Automatic teller machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9710989-B2
Application number	US-201314648408-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2013
Priority date	Dec 5, 2012
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

An automatic teller machine includes a guide, shafts and rollers. The guide extends in a conveyance direction along which papers are conveyed and includes a conveyance surface on which the papers are conveyed. The shafts are retained in the guide, and the rollers are turnably supported by the shafts. The guide includes a roller slot in which the rollers are disposed, and pairs of shaft slots that are opposingly formed to sandwich the roller slot. Each pair of shaft slots retains two ends of one of the shafts. The guide may include protrusion portions in the shaft slots that protrude in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance surface, and the shafts may include holes through which the protrusion portions are inserted when the shafts are retained in the shaft slots. Projection portions may be formed at the guide, projecting from predetermined positions of inner faces of the shaft slots, and the projection portions may abut against the shafts when the shafts are retained in the shaft slots.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An automatic teller machine, comprising:
a guide that extends in a conveyance direction along which papers are conveyed and that includes a conveyance surface on which the papers are conveyed;
a shaft that is retained at the guide; and
a roller that is turnably retained on the shaft, wherein the guide includes:
a roller slot in which the roller is disposed; and
a pair of shaft slots opposingly formed with respect to each other to sandwich the roller slot, said pair of shaft slots being recessed from the conveyance surface, the shaft slots respectively retaining two ends of the shaft,

wherein
the guide includes, in at least one of the shaft slots, a protrusion portion that protrudes in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance surface,
the shaft has a longitudinal axis and a through hole, the through hole extending entirely through the shaft and in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis,
the protrusion portion is inserted through the through hole to prevent longitudinal axial rotation of the shaft within the shaft slots, when the shaft is retained in the shaft slots, and
the guide includes a projection portion that projects in a direction parallel to the conveyance surface from a predetermined position of an inner face of the each shaft slot, the projection portion abutting against the shaft when the shaft is retained in the shaft slots.

2. The automatic teller machine according to claim 1 , wherein the projection portion is formed at each of two inner faces of the each shaft slot, the projection portions opposing one another in the conveyance direction.

3. An automatic teller machine, comprising:
a guide that extends in a conveyance direction along which papers are conveyed and that includes a conveyance surface on which the papers are conveyed;
a shaft that is retained at the guide; and
a roller that is turnably retained on the shaft,

wherein the guide includes:
a roller slot in which the roller is disposed; and
a pair of shaft slots opposingly formed with respect to each other to sandwich the roller slot, the shaft slots respectively retaining two ends of the shaft,

and wherein:
the guide includes, in at least one of the shaft slots, a protrusion portion that protrudes in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance surface,
the shaft has a longitudinal axis and a through hole, the through hole extending entirely through the shaft and in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis,
the protrusion portion is inserted through the through hole to prevent longitudinal axial rotation of the shaft within the shaft slots, when the shaft is retained in the shaft slots, and
the guide includes a projection portion that projects in a direction parallel to the conveyance surface from a predetermined position of an inner face of the each shaft slot, the projection portion abutting against the shaft when the shaft is retained in the shaft slots.

Assignees

• Oki Electric Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsuoka Gentaro

Classifications

• G07D11/13 Primary

  with internal means for handling valuable papers · CPC title

• B65H5/066

  the articles resting on rollers or balls · CPC title

• G07D13/00

  Handling of coins or of valuable papers, characterised by a combination of mechanisms not covered by a single one of groups G07D1/00 - G07D11/00 · CPC title

• B65H2404/15

  Roller assembly, particular roller arrangement · CPC title

• B65H2404/52131

  Grooves · CPC title