JP2010186488A - Paper money processing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress generation of dead paper money and to improve fund operation efficiency. <P>SOLUTION: During a dispensing transaction, paper money distinguished as reject paper money in a distinguishing part 3 is held in a temporary holding part 5, and the paper money is returned to each-denomination reject cassettes 4a and 4b for each denomination, is delivered from the each-denomination cassettes 4a and 4b when the paper money in each-denomination cassettes 4c and 4d is insufficient, is distinguished again, and is dispensed to a customer or the like when it is distinguished as being normal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus incorporated in an automatic transaction apparatus that performs various transactions by operations of customers and the like.

  In the conventional banknote handling apparatus of this type, the banknotes drawn out from the banknote storage cassette at the time of withdrawal transaction are transported to the discrimination section, the denomination is determined by this discrimination section, and only the banknotes identified as normal are in the customer service section. When the banknotes for the amount specified by the customer are accumulated in the customer service part, the shutter is opened and the accumulated banknotes are paid to the customer. However, the discrimination part is identified as unknown or transport abnormality. The banknotes are conveyed and stored as reject banknotes in a reject cassette (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2001-266223 A

However, the conventional techniques described above have the following problems.
That is, the banknotes stored in the reject cassette are so-called dead banknotes that are simply stored in the banknote processing apparatus until they are collected by a staff member at the time of scrutiny or the like.
On the other hand, the banknotes drawn out from the banknote storage cassette at the time of the withdrawal transaction are normal banknotes identified as being available for withdrawal by the discrimination unit when stored in the banknote storage cassette.

In this way, although the banknotes drawn out from the banknote storage cassette are normally normal banknotes, the banknotes are conventionally stored in the reject cassette only by being discriminated once from the reject banknotes at the time of the withdrawal transaction. Therefore, there is a problem that the fund efficiency is lowered because the funds are stored until the time of scrutiny.
An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem.

  Therefore, the present invention is a banknote processing apparatus for paying out banknotes from within a denomination cassette storing banknotes in denominations and discriminating them with a discrimination section, and paying banknotes identified as normal from the customer service section. A temporary holding unit for temporarily holding banknotes is arranged downstream of the discrimination unit in the transport direction, and a banknote storage cassette different from the denomination-type cassette is provided, and is discriminated from rejected banknotes by the discrimination unit during a withdrawal transaction. Banknotes are collected and stored in the temporary storage unit, and normal banknotes to be withdrawn are collected in the customer service unit, and then the banknotes are drawn out from the temporary storage unit and stored in the banknote storage cassette, and again identified. And is used for subsequent withdrawal transactions.

  In the present invention, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote in the discrimination section at the time of the withdrawal transaction is held in the temporary storage section, and the banknote is returned to the banknote storage cassette different from the denomination cassette. Since it uses for transaction, the effect that the generation | occurrence | production of a banknote banknote is suppressed and money efficiency can be improved is acquired.

  Embodiments of a banknote handling apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing the internal structure of a banknote handling apparatus according to the present invention.
In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a customer service unit. This customer service unit 1 is provided with a shutter (not shown). When a customer operates an automatic transaction apparatus to perform a transaction, this shutter opens and closes and a bill can be taken in and out. It is to be controlled as follows.
In this customer service section 1, when a customer inserts a banknote, the banknote holding member 2 whose angle changes so that the opening faces upward and when the banknote is separated or taken in, the opening faces sideways; Separating means for separating the banknotes set on the banknote holding member 2 by the customer at the time of deposit transaction and feeding them into the apparatus, and banknotes to be returned to the customer and banknotes to be paid to the customer at the time of withdrawal transaction are taken into the banknote holding member 2 It has a capturing means.

3 is a discrimination unit. The discrimination unit 3 discriminates the authenticity of banknotes, denominations, correctness, and front / back, as well as detection of conveyance abnormalities such as double feeding, chaining and skewing, and the denomination is determined. It has a function to count banknotes.
Reference numerals 4a to 4d denote banknote storage cassettes which are arranged side by side here. However, the number is not limited to this number, and at least one may be provided depending on the operation mode and the like.

The banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d are each formed with an opening for taking in and feeding out banknotes at one upper end, and the banknotes are fed into the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d one by one and accumulated in each opening. At the same time, there is provided a stacking and feeding means composed of a plurality of rollers for separating and feeding bills one by one from the bill storage cassettes 4a to 4d.
The banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d are each provided with a stage that can be raised and lowered. The banknotes stored in the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d are accumulated on the stage, and each stage stores and feeds banknotes. It moves up and down according to the above.

  Reference numeral 5 denotes a temporary storage unit disposed on the downstream side of the discrimination unit 3 in the banknote conveyance direction at the time of the withdrawal transaction, and has a banknote intake port at the upper part on the customer service unit 1 side, and a lower part on the same side as the intake port. Has a payout opening. In the temporary storage unit 5, a taking-in means comprising a plurality of rollers for taking in banknotes and a feeding means comprising a plurality of rollers for separating and feeding out the banknotes one by one are provided corresponding to the taking-in port and the outlet. It has been.

The temporary holding unit 5 is normally used to temporarily hold the banknotes identified as depositable by the discrimination unit 3 at the time of deposit transaction until the deposit is confirmed. It is used for processing.
Reference numeral 6 denotes a replenishment / collection cassette. The replenishment / recovery cassette 6 is detachably attached to the banknote processing apparatus.

The replenishing and collecting cassette 6 is used for replenishing banknotes with respect to the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d and for collecting banknotes from the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d. Since there is no direct relationship, the details are omitted.
7 is a forgotten banknote storage cassette for storing banknotes that a customer forgets at the time of a withdrawal transaction, and 8 is unsuitable for reuse as a withdrawal banknote, although it can be deposited by the discrimination unit 3 at the time of a deposit transaction. A non-use cassette for storing banknotes discriminated from banknotes, 9 for rejects that store banknotes discriminated from reject banknotes of unknown denomination etc. at the discriminating unit 3 at the time of withdrawal transactions and collection into the replenishment collection cassette 6 These cassettes 7 to 9 are also detachably attached to the banknote processing apparatus.

10a to 10h are transport paths for transporting banknotes.
Here, the conveyance paths 10a and 10b pass from the separating means of the customer service section 1 through the discrimination section 3 and are turned downward so as to draw a U-shape, and are fed to each stacking and feeding means corresponding to the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d. The transport paths 10b and 10c are drawn in a reverse U shape from the lower side of the temporary storage section 5 via the discrimination section 3 from each stacking and feeding means corresponding to the bill storage cassettes 4a to 4d. It is provided so as to form a withdrawal path that is reversed above the temporary storage section 5 and reaches the taking-in means of the customer service section 1, and therefore the transport path 10b is shared by the deposit path and the withdrawal path. Yes.

Also, the transport path 10c and the transport path 10b are loaded and replenished to the stacking and feeding means corresponding to the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d via the discrimination section 3 with the banknotes fed from the replenishment collection cassette 6 when loading and refilling banknotes. It is also used as a route.
For this reason, at least the transport paths 10b and 10c are driven and controlled so as to transport the bills in the opposite direction at the time of depositing, loading and replenishing the bills and at the time of withdrawal.

In such a banknote transport path, the temporary storage section 5 is arranged downstream of the discrimination section 3 in the banknote transport direction at the time of withdrawal, and the transport path 10d is transported before the taking-in means of the customer service section 1 It is provided so as to form a route that branches from the route 10 c and reaches the intake port of the temporary holding unit 5.
This conveyance path 10d is arranged so as to invert the banknote conveyed by the conveyance path 10c and send it to the take-in port of the temporary storage unit 5.

Further, the transport path 10e is provided so as to form a path that joins the discrimination section 3 side of the transport path 10c with the delivery port of the temporary storage unit 5 as a starting point, and the transport path 10f branches off from the transport path 10b. It is provided so as to form a bypass path that joins 10c.
The conveyance path 10g is further in the middle of the conveyance path 10c so as to form a path from the terminal end of the conveyance path 10b to the banknote loading slot of the banknote storage cassette 7, the banknote cassette 8, and the reject dedicated cassette 9 to be removed. Is provided so as to form a path that branches off from and joins the transport path 10g.

A blade (not shown) is provided at a branching part or a joining part of these transport paths so as to switch the transport direction of banknotes.
In this apparatus having such a configuration, the operation of each unit described below is controlled by a control unit (not shown) based on a program (software) stored in a storage unit (not shown) in each embodiment. Yes.

2-5 is explanatory drawing which shows a 1st Example, This Example is banknote storage cassette 4a-4d among the banknote storage cassettes 4a-4d demonstrated in FIG. The cassettes and bill storage cassettes 4c and 4d are set so as to be used as denomination cassettes that store thousand yen bills.
Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described.

The customer or financial institution operator specifies the withdrawal type and amount during the withdrawal transaction.
When the designated denomination includes a 10,000 yen banknote, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, banknotes are fed one by one from the denomination cassette 4a by the stacking and feeding means and conveyed to the discrimination unit 3 by the conveyance path 10b. The section 3 discriminates the denomination of the banknote, the front and back, etc., and also detects conveyance abnormalities such as double feeding, chaining, and skew feeding.

As a result, the denominations are confirmed, and the banknotes identified as normal, in which no conveyance abnormality is detected, are counted and conveyed to the customer service section 1 through the conveyance path 10c, and taken into the banknote holding member 2 and collected by the taking-in means.
Also, the banknotes that have been identified as rejected banknotes with unknown denominations or abnormal transport are transported by the transport path 10c, and the transport direction is switched in front of the customer service unit 1 and sent to the transport path 10d, and then temporarily held. The take-in means provided in the unit 5 takes in and accumulates in the temporary holding unit 5 and temporarily holds it.

  When such a process is repeated and the designated number of 10,000 yen banknotes is accumulated on the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service unit 1, if there is no 10,000 yen reject banknote in the temporary storage unit 5, the designated denomination is If there is a thousand-yen banknote, the process proceeds to the delivery of the thousand-yen banknote. However, when a 10,000-yen reject banknote is present in the temporary holding unit 5, the reject banknote is 1 from the temporary holding unit 5 by the feeding means as shown in FIG. The sheets are separated and fed out.

The rejected banknotes are transported by the transport path 10e and sent to the transport path 10c, and then sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10b, pass through the discrimination unit 3 by this transport path 10b, and are returned to the original denomination cassette. 4a and stored in the denomination cassette 4a by the collecting and feeding means.
When all the reject banknotes in the temporary storage unit 5 are drawn out and stored in the denomination cassette 4a, when the designated denomination has a thousand yen banknote, for example, from the denomination cassette 4c, as shown in FIG. Banknotes are fed one by one by the stacking and feeding means and conveyed to the discrimination unit 3 by the conveyance path 10b. The discrimination unit 3 discriminates the denomination, front and back, etc. of the banknotes, and double feed, chain, skew, etc. The conveyance abnormality is detected.

As a result, the denomination is determined, and the banknotes identified as normal, in which no conveyance abnormality is detected, are counted, conveyed to the customer service section 1 through the conveyance path 10c, and taken into the banknote holding member 2 and collected by the taking-in means.
Also, the banknotes that have been identified as rejected banknotes with unknown denominations or abnormal transport are transported by the transport path 10c, and the transport direction is switched in front of the customer service unit 1 and sent to the transport path 10d, and then temporarily held. The take-in means provided in the unit 5 takes in and accumulates in the temporary storage unit 5.

When such a process is repeated and a specified number of 10,000 yen bills and 1000 yen bills are collected and arranged on the bill holding member 2 of the customer service portion 1, the bill holding member 2 changes its angle so that its opening faces upward. The shutter is opened and the bill is paid to the customer or the operator. When the bill is taken out, the shutter is closed.
And when a 1000 yen reject banknote exists in the temporary storage part 5, in parallel with payment of the banknote to a customer or an operator, as shown in FIG. The rejected banknotes are separated and fed out one by one, and are conveyed by the conveyance path 10e and sent to the conveyance path 10c, and then sent from the conveyance path 10c to the conveyance path 10b. It passes, is transported to the original denomination cassette 4c, and is stored in the denomination cassette 4c by the collecting and feeding means.

Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus enters a standby state in preparation for the next transaction.
The same applies to the case of paying out bills from the denomination cassettes 4b and 4d.
In the next withdrawal transaction, the previous reject banknote is paid out from the denomination cassettes 4a to 4d, and the same processing as described above is performed.
Thereby, even if the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote in the previous discriminating unit 3 is discriminated as normal by the discriminating unit 3, it is withdrawn to the customer.

  In this case, the denomination cassette storing the previous reject banknote is stored in a temporary storage memory or the like (not shown), and for the banknotes fed out from the denomination cassette, the discrimination unit 3 detects the denomination or the conveyance abnormality. Thus, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote is not sent to the temporary storage unit 5, but is sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10h, transported to the reject-dedicated cassette 9 through the transport path 10g, and stored in the reject-dedicated cassette 9. You may do it.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote in the discrimination section at the time of the withdrawal transaction is held in the temporary holding section, and the banknote is returned to the denomination cassette to be used for the next withdrawal. If discrimination is performed again at the time of transaction and it is discriminated as normal, the withdrawal is made to the customer or the like, so that the generation of banknotes can be suppressed and the money efficiency can be improved.
FIGS. 6-9 is explanatory drawing which shows a 2nd Example, and this Example is the money type which the banknote storage cassette 4a stores a normal 10,000 yen banknote among banknote storage cassettes 4a-4d demonstrated in FIG. The cassette and banknote storage cassette 4b are money type reject cassettes that store 10,000 yen reject banknotes, the banknote storage cassette 4c is a money type cassette that stores normal 1000 yen banknotes, and the banknote storage cassette 4d stores 1000 yen reject banknotes. This is set to be used as a denomination-type reject cassette.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described.
When the customer or the operator of the financial institution designates the withdrawal type and amount at the time of withdrawal transaction, if there is a 10,000 yen banknote in the designated denomination, for example, as shown in FIG. Bills are paid out one by one.
The fed banknotes are subjected to discrimination by the discrimination section 3 in the same procedure as in the first embodiment, normal banknotes are taken in and accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service section 1, and reject banknotes are stored in the temporary storage section 5. And is temporarily held.

  And when the designated number of 10,000 yen banknotes is accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service section 1, if there is no 10,000 yen reject banknote in the temporary storage section 5, if the designated denomination has a thousand yen banknote In this case, when a thousand yen reject banknote is present in the temporary storage unit 5, as shown in FIG. 7, the reject banknotes are separated from the temporary storage unit 5 and fed out one by one by the feeding means. It is.

The fed-out reject banknote is conveyed by the conveyance path 10e and sent to the conveyance path 10c, and then sent from the conveyance path 10c to the conveyance path 10b, passes through the discrimination unit 3 by this conveyance path 10b, and enters the denomination cassette 4b. It is transported and stored in the denomination reject cassette 4b by the stacking and feeding means.
When all of the reject banknotes in the temporary storage unit 5 are fed out and stored in the denomination reject cassette 4b, when the designated denomination has a thousand yen banknote, as shown in FIG. 8, for example, the denomination cassette 4c Bills are fed out one by one by the stacking and feeding means.

The fed banknotes are subjected to discrimination by the discrimination section 3 in the same procedure as in the first embodiment, normal banknotes are taken in and accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service section 1, and reject banknotes are stored in the temporary storage section 5. And is temporarily held.
When such a process is repeated and a specified number of 10,000 yen bills and 1000 yen bills are collected and arranged on the bill holding member 2 of the customer service portion 1, the bill holding member 2 changes its angle so that its opening faces upward. The shutter is opened and the bill is paid to the customer or the operator. When the bill is taken out, the shutter is closed.

  And when a 1000 yen reject banknote exists in the temporary storage part 5, in parallel with payment of the banknote to a customer or an operator, as shown in FIG. The rejected banknotes are separated and fed out one by one, and are conveyed by the conveyance path 10e and sent to the conveyance path 10c, and then sent from the conveyance path 10c to the conveyance path 10b. Passed, conveyed to the denomination reject cassette 4d, and stored in the denomination cassette 4d by the stacking and feeding means.

Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus enters a standby state in preparation for the next transaction.
Thereafter, the withdrawal transaction is repeated in the same manner. However, when the banknotes in the denomination cassette 4a or 4c run short during the transaction, the banknotes are fed out from the denomination reject cassette 4b or 4d and fed out from the denomination cassette 4a or 4c. The same processing as that for the banknote is performed.
Thereby, even if the banknote previously discriminated by the discriminating unit 3 is discriminated as normal by the discriminating unit 3, the banknote is withdrawn.

  In this case, for banknotes fed out from the denomination-type reject cassette 4b or 4d, the banknotes that are identified as reject banknotes are detected by the discrimination section 3 and detected as a reject banknote are sent to the temporary storage section 5. Instead, it may be sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10h, transported to the reject-dedicated cassette 9 through the transport path 10g, and stored in the reject-dedicated cassette 9.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote in the discrimination section at the time of withdrawal transaction is held in the temporary storage section, and the banknote is returned to the money type reject cassette. When there is a shortage of banknotes in the cassette, it is drawn out from the reject cassette, and if it is identified again as normal, it will be withdrawn to the customer, etc. It will be possible to suppress and improve financial efficiency.

  FIGS. 10 to 13 are explanatory views showing a third embodiment. In this embodiment, one of the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d described in FIG. 1, for example, the banknote storage cassette 4a is identified as a reject banknote. The re-discrimination cassette for storing banknotes and the remaining banknote storage cassettes 4b to 4d are set to be used as denomination cassettes, and the denominations of banknotes stored in the denomination cassettes 4b to 4d are arbitrary. Then, it is assumed that the money type cassette 4b is set to be used for storing 10,000 yen banknotes, and the banknote storage cassettes 4c and 4d are set to be used for storing thousand yen banknotes.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment will be described.
When the customer or the operator of the financial institution designates the withdrawal type and amount at the time of withdrawal transaction, if there is a 10,000 yen banknote in the designated denomination, the banknote is collected from the denomination cassette 4b by the collective feeding means as shown in FIG. Are fed out one by one.
The fed banknotes are subjected to discrimination by the discrimination section 3 in the same procedure as in the first embodiment, normal banknotes are taken in and accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service section 1, and reject banknotes are stored in the temporary storage section 5. And is temporarily held.

  And when the designated number of 10,000 yen banknotes is accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service section 1, if there is no 10,000 yen reject banknote in the temporary storage section 5, if the designated denomination has a thousand yen banknote In this case, when a thousand yen reject banknote is present in the temporary storage unit 5, the reject banknotes are separated from the temporary storage unit 5 one by one by the feeding means as shown in FIG. The rejected banknotes thus fed are transported by the transport path 10e and sent to the transport path 10c, then sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10b, and are transported to the discrimination unit 3 by the transport path 10b.

Then, the discrimination unit 3 detects the discrimination and the conveyance abnormality again, and as a result, the normal banknote whose denomination is found is conveyed to the denomination cassette 4b by the conveyance path 10b and is stored in the denomination reject cassette 4b by the stacking and feeding means. It is stored in.
In this case as well, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote is conveyed to the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the conveyance path 10b and stored in the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the stacking and feeding means.

When all rejected banknotes in the temporary storage unit 5 are drawn out and stored in the re-discrimination cassette 4a or the denomination cassette 4b, if there is a thousand yen banknote in the designated denomination, for example, it is accumulated from the denomination cassette 4c Banknotes are fed one by one by the feeding means.
The fed banknotes are subjected to discrimination by the discrimination section 3 in the same procedure as in the first embodiment, normal banknotes are taken in and accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service section 1, and reject banknotes are stored in the temporary storage section 5. And is temporarily held.

When such a process is repeated and a specified number of 10,000 yen bills and 1000 yen bills are collected and arranged on the bill holding member 2 of the customer service portion 1, the bill holding member 2 changes its angle so that its opening faces upward. The shutter is opened and the bill is paid to the customer or the operator. When the bill is taken out, the shutter is closed.
And when a 1000 yen reject banknote exists in the temporary storage part 5, in parallel with the payment of the banknote to a customer or an operator, a rejection banknote is separated one by one by the delivery means from the temporary storage part 5, and is paid out. The fed-out reject banknote is transported by the transport path 10e and sent to the transport path 10c, then sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10b, and is transported to the discrimination unit 3 by the transport path 10b.

Then, the discrimination unit 3 detects the discrimination and the conveyance abnormality again, and as a result, the normal banknote whose denomination is found is conveyed to the denomination cassette 4c by the conveyance path 10b and is put into the denomination cassette 4c by the stacking and feeding means. Stored.
In this case as well, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote is conveyed to the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the conveyance path 10b and stored in the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the stacking and feeding means.

The same processing is performed when a banknote is drawn out from the denomination cassette 4d and then withdrawn.
Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus enters a standby state in preparation for the next transaction.
Thereafter, the withdrawal transaction is repeated in the same manner. However, banknotes are fed out from the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the stacking and feeding means as shown in FIG.
The fed banknote is transported by the transport path 10b, passes through the discrimination section 3, is transported by the transport path 10c, is switched to the transport direction in front of the customer service section 1, and is sent to the transport path 10d, and then temporarily held. The take-in means provided in the unit 5 takes in and accumulates in the temporary storage unit 5.

  When all banknotes are fed out from the re-discrimination cassette 4a and taken into the temporary storage unit 5 and accumulated, the rejected banknotes are separated one by one from the temporary storage unit 5 by the feeding means as shown in FIG. The rejected banknotes that are fed out are transported by the transport path 10e and sent to the transport path 10c, and then sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10b, and are transported to the discrimination unit 3 by the transport path 10b. .

Then, the discrimination unit 3 detects discrimination and conveyance abnormality again, and as a result, the normal banknote whose denomination is found is conveyed to one of the denomination cassettes 4b to 4d by the conveyance path 10b according to the denomination. The money is stored in the denomination cassettes 4b to 4d by the collecting and feeding means.
Moreover, although the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote may be transported to the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the transport path 10b and stored in the re-discrimination cassette 4a by the stacking and feeding means, the banknote here is a plurality of times. Since these are all identified as reject banknotes, they may be sent from the transport path 10b to the transport path 10g, transported to the reject-dedicated cassette 9, and stored in the reject-dedicated cassette 9.

  As described above, in the third embodiment, the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote in the discrimination section at the time of the withdrawal transaction is held in the temporary storage section, and the banknote is transported and stored in the re-discrimination cassette. Since the banknotes identified as normal are returned to the denomination cassette by being transported to the discrimination section and re-discriminated in the free time, the generation of banknotes is suppressed as in the first embodiment. The efficiency can be improved.

Further, according to the third embodiment, only the banknotes identified as normal are stored in the denomination cassette, so that the generation of reject banknotes during the withdrawal transaction is suppressed, and the transaction time can be shortened. It can contribute.
In addition, in the 1st-3rd Example mentioned above, among the banknotes discriminated with the reject banknote in the discrimination part 3, it distinguishes with a reject banknote because the dimension of the length or width of a banknote is shorter than the dimension of a normal banknote. The banknotes are likely to be broken or damaged when stored in the denomination cassette 4a or when being drawn out from the denomination cassette 4a. If such a small reject banknote is sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10h, transported to the reject-dedicated cassette 9 by the transport path 10g, and stored in the reject-dedicated cassette 9, the occurrence of a jam or the like can be prevented.

  FIGS. 14 and 15 are explanatory views showing the fourth embodiment. This fourth embodiment is the same as the first embodiment, among the banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4d described in FIG. 1, and the banknote storage cassette 4a. , 4b is set to be used as a denomination cassette for storing 10,000 yen banknotes, and the banknote storage cassettes 4c, 4d are set to be used as a denomination cassette for storing thousand yen banknotes, but the temporary storage unit 5 is used for the front and back assortment of banknotes. It is what you use.

Next, the operation of the fourth embodiment will be described.
The customer or financial institution operator specifies the withdrawal type and amount during the withdrawal transaction.
When there are 10,000 yen banknotes in the designated denomination, for example, as shown in FIG. 14, banknotes are fed one by one from the denomination cassette 4a by the stacking and feeding means and conveyed to the discrimination unit 3 by the conveyance path 10b. The section 3 discriminates the denomination of the banknote, the front and back, etc., and also detects conveyance abnormalities such as double feeding, chaining, and skew feeding.

As a result, the denomination is confirmed, and the front (or back) banknotes identified as normal, in which no conveyance abnormality is detected, are counted and conveyed to the customer service section 1 through the conveyance path 10c, and are taken into the banknote holding member 2 by the taking-in means. Captured and accumulated.
Moreover, after the banknote of the back (or front) direction discriminated as normal is conveyed by the conveyance path 10c, the conveyance direction is switched in front of the customer service unit 1 and sent to the conveyance path 10d, and the front and back are reversed temporarily. The take-in means provided in the holding unit 5 takes in and accumulates in the temporary holding unit 5 and temporarily holds it.

Further, the banknotes that have been identified as rejected banknotes by the discriminating unit 3 when the denomination or the transport abnormality is detected are sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10h, and are transported to the reject-dedicated cassette 9 through the transport path 10g. 9 is housed.
When such processing is repeated and a specified number of 10,000 yen banknotes are accumulated in the banknote holding member 2 and the temporary storage section 5 of the customer service section 1, the banknotes are separated one by one from the temporary storage section 5 by the feeding means. The fed banknotes are fed out by the transport path 10e and sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10b.

Then, the banknote is transported by the transport path 10b, passes through the discrimination section 3, is sent again to the transport path 10c by the transport path 10f, is transported to the customer service section 1 by this transport path 10c, and is taken into the banknote holding member 2 by the taking-in means. Captured and accumulated.
In this case, the banknotes temporarily held in the temporary holding unit 5 are reversed when they are taken into the temporary holding unit 5 as described above, and are fed out from the temporary holding unit 5 in the inverted state. Therefore, the front and back are aligned in the same direction as the banknotes already stacked on the banknote holding member 2 and are stacked on the banknote holding member 2.

  When all the banknotes in the temporary storage unit 5 are drawn out and stacked on the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service unit 1, for example, when there is a thousand-yen banknote in the designated denomination, the banknote is stacked from the denomination cassette 4c by the stacking and feeding means, for example. Are fed out one by one and transported to the discrimination section 3 by the transport path 10b. The discrimination section 3 discriminates the denomination, front and back of banknotes, and detects conveyance abnormalities such as double feeding, chaining and skew feeding. Is done.

As a result, the denomination is confirmed, and the banknotes facing front (or back) which are identified as normal without detecting any conveyance abnormality are counted and conveyed to the customer service section 1 through the conveyance path 10c, and taken into the banknote holding member 2 by the taking-in means. And accumulated.
Moreover, after the banknote of the back (or front) direction discriminated as normal is conveyed by the conveyance path 10c, the conveyance direction is switched in front of the customer service unit 1 and sent to the conveyance path 10d, and the front and back are reversed temporarily. The take-in means provided in the holding unit 5 takes in and accumulates in the temporary holding unit 5 and temporarily holds it.

Further, the banknotes that have been identified as rejected banknotes by the discriminating unit 3 when the denomination or the transport abnormality is detected are sent from the transport path 10c to the transport path 10h, and are transported to the reject-dedicated cassette 9 through the transport path 10g. 9 is housed.
When such processing is repeated and the designated number of 10,000 yen bills and 1000 yen bills are collected and arranged in the bill holding member 2 and the temporary holding portion 5 of the customer service portion 1, the temporary holding portion is the same as in the case of a 10,000 yen bill. The bills are fed out from 5 and accumulated in the bill holding member 2 of the customer service section 1.

And if all the banknotes in the temporary storage part 5 are drawn out and are integrated | stacked on the banknote holding member 2 of the customer service part 1, the angle of the banknote holding member 2 will change so that the opening part may face upwards, and a shutter will open. The bills with the front and back sides aligned are paid to the customer or operator, and the shutter is closed when the bills are removed.
Thereafter, the banknote handling apparatus enters a standby state in preparation for the next transaction.

The same applies to the case of paying out bills from the denomination cassettes 4b and 4d.
According to the fourth embodiment described above, an apparatus that can align the front and back of banknotes at the time of a withdrawal transaction using a temporary storage unit without providing a front and back reversing mechanism for reversing the front and back of a banknote. Without increasing the size of the banknotes, it is possible to meet the demand for the withdrawal of banknotes.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, the apparatus including the four banknote storage cassettes 4a to 4c has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, in the case of the first and fourth embodiments, the banknote storage cassette includes This can be realized even with a single device, and in the case of the second and third embodiments, it can be realized as long as the device has two bill storage cassettes.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Customer service part 2 Banknote holding member 3 Discrimination part 4a-4d Banknote storage cassette 5 Temporary storage part 6 Replenishment collection cassette 7 Forgetting banknote storage cassette 8 Slip cassette 9 Reject-only cassette 10a-10h Conveyance path

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In the banknote processing apparatus that pays out banknotes from the denomination cassette that stores banknotes in denominations and discriminates the banknotes identified as normal from the customer service section,
A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing banknotes is arranged on the downstream side of the discrimination unit in the conveyance direction of banknotes during a withdrawal transaction, and a banknote storage cassette different from the denomination cassette is provided,
The banknotes discriminated from rejected banknotes at the time of withdrawal transaction are accumulated and held in the temporary holding unit,
After collecting normal banknotes to be withdrawn in the customer service section, the banknotes are drawn out from the temporary storage section and stored in the banknote storage cassette, and are again used for subsequent withdrawal transactions. A bill processing apparatus. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,
As the banknote storage cassette, a money type reject cassette for storing reject banknotes by money type is provided,
In the middle of a withdrawal transaction, when there are not enough banknotes in the denomination cassette, the banknotes are paid out from the denomination reject cassette, the banknotes whose denomination is found in the discrimination unit are withdrawn, and the banknotes identified as reject banknotes Is stored in a reject-dedicated cassette. In the bill processing device according to claim 2,
If there are multiple denominations at the time of the withdrawal transaction, all the rejected banknotes that have been paid out and identified first are drawn out from the temporary holding unit and stored in the denomination reject cassette, and then the next denominated banknote The banknote processing apparatus characterized by paying out. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1,
As the banknote storage cassette, a cassette for re-discrimination that stores rejected banknotes with mixed denominations is provided,
After paying out banknotes from the re-discrimination cassette and accumulating in the temporary holding unit in the idle time of the device not performing the transaction, paying out banknotes from the temporary holding unit and performing discrimination in the discrimination unit,
A banknote processing apparatus characterized in that a banknote whose denomination is found is stored in a denomination cassette, and a banknote whose denomination is unknown is stored in a reject-dedicated cassette. In the bill processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
Among banknotes determined to be reject banknotes at the time of withdrawal transactions, banknotes having dimensions smaller than normal banknotes are transported and stored in a reject-dedicated cassette without being held in a temporary storage section. apparatus.

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