JPS63106238A - Automatic cash dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To dissolve the troublesomeness in operation and prevent the wrong operation by automatically carrying out the operation of charging/recovery of money through the instruction supplied from an upper rank device. CONSTITUTION:When transaction is made, the ordinary received money is stacked into a delivery money storage part 15 and a carrying cassette 13, and when transaction is not made, the money in a temporary stack part 16 of a delivery money passing cassette and a temporary stack part 14 of carrying cassette is stacked into a money receiving/delivery port 11 through a gate 22, and returned to a customer. When an input operation mechanism 20 performs the delivery request, money is driven out from the money storage part 15 for the requested sum portion, and stacked into the money receiving/delivery port 11 through the gate 22, and delivered to a customer when transaction is made. The money charging operation is executed in the control by a control mechanism 30 by the receiving of a charging instruction outputted from an upper rank device 40 when the operation is started. Further, the money recovery operation is executed in the control by the control mechanism 30 by the receiving of a recovery instruction outputted from the upper rank device 40 when the operation is completed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an automatic teller machine, and more particularly to an automatic teller machine that automatically performs banknote loading/banknote collecting functions without human intervention.

[Conventional technology]

As a conventional device of this kind, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 59-4
A device described in Japanese Patent No. 5595 is known.

This device is configured to load currency from a carry-on currency cassette into the currency storage section for withdrawal of the device, and to collect currency from the currency storage section for withdrawal of the device into the carry-on currency cassette. The system was configured to be activated manually from the operation panel inside the device.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

For this reason, in the above-mentioned conventional technology, it is necessary for the staff member to go to the automated teller machine and perform the loading/retrieval operation from the operation panel of the device each time loading/retrieval is performed, which makes the operation cumbersome and difficult to operate. There are problems with this method, such as being time consuming and prone to operational errors.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to solve the above-mentioned problems in conventional automatic teller machines and to perform currency loading/recovery operations without human intervention. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automated teller machine that enables the following.

[Means for solving problems]

The above-mentioned objects of the present invention include a deposit and withdrawal function, a means for loading currency into a withdrawal currency storage section using a portable cassette, and a means for collecting currency from the currency storage section using the portable cassette at the end of a transaction. Loading currency from the carrying cassette into the currency storage unit and loading currency from the currency storage unit to the carrying cassette in an automatic teller machine connected to a host device and having a control unit that controls deposit and withdrawal transactions. This is achieved by an automated teller machine characterized in that the automatic teller machine is configured to collect currency according to a command output from the host device.

[Effect]

In the present invention, the operation of loading/recovering currency is automatically performed based on commands from the host device, so manual processing by staff members is omitted, troublesome operations are eliminated, and operational errors are also avoided. will be prevented.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an automated teller machine which is an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 10 is a currency deposit/withdrawal mechanism, 20 is an input operation mechanism equipped with buttons for use by customers or staff, 30 is a control mechanism that controls each function, and 40 is a connection between the control mechanism and the line. This is a host device connected to the

FIG. 1 shows the detailed structure of the currency depositing and dispensing mechanism 10. In the figure, 11 is the deposit/withdrawal port where the customer inserts the deposited currency or withdraws the withdrawn currency; 12 is the authenticity of the currency;
13 is a carrying cassette carried by the staff who operates the automated teller machine; 14 is a temporary stacking unit (hereinafter referred to as "carrying cassette") for stacking currency in the carrying cassette 13; The transport cassette temporary stack section is shown.

Further, 15 is a withdrawal currency storage section where deposited currency can be stacked and currency can be withdrawn for primary withdrawal, and 16 is a temporary stack section (hereinafter referred to as , ``withdrawal currency cassette temporary stack section''), 19, 21, and 22 are gates for switching the currency delivery destination.

Returning to FIG. 2, the explanation will be continued. The host device 1i40 has a transaction control function by checking the validity of the transaction based on a transaction request from the control mechanism 30, and then returning a transaction response to the control mechanism 30.

It has an operation management function for the automatic teller machine by outputting an operation start (opening) command and an operation end (opening) command to the control mechanism 30.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the format of the loading command and recovery command output from the host device 40 to the control mechanism 30.

The operation of this embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

When a customer performs a deposit request operation from the input operation mechanism 20, the currency inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port 11 is verified by the verification unit 12. As a result of the above discrimination, specific denominations (10,000 yen notes, 1,000 yen notes) that are judged to be normal and are returned for withdrawal will be sent to Gate 2.
2.21, withdrawal currency cassette temporary stack part 1
The denominations that were stacked in the portable cassette temporary stack section ]4 and were not identified as normal were stacked in the portable cassette temporary stack section ]4 by the gates 22 and 19, and were not identified as normal. Currency is deposit/withdrawal port 1 at gate 22.
1 and returned to the customer.

When a transaction is successfully deposited, the currency is stacked in the withdrawal currency storage section 15 and the portable cassette 13, and when the transaction is unsuccessful, the currency in the withdrawal currency cassette temporary stack section 16 and the portable cassette temporary stack section 14 is The money is stacked at the deposit/withdrawal port 11 by the gate 22 and returned to the customer.

In addition, when the customer performs a withdrawal request operation using the input operation mechanism 20, the entire requested amount of currency is paid out from the withdrawal currency storage section 15, stacked in the deposit/withdrawal port 11 at the gate 22, and when the transaction is completed, the customer passed to.

Furthermore, before deposits and withdrawals from the deposit/withdrawal port 11 begin, the currency for withdrawal is dispensed by an attendant from the carrying cassette 13 in which currency has been set in advance, and is transferred to the gates 22, 21 . The withdrawal currency cassette is stacked in the withdrawal currency storage section 15 through the temporary stack section 16.

This operation is called a "currency loading" operation.

Further, after the deposit and withdrawal transactions from the deposit/withdrawal port 11, currency is dispensed from the withdrawal currency storage section 15, and the currency is withdrawn from the gate 19.
．． The carrying cassette is stacked into the carrying cassette 13 through the carrying cassette temporary stacking part 14. This operation is called "currency collection."

Here, the currency loading operation is controlled by control 4! when the control mechanism 30 receives a loading command from the host device 40 at the start of operation. ! This is executed under the control of the system 30. Further, the currency collection operation is executed under the control of the control mechanism 30 when the control mechanism 30 receives a collection command output from the host device 40 at the end of the operation.

According to the embodiment described above, the currency loading operation and the currency collection operation can be executed in accordance with commands from the host device, so that the operation time required by the staff can be shortened.

The timing of issuing the loading command 1 collection command from the host device 40 can be set by, for example, a so-called lively timer (weekly timer). Since it is thought that the number of unmanned operating devices will increase in the future, the effects of the present invention will increase accordingly.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, there is provided a deposit/withdrawal function, a means for loading currency into a withdrawal currency storage section using a carrying cassette, and a means for loading currency from the currency storage section into the carrying cassette at the end of a transaction. In an automated teller machine connected to a host device, the automatic teller machine has means for collecting currency by a user, and a control unit for controlling deposit/withdrawal transactions, and is connected to a host device. Since the configuration is configured such that the collection of currency from the storage device to the portable cassette is performed by a command output from the host device, loading/unloading of currency is performed.
This has the remarkable effect of realizing an automated teller machine that allows collection operations to be performed without human intervention.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a currency deposit/withdrawal mechanism of an automated teller machine which is an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the overall structure of an automated teller machine which is an embodiment of the present invention. The block diagram and FIG. 3 are diagrams showing an example of the format of a loading command and a collection command output from a host device to a control mechanism. 10: currency deposit/withdrawal mechanism, 20: input operation mechanism, 30: control mechanism, 40: host device, 60: loading command, 7o: collection command, 11: deposit/withdrawal port, 12: identification section, 13: carrying cassette, 14: Portable cassette temporary stack section, 15:
Withdrawal currency storage section, 16: Withdrawal currency cassette temporary stack section, 19, 21, 22: Gate. Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A deposit/withdrawal function, means for loading currency into a withdrawal currency storage section using a portable cassette, means for collecting currency from the currency storage section using the portable cassette at the end of a transaction, and control of deposit/withdrawal transactions. In an automated teller machine connected to a host device, the automatic teller machine has a control unit that controls loading currency from the carrying cassette into the currency storage unit and collecting currency from the currency storage unit into the carrying cassette. , an automatic cash transaction device configured to operate according to a command output from the host device.