Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh

Giesecke+devrient Currency Technology Gmbh

M.a.n. Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-nurnberg A.g.

Alfred Schmidt

Gerhard Stenzel

Thomas Giering

Bernd Wunderer

Frank Werner

Dieter Stein

Alexander Steinkogler

Gerhard Flachenecker

Norbert Holl

Erwin Demmeler

Gerhard Sporer

Wilhelm Hell

Stefan Schneider

Klaus Buchmann

Marcus Schmeisser

Michael Stapfer

Jan Domke

Peter Dopfer

Thomas Hildebrandt

Rudolf Christl

Lukas Löffler

Matthias Langlotz

Hendrik Derks

Karl-Heinz Strasser

Gerhard Schinzel-Reiner

Dirk Schelling

Jurgen Dietz

Andrej Pietschker

Bodo Albert

Thomas Rauch

Hans-Wolfgang Kunz

Wolfram Pottig

Horst Breitenfeld

Friedmann Loeffler

Friedman Loeffler

Jürgen Schmitz

Timo Kuhn

James Goodwin

Sergii Kruglyk

Friedemann Löffler

Bernhard Eisen

Manfred Hertel

Jürgen Dietz

Timo KÜHN

Reinhard Hofer

Paul Hoffmann

The invention relates to an apparatus () for processing documents of value, in particular bank notes, and a method for operating such an apparatus (). The apparatus () includes several processing zones (), such as for example an input module (), an operating module () and an output module (). The apparatus () is further set up to detect events in the processing zones (), which require an intervention of an operator. The processing zones () each have at least one cover (), which, dependent on such a detected event, is automatically opened without intervention of the operator.

Device for processing valuable documents and method for operating the device

A system and a corresponding method for processing value documents, including bank notes, includes an apparatus for processing, for conveying and/or checking and/or counting and/or sorting value documents and a portable user interface configured for receiving information pertaining to the apparatus and/or the processing of the value documents, capturing one or several images, in particular of the apparatus, and reproducing the received information and/or captured images.

System and method for processing value documents

The invention relates to the fitness check of value documents. For at least two fitness criteria there is respectively determined with the aid of an unfit function an unfit degree of the particular value document. The unfit function clearly assigns an unfit degree to the fitness measurement values and has two threshold values, beyond which the unfit degree with respect to the relevant fitness criterion is 0 or 1. Between the threshold values there is an uncertainty range in which the unfit degree is, with respect to the relevant fitness criterion, between 0 and 1 and the unfit function behaves monotonously dropping or monotonously rising. Subsequently, the unfit degrees of different fitness criteria are combined into an unfit probability of the particular value document and on the basis of the unfit probability a fitness classification of the particular value document is carried out.

Method and device for fitness testing of value documents

An unused card sorting and recovering apparatus includes a card input device, a card sensing device, a card sorting device, and a card disposing device. The apparatus further includes a plurality of pockets, each of the plurality of pockets configured to hold one or more cards. The apparatus further includes a controller configured to, for each of a plurality of cards, determine an identity of the card, determine whether at least one pocket of the plurality of pockets is missing the card from a complete deck based on the identity of the card, instruct the card sorting device to distribute the card to a pocket of the at least one pocket of the plurality of pockets that is missing the card, or instruct the card sorting device to distribute the card to a holding device. The apparatus further comprises a resetting device configured to reset specific pockets.

Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for sorting and recovering cards

In a bank-note processing machine, bank notes are guided through between two components of a checking device by means of a transport band. The transport band is led away at least partly from the checking device by means of deflection rollers to enable a better check of the bank notes and a trouble-free transport of the bank notes.

Device for processing sheet material

A method for processing value documents comprises the following steps: by means of a camera device an action of an operator of a value-document processing apparatus is captured. The captured image data are processed by means of an image processing device and at least one predetermined gesture is extracted from the processed image data. An input information item for the value-document processing apparatus is then allocated to the extracted gesture. The input information is provided in the value-document processing apparatus and processed there. The input information can represent a control information item or a data input information item.

Method and apparatus for processing value documents

The invention concerns the processing of value documents of different deposits using a value-document processing apparatus. Upon insertion of the value documents into the containers with which they are fed to the value-document processing apparatus, a beginning position and, where applicable, also an end position of the respective deposit is established for each deposit and transmitted to the value-document processing apparatus. Even in the case of different deposits in the same container, the invention enables an error-free association of the checked value documents with the different deposits. When a deposit comprises two separate sub-stacks that were inserted in the same or different containers, said sub-stacks of the contemplated deposit can be brought to account jointly and a joint rejects processing of the sub-stacks of the same deposit carried out.

Method and system for handling value documents

An apparatus for printing a banding strip for documents of value, which is preferably moved relative to the apparatus, having a print head by means of which, upon an activation, more than nine dots can be printed, a circuit actuatable by print signals, which, in response to print signals, activates the print head in accordance with the print signals, in order to print patterns specified by the print signals, and a current supply unit for providing current for the circuit and by means thereof for the print head.

Device and method for printing a wrapper strip

A method in which accounting units consisting of one or several bank notes are successively processed by a processing machine, wherein the bank notes are checked by a sensor device and a control device. One or several accounting units are inserted, the information items characterizing the accounting units are entered, the bank notes of each accounting unit are singled, checked, and in dependence on the check are assigned to output units of the processing machine The bank notes recognized upon the check are accounted for the respective accounting unit by the control device and transported into the assigned output unit. Bank notes not recognized upon the check are divided into two groups with a first group containing the unrecognized individual bank notes for which an identification feature characterizing the respective bank note can be ascertained by sensor device and control device, and a second group whose respective identification feature cannot be ascertained by the sensor device and control device.

Method for processing banknotes

A method for destroying bank notes is provided, wherein bank notes are checked and sorted by at least one bank-note processing machine in at least one decentralized place, whereby unfit bank notes are sorted out in order to be transported to a central place for destruction. It is provided that all bank notes recognized as unfit are stored on a single stack independently of the bank-note denomination and/or orientation recognized during the check, for which purpose a single output pocket of the bank-note processing machine is used for all unfit bank notes.

Method for destroying banknotes

The invention relates to an apparatus for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus includes at least one canceling means to which the sheet material to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material is discharged. The apparatus also includes at least one supervising means for monitoring the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means. For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means for monitoring the fed sheet material. The fed sheet material is compared to the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means.

Apparatus for canceling sheet material

The invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus comprises at least one canceling means () to which the sheet material () to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material () is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material () is discharged. The apparatus comprises furthermore at least one supervising means () for monitoring the sheet material () being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means (). For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means () for monitoring the fed sheet material (). The fed sheet material () is compared to the sheet material () being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means ().

Device and method for canceling sheet material

A method for filling ATM cassettes for automatic teller machines in branch banks provides to fill the empty or half-empty money cassette removed from the automatic teller machine of a branch bank in a mobile charging station during the drive to the next branch bank and to exchange such a money cassette for the empty or half-empty ATM cassette of this next branch bank, etc. The mobile charging station is adapted to work fully automatically. Alternatively, the filling in the mobile charging station can be effected partially manually.

Filling of cash boxes for cash dispensers

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing bank notes present as separate deposits. To improve the processing reliability of the individual deposits, it is provided that the beginning and/or end of each deposit is recognized, and a separate carrier is used for each deposit for transporting the deposit to processing.

Apparatus and method for processing bank notes

The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing sheet material, in particular bank notes, papers of value and the like. In the inventive apparatus, an automatic return of sheet material to a second or, generally speaking, further check is provided, which obtains relief for an operator of the apparatus. The relief results from a reduction of the rate of indeterminable cases or the total sheet material to be manually reworked, since any disturbances or faulty operating conditions existing at the time of a first or, generally speaking, prior check of sheet material normally no longer exist, or exist in a changed form, at the time of a second or, generally speaking, further check of the sheet material. The correct check and assignment of the sheet material is thus possible in the second or, generally speaking, further check.

Device for working sheet-like material

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Alfred Schmidt