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US-12626558-B2 - Coin deposit processor

US12626558B2US 12626558 B2US12626558 B2US 12626558B2US-12626558-B2

Abstract

A currency deposit processor transfers currencies set in a deposit part one by one, discriminates the currencies by denominations, stores the currencies in denominations in a storage part without temporarily holding the currencies, and confirms the deposited currencies for each transaction. A control unit is provided that, when one storage part reaches its maximum capacity with both currencies confirmed up to a previous deposit transaction and currencies unconfirmed in a current deposit transaction and a failure occurs after the filling-up currencies are removed, performs a special control, in which data on the currencies unconfirmed in the current deposit transaction and included in the filling-up currencies is calculated as a partial confirmation, and the data on the currencies calculated as the partial confirmation is added and reflected at a time of another deposit transaction after a fault recovery process.

Inventors

  • Hitoshi Takahashi
  • Toru INAKE

Assignees

  • LAUREL BANK MACHINES CO., LTD.
  • LAUREL MACHINERY CO., LTD.
  • LAUREL PRECISION MACHINES CO., LTD.

Dates

Publication Date
20260512
Application Date
20191025

Claims (4)

  1. 1 . A currency deposit processor that transfers currencies set in a deposit part one by one, discriminates the currencies by denominations, stores the currencies in denominations in a storage part without temporarily holding the currencies, and confirms the deposited currencies for each transaction, the currency deposit processor comprising: a control unit that, when one storage part reaches its maximum capacity with both currencies confirmed up to a previous deposit transaction and currencies unconfirmed in a current deposit transaction and a failure occurs after the filling-up currencies are removed, performs a special control, in which data on the currencies unconfirmed in the current deposit transaction and included in the filling-up currencies is calculated as a partial confirmation, and the data on the currencies calculated as the partial confirmation is added and reflected at a time of a re-deposit process after a fault recovery process, wherein, when there is another storage part for a same denomination aside from the one storage part that was full and from which the currencies have been removed, the control unit executes the special control on condition that: X−Y≥ 0 where Y is a value of a number of the currencies confirmed up to the previous deposit transaction in the other storage part and X is a number of the currencies calculated in the current deposit transaction as the partial confirmation.
  2. 2 . The currency deposit processor according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit performs both a return count of the currencies confirmed up to the previous deposit transaction, related to the fault recovery process, and a count related to the re-deposit process.
  3. 3 . The currency deposit processor according to claim 1 , comprising: a first display part that displays information related to the data of the unconfirmed currencies in the current deposit transaction, which is calculated as the partial confirmation; and a second display part that displays information related to data of currencies in the storage part that was full and from which the currencies have been removed.
  4. 4 . The currency deposit processor according to claim 1 , comprising a plurality of storage parts that include one storage part for collecting normal currencies of the currencies and another storage part for collecting damaged currencies of the currencies, for each denomination, and wherein the currency deposit processor collects the normal currencies and the damaged currencies in the corresponding storage parts.

Description

This application is the U.S. national phase of International Application No. PCT/JP2019/041976 filed Oct. 25, 2019, which designated the U.S. the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a currency deposit processor. BACKGROUND ART There is a banknote deposit processing machine that does not have a temporary holding part and stores deposited currencies directly in stackers to thereby simplify the configuration thereof and reduce the price thereof. In a banknote deposit processing machine, for example, after a deposit transaction for the first transaction has been normally processed, a fault such as a jam may occur during a deposit transaction for the second transaction. In such a case, without a temporary holding part, both confirmed banknotes for the first transaction and unconfirmed banknotes in the process for the second transaction are stored together in a mixed manner in each stacker. In order to recover this, the operator removes all of this mixture of banknotes from the stacker. Then, the operator puts together these banknotes, the banknotes remaining in a hopper, and the banknotes on the jammed transfer passage. The number of these banknotes is then manually counted, and the banknotes are sorted by the number of confirmed notes for the first transaction and the number of notes for the second transaction. Among banknote deposit processing machines, there is a banknote deposit processing machine that that does not require confirmed notes to be manually sorted even in a case where a fault such as a jam occurs during a deposit transaction for the second transaction after a deposit transaction for the first transaction has been processed normally. In such a banknote deposit processing machine, at the time of recovery from a fault, banknotes that are related to the deposit transaction performed at the time of the fault and banknotes that have already been stored in a stacker and the deposit process for which has been confirmed before the deposit transaction, are re-inserted in a hopper. Then, the overall total of the banknotes that have been re-inserted in the hopper, the notes of the deposit transaction, and the notes of a deposit transaction before the deposit transaction and the deposit process for which has been confirmed, are stored in stackers according to the denominations thereof. At the same time, this banknote deposit processing machine classifies data on the amount of deposit related to the deposit transaction and data on the amount of deposit related to the deposit transaction before this deposit transaction. PRIOR ART DOCUMENTS Patent Documents Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Publication No. 3922425 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problem to be Solved by the Invention In a banknote deposit processing machine that does not have a temporary holding part, when a stacker is in a full-capacity state of where the number of banknotes that have been deposit-processed reaches a predetermined maximum number (for example, 100), the deposit process cannot continue unless the banknotes are removed from the stacker. For example, assume that a deposit transaction for the first transaction has been processed normally, a stacker comes into the full-capacity state while the deposit transaction for the second transaction is still being performed, and a fault such as a jam occurs after the banknotes have been removed from the stacker. As a result, the confirmed banknotes for the first transaction and the unconfirmed banknotes for the second transaction that have been removed from the stacker when the full-capacity state has been reached (for example, 100 notes), and the unconfirmed banknotes for the second transaction that are to be removed when a fault occurs, are all present in a mixed manner For this reason, all of these banknotes have to be re-inserted in the hopper and a return process has to be performed. Furthermore, the banknotes that filled the stacker and have been removed therefrom may already be bound in the next step in some cases. Therefore undoing binding bands and then performing the return process consequently increases the operation burden on the operator. However, reduction in the operation burden on the operation in such a case has not been possible. An object of the present invention is to provide a currency deposit processor capable of reducing the burden on the operator associated with the recovery process even if a fault occurs after the currencies filling up have been removed during a deposit transaction. Means for Solving the Problem According to a first aspect of the present invention, a currency deposit processor transfers currencies set in a deposit part one by one, discriminates the currencies by denominations, stores the currencies in denominations in a storage part without temporarily holding the currencies, and confirms the deposited currencies for each transaction. A control unit is provided that, when one storage