JP2002092692A - Paper sheet handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem about a difference of maintenance direction in a conventional device with the structure that when aiming at the common use of a unit, the unit must be drawn once so as to stop the device for the maintenance or that when separately providing a carrying route of the whole of the device, common use of the unit is hard and a cost raises. SOLUTION: In this paper sheet handling device capable of circulating two kinds of bills with the one recycle box and one cassette structure and formed with a looped temporary storage part passing through a discriminating part separately from the whole carrying passage, a part of the whole carrying passage is assembled in the cassette.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling apparatus for taking out and taking in paper sheets by a user's operation.
For example, automatic cash handling equipment used in financial institutions, automatic cash handling equipment installed in convenience stores, etc., ticket vending machines at stations, voting tickets / money vending machines at public stadiums, certificates of schools, etc. The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling device that takes in and out paper sheets installed in an issuing machine, a gas station, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a conventional sheet handling apparatus, for example, an automatic teller machine (ATM) used in a financial institution, a detachable cassette for inserting and removing sheets (banknotes) into and from the apparatus is provided. Since the entire transport route for paper sheets is determined in one direction, if the drawer draw-out direction is reversed during maintenance of the device, pull out the unit once and then remove it in the reverse cassette load-out direction, or In this case, the cassette must be detached in the lateral direction of the apparatus after the unit is pulled out, or the transport route of the entire apparatus must be individually changed depending on the maintenance direction.

[0003] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 0 (1999) discloses a technique relating to the above-mentioned conventional sheet handling apparatus.
No. 9-185750.

[0004]

In the above-described paper handling apparatus according to the prior art, when the maintenance direction to the apparatus has to be attached / detached in a direction opposite to a predetermined cassette attaching / detaching direction, it is necessary to once pull out the unit. There was a problem that the device had to be stopped. Further, when the transport route of the entire apparatus is individually set to a different route depending on the maintenance direction, there is a problem that it is difficult to share the apparatus between the maintenance directions and the apparatus becomes expensive.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, and to recycle two denominations by using one recycle box and one cassette so that the entire transport route can be established regardless of the mounting / removing direction of the storage cassette. It is an object of the present invention to provide a common and inexpensive paper sheet handling apparatus.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a deposit and withdrawal port for taking in and out of paper sheets, a recycling box for storing paper to be paid in and out, and a detachable box from a main body. A storage cassette for loading papers into the recycling box and collecting the papers from the recycling box, a discriminating unit for discriminating the authenticity of the papers, etc .; In a paper sheet handling apparatus including a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing paper sheets, a storage for storing paper sheets that cannot be recirculated, and an entire conveyance path for conveying the paper sheets in one direction to the respective parts. By providing a separate route transport unit that passes through a temporary holding unit and a discriminating unit separately from the overall transport unit, and transporting sheets between the storage cassette and the recycle box via the separate route transport unit, Storage cassette A first feature is that the device is configured to take in a part of the entire transport path, and a second feature is that in the paper sheet handling device, the storage cassette is configured to be detachable from a front surface and a rear surface of the device. I do.

[0007]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a front-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a paper cassette 2 applied to the present embodiment.

The front-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment stores and recirculates a first denomination in a recycle box 1 as a 1,000-yen banknote, a second denomination in a 5,000-yen banknote, and a third denomination in a third denomination. It is stored and returned in the cassette 2 as a banknote of 10,000 yen, and the configuration and operation will be described below.

<Explanation of Deposit Operation> First, in the front-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, when a user inserts a banknote into a deposit port 4 so as to be inserted into the deposit port 4 for a deposit operation, the inserted banknote is inserted. The bill is pulled into the separating mechanism (not shown) to close the depositing shutter 5, the bills are separated one by one by the separating mechanism, and are conveyed to the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 7 and the discriminating unit 8 through the conveying path 6.

Next, the present apparatus performs necessary discrimination, such as denomination, authenticity, correctness, etc., of the banknotes conveyed by the discrimination section 8, and performs the discrimination to pass the banknotes discriminated from normal to the gate 9, the transport path 10,
The banknotes are held in the temporary holding unit 12 through the gate 11, and the banknotes determined to be unpayable by the discriminating unit 8 are conveyed and collected by the gate 9 to the withdrawal collecting unit 13 and returned to the user.

[0011] When all the deposited banknotes are held in the temporary holding unit 12 and a predetermined transaction operated by the user is established, the present apparatus operates the separation mechanism (not shown) at the exit of the temporary holding unit 12. , The bills are again separated one by one, conveyed again to the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 7 and the discriminating section 8 through the conveying path 14, and the number of sheets are detected and discriminated in the same manner as described above.

When the present apparatus discriminates that a bill is 1,000 yen by this discrimination, it passes through the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, the gate 16, the transport path 17, and the gate 18, and outputs The banknotes are transported and accumulated in the recycle box 1 which is a storage of the gate 9, and if the discrimination result is 5,000 yen, the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 1
5, gate 16, transport path 17, gate 18, transport path 1
9, the banknotes are conveyed and accumulated and stored in the recycle banknote storage unit of the cassette 2 which is a storage of 5,000 yen banknotes through the gate 20,
If the discrimination result is 10,000 yen, the gate 9, the transport path 1
0, the gate 11, the transfer path 15, the gate 16, the transfer path 21 in the cassette, the gate 22, and the transfer path 23 in the cassette to transfer the banknotes to the central storage 3 of the cassette 2, which is a storage of ten thousand bills, The deposit operation is completed after the accumulation.

<Explanation of Dispensing Operation> In the dispensing operation, the present apparatus stores the denomination and the number of bills requested by the user to be dispensed into the recycle boxes 1 and 5,000 which are storage units for 1,000 yen bills. The cassette 2 is separated one by one by a separation mechanism (not shown) from the recycle banknote storage unit of the cassette 2 which is a storage for yen banknotes.
When transporting banknotes from the recycle banknote storage, the transport path 1
9, the sheet is conveyed to the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 7 and the discriminating section 8 through the gate 20, the conveying path 24, and the conveying path 14. When transporting banknotes from
The sheet is conveyed to the multi-sheet detection mechanism 7 and the discriminating unit 8 through the conveying path 17, the gate 18, the conveying path 19, the gate 20, the conveying path 24, and the conveying path 14, and is discriminated. Transport and stack.

Next, the present apparatus accumulates in the dispensing and accumulating section 13 and collectively dispenses the dispensing bills from the dispensing port 25, thereby completing the dispensing operation. At the time of withdrawal, the banknotes that were not regarded as normal discrimination by the discriminating unit 8 are transferred to the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 1
1, transport path 15, gate 16, transport path 21 in the cassette,
The cassette 2 is stored in the rejected banknote storage 27 below the cassette 2 through the gate 22 and the transport path 26 in the cassette. As described above, the bill handling apparatus according to the present embodiment determines the transport direction of bills in one direction.

<Description of Cassette 2> As shown in FIG. 2, the cassette 2 suitable for the front-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment can be attached to and detached from the apparatus. At the time of setting, the cassette 2 is loaded with all denominations, and bills are deposited into the apparatus.

The cassette 2 has a storage 2a for storing a large amount of bills in the upper stage, a storage 3 for the middle stage in which a smaller amount of bills can be stored compared to the upper stage, and a rejected bill storage for the lower stage. Storage 27, an intra-cassette transport path 21 for transporting banknotes to the respective storages, a transport path 23 for banknotes from the storage 3, and a transport path 26 from the storage 27.
And a gate 2 for switching between the transport paths 23 and 26
When the banknotes are loaded into the apparatus by loading all the denominations shown in FIG. 2, 5,000-yen bills and 1,000-yen bills are stacked and stored in the storage 2a. The stack of thousands of bills is stored in the storage 3, and when the cassette is detached, it is detached for each of the transport path and the gate.

<Explanation of Control Circuit> FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the banknote handling apparatus of FIG. 1. This control circuit includes a line control unit 35 connected to the host device 29 via a communication network. A sensor control unit 33 that controls a sensor that detects passage of a bill in a conveyance path, a conveyance motor control unit 30 that controls a conveyance roller of a conveyance path, a gate control unit 32 that controls switching of a plurality of gates, A discriminating unit 8 for discriminating bills, a separation motor control unit 31 for operating a separating mechanism for separating and taking out bills stored in a storage, a timer control unit 36 for counting time, and managing the number of bills. It comprises a number management unit 28 and a main control unit 37 for controlling them, and the number management unit 28
Number of banknotes stored in recycle box 1 / Number of banknotes separated from recycle box 1 / Number of banknotes stored in reflux storage of cassette 2 / Number of sheets separated in return storage of cassette 2 / Number of banknotes stored in cassette 2 / Number of rejected tickets stored /
This is for managing the number of sheets separated at the deposit opening / the number of sheets stored in the temporary holding unit 34 / the number of sheets separated by the temporary holding unit 12.

<Description of Bill Loading Operation> Next, the bill loading operation of the bill handling apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described. FIG.
FIG. 7 is an operation diagram illustrating a bill loading operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a bill loading operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1. The bill loading operation according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

The bill handling apparatus according to the present embodiment manages the number of loaded bills by counting and storing the bills stacked on each stacker by the number management unit 28.
The switch of the denomination is recognized, and two denominations can be loaded simultaneously with the configuration of one recycle box and one cassette.

In this bill loading operation, first, an attendant places bills in the order of 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen from the top in the return bill storage section of the cassette 2 as shown in FIG. 2, and sets the cassette 2 in the main body (FIG. 6). (1) Operational state 101).

[Discrimination of loaded banknotes] [Transfer to recycle box] Next, in response to a loading operation instruction from the host device 29, the present device causes the transport motor control unit 30
After the transport motor is turned on, the banknotes set in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 are separated by the separation motor control unit 31.
1 by an unillustrated separation mechanism activated by
Feeding out one sheet at a time, transport path 17, gate 18, transport path 1
9. Through the gate 20, all 1,000 and 5,000 yen are conveyed and stored in the recycle box 1, which is a storage of 1,000 yen bills. In this separation, the sensor control unit 33 detects the sky by the empty detection sensor of the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2,
This is performed until a stop command is given to the separation motor control unit 31 (steps 700 to 703 in FIG. 7).

[Separation of banknotes by denomination] Next, the present apparatus
The separation motor of the recycle box 1 is started, and is fed out one by one from the recycle box 1, passes through the conveyance path 19, the gate 20, the conveyance paths 24 and 14, and detects the plural sheets detection mechanism 7.
It is transported to the discriminating unit 8 (step 704). The discriminating unit 8 discriminates between a denomination of a denomination, a genuineness, and a damage, and then determines a normal ticket of 1,000 yen, a normal ticket of 5,000 yen, and other rejected tickets, and determines that the ticket is a normal ticket. The 5,000-yen banknote turned ON / OFF at the instruction of the gate control unit 32, and the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, and the gate 1
6, transport path 17, gate 18, transport path 19, gate 20
6 is stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 which is a storage of 5,000 yen banknotes, and the number of stored banknotes is counted and stored (steps 705 to 707, the operation state 101 in (2) of FIG. 6). ).

The 1,000-yen banknote whose discrimination result by the discriminating unit 8 is determined to be a normal ticket turns on / off each gate in accordance with an instruction from the gate control unit 32, and the gate 9, the transport path 1
0, and temporarily stacks in the temporary holding unit 12 through the gate 11 (the same steps 715 to 716, the operation state 102 in (3) of FIG. 6).

[Temporary Storage of Banknotes] Next, the present apparatus uses the sensor information reported from the sensor
The number of sheets stacked in the number management unit 28 is counted and stored in the number management unit 28, and in order to recognize switching from the 5,000-yen bill to the 1,000-yen bill, the temporary storage unit stack number 34 stored in the number management unit 28 is the specified number. When the number exceeds 5,000 yen (for example, three sheets), it is determined that the switching point is from 5,000 yen to 1,000 yen (step 717), and a stop command is given to the separation motor control unit 31 to stop the separation from the separation mechanism (step 717). Step 71
8) For the banknotes in the transport path at the time of stopping, each gate is turned ON / OFF according to the instruction of the respective gate control unit 32, and 5,000 yen is stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2, and 1,000 yen is stored. In the temporary holding unit 12 (step 716),
Put the rest in the reject box (Step 7
26, 719). The number of banknotes stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 at this time is the number of loaded 5,000 yen, and this is stored (step 713).

When all the bills being conveyed have been stored, the apparatus activates the separation motor control unit 31 again and feeds out one by one from the separation mechanism of the recycle box 1 (not shown). , Transport paths 24 and 1
4 and transported to the multi-sheet detection mechanism 7 and the discriminating section 8, and the discriminating section 8 performs necessary discrimination such as denomination / authentication / damage, etc.
The 1,000-yen banknote determined to be a normal ticket turns on / off each gate according to the instruction of the gate control unit 32, and the gate 9, the transport path 1
0, gate 11, transport path 15, gate 16, transport path 1
7. Conveyed through the gate 18 to the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 and accumulated and temporarily stored on the previously stacked 5,000-yen banknote (steps 708 to 710, the operation state 103 of (4) in FIG. 6). ).

At this time, if the discrimination result by the discriminating unit 8 is a rejected ticket or a normal ticket other than 5,000 yen, each gate is turned on / off by the instruction of the gate control unit 32.
Gate 9, transport path 10, gate 11, transport path 15,
The paper money is conveyed to and stored in the rejected bill storage box 27 through the gate 16, the conveyance path 21, the gate 23, and the conveyance path 26.
When the sensor control unit 33 detects empty by the empty detection sensor of the recycle box (step 711), a stop command is given to the separation motor control unit 31 to stop separation (step 712). The total number of banknotes stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 at this time is stored (step 71).
3) The number stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 is equal to the number stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 minus the number stored in step 54, that is, the number of thousand yen banknotes stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2. The number of yen bills is stored (step 714).

[Separation of banknotes by denomination] Next, when the present apparatus stops separating banknotes, the temporary holding unit 12 temporarily stored first.
By activating the separation motor control unit 31, the 1000-yen banknotes stacked in the temporary holding unit 12 are separated one by one (Step 720), and transported to the multiple-sheet detection mechanism 7 and the discrimination unit 8 through the transport path 14. I do. The discrimination unit 8 performs discrimination, and when it is determined that the bill is a 1,000-yen bill of a normal ticket, each gate is turned ON / OFF according to an instruction of the gate control unit 32, and the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, Gate 1
6. The sheet is conveyed to the recycle box 1 through the conveying path 17, the gate 18, the conveying path 19, and the gate 20, collected, stored, and at the same time, the number of stored sheets is counted (step 721).

Here, the present apparatus gives a stop command to the separation motor control unit 31 when all the bills in the temporary holding unit 12 are separated, and ends the separation. The number of sheets stored in the recycle box 1 at this point is stored (step 7).
22, the operation state 104 of (5) in FIG. 6).

Next, the present apparatus activates the separation motor control unit 31 to remove the banknotes from the recycle box 1 temporarily storing the 1,000-yen banknotes by the number stored in step 58 (the number of stored 1,000-yen banknotes). Separate one by one (step 723)
ON / OFF of each gate by the instruction of the gate control unit 32
Transport path 17, gate 18, transport path 19, gate 20
The 1000-yen banknotes are conveyed and accumulated and stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 through (step 724).

In this apparatus, when the sensor control unit 33 detects that the number of sheets separated from the recycle box 1 matches the number stored in step 58 from the sensor information during the storage, the stop command is issued to the separation motor control unit 31. At the same time as the end of separation, it is confirmed that the number of sheets stored in the recycle box 1 matches the number of sheets separated from the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 (step 725,
The operation state 105 of (6) in FIG. 6). Finally, a stop command is given to the transport motor control unit 30 to stop the transport motor.

By the above operation, the present apparatus
The operation of loading the banknotes of a plurality of denominations loaded in each storage location is completed, and two denominations can be handled in one recycle box and one cassette.

<Explanation of Banknote Collection Operation> [Collection Operation Example 1] Next, a banknote handling apparatus in the banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 8 is an operation diagram showing a bill collecting operation of the bill handling device of FIG. 1 according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a bill collecting operation of the bill handling device of FIG. , FIG. 5,
The banknote collecting operation according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the bill handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 8 (1), a collecting operation is instructed from the upper apparatus 29 in a state where the 1,000 yen bill is stored in the recycle box 1 and the 5,000 yen bill is stored in the cassette 2. As a result, after the transport motor is turned on by the transport motor control unit 30, the separation motor is started by the separation motor control unit 31 for the 1,000-yen bills stored in the recycle box 1 (step 9 in FIG. 9).
1) The sheet is fed out one by one, transported through the transport path 19, the gate 20, the transport paths 24 and 14, to the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 7 and the discriminating section 8, and the discriminating section 8 discriminates the bills, and When it is determined that the bill is a circle, the gates are turned ON / OFF according to an instruction from the gate control unit 32, and the recirculated bills of the cassette 2 are passed through the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, the gate 16, the transport path 17, and the gate 18. They are accumulated and stored on the 5,000-yen ticket in the storage (step 92).

When the sensor control unit 33 detects an empty state by the empty detection sensor of the recycle box 1 during the accumulation and storage (step 93), a stop command is given to the separation motor control unit 31 to stop the separation (step 94). Then, a stop command is given to the transport motor control unit 30 to terminate the collection operation (operation state 106 in FIG. 8A).

With the above-described operation, the present apparatus can load various kinds of denominations into the cassette 2 and the maintenance staff can pull out the cassette 2 from the main body to collect bills in the apparatus. In addition, at this time, ten thousand yen bills that do not recirculate in the device, and
Since the rejected ticket is also stored in the cassette 2, by pulling out only one cassette from the apparatus, all bills in the apparatus can be collected. This makes it possible to provide a small-sized, low-cost, and easy-to-operate bill handling apparatus.

[Recovery Operation Example 2] Although the bill handling apparatus according to the above-described operation does not determine, ie, does not scrutinize, the amount collected in the cassette, it can be scrutinized and collected by the following method. Next, another collecting operation for performing the scrutiny will be described. FIG. 10 is an operation diagram showing a banknote scrutiny operation of the banknote handling apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a banknote scrutiny operation of the banknote handling apparatus of FIG. The bill collecting operation according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

The banknote scrutinizing and collecting operation according to the present embodiment is performed in the case where the scrutinizing and collecting operation is instructed by the upper device 29 from the state where the 1,000-yen banknote is stored in the recycle box 1 and the 5,000-yen banknote is stored in the cassette 2. The separation motor control unit 31 starts the separation motor for the 5,000-yen bills stored in the recycle banknote storage, and feeds out one by one (step 120 in FIG. 11), the transport path 17, the gate 18, the transport path 1
9. Transported and collected in the recycle box 1 through the gate 20 (same step 121, operation state 107 in FIG. 10A).

When the sensor control unit 33 detects the empty state by the empty detecting sensor of the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 during this accumulation (step 122), the present apparatus gives a stop command to the separation motor control unit 31 to separate the cassettes. (Step 12)
3) Next, the separation motor is started by the separation motor control unit 31 for all the bills stored in the recycle box 1, and the bills are fed out one by one (step 124).
9, after being conveyed to the plural sheet detection mechanism 7 and the discriminating unit 8 through the gate 20, the conveying paths 24 and 14, and the denomination unit 8 determines the denomination, the gate 9, the conveying path 10, the gate 11, the conveying path 15, Through the gate 16, the transport path 17, and the gate 18, the sheets are accumulated and stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2. At this time, the number of denominations of the denomination determination result in the discriminating unit 8 is counted and stored (steps 125 to 126).

If the sensor control unit 33 detects the sky by the empty detection sensor of the recycle box 1 (step 127), the apparatus gives a stop command to the separation motor control unit 31 to stop the separation. Transport motor control unit 30
, And terminates the detailed inspection and collection operation (step 128).

As described above, in the bill collecting operation according to the present embodiment, both bills are once stored in the recycle box and then returned to the cassette via the discrimination unit, so that the stored bills can be closely examined and then collected. it can.

<Description of Erroneous Stack Prevention Operation> Next, a description will be given of a control method for preventing a banknote from being erroneously loaded into a banknote cassette and erroneously stacked in the banknote handling apparatus according to the present invention.

Here, the clerk should set the 1,000-yen bill up and the 5,000-yen bill down in the recycle banknote storage of the bill cassette 2 as shown in FIG. A case will be described in which a 1,000-yen bill is set upside down, such as below, and a bill cassette is set in the apparatus.

If the clerk makes an erroneous loading operation in the above state, all the banknotes are temporarily transferred from the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 to the recycle box 1 so that 1,000 yen banknotes are 5,000 yen banknotes are stored in the lower row, and then the 1000-yen banknotes accumulated in the upper row of the recycle box 1 are fed out. If the discrimination section 8 determines that the banknote is a normal one-yen banknote, the 1,000-yen banknote is temporarily stored. The sheet is conveyed to the unit 12 and stacked.

Here, in the present apparatus, the upper limit number of sheets to be stacked in the temporary holding unit 12 is determined (for example, 15), and the number of banknotes stacked in the temporary holding unit 12 and the upper limit number of the temporary holding unit match. By the way, recycle box 1
Is stopped, the temporary storage unit 12 is stopped.
By detecting that the number of bills stacked in the stack, that is, the 1,000-yen bill is equal to or more than a predetermined number, it is possible to detect an abnormal state due to an erroneous stack or a bill jam.

In the erroneous stack according to this embodiment, the place where the money is originally set in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 according to the denomination is randomly mixed with the 1,000-yen banknote and the 5,000-yen banknote.
When set, an erroneous stack can be similarly detected. That is, after all the banknotes are transferred from the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 to the recycle box 1, the banknotes fed from the recycle box 1 are determined by the discrimination unit 8, and the 1,000-yen banknotes are stacked in the temporary holding unit 12. As a result, the 5,000-yen banknotes are sorted into the recycle box 1 and the 1,000-yen banknotes are sorted into the escrow unit 12 and stacked.
When the number of stacks of No. 2 reaches the upper limit number of the temporary holding unit, the feeding is stopped, and the clerk can be prompted to reset.

As described above, the bill loading method according to the present embodiment can be easily restarted by inviting the attendant to pay attention even if a staff member mistakenly sets a bill in the cassette in one recycling box / one cassette operation.

<Explanation of Change Operation> Next, in the case where a change such as a ticket vending machine has to be issued, the banknotes are temporarily stored before the deposited banknotes are stored in each denomination storage, ie, a recycle box cassette. A change dispensing operation for dispensing while holding in the holding unit will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the user deposits money by a deposit operation, holds the bill in the temporary holding unit 12, confirms the deposit amount and confirms the purchase amount by the user (for example, in the case of a ticket vending machine, the purchase ticket By performing the operation of pressing the amount button), a change dispensing command is instructed from the upper device 29.

Here, the banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment performs a change dispensing operation while holding the banknotes in the temporary holding unit 12. The reason for this is that the transport drive unit of the temporary storage unit 12 is a drive source different from the overall device transport drive,
This is because even if the dispensing operation is performed, the temporary holding unit 12 is not affected.

After the above-described dispensing operation is completed and the user receives the change, the paper money in the temporary holding unit 12 is again removed by the separating mechanism at the exit of the temporary holding unit 12 for one time.
The sheet is separated into individual sheets, and is conveyed again to the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 7 and the discriminating unit 8 through the conveying path 14. Here, if the result of the discrimination is 1,000 yen, the apparatus is a storage of 1,000 yen bills through the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, the gate 16, the transport path 17, and the gate 18. It is transported to the recycle box 1 and stored in a stack. If the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 8 is 5,000 yen, the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, the gate 16, the transport path 17, the gate 1
8. The paper money is transported through the transport path 19 and the gate 20 to the recycle banknote storage unit of the cassette 2 which is a storage for 5,000 yen banknotes, and is stored. If the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 8 is 10,000 yen, it passes through the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the transport path 15, the gate 16, the transport path 21, the gate 22, and the transport path 23, and is stored in a banknote of 10,000 yen bill. The cassette 2 is conveyed to the storage 3 at the center of the cassette 2, collected and stored, and the change dispensing operation is completed.

As described above, the apparatus according to the present embodiment makes a change payment to the user in a state where the deposited banknotes are held in the temporary holding unit 12, and performs discrimination and storage of the banknotes after the payment. It is not necessary to wait for the user for the time of the operation for storing the bills in the respective storages from 12, and the deposited bills can be stored by using the user's replacement time.

<Explanation of Bill Re-discriminating Operation> Next, a description will be given of a bill re-discriminating operation in the case where it is determined that a multi-feed is performed during bill transport. FIG. 12 is an operation diagram showing a loading operation with bill re-discrimination of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a loading operation with bill re-discrimination of the bill handling apparatus of FIG.

In the bill handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, in the bill loading operation, when the multi-sheet detecting mechanism 7 determines that the multi-feeding is being performed while the cassette 2 is being loaded from the recycle box 1, the multi-feed bill and the discriminating unit 8 are used. The banknotes discriminated from the rejected banknotes are stored in the rejected banknote storage 27. The rejected banknotes being loaded are reduced as much as possible, the loading rate is increased, and the apparatus is operated efficiently. Here, the temporary holding unit according to the present embodiment does not use the stacking and storing method, so it is not necessary to accumulate / separate banknotes in a poor conveyance state of the deposited banknotes, for example, banknotes in a skewed and conveyed state. The discrimination unit 8 can re-discriminate a banknote determined to be a rejected ticket without lowering the reliability. Hereinafter, the loading operation with re-discrimination will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 12, and 13. FIG.

In the present apparatus, as in the loading operation, the staff fills the cassette 2 with banknotes and sets them on the main body ((1) in FIG. 12).
When the re-discrimination loading operation is instructed from the host device 29,
Once all the banknotes are transferred from the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 to the recycle box 1 ((2) in FIG. 12, steps 130 to 133), the banknotes are fed out of the recycle box 1 (step 144 in FIG. 13). , Transport path 19,
The sheet is conveyed to the multiple sheet detection mechanism 7 and the discriminating unit 8 through the gate 20, the conveyance path 24, and the conveyance path 14.

Here, when the bill is discriminated from a normal 5,000 yen bill, the bill is conveyed to the recycle bill storage of the cassette 2, and
The banknotes that are stacked and stored (the same steps 145 to 146), but are determined to be double feed or rejected, are stored in the gate 9, the transport path 1
0, and put on hold in the temporary holding unit 12 through the gate 11 (operation state 109, step 149 in FIG. 12C).

Further, as described in the loading operation, when it is determined from the discrimination result that the denomination has been switched to 1,000 yen (step 150), the apparatus stores the 1,000-yen banknote in the temporary holding unit 12 first. 12 (4), and when the number of reserved 1,000-yen banknotes reaches the specified number, the supply from the recycle box 1 is stopped (step 151). The number of stored recycle banknotes in cassette 2 is stored (step 14).
7).

Next, the present apparatus draws out a 1,000-yen bill from the recycle box 1 and, when it is determined that the bill is a normal one-yen bill (step 138), temporarily stores it in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 (step 139). The banknotes determined to be multifeed or rejected are held after the rejected banknotes and the 1,000-yen banknotes previously held in the temporary holding unit 12 (step 15).
2. The operation state 111 in FIG. 12 (5).

When the recycle box 1 becomes empty, the present apparatus stops the feeding operation (step 14).
0, 141), and stores and calculates the number of stored 1,000-yen banknotes stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 (step 142).
143). The calculated number of 1000-yen banknotes is fed out of the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2 (step 153) and stored in the recycle box 1 (step 154, operation state 112 in FIG. 12 (6)).

Finally, the present apparatus feeds out the banknotes held in the temporary holding unit 12 one by one, transports them to the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 7 and the discriminating unit 8 through the conveying path 14, and detects and discriminates the plural sheets again. I do. After this re-discrimination, the banknotes determined to be normal 1,000 yen banknotes are stored in the recycle box 1,
The banknotes determined to be normal 5,000 yen banknotes are stored in the recycle banknote storage of the cassette 2. At this time, the storage number is counted in each storage, and the storage number managed by the number management unit 28 is updated. In addition, even after the re-discrimination, the banknote determined to be rejected is stored in the reject storage 27 through the gate 9, the transport path 10, the gate 11, the gate 16, the transport path 21, the gate 22, and the transport path 26 (step 15).
5 to 163, the operation state 113 in FIG. 12 (7)).

By the above operation, the bill handling apparatus according to the present embodiment can detect and discriminate a plurality of sheets twice, reduce rejection at the time of loading, and increase the loading rate.

<Description of Another Embodiment> [Other Embodiment 1] The above-described banknote handling apparatus includes:
Although the configuration shown in FIG. 1 is premised, the bill handling apparatus according to the present invention is not limited to that shown in FIG. 1, and another example will be described below. FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram of a bill handling device as another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing a deposit operation of the bill handling device of FIG.

The bill handling apparatus according to the present embodiment utilizes the fact that the temporary holding section is a looped transport route that passes through the discrimination section when the temporary holding section is used as a deposit reject storage section. In the deposited banknotes, the inconvenience of not accepting the payment, that is, enabling the banknotes determined to be rejected to be rejected many times, increasing the acceptance rate of the payment and prompting the user to reinsert the bill. The deposit operation of this device will be described with reference to FIGS.

The difference between the structure of the apparatus according to the present embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 14 is that the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is different from the apparatus shown in FIG. FIG. 14 shows that the depositing port and the dispensing port are used in combination as the depositing port 38 and the push plate 55 is provided. The other configuration is the same as that described with reference to FIG.

The present apparatus is used when a user inserts a bill into the deposit / withdrawal slot 38 (step 20 in FIG. 15).
0), the inserted bills are drawn into a separating mechanism (not shown), the inlet shutter 39 is closed, the bills are separated one by one by the separating mechanism, and the plural-sheet detecting mechanism 41 and the discrimination are passed through the transport path 40. To the unit 42.

Next, the present apparatus uses the discriminating unit 42 to
Necessary discrimination such as true / false and damage is performed (step 201),
If the banknote is a normal 1,000 yen banknote, the banknote
3, transport path 44, gate 45, gate 46, transport path 4
7, through the gate 48, the transport path 49, and the gate 50, are collected and stored in the recycle box 51 (step 20).
2) If the bill is a normal 5,000 yen bill, the bills are accumulated and stored in the recycle bill storage of the cassette 52 through the gate 43, the transport path 44, the gate 45, the gate 46, the transport path 47, and the gate 48 ( Steps 212 to 213) If the discrimination section 42 determines that the banknote is rejected, the banknote is passed through the gate 43, the transport path 44, and the gate 45 to temporarily hold the bill.
3 (step 214).

Next, the present apparatus stops feeding when all of the deposited banknotes taken in the deposit port 38 are separated and the deposit port 38 becomes empty (steps 203 to 204).
The rejected banknotes stored in the banknote are fed out one by one from the temporary storage unit 53 (step 205), and are conveyed to the plural-sheet detection mechanism 41 and the discrimination unit 42 through the conveyance path 54, and the banknotes are discriminated again (step 206). After performing, the banknotes determined to be normal are transported and stored in the storages of the respective denominations (steps 207, 215, 216). Banknotes that have been determined to be rejected even after re-discrimination are accumulated in the deposit opening 38 with the push plate 55 opened (step 217). Separation, payment operation, and discrimination can also be performed (steps 209 to 211).

As described above, the banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment holds the rejected banknotes in the temporary holding unit 53 so that the banknotes can be discriminated again. The necessity is reduced, the deposit port and the dispensing port can be integrated, and the reliability can be improved.

[Other Embodiment 2: Description of Rear-Maintenance Banknote Handling Apparatus] In the above embodiment, the front-maintenance banknote handling apparatus has been described. However, the apparatus according to the present invention performs maintenance of a cassette from the rear of the apparatus. This example will be described below. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a backside maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The difference from the front-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is that the recycle box 1 and the cassette 2 are exchanged, and the transport path 21 and the gate 2 mounted in the cassette are replaced.
2. The transport path 23 and the transport path 26 are arranged outside the cassette, the transport path 21 is extended, and the transport path 23 and the transport path 26 are connected to the bill storage 3 and the reject bill storage 27, respectively. Therefore, the gate 16 and the transport path 1 in FIG.
7, above the gate 18, the transport path 19, and the gate 20, the front maintenance type and the rear maintenance type can be common. The operations of the depositing operation and the dispensing operation in the rear maintenance type device are the same as those in the front maintenance type device, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the rear-maintenance banknote cassette and the state of setting the banknotes. The difference is that there is no transfer path and gate mounted in the front-maintenance banknote cassette shown in FIG. The above-described operations of the front maintenance type device and the rear maintenance type device are common. In the rear-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus, each operation can be performed in the same manner as in the above-described embodiment.

[Other Embodiment 3] In the apparatus configuration described above, if there is no restriction on the apparatus height, the most effective embodiment is the one shown in FIG. The banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment is configured such that the detachable cassette 2 is independently disposed at the lowermost portion of the apparatus so that it can be attached to and detached from the front and back, and the recycle box 1 is built in the apparatus. The description is omitted because it is the same as that of FIG.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the combination of the 1,000 yen bill in the recycle box and the 5,000 yen bill in the recycle banknote storage of the bill cassette has been described, but the 1,000 yen bill in the recycle box and the ten thousand bill in the bill cassette are described. Can be combined.

[0073]

As described above, according to the present invention, two types of paper sheets can be handled with one recycle box and one cassette, and the commonality can be greatly increased even when the maintenance direction is different. It can be aimed at.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a front-maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a front maintenance type bill cassette of FIG. 1 and a bill setting state. .

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a rear maintenance type of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a rear maintenance type bill cassette in FIG. 3 and a bill setting state.

FIG. 5 is a control block diagram of the bill handling device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an operational diagram showing a bill loading operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a bill loading operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is an operational diagram showing a bill collecting operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a bill collecting operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is an operation diagram showing a bill scrutiny and collection operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a banknote inspection and collection operation of the banknote handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is an operation diagram showing a loading operation with bill re-discrimination of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a loading operation with bill re-discrimination of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram of a bill handling device according to another embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing a deposit operation of the bill handling apparatus of FIG. 14;

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a front and rear shared maintenance type banknote handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Recycle box, 2 ... Banknote cassette, 3 ... Storage, 4 ... Deposit port, 5 ... Deposit port shutter, 6 ... Conveyance path, 7
... Multiple-sheet detection mechanism, 8... Discriminating section, 9... Gate, 10... Transport path, 11. , 1
7: conveying path, 18: gate, 19: conveying path, 20: gate, 21: conveying path, 22: gate, 23: conveying path, 24
... Conveying path, 25 ... Payout port, 26 ... Conveying path, 27 ... Reject banknote storage

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Shinji Shibata 1-Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi F-term in Hitachi Asahi Electronics Co., Ltd. (Reference) 3E040 AA01 BA07 BA13 CA04 CA05 FA03 FA05 FA09 FB01 FC03 FC05 FC07 FC15 FC17 FE01 FG05 FG06 FG08 FG12 FG13 FG14

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A deposit / withdrawal port for taking in / out paper sheets, a recycling box for storing paper sheets to be paid / received, detachable from a main body, loading the paper sheets into the recycling box, A storage cassette for collecting paper sheets from the recycle box, a discrimination unit for discriminating the authenticity of the paper sheets, a temporary holding unit for temporarily storing the received paper sheets, and a paper sheet that cannot be returned. In a paper sheet handling apparatus comprising a storage for storing papers and an overall transport path for transporting the paper sheets to the respective parts in one direction, a temporary holding unit and a discriminating unit are provided separately from the overall transport unit. By providing a separate route transport unit that passes through, the paper sheets are transported between the storage cassette and the recycle box via the separate route transport unit, so that a part of the entire transport path is taken into the storage cassette. Specially Paper sheet handling apparatus according to. 2. The paper sheet handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said storage cassette is detachable from a front surface and a rear surface of the apparatus.