JPS6250993A - Automatic paper money recovery for paper money recycling type teller machine - 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] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to an automatic teller machine, and in particular, in a banknote recycle type depositing and dispensing device equipped with the automatic teller machine, the present invention relates to a banknote recycle type depositing and dispensing device equipped with the automatic teller machine. Concerning temporary collection.

[Background of the invention]

JP-A-60-3797 discloses a banknote collection method for an automatic teller machine. With this method,
When the banknote box approaches fullness, a buzzer or the like will alert you to this fact, and a staff member will collect the banknotes. In other words, each time the tank is full, the attendant has to help.

[Purpose of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to automatically collect a portion of banknotes in an automatic teller machine when a banknote box becomes full without requiring intervention by an attendant and without interfering with transactions. It is in.

[Summary of the invention]

According to the present invention, when the fullness detector detects that the banknote box is almost full, the operation of collecting banknotes into the safe is started following a certain transaction process that ends thereafter, and a predetermined number of banknotes is collected. If it is collected, the collection operation is ended. Therefore, there is no need for intervention by an agent, no interruption of a transaction in progress, and no significant delay in starting the next transaction.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 2 shows the appearance of an example of an automatic teller machine to which the present invention is applied. This automated teller machine (ATM) 1 includes an operation guidance display 2, a group of operation buttons 3 such as transaction selection buttons, numerical buttons for inputting amounts and passwords,
Banknote recycling type deposit/withdrawal device that accepts banknotes and makes payments (
BRM) 4 (however, only the passenger exit cover is shown in the diagram), a card league writer 5 that processes cards, and a statement issuing unit 6 that prints and issues transaction statements. It also includes a passbook printing section 7 for making entries in the passbook.

FIG. 3 shows the internal equipment configuration of ATMI in a block diagram. Blocks 2-7 correspond to equipment designated with the same reference numerals in FIG. On the staff operation panel 8,
A group of operation buttons for business operations such as an opening instruction and a tally indicator, and a display for displaying the ATM status, deposited amount, etc. are provided. The line control unit 9 communicates with a central processing unit (not shown) through the communication line 12. The storage device 11 stores various data related to transaction processing. The control unit 10 includes a microphone μ° and controls each of the units described above to proceed with the transaction process. In response to selective pressing of the transaction selection button in operation button group 3,
As shown in FIG. 4, payment transactions, deposit transactions, balance inquiries, and passbook entries are executed.

FIG. 5 shows details of the banknote recycling type depositing and dispensing device (BRM) 4. During initial setup, safe 1:311i was taken out,
Prepared banknotes are loaded with mixed denominations and set again.

Next, the banknotes in the safe 131.

The sheets are fed out one by one by the pink up roller 135 and sent out by the n1 feed roller 134, and then transferred to the conveyance path 139.
169, 168.167, bill validator 150, conveyance path 1
62, 163, and 165, passes through the impeller 112 or 122, and is stored in the 1,000 yen box 111 or the 10,000 yen box 121 according to the discrimination result of the bill validator 150. In the figure, triangular marks 120, 130, 151 to 155 represent route selection gates. Other types of bills and unidentifiable bills pass through the conveyance path 164 and are stored in a reject box 1811C. During this time, the control unit 10 counts the number of tickets for each type of ticket.

In a payment transaction, after the banknote exit 141 is rotated to the dotted line position 141α in the figure, the ten thousand yen bills in the ten thousand yen box 121 are fed out one by one by the pickup row 2125 and transferred from the n1 feed roller 124 to the conveyance path 129. 165
．． 161, bill validator 150, conveyance path 162.169.
168, 166, passes through the impeller 145 and is stacked into the disbursing temporary stun force 146. Unidentifiable tickets and double-card tickets are sent to a reject box 181. Next, the 1,000 yen bills in the 1,000 yen box are fed out one by one by the pink up roller 115 and transferred to the n1 feed roller 114 and the conveyance path 119.
From then on, it passes through the same route as the 10,000 yen note and stands on the temporary payment stacker 146. Meanwhile, the control unit 10 calculates the amount of the banknote sent to the temporary payment stacker 146. When the required number of banknotes is stacked on the temporary payment stacker 146, the stopper 147 is opened, the banknotes are dropped into the banknote exit 141G, the banknote exit is returned to the original position 141, and the shutter 142 is opened. When the sensor 144 detects that the customer has removed the bill.

Shutter 142 is closed and the payment operation ends.

In a deposit transaction, when the shutter 142 is opened and a banknote is inserted into the banknote exit 141, the sensor 144 detects this, the shutter 142 is closed, and the feed roller 143 rotates. Banknotes are transported one sheet at a time through one conveyance path.
61, the bill reaches a bill validator 150, where the bill type and front and back are discriminated.

1,000 yen bills, 5,000 yen bills, and 10,000 yen bills are conveyed on transport paths 162, 169.
After passing through 170 and passing through 171 or 172 according to one front and back, the front and back sides are aligned, and then passed through the impeller 132 and stacked on the temporary deposit stacker 140. The unidentifiable bills are separated at the gate 152, and when the sensor 144 detects that there are no bills left at the person exit 141, the banknote exit 141 rotates to receive the unidentifiable bills in the temporary payment stacker 146. It then returns to the original position 141 and the above-described process is executed again. As a result of this retry, the temporary stacker 14 pays again.
Tickets stacked at 6 and whose fL+ cannot be determined can be returned to the customer.

At this stage, the total amount of banknotes stored in the temporary deposit stacker 140 is displayed on the operation guidance display 2. Therefore, if the customer presses the "cancel" button, the banknotes in the temporary deposit stacker 140 are sent out by the pickup roller 135 and the feed roller 134 to the n1 payment temporary stacker 1.
46, and from there to the banknote exit 141α, the transaction data is sent to the customer via the communication line 12 to the central processing unit, which updates the customer file based on it, and sends the transaction data to the control unit 10. Send a reply message. Upon receiving this, the control unit 10 performs processing for filling out and returning the bankbook and/or card.

and is sent out by the feed roller 134, and then sent to the 1,000 yen box 111 and the 10,000 yen box 121 in the same way as in the initial setting, according to the discrimination result by the banknote validator 150. The 5,000 yen bill is stored in the extract box 181. At this time, if the 1,000 yen box 111 or the 10,000 yen box 121 is full (this state is detected by the limit switch 11G or 126), the banknotes to be stored there are sent to the ejection box 181.
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In the collecting operation during inspection, the banknotes in the 10,000 yen bill box 121 and the 1,000 yen bill box 111 are sequentially transferred to the conveyance path 165.
161, bill validator 150, conveyance path 162.169.1
70.171, passes through the impeller 132 and is stacked in the safe 131. At this time.

The temporary deposit stacker 140 is retracted to a position out of the way. The undeterminable ticket is sent to the ejection box 181.

An embodiment of automatic temporary collection according to the present invention will be described next.

As an example, assume that the 10,000 yen box 121 is almost full. This state is detected when the push plate 123 is sufficiently lowered and the limit switch 126 is activated.The procedure in this case is as follows, and the flowchart is shown in FIG. . In this embodiment, automatic temporary collection is performed only after deposit transaction processing, for reasons explained below.

After detecting a full state, the execution of deposit transaction processing will be closely monitored (
200, 201). If a full state is detected during a deposit transaction, the system waits for the end of that deposit transaction, and if it is detected during another period, it waits for the end of the subsequent deposit transaction. The deposit transaction is completed and the card and/or bankbook is returned to the customer (202), and then, as described above, the deposited banknotes are sorted into their respective boxes and stored (203). .

When this storage operation is completed, the pickup roller 125 of the 10,000 yen box 121 is placed on top of the banknote, rotates counterclockwise, and feeds out the top banknote towards the feed roller 124. The bill is sent out to the conveyance path 129 (204). The sent banknote passes through the conveyance path 165° 161 and reaches the banknote validator 150,
If it is determined that the denomination is a 10,000 yen note (205, 206), the control unit 10 controls the gate 153. -152
．． 155 to transfer the banknotes to conveyance path 162.16.
9.170.171 to the impeller 132. The impeller 132 rotates counterclockwise and stacks the incoming banknotes in the safe 131 (207). At this time, the pickup roller 135 is in the upper position. On the other hand,
If the banknote validator 150 determines that the banknote cannot be determined, the gates 153 and 154 are switched, and the banknote is passed through the conveyance path 162, 163, and 164 to the reject box 1.
(208) The above operations are repeated, and a predetermined number (for example, the maximum expected number of one transaction) of 10,000 yen bills are collected from the 10,000 yen box 121 to the safe 131. When n is reached (209), the collection operation is completed, a transaction selection menu is displayed on the operation guidance display 2, and the next transaction is permitted (210).

When the 1,000 yen box 111 approaches fullness, the push plate 113 is lowered and the limit switch 116 is actuated to detect this state, and after n1, the same processing as described above is performed. The banknotes from the 1,000 yen box 111 are sent out to a conveyance path 165 through a pickup roller 115, a feed roller 114, and a conveyance path 119.

The reason why automatic temporary collection is limited to execution after the deposit transaction processing in this embodiment is as follows. The operation of sorting and storing the data in a storage space accompanies the completion process. Therefore, even if automatic temporary collection is performed following a deposit transaction, it goes without saying that there is no effect on the deposit transaction itself, and the next customer waiting will at most be able to recover the deposit transaction made by the previous customer. I just get the impression that the completion process is taking a little longer (the time required for automatic temporary collection). However, in the case of other transactions (payments, bankbook entries, etc.), the completion of one transaction usually means the immediate authorization of the next transaction. However, if automatic temporary collections were to occur after these transactions, it would likely delay the completion of the transaction, or require special collections between the termination of the transaction and the authorization of the next transaction. It is necessary to set a period during which transactions are not permitted, which is not desirable as it gives customers a sense of considerable delay. However, under design conditions that do not make this difficulty a problem, automatic temporary collection can occur after the completion of any other transaction.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, when the banknote box is full,
Banknotes can be automatically collected without the need for attendant intervention or machine shutdown, and without imposing any substantial transaction restrictions on the customer, thus fully unmanned operation of automated teller machines. You can take a step forward.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an external view of an example of an automated teller machine to which the present invention is applied.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the internal equipment configuration of the device shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of transaction selection, and FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the banknote recycling type depositing and dispensing device. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Automatic cash transaction device, 4... Banknote recycling type deposit/withdrawal device, ill, 121... Banknote box by denomination, 1
16.126...Limit switch for full detection, 13
1...Safe, 119, 1.29, 139, 161~1
72...Banknote transport path, 200-203...Step for starting bill collection operation, 204-209...Banknote collection operation, 209,210...Step for stopping bill collection operation.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A banknote box for each denomination for storing reserve banknotes and deposited banknotes and supplying outgoing banknotes, a safe for storing banknotes collected from the banknote box, and a banknote box for storing banknotes collected from the banknote box, and a banknote box for storing banknotes collected from the banknote box; An automated teller machine comprising at least a banknote conveyance path connecting a box and a safe, and a fullness detector provided in each banknote box and activated when the amount of banknotes therein is greater than a predetermined amount. In the banknote recycling type deposit/withdrawal device, following a certain transaction process that ends when the full detector is activated, starting a banknote collection operation from the banknote box to which the activated full detector belongs to the safe; and a step of terminating the bill collecting operation when the number of collected bills reaches a predetermined value. 2. The automatic banknote collection method according to claim 1, wherein the banknote collection operation is started after the deposited banknotes are stored in the corresponding banknote box at the end of the deposit transaction. 3. The automatic banknote collection method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the safe is also used for initial loading and collection during inspection.