Money handling apparatus and money handling method
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorYasuhiro Matsumoto
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Abstract
A money handling apparatus includes: a safe having a safe door; a plurality of drawers configured to be drawable from the safe when the safe door is opened, each drawer including one or a plurality of storage units configured to store money therein; at least one locking unit configured to restrict drawing-out of each drawer from the safe; and a control unit configured to control the at least one locking unit to put each drawer into either an unlocked state where drawing-out of the drawer is allowed or a locked state where drawing-out of the drawer is restricted.
Claims7
A money handling apparatus, comprising:
- a safe having a safe door;
- a plurality of drawers configured to be drawable from the safe when the safe door is opened, each drawer including one or a plurality of storage units configured to store money therein;
- at least one locking unit configured to restrict drawing-out of each of the plurality of drawers from the safe;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the at least one locking unit to put each drawer into either an unlocked state where the drawing-out of the drawer is allowed or a locked state where the drawing-out of the drawer is restricted.
A money handling method performed by a money handling apparatus having a safe, the method comprising:
- specifying at least one drawer that is allowed to be drawn out from the safe, from among a plurality of drawers configured to be drawable from the safe, each drawer including one or a plurality of storage units configured to store money therein;
- and
- allowing drawing-out of the specified at least one drawer while restricting drawing-out of other drawers, by at least one locking unit configured to restrict drawing-out of each of the plurality of drawers from the safe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.