KR880002474B1 - Paper money receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

The device comprises a bill discrimination section for discriminating whether an inserted bill is true or not, an escrow section capable of retaining a bill accepted by the bill discrimination section. The stocker section includes a bill conveyor passage connecting the sections and receives a bill present in the bill conveying passage in a predetermined accumulating location by moving the bill in a direction so that the bill crosses the bill conveying passage. The inserted bill is led to a linear passage in the stocker section through the bill discrimination section. By performing a control operation so as to either carry the bill present in this linear passage to the escrow section or move the bill in a direction in which it crosses the passage, the bill is received in either the escrew section or an accumulating location in the stocker section.

Description

Banknote importer

1 is a side cross-sectional view showing one example of a bill importing apparatus used in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view taken along the line II-II of FIG.

3 is a schematic view for explaining the bill storage operation of the stocker section in the embodiment.

4 is a block diagram showing a control system in the embodiment.

5 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment of the bill importing apparatus of the present invention in which one bill is imported.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a modification of the operation shown in FIG.

7 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment of the bill acceptor of the present invention in which there are several kinds of bills imported.

8 is a flowchart of the operation of another embodiment of the banknote importing apparatus of the present invention in which various banknotes are imported.

The present invention relates to a bill importing device used in vending machines, money exchangers and the like.

The bill importing device includes at least a bill identifying device having a function of identifying authenticity of the inserted bill and accepting real bills and returning counterfeit bills, and a storage device for storing imported bills. In order to be able to convert imported bills as needed, the storage device must be configured by a temporary holding device, that is, an escrow device, at which time the storage for storing the paper money cannot be stored in the temporary holding device. It is necessary to install a further device, a stoker device. Prior arts relating to such importing devices are described in the specification of Japanese Patent Application No. 57-89701, but it is shown here that the banknotes imported by the banknote identification device are selectively selected on one side of the escrow device or stocker device. There is a need for a banknote branch passage for introduction into the bank and a switching means for switching the distribution direction in the branch passage. For this reason, there is necessarily a structure in which the escrow apparatus and the stocker apparatus are installed side by side along two branch passages, and the whole apparatus tends to increase.

In addition, there is a problem that a failure may occur when switching control in the branch passage is not performed reliably. The present invention has been made in view of the above-described points, and by providing a new banknote importing device capable of selectively storing banknotes in one of the escrow apparatus or stocker apparatus without providing a banknote branch passage, It aims at ensuring compactness and banknote control. The object is to provide a stocker section between the banknote identification section and the escrow section, and the stocker section includes a banknote conveyance passage connecting the banknote identification section and the escrow section, and the banknotes in the banknote conveyance passage are separated. It is achieved by a bill importing device characterized in that the bill is transported in a transverse direction or moved in a direction traversing the passage so that the bill is stored at an adjustment accumulation place in the stocker portion. With this configuration, three bills identification part, stocker part, and escrow part are arranged vertically long (or horizontally long), whereby the apparatus can be made compact. Moreover, by moving the banknote in the banknote conveyance path in a stocker part as it is in the direction of an escrow part, the banknote can be stored anywhere in the predetermined banknote accumulation place in an escrow part or a stocker part, The branch passage of is unnecessary. Therefore, trouble which is easy to occur in a branch path does not arise, and banknote control is assured.

And an object of this invention is to provide the banknote importing apparatus which can import-process various kinds of banknotes reasonably.

Specifically, an object of the present invention is to make it possible to automatically return a banknote of the same kind of money as a banknote even when a banknote of any kind of money is put in, and to pay a predetermined amount of banknote as a change.

The object is to store the banknotes in the escrow part on the condition that the reserved number of the escrow part does not reach the predetermined number when the banknote of the predetermined low money amount is put in, and when the reserved number reaches the predetermined number. Storing the bill at the stock scale of the stocker section, and when a bill other than the predetermined low money is put in, the bill is paused in the middle of the bill conveyance passage, and thereafter, the selling operation of the bill is started. It is achieved by controlling to hold the paused banknote under the condition at a bill storage place of the stocker part.

By this control, only the small amount of the banknote of the predetermined amount used as a change is stored in the escrow part. Therefore, it is possible to pay the bill held in the escrow part as a change corresponding to the large bill. Note that bills other than the predetermined amount of money, i.e., large bills, are paused in the middle of the bill conveyance passage, and then, when the selling operation is started, the bills are temporarily stored in the bill storage area of the stocker section. When you need to return the inserted bills according to the operation of the money return switch, etc., you can return the paused bills, and the high-value input bills can be automatically returned to the same kind of money.

In the banknote return passage, the banknote can be transferred, reversed, or stopped. If the input bank is stopped in the middle of the passage, the banknote can be automatically returned by transferring the banknote in reverse when the money is requested. There is a number.

Instead of suspending bills (notes of high value) other than the kind of predetermined low money in the middle of the bill conveyance passage, it is also possible to temporarily hold a single high-value input bill in the escrow part, and the article selling operation may have started. At this time, the escrow portion may be discharged from the high liquid input banknote and transferred to the stocker portion, and may be accumulated therein.

Even if the high value banknotes have been temporarily held in the escrow unit, when the sales operation is started, the banknotes are transferred to the stocker unit and stored. On the other hand, when there is a request for returning the money, the high value banknotes are automatically stored in the escrow unit. In order to convert, the escrow part does not receive a large amount of bills finally, but only a predetermined amount of small bills is accommodated.

A further object of the present invention is that it is possible to store only a predetermined amount of banknotes in an escrow part and to pay the predetermined amount of banknotes as a change. When the payment is made by the purchase of low-value bills, the high-value input bills are stored in the stocker unit so that the high-value input bills are not imported when the change is impossible.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The banknote importing apparatus of the present invention temporarily holds a banknote discrimination unit 11 for identifying the authenticity of the banknote inserted into the insertion opening 10, and a banknote determined as a genuine banknote by the identification unit 11 (automatically returnable). It is provided between the escrow part 12 hold | maintained in the state, and the identification part 11 and the escrow part 12, and the stocker part 13 for accommodating the banknote once imported in the state which cannot be returned automatically. Doing. The banknote passage 1 of the banknote identification section 11, the banknote passage 2 provided in the stocker section 13, and the banknote passage 3 provided in the escrow section 12 are integrally connected. does not exist.

In FIG. 1, the banknote identification part 11, the banknote passages 1 and 3 of the escrow part 12, and the side surface of a conveying apparatus are shown in schematic form, and the stocker part 13 is shown by the longitudinal cross section. have.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the stocker section 13, cut along the line II-II of FIG. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrow. Banknote sensor P1 is provided near the entrance of banknote passage 1 in banknote identification part 11, and banknote sensor P2 is provided near the exit of passage 1. Although the sensor for detecting the authenticity of a banknote is further provided in this banknote identification part 11, since it is not the summary of this invention, it is abbreviate | omitted. The sensors P1 and P2 are photoelectric sensors including a pair of light-emitting elements and light-receiving elements provided with the passage 1 interposed therebetween, and the same applies to the sensors P3 to P6 described below.

The banknote conveying motor M1 in the identification part 11 controls the delivery of the banknote in the identification part 11, conveys a banknote in the direction of the stow cover 13 to an import direction at the time of forward rotation, and when it is reverse rotation. The banknote is conveyed (in the direction of the insertion opening 10) in the return direction. If the inserted bill is judged to be a genuine bill, it is imported and if it is judged to be a counterfeit bill, it is returned.

The outlet (outlet on the sensor P2 side) of the passage 1 communicates with the self-closing passage 2 of the stocker portion 13. The vertical portion of the banknote passage 2 in the stocker portion 13 is formed between the pressing plate 4 of the reciprocating mechanism 14 and the channel members 5a and 5b of the vertical length, and the length thereof is It corresponds almost to the length of the bill. The banknote sensor P3 is provided in the vicinity of the entrance of the banknote passage 2 of the stocker part 13. Moreover, banknote sensors P4 and P5 are provided in the inlet and outlet of the vertical part of the channel | path 2. The outlet of the passage 2 leads to the banknote passage 3 of the escrow portion 12. Banknote sensor P6 is provided in the vicinity of the entrance of this banknote passage 3.

In the stocker part 13, the reciprocating mechanism 14 and the banknote conveying apparatus are provided in one side with the vertical part of the banknote passage 2 interposed, and the other side becomes the banknote accumulating part 15, have. The banknote scale part 15 has two vertical channel members 5a and 5b which are arranged vertically side by side at a predetermined interval slightly narrower than the width of the banknote, and have a size slightly wider than the surface size of the banknote, And a banknote compression plate 6 disposed perpendicularly to the channel members 5a and 5b. Although the channel members 5a and 5b are fixed, the banknote compression plate 6 can be moved in parallel to the plate at right angles to the plate surface, and is always operated by the action of several compression springs PS appropriately arranged. ) And (b).

The reciprocating mechanism 14 includes a press plate 4 substantially parallel to the banknote compression plate 6, a drive plate 7 fixed at right angles to the press plate 4, a press plate 4 and a drive plate 7. Motor M4 and a power transmission mechanism (belt 8, pulleys 9a, 9b) for reciprocating). In FIG. 1 the drive plate 7 is shown in a cut state. The motor M4 is fixed at a predetermined place, and this rotation is transmitted to the pulley 9a and also to the pulley 9b via the belt 8. The pulleys 9a and 9b are driven plates. It is arrange | positioned in parallel with (7), and the protrusions 17 and 18 provided in the pulley, respectively, are respectively inserted in the two long holes 19 and 20 provided in the drive plate 7. Motor When the pulleys 9a and 9b rotate in accordance with the rotation of M4, the synchronizations 17 and 18 are circular motions, and accordingly, the projections 17 and 18 and the long holes 19 and 20 are driven. The drive plate 7 reciprocates in the direction of the plate surface (left and right) by engaging with the drive plate, and this drive plate 7 According to the movement, the pressing plate 4 reciprocates (left and right) in the direction perpendicular to the plate surface, that is, in the direction of the banknote compressing plate 6. When the pulleys 9a and 9b rotate once, the driving plate 7 and The pressing plate 4 carries out a reciprocating motion of one round-trip 1. In a normal state, as shown, it is located in the position farthest from the banknote scale part 15 of the pressing plate 4, and this pressing plate 4 and the channel member 5a are shown. The vertical portion of the banknote passage 2 is formed between and 5b.

Although the length of the press plate 4 corresponds substantially to the length of a banknote, the width is narrower than the width of a banknote, and is narrower than the space | interval of two channel members 5a and 5b.

Therefore, when the pressing plate 4 reciprocates left and right in the direction of the banknote scale part 15 by one rotation of the motor M4, the pressing plate 4 is interposed between the two channel members 5a and 5b. It is meant to pass.

In the stoker section 13, the banknote conveying apparatus includes a motor M3, a pulley 21 to which the rotation of the motor M3 is transmitted, and a rotation of the pulley 21 to be transmitted via the belt 22. 3 pairs of banknote conveying rollers 24, 25, and 26 provided on the same axis in predetermined pulleys having the same rotational direction among the five pulleys (one of which is given a reference sign 23) It includes.

Banknote conveyance rollers 24-26 are rollers made of rubber which provided the processus | protrusion around, for example. Referring to FIG. 2, the pair of rollers 25 are two rollers arranged at intervals corresponding to the two channel members 5a and 5b.

The rotation of the motor M3 is transmitted to the five pulleys 23 via the pulley 21 and the belt 22, and the same for each pair of banknote conveying rollers 24 to 26 via three of them. It is transmitted as a rotation in the direction. The banknote conveyance rollers are sandwiched between both axes of the banknotes 24 to 26 and the channel members 5a and 5b, and the banknotes are conveyed in accordance with the rotation of the rollers 24 to 26. The motor M3 is capable of forward and reverse rotation, and can carry banknotes in the passage 2 in either the import direction or the return direction. In addition, by stopping the rotation of the motor M3, the paper money can be temporarily paused at the place of the vertical portion of the passage 2 (that is, immediately before the escrow portion 12 and the banknote storing portion 15). have. In the escrow part 12, one end of the helical spring 28 is fixed to the predetermined place of the drum 27 which is rotated by the motor M2, and the winding table and the spring which center this drum 27 are fixed. The banknote is sandwiched between 28 to wind the banknote tightly.

That is, the banknote which entered the escrow part 12 through the passage 2 of the stoker part 13 enters between the windings centered on the drum 27 and the spring 28 via the passage 3. The drum 27 is driven by the motor M2, which drives the motor M2 in a timely forward rotation (counterclockwise rotation in the drawing) to wind the spring 28 on the drum 27 and together with the spring. Firmly wind the imported bills. When discharging the banknote wrapped in the drum 27 in the direction of the passage 3, the motor M2 is rotated in reverse.

As the motor M2 rotates in reverse, the spring 28 is wound around the winding center 28a by the self restoring force, and the banknote is sent out to the passage 3 group in accordance with the movement of the drum 27 and the spring 28.

In relation to the motor M2, an empty detector ESW, a full detector PSW, a first small constant detector PSW1, and a second small constant detector PSW2 are provided.

When the motor M2 is in the initial position, i.e., when no bill is wrapped around the drum 27, the Empree detector ESW is activated to detect the amplifier.

When the motor M2 is rotated in the forward rotation direction from the initial position, the full detector FSW provided through a gear down mechanism (not shown) operates to detect that the motor is full. The detectors PSW1 and PSW2 are provided via the same gear down mechanism, and the PSW1 turns on when the number of held sheets of the escrow portion 12 is less than the first predetermined number, and the PSW2 turns on when the second predetermined number is less than the second predetermined number. For example, the first predetermined number is the maximum change number of 1,000 won bills for 10,000 won, and the second predetermined number is the maximum change number of thousand won bills for 5,000 won bills is "4". The number of operation sheets of the full detector FSW may be arbitrarily set (for example, 10 to 40 sheets).

In the escrow part 12, the banknote thrown in into the insertion slot 10 is introduce | transduced through the passages 1 and 2, and this banknote is temporarily suspended. When sending the injected banknote to the escrow part 12, the reciprocating mechanism 14 of the stocker part 13 does not operate, and only a banknote conveying apparatus (motor M3 etc.) operates and is given by the banknote identification part 11 The input banknote passes through the passage 2 of the stocker section 13 and is sent to the escrow section 12. In the banknote accumulating part 15 of the stocker part 13, the banknote dispensed by the banknote identification part 11 or the banknote discharged by the escrow part 12 is accommodated.

The operation of storing bank notes in the banknote scale section 15 of the stocker section 13 is performed as follows.

When the banknote to be stored is sent from the banknote identification unit 11 side, the banknote conveying motor M3 of the stocker unit 13 is rotated forward and the banknote is drawn to the vertical part of the passage 2. On the other hand, when banknotes to be stored are sent from the escrow part 12 side, the motor M3 is rotated in reverse to draw the banknotes into the vertical part of the passage 2. When the banknote to be stored completely enters the vertical portion of the passage 2, that is, the passage portion between the pressing plate 4 and the channel members 5a and 5b, the motor M3 stops, and the banknote is placed there. To stop. When the motor M3 is rotated forward, it is found that the banknote has completely entered the vertical part of the passage 2 by the sensor P4 which has been detecting the banknote until then. On the other hand, when the motor M3 is reversely rotated, the above-mentioned thing is proved that the sensor P5 which detected the banknote until then does not detect a banknote. After the motor M3 stops, the bank M4 of the reciprocating mechanism 14 is rotated once to store the banknote held in the vertical portion of the passage 2 in the scale portion 15. 3 is a schematic diagram showing this storing operation.

FIG. 3 is a corresponding schematic diagram of FIG. 2, and FIG. 3 (a) shows bills to be stored when a bill is not yet accumulated between the banknote compressing plate 6 and the channel members 5a and 5b. The state which 29 sent to the vertical part of the channel | path 2 for the first time is displayed.

When the motor M4 is rotated once in this state, the pressing plate 4 is moved in parallel in the direction (arrow A direction) of the banknote compression plate 6 in the 0 degree to 180 degree stroke, and the banknote 29 in the passage 2 is moved. To the direction of the compression plate (6). The pushed banknote 29 is bent and passes between the channel members 5a and 5b together with the pressing plate 4 to be in contact with the compression plate 6. As shown in FIG. 3 (b), according to the movement in the direction of arrow A of the pressing plate 4, the banknote 29 sandwiched between the pressing plate 6 and the pressing plate 4 is applied to the repulsive force of the compression spring PS. In the direction of arrow A, in the direction of compressing spring PS).

When the motor M4 is rotated from 180 degrees to 360 degrees, the pressing plate 4 moves in the opposite direction (arrow B direction) as described above, and the compression plate 6 and the banknote 29 are driven by the restoring force of the compression soup PS. Is returned with the pressing plate 4. When both sides of the banknote 29 abut the channel members 5a and 5b, the movement of the banknote 29 and the compression plate 6 is stopped by the channel members 5a and 5b. After that, only the pressing plate 4 moves in accordance with the rotation of the motor M4, and when one rotation of the motor M4 is completed, the pressing plate 4 is in its original position (a position forming the vertical portion of the passage 2). Go back up. The above is one cycle operation of bill storage in the stocker part 13, and as shown in FIG. 3 (c), the bill 29 finally compresses the channel members 5a and 5b and the bills. It is accommodated between the plates 6. The banknote 29 is firmly held between the channel members 5a, 5b and the compression plate 6 by the force of the compression spring PS.

By repeating the above one bill storing cycle, the newly received bill 30 (see also the third (d)) is already accumulated between the compression plate 6 and the channel members 5a and 5b. It is added near the banknote 31. That is, as shown in FIG. 3 (e), the pressing plate 4 adds new banknotes 30 to the banknotes 31 in accordance with the movement of the passages thereof, and these banknotes 30, Slide 31 and the compression plate 6 together in the direction of arrow A. Then, when the press plate 4 and the moving again, the new banknote 30 is sandwiched between the old bank 31 and the channel members 5a, 5b. In this way, between the banknote compressing plate 6 and the channel members 5a and 5b, the banknotes are stacked in the transverse direction in the upright state and compressed and accumulated.

Further, in the reciprocating mechanism 14, a sliding movement supporting base 32 (FIG. 1) that slides the driving plate 7 at a lower position or a suitable place of the driving plate 7 to support movement freely is appropriately. You should prepare. Similarly, in the banknote scale part 15, a suitable base 33 (FIG. 1) is provided below the banknote accumulation place and the compression plate 6, and the channel members 5a and 5b are fixedly supported. At the same time, the lower part of the banknote and the lower part of the compression plate 6 may be supported freely.

When paying the banknote held in the escrow part 12 toward the insertion hole 10 (or as described later) as a part of the change, the motors M2, M3, M1 are reversed, Banknotes are discharged through the passages (3), (2) and (1).

Moreover, when returning the banknote paused in the vertical part of the channel | path 2 toward the insertion slot 10, motors M3 and M1 are reversely rotated.

When the banknotes held by the escrow part 12 are stored in the banknote accumulation part 15 of the stocker part 13 by a collection operation, the motors M2 and M3 are reversely rotated, and a single banknote is returned to the stocker part 13. When it is delivered to the vertical portion of the passage 2, the reverse rotation is stopped, and as described above, the reciprocating mechanism 14 is operated to store the banknote in the accumulating portion 15. In this way, during the collection operation, the held banknotes of the escrow portion 12 are transferred one by one to the storage portion 15 of the stocker portion 13.

The control method at the time of storing the inserted banknote in the escrow part 12 or the banknote scale part 15 is demonstrated next.

4 is a block diagram of the control system of the banknote importing device shown in FIG. 1, and outputs of the sensors P1 to P6 and the detectors ESW, FSW, PSW1, PSW2 are given to the control circuit 34, and this control circuit ( The driving of each motor M1 to M4 is controlled by the output of 34). Motors M1 to M3 can be switched between forward and reverse rotation, while motor M4 can only be forward. The illustration of the sensors related to the authenticity of the inserted banknotes is omitted.

FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 are flowcharts showing one embodiment of an input banknote control operation of a bill importing device when the kind of bills imported is one kind (for example, 1,000 won).

In FIG. 5, the block 35 checks whether the sensor P1 is ON. In addition, ON of the sensors P1-P6 shall display the state which detected the banknote.

The sensor P1 turns on when a banknote is inserted into the banknote insertion hole 10. When the sensor P1 turns on, the motor M1 starts to rotate forward. In this way, the input banknote is conveyed into the passage 1. In this process, the authenticity of the inserted paper money is judged, and when it is determined as a counterfeit paper money, the motor M1 is once stopped, then the reverse rotation is started, and the motor M1 is stopped when the detector P1 changes from ON to OFF ( Blocks 36, 37, and 38). In this way, the counterfeit bill is returned to the insertion port 10.

When it is judged that it is a real bill, it goes to block 39 and checks whether the sensor P3 is ON. If YES, it means that the leading edge of the inserted banknote entered the passage 2 of the stocker part 13, and, accordingly, forward rotation of the motor M3 is started.

By forward rotation of the motors M1 and M3, the banknote is transferred from the identification unit 1 into the stocker unit 13. After a while, when the trailing edge of the banknote passes through the sensor P2, the sensor P2 is turned off, and the motor M1 is stopped by the processing of the block 40. In block 41, it is checked whether the pool detection of the escrow part 12 is whether FSW is ON (is detecting the pool), and if NO, the process after block 42 is performed and the input bill is transferred to the escrow part 12. ), And if it is YES, the process after the block 43 is performed, and the input banknote is stored in the banknote scale part 15 of the stocker unit 13.

The determination of this block 41 is performed reliably while the back end of a banknote moves from the position of the sensor P2 to the position of P4 by the forward rotation drive of the motor M3.

The route of NO of the block 41 will be described first.

When the banknote is conveyed in the passage 2 by the constant rotation of the motor M3, and after a while, the front end of the banknote enters the entrance of the passage 3 of the escrow part 12, the sensor P6 is turned ON, and the block (42) becomes YES. As a result, the forward rotation of the motor M3 starts. By forward rotation of the motors M3 and M2, the banknote is transferred from the passage 2 of the stocker portion 13 to the passage 3 of the escrow portion 12 between the winding table of the drum 27 and the spring 28. It is fed in and wound between the winding of the drum 27 and the spring 280. When the back end of the banknote passes through the place of the sensor P5, the sensor P5 is turned OFF, the door and the block 44 are YES, and When the back end of the banknote passes through the place of the sensor P6, the sensor P6 is turned off, and after the predetermined time waiting is set in the block 45, the motor M2 is stopped.

This waiting time is set to the time required for the trailing edge of the banknote to move from the position of the sensor P6 to the winding stage of the drum 27.

The root of YES in block 41 will be described.

When the banknote is conveyed in the passage 2 by the forward rotational low speed of the motor M3, and after a while, the back end of the banknote passes through the place of the sensor P4, the sensor P4 is turned off and the block 43 becomes YES. . Accordingly, the mother M3 is stopped by the processing of the block 43A. In this state, the inserted banknote is located at a position exactly coincident with the pressing plate 4, and is stopped at that position. Next, in block 46, a process of driving the motor M4 of the reciprocating mechanism 14 by one rotation is performed. As a result, as described above, the pressing plate 4 reciprocates once, and the banknote in the passage 2 is pushed toward the banknote accumulating part 15 and stored in the scale part 15.

As described above, when the number of held sheets of the escrow portion 12 does not reach the predetermined number of pools, the banknote 12 is immediately sent to the escrow portion 12, and when the predetermined number of pools reaches the predetermined number of pools, the passage of the stocker unit 13 ( In 2), the bill is stopped once, and the reciprocating mechanism 14 is operated to be stored in the bill accumulator 15.

Figure 6 shows a separate way of importing bills. The portion from block 35 to block 40 is the same as in FIG. In addition, since the part of 47 'is also substantially the same as the part of the block 47 of FIG. 5, illustration is abbreviate | omitted. In addition, block 47 'does not process blocks 43 and 43A in block 47, and goes directly to 46 at YES of 41. As shown in FIG. In block 47 ', the process of "motor M3 forward rotation start" is subscribed to the block 47' between NO of 42 and 42. As shown in FIG.

In FIG. 5, the escrow part 12 is stored in the banknote accumulation part 15 or the escrow part 12 immediately according to whether the escrow part 12 is pulled, but in FIG. 6, the stocker part 13 of FIG. The paper money is paused in the vertical portion of the passage 2, and when the next banknote is inserted or when the selling operation is performed, the banknote of the passage 2 is transferred to the escrow portion 12 or the accumulation portion 15. It is supposed to be stored. In FIG. 6, the motor M1 is stopped by the processing of the block 40 when the back end of the banknote passes through the place of the sensor P2, and the motor M3 continues the forward rotation at this time. When the trailing edge of the banknote passes through the place of the sensor P4, the sensor P4 is turned OFF, and the block 48 is YES. In this way, the motor M3 is stopped. Thereby, the banknote stops at the position exactly coinciding with the knee plate 4, that is, at the place of the vertical portion of the passage 2. In this state, it waits until the next banknote is thrown in or a sale operation starts.

In block 49, it is checked whether the sensor P1 is ON or not. When the next bill is inserted into the insertion hole 10, the block 49 is YES and jumps to the block 47 '. In block 50, whether or not the selling operation is started or not is checked. If YES is detected, the process proceeds to block 47 '. If both (49) and (50) are NO, it returns to block 49 via block 51 and repeats the loop of (49), (50), (51). In block 51, it is checked whether a money return instruction has been issued. When the money direction command is issued, the process advances to block 52 for money return processing. That is, the motors M3 and M1 are rotated in reverse to return the banknote in the passage 2 toward the insertion hole 10. When the money return instruction is not given and the next bill is inserted or the selling operation is started, the process advances to block 47 'and stores the bill in the escrow portion 12 or the bill accumulating portion 15.

That is, as mentioned above, in block 47 ', a process which accommodates a banknote in either the escrow part 12 or the accumulator part 15 is performed according to the state of the full detector FSW.

The structures of the reciprocating mechanism 14, the banknote conveying apparatus, and the banknote accumulating portion 15 in the stocker section 13 are not limited to those shown in the figure, and may have any structure as long as they have the same function. For example, the banknote accumulating part 15 may be inclined and the banknote in the vertical part of the passage 2 may be pushed in the direction of the accumulating part 15 (in this case, the bill is not a completely parallel movement, but to some extent. Move while drawing a circle shape). When the banknote in the vertical portion of the passage 2 is moved in the direction of the accumulating portion 15, in the above embodiment, the pressing plate 4 is used to press the banknote, but a pulling method may be used. In addition, in the said Example, although the banknote identification part 11, the stocker part 13, and the escrow part 12 line up longitudinally, you may arrange them horizontally in the state lying down. It is preferable that the stocker portion 13 and the escrow portion 12 be free to be removed. Moreover, when opening and closing the side surface of the stocker part 13 on the accumulation part 15 side freely, it is convenient to collect | recover a water pressure banknote.

Next, FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 are flowcharts showing one embodiment of an input bill import control operation of the bill importing device when importing various bills. In the example of FIG. 7, when the 1,000 won bill, which is a kind of the minimum amount of money, is inserted, the 1,000 won bill is immediately stored in the escrow part 12 unless the escrow part 12 is full, and the escrow part 12 is full. When present, the 1,000 won bill is stored in the banknote scale part 15 of the stow cover 13. When banknotes other than 1,000 won are inserted, that is, when 10,000 won or 5,000 won are inserted, the input bank is temporarily suspended in the vertical portion of the passage 2 of the stoker section 13, on the condition that the selling operation is started. The large amount of charged paper money suspended in the passage 2 is stored in the banknote storing part 15. Therefore, the escrow part 12 temporarily holds a predetermined amount of low bills (1,000 won), and the banknote accumulation part 15 cannot store all of the predetermined high value bills (5,000 won, 10,000 won) and the escrow part 12. The predetermined low value banknote which was used is stored.

Therefore, when the sale is performed in accordance with the input of the high value banknote, it is very easy to pay the low price banknote as change in the escrow part 12.

In FIG. 7, the difference from FIG. 5 is that the block 53 is inserted between the block 40 and the block 47. That is, the bill is inserted into the bill insertion slot 10, and the authenticity of the inserted bill is determined. If the bill is a counterfeit bill, the return processing (blocks 36, 37, 38) is performed. It is conveyed and conveyed to the stocker part 13, the sensor P2 is made OFF, and the motor M1 is stopped (block 40) until it is the same as the process shown in FIG. 5, and this embodiment shown in FIG. In the subsequent block 53, processing is performed. In block 53, it is checked whether the type of money of the inserted banknote determined by the banknote identification unit 11 is a thousand won (the predetermined low value banknote to be stored in the escrow unit 12). If YES, block 47 is processed, and if NO, block 54 is moved. The processing of block 47 when YES is the same as described in FIG. That is, when the pending number of the escrow part 12 does not reach predetermined | prescribed pool number, the input banknote of the kind (1,000-won bill) of predetermined | prescribed savings money is immediately sent to the escrow part 12, and the predetermined pool number is reached. In this case, the inserted banknote is once stopped in the passage 2 of the stocker section 13, and the reciprocating mechanism 14 is operated to be stored in the banknote accumulating section 15.

When the inserted banknote is not the kind of the predetermined amount of money stored in the escrow part 12 (that is, the thousand won ticket), that is, the 5,000 won or 10,000 won ticket, the block 53 is NO and goes to the block 54. When judging the block 53, the motor M3 still continues forward rotation.

Therefore, when the inserted banknote is conveyed in the passage 2 and after a while, the back end of the banknote passes through the place of the sensor P4, the sensor P4 turns from ON to OFF, and the block 54 becomes YES.

This stops the motor M3. Thereby, a banknote stops at the position exactly corresponded to the press board 4, ie, the position of the vertical part of the channel | path 2. In this state, it waits until the next banknote is thrown in or a sale operation starts. In block 50, it is checked whether or not the selling operation has started (whether or not the selling start signal VS is generated). If YES, block 55 proceeds. If (50) is NO, it returns to block 50 via block 51 and repeats this loop.

In block 51 it is checked whether or not a money return instruction has been issued. When the money return instruction has been issued, the process proceeds to block 52, where money return processing is performed.

That is, the motors M3 and M1 are rotated in reverse to return the banknote in the passage 2 toward the insertion hole 10. If the money return instruction is not given and the next bill is inserted or the selling operation has started, the process proceeds to block 55 and the motor M4 is driven one rotation. As a result, as described above, the pressing plate 4 reciprocates once, pushes the banknotes temporarily suspended in the passage 2 in the direction of the banknote accumulating unit 15, and pushes the banknotes into the accumulating unit 15. Store in.

As described above, when the input banknote is a kind of money (5,000 won or 10,000 won) other than the kind of the predetermined amount of money (thousand won), the bill is paused in the vertical portion of the passage 2, and then the selling operation is performed. The banknote is stored in the accumulator 15 under the condition of the disclosure.

In the example of FIG. 7, the state of the predetermined number of detectors PSW1, PSW2 of the escrow portion 12 is not taken into consideration, but as described below, when control is performed considering the states of the detectors PSW1, PSW2, it is impossible to pay change. At this time, it is possible to prevent a large amount of money and an unreasonable point of storing bills in the storage unit 15. In FIG. 8, the part from the block 35 to the block 47 is the same as that in FIG. The routine when block 53 is NO differs from FIG.

SP"즉 판매 가능하면 블럭(58)로 진행된다. 블럭(58)에서는, "K-SP"에 따라, 거스름돈으로서 필요한 천원권의 매수 N을 요구한다. 다음에, 블럭(59)에서는, 제1소정수 검출기 PSW1(예를들면, 에스크로부(12)의 천원권 보류 매수 9매 미만에서 ON)과 제2소정수 검출기 PSW2(예를들면, 4매 미만에서 ON)의 출력에 따라서, 거스름돈으로서 필요한 천원권의 매수 N이 에스크로부(12)의 현재의 보류 매수로 지불할 수 가 없는가를 판단한다. 예를들면 PSW1이 OFF이면 보류 매수가 9매 이상인 것을 의미하고, N이 9이하이면 확실하게 거스름돈의 천원권을 지불할 수 있다.When the block 53 is NO, that is, when the 5,000-won or 10,000-won ticket is put in, as in FIG. 7, it is checked whether or not the sensor P4 is turned off at the block 54. When the sensor P4 is OFF, the motor M3 is stopped, and the inserted banknote is temporarily stopped at the vertical portion of the passage 2. Next, in block 56, it is checked whether or not the article selection operation (selection switch operation) is performed in the vending machine in which the banknote importing device is installed. When the selection operation is made, the amount K of the inserted bills (5,000 or 10,000 won) is compared with the sales set price SP of the selected item (block 57), " K

SP ", i.e., if available for sale, proceeds to block 58. In block 58, the number N of thousand-won bills required as change is requested in accordance with" K-SP ". Next, in block 59, the first Depending on the output of the predetermined number detector PSW1 (e.g., less than nine thousand hold tickets of the escrow unit 12) and the second predetermined number detector PSW2 (e.g., less than four sheets), it is necessary as a change. It is determined whether the number N of 1,000 won cannot be paid by the current number of pending purchases of the escrow unit 12. For example, if PSW1 is OFF, it means that the number of held is more than 9, and if N is less than 9, it is surely changed. You can pay 1,000 won.

4"이면 확실하게 거스름돈의 천원권을 지불 할수가 있다. 이와 같은 판단 결과, 거스름돈을 지불 할 수 있다고 판단되면, 블럭(55)로 진행하여, 모오터 M4를 1회전 구동하여, 통로(2)에서 일시 정지하고 있던 지폐를 축적부(15)에 수납한다.If PSW1 is ON and PSW2 is OFF, it means that the number of held sheets is less than 9 and 4 or more, and " 9 > N

If it is 4 ", the change of 1,000 won of change can be reliably paid. If it is determined that the change can be paid, the process proceeds to block 55, and the motor M4 is driven one rotation, and the passage 2 The banknote which was paused is stored in the accumulator 15.

If not, proceed to block 51 to check whether a money return command has been issued (whether the money return button is pressed or not), and if NO, return to block 56 to perform another item selection operation. Check if there is any.

In addition, in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, when the large bill is paused in the passage 2, it is good not to drive the motor M1 forward rotation even if the next bill is inserted into the insertion slot 10. In addition, in FIG.

In addition, in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, when the thousand-won winding is input, it does not pause in the passage 2, but is accommodated in the escrow part 12 or the banknote scale part 15 according to the state of the full detector FSW. The passage may be paused in the passage 2 until the next banknote is introduced or until the selling operation is started, and then stored in the escrow portion 12 or the accumulating portion 15 thereafter.

In addition, although two detectors PSW1 and PSW2 which detect whether or not the number of the escrow part 12 is held are less than the predetermined number corresponding to two other predetermined numbers, are used, the detector is still more and more. You may install a lot. In addition, up and down counts may be used for escalation of bills in the escrow portion 12 without using multiple detectors.

In addition, in the example of FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, when 5,000-won ticket and 10,000-won book are put, it is made to pause this in the vertical part of the banknote passage 2, but it is not limited to this, but the escrow part 12 May be temporarily suspended.

At this time, when storing the 5,000 won or 10,000 won ticket temporarily held in the escrow part 12 in the accumulation part 15, the motor M2 is reversely rotated and one bill is discharged from the escrow part 12, and this discharge is carried out. The banknote may be stopped at the vertical portion of the passage 2 to drive the motor M4 by one rotation to be stored in the accumulation section 15. Note that the bill importing device is not limited to the ones shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and is, for example, the same as that shown in Japanese Patent Application No. 57-89701 (notes imported from a bill identification unit). May be selectively introduced into the escrow portion or stocker portion via a branch passage). The types of money that can be used are not limited to 1,000 won, 5,000 won, and 10,000 won. Moreover, the kind of high value pig which is not used as change is not limited to two types, One type or three or more types may be sufficient as it.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to handle various money types of bills only by using two storage devices of the escrow part and the stocker part, and furthermore, it is possible to handle all money types of money bills. It is possible to reliably and automatically return the input banknotes of all the money types to the same money type, and at the same time, there is an excellent effect of being able to use the predetermined low-money banknotes as change money. In addition, when there is a shortage of change in the number of pending changes for certain types of low-denomination banknotes, it is possible not to store a large amount of input banknotes in the storage unit, so that it is possible to prevent a situation (sale) that cannot be changed. .

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A banknote identification unit for identifying the authenticity of the inserted banknotes, an escrow unit that can hold a banknote imported as a real banknote from the banknote identification unit and return the banknotes held therein, the banknote identification unit and the escrow unit, A bill conveyance passage provided between the bill identification portion and the escrow portion, wherein the bill is stored in a predetermined accumulation place by moving the bill in the bill conveyance passage in a direction crossing the passage; Banknote import device provided with a stoker unit. The said banknote conveyance path | route in the said stocker part contains the straight line part corresponding to the length of a banknote at least, The claim range agent which always receives by moving the banknote in this straight line part in the direction crossing the said passage is made. Banknote import device of Clause 1. The stocker unit accumulates a banknote conveyance drive device provided in association with the banknote conveying passage, a movement device for parallel movement in a direction crossing the passage in the banknote conveying passage, and a banknote moved by the conveying apparatus. The bill import apparatus of Claim 1 or 2 which provided the accumulator for this. The said moving device has the width | variety which is narrower than the width | variety of a banknote, and the press plate which forms a part of one wall surface of the said banknote conveyance passage normally, and is movable in the direction transverse to the said banknote conveyance passage, and this pressing plate are the said passageways And a reciprocating device capable of reciprocating by a predetermined distance across the cross section, wherein the accumulator forms a part of the other wall surface of the bill conveying passage and is narrower than the width of the bill. A member receiving a banknote having an opening of a dimension allowing the pressing plate to enter, and a compression plate to which a pressing force is applied resiliently to the direction of the member receiving the banknote, the pressing plate being subjected to one reciprocating motion of the pressing plate. Between the compression plate and the receiving member presses a banknote that has been pressed into and intruded into the opening of the receiving member together with the pressing plate; The claims bills import apparatus of claim 3 wherein the base material sandwiching accumulation. A banknote identification unit for identifying the authenticity of the inserted banknotes, an escrow unit that holds a banknote imported as a real banknote from the banknote identification unit and can return the banknote held, the banknote identification unit and the escrow unit, A bill conveyance passage provided between the bill identification portion and the escrow portion, wherein the bill is stored in a predetermined accumulation place by moving the bill in the bill conveyance passage in a direction crossing the passage; And a control means for controlling whether or not the stoker unit to be stored in the escrow portion or the banknote storage place of the stocker portion is received as a real banknote from the banknote identification unit. When the number of held sheets of the escrow portion does not reach a predetermined number, the control means introduces the bills imported from the banknote identification portion through the banknote conveying passage of the stocker portion and introduces the number of held sheets of the escrow portion. The bill import apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when a predetermined number reaches a predetermined number, a bill imported by the bill identification unit is stopped in a bill conveyance passage of the stocker section and stored in the storage location of the stocker section. The control means pauses the banknotes imported from the banknote identification unit in the banknote conveying passage of the stocker unit, and then pauses the banknotes that have been paused, provided that another banknote is newly inserted or a selling operation is started. The bill import device according to claim 5 or 6, which controls whether to store the escrow portion or the stocker portion in the accumulation place. The control means stores the banknotes on the escrow part when the banknotes of the kind of the predetermined amount of money do not reach the predetermined number, provided that the banknotes do not reach the predetermined number, and the held number reaches the predetermined number. When the banknote is stored, the banknote is stored in the banknote storage place of the stocker part, and when a banknote other than the kind of the predetermined amount of money is inserted, the banknote is paused in the middle of the banknote conveying passage, and thereafter, A bill import device according to claim 5 for storing the stopped bill in the bill accumulation place of the stocker, provided that the article selling operation is started. The control means stores the banknotes in the escrow part on the condition that the number of held sheets of the escrow part does not reach the predetermined number when the banknotes of the kind of the predetermined amount of money are put in, and the held number reaches the predetermined number. When the banknote is stored, the banknote is stored in the stocking place of the stocker part, and when a banknote other than the predetermined amount of money is put into the banknote, the banknote is temporarily held in the escrow part, and then the banknote The paper money import device according to claim 5, wherein the paper money held temporarily is stored in the stocker place at the stoker section, provided that the product selling operation is started. The escrow portion is provided with detection means for detecting a banknote holding amount, and the control means is provided that the number of held sheets of the escrow portion does not reach a predetermined number of pools when a banknote of a predetermined amount of money is put therein. When a bill is stored in an escrow part, when the number of held sheets reaches the predetermined number of pools, the bill is stored in the banknote accumulation place of the stocker part, and when a bill other than the kind of the predetermined amount of money is put in The bill was paused in the middle of the bill conveyance passage, and when the change corresponding to the input banknote was determined to be accepted by the held bill in the escrow part according to the output of the detection means and the item selection operation, the bill was paused. Claim 5 which accommodates a banknote in the said banknote accumulation place of a stocker part. Bill import device of base material.

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