JPH0831170B2 - Deposit / withdrawal device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a depositing / dispensing device for handling banknotes such as a cash withdrawal device or a cash depositing device installed in a financial institution.

[Conventional technology]

 FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a conventional depositing / withdrawing apparatus.

In the payment transaction of this device, when the card 1 is inserted and a predetermined key is pressed, the conveyance path of the banknote is determined by the blade 5 provided at the branch point of the traveling path 4, and the banknote is taken out from the banknote storage unit 2. The bills are accumulated in the bill accumulating unit 6 through the traveling path 4 in the order of A, B, C, and D. The accumulated banknotes are moved in the E direction and taken into a banknote guide (not shown) provided in the rotating unit 7. After that, the rotating unit 7 is rotated by a predetermined angle, the bill guide is set to the shutter 8 position, the shutter 8 is opened, and the bill is paid to the customer.

On the other hand, in the deposit transaction, the bill is transferred from the shutter 8 to the rotating unit 7.
When the shutter 8 is closed, the bill is sent to the separating / counting unit 9. The banknotes of the separating / counting unit 9 are the discrimination unit
It is discriminated at 10, and is conveyed in the order of F and A along the traveling path 4 determined by the direction of the blade 5, and is accommodated in the bill accommodating portion 2.

In the above device, the bill traveling path 4 is changed depending on the direction of the blade 5, and as a driving means for driving the blade 5, a rotary actuator capable of high-speed driving in addition to a spring return type solenoid (for example, the present applicant). Japanese Patent Application No. 62-319824) filed by K.K. Here, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the blade 5 is connected to the rotary actuator 11 via the shaft 12, and FIG. 4 is an enlarged view showing a portion H in FIG.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

By the way, when a banknote is jammed in the above-mentioned conventional device, the jammed banknote in the middle of the traveling path 4 is manually moved by an operator to a position where the banknote can be taken out, and a work for taking out the banknote is performed.

However, in the device in which the blade 5 is driven by the spring return type solenoid, the blade 5 is spring-returned in a predetermined direction at the same time when the device is stopped, but the device in which the blade 5 is driven by the rotary actuator 11 is , The direction of the blade 5 in the apparatus stopped state is maintained as it is. For this reason, when manually moving the jam banknotes along the traveling path 4 to the retrievable position, depending on the position of the blade 5, the jam banknotes may be put in another kind of banknote storage unit 2 that should not be originally stored. Sometimes.
The same thing can happen when the direction of the blade 5 is switched by touching the blade 5 during the work. In other words, there is a risk that the 1,000-yen bills may be mistakenly put in the 10,000-yen bill storage unit during the operation of taking out the 1,000-yen bills. Then, there is a problem that this causes a trouble that a bill different from the operation amount is dispensed in the subsequent dispensing operation.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described conventional problems, and its purpose is to prevent the jam banknotes from entering and exiting the storage unit even if the operator makes a mistake. To provide a gold device.

[Means for solving the problem]

The depositing / dispensing device according to the present invention is provided with an accommodating section for accommodating banknotes according to the type, a conveying means for conveying the banknotes along a predetermined traveling path, and an entrance of the accommodating section, and the banknotes for the traveling path From the direction to lead to the accommodation section or the banknotes that are switched to any of the directions for transporting the banknotes along the traveling path, and a drive unit that switches the direction of the blades. In order to maintain the direction in which the banknotes are conveyed along the traveling path,
The driving means is driven every predetermined time.

[Action]

In the present invention, the drive means is driven at predetermined time intervals so as to maintain the direction of the blade in the direction in which the banknotes are conveyed along the traveling path when the banknotes are not running properly. By doing this, when the bills are not running properly, the blade direction is switched to a direction in which the bills are not guided to the storage unit, and even if the jam bills are manually moved along the traveling path to the bill unloadable position, the bills are stored. Jam bills are not guided to the section. Further, by driving the driving means at predetermined time intervals, even if the blade direction is accidentally touched and the blade direction is switched in the jam banknote removal work, the blade direction can be immediately switched to a direction in which the banknote is not guided to the accommodating portion, so that the jam Banknotes never enter the storage.

〔Example〕

 Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on the illustrated embodiment.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a depositing / dispensing apparatus according to the present invention. In the figure, the same components as those in FIG. 2 are designated by the same reference numerals and described. In this embodiment, a plurality of jam bill detecting sensors 20 each including a light emitting element and a light receiving element are provided so as to sandwich the traveling path 4. Further, a control unit 30 is provided which controls the direction of the blade 5 when the jam of the bill is detected by the sensor 20.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the control system of this embodiment.
As shown in the figure, the depositing / dispensing apparatus according to the present embodiment reads a banknote-conveying motor group 31, a motor driver 32 for driving the motor group 31, a switch group 33 for detecting banknotes in the banknote storage unit 2, and the state thereof. It has a reading circuit 34, a banknote discrimination sensor group 35, and a bill discrimination unit control unit 36. Further, this embodiment includes a rotary actuator group 11 for switching the blade 5, a driver 37 for intermittently driving the rotary actuator group 11, a timer 38, a sensor group 20 for detecting a banknote jam, its reading circuit 39 and a detecting section 40. ing. Then, the control unit 30 controls the motor group 31 and the rotary actuator group based on the detection signals of the sensor group 20, the sensor group 35, and the switch group 33.
11 drives are controlled.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the present embodiment when a paper jam is detected.

The operation at the time of detecting a banknote jam will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 1. First, in step (hereinafter referred to as S) 1, when a banknote jam is detected by the sensor 20 during the banknote transaction process, in S2. , Each rotary actuator 11
Blade 5 provided at the entrance of the bill storage unit 2 for driving the
Is switched to a direction in which the banknote is moved along the traveling path 4 (a direction in which the banknote is not guided to the banknote storage unit 2).

In S3, the rotary actuator 11 is intermittently driven to switch the direction of the blade 5 to the direction in which the bill is not guided to the bill accommodating portion 2. Here, FIG. 7 is a timing chart showing an example of the drive cycle of the rotary actuator 11, and shows a case where the drive period t ₁ and the rest period t ₂ are set by the timer 38.

In S4, the jam banknote is removed, and in S5, when the operator presses a reset key (not shown), the intermittent drive of the rotary actuator 11 is stopped, and the rotary actuator 11 is restored at the initial time.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when a banknote jam is detected on the traveling path 4, the drive for switching the blade 5 to the direction for conveying the banknotes along the traveling path 4 is executed. By doing so, when a jam is detected, the direction of the blade 5 is switched to a direction in which the banknote is not guided to the banknote accommodating portion 2, so that the banknote must be manually moved along the traveling path 4 to take out the jammed banknote. However, the banknote is never guided to the banknote storage unit 2. In addition, by intermittently driving the rotary actuator 11, even if the blade 5 direction is mistakenly changed in the jam banknote removal work, the direction of the blade 5 will soon be switched to a direction in which the banknote is not guided to the banknote storage unit 2. Therefore, the banknote is not guided to the banknote storage unit 2. Therefore, different banknotes are not mixed in the banknote storage unit 2 and troubles can be prevented.

Although the rotary actuator 11 is used as the drive means for the blade 5 in the above-described embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be applied to other types of drive means that do not automatically recover when stopped. It is valid.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, when traveling of a bill in the depositing / dispensing device is defective, the direction of the blade is changed every predetermined time so as to maintain the direction of the blade in the direction in which the bill is conveyed along the traveling path. Since the drive means for switching is driven, even if there is a human error such as accidentally changing the direction of the blade when performing a bill removing operation, the direction of the blade is switched until a predetermined time elapses. Therefore, it is possible to completely eliminate the cause of troubles such that different banknotes are mixed in the accommodating section without inserting the banknotes into the accommodating section. Therefore, there is an effect that it is possible to provide a highly reliable device with less trouble.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a depositing / dispensing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a conventional depositing / dispensing device, and FIG. 3 is a state of a blade and a rotary actuator. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an enlarged view of the portion H of FIG. 2, FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the operation of the control system of this embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a bill jam detected by this embodiment. FIG. 7 is a timing chart showing the intermittent drive of the rotary actuator when the operation is performed. 2 ... Banknote storage section, 4 ... Travel path, 5 ... Blade, 11
...... Rotary actuator, 20 …… Sensor, 30 …… Control unit, 37 …… Rotary actuator driver, 38…
… Timer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for storing banknotes according to types, a transporting unit for transporting the banknotes along a predetermined traveling path, and an entrance of the storage unit for storing the banknotes from the traveling path to the storage unit. Has a blade that can be switched to either a direction that guides the banknote or a direction that conveys the bill along the traveling path, and a drive unit that switches the direction of the blade. A depositing / withdrawing apparatus, characterized in that the driving means is driven at predetermined time intervals so as to maintain the transporting direction along the traveling path.