Bill sterilizer equipped with counting machine

• US 9,415,124 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2015
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SMI Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: SMI Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Baek, Myung Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): STOFFA, WYATT A
• Application Number:
  US14/730,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20150359914A1
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/087 Particle radiation, e.g. electron-beam, alpha or beta radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/10 Ultraviolet radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/14 Plasma, i.e. ionised gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/11 Apparatus for generating biocidal substances, e.g. vaporisers, UV lamps
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/14 Means for controlling sterilisation processes, data processing, presentation and storage means, e.g. sensors, controllers, programs
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/16 Mobile applications, e.g. portable devices, trailers, devices mounted on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/20 Targets to be treated
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/50 Sorting or counting valuable papers
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 13/00 Handling of coins or of valuable papers, characterised by a combination of mechanisms not covered by a single one of groups G07D1/00 - G07D11/00

Abstract

A bill sterilizer includes a counting machine having a bill input part, a bill sensing part and a bill discharge part; a body having an opening and a receiving space; a tray provided on the floor of the receiving space; an ion generator located on the wall surface of the receiving space; a door to block the opening of the receiving space; and a door lock located on the front face below the opening of the body to fix the door. The bill sterilizer equipped with the counting machine supplies cluster negative ions to the sterilizer body so that the cluster negative ions are evenly transferred to the surfaces of the bills after the whole counting machine for counting the number of the bills is located inside the bill sterilizer.

Claims

1. A bill sterilizer equipped with a counting machine comprising:

a counting machine which has a bill input part, a bill sensing part and a bill discharge part;

a body which has an opening formed at one side and a receiving space formed to receive the counting machine therein; and

an ion generator which is located on a wall surface of the receiving space and sprays cluster negative ions with a sterilizing function toward bills to sterilize bills, the ion generator including

an ion generating part which is disposed in the body to generate the cluster negative ions,

an ion spraying part for spraying the cluster negative ions generated in the ion generating part to the receiving space,

a joint part which is disposed on the body and has a plurality of joint bars connected to each other so as to do a joint movement and to be folded and unfolded,

a diffusion sprayer which is disposed at a front end of the joint part, has a form that becomes gradually wider from an inlet to an outlet, and is located at the bill discharge part of the counting machine when the joint part is spread, and

a tube of which one end is connected to the ion generating part and the other end is connected to the diffusion sprayer to sterilize the bill by transmitting the cluster negative ions generated in the ion generating part to the diffusion sprayer.

2. The bill sterilizer according to claim 1, wherein a camera is disposed on an inner wall of the receiving space and a digital display part for displaying an image of the camera in real time is disposed on an outer face of the body.

3. The bill sterilizer according to claim 1, further comprising:

a tray which is provided on a floor of the receiving space, moves forward and backward through rails to go in and out through the opening and on which the counting machine is put;

a door of which a top is rotatably combined onto a winding reel with a corrective elastic force above the opening of the receiving space and which blocks the opening of the receiving space when it is released; and

a door lock which is located on a front face below the opening of the body to fix the door.