RU6641U1 - DEVICE FOR OPERATING BANKNOTES FOR TRADE AND SIMILAR AUTOMATIC MACHINES - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for operating banknotes for vending machines and the like, including an authenticity tester, an intermediate storage device and return and collection channels below it, as well as an electronic control unit, the intermediate storage device being installed with the possibility of receiving banknotes from the tester's output and contains a base - a damper and a cassette above it, installed with the possibility of relative displacement, characterized in that it contains an additional banknote discriminator, installed th between the determinant and the intermediate drive, as well as the pusher (pushers) mounted above the collection channel with the possibility of reciprocating movement vertically, and in the wall of the cassette to its entire height a corresponding slot (s) is made, and the control unit has two types of electrical outputs : serial interface and relay output.

Description

A device for operating banknotes for vending machines and the like.

The proposed utility model relates to commercial engineering, can be used in trading and similar ones (ticket, change, payment for services, etc .; vending machines accepting paper money - banknotes, and is intended to operate these machines in response to Amount entered

Known devices for operating banknotes (processing banknotes for vending machines, containing a tester, a banknote authenticator, a temporary (intermediate) banknote store, a cashier, a return channel, a transport mechanism and a control device 1,2.

In known devices, the determinant through the input slot accepts banknotes arriving one after another, determines their authenticity and denomination - validity, returns unsuitable banknotes back and transfers the valid banknotes to the intermediate storage device via a conveyor.

The intermediate accumulator carries out the accumulation of banknotes intended for the transaction, as well as the collection or return to the user of accumulated banknotes, depending on whether or not the transaction took place.

A device, or an electric control unit, controls the actuators of the device equipped with conveyor drives and an intermediate drive, sums up the values of incoming valid banknotes and interacts with the commodity department of the vending machine through the interface available in the unit that corresponds to the type of a specific vending machine: relay or intelligent - on microprocessors.

MKI G-07/7/04.

The control device can also perform other functions, for example, displaying ins, information on the display or the so-called. fiscal memory, etc.

Known devices have the following main disadvantages:

- The presence of transporting mechanisms complicates the device, reduces its reliability and speed, does not allow for the full return of banknotes during emergency blackout of the vending machine in the process of operating banknotes.

-in vending machines, for reasons of technical and economic feasibility, universal identifiers of authenticity are usually used to ensure that they can be quickly reconfigured on the spot when the price of the goods or the type of currency in circulation changes. Universal identifiers test banknotes against a limited set of attributes, which reduces the rejection accuracy, which also depends on the type of currency. In particular, for currencies, designed accounting databases, the possibility of using banknotes in vending machines, the accuracy of rejection by universal identifiers may not exceed due to the indistinguishability of some standard denominations. Unidentified banknotes

either returned to the buyer as unsuitable, or collected

| as appropriate, depending on the organization of the interaction of the determinant with the control unit of the machine. In the first case, there may be difficulties for the buyer, who cannot realize the banknote. In the second case, payment errors may occur. 3

in particular, such difficulties arise when operating with modern Russian currency, which has several options for the execution of banknotes of the same denomination, as well as different denominations that differ in characteristics that are not recognized by universal

identifiers of banknotes.

- The control units of known devices are equipped with a single interface corresponding to a particular type of vending machine; this does not allow the installation of these devices in machines of a different type, which narrows the scope of their use.

Closest to the technical nature of the proposed utility model (prototype) is a coin mechanism for vending machines and the like, containing a tester installed in the case - an authenticity identifier, an intermediate drive and return and collection channels under it, as well as a control unit, and the intermediate drive is installed with the possibility of receiving money from the output of the tester and includes a base damper and a cartridge in the form of a glass without a bottom above the damper, mounted with the possibility of relative displacement H,

This device, designed to operate with coins, when used as a tester of the universal determinant of banknote authenticity and an intermediate storage cassette with a rectangular section and dimensions corresponding to the banknote size (which does not change its technical validity) can be used: for banknote handling. In this case, suitable banknotes from the output of the determinant of the bases by means of any conveying mechanisms enter the intermediate storage device, from which, by command of the control device, the cassettes and shutters are reset either to the return channel or to the collection channel by means of relative displacement.

The device is simple in design and allows dispensing with conveying mechanisms for banknotes between different positions: a tester, an intermediate storage device, a cash register, a return cell, which makes it highly mechanical and robust, and also creates the possibility of a full return

return of banknotes when the device is de-energized. However, the device has several disadvantages:

- banknotes are not compacted during collection, falling freely into the channel, which reduces the cash desk capacity and requires an increase in the frequency of maintenance of the vending machine to withdraw money from the cash desk, and also does not allow using a stacker as a cash desk;

-the device is characterized by the above disadvantages of the cited analogues associated with the use of a universal identifier for the authenticity of banknotes;

-device is compatible only with machines of one - relay type, because It has only one - relay interface pairing in the control unit.

To eliminate these drawbacks, the proposed device for; operating a banknote for vending machines and similar machines, including installation of online products, a T1 test case (authenticity identifier), an intermediate storage device and return and collection channels below it, as well as an electronic control unit, the intermediate storage device being installed with the possibility of receiving banknotes from the output of the tester and contains a flap base and a cassette above it, installed with the possibility of relative displacement, contains an additional banknote discriminator installed between the tester (determinant) and intermediate drive, as well as pusher € pushers (pushers) installed above the collection channel with the possibility of reciprocating

vertical movement, and in the wall of the cassette for its entire

The introduction into the device of an additional banknote discriminator, installed in azor between the determinant and the intermediate drive, distinguishing banknotes according to their characteristics; recognizable or erroneously identified by the determinant, and depending on the result of the verification, accept them for payment or return as defective s via an intermediate storage device in the return duct. This increases the accuracy and reliability of the device, eliminates the inconvenience to the user associated with the rejection of suitable banknotes by the machine, and possible losses for both the user and the seller.

The installation of a pusher over the collection channel (vertical pushers with a corresponding vertical slot through the height of the drive cassette wall) through it allows for the release of banknotes from the intermediate storage device by moving the cartridge into the position above the collection channel and introducing a pusher into it, which then, with its reciprocating when moving, he tamps banknotes at the cash desk (stacker; thanks to cheyau, the capacity of the cash desk increases without increasing its size.

Finally, the supply of the control unit with two interfaces; of various types: relay and serial, allows you to use the device in machines of various types, only changing the connection address, which allows you to expand the scope of this device for operating banknotes.

made either in a separate housing, or placed inside the machine.

Figure 1 presents the structural block diagram of the device.

In Fig.2 is a front view of the device.

On - side view of the device.

The device comprises a banknote authenticity determinant I, for example, of type KC-1 / CI or KS-00 or another universal type, an additional discriminator 2, an intermediate drive 3, a control unit 4, a return sleeve 5 and a collection channel 6 with a stacker 7 installed therein,

The intermediate drive 3 is installed in the housing 8 next to the roller output 9 of the determinant I with the possibility of receiving banknotes 10 coming out of the output 9 in a horizontal position in the direction of their long side and freely falling on the damper base II inside the cartridge 12 of the drive 3. The damper base II has a relief profile including projections 13, on which banknotes 10 are located, and grooves 14. The lower edge of the cartridge 12 has protrusions 15 corresponding to the grooves 14 of the shutter II, the shutter II and the cartridge 12 are mounted on rails (not shown two independent alternate reciprocating movements (relative displacements) along the said guide rails: above the return channel and above the collection channel (5 and 6) from the electromagnets of the actuators 16 — cartridge drive 12 and 17 — damper II drive and return springs (not shown).

Above the collection channel 6, three pushers of synchronous vertical action 18 are mounted, fixed on a rail 19, connected by means of a rack pair 20 to the shaft of the electric motor 21 of the pusher drive 18 with the possibility of reciprocating movement between height-adjustable travel stops 22 and 23. Side wall 24 of the cartridge 12 has vertical slots 25 to ensure the passage of the pushers 18 into the cartridge 12 when it is moved to a position above the collection channel 6 and the reciprocating movement of sense Ateliers 18 in cassette 12.

Stacker 7 is removably mounted in the collection channel 6; it contains a housing 26, spring-loaded spring 27, the inner bottom 28 and the sides 29.

An additional discriminator 2 in the form of:, for example, a color sensor or some other distinguishing feature of banknote types used in the machine that are not recognized by the universal identifier, is removably mounted in the gap between the identifier I above its roller output 9 and the cartridge 12 of the intermediate drive 3,

Drives 16,17,21, determinant I, discriminator 2 are electrically connected to the control unit 4. The control unit has two interfaces 30 and 31. Interface 30 is used as a thirty-two bi-directional input-output lines for interfacing with relay-type machines; if necessary, they can be retrofitted optical isolation channels and power elements. These lines can also be used to interface with intelligent machines with microprocessors, but the full use of all the operating capabilities of the machine is not guaranteed.

for interfacing with intelligent automatic machines while ensuring full use of their functional capabilities: 1 features, a bi-directional serial optically decoupled interface 31 is used.

memory 33.

The device operates as follows.

In the initial STATE, under the action of the return springs of the cassette 12 of the intermediate drive 3, it is in a position above the return sleeve 5, and the damper base II is above the collection channel 6; pushers 18 are in the upper position.

After turning on the machine into the power supply network, when one identifier I is introduced through the input slot 34, one banknote 10 each; the identifier I passes 9 banknotes through it to its output that have been requested by it and identified, as well as unrecognized banknotes at the command of the control device 4; banknotes deemed invalid by the identifier I are returned to them through the input slot 34.

Banknotes leaving the output 9 of determinant I are tested by an additional discriminator 2 sensor. If discriminator 2 identifies the banknote as valid, it sends a corresponding signal with information about the validity and denomination of the banknote to the control device 4, which provides a control signal to the actuator 17 of the damper base II, which moves it to a position above the return sleeve 5 under the cassette 12, as a result of which the valid banknote falls into the intermediate drive 3, If the validity of the banknote is not confirmed by discriminator 2, then NCA II is in the original position over the channel 6 and the encashment unfit banknote output 9 determinant I through the cassette 12 falls into the sleeve 5 return through which is returned to the user. If a banknote deemed unfit by the additional discriminator 2 falls into the intermediate drive 3 when accumulated valid banknotes are sent in it, then the unfit signal transmitted to the control unit 4 of discriminator 2 leads to generation

signal for shutting off the electromagnet of the actuator 17, the shutter II returns to its original position above the collection channel 6 and all banknotes located in the intermediate storage 3, including the last - unfit, fall into the return channel 5. In the same way OM returns the valid banknotes from the storage 3 when the user presses the return button or when the power is turned off.

If, however, when the buyer enters the amount corresponding to the cost of one purchase in the intermediate storage device 3, the buyer presses the goods release button, then control device 4 transmits payment and purchase information to the goods release section and simultaneously the collection command via the interface 30 or 31, which cassette 12 of the drive 3 using the drive 16 is moved to a position above the collection channel 6; at the same time, banknotes located in the drive 3 are raked from the base-damper II when the profiles of the cartridge 12 and the damper II interact in the collection channel 6 on the stacker 7; at the same time, by the same command, the pushers 18 with the help of the drive 21, overcoming the action of the springs27, bend and push down the banknotes lying on the surface of the stacker 7 so that they go inside the stacker 7, after which the pushers 18 rise; the inner bottom 28 of the stacker 7, under the action of the prunes 1, shrinks the banknotes 10 to the sides 29. The cassette 12 and the shutter II under the action of the return springs return to their original state.

Thus, the proposed utility model - a device for operating banknotes has the following, in front of the known alalogog and prototype.

Ki of different denominations of currency banknotes used for payment in a particular machine, which are not recognized by the universal determinant at the input of the device, the recognition of input banknotes increases, i.e. the accuracy of their sorting on suitable-unsuitable. The installation of a discriminator in the gap between the determinant and the intermediate storage device allows the return of additionally rejected banknotes through the intermediate storage device without using additional conveyors.

 Thanks to the additional installation in the device at a position above the cash desk of the pusher (pushers) with the possibility of it making a reciprocating movement vertically and 2ODR YNyu§0 © virgin vertical slots (slots; in the wall of the cassette of the intermediate storage device, the banknotes are packed into the cash desk to the entire height of the wall -stacker, which increases the capacity of the kaesa without increasing its size.

- Due to the presence of two interfaces of different types in the control unit of the device, its moshu should be connected to machines of both relay and microprocessor types, i.e. Universality of the device is ensured relative to the type of vending machines.

The authors - applicants: Litvinov I.A.

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Ryazantsev V.E.,

Krylov G.V. Kubarev B, A,

Claims (1)

A device for operating banknotes for vending machines and the like, including an authenticity tester, an intermediate storage device and return and collection channels below it, as well as an electronic control unit, the intermediate storage device being installed with the possibility of receiving banknotes from the tester's output and contains a base - a damper and a cassette above it, installed with the possibility of relative displacement, characterized in that it contains an additional banknote discriminator, installed th between the determinant and the intermediate drive, as well as the pusher (pushers) mounted above the collection channel with the possibility of reciprocating movement vertically, and in the wall of the cassette to its entire height a corresponding slot (s) is made, and the control unit has two types of electrical outputs : serial interface and relay output.