JPH0636213B2 - Money handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention is, for example, a banknote that is installed in an automatic ticket vending machine for station service and that can be used as change among banknotes inserted by users. The present invention relates to a money handling apparatus having a function of storing the change in a coin and feeding it out.

(B) Conventional Technology As described above, in order to have the functions of storing and delivering bills, the bill storing portion is configured by winding a drum and a tape having one end fixed to the drum, and the drum and the tape. And the banknotes are staggered one by one between the
At the delimiter for each transaction, increase the amount of misalignment to distinguish the banknote group from each transaction, and when paying out the banknotes,
The tape may be rewound and unwound.

When configured in this way, for financial troubles, the amount of bills inserted by the previous customer can be confirmed by counting the number of bills up to a portion with a large amount of misalignment. Therefore, it is not necessary to temporarily provide the pool section, and the banknote storage section can be used both as the pool section and the storage section for checking the inserted amount, and the banknote storage section can be effectively configured.

However, when the banknotes are discharged as change, the banknotes to be paid out are the banknotes accommodated afterwards, which are to be paid out first.
For example, if you put in 4,000 yen and purchase only 2,000 yen for goods, the change will be released by 2,000 yen, but the 2,000 yen bill will be inserted by the customer himself. The bills received by the customer and left in the device are only 2,000 yen, and the total amount of 4,000 yen of the bills actually inserted by this user is not stored. When the customer can not confirm the amount of money and confuses that the customer has invested more than 5,000 yen, there is a problem that this cannot be proved.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention The present invention is configured to display the amount of money and the number of coins inserted by a user on a display unit, and thus to adopt a storage unit that first dispenses money stored later, An object of the present invention is to provide a money handling device capable of confirming the amount and the number of coins that a customer has put in.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is a money handling apparatus provided with a control means for controlling the display of the amount or the number of coins of each type of currency put into one transaction until the next transaction. Is characterized by.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, the amount of money or the number of coins inserted by the customer is displayed on the display until the next transaction. Even if the money is released to the customer as a change, the amount of money and the number of coins put in by the customer can be confirmed on the display, and the financial trouble can be easily solved.

(F) Embodiment of the Invention One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawing shows a banknote processing device of an automatic ticket vending machine. In FIG. 1, the banknote processing device 10 includes a slot 11 and an outlet 12.
And are connected by a conveyance path 13 formed of a belt, rollers, etc., and in the path of the conveyance path 13, from the upper side,
Banknote discrimination section 14, 1,000-yen bill storage section 15, 5,000-yen bill storage section 1
6 is arranged, and the 1,000 yen bill feeding section 18 is connected to the lower side of the above-mentioned 1,000 yen bill accommodating section 15 through the branch conveyance path 17, and the lower side of the 5,000 yen bill accommodating section 16 is also provided. The banknote collecting unit 20 is connected to the branching conveyance path 19 via the branch conveyance path 19.

The banknote discriminating unit 14 magnetically or optically reads the printing pattern of the banknote to determine whether the banknote is true or false, and determines the denomination.
To return.

Thousand-yen bill and five-thousand-yen bill accommodating units 15 and 16 can use the bills accommodated therein as change, and therefore have a bill accommodating function and a payout function.

The above-mentioned accommodating portions 15 and 16 have the same configuration, and the drum 21 that is controlled in forward and reverse directions by an appropriate drive source, and the drum 21.
A tape 22 having one end fixed to the circumferential surface of the tape 22 and the other end of the tape 22 is wound around a winding roller 23 controlled by a suitable drive source in the forward and reverse directions to be wound with the drum 21. By the forward and reverse control of the rotating roller 23 in synchronism, the tape 22 is wound and rewound around the drum 21 with a predetermined tension, and the banknote is held between the drum 21 and the tape 22. .

Distribution plates 24 and 25 are provided in front of the storage units 15 and 16, respectively, and the distribution plates 24 and 25 are controlled to switch passages by appropriate solenoids.
The banknotes stored in 5, 16 are assigned to the respective distribution plates 24,
After passing once through the position of 25, the distribution plates 24 and 25 are distributed and controlled in a direction to be guided to the drum 21 side, and the conveyance path 1
It is accommodated on the drum 21 side by reversing No. 3.

FIG. 2 shows the housed state of the banknotes, and the banknotes 26 in one transaction are overlapped with each other with a displacement amount P ₂ and accommodated, and the banknote group 27 for each transaction has the above-described displacement amount P. It is accommodated after being displaced by an amount P ₁ which is greater than ₂ .

Therefore, the banknote group 27 of one transaction has a large amount P
By counting the number of banknotes 26 ... Between _one, the inserted banknotes 26 of the customer can be confirmed.

In FIG. 1, a 1,000-yen bill payout unit 18 is provided as a component for compensating for the shortage of change of the above-mentioned 1,000-yen bill accommodating unit 15. The payout unit 18 is provided in a cassette shape and is detachable. If there are no bills left, it can be replaced with a new cassette.

In the storage chamber 28 inside the cassette, the banknotes are stacked in the lateral direction and are urged toward the front end side, and a feeding roller 29 and a gate roller 30 are provided on the front end side, and the feeding roller 29 is fed out. By controlling the rotation in the direction,
The banknotes are regulated by the gate roller 30 and one bill is stored.

Then, the fed-out bills are sent to the transport path 13 via the branch transport path 17.

The branch conveyance path 19 described above has a distribution plate 31 at a branch point of the conveyance path 13, and the distribution plate 31 is subjected to passage switching control by an appropriate solenoid to guide the bills on the conveyance path 13 to the bill collecting unit 20. In order to do so, the banknotes on the conveying path 13 are first passed through the position of the distribution plate 31 and then the distribution plate 31
Is controlled so as to guide the bills to the bill collecting unit 20, and the conveyance path 13 is reversely controlled.

The banknote collecting unit 20 described above collects the 10,000-yen bills and collects the banknotes stored in the storage units 15 and 16 when the business is completed, and is further provided in a cassette shape to store the storage amount. When the set amount becomes, the new collecting unit 20 is replaced.

The front surface of the collecting unit 20 is opened, and the collected banknotes are conveyed to the front surface of the opening 32. The pusher plate 33 is in contact with the front portion of the opening 32, and the pusher plate 33 is attached to the pusher plate 33.
Is urged in the return direction by the spring 34, and the eccentric cam 3
By the one-rotation control of 5, the banknotes conveyed to the front surface of the opening 32 are stored in the collection unit 20.

At a position between the above-mentioned 1,000-yen bill feeding section 18 and the banknote collecting section 20, an indicator 36 used by a staff member for confirmation is disposed. As shown in FIG. A display area 37 for various banknotes is provided, and each display area 37 ...
Indicates the number of inserted various banknotes.

FIG. 4 shows a control circuit, in which the CPU 40 drives and controls each circuit device according to a program stored in the ROM 41.
The RAM 42 stores and reads necessary data.

The distribution board drive circuit 43 controls distribution of each of the distribution boards 24, 25, 31 individually, the display drive circuit 44 controls the display of the display 36, and the transport path drive circuit 45 controls the transport path 13,
The forward / reverse rotation of 17 and 19 and stop control are performed.

The banknote handling apparatus 10 configured as described above displays the number of various banknotes inserted by the customer in the display area 37 of the display 36.
The number of bills inserted by the customer can be confirmed on the display 36 side, and this display is displayed until the next customer inserts a bill.

Such processing control of the CPU 40 will be described with reference to FIG.

In the first step 51, the display driving circuit 44 is driven,
.. on the display 36 are cleared, and the number of bills "0" is displayed.

Furthermore, the conveyance path drive circuit 45 is driven in the forward direction, the conveyance path 13 is rotationally controlled in the take-in direction, waits for the insertion of banknotes, and when the banknotes are inserted into the insertion slot 11, the banknote discrimination unit 14
Determines the authenticity and denomination of banknotes.

When it is determined in the second step 52 that the 1000-yen bill is inserted, the 1000-yen bill accommodating portion 15 is controlled to be accommodated next.

In the third step 53, in this transaction, it is determined whether or not the first sheet has been inserted. If the first sheet has been inserted, then in the fourth step 54, the 1,000-yen bill accommodating portion 15 is set to the banknote displacement amount P ₁ . The banknotes are set and stored, and if the banknotes are the second and subsequent banknotes, in the fifth step 55, the banknote positional deviation amount P ₂ is set and stored.

In the sixth step 56, +1 is added to the number of displayed thousand-yen bills, and this is added to the display area 37 of the thousand-yen bills on the display 36.
To display.

If it is determined in the above-mentioned second step 52 that the bill is not a 1,000-yen bill, it is determined in a seventh step 57 whether or not a 5,000-yen bill is inserted. Are housed and controlled.

In the eighth step 58, in this transaction, it is determined whether or not the first sheet has been inserted. If the first sheet has been inserted, then in the ninth step 59, the 5,000-yen bill accommodating unit 16 is moved to the banknote displacement amount P ₁ If the banknote is a second or later banknote, the banknote is set to the banknote displacement amount P ₂ and stored in the tenth step 60.

In the eleventh step 61, +1 is added to the number of displayed 5,000 yen bills, and this is displayed in the display area 37 of the 5,000 yen bills on the display 36.

If it is determined in the above-mentioned seventh step 57 that the bill is not a 5,000 yen bill, it is determined in a twelfth step 62 whether it is a 10,000-yen bill. The bill is conveyed to the opening 32 of the bill collecting unit 20 and the pusher plate 33 is driven to collect the 10,000-yen bill in the collecting unit 20.

In the fourteenth step 64, +1 is added to the number of displayed 10,000 yen bills, and this is displayed in the display area 37 of the 10,000 yen bills on the display 36.

In the fifteenth step 65, it is determined whether or not a ticket purchase operation is performed. If this is not determined, the procedure returns to the second step 52, and when the purchase operation is determined, it is determined in a sixteenth step 66 whether there is change. However, if this is determined, in the 17th step 67, the necessary amount of 1,000 yen bills or 5,000 yen bills is paid out from the accommodating units 15, 16 of 1,000 yen bills and 5,000 yen bills corresponding to the change, When the capacity of the bill accommodating portion 15 is insufficient, the necessary amount of 1,000-yen bills is fed out from the 1,000-yen bill feeding unit 18,
Further, when the capacity of the feeding section 18 is exhausted, this is replaced with a new cassette.

In the eighteenth step 68, it is determined whether the bill for the next customer has been inserted, and in this state, the next customer is awaited.

In this state, the 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen bills inserted by the current customer are
Since the positions are shifted by the position shift amount P ₁ , the number of banknotes of each denomination can be confirmed by counting the banknotes up to the position shift P ₁ .

Further, since the number of inserted bills for each denomination of bill is also displayed on the display 36, the number of inserted bills can be confirmed by this display, and the bills inserted by the customer can be displayed to this customer. By paying out as change, the number of inserted coins can be confirmed by the display of the display 36 even if the amount of coined coins becomes unclear.

Then, in the above-described 18th step 68, the next customer inserts a bill, and the process returns to the 1st step 51, and the display of the display 36 is cleared.

In correspondence with the configuration of the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the money storage device of the present invention corresponds to the banknote storage device 10 of the embodiment.
Similarly, the discriminating unit corresponds to the bill discriminating unit 14, and the accommodating unit is the accommodating units 15 and 1 for the thousand-yen bill and the five-thousand-yen bill of the embodiment.
The control means corresponds to the processing of the first step 51, the sixth step 56, the eleventh step 61, and the fourteenth step 64 of the CPU 40, and the other corresponds to the configuration of the same part name of the embodiment. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a banknote processing apparatus, FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a banknote storage state, and FIG. A front view, FIG. 4 is a control circuit block diagram, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart. 10 ... Banknote processing device, 13 ... Conveyance path 14 ... Banknote discrimination unit, 15 ... Thousand-yen bill storage unit 16 ... Five-thousand-yen bill storage unit, 26 ... Banknote 40 ... CPU

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A discrimination unit for determining the denomination and / or the number of inserted denominations, and the denominations are stored for each denomination based on the denomination determination of the inserted coins by the discrimination unit, and are accommodated later at the time of delivery. An apparatus provided with a plurality of first-in, first-out storage units for dispensing money first, and a display for displaying the amount or number of coins of each type of currency, and one transaction based on the judgment of the discrimination unit. A money handling apparatus provided with a control means for displaying and controlling the amount of money or the number of coins put into the above-mentioned display until the next transaction.