Medium handover device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10147261-B2
Application number	US-201615545297-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2016
Priority date	Feb 16, 2015
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

A bundle conveyance unit conveys a medium bundle created by a storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path. Either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit includes a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion of the bundle conveyance path, and that transitions between a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a reject storage box, and a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a stacking section.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A medium handover device, comprising:
a storage unit that stores a paper sheet-shaped medium, and stacks any of the medium to be handed over to a user to create a medium bundle;
a bundle conveyance unit that conveys the medium bundle created by the storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path;
the bundle conveyance unit including
a bundle conveyance section that conveys the medium bundle in the conveyance direction along the bundle conveyance path, and
a handover port that is disposed at one end in the conveyance direction, and that hands over the medium bundle to the user;

the storage unit including
a medium storage box in which the medium is stored,
a classification section that classifies the medium that has been fed out from the medium storage box,
a stacking section that stacks as normal medium any of the medium classified as normal by the classification section so as to create the medium bundle, and that passes the medium bundle across to the bundle conveyance path of the bundle conveyance unit,
a reject storage box that includes a first storage space and a second storage space, the first storage space storing as abnormal medium any of the medium classified as abnormal by the classification section, the second storage space storing medium left behind at the handover port, the medium left behind being taken in at the handover port and conveyed to the second storage space via to the bundle conveyance section, and
a switching section that is disposed between the stacking section and the reject storage box, and that switches a conveyance destination of the medium that has passed through the classification section to either the stacking section or the first storage space of the reject storage box; and

either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit including
a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion of the bundle conveyance path, and that is to be transitionable between a first communication state in which the bundle conveyance path communicates with the inside of the stacking section, and a first closed state in which the bundle conveyance path is closed off from the inside of the stacking section, and that is transitionable between a second communication state in which the bundle conveyance path communicates with the inside of the reject storage box, and a second closed state in which the bundle conveyance path is closed off from the inside of the reject storage box,

wherein the second storage space stores the medium left behind from the bundle conveyance path when the conveyance guide is in the second communication state.

2. The medium handover device of claim 1 , further comprising a safe provided inside a casing, and wherein:
the medium storage box is disposed inside the safe, and is provided so as to be capable of being pulled out or stowed away with respect to the casing; and
the bundle conveyance unit, the conveyance guide, the stacking section, the reject storage box, and the switching section are disposed outside the safe, and are provided so as to be capable of being pulled out or stowed away with respect to the casing.

3. The medium handover device of claim 1 , wherein:
the stacking section includes a stacking hole through which the medium bundle is passed to the bundle conveyance path at a location facing the bundle conveyance unit;
the reject storage box includes an intake hole through which the medium bundle is taken in from the bundle conveyance path at a location facing the bundle conveyance unit; and
the conveyance guide is moved to either an open-for-intake position opening up the intake hole, or to an open-for-stacking position opening up the stacking hole.

4. The medium handover device of claim 3 , wherein the conveyance guide closes off the stacking hole when at the open-for-intake position, and closes off the intake hole when at the open-for-stacking position.

5. The medium handover device of claim 4 , wherein:
the stacking section discharges the normal medium conveyed from the switching section into a stacking space inside the stacking section; and
at the open-for-intake position the conveyance guide prevents the normal medium discharged into the stacking space from entering the bundle conveyance path.

6. The medium handover device of claim 4 , wherein:
the conveyance guide is moved along the bundle conveyance path in a movement range linking the open-for-intake position and the open-for-stacking position together; and
in the movement range of the conveyance guide the bundle conveyance section forms the bundle conveyance path by a portion of an upper belt disposed upward of the conveyance guide and by the conveyance guide, and outside of the movement range of the conveyance guide the bundle conveyance section forms the bundle conveyance path by a remaining portion of the upper belt and by a lower belt disposed downward of the upper belt.

7. The medium handover device of claim 3 , wherein the stacking hole and the intake hole are provided to the casing of the storage unit at positions symmetrical to each other with respect to the conveyance direction.

8. The medium handover device of claim 3 , wherein the bundle conveyance unit includes a hole at an opposing face that opposes the storage unit, the hole having a size encompassing the stacking hole and the intake hole.

9. The medium handover device of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of the medium storage boxes,
wherein the classification section is disposed adjacent to the medium storage box closest to the bundle conveyance unit.

10. The medium handover device of claim 1 , wherein:
the storage unit includes a conveyance section that conveys the medium fed out from the medium storage box; and
in the medium storage box, a feed-out section that feeds out the medium and hands the medium over to the conveyance section is disposed at a location in the medium storage box distanced from the bundle conveyance unit.

11. A medium handover device, comprising:
a storage unit that stores a paper sheet-shaped medium, and stacks any of the medium to be handed over to a user to create a medium bundle;
a bundle conveyance unit that conveys the medium bundle created by the storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path;
the bundle conveyance unit including
a bundle conveyance section that conveys the medium bundle in the conveyance direction along the bundle conveyance path, and
a handover port that is disposed at one end in the conveyance direction, and that hands over the medium bundle to the user;

the storage unit including
a medium storage box in which the medium is stored,
a classification section that classifies the medium that has been fed out from the medium storage box,
a stacking section that stacks as normal medium any of the medium classified as normal by the classification section so as to create the medium bundle, and that passes the medium bundle to the bundle conveyance path of the bundle conveyance unit,
a reject storage box that stores as abnormal medium any of the medium classified as abnormal by the classification section, and
a switching section that is disposed between the stacking section and the reject storage box, and that switches a conveyance destination of the medium that has passed through the classification section to either the stacking section or the reject storage box; and

either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit including
a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion

Assignees

• Oki Electric Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kojima Ryousuke
• Suto Ikuo
• Kadota Kenji
• Gotou Akira

Classifications

• G07D11/0021 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• B65H43/04

  detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles (B65H43/08 takes precedence; diverting faulty articles from main streams B65H29/62) · CPC title

• G07D1/00

  Coin dispensers (devices delivering paper currency G07D11/00) · CPC title

• G07D9/002

  Coin holding devices · CPC title

• G07D9/00

  Counting coins (in combination with coin-sorting G07D3/16); Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass · CPC title