JPS62293396A - Cash dispensor - 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] 3. Detailed Description of the Invention (Technical Field of the Invention) The present invention relates to a cash dispenser (Cash Dispensing Machine).
er-hereinafter abbreviated as CD. ).

(Prior art and its problems) FIG. 1 shows a block diagram explaining the operation of a conventionally used CD.

In FIG. 1, operation section A is a card reader.

It consists of a numeric keyboard, display device, etc. After a CD user inserts his/her own magnetic recording card into the card league, he or she uses the ten-key keyboard and display device to key in the owner's confirmation code and desired payment amount. The control unit C is connected online to the main computer E, and the main computer E checks the appropriateness of the payment amount by referring to the deposit balance of the account corresponding to the user's card, and determines whether the payment can be made or not. Sends a message to control unit C. The control section C sends a payment instruction signal to the cash dispensing section and operates the printer B to issue a payment slip with necessary information filled in.

FIG. 2 is a structural diagram illustrating the structure and operation of the cash dispensing section. This is called the Flixidine system, and is an example of a cash dispensing unit.

In FIG. 2, banknotes 2 stored in a cash cassette 1 are discharged one by one by a friction roller 3. The banknotes ejected from this cash cassette 1 are sent to the chute 4.
In the process of sliding down, the thickness sensor 5 and length direction sensor 6
The number of sheets is confirmed by the width direction sensor 7, and when the required amount has been discharged, the friction roller 3 stops.

4, 5, 6, and 7 constitute a cash dispensing section 11. Thereafter, the banknotes 2 are aligned by an aligner 8 and pushed out to a payout window 9. Conventional CDs having the above structure have the following drawbacks.

Since the cash cassette 1 is built into the CD body, and there is a recent trend toward unmanned CD installation rooms, the cash cassette 1 stores a fairly large amount of banknotes 2 in terms of operation and maintenance. However, due to the structure of the CD body, it is extremely difficult to construct the cassette section 10 consisting of 1, 2.3 as a robust safe.

As a result of this, combined with the above-mentioned trend toward unmanned storage, there is an extremely high risk that a portion of the CD will be damaged from the outside and the cash in the cash cassette 1 will be stolen.

(Object of the Invention) In order to address such problems, the present invention provides an automatic teller machine in which the cash cassette is housed in a safe, thereby significantly improving safety.

(Structure and operation of the invention) The present invention will be explained in detail below.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a cash dispensing mechanism and a cash transport mechanism used in the present invention.

In FIG. 3, 30 is a safe and 31 is a reception room.

In the service room 31, outside the cash dispensing port 20, there are an operation section A and a control section C of the CD configuration shown in FIG.

Printer B is installed. Further, 16 installed in the safe room 30 is a cash dispensing unit other than the cash dispensing port (20) corresponding to the dispensing window 9 among the cash dispensing units shown in FIG. The vault 30 and the reception room 31 are constructed using air tubes 12 and 12 buried underground or in the wall of a building.
They are connected by 8. In the air tubes 12 and 12a, a capsule 13 is installed along the inner wall of the tube as shown in FIG. It has become.

In addition, in the vault 30 and the reception room 31, the capsule 13
In order to take in and take out banknotes from the
Departure station 4 for capsule 13 as shown in l.
2 is provided. The departure and arrival station 42 is the branch room 4
It is connected to the main tube 12 via 0a, 40b and a branch tube 41. Air switching valves are installed in the branch chambers 40a and 40b, and in response to a command signal, the air to move or stop the capsule 13 is switched to the air tube 12.
It is possible to switch from the branch tube 41 to the branch tube 41. or,
As a result, when the capsule 13 is stopped at the fixed position of the departure and arrival station 42 as shown in the figure, the branching chamber 40
The ventilation passage is connected to the air tube 12 by switching valves a and 40b.
air is not sent to the branch tube 41.

FIG. 4(b) is a perspective view showing the capsule 13 stopped at a fixed position in the departure/arrival station 42. In the figure, 19 is the lid of the capsule 13, 44 is a butt for holding down the banknote 2, 45 is a metal fitting for locking the lid 19, and 46 is a small hole into which a trigger metal fitting for unlocking the lock is inserted. Moreover, in the upper part of the departure and arrival station 42, there is a capsule 1.
An opening 47 is provided to facilitate the insertion and removal of banknotes from the capsule 3 and the attachment and detachment of the capsule 13 itself. 48 is a lid of the departure and arrival station 42. When it is confirmed that the capsule 13 is stopped at a fixed position in the departure/arrival station 42, the lid 48 can be opened and closed in conjunction with other related operations or independently by an appropriate mechanism such as electromagnetic control. Can be done.

Referring to FIG. 5, the operation until the banknote 2 discharged from the cash dispensing section 16 is transferred to the capsule 13 will be described.

In FIG. 5, l is the cash cassette shown in FIG. The banknotes 2 ejected from the cash cassette 1 by a signal from the control section C installed in the service room 31 are
4. It passes through an aligner 8 and is placed on a moving table 17. The movable table 17 is configured to be able to slide parallel to a plane including the slide shaft 18 using the fixed shirt eye 8 as a slide shaft by an appropriate drive mechanism such as a combination of a servo motor and a rank. When the moving table 17 begins to slide in the direction of the arrow, (1
The lid 48 of the departure and arrival station 42 of No. 1 is opened. 48 is opened, the trigger metal fitting is inserted into the small hole 46 of the capsule 13 shown in FIG. As with the lid 48 of the landing station 42, a suitable mechanism such as electromagnetic control may be used.

As the movable table 17 moves further, as shown in (DI), it rotates downward about the slide shaft 18, and the banknotes 2 on the movable table 17 are moved into the capsule 13 stopped at the departure/reception station 42. controlled so that it slides down. When the banknote 2 is stored in the capsule 13, the IE 19 of the capsule 13 and the lid 48 of the departure/arrival station 42
closes. Subsequently, the valves of the branch chambers 4Qa and 40b are activated and air is blown into the branch tube 41, so that the capsule 13 leaves the departure/arrival station 42, moves at high speed inside the air tube 12, and is installed in the reception room 31. The machine stops at the departure/arrival station 42 of the cash dispensing port 20. A sectional view of the cash dispensing port 20 is shown in FIG. In the same figure, a departure and arrival station 42 having a structure similar to that shown in FIG. The structure is such that branch chambers 40a, 40b, a branch tube 41, etc., as shown in FIG.

The operation of this part will be explained with reference to FIG.

When it is confirmed that the capsule 13 has stopped at the fixed position of the departure and arrival station 42, the lid 48 of the departure and arrival station is opened, and subsequently the lid 19 of the capsule 13 is opened. Furthermore, the lid 21 of the cash dispensing port 20 slides in the direction of the arrow, allowing cash to be taken out. When the cash removal is completed, cover 2
1 is closed again and then the lid 48.19 is closed. here,
The operation of the lid 48.19 is shown in FIG. 5(I).

This is the same as the opening/closing operation in (I[) and (III).

Thereafter, the capsule 13 in the chamber passes through the return side air tube 12a shown in FIG.
The process returns to step 6 and waits for the next operation.

In this system, if multiple cash dispensing outlets 20 are to be installed in the reception area 31, multiple sets of air tubes 12, 123 corresponding to these should be buried, and departure/arrival stations 42 and related mechanisms should be added. configuration is possible.

In the present invention, as explained above, the cash cassette part and its dispensing part are separated from the main body of the automatic teller machine, and since the cash cassette can be installed in a strong safe, the above-mentioned theft Safety against the occurrence of is guaranteed.

In the present invention, an air blowing means using an air tube is used as a transportation means connecting the safe room 30 and the reception room 31.
In addition, it is possible to construct the device according to the invention using various means of transportation, such as a combination of a linear motor and cash capsule, or the use of a belt conveyor.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an automatic teller machine to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a system diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional cash dispensing unit used in an automatic teller machine, and FIG. and FIG. 4 (al (bl) is a system diagram and perspective view showing a configuration example of the cash dispensing mechanism and cash transport mechanism used in the cash dispensing machine of the present invention, and FIG. A system diagram showing an example of the configuration of the dispensing section and an example of its operation, and Fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing an example of the structure of the cash dispensing section used in the present invention. A... Operating section, B... Printer, C ...Control unit, D...Cash dispensing unit, E...Main computer, 1
...Cash cassette, 2...Banknote, 3...Friction roller, 4...Chute, 5...
Thickness sensor, 6... Length direction sensor, 7... Width direction sensor, 8... Aligner, 9... Window, 10.
...Cassette part, 12, 128...Air tube (transportation means), 13...Capsule, 14...Blower,
15... Operation valve, 16... Cash sending unit, 17
...Moving table, 18...Slide axis, 19.
...lid, 20...cash dispensing port, 21...cover of dispensing port, 30...vault, 31...service room,
40a, 40b...branching chamber, 41...branching tube, 42...departure/arrival station, 44...holding butt, 45...lock fitting, 46...small hole, 47...opening , 4th day...lid.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an automatic teller machine equipped with an operating section, a control section, a printer, and a cash dispensing section, the cash dispensing section, which includes a cassette section and a banknote number confirmation mechanism and a chute attached to the cassette section, is a banknote dispensing section. It is installed in a separate vault separate from the sorter and payment counter.
The automatic teller machine is characterized in that the banknotes supplied from the cash delivery section are transported from the safe to the banknote sorter by a banknote transport means having an appropriate closed structure.