Glory Ltd.

Toru Akamatsu

Masaki Inoue

Masakazu Sakata

A banknote deposit apparatus includes: a storing boxconfigured to receive the banknote stacked in a stacking unitso as to store the banknote; and a clamping and transporting mechanismconfigured to clamp surfaces of the banknote stacked in the stacking unitand to transport the banknote to a direction parallel to the surfaces of the clamped banknote so as to store the banknote in the storing box. A front openingthrough which the stacked banknote is taken out from outside, and a front shutter unitconfigured to open and close the front opening are disposed on a front surface of the stacking unit

Banknote deposit apparatus

When a recognition result matches with a denomination stored by the storage unit and the number of the moneys for the denomination counted by the recognition unit has not yet reached the number of the moneys for the denomination stored by the storage unit, the transport unit transports the moneys to the dispense unit. When a recognition result matches with a denomination stored by the storage unit and the number of the moneys for the denomination counted by the recognition unit has already reached the number of the moneys for the denomination stored by the storage unit, the transport unit transports the moneys to the plurality of storing and feeding units. When a recognition result matches with no denomination stored by the storage unit, the transport unit transports the moneys to the plurality of storing and feeding units.

Money handling system

In order to improve a handling efficiency of a deposit operation and a dispense operation as a whole, a money handling system of the present invention includes: a reception unit configured to receive moneys; a recognition unit configured to recognize denominations of the moneys and to count the number of the moneys for each denomination; a storing and feeding unit configured to store and feed the moneys; a dispense unit configured to dispense the moneys such that the moneys can be taken out from outside; a transport unit configured to transport the moneys to the storing and feeding unit or the dispense unit; a storage unit configured to store change information showing the number of the change funds for each denomination; and a control unit configured to control the transport unit such that, based on the change information stored in the storage unit and a recognition result of the recognition unit, the transport unit transports the moneys received by the reception unit to the storing and feeding unit or the dispense unit, and that the transport unit transports the moneys fed by the storing and feeding unit to the dispense unit.

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Himeji, Japan

Toru Akamatsu