KR20160145905A - Apparatus for stacking paper money equipped in paper money counting module - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a paper money stacking apparatus for a paper money counting module which can control an access timing of paper money continuously transferred at regular intervals to be accurately transferred at an exact position set between stack sheets of a stack wheel. To this end, the paper money stacking apparatus for a paper money counting module comprises: the stack wheel for sequentially receiving paper money accessed at regular intervals between two stack sheets positioned to be adjacent, and transferring the paper money to a paper money stacking space by having a plurality of stack sheets at regular intervals which are extended to the outside of the opposite direction of a rotary direction in a outer circumferential surface of a body; a stack wheel detection unit for detecting a rotated position and the rotation speed of the stack wheel; a paper money access detection unit for detecting whether the paper money accesses at a set position of a transfer path positioned in a front side of the stack wheel; a stack wheel drive unit for providing rotary power to the stack wheel; and a control unit for controlling the stack wheel drive unit to rotate the stack wheel at the set exact position with the set rotation speed based on a signal detected in the stack wheel detection unit and the paper money access detection unit.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a paper currency counting module,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a paper currency accumulation device for a banknote counting module, and more particularly, to a paper currency accumulating device for a banknote counting module for collecting banknotes that are continuously conveyed along a conveying path, .

Generally, a bill counter counts the number of bills of a banknote, the total amount of money, etc., by counting the type and authenticity of the bill, and putting a plurality of bills into a hopper in a stacked state. .

In the prior art relating to such a paper currency counter, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Nos. 10-1322374 and 10-1156990 disclose a paper currency counter in which, during the separation and transportation of paper currency stacked on a hopper, Discloses a general configuration of a bill counter that identifies the authenticity of a bill, authentic-denominated bills are accumulated in a normal bill accumulating portion, and ideal bill bills are collected and accumulated in the abnormal bill accumulating portion.

In another prior art relating to a paper currency counter, Japanese Patent Registration No. 10-1368141 discloses a paper currency counter comprising a central upper guide member for guiding banknotes while preventing the central portion of the banknote to be brought into the banknote storage portion from rising, And a lower end guiding member for guiding the banknotes while lifting up the banknotes to prevent the banknotes from being sagged downward so as to stably accumulate banknotes in the storage portion without generating jams even in the case of damaged banknotes having low rigidity. (Stacked wheel) type integrated device is disclosed.

On the other hand, in the paper money accumulating apparatus of the paper money counter, when the interval between the front and back paper moneys sequentially entering the paper money storage unit at a predetermined interval is conveyed out of the set interval due to damage or other cause of the paper money, The paper money can not be correctly transferred between the wing (stack sheet) and the wing of the wing, and the wing may hit the wing and cause jam. However, in the prior art including the above-described prior arts, a configuration for precisely controlling the timing of entering bills is insufficient.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a bill stacker capable of controlling the timing of entry of bills so that bills, And a bill accumulating device of the bill counting module.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a bill accumulating apparatus for a bill counting module capable of stably accumulating bills even when the interval between bills continuously conveyed is out of a predetermined interval.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for accumulating paper currency in a banknote counting module, comprising: a plurality of stack sheets extending outwardly in a direction opposite to a rotating direction on an outer circumferential surface of a body, A stacking wheel for sequentially transferring incoming banknotes between two adjacent stack sheets and transferring them to the banknote accumulation space; A stack wheel sensing unit sensing a rotational position and a rotational speed of the stack wheel; A banknote entry detecting unit for detecting whether a banknote enters or exits at a predetermined position of the conveying path located on the front side of the stacking wheel; A stack wheel driver for providing rotational power to the stack wheel; And a control unit for controlling the stack wheel driving unit to rotate the stack wheel at a predetermined rotation speed in a predetermined fixed position on the basis of a signal detected by the stack wheel sensing unit and the banknote entry sensing unit.

The control unit may control the stack wheel driving unit such that the stack wheel is in a predetermined position when the bill entry sensing unit senses the entrance of a bill.

The control unit may control the stack wheel driving unit such that banknotes entering along the conveying path are successively transferred between stack sheets positioned at predetermined angular intervals among the plurality of stack sheets.

The control unit may be configured to control the stack wheel driving unit such that banknotes entering along the conveying path are successively taken over between two sheets and two sheets of the plurality of stack sheets.

The control unit controls the stack wheel driving unit based on a signal detected by the stack wheel sensing unit and the banknote entry sensing unit and controls the conveying path driving unit to provide power for driving the conveying path at a predetermined conveying speed . ≪ / RTI >

The stack wheel sensing unit may include a rotation plate coupled to one end of a rotation axis of the stack wheel and having a plurality of slots formed at predetermined angular intervals around the rotation axis, And an optical sensor for sensing the light intensity.

The control unit may control the stack wheel driving unit such that the banknote entry sensing unit is positioned at a position where light is received by the optical sensor at the time of detecting the entry of a bill.

According to the banknote accumulation apparatus of the banknote counting module according to the present invention, the stack wheel sensing unit and the banknote entry sensing unit are controlled such that the stack wheel is rotated at a predetermined speed in correspondence with the entry point of the banknote, The bank notes that are successively conveyed at regular intervals are accurately handed over to the predetermined positions between the stack sheets of the stack wheels, so that stable accumulation of the bank notes is possible.

Even when the interval between the consecutively transported bills is shifted out of the set interval, the incoming bills are controlled to be sequentially transferred between two sheets of the stack sheets, thereby preventing the jamming of the bills, Quality can be improved.

1 is an external perspective view of a banknote counting module according to the present invention,
2 is a schematic view showing the configuration of a banknote counting module according to the present invention,
3 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a paper money accumulating device of the paper money counting module according to the present invention,
FIG. 4 is a control block diagram of the bill accumulation device of the bill count module according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is an operational state diagram of a bill accumulating device of a bill counting module according to the present invention,
6 is a flowchart showing a banknote accumulation step using the banknote accumulation device of the banknote counting module according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2, the bill counting module 100 to which the present invention is applied includes a main body 110, a hopper 120 in which bill counting is stacked, An operation display section 130 for displaying various function keys, a processing status of bills, an abnormal paper currency accumulation section 140 for accumulating ideal paper currency notes, a normal paper currency accumulation section 150 for accumulating normal currency notes, A conveying path 160 for conveying the paper money separated from the hopper 120 to the inside of the main body 110 and a discrimination and counting of bills conveyed to the inside of the main body 110 separated from the hopper part 120 A banknote discriminating unit 170 for discriminating banknotes discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 170 and a discriminating unit 170 for discriminating the banknote based on the discrimination results of the banknote accumulating unit 140 and the normal banknote accumulating unit 150 to selectively transport the conveying path And a branching unit 180 for switching.

At both ends of the hopper part 120, a pair of banknote interval adjusting plates 121 for adjusting the interval corresponding to the width of the stacked banknotes are provided.

The hopper part 120 is provided with separating parts 122, 123 and 124 for separating stacked banknotes and conveying them to the inside of the main body 110. The separating units 122, 123 and 124 include a pick-up roller 122 for separating the banknotes among the banknotes stacked on the hopper unit 120 one by one and banknotes separated by the pickup roller 122, A feed roller 123 that feeds the paper to the inside of the feed roller 123 and a guide roller 124 that is disposed to face the feed roller 123 to prevent separation of the paper money.

In the operation display unit 130, the processing status of bills by the banknote counting module 100 is displayed. For example, the number of counts of banknotes, the total amount of money, and the like are displayed.

The discrimination unit 170 is configured to perform discrimination and counting of banknotes. The discrimination unit 170 detects the arrival of the banknote to the discrimination unit 170, detects the length of the banknote based on the conveying speed of the banknote and the passage time And detects the presence or absence of the overlapped paper money or folded portion by detecting the thickness of the paper money, and detects various kinds of magnetic sensors that detect magnetic force generated from magnetic components included in ink or the like of the paper money to discriminate the denomination of the paper money, Is counted.

The branching unit 180 is provided at a position branched to the abnormal paper money accumulating unit 140 and the normal paper money accumulating unit 150 at the middle of the conveying path 160 and includes a branching member for switching the conveying path, . 2, when the branching unit 180 is switched in the counterclockwise direction, the banknotes along the conveying path 160 are conveyed to and accumulated in the abnormal paper money accumulating unit 140, and the branching unit 180 is rotated clockwise The bill received along the conveying path 160 is conveyed to the normal bill accumulating unit 150 and accumulated.

The abnormal paper money accumulating portion 140 is a space in which damaged paper money such as old paper money, torn paper money, and partially folded paper money is accumulated. In order to transfer the incoming paper money into the paper money accumulation space, A stack roller 141 to which a paper roll 141a is attached, and a conveying roller 142 which is provided to rotate up and down and circumferentially and sandwiching both sides of the paper currency.

Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of the normal paper currency accumulation unit 150 (hereinafter referred to as a "paper money accumulation device" in the present invention) will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6. FIG.

The paper money accumulating apparatus 150 according to the present invention includes a stack wheel 151 for transferring paper money entering through the branching unit 180 to the paper money accumulating space S.

The stack wheel 151 is rotated clockwise with reference to FIG. 2. A plurality of stack sheets 151b extending outward in the direction opposite to the rotating direction are provided on the outer circumferential surface of the body 151a at predetermined angular intervals, A rotating shaft 151c is coupled to the center of the body 151a.

The banknotes transported toward the stack wheel 151 along the transport path 160 are transported at predetermined constant intervals between the front and back banknotes and stacked on the two stack sheets 151b And the paper money inserted between the two stack sheets 151b by the clockwise rotation of the stack wheel 151 is transferred to the paper money accumulating space S and sequentially accumulated. An opening is formed in one side (right side in Fig. 2) of the paper money accumulating space S, and the opening is opened and closed by a shutter 152. In the paper currency accumulating space S, A support member 153 is provided.

Meanwhile, the conveying path 160 is driven at a conveying speed set by a conveying path drive unit 161 including a motor and a plurality of conveying rollers (not shown) to convey the banknotes at a predetermined speed, A banknote entry detecting unit 154 for detecting whether or not the banknote has entered is provided in the conveying path 160 located on the front side of the banknote receiving unit 160. [

3, the stack wheel 151 is rotationally driven by the power of the stack wheel driving unit 155 connected to the rotating shaft 151c, and the stack wheel 151 is rotated And a stack wheel sensing unit 156 for sensing a position and a rotation speed.

The stack wheel sensing unit 156 includes a rotation wheel 151a coupled to one end of a rotation axis 151c of the stack wheel 151 and having a plurality of slots 156a-1 at predetermined angular intervals around the rotation axis 151c And an optical sensor 156b provided on both sides of the rotary plate 156a on which the slot 156a-1 is formed to detect whether or not light is received.

The optical sensor 156b may be composed of a light emitting portion 156b-1 and a light receiving portion 156b-2, which are disposed on both sides of one side of a rotary plate 156a on which the slot 156a-1 is formed.

In this case, when the slot 156a-1 is positioned between the light emitting portion 156b-1 and the light receiving portion 156b-2, light emitted from the light emitting portion 156b-1 passes through the slot 156a-1 And reaches the light receiving section 156b-2, and the light receiving section 156b-2 sends out a light signal to the control section 190. [

On the contrary, when the blocking portion 156a-2 having no slot 156a-1 is positioned between the light emitting portion 156b-1 and the light receiving portion 156b-2, The light is blocked by the blocking portion 156a-2 so that light does not reach the light receiving portion 156b-2, and the light receiving portion 156b-2 transmits a dark signal to the control portion 190. [

The control unit 190 controls the stack wheel drive unit 150 to rotate the stack wheel 151 at a predetermined rotation speed in a predetermined fixed position based on a signal detected by the stack wheel sensing unit 156 and the banknote entry sensing unit 154. [ (155).

In this case, the control unit 190 may be configured to control the stack wheel driving unit 155 such that the stack wheel 151 is set to a predetermined position at the time when the bank-note entry detecting unit 154 detects the entry of the banknote . The entry point of the bill may be set at a time point at which the entrance or exit of the bill is passed by the entrance detection unit 154.

The control unit 190 controls the stack wheel drive unit 155 such that the banknotes P entering along the conveying path 160 are successively transferred between the stack sheets positioned at predetermined angular intervals among the plurality of stack sheets 151c Can be controlled.

5, the control unit 190 may control the banknote entering along the conveying path 160 to be sequentially transferred between two sheets of the plurality of stack sheets 151c And controlling the stack wheel driving unit 155. [

That is, the control unit 190 determines that the banknote P is carried between the first stack sheet 151b-1 and the second stack sheet 151b-2, and the second stack sheet 151b-2 and the third stack sheet 151b- 3 and the succeeding banknotes are taken over between the third stack sheet 151b-3 and the fourth stack sheet 151b-4 and the fourth stack sheet 151b-4 and the fifth stack sheet 151b- Between the fifth stack sheet 151b-5 and the sixth stack sheet 151b-6, between the fifth stack sheet 151b-5 and the sixth stack sheet 151b-6.

According to such a configuration, even if the banknotes entering before and after the banknote can not maintain the predetermined interval and some of them enter the overlapped state or enter the banknote at a shorter or longer interval than the set interval, It is possible to secure a clearance space for receiving the odd-numbered banknotes between the stack sheets set so that the banknotes P are not handed over, so that the banknotes can be stably accumulated.

The control unit 190 controls the stack wheel drive unit 155 based on the signals detected by the stack wheel sensing unit 156 and the banknote entry sensing unit 154. In other words, And controlling the conveying path drive unit 161 to provide the power for driving the conveying path 160 at the set conveying speed in addition to the control box.

The control unit 190 controls the stack wheel driving unit 155 such that a position at which the light sensor 154b receives light at a time when the bill entry sensing unit 154 senses the entrance of a bill .

The length between the banknote entry detecting unit 154 and the point at which banknotes are handed over, the conveying speed of the conveying path 160, the rotating speed of the stacking wheel 151, the length of the stacking sheet 151c, The interval between the stacked sheets 151c and the like can be set such that the bill is conveyed along the conveying path after the entrance of the bill is detected and can be accurately taken over between the set stack sheets 151c.

Referring to FIG. 6, in the step of controlling the banknote advance timing in the banknote accumulation apparatus 150, the stack wheel 151 is first positioned (S1). In an exemplary embodiment, the stack wheel 151 may be positioned at a position where light is detected by the light receiving unit 156b-2. Then, the transport path drive unit 161 is driven to drive the transport path 160 at a predetermined transport speed (S2). When the banknote being conveyed along the conveying path 160 is sensed (S3), the stack wheel 151 is rotated at a predetermined speed by driving the stack wheel driving unit 155 at that point (S4) The banknotes are sequentially stacked in the banknote collecting space S (S5).

In the above description, a case has been described in which banknotes are handed over between a pair of stack sheets adjacent to each other and then between a pair of stack sheets. However, the present invention is not limited to banknotes, And the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but may be applied to a pair of stack sheets positioned adjacent to each other, And banknotes are handed over between the stack sheets of the pair.

In this specification, the banknote counting module is a module mounted on a banking automation equipment used by a banker, and can be used as a counting function or a deposit / withdrawal bank, and can be widely applied to general banking automation equipment and counters in addition to banking automation equipment .

100: banknote counting module 110: main body
120: hopper section 121: banknote interval control plate
122: pickup roller 123: feed roller
124: guide roller 130: operation indicator
140: More paper money accumulation part 141: Stack roller
141a: Sheet 142: Feed roller
150: paper currency accumulation device (normal paper currency accumulation part) 151: stack wheel
151a: body 151b: stack sheet
151c: rotating shaft 152: shutter
153: Support member 154: Bank note entry detection unit
155: Stack wheel driving unit 156: Stack wheel sensing unit
156a: Rotating plate 156a-1: Slot
156a-2: blocking portion 156b: light sensor
156b-1: light emitting portion 156b-2: light receiving portion
160: conveying path 161: conveying path driving part
170: discrimination unit 180:
190:

Claims (7)

A plurality of stack sheets extending outwardly in the direction opposite to the rotating direction are provided on the outer circumferential surface of the body at equal intervals so that bills entering at regular intervals are successively transferred between two stack sheets positioned adjacent to each other, Lt; / RTI >
A stack wheel sensing unit sensing a rotational position and a rotational speed of the stack wheel;
A banknote entry detecting unit for detecting whether a banknote enters or exits at a predetermined position of the conveying path located on the front side of the stacking wheel;
A stack wheel driver for providing rotational power to the stack wheel; And
And a control unit for controlling the stack wheel driving unit such that the stack wheel is rotated at a predetermined rotation speed in a predetermined fixed position on the basis of a signal detected by the stack wheel sensing unit and the banknote entry sensing unit, Integrated device.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control unit controls the stack wheel driving unit such that the stack wheel is in a predetermined position when the bill entry sensing unit senses entry of the bill.
3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the control unit controls the stack wheel driving unit such that banknotes entering along the conveying path are successively transferred between stack sheets positioned at predetermined angular intervals among the plurality of stack sheets. Integrated device.
The method of claim 3,
Wherein the control unit controls the stack wheel driving unit such that banknotes entering along the conveying path are sequentially passed between two sheets and two sheets of the plurality of stack sheets.
The method according to claim 1,
The control unit controls the stack wheel driving unit based on a signal detected by the stack wheel sensing unit and the banknote entry sensing unit and controls the conveying path driving unit to provide power for driving the conveying path at a predetermined conveying speed And the paper currency accumulation unit is configured to accumulate paper currency.
The method according to claim 1,
The stack wheel sensing unit includes:
A rotation plate coupled to one end of a rotation axis of the stack wheel and having a plurality of slots formed at predetermined angular intervals around the rotation axis; and a light sensor provided on both sides of the rotation plate, Wherein the paper currency accumulation module includes:
The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the control unit controls the stack wheel driving unit such that the paper money entry detecting unit is positioned at a position where light is received by the optical sensor at the time of detecting the entrance of the paper money.

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