KR100796217B1 - Bank bill storing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a bill storage mechanism, wherein the bill acceptor comprises an upper unit for performing a counting process and a lower unit for storing bills, and a temporarily openable tray which can be opened and closed provided in a temporary holding unit for temporarily accumulating the bills deposited in the upper unit. In the and the lower unit, the user can approve the user's amount of money by installing a shutter for security that can be closed and covered with a safe-shaped cover member, and an automatic or manual opening / closing bank lock shutter installed in a bill storage to accept bills. According to the situation, the shutter is opened and closed, security is maintained, and a technology for providing a cash handling device that can strictly manage cash is provided.

Description

Banknote storing mechanism {BANK BILL STORING MACHINE}

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a schematic side view which shows one Example of banknote deposit machine (banknote storing mechanism).

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing one embodiment of a deposit machine for mounting a bill holding mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a detailed side view of the temporary holding part and banknote cassette upper portion of the bill holding mechanism.

4 is a schematic view of a bill cassette.

It is an operation flowchart which shows the outline flow of the deposit storing process of a banknote storing mechanism.

The present invention relates to a banknote conveyance / storage technique in which banknotes are put out one by one and conveyed to a temporary holding part reject storage unit according to a discrimination result, and then the banknotes temporarily held are stored in a banknote storage and returned to the user.

Banknote storing mechanisms which are installed in stores such as retail stores and are mounted on deposit machines which deposit sales of the store usually carry out one piece of banknotes which are put into banknote inserting unit one by one, and to temporary storage part, reject storing unit by identification result It has a mechanism for storing bills temporarily stored after returning them to the bill storage and returning them to the user. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a configuration for storing temporarily held bills in a bill storage, but arranges a temporary storage part for temporarily accumulating bank notes to be deposited and a bill storage section for storing deposited bills in front.

[Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-67526

Conventionally, only a designated amount of money is processed to be deposited, but for a part constituting the device, a holding tray for storing the banknotes for depositing the banknotes to be deposited in the upper unit is placed in the lower unit, and a holding tray installed in the temporary storage unit. The upper unit and the lower unit are connected by opening. However, according to this structure, in order to send the banknote integrated in the temporary holding part to a storage part, since the upper part of a storage part must always be open, it is not preferable for crime prevention.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a cash handling apparatus that can open and close the shutter in accordance with the user's approval of the amount of money, maintain security and strictly perform cash management.

In the present invention, the bill holding mechanism includes an upper unit which performs counting processing and a lower unit which holds banknotes, and includes an openable temporary holding tray and a lower unit provided in a temporary holding unit for temporarily accumulating banknotes deposited in the upper unit. Is configured to install a shutter for security that can be opened and closed at the same time as a covering member of a safe shape, and to arrange a banknote shutter that can be opened or closed automatically or in a banknote storage for accepting banknotes to be deposited.

In addition, the security tray is improved by using a holding tray provided in the temporary holding unit, a shutter for security and a banknote lock shutter as another driving source.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, one Embodiment of this invention is described using drawing.

Fig. 2 shows a deposit machine 1 on which the bill holding mechanism of the present invention is mounted. This deposit machine 1 is also a storage device for the purpose of depositing and storing banknotes or coins, such as sales money, in stores such as retail stores and restaurants. The deposit machine 1 mainly comprises a cash processing mechanism part (2, also referred to simply as a conveying unit 11) that performs counting processing of banknotes and hardening, and a storage unit 3 that holds banknotes and hardenings in which the counting is completed. . For example, the storage part 3 is a safe which opens and closes a door which can be corrected, and accommodates a banknote cassette 61 or a hardened cassette 61 ', and prevents the security of the cassette 61/61' which stored cash. It is secured. The main body control unit (only the control unit 7) is made from a hard configuration such as a CPU memory and controls shutters and the like of the bill transfer bill cassette 61 in the transfer unit 11 described later. In addition, each inlet 22, 32, 42 is demonstrated in FIG.

In addition, the storage unit 3 is provided with the same security as the safe. That is, it is set as the structure which accommodates the banknote cassette 61 and hardening cassette 61 'which accommodated banknotes and hardening in the safe-shaped storage part 3 with a door structurally solid. This depends on the operation mode of the deposit machine according to the present embodiment. The reason is explained below.

Normally, a person who operates an automatic transaction apparatus (ATM) installed in a financial institution or the like has a right to handle ATMs, such as a person who collects or withdraws money in a user safe depositing and withdrawal and a paying maintenance person. The user only puts the deposit bill in the entry / exit bracket or receives the banknote which is withdrawn, and cannot handle the jam-state bill which occurred in ATM. On the other hand, the official can handle the whole bill in the ATM. For example, in an ATM where a bill is jammed, the person who is jammed determines whether the owner is the property of the user or the device according to the progress of the transaction (whether or not the amount of money is approved). In this way, since the user can only operate from outside the ATM, even if a jam or other trouble occurs, the user cannot touch the banknotes in the ATM, and the handling of the banknotes in the ATM is limited to those who are responsible for the management. Is maintained.

However, in the case of a deposit machine (device), an official of a financial institution is not near the device due to the installation condition of the device, for example, a condition such as being installed in a store of a convenience store. For this reason, when a jam occurs before the approval of the deposit amount is completed, the user handles the bills inside the device which has stopped due to the jam. Therefore, it is necessary to structurally distinguish the user's property from the device's property within the device. .

There, in order to strictly protect the bill cassette 61 in which the banknote which the user approval was completed is stored, the bill cassette 61 is stored in the storage part 3 which is a safe, and the lock is filled. As a result, the user can easily take out the banknote which stopped inside the apparatus with the jam etc. about the banknote before approval of the amount of money from the conveyance unit 11. However, it is not possible to touch a banknote which has been approved and stored in the banknote cassette 61. The approved banknote can be touched only by an official of a financial institution whose key is to take out the banknote cassette. The security of the banknote in the banknote cassette 61, which is the property of the apparatus, is maintained.

1 then; 3; With reference to FIG. 4, the structure of the deposit machine 1 is demonstrated. FIG. 1: shows the internal structure of the cash processing mechanism part 2 and the banknote cassette 61 of FIG. 2, and abbreviate | omits the hardening cassette 61 '. As shown in the drawing, the front face of the conveying unit 11 includes a banknote inlet 22 for inserting banknotes to be deposited and a reject outlet 32 for taking out the rejected banknote; The return port 42 which takes out the returned banknote is arrange | positioned. Banknote slot 22; Inside the reject outlet 32 and the return port 42, a bill acceptor 21 and a reject compartment formed of a top, bottom, left, right, and inner surface with dimensions adapted to the bill size by a regulation plate (not shown). The 31 and the temporary holding part 41 are arrange | positioned. The reject outlet 32 and the return port 42 each have a door 33 and a return door 43. The door 33 is opened and closed manually, and the return door 43 is provided with an electronic lock (not shown). Therefore, it has a structure which locks so that it can not be opened other than timing arbitrarily. The return door 43 arranged in the return port 42 automatically opens the return door 43 which completely covers the outer surface with a metallic covering member, so that the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding part 41 can be obtained.

Banknotes introduced from the banknote inlet 22 continue to be sent out from the banknote accepting unit 21, and are continuously taken out from the rollers, and the extraction conveying path 51 is conveyed to determine the paper type authenticity of the banknotes in the banknote discriminating unit 5. In this determination, the reject banknote is conveyed to the reject accommodating part 31 to the temporary holding part 41, respectively. That is, it is replaced by the switching gate 55 on the discrimination conveyance path 52, and is accommodated through the reject conveyance path 53 and the holding conveyance path 54, respectively.

3 shows details of the upper portion of the temporary holding portion 41 and the banknote cassette 61. Among these, the temporary holding part will be described.

The temporary holding part 41 arrange | positions the lower feed roller 48 and the upper feed roller 49 at the entrance of the temporary holding part 41, and conveys a banknote in the temporary holding part 41. As shown in FIG. When the front end of the banknote S1 transferred to the temporary holding part 41 by the up-down conveying roller collides with the stopper 44, the rear end of the banknote is pressed down by the retaining storage roller 46 in which the sheet of elastic is radially disposed. Banknotes are stacked on a holding tray 45. Moreover, when storing several banknotes, they accumulate one by one on the accumulated banknote S accumulate | stored on the holding tray 45. When storing the banknote S which has been accumulated after the accumulation is completed, the banknote S having accumulated the storage lever 47, which has been retracted at the retracted position 47a, on the upper portion of the temporary holding part 41 during the storing operation. (B) from the position 45a at which the holding tray 45 accumulates the banknotes from the position while lowering the above (47b) and pressing down the accumulated banknote S by the weight or elastic force from the top to the drive motor of the holding tray (not shown). It moves to the position of the retraction position 45b by this.

When the banknote counting by the banknote discrimination unit 5 is completed and the user approves it, the accumulated banknote S is lowered to the position of the lower portion 47c by the pressing force of the storage lever 47, and the banknote cassette ( Drop it to the inside of 61). In the banknote dropping operation, the storage lever 47 follows the falling of the banknote, so that the force of the storage lever 47 is always caught on the banknote when the banknote falls, so that it may be caused by the jamming of the banknote or falling down obliquely. It can prevent the fall failure to ensure stable banknote falling performance.

When the user selects the return after the bill is completed, the locking mechanism of the return door 43 is released to automatically open the return door 43 by elastic force, and the stopper 44 also returns the door 43. The banknote S is collected in the temporary holding part 41, and the user can take out the banknote S accumulated in the temporary holding part 41, and the banknote S is returned.

Next, the banknote cassette 61 will be mainly described. 1 and 3, the branch closing cassette 61 is disposed on the lower front surface of the transfer unit 11. Moreover, when the banknote cassette 11 is set to the loading part 64 of the apparatus side, it is fixed by the locking mechanism 63, but it has a detachable structure which can be removed by unlocking the locking mechanism 63. FIG.

The bill cassette 61 has a bill storage shutter 65 which can be opened or closed automatically or manually on the upper surface as shown in FIG. The banknote storage shutter 65 is not opened by the lock in the cassette when the banknote cassette 61 is removed, but when the banknote cassette 61 is set to the loading part 64, the lock is released and the opening is automatically or manually opened. Getting drunk. The banknote cassette 61 is set in the loading section 64 and the banknote storage shutter 65 is opened to store the banknote from the upper surface to the storage section 66. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, banknotes are stacked vertically on banknote holders 62 movable in the vertical direction provided in the storage section 66 and stored. In addition, when the banknote cassette 61 is closed from the banknote storage shutter 65 and separated from the storage section 64, the upper and lower, left and right surfaces, the front and rear surfaces are closed to secure the safe and have a handle 67. It becomes easy to carry. The bill cassette 61 opens the front door 68 when it is in a separated state, thereby greatly opening the storage section 66 and easily acquiring the bills stored in the storage section 66 and quickly recovering the bills. .

1 and 3, a security shutter 71 is disposed between the transfer unit 11 and the bill cassette. The security shutter 71 performs the opening / closing operation | movement by a slide in the front-back direction, and can transfer the banknote temporarily held by the temporary holding part 41 of the conveying unit 11 to the banknote cassette 61 in the open state. On the contrary, when the security shutter 71 is closed, the upper part of the banknote cassette 61 is covered and the banknote cassette 61 is covered by the security shutter 71 and the cash processing mechanism part 2 of the deposit machine 1 to secure security. can do. In addition, the security shutter 71 operates in the front-rear direction by the driving force of the motor, automatically opens and closes, and opens and closes at an arbitrary timing such that the security shutter 71 is opened only when the banknote is transferred from the transfer unit 11 to the banknote cassette 61. Is possible.

The banknote depositing machine (banknote storing mechanism) has a counting processing function of counting a banknote set in the banknote accepting unit 21 by the user and a deposit storing process of storing it in the billing cassette 61 based on the user's approval as a result of the counting. . The operation of this storing process will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3 using the flowchart of FIG. 8.

In the deposit storing process, the banknotes that the user deposits are put into banknotes from the banknote inlet 22, the banknotes are counted and accumulated in the holding unit 41, and the user confirms the counting result of the display unit and deposits or rejects the banknotes. Is selected (step S111). When depositing the counted banknote (step S11la), by pressing the approval key (step S112), the storing operation is started by the storing process instruction from the main body control unit 7 (steps S113 to S126).

The banknote storing mechanism 10 keeps the banknote storage shutter 65 open automatically or manually at the position of 65b (step S113), and waits for the banknote holder 62 to rise just below the security shutter 71. The security shutter 71 is moved from the position of 71a to the position of 71b (step S114). At this time, the banknote storing guide 69 provided in the banknote storing part 61 interlocked with the banknote storage shutter 65 and the security shutter 71 stands (step S116).

Next, after lowering the storage lever 47 onto the banknote S accumulated in the temporary holding part 41 (step S117), the banknote holder 62 is raised to just below the holding tray 45 (step S118). The holding tray 45 is moved from the position 45a to the position 45b (step S119). This transfers a banknote to the banknote holder 62 (step S120). While the storage lever 47 presses the banknote 47b and 47c, the banknote storage stand 62 is lowered to just below the security shutter 71 (step S121) and stored in the banknote cassette 61. When the storing operation to the banknote cassette 61 is finished, the storing lever 47 is retracted to 47a (step S122), and then the security shutter 71 is moved from the (71b) position to the (71a) position (step S123). . At this time, the banknote accommodating guide 69 which interlocks with the security shutter 71 falls down, and presses the banknote S from the top (step S124). Furthermore, the banknote storage shutter 65 is closed (step S125), and the holding tray 45 of the temporary holding part moves from 45b to 45a (step S126). The stored amount of money is then displayed on the display unit (step S127) to complete the deposit storing process.

Moreover, when selecting the return of the counted banknote (step S11lb), a user presses the cancellation key of an operation part (step S131). By the instruction of the main body control unit 7, the return door 43 is opened automatically, and the user can take out the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding unit 41 (step S132). Is manually closed, the process ends (step S133).

As described above, the banknote accommodating mechanism of the present invention considers robust security and then realizes a reliable deposit accommodating operation. Moreover, although it is also the above-mentioned description, it is one of the characteristics that the banknote storing guide 69 interlocks and stands up like a solid dotted line according to the opening-closing operation of the security shutter 71. In addition, one of the features is that the holding tray 45, the security shutter 71, and the bank vault shutter 65 are driven independently of each other.

According to the above description, the security shutter 71 is closed except when the bill cassette 61 for storing bills is loaded into the storage section 3 and bills are stored in the cassette. In addition, by providing an automatic opening and closing mechanism in the banknote storage shutter 65, the security of cash management is secured. In the standby state other than the storing operation of the banknote, the banknote can be stored strictly by the function of the storage unit 3 as the safe and the state of the security shutter 71 being closed. Therefore, it becomes impossible for a user (for example, a clerk) other than the senior manager or the security company which has the corrective authority of the storage part 3 to take out the bank notes in the storage part 3 and the banknote cassette 61. This ensures the security of cash. Moreover, by providing the banknote storing guide 69 which interlocks with the security shutter 71 and the banknote storage shutter 65, a reliable storing operation can be performed.

In the present invention, the security shutter is provided on the banknote accommodating portion to cover the lower unit for accommodating the banknote in a safe shape with a covering member so that the opening / closing mechanism can be in a closed state other than the banknote accommodating operation.

Moreover, in this waiting state, it becomes a state covered with the covering member, so that it is possible to strictly store the bank note which has been accepted by the user and is stored and held in charge of management.

In addition, it is possible to maintain security that can make it impossible for a manager other than a high-level administrative officer or a security company to take out bills from the storage warehouse.

Claims (12)

In the banknote storing mechanism which stores the banknote put into the banknote slot, A temporary holding part for temporarily accumulating the deposited bank notes on a holding tray; A bill storage, for storing the bills accumulated in the temporary holding part from an opening and including a bill storage shutter provided in the opening; It has a security shutter and a control unit for distinguishing the temporary holding unit and the bill storage, And the control unit opens the holding tray, the banknote storage shutter, and the security shutter when the banknotes accumulated in the temporary holding part are stored in the banknote storage. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 1, And the temporary holding part disposes a lower conveying roller and an upper conveying roller at an inlet of the temporary holding part and conveys the bill in the temporary holding part. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 2, The temporary holding part holds the banknote by pressing the back end of the banknote downward with a holding-receiving roller in which a sheet of elastic is placed radially when the tip of the banknote conveyed to the temporary holding part by the upper feed roller and the lower feed roller collides with the stopper. The banknote storing mechanism which accumulates on it. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 1, And the control unit controls driving of opening and closing the holding tray and the security shutter separately. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 2, And the control unit controls driving of opening and closing the holding tray and the security shutter separately. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 3, And the control unit controls driving of opening and closing the holding tray and the security shutter separately. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 1, The banknote storage has a banknote holder for moving the bills up and down and accumulate banknotes, The bill holding guide stands in association with the security shutter is opened, A bill receiving mechanism, characterized in that collapsed to press the upper end of the bill accumulated in the bill holder in conjunction with the security shutter is closed. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 2, The banknote storage has a banknote holder for moving the bills up and down and accumulate banknotes, The banknote storing guide stands in association with the security shutter is opened, A bill receiving mechanism, characterized in that collapsed to press the upper end of the bill accumulated in the bill holder in conjunction with the security shutter is closed. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 3, The banknote storage has a banknote holder that moves up and down with the banknote storage guide to accumulate banknotes, The banknote storing guide stands in association with the security shutter is opened, The bill acceptor according to claim 1, wherein the security shutter is closed so as to be pushed down to press the upper end of the bill accumulated in the bill holder. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 1, The banknote storage has a banknote holder that moves up and down to accumulate banknotes, The controller is in the open state banknote shutter, Bills, characterized in that the bill holder is raised below the security shutter to open the security shutter and then the holding tray is open to transfer the bills accumulated in the holding tray to the bill holder. Storage. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 2, The banknote storage has a banknote holder that moves up and down to accumulate banknotes, The controller is in a state of opening the banknote shutter shutter, Bills, characterized in that the bill holder is raised below the security shutter to open the security shutter and then the holding tray is open to transfer the bills accumulated in the holding tray to the bill holder. Storage. In the banknote storing mechanism of claim 3, The banknote storage has a banknote holder that moves up and down to accumulate banknotes, The controller is in a state of opening the banknote shutter shutter, Bills, characterized in that the bill holder is raised below the security shutter to open the security shutter and then the holding tray is open to transfer the bills accumulated in the holding tray to the bill holder. Storage.

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