JP2011123573A - Paper money processing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sort and discharge paper money for every denomination without making it necessary to install any complicate mechanism in a paper money processing apparatus for bundling paper moneys for every denomination, and for discharging the paper money from a discharge port. <P>SOLUTION: This paper money processing apparatus 1 includes: an accumulation means 7 for accumulating paper money for every denomination; and a bundling means 12 for bundling the paper moneys accumulated by the accumulation means 7, and for discharging the paper money from a discharge port 13, and configured to discharge a paper money bundle 20 bundled by the bundling means 12 based on a discharge speed V set for every denomination of paper money. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for releasing a banknote bundle so that the denomination can be easily identified in a banknote handling apparatus that is installed in a financial institution or the like and handles banknotes.

  The conventional banknote handling apparatus separates the banknotes accumulated in the input unit and conveys them to the recognition unit. When the recognition unit confirms that the banknotes are genuine, the banknotes are further conveyed to the temporary accumulation unit and accumulated. Then, when a predetermined number of banknotes are accumulated in the temporary stacking unit, the banknotes are transported from the temporary stacking unit to the sealing unit by the transport means, and are made into banknote bundles at the sealing unit and discharged to the discharge port. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2007-66249 A (paragraph “0019” -paragraph “0021”, FIG. 1)

  However, in the conventional banknote handling apparatus, since it is discharged from the discharge port in the same way regardless of the denomination of the banknote bundle, there are a plurality of banknote denominations to be sealed and released, and a large amount is released. There has been a problem that it takes time to arrange the released banknote bundles for each denomination.

  Further, if a complicated mechanism for organizing each denomination is provided in order to shorten the time for organizing, there is a problem that the apparatus cost increases.

  The present invention employs the following configuration in order to solve the above-described problems. That is, a banknote handling apparatus comprising a plurality of stacking means for stacking banknotes for each type, and a sealing means for sealing banknotes stacked on the stacking means and discharging them from a discharge port, wherein the sealing means The banknote bundle sealed in is released based on the release speed set for each type of banknote.

  According to the banknote handling machine of the present invention, a banknote handling apparatus comprising a plurality of stacking means for stacking banknotes by type, and a sealing means for sealing banknotes stacked on the stacking means and discharging them from a discharge port. And since it was made to discharge | release the banknote bundle sealed by the said sealing means based on the discharge speed set for every kind of banknote, it was made to discharge | release several, without making an apparatus cost high The time for arranging banknote bundles for each denomination can be shortened.

It is a block diagram of the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1. It is operation | movement explanatory drawing of the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is a structure and operation | movement explanatory drawing of the banknote processing apparatus of Example 2. FIG.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Elements common to the drawings are given the same reference numerals.

(Constitution)
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote handling apparatus 1 according to the first embodiment and shows a side view. In the same figure, 1 is a banknote processing apparatus, 2 is a banknote receiving part, has a storage space for accumulating and storing banknotes, and is not shown provided in the housing of the banknote processing apparatus 1 Accepts and stores bills inserted into the bill slot.

  The bill receiving unit 2 is provided with a bill press in the storage space, and is provided with a feeding roller arranged so that a part protrudes in the storage space, so that a separating mechanism is provided between the bill press and the feeding roller. The bill is configured to have a function of feeding the banknotes into the transport path by pressing the stored banknotes against the feeding roller by a bill press and rotating the feeding rollers.

  Reference numeral 3 denotes a conveyance path which conveys the banknotes fed from the banknote receiving unit 2 to each unit of the banknote processing apparatus 1 and has a plurality of blades 10 in the middle thereof, and the blades 10 are rotated by a driving unit (not shown). The bill conveyance direction is switched.

  In addition, a plurality of optical sensors or the like are provided at various locations on the transport path 3, and in addition to detecting bills transported by the sensor, transport errors such as double feed and transport jam are detected.

  Reference numeral 4 denotes a bill discriminating unit that has a function of discriminating the authenticity, correctness, denomination, etc. of the bills being conveyed and counting the number of bills discriminated.

  Reference numeral 5 denotes a banknote return unit, which accumulates banknotes to be returned, such as reject banknotes discriminated as counterfeit bills and unknown denominations by the banknote discrimination unit 4 and banknotes fed to the transport path 3 when a transport error occurs.

  Reference numeral 6 denotes an open pocket, which is provided on the upper surface of the banknote processing apparatus 1 and accumulates banknotes of denominations not to be bound. In addition, in the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1 of FIG. 1, although the example which provided the two open pockets 6 was shown, it may be set to one and may be set to three or more.

  7 a 1, 7 a 2, 7 b to 7 d are stacking units as stacking means, which are provided in the housing and arranged in a vertical row, and each stacks a predetermined number of banknotes of predetermined denominations. . For example, a thousand-yen bill is stacked on the stacking units 7a1 and 7a2, and a 2000-yen bill, a 5000-yen bill, and a 10,000-yen bill are stacked on the stacking units 7b, 7c, and 7d in this order. In this embodiment, the number of the accumulating units is also five, but there are cases where the accumulating unit is one denomination and there are about four accumulating units, or the denomination accumulating unit with a large amount of handling. There may be a case where the number is six or more.

  Reference numeral 8 denotes a hand portion which is provided in the housing and moves in the vertical and horizontal directions. Between the stacking portions 7a1, 7a2, 7b to 7d and the sealing portion 12 as a sealing means. It has a function of transferring bills such as withdrawal and delivery.

  The hand unit 8 has two movable plates that move up and down, holds the bill between the two movable plates, and moves from the stacking units 7a1, 7a2, and 7b to 7d to the sealing unit 12. The banknotes are extracted, and the banknotes are transferred to an upper belt 12a and a lower belt 12b, which will be described later, by widening the interval between the movable plates from the state where the banknotes are sandwiched in the sealing portion 12.

  Reference numeral 12 denotes a sealing unit, which has a function of picking up banknotes from the hand unit 8 and bundling the banknotes with a band for sealing with a paper tape or the like to make a banknote bundle 20.

  Further, in the sealing part 12, a pair of upper and lower belts 12a and 12b extending in parallel from the position of receiving the banknote from the hand part 8 toward the discharge port 13 and arranged in parallel are provided. By sandwiching the banknote bundle 20 between the belts, the banknote bundle 20 is discharged from the discharge port 13 to the outside of the apparatus.

  Reference numeral 16 denotes a control unit which controls the operation of each unit according to a control program stored in the storage unit 17. Reference numeral 17 denotes a storage unit that stores a control program and a processing result by the control unit 16.

  Reference numeral 18 denotes a display operation unit, which is provided at the upper part of the housing of the banknote processing apparatus 1 and displays a process selection screen provided with selection keys for various processes such as banknote sealing, an operation guidance screen, and the like. In addition to having a display screen, a touch panel is provided on the display screen and has a function of accepting the content input on the process selection screen.

(Operation)
With the above configuration, the banknote handling apparatus of the first embodiment operates as follows. In this embodiment, a plurality of banknotes in which four types of denominations such as a thousand yen bill, a thousand yen bill, a 5,000 yen bill, and a 10,000 yen bill are mixed are inserted, and these are combined for each denomination. An example of sealing and discharging will be described below.

  The control unit 16 of the banknote handling apparatus 1 stands by displaying a process selection screen on the display operation unit 18, and seals when a key for sealing processing that specifies sealing of banknotes is pressed by an attendant. A condition setting screen with an input field and a numeric keypad for setting sealing conditions such as the number of banknotes is displayed.

  The control unit 16 stores the sealing condition input by the attendant in the storage unit 17 and displays a bill insertion instruction screen in which a bill conveyance start key is arranged together with a screen that prompts the user to insert the bill into the bill receiving unit 3. It is displayed on the operation unit 18.

The clerk inserts the banknote into the banknote receiving unit 3 according to the banknote insertion instruction screen and presses the start key.
When recognizing pressing of the start key, the control unit 16 separates and feeds out the banknotes inserted by the clerk one by one by the separation mechanism, and transports the fed banknotes to the banknote discrimination unit 4 through the transport path 3.

  The control unit 16 discriminates the denomination of the banknotes or the banknotes that have been genuinely conveyed by the banknote discrimination unit 4, and the banknotes whose denominations are determined from the discrimination are any of the stacking units 7 a 1, 7 a 2, 7 b to 7 d through the conveyance path 3. By collecting crab, it accumulates separately for each denomination.

  In addition, the control part 16 is made to convey the banknote discriminated from the reject banknote to the banknote return part 5 by the conveyance path 3, and to return a reject banknote to a customer.

  The control unit 16 counts the banknotes conveyed to the stacking units 7a1, 7a2, and 7b to 7d by a sensor (not shown), and recognizes that, for example, 100 banknotes have been transported to the stacking unit 7a1 as, for example, 100 sheets. When the hand unit 8 is moved vertically, the hand unit 8 is moved to the side of the stacking unit 7a1 and then horizontally moved into the stacking unit 7a1, and the stacked banknotes in the stacking unit 7a1 are sandwiched and moved horizontally outside the stacking unit 7a1. As a result, the stacked banknotes are extracted, and the sandwiched banknotes are transferred to the sealing unit 12.

  Here, the stacked banknotes are delivered to the sealing unit 12 in a direction in which the short side direction of the banknotes coincides with the transport direction by the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b, and are transported by the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b. This is because the sealing band wound around the stacked banknotes by the sealing portion 12 is wound in the short direction of the banknotes, and the sealed banknote bundle 20 described later is moved in the banknote longitudinal direction by the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b. Both ends are sandwiched and conveyed.

  Next, the control unit 16 seals the stacked banknotes on the banknote bundle 20 by the sealing section 12, and changes the release speed according to the denomination of the banknote bundle 20 so as to change the banknote bundle discharge speed according to the denomination. To decide. For example, the banknote release speed is determined by storing the banknote release speed according to the stacking unit in the storage unit 17 or the like, and extracting the banknote bundle discharge rate according to the extracted stacking units 7a1, 7a2, 7b to 7d. You just have to do it.

  That is, when the stacked banknotes of the stacking part 7a1 or 7a2 are extracted, since the denomination is 1,000 yen, the banknote bundle 20 is conveyed to the discharge port 13 from the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b, and the slowest discharge speed Va. Release outside the device. Since the banknote bundle 20 released at the release speed Va has the slowest release speed, it falls to the position of the area A (8a).

  Similarly, when the stacked banknotes of the stacking units 7b, 7c, and 7d are extracted, the denominations are 2,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen, respectively, so that the speed Vb, the speed Vc, and the speed Vd are outside the apparatus. And the released banknote bundle 20 falls to the positions of area B (8b), area C (8c), and area D (8d).

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, if the box which receives the banknote bundle 20 discharge | released in the vicinity of the discharge port 13 of the banknote processing apparatus 1 is prepared for each area, the banknote bundle 20 will be automatically set for every denomination. Therefore, there is no need for the clerk to sort by denomination.

(Effect of Example 1)
As described above, according to the banknote handling apparatus of the embodiment, since the banknote bundle is discharged at the discharge speed set for each denomination, the released banknote bundle can be changed to gold without increasing the apparatus cost. The time to arrange for each species can be shortened.

(Constitution)
The banknote processing apparatus according to the second embodiment has a configuration in which a guide 9 is provided in the configuration of the first embodiment as shown in FIG. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, and detailed description thereof is omitted for the sake of brevity.

  The guide 9 is a guide that can be rotated with the fulcrum 9x as a fulcrum, and is rotated to 9a to 9d according to the denomination, so that the position where the released banknote falls can be changed.

(Operation)
With the above configuration, the banknote handling apparatus of the second embodiment operates as follows. This operation will be described below with reference to the configuration diagram of FIG. 1 with respect to the configuration and the operation explanatory diagram of FIG. Also in this embodiment, a plurality of banknotes in which four types of denominations such as a thousand yen bill, a thousand yen bill, a 5,000 yen bill, and a 10,000 yen bill are mixed are inserted, and these are combined for each denomination. An example of sealing and releasing will be described below.

  The control unit 16 of the banknote handling apparatus 1 stands by displaying a process selection screen on the display operation unit 18, and seals when a key for sealing processing that specifies sealing of banknotes is pressed by an attendant. A condition setting screen with an input field and a numeric keypad for setting sealing conditions such as the number of banknotes is displayed.

  The control unit 16 stores the sealing condition input by the attendant in the storage unit 17 and displays a bill insertion instruction screen in which a bill conveyance start key is arranged together with a screen that prompts the user to insert the bill into the bill acceptance unit 3. It is displayed on the operation unit 18. Then, a staff member inserts a banknote into the banknote acceptance part 3 according to a banknote insertion instruction | indication screen, and presses a start key.

  When recognizing pressing of the start key, the control unit 16 separates and feeds out the banknotes inserted by the clerk one by one by the separation mechanism, and transports the fed banknotes to the banknote discrimination unit 4 through the transport path 3.

  The control unit 16 discriminates the denomination of the banknotes or the banknotes that have been genuinely conveyed by the banknote discrimination unit 4, and the banknotes whose denominations are determined from the discrimination are any of the stacking units 7 a 1, 7 a 2, 7 b to 7 d through the conveyance path 3. By collecting crab, it accumulates separately for each denomination.

  The control unit 16 counts the banknotes conveyed to the stacking units 7a1, 7a2, and 7b to 7d by a sensor (not shown), and recognizes that, for example, 100 banknotes have been transported to the stacking unit 7a1 as, for example, 100 sheets. When the hand unit 8 is moved vertically, the hand unit 8 is moved to the side of the stacking unit 7a1 and then horizontally moved into the stacking unit 7a1, and the stacked banknotes in the stacking unit 7a1 are sandwiched and moved horizontally outside the stacking unit 7a1. As a result, the stacked banknotes are extracted, and the sandwiched banknotes are transferred to the sealing unit 12.

  Here, the stacked banknotes are delivered to the sealing unit 12 in a direction in which the short side direction of the banknotes coincides with the transport direction by the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b, and are transported by the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b.

  The control unit 16 seals the stacked banknotes on the banknote bundle 20 by the sealing section 12 and determines the banknote bundle discharge angle corresponding to the denomination of the banknote bundle 20. The determination of the banknote bundle discharge angle is performed by, for example, storing the banknote discharge angle corresponding to the stacking unit in the storage unit 17 or the like, and extracting the banknote bundle discharge angle corresponding to the stacking units 7a1, 7a2, and 7b to 7d extracted. You just have to do it.

  That is, the control unit 16 transports the banknote bundle 20 from the upper belt 12a and the lower belt 12b to the discharge port 13 to the discharge port 13 because the denomination is 1,000 yen when the stacked banknotes of the stacking unit 7a1 or 7a2 are extracted. The bill is discharged out of the apparatus with 9 as the position of 9a. In this case, since the banknote bundle 20 released at the release speed V is released along the guide 9a, it falls to the vicinity of the area A (8a).

  Similarly, when the stacked banknotes of the stacking portions 7b, 7c, and 7d are extracted, the denominations are 2,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen, respectively, so that the banknotes are used as the positions of the guides 9b, 9c, and 9d, respectively. When discharged outside the apparatus, the released banknote bundle 20 falls in the vicinity of area B (8b), area C (8c), and area D (8d).

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 3, as in the first embodiment, if a box for receiving the banknote bundle 20 to be released near the outlet 13 of the banknote handling apparatus 1 is prepared in each area, for each denomination. Since the banknote bundle 20 is automatically sorted, there is no need for the clerk to sort by denomination.

  In the above description of the embodiment, it has been described that the angle of the guide 9 is changed without changing the discharge speed. However, the discharge speed depends on the denomination as in the first embodiment as well as the angle of the guide 9 as in the second embodiment. If it changes, it can make a difference in a fall position further, and can sort it reliably.

(Effect of Example 2)
As described above, according to the banknote handling apparatus of the second embodiment, the guide is provided in the vicinity of the banknote discharge port, and the angle of the guide is changed for each denomination. It is possible to shorten the time for arranging the released banknote bundles for each denomination.

<Other variations>
In the above embodiment, the four types of denominations, thousand yen bills, two thousand yen bills, five thousand yen bills and ten thousand yen bills, have been described as examples. The present invention can be applied even when there are many cases. In addition, if the release speed is changed according to the correct bill or the non-paid bill separately from the denomination or together with the denomination, each drop position can be changed, and similarly the sorting time can be shortened. .

  As described above, the present invention can be widely used in banknote processing apparatuses that are installed in financial institutions and the like and sort banknotes or the like for denomination discrimination.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote processing apparatus 4 Banknote discrimination part 7a1, 7a2, 7b-7d Accumulation part 8 Hand part 9, 9a-9d Guide 12 Sealing part 12a Upper belt 12b Lower belt 13 Release | release part 16 Control part 17 Memory | storage part 20 Banknote bundle

Claims (2)

A banknote processing apparatus comprising a plurality of stacking means for stacking banknotes for each type, and a sealing means for sealing banknotes stacked on the stacking means and discharging them from a discharge port,
The banknote processing apparatus characterized in that the banknote bundle sealed by the sealing means is discharged based on a discharge speed set for each type of banknote. A plurality of stacking means for stacking banknotes for each type, a sealing means for sealing banknotes stacked on the stacking means and discharging them from the discharge port, and having a fulcrum in the vicinity of the discharge port and capable of rotating up and down A bill processing apparatus comprising a guide,
The banknote processing apparatus characterized in that the banknote bundle sealed by the sealing means is discharged based on the discharge angle of the guide set for each type of banknote.

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