Lg N-sys, Inc.

Lg Electronics Inc.

Eung Min Park

A customer access apparatus for an automatic media dispenser is provided. The customer access apparatus may include a pivotable supporting plate that supports an end of the media standing upright, and a stacker guide which is movably installed on the supporting plate. A push plate moves integrally with the stacker guide and relative to the stacker guide, and a driving unit recovers media which have been compressed and conveyed by the stacker guide and the push plate. Upper ends of the stacker guide and plate are selectively located at a position where the media are raised toward an inlet to which a customer has access, by means of a rotation of the supporting plate, such that a process of depositing and withdrawing the media can be performed. A contact point between the customer and the customer access apparatus may be located outside of the customer access apparatus such that the operation of depositing and withdrawing the media can be performed more accurately and easily. In particular, the media can be accurately arranged when the customer deposits the media, and the media to be recovered or deposited can be separated out one by one and then conveyed, arraigned and stored. Recovered media can be used again as it is stored in the automatic media dispenser.

Customer access apparatus for media dispenser

The present invention relates to a media separating apparatus and method for an automatic media dispenser. The media separating apparatus of the present invention comprises a pickup rollerwhich is installed on a pickup roller shaftdriven by a first driving sourceto pick up and convey media m stored in a media boxa plurality of first feed rollerswhich is installed on a feed roller shaftdriven by the first driving sourceand brought into close contact with one surface of the medium m to convey the medium m using a friction force generated between the medium and the first feed rollers, a second feed rollerwhich is installed on the feed roller shaftvia a bearing and rotated by a second driving sourcedriven separately from the first driving sourceto convey the medium m, and a plurality of separating rollerswhich are installed to correspond to outer circumference surfaces of the first and second feed rollersandand to separate out the media m one by one in cooperation with the first and second feed rollersandAccording to the present invention so configured, if the picked up medium m is sensed by a media conveyance sensorthe operation of the first driving sourceis stopped such that the pickup rollerand the first feed rollerdo not pick up the next medium m. Therefore, there are advantages in that the media m cannot be conveyed in a state where they are overlapped with one another and that reliability in the media separation can also be enhanced.

Media separating apparatus and method for automatic media dispenser

The present invention discloses a media pick-up device of a media dispenser including a plurality of conveying rollers rotated by a driving force of a driving means, for conveying media, first separating rollers arranged with predetermined overlaps to the conveying rollers, for separating the media one by one, and second separating rollers arranged to face the conveying rollers with predetermined gaps, for generating a frictional force to the media. The media pick-up device of the media dispenser can accurately separate the media one by one regardless of variations of stiffness of the media.

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Seoul, South Korea

Eung Min Park