JPH0636232B2 - Trading equipment - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a transaction apparatus including a plurality of transaction apparatuses for performing transactions such as deposits and payments, and particularly to the number of banknotes transferred between the plurality of transaction apparatuses. Transaction device capable of detecting a mismatch of

[Conventional technology]

Deposits from the viewpoint of improving the efficiency of fund management in banking,
There has been proposed a transaction system capable of replenishing and collecting banknotes between a plurality of transaction devices that perform transactions such as payment. (For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 60-101692) [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-described conventional transaction device, in order to exchange bills between a plurality of transaction devices, the banknotes between the transaction devices are exchanged. It was lacking in consideration that it was necessary to monitor the transfer of information.

The present invention has been made based on the above matters, and an object of the present invention is to provide a transaction device capable of detecting a discrepancy in the number of banknotes exchanged between transaction devices.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

The above-mentioned object of the present invention is a transaction device comprising a plurality of cash transaction devices for performing cash transactions such as deposits or payments, and a bill exchange means for exchanging bills between the cash transaction devices, wherein the cash transaction device is , A number detecting means for respectively detecting the number of discharged banknotes and the number of received banknotes, and a determining means for determining whether or not the number of discharged banknotes and the number of received banknotes are the same, the determination means, the number of banknotes does not match In this case, the transaction device outputs a signal for stopping the operation of the cash transaction device.

[Action]

According to the above configuration, when it is determined that the number of banknotes exchanged between the respective cash transaction devices is different, it can be determined that a trouble has occurred in the exchange of banknotes between the transaction devices, and each cash transaction Output a transaction stop signal to the device.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a transaction apparatus of the present invention. In this figure, reference numerals 1 and 2 denote transaction apparatuses for depositing, paying, etc., respectively. These transaction devices 1 and 2 are arranged so that their rear surfaces face each other. These transaction devices 1 and 2 are in communication with each other by a banknote transfer means 3 that transfers banknotes B between these transaction devices 1 and 2. The banknote transfer means 3 conveys, for example, the surplus banknotes B separated one by one in the one transaction device 1 to the other transaction device 2 requesting the same to replenish the transaction device 2 with the banknotes B. On the contrary, it plays the role of receiving and collecting the bill B. An example of the configuration of the bill transfer means 3 and the transaction devices 1 and 2 will be described. The transaction devices 1 and 2 are composed of a slip, a passbook printing unit 4 and a bill handling unit 5. The banknote handling section 5 is provided with a deposit / withdrawal port 7 on the front side of its main body 6. A separating device 8 for taking in the deposited bills B is provided on one side of the deposit / withdrawal port 7, and an extruding section 9 for pushing out the dispensed bills B to the deposit / withdrawal port 7 is provided on the other side. The push-out section 9 is provided with a payout bill B stacking device 10. A discrimination section 11 is located at the center of the main body 6. The discriminating section 11 discriminates whether the bills are taken in, paid out, replenished or collected, and the number of bills. At the rear center of the main body 6, a reject box 12 for collecting the unidentifiable bills B is provided. A front / back reversing unit 13 for reversing the back-side bill B in the front direction is arranged above it, that is, in the upper rear part in the main body 6. In the lower part of the main body 1, from the rear to the front of the main body 6, a safe 14 for banknotes B, a first denomination box 15 for banknote recycling, a second denomination box 16 for banknote recycling, and a taken-in banknote B. A temporary stacking unit 17 for temporarily storing and a forgotten banknote collecting box 17A located below the temporary stacking unit 17. Above the safe 14, the first denomination box 15, the second denomination box 16 and the temporary stacking unit 17, a separating device 19 for separating and feeding the banknote B and a stacking device 20 for collecting the banknote B are stacked. Are arranged. The above-mentioned respective parts are connected by a conveying means 21, and a gate portion 22 is provided at a branch portion of the conveying means 21. A branching / conveying unit 23 for transferring bills is provided between the cashbox 14 and the reject box 12 in the above-mentioned conveying means 21. The end of the branching and conveying section 23 faces a window 18 provided on the rear surface of the main body 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the branching / conveying unit 23 conveys the bill B conveyed by the conveying unit 21A from the discriminating unit 11 to the front / back reversing unit 13 side and to the safe 14 side. A first switching gate section 24 for switching to 21C,
The bill B conveyed to the conveying means 21C by the first switching gate portion 24 is a conveying means 21D for guiding the bill B to the bill transferring means 3 side, and a conveying means 21E for guiding the safe 14 and the denomination boxes 15, 16 and the like. The second switching gate section 25 for switching to the banknote B and the banknote B conveyed by the banknote transfer means 3.
And a transporting means 21G for receiving and guiding it to the transporting means 21F. The first and second switching gate portions 24 and 25 described above are switched by the driving means.

Next, the structure of the bill transfer means 3 will be described with reference to FIG. 2. The main body 26 of the bill transfer means 3 is fixed to the windows 18 of the rear surfaces of the transaction devices 1 and 2 with bolts or the like. In the main body 26, two transport paths 27, 28 for transporting the banknote B in each transaction device 1, 2 to the other transaction device 2, 1 are provided. These transport paths 27, 28 are for bills B from one of the transaction devices 1.
Are conveyed to the other transaction device 2 and the banknotes B from the other transaction device 2 are conveyed to the one transaction device 1 so as to intersect with each other. The first end connecting the ends of the transport paths 27, 28 to the transport means 21D and the transport means 21G of the transaction devices 1, 2 through the windows 18 of the transaction devices 1, 2 at both ends of the transport routes 27, 28, respectively. A guide 29 and a second guide 30 are provided. The above-mentioned transport path 2
The drive means of 7, 28 is constituted by, for example, the meshing of the gear provided on the roller 31 constituting the transport paths 27, 28 and the gear provided on the roller 32 constituting the transport means 21D, 21G of the transaction apparatus 1 or 2. It is possible.

The guides 29, 30 of the bill transfer means 3 have sheet number detection sensors 33A, 33 for detecting the number of passed bills, respectively.
B, 34A, 34B are provided.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a control circuit used in the device of the present invention. In this time, the same reference numerals as those in FIGS. 1 and 2 are the same parts. The control circuit 35 determines the coincidence between the number of discharged banknotes from the number detection sensor 33A in the transaction apparatus 1 and the number of received banknotes from the number detection sensor 34B in the transaction apparatus 2, and in the transaction apparatus 2. Second discriminating means 37 for discriminating the coincidence between the number of bills discharged from the number detection sensor 34A and the number of bills received from the number detection sensor 33B in the transaction apparatus 1;
It is provided with calculating means 38, 39 for calculating the received amount of money by the coincident number of bills from each discriminating means 36, 37 and the denomination from the discriminating section of each transaction device 1, 2. When the first discriminating unit 36 and the second discriminating unit 37 described above determine that the numbers of banknotes do not match, it is determined that a trouble has occurred in the transfer of the banknotes between the transaction devices 1 and 2. , And outputs a transaction stop signal S to each of the transaction devices 1 and 2. The calculating means 38, 39 described above output the calculated received money amounts to the money amount storage units of the respective transaction devices 1, 2.

Next, the operation of the above-described embodiment of the transaction apparatus of the present invention will be described.

Each of the transaction devices 1 and 2 temporarily stores the banknote B inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port 7 by the customer in the stack part 17, and then stores it in the denomination boxes 15 and 16 according to the denomination to perform the deposit transaction. In response to the request, the banknotes B stored in the first or second denomination boxes 15 and 16 are paid out to the deposit / withdrawal port 7 with the front surfaces of the banknotes aligned through the front / back reversing unit 13.

In the above transactions such as deposit and withdrawal, each transaction device 1, 2
When the banknotes B in the first denomination box 15 and the second denomination box 16 are full or insufficient, the state is detected by a sensor to detect the first denomination. The surplus banknotes B of the box 15 and the second denomination box 16 are separated and stored in the safe 14, and the banknotes in the safe 14 are replenished to the first denomination box 15 or the second denomination box 16. Corresponds to customer transactions.

For example, when the amount of banknotes stored in the transaction device 1 becomes full and the amount of banknotes stored in the transaction device 2 becomes insufficient due to a customer transaction in each transaction device 1, 2, The gate portion 24 and the second gate portion 25 are switched as shown by the solid line in FIG. As a result, the surplus banknotes stored in the cashbox 14, the first denomination box 15 or the second denomination box 16 in the transaction device 1 are separated one by one by the separating device 19 and passed through the discrimination section 11. Then, it is transported to the branch transport unit 23. The banknotes transferred to the branch transport unit 23 are
The conveyance means 21D is reached by the second gate portion 25, and then the first guide 29 of the bill transfer means 3 and the conveyance path 2 thereof.
7 and the second guide 30 to be transferred into the transaction apparatus 2, and the transfer means 21G and 21F allow the safe 14,
First denomination box 15 or second denomination box 1
Replenished to 6. As a result, the excess or deficiency state of the banknotes in the transaction device 2 is resolved, so that the transaction by the transaction device 2 becomes possible.

In the above-mentioned bill transfer operation, the number of bills replenished from the transaction device 1 to the transaction device 2 is the number detection sensor 33A.
The number of collected banknotes in the transaction apparatus 2 is detected by the number detection sensor 34B. The number of sheets detected by these sensors 33A and 34B is output to the first discriminating circuit 36. Thereby, the first discriminating circuit 36 discriminates the coincidence of these detected numbers, and if they coincide, outputs the detected number to the arithmetic means 38.
Calculates the replenishment amount to the transaction device 2 based on the detected number and the denomination signal discriminated by the discrimination unit 11 in the transaction device 1, and outputs it to the amount storage unit of the transaction device 1. As a result, the transaction apparatus 1 can determine the amount of money remaining in the safe and denomination box.

On the other hand, when the number of detected sheets does not match in the first discriminating circuit 36, the first discriminating circuit 36 determines that a trouble has occurred in the transfer of the bill between the transaction devices 1 and 2, and each transaction device The transaction stop signal S is output to 1 and 2.

In contrast to the above, when the banknote storage amount in the transaction device 1 becomes excessive or insufficient, the banknotes in the transaction device 2 can be collected and replenished in the transaction device 1 by the same operation as described above.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the transfer of the banknotes between the two transaction devices has been described, but the present invention can be applied to the case of three or more banknotes.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to determine the mismatch of the number of exchanged bills between a plurality of transaction devices, and thus it is possible to improve the reliability of the exchange of bills in these transaction devices.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an embodiment of the transaction device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a banknote transfer means used in the embodiment of the transaction device of the present invention shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the control circuit used in the present invention. 1, 2 ... Transaction device, 3 ... Banknote transfer means, 11 ... Discrimination unit, 33A, 33B, 34A, 34B ... Sheet number detection sensor, 35 ... Control circuit, 36, 37 ... Discrimination circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A transaction device comprising a plurality of cash transaction devices for performing cash transactions such as deposits or payments, and a bill exchange means for exchanging bills between the cash transaction devices, wherein each of the cash transaction devices is a cash transaction device. A number detecting means for detecting the number of discharged banknotes and the number of received banknotes, and a determining means for determining whether the number of discharged banknotes and the number of received banknotes match or do not match, and the determining means is provided when the number of banknotes does not match. A transaction device which outputs a signal for stopping the operation of the cash transaction device.