JP5568485B2 - Banknote handling device corresponding to transport failure and failure recovery start method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus that transports banknotes based on banknote discrimination results.

  If a failure occurs during the transport of banknotes in the banknote handling device and remains in the transport path, it is important from the viewpoint of recovery time and cash failure that the attendant does not forget to remove the remaining banknotes . In the conventional bill handling device, if a conveyance failure occurs during bill conveyance, the failure position inside the device is specified and displayed. In Patent Document 1, a banknote handling device that can quickly perform an operation of releasing a faulty banknote by an attendant by specifically displaying a fault position inside the apparatus on a transport display, and as a result, can significantly reduce recovery time. Has been proposed.

JP-A-1-139449

  Conventionally, there is a case where the banknote cannot be reliably removed because there is no information for individually identifying the banknote only by the information on the failure position. In that case, after the restoration work, an extra operation such as removing the remaining banknotes again or searching for remaining ones is required, and there is a problem that the restoration work time increases.

  Also, because the banknotes to be removed cannot be found visually, forgetting to remove the residual banknotes, the residual banknotes are conveyed in a transaction different from the transaction in which the failure occurred, or a new jam failure is caused by the residual banknotes. There was a problem that the possibility of a failure also increased.

  The present invention temporarily collects a deposited banknote, a deposit / withdrawal port part that accepts or discharges a banknote, a banknote discriminating section that reads unique information of the banknote, and discriminates at least the denomination and authenticity of the banknote. A temporary storage unit, a plurality of banknote storage units for storing deposited banknotes or storing banknotes for withdrawal, and a banknote discrimination unit, and a deposit / withdrawal port unit, a temporary storage unit, and a banknote storage unit Banknotes based on the banknote transport path to be connected, a plurality of detection means for detecting the position information of the banknotes to be transported provided in the banknote transport path, and the discrimination information regarding the denomination or authenticity determined by the banknote discrimination section When the banknote discriminating information and the banknote unique information and the banknote position information are stored in correspondence with each other or stored in the storage section, and a banknote transport failure occurs and a remaining banknote exists Banknote identification information, banknote unique information And characterized in that it has a display unit for displaying the position information of the bill, the.

  According to the present invention, residual banknotes can be specified, and recovery time can be shortened by preventing forgetting them.

External view of automatic teller machine according to this embodiment Control mechanism diagram of automatic teller machine according to this embodiment The block diagram of the banknote handling apparatus which concerns on a present Example Control mechanism diagram of bill handling apparatus according to this embodiment The figure which shows the area information of the conveyance position which concerns on a present Example. Display diagram of remaining banknote information at the time of deposit counting processing according to the present embodiment Display table of residual banknote information during deposit counting processing according to the present embodiment Display table of residual banknote information when residual banknotes are not removed according to this embodiment Display table of residual banknote information after partial removal of residual banknote according to the present embodiment The display figure of the remaining banknote information at the time of deposit storage processing concerning a present Example Display table of residual banknote information during deposit storage processing according to the present embodiment Display figure of residual banknote information at the time of withdrawal processing according to the present embodiment Display table of residual banknote information at the time of withdrawal processing according to this embodiment Processing flow chart of control unit according to embodiment 5

  First, features according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  The banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment was deposited with a deposit / withdrawal port section that accepts or discharges banknotes, a banknote discrimination section that reads the unique information of the banknotes and discriminates at least the denomination and authenticity of the banknotes. A temporary storage unit for temporarily collecting banknotes, a plurality of banknote storages for storing deposited banknotes or storing banknotes for withdrawal, and a banknote discriminating unit, and a deposit / withdrawal port part, temporary storage A banknote transport path connecting the banknote storage section, a plurality of detection means for detecting position information of the banknotes transported provided in the banknote transport path, and a denomination or authenticity determined by the banknote determination section A banknote is conveyed based on the discrimination information, a banknote discrimination information, a banknote unique information, and a banknote position information are stored in correspondence with each other or stored in a storage unit, and a banknote conveyance failure occurs. If there are any remaining banknotes, Another information, and having a display unit for displaying the position information of the specific information and the bill of the bill, the. Thus, by displaying the position information of the banknote, the unique information, and the like in association with each other, the banknote to be removed becomes clear, so that it is possible to prevent the banknote from being forgotten.

  In addition, when a banknote transport failure occurs during deposit counting, the control unit returns the banknote remaining in the transport path from the deposit / withdrawal port to the banknote discrimination unit and returns the banknote from the deposit / withdrawal port. Discrimination information of banknotes remaining in the conveyance path other than the section, unique information, and position information are displayed on the display section. Thus, it becomes possible to suppress forgetting to remove a remaining banknote by setting it as the structure which an unidentified banknote does not remain in a conveyance path.

  Furthermore, the unique information of the banknote discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit at the time of deposit counting is stored in the storage unit in the order of being accumulated in the temporary storage unit, and the banknote transport failure occurs when the banknote is returned or stored. With respect to the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage unit and remaining on the conveyance path, when the unique information cannot be read by the banknote discriminating unit, the unique information stored at the time of depositing is displayed. Further, the banknote specific information determined by the banknote determination unit at the time of storage is stored in the storage unit in the order in which the banknote storage unit is stacked. For banknotes that have been fed out and remain in the transport path, when the unique information cannot be read by the banknote discriminating unit, the unique information stored when the banknotes are stored is displayed. Thus, even if it cannot acquire unique information at the time of banknote return or banknote storage, the banknote which should be removed can be specified by displaying the unique information at the time of banknote depositing counting.

  Furthermore, when only a part of the unique information of the banknote is read by the banknote discriminating unit when the conveyance failure occurs, the read specific information is displayed, and the display unit prompts the user to remove the remaining banknote. It is characterized by displaying a screen. Then, when the control unit detects that the banknotes are accumulated in the temporary storage unit or the banknote storage unit by the detection sensor, the control unit associates the accumulated banknote discrimination information and unique information with the deposit order information in the storage unit. It is characterized by memorize | storing, Then, the specific information of the banknote drawn | fed out from the temporary storage part or the banknote storage part is memorize | stored in a control part, It is characterized by being deleted from a memory | storage part. Here, it is preferable that the specific information of a banknote is the information regarding a serial number, and it is preferable that a banknote discrimination | determination part discriminate | determines the state of a banknote in addition to the money type and authenticity of a banknote. When banknotes are accumulated in the temporary storage unit and the banknote storage unit in this way, banknote information is stored in the storage unit, while when banknotes are fed out from the temporary storage unit and the banknote storage unit, they are stored in the storage unit. By deleting the banknote information stored in the control unit and minimizing the amount of data stored in the control unit, the load on the control unit can be suppressed.

Next, a deposit / withdrawal port portion that accepts or discharges banknotes, a banknote discriminating section that reads the unique information of the banknotes and discriminates the denomination and authenticity of the banknotes, and temporarily stores the banknotes that have been deposited A storage unit, a plurality of banknote storages for storing deposited banknotes or storing banknotes for withdrawal, and a banknote discriminating unit, and connecting a deposit / withdrawal port unit, a temporary storage unit, and a banknote storage unit Based on the banknote transport path, a plurality of detection means provided on the banknote transport path for detecting the position information of the banknotes to be transported, and the discrimination information regarding the denomination or authenticity determined by the banknote discrimination section A control unit that stores and stores the banknote identification information and the banknote unique information and the banknote position information in correspondence with each other. Stores unique information of banknotes remaining on the road The banknote discriminating unit reads and counts the banknotes that have been removed, reads the unique information of the removed banknotes, and the recovery process is triggered when the stored unique information of the remaining banknotes matches the unique information of the removed banknotes that have been deposited and counted. It is characterized by starting. Moreover, when the conveyance trouble of a banknote generate | occur | produces, a control part determines the presence or absence of a residual banknote,
When there are residual banknotes, the unique information and position information of the banknotes remaining in the transport path are displayed on the display unit to prompt removal of banknotes remaining in the transport path, and after removing the remaining banknotes, The removed banknote is prompted to be inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port, conveyed to the banknote discriminating section, and the unique information of the inserted removed banknote is compared with the stored unique information of the remaining banknote for determination. It is characterized by that. In this way, the configuration for comparing the banknote information stored as the remaining banknotes and the banknote information of the removed banknotes and the configuration for starting the recovery process only when they match and eliminate the forgetting, and Since the restoration process starts after the remaining banknotes are completely removed, it is possible to shorten the time until the restoration is completed. Further, when a banknote transport failure occurs at the time of depositing and counting, the control unit returns the banknote remaining in the transport path from the deposit / withdrawal port unit to the banknote discriminating unit to the deposit / withdrawal port unit. The unique information and position information of the banknotes remaining on the transport path other than the banknote discriminating unit are displayed on the display unit, and urged to remove the banknotes remaining on the transport path.

  Next, in the recovery start method at the time of a transport failure according to the present embodiment, a step of storing unique information of banknotes remaining in the transport path when a transport failure occurs, and a prompt to display and remove the position of the remaining banknotes are prompted. A step, a step of prompting the inserted banknote to be inserted into the banknote handling device, a step of comparing the unique information of the banknote storing the unique information with the unique information of the inserted banknote, and determining a match, And a step of starting recovery processing when they coincide with each other.

  Next, this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. First, FIG. 1 is an example of an external view of a banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment. The automatic cash transaction apparatus 101 of the present embodiment includes a card statement processing mechanism 102 for processing a customer transaction card and transaction statement slip, a passbook processing mechanism 103 for processing a passbook, a housing 104, and necessary for transactions. An operation display unit 105 is provided for displaying information to the user or input by the user, or for an attendant to display or input information for confirmation. In the automatic teller machine 101, a configuration is described in which the user and the clerk use the same operation display unit 105. However, a separate operation display unit for the clerk may be provided separately from the user. In addition, a bill deposit / withdrawal device 1 is provided inside the housing 104. FIG. 2 is a control block diagram of the apparatus according to the present embodiment. The card statement processing mechanism 102, the passbook processing mechanism 103, the operation display unit 105, and the bill deposit / withdrawal device 1 are connected to the main body control unit 106 via the bus 110, and are necessary operations under the control of the main body control unit 106. I do. In addition, the interface unit 107, the clerk operation unit 108, and the external storage device 109 are also connected by the bus 110 to exchange necessary data, but detailed description thereof is omitted. Note that power is supplied to the mechanisms and components from the power supply unit 111.

  Next, FIG. 3 is an example of a diagram illustrating a configuration of the banknote depositing / withdrawing device 1 mounted on the automatic teller machine 101, and FIG. 4 is an example of a diagram illustrating a control mechanism thereof. The banknote deposit / withdrawal apparatus 1 includes a deposit / withdrawal port 2 for depositing / withdrawing banknotes, and a banknote discriminating unit 3 for discriminating the denomination, authenticity or state of each banknote being conveyed. In particular, the bill discriminating unit 3 also has a function or means for reading bill-specific information (for example, a serial number printed on a bill, indicating information that can uniquely or uniquely identify a bill). Furthermore, the temporary storage unit 4 that temporarily stores the deposited banknotes until the transaction is established, the banknote storage that stores the banknotes handled by the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 1, the banknote storage that stores banknotes, and the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 Each component is connected, and it has the conveyance paths 5a-5e which convey a banknote, and the conveyance path sensors 13a-13i for detecting the passage of a banknote. Here, the banknotes are classified according to their roles. For example, a deposit box 6 for storing banknotes that are not handled as withdrawals such as reject banknotes that are judged to have been broken, etc. There are reflux cabinets 7 to 10 that store and discharge each denomination of banknotes according to the money. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. Of the deposited banknotes, banknotes that are determined to be unsuitable for withdrawal due to breakage or the like are stored in the deposit box 6. The second to fifth from the lower right are equipped with reflux cabinets 7-10. In the reflux cabinets 7 to 10, banknotes are stored according to denomination, and the stored banknotes are discharged at the time of withdrawal. For example, from the left, it can be a return box for 10 euro bills, 50 euro bills, 100 euro bills, and 200 euro bills.

  Furthermore, the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 1 includes a storage unit 11, and the storage unit 11 includes a plurality of storage areas. First, for the banknote temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 4 in the first storage area, when the banknote is transported to the banknote transport destination determined by the control unit 12, the banknote determination unit 3 determines the banknote Unique information, discrimination information (information that discriminates the denomination, authenticity, or state of the banknote) and deposit order information (banknote transport order) are stored. On the other hand, in the second storage area, the banknote discriminating unit 3 is used for transporting the banknotes conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 and the banknotes stored in the respective cassettes of the reflux cabinets 7 to 10 in the third to sixth areas. Specific information of the banknote determined, (determination information of banknote denomination, authenticity or state), and deposit order information (banknote transport order) are stored. The control unit 12 receives bill detection signals from the conveyance sensor paths 13a to 13i. Further, connected to the main body control unit 106 via the bus 110, the banknote depositing / dispensing device 1 is controlled according to the command from the main body control unit 106 and the state detection of the banknote depositing / dispensing device 1, The status is sent to the main body control unit as necessary.

  FIG. 5 is a display diagram showing banknote transport position information. The conveyance positions 501-519 which divided | segmented with the mechanism and conveyance path which take in / out the banknote of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 1, and also divided | segmented the conveyance path with conveyance path sensors 13a-13i are shown. The control unit 12 monitors the transport position of the banknotes to be transported using the transport path sensors 13a to 13i, and stores the corresponding transport position in FIG.

The user executes various transactions using the automatic teller machine 101. Typical transactions include deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions. In the deposit transaction, when the user inserts the banknote into the deposit / withdrawal port 2 and confirms the amount inserted in the operation display unit 105, if the amount is acceptable, the user can press the confirmation (OK) button to end the transaction. In some cases, the user presses the return button to return the inserted banknote and end the process. Here, with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 5, processing such as deposit counting processing, deposit storage processing, and deposit return processing will be described. In addition, in the withdrawal transaction, a predetermined number of banknotes are paid out from the return storage for each denomination of the return storage 7 to 10 according to the amount of money input by the user from the operation display unit 105 and paid to the user. The gold processing will be described.
(Example 1)
As Example 1, a case where a failure occurs in the deposit counting process will be described. First, the deposit counting process executed by the banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5, 6 and 7. In the depositing / dispensing process of the banknote depositing / dispensing device 1, when a user inserts banknotes into the depositing / dispensing port 2, the banknotes are separated one by one from the depositing / dispensing port 2, and are carried out onto the transport path 5a. Each banknote transported through the transport path is determined by the banknote discriminating section 3 for its denomination and authenticity, and further, a serial number that is unique information of the banknote is read. At this time, the control unit 12 determines the conveyance destination of the banknote based on the discrimination information that is the discrimination result obtained by discriminating the banknote of the banknote discrimination unit 3. In the determination of the transport destination, the transport destination of the banknote determined to be a genuine note by the banknote determination unit 3 is determined in accordance with the operation method of the reflux box 7. For example, in the operation method in which a 10 euro bill is stored in the reflux cabinet 10, when the banknote discriminating unit 3 determines that the type of the banknote is 10 euro, the control unit 12 sets the final transport destination of the banknote as the reflux cabinet 10 Before being transported to the final transport destination. In addition, the control unit 12 rejects the deposit / withdrawal port 2 with respect to a banknote that has been determined to be a banknote whose denomination cannot be determined by the banknote determination unit 3, a banknote having an abnormal dimension, a banknote whose unique information cannot be acquired, or the like. The stacker 14 is determined as the final transport destination. This is for judging that it is not accepted as a banknote and returning it to a user. As described above, the banknote depositing / dispensing device 1 does not pass the temporary storage unit 4 through the temporary storage unit 4 such that the denomination of the banknotes determined by the banknote determination unit 3 cannot be determined, the unique information of the banknotes cannot be read, or cannot be acquired. Are transferred to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 (reject stacker 14) and returned, but other banknotes are transported to the temporary storage unit 4.

  The control unit 12 monitors the banknotes fed from the deposit / withdrawal port 2 by using the above-described conveyance path sensors 13a to 13i until the banknotes are conveyed to the temporary storage unit 4 or the deposit / withdrawal port 2. The banknotes fed out from the deposit / withdrawal port 2 are first monitored by the transport path sensor 13a for the banknotes to pass. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13a, the transport position information of the banknote is stored. The transport position is position information obtained by dividing the transport path of FIG. 5 by the transport path sensors 13a to 13i, and is defined from the transport positions 501 to 519 as shown in FIG. 5, and each transport path sensor detects passage of a bill. Every time the banknote transport position information is stored. In the deposit counting process, when the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13a, the control unit 12 stores the transport position 502 as the detected transport position information of the banknote. Next, the passage of bills is monitored by the transport path sensor 13b. When the passage of bills is detected by the transport path sensor 13b, the stored transport position information is updated to the transport position 503. Further, it is monitored that the bill discriminating unit 3 discriminates. When the banknote is identified by the banknote discriminating unit 3, the control unit correlates the unique information of the banknote discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3, the discriminating information (information discriminating the denomination, authenticity or state of the banknote), and the transport position information. In step 12, the destination is determined from the banknote discrimination information by the method described above.

  When the transport destination determined from the banknote discrimination information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 is the temporary storage unit 4, the transport path sensor 13c next monitors the passage of banknotes. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13c, the control unit 12 updates the transport position information stored in association with the unique information of the banknote and the discrimination information of the banknote to the transport position 504. Subsequently, when monitoring the transport to the temporary storage unit 4 and detecting that it has been transported, the control unit 12 stores the unique information and discrimination information of the stored banknotes and the deposit order transported to the temporary storage unit 4 The information is associated and stored in the first storage area of the storage unit 11, and the unique information, discrimination information, and transfer position information of the conveyed banknote stored in the control unit 12 are deleted. On the other hand, when the conveyance destination determined from the banknote discriminating information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 is the deposit / withdrawal unit 2, passage of the banknote is monitored by the transport path sensor 13d. When the conveyance path sensor 13d detects passage of the banknote, the control unit 12 updates the conveyance position information stored in association with the unique information and discrimination information of the banknote to the conveyance position 505. Subsequently, when monitoring the conveyance to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 and detecting that it has been conveyed, the control unit 12 stores the unique information and discrimination information of the stored banknotes and the deposit order of conveyance to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 The information is associated and stored in the second storage area of the storage unit 11, and the unique information, discrimination information, and transfer position information of the conveyed banknote stored in the control unit 12 are deleted.

  Next, in the deposit counting process, a failure information display method when a failure occurs during bill conveyance and a bill remains on the conveyance path will be described with reference to FIGS. 6a and 6b. When a failure occurs during transport and banknotes remain on the transport path, the transport path 5a is fed out to return the banknotes fed from the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 and remaining on the transport path 5a to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2. The remaining banknotes are transported to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 by operating in the reverse direction. This is because there is no unique information and discrimination information of the banknote discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3, so that forgetting to take out due to lack of information to be compared when an attendant or the like removes the remaining banknote is prevented. First, the unique information of each banknote remaining in the transport path, the discrimination information (information that discriminates the denomination, authenticity, or state of the banknote) and the transport position information are displayed on the operation display unit 105. In FIG. 6a, a total of four banknotes remain in the transport positions 503 to 505, and the control unit 12 passes the stored banknote information to the main body control unit 106 via the bus unit 110, and the main body control unit 106 is displayed on the operation display unit 105.

  In the remaining banknote 61 in FIG. 6b, the banknote discriminating unit 3 reads the LMN 678 as unique information, and discriminates it as a 100 euro ticket for denomination, true for true / false, and good for state. Accordingly, the control unit 12 determines the temporary storage unit 4 as the transport destination in accordance with the method for determining the transport destination of the banknotes described above. A failure occurred during transport in the temporary storage unit 4 and remained at the transport position 504 in the transport path. Similarly, the remaining banknotes 62 and 63 are banknotes whose transport destination is determined by the temporary storage unit 4, and in the remaining banknote 64, the banknote discriminating unit 3 can read only a part as unique information, and the discriminating information is unknown about the denomination The ticket and authenticity are determined to be unknown, and the state is determined to be dirty. In order to return it to the user, the transfer destination was determined to be the deposit / withdrawal unit 2, and a failure occurred during the transfer to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 and remained at the transfer position 505 on the transfer path. Here, if the banknote discriminating information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 does not exist, or if the banknotes are poorly conveyed or the banknotes are dirty, etc., only a part of the banknote unique information can be read. Missing characters are displayed as “*”.

Next, a method in which the attendant removes the remaining banknote using the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105 will be described with reference to FIGS. 7a and 7b. When a failure occurs during the transaction, the automatic teller machine stops the operation of the device and notifies the occurrence of the failure. Upon receipt of the failure occurrence notification, the clerk determines the remaining position of the banknote by looking at the initial screen of the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105 in FIG. 7a. Thereafter, the banknote transport mechanism is manually rotated to move the banknote on the transport path to a place where it can be easily taken out and removed from the transport path. The unique information and denomination of the removed banknote are visually discriminated, and if there is banknote information whose unique information matches among the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105, the “removal” button for the matching residual banknote information Is displayed as a removed banknote. Here, the in-work screen of the remaining banknote information in FIG. 7b shows the already-removed banknote displayed on the operation display unit 105 and the remaining banknote information that has not been removed, and the remaining banknotes 61 and 64 have already been removed. This indicates that the remaining banknotes 62 and 63 are not removed. The clerk presses the “confirm” button on the operation display unit 105 after finishing the removal of all banknotes. If there is at least one piece of unremoved information in which the “removal” button has not been pressed in the remaining banknote information on the operation display unit 105, the remaining banknote information that becomes information at the time of failure again is displayed on the operation display unit 105. Display the initial screen and have the staff perform the removal work. When all the information has been removed, the main body control unit 106 notifies the control unit 12 that the residual information has been confirmed via the bus unit 110. When the control unit 12 receives the communication, the controller 12 erases all the remaining banknote information stored therein, and proceeds to the recovery process. As described above, when the “removal” button of all the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105 is not pressed, it is configured that the banknote cannot be recovered as being forgotten to remove the banknote, By performing the removal operation using information, it is possible to prevent forgetting to remove the banknote and to recover it in a state in which all banknotes have been removed.
(Example 2)
Next, a case where a failure occurs in the deposit storage process will be described. First, the deposit storage process will be described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 8a and 8b. This depositing and storing process shows the result of counting the banknotes on the operation display unit 105, and after allowing the user to confirm the deposit amount deposited by the user, the banknote depositing and dispensing device when storing the banknotes in the banknote bank 1 processing is shown. The banknote deposit / withdrawal apparatus 1 carries out banknotes from the temporary storage unit 4 onto the transport path 5c. The banknotes to be transported are discriminated again by the banknote discriminating section 3, and the banknotes are transported to the transport destination (reflux storage 7-10, safe 6) determined by the control section 12 based on the discrimination information by the banknote discriminating section 3. Store. The control unit 12 monitors the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit 4 using the above-described transport path sensors 13a to 13i until the banknotes are transported to the reflux box 7 to 10 or the safe 6. The banknotes drawn out from the temporary storage unit 4 are first monitored as they pass by the conveyance path sensor 13c. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13c, the control unit 12 associates and stores the unique information and discrimination information of the banknote stored as the banknote stored in the temporary storage unit 4 in the first area of the storage unit 11. (Information on which the denomination, authenticity or state of the banknote has been determined) and the deposit order information, the information on the banknote whose deposit order information is last is used as the banknote information at the time of deposit counting processing, and the transport position information ( At this time, it is stored in association with the transport position 503). At that time, the information of the banknote whose deposit order information in the first area of the storage unit 11 is last is deleted. Then, the passage of the transport path sensors 13b, 13a, 13e and others in order is monitored. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13b, the transport position information of the banknote stored in the control unit 12 is updated to the transport position 502, and when the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13a, the control unit 12 stores the information. The transport position information of the banknote being processed is updated to the transport position 501. At this time, the banknote discriminating unit 3 discriminates, but when the control unit 12 detects that the banknote discriminating unit 3 discriminates the banknote, the bill discriminating unit 3 discriminates the banknote information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 as banknote information at the time of depositing and storing. Unique information and discriminating information (information that discriminates the denomination, authenticity or state of the banknote), banknote information at the time of counting the aforementioned deposit (unique information and discriminating information of the banknote), and transport position information (At this time, the transport position 501) is stored in association with each other, and the transport destination is determined by the above-described method from the banknote determination information determined by the banknote determination unit 3.

  Next, the passage of banknotes is monitored by the conveyance path sensor 13e. When the passage of banknotes is detected by the transport path sensor 13e, the stored transport position information is updated to the transport position 506. Furthermore, when the transport destination determined from the banknote discriminating information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 is the safe 6, it is monitored that the banknote is transported to the safe 6. When the transport destination determined from the banknote discriminating information determined by the banknote discriminating unit 3 is the reflux box 7, the transport path sensor 13f is monitored next. In the case of the reflux box 8, the transport path sensors 13f and 13g are sequentially checked. In the case of monitoring and reflux cabinet 9, monitoring is performed in the order of conveyance path sensors 13f, 13g, and 13h. In the case of reflux cabinet 10, the passage of banknotes is monitored in the order of conveyance path sensors 13f, 13g, 13h, and 13i. When the conveyance path sensors 13f to 13i detect passage of banknotes, the control unit 12 updates the stored banknote conveyance position information to conveyance positions 507 to 510, respectively. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the last conveyance path sensor among the conveyance path sensors to be monitored in order, the control unit 12 monitors whether the banknote is next conveyed to the reflux boxes 7 to 10 as the conveyance destination. When detecting that the banknote is transported to the deposit box 6, the control unit 12 displays the stored banknote specific information, discrimination information and transport position information at the time of the stored deposit coefficient and stored deposit. delete. On the other hand, if it detects that a banknote is carried into the return | reflux store | warehouse | warehouse | chamber 7-10, the control part 12 will read the banknote specific information which the banknote discrimination | determination part 3 read by the money_receiving | payment accommodation process memorize | stored. The banknote discriminating information is associated with the deposit order information conveyed to each of the return boxes 7 to 10 and stored in the third to sixth storage areas corresponding to the return boxes 7 to 10 of the storage unit 11 and stored in the control unit 12. The banknote information of the banknote that has been transported is deleted.

  In the deposit storage process, if a failure occurs during transport and banknotes remain on the transport path, each banknote that remains on the operation display unit 105 has its unique information and discrimination information (when the banknote is Information indicating the denomination, authenticity or state) and the transport position information are displayed. By displaying the banknote unique information and discrimination information at the time of deposit counting, even if there is no banknote unique information or discrimination information by the banknote discriminating unit 3 at the time of depositing and storing, the clerk etc. compares when removing the remaining banknote Because there is information, you can prevent forgetting. Next, a failure information display method in the case where a failure occurs during the banknote conveyance and the banknote remains in the conveyance path in the deposit storage process will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 8a, a total of six banknotes remain in the transport paths 5a to 5e in the deposit storage process, and the control unit 12 displays information on the remaining banknotes stored in the main body control unit 106 via the bus unit 110. The main body control unit 106 displays it on the operation display unit 105.

The remaining banknote 81 in FIG. 8b is read as ABC123 as unique information by the banknote discriminating unit 3 at the time of deposit storage processing, and as discrimination information, it is discriminated as a 10 euro ticket for denomination, true for true / false, and good for state. ing. Further, it is the same as the unique information and discrimination information of the bill read by the bill discriminating unit 3 at the time of deposit counting. Therefore, the control unit 12 determines the reflux box 10 as the transport destination according to the above-described method for determining the transport destination of banknotes. However, the remaining banknote 81 remained at the transfer position 510 on the transfer path due to a failure during transfer to the reflux box 10. Since the denomination read by the banknote discriminating unit 3 was also a 10 euro ticket, the remaining banknote 82 was also a banknote whose transport destination was determined to be the reflux cabinet 10, and the remaining banknote 83 was denominated in a denomination information of 50 euro. The banknote whose transport destination is determined to be the reflux box 8 remains in the transport path 5e. In the remaining banknote 84, the banknote discriminating unit 3 can read only a part of the unique information, the unseen character is displayed as “*”, and the read part is displayed. Was determined to be unknown, and the state was determined to be torn. A failure occurred during transfer to the safe 6 and remained at the transfer position 506 in the transfer path. Since the remaining banknotes 85 and 86 failed before being recognized by the banknote discriminating unit 3, there are no banknote specific information and banknote discriminating information at the time of deposit storage, and all are unknown. Display the unique information of the banknotes that have been read and the banknote discrimination information (for example, the remaining banknote 85 is KLM357 as the unique information, and the discrimination information is 100 euros for denomination, true for true / false, good for state) To do. As for the method in which the attendant removes the remaining banknotes in the depositing and storing process, the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105 is removed as in the first embodiment.
(Example 3)
Next, the case where a failure occurs in the deposit return process will be described. First, the deposit return process will be described with reference to FIG. 3, FIG. 4, and FIG. This deposit return process was temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 4 when the deposit transaction was canceled by the user by pressing the return button in the confirmation of the deposit amount displayed on the operation display unit 105. The process of the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus 1 which returns a banknote to the deposit or withdrawal port 2 is shown.

  The banknote deposit / withdrawal device 1 carries out banknotes from the temporary storage unit 4 onto the transport path 5c, and transports the banknotes to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 as a transport destination. The control unit 12 monitors the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit 4 using the conveyance path sensors 13c and 13b until the banknotes are conveyed to the reject stacker 14 of the deposit / withdrawal unit 2. The banknotes drawn out from the temporary storage unit 4 are first monitored as they pass by the conveyance path sensor 13c. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13c, the control unit 12 stores the unique information of the banknote and the discrimination information stored in association with the first area of the storage unit 11 (denomination, authenticity or state of the banknote). The information with the last deposit order information in the deposit order information is stored in association with the transport position information (in this case, the transport position 503) as banknote information at the time of deposit counting. At that time, the deposit order information in the first area of the storage unit 11 deletes the information of the last banknote.

  Next, the passage through the conveyance path sensor 13b is monitored. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13b, the transport position information of the banknote stored in the control unit 12 is updated to the transport position 501. Here, it is monitored that the bill discriminating unit 3 discriminates. When the banknote discriminating unit 3 detects that the banknote has been discriminated, the banknote unique information and discriminating information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 (determination information of the banknote denomination, authenticity or state) are returned at the time of deposit return. As information, banknote information at the time of depositing counting (unique information and discrimination information of banknotes) and transport position information (in this case, transport position 501) are stored in association with each other. Next, it is monitored that the banknote is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2. When the control unit 12 detects that the banknote is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal unit 2, the control unit 12 stores the banknote that has been loaded, and the banknote unique information read by the banknote determination unit 3 in the deposit return process The banknote discrimination information and the deposit order information are associated with each other, stored in the second storage area of the storage unit 11, and the banknote information of the conveyed banknote stored in the control unit 12 is deleted.

In this deposit return process, if a failure occurs during transport and banknotes remain in the transport path, each banknote remaining on the operation display unit 105 is unique information and discriminating information at the time of deposit counting and deposit return (banknotes). Information indicating the denomination, authenticity, or state of the) and the transport position information. By displaying the unique information and discrimination information of the banknote at the time of deposit counting, even when there is no unique information or discrimination information of the banknote by the banknote discriminating unit 3 at the time of deposit return, Since there is information to be compared based on the unique information, it is possible to prevent forgetting. In the deposit return processing, when a failure occurs during the conveyance of the banknote and the banknote remains on the conveyance path, the display method of the failure information is displayed in the same manner as in the second embodiment. As for the method for the staff to remove the remaining banknotes in the deposit return process, the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105 is removed as in the second embodiment.
(Example 4)
Next, a case where a failure occurs in the withdrawal process will be described. With reference to FIGS. 3 to 5 and FIGS. 9a and b, the withdrawal process when paying out from the reflux box 7 will be described. The banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 1 carries out banknotes from the reflux box 7 onto the transport path 5e. The banknotes transported on the transport path are determined by the banknote determination unit 3, and the control unit 12 rejects withdrawal from the determination information by the banknote determination unit 3 (not accepted as banknotes to be paid to the user). The banknotes that are not in part 4 are determined as deposit / withdrawal port 2. The control unit 12 monitors the banknotes fed from the reflux box 7 using the above-described transport path sensors 13a to 13j until the banknotes are transported to the deposit / withdrawal port 2 or the temporary storage unit 4. The banknotes fed from the reflux box 7 are first monitored by the transport path sensor 13f for the banknotes to pass. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13f, the control unit 12 stores, as banknotes stored in the return box 7 in the third area of the storage unit 11, the unique information and discrimination information of the banknotes stored in association with each other. The information of the banknote denomination, authenticity or status), and the deposit order information, the last information of the deposit order information is the banknote information at the time of deposit storage processing, and the transport position information (in this case, the transport position 506 ) And remember. At that time, the deposit order information in the third area of the storage unit 11 deletes the information of the last banknote.

  Next, the passage through the transport path sensors 13e, 13a and 13b is monitored in order. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13e, the transport position information of the banknote stored in the control unit 12 is updated to the transport position 501. Next, when the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13a, the transport position information of the banknote stored in the control unit 12 is updated to the transport position 502. Further, when the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13b, the control unit 12 updates the banknote transport position information stored in the transport position 503. Further, it is monitored that the bill discriminating unit 3 discriminates. When the banknote discriminating unit 3 detects that the banknote has been discriminated, as banknote information at the time of withdrawal, the banknote unique information and discriminating information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 (determined whether the banknote denomination, authenticity or state) Information), the previously stored banknote information at the time of depositing and storing processing (unique information and discrimination information of banknotes), and transport position information (in this case, transport position 503) are stored in association with each other, and a banknote discriminator The transport destination is determined by the above-described method from the banknote discrimination information determined by 3.

  When the conveyance destination determined from the identification information of the banknote determined by the banknote determination unit 3 is the deposit / withdrawal port 2, passage of the banknote is monitored by the transport path sensor 13d. When the conveyance path sensor 13d detects passage of the banknote, the control unit 12 updates the stored banknote conveyance position information to the conveyance position 505. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13d, the control unit 12 monitors whether the banknote is next carried into the deposit / withdrawal port 2. And when it detects that a banknote is carried in into the deposit or withdrawal port 2, the control part 12 associates the specific information and discrimination information of the banknote at the time of the withdrawal process stored in the transported banknote and the deposit order information. The banknote information of the conveyed banknote stored in the second storage area of the storage unit 11 and stored in the control unit 12 is deleted. When the transport destination determined from the banknote discrimination information discriminated by the banknote discriminating unit 3 is the temporary storage unit 4, the transport path sensor 13c next monitors the passage of banknotes. When the conveyance path sensor 13c detects the passage of the banknote, the control unit 12 updates the stored banknote conveyance position information to the conveyance position 504, respectively. When the passage of the banknote is detected by the transport path sensor 13c, the control unit 12 next monitors whether the banknote is transported to the temporary storage unit 4. Next, when it is detected that the banknote is carried into the temporary storage unit 4, the control unit 12 associates the unique information and the discrimination information of the banknote stored in the banknote that is carried in and the deposit order information with each other. The banknote information of the conveyed banknote stored in the first storage area of the storage unit 11 and stored in the control unit 12 is deleted.

  In this series of withdrawal processing, when a failure occurs during transportation and banknotes remain in the transportation path, the unique information and discrimination information of each banknote remaining on the operation display unit 105 at the time of withdrawal and deposit storage ( Information indicating the denomination, authenticity or state of the bill) and the transport position information are displayed. By displaying the unique information and discrimination information of banknotes when depositing and storing, even if there is no unique information or discrimination information of banknotes at the time of withdrawal, there is information to be compared when an attendant etc. removes remaining banknotes. You can prevent forgetting. Here, a display method of the failure information when a failure occurs during the banknote conveyance in the withdrawal process and the banknote remains in the conveyance path will be described with reference to FIGS. 9a and 9b. In FIG. 9a, in the withdrawal process, a total of three banknotes remain in the transport paths 5a to 5e, and the control unit 12 displays information on the remaining banknotes stored in the main body control unit 106 via the bus unit 110. The main body control unit 106 displays it on the operation display unit 105.

9b, the banknote discriminating unit 3 reads ACE135 as unique information, and discriminates it as 200 euro ticket for denomination, true for true / false, and good for state. ing. Further, it is the same as the unique information and discrimination information of the bill read by the bill discriminating unit 3 when depositing and storing. Therefore, the control unit 12 determines the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 as the transport destination according to the method for determining the banknote transport destination described above, but a failure occurs during the transport of the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 and the transport position 505 in the transport path. Remains. The banknote discrimination unit 3 can read only a part of the remaining banknote 92 as unique information. As the discrimination information, it is determined that the denomination is unknown, the authenticity is unknown, the status is dirty, and the transport destination is temporarily The storage unit 4 was determined, and a failure occurred during transport to the temporary storage unit 4 and remained at the transport position 503 on the transport path. Since there was a failure before the remaining bill 93 was identified by the bill discriminating unit 3, there was no specific information and discriminating information on the bill at the time of withdrawal. As a discriminating information, PRT579 displays a 200 euro ticket for denomination, true for true / false, and good state for state. As for the method in which the clerk removes the remaining banknote in the withdrawal process, the banknote is removed using the remaining banknote information displayed on the operation display unit 105 as in the first embodiment.
(Example 5)
Next, the banknote depositing / withdrawing apparatus which compares only the banknote information of a residual banknote with the information of the removed banknote, and is recovered | restored only when the information corresponds is demonstrated using FIG. First, the control unit 12 stores the unique information of the banknote determined from the banknote determination unit 3 in the deposit counting process, the deposit return process, the deposit storage process, and the withdrawal process as in the first embodiment. Then, when a failure occurs during conveyance, and banknotes remain in the conveyance path, the control unit 12 stores the unique information of the banknotes remaining in the conveyance path, and the banknote deposit and withdrawal device Normal transactions such as withdrawal are stopped (step 1001). At that time, it may be displayed on the operation display section that the handling is stopped. If there is no banknote remaining in the transport path, the process continues to the recovery process (step 1006). On the other hand, when there are banknotes remaining in the transport path (step 1002), the control unit stores banknote information such as unique information and discrimination information of the remaining banknotes, and displays the position of the remaining banknotes on the operation display unit. (Step 1003), the staff confirming the position of the remaining banknote by the operation display unit is made to remove the remaining banknote. Then, using the operation display unit or the like, an instruction is given to insert the removed banknote into the deposit / withdrawal unit 2 (step 1004). When the removed banknote is inserted, a deposit counting process is performed in order to restore a state in which a normal transaction can be performed. At that time, the control unit 12 determines whether the unique information read by the banknote discriminating unit includes all the unique information of the banknotes remaining in the transport path stored in the control unit when a failure occurs (step S12). 1005). Here, if all the unique information of the remaining banknote is included, the process proceeds to the recovery process (step 1006). On the other hand, if all the unique information of the remaining banknotes is not included, it is determined that the remaining banknotes exist, the normal transaction is stopped, and the position of the remaining banknotes is displayed again on the operation display unit. The configuration prompts to remove (step 1003).

  In this way, if it is not possible to confirm that all the banknotes have been removed by the recovery counting process for recovery, by adopting a configuration that can not be recovered as if the banknotes have been forgotten, it is possible to recover as many times as possible when banknotes remain By being able to perform the deposit counting process, it is possible to prevent the banknote from being forgotten and to recover it in a state in which all banknotes have been removed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Banknote handling apparatus, 2 ... Deposit / withdrawal port, 3 ... Banknote discrimination | determination part, 4 ... Temporary storage part, 5a-5e ... Conveyance path, 6 ... Safe deposit, 7-10 ... Reflux storage, 11 ... Memory | storage part, 12 ... Control part, 13a-13i ... Conveyance path sensor

Claims (14)

A deposit / withdrawal port for receiving or discharging banknotes;
A bill discriminating unit that reads the unique information of the bill and discriminates at least the denomination and authenticity of the bill,
A temporary storage unit for temporarily collecting deposited banknotes;
A plurality of banknote storages for storing deposited banknotes or storing banknotes for withdrawal;
A bill transport path that passes through the bill discriminating section and connects the deposit / withdrawal port section, the temporary storage section, and the bill storage section;
A plurality of detection means provided on the banknote transport path for detecting position information of the banknotes to be transported;
Based on the discriminating information on the denomination or authenticity discriminated by the bill discriminating unit, the bill is conveyed, and the discriminating information on the bill and the unique information on the bill are stored in correspondence with the position information on the bill. A control unit that performs or stores in a storage unit;
A banknote handling apparatus comprising: a display unit that displays the banknote discrimination information, the banknote unique information, and the banknote position information when a banknote transport failure occurs and a remaining banknote exists. If the banknote transport failure occurs during deposit counting,
The control unit returns the banknote remaining in the transport path from the deposit / withdrawal port to the bill discriminating unit to the deposit / withdrawal port and transports the bill other than the bill discriminating unit from the deposit / withdrawal port. 2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein discrimination information, unique information, and position information of banknotes remaining on the road are displayed on a display unit. Stores the unique information of the banknotes determined by the banknote determination unit at the time of deposit counting in the storage unit in the order in which they are accumulated in the temporary storage unit,
When the banknote transport failure occurs when the banknote is returned or stored,
2. The banknotes that are fed out from the temporary storage unit and remain in the transport path, when the banknote discriminating unit cannot read the banknote information, the machine-specific information stored at the time of depositing is displayed. Banknote handling device. The unique information of the banknote determined by the banknote determination unit at the time of storage is stored in the storage unit in the order in which the banknote storage unit is accumulated,
When the banknote transport failure occurs at the time of banknote withdrawal,
2. The banknotes fed out from the banknote storage unit and remaining in the conveyance path, when the banknote determination unit cannot read the unique information, the unique information stored at the time of banknote storage is displayed. Banknote handling device.   2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when only a part of the unique information of the banknote is read by the banknote discriminating unit when the conveyance failure occurs, the read specific information of the banknote is displayed.   2. The bill handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a screen prompting the user to remove the remaining bills. The controller is
When it is detected by the detection sensor that banknotes are accumulated in the temporary storage unit or the banknote storage unit, the accumulated banknote discrimination information and unique information are associated with the deposit order information and stored in the storage unit. 5. The bill handling apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that:   5. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the unique information of the banknotes fed out from the temporary storage unit or the banknote storage unit is stored in the control unit and deleted from the storage unit.   2. The bill handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the unique information of the bill is information regarding a serial number.   2. The bill handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bill discriminating unit discriminates the state of the bill in addition to the denomination and authenticity of the bill. A deposit / withdrawal port for receiving or discharging banknotes;
A bill discriminating unit that reads the unique information of the bill and discriminates the denomination and authenticity of the bill,
A temporary storage unit for temporarily collecting deposited banknotes;
A plurality of banknote storages for storing deposited banknotes or storing banknotes for withdrawal;
A bill transport path that passes through the bill discriminating section and connects the deposit / withdrawal port section, the temporary storage section, and the bill storage section;
A plurality of detection means provided on the banknote transport path for detecting position information of the banknotes to be transported;
Based on the discriminating information on the denomination or authenticity discriminated by the bill discriminating unit, the bill is conveyed, and the discriminating information on the bill and the unique information on the bill are stored in correspondence with the position information on the bill. A control unit that performs or stores in a storage unit,
If a banknote transport failure occurs,
The unique information of the banknotes remaining in the conveyance path is stored, the banknotes removed from the conveyance path are deposited and counted, and the unique information of the removed banknotes is read by the banknote discriminating unit. A banknote handling apparatus that starts recovery processing when the counted unique information of the removed banknotes coincides. When the banknote transport failure occurs,
The control unit determines the presence or absence of residual banknotes,
If there are any remaining banknotes, display the unique information and position information of the banknotes remaining in the transport path on the display unit to prompt the removal of banknotes remaining in the transport path,
After removing the remaining banknote, urge the inserted banknote to be inserted into the deposit / withdrawal port,
Conveyed to the banknote discriminator,
12. The bill handling apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the unique information of the inserted removed banknote and the unique information of the stored remaining banknote are compared and determined. If the banknote transport failure occurs during deposit counting,
The control unit returns the banknotes remaining in the transport path from the deposit / withdrawal port to the bill discriminating unit to the deposit / withdrawal port, and then transports other than the bill discriminating unit from the deposit / withdrawal port. 12. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 11, wherein unique information and position information of banknotes remaining on the path are displayed on a display unit to prompt removal of banknotes remaining on the transport path. It is a recovery start method at the time of conveyance failure in a bill handling device,
Storing unique information of banknotes remaining in the transport path when a transport failure occurs;
Displaying the position of the remaining banknote and prompting it to be removed;
Urging to insert the removed banknote into a banknote handling device;
Comparing the unique information of the banknote in which the unique information is stored with the unique information of the inserted banknote, and determining a match;
A recovery start method at the time of a transport failure, comprising: a step of starting a recovery process when they match.

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