JP2503993B2 - Paper processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

Description: (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a paper sheet processing apparatus for processing deposit and withdrawal banknotes, such as an automatic teller machine used in banking.

(B) Conventional Technology As a conventional paper sheet processing apparatus of the above-mentioned example, for example,
There is a device described in Japanese Patent Application No. 60-252389.

That is, the apparatus is provided with a discrimination unit such as a bill checker that discriminates the denomination of a paper sheet, and a transport route that re-discriminates a paper sheet that has a poor determination by this discrimination unit.

In the above-mentioned conventional device, for example, when all the banknotes whose denominations could not be discriminated by the discriminator are set to be reclassified unconditionally, among the above-mentioned banknotes, a damaged banknote, a banknote whose end is greatly bent Alternatively, it is possible that non-banknotes such as receipts are mixed in, and unconditionally reread all the banknotes that have not been judged correctly in the first denomination discrimination, a jam will occur, or the banknotes will become jammed and the reliability of the device will deteriorate. However, there is a problem that

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention This invention provides a paper sheet that can be re-identified by determining whether or not it can be re-read after temporarily storing the paper sheet that has been determined to be defective by the discrimination unit. , A unique configuration that distinguishes between non-re-identifiable paper sheets and re-reads only the re-identifiable paper sheets, thereby improving the paper-sheet reading rate, and making paper-sheet jams. It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet processing apparatus that can prevent the occurrence of the occurrence of the jam and can prevent the reliability of the apparatus from being deteriorated due to the jam, thereby shortening the processing time.

(D) Means for Solving the Problem The present invention provides a paper sheet provided with a discrimination section for discriminating the denomination of a paper sheet, and a transportation route for re-discriminating a paper sheet that has not been judged by the discrimination section. In the processing device, the determination failure temporary storage unit that is provided in the transport route and temporarily stores the paper sheet that is not determined by the identification unit, and the re-readability is determined based on the identification result of the identification unit. The determination means and a sheet that can be re-discriminated based on the determination result of the determination means are stored in the determination failure temporary store section in the transport route, and then re-discrimination is performed after this store, and the non-re-discriminating paper sheet It is characterized in that it is a paper sheet processing apparatus provided with a control means for controlling return of paper sheets.

(E) Advantageous Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, it is determined whether or not a determination-defective paper sheet whose denomination cannot be discriminated by the discrimination unit is stored in the temporary storage unit and then re-read by the determination unit. By determining, by distinguishing between paper sheets that can be re-distinguished, and paper sheets that cannot be re-distinguished, the distinguished re-distinguishable paper sheets are conveyed by the conveyance route and re-discriminated, Paper sheets that cannot be re-identified are returned to, for example, a doorway.

For this reason, since it is necessary to reread only the re-identifiable paper sheets, there is an effect that the paper reading rate can be improved.

At the same time, after the defectively determined paper sheets are temporarily stored, the above-described re-identification or return processing is executed, so that there is an effect that the processing time is wasted and the processing time can be shortened.

In addition, paper sheets that cannot be reclassified, such as banknotes with a high damage rate, banknotes with large bent ends, or non-banknotes such as receipts, are returned without rereading. It is possible to prevent the invention of jamming due to the jam and to prevent the reliability of the device from being lowered due to the occurrence of the jam.

(F) Embodiment of the Invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawing shows a bill processing apparatus, and in FIG. 1, bill A,
The front and rear guide plates 2 and 3 forming the entrance / exit 1 of A ... are provided, and the fixed guide 4 extending downward from the lower end of the guide plate 2 is disposed at the lower part of the front guide plate 2 and the rear side. At the lower part of the guide plate 3 is provided a movable guide 5 which is opened as indicated by a phantom line in FIG.

Further, the receiving plate 6 is horizontally arranged below the entrance 1 and the front end of the receiving plate 6 is bent downward to integrally form a guide piece 6a for forming a passage 7 between the fixed guide 4 and the guide piece 6a. are doing.

Then, the take-in roller 8 and the friction roller 9 are opposed to each other in the above-mentioned passage 7, and a part of the peripheral surface of the auxiliary take-in roller 10 disposed above the take-in roller 8 is projected into the above-mentioned inlet / outlet 1 by a predetermined amount. , The banknote A inserted into the doorway 1 ...
Is formed so that the above rollers 8, 9 and 10 can sequentially take in one by one.

Below the lower end of the above-mentioned passage 7, a first conveying path for conveying the banknote A to the discriminating section 13 by the first belt 11 arranged diagonally and the second belt 12 opposite to the belt 11. 14
Is formed.

The above-mentioned discrimination section 13 is disposed next to the opposing rollers 15 and 15 disposed at the feed end portion of the first conveying path 14, and the third belt 16 and the third belt 16 are disposed next to the discrimination section 13. A second conveying path 18 is formed by the fourth belt 17 and the third belt 16.

At a position facing the feed end portion of the second conveyance path 18, a fifth belt 19 arranged vertically and a sixth belt 20 opposed to the fifth belt 19 form a third conveyance path. twenty one
And the seventh belt 22 that is opposed to the rear belt portion 20a of the sixth belt 20 described above is formed.
The second conveyance path 23 is formed by 2, and the bills discriminated by the discrimination section 13 are once conveyed to the pool section 24.

The eighth belt 25 is provided above the seventh belt 22 described above.
And, the opposed rollers 26, 27, 28, and the guide 29, 30 to form the front and back reversing mechanism 31 of the bill, only when it is determined that the bill discrimination backside conveyance state in the discrimination unit 13 described above, this conveyed bill. The above-mentioned reversing mechanism 31 reverses the inside and outside so that the bills are once conveyed to the pool unit 24 with the front and back aligned.

The above-mentioned temporary pool section 24 includes the receiving plate 32, the pressing plate 33 that moves back and forth on the receiving plate 32, and the feeding roller arranged on the feeding side.
34 and a friction roller 35.

At the upper end of the sixth belt 20 described above, a ninth belt 36 that opposes the belt 20 is provided, and a fifth transport path 37 is formed by both belts 20 and 36, and at the discrimination unit 13 described above. The banknotes that have been discriminated to be defective are configured to be conveyed to the determination failure temporary store section 38.

The temporary store section 38 includes opposing rollers 39, 39 arranged at the store entrance, a movable plate 40 that can swing, and the movable plate 40.
A store plate 41 arranged below and a 10th belt that can be raised and lowered.
42 and feed rollers 43, 43 opposed to the belt 42 at the upper moving position of the belt 42. When the movable plate 40 is moved downward as shown by the solid line in FIG. A ...
Is temporarily stored in the above-mentioned store receiving plate 41, and the movable plate 40 and the tenth
The belt 42 is moved upward as shown by the phantom line in the figure to reread or return the defective bill A.

An eleventh belt 44 and a twelfth belt 45, which are arranged obliquely toward the front, are provided opposite to each other at the outlet of the above-mentioned temporary store section 38 to form a sixth conveyance path 46.

A thirteenth belt 47, which opposes the upper belt portion of the second belt 12 described above, is provided at a position facing the feed end portion of the sixth conveyance path 46.
And each of these belts 12 and 47 form a seventh transport path 48 for transporting the discharged banknote to the doorway 1 side.

Further, a 14th belt 49 is arranged between the feed end portion of the seventh transport path 48 and the midway portion of the receiving plate 6 described above.

By the way, below the above-mentioned sixth belt 20, there is provided an eighth transport path 52 in which the feed roller 50 and the fifteenth belt 51 are provided in a pair, and the deposited banknote is provided by this eighth transport path 52 and a transport path described later. Are configured to be stored and collected in the storing units 53, 54, 55, the dispensing error banknotes and the defective banknotes in the defective collection unit 56, and the uncollected banknotes in the doorway 1 in the uncollected collection unit 57, respectively. There is.

The sixteenth belt 58 and the seventeenth belt 59 are arranged in a substantially straight line between the front of the feed roller 50 and the lower portion of the first belt 11 described above. The eighteenth belt 60, the nineteenth belt 61 and the seventeenth belt, which are opposed to each other, respectively.
A twentieth belt 62 is provided below the belt 59, and the ninth, tenth, and first belts are provided between the belts 58, 60, 58, 61, 59, 62, respectively.
1 conveying paths 63, 64, 65 are formed.

The rollers 66 are provided on the lower front and rear of the belts 60, 61 and 62 described above.
, And the guides 67 and 68 facing each other between the front end of the 18th belt 60 and the roller 66, and the opposed rollers 70 and 70 driven by the 21st belt 69 under the guides 67 and 68. Is installed,
Banknotes, for example, 5,000 yen bills conveyed from the ninth conveyance path 63 are configured to be stored in the storage section 53.

Further, the guides 71 and 72 facing each other are provided between the rear end of the eighteenth belt 60 and the roller 66, and the opposing rollers 73 and 73 are arranged below the respective guides 71 and 72 to correspond to the dispensing operation. Storage part 5 mentioned above
The banknote A in 3 is fed to the ninth transport path 63.

Similarly, guides 74 and 75 facing each other are provided between the front end of the 19th belt 61 and the roller 66, and the guides 74 and 75 are provided below the guides 74 and 75, respectively.
22 Opposing rollers 77, 77 driven by the belt 76 are arranged,
Banknotes transported from the tenth transport path 64, for example, 1,000 yen bills are configured to be stored in the storage unit 54, and guides 78, 79 facing each other are provided between the rear end of the nineteenth belt 61 and the rollers 66, Opposing rollers 80, 80 are arranged below the respective guides 78, 79, and the bill A in the above-mentioned storing section 54 is fed to the tenth transport path 64 in response to the dispensing operation. There is.

Further, guides 81, 82 facing each other are provided between the front end of the twentieth belt 62 and the roller 66, and the guides 81, 82 are provided below the guides 81, 82.
23 By disposing opposite rollers 84, 84 driven by the belt 83,
Banknotes, such as 10,000-yen bills, conveyed from the eleventh conveyance path 65 are configured to be stored in the storage unit 55, and guides 85 and 86 facing each other are provided between the rear end of the twentieth belt 62 and the rollers 66. , The opposing rollers 87, 87 are provided below the respective guides 85, 86, and the banknote A in the above-mentioned storage portion 55 is accommodated in response to the dispensing operation.
Is configured to be delivered to the eleventh transport path 65.

Here, each of the above-mentioned storage portions 53, 54, 55 has front and rear side plates 88, 8
8 and a pressure plate 8 that slides vertically along the rear side plate 88.
9 and a movable plate 90 which is disposed on the payout side and is operated to the solid line position in FIG. 1 when the banknote is stored and to the virtual line position in the drawing when the banknote is paid out.

The 17th belt 59 and the first belt above the belt 59.
The front end of 11 has the 24th belt opposite to these belts 59 and 11.
The belt 91 is arranged in the up-down direction to configure a twelfth transport path 92 that transports the dispensed banknote from the eleventh transport path 65 to the first transport path 14.

By the way, at the lower part of the above-mentioned eighth conveyance path 52, there is provided a roller 93 which opposes the lower end front part of the fifteenth belt 51.
A pair of front and rear guides 94, 94 facing each other are provided between the 93 and the above-mentioned fifteenth belt 51, and the first and second guides 94, 94 are provided at the lower part of the guides 94, 94.
25. Opposite rollers 96, 96 driven by the belt 95 are provided, and the above-mentioned defective collection section 56 is arranged below the pair of opposed rollers 96, 96 to collect the withdrawal error banknotes and defective banknotes. It is configured to be recovered.

Further, the above-mentioned 25th belt 95 is installed in a substantially horizontal direction from the opposing roller 96 toward the rear, and a roller 97 is provided which is opposed to the rear end of the lower belt portion of the 25th belt 95. belt
The defective L collection part 56 and the forgotten collection part 57 formed by partitioning are arranged by the inverted L-shaped guide 98 in the collection direction with respect to 95, and the banknotes that the user forgets to collect at the doorway 1 are collected. The part 57 is configured to perform recovery processing.

Further, below the lower belt portion 20b of the sixth belt 20 and the eighth belt
A first flapper F1 is provided between the upper side of the transport path 52 and
The bill A conveyed from the third conveying path 21 is configured to be sorted into the arrow d direction and the arrow l direction, but another flapper F2, F having the same function as the first flapper F1 is arranged.
3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8 are arranged at each branch portion of the banknote transport.

Then, due to the switching action of each flapper described above, the deposited banknote A is transported to each of the transport paths 14, 18, 21, 23 in the directions of the arrows a, b, c, d, e, f, and is temporarily transported to the pool section 24. It is configured accordingly.

Further, the flipped banknote A is turned upside down by the upside-down inversion mechanism 31 and is once conveyed to the pool section 24.

Further, the banknotes in the pool section 24 described above are transferred to the respective transport paths 23, 3
It is configured to convey 7,46,18,21,52,63,64,65 in the directions of arrows h, j, k, c, l, m and store them in the storing parts 53,54,55 by denomination. There is.

Furthermore, at the time of depositing, the banknote A that has been determined to be defective in the discrimination section 13 is conveyed in the directions c, d, e, h, and n of the conveyance paths 18, 21, 23, 37 and stored in the temporary storage section 38. According to the processing of the flow chart shown in FIG. 3, the judgment defective banknotes of the judgment defective temporary store section 38 are conveyed along the conveying paths 46 and 48 in the directions of the arrows j and p and returned to the doorway 1. Alternatively, after the flapper F3 is operated, it is configured to guide in the directions of the arrows k and c to perform rereading processing.

Here, the transport routes 99 for re-discriminating the banknotes A that have been judged to be defective by the discrimination unit 13 are configured by the respective transport routes indicated by arrows c, d, e, h, p, k in FIG. ing.

On the other hand, at the time of withdrawal, the banknotes in the respective storage units 53, 54, 55 are transferred to the respective transfer routes 63, 64, 65, 92, 14, 18, 21, 21, 23, 37, 46, 48 through the arrows q, b, c,
It is configured to carry out in the d, e, h, j, p directions and to discharge the withdrawal to the entrance / exit 1.

Further, the withdrawal error banknote that has an error at the time of withdrawal is configured to be conveyed to each of the conveying paths 18, 21, 52 in the directions of arrows c, l, r, and s and to be collected by the defective collecting section 56.

After the withdrawal, the forgotten banknotes of the doorway 1 that the user forgot to take are collected by forgoing the forgotten banknotes at the entrance 1 by carrying the respective transportation routes 14, 18, 21, 52 in the directions of arrows a, b, c, l, r, and t. The part 57 is configured to perform recovery processing.

In addition, each of the above-mentioned transport routes 14, 18, 21, 23, 37, 46, 48, 52, 63, 6
4,65,92 and the specified places between these transport routes,
A plurality of sensors S1 to S10 that optically detect passage of the bill A
Are arranged respectively.

Further, each of the above-mentioned transport paths is provided with the motor M shown in FIG.
The rotation is controlled by the driving force of the.

FIG. 2 shows a control circuit of the bill processing apparatus, and the CPU 100 is
Conveyance according to the program stored in the ROM 101, including the above-mentioned conveyance routes 14, 18, 21, 23, 37, 46, 48, 52, 63, 64, 65, 92 and the re-identification conveyance route 99, etc. Part 102 and discrimination part 13
Drive control of the retry counter 103, and the RAM 104
Stores necessary data such as discrimination data as discrimination result for each banknote, for example, 10,000 yen bill data, 5,000 yen bill data, 1,000 yen bill data, denomination unknown reclassification possible data, denomination unknown reclassification impossible data, etc. In addition, the deposit amount data is returned to the deposit amount area 105 in the return available flag area 106.
The FF data is stored in the re-classification prohibition flag area 107 for ON and OFF data of the re-classification prohibition flag, respectively.

Here, the above-described CPU 100 performs re-readability determination based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 13, re-discrimination conveyance control of the re-discriminating banknote A based on the feasibility determination, and return of the non-re-discrimination banknote A. Take control. That is, the above
The CPU 100 serves both as a determination means and a control means.

The operation of the bill processing apparatus configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In the first step 201, the CPU 100 clears the deposit amount data in the deposit amount area 105 in the RAM 104 and sets the retry counter 103 to zero.

Next, in a second step 202, the CPU 100 clears, ie, turns off, the respective flags of the return-possible flag area 106 and the re-discrimination prohibition flag area 107 in the RAM 104.

Next, in a third step 203, the CPU 100 drives and controls the transport unit 102 and the discrimination unit 13.

When the above-mentioned transport unit 102 is driven, the banknotes A inserted into the doorway 1 are sequentially taken in one by one by the rotation of the rollers 8, 9 and 10, and then transported from the passage 7 as shown by arrows a, b and c. Then, the discrimination unit 13 is reached, and the discrimination unit 13 discriminates the denomination.

Next, in a fourth step 204, the CPU 100 reads the discrimination result from the discrimination unit 13.

Next, in a fifth step 205, the CPU 100 determines whether or not the denomination determination is possible based on the discrimination result described above, and when the denomination determination is possible, the CPU 100 proceeds to the next sixth step 206.

In the sixth step 206, the CPU 100 returns the above discrimination result to R
Addition processing is performed on the deposit amount area 105 of AM 104 as deposit amount data.

Next, in a seventh step 207, the CPU 100 conveys the banknote A for which the denomination has been determined after discrimination in the directions of arrows c, d, e, f in FIG. Collect in 24.

Next, in the eighth step 208, the CPU 100 determines whether or not the return-possible flag is set in the return-present flag area 106 of the RAM 104, and this return-present flag is set during the processing of the banknote A whose denomination can be determined. Since there is no denomination, the series of processes for the banknote A for which the denomination can be determined ends.

The banknotes A once accumulated in the pool section 24 are stored in each storage section 53, 54, 55 by denomination according to a flowchart not shown after the series of processing in FIG.

On the other hand, when the CPU 100 determines that the denomination cannot be determined in the above-described fifth step 205, the process proceeds to the ninth step 209.

In this ninth step 209, the CPU 100 determines whether or not re-discrimination is possible based on the discrimination result described above, and the bill is not a bill with a high damage rate, a bill with a large bent end, or a bill such as a receipt. If it is determined that re-discrimination is not possible, the process proceeds to the following tenth step 210.

In this tenth step 210, the CPU 100 sets a re-identification prohibition flag in the re-discrimination prohibition flag area 107 of the RAM 104,
The process moves to the next eleventh step 211.

On the other hand, when the CPU 100 determines in the above-described ninth step 209 that the re-identification is possible, the above-mentioned tenth step 210
Immediately after skipping, the process moves to the eleventh step 211 described above.

That is, the reclassification prohibition flag is turned ON only when the reclassification is impossible.

In the eleventh step 211 described above, the CPU 100 sets the return available flag in the return available flag area 106 of the RAM 104. In other words, the return-possible flag is set on both the bills A that cannot be re-classified and whose denomination cannot be determined.

Next, in a twelfth step 212, the CPU 100 identifies the banknotes A whose discrimination is impossible by the discrimination section 13 described above and whose denomination cannot be determined by the arrows c, d, e, in FIG.
The banknote A is conveyed in the h direction, and the banknote A is judged to be defective.
After carrying out the carrying process, the process proceeds to the above-mentioned eighth step 208.

In the eighth step 208, the CPU 100 determines whether or not the return-possible flag is set, as described above. However, since this return-presence flag is set when processing the banknote A whose denomination cannot be determined, The process moves to the 13th step 213.

In this thirteenth step 213, the CPU 100 reads the data from the re-classification prohibition flag area 107 of the RAM 104, determines whether the re-classification prohibition flag is ON, and when this re-classification prohibition flag is set, in other words, In the case of a bill with a high damage rate, a bill with a large bent end, or a piece of paper such as a receipt that is not a bill, the process proceeds to the next fourteenth step 214.

In the fourteenth step 214, the CPU 100 conveys the banknote A in the judgment failure temporary store section 38 in the direction of arrows j and p in FIG. 1, and returns the banknote A to the doorway 1 without rereading it.

On the other hand, if the CPU 100 determines that there is no re-identification prohibition flag in the above-mentioned 13th step 212, that is, if the CPU 100 determines that the re-readable bill A, it proceeds to the following 15th step 215.

In this 15th step 215, the CPU 100 sets the retry counter 1
It is determined whether the retry is over or not based on the retry count value of 03.

If the retry count is set to be determined when the retry count value is “1”, the retry count value is “0” at this point due to the clearing process in the first step 201, so the next 16th Go to step 216.

In this 16th step 216, the CPU 100 makes the retry counter 1
After the retry count value of 03 is set to "1", the process returns to the above-mentioned second step 202 and only the re-identifiable bill A is re-read.

Since this re-reading process is performed on the above-mentioned transport route 99, when the sensor S6 detects the front end of the bill A, the flapper F3 is opened,
When the sensor S2 detects the trailing edge of the bill A, the flapper F3 is closed to enable the rereading process on the transport route 99.

In short, after determining whether or not the banknote A with the determination failure that the denomination cannot be discriminated by the discrimination section 13 is re-readable in the ninth step 209 of the CPU 100, the re-discrimination prohibition flag is turned ON,
A re-readable banknote without a re-classification prohibition flag among the distinguished banknotes A is distinguished by distinguishing between a banknote A that can be reclassified when OFF (no prohibition flag) and a banknote A that cannot be reclassified (has a prohibition flag). On the other hand, A discriminates along the transportation route 99, while the non-rereadable banknote having the discrimination-prohibition flag is immediately returned to the doorway 1.

As a result, since only the banknote A without the reclassification prohibition flag needs to be reread, the banknote reading rate can be improved.

In addition, since the banknote A that cannot be re-identified, specifically, a banknote with a high damage rate, a banknote with a large bent end, and a piece of paper such as a receipt that is not a banknote are returned to the doorway 1 without any rereading. Banknote A that cannot be reclassified
There is an effect that it is possible to prevent jamming (including a piece of paper such as a receipt) from occurring and to prevent a decrease in reliability of the banknote handling apparatus due to this jamming.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the determination means of the present invention corresponds to the ninth step 209 of the CPU 100 of the embodiment, and the like below, the control means corresponds to the CPU 100, and the paper sheets. Corresponds to the banknote A, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

 The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of the inside of a bill processing apparatus, FIG. 2 is a control circuit block diagram, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing bill deposit processing. 13 …… Discrimination department, 38 …… Defective judgment temporary store department 99 …… Transport route, 100… CPU A …… Banknotes

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A paper sheet processing apparatus, comprising: a discriminating section for discriminating a denomination of a paper sheet; and a conveyance route for re-discriminating a paper sheet that has not been discriminated by the discrimination section. A determination failure temporary storage unit that is provided in the route and temporarily stores paper sheets that are not determined by the determination unit, a determination unit that determines whether re-readability is possible based on the determination result of the determination unit, and a determination of the determination unit Based on the result, the re-identifiable paper sheet is stored in the determination failure temporary store section in the above-mentioned transport route, and the sheet is re-discriminated after this store, and the control means for controlling the return of the non-re-identifiable paper sheet. Equipped with a processing device for paper sheets.