Paper sheet processing apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHaruhiko Horiuchi
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, a paper sheet processing apparatus is provided with a conveying device which conveys a paper sheet along a conveying way, a discrimination section 14 which distinguishes a paper sheet, a plurality of accumulation sections which accumulate the paper sheet distinguished, a sorting mechanism which sorts the paper sheet distinguished to one of the accumulation sections, a first sensor which includes an opaque substance sensor which detects an opaque substance and a transparent substance sensor which detects a transparent substance, and which detects a paper sheet which is conveyed, a second sensor which detects a paper sheet which is conveyed, and a controller.
Claims8
A paper sheet processing apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying device which conveys a paper sheet along a conveying way;
- a discrimination section which is provided along the conveying way and distinguishes the paper sheet;
- a plurality of accumulation sections which accumulate the paper sheet distinguished;
- a sorting mechanism which sorts the paper sheet distinguished to one of the accumulation sections;
- a first sensor which includes an opaque substance sensor to detect an opaque substance and a transparent substance sensor to detect a transparent substance, and which detects the paper sheet which is conveyed along the conveying way;
- a second sensor which is provided between the discrimination section and the sorting mechanism, and which detects the paper sheet which is conveyed along the conveying way;
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- a controller which detects a transparent-envelope sealed letter which has a transparent envelope and the contents inserted in the transparent envelope, based on an output signal of the transparent substance sensor and an output signal of the opaque substance sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.