Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11004296-B2
Application number	US-201916452820-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2019
Priority date	Jun 27, 2018
Publication date	May 11, 2021
Grant date	May 11, 2021

Abstract

A sheet processing apparatus includes: storage units that each stores therein a sheet with a serial number; a recognition unit that performs first reading processing to read the serial number from the sheet transported from each of the storage units; and a control section that retrieves the serial number having a predetermined relationship relating to a degree of coincidence with the serial number read in the first reading processing, from a serial number list of the sheets stored in the storage units.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sheet processing apparatus, comprising:
a depositing section configured to deposit sheets each having a serial number from outside of the sheet processing apparatus to inside of the sheet processing apparatus in a depositing process;
a dispensing section configured to dispense the deposited sheets to outside of the sheet processing apparatus in a dispensing process;
a storage unit configured to store therein the sheets deposited inside of the sheet processing apparatus by the depositing section and feed out the stored sheets therefrom;
a transport unit configured to transport the deposited sheets from the depositing section to the storage unit in the depositing process, and the stored sheets from the storage unit to the dispensing section in the dispensing process;
a recognition unit configured to read the serial number of the sheets transported from the depositing section to the storage unit by the transport unit in the depositing process, and read the serial numbers of the sheets transported from the storage unit to the dispensing section in the dispensing process;
a control section configured to create a serial number list including the serial number of the sheets read by the recognition unit in the depositing process; and
a memory section configured to store therein the serial number list created by the control section,
wherein
the control section is configured, in the dispensing process, to perform a retrieval, from the serial number list stored in the memory section, a serial number having a predetermined relationship relating to a degree of coincidence with the serial number of any of the sheets read by the recognition unit in the dispensing process.

2. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the storage unit further comprising a detachable storage unit that is configured to be detachably attached to the sheet processing apparatus and a depositing apparatus different from the sheet processing apparatus and is configured to store therein sheets when the detachable storage unit is attached to the depositing apparatus,
wherein
the sheet processing apparatus is configured to receive the sheets stored in the detachable storage unit when the detachable storage unit is attached to the sheet processing apparatus;
the detachable storage unit is provided with a memory device configured to store the serial number list; and
the control section is configured to cause the memory device to store the serial number list received from the depositing apparatus by reading the serial number of the sheet when the detachable storage unit which is storing the sheets therein is attached to the sheet processing apparatus.

3. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the serial number having the predetermined relationship partly or completely corresponds to the serial number of any of the sheets read by the recognition unit in the dispensing process.

4. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the serial number having the predetermined relationship and the corresponding serial number in the serial number list have a common string of a predetermined number or more of successive characters.

5. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the control section replaces the serial number read by the recognition unit in the dispensing processing, with the serial number which is retrieved from the serial number list by the control section when the serial number of the predetermined relationship relating to the degree of coincidence with the serial number read in the dispensing processing is found out, based on a result of the retrieval.

6. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein
the memory section is further configured to store therein a dispensing list, the dispensing list including the serial number read by the recognition unit in the dispensing process; and
the control section is configured to replace the serial number in the dispensing list.

7. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein, when the serial number read by the recognition unit in the dispensing processing corresponds to none of the serial numbers in the serial number list, the control section replaces the serial number read in the dispensing process with use of digit shift retrieval processing to retrieve the serial number that has a string of a predetermined number or more characters arranged in the same order as the serial number read by the recognition unit in the dispensing process.

8. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a storage box that is lockable, wherein
the storage unit is disposed inside the storage box.

9. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the storage unit is a winding-type storage unit in which a plurality of sheets are stored while being wound around a rotor.

10. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control section is configured to perform the retrieval when a number of digits of the serial number that has not been read in the dispensing process is smaller than a predetermined number of digits.

Assignees

• Glory Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Nada keisuke

Classifications

• G07D11/34

  Monitoring the contents of devices, e.g. the number of stored valuable papers · CPC title

• G07D11/30 Primary

  Tracking or tracing valuable papers or cassettes · CPC title

• G07D11/32

  Record keeping (transaction aspects G07F19/00) · CPC title

• G07D11/50 Primary

  Sorting or counting valuable papers · CPC title

• G07D7/121

  Apparatus characterised by sensor details · CPC title