JPH0693268B2 - Automated teller machine - Google Patents

Description

Description: FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automated teller machine, and in particular, a cash machine that can be selectively operated from either the front side or the rear side by the same operator operation panel. The present invention relates to an automatic transaction device.

[Background of the Invention]

Financial institutions such as banks are working to improve services such as advanced transactions and speeding up transactions by making deposits and withdrawals online and adopting automated machines.

In that case, as a device for conducting direct transactions with customers,
There is an automated teller machine. The automatic teller machine is composed of a journal section, a printer section for printing on a passbook, a keyboard section for inputting the amount of money, and a banknote depositing / dispensing section (for example, see Japanese Patent Application No. 54-147480). ).

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of the automated teller machine described in the above-mentioned prior specification, in which the passbook printing section 3, the slip issuing section 4, the banknote depositing section 5, and the banknote payout are provided. A part 6 is provided and is located on the front and rear surfaces of the device. The customer operation panel 1
And a staff operation panel 2 are provided.

5 is a layout view showing an example of the customer operation panel surface in FIG. 4, and FIG. 6 is a layout view showing an example of the staff operation panel surface in FIG. In FIG. 5, the customer operation panel 1 is provided with an operation guidance display panel 11, and alphanumeric characters and the like are displayed here to provide operation guidance to the customer. A plurality of pushbutton keys 12 for inputting numbers are arranged, and a personal identification number and an amount of money are inputted by these pushbutton keys 13. The pushbutton key 13 is used when inputting an amount of money. Consists of types. Push button key
14 and 15 are used at the start of transmission and at the time of cancellation.

On the clerk operation panel 2 of FIG. 6, there are pushbuttons / keys 21 for inputting numbers for setting the date, pushbuttons / keys 22 for operating state setting for setting the transaction type, open station, closed station. Pushbuttons / keys for setting the operating status to set items such as
23, and a numeric display 24 for displaying a monitor of the pushbutton key 21 for inputting numbers and displaying the internal operation state.

As described above, the automated teller machine usually has a staff operation panel for maintaining the equipment, but since it is fixedly installed, whether the staff is operated from the front of the customer operation panel side or not. It was necessary to fixedly decide at the time of designing whether or not to perform from the rear surface. Therefore, in the case of the type that is supposed to be operated on the rear side, in order to enable the staff to operate while interacting with the customer as necessary, as described in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 54-147480 and the drawings. It is necessary to provide a special program that enables the customer panel to be used as a staff operation panel, and maintenance operations from the front customer panel are limited due to restrictions of the input keys.

[Object of the Invention]

It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic teller machine which solves such a problem and allows an attendant to easily perform maintenance operations from both the front side and the rear side.

[Outline of Invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the automatic teller machine of the present invention includes a control unit for controlling transaction processing, and externally has a customer operation panel used for normal transaction operation and a staff operation panel used for maintenance operation input. In the automatic teller machine equipped with, a clerk operation panel (140) is detachably provided, and a coupling section (photoelectric conversion section 120, 130) for exchanging signals with the clerk operation panel (140) is provided. The operator operation panel (140) is provided on both the front and rear surfaces of the automatic teller machine (100), and via the coupling parts (photoelectric conversion units 120, 130) provided on the front and rear surfaces of the automatic teller machine (140). )
It is characterized by inputting a command from the controller to the control unit (110).

Example of Invention

 Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a basic structural diagram of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 100 is an automated teller machine, 110 is a control unit for controlling the entire automated teller machine, 120 and 130 are photoelectric conversion units as a coupling unit of the present invention for converting an optical signal into an electric signal, and 140 is an attendant. It is an operation panel.

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the electric signal transmitted from the control unit 110 for controlling the automatic teller machine 100 is converted into an optical signal, or the optical signal is transmitted to the control unit 110. The photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130 for converting into electric signals for transmission are provided on both the front and rear surfaces of the automated teller machine 100, which are detachable and can be remotely operated, and signals can be exchanged by optical signals. The clerk operation panel 140 is selectively arranged on the front surface or the rear surface, and is connected to the control unit 110 of the automated teller machine 100 via the photoelectric conversion unit 120. As a result, a staff operation panel that can be operated by the staff from the front side operated by the customer as well as the rear surface is realized.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the automatic teller machine and the staff operation panel in FIG.

The control unit of the automated teller machine 100 includes a processor 111 for performing overall control, a memory 112, a card reader control unit 113, a passbook printer control unit 114, a deposit / withdrawal control unit 115, and a panel control unit 11.
6 and power supply 117. Automated teller machine 10
Photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130 are provided on the front surface and the rear surface of 0, respectively, and both conversion units 120 and 130 are connected to the panel control unit 116 of the control unit. These photoelectric conversion units 120,1
30 is composed of, for example, an infrared light emitting diode, an infrared phototransistor, or the like. Also, it is removable,
In addition, the clerk operation panel 140 that can be remotely operated is a photoelectric conversion unit 14 for communicating with the main body, that is, the automated teller machine 100.
1, a processor 142, a display unit 143, an operation switch 144, and a battery 145.

In such a configuration, when communicating between the automated teller machine 100 and the clerk, the contents stored in the memory 112 or the card reader control unit 113 are read by the control of the processor 111. The content is bus 10
5, through the panel control unit 116, the photoelectric conversion unit 12 by an electric signal
Passed to 0,130. Further, the electric signals from the photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130 are stored in the memory via the panel control unit 116 and the bus 105.
After being stored in 112, printer control unit 114, deposit / withdrawal control unit 1
Sent to 15. When an electric signal is sent from the panel control unit 116, the photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130 transmit this as an optical signal to the photoelectric conversion unit 141 of the staff operation panel 140, and by the control of the processor 142 of the staff operation panel 140. The contents are displayed on the display unit 143 via the internal bus.
In the same manner, the operation switch 144 of the clerk operation panel 140
When is pressed, the processor 142 transfers the command to the photoelectric conversion unit 141 via the bus, and the electric signal is transferred to the photoelectric conversion unit 141.
Is converted into an optical signal and transmitted to the automated teller machine 100. The maximum spatial distance that can be communicated by an optical signal is about several meters, although it depends on the light emitting diode. In the automatic teller machine 100, it is transmitted to the command panel control unit 116 which is photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130, so the processor 111 detects this and performs an operation corresponding to the command from the clerk. The instruction of the tool includes a card reader start instruction, a printer start instruction, an input / output device start instruction, and the like.

FIG. 3 is a detailed circuit diagram of the panel control unit and the photoelectric conversion unit in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the panel control unit 116 includes a communication LSI 11
6-1, a driver 116-2, an OR gate 116-3, and the photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130 are light emitting diodes 121 and 1.
31 and light receiving transistors 122 and 132. The transmission signal from the bus 105 in the automated teller machine 100 is a serial signal generated by the communication LSI 116-1 in the panel control unit 116, and the same signal is transmitted in each of the photoelectric conversion units 120 and 130 via the driver 116-2. It is applied to the light emitting diodes 121 and 131.
When an electric signal flows through the light emitting diodes 121 and 131, light corresponding to the signal is emitted from the diodes 121 and 131 and sent to the photoelectric conversion unit of the staff operation panel 140. The light emitted from the diodes 121 and 131 is shielded so as not to reach the adjacent light receiving transistors 122 and 132. In addition, when an optical signal is sent from the staff operation panel 140, the light receiving transistor 12 in the optical converters 120 and 130 is transmitted.
After being detected by 2, 132 and converted into a serial electric signal, the electric signal is sent to the control unit and the logical sum is obtained by the logical sum gate 116-3 in the panel control unit 116. Further, this serial signal is converted into a parallel signal by the communication LSI 116-1 and transmitted to the bus 105.

In this embodiment, the clerk operation panel that is removable and can be remotely controlled can be connected not only from the rear side of the automated teller machine 100 but also from the front side by the same method. The maintenance operation can be performed without using it, the program can be simplified even when the customer panel is used, and one device can have both advantages of the clerk front operation type and the clerk front operation type. In addition, conventionally, when connecting or disconnecting the operation panel and the device,
Conventionally, the power supply power was reduced, but in the present embodiment, since an optical signal such as infrared rays is used for the connection part of the apparatus body with the operator operation panel, it is not necessary to turn off the power, and the holding operation is performed. It is also possible to perform in the form of remote control.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the operator operation panel can be selectively connected to the front surface and the rear surface of the automatic teller machine, so that the maintenance staff can use the same operation panel to front and rear surfaces of the apparatus. Maintenance work can be performed arbitrarily from any direction, and maintenance becomes easy.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a basic block diagram of an automatic teller machine showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a detail of a photoelectric conversion part and a panel control part of FIG. Diagram,
FIG. 4 is a conceptual structural diagram of a conventional automatic teller machine, and FIG.
FIG. 6 and FIG. 6 are layout diagrams of the customer operation panel and the staff operation panel of the automatic teller machine of FIG. 4, respectively. 100: automated teller machine, 110: control unit, 120, 130, 141: photoelectric conversion unit, 140: operator operation panel, 111, 142: processor, 11
6: Panel control unit, 112: Memory, 113: Card reader control unit, 114: Printer control unit, 115: Deposit / withdrawal control unit, 117, 145:
Power supply part, 143: display part, 144: switch.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An automated teller machine comprising a control means for controlling transaction processing, and a customer operation panel used for normal transaction operation and a staff operation panel used for maintenance operation input, which are externally provided. An operation panel is detachably provided, and coupling means for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the attendant operation panel are provided on both the front surface and the rear surface of the device, and through the coupling means provided on the front surface and the rear surface of the device, An automated teller machine which inputs a command to the control means from the staff operation panel.