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US 2001/0017276 A1Published application
Bank-note processing device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
InventorsShigeru Yasuda, Yukio Ito, Tadashi Hatamachi, Noboru Yamagishi, Kouji Akiba
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Abstract
A unit box (11) containing a bank-note conveyor belt unit (4) and a bank-note identifying unit (5) and not containing a bank-note accommodating unit, is provided in an openable and closable fashion with respect to a body (3) of a bank-note processing device (1), so that a conveyor belt (21) facing the side of a bank-note input opening (2) is exposed when the unit box (11) is opened.
Claims20
A bank-note processing device comprising:
- a device body;
- bank-note conveyor belt means provided inside the device body and including a conveyer belt, for conveying a bank note inserted from a bank-note input opening along an substantially U-shaped bank-note conveyance passage by the conveyor belt;
- bank-note identifying means provided inside the device body, for determining authenticity of the inserted bank note;
- bank-note accommodating means provided inside the device body, for accommodating bank notes regarded by the bank-note identifying means to be genuine bank notes;
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- a unit box containing the bank-note conveyor belt means and the banknote identifying means, and excluding the bank-note accommodating means, provided in an openable and closable fashion with respect to the device body, so that the conveyor belt facing a side of the bank-note input opening is exposed.
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A bank-note processing device comprising:
- bank-note conveyor belt means including a conveyor belt, for conveying a bank note inserted from a bank-note input opening;
- bank-note identifying means for determining authenticity of the bank note;
- first bank-note guiding means comprising the bank-note input opening and a portion of a bank-note conveyance passage connected to the bank-note input opening;
- a device body containing a first plurality of idle rollers which lie in contact with the conveyor belt of the bank-note conveyor belt means and form the bank-note conveyance passage in cooperation with the first bank-note guiding means;
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- a unit box provided in the device body in an openable and closable fashion, the unit box containing:
- the bank-note conveyor belt means;
- a second plurality of idle rollers which lie in contact with the conveyor belt and form the bank-note conveyance passage;
- second bank-note guiding means which forms a part of the bank-note conveyance passage;
- driving means for driving the bank-note conveyor belt means;
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- the bank-note identifying means for determining the authenticity of the bank note.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.