JPS6267691A - Transaction processor - 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 [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a transaction processing device used, for example, as a banknote deposit counting machine.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In a deposit counting machine, the banknotes are placed in the slot of the counting machine, transaction data such as account number and store number are entered, and then a start key is pressed to start counting. However, there is a problem that the processing efficiency decreases because the amount counting operation that inputs the transaction data cannot be performed.
In particular, recently, high-speed counting machines have been developed, and the time required to input transaction data can no longer be ignored compared to the counting time.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a transaction processing device with high processing efficiency that does not require independent input time for transaction data. be.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention starts counting by operating a start key before inputting transaction information.
This allows input of transaction information and counting operation to be performed simultaneously.

[Embodiments of the invention]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

1 and 2 show a cash sorting and counting system, which is composed of a banknote sorting and counting device 11 as a counting means, a coin sorting and counting device 2, and an operation display device 3. The operation display device 3 includes an operation section 4, a CRT display section 5, a printer section 6, a control section 7 for controlling the whole, a storage section 8, a clock device 9, a bill sorting and counting device 1, and a coin sorting and counting device 2.
Interface 1 to exchange data between
1.

As shown in FIG. 3, the operation section 4 includes a mode designation switch 21, a numeric keypad 22, a denomination designation key 24, a function key 25 for indicating harvesting of transaction information, a start key 26 for designating the start of counting, and a start key 26 for designating transaction information. It is comprised of a completion key 27 that indicates completion of paper, a screen switching key 28 that switches to displaying input breakdown data and cash breakdown data, and a clear key 29. The above mode designation switch, vl, is OFF
, operator, sorting, settlement, etc. processing mode is specified. The control unit 7 also includes the numeric keypad 22,
Before inputting transaction data such as account number, store number, item, child number, etc. using the function key 25, the start key 26 is pressed to start the bill sorting and counting device 1 and the coin sorting and counting device 1. It is now possible to make it work.

The banknote sorting and counting device 1 is constructed as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. That is, a bill slot 32 and a reject slot 33 are provided in the upper right part of the main body 31.

A bill dispensing device 34 is provided in the main body 31 facing the bill inlet 32, and the bills P placed in the inlet 32 are sequentially taken out one by one through a take-in conveyance path. 35. Then, the taken-out banknote P passes through a discriminating section 35 that determines the banknote's denomination, authenticity, correctness, front and back, etc., while being conveyed through the take-in conveyance path 35. Banknotes P determined to be abnormal by this discrimination section 36 are sent to the banknote rejection port 33, and normal banknotes P are guided to the left in the figure by a sorting gate 37. Further, the banknotes P determined as front by the above-mentioned discrimination section 36 are guided to the first conveyance path 38, and the banknotes P determined as back are guided to the second conveyance path, that is, front and back, by the second distribution gate 39. It is guided to the reversing conveyance device 40 and corrected from the back to the front. Furthermore, the passage times of the first conveyance path 38 and the second conveyance path (front-back reversal conveyance device) 40 are set to be the same passage time, and the banknotes P... are conveyed at a constant pitch. Even if they are sorted by the second sorting gate 39 and pass through separate conveyance paths 38 and 40, when they merge at the merging section 41, collisions and pitch clogging occur, so that they are merged and conveyed at a constant pitch. It has become. Further, the banknotes P, whose front and back sides are aligned, are conveyed to a sorting conveyance path 42 as a sorting section connected to a merging section 41, and are sorted by denomination. Below the sorting conveyance path 42, there are stacking devices 43a, 43b, 4Jc, 4 that stack banknotes sorted by denomination in a sequentially stacked state.
3d and the banknotes P... accumulated in the stacking devices 43a, 43b, 43c, 43d, and to store them in the storage compartments 44a, 44b, 44c, 44ti as needed. There is.

Furthermore, a pushing device 46 for pushing the banknotes P... is provided to ensure storage in each of the storages 44a to 44d.

The banknotes P conveyed by the belt in the take-in conveyance path 35 are discriminated by the discriminator 36, and the banknotes P determined to be genuine or false are transferred to genuine banknotes at the first sorting gate 37. Sorted to the transport section. Then, even if the banknotes P are normal, the banknotes P that are determined to be fronts are guided to the first conveyance path 38, and the banknotes P that are determined to be backs are sorted out at the gate 39 and transferred to the second conveyance path 38. It is guided to a conveyance path (front-back reversal conveyance device) 40. Here, the banknote P determined to be the back is reversed by the twisting belt 47, but both ends of the banknote P are
48d, the genuine banknote P is conveyed in a 180° inversion while being firmly backed up and guided and corrected to the front cover P. After correcting the curl in the horizontal conveyance path 50, the genuine banknote P is conveyed in the above-mentioned confluence. At the section 41, the front cover sheet P sent out from the first conveyance path 38 is merged and conveyed without changing the pitch between the banknotes.

In addition, the divided conveyance path 42 separates banknotes P for each denomination, which are conveyed via the first conveyance path 38 and the second conveyance path (front-back reversal conveyance device) 4θ and merged at the merging section 4I. It separates the stacking devices 43h to 43rl, and is configured as follows.That is, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the separating conveyance path 42 has a plurality of guide rollers 50... A plurality of conveyor belts 53 are stretched through guide rollers 52, and a plurality of conveyor belts 53 are stretched through guide rollers 52 so that a portion of the conveyor belt 5I is in contact with the lower surface of the conveyor belt 51. The banknote P at the mutually facing surface part with...
It is designed to pinch and convey the material in the direction of the arrow. Also,
At positions corresponding to the first to third accumulating devices 4ja to 43c, distributing games 5 (a, 54b, 54a) rotatable by a rotary solenoid (not shown) are arranged. The banknotes P... can be appropriately guided to the stacking devices 43h to 43c@.The banknotes P sorted by the sorting gates 54*, 54b, and 54aK are connected to the conveyor belt 53. Each of the first to third Furthermore, the banknotes P to be delivered to the fourth stacking device 43d are transferred to the conveyor belt 5I and the conveyor belt 5 at the right end in FIG.
3 and the divided conveyance path 42 is formed by mutually opposing surfaces! ! It is designed to be fed directly into the shoulder end. The segmented conveyance path 42 configured in this manner conveys the banknotes P sent out from the merging portion 4I in the short direction while sequentially sandwiching them via the conveyance belts 51 and 53. As a result of the denomination determination by the discriminating section 36, if the denomination of the conveyed banknote P is, for example, a 100 yen banknote, the not-illustrated rotary lenoid is energized and the sorting game 54a is in the sixth position. The banknote P is rotated upward from the state shown in the figure, that is, to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. After this,
The rotary lenoid (not shown) is demagnetized, and the division gate 54a is returned to the state shown in FIG. 6 (the state indicated by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 7). For 5,000 yen banknotes, use the classification gate 54b.
operates in the same manner as described above, and in the case of a thousand yen bill, the sorting gate 54C operates in the same manner as described above. In the case of a 500 yen bill, it is naturally conveyed and guided to the end of the categorization conveyance path 42 without being sorted on the way. The banknotes P... guided to the sorting path 42 are sorted by denomination in this way.

The stacking device 43a stacks banknotes P separated by denomination in this way.

(Jb, 43a, 43ti shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8)
This will be explained based on the diagram. A first accumulation device 43a provided below the division gate 54a, a second accumulation device 4sbs provided below the division gate 54b.
A third stacking device h4s (4%) provided correspondingly below the sorting gate 54C and a fourth stacking device 43d provided correspondingly below the terminal end of the sorting conveyance path 42 have substantially the same configuration. After being sorted by the sorting gates 54a to 54c, hole banknotes P... are carried out by the carry-out path 57... or banknotes P... directly carried out from the terminal end of the sorting conveyance path 42. Each of them is composed of an impeller mechanism 60 for stacking bills in both directions, and a stacking chamber 6I for guiding and stacking the sides of banknotes.The specific configuration of the impeller mechanism 6Q and stacking chamber 6I is shown in FIGS. As shown in FIG. 8, a support shaft 62 is supported by a bearing 64 provided on a side frame 63, and a driven gear 65 is fitted onto the support shaft 62. As shown in FIG. Also, the above side frame 6
A support shaft 62m of the guide roller 62 is attached to the drive belt 3, and an intermediate gear mechanism 67 is provided between the drive gear 66 fitted on the guide roller 62 and the driven gear 65. The guide roller 5 is rotated by the rotation of 59.
2 is rotated, the rotational force is sequentially transmitted to the drive gear 66, the intermediate gear mechanism 67, and the driven gear 65, so that the impeller 68 attached to the intermediate portion of the support shaft 62 rotates.

The impeller 68 is a ring-shaped impeller main body 6B.

In response to this situation, a plurality of blade plates 68 whose base ends protrude radially from the support shaft 62 and are bent in a predetermined direction are provided.
It is composed of b... Also, each blade plate 68b...
* is formed in a spiral shape with wide spacing between the distal ends and gradually narrowing toward the proximal end. In addition, the impeller 68
．． 68 is the fold line pa, p:d of the banknote P as shown in FIG.
It is attached at a position outside the folds pa and pd at an interval that avoids the above.

In addition, each of the earlier accumulation chambers 61... is provided with the blade plates 68b, 68.
A notch 69a is formed so that b can pass through.

A left side wall plate 69 having a weight of 69 g is provided, and a larger space is provided in which banknotes P can be piled up and stacked in the surface direction.
9 and a right side wall plate 70 arranged opposite to each other, and a transparent acrylic plate 71 is provided on the front side so as to be openable and closable.

The pushing device R46 will be explained with reference to FIG. In other words, a side frame 63 fixed to the main body 31Vc, a vertically movable slide rail 90 fixed at one end to the side frame 63, and a frame 91 as a movable body fixed to the movable side 90a of the slide rail 90. and a push-in member 92 attached to the frame 91 corresponding to each accumulation chamber 61...K, so that the seven frames 9 are vertically movable [in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 8]. It is composed of The frame 91 is driven by the main body 3.
A bracket 93 is fixed to Z, and a motor 94 and a bearing box 95 are attached to this bracket 93. motor 94
A bevel gear 96 is attached to the output shaft of the motor, and a bevel gear 98 is attached to one end of the shaft 97 fitted in the bearing box 95. The output from the shaft 94 is transmitted to a shaft 97/C attached to the shaft 97.An arm 100 is fixed to the other end of the shaft 97, and a link 102 is connected via the arm 100 and the pin 101f. It is being reprinted on a rotating basis. Further, a fixing pin 103 is fixed to the frame gI, and the link 102 is fitted onto the fixing pin 103 so that the rotational force of the motor 94 is converted into vertical movement and transmitted to the frame 9.

The coin sorting/counting machine fIt2, as shown in FIG.
A plurality of temporary accumulation units 71h, 71b, 7 that collect coins for each safe after distinguishing and sorting the coins inserted into the input lower 0.
A stacking section 22 consisting of coins 1c, 71rl, 71e, and 7Zf, and a plurality of coins JE 73 a, 73 b, 73 that collectively store coins after being accumulated in this stacking section r2.
c, 73d.

It is composed of a storage section 74 consisting of 73e and 731.

Next, the operation of such a configuration will be described with reference to chart 70 shown in FIG.

For example, the operator should now set the mode designation switch 2I to the operator mode (5Tz), then insert the banknotes P of the cash into the bill slot 32 in a standing position, and insert the coins into the coin sorting and counting device 2. ST to put it in the mouth,
? ), when the start key 26 is turned on (STJ), the control section 7 drives the bill sorting and counting machine 1 and the coin sorting and counting machine 2. When the banknote sorting and counting machine 1 is driven by the control unit 7, the banknotes P are conveyed to the discrimination unit 36 via the additional conveyance path 35 (Sr1), and the discrimination unit 36 recognizes the conveyed banknotes P.
Determine the denomination, authenticity, fitness, front and back, etc. As a result,
The banknotes P are sorted into separate stacking sections 61 for each denomination according to the results of denomination discrimination and front/back discrimination. In addition, the determination unit 3
The denomination signal of 6 is sent to the control unit 7 via the interface 11.
The control section 7 causes the storage section 8 to store the number of coins for each denomination in accordance with the denomination signal (Sr5).

Then, the sorting of all the banknotes P input into the banknote slot 32 at once ends (Sr6).

Further, when the coin sorting and counting machine 2 is driven by the control section 7, the coins are discriminated and sorted in a discriminating and sorting section (not shown), and then stored in separate stacking sections 11th to 7f for each denomination.
It is classified into f. Further, the denomination signal from the discrimination and sorting section is supplied to the control section 7 via the interface 11, and the control section 7 stores the number of coins for each denomination in the storage section 8 according to the denomination signal (STM , 5T5).

Then, the sorting of the coins inserted into input lower 0 ends (
Sr6).

Banknote classification and counting machine! When the hard sorting counter 2 is driven by the control section 7 and starts counting as described above, the operator inputs transaction data using the numeric keypad 22 and the function key 25 (5T7), and the control section 7 The data is stored in the storage section 8, and a corresponding flag among the input transaction data flags (FIG. 10(a)) indicating the input transaction data stored in the storage section 8 is set.

It should be noted that although it has been explained here that the input of transaction data is performed after pressing the start key 26, the completion key 27 is pressed even before the start key 26 is pressed or after the input processing described later, and the transaction is completed. This is possible at any time before.

By the way, when the operator sets the mode designation switch 21 to the operator mode, the operator performs the maintenance process C8T.
&) performs counting operations at the same time, inserts the number of cash using the numeric keypad 22, and inputs the denomination using the denomination designation key 24.
The number of coins for each denomination is stored in the storage unit 8 as manual input data. At this time, if the same denomination is manually input multiple times, the number of denominations is accumulated. Then, when the manual input is completed, the operator presses the completion key 27. As a result, the control unit 7 causes the manual input data in the storage unit 8 to be stored as cumulative data in the storage unit 8 (STz, r).

In this way, when the counting by the banknote sorting and counting machine I and the coin sorting and counting machine 2 is completed and the input of manual input data and transaction data by the operator is completed, the operator presses the completion key 27 to terminate the transaction (C3T9).

At this time, the control unit 7 checks the input transaction data flag stored in the storage unit 8, and if it is confirmed that all the essential transaction data has been input, the control unit 7 considers the transaction to be completed and sends it to the banknote sorting and counting machine 1. Accumulating devices 43a, 43b
,4. The banknotes sorted and accumulated in VC943d are stored in storage 4.
4a, 44b, 44c, and 44d, and
A temporary accumulation section 71a in the coin sorting and counting machine 2.

The coins sorted and accumulated in 71b, 71c, and 71d are stored in the safe 7.
3*, 73b, 73c, and 73d. Then, when the manual input is completed, the operator presses the completion key 27. Then, the control unit 7 causes the manual input data in the storage unit 8 to be stored in the cumulative total data in the storage unit 8 (ST
zz).

If all essential transaction data are not set, an alarm (not shown) in the operation display device 3 will generate an alarm.
The error is displayed on the RT display section 5.

Next, essential transaction data will be explained.

The essential transaction data (FIG. 10(b)) is stored in advance in the non-volatile memory of the control unit 7, and when the completion key 27 is pressed, this data is read out, and the input transaction data stored in the storage unit 8 is read out. The data is compared to determine whether the transaction is completed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention includes a control section that operates the counting means by operating the start key before transaction information is input by the input means, so that the transaction information input operation and the counting operation are performed concurrently. This has the effect of significantly improving processing efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 shows the external appearance of the cash sorting and counting system according to the invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the schematic configuration of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a perspective view schematically showing the banknote sorting and counting device; FIG. 5 is a sectional view schematically showing the structure shown in FIG. 4; and FIG. 7 is a sectional view schematically showing the deposition device section, FIG. 8 is a sectional view schematically showing the pushing device section, FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining the classification and aggregation operation, and FIG. Figure 10 (a
) t (b) is an explanatory diagram showing the input transaction data flag and essential transaction data, respectively. 32...Input port, 1.2...Counting means, 22゜25
... Input means, 26... Start key, 7... Control unit, P... Money (material to be traded). Applicant's representative Patent attorney Takehiko Suzu b)

Claims (5)

[Claims] (1) A counting means for counting the materials to be traded put into the input slot, an input means for inputting transaction information, and a start key to input the counting means before the transaction information is input by the input means. A transaction processing device comprising: a control unit for operating the transaction processing device. (2) The transaction processing device according to claim 1, wherein the material to be traded is money. (3) The transaction processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the transaction information includes an account number, store number, item, child number, etc. (4) It has a display means for displaying data essential as transaction information, and if the display means does not display the essential data, the transaction is not terminated. The transaction processing device according to item 2 or 3. (5) The transaction processing device according to claim 4, wherein data essential as transaction information can be changed.