Cash transport system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12488648-B2
Application number	US-202418822568-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2024
Priority date	Mar 4, 2022
Publication date	Dec 2, 2025
Grant date	Dec 2, 2025

Abstract

A cash transport system includes a cash handling apparatus installed in a store, and a management device. The management device includes circuitry configured to: determine whether cash transport to the store for replenishing the cash handling apparatus with cash is necessary; determine whether cash transport from the store for collecting cash from the cash handling apparatus is necessary; in a case that the circuitry has determined that any of the cash transport to the store and the cash transport from the store is necessary, calculate, based on one currency selected in advance from among the plurality of currencies, a transport amount by converting the amounts of cash of currencies to be transported into amounts of the selected currency and summing up the converted amounts; and in a case that the transport amount exceeds a upper-limit amount, notify a communication terminal that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A cash transport system, comprising:
one or more cash handling apparatuses that are installed in a store and are configured to handle a plurality of currencies of cash; and a management device including circuitry configured to
determine whether cash transport to the store for replenishing the cash handling apparatus with cash is necessary;
determine whether cash transport from the store for collecting cash from the cash handling apparatus is necessary;
in a case that the circuitry has determined that any of the cash transport to the store and the cash transport from the store is necessary, calculate, based on one currency selected in advance from among the plurality of currencies, a transport amount by converting the amounts of cash of currencies to be transported into amounts of the selected currency and summing up the converted amounts; and
in a case that the transport amount exceeds a upper-limit amount, notify a communication terminal that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount.

2 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in a case that the transport amount does not exceed the upper-limit amount, transmits a notification for requesting the cash transport to a cash-in-transit company that performs the cash transport.

3 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
in a case that the cash transport for each store is performed through a plurality of stores, calculate the transport amount by converting the amounts of cash to be transported by the cash transport for the respective stores into amounts of the selected currency, and summing up the converted amounts, and in the case that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount, notifies the communication terminal.

4 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in the case that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount,
in a case that the cash transport is transport of cash to be collected from the cash handling apparatus,
compare storage quantities of cash for each currency and each denomination in the cash handling apparatus, and
exclude, from a target of the cash transport, one or more denominations in order from a denomination smallest in the storage quantity, thereby adjusting the transport amount to the upper-limit amount or less, and
in a case that the cash transport is transport of cash with which a cash handling apparatus is replenished,
compare storage quantities of cash of each currency and each denomination in the cash handling apparatus, and
exclude, from a target of the cash transport, one or more denominations in order from a denomination largest in the storage quantity, thereby adjusting the transport amount to the upper-limit amount or less.

5 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in the case that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount, exclude, from a target of the cash transport, at least a part of cash other than the selected currency, thereby adjusting the transport amount to the upper-limit amount or less.

6 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in a case that the transport amount is less than the upper-limit amount, add cash to be transported by the cash transport within a range where the total amount of cash to be transported does not exceed the upper-limit amount.

7 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the cash transport is transport of cash to be collected from the cash handling apparatus,
the circuitry is configured to notify the cash handling apparatus of types and a quantity for each type of the cash to be collected, and the cash handling apparatus moves, from a storage to a collection container, cash to be collected among cash stored in the storage.

8 . The cash transport system according to claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry notifies an external device, that performs account handling for a financial institution, of an amount of cash to be transported between the store and the financial institution, and the external device performs the account handling based on the information notified from the management device.

9 . A management device, comprising:
circuitry configured to
determine whether cash transport to the store for replenishing a cash handling apparatus with cash is necessary, the cash handling apparatus installed in a store and configured to handle a plurality of currencies of cash;
determine whether cash transport from the store for collecting cash from the cash handling apparatus is necessary;
in a case that the circuitry has determined that any of the cash transport to the store and the cash transport from the store is necessary, calculate, based on one currency selected in advance from among the plurality of currencies, a transport amount by converting the amounts of cash of currencies to be transported into amounts of the selected currency and summing up the converted amounts; and
in a case that the transport amount exceeds a upper-limit amount, notify a communication terminal that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount.

10 . The management device according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in a case that the transport amount does not exceed the upper-limit amount, transmits a notification for requesting the cash transport to a cash-in-transit company that performs the cash transport.

11 . The management device according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to
in a case that the cash transport for each store is performed through a plurality of stores, calculate the transport amount by converting the amounts of cash to be transported by the cash transport for the respective stores into amounts of the selected currency, and summing up the converted amounts, and in the case that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount, notifies the communication terminal.

12 . The management device according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in the case that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount,
in a case that the cash transport is transport of cash to be collected from the cash handling apparatus,
compare storage quantities of cash for each currency and each denomination in the cash handling apparatus, and
exclude, from a target of the cash transport, one or more denominations in order from a denomination smallest in the storage quantity, thereby adjusting the transport amount to the upper-limit amount or less, and
in a case that the cash transport is transport of cash with which a cash handling apparatus is replenished,
compare storage quantities of cash of each currency and each denomination in the cash handling apparatus, and
exclude, from a target of the cash transport, one or more denominations in order from a denomination largest in the storage quantity, thereby adjusting the transport amount to the upper-limit amount or less.

13 . The management device according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in the case that the transport amount exceeds the upper-limit amount, exclude, from a target of the cash transport, at least a part of cash other than the selected currency, thereby adjusting the transport amount to the upper-limit amount or less.

14 . The management device according to claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to, in a case that the transport amount

Assignees

• Glory Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Kaswan Madanmohan
• Hashitani Yuki
• Zhao Yanan
• Sharpe David

Classifications

• G07D2211/00

  Paper-money handling devices · CPC title

• G06Q10/08

  Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management · CPC title

• G07D11/20

  Controlling or monitoring the operation of devices; Data handling · CPC title

• G07D11/24

  Managing the inventory of valuable papers · 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