BANKNOTE HANDLING APPARATUS AND COIN HANDLING APPARATUS

• US 20130001041A1
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Glory Limited
• Original Assignee: Glory Limited
• Inventors: Higashiyama, Minoru, Nakagawa, Keiju, DOI, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US13/535,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20130001041A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 194/206
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/0087 Banknote changing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/0096 Accepting paper currency or other valuables in containers, e.g. in code-marked envelopes
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/008 Feeding coins from bulk

Abstract

A banknote handling apparatus 20 configured to handle a banknote includes a control unit 70. The control unit 70 is configured to output information relating a coin change fund, when a banknote change fund is made in the banknote handling apparatus 20.

Claims

1. A banknote handling apparatus that handles a banknote, comprising a control unit configured to output information relating to a coin change fund, when a banknote change fund is made in the banknote handling apparatus.

2. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit configured to display the information relating to the coin change fund outputted from the control unit.

3. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a printing unit configured to print the information relating to the coin change fund outputted from the control unit.

4. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an interface configured to transmit the information relating to the coin change fund outputted from the control unit to an apparatus separated from the banknote handling apparatus.

5. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the banknote handling apparatus is connected, for communication, with a higher-level apparatus disposed separately from the banknote handling apparatus, and setting information of a change fund is transmitted from the higher-level apparatus to the banknote handling apparatus, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, based on the setting information of the change fund transmitted from the higher-level apparatus.

6. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a memory unit configured to record the setting information of a change fund, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, based on the setting information of the change fund recorded in the memory unit.

7. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a cassette reception unit configured to receive a cassette for storing a banknote, wherein

the cassette is provided with a cassette memory unit and the cassette memory unit is configured to record the setting information of a change fund, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, based on the setting information of the change fund recorded in the cassette memory unit, when the cassette is received in the cassette reception unit.

8. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the cassette memory unit is configured to further record amount-of-money data of a cash settlement apparatus disposed independently from the banknote handling apparatus, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, in consideration of the amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus recorded in the cassette memory unit, when the cassette is received in the cassette reception unit.

9. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the cassette memory unit is configured to further record storing information of a banknote stored in the cassette, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, in consideration of the storing information of a banknote recorded in the cassette memory unit, when the cassette is received in the cassette reception unit.

10. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a writing unit configured to write information into the cassette memory unit of the cassette received in the cassette reception unit,

wherein the writing unit is configured to write the information relating to the coin change fund outputted from the control unit, into the cassette memory unit of the cassette received in the cassette reception unit.

11. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the banknote handling apparatus is connected, for communication, with a cash settlement apparatus disposed independently from the banknote handling apparatus, and amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus is transmitted from the cash settlement apparatus to the banknote handling apparatus, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, in consideration of the amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus transmitted from the cash settlement apparatus.

12. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the banknote handling apparatus is connected, for communication, with a cash settlement apparatus disposed independently from the banknote handling apparatus, and amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus is transmitted from the cash settlement apparatus to the banknote handling apparatus, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, in consideration of the amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus transmitted from the cash settlement apparatus.

13. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the banknote handling apparatus is connected, for communication, with a cash settlement apparatus disposed independently from the banknote handling apparatus, and amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus is transmitted from the cash settlement apparatus to the banknote handling apparatus, and

the control unit of the banknote handling apparatus is configured to output the information relating to the coin change fund, in consideration of the amount-of-money data of the cash settlement apparatus transmitted from the cash settlement apparatus.

14. The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

in a case where a banknote change fund falls short in making a banknote change fund in the banknote handling apparatus, when the information relating to the coin change fund is outputted, the control unit is configured to add the number of coins by denomination whose sum corresponds to a sum of deficit banknote change fund, to the information relating to the coin change fund.

15. A coin handling apparatus that handles a coin, comprising a control unit configured to output information relating to a banknote change fund, when a coin change fund is made in the coin handling apparatus.