JPS6362789B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a bill dispensing device that takes out bills from a bill cartridge and dispenses them to an operator.

[Conventional technology]

Examples of such devices include automatic teller machines and automated teller machines operated by customers, and dispensers operated by clerks. In these devices, for example, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 54-52299, in order to ensure strict cash management, the banknote cartridge can only be opened with a special key.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, as described in the above publication,
In a cartridge that dispenses banknotes using a frictional rotating member such as a roller or belt inside the cartridge, even if the frictional rotating member is stopped when a predetermined number of bills have been dispensed, the next bill will continue to be dispensed. The leading end of the cartridge may be brought close to or outside the cartridge outlet.

For this reason, even if the above-mentioned key is provided, there is a problem that the dispensed banknotes can be removed from the dispenser opening, which may lead to fraud.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a bill dispensing device that can prevent unauthorized removal of bills from a bill cartridge even if bills are taken out.

[Means for solving problems]

This invention provides a collection path that guides banknotes from a branch part that branches midway through the payout route to a collection box, a sorting means provided at the branch part that distributes banknotes to the collection route, and a means for distributing banknotes along the payout route and the collection route. A conveying means for conveying, a detecting means for detecting whether or not there are banknotes between a frictional rotation member and a feeding opening provided inside the banknote cartridge, and a state of the detecting means when a banknote ejecting operation is not performed. An inspection means for inspecting the presence or absence of bills to be taken out, and control to collect the taken-out bills in a collection box by driving a friction rotating member, a sorting means, and a conveying means based on the inspection means detecting the removal of bills. The means are provided.

[Effect]

In this invention, when the inspection means detects that a bill is taken out while a bill transaction operation is not being performed, the control means is operated and the frictional rotation member, the sorting means, and the conveyance means are driven. Therefore, the bills to be taken out are guided to the outside of the cartridge by the frictional rotating member,
After passing through the dispensing route by the conveying means, the distributing means distributes them to the collection route and guides them to the collection box.
As a result of the above, the banknote cartridge is always kept free of banknotes.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a state is always maintained in which no bills are taken out from the cartridge outlet. Therefore, even if the cartridge is taken out from the main body of the apparatus, no banknotes are discharged from the cartridge outlet, so that it is possible to prevent banknotes from being illegally removed from the cartridge outlet. As a result, there is an effect that strict cash management can be performed.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings. In FIG. 1, 100 is a cartridge for ten thousand yen bills, 200 is a cartridge for thousand yen bills, and 300 is a cartridge for collected banknotes. The structure of the 10,000 yen bill cartridge 100 will be described with reference to FIG. Reference numeral 101 denotes a banknote placement plate, 102 a presser plate that presses the banknotes forward, and 101 and 102 constitute a banknote storage section. Reference numeral 103 denotes a friction roller that feeds out the frontmost banknote, 104 an eccentric roller that vibrates the banknote, 105 a belt that transmits the rotation of the friction roller 103 to the eccentric roller 104, and 106 an opposing roller with a built-in one-way clutch. It is locked in the feeding direction and does not rotate, but rotates freely in the opposite direction. Friction roller 103 and opposing roller 1
06 constitutes a friction rotating member.

107 is a lower guide plate provided almost along the outer periphery of the friction roller 103, 108 is an upper guide plate, and 109 is a slit-shaped outlet provided on the outer surface of the cartridge.

Although not shown, an electromagnetic clutch (indicated by 20 in FIG. 3) is provided coaxially with the friction roller 103, and the gear on the input side of this electromagnetic clutch operates when the cartridge 100 is loaded into the main body of the apparatus. , is designed to mesh with the gear on the device main body side. Since there is an electromagnetic clutch inside the cartridge, even if you turn the gear manually, the friction roller 10
3 does not rotate.

T11 and R11 are a light emitter and a light receiver, respectively, and the optical path indicated by the dashed line is the friction roller 103.
and the outlet 109,
Thereby, the light receiver R11 detects the presence or absence of the bill to be taken out. Note that the light projector T11 and the light receiver R11 will be collectively referred to as a sensor S11.

110 is a printed circuit board connected to the wiring of the electromagnetic clutch and sensor S11 built in the cartridge 100, and 111 is an elongated rectangular brush receiving port provided on the outer peripheral surface of the cartridge.

112 and 113 are an electric brush and a brush mounting plate, respectively, provided on the main body of the device.
When the cartridge 100 is loaded into the main body of the apparatus, the brush 112 comes into contact with the printed circuit board 110 as shown in FIG. be taken in.

Various parts 101 to 113, T11, R11 (S1
1) are similarly provided in the 1,000 yen bill cartridge 200, and the important ones are shown in FIG. However, 203, 206, S21, S22
correspond to 103, 106, S11, and S12, respectively.

Next, in FIG. 1, the ten thousand yen bill taken out from the cartridge 100 passes through conveyance paths 1, 10, and 11 and is dispensed to a dispensing port. In addition, the cartridge 20
The 1,000 yen bill taken out from 0 is transferred to transport routes 2, 10, 1.
1 and is paid out to the payout port. Note that S12 and S22 are sensors for counting the number of removed 10,000 yen bills and 1,000 yen bills, respectively, consisting of a light emitter and receiver, and SD is a sensor for detecting double stacking, consisting of a light emitter and receiver or a combination of a cam and a switch. It is. When the sensor SD detects two overlapping bills during the operation of taking out banknotes, those banknotes and the banknotes that have been taken out and temporarily stored in the path 10 are
It is sorted by the sorting plate 13, passes through the conveyance path 12, and is stored in the recovery cartridge 300. In addition,
When temporarily storing bills at the payout port, it is preferable to collect only double stacked bills.

Further, after the dispensing operation is completed, that is, when the friction rollers 103 and 203 are stopped, the sensor S
11 or S21 detects the banknote taken out,
After the banknote was also removed, the cartridge 30
It is recovered to 0. This point will be explained in detail later.

To explain the structure of the collection cartridge 300, 301 is a receiving port for collected banknotes, 302 and 303 are belts and rollers for taking in and collecting banknotes, and 304 is for preventing unauthorized extraction of collected banknotes from the receiving port 301. It is a partition plate. The cartridges 100, 200, and 300 can be taken out from the main body of the apparatus and can only be opened with a dedicated key.

In addition, sensors S11, S12, S21, S22
is assumed to be ON when a banknote is detected, and OFF when not detected.

In FIG. 3, 20 and 21 are electromagnetic clutches built into the cartridges of the 10,000 yen bill and the 1,000 yen bill, respectively, and 22 is the route 1, 2, 10, 11, 1.
a conveyance unit that controls the conveyance and distribution plate 13 of 2;
3 is a memory having counting areas 23a, 23b, 23c, and 23d for numerical values m, n, M, and N, and each area is addressed by the control unit 26. Here, m: Number of ten thousand yen bills collected when taken out n; Number of thousand yen bills collected when taken out M; Total number of ten thousand yen bills collected when taken out N; Total number of thousand yen bills collected when taken out Cleared at the end of business hours. Reference numeral 24 denotes an error storage circuit which stores the error as an error if the removed bill is still detected even after the removed bill is collected three times. 25 displays the type of error stored in the circuit 24. 26
is a control unit having a microprocessor controlled by a program, and the control unit 26 actually connects various I/Os in addition to the I/O shown in FIG. 3, and also has a timer function. are doing.

Next, the operation in the case of an automatic teller machine will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, in the standby state, when the sensor S11 or the sensor S21 detects a banknote (ST1, ST2), the control unit 26 stores the type of error in the circuit 24, and then displays the type of error on the display 25, The main unit of the device is brought down, that is, the operation is stopped (ST8).
If both sensors S11 and S21 do not detect banknotes, it is checked whether a payment request has been made by inserting a card (or passbook) (ST3), and if there is no request, the above ST1 to ST3 are repeated.

When a payment request is received, payment processing is performed (ST4).
In the payment process, first, the number of bills corresponding to the requested amount is taken out from the cartridge 100, 200 by the friction rollers 103, 203, and is paid out to the payout port via path 1 or 2 and 10, 11.
Cards (passbooks) will also be returned. At this time, if the sensor SD detects that two sheets overlap, the distribution plate 13
is deflected and passes through path 12 to cartridge 300
Collect it and then take it out again.

In this way, when the payout operation for the operator is completed, the control unit 26 controls the sensor S11 for the ten thousand yen bill.
Check whether it is ON (ST5). If the sensor S11 is not ON, then the sensor S21 for the thousand yen bill is inspected (ST6). sensor 21
When it is not ON, there are no bills taken out of the cartridges 100 and 200 for both the 10000 yen bill and the 1000 yen bill, so the circuit 24 has no error memory (ST7) and the entire operation ends. After this, the control section 26
returns to the standby routine of ST1 to ST3.

If S11 is turned ON in ST5, there are ten thousand yen bills to be taken out, so the operation for collecting ten thousand yen bills shown in ST10 to ST22 is performed. That is, the control unit 26 clears the area 23a of the memory 23 to m=0 (ST10), and then causes the routes 1, 10, and 12 to be transported, and deflects the distribution plate 13 (ST11).

Next, the electromagnetic clutch 20 is turned on to rotate the friction roller 103 and the eccentric roller 104 to feed out the banknote (ST12). When the tip of the banknote turns on the sensor S12 on the main body side, the control unit 26
starts the built-in timer (ST13), and when this timer times up, the electromagnetic clutch 20 is activated.
Turn off and stop the friction roller 103 (ST14). At this time, the leading edge of the banknote is caught in the conveyance path 1, and the rear end of the banknote is held by the friction roller 10.
3 and the opposing roller 106, and therefore the sensor S12 is turned on.

Next, the control unit 26 controls the sensor S as the bill advances.
12 is OFF (ST15), and S1
2 is detected as OFF, that is, when the rear end of the bill to be taken out passes the sensor S21, m in the area 23a is incremented by 1 to count the number of bills collected this time (ST16). Next, it is checked whether the sensor S11 is on or not (ST17), and if the sensor S11 is turned on again to take the child out, it is checked whether m in the area 23a has reached 3 (ST18). ).

If m is less than 3 in ST18, the process returns to ST12 and the removed banknotes are taken out and collected again.
If S11 is not ON in ST17,
Since there are no bills to be taken out, the conveyance on routes 1, 10, and 12 is stopped, and the sorting plate 13 is also returned to its original state (ST21).
Then, the total number M of collected ten thousand yen bills in area 23c is added by m in area 23a (ST22). If the removed banknote is still detected even after repeating the collection three times, add m (=3) to M in the area 23a (ST19), then store the error type in the circuit 24 and display it. The type of error is displayed on the device 25 (ST20). After ST20 or ST22, the sensor S21 for the thousand yen bill is inspected (ST6).

In ST6, when it is detected that the sensor 21 is ON, that is, when a 1,000 yen bill is taken out, the tests in ST23 to 35 are performed, which are the same as ST10 to 22 in the case of a 10,000 yen bill. Therefore, the explanation will be omitted. However, n and N are m, respectively,
Corresponds to M.

After ST33 or ST35, it is checked whether the circuit 24 stores an error indicating that the taken-out banknotes have been collected three times in a row (ST7), and if the taken-out banknotes have run out after re-collecting them twice or less. Since there is no error memory, the standby routine ST1 ~
Return to 3. When there is an error stored in the circuit 24 due to three consecutive collections, the control unit 26 shuts down the main body of the apparatus (ST9).

In addition to the embodiments described above, the present invention may be implemented in various embodiments as shown below.

(1) As the friction rotating member, a friction belt 103 as shown in FIG. 5 may be used instead of the friction roller. In FIG. 5, parts corresponding to those in FIG. 2 are given the same reference numerals as in FIG.

(2) During the standby routine, if a bill is detected, it may be collected. In this case, there is no need to detect the bill being taken out after the payout operation.

(3) As the means for detecting bills taken out, a low-load operation type microswitch may be used instead of an optical sensor.

(4) Instead of the facing roller 103, a flat plate member may be used.

(5) The number of denominations of bills to be paid may be one, or three or more.

Note that the detection means of the present invention includes the sensor S11,
The collecting means correspond to the transport paths 10 and 12, the collected banknote cartridge 300, and ST10 to ST22 in FIG. 4, respectively.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a banknote dispensing device, Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional front view of the main part of a 10,000 yen bill cartridge, Fig. 3 is a control block diagram, and Fig. 4 is a schematic illustration of a banknote dispensing device. The figure is a flowchart, and FIG. 5 is a partially sectional front view of a banknote cartridge according to another embodiment. 100: Ten thousand yen bill cartridge, 200: Thousand yen bill cartridge, 300: Collected banknote cartridge,
103, 203: Friction roller, S11, S21:
Taking out detection sensor.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Has a banknote storage section inside, a friction rotating member that feeds out the banknotes stored in the banknote storage section one by one, and an outlet on the outside that guides the banknotes sent out by the friction rotation member to the outside. In the bill dispensing device, the bill dispensing device has a bill cartridge that can be taken out from the device main body, and a bill dispensing route that dispenses bills from the dispensing port via the dispensing port. a collection path that guides the banknotes; a sorting means provided at the branching section to distribute the banknotes to the collection path; a conveying means configured to transport the banknotes along the payout path and the collection path; and a conveyance means provided inside the banknote cartridge. a detecting means for detecting whether or not there is a banknote between the frictional rotation member and the feeding port; and a state of the detecting means is inspected when a banknote removal operation is not performed to determine the presence or absence of a banknote to be taken out. and a control means for driving the frictional rotating member, the sorting means, and the conveyance means to collect the removed banknotes in the collection box based on the detection of the removed banknotes by the testing means. A bill dispensing device characterized by: