KR20160097846A - Automatic teller machine and gate roller thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are an automatic teller machine and a gate roller thereof. The gate roller of the automatic teller machine disposed to overlap a support roller to transfer paper money along a conveying path includes: a main wheel rotated around a rotary shaft; and a sub-wheel installed in the main wheel to be separated, and provides multiple support surfaces having an external diameter the same as an external diameter surface of the main wheel.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a gate roller for a banking automation apparatus,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gate roller of a banking automation apparatus and a banking automation apparatus, and more particularly, to a gate bank of a banking automation apparatus and a banking automation apparatus capable of smoothly transferring banknotes in a conveying path that is rapidly bent.

Generally, a financial automation device can use a cash card or a bankbook issued by a financial institution to deposit and withdraw cash or checks, transfer money, and check transactions without any restriction on time, It is an unmanned terminal widely used in financial industry because it processes it quickly.

The automatic teller machine includes a deposit and withdrawal unit for a user to input or receive a banknote for depositing and withdrawing money, a discriminating unit for discriminating an abnormality or a denomination of the deposited or withdrawn banknote through the deposit and withdrawal unit, A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the banknotes discriminated as the normal banknotes and a banknote storage unit for storing a plurality of cassettes for storing banknotes to be deposited or withdrawn or recovered.

For example, when a customer inserts banknotes into a deposit / withdrawal portion, the deposit / withdrawal portion separates the banknotes one by one and transfers them to the conveying path. The banknotes conveyed to the conveying path are discriminated by discriminating between the banknotes and the banknotes. The banknotes discriminated as normal by the discrimination unit are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit and then stored in the banknote storage box through the conveying path by the deposit request.

However, when the conventional banknote is conveyed on the conveying path, when the gate roller provided on the conveying path passes through the banknote in a state in which the banknote is not flat (corrugated state) and then meets the abruptly curved conveying path, Or a jam may be caused in the conveyance path where the concavo-convex portion is formed.

Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2012-0078770 (July 11, 2012)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a gate roller of a banking automation machine and a banking automation machine capable of smoothly transporting banknotes in a suddenly curved transport path.

A gate roller of a financial automatic machine according to an aspect of the present invention is a gate roller of a financial automation machine arranged so as to be overlapped with a support roller so that paper money is fed along a conveyance path, And a sub wheel which is installed to be spaced apart from the main wheel and provides a plurality of support surfaces having the same outer diameter as the outer diameter surface of the main wheel.

At this time, the sub wheel has a body portion whose inner diameter is fixed to the rotation axis; And a ring portion provided on the outer surface of the body so as to be spaced apart from the rotation axis in a radial direction, and the support surface being formed on an outer surface of the body.

The main wheel may include a first main wheel provided at one side of the rotation shaft; And a second main wheel provided on the other side of the rotation shaft to be spaced apart from the first main wheel.

Also, the sub wheel may be provided between the first main wheel and the second main wheel.

The sub wheel further includes a first sub wheel provided between the first main wheel and the first main wheel; A second sub wheel provided between one end of the rotation shaft and the first main wheel; And a third sub wheel provided between the other end of the rotation shaft and the second main wheel.

In addition, the conveying path may have a conveying path that is bent at an angle of 60 to 150 degrees with respect to the traveling direction of the banknote from the point where the banknote passes through the gate roller.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a financial automatic machine including: a deposit and withdrawal portion having a deposit portion into which a banknote is charged and a withdrawal portion in which the banknote is withdrawn; A banknote storage part for storing the banknotes deposited in the depositing part or the banknotes to be withdrawn to the withdrawal part; A transfer path for connecting the deposit unit, the banknote storage unit, and the dispensing unit to provide a transfer path for banknotes; And a gate roller according to the above-described configuration provided below the dispensing portion of the conveying path.

At this time, the replenishment recovery unit replenishes the bill to the bill storage unit or retrieves the bill of the bill storage unit. And an auxiliary conveying path connecting the replenishment recovery unit and the conveying path, wherein the gate roller may be installed at a portion where the conveying path and the auxiliary conveying path are connected.

According to the embodiments of the present invention as described above, there is an advantage in that the bill can be smoothly conveyed even without the edge or jam of the bill even in the conveyance route that is suddenly curved in the "U"

Further, the embodiment of the present invention can reduce an increase in moment due to the rotation of the rotary shaft compared with the conventional cylindrical roller, facilitate surface roughness management and warping, secure the concentricity of the roller, , And the assembling property of the gate roller can be improved.

1 is a block diagram of a financial automatic machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing the "A" portion of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale.
3 is a perspective view showing a gate roller of a financial automatic machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view cut along the "BB"
5 is a perspective view showing a gate roller of a financial automatic machine according to a modification of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view cut along the "CC"

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, configurations and operations according to embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The following description is one of many aspects of the claimed invention and the following description may form part of the detailed description of the invention. However, the detailed description of known configurations or functions in describing the present invention may be omitted for clarity.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and its various embodiments, it is intended to illustrate the specific embodiments and the detailed description. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

And terms including ordinals such as first, second, etc. may be used to describe various elements, but the constituent elements are not limited by such terms. These terms are used only to distinguish one component from another. It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, . The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a financial automatic machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing an "A" portion of FIG.

1 and 2, the automated teller machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a deposit / withdrawal unit 10, a conveyance path 50, a discrimination unit 20, a cassette 30, (40) and a gate roller.

Specifically, the deposit and withdrawal unit 10 can input and receive bills for a customer's deposit and withdrawal. For example, the deposit-and-withdrawal portion 10 may include a deposit portion 11 into which a banknote is charged and a withdrawal portion 12 through which the banknote is withdrawn.

The depositing unit 11 deposits the banknote of the customer and transfers the banknote to the discriminating unit 20 through the conveying path 50. The withdrawal unit 12 transports the discriminated banknote in the discriminating unit 20 And can reject the customer.

The conveying path 50 is a conveying path for conveying banknotes deposited in and out of the safeguard case 62 and connects the depositing unit 11 and the banknote storage unit 40 to the withdrawal unit 12, . For example, the conveying path 50 guides the banknotes inputted through the depositing unit 11 to the banknote storing unit 40 via the judging unit 20, or the banknote stored in the banknote storing unit 40 to the discriminating unit 20 to the dispensing unit 12.

The discriminating unit 20 is provided on the conveying path 50 on which the banknotes are conveyed, so that it is possible to distinguish the abnormality of the banknote and the denomination of the banknote. At this time, the banknotes discriminated as normal by the discrimination unit 20 can be conveyed to the banknote storage unit 40 through the conveying path 50, and the banknotes discriminated as abnormal are conveyed through the conveying path 50 And can be returned to the withdrawal unit 12 again.

The cassette 30 can be provided in a plurality of units that can be mounted on the storage case 42 of the paper currency storage unit 40. For example, the cassette 30 may be composed of a plurality of large cassettes and a plurality of small cassettes arranged in a stacked-up structure on one side of the large cassettes.

The cassettes 30 may be configured to have different sizes in consideration of the type and frequency of use of the banknotes, and the cassettes 30 having a small size may be arranged in a stacked-up structure. When handling different denomination banknotes, each cassette 30 may be configured to have a size corresponding to the size of the denomination to be handled.

The bill storage unit 40 can provide a storage space 42a in which a plurality of cassettes 30 can be accommodated. And a replenishment recovery unit 61 may be provided at one side of the banknote storage unit 40. [ The replenishment recovery unit 61 can replenish the banknotes to the banknote storage unit 40 by using the auxiliary conveying route 51 or recover the banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit 40 through the auxiliary conveying route 51 .

In this embodiment, a case in which a large cassette 31, small cassettes 32a, 32b, 32c, 32d, 32e, 32f, 32g, and a reject cassette 33 are accommodated in the banknote storage unit 40 as an example It is needless to say that the types and the number of the cassettes accommodated in the paper currency storage 40 may be different depending on the type and number of paper currency to be handled.

The gate roller 100 is a roller for conveying banknotes and can be disposed on the conveying path 50 and more specifically at a portion where the conveying path 50 and the auxiliary conveying path are connected to be overlapped with the support roller 200 have. The position where the gate roller 100 and the support roller 200 are overlapped is a position where the banknote is passed between the gate roller 100 and the support roller 200, And a frictional force is applied thereto. The banknotes can be conveyed along the conveying path 50 by the action of the frictional force provided by the gate roller 100 and the support roller 200. [

Hereinafter, a detailed description of a gate roller according to an embodiment of the present invention applied to a banking automation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a gate roller of a financial automatic machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view cut along the line B-B in FIG.

3 to 4, the gate roller 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a main wheel 110 rotated by a rotating shaft 123, And a sub wheel 120 arranged to extend in the longitudinal direction of the main body 123.

The main wheel 110 can be positioned on the upper side of the support roller 200 so as to overlap with the support roller 200 and can guide the paper money passing through the position overlapping the support roller 200 along the conveying path 50 .

The main wheel 110 may include a first main wheel 110a and a second main wheel 110b spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the rotary shaft 123. [ The first main wheel 110a and the second main wheel 110b are constituted by wheels having the same outer diameter so as to provide frictional force to one surface of a banknote moving through the transport path 50. [

The section of the conveying path 50 in which the banknote is conveyed by the gate roller 100 is bent in a U-shape as a whole based on the installation position of the gate roller 100 in the present embodiment, In addition to the curved shape, it may include all sections of the conveyance path where a sudden changeover is made.

For example, the conveying path 50 to which the gate roller 100 according to the present embodiment is applied is arranged so as to be inclined at an angle of 60 to 150 degrees with respect to the advancing direction of the banknote from the point where the banknote passes the gate roller 100, More specifically, it may be a conveyance path that is suddenly bent at 90 degrees.

Therefore, when the gate roller 100 is constituted only by the main wheel 110, when the bill is passed through the gate roller 100 in a bent shape (corrugated form) rather than in a flat expanded state, An edge may be generated on the banknote, or smooth transportation of the banknote may be difficult.

Particularly, when the convexo-concave portion is formed in the conveying path 50, the banknote having passed through the gate roller 100 is conveyed to the conveying path 50 which is curved rapidly, and jamming is caused by the convex- . In order to effectively prevent this, at least one sub wheel 120 may be provided in addition to the main wheel 110 on the rotating shaft 123 of the present embodiment.

The sub wheel 120 may be installed on the rotation shaft 123 so as to be spaced apart from the main wheel 110 on the upper side of the support roller 200.

The sub wheel 120 includes a first sub wheel 120a provided between the first main wheel 110a and the first main wheel 110a and a second sub wheel 120b interposed between one end of the rotation shaft 123 and the first main wheel 110a And a third sub wheel 120c provided between the other end of the rotation shaft 123 and the second main wheel 110b.

The first sub wheel 120a, the second sub wheel 120b and the third sub wheel 120c can provide a plurality of support surfaces 124 having the same outer diameter as the outer diameter surface of the main wheel 110 have. For example, each of the sub wheels 120 may include a body portion 121 having an inner diameter fixed to the rotation axis 123 and a plurality of ring portions 122 having a support surface 124 formed on an outer diameter surface.

Here, the body part 121 is a cylindrical support structure fixed to the rotating shaft 123, and a plurality of ring-shaped ring parts 122 may be formed on the outer surface of the body part 121. [ The ring portion 122 may protrude in the radial direction from the outer surface of the body portion 121 and each ring portion 122 may have a plurality of rings spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the rotary shaft 123 Can be provided.

As such, the gate roller 100 according to the present invention provides a frictional force to one surface of a bill in a corrugated state as a whole through the main wheel 110 and the sub wheel 120, so that even if the gate roller 100 meets a suddenly curved transport path, The conveying path can be smoothly conveyed while keeping the banknotes flat.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a gate roller of a financial automatic machine according to a modification of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view cut along the line "C-C" in FIG.

5 to 6, a gate roller 100 'according to a modification of the present invention includes a pair of main wheels 110 rotated by a rotating shaft 123, a pair of main wheels 110 And a sub wheel 120 'provided between the sub wheels 120'.

For example, the pair of main wheels 110 may include a first main wheel 110a and a second main wheel 110b provided at both ends of the rotation shaft 123, and the first main wheel 110a, A sub wheel 120 'having a length corresponding to a distance between the first main wheel 110a and the second main wheel 110b may be provided between the first main wheel 110a and the second main wheel 110b.

In the case of such a gate roller 100 ', it is possible to reduce an increase in moment due to the rotation of the rotation shaft compared to the conventional cylindrical roller, to easily manage the surface roughness and the bending, to secure the concentricity of the roller, And the assembling property of the gate roller 100 can be improved.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to smoothly convey a bill without any edge or jam of a bill even in a conveying route that is suddenly curved in a "U" shape, and to reduce an increase in moment due to rotation of the rotating shaft And has excellent advantages such as easy surface roughness control and warpage management, favorable concentricity of the roller, low manufacturing cost, and excellent assembling performance of the gate roller.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It will also be appreciated that many modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention.

10: deposit and withdrawal unit 20:
30: cassette 40: paper currency storage unit
100: gate roller 110: main wheel
120: Sub wheel 121: Body part
122: ring part 123: rotating shaft

Claims (8)

A gate roller of a banking automation machine arranged so as to be overlapped with a supporting roller so that banknotes are fed along a conveying path,
A main wheel rotated by a rotating shaft; And
And a sub wheel provided so as to be spaced apart from the main wheel and providing a plurality of support surfaces having the same outer diameter as the outer diameter surface of the main wheel. The method according to claim 1,
The sub-
A body portion having an inner diameter fixed to the rotating shaft; And
And a ring portion provided on the outer surface of the body portion in a radial direction so as to be spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the rotary shaft, wherein the support surface is formed on an outer surface of the ring portion. The method according to claim 1,
The main wheel
A first main wheel provided on one side of the rotating shaft; And
And a second main wheel provided on the other side of the rotation shaft so as to be spaced apart from the first main wheel. The method of claim 3,
The sub-
And the gate roller of the automated teller machine provided between the first main wheel and the second main wheel. The method of claim 3,
The sub-
A first sub wheel provided between the first main wheel and the first main wheel;
A second sub wheel provided between one end of the rotation shaft and the first main wheel; And
And a third sub wheel provided between the other end of the rotating shaft and the second main wheel. The method according to claim 1,
The conveying path
Wherein the gate roller has a conveying path that is bent at an angle of 60 to 150 degrees with respect to a traveling direction of the banknote from a point where the banknote passes through the gate roller. A deposit and withdrawal portion having a deposit portion into which the banknote is charged and a withdrawal portion in which the banknote is withdrawn;
A banknote storage part for storing the banknotes deposited in the depositing part or the banknotes to be withdrawn to the withdrawal part;
A transfer path for connecting the deposit unit, the banknote storage unit, and the dispensing unit to provide a transfer path for banknotes;
And a gate roller that is disposed below the dispensing portion of the conveying path. 8. The method of claim 7,
A replenishment recovery unit for replenishing banknotes to the banknote storage unit or for recovering banknotes of the banknote storage unit; And
Further comprising an auxiliary conveying path connecting the replenishment recovery unit and the conveying path,
And the gate roller is installed at a portion where the conveying path and the auxiliary conveying path are connected.

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