Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Shinji Shibata

Hiroshi Ichikawa

Minoru Kadowaki

Riichi Kato

Riichi Katou

Akira Nomiyama

Junji Fujita

Masanori Terao

Naofumi Kitagawa

Shigeru Sasaki

Kazushi Yoshida

Itsunori Utsumi

Kunihisa Matsuura

Atsuko Uozumi

Takeshi Kanagawa

Yasunari Niioka

Toshinori Yokoi

Shinya Miwa

Hisahiro Koshizuka

Toshifumi Mitsuyama

Katsuhiro Suzuki

Youta Sasajima

Goro Sato

Hiroshi Aoi

Toshifumi Sugahara

Satoshi Sera

Kunihiro Matsuura

Akihiro Sugiura

Fujita Junji

A paper money receiving/dispensing mechanism comprises a paper money storage unit that temporarily stores paper money; a paper money receiving/dispensing opening, arranged above the storage unit, used for receiving and dispensing paper money; a paper money transport unit capable of switching to either one of an operating position for transporting paper money between the storage unit and the paper money receiving/dispensing opening and a standby position; and a transport control unit for switching the paper money transport unit to the operating position or the standby position.

Paper money receiving/dispensing mechanism and automatic teller machine

A paper sheet handling machine is provided, including: a paper sheet slot configured to receive and provide a paper sheet, a pair of push plates configured to hold the paper sheet inserted into and discharged from the paper sheet handling machine via the paper sheet slot and apply a pressing force to the paper sheet in a thickness direction thereof, pair of conveyor assemblies including a first conveyor assembly and a second conveyor assembly configured to hold and convey the paper sheet inserted and discharged via the paper sheet slot; and a moving mechanism configured to move the first conveyor assembly and the second conveyor assembly in mutually approaching directions or in mutually away directions, and to locate the first conveyor assembly and the second conveyor assembly at any position in between and external to the pair of push plates, as seen from the paper sheet slot.

Paper sheet handling machine with moving plates and conveyor assemblies

The provides a two money kinds recycle box provided with a plurality of paper money accumulating portions and storing and feeding the paper money at one position, thereby simplifying a carrier path structure of a whole of a paper money inputting and outputting machine provided with the two money kinds recycle box, and corresponding to a lot of money kinds with a compact structure. The two money kinds recycle box is provided with an output and input port outputting and inputting the paper money with respect to an external portion, a plurality of paper money accumulating portions storing the paper money, a pickup roller provided at one position of each of the paper money accumulating portions and carrying out an accumulating motion of the paper sheets onto the paper money accumulating portions and a feeding motion of the paper sheets from the accumulating portions, and a two-way carrier path carrying the paper sheets in a two-way direction between the one output and input port and a plurality of pickup rollers.

Paper sheets storage and paper sheets handling apparatus

A cash handling systemhas an upper unitmounted on a lower unit. The upper unithas a cash slot, first bill transfer openingsto, and a conveyor line. The lower unithas a second bill transfer opening, cash cartridges, and a conveyor line. The conveyor linehas multiple conveyance branch pathstoprovided corresponding to multiple first bill transfer openingsto. This arrangement enables the position of the cash slot to be readily changeable relative to the cash cartridges.

Cash handling system

A bottom surface of a stacking and accommodating portion is structured such as to be sloped to be lower in accordance with moving away from a paper carry-in side, and a push plate is controlled so as to be moved in a direction moving close to a carry-in port of the paper by detecting a stack paper width determined on the basis of a product of a stacked number count information of the papers and a thickness information per one paper, and the papers are accommodated.

Paper stacking apparatus

The first aspect of the present invention is a paper sheet transport mechanism. This mechanism comprises a first paper sheet guide that forms a first paper sheet transport path, the first paper sheet guide having a rotating shaft; a pushing unit that pushes the first paper sheet guide in a specified direction around the rotating shaft; a projecting member that moves in conjunction with movement of the first paper sheet guide; a second paper sheet guide that forms a second paper sheet transport path such that paper sheets are transferred between the first and second paper sheet guides; and a alignment unit that moves in conjunction with a retune movement of the second paper sheet guide to be in contact with the projecting member against the pushing by the pushing unit and to align one end of the first paper sheet guide and one end of the second paper sheet guide.

Paper sheet transport mechanism and paper handling device

The present invention provides a bill handling device which can realize a reduction in size, an increase in capacity and a reduction in processing time and improves satisfaction of users. The bill handling device includes a bill discriminating portion for discriminating bills, recycle stores for storing bills and separating the bills again, a loading store for supplying bills to the recycle stores or collecting bills from the recycle stores, a reject store and a loading reject store which store reject bills rejected by the bill discriminating portion, and conveying paths for conveying bills to the respective portions, wherein the conveying paths are formed as an annular conveying path which can convey the bills in two directions, and the recycle stores, the loading store, the reject store, and the loading reject store are arranged around the conveying paths.

Bill handling device

In a paper currency handling apparatus, a temporary housing is arranged behind a paper currency deposit and withdrawal port; a paper currency discrimination part is arranged behind the temporary housing; conveyance paths conveying a paper currency from below the paper currency let-out part to ahead of the paper currency discrimination part, conveyance paths conveying a paper currency from behind the paper currency discrimination part to the temporary housing once ascending upward, and a paper currency sorting gate going from behind the paper currency discrimination part to the conveyance path to implement sorting to conveying destinations for a first time are included, wherein the paper currency sorting gate is arranged in an upper part behind the temporary housing.

Paper currency handling apparatus

A bill depositing/withdrawing apparatus having a cash slot for charging/discharging a bill or bills, comprises: a bill storage section provided inwardly of the cash slot in the apparatus to store a bill or bills, and posture changing means that changes the bill storage section to a money depositing/withdrawing posture, in which a bill or bills are received from and paid to a user through the cash slot, and to a feeding/stacking posture, in which a bill or bills are fed into the apparatus and stacked in the bill storage section, and wherein a bill or bills stored in the bill storage section are caused to project toward a user when the money depositing/withdrawing posture is assumed.

Bill depositing/withdrawing apparatus and method of controlling the same

Feed rollers, stopper rollers situated on both outer sides with respect to the feed rollers, each of the stopper rollers having part of the periphery being a highly frictional portion compared with other peripheral portions, and a flexible, radial member in a position on an inner side with respect to the stopper rollers are disposed on a feed roller shaft; and the highly frictional portions of the stopper rollers are in positions at which phases of the highly frictional portions are the same as phases of highly frictional portions of the feed rollers in a rotational direction respectively. On a pick roller shaft, pick rollers, which have highly frictional portions for passing a paper sheet to a paper sheet running-out section, and have flexible, radial members in positions at a side opposite to the highly frictional portions, are disposed in the same or inside positions in an axial direction with respect to both the outside stopper rollers disposed on the feed roller shaft.

Paper sheet running-out mechanism

A recycle box to be mounted on a bill receiving/dispensing machine for receiving/dispensing bills which includes a stacking/separating mechanism arranged to stack the bills in the recycle box, and a support member enabling contact with at least one of ends of a stack of the bills in a thickness direction of the bills stacked in the recycle box so that the stack of the bills in the recycle box is supported by the support member in the thickness direction.

Bill receiving/dispensing box

A recycle box to be mounted on a bill receiving/dispensing machine including a bill convey path, includes a stacking/separating mechanism arranged to receive bills from the bill convey path so that the bills are contained in the recycle box, and to separate at least one of the bills from the bills contained in the recycle box so that the at least one of the bills is fed to the bill convey path from the recycle box, and a swingable bill guide arranged in the vicinity of the stacking/separating mechanism.

A bill receiving/paying device and an automated cash transaction apparatus, by which bills of different sizes are dealt and by which charging and recovery can be made together, are provided. A charging/recovery box capable of storing and discharging the bills of different sizes in an intermixed state are provided in the bill receiving/paying device to solve the problems involved in the prior art. For example, in the case of charging, the bills of different sizes stored in the charging/recovery box in the intermixed state are paid out onto a conveyance path to go thorough a bill discrimination portion so as to be discriminated thereby with respect to kinds thereof to be stored in the storage/discharge boxes every kind of bills, so that the bills packed in the charging/recovery box can be charged together in the bill receiving/paying device.

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Nagoya, Japan

Shinji Shibata