Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Kei Iwatsuki

Masashi Kashiwabuchi

Naoki Hata

Madoka Wakabayashi

Michio Suetaka

Shinji Ohara

Kazuhiro Hosokawa

Kentaro Kamagata

Masamitsu Asamura

Kousuke Moribayashi

A medium processing device includes a drum; plural inner tapes; plural outer tapes; differing regions formed on a starting end portion that is an end at a drum side of at least one of the plural inner tapes or the plural outer tapes, and on a terminal end portion that is an inner reel side or an outer reel side of all of the inner tapes or all of the outer tapes; plural detecting unites that detect the physical property at a tape position of one of the inner tape or the outer tape that has a differing region formed on the starting end portion or the terminal end portion, the tape position being located between the drum and the inner and the outer reels; and a control unit that controls a rotation of the drum based upon the detection results of the plural detecting units.

Medium processing device

A medium housing device includes: a frame including an internal space; a partitioning plate that partitions the internal space so as to intersect with a specific collection direction, and that forms a collection space in which the medium is collected along the collection direction; a partitioning plate moving section that moves the partitioning plate along the collection direction; a side guide that is attached inside the frame and that determines the size of the collection space in an intersecting direction intersecting with the collection direction; a positioning portion that positions an end portion of the side guide at one attachment position selected from a plurality of attachment positions; and a retention switching portion that switches between a retained state in which the end portion of the side guide is positioned, and a retention-released state in which the end portion of the side guide is not positioned.

Medium housing device and medium processing device

A temporary holding section includes bridge portions that span along a shaft direction across respective groove portions of a drum at plural discrete locations around the drum circumferential direction. The temporary holding section can accordingly prevent an outer tape and an inner tape from slipping off into the groove portions, enabling damage to the tapes to be forestalled. The temporary holding section can also precisely determine the presence or absence of a banknote by shining a drum detection light toward the groove portions so as to pass through opening hole portions.

Medium processing apparatus

An automated teller machine includes: a customer interface that receives operation relating to banknotes; a pay-in/pay-out port section that takes in banknotes from the outside and dispenses banknotes to the outside; a classification section that classifies the banknotes; a front conveyance section that conveys the banknotes between the pay-in/pay-out port section and the classification section; banknote storage boxes that are provided below the classification section, and that store normal banknotes determined to be normal by the classification section from out of the banknotes inserted into the pay-in/pay-out port section; a sorting conveyance section that is provided below the classification section, that sorts the normal banknotes into the banknote storage boxes according to denomination, and that retains a pay-in reject banknote determined to be unsuitable for pay-in by the classification section; and a rear conveyance section that conveys the banknotes between the classification section and the sorting conveyance section.

Banknote pay-in/pay-out device and banknote transaction device

A medium processing device includes: a cylindrical drum; an inner tape that is withdrawn from an inner reel and are wound onto the drum; an outer tape that is withdrawn from an outer reel and are wound onto the drum together with the inner tape with a paper medium interposed therebetween; a contrasting region that has contrasting physical properties, and that is formed at a terminal-end portion of at least one of the tapes; a detection section that detects the physical properties on a contrasting tape that is one of the tapes formed with the contrasting region; and a controller that controls rotation of the drum based on a detection result of the detection section, wherein a normal tape that is one of the tapes not formed with the contrasting region, has a length that is longer than that of the contrasting tape by an additional length.

An apparatus includes one-side reels rotatably arranged, one-side tapes wound around the one-side reels, a drum arranged to rotate in one direction to wind and store a medium with the medium being laid over the one-side tapes and in an opposite direction to pull out the wound medium, and retainers opposed to the one-side tapes with respect to the medium wound by or pulled out from the drum for abutting against a surface of the medium to hold the medium, the one-side tapes having a tape width shorter than the width of the medium corresponding to the length of the medium in a direction perpendicular to a transfer direction of the medium, the one-side tapes being arranged in parallel and spaced with a spacing shorter than the width of the medium in a direction of the width of the medium to abut against another surface of the medium.

Medium storage and advancing apparatus

A temporary storage in a medium storing device carries out ON/OFF monitoring of a jam sensor between a winding start position of a drum and a clamp point of a delivering roller. Accordingly, when bills are rewound in the reset operation, even when a relationship between a pulse count and a bill position becomes different from actual one, it is possible to detect, without using a pulse count, a jam between the winding start position and the clamp point. It is possible to more securely detect the abnormality in bill storing in comparison with the prior art.

Medium storing device

A medium stocking apparatus includes a housing having an open area, reels on which tapes are wound, a diverting unit for turning backward the tapes, a cylindrical drum on which a medium is wound with the tapes overlaid, and an openable unit for closing and opening an internal space from and to outside. During an operation, a closed state can be retained, and, during a maintenance work, an open state can be achieved, in which the openable unit is rotated in an upward direction for displacing upper tapes. The medium stocking apparatus can thus be offered which allows a maintenance work with high workability without impairing the tapes.

Medium stocking apparatus

A medium storing and advancing apparatus is provided which prevents, when a medium sandwiched between two tapes is wound on a drum to be stored, that the medium could not be wound due to the thickness of the tapes wound previously on the drum. The medium storing and advancing apparatus includes reels which supply and wind up the tapes, and a drum which winds up the tapes, wherein the drum is provided with a drum groove portion over the circumferentially entire periphery substantially in a middle way of the outer peripheral surface of the drum so that the tapes are wound in the drum groove portion.

Medium storing and advancing apparatus

In a media storing and feeding device for winding up or rewinding the tapes between reels attached to reel shafts and a drumby torque limiters to feed or store the medium, at the time of feeding the medium, the reel shafts are rotated at a speed faster than a speed at which the drum rewinds the tapes, and at the time of storing the medium, the reel shafts are rotated at a speed slower than a speed at which the drum winds up the tapes. A difference between the rotational speeds of the reel shafts and the reels is absorbed by the torque limiters. The media storing and feeding device is thus implemented by inexpensive torque limiters which operate at low speed in place of expensive torque limiters supporting high speed.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kei Iwatsuki