Money handling apparatus and money handling method
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorTsuyoshi Izumida
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Abstract
A money handling apparatus includes: a first storage unit and a second storage unit; a transport unit; a recognition unit; and a control unit configured to transport the money in the first storage unit by the transport unit, recognize the money by the recognition unit, transport a part of the money from the first storage unit to the second storage unit based on a result of recognition to store money of predetermined denominations, for which a quantity of money of each denomination is set in advance, in the second storage unit. The control unit detects a shortage denomination of money in the first storage unit, and stores money of the shortage denomination larger in quantity than the quantity set in advance for the shortage denomination, into the second storage unit.
Claims20
A money handling apparatus, comprising:
- a first storage and a second storage which store money;
- a transport which transports money;
- a recognition sensor configured to recognize the money transported by the transport;
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- a control circuit configured to control the transport to transport the money in the first storage, recognize the money based on a signal from the recognition sensor, and control the transport to transport a part of the money stored in the first storage to the second storage according to a result of recognition, wherein
- the control circuit detects a shortage denomination for which a quantity of money currently stored in the first storage is short, and allows to store money of the shortage denomination larger in quantity than the quantity of money of the shortage denomination before detecting the shortage denomination in the second storage.
A money handling apparatus, comprising:
- a first storage which stores money;
- a second storage which stores money for a dispensing process;
- a transport which moves money from the first storage to the second storage;
- a recognition sensor configured to recognize money;
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- a control circuit configured to control the transport to move a part of the money in the first storage to the second storage, and recognize the part of the money based on a signal from the recognition sensor in order to prepare, in the second storage, money to be used for the dispensing process before starting the dispensing process, wherein
- the control circuit detects a shortage denomination for which a quantity of money currently stored in the first storage is short, and allows to store, in the second storage, money of the shortage denomination larger than a quantity of money of the shortage denomination stored in the second storage before detecting the shortage denomination.
A money handling method performed by a money handling apparatus, the money handling method comprising:
- feeding out money from a first storage in which money is stored;
- recognizing the fed-out money with a recognition sensor;
- transporting a part of the money stored in the first storage to a second storage based on a result of the recognizing;
- detecting a shortage denomination for which a quantity of money stored in the first storage is short;
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- storing, upon detecting the shortage denomination, money of the shortage denomination larger in quantity than the quantity of money of the shortage denomination before detecting the shortage denomination, into the second storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.