JP2002298190A - Banknote transaction device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily mount sterilization and disinfection means on a current bill dealing device. SOLUTION: The bill dealing device allows received bills to be taken out of a bill receipt/payment port 1, discriminated by a discrimination part 3 and received by bill type boxes 8, 9. In bill payment, bills are separated from the bill type boxes 8, 9 and paid through the discrimination part 3 into the receipt/ payment port 1. The sterilization and disinfection part 11 is arranged on one side of a linear carriage mechanism part 2a in parallel to the bill type boxes 8, 9 in the longitudinal direction of carriage and so the sterilization and disinfection part 11 can be mounted thereon without significantly changing the structure of the current bill dealing device. The presence or not of sterilization and disinfection treatment can be selected by controlling a gate 10 to be turned on/off with treating operation or personnel's or user's selection.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote transaction apparatus for carrying out a transaction for putting in and taking out a banknote by a user's operation, and sterilizing and disinfecting the banknote during transaction processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 3-209595 discloses a method of disinfecting bills in a bill transaction apparatus having a function of disinfecting bills.
A sterilization method by chemical application is shown. When disinfecting banknotes by using a sterilization method by heating, a method of providing a heating section of the banknotes on the transport path and sterilizing the transported banknotes one by one is effective. As shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-114652, as a means for disinfecting banknotes by such heating, a heating roller having a built-in heating means such as a heater on a transport path and a belt attached so as to wind around the heating roller are used. A heat disinfection unit is provided, and bills are fed from the conveyance path between the heating roller and the belt, and are heated and disinfected by the holding portion between the heating roller and the belt.

[0003]

[0006] Banknote transaction devices are widely used in financial institutions. In order to mount the disinfecting and disinfecting means in this bill transaction device, a deposit and withdrawal port for depositing and dispensing bills, a denomination box for storing bills for each denomination, Changing the configuration of the transport path that transports banknotes between the spigot and the denomination box and the discriminator that identifies bills on this transport path not only takes time to develop, but also increases costs and increases the size of the equipment. May be caused.

[0004] Further, if the sterilization means is mounted in a banknote transaction apparatus and the disinfection processing is performed at the time of deposit and withdrawal transactions, the processing time may be increased and the operation rate of the apparatus may be reduced. .

[0005] It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a banknote transaction apparatus in which sterilization means can be mounted on a current banknote transaction apparatus.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a banknote transaction apparatus which minimizes a decrease in processing capacity due to sterilization and ensures a sufficient sterilizing effect.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, in particular, a disinfection unit for disinfecting and disinfecting banknotes is provided on the upstream side of the denomination box, on the front side of the apparatus from the denomination box, and on the transport path. Along with the denomination box.

[0008] Therefore, by selecting the presence or absence of the sterilization and disinfection processing for each transaction or according to the content of the processing operation, a decrease in the processing capacity of the banknote transaction apparatus equipped with the sterilization and disinfection means is minimized and a sufficient amount is obtained. A bactericidal effect can be ensured.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a bill transaction device equipped with a bill disinfection unit.

In a deposit transaction, a user (customer) inserts a bill into the deposit / withdrawal port 1. The inserted bills are separated one by one by a separation mechanism (not shown) provided in the deposit / withdrawal port 1, and are conveyed to the discrimination unit 3 by the conveyance mechanism 2. Identification section 3
Then, perform necessary discrimination such as denomination, authenticity, damage, number of sheets, etc.,
The sheet is further conveyed by the conveyance mechanism 4 and is accumulated on the temporary accumulation mechanism 5 on the separator 13. Here, when the transaction operated by the user is established, the banknotes are separated by a separation mechanism (not shown), transported again to the discriminating section 3 by the transport mechanism 6 and discriminated, and passed through the transport mechanisms 4, 7 and 2. At this time, the gate 10 of the banknote sterilizing and disinfecting unit 11 is switched, passed through the heating roller unit 14 of the sterilizing and disinfecting unit 11, and transported to each denomination box 8, 9 which is a banknote storage unit for each denomination, and collected and stored. To complete the deposit transaction.

In the withdrawal transaction, the number of bills requested by the user is separated from each denomination box 8, 9 one by one by a separation mechanism (not shown), and is passed through the discrimination section 3 and the transport paths 4, 7. The money is accumulated in the cash mouth 1 and released to end the withdrawal transaction.

When the remaining amount of the bills stored in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 becomes small, the bills are set in the detachable bill cassette 12 or the set bills are retracted from the separator 13. Then, the bills in the cassette 12 are fed out by a separation mechanism (not shown). Then, the paper is sent to the discriminating section 3 through the transport mechanism 6, and after the denomination discrimination and counting are performed in the discriminating section 3, the paper passes through the transport mechanisms 4, 7 and 2, and at this time, the gate 10 of the banknote sterilizing / disinfecting section 11. Is switched, and the replenishment or loading of the denominations in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 is performed for each denomination through the heating roller unit 14.

Further, when any one of the denomination boxes 8 and 9 becomes full, the banknotes are fed out of the full denomination boxes 8 and 9, and the discrimination unit 3 performs denomination discrimination and counting.
A collection for storing bills in the cassette 12 is performed. Further, it is also possible to collect all the bills and carry out close examination for counting and confirming the amount of bills in the apparatus. In addition, denomination boxes 8, 9,
It is also possible to move bills sequentially to the bill cassette 12 while passing through the discriminating section 3 and perform a close examination for counting and confirming the amount of bills in the apparatus.

This banknote transaction device is a banknote transaction device originally having no sterilization function shown in FIG. 3 and one of the denomination boxes 8a, 8, and 9 in which three denomination boxes are mounted.
a is replaced by the disinfecting and disinfecting unit 11, except for the conventional device except for the disinfecting and disinfecting unit 11.

Further, if the denomination box 9 in FIG. 3 is replaced with the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 and the configuration shown in FIG. 2 is used, the sterilizing / disinfecting process can be performed at the time of a dispensing transaction. That is, bills of the denomination required by the user are separated from the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and the bills pass through the heating roller unit 14 of the downstream sterilization unit 11 by the gate 10, and then pass through the discrimination unit 3 and the transport mechanism. The bills are accumulated in the deposit and withdrawal port 1 through 4 and 7, and are withdrawn.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the transport mechanism 2a of the denomination boxes 8, 9 and the sterilizing / disinfecting section 11 is provided.
Is a straight line, and the straight-lined transport mechanism 2
a on one side, denomination boxes 8, 9 and a disinfection unit 11
Are arranged side by side in the transport direction. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 is disposed upstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and is sterilized when the depositing mechanism 5 stores the denomination boxes 8 and 9 in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 (deposit receiving). Sterilization is performed in the disinfection unit 11. In the embodiment of FIG.
Are disposed downstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and during the dispensing transaction, the disinfecting and disinfecting unit 11 sterilizes and dispenses bills separated from the denomination boxes 8 and 9. The denomination boxes 8, 9 and the disinfecting and disinfecting unit 11 have the same outer shape, and are arranged side by side on one side of the straight-lined transport mechanism 2a in the bill transport direction. As shown, a banknote transaction device having a sterilization function can be configured with almost no change in the mounting configuration of the current banknote transaction device.

FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the banknote sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 mounted on the banknote transaction apparatus shown in FIGS. The banknote sterilizer / sterilizer 11 surrounded by a thick frame has the same outer shape as the denomination boxes 8 and 9, and is slidably housed by rollers or the like (not shown) in the apparatus.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a diameter 6 for heating and disinfecting banknotes.
0 mm aluminum heating roller, supported by a rotating bearing (not shown), and a timing belt 16
The motor 15 is connected to the heating roller driving motor 15 and is rotated by the heating roller driving motor 15.

Reference numeral 17 denotes an electric heater for heating the heating roller 14, and an electric power of 100 V AC is supplied to a switch (S).
The electric heater 17 is supplied via an external power supply (SR) 18 and can be turned on / off by the control unit 19. Reference numeral 20 denotes a temperature detector for measuring the surface temperature of the heating roller 14, and the measured temperature data is stored in the control unit 1
9 is input. The control unit 19 determines S based on the temperature data input from the temperature detector 20.
By controlling the SR 18 to turn on / off the electric heater 17,
The surface temperature of the heating roller 14 is managed. Even if the temperature of the electric heater 17 rises to a predetermined temperature or higher, the thermal protector 18a turns off the electric heater 17 due to failure of the SSR 18 or the like.
Acts as a fuse when unable to F.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a heat-resistant belt wound around the heating roller 14, which has an appropriate tension applied thereto, and a portion 22 where the heat-resistant belt 21 is in contact with the heating roller 14.
This becomes the heating section 22 of the bill, and the bill is sterilized and disinfected in this portion. By rotating the heating roller 14 and the heat-resistant belt 21, the banknote that has entered the heating unit 22 is conveyed.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a gate for switching the transport path, which switches between transporting the transported banknotes to the sterilizing / disinfecting unit and straight-forwarding without entering the banknote. The gate 10 is driven by a solenoid 10a controlled by the device control unit 19.

The rollers 33a, 33
A belt 32 rotating by b and a belt 34 rotating by rollers 35a and 35b are provided, and constitute a part of the transport mechanism 2a. The banknotes transported from the upstream on the left side of the drawing are not subjected to the sterilization processing. Sometimes, it is transported to the left downstream side of the drawing. These rollers 33a, 33b, 35a, 35b,
The belts 32 and 34 form a closed conveyance path in the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11, and the sterilizing / disinfecting unit 11 can be drawn out or replaced.

Reference numerals 23 and 24 outside the sterilizing and disinfecting unit 11 are exhaust and intake fans for preventing the surrounding temperature of the sterilizing and disinfecting unit 11 from rising by being heated by the heating roller 14. Numeral 29 in the sterilization unit 11 is a fan for cooling the heating roller 14 in an emergency.

The heating roller 14 is constantly controlled at about 185 to 190 ° C. by the control unit 19 based on information from the temperature detector 20. Further, the heating roller 14 rotates at a speed of 6.5 rotations per second. This is because the transport speed of the transport mechanisms 2, 4, and 7 of the banknote transaction device is 1.2 m / s and the heating roller 14
Are set so that the speeds of the outer circumferences thereof substantially coincide with each other. Further, the heat-resistant belt 21 is wrapped about 180 degrees along the outer circumference of the heating roller 14, and the bills conveyed between the heating roller 14 and the heat-resistant belt 21 contact the heating roller 14 for about 0.08 seconds. Become. As a result, the bill is sufficiently heated, and an effective sterilizing effect is obtained. In the present bill transaction apparatus, the transport mechanisms 2, 4, and 7 are transported at an interval of eight sheets per second, and the sterilization and disinfection unit 11 can process at the same speed.

In the present embodiment, even when the sterilization process is performed, the processing speed of 8 sheets / second in the case where the sterilization process is not performed is maintained. For example, safety with respect to heat and reduction of power consumption are aimed at. And the control temperature of the heating roller 14 is set to 10
In some embodiments, the temperature is set to 0 to 120 ° C. In this case, during the sterilization process, the rotation speed of the heating roller 14 is slowed down in order to secure a heating amount to the banknotes, and in accordance with this, the transport speeds of the transport mechanisms 2, 4, and 7, and the deposit and withdrawal port 1. If the speed of separating the temporary stacking mechanism 5 and each denomination box 8, 9 is changed, an effective sterilizing effect can be obtained.

FIG. 5 shows the structure of the denomination boxes 8 and 9.
The denomination boxes 8 and 9 surrounded by a thick frame are the banknote sterilizing and disinfecting unit 1.
1 and is slidably housed in the apparatus by rollers or the like (not shown). The denomination box is transported by the belt 40 which is rotated by the rollers 41a and 41b.
And receives a bill conveyed from the upstream on the left side of the drawing and conveys it to the downstream on the right side of the drawing. When the bill to be taken into this denomination box is transported, the gate 4
1 is switched and stored in the bill storage unit 47 by the rollers 42 and 43. When the bills are separated and dispensed from the denomination box, the bills are separated one by one from the bill storage unit 47 by the feed roller 44, and are conveyed to the downstream of the denomination box by the rollers 45, 46 and the belt 40. Rollers 41a, 41b, belt 4
Numeral 0 forms a transport path closed by a denomination box, so that the denomination box can be pulled out or pulled out for replacement.

FIG. 6 shows a block diagram of the bill transaction device.
A user operation unit 51 and a clerk operation unit 52 are connected to a main body control unit 50 that controls the entire bill transaction apparatus. The user operation unit 51 includes a touch panel, displays operation contents on the touch panel, and allows the user to make an input. For example, it instructs selection input of transaction type such as deposit, withdrawal, transfer, etc., password encryption, input of money amount, etc. The clerk operation unit 52 is an operation unit for a bank clerk or the like to operate and maintain the bill transaction device. The clerk operates the bank clerk for setting the banknote cassette 12, the input unit for setting the number of banknotes, and the device status. , An operation mode, a display unit for displaying a failure location, and the like.

The main body control section 50 further includes a device control section 19.
Is connected. The main body control unit 50 instructs the device control unit 19 via the line 53 to perform a processing operation. The processing operations to be instructed include the following processing operations.

Deposit counting: The type of transaction is deposit, and bills inserted by the user into the deposit and withdrawal port 1 are accumulated in the temporary accumulating mechanism 5 through the transport mechanisms 2 and 2a, the discriminator 3, and the transport mechanism 4, and deposited. The operation of counting the number of bills.

Receiving receipt: As a result of the deposit counting, when a user inputs a confirmation, the bills accumulated in the temporary accumulating mechanism 5 are passed through the transport mechanism 6, the discriminator 3, the transport mechanisms 4, 7, and 2. To store the denominations in the corresponding denomination boxes 8 and 9.

Withdrawal: The type of transaction is payout, and the amount specified by the user and the bill of the denomination are applied to the corresponding denomination box 8,
9, the transport mechanism 6, the discriminator 3, the transport mechanisms 4 and 7,
To withdraw money to the deposit / withdrawal port 1 through

Loading: The bills are loaded from the bill cassette 12 into the denomination boxes 8 and 9 by the instruction of a staff member or when the remaining amount of bills in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 decreases.
Refill operation.

Collection: An operation of collecting bills from the denomination boxes 8 and 9 to the bill cassette 12 in response to an instruction from a staff member or when the bills in the denomination boxes 8 and 9 become full.

The main body control section 50 first instructs a deposit counting operation as a processing operation in response to the selection and input of a deposit as a transaction type from the user operation section 51, and as a result of the deposit counting, the usage is determined. When the confirmation is input by the person,
It instructs the processing operation for deposit storage. In addition, a staff operation unit 52
In response to the input of the loading instruction from the user, a loading processing operation is instructed as a processing operation. In addition, in response to a collection instruction input from the attendant operation unit 52, a collection processing operation is instructed as a processing operation.

Various device statuses are also input to the device control unit 19, and the device control unit 19 controls each mechanism in response to a processing operation instruction from the main body control unit 50 and various device statuses. The various device states are, for example, outputs of the temperature detector 20, outputs of bill sensors provided at various parts of the transport mechanism, and the like. As a signal for controlling each mechanism from the device control unit 19, the gate 10 of the sterilization / disinfection unit 11 is turned on as shown in FIG.
N / OFF signal, gate 41 of denomination boxes 8 and 9
, A signal for turning the fan 29 in response to the temperature rise detection of the temperature detector 20,
There is a signal for rotationally driving the first motor 15 and other signals.

FIG. 7 shows the apparatus control unit 19 when the sterilization unit 11 shown in FIG. 1 is arranged upstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9.
Shows how the ON / OFF of the gate 10 is controlled in response to a processing operation instruction from the main body control unit 50, and shows a relationship between the processing operation instruction and the ON / OFF of the gate 10. . When the gate 10 is turned on, the bill is guided from the transport mechanism 2a toward the heating roller 14 of the disinfecting and disinfecting unit 11, and the disinfecting process is performed. If the gate 10 is OFF, the heating roller 14 is not guided into the heating roller 14 and is transported downstream through the linear transport mechanism 2a. FIG. 7 shows that the sterilization process is controlled so as to be performed only at the time of the deposit storage operation. During loading operation,
() Is shown as ON, but when the banknote cassette 12 is loaded into the denomination boxes 8 and 9 and replenished, the banknotes are disinfected by the
Since the sheet passes through the portion of the first transport mechanism 2a, the sterilization processing may be performed when the loading operation is instructed.

FIG. 8 shows the device control unit 19 when the sterilization unit 11 shown in FIG. 2 is located downstream of the denomination boxes 8 and 9.
Shows the relationship between the processing operation instruction and the gate ON / OFF in response to the processing operation instruction from the main body control unit 50. . FIG. 8 shows that the sterilization process is controlled so as to be performed only during the dispensing processing operation. In the configuration of FIG. 2, the banknotes pass through the transport mechanism 2 a of the disinfecting and disinfecting unit 11 even when the processing operation is the counting and collection of deposits. At the time of the instruction, a sterilization process may be performed.

In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the selection of whether or not to perform the sterilization / disinfection processing is controlled according to the contents of the processing operation. For example, in the dispensing processing operation of FIG. 8, the disinfection and disinfection processing is controlled to be performed. When a customer inputs an operation for dispensing transaction, a guidance screen for selecting and specifying whether to perform disinfection or disinfection is displayed on the touch panel. , Let the customer choose. In addition, in the case of loading in the loading processing operation in FIG. 7, when loading is performed according to the instruction of a clerk, in the recovery processing operation in FIG. . If such a selection function is available, the customer,
This is useful for reducing waiting time for users.

The selection of the sterilization treatment may be controlled so that it can be selected for each transaction. That is, each time the customer performs each dispensing transaction, the user is made to selectively input whether or not to perform the sterilization and disinfection processing from the touch panel.

Further, the sterilization and disinfection unit 11 of this embodiment can change the route for performing the sterilization and the route for not performing the sterilization by switching the gate 10 under the program control. You can also set the presence or absence. Alternatively, if a means for measuring room temperature and humidity is provided, it is possible to change the presence or absence of the sterilization treatment according to the environmental conditions.

[0042]

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily mount the disinfecting and disinfecting unit on a current banknote transaction apparatus. In addition, it is possible to minimize a decrease in the processing capacity of the banknote transaction device equipped with the disinfecting unit, and to secure a sufficient disinfecting effect.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a conventional bill transaction device.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a specific example of the disinfecting section of FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 5 is a view showing a specific example of the denomination box in FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a bill transaction device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a relationship between a processing operation and a gate for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a relationship between a processing operation and a gate for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Pay-in / pay-out port, 2, 2a4, 6, 7 ... Transport mechanism, 3 ...
Identification section, 8, 9 ... denomination box, 11 ... disinfection section, 1
0: gate, 14: heating roller, 19: device controller

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A deposit / withdrawal port for depositing / dispensing bills, a denomination box for storing bills, a transport path for transporting bills between the deposit / withdrawal port and the denomination box, and transported. In a bill transaction device having a discriminating unit for discriminating bills and a disinfecting unit for disinfecting the bills to be conveyed, the disinfecting unit is provided on the upstream side of the denomination box and the device from the denomination box. On the front side and along the transport path, the denomination box is arranged side by side, and when stored in the denomination box from the temporary accumulation section during a deposit transaction, the denomination box is disinfected by the sterilization section. A bill transaction device characterized by being stored in a banknote.