JPH087813B2 - Deposit processing control method in banknote handling apparatus - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus that performs deposit processing, withdrawal processing, and the like of banknotes, and in particular, an operator uses a banknote handling unit of the banknote handling apparatus for deposit processing. The present invention relates to a deposit processing control method for effectively performing the bill return processing when the operator receives an instruction to stop the deposit processing after the banknote is cassetted in the deposit / exit exit and before the deposit processing operation is completed. .

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of bill handling device proposed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-129822, at the time of loading (depositing), the bill that the user has inserted into the bill loading / unloading port is They are collectively transported to the separation / intake port of the counting mechanism section. Then, the bills are separated one by one and taken into the counting mechanism unit,
After being discriminated and counted, the authenticity of the bill. They are classified according to the result of discrimination such as denomination, and are dispersed and accumulated in a plurality of accumulation parts.

After that, the input amount is displayed to confirm with the user whether or not the import process can be continued. At this point, if the user requests to stop the import process, the banknotes accumulated in each stacking unit are The procedure of repeatedly taking out the bills by the bill transporting mechanism unit, carrying the bills to the bill taking-in and paying-out exit unit, and returning the bills to the user was repeated.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

In the above-mentioned conventional technology, there is no consideration for returning the inserted banknotes in a lump, and there is a concern that the user may forget to return the banknotes that are returned in batches.

As a method of collectively returning the inserted banknotes, 1
After the banknotes taken out from the other stacking sections are carried and stacked on the banknotes accumulated in one stacking section, the banknotes dispersed in the plurality of stacking sections are stacked in one stacking section, and then the banknote take-in / out port section It may be possible to collectively deliver the data to the user, but this method has the following problems. 4 and 5 show the operation sequence of the bill transport mechanism in the above method, 6 is a hand portion of the bill transport mechanism, 45 and 46 are stacking units of the counting mechanism, and 8 is a bill. The hand portion 6 is formed in a fork shape having a large number of slits 6a, and the accumulating portions 45 and 46 are provided with a large number of slits 45a and 46a through which the hand portion 6 passes. When the banknotes distributed in the plurality of stacking units are stacked in one stacking unit, the hand unit 6 is stacked in the stacking unit 45 as shown in FIGS. 4 (a), (b) and (c). Holding all the banknotes 8 in a batch and take them out from the stacking unit 45,
As shown in FIGS. 5 (a), (b) and (c),
Since the operation of carrying on top of the other stacking unit 46, releasing the grip, and stacking the gripped banknotes 8 on the banknotes 8 accumulated in the stacking unit 46 is repeated, the stacking unit 46 is strongly folded. When the banknotes with the are accumulated, when the band portion 6 retracts leaving the banknotes held on it, the stacking section 46
It may damage the bill by rubbing the folded edges of the bill above.

An object of the present invention is, when the deposit processing is stopped at the request of the user, the bills dispersed and accumulated in the plurality of accumulating units of the counting mechanism unit are accumulated in one place without being damaged and are collectively returned. An object of the present invention is to provide a deposit processing control method for a banknote handling apparatus that can be used.

[Means for Solving Problems] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the present invention, a banknote take-in / pay-out port section for transferring banknotes to and from an operator, a storage section for storing banknotes, A first transport unit that grips and transports banknotes in order to transfer the banknotes between a plurality of stacking units for temporarily stacking the banknotes, the banknote take-in / pay-out port unit, the storage unit, and the plurality of stacking units. And a separation unit that separates and takes in the banknotes delivered from the first transport unit one by one, an inspection unit that discriminates and counts the separated banknotes, and one selected according to the discrimination result of the inspection unit. A deposit processing control method in a banknote handling apparatus, comprising: a counting mechanism unit including a second transport unit that transports banknotes to a stacking unit of; and an input unit for inputting whether or not to continue transaction processing, Distinguish bills received from the bill take-in / pay-out outlet by the counting mechanism. Then, after accumulating in the accumulating unit, if a request to stop the deposit process is input from the input unit, one of the accumulating units dispersed among the plurality of accumulating units is selected. The banknotes in the other stacking units except the above are transported to the separating unit by the first transporting unit, transported to the one stacking unit by the second transporting unit after being separated by the separating unit, and the banknotes are stacked. After the other accumulations of state have disappeared,
It is characterized in that the first transport unit transports the banknote from the one stacking unit to the banknote take-in / pay-out exit unit and returns the banknote.

[Action]

In the present invention, the banknotes that are dispersed and accumulated in the plurality of stacking units are not directly stacked in one stacking unit by the banknote transporting mechanism unit, but are separated and conveyed one by one through the counting mechanism unit so that one banknote is collected. Since the transporting mechanism section performs only the take-out operation (FIG. 4) for each stacking section by using the stacking section, the banknotes can be collectively returned without damaging the accumulated banknotes.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of a bill handling apparatus to which the control system of the present invention is applied. In FIG. 2, the banknote take-in / pay-out port section 1, the banknote storage sections 2 and 3, and the counting mechanism section 4 are respectively configured as independent elements, and the banknotes are transferred between these elements by arrows a,
It is collectively performed by the bill transport mechanism unit 5 having a hand unit 6 which performs vertical movement, forward / backward movement, rotation, and opening / closing operation indicated by b, c, and d. The counting mechanism unit 4, as shown in FIG.
Separation unit 41 that separates and takes in the banknotes that have been stacked by pusher 41a and separation and intake rollers 41b and 41c one by one, inspection unit 42 that identifies and counts the taken-in banknotes, and belt 43a that passes the banknotes that passed inspection unit 42. , 43b, a transport path 43 for sorting and transporting according to the discrimination result, a stacking unit 44, 45, 46 for depositing the transported banknotes by type, and a gate 47a at the branch point of the transport path 43, 47b is provided, and passage detection sensors 48a to 48e for detecting passed banknotes are provided in the middle of the separating unit 41 and the transport path 43.

The above-mentioned respective parts of the device are centrally controlled according to a control program set by the control part 7.

Next, a bill return operation when the take-in process is stopped will be described.

When the user inserts a bill into the bill intake / exit unit 1, the hand unit 6 of the bill conveying mechanism unit 5 collectively holds the inserted bills and conveys them to the separating unit 41 of the counting mechanism unit 4. The bills separated one by one by the separating unit 41 are discriminated and counted by the inspection unit 42, and then sorted by the discrimination result of the bills such as authenticity and denomination, and the stacking units 44, 45, 46 via the transport path 43. Disperse and deposit. Here, the number of banknotes accumulated in the stacking unit 44, 45, 46 is N
_The symbols ₄₄ , N ₄₅ , N ₄₆ are used. At the time when banknotes are accumulated in each stacking unit, if the user requests to stop the import process,
The device returns the taken bills in the following procedure. Now, each collection unit
It is assumed that the number of banknotes accumulated on 44, 45, 46 is N ₄₄ <N ₄₅ <N _46, and for the sake of convenience, all of the banknotes to be collected are stored in the stacking unit (here, 46) with the largest number of banknotes. If they are to be piled up, first, the banknotes in the stacking unit 44 are collectively gripped by the hand unit 6 and transported to the separating unit 41. The banknotes separated one by one by the separating unit 41 are conveyed to the accumulating unit 46 via the conveying path 43 by the operation of the gate 47a shown in FIG. While the banknotes are being separated and conveyed, the hand unit 6 moves to the stacking unit 45, and after the separation of the previous banknotes is completed, the banknotes in the stacking unit 45 are collectively gripped by the hand unit 6 and transported to the separating unit 41. . Similar to the previous time, the bills separated one by one in the separating unit 41 are conveyed to the accumulating unit 46 via the conveying path 43 by the operation of the gate 47a, and are accumulated. In this way, the bills distributed in the three stacking units can be stacked in one stacking unit.
The taken-in bills accumulated in one accumulating unit (46 in this example) are collectively grasped by the hand unit 6, transported to the bill taking-in / pay-out outlet unit 1, and returned to the user.

 The control flow of the above-mentioned bill return is shown in FIG.

The banknotes inserted into the banknote take-in / pay-out exit section 1 are counted by the counting mechanism section 4
The user is asked to confirm whether or not the import processing can be continued at the time when the data is discriminated / counted by and accumulated in each accumulation unit (100). Here, when the user selects to continue the processing, normal processing such as storage of banknotes in each stacking unit is performed (107). When the user chooses to cancel the processing, the number of banknotes stacked in the stacking units 44, 45, 46 is checked based on the counting result of the inspection unit 42, and the stacking units with the smallest number are stacked. To rank 1
Put a few (101). Next, it is checked whether or not banknotes are accumulated in the stacking unit of rank 1 (44 in the above example) (102), and if they are stacked, the hand unit 6 collectively grips the banknotes in the corresponding stacking unit. Then, it is transported to the separation unit 41, and then separated and transported to the stacking unit of rank 3 (46 in the above example) (10
3). The stacking unit of rank 2 (45 in the above example) is also processed by the same procedure as above (104, 105). In this way, after all the taken-in banknotes are accumulated in the stacking unit of rank 3, the collected taken-in banknotes are collectively grasped by the hand unit 6 and transported to the banknote take-in / pay-out exit unit 1 and returned to the user. Yes (106).

As described above, if the banknotes dispersed in each stacking unit are stacked in the stacking unit having the largest number of stacked sheets, the imported banknotes can be stacked in a minimum time.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, in the bill handling apparatus in which the bill take-in / pay-out port unit, the bill storage unit, and the counting mechanism unit are configured as independent elements, and the bills between the above-mentioned elements are collectively delivered by the bill transport mechanism unit. , When the taking-in process is stopped, the taken-in bills dispersed and accumulated in the plurality of accumulating units of the counting mechanism unit can be accumulated in one accumulating unit without damaging the bills and can be collectively returned to the user. Therefore, it is possible to improve the reliability of handling banknotes and prevent the user from forgetting to take it easily when returning the bills in batches.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of a control system of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a bill handling apparatus to which the present control system is applied, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a counting mechanism section in FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the bill taking-out operation of the bill transporting mechanism section, and FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the same bill stacking operation. 1 …… Bill-in / out port, 2,3 …… Bill storage unit, 4 …… Counting mechanism unit, 41 …… Separating unit, 44,45,46 …… Stacking unit, 5 …… Billage transporting mechanism unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A banknote take-in / pay-out port section for giving and receiving banknotes to and from an operator, a storage section for storing banknotes, a plurality of stacking sections for temporarily stacking banknotes, and the above-mentioned banknote take-in and payment. In order to transfer the banknotes between the outlet section, the storage section, and the plurality of stacking sections, a first transfer section that grips and transfers the banknotes, and one banknote transferred from the first transfer section It includes a separation unit that separates and takes in, an inspection unit that discriminates and counts the separated banknotes, and a second conveyance unit that conveys the banknotes to one stacking unit that is selected according to the discrimination result of the inspection unit. A deposit processing control method in a banknote handling device comprising a counting mechanism section and an input section for inputting whether or not to continue transaction processing, wherein the banknotes deposited from the banknote take-in / pay-out exit section are counted by the counting mechanism. Section, and after accumulating in the accumulation section, from the input section of the deposit processing When a stop request is input, among the banknotes that are distributed and stacked in the plurality of stacking units, banknotes in other stacking units except one of the stacking units are separated by the first transport unit. To the first stacking unit after being separated by the separating unit and then transported to the first stacking unit by the second transporting unit, and the other stacking unit in the state where the banknotes are stacked disappears. A deposit processing control method in a bill handling apparatus, wherein the bill is conveyed from the one stacking unit to the bill take-out / exit unit and the bill is returned.