CN108604398B - Paper money processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

A banknote processing device provided in a window of a financial institution, comprising: a deposit port part arranged in front of the device for depositing paper money; a delivery unit provided at the deposit port and configured to separate the banknotes one by one; a temporary holding section for storing the banknotes judged to be normal by the deposit recognition section for recognizing the banknotes separated by the feeding section; a return port for accumulating the paper money judged to be abnormal by the deposit identification part; and a deposit transport path connecting the deposit opening section, the temporary holding section, and the return opening; the banknote handling device further includes: a paper currency recovery part which is arranged at the rear of the device and is used for taking out the paper currency in the device; and a collection moving unit that moves the banknotes stored in the temporary holding unit to the banknote collection unit.

Description

Paper money processing device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus.

Background

Conventionally, a deposit transaction is performed with a customer in a window of a financial institution such as a bank. In particular, a deposit transaction of a large number of banknotes is performed in a banking window of a country with a low monetary value. Banknotes in countries with low monetary value are often contaminated with stains and the like, and the presence of counterfeit notes cannot be ignored.

Therefore, in the banking window, a lot of labor is required to manually check a large number of banknotes one by one, to sort the banknotes by denomination, or to count the banknotes, and therefore, efficiency of the window business is hindered.

As a countermeasure to such a problem, the deposit transaction in the window is mechanized to efficiently perform the transaction. For example, in patent document 1, banknotes accepted from a customer by a teller performing a window transaction are generally set in a window, sorted by denomination and stored in the device, or in order to pay out banknotes in the device to the customer, a required number of banknotes is counted by denomination and discharged to the teller.

Documents of the prior art

Patent document

Patent document 1: japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2016-29518

Disclosure of Invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

The device described in patent document 1 has the following problems. In the above-described apparatus, if a large number of deposit transactions are continuously performed, the storage section in the apparatus frequently becomes full, and it is necessary to collect bills. When banknotes are collected, it is necessary to remove the storage unit for the banknotes or discharge the banknotes using a dispensing function, and in either case, the service is interrupted during this period, and there is a problem that the customer cannot accept the deposit.

According to the state, in deposit business, there is a common practice in most cases as follows: the teller accepts banknotes from a customer to be deposited, considers that a transaction is established at the moment when the banknotes disappear from the customer's view, and adopts the following usage: towards the outside of the window for the customer to operate the device himself. In such a country, the same problem as described above occurs even when the storage unit in the device becomes full.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a banknote handling apparatus capable of collecting banknotes by a teller even in a depositing operation by a customer. Further, it is an object to provide a banknote handling apparatus which enables a customer to deposit banknotes even in a recycling operation of a teller.

Means for solving the problems

In order to solve the above problems and achieve the object, a banknote handling apparatus according to the present invention is a banknote handling apparatus installed in a window of a financial institution, the banknote handling apparatus including: a deposit port part arranged in front of the device for depositing paper money; a delivery unit provided at the deposit port and configured to separate the banknotes one by one; a temporary holding section for storing the banknotes judged to be normal by the deposit recognition section, the deposit recognition section recognizing the banknotes separated by the feeding section; a return port for accumulating the paper money judged to be abnormal by the deposit identification part; and a deposit transport path connecting the deposit opening, the temporary holding section, and the return opening; the banknote handling device includes: a paper currency recovery part which is arranged at the rear of the device and is used for taking out the paper currency in the device; and a collection moving unit that moves the banknotes stored in the temporary holding unit to the banknote collection unit.

Effects of the invention

According to the present invention, even if a customer is in a deposit operation, the receipt of banknotes by a teller can be performed. Further, even in the recycling operation, the deposit of the banknotes by the customer can be performed.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a view showing an installation state of the banknote handling apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 2.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 3.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 4.

Fig. 6A is a diagram showing the transport direction of the denomination-specific register according to embodiment 4.

Fig. 6B is a diagram showing the direction of sending out the denomination-specific register according to embodiment 4.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing a data table structure of a control unit in embodiment 2.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to fig. 1 to 7. In the following, a case will be described in which the banknote handling apparatus according to the present invention is applied to a banknote handling apparatus that performs a deposit process on banknotes. Hereinafter, a deposit port section through which a customer inserts deposited banknotes and a return port through which banknotes unsuitable for deposit are returned are provided in front of the apparatus, and a banknote collection section through which a teller can collect banknotes in the apparatus deposited during a deposit transaction is provided behind the apparatus. In addition, the deposit path and the collection path are separated so that the deposited banknotes can be transported to the banknote collection unit and taken out during the deposit process. Therefore, the collection process to the teller can be performed in the customer deposit process without stopping the apparatus, and the work efficiency in the bank can be improved.

Fig. 1 shows a state in which a banknote handling apparatus as one embodiment of the banknote handling apparatus of the present invention is installed in a window of a financial institution.

The banknote handling apparatus 1 is provided with a front side of the apparatus on which a customer 8 performs a deposit transaction, and a rear side of the apparatus on which a teller 7, which is a bank clerk, operates.

The banknote handling apparatus 1 is connected to a terminal 6 and a power supply 9, and operates upon receiving an instruction from the terminal 6 by an operation of a teller 7.

When a customer 8 inserts deposited banknotes 5 into the banknote processing section 3 of the banknote processing apparatus 1, a teller 7 operates a terminal 6 to count the deposited banknotes. If the counting is finished, the amount of money/number of sheets is displayed on the display unit 2, and if the customer 8 confirms that the amount of money put matches the counting result by pressing a confirmation key (not shown) or the like, the teller 7 performs a deposit process (such as printing by ticket/passbook, and reflecting the balance of the account), and the deposit transaction is finished.

Next, the structure of the banknote handling section 3 common to embodiments 1 to 4 will be described.

The bill handling section 3 has a control section 4 including a CPU, a memory, and the like. The control unit 4 controls the banknote handling unit 3 to perform a depositing operation, a collecting operation, and a sorting and counting operation, which will be described later, based on information collected by the banknote handling unit 3 (for example, information acquired by the deposit recognition unit 11 and the collection recognition unit 20) or an instruction from the banknote handling apparatus 1.

Further, as shown in fig. 7 described later, the memory as the storage unit stores information on the denomination of banknotes stored in each of the escrow units (13 to 16), the denomination register units (41 to 47) of each of the collection units (100 to 103, 23 to 26), and the return port unit 12. The storage unit may store a predetermined amount (e.g., a full amount or nearly full amount (indicating a nearly full amount)) of the number of banknotes stored in the return port 12, which is the denomination register units (41 to 47) of the temporary holding units (13 to 16) and the collecting units (100 to 103, 23 to 26), respectively, which will be described later. The information and the predetermined amount of the types of banknotes stored in the temporary holding sections (13-16), the denomination register sections (41-47) of the collection sections (100-103, 23-26), and the return opening section 12 can be changed in accordance with an input from the outside.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in the memory. Fig. 7 shows a case where data is stored in a table format, but any format may be used as long as items are associated with each other. As shown in fig. 7, the data table stores physical addresses in the memory, a data table of each part, and the number of sheets or information in the data table in association with each other. In the data table, information such as the number of denominations, the number of full notes, the number of defective notes, the number of bundles, status information, and accumulation setting information is stored for each part (defective note escrow 13, denomination mixture escrow 14 to 16, defective note collecting box 23, rejected note collecting box 24, note seal collecting units 25 to 26, and denomination-specific registers 41 to 47).

The bill handling section 3 includes a deposit port section 10 for receiving bills 5 input by a customer 8, a feed section 10A for separating the bills received by the deposit port section 10 one by one and feeding the separated bills to a deposit transport path 17, a deposit transport path 17 for transporting the bills separated by the feed section 10A to a escrow section, a deposit discriminating section 11 for discriminating the kind of the bills transported to the deposit transport path 17, a plurality of escrow sections 13 to 16 for storing the bills transported by the deposit transport path 17 based on the discrimination by the deposit discriminating section, and a return port section 12, a collection moving section (120 to 123, 27) for moving the bills temporarily stored in the escrow section to a collection section (100 to 103, 23 to 26) after the deposit transaction is confirmed, and a collection section (100 to 103, 23 to 26) configured to be able to take out the bills collected by the collection moving section (120 to 123, 27) to the outside of the bill handling section 3, 23-26).

The deposit identifying section 11 determines the kind of the banknote (for example, integrity defect, authenticity, denomination, direction, or age). The banknote processing section 3 may count the number of banknotes of each type based on the determination by the deposit recognition section 11.

The deposit opening part 10 and the return opening part 12 are arranged on the front side of an apparatus for performing deposit transaction by a customer 8, and the recovery parts (100 to 103, 23 to 26) are arranged on the rear side of the apparatus. The deposit opening portion 10 is located above the return opening portion 12. The deposit transport path 17 of the banknote processing unit 3 includes a transport unit (e.g., a transport roller or a transport belt that transports banknotes one by one), and the transport unit transports the banknotes one by one.

Each of the escrow units 13 to 16 may include, for example, an escrow unit that stores banknotes by denomination mixing, full defect mixing, authenticity mixing, directional mixing, transport state mixing, chronological or a combination thereof. The bill handling section 3 may have a plurality of temporary storage sections 13 to 16. Note that the banknote processing unit 3 may include a sensor (e.g., an optical sensor) for detecting a predetermined amount (e.g., full or nearly full) of each temporary storage unit. The escrow unit may be configured such that the port for storing banknotes and the port for discharging banknotes are arranged in the opposite direction of the escrow unit, and the banknotes stored first are fed first.

The collecting units 13 to 16 may include collecting units for storing bills, for example, by denomination mixing, full defect mixing, authenticity mixing, directional mixing, conveying mixing, chronological mixing, or a combination thereof. The bill handling section 3 may have a plurality of collecting sections 13 to 16. The bill handling section 3 has a pull-out section (for example, a rail for sliding the collected bill box or a moving roller for moving the collected bill box) for pulling out the collected bill boxes (100 to 103, 23 to 24) of the collection section, and the collected bill boxes (100 to 103, 23 to 24) of the collection section can be attached to and detached from the bill handling section 3 by the pull-out section. The banknote handling section 3 may have a sensor (e.g., an optical sensor) for detecting a predetermined amount (e.g., full or nearly full) of each of the collecting sections.

The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknotes to the escrow units (13-16) that store the types of the banknotes, based on the types of the banknotes discriminated by the deposit discriminating unit 11, via the deposit discriminating unit 11 that discriminates the types of the banknotes that are sent out from the deposit port 10 and are to be transported to the escrow units (13-16). The deposit transport path 17 may be a common transport path that is common when transporting the deposit to the plurality of temporary holding sections (13-16) before and after the deposit identifying section 11. Here, the banknote processing section 3 may count the number of banknotes of each type based on the type of banknote determined by the deposit recognition section 11.

The banknote processing section 3 may be configured such that a depositing path through which banknotes move during a depositing operation and a collecting path through which banknotes move during a collecting operation are independent. In other words, the banknote processing unit 3 may be configured as follows: the deposit transport path 17 that transports banknotes from the deposit port to the escrow unit or the return port and the collection transport path 27 that moves banknotes from the escrow unit to the collection unit and collects them do not have a common transport path.

Next, the structure of the banknote handling section 3 common to embodiments 2 to 4 will be described.

The bill handling section 3 has a collection moving section including a collection conveyance path 27 connecting a plurality of temporary holding sections (13-16) and a plurality of collection sections (23-24), and delivery sections (113-116) of the temporary holding sections for delivering the bills in the temporary holding sections (13-16) one by one to the collection conveyance path 27. The sending-out part is arranged behind the temporary holding parts 13-16. The collecting and conveying path 27 includes a conveying unit (e.g., a conveying roller or a conveying belt) that conveys the banknotes one by one.

The collection/discrimination unit 20 determines the type of the bill (for example, integrity defect, authenticity, denomination, direction, transport state, or age). The banknote processing unit 3 may count the number of banknotes of each type based on the determination by the collection recognizing unit 20.

The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes to the collection units (23-26) that store the types of the banknotes, based on the types of the banknotes that are judged by the collection and recognition unit, via the collection and recognition unit 20 that judges the types of the banknotes that are sent out from the temporary holding units (13-16) and are to be conveyed to the collection units (23-26). The collection conveyance path 27 may be a common conveyance path that is common to the conveyance of the banknotes fed from the plurality of escrow units to the plurality of collection units (23 to 26) before and after the collection recognition unit 20. Here, the banknote processing unit 3 may count the number of banknotes of each type based on the type of the banknote determined by the collection recognizing unit 11.

The temporary holding sections (13-16) include a defective note temporary holding section (13) for storing banknotes determined as defective notes by the deposit recognition section, and a full note temporary holding section (14-16) for storing banknotes determined as full notes. The collecting units (23-26) include a defective note collecting box (23) for collecting and storing defective notes conveyed from a defective note escrow unit (13) by a collecting and conveying path (27), a reject note collecting unit (24) for collecting and storing notes conveyed from a temporary reservation unit (14-16) for storing complete notes and judged to be abnormal by a collecting and identifying unit (20), and a note seal collecting unit (25/26) for collecting and sealing notes conveyed from the temporary reservation unit (14-16) for storing complete notes and judged to be normal by the collecting and identifying unit (20). Further, a plurality of temporary defective coupon retaining units 13 may be provided.

The recovery conveyance path connecting the recovery recognition unit 20 and the recovery units (23-26) includes: a vertical reversing unit 21 that aligns the vertical orientation of the transported banknotes based on the direction, which is the type of the banknotes determined by the collection and recognition unit 20; and a front-back reversing section 22 for aligning the front-back directions. The collection conveyance path 27 is branched into a path for conveying the banknotes from the downstream of the collection recognition unit 20 and the upstream of the up-down reversing unit 21/the front-back reversing unit 22 directly to the collection unit and a path via the up-down reversing unit 21/the front-back reversing unit 22, and merges at the upstream of the collection units (23-26) and the downstream of the up-down reversing unit 21/the front-back reversing unit 22.

The banknote sealing tape collection units 25 and 26 include: a holding section 25A, 26A for accumulating the banknotes transported by the collecting transport path 27 until a predetermined number of seal tapes are reached; seal tape parts 25B, 26B for sealing the banknotes with the number of stacked banknotes reaching the predetermined number of seal tapes; and storage units 25E/26E for storing the banknote bundle sealed by the sealing units 25B and 26B.

Example 1

Fig. 2 shows a side view of the banknote handling apparatus 1. Hereinafter, the description will be focused on the portions different from the common configuration described above.

The banknote handling section 3 of embodiment 1 includes a collection moving section (for example, a pressing plate that presses and moves the collected banknotes together, an end face belt that moves the banknotes by contacting the end faces of the banknotes, or the like) that moves the banknotes collected in the temporary holding sections 13 to 16 to the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 at once.

Note that, as described above, the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 are configured to be detachable from the banknote processing unit 3. More specifically, each of the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the temporary storage sections 13 to 16 corresponding thereto. The banknote collection boxes 100 to 103 are configured to be individually detachable.

Next, the operation of example 1 will be described. First, the deposit operation will be described. In the depositing operation, the banknote processing section 3 carries out a process of conveying the banknotes at the deposit port section 10 to the escrow sections 13 to 16 until the number of deposited banknotes is determined.

As described in more detail below, the customer 8 places the banknotes 5 to be deposited in the deposit opening section 10. The teller 7 then operates the terminal 6, whereby the deposited banknotes 5 are separated one by the sending-out section 10 and sent out to the deposit transport path 17. The fed banknote 5 is subjected to determination of the banknote type (denomination, authenticity, contamination, transport state, and the like) by the deposit recognition unit 11, and the transport destination is determined based on the banknote type.

The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknotes 5 determined to be normal to the escrow units (13-16) that store the banknotes of the type, based on the type of the banknotes determined by the deposit recognition unit 11. The temporary holding sections (13-16) at the transport destination collect the transported bills. The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknote 5 determined to be abnormal to the return opening portion 12 as a transport destination for storing the banknote of the type, based on the type of the banknote determined by the deposit recognition portion 11. Customer 8 picks up the banknotes that are transported into return port 12. For the extracted banknotes, the customer 8 can count again by putting it again to the deposit opening 10.

The process is terminated when all the banknotes 5 in the deposit port section 10 are counted, and the counting result is reported to the terminal 6 and displayed on the display section 2. When the amount of deposit matches the count result, the customer 8 presses an unillustrated confirmation key to specify the count result. If the banknotes do not match, the banknotes in the temporary holding sections 13 to 16 are returned to the customer 8. The counting result may include the number of banknotes stored in the escrow unit (13-16) or the return opening 12 for each type, and the total amount of banknotes stored in the escrow unit.

Here, the conveyance of the banknotes judged to be normal to the temporary holding sections (13-16) will be described in detail.

When the plurality of escrow units 13 to 16 of the banknote processing unit 3 include a plurality of escrow units (13 to 16) for storing banknotes of the same type, the banknote processing unit 3 determines whether or not there is an empty escrow unit, and when there is an empty escrow unit, conveys a banknote to the escrow unit. If there is no empty temporary holding section (13-16), the deposit operation is stopped until the recovery operation is completed.

In addition, in a case where the number of banknotes stored in one escrow unit (13-16) is equal to or greater than a predetermined number in one deposit transaction, the banknote processing unit 3 can transport the banknotes to the other escrow units (13-16). In this case, each time the predetermined number of banknotes is stored in one escrow unit, the operation of depositing the banknotes in the next escrow unit can be performed by performing the operation of receiving confirmation of the count result and performing the operation of collecting the banknotes from one escrow unit in parallel with the operation of collecting the banknotes from one escrow unit. That is, the recovery operation and the deposit operation can be performed in parallel by the small number of temporary holding units. Further, even while waiting for the determination of the counting result to be accepted, the operation of depositing the banknotes in the next escrow unit can be continued.

In addition, in the case where the number of sheets in one escrow unit (13 to 16) is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount during one deposit transaction, the banknote processing unit 3 may control to store banknotes in the next escrow unit every time the predetermined amount of sheets is stored in one escrow unit, and perform the acceptance of the confirmation of the counting result after all the banknotes accepted in the deposit transaction are stored in the plurality of escrow units or when all the escrow units (13 to 16) have equal to or greater than the predetermined amount of sheets. In the deposit transaction, the number of times of acceptance of the determination of the count result can be reduced, and therefore the burden on the customer can be reduced.

Next, a description will be given of a collecting operation of moving the banknotes stored in the temporary holding section to the collecting section. When the banknote processing unit 3 receives the determination of the counting result, the collection moving units (120-123) move the banknotes collected in the temporary holding units 13-16 to the banknote collection boxes 100-103 in a lump. The collection operation may be performed when the determination of the count result is received. The banknote processing unit 3 may determine whether or not there is any banknote collection cassette 100 to 103 during the collection operation, and may notify an alarm to the outside (for example, the terminal 6) if there is no banknote collection cassette.

Next, an operation of taking out the collected banknotes from the banknote handling section 3 will be described.

The teller 7 takes out the collected banknote cassettes 100 to 103 through the drawing unit of the banknote processing unit 3, and delivers banknotes to a person who collects banknotes printed with the denomination, number, and amount of money, which are stored in a banknote issuing unit, not shown. The receipt may include a banknote processing device identification number different for each banknote processing device and a collected banknote box identification number different for each collected banknote box. Note that the information on the receipt may be transmitted to an outside connected to the banknote handling apparatus 1 (for example, a main server connected to the banknote handling apparatus or an apparatus for counting the contents of the collected banknote cassette).

In the deposit transaction, when any one of the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 is full or nearly full, the teller 7 extracts the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 from the rear of the apparatus and replaces the banknote collection cassettes with empty ones. In this case, the deposit path is independent from the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103, and therefore, the replacement can be performed without affecting the deposit operation.

In example 1, the pressing plate and the end face belt are described as the collection moving unit, but the collection transport path for transporting the banknotes may be configured such that the escrow units 13 to 15 and the collection units 100 to 103 corresponding to the escrow units 13 to 15 are connected in 1-to-1 relationship. In this case, the feeding of the banknotes from the escrow units 13 to 15 to the collecting and conveying path may be configured similarly to the feeding units 113 to 116 of embodiment 2.

Example 2

Fig. 3 is a side view of a banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 2. Hereinafter, the description will be given mainly on the differences from the common configuration described above and embodiment 1.

The deposit operation in example 2 will be described. In the depositing operation, the banknote processing section 3 carries out a process of conveying the banknotes in the deposit port section 10 to the escrow sections 13 to 16 until the number of deposited banknotes is determined.

As described in more detail below, the customer 8 places the banknotes 5 to be deposited in the deposit opening section 10. The teller 7 then operates the terminal 6, thereby separating the deposited banknotes 5 one by the sending-out section 10 and sending them out to the deposit transport path 17. The fed banknote 5 is subjected to a determination of the banknote type (denomination, authenticity, contamination, transport state, etc.) by the deposit recognition unit 11, and the transport destination is determined based on the determined banknote type.

The deposit transport path 17 transports a defective note determined to be normal but a contaminated note to the escrow unit 13 by the transport unit constituting the deposit transport path 17, based on the kind of the banknote determined by the deposit recognition unit 11. The temporary holding section 13 at the transport destination collects the transported banknotes. The deposit transport path 17 transports the full note determined to be normal but not a contaminated note to the escrow units 14 to 16 through the deposit transport path 17 based on the kind of the banknote determined by the deposit recognition unit 11. The temporary holding sections 14-16 at the transport destination collect the transported bills. The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknote 5 determined to be abnormal by the deposit recognition unit 11 to the return opening unit 12 as a transport destination for storing the banknote of the type, based on the type of the banknote determined by the deposit recognition unit 11. Customer 8 picks up the banknotes transported to return port 12. With regard to the extracted banknotes, the customer 8 can again put into the deposit opening section 10 to count again. When all the banknotes 5 in the deposit port section 10 are counted, the process is terminated, and the counting result is reported to the terminal 6 and displayed on the display section 2.

When the amount of deposit matches the count result, the customer 8 confirms the result by pressing a confirmation key, not shown. If the banknotes do not match, the banknotes in the temporary holding sections 13 to 16 are returned to the customer 8. The counting result may include the number of banknotes stored in the escrow unit 13 to 16 or the return opening 12 for each type, and the total amount of banknotes stored in the escrow unit.

Here, the transport of the full sheets judged to be normal to the temporary holding sections 14 to 16 of the banknotes will be described in detail.

When the plurality of escrow units 14 to 16 of the banknote processing unit 3 include a plurality of escrow units 14 to 16 for storing banknotes of the same type, the banknote processing unit 3 determines whether or not there is an empty escrow unit, and when there is an empty escrow unit, conveys a banknote to the escrow unit. If there is no empty temporary holding section 14-16, the deposit operation is stopped until the recovery operation is completed.

In addition, in the case where the banknote processing unit 3 accommodates one escrow unit 14 to 16 for a predetermined number or more of banknotes in one deposit transaction, the banknote processing unit may transport banknotes to the other escrow units 14 to 16. In this case, each time the predetermined number of banknotes is stored in one escrow unit, the operation of depositing the banknotes in the next escrow unit can be performed by performing the operation of confirming the counting result and performing the operation of collecting the banknotes from one escrow unit in parallel. That is, the recovery operation and the deposit operation can be performed in parallel by the small number of temporary holding units. Further, even while waiting for the acceptance of the determination of the counting result, the operation of depositing the banknotes in the next escrow unit can be continued. A plurality of temporary storage units 13 for storing the defective tickets may be provided, and similar control may be performed.

In addition, in the case where the number of sheets in one escrow unit 14 to 16 is equal to or greater than the predetermined number in one deposit transaction, the banknote processing unit 3 may control to store banknotes in the next escrow unit every time the predetermined number of sheets is stored in one escrow unit, and perform the acceptance of the confirmation of the counting result after all the banknotes accepted in the deposit transaction are stored in the plurality of escrow units or when all the escrow units 14 to 16 reach the predetermined number of sheets or greater. In the deposit transaction, the number of times of acceptance of the determination of the count result can be reduced, and therefore the burden on the customer can be reduced.

Next, the recovery operation will be described. When the banknote processing unit 3 detects the pressing of the confirmation key, the feeding unit 113 separates the banknotes 5 in the defective-note escrow unit 13 one by one and feeds them to the collecting and conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 is configured to discriminate the denomination and number of banknotes fed out by the collection and recognition unit 20, and convey the banknotes to the defective banknote collection cassette 23 by bypassing the path of the upper and lower reversing units 21 and the front and back reversing unit 22. The defective bill collecting cassette 23 collects and stores bills conveyed by the collecting conveyance path 27.

Next, the banknote processing unit 3 separates the banknotes 5 stored in the temporary holding section 14 one by the feeding unit 114 and feeds the separated banknotes to the collecting and conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes to the collection recognition unit 20. The collection recognizing unit 20 discriminates the kind of the bill conveyed by the collection conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes to the reject-banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote- seal collection units 25 and 26, which store the banknotes of the type, based on the type (for example, denomination, number, direction, conveyance state) of the banknotes that have been discriminated. The reject banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote-and- seal collection units 25 and 26 store banknotes transported by the collection transport path 27. Further, after the sort of the banknotes is discriminated by the collection and recognition unit 20, the collection and transport path 27 transports the banknotes to the reject banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote- seal collection units 25 and 26 by aligning the orientation of the banknotes by the up-down reversing unit 21/the front-back reversing unit 22 via the up-down reversing unit 21/the front-back reversing unit 22. At this time, when the banknote processing unit 3 determines that the direction of the banknote needs to be changed based on the type of the banknote discriminated by the collection discriminating unit 20, the banknote processing unit may store the banknote in the reject banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote-seal collection unit 25/26 by bypassing the path of the up-down reversing unit 21 and the front-back reversing unit 22.

The banknote processing unit 3 may be configured to be able to receive the next transaction when it is detected that the defective-banknote escrow unit 13 and the escrow unit 14 are empty.

Next, a specific example of the banknotes determined to be abnormal by the collection recognition unit 20 and to be stored in the reject banknote collection unit 24 will be described. The banknotes judged to be abnormally transported, such as overlapped feeding (a state in which a plurality of banknotes are transported while being overlapped), skew feeding (a state in which banknotes are transported while being significantly inclined), and abnormal intervals (a state in which a gap between banknotes is significantly short) by the collection recognition unit 20, and the banknotes of the denomination other than the bundling object are collected and stored in the reject banknote collection unit 24. Next, a specific example of the banknotes that are judged to be normal by the collection recognition unit 20 and are to be stored in the banknote-seal collection unit 25/26 is shown. The collection/recognition unit 20 may collect and store the banknotes that are not abnormal but have the denomination a of the maximum flow rate among the denominations processed by the banknote processing unit 3 in the banknote-sealing-tape collection unit 25, and collect and store the banknotes that are not abnormal but have the denomination B of the second largest flow rate among the denominations processed by the banknote processing unit 3 in the banknote-sealing-tape collection unit 26.

In the banknote handling unit 3, the type of banknotes collected in the collection unit may be changed based on an input from the outside or the type of banknotes stored in the escrow unit. For example, when 2 denominations are mixed in a certain escrow unit and banknotes are stored, the banknote sealing tape collecting unit 25/26 may be set to store banknotes of different denominations, and when 1 denomination is stored in a certain escrow unit, the banknote sealing tape collecting unit 25/26 may be set to store all the denominations. In the case where three or more banknote seal recovery units 25/26 are provided, one may store 1 denomination and the other may store 1 denomination. By holding the same type of banknotes in the plurality of banknote sealing tape collecting units, the empty collecting unit can be effectively used, and the efficiency of the collecting operation can be improved.

Next, the banding operation of the banknotes in the banknote banding collection units 25 and 26 will be described.

The banknote processing unit 3 collects the banknotes 5 conveyed by the collection conveyance path 27 into the holding units 25A and 26A of the banknote-and- seal collection units 25 and 26. When the number of stacked banknotes reaches a predetermined number of seals (for example, 100), the banknote handling unit 3 temporarily stops the collection operation by the feeding units 113 to 116 and the collection conveyance path 27, and moves the banknotes in the holding units 25A and 26A of the banknote seal collection units 25 and 26 to the respective seal units 25B and 26B by a method not shown. When the banknote handling unit 3 detects that the banknote bundle has been moved to the banding units 25B and 26B, the collection operation by the feeding units 113 to 116 and the collection conveyance path 27 is restarted. The banknote processing unit 3 moves to and stores the banknotes in the storage units 25E and 26E after performing the banding processing of the banknotes by the moved banding units 25B and 26B.

Further, in a stage where 100 banknotes are stacked in the holding section 25A of the banknote-and-. This operation is the same even if the banknote seal recovery unit 25 and the banknote seal recovery unit 26 are reversed. By doing so, the conveyance of the banknotes during the collection operation can be continued without temporarily stopping the conveyance.

Next, the banknotes in the escrow units 15 and 16 are processed in the same manner as in the escrow unit 14.

The following deposit process is repeatedly performed: in the deposit transaction, when the defective note collection cassette 23 is full or nearly full, the teller 7 extracts the defective note collection cassette 23 from the rear of the apparatus and replaces it with an empty cassette, when the reject note collection unit 24 is full or nearly full, extracts reject notes, and when the storage sections 25E and 26E of the note seal collection unit 25/26 are full or nearly full, extracts and stores the seal notes. When the sensors detect the predetermined amounts (full or nearly full) of the storage units 25E and 26E of the defective note collection cassette 23, the reject note collection unit 24, and the note seal collection unit 25/26, the note processing unit 3 may notify the terminal 6 of information indicating that the predetermined amounts have been reached. In this case, the message may be notified so that which collection unit has reached the predetermined amount is known.

When the predetermined amount in the collection unit is detected, the banknote processing unit 3 can continue the deposit operation while interrupting the collection operation because the deposit path is separated from the collection path.

Next, the operation of the regular counting will be described. The sorting and counting operation is an operation of counting again the banknotes judged to be abnormal in transport and the banknotes of the denomination other than the banding target stored in the rejected banknote collection unit 24 and banding the banknotes in the above-described collection operation. The banknote processing section 3 may receive, from the terminal 6, a selection of a deposit/collection mode for performing the above-described deposit and collection or a sorting count mode for performing sorting counting. When the terminal 6 accepts the sorting and counting mode, the banknote processing device 3 performs a sorting and counting operation.

For example, the denominations other than the banding target are set to 5 denominations as denominations C to G (all 7 denominations added to the denomination a/B of the banding target in the deposit transaction), and the following description is made specifically.

The teller 7 places the banknotes judged to be abnormal in transport and the banknotes of the denomination other than the banding target, which are stored in the reject-banknote collection unit 24 taken out of the apparatus, in the deposit port section 10. The teller 7 then operates the terminal 6, whereby the deposited banknotes are separated one by the sending-out section 10 and sent out to the deposit transport path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the fed banknotes 5 to the deposit recognition unit 11. The deposit recognizing section 11 discriminates the kind (for example, denomination/conveyance state) of the banknotes conveyed by the deposit conveyance path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknotes to the temporary storage units 13 to 16 that store the banknotes, based on the types of the banknotes determined by the deposit recognition unit 11.

The banknote processing unit 3, for example, collects the denomination A, B determined to be normal by the deposit recognition unit 11 into the defective note escrow unit 13 (not a defective note), collects the denomination C, D determined to be normal into the escrow unit 14, collects the denomination E, F determined to be normal into the escrow unit 15, collects the denomination G determined to be normal into the escrow unit 16, and collects the banknote 5 determined to be abnormal into the return opening unit 12. The banknotes accumulated in the return opening portion 12 are taken out by the teller 7. The banknotes taken out by the teller 7 can be counted again by being set again to the deposit port section 10.

Next, the banknote processing unit 3 separates the banknotes 5 of the denomination A, B in the defective-note escrow unit 13 one by the feeding unit 113 and feeds them to the collecting and conveying path. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes fed out by the feeding unit 113 to the collection recognition unit 20. The collection recognizing unit 20 discriminates the type (for example, denomination, direction, conveyance state, etc.) of the banknotes conveyed by the collection conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 aligns the orientation of the banknotes by the up-down reversing unit 21 and the front-back reversing unit 22 based on the types of the banknotes discriminated by the collection discriminating unit 20, and conveys the banknotes to the reject-banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote- seal collection units 25 and 26 that store the types of the banknotes. The reject banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote-and- seal collection units 25 and 26 store banknotes transported by the collection transport path 27.

An example of banknotes stored in the reject banknote collection unit 24 or the banknote- seal collection units 25 and 26 in the sorting and counting operation is shown. For example, the reject banknote collection unit 24 collects and stores banknotes that have been determined to have been conveyed abnormally by the collection and recognition unit 20, such as stacked feeding (a state in which a plurality of banknotes are conveyed in a stacked manner), skew feeding (a state in which banknotes are conveyed with a significant skew), and an abnormal interval (a state in which a gap between banknotes is significantly short). The banknote seal recovery unit 25 collects and stores banknotes of denomination a that are not abnormally transported. The banknote-sealing recovery unit 26 collects and stores banknotes of the denomination B, which are not abnormally transported, in the banknote-sealing recovery unit 26.

The banknotes of the denomination A, B that are transported to the banknote-sealing recovery unit 25/26 are moved to the storage units 25E/26E and stored after the banknote-sealing process is performed in the same manner as in the recovery operation.

Next, the banknotes C, D collected in the escrow unit 14 are also processed in the same manner. The banknote processing unit 3 conveys the banknotes judged to be abnormal in conveyance by the conveyance recognition unit 20 to the reject banknote collection unit 24, and performs stacking, banding, and storage, conveys the banknotes judged not to be abnormal in conveyance and having the denomination C to the banknote banding collection unit 25, and performs stacking, banding, and storage, and conveys the banknotes judged not to be abnormal in conveyance and having the denomination D to the banknote banding collection unit 26, and performs stacking, banding, and storage. Note that the banknotes E, F collected in the escrow unit 15 are also processed in the same manner. The banknote processing unit 3 conveys the banknotes judged to be abnormal in conveyance by the conveyance recognition unit 20 to the reject banknote collection unit 24, and performs stacking, banding, and storage, conveys the banknotes judged not to be abnormal in conveyance and having the denomination E to the banknote banding collection unit 25, and performs stacking, banding, and storage, and conveys the banknotes judged not to be abnormal in conveyance and having the denomination F to the banknote banding collection unit 26, and performs stacking, banding, and storage. Note that the same processing is performed for the banknotes G stacked in the temporary holding section 16. The banknote processing unit 3 conveys the banknotes judged to be abnormal in conveyance by the conveyance discriminating unit 20 to the reject banknote collection unit 24, and performs stacking, banding, and storage, and conveys the banknotes judged not to be abnormal in conveyance to the banknote banding collection unit 25, and performs stacking, banding, and storage. By performing the operation as described above, it is possible to seal plural kinds of banknotes (for example, 7 kinds of banknotes).

Example 3

Fig. 4 is a side view of a banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 3. The following description will focus on differences from the above description.

The banknote processing unit 3 according to embodiment 3 includes the bypass transport path 18 in the configuration of embodiment 2 (fig. 4), and the bypass transport path 18 branches off from the downstream of the deposit recognition unit 11 and the upstream of the escrow unit in the deposit transport path 17, and is directly connected (without passing through the escrow unit) to the collection transport path 27 downstream of the collection recognition unit 20. The operation of example 3 will be described below.

The deposit operation and the collection operation in embodiment 3 are the same as those in embodiment 2, and therefore, description thereof is omitted, and only the sorting and counting operation which is different from that in embodiment 2 will be described. The sorting and counting operation is an operation of counting again and banding the banknotes judged to be abnormal in transport and the banknotes of the denomination other than the banding target stored in the rejected banknote collection unit 24 during the collection operation, as in example 2.

As in example 2, the denominations other than the banding target are set to 5 denominations as denominations C to G (all 7 denominations added to the banding target denomination a/B in the deposit transaction), and the following description is made specifically.

The teller 7 takes out the banknotes judged to be abnormal in transport and the banknotes of the denomination other than the banding target stored in the reject banknote collection unit 24 from the apparatus and sets them in the deposit port section 10. Then, the teller 7 operates the terminal 6, and the banknotes placed thereby are separated one by the sending-out section 10 and sent out to the deposit transport path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the fed banknotes 5 to the deposit recognition unit 11. The deposit recognizing section 11 discriminates the kind (for example, denomination, conveyance state, and the like) of the banknotes to be conveyed by the deposit conveyance path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknotes to the temporary holding units 13 to 16 or the collection unit, which store the banknotes, based on the types of the banknotes determined by the deposit recognition unit 11.

The deposit transport path 17 transports, for example, the denomination a determined to be normal by the deposit recognition unit 11 to the bypass transport path 18. The bypass transport path 18 transports the banknotes transported by the deposit transport path 17 directly (without passing through the escrow units 13 to 16) to the collection transport path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes to the banknote-sealing tape collection unit 25/26 with the orientation of the banknotes aligned via the up-down reversing unit 21 and the front-back reversing unit 22. The banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26 collect, seal, and store the banknotes conveyed by the collecting and conveying path 27 in the same manner as the sealing operation of embodiment 2. On the other hand, the banknote processing unit 3 accumulates the denomination B determined to be normal by the deposit recognition unit 11 into the escrow unit 13, the denomination C determined to be normal into the escrow unit 14, the denomination D/E determined to be normal into the escrow unit 15, and the denomination F/G determined to be normal into the escrow unit 16. The banknote processing unit 3 also feeds the banknotes 5 determined to be abnormal by the deposit recognition unit 11 to the return opening unit 12. The banknotes transported to the return opening portion 12 are taken by the teller 7. The banknotes taken out by the teller 7 can be set again to the deposit port 10 by the teller 7 and counted again.

Next, the banknote processing unit 3 separates the banknotes 5 of the denomination B stacked in the defective-note escrow unit 13 one by the feeding unit 113 and feeds them to the collecting and conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the fed bills to the collection recognition unit 20. The collection recognizing unit 20 discriminates the type (denomination, direction, conveyance state, etc.) of the banknotes conveyed by the collection conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes discriminated as conveyance-abnormal notes by the collection and recognition unit 20 to the reject banknote collection unit 24, and conveys the banknotes discriminated as normal note denomination B to the banknote-seal collection unit 25/26. The banknote collection unit 24 stores banknotes transported by the collection transport path 27 in the same manner as the denomination a. Note that the banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26 store banknotes transported by the collecting and transporting path 27 in the same manner as the denomination a, and perform the sealing operation. Next, the same processing as that for denomination B is performed on denomination C in the escrow unit 14.

Note that, although banknotes of the denomination D, E in the escrow unit 15 and the denomination F, G in the escrow unit 16 are also handled and sealed in the same manner, the normal note transport destinations of the banknotes of the denomination D, E in the escrow unit 15 and the denomination F, G in the escrow unit 16 are the banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26, respectively. In this case, since the banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26 are dedicated to the respective denominations, the banknote processing unit 3 temporarily stops the collecting operation while the banknotes stored in the holding units 25A and 26A are moved to the sealing units 25B and 26B.

By performing the above operation, although the banknotes of all denominations in the example can be sealed, the processing time can be shortened because the denomination a does not pass through the escrow unit as compared with the example 2. Further, the denomination B, C does not need to stop the conveyance temporarily at the time of taping, and the processing time can be further shortened.

Example 4

Fig. 5 shows an example of a side view of the banknote handling apparatus according to embodiment 4. The following description will focus on differences from the above description.

The banknote handling section 3 according to embodiment 4 is configured such that the banknote handling section 3 according to embodiment 3 (fig. 4) is additionally provided with a collecting and connecting conveyance path 28 and denomination register sections 41 to 47 for storing banknotes by denomination. The collection connection conveyance path 28 is a bidirectional conveyance path connecting the collection conveyance path 27 and the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47, and is connected to the collection recognition unit 20 of the collection conveyance path 27 and the branch unit B1 downstream of the collection unit, and to the collection recognition unit 20 of the collection conveyance path 27 and the branch unit B2 upstream of the escrow unit, respectively. As shown in fig. 6A, the collecting and connecting transport path 28 transports the banknotes to the denomination register units 41 to 47 that store the banknotes of the type, based on the type of the banknotes obtained by the collecting and discriminating unit 20 discriminating the banknotes transported from the collecting and transporting path 27 via the downstream branching unit B1.

As shown in fig. 6B, the collecting and connecting transport path 28 transports the banknotes fed out from the denomination register units 41 to 47 to the collecting and transporting path 27 via the upstream branch unit B2. The denomination register units 41 to 47 can temporarily store the banknotes transported by the collection/connection transport path 28 and send the banknotes to the collection/connection transport path 28. The denomination register parts 41 to 47 have a capacity for storing banknotes of a number equal to or greater than the number of seal tapes.

Next, the operation of example 4 will be explained. Since the deposit operation is the same as that in embodiment 2, the description thereof is omitted, and the recovery operation which is different from that in embodiment 2 will be described.

When the banknote processing unit 3 detects the pressing of the confirmation key, the feeding unit 113 separates the banknotes 5 in the defective-note escrow unit 13 one by one and feeds them to the collection conveyance path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the fed banknotes to the defective banknote collection cassette 23 by discriminating the denomination and number of banknotes by the collection and recognition unit 20 and bypassing the path of the upper and lower reversing units 21 and the front and back reversing unit 22. The defective banknote collection cassette 23 collects and stores banknotes transported by the collection transport path 27.

Next, the banknotes 5 in the temporary holding section 14 are separated one by the feeding section 114 and fed to the collecting and conveying path 27. The banknote processing unit 3 switches the branching unit B1 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the conveyance direction for each denomination register units 41 to 47 shown in fig. 6A. The fed banknotes are discriminated as to the denomination, number, direction and transport state by the collection/recognition unit 20, the orientation of the banknotes is aligned by the up-down reversing unit 21 and the front-back reversing unit 22, the transport-abnormal banknotes are transported to the defective-banknote collection cassette 23 and stored therein, and the normal banknotes are collected and stored in the denomination register units 41 to 47 corresponding to the denomination of the banknotes 5 by the collection/connection transport path 28.

Next, the banknote processing unit 3 separates the banknotes 5 stored in the temporary holding unit 14 one by the feeding unit 114 and feeds them to the collecting and conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes to the collection recognition unit 20. The collection recognizing unit 20 discriminates the kind of the bill conveyed by the collection conveying path 27. The collection conveyance path 27 or the collection connection conveyance path 28 conveys the banknotes to the reject-banknote collection unit 24 or the denomination register units 41 to 47, which store the banknotes of the type, based on the type of the discriminated banknotes (for example, denomination, number of sheets, direction, conveyance state, and the like). The reject bill collecting unit 24 or the denomination register units 41 to 47 store bills conveyed through the collecting conveyance path 27 or the collecting connection conveyance path 28. Here, the banknote processing unit 3 conveys the banknotes discriminated as the abnormal banknotes by the collection and recognition unit 20 to be conveyed to the rejected banknote collection unit 24 through the collection and conveyance path 27, and conveys the banknotes discriminated as the normal banknotes by the collection and recognition unit 20 to be conveyed to the denomination register units 41 to 47 storing the banknotes of the respective types through the collection and conveyance path 27 and the collection and connection conveyance path 28. The banknote processing unit 3 switches the branching unit B1 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the banknote collection unit 24 when conveying banknotes to the reject banknote collection unit 24, and switches the branching unit B1 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the conveyance direction to the denomination register units 41 to 47 when conveying banknotes to the denomination register units 41 to 47.

The banknote processing unit 3 has a detection unit (e.g., an optical sensor) for detecting a predetermined number of sheets (e.g., full or nearly full) in any one of the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47 in each of the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47, and switches the transport destination of the denomination from the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47 to any one of the banknote seal collection units 25 and 26 when the predetermined number of sheets or more is detected. The banknote processing unit 3 can convey banknotes to one of the banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26 when the banknote is being processed by another denomination or when the banknotes are being moved from the holding units 25A and 26A to the sealing units 25B and 26B. The banknote handling section 3 may temporarily stop the conveyance of the banknotes from the escrow section 14 to the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26 during the processing of the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26 for the other denominations or during the movement of the banknotes from the escrow sections 25A and 26A to the seal sections 25B and 26B.

In the banknote sealing operation of the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26, substantially the same as in embodiment 2, if the banknotes are transported from the escrow unit 14 to the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26, the number of banknotes in the escrow units 25A and 26A of the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26 may not satisfy the number of sealed banknotes of 100. In this case, the banknote handling unit 3 may switch the branching unit B2 of the collection and connection conveyance path 28 to the feeding direction from the denomination register units 41 to 47 shown in fig. 6B, and may feed out an insufficient number of seal tapes from any one of the denomination register units 41 to 47 that store the banknotes of the type, and seal the seal tapes to the banknote seal tape collection units 25 and 26 via the collection and connection conveyance path 28, the collection conveyance path 27, and the collection recognition unit 20.

When the number of stored sheets in the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47 exceeds a predetermined number of sheets (for example, 100 sheets) of the number of sealed sheets, the banknote processing unit 3 switches the branching unit B1 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the direction of the banknote-sealed- sheet collection units 25 and 26, and switches the branching unit B2 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the direction of delivery from the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47 shown in fig. 6B. Similarly, the banknote processing unit 3 feeds out the number of seal tapes from the denomination register units 41 to 47 that store the types of banknotes processed by the banknote seal tape collecting units 25 and 26, and supplements the banknote seal tape collecting units 25 and 26 via the collection connection conveyance path 28, the collection conveyance path 27, and the collection recognition unit 20 to complete the sealing. In this way, when the escrow units 25A and 26A of the banknote-and-seal- tape collection units 25 and 26 become empty and the number of stored banknotes per denomination register parts 41 to 47 does not satisfy the number of sealed tapes, the banknote processing unit 3 resumes the conveyance of the banknote 5 in the escrow unit 14 through the collection conveyance path 27 and performs the collection operation until the escrow unit 14 becomes empty. Next, the banknotes in the escrow unit 15 and the escrow unit 16 are processed in the same manner as in the escrow unit 14.

Next, the operation of the regular counting will be described. In this example, the denomination of deposited banknotes is described as 7 denominations a to G, as in example 3.

The teller 7 places the banknotes of the above-mentioned 7 denominations in the deposit port section 10. The teller 7 then operates the terminal 6, whereby the deposited banknotes 5 are separated one by the sending-out section 10 and sent out to the deposit transport path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the fed banknotes 5 to the deposit recognition unit 11. The deposit recognizing section 11 discriminates the kind (for example, denomination/conveyance state) of the banknotes conveyed by the deposit conveyance path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknotes to the temporary storage units 13 to 16 that store the banknotes, based on the types of the banknotes determined by the deposit recognition unit 11.

The deposit transport path 17 transports, for example, banknotes of denominations a to G determined to be normal by the deposit recognition unit 11 to the collection transport path 27. The banknote processing unit 3 switches the branching unit B1 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the conveyance direction for each denomination register units 41 to 47 shown in fig. 6A. The collection conveyance path 27 aligns the direction of the bills through the up-down reversing unit 21 and the front-back reversing unit 22, and collects and stores the bills into the denomination register units 41 to 47 corresponding to the denominations of the bills 5 through the collection connection conveyance path 28 whose conveyance direction is switched.

The teller 7 places the banknotes judged to be abnormal in transport and the banknotes of the denomination other than the banding target, which are stored in the reject-banknote collection unit 24 taken out of the apparatus, in the deposit port section 10. Then, if the teller 7 operates the terminal 6, the deposited banknotes 5 are separated one by the sending-out section 10, and the deposit transport path 17 transports the sent-out banknotes 5 to the deposit recognition section 11. The deposit recognizing section 11 discriminates the kind (for example, denomination/conveyance state) of the banknotes conveyed by the deposit conveyance path 17. The deposit transport path 17 transports the banknotes to the temporary holding units 13 to 16 or the collection unit, which store the banknotes, based on the types of the banknotes determined by the deposit recognition unit 11.

The deposit transport path 17 transports, for example, banknotes of denominations a to G determined to be normal by the deposit recognition unit 11 to the collection transport path 27 via the escrow units 13 to 16, as in example 3. The banknote processing unit 3 switches the branching portion B1 of the collection connection conveyance path 28 to the conveyance direction to the banknote-sealing-tape collection unit 25/26. The collection conveyance path 27 conveys the banknotes to the banknote-sealing tape collection unit 25/26 with the orientation of the banknotes aligned via the up-down reversing unit 21 and the front-back reversing unit 22. The banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26 collect, seal, and store the banknotes conveyed through the collecting and conveying path 27 in the same manner as the sealing operation of example 2. Note that, the banknote processing section 3, similarly to the embodiment 3, conveys the banknotes 5 judged to be abnormal by the deposit recognizing section 11 to the return opening section 12, and the banknotes are taken out by the teller 7. The banknotes taken by the teller 7 can be set again in the deposit opening 10 by the teller 7 and counted again.

The banknote processing unit 3 has a detection unit (e.g., an optical sensor) for detecting a predetermined number of sheets (e.g., full or nearly full) in any one of the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47 in each of the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47, and switches the branching unit B2 of the collection/connection conveyance path 28 to the feeding direction of the sheets fed from the denomination-specific register units 41 to 47 shown in fig. 6B when the detection unit detects a number of sheets that does not satisfy the predetermined number of sheets. The banknote processing unit 3 switches the transport destination of the denomination from the banknote seal collection units 25 and 26 to the denomination register units 41 to 47, and feeds out the banknotes stacked in the denomination register units 41 to 47 one by one until a predetermined number of banknotes is satisfied, thereby completing the sealing operation. The banknote processing unit 3 can convey banknotes to one of the banknote sealing and collecting units 25 and 26 when the banknote is being processed by another denomination or when the banknotes are being moved from the holding units 25A and 26A to the sealing units 25B and 26B. The banknote handling section 3 may temporarily stop the conveyance of the banknotes from the escrow section 14 to the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26 during the processing of the banknote seal recovery units 25 and 26 for the other denominations or during the movement of the banknotes from the escrow sections 25A and 26A to the seal sections 25B and 26B. The banknote banding operation of the banknote banding collection units 25 and 26 is the same as the case of the collection operation. In addition, when the number of stored sheets in each denomination register portion 41 to 47 exceeds a predetermined number of sheets (for example, 100 sheets) of the number of sealed tapes, the processing can be performed in the same manner as the collection operation.

By doing so, it is possible to seal the denominations corresponding to the number of denomination register units 41 to 47 during the collection operation, without limiting the number to the banknote seal collection units as in example 2/3, and as a result, it is possible to store the banknotes other than the objects to be sealed during the collection operation in the reject banknote collection unit 24, and to delete the sorting and counting operations thereafter, thereby enabling the processing time to be shortened.

Further, although the number of denominations processed in the present embodiment is 7 denominations and the number of denomination-specific register units is also the same as 7 denominations, it is possible to perform banding of all denominations by one storing operation, for example, when the number of denominations processed is 7 denominations and the number of denomination-specific register units is 4 denominations, it is only possible to directly band 4 denominations in the sorting and counting operation. In this case, banknotes of denominations other than the banding target (i.e., denominations not set in the denomination register unit) are assigned to the escrow units 13 to 16, and the processing can be performed by the same operation as the method described in example 2/3.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and may have the following configuration.

The types and numbers of the temporary holding sections (100 to 103, 23 to 26) and the recovery sections (13 to 16) are not limited to the above embodiment. For example, the device may be one without a defective ticket escrow unit, a defective ticket collecting unit, or a reject collecting unit; a plurality of devices respectively provided with the defective ticket temporary reserving part, the defective ticket collecting part and the reject collecting part; or a device installed at a place different from the above-described embodiment. The number of the banknote seal collection units (25, 26) may be different from the number and the location of the banknote seal collection units in the above embodiment. Furthermore, the banknote sealing and collecting units (25, 26) can be replaced or a collecting banknote box for collecting the complete banknote can be arranged on the banknote sealing and collecting units.

In the case where there is no device including the defective note escrow unit, the defective note collecting unit, and the reject collecting unit, for example, the banknotes discriminated as defective notes may be returned to the return opening portion 12 based on the result of discrimination by the deposit discriminating unit 11. Note that, in the case where there is no temporary holding section (not set) for storing a certain type of banknotes, the banknotes may be returned to the return opening section 12.

The temporary holding sections 13 to 16 may store a plurality of types of banknotes in a mixed manner. In embodiments 2 to 4, the banknote processing unit 3 may determine a collection unit of a transport destination based on the type of the banknote determined by the collection recognizing unit 20, and transport the banknote to the transport destination.

The types of banknotes include integrity defect, authenticity, denomination, direction of banknote, state of banknote, and age of banknote. The number and type of the temporary holding sections (100 to 103, 23 to 26) and the collecting sections (13 to 16) of the banknote processing section 3 can be determined according to the number of types of banknotes processed by the banknote processing section 3. The banknote processing unit 3 may determine the types of banknotes stored in the temporary holding units (100 to 103, 23 to 26) and the collection units (13 to 16) based on information received from the outside.

For example, setting may be made such that plural kinds of banknotes are stored in a mixed manner, banknotes of the same denomination and in the same direction of storing the banknotes are stored, banknotes of the same age are stored, and defective banknotes are stored.

The banknote processing unit 3 may not include a front-back reversing unit or a vertical alignment unit. Note that the banknote sealing tape collecting unit may be configured such that a teller can directly contact banknotes, and may simply collect banknotes without sealing. The cost can be suppressed.

In the banknote handling unit 3, since the collecting unit is a horizontal type in which banknotes are stacked in a horizontal state or in an upright state, the banknotes can be individually taken out from the collecting unit from the rear side of the banknote handling unit 3.

The banknote processing unit 3 detects the number of banknotes stored in the collection unit (storage amount) by a sensor, and notifies the terminal 6 of the collection unit that the number of banknotes stored in the collection unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount (for example, a full state or a nearly full state). This makes it possible for the teller 7 to easily determine the collecting unit from which the banknotes should be taken out. The terminal 6 of the banknote handling unit 3 may receive input of information indicating a collection unit from which the teller 7 is to take out banknotes to the outside. The banknote processing section 3 may prohibit the collection operation of the collection section that has received an input from the terminal 6.

In addition, in the banknote handling unit 3, when there is a lock mechanism that restricts (prohibits) withdrawal of each of the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103, the lock mechanism may be released only for the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 that are a predetermined amount or more (for example, in a full or nearly full state) or only for the banknote collection cassettes 100 to 103 that have received an input from the terminal 6.

As described in the above embodiments, the present invention has at least one of the following features.

(1) May be, have: a deposit port part which is arranged in front of the paper money processing part and receives paper money from the outside; a deposit transport unit for transporting the banknotes received at the deposit port one by one; a discriminating section for discriminating the type (denomination, direction, age, integrity defect, transport state, authenticity, etc.) of the bill transported by the deposit transporting section; a plurality of temporary holding units for temporarily storing the same type of paper money based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit; a plurality of recovery units (100-103, 23-26) which can respectively and independently take out the paper money to the outside of the paper money processing unit; and a collection moving unit that moves the banknotes stored in the plurality of temporary holding units to the plurality of collection units.

With this configuration, the depositing operation, the collecting operation, and the movement of the banknotes from the collecting unit can be continuously performed. More specifically, during the movement of the banknotes from the collecting unit in the first transaction, the collecting operation in the second transaction can be performed in parallel, and during the collecting operation in the second transaction, the depositing operation in the third transaction can also be performed in parallel. The working efficiency of the device can be improved.

In the case where the collection moving unit is a conveying unit that connects the plurality of collection units and the plurality of temporary storage units, the number of collection units or temporary storage units can be arbitrarily adjusted.

Further, by providing a part of the collecting unit as a collected banknote box in which banknotes are collected in a standing state in a lateral direction, each collected banknote box can be taken out separately from the rear of the banknote processing unit. In this case, as compared with the case of the vertical storage, the operation efficiency of the banknote handling unit can be improved even when a plurality of banknote handling units are provided in the horizontal direction or there is a restriction (obstacle) in the horizontal direction.

(2) The banknote processing unit performs a depositing operation of conveying banknotes for a second transaction one by one from the deposit port portion to the second escrow unit in a collecting operation of moving the banknotes for the first transaction stored in the first escrow unit to the collecting unit. Thus, the deposit operation of the second transaction and the recovery operation of the first transaction can be performed in parallel. That is, the operation efficiency of the collecting operation and the depositing operation can be improved.

In this case, the driving unit for causing the banknote handling unit to perform the deposit operation and the driving unit for causing the banknote handling unit to perform the collection operation may be separated.

(3) The banknote processing unit includes a collection recognition unit in a collection conveyance unit that connects the escrow unit to the plurality of collection units. This enables various applications as compared with the case where the collection recognition unit is not provided. The present invention can be applied to a case where a plurality of escrow units for storing banknotes of the same type are provided, or a case where a plurality of escrow units for storing banknotes of different denominations are provided.

(4) The banknote processing unit may include a collection recognition unit in a collection conveyance unit connecting the escrow unit and the collection unit, and a front-back surface reversing unit or a vertical direction matching unit between the collection recognition unit and the collection unit. Thus, even if the direction of the banknotes stored in the temporary holding section is not uniform, the direction of the banknotes can be aligned in the collecting section.

In this case, even if the number of temporary holding sections is reduced, the banknotes can be collected in the collecting section with the front and back surfaces aligned in the vertical direction.

(5) The banknote processing unit includes a plurality of escrow units, a plurality of collected banknote cassettes included in the corresponding collection units, and a collection moving unit configured to move the banknotes collected in each escrow unit to the corresponding collected banknote cassette, and the escrow units and the collected banknote cassettes are configured to collect the banknotes in a horizontal direction (or in a horizontal direction) (or in an upright position), and the collected banknote cassettes are configured to be attachable to and detachable from the escrow units by sliding. Thus, even if there is no transport path for transporting the banknotes one by one, the collection operation can be performed during the deposit operation.

(6) The bill handling unit includes a defective bill temporary storage unit that temporarily stores a plurality of types of bills (bills not stored in the other temporary holding units and bills not returned to the return opening) that are not handled a lot. Thus, the temporary holding section for handling a small number of types of banknotes can be reduced in the banknote handling section and used alone.

(7) The banknote processing unit includes a reject banknote collection unit that stores banknotes determined to be reject banknotes (abnormal transport state) by the collection recognition unit, on the upstream side of the collection unit that collects the full sheets. This can suppress rejection during collection.

Description of the symbols

1 paper money processing device

2 display part

3 paper money processing part

4 control part (CPU/memorizer)

5 paper money

6 terminal

7 Teller machine

8 customers

9 power supply part

10 deposit port

10A delivery part

11 deposit recognition section

12 returning mouth part

13 temporary storage unit for defective note

14 denomination mixing temporary holding section

15 denomination mixing temporary holding section

16 denomination mixing temporary holding section

17 deposit transport path

18 bypass conveying path

20 recovery recognition unit

21 vertically aligned part

22 front and back face reverse part

23 defective note recovery money box

24 reject paper money recovery box

25 paper money sealing tape recovery unit

25A holding part

25B seal tape section

25E receiving part

26 banknote seal tape recovery unit

26A holding part

26B seal tape section

26E storage part

27 recovery conveyance path

28 recovery connection transport path

41 per denomination register section

42 register by denomination part

43 register part by denomination

44 register part by denomination

45 per denomination register section

46 register part by denomination

47 register by denomination section

100-103 paper money frequency cash box

113 to 116 (of temporary holding section)

120-123 recovery moving part

Branch downstream of B1

Branch upstream of B2

Claims (7)

1. A paper money processing device is arranged on a window of a financial institution and is characterized in that,

the disclosed device is provided with:

a deposit port part arranged in front of the device for depositing paper money;

a delivery unit provided at the deposit port and configured to separate the banknotes one by one;

a temporary holding section for storing the banknotes judged to be normal by the deposit recognition section, the deposit recognition section recognizing the banknotes separated by the feeding section;

a return port for accumulating the paper money judged to be abnormal by the deposit identification part;

a deposit transport path connecting the deposit opening, the temporary holding section, and the return opening;

a paper currency recovery part which is arranged at the rear of the device and is used for taking out the paper currency in the device;

a collection moving unit for moving the banknotes stored in the temporary holding unit to the banknote collection unit,

a temporary holding and feeding unit for separating and feeding the banknotes moved by the collecting and moving unit one by one;

a collection recognition unit configured to recognize the banknotes separated from the temporary holding unit;

a control unit for distributing the paper money to be collected to the plurality of paper money collecting units according to at least one of the information of the conveying source and the information of the collecting identification unit;

an accumulation unit that accumulates the allocated banknotes in one of the banknote collection units; and

a collection conveyance path connecting the temporary holding and feeding unit, the collection and identification unit, and the collecting and accumulating unit,

the deposit transport path and the recovery transport path are independent of each other.

2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,

the bill collecting and recognizing device is provided with a vertical orientation matching part which is positioned between the collecting and recognizing part and the bill collecting part and enables the vertical orientation of the bills to be consistent based on the direction of the conveyed bills and/or a front and back surface reversing part which enables the front and back surfaces of the bills to be consistent.

3. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,

the bill collecting section has a bill box structure capable of taking out the conveyed bills at once.

4. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,

the paper money collecting unit has a bundling mechanism for banding the transported paper money for each designated number of paper money.

5. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,

the deposit transaction is performed when at least one temporary holding section is empty.

6. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,

the paper money receiving apparatus includes a bypass transport path that branches from a downstream side of the deposit recognition unit and transports the paper money directly to the collection transport path.

7. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,

the paper money collecting and feeding device is provided with a denomination register part which is connected to the collecting and feeding path, temporarily stores the paper money, which is branched and fed from the downstream of the collecting and feeding part, by denomination, and feeds the paper money, which is stored by denomination, to the upstream of the collecting and feeding part.

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