KR102417037B1 - Storing bill apparatus in cash transaction machine - Google Patents

Abstract

A banknote storage device of an automated financial machine is introduced.
The banknote storage device of the automated financial device includes a main body providing a storage space and a stack space, a switching gate for guiding the banknotes to the storage space or stack space, and a sensing for detecting normal and bad banknotes among banknotes brought into the body. It may include a sensor and a controller for controlling the switching gate to guide the bad banknotes to the storage space and guide the normal banknotes to the stack space.

Description

Banknote storage device for automated financial devices {STORING BILL APPARATUS IN CASH TRANSACTION MACHINE}

The present invention relates to a banknote storage device for an automated financial device, and to a banknote storage device for an automated financial device that can utilize an empty space in a reject box as a storage space for banknotes.

In general, automated financial devices allow users to perform deposit and withdrawal transactions such as cash or checks, account transfers, and inquiries without time restrictions by using a cash card or passbook issued by a financial institution, thereby reducing the user's financial business. It is an unmanned terminal that processes quickly.

Such automated financial devices include a control unit that controls the entire device including deposit and withdrawal of banknotes, a deposit/withdrawal unit for a customer to insert or receive banknotes for deposit and withdrawal, a conveying path through which banknotes deposited and withdrawn through the deposit/withdrawal unit are transported, and on the conveyance path A discrimination unit installed in the hood to discriminate whether or not a banknote is abnormal, a plurality of recycling boxes in which banknotes deposited from customers are loaded and the stacked banknotes are withdrawn to perform a reflux function, and the banknotes discriminated as abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit are stored A reject box is provided.

In the reject box, banknotes determined as abnormal by the discrimination unit may be stored, or bills returned from the recycling box may be loaded into the deposit/withdrawal unit after the customer requested a withdrawal, but uncollected banknotes that the customer has not received for a certain period of time may be stored. have.

As a related art, "a banknote pool detection structure of a reject box (Patent Publication No. 10-2011-0079121 No. 10-2011-0079121)" is referenced.

A transfer roller, such as a guide roller and a sheet roller, for accommodating banknotes into a stack space along a transfer path is provided on one upper portion of the conventional reject box. For example, when banknotes are conveyed to the reject box along the conveying path, the banknotes are conveyed to the stack space by rotation of the guide roller and the sheet roller, and are pressed by a plurality of stack sheets to be aligned in the stack space.

However, in the case of such a reject box, the space below the conveying roller remains an unused empty space, and this empty space may be inefficient in terms of layout that requires intensive installation of many parts in a narrow space within the automated financial machine. can

Accordingly, there is a need for a method for efficiently using the unused empty space in the reject box.

Patent Laid-Open Publication 10-2011-0079121 (2011.07.07)

Embodiments of the present invention are to provide a banknote storage device of an automated financial machine that can utilize the lateral space of the empty stack space in the reject box as a storage space for banknotes.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a banknote storage device for an automated financial machine, comprising: a main body providing a storage space and a stack space; a switching gate for guiding the banknote to the storage space or the stack space; a sensor for detecting normal banknotes and bad banknotes among the banknotes carried into the body; and a controller for controlling the switching gate to guide the defective bills to the storage space and guide the normal bills to the stack space.

In this case, the storage space and the stack space may be provided parallel to one side and the other side of the main body with a partition wall interposed therebetween.

In addition, the detection sensor may measure whether the banknote is damaged, a wrinkle state, and a size, and detect a banknote out of a preset range as a bad banknote.

In addition, the main body includes a first conveying path providing a movement path of the banknote conveyed from the inlet side, and a second conveying path providing a movement path of the banknote branching from the first conveying path to the storage space; A third conveyance path providing a movement path of the banknote branching from the first conveyance path to the stack space may be provided.

In addition, the banknote storage device may further include a conveying roller for putting the normal banknotes into the stack space.

In addition, the receiving space is located under the switching gate so that the lateral space of the stack space is utilized, so that the bad banknotes can be accommodated in the lower direction of the main body.

Embodiments of the present invention have the advantage that the space in the automatic financial machine can be used space-intensively by utilizing the lateral space of the empty stack space in the reject box as a storage space for banknotes.

In addition, the embodiments of the present invention pre-select bad banknotes that can cause jams in the reject box before storing the banknotes in the reject box, thereby delaying heavy jam in the reject box due to the bad banknotes. It has the advantage of being able to prevent this and improving the operation rate of automated financial devices by lowering the jam occurrence rate.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an automated financial device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a banknote storage device of an automated financial machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is an enlarged state diagram showing the changeover gate of the banknote storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the banknote transferred to the banknote storage device is a normal banknote.
Figure 4 is an enlarged state diagram showing the changeover gate of the banknote storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the banknote transferred to the banknote storage device is a bad banknote.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the configuration and operation according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The following description is one of several aspects of the present invention that is claimable, and the following description may form a part of the detailed description of the present invention. However, in describing the present invention, detailed descriptions of known configurations or functions may be omitted for clarity of the present invention.

Since the present invention may include various changes and may 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 specific embodiments, and it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

In addition, terms including ordinal numbers such as 1st, 2nd, etc. may be used to describe various components, but the components are not limited by these terms. These terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. When a component is referred to as being 'connected' or 'connected' to another component, it may be directly connected or connected to the other component, but it is understood that other components may exist in between. it should be The terms used in the present application are only used to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present invention. The singular expression includes the plural expression unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an automated financial device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram illustrating a banknote storage device of the automated financial device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 2, the banknote storage device of the automated financial machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a main body 110, a switching gate 120, a transfer roller 150, a detection sensor and a controller ( not shown) may be included. Here, the automated financial device 1 includes a deposit/withdrawal unit 10 for inserting and receiving banknotes for deposit and withdrawal, a conveyance path 20 for conveying banknotes, and a discrimination unit for discriminating whether or not the banknote is abnormal ( 30) and a banknote storage device 40 for storing banknotes, but is not limited thereto, and the financial automation device 1 provides a banknote storage device 40 according to the present embodiment. All devices can be included.

Specifically, the main body 110 may be provided in the form of a reject box in which banknotes requiring rejection are stored to the customer. In this embodiment, the main body 110 has been described as an example of a reject box of an automated financial machine, but in addition to the reject box, it may be configured as a recycling box in which normal bills are stored.

A switching gate 120 for selectively changing the conveying direction of banknotes may be provided at an upper portion of one side of the body 110 . The switching gate 120 may be rotatably mounted on the upper portion of one side of the main body 110 using the gate shaft 121 as a rotation axis. Since the switching gate 120 can be rotated at a predetermined angle through a separate driving means (not shown), the bills carried into the main body 110 can be guided to the storage space 111 or to the stack space 112 . have.

In addition, a transfer roller 150 may be provided on an upper portion of one side of the main body 110 . The conveying roller 150 may include a roller for loading the banknotes carried into the main body 110 onto the upper surface of the push plate 160 in the stack space 112 . For example, the conveying roller 150 may be composed of a guide roller and a seat roller used in a normal reject box. Of course, the conveying roller 150 may be composed of various types of rollers for accommodating bills in the stack space in addition to the guide roller and the sheet roller.

A storage space 111 and a stack space 112 may be provided side by side on one side and the other side of the body 110 with the partition wall 113 interposed therebetween. In particular, the storage space 111 is provided in the lower part of one side of the main body 110 , that is, in the lower part of one side of the main body 110 in which the switching gate 120 and the transfer roller 150 are located, so that the stack remaining as an empty space in the prior art The lateral space of the space 112 may be utilized as a storage space 111 in which bills are stored.

Banknotes determined to be defective by the controller may be accommodated in the receiving space 111 of the main body 110 . Here, the bad banknote is a banknote in which the damage, wrinkle state, and size measured through the sensor are out of the preset range, and the degree of damage to the banknote is large, causing a jam in the conveyance path of the body 110 . It can be defined as a bill that is likely to become

A push plate 160 movable in the height direction may be provided in the stack space 112 of the body 110 . The push plate 160 may be lowered to the lower side of the main body 110 in order to secure a loading space for bills in the stack space 112 .

In the stack space 112 of the main body 110, bills determined to be normal bills by the controller among bills requiring rejection may be accommodated. Here, the normal banknote is a banknote in which the damage, wrinkle state, and size of the banknote measured through the detection sensor satisfy a preset range, and the normal banknote is less likely to cause a jam in the conveyance path of the main body 110. It can be defined as banknotes.

The detection sensor is a sensor for measuring whether the banknote is damaged, wrinkled, and size, and may include a discrimination unit 30 installed on the conveyance path 20 . For example, the discrimination unit 30 distinguishes the abnormality and the type of bills moving along the conveyance path 20, and at the same time, integrally measures the wrinkle state and size of the bills, thereby sorting normal bills and defective bills. It is possible to provide the status information of the banknote to the controller.

Of course, as the detection sensor, in addition to the sensor constituting the discrimination unit, various types of sensors capable of measuring the status information of normal banknotes and defective banknotes among banknotes may be used. It can be installed in various locations on the device.

The controller may receive the state information of the banknote from the sensor, and determine whether the banknote is a bad banknote or a normal banknote through the received status information of the banknote. In addition, in order to guide bad banknotes to the storage space 111 and normal banknotes to the stack space 112 , the controller may control the switching gate 120 .

Figure 3 is an enlarged state diagram showing the switching gate of the banknote storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention when the banknotes conveyed to the banknotes storage device are normal banknotes, and Figure 4 is the banknotes transported to the banknotes storage device When the banknote is a bad banknote, it is an enlarged state diagram showing the switching gate of the banknote storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

On the other hand, as shown in Figures 3 to 4, the body 110 may be formed with a conveyance path 114 for guiding the banknote B to the storage space 111 or the stack space 112 . For example, the main body 110 has a first conveyance path 114a that provides a movement path of the banknote B from the inlet side of the body 110, and a first conveyance path 114a based on the branch point P. A second conveying path 114b providing a moving path branching from the to the receiving space 111, and a moving path branching from the first conveying path 114a to the stack space 112 based on the bifurcation point P are provided A third conveyance path 114c may be provided.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3 , when it is determined that the banknote B conveyed to the body 110 is a normal banknote, the controller rotates the switching gate 120 counterclockwise in FIG. 3 . At this time, since the switching gate 120 guides the banknote B from the first conveyance path 114a to the third conveyance path 114c, the banknote B conveyed to the body 110 is a stack of the body 110 . It may be accommodated in the space 112 .

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4 , if it is determined that the banknote B conveyed to the body 110 is a bad banknote, the controller rotates the switching gate 120 clockwise in FIG. 4 . At this time, since the switching gate 120 guides the banknote B from the first conveyance path 114a to the second conveyance path 114b, the banknote B conveyed to the body 110 is stored in the body 110 . It may be stored in the space 111 .

As described above, the present invention utilizes the lateral space of the empty stack space in the reject box as a storage space for banknotes, so that the space in the automated financial device can be used space-intensively, and the banknotes can be stored in the reject box. By pre-selecting defective banknotes that can cause jams in the reject box, heavy jams in the reject box due to bad banknotes can be prevented in advance, and the rate of jamming can be lowered to improve the operation rate of automated financial devices. It can have excellent advantages such as.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can realize that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without changing its technical spirit or essential features. you will be able to understand For example, those skilled in the art may change the material, size, etc. of each component according to the field of application, or combine or substitute the embodiments in a form not clearly disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, but this is also the present invention that does not exceed the scope of Therefore, the embodiments described above are not to be understood as illustrative and limiting in all respects, and it should be said that these modified embodiments are included in the technical spirit described in the claims of the present invention.

1: Financial automation device 10: Deposit and withdrawal department
20: return path 30: discrimination unit
40: banknote storage device 110: body
111 : storage space 112 : stack space
113: bulkhead 114a: first return path
114b: second conveying path 114c: third conveying path
120: transition gate 150: transfer roller

Claims (6)

a main body providing a storage space and a stack space in which bills discriminated as abnormal bills can be stored;
a switching gate for guiding the banknote to the storage space or the stack space;
a sensor for detecting normal banknotes and bad banknotes among the banknotes carried into the body; and
and a controller for controlling the switching gate to guide the bad banknote to the storage space and guide the normal banknote to the stack space,
The storage space and the stack space are
A banknote storage device of an automated financial machine provided in parallel on one side and the other side of the main body with a bulkhead interposed therebetween. The method of claim 1,
the body is
A banknote storage device of an automated financial machine that is provided in the form of a reject box in which the banknotes identified as abnormal notes can be stored. The method of claim 1,
The detection sensor is
A banknote storage device of an automated financial device that measures whether the banknote is damaged, wrinkled, and size, and detects a banknote out of a preset range as a bad banknote. The method of claim 1,
In the body
a first conveying path providing a movement path of the banknote conveyed from the entrance side; a second conveying path providing a movement path of the banknote branching from the first conveying path to the storage space; and the first conveying path A banknote storage device of an automated financial machine provided with a third conveyance path providing a movement path of the banknote branching from the to the stack space. The method of claim 1,
Banknote storage device of the automated financial machine further comprising a transfer roller for putting the normal bills into the stack space. The method of claim 1,
The storage space is
The banknote storage device of the automated financial machine is located below the conversion gate so that the lateral space of the stack space is utilized, and the defective banknotes are accommodated in the downward direction of the main body.

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