Hitachi-omron Terminal Solutions, Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Toshinori Yokoi

Riichi Kato

Atsuko Uozumi

Minoru Kadowaki

Shinji Shibata

Junji Fujita

Atsuko Uozumio

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

A bill depositing/dispensing apparatus being fitted with a plurality of storing boxes for storing bills including a deposited bill box, an outgoing bill box, a recycle box, and an acceptance box with multi-compartments for sorted storing of bills. The acceptance box has a fitting mechanism common to at least one of a fitting mechanism of the deposited bill box, the outgoing bill box and the recycle box, and has a slot in a same position to at least one of the deposited bill box, the outgoing bill box and the recycle box. Further, the acceptance box has a plurality of storages for storing bills conveyed in through a common slot, and are arranged in a horizontal direction within the acceptance box. At least two storages of the plurality of storages are arranged with an inclination in a same direction relative to a bottom surface of the acceptance box.

Bill depositing/dispensing apparatus

A bill depositing/dispensing apparatus convenient to use and capable of readily adapting itself to operations to handle many denominations and/or a large number of bills or operations to sort and handle a small number of bills is to be provided. Storing boxes differing in the purpose of use including a deposit box, a first acceptance box with multi-compartments, a second acceptance box with multi-compartments, recycle boxes and a loading/recovering box are configured to have a common external shape, inlet/outlet and driving unit, and a storing box selected according to the purpose of use is fitted to the bill depositing/dispensing apparatus.

A bill handling machine comprises a storing box for storing bills of plurality of different categories together, an instruction input unit for receiving a recovery instruction to recover bills belonging to a specific category among the categories, a sorter that in response to a the recovery instruction sorts out bills belonging to the specific category from among bills stored in the storing box, and a conveyor for feeding the bills from the storing box and, according to the results of the sorting, conveying bills of the specific category to a predetermined recovery unit.

Bill handling machine

A bill handling machine includes a bill discriminator which discriminates between genuine and counterfeit bills; a cash box including first and second bill storing boxes which store bills to be recycled, the first bill storing box for storing bills of first type, the second bill storing box for storing bills of second type; a non-genuine bill storing box which is provided outside the cash box and stores a bill that is suspected or determined to be non-genuine by the bill discriminator; a temporary stocker which temporarily stores bills prior to storing the bills in the first and second bill storing boxes or the non-genuine bill storing box; and a transport component configured to transport the bills to the temporary stocker, first and second bill storing boxes, and non-genuine bill storing box, wherein an entry to the non-genuine bill storing box is provided at a section of the transport path that is between the bill discriminator and temporary stocker.

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Nagakute, Japan

Toshinori Yokoi