KR102255918B1 - Automatic teller machine for bundle of paper money - Google Patents

Abstract

A banknote bundle deposit and withdrawal device is disclosed.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle that includes at least one of cash and a check and is capable of processing bill bundles input in a bundle form, transfers the input bill bundles to a preset path, and , An input/output unit having a bill separation unit for separating and transferring bills from the bill bundle into sheets; A discrimination unit that receives bills from the deposit/exit unit and scans and discriminates the image; A path switching unit determining a path of the bills transferred from the discrimination unit; A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the bills provided by the route switching unit; A printing unit for receiving bills from the temporary storage unit upon deposit and endorsing them on one side of a check; A stack unit for storing bills provided by the printing unit; And a reject unit for receiving and temporarily storing banknotes from the temporary storage unit and transferring them to the input/output unit during transport.

Description

Deposit and withdrawal device for bill bundle {AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE FOR BUNDLE OF PAPER MONEY}

The present invention relates to a banknote bundle deposit and withdrawal device.

In general, automatic teller machines (ATM) can provide unattended financial services such as deposit and withdrawal of cash and checks using a card or passbook without a bank employee, regardless of time and place in relation to financial services. It is an automated device.

Recently, the use of automated financial devices is increasing not only in financial institutions such as banks, but also in convenience stores, department stores, and public places.

Automatic financial devices can be classified into withdrawal machines, deposit machines, and deposit and withdrawal machines depending on whether or not to deposit or withdraw. Recently, automated financial machines are used for various purposes such as deposit and withdrawal of cash, deposit and withdrawal of checks, bank book arrangement, payment of giro fees, and ticket sales .

However, in the conventional automated financial device, a device for depositing and withdrawing a check and a device for depositing and withdrawing cash are provided separately, and these are separately mounted on the body of the automated financial device.

That is, at least one or more cash can be deposited and withdrawn through the cash deposit and withdrawal device, and each check can be deposited and withdrawn through the check deposit and withdrawal device. And there is a problem that it is difficult to use space efficiently.

On the other hand, the size of the check is fixed, but in some foreign countries, the size of the check may be different. For example, since personal checks issued by individuals and business checks issued by companies may have different sizes, in such a case, it is inconvenient to deposit and withdraw checks of different sizes in a bundle form.

In addition, when depositing and withdrawing cash and checks (hereinafter referred to as "banknotes") in bundles, there may be a problem that the banknotes get stuck in the transfer part while several banknotes are transferred at the same time. It can also lead to delays or unusable problems.

Therefore, there is a need to develop a banknote bundle deposit/withdrawal device that can deposit and withdraw cash and checks in bundles (bundles, bundles) at the same time, implement slimmer devices, and that can be applied in countries around the world with different banknote specifications. .

Korean Patent Publication 10-2010-30085

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a bill bundle deposit and withdrawal device capable of simplifying the overall structure of the device and reducing the number of parts while depositing and withdrawing cash and checks in bundles.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a banknote bundle deposit and withdrawal device capable of recognizing various banknotes from around the world and capable of conveying banknotes that are conveyed such as deposit cancellation.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a deposit and withdrawal device for bill bundles that can be reversed so that the checks that are inserted upside down can be normally endorsed.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle that includes at least one of cash and a check and is capable of processing bill bundles input in a bundle, the input bill bundles are transferred to a preset path, and , An input/output unit having a bill separation unit for separating and transferring bills from the bill bundle into sheets; A discrimination unit for receiving bills from the input/output unit and scanning an image to discriminate; A path switching unit determining a path of the bills transferred from the discrimination unit; A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the bills provided by the route switching unit; A printing unit for receiving bills from the temporary storage unit upon deposit and endorsing them on one side of a check; A stack unit for storing bills provided by the printing unit; A deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle including a reject unit for receiving and temporarily storing bills from the temporary storage unit during transport and transferring them to the deposit/withdrawal unit may be provided.

Here, the bill separation unit, the guide portion located below the movement path of the bill bundle; A pick-up roller part spaced apart from the guide part to a height corresponding to the thickness of the bill bundle, and installed to be adjustable in height up and down through a height adjusting means; A feeding roller part which is disposed behind the pickup roller part and rotates forward or backward according to a moving direction of the bill; It is disposed under the feeding roller portion, and may include a gate roller portion maintaining a predetermined distance from the feeding roller portion so that only a predetermined number of bills pass through.

In addition, an interval between the pickup roller part and the guide part may be set to correspond to the thickness of the bill bundle.

In addition, the gate roller unit may be a one-way roller that is non-rotated when the banknote is deposited and rotates in one direction so that the banknote is moved in a conveyance direction when the banknote provided by the reject unit is conveyed.

In addition, the path switching unit may receive an external signal and determine whether to deposit or convey the bill transferred to the path switching unit to switch the path.

In addition, the path switching unit may have a front/back function to reverse the banknote of the banknote bundle for an endorsement in the printing unit when the check is turned over.

In addition, the banknote of the temporary storage unit may be supplied to the printing unit through the path switching unit when the banknote is deposited.

In addition, the bills of the temporary storage unit may be supplied to the reject unit through the path switching unit and the discrimination unit sequentially when the bills are conveyed.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a bill bundle deposit and withdrawal device capable of simplifying the overall structure of the device and reducing the number of parts while depositing and withdrawing cash and checks in bundles.

In addition, various banknotes from around the world can be recognized, and banknotes that are conveyed, such as payment cancellation, can be easily and conveniently conveyed.

In addition, it is possible to reverse the check so that the check in the top and bottom can be normally endorsed.

1 is a configuration diagram schematically showing the configuration of a deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle according to an embodiment of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a side view showing a bill separation unit of the bill bundle deposit and withdrawal device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a configuration and operation according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following description is one of the many aspects of the invention that are claimable, and the following description may form part of the detailed description of the invention.

However, in describing the present invention, detailed descriptions of known configurations or functions may be omitted to clarify the present invention.

Since the present invention can make various changes and include various embodiments, specific embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in the detailed description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to a specific embodiment, it should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, or substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

The terms used in the present application are only used to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Hereinafter, a deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view showing a bill separation unit of the deposit and withdrawal device for a bill bundle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of the present invention relates to a banknote bundle deposit and withdrawal device that includes at least one of cash and a check and is capable of processing banknote bundles input in a bundle. It may include a unit 200, a path switching unit 300, a temporary storage unit 400, a printing unit 500, a stack unit 600, and a reject unit 700.

The meaning that an embodiment of the present invention includes the configurations listed above does not mean that it consists of only these configurations, but that it basically includes these configurations, and includes other configurations (for example, known techniques widely known in bill teller machines). Although it means that it is possible, a detailed description of known technologies will be omitted since the subject matter of the present invention may be unclear.

The input/output unit 100 is provided with a bill separation unit 110 that transfers the bill bundle 10 inserted into the inside through an input port through a preset path, and separates and transfers bills from the bill bundle 10 into sheets. can do.

Here, the banknote bundle 10 refers to banknotes made in a bundle or bundle, and the banknote is a paper currency and can include cash and checks, and is referred to as a banknote bundle 10 in this embodiment. May refer to a bundle consisting of cash or checks alone, or a mixture of cash and checks.

In order to transfer the bill bundle 10 from the input/output unit 100 along a preset path, the input/output unit 100 may be provided with a conveyor unit 101 that rotates in a forward or reverse direction in an endless track shape.

In addition, the bill separation unit 110 is provided to separate bills from the bill bundle 10 inserted into the deposit/withdraw unit 100 into sheets and transfer them to the next step. As shown in FIG. 2, the bill separation unit 110 may include a guide unit 111, a pickup roller unit 112, a feeding roller unit 113, and a gate roller unit 114.

The guide part 111 is located under the movement path of the bill bundle 10 to be transferred, and is fixed so as not to move.

In addition, the pickup roller part 112 may be spaced apart from each other at a height corresponding to the thickness of the bill bundle 10 transferred from the upper part of the guide part 111. Accordingly, the interval between the pickup roller part 112 and the guide part 111 may be set to correspond to the thickness of the bill bundle 10.

Here, the pickup roller part 112 may be installed to be height adjustable in the vertical direction through the height adjustment means (112a). Various means, such as an elastic member and a lifter, may be applied to the height adjustment means 112a, which can be appropriately selected as needed, and other means not listed here may be applied.

The reason why the pickup roller part 112 is installed to move in the vertical direction is to properly respond to the thickness of the banknote bundle 10, and the thickness of the banknote bundle 10 may vary depending on the country or location of use. As there is, the height of the pickup roller part 112 may be adjusted according to the thickness of the bill bundle 10 according to each situation.

That is, the distance between the pickup roller part 112 and the guide part 111 may be set to correspond to the thickness of the bill bundle 10, and at this time, the guide part 111 is fixed and the pickup roller part ( 112) height can be adjusted.

In addition, the feeding roller unit 113 is disposed at the rear of the pickup roller unit 112, and the term “rear” here may mean a later position in a path in which the banknote is moved when the banknote is deposited.

The feeding roller part 113 is for supplying the bill provided from the pickup roller part 112 to the next step, and may rotate forward or reverse according to the moving direction of the bill. For example, the feeding roller unit 113 may rotate forward so that the banknote can be moved in the forward direction when the banknote is deposited, and the feeding roller unit 113 rotates reversely so that the banknote can be moved in the reverse direction when the banknote is conveyed. can do.

In addition, the gate roller part 114 is disposed under the feeding roller part 113 and may be installed to maintain a predetermined distance from the feeding roller part 113 so that only a preset number of bills pass.

In this embodiment, the distance between the feeding roller unit 113 and the gate roller unit 114 is set so that only one bill is passed as a single sheet, but if necessary, the gap may be set so that a plurality of bills pass through. have.

Here, the gate roller part 114 is non-rotating during deposit (normal transfer) of the bill, and when the bill provided by the reject part 700 is transferred, the one-way rotation is performed only in one direction so that the bill is moved in the conveying direction. It can be a roller.

Specifically, the gate roller unit 114 is made of a one-way roller, and when the bill is moved in the deposit direction, it is fixed without being rotated so that only one sheet passes without passing two sheets between the feeding roller 113, and the deposit is canceled. When the bill is conveyed as in the case of, it is rotated in the conveying direction of the bill, so that the bill can be moved in the opposite direction to the deposit.

Meanwhile, the discrimination unit 200 may receive bills from the input/output unit 100 and scan an image of the bills to discriminate the bills. The discrimination unit 200 can recognize OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of bills using a camera image sensor (CIS), and if two bills are supplied, it can detect two bills using an ultrasonic sensor. I can. A technology for recognizing OCR of bills using a camera image sensor (CIS) and detecting two sheets of bills using an ultrasonic sensor belong to a known technology, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, the path switching unit 300 is configured to determine the path of the bill transferred from the discrimination unit 200, the path switching unit 300 is an external signal (for example, a deposit signal or a deposit cancellation signal) It is possible to switch the path by determining whether to deposit or convey the bill received and transferred to the path switching unit 300.

In addition, the path switching unit 300 is a check that requires an endorsement of the bills of the bill bundle 10, and when the check is inserted in an upside down state, the reversed check is rewritten for a normal endorsement in the printing unit 500. It can have a front and back reverse function to turn over.

Whether the check is flipped can be determined whether the check is inserted in a normal or upside down state by recognizing the OCR of the bill through the camera image sensor (CIS) in the identification unit. The path switching unit 300 may reverse the check again by sending a check that is reversed in a path different from the path through which the check inserted in the normal state is transferred.

In addition, the temporary storage unit 400 is a configuration for temporarily storing the bills provided by the path switching unit 300, all bills temporarily stay in the temporary storage unit 400, the path switching unit 300 ), it moves along the deposit route or the return route.

When the bill is deposited, the printing unit 500 receives the bill from the temporary storage unit 400 and performs an endorsement on one side of the bill when the bill is a check.

In addition, the stack unit 600 may store bills provided by the printing unit 500.

Meanwhile, the reject unit 700 may receive the bills from the temporary storage unit 400 when the bills are conveyed, temporarily store bills, and transfer the bills to the deposit/withdrawal unit 100.

Here, the bill of the temporary storage unit 400 may be directly supplied to the printing unit 500 when the banknote is deposited (the path switching unit 300 decides to deposit), but the printing unit through the path switching unit 300 It may also be supplied as 500.

In addition, the bill of the temporary storage unit 400 may be directly supplied to the reject unit 700 when the bill is returned (decision to cancel the deposit by the path switching unit 300), but the path switching unit 300 and the It may be supplied to the reject unit 700 sequentially through the discrimination unit 200.

As described above, the present invention has been described using a preferred embodiment, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiment described, and those of ordinary skill in the art can as much as possible within the scope of the present invention. Substitution and modification of components is possible, and this also belongs to the rights of the present invention.

10: bill bundle 100: input/output unit
110: bill separation unit 111: guide unit
112: pickup roller part 112a: height adjustment means
113: feeding roller part 114: gate roller part
200: discrimination unit 300: path switching unit
400: temporary storage unit 500: printing unit
600: stack unit 700: reject unit

Claims (8)

In the deposit and withdrawal device for bill bundles including at least one of cash and check, and capable of processing bill bundles input in a bundle form,
An input/output unit having a bill separation unit for transferring the input bill bundles to a predetermined path, and for separating and transferring bills from the bill bundles;
A discrimination unit that receives bills from the deposit/exit unit and scans and discriminates the image;
A path switching unit determining a path of the bills transferred from the discrimination unit;
A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the bills provided by the route switching unit;
A printing unit for receiving bills from the temporary storage unit upon deposit and endorsing them on one side of a check;
A stack unit for storing bills provided by the printing unit; And
Includes; a reject unit for receiving and temporarily storing bills from the temporary storage unit during transport, and transferring them to the input/output unit,
The bill separation unit,
A guide part positioned below the banknote bundle movement path;
A pickup roller part spaced apart from the guide part at a height corresponding to the thickness of the bill bundle, and adjustable in height up and down through a height adjusting means;
A feeding roller part disposed at the rear of the pickup roller part and rotated forward or backward according to a moving direction of the bill; And
Including; a gate roller portion disposed below the feeding roller portion,
The feeding roller part,
When the bill moves from the pickup roller part to the feeding roller part, it rotates forward, and when the bill moves from the feeding roller part to the pickup roller part, it rotates in reverse,
Deposit and withdrawal device for bill bundles. The method of claim 1,
The gate roller part,
Deposit and withdrawal device for bill bundles maintaining a predetermined distance from the feeding roller so that only a predetermined number of bills pass through. The method of claim 1,
An interval between the pickup roller part and the guide part is set to correspond to the thickness of the bill bundle. The method of claim 1,
The gate roller unit is a one-way roller that is non-rotated when the banknote is deposited and rotated in one direction so that the banknote is moved in a conveyance direction when the banknote provided by the reject unit is conveyed. The method of claim 1,
The path switching unit receives an external signal and determines whether to deposit or convey the banknote transferred to the path switching unit to switch the path of the banknote bundle. The method of claim 1,
The path switching unit, when the banknote of the banknote bundle is an overturned check, the banknote bundle deposit and withdrawal device having a function to reverse the front and back sides for an endorsement in the printing unit. The method of claim 1,
The banknote of the temporary storage unit is supplied to the printing unit through the path switching unit when depositing the banknote. The method of claim 1,
The banknote of the temporary storage unit is supplied to the reject unit sequentially through the path switching unit and the discrimination unit when the banknote is conveyed.

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