KR20240018096A - Method of supplementing banknotes in ATM using a temporary storage cassette - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of replenishing banknotes in a bill cassette of an automated financial machine using a temporary storage unit. More specifically, in the process of operating a automated financial machine, when the bill cassette of an automated financial machine needs to be replenished with bills, the automated financial machine After selecting one of the plurality of bill cassettes provided inside, transferring the bills stored in the corresponding bill cassette to the temporary storage unit, in the process of replenishing the bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette, non-replenishment notes or Banknotes determined to be rejected are collected into the corresponding banknote cassette, and after completion of banknote replenishment, non-replenishment and/or rejected notes collected in the selected banknote cassette are returned to the replenishment/recovery cassette and transferred to the temporary storage unit. A financial automated device that utilizes a temporary storage unit that can increase the operating efficiency of a financial automated device by supporting simplified bill replenishment work with only one replenishment/recovery cassette by transferring the old bills back to the corresponding note cassette. It concerns how to replenish banknotes in a cassette.

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Method of supplementing banknotes in ATM using a temporary storage cassette {Method of supplementing banknotes in ATM using a temporary storage cassette}

The present invention relates to a method of replenishing banknotes in a bill cassette of an automated financial machine using a temporary storage unit. More specifically, in the process of operating a automated financial machine, when the bill cassette of an automated financial machine needs to be replenished with bills, the automated financial machine After selecting one of the plurality of bill cassettes provided inside, transferring the bills stored in the corresponding bill cassette to the temporary storage unit, in the process of replenishing the bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette, non-replenishment notes or Banknotes determined to be rejected are collected into the corresponding banknote cassette, and after completion of banknote replenishment, non-replenishment and/or rejected notes collected in the selected banknote cassette are returned to the replenishment/recovery cassette and transferred to the temporary storage unit. A financial automated device that utilizes a temporary storage unit that can increase the operating efficiency of a financial automated device by supporting simplified bill replenishment work with only one replenishment/recovery cassette by transferring the old bills back to the corresponding note cassette. It concerns how to replenish banknotes in a cassette.

In general, an automated teller machine (ATM) is an unmanned terminal that provides various financial services performed by financial institutions such as banks, and allows users to provide basic financial services such as deposits and withdrawals on their own, regardless of time and place. .

In the process of operating such automated financial machines, if the bill cassette provided inside the automated financial machine is short of bills and needs to be replenished, a separate person in charge of replenishing bills will check that the bills stored in the bill cassette are appropriate for each denomination. In order to maintain the quantity, the task of replenishing or collecting banknotes is performed through a replenishment/recovery cassette that is detachably mounted on the automated financial machine. At this time, as the quantity of banknotes changes in real time due to the user's deposit/withdrawal request, etc. Because it is difficult for the person in charge to immediately respond to the quantity of each denomination of banknotes that changes in real time, in order to respond to this, bills of a specific denomination are replenished as needed through a replenishment/recovery cassette containing bills of various denominations.

Recently, in order to replenish such banknotes, as disclosed in Korean Patent No. 10-2340783, banknotes are supplied in the required denomination and quantity from a transit cassette in which various denominations of banknotes are stored, and the media storage box is replenished, A method of taking out unnecessary types of banknotes using transit cassettes has been proposed. In applying this method, as in the example disclosed in the above-mentioned patent No. 2340783, two transit cassettes are each provided, and deposited first. The non-returnable bills stored in the dedicated cassette are transferred to an empty transit cassette for export, and the bills are replenished from a replenishment transit cassette loaded with bills of various denominations. In this process, non-replenishment notes that do not need to be replenished or are damaged or damaged. Rejected notes, which are abnormal notes such as overlapping notes, are collected in the deposit-only cassette and returned to the replenishment transit cassette. After completing the replenishment of the notes, the bills that were transferred to the export transit cassette must go through the cumbersome process of returning them to the deposit-only cassette. In addition, since two transit cassettes must always be provided for such banknote replenishment work, there is a problem in that the efficiency of the person in charge of banknote replenishment work is significantly reduced.

1. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2340783 (registration date: 2021.12.14.) “Media storage device and method of controlling the same”

The present invention was created to solve the above problems. During the operation of the automated financial machine, when the bill cassette of the automated financial machine needs to be replenished with bills, one of the plurality of bill cassettes provided inside the automated financial machine is used. After selecting a bill cassette and transferring the bills stored in the bill cassette to the temporary storage unit, in the process of replenishing bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette, bills determined as non-replenishment bills or rejected bills are transferred to the corresponding bill cassette. After collecting and completing the replenishment of banknotes, the non-replenishment notes and/or rejected notes collected in the selected banknote cassette are returned to the replenishment/recovery cassette, and the notes transferred to the temporary storage unit are transferred back to the corresponding banknote cassette. The purpose is to provide a method of replenishing banknotes in the banknote cassette of a financial automated machine using a temporary storage unit that can increase the operational efficiency of the automated financial machine by supporting simplified banknote replenishment work with only one replenishment/recovery cassette. There is.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method of replenishing banknotes in a banknote cassette of an automated financial teller machine using a temporary storage unit, wherein one of the plurality of banknote cassettes provided inside the automated teller machine is temporarily stored. Selecting a bill cassette for temporary storage and transferring all bills stored in the bill cassette selected for temporary storage to a temporary storage unit; In the process of replenishing bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette, the bills stored in the replenishment/recovery cassette are discriminated, and the bills determined as replenishment notes according to the discrimination result are replenished by transferring them to the bill cassette for each denomination provided inside the automated financial machine. , collecting bills determined to be non-replenishment bills or rejected bills by transferring them to the bill cassette for temporary storage; After completing the replenishment of banknotes, recovering non-replenishment notes and rejected notes collected in the temporary storage banknote cassette into the replenishment/recovery cassette; and transferring the banknotes transferred to the temporary storage unit back to the banknote cassette selected for temporary storage. A method of replenishing banknotes in a banknote cassette of a financial automation machine using a temporary storage unit is provided. .

The method of replenishing banknotes in a banknote cassette of a financial automation machine using a temporary storage unit according to the present invention involves selecting one banknote cassette among a plurality of banknote cassettes, transferring the banknotes stored in the banknote cassette to the temporary storage unit, and then replenishing them. / In the process of replenishing banknotes through the recovery cassette, banknotes determined as non-replenishment notes or rejected notes are collected in the corresponding note cassette, and after the replenishment of the notes is completed, they are collected back into the replenishment/recovery cassette, thereby creating a single replenishment/ By supporting a simplified bill replenishment task with only a collection cassette, it is possible to increase the efficiency of the bill replenishment task and at the same time increase the operating efficiency of automated financial machines.

Figure 1 is a diagram schematically showing the connection relationship of internal units including a bill cassette and a conveyance path and a bill transfer path in an automated financial machine.
Figures 2 to 5 are diagrams showing the flow of bills in the process of replenishing bills by applying the bill replenishment method using the temporary storage unit according to the present invention in an automated financial machine.

The present invention can make various changes and take various forms. Specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not intended to depart from the gist of the present invention. It is not limited to examples.

Figure 1 is a diagram schematically showing the connection relationship of internal units including a bill cassette and a conveyance path and a bill transfer path in an automated financial machine.

As shown in Figure 1, the automated financial machine 100 includes a deposit/withdrawal unit 110 for depositing/withdrawing banknotes; A return path 120 that returns bills along a designated path inside the automated financial machine 100; A discrimination unit 130 that determines the denomination of a banknote, whether it is damaged, etc.; A temporary storage unit 140 that temporarily stores the identified bills until a transaction is established; A plurality of banknote cassettes (150) storing banknotes according to denomination type; and a reject box 160 for storing bills determined to be rejected. and the like. At this time, in the bill replenishment/retrieval process of the financial automated machine 100, the replenishment/recovery cassette 170, which performs the function of replenishing or retrieving bills from the bill cassette 150, is a normal financial system. The automated device 100 is configured and operated to be detachable from one side of the main body.

Through this configuration, in the automated financial machine 100, when a banknote is input into the deposit/withdrawal unit 110 due to a user's deposit request, etc., the inserted banknote is returned along the return path 120 and passes through the discrimination unit 130. It goes through a discrimination process. At this time, according to the result of the discrimination of the banknotes, the banknotes determined to be normal bills are transferred to each individual bill cassette 150 where the corresponding bill type is stored, and the bills determined to be abnormal rejected bills are transferred to each individual bill cassette 150. It is transferred to the reject box 160 and stored.

At this time, during the operation of the automated financial device 100, if it is necessary to replenish the bills in the automated financial device 100, the replenishment/recovery cassette 170 is connected to the automated financial device 100 to replenish the bills. At this time, when the banknote stored in the replenishment/recovery cassette 170 passes through the discrimination unit 130 along the return path 120 and is determined to be a banknote of a denomination requiring replenishment, the banknote cassette 150 in which the corresponding denomination is stored respectively ) and stored, and if it is determined that the bill is damaged or a bill of a type that does not require replenishment, it is configured to be collected again in the replenishment/recovery cassette 170, so that only the bills that require replenishment can be replenished.

However, in this process, in the conventional financial automated machine, as briefly explained above, in the process of replenishing banknotes, the banknotes stored in the deposit-only cassette are first taken out to the transfer cassette for withdrawal and recovered, and then the emptied deposit-only cassette is returned. It is configured to collect non-replenishment notes and/or reject notes generated in the process of replenishing banknotes and retrieve them through a transit cassette. To this end, the notes stored in the deposit-only cassette are collected through the transit cassette for export. After collection and emptying, in the process of replenishing the bills through the replenishment transit cassette, the bills determined as non-replenishment bills or rejected bills are collected in the emptied deposit-only cassette, and after the bill replenishment is completed, they are returned to the replenishment transit cassette and taken out. There is an inconvenient problem of having to go through a series of processes to return the bills that were transferred to the transit cassette back to the deposit-only cassette, and as two transit cassettes are essential for this kind of bill replenishment work, the person in charge is responsible for the bill replenishment work. There is a problem that the efficiency is considerably low.

In the present invention, in order to effectively solve this problem, one of the plurality of bill cassettes 150 provided inside the automated financial machine 100 is selected as the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage to replenish the bills. In the process, the bills stored in the bill cassette 150a selected for temporary storage are transferred to the temporary storage unit 140 and temporarily stored, and then, in the process of replenishing the bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette 170, Banknotes determined to be replenishment notes and rejected notes are collected in a bill cassette (150a) for temporary storage, and after the replenishment of the banknotes is completed, the non-replenishment notes and/or reject notes collected in the bill cassette (150a) for temporary storage are collected. By configuring the bills to be collected again in the replenishment/recovery cassette 170 and transferred to the temporary storage unit 140 again to the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage, the system is simplified with only one replenishment/recovery cassette 170. By supporting the performance of banknote replenishment work, it is possible to increase the efficiency of banknote replenishment work and at the same time increase the operational efficiency of automated financial machines.

Here, as described above, in selecting the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage for collecting non-replenishment notes/reject notes in the replenishment process from among the plurality of banknote cassettes 150, the bill cassette 150a provided inside the automated financial machine 100 It is more effective to select one of a plurality of bill cassettes handling the same denomination, and it is preferable to select and use one of a plurality of small cassettes usually provided in automated financial machines.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5, the process of replenishing bills in the bill cassette of the automated financial machine using the temporary storage unit will be described in more detail.

Figures 2 to 5 are diagrams showing the flow of bills in the process of replenishing bills by applying the bill replenishment method using the temporary storage unit according to the present invention in an automated financial machine. Figure 2 shows the flow of bills prior to replenishing bills. A diagram showing the process of selecting one bill cassette as a bill cassette for temporary storage and emptying the bill cassette by transferring the bills stored in the selected bill cassette to the temporary storage unit, and Figure 3 shows the replenishment/recovery cassette. It is a diagram showing the process of replenishing banknotes, and Figure 4 shows that after completion of replenishment of banknotes, among the banknotes stored in the replenishment/recovery cassette, those that are determined to be non-replenishment notes or rejected notes are returned to the replenishment/recovery cassette. This is a diagram showing the process, and Figure 5 is a diagram showing the process of returning the bills that were transferred to the temporary storage unit back to the original bill cassette.

As shown in FIG. 2, during the operation of the automated financial machine 100, when the bill cassette 150 of the automated financial machine 100 needs to be replenished with bills, any one of the plurality of bill cassettes 150 A bill cassette is selected as the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage, and the bills stored in the bill cassette 150a are transferred to the temporary storage unit 140 for temporary storage. At this time, abnormal data is detected in the bill identification process. Banknotes determined to be reject notes are transferred to the reject box 160.

In other words, the bills taken out from the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage pass through the discrimination unit 130 along the conveyance path 120 to determine whether the bills are damaged. At this time, they pass through the discrimination unit 130. Meanwhile, bills determined to be normal bills are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 140 (solid line portion in FIG. 2), and bills determined to be abnormal reject bills, such as damaged bills or overlapping bills, are stored in the reject box 160. (dotted line portion in Figure 2).

In this embodiment, as illustrated in the drawing, the first bill cassette (150a) among the plurality of bill cassettes (150a, 150b, 150c, 150d, 150e, 150f) is selected as the bill cassette for temporary storage, and the temporary storage It shows a path for transferring and storing bills stored in the bill cassette 150a to the temporary storage unit 140 or the reject box 160.

Subsequently, the bills stored in the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage are transferred to the temporary storage unit 140 or the reject box 160, and when the bill cassette 150a is emptied, the replenishment/recovery cassette 170 ), the banknotes are replenished. At this time, as the banknotes stored in the replenishment/recovery cassette 170 pass through the discrimination unit 130 along the return path 120, the denomination and damage of the banknotes are discriminated, and Depending on the results, the transfer path of the banknote will vary.

That is, as shown in FIG. 3, according to the result of discrimination by the discrimination unit 130, the banknotes determined to be supplementary notes, which are banknotes of a denomination requiring replenishment, are classified according to the denomination type of the corresponding banknote and are divided into individual second to second denominations. 6 The bills are transferred to the bill cassettes (150b, 150c, 150d, 150e, 150f) and replenished (solid line portion in FIG. 3), and the bills that are determined to be non-replenishment bills that do not require replenishment or abnormal rejected bills are as described above. It is transferred to the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage and collected (dotted line portion in FIG. 3).

Here, the replenishment note is a regular note and is a type of note that requires replenishment because it is stored in less than the standard quantity in the automated financial machine 100, and the non-replenishment note is a normal note and is a type of note that does not require replenishment because a sufficient quantity is stored in the automated financial machine 100. It is a banknote of

When the replenishment of banknotes as described above is completed, as shown in FIG. 4, in the process of replenishing banknotes, the non-replenishment notes and/or rejected notes collected in the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage are refilled/recovered in the cassette. It is recovered at (170) (dotted line portion in FIG. 4).

That is, as described above, the present invention selects one of the plurality of bill cassettes 150 as the bill cassette 150a for temporary storage, and transfers the bills stored in the bill cassette 150a into the temporary storage unit. In the process of transferring bills to (140) and replenishing bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette (170), it is configured to provide a bill storage space for temporarily accommodating and then recovering non-replenishment notes and/or rejected notes. By doing so, among the various types of banknotes supplied from the replenishment/recovery cassette 170, only the notes of the denomination that require replenishment can be replenished, and non-replenishment notes and/or rejected notes that do not require replenishment can be recovered.

Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 5, the bills that were transferred to the temporary storage unit 140 are transferred again to the bill cassette 150a selected for temporary storage. In this case, the bills taken out from the temporary storage unit 140 As the banknotes pass through the identification unit 130 along the return path 120, damage is determined, and the banknotes determined to be normal according to the results of the determination through the identification unit 130 are returned to a banknote cassette for temporary storage. The bills are transferred to 150a (solid line part in FIG. 5), and bills determined to be abnormally rejected are transferred to the reject box 160 (dotted line part in FIG. 5).

As discussed above, the method of replenishing bills in the bill cassette of a financial automation device using the temporary storage unit according to the present invention is a method of replenishing bills in the bill cassette of the financial automation device during the operation of the financial automation device. After selecting one of the plurality of bill cassettes provided inside the device and transferring the bills stored in the corresponding bill cassette to the temporary storage unit, in the process of replenishing the bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette, non-replenishment bills or Banknotes determined to be rejected are collected into the corresponding banknote cassette, and after completion of banknote replenishment, non-replenishment notes and/or rejected notes collected in the selected banknote cassette are returned to the replenishment/recovery cassette and placed in a temporary storage unit. By transferring the transferred bills back to the corresponding bill cassette, it is possible to increase the operational efficiency of the automated financial machine by supporting a simplified bill replenishment task with only one replenishment/recovery cassette.

In addition, the present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be obvious to those with ordinary knowledge.

100: Financial automation device 110: Deposit/withdrawal unit
120: Return path 130: Differentiation unit
140: Temporary storage unit 150: Banknote cassette
150a: first bill cassette 150b: second bill cassette
150c: Third banknote cassette 150d: Fourth banknote cassette
150e: 5th banknote cassette 150f: 6th banknote cassette
160: Reject box 170: Replenishment/recovery cassette

Claims (6)

In a method of replenishing bills in the bill cassette of an automated financial machine using a temporary storage unit,
Selecting one of the plurality of bill cassettes provided in the automated financial machine as a bill cassette for temporary storage, and transferring all bills stored in the bill cassette selected for temporary storage to a temporary storage unit;
In the process of replenishing bills through the replenishment/recovery cassette, the bills stored in the replenishment/recovery cassette are discriminated, and the bills determined as replenishment notes according to the discrimination result are replenished by transferring them to the bill cassette for each denomination provided inside the automated financial machine. , collecting bills determined to be non-replenishment bills or rejected bills by transferring them to the bill cassette for temporary storage;
After completing the replenishment of banknotes, recovering non-replenishment notes and rejected notes collected in the temporary storage banknote cassette into the replenishment/recovery cassette; and
transferring the banknotes transferred to the temporary storage unit back to the banknote cassette selected for temporary storage;
A method of replenishing bills in a financial automation machine bill cassette using a temporary storage unit, characterized in that it includes a.
According to clause 1,
In the step of transferring the banknotes stored in the temporary storage banknote cassette to the temporary storage unit,
The bills stored in the bill cassette for temporary storage are discriminated, and the bills determined to be normal bills according to the discrimination result are transferred to the temporary storage unit, and the bills determined to be rejected are transferred to the reject box. How to replenish banknotes in the banknote cassette of a financial automated machine using the storage unit.
According to clause 1,
In the process of replenishing banknotes through the replenishment/recovery cassette, in the step of transferring and replenishing the banknotes determined as replenishment notes to the banknote cassette for each denomination,
A method of replenishing banknotes in a banknote cassette of a financial automation machine using a temporary storage unit, characterized in that the note type is replenished by transferring it to a bill cassette for each type in which the corresponding note type is stored according to the type of the supplementary note determined in the above identification process.
According to clause 1,
In the step of transferring the banknotes transferred to the temporary storage unit back to the banknote cassette selected for temporary storage,
The bills transferred to the temporary storage unit are identified, and according to the results of the discrimination, the bills determined to be normal bills are transferred to a bill cassette for temporary storage, and the bills determined to be rejected are transferred to a reject box. How to replenish banknotes in the banknote cassette of a financial automated machine using the storage unit.
According to clause 1,
The bill cassette for temporary storage is,
A method of replenishing banknotes in a financial automated machine bill cassette using a temporary storage unit, characterized in that one of a plurality of bill cassettes handling the same note type is selected in the financial automated machine.
According to clause 1,
The bill cassette for temporary storage is,
A method of replenishing banknotes in a financial automated machine bill cassette using a temporary storage unit, characterized in that it is one of a plurality of small cassettes provided in a financial automated machine.