JPH0544071B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a recycling-type banknote handling method, and in particular to a recycling-type automatic teller machine in banking,
The present invention relates to a recycling-type banknote handling method in which deposited banknotes are automatically recycled as withdrawal banknotes within the device in a device that handles deposits and withdrawals.

[Background of the invention]

Conventionally, automatic teller machines that recycle deposited banknotes for withdrawal within the device store a recycling box for recirculating banknotes, a banknote cassette for loading and collecting banknotes, and a banknote cassette for storing banknotes for withdrawal. Having separate storage boxes for each denomination increases the banknote conveyance path and takes a long time to convey the banknotes, making it more likely that banknotes will jam.Additionally, as the number of storage boxes for each denomination increases, the number of gates increases, making control difficult. The process became complicated and became a factor lowering reliability.

[Purpose of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to load banknotes, store deposited banknotes, and feed out disbursed banknotes in a single recirculation banknote cassette in a recycle-type automatic teller machine, and to remove unfit bills among deposited banknotes and to dispose of undamaged banknotes for withdrawal. To enable a banknote of a different denomination to be stored in a banknote cassette for the banknote, and to enable a plurality of banknote dispensing modes when dispensing the banknote.

[Summary of the invention]

The recycle banknote handling method of the present invention includes a deposit/withdrawal port for receiving and receiving banknotes, a banknote conveyance path for conveying deposited banknotes and disbursed banknotes, and one banknote discrimination means provided in the middle of the banknote conveyance path. a bill dispensing means for dispensing the deposited bills inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port one by one into the bill conveyance path; and a bill recycling box for storing multiple denominations of bills among the deposited bills that can be recycled for withdrawal. A banknote return box, which is equipped with a temporary stack for banknote return boxes on its upper surface and a payout mechanism for feeding out stored banknotes one by one in the order in which they are stored, at its lower surface; A banknote cassette for storing banknotes of multiple denominations that cannot be recycled as a banknote cassette, the banknote cassette having a temporary stack for banknote cassettes on its upper surface; Will you withdraw money in the order of identification using the identification method?
Alternatively, in an automated cash transaction device that is provided with a specification means for specifying whether to make withdrawals for each denomination and is equipped with a control unit connected to a central device, withdrawals are made in the order identified by the specification means. If specified, the banknotes of the denominations designated for withdrawal are conveyed to the withdrawal port in the order in which they are distinguished; on the other hand, when the designated means specifies withdrawal of the same denomination for each denomination; transports only a predetermined number of bills of the first denomination out of the denominations designated for withdrawal as a result of the discrimination by the discriminating means to the deposit/withdrawal slot, and transports a predetermined number of bills of the first denomination out of the denominations designated for withdrawal, and The banknotes of the denomination are stored in the banknote return box, and after the transport of the banknote of the first denomination is completed, the banknote of the next denomination designated for withdrawal is sequentially transported and stored in the same manner as described above. It is characterized by the fact that

By adopting the above-described configuration, the present invention has the following effects.

At the time of deposit, the deposited banknotes are identified by a banknote discrimination means, banknotes that can be recycled are stored in a banknote recycling box, and undamaged banknotes and banknotes of denominations that are allowed to be deposited but are not eligible for withdrawal are classified as banknotes. The banknotes stored in the cassette are fed out from the banknote return box at the time of withdrawal, and the banknotes of multiple denominations designated for withdrawal are conveyed to the deposit/withdrawal slot based on the recognition results by the banknote recognition means. If withdrawal is specified in the order in which the withdrawal was made, the banknotes of the specified denominations will be discriminated in the order in which the banknotes of the specified denominations are distinguished.In other words, if banknotes of multiple denominations are On the other hand, if the specifying means specifies withdrawals organized by denomination, the discriminating means determines that the funds designated for withdrawal are A predetermined number of banknotes of the first denomination (e.g., 10,000 yen notes) are transported to the deposit/withdrawal port, and banknotes of denominations other than the first denomination (e.g.,
The banknotes (thousand yen notes) are stored in the banknote return box, and after the first denomination banknote transport is completed, the banknotes of the next denomination (e.g., 1,000 yen banknotes) designated for withdrawal are sequentially stored in the banknote return box. be transported and stored in the same way as banknotes of denominations.

For this reason, banknote loading, banknote collection at the end of work,
Storing deposited banknotes and dispensing banknotes for withdrawal can be carried out in just one banknote recycling box, and unfitted banknotes among the deposited banknotes and banknotes of denominations other than the denomination for withdrawal can be stored in a banknote cassette for that purpose. Because it can be stored, the conveyance path is short, jammed banknotes can be easily removed, banknotes that cannot be recycled can be stored separately, the reliability of the entire device can be improved, and two banknote dispensing modes are available. Therefore, it is possible to select the banknote dispensing mode according to the usage status of the recycle automatic teller machine.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a banknote transport mechanism in a deposit/withdrawal section of a recycle automatic teller machine, showing only the parts related to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a deposit/withdrawal port for transferring banknotes to and from customers, 2 is a banknote receiving box, 3 is a banknote separation box that feeds the banknotes from the banknote receiving box one by one onto a conveyance path, and 4 is a banknote authentication and denomination 5 is a banknote cassette for storing banknotes of the denominations handled; 6 is a temporary stacker for the banknote cassette; 7 is a banknote recycle box for recirculating deposited banknotes as banknotes for withdrawal; 8 is a banknote recycler Temporary stackers 9 and 10 for boxes indicate transport gates for sorting the transport destinations of banknotes.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of a recycle type automated teller machine for embodying the present invention. In the figure, 20 is a transmitter/receiver between the host device and the terminal device, 21 is a transmitting/receiving buffer, 2
2 is an answer message decoder, 23 is an inquiry message creation circuit that is created according to input data, 24 is an input operation unit, and 25 is a withdrawal transaction completion detection unit that detects that the input operation necessary for a withdrawal transaction is completed. 26 is a deposit transaction operation completion detection circuit that detects that the input operation necessary for the deposit transaction has been completed; 27 is a deposit cancellation operation detection circuit that detects that the customer has performed a deposit cancellation operation; 28 is a deposited banknote; A deposited banknote insertion completion detection circuit 29 detects that the deposited banknotes have been completely inserted into the receiving box, and a received banknote counting command 29 instructs the received banknotes to be conveyed via the receiving box to the temporary stacker for the banknote return box and the temporary stacker for the banknote cassette. 30 is a deposited banknote counting completion detection circuit that detects when all the deposited banknotes in the receiving box have been counted; 31 is a circuit for detecting the completion of counting of deposited banknotes in the receiving box; and 31 is a circuit for detecting the completion of counting of deposited banknotes in the receiving box; A medium return command circuit returns all media; 32 is a recycle box temporary stacker storage command circuit that instructs a temporary stacker in a banknote recycle box to store banknotes that can be recirculated among deposited banknotes; and 33 is a temporary stacker storage command circuit for storing banknotes that cannot be recirculated in a banknote cassette. Temporary stacker storage command circuit for bill cassettes that issues storage instructions to the stacker;
34 is a banknote discrimination circuit; 35 is a temporary stacker full detection circuit for detecting when the temporary stacker for the banknote return box is full; and 36 is a circuit for specifying withdrawal when a deposit transaction is permitted, upon completion of withdrawal counting, and at the time of withdrawal banknote counting. a banknote storage command circuit for storing banknotes in the temporary stacker into the recycle box and the banknote cassette when the temporary stacker for the recycle box and the banknote cassette becomes full with banknotes of denominations other than those denominated in the banknote; 37 is a banknote storage operation completion detection circuit;
38 is a banknote return command circuit which returns the deposited banknotes held in the recycle box and the temporary stacker of the banknote cassette to the deposit/withdrawal port when a deposit cancellation operation is detected or a deposit transaction is prohibited by the host device;
Reference numeral 9 denotes a bill return operation completion detection circuit; 40 indicates a circuit for detecting the completion of a bill return operation; and 40, a temporary stacker becomes full with bills of the relevant denomination when a withdrawal transaction is permitted by a higher-level device and when a withdrawal transaction is counted, and the bills in the temporary stacker are transferred to a recycle box and a bill cassette. A withdrawal counting command circuit 41 starts a withdrawal counting operation when the operation of storing the bills in the bank is completed and there is still a withdrawal instruction. When the discriminating circuit detects the denomination designated for withdrawal, the 10,000 yen/1,000 yen bill gate designating circuit transports the banknotes to the deposit/withdrawal port. 43 is a 1,000 yen note gate command circuit that gates only 1,000 yen notes; 44 is a million yen note gate command circuit that gates only 10,000 yen notes; 45 is a deposit/withdrawal port shutter open command circuit. , 46 is a detection circuit with no instruction to count 1000 yen notes, which detects that the counting of withdrawals of predetermined 1000 yen notes has been completed, and 47 is a detection circuit with no instruction to count 1000 yen notes, which detects that the counting of withdrawals of 1000 yen notes has been completed. Detection circuit 48 is a withdrawal counting completion detection circuit 49 that detects that all predetermined withdrawal operations have been completed.
60 to 79 are AND circuits 90 to 99; 60 to 79 are AND circuits 90 to 99;
is an OR circuit, 100 to 104 are inverter circuits,
200 to 207 indicate signal paths.

Next, banknote handling in the present invention will be explained in detail using FIGS. 1 and 2.

The reply message from the host device is sent to the transmitting/receiving buffer 21 via the transmitter/receiver 20.
received by. The circuit message set in the transmitting/receiving buffer 21 is decoded by the reply message decoder 22, and output signals 200, 2
Since 01, 202, and 203 are true values,
It is possible to recognize permission for deposits, prohibition of deposit transactions, permission for withdrawal transactions, and prohibition of withdrawal transactions, respectively.

First, the case of deposit transaction will be explained.

When deposited banknotes are inserted into the banknote receiving box 2, the completed banknote insertion detection circuit 28 detects the completion of banknote insertion, and the received banknote counting command circuit 29 is activated, and the deposited banknotes inserted into the banknote receiving box 2 in FIG. are transferred to the banknote separation box 3, separated one by one, and fed out onto a conveyance path. When passing through the discrimination box 4, the bill discrimination circuit 34 determines the authenticity and denomination, and if the bill is a 1000 yen note or a 10,000 yen note and can be recycled, the output signal 205 or 2 of the bill discrimination circuit 34 is output.
06 becomes the true value, the reflux box temporary stacker storage command circuit 32 is activated, and the reflux box temporary stacker 8 is stored by the transfer gate 10. In the case of damaged bills of 10,000 yen or 1,000 yen that cannot be returned or other denominations for which deposit is permitted, the output signal 207 of the bill discrimination circuit 34 becomes the true value and the temporary stacker storage command circuit 33 for the bill cassette is activated and stored in the temporary stacker for banknote cassettes by the conveyance gate 9. Moreover, in the case of a banknote that is not considered as a banknote, it is returned to the banknote receiving box 2 via the conveyance gates 9 and 10. When the counting operation for all deposited banknotes is completed, the output signal of the deposited banknote counting completion detection circuit 30 becomes the true value. At this time, if the customer approves the amount invested, AND
If the output signal of the circuit 61 becomes the true value and the deposit transaction operation is completed, but the transaction is not approved, that is, if the cancel key is pressed, the output signal of the AND circuit 62 becomes the true value and the banknote is sent via the OR circuit 93. The return command circuit 38 is activated, and the deposited banknotes held in the recycle box temporary stacker 8 and the banknote cassette temporary stacker 6 are returned to the banknote receiving box 2. When the input amount is approved, all input operations necessary for the deposit transaction are completed, and the deposit transaction completion detection circuit 2
The output signal of 6 becomes the true value, and the inquiry message created by the inquiry message creation circuit 23 is gated by the AND circuit 60 and set in the transmission/reception buffer 21 via the OR circuit 90, thereby transmitting the inquiry message to the host device. As a result of decoding the reply message received from the host device, if the transaction is permitted, the output signal 200 of the reply message decoder 22 becomes the true value and the OR circuit 9
2, the banknote storage command circuit 36 is activated,
The deposited banknotes held in the temporary stackers 8 and 6 are transferred to the banknote return box 7 and the banknote cassette 5, respectively.
The deposit transaction is completed. On the other hand, if the higher-level device prohibits the deposit transaction, the output signal 201 of the response message decoder 22 becomes the true value and passes through the OR circuit 93 to the banknote return command circuit 38.
is activated, and the deposited banknotes temporarily held in the stackers 8 and 6 are returned to the banknote receiving box 2.

Next, the case of withdrawal transaction will be explained.

When the input operations necessary for the withdrawal transaction are completed, the output signal of the withdrawal transaction operation completion detection circuit 25 becomes the true value.
The inquiry message created by the inquiry message creation circuit 23 is gated by the AND circuit 60 via the OR circuit 90, and is set in the transmission/reception buffer 21, thereby transmitting the inquiry message to the host device. As a result of decoding the response message received from the host device, if the withdrawal transaction is permitted, the output signal 202 of the response message decoder 22 becomes the true value and is sent to the withdrawal counting command circuit via the OR circuit 94 and the AND circuit 60. 40 is activated, bills are fed out from the lower surface of the bill return box 7 and conveyed to the bill receiving box 2 via the bill discrimination box 4.

When the banknotes pass through the banknote discrimination box 4, two modes of banknote dispensing, ie, dispensing with the denominations aligned or dispensing in the order of discrimination without aligning the denominations, are designated by a preset changeover switch circuit 42. That is, when a switch is connected to S0-S1 in the changeover switch circuit 42, the output signal of the circuit becomes a true value and the denominations are aligned and discharged, and when a switch is connected to S0-S2, the output signal of the circuit becomes a false value and the denomination is determined. It is specified to emit without aligning them.

First, we will explain the case of discharging money without matching the denominations.

When discharging without matching the denominations, connect the switch to S0-S2, the output signal of the changeover switch circuit 42 will become a false value, and the inverter circuit 1
There is a withdrawal instruction for a thousand yen note or ten thousand yen note via AND circuit 68 via 00, and the condition that the denomination determination result is 1000 yen or 10,000 yen is gated, and the 10,000 yen/1,000 yen gate designation circuit is executed. 41, the banknotes are conveyed from the lower surface of the banknote return box 7 to the banknote receiving box via the banknote discrimination box 4 and the conveyance gates 10 and 9 in the order in which the denominations are discriminated until a predetermined number of bills are discharged. .

Next, the case where denominations are aligned and released will be explained.

When discharging with the same denomination, press the switch.
By connecting to S0-S1, the output signal of the changeover switch circuit 42 becomes the true value, and the AND circuit 72 gates the conditions that there is an instruction to release a 10,000 yen note and the denomination result is 10,000 yen. The yen note gate command circuit 44 is activated to transport only predetermined 10,000 yen notes from the banknote return box 7 to the banknote receiving box 2. At this time, the thousand yen bill is stored in the temporary stacker 8 for the bill return box. When the discharging of the 1,000 yen note is completed, the AND circuit 70 issues an instruction to release the 1,000 yen note, and as a result of the denomination discrimination, gates the conditions that it is a 1,000 yen note and activates the 1,000 yen note gate command circuit 43. Only predetermined 1,000 yen bills are conveyed from the bill return box 7 to the bill receiving box 2. At this time, the ten thousand yen note is stored in the temporary stacker 8 for the banknote return box.

As described above, when the predetermined withdrawal counting operation is completed, the output signal of the withdrawal counting completion detection circuit 48 becomes the true value.
The deposit/withdrawal shutter open command circuit 45 is activated via the OR circuit 97 and the AND circuit 76, and the withdrawn banknotes in the bill receiving box 2 are discharged from the deposit/withdrawal port 1. When the ejected withdrawal bill is withdrawn, the output signal of the withdrawal detection circuit 99 becomes the true value, and the deposit/withdrawal port is closed. In addition, the banknotes held in the temporary stacker 8 for the banknote return box will be transferred to the OR when the withdrawal counting operation is completed.
The banknote collection command circuit 36 is activated via the circuit 92, and the banknotes are stored in the banknote return box 7 again.

On the other hand, if the withdrawal transaction is prohibited as a result of decoding the reply message received from the host device, the output signal 2 of the reply message decoder 22
03 becomes the true value and the medium return command circuit is activated.
All media used in the transaction will be returned and the withdrawal transaction will be completed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, operations such as loading banknotes into the device before starting a transaction, collecting banknotes in the device at the end of a transaction, storing deposited banknotes, and dispensing out paid banknotes can be performed using a single banknote recycling box. Since unfit bills among deposited bills and bills of denominations other than those for withdrawal can be stored in the designated bill cassette, the conveyance path can be shortened and jammed bills can be easily removed. This has the effect of being able to store banknotes that cannot be recycled separately, which improves the reliability of the entire device.Also, since there are two banknote dispensing modes, banknotes that cannot be recycled can be stored separately, and banknotes can be adjusted according to the usage status of the automatic cash transaction device. The effect of being able to select the withdrawal mode can be obtained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a banknote conveyance mechanism in a deposit/withdrawal section of a recycle-type automatic teller machine, and FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of a recycle-type automatic teller machine for embodying the present invention. 5... Bill cassette, 6... Temporary stacker for bill cassette, 7... Bill recycling box, 8... Temporary stacker for bill recycling box, 42... Changeover switch circuit.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A deposit/withdrawal port for receiving and receiving banknotes, a bill conveyance path for conveying deposited banknotes and disbursed banknotes, a bill discriminating means provided in the middle of the bill conveyance path, and a deposit/withdrawal port. a banknote dispensing means for dispensing deposited banknotes one by one into the banknote transport path; and a banknote recycling box for storing multiple denominations of banknotes that can be recycled for withdrawal among the deposited banknotes, the banknote recycling box comprising: A banknote recycle box, which is equipped with a temporary stack for recycle boxes on its upper surface and a payout mechanism on its lower surface that feeds out the stored banknotes one by one in the order in which they are stored when withdrawing; A banknote cassette for storing banknotes of multiple denominations that cannot be used, the banknote cassette having a temporary stack for banknote cassettes on its upper surface, and a banknote cassette for discriminating banknotes of multiple denominations specified for withdrawal at the time of withdrawal. A recirculation type automated teller machine equipped with a control unit connected to a central device, and provided with a designation means for specifying whether to withdraw money in the order in which the funds are identified or to withdraw funds in the same order for each denomination. In the banknote handling method, if withdrawal is specified in the order of discrimination by the designation means, the banknotes of the designated denominations are conveyed to the withdrawal port in the order of discrimination; If the specifying means specifies a withdrawal for each denomination, as a result of the discrimination by the discriminating means, only the first denomination of banknotes out of the denominations specified for withdrawal will be forwarded. A predetermined number of banknotes are transported to the entry/withdrawal slot, and banknotes of denominations other than the first denomination are stored in the banknote return box, and after the transport of banknotes of the first denomination is completed, withdrawal is sequentially designated. 1. A recirculating banknote handling method characterized in that banknotes of the following denominations are transported and stored in the same manner as described above.