US 2024/0257596 A1Published application

Medium handling device

AssigneeOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

InventorsIppei KAMATA, Katsuyoshi TOMIZAWA, Kazuhiro MIKI

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Abstract

In a banknote pay-in/pay-out device of an automated teller machine, in movement processing, banknotes being stored in a movement origin banknote storage are conveyed to a pay-in/pay-out section, then the banknotes are recognized by a recognition section while being conveyed by a conveyance section to a temporary holding section, and normal banknotes are conveyed to the movement destination banknote storage and stored therein. Due thereto, the banknote pay-in/pay-out device is able to move the banknotes being stored in the movement origin banknote storage to the movement destination banknote storage, and, in such case, is able to recognize a denomination, level of damage, and the like, of each of the banknotes once again by performing recognition processing using the recognition section, and is able to count the total number of medium being stored once again.

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Dependent claims

A medium handling device comprising:

an input/output section that inputs and outputs paper leaf-shaped mediums;
a first conveyance section, connected to the input/output section, that conveys the mediums;
a recognition section, provided to the first conveyance section, that recognizes the conveyed mediums;
a second conveyance section, connected to the first conveyance section through a connection section, that conveys the mediums;
a plurality of medium storages connected to the second conveyance section, that store reusable mediums;
and
a control section that utilizes recognition results of the recognition section to control a conveyance path of the mediums configured by the first conveyance section, the connection section, and the second conveyance section,
wherein, in movement processing that moves a medium being stored in a medium storage as a movement origin, to the medium storage as a movement destination, the control section controls so as to:
convey mediums fed out from the medium storage to the input/output section,
store the mediums in the input/output section,
feed out the mediums from the input/output section and convey by the first conveyance section,
acquire a respective recognition result for each medium, using the recognition section and
convey each medium to one of the medium storages according to the recognition result.

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