Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Kubotera

Minoru Hirose

Junichiro Hara

An automatic bank note transaction apparatus comprises a discriminator for discriminating fit notes from unfit notes among the bank notes conveyed by a conveyance path, and identifying the denomination of the fit notes, sorting gates for sorting the bank notes according to the result of discrimination by a discriminator, and distributing the fit notes by denomination, temporary collecting sections for temporarily collecting the bank notes sorted by the sorting gates, storage chambers for storing bank notes of each denomination judged to be fit, a return path for returning the bank notes collected in the temporary collecting sections to a return outlet of a housing, and shutters located between the temporary collecting sections and the storage chambers for guiding the temporarily collected bank notes into the storage chambers when a user approves depositing or into the return path when the user disapproves depositing.

Automatic bank note transaction apparatus

In an automatic bank note transaction apparatus, bank notes inserted therein through a bank note inlet slot are transferred from a receiving chamber to an introduction-transfer path, fit sheets are discriminated from unfit ones among the bank notes by a discriminator during the transfer, and then the fit and unfit sheets are allotted or distributed by gates so that the unfit sheets are collected in a temporary unfit sheet collecting section and that the fit sheets are collected in temporary fit sheet collecting sections provided for several kinds of bank notes. One and the other ends of a return path for the bank notes are connected with the temporary unfit sheet collecting section and the receiving chamber, respectively, so that the unfit sheets may be once returned to the receiving chamber and then introduced therefrom again into the introduction-transfer path. The temporary fit sheet collecting sections are selectively connected with the return path so that the fit sheets in these collecting sections may also be returned to the receiving chamber at a customer's request.

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Hiroyuki Kubotera