Money handling apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12142117-B2
Application number	US-202318310253-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 1, 2023
Priority date	Aug 9, 2011
Publication date	Nov 12, 2024
Grant date	Nov 12, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a money handling apparatus including: a money storage unit configured to store money; a locking unit configured to limit access to the money storage unit; and a control unit configured to give unlock permission to unlock the locking unit to at least one of a plurality of qualified persons who are qualified to unlock the locking unit, and to perform a process involving change of the qualified person.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A medium handling apparatus comprising:
an inlet provided for taking a medium into an inside of a casing of the medium handling apparatus, the inlet having a frame that forms a rectangular opening surface;
a first outlet provided for discharging the medium to an outside of the casing, the first outlet having a frame that forms a rectangular opening surface;
a second outlet provided for discharging the medium to the outside of the casing, the second outlet having a frame that forms a rectangular opening surface; and
a safe including a cassette for accumulating the medium taken through the inlet,
wherein the inlet, the first outlet, and the second outlet are arranged in this order in an upper portion of the casing from top to bottom, and
the opening surface of the first outlet and the opening surface of the second outlet are parallel to each other,
wherein the cassette includes a recycle cassette configured to accumulate the medium and feed out the accumulated medium, and
wherein a dispensing process is executed in which the medium accumulated in the recycle cassette is transferred to the first outlet, and in which continuously another medium accumulated in the recycle cassette is transferred to the second outlet while the medium is kept in the first outlet.

2. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the opening surface of the inlet, the opening surface of the first outlet, and the opening surface of the second outlet are open upward.

3. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the first outlet and the second outlet are provided in an inclined portion of an upper surface of the casing.

4. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the first outlet and the second outlet accumulate the medium such that a surface of the medium is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction.

5. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the medium includes a plurality of mediums, and
the first outlet and/or the second outlet are/is provided with a lift that accumulates and holds the plurality of mediums.

6. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the opening surface of the first outlet and/or the opening surface of the second outlet are/is provided with a member that closes at least part of the opening surface(s).

7. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the first outlet has a different configuration from a configuration of the inlet but has a same configuration as a configuration of the second outlet.

8. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a display at a location higher than the inlet.

9. The medium handling apparatus of claim 8 , wherein
a display region of the display is wider than a width of the inlet in a horizontal direction.

10. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein
the cassette includes
a reconciliation cassette to which the medium accumulated in the recycle cassette is transferred and which is used for reconciliation of the medium.

11. The medium handling apparatus of claim 10 , wherein
the cassette further includes a collection cassette to which the medium accumulated in the recycle cassette is transferred and which is used for collection of the medium.

12. The medium handling apparatus of claim 10 , wherein
the recycle cassette, the reconciliation cassette, and the collection cassette are configured to be drawn frontward from the safe, and
a front surface of the collection cassette is located frontward with respect to a front surface of the recycle cassette.

13. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a recognition sensor configured to recognize the medium transported by a conveyor,
wherein the inlet, the first outlet, the second outlet, the conveyor, and the recognition sensor are arranged in the upper portion of the casing, and
the safe includes two locks arranged one above the other in a lower portion of the casing.

14. The medium handling apparatus of claim 13 , wherein
a counting process in which the medium is transferred only in the upper portion of the casing is executed by transporting the medium from the inlet to the recognition sensor using the conveyor, acquiring count information of the medium by the recognition sensor, and transporting the medium to the first outlet and/or the second outlet.

15. The medium handling apparatus of claim 10 , wherein
the dispensing process is executed in which the medium accumulated in the recycle cassette is transferred to the first outlet and in which while the medium is kept in the first outlet, another medium accumulated in the recycle cassette is transferred to the second outlet.

16. The medium handling apparatus of claim 13 , wherein
the conveyor includes an annular conveyor in an annular shape,
the annular conveyor has a first branched path connected to the first outlet and a second branched path connected to the second outlet, and
the first branched path and the second branched path are independent of each other.

17. The medium handling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the opening surface of the first outlet and the opening surface of the second outlet are parallel to each other on a same plane.

Assignees

• Glory Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Ino Kenichi
• Iwamura Michiharu

Classifications

• E05G1/04

  Closure fasteners (locks E05B) · CPC title

• E05G1/026

  Closures (protective doors, windows, or like closures against air raid or other war-like action E06B5/10; shutters, movable grilles, other safety closures E06B9/02) · CPC title

• E05G1/024

  Wall or panel structure · CPC title

• G07C9/00912

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

• G07C9/38

  with central registration · CPC title