Medium handover device
AssigneeOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsRyousuke KOJIMA, Ikuo SUTO, Kenji KADOTA, Akira GOTOU
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Abstract
A bundle conveyance unit conveys a medium bundle created by a storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path. Either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit includes a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion of the bundle conveyance path, and that transitions between a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a reject storage box, and a state communicating the bundle conveyance path with the inside of a stacking section.
Claims14
A medium handover device comprising:
- a storage unit that stores a paper sheet-shaped medium, and stacks any of the medium to be handed over to a user to create a medium bundle;
- a bundle conveyance unit that conveys the medium bundle created by the storage unit in a conveyance direction along a bundle conveyance path;
- the bundle conveyance unit including
- a bundle conveyance section that conveys the medium bundle in the conveyance direction along the bundle conveyance path, and
- a handover port that is disposed at one end in the conveyance direction, and that hands over the medium bundle to the user;
- the storage unit including
- a medium storage box in which the medium is stored,
- a classification section that classifies the medium that has been fed out from the medium storage box,
- a stacking section that stacks as normal medium any of the medium classified as normal by the classification section so as to create the medium bundle, and that passes the medium bundle across to the bundle conveyance path of the bundle conveyance unit,
- a reject storage box that stores as abnormal medium any of the medium classified as abnormal by the classification section.
- a switching section that is disposed between the stacking section and the reject storage box, and that switches a conveyance destination of the medium that has passed through the classification section to either the stacking section or the reject storage box;
- and
- either the storage unit or the bundle conveyance unit including
- a conveyance guide that is disposed at a connection location between the storage unit and the bundle conveyance unit, that forms a portion of the bundle conveyance path, and that is configured so as to be capable of transitioning between a first communication state in which the bundle conveyance path is communicated with the inside of the stacking section, and a first closed state in which the bundle conveyance path is closed off from the inside of the stacking section.
The medium handover device of claim 14, wherein:
- the stacking section includes a stacking hole through which the medium bundle is passed to the bundle conveyance path at a location facing the bundle conveyance unit;
- the reject storage box includes an intake hole through which the medium bundle is taken in from the bundle conveyance path at a location facing the bundle conveyance unit;
- and
- the conveyance guide is moved to either an open-for-intake position opening up the intake hole, or to an open-for-stacking position opening up the stacking hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.