Automatic cash transaction machine

• US 5,553,320 A
• Filed: 03/09/1995
• Issued: 09/03/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions Corporation (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kako, Yutaka, Matsuura, Nobuhiko, Kadowaki, Minoru, Matsuura, Kunihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): PITTS, HAROLD I
• Application Number:
  US08/401,970
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 902/20, 235/379
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 83/025 onto and from the same side of the pile or stack
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/13 with internal means for handling valuable papers
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/40 Device architecture, e.g. modular construction

Abstract

The automatic cash transaction machine consists of the recycle box 23 for storing bills which are transported and taken out from the receptacle 21 and the bill cassette 22 for loading bills in the recycle box 23 and withdrawing bills from the recycle box 23, wherein a specific bill kind of large or small denomination bills is assigned to the bill cassette 22, and bills of this bill kind are transported and taken out between the bill cassette 22 and the receptacle 21, and the bill cassette 22 functions also as a recycle box, and the receptacle 21 is installed above the recycle box 23, and the bill discriminator 25 and the reject box 26 are installed above the bill cassette 22.

Claims

1. An automatic cash transaction machine comprising a outer box which has an upper front plate and a lower front plate and in which the horizontal cross-sectional shape at an optional location in the vertical direction is almost square, a bill recycle box which is installed inside the lower part of said outer box, on the operator'"'"'s side viewed from front, and in the neighborhood of said lower front plate, and a customer operation table which is installed between the upper part of said outer box and the lower part of the outer box and has a cash gateway on the innermost side viewed from front and an operation display at the central part on the operator'"'"'s side, wherein the leading edge of said operation display of said customer operation table is protruded froward from said lower front plate of said outer box and said cash gateway of said customer operation table is positioned right above said bill recycle box.

3. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 1, wherein said transaction machine further comprises a card handling unit which is installed inside the upper part of the outer box and a passbook slot which is linked to said card handling unit and installed on the upper front plate.

4. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 1, wherein said transaction machine further comprises a passbook handling unit which is installed inside the upper part of the outer box and a passbook slot which is linked to said passbook handling unit and installed on the upper front plate.

5. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 1, wherein the upper front plate is positioned before the trailing edge of the receptacle.

6. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the customer operation table is formed at a rising gradient toward the innermost side.

7. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 1, wherein the operation display consists of a liquid crystal display unit.

12. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 1, wherein the bill recycle box also can be removed from the outer box.

2. An automatic cash transaction machine comprising a main frame which has an upper front plate, a lower front plate, and a back plate and in which the horizontal cross-sectional shape at an optional location in the vertical direction is almost square, a bill recycle box which is installed inside the lower part of said outer box, on the operator'"'"'s side viewed from front, and in the neighborhood of said lower front plate, a bill cassette which is installed on the innermost side of said bill recycle box and in the neighborhood of said back plate so that it can be removed from said outer box, and a customer operation table which is installed between the upper part of said outer box and the lower part of the outer box and has a cash gateway on the innermost side viewed from front and an operation display at the center on the operator'"'"'s side, wherein the leading edge of said operation display of said customer operation table is protruded forward from said lower front plate of said outer box and said cash gateway of said customer operation table is positioned right above said bill recycle box.

13. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 2, wherein said transaction machine further comprises a card handling unit which is installed inside the upper part of the outer box and a passbook slot which is linked to said card handling unit and installed on the upper front plate.

14. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 2, wherein said transaction machine further comprises a passbook handling unit which is installed inside the upper part of the outer box and a passbook slot which is linked to said passbook handling unit and installed on the upper front plate.

15. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 2, wherein the upper front plate is positioned before the trailing edge of the receptacle.

16. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 2, wherein the surface of the customer operation table is formed at a rising gradient toward the innermost side.

17. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 2, wherein the operation display consists of a liquid crystal display unit.

18. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 2, wherein the bill recycle box also can be removed from the outer box.

8. An automatic cash transaction machine comprising a outer box which has an upper front plate, a lower front plate, and a back plate and in which the horizontal cross-sectional shape at an optional location in the vertical direction is almost square, a bill recycle box which is installed inside the lower part of said outer box, on the operator'"'"'s side viewed from front, and in the neighborhood of said lower front plate and has a first bill take-out and put-in mechanism, a bill cassette which is installed on the innermost side of said bill recycle box and in the neighborhood of said back plate so that it can be removed from said outer box and has a second bill take-out and put-in mechanism, a cash receptacle which is installed inside the center of said outer box and above said bill recycle box and has a third bill take-out and put-in mechanism, a bill discriminator which is positioned above said bill cassette, and a bill transport control mechanism which has a bill transport path which is connected to said first bill take-out and put-in mechanism, said second bill take-out and put-in mechanism, and said third bill take-out and put-in mechanism so that it can operate and transports bills of the first bill kind by operating said third bill take-out and put-in mechanism and said first bill take-out and put-in mechanism between said cash receptacle and said bill recycle box, bills of the second bill kind by operating said third bill take-out and put-in mechanism and said second bill take-out and put-in mechanism between said cash receptacle and said bill cassette, and bills of the first bill kind and the second bill kind by operating said first bill take-out and put-in mechanism and said second bill take-out and put-in mechanism between said bill recycle box and said bill cassette respectively through said bill discriminator.

9. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 8, wherein both of the first bill take-out and put-in mechanism and the second bill take-out and put-in mechanism are a last-in first-out type bill take-out and put-in mechanism.

10. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 8, wherein one of the first bill take-out and put-in mechanism and the second bill take-out and put-in mechanism is a last-in first-out type bill take-out and put-in mechanism and the other is a first-in first-out type bill recycle mechanism.

11. An automatic cash transaction machine according to claim 8, wherein both of the first bill take-out and put-in mechanism and the second bill take-out and put-in mechanism are a first-in first-out type bill take-out and put-in mechanism.