Sheet processing system and sheet processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9815654-B2
Application number	US-201615061589-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2016
Priority date	Sep 8, 2015
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

A sheet processing system comprising:
a sheet processing apparatus; and a sheet counting apparatus, wherein the sheet processing apparatus includes:
a conveying unit for conveying a sheet to be processed; a determination device for determining the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit; and an accumulation unit for accumulating a rejected sheet on the basis of a determination result given by the determination unit,
wherein the sheet counting apparatus includes a counting device for counting the paper sheet, and the paper sheet counting apparatus counts the rejected sheet accumulated on the accumulation unit of the sheet processing apparatus, and having a transmitting unit that transmits an information about the counting result to a receiving unit of the paper sheet processing apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sheet processing system comprising:
a sheet processing apparatus; and
a sheet counting apparatus,
wherein the sheet processing apparatus includes:
a supply unit for setting a sheet;
a conveying unit for conveying the sheet to be processed;
a determination device for determining the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit; and
an accumulation unit for accumulating a rejected sheet on the basis of a determination result given by the determination unit,

wherein the sheet counting apparatus includes a counting device for counting the paper sheet, and the paper sheet counting apparatus counts again the rejected sheet accumulated on the accumulation unit of the sheet processing apparatus, and having a transmitting unit that transmits an information about the counting result to a receiving unit of the paper sheet processing apparatus,
wherein a batch card in the supply unit is conveyed by the conveying unit and is rejected in the sheet processing apparatus.

2. The sheet processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet processing apparatus includes a main module and a sealing module.

3. The sheet processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet counting apparatus includes a supply unit, an accumulation unit for accumulating a processed sheet, and a discharge unit for discharging an indeterminable sheet.

4. The sheet processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet processing apparatus classifies rejected sheets into a false sheet and an indeterminable sheet, and
the sheet counting apparatus classifies indeterminable sheets of the sheet processing apparatus into a true sheet and an indeterminable sheet.

5. The sheet processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet processing apparatus and the sheet counting apparatus are connected by a communication tool, and rejected sheet information is added to a processing result of the sheet processing apparatus.

6. The sheet processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet counting apparatus is a smaller apparatus than the sheet processing apparatus.

7. A sheet processing method comprising:
determining a sheet, and accumulating a rejected sheet, by using a sheet processing apparatus;
counting again the rejected sheet by using a sheet counting apparatus, and transmitting an information about the counting result to the sheet processing apparatus;
calculating a result of the sheet, on the basis of a result of the sheet processing apparatus and the result of the sheet counting apparatus;
wherein, the sheet processing method further including a process of conveying a batch card from a supply unit for setting a sheet of the sheet processing apparatus and rejecting the batch card in the sheet processing apparatus.

8. The sheet processing method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a step of displaying a result on the basis of the result transmitted by the sheet counting apparatus and a counting result input from an operation unit.

9. The sheet processing method according to claim 7 , wherein
the sheet processing apparatus accumulates a first rejected sheet to a first accumulation unit on the basis of a determination result of the sheet, and accumulates a second rejection sheet to a second accumulation unit on the basis of determination that the sheet is indeterminable,
the paper sheet counting apparatus counts the second rejected sheet accumulated in the second accumulation unit, and transmits information about a counting result of the second rejected sheet that has been counted,
the sheet processing apparatus receives the information about the counting result of the second rejected sheet,
the sheet processing apparatus receives a counting result obtained by counting the first rejected sheet accumulated in the first accumulation unit, on the basis of operator's operation, and
the sheet processing apparatus adds the counting result obtained by counting the first rejected sheet and the counting result of the second rejected sheet received from the sheet counting apparatus.

10. The paper sheet processing method according to claim 7 , wherein
the sheet counting apparatus discharges a second rejected sheet that has not been counted,
and an information of the second rejected sheet discharged by the sheet counting apparatus is added to a result.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Shishikura Masahiro

Classifications

• B65H2701/1912

  Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like · CPC title

• B65H43/04

  detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles (B65H43/08 takes precedence; diverting faulty articles from main streams B65H29/62) · CPC title

• G07D11/50

  Sorting or counting valuable papers · CPC title

• B65C1/00 Primary

  Labelling flat essentially-rigid surfaces (labelling of fabrics B65C5/00) · CPC title

• B07C5/34

  Sorting according to other particular properties {(material testing per se G01N; quality control G07C3/14)} · CPC title