KR100980437B1 - Apparatus and method for dispensing paper money longitudinally - Google Patents

Abstract

Longitudinal banknote emitters and methods thereof are disclosed. The control unit controls the release of bills stored in the cassette. The banknote release means conveys the banknote stored in the cassette in the longitudinal direction. And the banknote release means is adjusted so that the end coincides with the banknote discharged in the longitudinal direction to release the banknote. According to the present invention, the banknotes are transported and discharged in the longitudinal direction, thereby making it possible to manufacture a longitudinal banknote ejector having a small size, and controlling the opening and closing of the door and the banknote ejection gear of the cassette by using keys and magnetics, thereby stealing the bills by illegal users. It is possible to prevent, and because the discharged to align a plurality of discharged bills, customers can conveniently collect the discharged bills. In addition, by detecting the bills are emitted to determine the overlapping bills based on the detected bill information and to prevent the overlapping bills are released can be released the exact number of bills, reducing the power used to transfer the bills to reduce the energy consumption Can be reduced. In addition, by detecting the banknotes emitted to determine the type of bill based on the detected banknote information to prevent the mis-entry bills are released, it is possible to release the correct number and amount of bills, reducing the force used to transfer bills Energy consumption can be reduced.

Longitudinal, Bills, Ejection, Magnetic, Cassette

Description

Longitudinal banknote ejector and its method {Apparatus and method for dispensing paper money longitudinally}

The present invention relates to a longitudinal bill ejector and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a bill ejector and a method for releasing bills stored in a cassette in the longitudinal direction.

In general, in the financial industry, such as banks, banknotes, bill counters, bill sorters, paper money dispensers, paper money dispensers, paper money emitters, and the like are used as equipment to assist the management of bank notes. In particular, the bill dispenser is widely used as a bill dispenser, a check dispenser, a ticket exchanger in various shops, etc., which is operated unattended in a financial industry such as a bank.

1 is a block diagram showing a conventional banknote ejector.

Referring to FIG. 1, the conventional banknote ejector 10 as described above may be detachable through a case 11 having a banknote ejection opening 11a formed at a front end thereof and a rear surface of the case 11. 11) a plurality of cassettes 12 which are installed inside the banknotes 12a for discharging the bills 12a to the outside and a feeding path of the banknotes 12a discharged from the respective cassettes 12 are formed to form the banknotes 12a. And a main controller 14 which controls the paper money discharging operation of the cassette 12 and the paper money feeding operation of the paper feeding device 13. do.

2 is an internal configuration diagram showing a conventional banknote ejector.

Referring to FIG. 2, the cassette 12 has a banknote receiving space and a cover 12b having a banknote outlet 12b1 formed at a front end thereof, and a banknote 12b housed inside the cover 12b. The contra lever cam 12e2 to which the push plate 12c which presses in the direction, the pick-up roller 12d which picks up the banknote 12a pressed by the push plate 12c, and the contra lever 12e1 for banknote separation are connected. Separation roller 12f for separating the bill 12a picked up by the pickup roller 12d while rotating while being supported by the mounted contra roller 12e, and between the contra roller 12e and the separation roller 12f. It provides a driving force to the feed roller (12g) and the respective rollers (12d, 12e, 12f, 12g) for feeding so that the bill (12a) passing through the bill discharged to the outside through the bill ejector (12b1) of the cover (12b) Is composed of a cassette motor 12h.

The feeding device 13 is applied through a bill feeding path formed by a pair of feeding belts (not shown) moved by a belt driving motor (not shown) applied to a conventional bill ejector, or applied to a conventional bill ejector. Banknotes 12a discharged from the respective cassettes 12 through banknote feed paths formed by a plurality of feeding rollers (not shown) rotated by roller motors (not shown). It feeds toward the discharge port 11a.

The cassette motor 12h and the feeder 13 are driven by a control signal of the main controller 14, whereby the bill release operation of the cassette 12 and the bill feed operation of the feeder 13 are controlled. do.

The conventional banknote ejector 10 configured as described above picks up the cassette 12 when the cassette motor 12h is driven by a bill emission signal indicating the number of ejected banknotes 12a of the main controller 14. A plurality of banknotes 12a corresponding to the banknote release signal are externally passed through the banknote ejector 12b1 of the cassette 12 via the roller 12d, the separation roller 12f, and the feeding roller 12g. After discharged to the feeder 13, the feeder 13 is driven by the feed signal of the main controller 14 is fed to the banknote outlet 11a of the case 11, and then the banknote outlet 11a Through the case 11 is discharged out.

However, the conventional banknote ejector has a large size problem because the banknote is transported in the transverse direction to release. In addition, there is a problem in that the accuracy of the pusher is lowered by the use of a single pick-up roller, the overall bill pickup accuracy is lowered, and when a bad banknote, such as damaged banknotes are stored in the cassette, there was a problem of providing a bad banknote to the customer.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a longitudinal banknote ejector and a method that can be transported and discharged in the longitudinal direction and produced in a small size, to prevent theft of the banknote by illegal users.

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a longitudinal banknote ejector and a method for releasing a plurality of banknotes discharged so that they can be provided to the customer.

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a longitudinal banknote ejector and a method for releasing the correct number of banknotes by preventing the release of overlapping banknotes.

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a longitudinal bill emitter consuming a small energy and a method thereof.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, the longitudinal banknote ejector according to the present invention, the control unit for controlling the release of the banknote stored in the cassette; Bill conveyance means for conveying bills stored in the cassette in a longitudinal direction; And bill discharging means for discharging the bill by adjusting the tip to coincide with the bill pre-emitted in the longitudinal direction.

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Preferably, the longitudinal banknote ejector, the banknote discrimination means for detecting the bill conveyed by the bill conveying means for outputting bill information; And a memory including a banknote information database in which banknote information data is stored, and the controller determines whether the banknotes are sold based on the output banknote information.

Preferably, the longitudinal banknote ejector, the banknote counting unit for outputting the counting information by counting the banknotes conveyed through the bill conveying means; wherein the memory counting information for storing the sum of the calculated bills The database further includes a database, wherein the controller identifies the bill type of the detected bill by referring to the bill information and the bill information database, and calculates a sum based on the identified bill and the count information. Store in the coefficient information database.

Preferably the banknote conveying means is driven by a DC motor and the banknote discriminating means detects the banknote through an optical sensor.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, the longitudinal banknote release method according to the present invention, the step of outputting a banknote release signal; Transferring the banknote stored in the cassette in the longitudinal direction; A sensing step of detecting bill information about the transferred bill by sensing the transferred bill; A determination step of determining whether the banknotes are sold on the basis of the detected banknote information; And a release step of releasing the bill so that the tip coincides with the bill pre-emitted in the longitudinal direction when the bill is one sheet.

Here, in the irradiation step, the degree of damage of the banknote is further determined based on the detected banknote information. Also, in the discharging step, when the bill is a single, undamaged bill, the bill is released. In the detecting step, the banknote information is detected by irradiating light onto the banknote.

According to the longitudinal banknote ejector and the method according to the present invention, it is possible to produce a longitudinal banknote ejector having a small size by transferring and discharging the banknote in the longitudinal direction, and illegally because the door lock of the cassette is controlled by using keys and magnetics. Banknote theft by the user can be prevented, and the plurality of discharged banknotes are discharged to be aligned so that customers can conveniently collect the discharged banknotes.

In addition, by detecting the bills to be emitted based on the detected bill information to determine the overlapping bills and prevent the stacking of the bills can be released, the exact number of bills can be discharged, by reducing the force used to transfer the bills with a small energy Longitudinal banknote ejectors that can also be used can be manufactured.

In addition, by detecting the banknotes emitted to determine the type of bill based on the detected banknote information to prevent the mis-entry bills are released, it is possible to release the correct number and amount of bills, reducing the force used for bill transfer This can reduce energy consumption.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the longitudinal banknote ejector and the method according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of a longitudinal banknote ejector according to the present invention, Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a preferred embodiment for the longitudinal banknote ejector according to the present invention.

3 and 4, the longitudinal banknote emitter 100 according to the present invention, the banknote 101 is located at the top or bottom of the plurality of cassettes 150 in which various types of banknotes 101 are separated and housed. Combine the banknote discharge box 191 to be released to the user, by the discharge roller unit 193 and the discharge roller unit 193 forcibly transporting the banknote 101 to the banknote discharge box 191 to the banknote 101 The movement force is attenuated so that the banknotes 101 are always dropped to a certain position by stacking the movement force attenuation lever 192 so that the alignment of the banknotes 101 is made uniform, so that the user organizes the banknotes 101 separately Discomfort should be gone.

The cassette 150 is provided with a bill support plate 151 for elastically closely contacting the bill 101 in a predetermined direction, and bills 101 are provided one by one on the side of the bill 101 to be ejected. It has a discharge roller 102 to be discharged to the outside of the.

One side of the cassette 150 forms a movement guide 103 for guiding the movement of the banknote 101 for smooth transfer of the banknote 101, and at least one transfer roller 104 along the movement guide 103. With a, it is preferable to make a smooth transfer while the bill 101 is in contact with the transfer roller (104).

In addition, the longitudinal banknote ejector 100, the door lock device 110, the memory 130, bill transfer means 140, cassette 150, bill discrimination, including a keylock 111 and a magnetic sensing unit 112 The means 160, the banknote counting unit 170, the control unit 180, the banknote release means 190 and the sorting banknote processing unit 200 is provided.

The key lock 111 detects the inserted key and operates the key lock. The key lock 111 releases the key lock when the administrator inserts a predetermined key and rotates the predetermined key.

The magnetic sensing unit 112 locks or releases a bill ejection gear that emits bills depending on whether the magnetic contact is made.

That is, the cassette 150 can be forcibly withdrawn banknotes through the banknote ejection opening when turning the banknote ejection gear in the state that the door is not opened, to prevent this by the magnetic sensing unit 112 installed in the main body Only when this is detected is the bill ejection gear released.

Accordingly, the longitudinal banknote ejector 100 according to the present invention can prevent theft of banknotes by illegal users.

The memory 130 may be implemented as a nonvolatile memory such as, for example, an EEPROM or a flash memory. The memory 130 stores an operation program for driving the longitudinal bill emitter 100 according to the present invention, and includes a bill information database 131 for storing bill information information for each kind. Banknote information by category includes all the data necessary to identify the banknote, such as the amount of ultraviolet absorption of the banknotes, bill size, color information, security thread information.

In addition, the memory 130 further includes a coefficient information database 132 that stores the counted amount and the sum of the bills emitted by the controller 180. In this case, the counted amount and the sum amount may be stored in association with each execution date and time.

The banknote conveying means 140 conveys the banknote stored in the cassette 150 in the longitudinal direction. The banknote conveying means 140 is provided between the cassette 150 in which the banknotes are stored, the banknote discharging means 190 and the sorted banknote discharge port 200, and the banknotes stored in the cassette 150 under the control of the controller 180 are billed. Each of the discharge means 190 or the selective bank discharge port 200 is selectively transferred. To this end, the banknote conveying means 140 includes a plurality of conveying rollers 104 driven by the transmission of gears and belts, and a drive motor for driving the conveying rollers 104. Accordingly, the bills stored in the cassette 150 are selectively transported to the banknote release means 190 or the sorted banknote discharge port 200 side by the frictional force by the rotation of the transfer roller 104. Here, the banknote conveying means 140 transfers the banknote in the longitudinal direction, so that it can be manufactured in a size corresponding to the vertical size of the banknote. . For example, the banknote conveying means 140 may be driven by a DC motor. In this case, the longitudinal banknote ejector 100 according to the present invention can reduce the energy consumption than the bill conveying means 140 is driven using a conventional solenoid.

The banknote discrimination means 160 detects both sides of the banknote conveyed by the banknote conveying means 140 and outputs banknote information. The bill information detected here is the size, color, and presence and location of the magnetic bill. To this end, the banknote discrimination means 160 may be implemented to include any one or more of an ultraviolet sensor, a magnetic sensor, an ultrasonic sensor installed at a predetermined position of the banknote transfer means 140.

The ultraviolet sensor includes a light emitting unit for irradiating ultraviolet rays to one side of the bill to be transported, and a plurality of sensing ultraviolet rays which are irradiated and reflected by the light emitting unit. Such an ultraviolet sensor is a known technical configuration. For reference, banknotes have a high reflectance of light of short wavelengths among the wavelength bands of light. By using these characteristics, the bills are irradiated with ultraviolet rays to measure the amount of light and the fluorescence contained in the banknotes. By analyzing substances and lipids, the authenticity of banknotes can be distinguished. In addition, it is possible to determine the old and damaged degree of the banknote by sensing the banknote transmittance of the light emitted by the light emitting unit. Then, it detects both points where the change of transmittance is extremely high in the direction orthogonal to the transfer direction of the paper money, estimates the vertical size of the paper money from the distance between the detected points, and recovers the original transmittance from the time when the change of the light transmittance occurs. By measuring the time up to the point in time it can be estimated the horizontal size of the bill.

The magnetic sensor senses the magnetic distribution formed on one side of the bill to be transferred. In particular, in the case of South Korean and Chinese banknotes, magnetic is formed on the side of the banknote, and the magnetic sensor can easily detect all of the magnetic formed on the banknote. In addition, the position of the magnetic can be estimated from the time when the magnetic is detected, the time when the ultraviolet sensor detects a change in transmittance, and the estimated horizontal size of the banknote.

The banknote counting unit 170 counts the banknotes transferred through the banknote conveying unit 140 and outputs counting information. For example, the banknote counter 170 may be implemented as a counter sensor. The counter sensor is composed of a light-emitting and a light-receiving infrared sensor, and counts whether the infrared light emitted from the light-emitting infrared sensor is received by the light-receiving infrared sensor. The infrared rays emitted from the luminescent infrared sensor when the banknotes are transferred are blocked by the banknotes, and when the banknotes pass, the infrared rays are again received by the light receiving infrared sensor. The banknote counting unit 170 counts the number of banknotes transferred using the presence or absence of such infrared rays.

The counting information database 132 stores the number of bills counted by the bill counting unit 170 for each kind.

The controller 180 controls the release of the bill stored in the cassette 150. To this end, the controller 180 includes a banknote discrimination unit 181, a banknote settlement unit 182, and a banknote inspection unit 183.

The bill discrimination unit 181 identifies the bill type of the bill sensed based on the size, color, and presence or absence of a bill, which is bill information, output by the bill discrimination means 160.

Here, by determining the paper type based on the sensed bill information to prevent the mis-inserted bills to be released, it is possible to emit the correct number and amount of bills.

For example, the banknote discrimination unit 181 detects each banknote having the same size as the detected banknote, and selects each banknote having the same information as the presence or absence of the detected banknote and the location information among the detected banknotes. Then, among the selected banknotes, the banknotes having the color most similar to the detected banknote color are identified as the detected banknotes. As another example, the bill discrimination unit 181 may change the comparison order of each bill information to identify the bill type of the bill, and adds a weight to the similarity of the bill information to convert the bill with the highest weight into the bill. Can be identified.

The bill settlement unit 182 stores the count amount for each kind in the count information database 132 using the count information output from the bill counting unit 170, and if the inserted bill is no longer present, adds the sum amount for each kind of bill. It calculates, and stores the count amount and the sum amount calculated for each kind in the coefficient information database 132. In addition, the bill settlement unit 182 may access the coefficient information for each kind in the coefficient information database 132 and output it to the outside through the interface unit 210.

The bank note sorting unit 183 discriminates whether or not the banknote is damaged according to whether the banknote transmittance detected by the banknote discriminating means 160 exceeds a preset reference value.

When the banknote judging unit 183 determines that the banknote is damaged, the error message for the damage determination may be output to the outside through the interface unit 210, and the banknote is not transferred to the banknote discharging unit 500. Control to be transferred to the sort banknote processing unit 200 without. In other words, the bill banking unit 183 controls the bill transfer means 140 and transfers the damaged bills to the sorted bill discharge unit 700. Longitudinal banknote emitter 100 according to the present invention can prevent the release of damaged banknotes can give confidence to the customer.

In addition, the bill checking unit 183 determines whether a bill is detected based on the bill information output by the bill discriminating means 160. That is, the banknote judging unit 183 determines whether two or more banknotes are stacked based on the banknote information output by the banknote discriminating means 160. For example, the banknote discrimination means 160 may determine that the detected banknotes are banknotes in which two or more detected banknotes are overlapped based on the transmittance information included in the banknote information. Here, the transmittance information refers to the transmittance through which light emitted by the light emitter is transmitted to the banknote. Accordingly, the longitudinal banknote emitter 100 according to the present invention can release the correct number of banknotes by preventing the overlapping banknotes are released.

The banknote discharging means 190 discharges the banknotes conveyed by the banknote conveying means 140 in the longitudinal direction. That is, the banknote release means 190 discharges the banknote so that the vertical portion of the banknote is discharged first. And the banknote release means 190 releases the bill by adjusting so that the ends of each bill previously transferred in the longitudinal direction to match. In one example, the banknote discharging means 190 causes the banknote to fly in the horizontal direction by the size of the banknote through the inertial force generated in the moving direction, and the wall in which the banknote which has emerged in the horizontal direction by the size of the banknote is perpendicular to the moving direction of the banknote. By hitting and dropping along the wall, it is possible to make it coincide with the first released banknote on the top surface of the first released banknote. Accordingly, the longitudinal banknote emitter 100 according to the present invention can be discharged so that the plurality of banknotes are aligned so that the customer can conveniently collect the banknotes discharged.

Selected banknote processing unit 200 receives the damaged banknote from the banknote conveying means 140 and discharges it to a separate collection box. In addition, the selected banknote processing unit 200 may discharge the stacked banknotes back to the cassette 150 in which the stacked banknotes were stored or another separate collection box.

The interface unit 210 transmits and receives data with an external device. For example, the external device may be a computer, and the interface unit 210 may be a connector for transmitting and receiving data with the computer. The interface unit 210 may be implemented as a connector used for serial communication such as RS-232 and USB, and may be implemented as an information transmission medium capable of transmitting and receiving data with an external device through various communication methods. have. Since the method of interfacing with an external device using the interface unit 210 described above is a well-known technique used in various fields, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Figure 5 is a flow chart showing the implementation of a preferred embodiment for the longitudinal banknote release method according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the controller 180 outputs a bill release signal (S400). Banknote conveying means 140 transfers the bill stored in the cassette in the longitudinal direction (S410). The bill discrimination means 160 detects bills transferred by the bill transport means 140 and detects bill information about bills transported by the bill transport means 140 (S420). Here, the banknote discrimination means 160 detects banknote information by irradiating light on the banknote. The controller 180 determines whether the bills sensed by the bill discrimination means 160 are one sheet based on the bill information detected by the bill discrimination means 160 (S430). When the bills detected by the bill discrimination means 160 are not single sheets, the bill conveyance means 140 transfers the bills sensed by the bill discrimination means 160 to the sorted bill processor 200 (S440).

When the banknote discrimination means 160 detects a single banknote, the controller 180 determines the degree of damage of the banknote based on the detected banknote information (S450). When the degree of damage to the banknote is larger than a preset value, the banknote conveying means 140 transfers the banknote sensed by the banknote discriminating means 160 to the sorted banknote processing unit 200 (S440).

When the amount of damage to the bill sensed by the bill discrimination means 160 is smaller than a preset value, the bill conveyance means 140 transfers the bill sensed by the bill discrimination means 160 to the bill ejection means 200. (S460). And the banknote discharging means 200 discharges the banknotes conveyed by the banknote conveying means 140 so that the end coincides with the banknote first released in the longitudinal direction (S470).

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described specific preferred embodiments, and the present invention belongs to the present invention without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the claims. Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and such changes are within the scope of the claims.

1 is a block diagram showing a conventional banknote ejector,

2 is an internal configuration diagram showing a conventional banknote ejector,

3 is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of a longitudinal banknote ejector in accordance with the present invention;

4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a preferred embodiment of the longitudinal banknote ejector according to the present invention, and

Figure 5 is a flow chart showing the implementation of a preferred embodiment for the longitudinal banknote release method according to the present invention.

Claims (11)

A controller for controlling the release of bills stored in the cassette; Bill conveyance means for conveying bills stored in the cassette in a longitudinal direction; And Longitudinal banknote ejector comprising a; bill discharge means for releasing the bill by adjusting the end coincides with the bill pre-released in the longitudinal direction. The method of claim 1, The longitudinal banknote ejector, Bill discrimination means for sensing bills conveyed by said bill conveying means and output bill information; And And a memory including a banknote information database in which banknote information data is stored. 3. The method of claim 2, The control unit is a longitudinal banknote ejector, characterized in that for determining whether one of the bills on the basis of the output banknote information. 3. The method of claim 2, The longitudinal banknote ejector, And a banknote counting unit for counting banknotes transferred through the banknote conveying means and outputting counting information. The memory further includes a coefficient information database for storing the sum of the calculated bills, The control unit identifies the bill type of the detected bill by referring to the output bill information and the bill information database, calculates a sum amount based on the identified bill type and the output count information, and stores the sum amount in the count information database. Longitudinal banknote emitter characterized in that. 3. The method of claim 2, And said bill conveying means is driven by a DC motor. 3. The method of claim 2, The banknote discriminating means is a longitudinal banknote emitter, characterized in that for sensing the banknote through an optical sensor. 3. The method of claim 2, The longitudinal banknote ejector, It operates by detecting the inserted key, the administrator inserts a predetermined key and rotates in a certain direction, the key lock for releasing the lock, and the longitudinal banknote further comprising a magnetic sensing unit for detecting whether the magnetic contact Emitter. Outputting a bill release signal; Transferring the banknote stored in the cassette in the longitudinal direction; A sensing step of detecting bill information about the transferred bill by sensing the transferred bill; A determination step of determining whether the banknotes are sold on the basis of the detected banknote information; And When the banknote is a single sheet, the longitudinal banknote release method comprising a; emitting the banknote so that the end coincides with the bill discharged in the longitudinal direction. The method of claim 8, The release step, And releasing said banknote if said banknote is daily. The method of claim 8, The longitudinal banknote release method, And a banknote damage determining step of determining the degree of damage of the banknote based on the detected banknote information. The method of claim 8, The detecting step, Longitudinal banknote release method characterized by detecting the banknote information by irradiating light to the banknote.

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