JPH0615255B2 - Bill issuing machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Outline] With respect to a bill issuing device, by providing a function for checking for scratched characters, the information necessary for a bill is printed for the purpose of automating the collating work which has been performed manually by the conventional hand. The printer unit and a check writer that is rotatably provided by a rotation fulcrum and that prints necessary information by the printer unit to print the scratched characters, and the checkered unit prints the scratched characters and then checks. The reading unit that reads the handprinted characters that are ejected from the writer unit, the character recognition unit that determines whether the character that the reading unit reads is the same as the specified character, and the character recognition unit specifies the character. The first discharge roller for discharging the bill to the accepting stacker for receiving when it matches with the letters and the character recognition unit. It is composed of a second ejection roller for ejecting the bill to the rejecting reject stacker when the Zami character does not match the specified character or when it cannot be read.

[Industrial application field]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill issuing device, and more particularly, to a bill issuing device having a function of checking a kizami character.

The amount display of bills or checks is usually printed with characters with a nick (emboss) to prevent tampering. It is very important to check whether or not this character is matched with the specified character, especially since the amount of money is displayed.

In the past, collation of the specified character with the specified character was visually performed by hand, but when a large number of bills or checks were issued, it took a lot of time and effort. For this reason,
It is desired to automate the collation of the jagged character with the designated character.

[Conventional technology]

 FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional note issuing device.

In FIG. 6, 61 is a type wheel, 62 is a type character, 63 is a hammer, 64 is a solenoid, and 65 is a bill.

The type wheel 61 has a cylindrical shape, and on its peripheral surface, various numbers 62, letters, and symbols (hereinafter collectively referred to as “letter”) 62 having scratches are planted.

The hammer 63 has an unevenness on its upper surface that meshes with the dents of the type wheel 61.

The solenoid 64 is for driving the hammer 63 toward the type wheel 61.

The operation of the conventional note issuing device will be described below.

A bill 65 is inserted between the type wheel 61 and the hammer 63.
Next, the type wheel 61 is rotated to select a predetermined type from the type 62, and the hammer 64 is driven by the solenoid 64 to print on the handprint 65 and make a mark.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

Since the amount of money is printed on the bill or check, the bill issuing device requires very high reliability. For this reason,
Although the bill issuing device is equipped with various check functions, there are some that cannot be mechanically checked due to human error in operation or deterioration of the mechanical section. The confirmation was done by human eyes, and there was a problem that it required a great deal of labor.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a bill issuing device that adds a function for checking for kizumi characters to automate the collation work for kizami characters that has conventionally been performed by visual inspection by hand.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention includes a printer unit that prints information necessary for bills,
The check writer for printing the scratched characters on the bill, and the reading unit for reading the scratched characters of the bill discharged from the check writer after printing the scratched characters and the read scratched characters match the specified characters. The character recognition unit that determines whether or not to perform it, the first discharge roller that discharges the bill to the accepting stacker for receiving when the kizami character matches the specified character by the character recognition unit, and the character recognition unit The second for discharging the bill to the reject reject stacker when the character is not matched with the specified character or it is unreadable.
This is an automated version of the scratch character collation work that was conventionally performed by visual inspection by humans.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of the principle of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a bill, 2 is a printer unit, 3 is a rotation fulcrum, 4 is a check writer unit, 5 is a reading unit, and 6 is an LED.
Array (red), 7 LED array (green), 8 rod lens array, 9 contact sensor, 10 character recognition unit, 1
Reference numeral 1 is a first discharge roller, and 12 is a second discharge roller.

The bill 1 is one example, and may be a check or something else.

The printer unit 2 includes a bill 1 and a recipient name on the bill 1.
Print necessary information such as payment date.

The rotation fulcrums 3 are for allowing rotation around the check writer portions 4 respectively.

The check writer unit 4 is for printing a scratch character on the bill 1 on which necessary information is printed by the printer unit 2.

The reading unit 5 includes an LED array (red) 6, an LED array (green) 7, a rod lens array 8, and a contact sensor 9.
A bill 1 consisting of a check mark and printed by the check writer 4.
Read the upper character.

LED array (red) 6 or LED array (green) 7
Light is emitted to read the kizami characters on the bill 1.

The rod lens array 8 is for converging the light emitted from the LED array (red) 6 or the LED array (green) 7 and reflected on the surface of the handprint 1 to guide it to the contact sensor 9.

The contact sensor 9 is composed of a CCD or the like, and is for receiving the light emitted from the LED array (red) 6 or the LED array (green) 7 and reflected on the surface of the bill 1.

The character recognition unit 10 determines whether or not the scratched character on the bill 1 read by the reading unit 5 matches the designated character.

The first ejection roller 11 is for ejecting a bill having a character in which a nick character is designated by the character recognition unit 10 to an accepting stacker for acceptance.

The second ejection roller 12 is for ejecting a bill that does not match the character with which the character is specified by the character recognition unit 10 or a bill that cannot be read, to the reject reject stacker.

[Action]

 FIG. 2 is an operation flow chart of the present invention.

The operation of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.

Load the bill or check into the printer.

In the printer section, the payee name,
Print necessary information such as the name of the sender and the due date of the payment, and perform line feed.

It is determined whether or not there is an instruction to print a scratched character on a bill or a check that has printed necessary information in the printer unit. If YES, go to the next step, NO
If so, proceed to step.

Performs pre-processing for tampering prevention processing. That is, the check writer is rotated to fix the bill or check at a position where it can be inserted into the check writer.

When the printer section has finished printing the necessary items on the bill or check, it is ejected from the platen section and sent to the check writer section.

In the check writer part, after printing the check characters on the bill or check, eject the bill or check from the check writer part and set it at the reading position.

The reading unit reads the scratched characters on the bill or check, and the character recognition unit determines whether the scratched characters match the specified characters.

As a result of the judgment made by the character recognition unit, the jagged character printed on the bill or check is collated with the designated character.
As a result, if they match, the process proceeds to, if they do not match, the process proceeds to, and if they are rejected (unreadable), the process proceeds to.

It reports to the main unit the status that they do not match.

Report the reject status to the main unit.

Report the status of agreement to the main unit.

Return the check writer to its original position.

According to the result of the collation processing of, the bill or check is ejected to each stacker according to the specification from the main body. That is, the bills or checks whose kizami characters match the specified characters are discharged to the accept stacker, and the bills or checks that do not match the kizami characters to the specified characters and the rejected bills or checks are discharged to the reject stacker.

〔Example〕

 FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 3, 31 is a hopper, 32 is a print head,
33 is a platen, 34 is an inserter roller, 35 is a rotation fulcrum, 36 is a check writer, 37 is a reading unit, 38 is a first discharge roller, 39 is an accept stacker, 40 is a second discharge roller, and 41 is a reject stacker. is there.

The bill issuing device of this embodiment is composed of four parts, a printer part, a reading part, a check writer part, and a stacker part. That is, the printer unit includes the hopper 31, the print head 32, the platen 33, and the inserter roller 3.
4, the reading unit includes a reading unit 37, the check writer unit includes a check writer 36 having a rotation fulcrum 35, the stacker unit includes a first discharge roller 38, Accept stacker 3
9, second discharge roller 40 and reject stacker 4
It is composed of 1.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

First, the bill or check is placed on the hopper 31.

The bills or checks placed on the hopper 31 are conveyed by the rollers and transferred to the print head 32 and the platen 3.
It is inserted between 3.

Then, the print head 32 prints necessary information such as the name of the payee, the name of the payer, and the due date on the bill or check.

The bill or check on which necessary information is printed is conveyed to the check writer by the inserter roller 34.

The check writer 36 is rotated in advance around the rotation fulcrum 35 to a position where a bill or a check can be inserted. A bill or a check is inserted into the check writer 36 in this state, and a scratched character is printed.

The bill or check on which the jagged characters are printed is pulled up by a roller and fixed at a position facing the reading unit 37. After that, the check writer 36 moves the rotation fulcrum 35.
It is returned to the original position centered on.

The bill or check fixed at the position facing the reading unit 37 can be read by the reading unit 37 with the kizami characters printed thereon.

As a result, in a character recognition unit (not shown), it is determined whether or not the kizami character matches the designated character by a recognition method such as pattern matching.

The bills or checks in which the nick character matches the designated character are discharged to the accept stacker 39 by the first discharge roller 38. If the bill or check does not match the specified character, the second eject roller 4
The sheet is discharged to the reject stacker 41 by 0.

The reading unit 37, as shown as 5 in FIG.
An array (red) 6, an LED array (green) 7, a rod lens array 8, and a contact type sensor 9 are used, and a modification of the reading unit 37 is shown in FIG.

In FIG. 4, 51 is a rotation fulcrum, 52 is a spring, 53 is a driven roller, 54 is a driving roller, 55 is a spacer, 56
Is a paper guide, 57 is a light source, 58 is a transparent body, 59 is a lens, and 60 is a contact type sensor.

By configuring the reading unit as shown in FIG. 4, the following advantages can be obtained. That is, (1) the driven roller 5 in the block having the rotation fulcrum 51.
3, and the contact sensor 60 is provided in the vicinity thereof, the distance between the contact sensor 60 and the bill or check can be kept constant, and the image quality is improved.

(2) Since the spacer 55 is provided between the paper guide 56 and the transparent body 58, it is possible to prevent the flapping of the paper of a bill or a check.

(3) Since it is possible to use an optical system of a contact type sensor using a rod lens with a shallow depth of field, the device can be downsized.

Next, a circuit example of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The circuit of the present invention is roughly divided into a printer control unit 5
01, check writer control unit 502, and reading / recognition control unit 503.

The printer control unit 501 is an interface unit with the main body,
Printer input drive unit that drives the print head, CR motor, LF motor, etc., printer sensor detection unit that controls the home position sensor, paper detection sensor, etc., control R
It is composed of an OM, a check writer interface unit, a reading / recognition interface unit, and an MPU that controls each unit.

The check writer control unit 502 includes an interface unit, a motor drive unit, a solenoid drive unit, a sensor detection unit, a control ROM, and an MPU that controls each unit.

The reading / recognition control unit 503 includes an interface unit and an LE.
L for controlling D array (red) and LED array (green)
ED controller, timing generator for CCD, contact CCD
CCD drive unit for driving, an amplifier for amplifying the output of the contact type CCD, a binarization unit for automatically making the gradation constant while multiplying multivalued data by floating slice, serial / parallel converter, latch , Image memory, R for dictionary
It is composed of an OM, a control ROM, and an MPU that controls each unit.

The LED array (red) and the LED array (green) are switched according to the dropout color (ground color) by a command from the main body.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, by adding a function of checking a kizumi character to a bill issuing device, it is possible to automate the kizami character collation work which has been conventionally performed by visual inspection by a human hand, and the work efficiency is significantly improved. With that, reliability is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is an explanatory view of the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an operation flow chart of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a modified example of a reading unit, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a circuit example of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional example. In FIG. 1, 1: Handprint 2: Printer part 3: Rotation fulcrum 4: Check writer part 5: Reading part 6: LED array (red) 7: LED array (green) 8: Rod lens array 9: Contact sensor 10: Character recognition unit 11: first ejection roller 12: second ejection roller

Front page continuation (72) Inventor, Hitoshi Yoshio, 98, Unoki-nu, Unoki-cho, Kawakita-gun, Ishikawa Prefecture (2) PFU Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-58-104766 (JP, A) 130160 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A printer unit (2) for printing necessary information on a bill (1) and a rotation fulcrum (3) rotatably provided so that the bill (1) is inserted at the time of printing a kizami character. It is fixed to the printer and is fixed at a position that does not prevent the handprint (1) from falling when the kizumi characters are not printed. The check for printing the kizami characters on the handprint (1) printed with the necessary information by the printer unit (2). It consists of a writer part (4), an LED array (6, 7), a rod lens array (8), and a contact type sensor (9). After the check writer part (4) prints a scratch character, the check writer part ( The reading unit (5) for reading the scratched characters of the bill (1) discharged from the unit (4), and the character recognition unit (10) for determining whether the scratched characters read by the reading unit (5) match the designated character. )When Character recognition unit first discharge roller for discharging bills to (1) to accept stacker for receiving when the increments character matches the specified character (10) (11)
And the second discharge roller for discharging the bill (1) to the reject reject stacker when the character recognition unit (10) does not match the character specified by the character or the character cannot be read. (12) A bill issuing device comprising: