JP3044404B2 - Automatic teller machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic cash transaction apparatus for dispensing bills stored in a cash box in response to a user's request.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is a side view showing an outline of the structure of this kind of automatic cash transaction apparatus. In the figure, reference numerals 1 and 2 denote cash boxes provided so as to be able to be withdrawn, and 3 a temporary pool section. The banknotes 100 stored in the cash boxes 1 and 2 are fed out one by one by operating a not-shown operation unit (input of an encryption number, a desired amount to be paid, and the like). The feeding is performed by a well-known feeding mechanism (not shown), and the fed bill is conveyed by a conveying mechanism 4 including a plurality of conveying means using a belt.

The bill 100 conveyed as described above is discriminated for authenticity and damage by a discriminating section (not shown) at a portion A in the middle of the conveying mechanism 4, and defective bills such as damaged or abnormal bills are discarded by the conveying means 5. Is rejected to the reject area 6 in the cash box 1. Then, only the normal banknotes without damage are sent to the temporary pool section 3.

[0004] When the number of banknotes 100 corresponding to the withdrawal input amount is temporarily pooled in the temporary pool section 3, collation of the password is performed, and only when the collation results match, the temporarily pooled banknotes are sent to the outside. Will be withdrawn. If the check result does not match and the withdrawal is stopped, the temporarily pooled banknotes are taken into the reject area 6 by the transporting means 7 and the operation of the apparatus is continued. This take-in is carried out by sandwiching the temporarily pooled banknotes 100 with the belts 8 and 9, rotating the belts 8 and 9 by 90 ° in this state, and then feeding the banknotes 100 to the transporting means 7.

[0005] If the user forgets to take it after dispensing, the user takes it into the apparatus and suspends it, and the operator removes it and resumes operation.

[0006]

As described above, in the conventional method, the apparatus is suspended every time a forgetting is performed.
Pause rate is high.

[0007] It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic cash transaction apparatus which reduces the pause rate.

[0008]

To achieve the above object, according to an aspect of, the present invention, and pooled into a temporary pool section near one Dan dispensing port in response to a request of the user the banknotes stored in cash boxes , The pooled bills, after collation of the password,
When the verification result is matched is dispensed from the dispensing port, the automatic teller machine to reject to the reject area in the cash box when the collation result does not match, between the reject area and the one o'clock pool section A first position for guiding a rejected banknote to a part of the rejected banknote stacking area of the rejected area, and a second position for guiding a forgotten banknote to an area of the rejected area different from the rejected banknote stacking area. possible sorting gates provided Rutotomoni, the sorting gate is the
Rejected banknote stacking area and forgotten banknote stacking area
The structure is also characterized in that it also serves as a dividing side wall that divides the two.

[0009]

[Function] The sorting gate is usually positioned at the first position, and if the result of collation of the password after the bills are pooled in the temporary pool section by the user's withdrawal operation matches, the bill is dispensed. It is withdrawn from the cash mouth. If the results of the code number verification do not match, the banknotes in the temporary pool section are guided to the sorting gate, rejected in a part of the reject area, and deposited.

If the user forgets to take out the dispensed banknote, the sorting gate is positioned at the second position, and the banknote that has been left behind is guided by the sorting gate to the rejected banknote stacking section in the reject area. Captured in different areas. Since the taken-in banknote is in a different place from the reject banknote, it can be easily identified. In addition, since it is not necessary to perform the operation of removing the forgotten bills by suspending the apparatus each time as in the related art, it is possible to reduce the suspension rate of the apparatus.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an outline of the structure of the automatic cash transaction apparatus of the present embodiment. In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a cash box, and 12 denotes a distribution gate. The same reference numerals are used for members similar to those in the related art. The right side of the cash box 11 is used as a bill storage unit, and a reject area 13 is provided on the left side. Area 13 on the right side of reject area 13
A is a space in which unfit bills, abnormal bills, and rejected bills (which are rejected when their passwords do not match) are deposited, and the area 13B on the left is a space in which forgotten bills are taken in.

The distribution gate 12 can be positioned at a first position indicated by a solid line and a second position indicated by a dotted line. For this positioning, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, a plunger magnet 15 connected to a lever 14 engaged with the distribution gate 12 is provided.
Can be realized. 16
Is a rotation axis of the distribution gate 12.

The sorting gate 12 is normally positioned at the first position, and when the password collation result after the banknotes 100 are pooled in the temporary pool unit 3 by the user's withdrawal operation matches, The bill is dispensed from the dispensing port. If the collation results do not match, the banknotes 100 in the temporary pool section 3 are guided by the sorting gate 12 and rejected in the area 13A of the reject area 13 to be deposited.

If there is a bad bill such as an unfit bill, an abnormal bill or the like in the bills conveyed from the cash box 11 or the cash box 2 toward the temporary pool section 3, the bad bills are replaced with the conventional ones. Then, it is rejected to the area 13A by the transport means 5. In this case, if the area 13A is divided into a banknote reject space when the above-mentioned collation result does not match and a defective banknote reject space, the sorting operation of the operator performed later becomes easy.

If the user forgets to take out the dispensed bill, the sorting gate 12 is positioned at the second position, and the bill is discharged onto the sorting gate 12 by the transport means 7. The discharged bill is guided by the sorting gate 12 and taken into the area 13B. The captured area 13B is different from the area 13A, so that the operator can be easily identified. If the sorting gate 12 is operated several times at the time of taking in the bills, the bills can be reliably taken in without the stagnation of the bills near the sorting gate 12.

In this way, the banknotes that have been forgotten are stored in the special area 1.
Since it is designed to be loaded into 3B separately from other rejected bills, it is no longer necessary to suspend the apparatus and remove the forgotten bills each time a forgotten bill occurs, unlike the conventional case.
It is possible to realize a reduction in the stoppage rate of the device. In addition, when a banknote that has been left behind is removed, it can be easily identified.

The timing of taking in the forgotten banknotes is that all the banknotes dispensed from the temporary pool section 3 have not been taken out even after a lapse of a predetermined time, that is, the presence of the banknotes in the dispensing port is detected by a sensor (not shown) for a predetermined time. When the detection is continued, the distribution gate 12 is moved to the second position to perform the capture.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, forgotten bills are taken into a special area in the cash box in a manner distinguished from other kinds of bills. There is no need to remove forgotten bills each time. Therefore, it is possible to realize a reduction in the pause rate of the device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an outline of a structure of an automatic cash transaction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a distribution gate positioning means according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing an outline of the structure of a conventional automatic teller machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Temporary pool section 11 Cash box 12 Distribution gate 13 Reject area 13A, 13B area

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-56-94459 (JP, A) JP-A-2-79187 (JP, A) Fully open 1979-44335 (JP, U) Really open 1979 44341 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 1/00 G07D 9/00

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A pooled temporary pool section near one Dan dispensing port according the banknotes stored in cash boxes (11) to the user's request (3), the pooled banknotes, security code After the collation, if the collation result matches, the withdrawal is made from the outlet, and if the collation result does not match, the cash box (1) is dispensed.
In the automatic teller machine that rejects the reject area (13) in (1), the temporary pool section (3) and the reject area (1)
During the period 3), the rejected banknotes are stored in a part of the rejected banknote stacking area (13) of the rejected area (13).
A), and a rejected banknote accumulation area (13) in the reject area (13).
Rutotomo providing the second position and positionable distribution gate leading to different areas (13B) and A) (12)
In addition, the sorting gate (12) is connected to the reject banknote stack.
Area (13A) and the forgotten banknote stacking area (13A)
B), which also serves as a dividing side wall for dividing the automatic cash transaction apparatus.