Money handling machine, money handling system and money handling method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10380819-B2
Application number	US-201815943166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2018
Priority date	Apr 4, 2017
Publication date	Aug 13, 2019
Grant date	Aug 13, 2019

Abstract

A money handling machine (for example, a money depositing/dispensing machine 100 ) includes: a coin-roll storage unit (for example, a coin-roll storage device 180 ) configured to store a coin roll; an authentication unit 107 configured to authenticate an authority of an operator; and a controlling unit 102 configured to control the coin-roll storage unit so as to dispense the coin roll to replenish a plurality of settlement places 20 at a time only when the authority of the operator authenticated by the authentication unit 107 is a predetermined authority.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A money handling machine comprising:
a coin-roll storage unit configured to store a coin roll;
a loose-banknote storage unit configured to store banknotes in a separate state;
an authentication unit configured to authenticate an operator as part of a first group having a first predetermined authority providing access to dispensing of the banknotes stored in the loose banknote storage unit or as part of a second group, different than the first group, having a second predetermined authority providing access to the dispensing of the coin roll stored in the coin-roll storage unit, when a dispensing process of the money that is to be replenished from the money handling machine to a plurality of settlement places is performed, and wherein the second predetermined authority is different from the first predetermined authority and provides access to the coin rolls of the storage unit; and
a controlling unit configured to calculate a total number of coin rolls and loose banknotes required to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places based on at least one electrical communication received by the money handling machine from the plurality of settlement places remotely located thereto, the controlling unit further configured to control the coin-roll storage unit so as to dispense the number of coin rolls to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places at a time only when the operator is authenticated by the authentication unit as part of the second group having the second predetermined authority and to dispense the number of banknotes at a time when the operator is authenticated by the authentication unit as part of the first group having the first predetermined authority.

2. The money handling machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the coin-roll storage unit includes a storage portion in which the coin roll is stored and a lock mechanism configured to lock the storage portion inside a casing, and
the controlling unit controls the lock mechanism so as to release the lock of the storage portion only when the authority of the operator authenticated by the authentication unit is the second predetermined authority.

3. The money handling machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a receiving unit configured to receive information on the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places, and
the controlling unit calculates a total number of the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places based on the information received by the receiving unit.

4. The money handling machine according to claim 3 , further comprising a cassette mounting unit on which at least one of a plurality of storage cassettes is detachably mounted, each of the plurality of storage cassettes stores money in a separate state and feeds out the money to be stored,
each of the plurality of storage cassettes corresponds to each of the plurality of settlement places,
each of the plurality of storage cassettes is provided with a storage medium for storing the information on the coin roll to replenish the corresponding settlement place, and
the receiving unit receives the information on the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places based on the information read from the storage medium of each of the plurality of storage cassettes.

5. The money handling machine according to claim 3 , wherein
the controlling unit outputs the total number of the coin roll.

6. The money handling machine according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a detecting unit configured to detect the number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit; and
a first judging unit configured to judge whether the number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit based on a detection result by the detecting unit coincides with the total number of the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places calculated by the controlling unit.

7. The money handling machine according to claim 6 , wherein
the controlling unit outputs a warning information when it is judged by the first judging unit that the number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit based on the detection result by the detecting unit does not coincide with the total number of the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places calculated by the controlling unit.

8. The money handling machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a detecting unit configured to detect the number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit, and the controlling unit outputs information about the coin roll dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit based on detection result by the detecting unit.

9. The money handling machine according to claim 8 , wherein
the controlling unit outputs the information about the coin roll dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit for each of the plurality of settlement places.

10. The money handling machine according to claim 8 , further comprising a printing unit configured to print the information output by the controlling unit about the coin roll dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit.

11. The money handling machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a cassette mounting unit on which at least one of a plurality of storage cassettes is detachably mounted, each of the plurality of storage cassettes stores banknotes in a separate state and feeds out the stored banknotes,
each of the plurality of storage cassettes corresponds to each of the plurality of settlement places,
the loose-banknote storage unit is capable of feeding out the banknotes stored in the loose-banknote storage unit, and
the control unit controls the loose-banknote storage unit so as to dispense the m banknotes stored in the loose-banknote storage unit and store the dispensed banknotes in the storage cassette mounted on the cassette mounting unit when the authority of the operator authenticated by the authentication unit is the first predetermined authority.

12. A money handling system comprising:
a money handling machine that includes a coin-roll storage unit configured to store coin rolls and a loose-banknote storage unit configured to store banknotes in a separate state,
an authentication unit configured to authenticate an operator,
and a controlling unit configured to calculate a total number of coin rolls required to replenish each of a plurality of settlement places based on an electrical communication received by the money handling machine remotely located from a plurality of settlement places, the controlling unit further configured to control the loose banknote storage unit to dispense the banknotes when the operator has been authenticated by the authentication unit as part of a first group having a first predetermined authority providing access to dispensing of the banknotes stored in the loose banknote storage unit and to control the coin-roll storage unit to dispense the coin rolls to replenish the plurality of settlement places only when an operator has been authenticated by the authentication unit as part of a second group having a second predetermined authority, wherein the second predetermined authority is different from the first predetermined authority and provides access to the coin rolls of the storage unit;
a plurality of settlement apparatuses, one settlement apparatus of the plurality of settlement apparatuses being installed in each of the plurality of settlement places and configured to be replenished by the coin rolls and banknotes dispensed from the money handling machine;
a plurality point of sale (POS) registers, a POS register being installed in each of the plurality of settlement pl

Assignees

• Glory Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Shimizu Kazuyuki
• Kouno Isamu

Classifications

• G07C9/00912

  for safes, strong-rooms, vaults or the like · CPC title

• G07D11/13

  with internal means for handling valuable papers · CPC title

• G07D9/006 Primary

  Coin wrappers · CPC title

• G07D2211/00

  Paper-money handling devices · CPC title

• G07D11/245

  Replenishment · CPC title