JPS6391794A - Note counting processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the mechanism of a control part, by stopping the counting and the discrimination of the kind of money thereafter when a note other than a designated kind of money is detected in a kind of money discriminating part. CONSTITUTION:While a separating and carrying means 4 separates and takes out the note sheet by sheet from a hopper 1, and the note is carried in order through a paper money carrying path 7, it is detected by a number of sheet counter 8, and the data of a carried note is fetched by a kind of money discriminator 9, and is inputted to a controller 14. When the note is decided as a different kind of note, error display is performed on a displaying part 13, and simultaneously, the operation of the separating and carrying means 4 is stopped, and the taking out of the note from the hopper 1 is stopped. In this way, it is not necessary to perform the monitoring of the carrying path of the note, or the switching of the path, by the controller 14, and the mechanism and the constitution of the control part can be simplified.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a banknote deposit device 2 installed in a financial institution such as a bank and used to automate deposit operations and withdrawal operations.
The present invention relates to a banknote counting processing method for counting banknotes in a banknote counting and processing device such as a banknote dispensing device.

[Prior Art 1] A banknote counting and processing device including a banknote depositing device, a banknote dispensing device, etc. is equipped with a hopper for inputting banknotes, and the banknotes input into the hopper are transferred to a conveyor belt.

The banknotes are conveyed along a banknote conveyance path equipped with a banknote conveyance means such as a feed roller, during which time the number of banknotes is counted and their denominations are distinguished, and then the banknotes are stored in a stacker. . Here, there are different types of banknotes processed by the banknote counting processing device, such as 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen, -10,000 yen, etc., but as a device for simple counting processing, it is possible to select a specific denomination among these various banknotes. Some denominations are configured to specify a denomination and perform counting only for the designated denomination.

The equipment for counting such designated denominations is as follows:
Conventionally, a number counting mechanism for counting the number of banknotes is provided along the banknote conveyance path, and a banknote discrimination mechanism for discriminating the denomination is provided, the paper FF5 discrimination mechanism discriminates the conveyed banknotes, and based on the discrimination result, Regular bills of designated denominations and foreign bills of non-specified denominations are separated and stored in separate stackers, a regular bill stacker and a different type bill stacker. In addition, in order to store banknotes in different stackers, the banknote conveyance path is branched into a path leading to the normal banknote stacker and a path leading to the different type banknote stacker, and the path is switched at this branching point position. In order to do this, a path switching mechanism consisting of a shutter or the like was provided.

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention 1] Therefore, if a regular bill stacker and a different type bill stacker are provided as described above, and bills are stored separately in these stackers, during the bill counting process, In addition to performing discrimination to determine whether or not the banknotes to be processed are genuine and counting the number of banknotes, the banknotes determined to be genuine by the discrimination section are stored in a genuine bill stacker, In addition, it performs route switching control to ensure that banknotes that are determined to be different types of notes are stored in the different type of note stacker, and the banknote conveyance path until these normal and different types of notes are reliably stored in their respective predetermined stackers. must be constantly monitored,
Moreover, the banknote counting method is complicated, as it is necessary to count two types of banknotes: the total number of processed banknotes and the number of valid banknotes, and the mechanism for controlling it is large-scale. There was a drawback.

Therefore, in financial institutions such as banks, it is common to manually classify banknotes by denomination in advance when counting banknotes using a banknote counting and processing device. This was done with the focus on the fact that, unless there is misclassification, etc., different types of notes will not be mixed in banknotes classified as described above, and its purpose is to:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote counting processing method that allows accurate counting of banknotes with an extremely simple mechanism.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a banknote transport path including a hopper and a stacker, a banknote transport means for transporting banknotes from the hopper to the stacker, A number counting section and a denomination discriminating section provided in the middle of the banknote conveyance path, a denomination/number designation means for specifying the denomination and number of banknotes to be processed, and specification data in the denomination/number designation means and the number counting. and a control unit that controls a banknote counting operation based on the detection data from the banknote denomination unit and the denomination determination unit, and the denomination determination unit detects banknotes of a denomination other than the specified denomination during the banknote counting operation. The feature is that the subsequent counting and discrimination of the denomination is stopped when the denomination is reached.

[Function] When the denomination and number of banknotes to be processed are specified in the denomination/number designation means, the control unit specifies the denomination and number of banknotes. Therefore, when the banknotes are put into the hopper and the banknote transport means is activated, the banknotes in the hopper are transported along the banknote transport path, during which time the number of banknotes is counted in the banknote counting section, and this counting result is At the same time, a discrimination signal for the banknote is input from the denomination discrimination section to the control section. Then, this denomination data is compared with the designated denomination data set in advance in the control section based on the designated signal from the denomination φ number designating means, and it is determined whether the processed banknote is of the designated denomination. A judgment is made.

Therefore, when a predetermined number of banknotes of the denomination specified by the denomination/number designation means are stacked on the stacker based on signals sent from the denomination discrimination part and the number counting part to the control part, the banknote conveyance means The operation stops and the counting process for the banknotes in question is completed.

On the other hand, banknotes of a different denomination than the specified one were accidentally thrown into the hopper.
When this different type of bill is conveyed to the denomination discriminating section by the banknote conveying means, a detection signal from the denomination discriminating section is input to the control section. Then, in this control unit, it is determined that the banknote is different from the specified type of banknote, and as a result, even if the banknote is subsequently conveyed based on a signal from the control unit, the count and denomination of the banknote can be determined. will be stopped.

As described above, when a banknote of a denomination other than the designated denomination is conveyed, the control unit determines that the banknote counting operation is a malfunction and stops the banknote counting operation, thereby preventing the banknote counting operation from occurring during the banknote counting process. In addition to comparing the detection data regarding the denomination sent from the denomination discrimination section with the data of the designated denomination,
It is only necessary to count the number of banknotes based on the signal from the banknote counting unit, and there is no need to monitor the conveyance path of banknotes or to count both the total number of banknotes and the number of banknotes of the specified denomination. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the workload of this control section. Therefore, the mechanism of the control section can be simplified and its configuration can be made small and compact.

[Embodiment 1] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

First, FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an apparatus for counting banknotes. In the figure, l indicates a hopper, 2 indicates a stacker, and a banknote 3 is placed close to the hopper l.
A separating and carrying means 4 for separating and taking out the paper money one by one is provided, and between the hopper 1 and the stacker 2, there is a paper money transport path 7 consisting of a feeding cola 5 and a guide plate 6.
A number counter 8 for counting the number of banknotes and a denomination discriminator 8 for receiving denomination discrimination data are installed in the middle of the banknote conveyance path 7. and,
The feed roller 5 is rotatably driven by a drive motor 10, and the separation/unloading means 4 is driven by the drive motor 10 via a clutch brake 11 that controls its operation.

Next, reference numeral 12 indicates an operation panel constituting means for specifying the denomination and number of coins, and the operation panel 12 is provided with a group of buttons such as an operation button for specifying the denomination and an operation button for specifying the number of coins. Among these button groups, the operation buttons for specifying banknotes include batch specification of 10, 20, 50, 100, etc., and arbitrary specification of counting all the banknotes 3 put into the hopper 1. It is now possible to specify one of the following. A display section 13 is attached to this operation fa12, and the display section 13 can display the designation of the denomination and number of coins, as well as display the status of the counting operation. .

Further, reference numeral 14 indicates a control device, and the control device 14 receives data regarding the designated number of coins and designated denomination from the operation panel 12, and also receives signals from the number of coins counter 8 and the denomination discriminator 9. It is configured to be able to perform a counting process operation on banknotes 3 based on the above, and to display the results of the counting process on the display section 13. Furthermore, in addition to the above-mentioned counting processing operation, ON/OFF control of the drive motor 10 and clutch/brake engagement/disengagement control are performed.

In the figure, 15 indicates a sensor installed in the hopper 1 to detect the presence or absence of banknotes, and 16 indicates a sensor installed in the stacker 2 to detect the absence of banknote force. A similar sensor is also provided at the location.

Next, a method for counting banknotes using the above-described banknote counting and processing apparatus will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

First, when the power is turned on, an initial reset is performed and each component of the device becomes ready to start.
At this time, the hopper 1, the stacker 2, and the bill conveyance path 7
The presence or absence of banknotes remaining in the bank is detected. If there are banknotes left in any part of the device, there is a risk that the banknotes will be counted incorrectly, so in this case, the display unit 1
At step 3, an error indication will be given and the device will be kept inactive. Therefore, if the operator removes the remaining bills in the device, the above-mentioned error display will be canceled and the designated denomination and number of bills can be set on the operation panel 12.

Therefore, the operation panel 12 is used to specify the denomination and number of coins, of which the number of coins is 10 or 20.

This is done either by specifying a batch of 50 bills, 100 bills, etc., or by specifying an arbitrary count of all banknotes put into the hopper 1. When this specification is completed, the system shifts to stop mode.

After specifying the denomination and number of coins using the operation panel 12 as described above, this specification data is input to the control device 14 while the stop mode is maintained, and the control device 1
In step 4, denomination designation processing and banknote number designation processing are performed to prepare for banknote counting work. After that,
When banknotes 3 are put into the hopper 1, it is determined whether or not the device is in a state where automatic counting is possible. If the device is in a state where automatic counting is possible, the drive motor 10 and clutch brake 11 are activated. By activating it, a process for starting automatic counting is performed, and after this process is completed, the mode shifts to counting mode, and banknote counting process is started.

Here, the conditions for automatic counting processing are that the denomination and number of bills are specified properly, that bills are loaded into the hopper 1, and that there are no bills remaining in the bill conveyance path 7 and the stacker 2. That's true.

When the mode is shifted to the counting mode, it is first determined whether the number of sheets is designated as a batch designation or an arbitrary designation. Therefore, if a batch is specified such as 10 sheets, 20 sheets, 50 sheets, or 100 sheets.

The batch designated counting mode is set, and the drive motor 10 operates the delivery means 4 to separate and take out the banknotes one by one from the hopper 1, and while the banknotes are sequentially sent through the banknote conveyance path 7, The number counter 8 detects the passage of the banknote, and the denomination discriminator 9 captures the data of the transported banknote. Here, the data on the banknote to be taken in includes the lengthwise dimension, widthwise dimension, pattern pattern at an appropriate position, etc. of the conveyed banknote. The data captured in this way is then transferred to the control attachment 14.
are inputted into the control unit 14 and compared with data regarding banknotes of a specified denomination preset in the control device 14, and when it is determined that the banknotes are of the same denomination, the number is counted in the control unit 14, and the number of displayed banknotes is sequentially updated. be done. When the banknotes are counted up to the specified batch number in this manner, the counting of the banknotes in the batch is completed, and the display section 13 displays a message indicating that the batch is complete. When the specified batch is completed in this manner, processing related to stopping counting is performed, and the mode shifts to stop mode.

By the way, for example, when a 100-sheet batch is specified, the banknotes in the hopper 1 may run out while the banknote counting process is being performed. In this case, a signal from the sensor 15 installed in the hopper 1 is input to the control device 14, and a counting stop process is performed with the counting results up to the last moment being held, and a transition is made to the stop mode. Therefore, when banknotes are added to the hopper 1, automatic counting becomes possible, so the system shifts to counting mode and continues counting banknotes until the batch is completed.

Furthermore, even if there are banknotes in the hopper 1, if the banknotes do not pass through the banknote counter 8 for a predetermined period of time due to the banknotes not being carried out smoothly by the banknote transfer means 4, etc., the same procedure as described above can be applied. Shifts to stop F mode, and hopper 1 is stopped by the operator.
When adjustments are made so that banknotes can be taken out, the mode shifts to counting mode and batch counting continues.

On the other hand, if banknotes other than the designated denomination are mixed in the banknotes thrown into the hopper 1, when the data of the banknote taken in by the denomination discriminator 8 is compared with the designated denomination data in the control device 14. Therefore, it is determined that the ticket is a different type of ticket. In this way, when the control device 14 determines that the ticket is of a different type, an error signal is input from the control device 14 to the display section 13, and an error display is performed on the display section 13. At the same time, the clutch brake 11 is
FF, and stops the operation of the separating and carrying out means 4 to stop taking out the banknotes from the hopper 1, and at the same time, by continuing the operation of the banknote transport path 7 by the drive motor 10 for a predetermined period of time, the inside of the banknote transport path 7 is After the remaining banknotes are taken out to the stacker 2, the mode shifts to the stop mode. If the banknotes stacked in the stacker 2 are taken out and the clear key on the operation panel 12 is pressed, the above-mentioned error will be canceled and the banknote counting process will be possible again. Since the banknotes taken out from the two stackers as described above include banknotes of different denominations other than the designated denomination, if these banknotes of different types are removed and then put into hopper l, the banknotes will be counted. You will be able to do this.

However, when counting a single banknote using this banknote counting and processing device, the banknotes are normally sorted in advance into banknotes of the same denomination, so when the banknotes of different types are mixed together as described above, they are not transferred to the hopper 1. It is almost never inserted, and therefore, it is extremely rare for an error display due to the above-mentioned detection of a different type of ticket to occur.

The banknotes are counted as described above, but after this one banknote counting process is completed, the stacker 2
When the banknotes that have been counted are taken out from the stacker 2, the stacker 2 becomes empty and automatic counting is possible, and the counting process can be performed continuously as long as the banknotes remain in the hopper 1. . Furthermore, if the banknotes placed in the hopper 1 are taken out at the same time as the banknotes are taken out from the stacker 2, the banknote counting process will not be restarted since it will become impossible to perform the banknote counting process.

Furthermore, when changing the batch or the designated denomination,
After the previous counting process has been completed and the banknotes are in the stop mode, the operation panel 12 can be operated with the banknotes removed from the hopper 1, or with the banknotes left in the stacker 2 after the previous counting process. All you have to do is operate. In particular, when changing the /drawing number while the above-described continuous counting process is being performed, this can be done by operating the operation panel 12 while leaving the banknotes on the stacker 2.

Next, if an arbitrary button on the operation panel 12 is pressed in order to count all the bills in the hopper 1, the mode becomes arbitrary counting mode, and in this state, the bills are thrown into the hopper 1, and the stacker 2 When it is detected that there are no bills remaining on the banknote transport path 7, automatic counting start processing is performed, and the banknotes are counted in the case of batch designation and F1, and the banknotes to be transported are of the designated denomination. As long as the number of sheets is counted, the number of sheets displayed on the display section 13 is added up one by one, and when the hopper 1 becomes empty of bills, this counting completion display is performed and the mode shifts to the stop mode. At this time, when a different type of bill is conveyed, an error message is displayed and the banknote conveyance path is different. As in the case of the above-mentioned batch designated counting mode, the banknotes in the stacker 2 are discharged to the stacker 2 and the banknote counting process is stopped.

As mentioned above, when in the counting mode, the control device 14 performs two types of operations: counting the number of banknotes based on the signal from the number counter 8 and discriminating banknotes based on the signal from the denomination discriminator 9. This eliminates the need to monitor the direction of banknote conveyance and its state in the banknote conveyance path 7, and the need to perform two types of counting.
The configuration of the system can be extremely simplified, and the control system can be extremely simplified. In addition, the overall structure of the banknote counting processing device is improved, such as by providing a different type of bill stacker outside the regular bill stacker and eliminating the need to provide a stirrup for switching the route between the regular bill stacker and the different type bill stacker. can be made extremely simple, small and compact.

[Advantageous Effects of the Invention 1] As described in detail above, the present invention provides the following advantages: when a banknote is counted by specifying a denomination, a banknote other than the specified denomination is sent in and the denomination discriminating section determines that the banknote is a different type of banknote. When this is determined, the subsequent counting of banknotes and the determination of their denominations are stopped, so the conveyance route after the counting process can be made into one tree. When counting banknotes, the control unit only counts the number of banknotes being conveyed and determines their denominations, and there is no need to monitor the banknote conveyance route or switch the route. The mechanism and configuration of the system can be simplified.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration explanatory diagram showing an example of an apparatus configuration for implementing the method of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart diagram for implementing the method of the present invention. 1: hopper, 2 stacker, 7: banknote transport path, 8: number counter, 9: denomination discriminator, 12: operation panel, 13: display section, 14: control device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A banknote transport path including a hopper and a stacker, a banknote transport means for transporting banknotes from the hopper to the stacker, a number counting unit and a denomination discriminating unit provided in the middle of the banknote transport path, and a banknote count unit that performs counting processing. banknote counting processing operation based on a denomination and number specifying means for specifying the denomination and number of banknotes, specification data from the denomination and number specifying means, and detection data from the number counting section and the denomination discriminating section; and a control unit configured to stop further counting of banknotes and discrimination of their denominations when a banknote of a denomination other than the designated denomination is detected in the denomination discriminating unit during banknote counting processing. A banknote counting processing method characterized by the following.