Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting paper money
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-27
2002-03-19
Nguyen, Tuan N. (Department: 3653)
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting paper money
C209S900000, C271S163000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06357598
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a paper sheet manipulating apparatus which is operated by an operator such as a customer to dispense and deposit paper sheets depending on operations.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In these years, a transaction apparatus such as an automatic transaction apparatus is widely spreading. This automatic transation apparatus is installed in the premises of financial institutions such as a bank for automatic deposits and dispensation of cash depending on the operations controlled by customers.
A paper sheet manipulating apparatus of the related arts realizes a transaction by executing deposits and dispensation of paper sheets under the operations controlled by an operator such as a customer.
This paper sheet manipulating apparatus realizes various transactions in the financial institutions such as receiving a transaction, expensing a transaction and a payment/transfer transaction, etc. by depositing and dispensing paper moneys (bills).
In the case of an expensing transaction, the bills accommodated an the apparatus are transferred, depending on the operator's instruction, to in inlet/outlet port using a roller and a belt for dispensation to a customer.
In the case of an receiving transaction, bills placed in the inlet/outlet port are taken into the apparatus for accommodating bills depending on the instruction which an operator has inputted.
Such an automatic transaction apparatus (bill manipulating apparatus or cash dispensing apparatus) is described in the official gazette of the Japanese patent laid-open No. 62-216098, which was filed for application on Mar. 18, 1986 by the applicant of the present invention and thereafter laid open on Sep. 22, 1987.
Such a bill manipulating apparatus comprises an inlet/outlet port for inputting and outputting bills, a discriminating section for discriminating between a true bill and a false bill and also discriminating denominations, a front and rear surface ordering section for ordering the front and rear surfaces of bills, an accommodating cabinet for accommodating bills, a temporary pooling section for temporarily storing bills, a teller's safe for collecting bills in the accommodation cabinet and charging bills thereto and a reject section for collecting at least the bills among those charged from the teller's safe and are not recognized as the true bills by the discriminating section.
Dispensation of bills is carried out as explained below. First, the bills are fed sheet by sheet by a feeding mechanism from the accommodation cabinet in which necessary denominations are accommodated. These bills are then transferred to the discrimination section for confirming denominations through a route provided with a transfer roller or a transfer belt not illustrated and thereafter are accommodated in the temporary pooling section. This operation is repeated until the bills of the amount designated by a customer are fed from the accommodation cabinet and are then accommodated in the temporary pooling section. When the bills of the predetermined amount designated to be outputted are accommodated in the temporary pooling section, such bills are transferred to the inlet/outlet port one at a time.
Thereafter, a shutter closing the inlet/output port is opened, resulting in the condition that a customer can get the bills. When a customer gets the bills outputted to the inlet/outlet port after the shutter opens, the dispensation transaction is completed.
At the time of a deposit transaction, a customer selects the deposit transaction with the operations not illustrated. Thereafter, when justification of a card inserted by a customer is verified, a deposit of bills is permitted.
In this case, it is also possible that a customer is urged to input a code-number for verifying justification of the customer.
In the case of a deposit transaction, the shutter is first opened resulting in the condition that a customer is capable of inputting bills into the inlet/output port. When the customer inputs the bills to the inlet/outlet port and depresses a button (not illustrated) for indicating that bills are inputted, the shutter closes. Thereafter, the bills placed in the inlet/outlet port are fed sheet by sheet with a feeding roller (not illustrated) and are then transferred to the discriminating section through the route having the transfer roller or transfer belt (not illustrated). The discriminating section discriminates true or false bills, denominations and conditions of bills such as front side or rear side thereof. On the basis of the result of discrimination, the front and rear surface ordering section orders the bills transferred so that the bills transferred are set only in one surface. The bills ordered in one surface are then further transferred and are stored in the temporary pooling section.
This temporary pooling section is provided because the bills inputted and discriminated are sometimes returned to a customer as will be explained later.
Therefore, if the discriminated bills are accommodated in the accommodation cabinet, these bills are mixed with the other bills in the accommodation cabinet. Therefore the discriminated bills must be set in such a condition as may be returned, when required, to the inlet/outlet port before these bills are accommodated in the accommodation cabinet.
However, when the discriminated bills are returned in direct to the inlet/outlet port, if the bills which are not yet fed and discriminated exist, the discriminated bills are mixed with undiscriminated bills, disabling normal manipulation.
Considering such conditions, the temporary pooling section is provided to sequentially store the discriminated bills and to feed the bills to the inlet/outlet port therefrom at the time of returning operation.
Moreover, the temporary pooling section has two bill storing areas to store separately the false bills from the true bills from the time that the false bills are discriminated from the true bills.
When all bills in the inlet/outlet port are completely discriminated, the bills not discriminated as the true bills are transferred to the inlet/outlet port, the shutter is opened and a guidance for instructing getting of bills in the inlet/outlet port is displayed on a display (not illustrated). When the bills are taken over from the inlet/outlet port depending on the guidance and are not inputted again within the predetermined period, the shutter is closed and transaction may be continued only with the bills discriminated as the true bills remaining in the temporary pooling section.
Moreover, when the bills in the inlet/outlet port are once taken over and these are inputted again within the predetermined period, these bills are discriminated again. It is because when bills are not discriminated as the true bills since the bills are not compared with the reference pattern used for discrimination in the discriminating section due to the operating condition of apparatus or conditions of bills, for example, bills are transferred obliquely or since bills are not in such a level as may be discriminated as the true bills due to breaks thereof, the bills may sometimes be discriminated as the true bills by discriminating these bills again. As a result of re-discrimination, if bills are not discriminated as the true bills, these bills are transferred again to the inlet/outlet port and the guidance for instructing a customer to take out the bills in the inlet/outlet port is displayed again. If the bills are not taken over even after this operation is repeated for the predetermined number of times, the transaction itself is interrupted, all bills inputted are transferred to the inlet/outlet port for completing the transaction.
When bills are discriminated as the true bills as a result of rediscrimination, these are accommodated together with the bills which are discriminated previously as the true bills and accommodated in the temporary pooling section.
When bills are completely accommodated in the temporary pooling section, the amount of bills inputted is displayed on the display (not
Esaki Isamu
Hata Hidekazu
Kimura Atsunori
Minamishin Hayato
Ohno Seiichi
Armstrong Westerman Hattori McLeland & Naughton LLP
Nguyen Tuan N.
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