JPH0554224A - Paper currency feeding-out system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decrease the number of sensors for feeding-out control. CONSTITUTION:Paper currency stacked at a paper currency stack part is separated and fed out, sheet by sheet, by feeding-out rollers F and P. Then the fed-out paper currency is conveyed by a conveyor roller R along a conveyance path. In this case, a feeding-out control means C stops the feeding-out roller P when a sensor provided at a specific position on the conveyance path detects the front end of the paper currency to finish feeding one sheet of paper currency out, and this paper currency is conveyed by the conveyor roller R. Then a feeding-out control means C actuates the feeding-out roller P when the sensor detects the tail end of the paper currency to start feeding a next sheet of paper currency out. Those procedures are repeated to convey sheets of paper currency on the conveyance path at equal intervals while detecting the travel of the paper currency only by the single sensor.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper feeding system in a device for counting and managing banknotes which is built in an automatic teller machine used in financial institutions such as banks.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In financial institutions such as banks, automated teller machines, in which users who have a cash card of a bank, trade cash with the card, have become widespread. In the banknote deposit / withdrawal device incorporated in such an automatic teller machine,
There is a circulation type that automatically circulates deposited banknotes into dispensed banknotes. This is a method that has been widely spread in recent years in order to improve cash efficiency by reducing the amount of cash stored in the equipment as much as possible. In this type of apparatus, a stacker classified into denominations such as 10,000 yen bills and 1,000 yen bills is built in, and the bills are fed out and collected from these stackers to a single replenishment / collection stacker. Then, the operator handles only this supplementary collection stacker.

That is, in recent years, in order to improve the convenience of cash replenishment, replenishment, or collection to the device, one replenishment / recovery cassette is replenished with banknotes to be replenished, and the replenishment / recovery cassette is replenished. Is set to the device body. As a result, the banknotes are automatically taken into the device, or some or all of the banknotes stored inside the device are not directly collected by the staff, but are automatically collected once in the replenishment / collection cassette. ing.

This is because the staff is free from the complexity of replenishing and collecting the bills in a plurality of bill storage sections dispersed in the equipment, and the staff is concerned about security due to direct handling of cash. It is intended to be released from. That is, the clerk can operate the keyed replenishment / recovery cassette without directly touching the cash so that cash can be loaded into the device, replenished, or collected.

By the way, bills stored in the equipment are generally prepared by collecting them according to denominations in order to make payment at high speed. When a request for payment is received, the banknotes stacked according to the denomination are paid out one by one to pay the desired number. In the case of depositing, the inserted banknotes are taken into the inside of the device one by one, and after authenticity, denomination, etc. are discriminated, the bills are accumulated and stored in the storage section according to denomination. The banknotes thus accumulated and stored are paid out and withdrawn one by one.

[0006] However, the bills separated one by one are
It is not conveyed continuously. For example, when a counterfeit note is detected in the delivered bill, it is necessary to discriminate only the counterfeit note in order to eliminate the counterfeit note. In addition, it is necessary to separate bills in which 10,000-yen bills and 1,000-yen bills are mixed according to denomination. In this case, normally, the bills sent are discriminated by the switching valve provided in the conveyance path. Therefore, the bills to be fed are sequentially fed at intervals sufficient for the valve to operate. This makes it possible to discriminate arbitrary banknotes.

[0007]

However, the above-mentioned conventional techniques have the following problems. That is, in the above-described device, it is necessary to provide a bill feeding mechanism for each of the plurality of stackers. In other words, ten thousand yen ticket,
In addition to the stacker for storing the 1,000-yen ticket, a replenishment / collection stacker also requires a feeding mechanism. Therefore, downsizing of equipment
For the sake of simplification, downsizing and simplification of the bill separating mechanism was important.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and the number of sensors for traveling detection is reduced so that only a single sensor is provided and the apparatus is made small in size. The purpose is to provide a method.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A paper sheet feeding system according to the present invention comprises a bill stacking unit that stacks bills, a feeding roller that separates and feeds the bills stacked in the bill stacking unit one by one, and the feeding unit. A conveyance roller that conveys the bill fed out by the roller along the conveyance path, a sensor that is provided at a predetermined position on the conveyance path, detects a front end and a rear end of the bill in the conveyance direction, and a tip of the bill by the sensor. By stopping the feeding roller at the time of detection, the feeding of one bill is completed, the bill is conveyed by the conveying roller, and the feeding roller is activated when the rear end of the bill is detected by the sensor. And a feeding control means for starting feeding of one bill and repeating these steps to feed the bill at equal intervals on the feeding path. It is intended.

[0010]

In the paper sheet feeding system of the present invention, the feeding rollers separate and feed out the bills accumulated in the bill accumulating portion one by one. And, the bills
The transport roller transports the sheet along the transport path. In this case, the feeding control means completes feeding of one bill by stopping the feeding roller when the tip of the bill is detected by a sensor provided at a predetermined position on the transport path,
The banknote is transported by the transport roller. afterwards,
The feeding control means starts feeding of the next one bill by activating the feeding roller when the rear edge of the bill is detected by the sensor. Then, by repeating these steps, the bills are conveyed at equal intervals on the conveying path while the traveling of the bills is detected by only a single sensor.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In an automatic teller machine installed in a bank or the like, a separating mechanism for feeding out banknotes accumulated inside is provided at each predetermined location. First, these separation mechanisms will be described. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an outline of a bill separating mechanism according to the present invention. The illustrated apparatus includes a delivery roller and delivery control means. The feeding roller includes a picker roller P and a feed roller F.
The entire circumferences of these feeding rollers are made of a high friction member such as urethane rubber.

The picker roller P is arranged so as to come into contact with one surface of the bills accumulated on the bill retainer W.
Then, the picker roller P rotates at a peripheral speed V1 in the direction of the arrow shown in the drawing, and pays out the banknotes one by one from the uppermost layer of the banknote stacking unit 25. The banknote stacking unit 25 is a stack of banknotes in the stacker. The feed roller F rotates in the direction of the arrow at the peripheral speed V1 in accordance with the picker roller P, and further sends out the banknotes sent out by the picker roller P to the front (the left direction in the drawing). At this time, in order to prevent the second and subsequent banknotes from being taken out along with the banknotes fed out from the uppermost layer, there is a slight gap through which only one banknote can pass and the feed roller faces the feed roller. The gate roller G is provided. The gate roller G is rotated in the opposite direction at a peripheral speed V3 much slower than V1 so as to prevent the second and subsequent banknotes from being fed out and to return the banknote to the storage section.

A pair of conveying rollers R is provided in front of the picker roller P in the traveling direction of the banknotes with a distance L2 between them. These conveying rollers R sandwich the banknotes sent from the feed rollers F and speed V2 higher than V1.
Will send it forward. A motor M is connected to the shaft of the feed roller F, and the feed roller F is rotationally controlled according to the on / off control of the motor M.
The picker roller P is connected to the shaft of the feed roller F by a gear, a belt (not shown) or the like, and its rotation is controlled together with the feed roller F.

Further, one-way bearings are independently incorporated in the shafts of the feed roller F and the picker roller P, and the shafts are freely rotated when a rotational force is applied from the outside in the arrow direction (travel direction). By the way, the distance L2 between the picker roller P and the conveying roller R is set to be approximately the same as the length L1 of the bills in the traveling direction or L1 + a (a is a slight distance). A sensor for detecting the bill edge is arranged in front of the gate roller G at a distance L4. A switching valve for discriminating running banknotes is provided in the middle of the transport path (see FIG. 3). This switching valve occupies an area having a size corresponding to the distance between the gate roller G and the transport roller R. Therefore, the gate roller G
A distance L4 between the first sensor and the first sensor near the conveyance roller R is set to a distance sufficient for operating the switching valve.

Next, the operation of the separation mechanism thus constructed will be described. FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining a feeding control procedure according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a bill conveyance state. When paying out the accumulated banknotes, the banknote presser W shown in FIG. 1 is pushed upward together with the banknotes (step S1), and is lifted to a position where the upper surface of the banknotes is in contact with the surface of the picker roller P as shown in the figure. After that, the picker roller P is driven by the motor M in the direction of the arrow in the figure (step S2). Then, one sheet in contact with the uppermost picker roller P of the accumulated banknotes is fed to the feed roller F side as the picker roller P rotates. Then, the banknotes fed out are gate rollers G
After passing through a slight gap between the bills and the leading edge of the bill, the leading edge of the bill advances to the transport roller R.

When the front end of the bill fed out by the separating mechanism passes the sensor, the rear end of the bill comes off the picker roller P. At this time, the sensor M detects the leading edge of the bill (step S3), and the motor M is stopped (step S4). However, since the transport roller R continuously continues to rotate, the separated banknotes are further forwarded as they are pulled out in accordance with the rotation of the transport roller R. At this time, the feed roller F idles in the traveling direction along with the separated bills that are pulled out. Further, the second and subsequent banknotes from the front side are taken up by the separated banknotes to the vicinity of the gate roller G, but are returned to the storage section side by the reversely rotating gate roller G.

When the trailing edge of the separated bill comes out of the sensor (step S5), the motor M is driven again (step S5).
2) The next banknote is paid out. In this way, the bills sequentially fed out are separated and fed one by one at a distance L4, as shown in FIG. That is, the banknote has a distance L4 sufficient for the switching operation of the switching valve (switching valve B in FIG. 3) installed at each of the two branches in the traveling direction in the middle of the transportation route inside the automatic transaction device. Separated and fed separately.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the automatic transaction device. The coin deposit / withdrawal port 1 is where the customer deposits and withdraws coins. The passbook insertion / ejection port 2 is where the customer inserts the passbook for the purpose of entry and receives it after the transaction. The handling display panel 3 displays the available courses such as deposit, payment, and transfer handled by this device. The card insertion / ejection port 4 is a place for inserting and ejecting a cash card which is a transaction card for identifying a transaction customer.
The receipt outlet 5 is where the receipt on which the transaction result is printed is delivered to the customer.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out port 6 is where the banknotes involved in transactions are delivered. Customer operation unit touch key 7
Displays transaction procedures, number keys for entering numbers such as amounts and PINs, operation keys for entering customer intent such as deposit, withdrawal, confirmation, etc., and has a touch key on the surface. .. The wrong insertion foreign matter return port 8 is a place for returning a foreign substance such as a coin that is mistakenly inserted into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6 to the customer. The paper sheet feeding system with the replenishment / collection stacker according to the present invention is incorporated in the bill receiving / withdrawing port 7 of the automatic transaction device. The internal configuration of the bill depositing / dispensing device will be described below with reference to FIG.

FIG. 5 is an internal block diagram of the bill depositing / dispensing device. 6 is a diagram showing a delivery position of the customer service section, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a separation position of the customer service section, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a delivery position of the customer service section. A customer service section 20 for a customer to deposit and withdraw bills is provided on the upper front portion of the bill depositing and dispensing apparatus 10. The customer service section 20 basically has a cylindrical shape as shown in FIG. 6, and a customer service drum 21 that rotates around the axis of the cylinder.
And a shutter 22 for cutting off contact from the outside of the main body. Inside the customer service drum 21, the bill insertion chamber 2
4 and the customer service bill separating mechanism 27 are stored. The bill insertion chamber 24 is provided with the receiving / extracting port facing upward. The customer service banknote separation mechanism 27 separates the banknotes inserted into the banknote insertion chamber 24 one by one and sends them out from the delivery port. This customer service drum 21 has a structure shown in FIG. 6, FIG. 7, and FIG.
Each of the two stop positions has the following effects.

In the delivery position, the shutter 22 that closes the receiving / removing port 23 is opened, and the customer inserts bills and receives paid bills. At the separation position, the banknotes that have been collectively inserted are taken into the device one by one. At the receiving position, the accumulated banknotes are collectively received from the front / back reversing unit 30 described later. In this way, the customer service drum 21
Can be selectively stopped at any of the above-described three arbitrary positions centering on an axis (not shown) depending on the processing content. Again, returning to the description of FIG.

At the lower left portion of the customer service section 20 in the drawing, there is provided a discrimination section 11 for discriminating and detecting authenticity, damage, front and back, two or more sheets of overlap and skew, etc. of the fed bills. .. The front and back reversing unit 30 is provided on the left side of the customer service unit 20, and the bills sent from the upper left direction pass through one of the left route and the right route forming the reversing unit 30 and the reversing and accumulating unit. It is piled up with 33 on the front and back. That is, the discrimination unit 1
By switching the respective traveling routes, the banknotes discriminated from the front side in 1 to the left route and the ones discriminated from the back side to the right route, all the banknotes are turned upside-down when piled up in the reversing stacking unit 33. The bills on the top, that is, on the back, are turned upside down and stacked. The banknotes piled up in the reversing stacking unit 33 are sent to the customer service drum 21 at the receiving position shown in the figure in the state of being stacked by the belt conveyor configured on the bottom of the reversing unit.

A stacker section is formed in the center of the main body with a separating and accumulating section 40 and a temporary holding section 50 under the separating and accumulating section 40. The stacker section is for storing banknotes by denomination, and in this embodiment, the banknotes can be stored separately in three places, A stacker, B stacker, and C stacker, and each stacker is supported. There are three separate collection units and three temporary storage units. The banknotes that have been separated and sent one by one from the upper left of the separation stacking unit 40 are stacked on the temporary holding unit 50 formed at the bottom of the separation stacking unit 40 through the stacking route. When storing the banknotes stacked on the temporary storage unit 50, the temporary storage unit 50 is released and the stacked banknotes stacked on the temporary storage unit 50 are dropped into the stacker.

On the contrary, when the banknotes in the stacker are fed out, the temporary holding section 50 is released to lift the banknotes in the stacker upward, and the separating mechanism separates the banknotes one by one, and the separating and accumulating section 40 passes through the feeding route. Send it to the upper right side. When the banknotes piled up in the temporary holding section 50 are sent out as they are in a return transaction or the like, details will be described later,
It is possible to take out the bills one by one from the upper part like the bills in the stacker. Such a configuration is A, B, C3
Although all locations are the same, in this embodiment, the A stacker and the B stacker are used as the storage portions for the 10,000-yen ticket and the C stacker is used as the storage portion for the 1,000-yen ticket.

A replenishment / collection stacker 70 is detachably arranged from the rear above the banknote pay-in / pay-out device, and a pay-in / pay-out reject stacker 90 is internally provided with a take-in stacker for sorting and storing the taken-in bills. Is arranged. The replenishment / recovery stacker 70 is a replenishment / recovery separation unit 7 that takes out the banknotes placed on the replenishment stage one by one from the upper side.
2, a replenishment unit 73 for accommodating replenishment banknotes, a recovery unit 74 for temporarily accumulating and accommodating the recovered banknotes, a recovery stage 75 for collectively transferring the recovered banknotes to the replenishment unit 73,
A replenishment reject stacker 76 that collects and stores bills that have failed to be delivered during replenishment in the replenishment collection stacker 70. The operation will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view of the replenishment operation of the replenishment / collection stacker. On the replenishment stage 71, the bills accumulated in the replenishment section 73 are separated and fed one by one from the upper right side of the replenishment and collection stacker 70 to the main body side by the action of the replenishment and collection section 72. At this time, the defective bills are collected and stored as they pass through the inside of the machine. When the banknotes stored in the stacker of this machine are collected by the replenishment / collection stacker 70, the collected banknotes are sent to the collecting section 74 and accumulated and accumulated as shown in the figure. Even when the stacker on the machine side becomes full and overflows at the time of refilling, the overflowed banknotes are collected and stored in the collecting unit 74.

When all the bills in the replenishment section on the replenishment stage 71 have been fed out, the replenishment stage 71 descends vertically from the top to the rear of the cassette as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 9C, the horizontal state is achieved. At this time, the collection stage 75 is at the position shown in the figure, but if there is a banknote on the stage as shown in FIG.
Put it on the refill stage. After that, the respective stages are raised to the positions shown in FIG. 9E, and the banknotes in the collection unit 74 are lifted and transferred to the replenishment unit 73 to be transferred to the positions shown in FIG.
Return to the state of (a). Next, the operation of the recovery stage 75 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of the collecting operation of the supplementary collecting stacker. As shown in FIG. 10A, the collected banknotes are collected in the collecting section 74 below the collecting stage 75.
Next, the recovery stage 75 opens and wraps around to the lower side of the recovery unit 74 in the order of FIGS. 10B and 10C. Next, FIG.
The collected banknote is taken up to the replenishment section as 0 (d). As described in detail above, the banknotes in the replenishing section 73 are separated one by one from the upper part and fed out to the machine side, and the banknotes from the machine side to the collecting section 74 are collected and accepted and replenished. Turn to section 73. That is, the replenishment / collection stacker 70 includes a collection unit 74 having such a replenishment function and a replenishment / rejection stacker unit 76 that receives and stores reject bills at the time of replenishment.

Next, with respect to the operation of the paper sheet feeding system with the replenishment / collection stacker having the above-mentioned configuration, FIG. 11 is shown in the order of deposit transaction, withdrawal transaction, forgetting / taking in process, replenishment / filling process, and collection process. ~ It demonstrates using FIG. 11
[Fig. 7] is an explanatory diagram of a transportation route during a deposit transaction. When the customer presses the deposit transaction key to insert the card into the card insertion slot or the passbook into the passbook insertion slot, the processing is started. As a result, the update is performed between the apparatus and the center, and if it is confirmed that there is no problem, a command for starting the deposit processing is sent to the paper sheet feeding system with the supplementary collection stacker.

In the paper sheet feeding method, when a command is received, the internal state is switched to the deposit mode, and the customer waits for a bill to be inserted. As shown in FIG. 6, when it is detected that the customer has inserted a bill into the receiving / extracting port 23, the shutter 22 is closed, and the receiving / extracting port 2 is operated in response to the state sense command periodically transmitted from the control unit of the apparatus.
The response message (hereinafter,
"Response" is returned. Next, the control unit
A deposit counting command is transmitted to instruct counting of the banknotes set in the receiving / extracting port 23. Hereinafter, the processing procedure of the banknote deposit / withdrawal device will be described with reference to the drawings.

When a banknote is set in the banknote insertion chamber 24 in the state of waiting for the insertion of the deposited banknote as shown in FIG. 6, the shutter 22 is closed and the service drum 21 is rotated to the separating position shown in FIG. The separated bills are taken into the inside of the device one by one by the separating mechanism formed in the customer service drum 21. In FIG. 11, bills are sent from the customer service section 20 to the discrimination section 11.

In the discrimination section 11, the sent bills are sequentially detected by authenticity discrimination, discrimination of correctness and running state, and sent backward. If the discrimination unit 11 determines that the bill cannot be discriminated due to a fake bill, a non-target bill, a conveyance abnormality, or the like, the discrimination unit 11 conveys it to the front / back reversing unit and suspends the accumulation. At this time, the customer service section 20 stands by at the receiving position shown in FIG. 8 and collectively sends the banknotes, which have been temporarily suspended, to the banknote loading chamber 24. This customer service department 2
The banknote returned to 0 is a so-called deposit reject banknote, and this banknote is placed in the delivery position of FIG.
1 is rotated, the shutter 22 is opened, and it is returned to the customer. On the other hand, the bills judged to be genuine bills by the discriminating unit 11 are sent to the separating and accumulating unit 40 by taking the transportation route downward.

Here, the 10,000-yen ticket is placed on the temporary holding unit 50 on the A stacker, and the 1,000-yen ticket is placed on the temporary holding unit 5 on the C stacker.
The unfit banknotes that are determined not to be suitable as the 5,000 yen banknotes and the paid banknotes on the stack 0 are respectively temporarily stacked on the temporary stacking unit 50 on the B stacker. By the above operation, the deposit counting process of the banknotes set by the customer in the customer service section 20 is completed. Then, a response indicating the completion of deposit counting is returned to the main body control unit, and as the data, the number of counted bills for each denomination is separately added to the rebate banknotes and non-rebirth banknotes.
The control unit receives this data, calculates the amount of money by denomination and the total amount, displays it on the customer operation unit, counts this data as a deposit count, and stores it.

When the customer confirms the amount displayed on the customer operation unit and presses the confirmation key displayed on the customer operation unit touch key, the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit receives the confirmed command and first, The temporary hold on the stacker and the C stacker is released, and each of the ten thousand banknotes is dropped and stored in each stacker. Next, the temporary holding section 50 on the B stacker
The non-returning banknotes such as 5,000 yen banknotes accumulated in 1 are separated one by one by the separating mechanism and stored in the deposit / withdrawal reject stacker through the conveying route indicated by the wavy line in the figure. This completes the deposit transaction. The B-stacker functions as a 10,000-yen spare stacker used when the 10,000-yen bills stored in the A-stacker overflow.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a transportation route during a withdrawal transaction. The customer presses the withdrawal transaction key, inserts the card into the card insertion slot, and inputs the personal identification number. The control unit transmits a command for starting the withdrawal process. When receiving the command to start the withdrawal process, the bill depositing / dispensing unit switches the internal state to the dispensing mode and waits for an instruction of the denomination and the number of bills to be discharged. This will be described below with reference to FIG.

When the customer inputs the amount of money of, for example, m ten thousand yen, first, whether or not the end detectors (not shown) of the A and B stackers and the end detector of the C stacker detect the end. judge. If either one of them has detected the end, it adds a non-withdrawal information and returns a response. If the end count is not detected and the instruction for counting the withdrawal is m 10,000-yen notes and n thousand-yen notes, the separating mechanism on the A stacker or the B stacker is activated to deliver m 10,000-yen notes. The bills that have been paid out are
It is sent upward according to the conveyance route indicated by the thick line in the figure, and passes through the discrimination section 11. The discriminating unit 11 discriminates whether the bills are as specified, whether the bills are front or back, and whether the bills are normal or bad. One is fed from the transport route 31 and the other is transported to the reversal stacking unit 33 through the transport route 32, and the front and back sides are aligned and stacked.

The bills discriminated by the discriminating unit 11 as unfit or abnormally conveyed bills are sent to the deposit / withdrawal reject stacker 90 provided at the lower rear portion, and stored and stored. After that, this operation is repeated until the desired number of sheets are accumulated in the reverse stacking unit 33. When the number of 10,000-yen notes reaches m, the next 1,000-yen notes are separated and fed from the C stacker to the reversal stacking unit 33 in the same manner as described above. When the delivery of the predetermined number of sheets is completed, the customer service section 20 is set to the receiving position, and the reversing and accumulating section 3 is placed here.
The payment banknotes accumulated in 3 are transferred together with a bundle, and then the service drum 21 having the payment banknotes inside is rotated to the delivery position shown in FIG. 6, the shutter 22 is opened, and the banknotes are transferred to the customer. Then, the shutter 22 is closed after confirming the withdrawal of bills by a sensor (not shown).

When the payment of the designated number of coins is completed, a response of completion is returned to the control unit, and the released coin type and the number of coins are added as the data. The control unit receives this and stores it as the number of withdrawals. With that, the processing of the withdrawal transaction is completed.
FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route when storing a forgotten banknote. When the customer forgets to take out the banknotes discharged to the receiving / extracting port in the withdrawal transaction, the stacker 91 for taking in the bills through the discriminating unit 11 by the transportation route shown in FIG.
Take in and store. At this time, the discrimination unit 11 detects the denomination and the number of coins, sends the data to the control unit, and stores the data. As another example, the banknotes whose denominations have been determined can be stored in their corresponding stackers and then applied to the next dispensed banknote.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of the transport route during the replenishing operation. When a bank clerk (operator) presses an auxiliary key of a bank clerk operation unit (not shown), the control unit receives this input and sends a command for instructing the start of the replenishment operation to the replenishment / collection stacker-equipped sheet feeding system. .. When the bill deposit / withdrawal device receives the command to start the replenishment operation, it switches the internal state to the replenishment mode, and if the end detector (not shown) of the replenishment / collection stacker detects the end, it adds a response indicating that the operation is not possible and sends a response. It will be returned and this process will be stopped.
When it is confirmed that the end is not detected, the replenishment operation is started. The replenishment operation of the bill depositing / dispensing device will be described below with reference to FIG.

The replenishment / recovery separation unit 72 is operated to operate the replenishment unit 73.
The banknotes set in 1 are sequentially fed out one by one from the upper side, conveyed along the route shown by the thick line in the figure, and sent to the discrimination section 11. The discriminating unit 11 sequentially detects the authenticity, the denomination discrimination, the damage determination, and the traveling state of the fed bills, and further forwards the bills. The 1,000-yen ticket and the 10,000-yen ticket that are judged to have been sent by the discriminating unit 11 as a genuine note, a genuine note sufficient for payment, and a traveling state that is sufficiently good for processing are the C stacker and the A stack, respectively. It is accumulated on the temporary storage on the stacker. This operation continues until there are no banknotes set in the replenishment unit 73 and the end is detected, but on the way, the allowable capacity of any of the temporary holding units 50, for example, 200
When the number of sheets reaches the number of sheets, the replenishment / recovery operation is temporarily interrupted, the temporary holding unit that has reached the holding capacity is released, and the relevant banknotes are dropped and stored in the lower stacker. After that, the temporary holding unit 50 is closed again to restart the replenishment operation.

When the bills set in the replenishing unit 73 are exhausted and the end is detected, the separating operation is stopped, and when the last bill reaches the temporary holding unit 50, the conveying operation is also stopped. The replenishment bills are taken into the stacker that has released all the temporary holdings at the same time, and the replenishment operation is completed. The discrimination section 1
Banknotes that were determined to be not appropriate as withdrawal banknotes in 1
It descends downward from the discriminating unit 11 and collects and stores it in the supplementary reject stacker 76 provided at the bottom of the supplementary collection stacker 70.

Further, when the A cassette is filled with 10,000-yen bills while the 10,000-yen bills are being replenished, a full detector (not shown) detects this and automatically stores the continued bills in the B stacker. Switch the transport path to. That is, the B stacker functions as a backup stacker that increases the capacity of the A stacker. When it is detected that the B or C stacker becomes full during replenishment, for example, when the B stacker becomes full, and when a 10,000-yen note is discriminated as a succeeding bill, the conveyance route is indicated by a wavy line in the figure. The route for depositing and collecting in the indicated collecting unit is used as the route to the B stacker if the 1,000-yen ticket is identified. When both B and C (and naturally A) of the stackers are full, the operation of the replenishment / recovery separation unit and the conveyance is stopped, and the replenishment operation is ended. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device returns a response indicating the completion of replenishment to the control unit, and adds the counted number of sheets loaded for each money type as the data. With that, the process of the replenishing operation is completed.

Next, the filling process will be described. Prior to the start of business, the clerk mounts the replenishment / collection stacker, which has collectively set the banknotes to be used for transactions, on the banknote deposit / withdrawal device, and presses the refill key on the clerk operation section, and the control section receives this input. Then, the command for starting the refilling operation is transmitted to the bill depositing / dispensing device. Upon receipt of the command, the bill depositing / dispensing device switches the internal state in the same manner as in the replenishment mode, and performs the replenishment operation similar to the replenishment operation.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of the transport route during the collecting operation. When the clerk presses the collection key of the clerk operation section, the control section receives this input and transmits a command to start the collection operation to the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus. Upon receipt of the command, the bill depositing / dispensing device switches the internal state to the collection mode, and confirms that all the stackers have not been detected at the end, that is, the bills to be collected are present in any of the denomination stackers. .. If all of the stacks of money type have detected the end, the response operation is started by adding the information that the operation is impossible. Hereinafter, the recovery operation will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the separating mechanism on the A stacker is operated to feed out the 10,000-yen bills stored in the A stacker one by one in order from the upper side, and is fed to the discrimination section 11 through the route shown. The banknotes that have passed the discrimination unit 11 are accumulated and stored in the collection unit 74 of the supplementary collection stacker 70. When the banknotes in the A stacker are exhausted, this operation is continued until all the banknotes are sequentially delivered to the B stacker and the C stacker. When the capacity of the collecting unit 74 is reached on the way, for example, when 200 sheets are accumulated, the separating operation is temporarily interrupted, the bills of the collecting unit 74 are lifted to the replenishing unit 73, and the collecting unit 74 is emptied and then separated. Re-start transportation. Further, during this operation, when it is detected that the replenishing unit 73 is full, the separating operation is stopped and the collecting operation is ended.

The banknote deposit / withdrawal device which has completed the above operation is
A response indicating the end of collection is returned, and the number of collected sheets is added to each denomination as the data. In response to this, the control unit counts and stores the collected number. With that, the recovery process is completed. In the actual operation, each processing described above is performed according to the following processing procedure.

Replenishment / recovery cassette 70 prior to the start of work
The bills that have been collectively set from the front to are stacked in each stack by performing a packing process. After entering the business, we carry out deposit transactions, withdrawal transactions, etc. at any time,
When each denomination stacker is near end or end, the bills are replenished from the replenishment / collection stacker 70 and the operation is continued. Also, if the replenishment / recovery cassette 70 ends,
The replenishment / recovery cassette 70 is removed from the apparatus, the replenishment banknotes are set in the replenishment / recovery cassette 70 and mounted in the apparatus, and the replenishment process is performed.

In contrast to the above, when the deposit amount is large and each denomination stacker becomes full, the stacker full is detected, and when the replenishment / collection stacker 70 is installed, the collection process is automatically performed. The transaction can be continued without stopping the device. Also, as you can see from the figure,
Since the replenishment / recovery cassette 70 is not used for the deposit transaction (FIG. 11) and the withdrawal transaction (FIG. 12), the operation of the transaction customer is hindered by the attachment / detachment of the replenishment / recovery cassette 70. There is also a feature that can be used continuously.

[0049]

As described above, according to the paper sheet feeding system of the present invention, the feeding roller of the bill separating mechanism for separating and feeding the accumulated bills one by one is composed of a high friction member all around. Since all round rubber rollers are used, and the drive of these rollers is directly controlled by the on / off information of one sensor through which the preceding banknote passes, and a mechanism that enables regular feeding one by one with a predetermined interval is required, a complicated circuit is required. Control information can be detected by only one sensor,
Further, the feeding roller may have a small diameter. Therefore, it is possible to realize a simple and small payout system, and thus it is possible to provide a small and easy-to-handle bill depositing / dispensing device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an outline of a bill separating mechanism according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a feeding control procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a bill conveyance state.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an appearance of an automatic transaction device.

FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of a bill depositing / dispensing device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a receiving position of a customer service section.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a separation position of a customer service section.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a receiving position of a customer service section.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a replenishment operation of the replenishment / collection stacker.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a collecting operation of the supplementary collecting stacker.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a transportation route during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a transportation route during a withdrawal transaction.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of a transportation route when storing an uncollected banknote.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route during a replenishing operation.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route during a collecting operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 C feeding control means F, P feeding roller G gate roller R transport roller W bill holder

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A banknote stacking unit that stacks banknotes, a payout roller that pays out the banknotes stacked in the banknote stacking unit one by one, and a banknote that carries the banknotes paid out by the payout roller along a transport path. A roller, a sensor provided at a predetermined position on the conveyance path to detect the leading edge and the trailing edge of the bill in the conveying direction, and one bill by stopping the feeding roller when the leading edge of the bill is detected by the sensor. Has been completed, the bill is conveyed by the conveyance roller, and when the rear end of the bill is detected by the sensor, the feeding roller is activated to start the feeding of the next one bill. A paper-sheet feeding method, which comprises feeding-out control means for repeatedly feeding bills at equal intervals on a feeding path.