Money handling apparatus and money handling method
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorsToshiyuki Kuroda, Tomohiro Kimura, Hisashi Ishitobi
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Abstract
A money handling apparatus (for example, a banknote handling apparatus) includes a destination selector configured to select a storage unit where at least one of a counterfeit money and suspect money among the money transported by the transporting unit is to be transported, from the plurality of storage units (for example, each banknote storage unit, each storage/feeding unit, collecting unit, banknote ejecting unit, and the like) and a controller configured to control the transporting unit to transport at least one of the counterfeit money and suspect money to the storage unit selected by the destination selector among the plurality of storage units.
Claims16
A banknote handling apparatus, comprising:
- an inlet through which at least one banknote is fed from outside of the banknote handling apparatus into inside of the banknote handling apparatus;
- a transport to transport the at least one banknote;
- an outlet through which a first banknote is fed out from inside of the banknote handling apparatus to outside of the banknote handling apparatus;
- a plurality of storages, each storage of the plurality of storages storing banknotes;
- a collection cassette which stores the banknotes fed from the plurality of storages;
- an upper assembly including the inlet and the outlet;
- and
- a lower assembly below the upper assembly, the lower assembly including the plurality of storages and the collection cassette, wherein
- the transport includes a first transport in the upper assembly and a second transport in the lower assembly,
- the first transport connects the inlet and the outlet,
- the second transport connects the first transport and the plurality of storages,
- a first part of the second transport is positioned between a rear side of the lower assembly and the plurality of storages,
- the collection cassette is positioned between a front side of the lower assembly and the plurality of storages,
- a second part of the second transport is arranged in the lower assembly above the plurality of storages,
- the first part of the second transport extends along a first axis,
- the second part of the second transport extends along a second axis different from the first axis to connect to the collection cassette in the lower assembly, and
- the second transport connects the first transport and the collection cassette.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.