Sheet handling machine and sheet handling method
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorTomohiro YOKOO
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Abstract
In a sheet handling machine (for example, a banknote handling machine) including a plurality of mounting units, a controlling unit controls a transporting unit and temporary storage units to perform parallel processing mode such that a storage operation for sending a sheet held by a first temporary storage unit among the plurality of temporary storage units to a storage member (for example, a banknote storage bag) and a transport operation for transporting the sheet from the transporting unit to a second temporary storage unit different from the first temporary storage unit are performed in parallel.
Claims11
A sheet handling machine comprising:
- a plurality of mounting units, to each of the plurality of mounting units a storage member for storing a sheet being detachably mounted;
- a transporting unit configured to transport the sheet;
- a plurality of temporary storage units respectively connected to the transporting unit and disposed so as to correspond to the respective mounting units, the plurality of temporary storage units temporarily holding the sheet sent from the transporting unit before the sheet is stored in the storage member mounted to each mounting unit;
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- a controlling unit configured to control the transporting unit and temporary storage units to perform parallel processing mode such that a storage operation for sending the sheet held by a first temporary storage unit among the plurality of temporary storage units to the storage member and a transport operation for transporting the sheet from the transporting unit to a second temporary storage unit different from the first temporary storage unit are performed in parallel.
A sheet handling method performed by a sheet handling machine including a plurality of mounting units, to each mounting unit a storage member for storing sheet being detachably mounted, a transporting unit configured to transport the sheet, and a plurality of temporary storage units respectively connected to the transporting unit and disposed so as to correspond to the respective mounting units comprising:
- sending the sheet from the transporting unit to a first temporary storage unit among the plurality of temporary storage units and temporarily holding the sheet before being stored in the storage member mounted to the mounting unit by the first temporary storage unit;
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- performing a storage operation for sending the sheet held by the first temporary storage unit among the plurality of temporary storage units to the storage member and a transport operation for transporting the sheet from the transporting unit to a second temporary storage unit different from the first temporary storage unit in parallel, when a predetermined condition based on the number of sheets sent from the transporting unit to the first temporary storage unit is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.