JPH0693275B2 - Banknote handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus having components such as a deposit / withdrawal port section, a counting section, and a banknote storage section, and in particular, depositing and paying one banknote. The present invention relates to a bill handling device suitable for performing.

[Background of the Invention]

The conventional device has, for example, a configuration shown in FIG. 1 when depositing a bill and a configuration shown in FIG. 2 when paying a bill. Also,
An embodiment of the conventional device is shown in FIG. For this reason, when depositing banknotes and when paying banknotes, they either have completely different banknote separation / counting / temporary stacks, or only share some of them, so there are many components and the mechanism is large. Had the drawback of being complicated.

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION The purpose of the present invention is to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional methods.

[Outline of Invention]

The present invention realizes the object by making the separating / differentiating / counting / temporary stack of banknotes independent as one device, and using the same separating / differentiating / counting / temporary stack in any of banknote depositing / paying operations. It is a thing. That is, the feature of the present invention is that the depositing / dispensing port part for depositing or paying the banknotes, the separating part for separating the banknotes conveyed to the banknote inlet one by one, and the separating part for each one. A bill counting and counting unit for discriminating and counting the separated bills, and a counting unit having a plurality of temporary stacks for temporarily accumulating bills that have been discriminated and counted according to the discrimination and counting result of the bill discrimination and counting unit, and a bill. Depending on the banknote storage unit to be accumulated and the handling type of the banknote, the banknotes are transported from one of the deposit / withdrawal port unit and the banknote storage unit to the banknote intake port of the separating unit, and at the same time. It is provided with a transport mechanism unit for transporting and transporting the banknotes accumulated in the stack to one of the deposit / withdrawal port section and the banknote storage section. And
When the bill is handled, that is, when the bill is deposited, the bill is used as shown in FIG. 4, and when the bill is paid, the bill is used as shown in FIG.

Example of Invention

 Hereinafter, a detailed description will be given with reference to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows a configuration example of a bill handling apparatus configured by using the method according to the present invention. A deposit / withdrawal port section 1, a counting section 2,
The banknote storage units 3 are arranged independently of each other, and the banknotes are transported between the respective components by the transport mechanism unit 5.

Next, FIG. 7 shows an overall view of the counting unit 2 that can be used both when depositing bills and when paying bills, and FIG. 8 shows its internal structure.

Next, the operation will be described. In the present embodiment, the case of handling only one denomination (for example, 10,000-yen bill) will be described, but the same configuration is applied when the denomination is increased.

First, the time of depositing banknotes will be described.

The banknotes inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port section 1 by the customer are transported and transported by the transport mechanism section 5 to the counting section banknote intake port 10. The bills are separated by the feed roller 19 one by one, and a bill discrimination mechanism is provided.
The authenticity, the denomination, etc. are determined by 14 and counted, and the relevant denomination is transported to the temporary stack 12 by switching the transport path at the gate 21. The denominations that are not applicable are transferred to the temporary stack 11 after the transfer path is switched at the gate 21, and returned to the customer. The relevant denominations stacked in the temporary stack 12 are transported to the banknote storage unit 3 by the transport mechanism unit 5.

Next, the time of bill payment will be described.

The banknotes are taken out from the banknote storage unit 3 by the transport mechanism unit 5 and are transported and transported to the counting unit banknote intake port 10. The bills are separated one by one by the feed roller 19, and the number of sheets designated by the customer is switched by the gate 21 and conveyed to the temporary stack 11. The surplus bills are switched at the gate 21 and conveyed to the temporary stack 12. Next, the banknotes in the temporary stack 11 are transported and transported to the deposit / withdrawal port section 1 by the transport mechanism section 5 and paid to the customer. Similarly, the banknotes in the temporary stack 12 are returned to the banknote storage unit 3 by the carrier rear part 5 and used again.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the same counting unit can be used both when depositing bills and when paying bills, so that the counting process of bills of one denomination can be performed economically.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the following effects can be obtained by using the present invention.

(1) Since the same mechanism is used both when depositing bills and when paying bills, it is economical because the cost is reduced.

(2) The number of components is minimized, and therefore reliability is improved.

(3) Since the constituent elements are independent, it is possible to improve the performance and expand the function for each element.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a banknote handling apparatus configured by the conventional method at the time of depositing, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the functional configuration of the same at the time of payment, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram when depositing a bill handling apparatus constructed using the method of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration when paying the same, FIG.
FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an example of the construction of a bill handling apparatus using the method of the present invention, FIG. 7 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a counting unit, and FIG. 8 is an internal structure of the counting unit shown in FIG. It is a figure. 1 ... deposit / withdrawal port section, 2 ... counting section, 3 ... banknote storage section,
4 ... control unit, 5 ... transport mechanism unit, 6 ... base, 8 ...
… Banknote inlet / outlet, 10 …… Counting unit Banknote inlet, 11 …… Temporary stack, 12 …… Temporary stack, 13 …… Banknote hand unit, 14
...... Banknote discrimination mechanism, 18 …… Counter transport motor, 19 …… Feed roller, 20 …… Transport belt, 21 …… Gate, 22…
... Sensor, 31 ... Separation mechanism, 32 ... Separation and counting mechanism, 33 ...
… Other cassettes.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing or paying bills, a separating unit for separating the bills conveyed to the bill intake port one by one, and a bill separated by the separating unit one by one. A counting unit including a bill discrimination counting unit for counting and a plurality of temporary stacks for temporarily accumulating bills that have been discriminated and counted according to the discrimination count result of the bill discrimination counting unit, and a bill storage unit for accumulating bills. Depending on the handling type of the banknote, the banknote is conveyed from one of the deposit / withdrawal port section and the banknote storage section to the banknote inlet of the separating section, and is also stacked in each of the temporary stacks. A banknote handling device comprising: a transport mechanism section for transporting and transporting the banknote to and from one of the deposit / withdrawal port section and the banknote storage section.