conveyance mechanism or return it to the insertion slot according to the above; the common conveyance mechanism has a connection with the individual conveyance mechanism on its conveyance path A detection means is provided for detecting whether or not a banknote is present in a predetermined area before and after the point, and when the presence of a banknote is detected by the detection means, the banknote is transferred from the individual conveyance mechanism to the common conveyance mechanism. What is claimed is: 1. A collective banknote identification and storage device comprising a control means for temporarily stopping a transfer operation of the banknotes.