JPS63278193A - Circulation type banknote dealing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a circulating banknote deposit/withdrawal device installed in financial institutions, etc., and particularly relates to a circulating banknote deposit/withdrawal device in which a person withdraws money by key operation by a customer. It concerns gold equipment.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 3 is a side view schematically showing the internal structure of a conventional circulating bill depositing and dispensing device of this type.

In the figure, 1 is the housing of the device, and the upper front part is the customer service part 2a,
2b, and although not shown in the customer service department 2a, there is a transaction selection key,
A group of keys for customer operation, such as a numeric keypad for inputting amounts and PIN numbers, a confirmation key, and a cancellation key, as well as a CRT display to provide instructions for operation, etc., are provided. The section 2b is provided with a card insertion/return slot, a bankbook insertion/return slot, etc., although these are also not shown.

On the other hand, the following components are arranged inside the casing 1.

First, reference numeral 3 denotes a banknote input/receiver section where customers can input or receive banknotes, which is disposed close to the opening formed as the deposit/withdrawal port of the customer service section 2a. The section 3 has a holding means 4 consisting of opposing guide plates, banknote clamping rollers, etc., and is adapted to rotate by receiving power from a motor 5 while holding the banknote by the holding means 4. .

Reference numeral 6 denotes a separating/counting section provided directly below the bill input/receiving section 3, which has a suction drum 7 and separates the bills delivered from the bill input/reception section 3 one by one by suction drum 7. It is possible to feed the banknotes to a conveyance path, which will be described later, and to count the number of banknotes.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a discrimination section that includes an optical sensor, a magnetic sensor, a discrimination circuit, etc. (not shown).

Reference numerals 9a to 9d denote banknote storage units, which are arranged neatly and side by side at the bottom of the housing 1, and can be taken out from the rear surface of the housing 1, etc.

Here, 9a and 9b are used as banknote storage units for storing bills for withdrawal in advance and for storing normal banknotes by denomination (for example, 1,000 yen banknotes and 10,000 yen banknotes). The folded banknote 9c is a banknote storage section for unfit bills, and the 9d is a banknote storage section for rejects.A banknote feeding and storage means (not shown) and a banknote storage means (not shown) are provided in correspondence with these.

Reference numerals 10a to 10g denote conveyance paths consisting of belts, rollers, etc. that rotate while holding the banknotes in between. between the part 3, the discrimination part 8 and each bill storage part 9a~
Bills are transported between the bill feeding and storing means and the bill storing means corresponding to 9d.

11 is a conveyance path motor that drives the conveyance paths 10a to 10g; 12a to 12e are blades for switching the conveyance direction;
The blades 12a to 12e are each arranged at a predetermined position and rotated by a solenoid or the like (not shown).

13 is a temporary accumulation section set on the conveyance path 10g.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 3, and as can be seen in this figure, the holding means 4 of the banknote input/receipt section 3 is in the position of ■.

The rotation is controlled so that the angle changes as shown in (1) and (2).

In the above-described configuration, the banknote deposit/withdrawal operation is performed as follows.

First, in the case of a deposit transaction, the bill insertion/reception unit 3 is controlled so that the holding means 4 is at the angle shown in FIG. and,
The bill A is taken in and held by the holding means 4, and the bill receiving section 3 is rotated by the motor 5 so that the holding means 4 is at an angle H.

Thereafter, the banknote A is transferred from the holding means 4 to the separating and counting section 6, and the banknote A is transferred from the separating and counting section 6 to the suction drum 7.
The banknotes are separated one by one and sequentially fed to the conveyance path 10a, and at the same time, the number of banknotes is counted and the counted value is sent to a CPU (not shown) or the like.

On the other hand, the conveyance paths 10a to 10g are driven in advance by the motor 11, so that the banknotes A fed to the conveyance path 10a are conveyed to the discrimination section 8 in order.

In the discrimination section 8, the authenticity, denomination, fitness, etc. of the banknote A are discriminated, and then the banknote A passes through the conveyance path 10b and passes through the blade 1.
2a, it enters the conveyance path 10c, and then the conveyance path 10c.
d, and are stacked in the temporary stacking section 13 of this conveyance path 10d into banknotes A that are identified as genuine and banknotes A that are identified as counterfeit. A is conveyance path 1
The banknotes are conveyed all at once to the banknote input/reception section 3 by 0d.

At this time, the banknote input/receiver unit 3 is on standby with the motor 5 rotated in advance so that the holding means 4 is at an angle of {circle around (2)}. After that, the bill insertion/reception part 3 is rotated so that the holding means 4 is at an angle of ■.
Banknotes such as counterfeit notes are returned to the customer.

On the other hand, after the return of the genuine banknotes A is completed, the banknotes A are conveyed along the conveyance path 10a to the banknote input/reception section 3, and from there, the banknotes A are conveyed to the banknote input/reception section 3 from the separation/counting section 6. Conveyance path 10a.

Identification Department 8. After passing through the conveyance path 10b, it enters the conveyance path 10e under the guidance of the blade 12a whose angle has been changed in advance, and is further fed into the conveyance path 10f.

Then, in this conveyance path 10d, the banknote A is transferred to the blades 12c and 12d based on the above-mentioned discrimination result.

12e, and each denomination-specific banknote storage section 9a is sorted by a banknote storage and feeding means and a banknote storage means.

9b and the unfit bill storage section 9c.

In addition, banknotes that are determined to be reusable for withdrawal through the above-mentioned discrimination are stored in the denomination-specific banknote storage section 9a according to the denomination.
.

Next, in the case of a withdrawal transaction, depending on the amount and denomination inputted by the customer by pressing a numeric keypad (not shown) provided in the customer service department 2a, a banknote feeding/storage means (not shown) is used. The banknotes A are fed out one by one from one or both of the denomination banknote storage units 9a and sb, and the fed banknotes A are fed into the conveyance path 10f which is already driven by the motor 11 at this time. It is conveyed to the identification section 8 via a conveyance path 10g via a path 10f.

Here, the discrimination unit 8 discriminates the denomination of the banknotes A and detects double feeding, skewed feeding, etc., and as a result, the banknotes A that are judged to have abnormalities such as double feeding move along the conveyance path 10b. Then, it enters the conveyance path 10e under the guidance of the blade 12a, and then enters the conveyance path 1
After being fed into the banknote 0f, it is guided by the blade 12b and transferred to the reject banknote storage section 9 via a banknote storage means (not shown).
d and collected.

Further, after the banknotes A that have been identified as having no abnormalities are counted, they pass through the conveyance path 10b, enter the conveyance path 10c under the guidance of the blade 12b, and are further fed into the conveyance path 10c.
It is accumulated in the temporary accumulation section 13.

Then, when the designated denomination and number of bills are aligned, the banknote A is sent to the banknote input/reception section 3 together with a receipt issued from a receipt issuing device (not shown), and the holding means 4 is held at an angle of ■.
After that, the banknote input/receipt section 3 is rotated by the motor 5 several times so that the holding means 4 is at an angle of ■, and then the banknote is paid to the customer.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, the conventional circulating bill depositing and dispensing device described above has the following problems.

In other words, as mentioned above, this type of device uses a conveyance path for both deposits and withdrawals, and conveys banknotes along a complicated route. Efforts are being made to increase the feed speed.

On the other hand, there are many cases in which banknotes deposited by customers are damaged, such as being bent or torn, or have been repaired by adhesion with tape. If paper money is transported at high speed along a complicated route, there is a high chance of problems such as jamming of paper money.

By the way, in general, when a failure such as a banknote jam occurs in a banknote deposit/withdrawal device, the operation of the device will not be stopped until the operator of the financial institution removes the cause of the failure and restores the normal state. As is well known, banks and other financial institutions have recently started operating their equipment at night and on holidays, so banknote jams like the one described above occur during such nighttime and holiday operations. In such a case, there is a problem that the machine will be out of operation for a long time, causing great inconvenience especially to customers trying to make withdrawal transactions.To avoid this, it is not possible to have operators on standby at night or on holidays. As mentioned above, although it is expected that failures will occur frequently in circulating bill depositing and dispensing devices, failures do not always occur, so financial institutions end up wasting manpower.

The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and an object of the present invention is to realize a circulating bill depositing and dispensing device that allows only withdrawal transactions even if a failure such as a bill jam occurs. It is something.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a dispensing bill storage section for storing banknotes exclusively for dispensing separately from the conventional bill accommodating section, and also provides a dispensing bill storage section for storing bills exclusively for dispensing. A conveyance path for conveying banknotes to and from the banknote input/receiving section is provided separately from the conventional conveyance path.

[Effect]

The present invention having the above-described configuration switches to a mode in which only withdrawal transactions are possible when a failure such as a bill jam occurs in the conventional banknote route for deposits and withdrawals.

When a customer makes a payment request, the banknotes are dispensed from the payout-only banknote storage unit according to the amount and are conveyed to the banknote input/reception unit via a newly provided conveyance path to be paid to the customer.

Therefore, according to this, even if a failure such as a banknote jam occurs during normal human withdrawal transactions when the device is operated at night or on holidays, only withdrawal transactions can be continued.
Inconvenience to customers can be minimized, and financial institutions no longer need to spend unnecessary manpower.

〔Example〕

Examples will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a side view schematically showing the internal structure of an embodiment of the circulating bill depositing and dispensing device according to the present invention. Receiving section, 4 is a holding means, 5 is a motor, 6 is a separation and counting section, 7 is a suction drum, 8 is a discrimination section, 9a to 9d are banknote storage sections, 10
a~10g is a conveyance path, 11 is a conveyance path motor, 12a~
Reference numeral 12e indicates a blade, and reference numeral 13 indicates a temporary accumulation section, which are the same or equivalent to those shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a banknote storage section for withdrawal, which is arranged at a predetermined position in the housing 1, and can be taken out from the rear surface of the housing 1. A predetermined number of banknotes of a predetermined denomination (for example, 10,000 yen) are stored.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a banknote feeding means provided corresponding to the banknote storage unit 14 for dispensing, which is composed of a suction drum, a reverse roller, etc., and feeds the banknotes in the banknote storage unit 14 for dispensing one by one. It's ready to come out.

16a and 16b are conveyance paths arranged to connect the banknote feeding means 15 and the banknote input/reception section 3;
Similar to 0a to 10g, it is composed of belts and rollers that rotate while holding the banknotes, and here the conveyance path 16
A simple discrimination means (not shown) consisting of a counting means, a detection means for detecting the state of banknote transport, etc. is provided in the middle of the transport path 16b, and a temporary accumulation section 17 is set on the transport path 16b.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a motor for driving the conveyance paths 16a and 16b, and this motor 18 also serves as a driving source for the banknote feeding means 15.

FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 1, and as seen in this figure, the banknote input/receiver section 3 of this embodiment has its holding means 4 at an angle of (■) corresponding to banknote input and payment to the customer.
It is designed to rotate so as to be able to change to the angle .largecircle. corresponding to the separation/counting section 6 and the angle .largecircle. corresponding to the transport path 10d, as well as to the angle .largecircle. corresponding to the transport path 16b.

Next, the operation of the above-described configuration will be explained.

First, when a failure such as a bill jam does not occur, the device is maintained in a normal mode, that is, a deposit/withdrawal mode, by a control means (not shown).

In this deposit/withdrawal mode, deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions are performed in the same way as in the conventional mode, but since this has already been described in detail in FIG. 3, the explanation thereof will be omitted.

Therefore, the separation counting section 6. Identification section 8 or conveyance path 10
If a banknote jam occurs in a to 10g etc.,
The control means stops these operations and switches to a withdrawal-only mode.

In this withdrawal-only mode, the motor 18 can be driven, and a withdrawal transaction is performed as follows.

That is, when the customer inputs the requested payment amount by pressing the numeric keypad etc. provided in the customer service department 2a,
The motor 18 is driven, and the banknotes A are separated and fed out one by one from the banknote storage section 14 for dispensing money by the banknote feeding means 15.

The dispensed banknotes A are fed into the conveyance path 16a, and while being conveyed by the conveyance path 16a, a simple discrimination section (not shown) performs counting and detection of skewed feeding, double feeding, etc. If it is determined that there is no abnormality such as skew feeding or double feeding, the banknote A is stacked in the temporary stacking section 17 of the conveyance path 16b.

When the number of bills corresponding to the requested payment amount is collected, the bills A are sent along the conveyance path 16b to the bill input receiving section 3 together with a receipt issued from a receipt issuing device (not shown).
The holding means 4 is waiting in advance at the angle of ■ shown in Fig. 2.
After the banknote A is taken in, the banknote input/receiver 3 is rotated by the motor 5 so that the holding means 4 is at an angle of ■.
is paid to the customer.

On the other hand, if the simple discrimination unit determines that there is an abnormality such as skew or double feeding, the banknote A is sent to the banknote input/reception unit 3 together with the banknotes A already stacked in the temporary stacking unit 17. After being taken into the holding means 4, this bill insertion receiving section 3
The banknotes are fed into a receiving box (not shown) for storing forgotten banknotes provided near the banknotes, or a reject box (not shown) provided in advance at a predetermined position, and then collected.

Thereafter, the banknotes A are newly dispensed in the same manner as described above, are classified by the simple recognition section, and transported to the temporary stack 2 banknote input and receiving section 3, and then paid to the customer.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments,
For example, in a dual embodiment, the motor 18 is connected to the conveyor path 15.
Although it is designed to serve as the driving source for the banknote feeding means 15 and the banknote feeding means 15, it is also possible to drive separate motors synchronously.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in addition to the conventional configuration, the present invention is provided with a payout banknote storage section and a conveyance path, so that problems such as banknote jams may occur during normal deposit and withdrawal transactions during nighttime or holiday operations. Even if this occurs, only withdrawal transactions can be performed.

Therefore, the operation of the equipment will not be stopped for a long time as in the past, and inconvenience to customers can be minimized, and the financial institution will not have to waste manpower. is obtained.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing an embodiment of the circulating bill depositing and dispensing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of a conventional example, and FIG. It is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 3. 3: Bill insertion/reception section 4: Holding means 6: Separation counting section
8: Discrimination section 9a-9d: Banknote storage section 10a-10g,
16a, 16b: Conveyance path 14: Withdrawal banknote storage unit Patent ratio Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Agent Patent attorney: Takashi Kanakura 2-fi CI CoωMa1 -8Q et al.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A banknote input/reception unit for inserting banknotes by a customer and paying banknotes to the customer; a discriminating unit for validating banknotes necessary for deposits and withdrawals; and a banknote for both deposit and withdrawal. In a circulating bill depositing and dispensing device including a storage section and a conveyance path for conveying banknotes between these sections, a dispensing bill storage section exclusively for dispensing is provided separately from the bill storage section, and the transfer path A circulating banknote depositing and dispensing device characterized by comprising a conveyance path for conveying banknotes between this banknote storage section for dispensing money and the banknote input/receiving section, separately from the banknote storage section.