Medium storage device and method of controlling the medium storage device

    公开(公告)号:US12122625B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US17677166

    申请日:2022-02-22

    申请人: HYOSUNG TNS INC.

    摘要: A medium storage device includes: a housing frame having, at a front portion, an entrance for replenishment and recovery to which a transit cassette is connectable, an identification unit serving to identify whether a medium is a normal medium or a rejection medium, a temporary holding unit configured to temporarily accommodate a medium, a recycle cassette configured to store the medium identified as the normal medium, a conveyance path configured to convey the medium between the identification unit, the temporary holding unit, and the recycle cassette, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance path such that the medium replenished from the transit cassette is conveyed to the temporary holding unit, the medium transferred to the temporary holding unit is conveyed to the identification unit, and the medium identified as the normal medium in the identification unit is conveyed to the recycle cassette.

    PAPER SHEET TRANSPORT DEVICE AND PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20240331481A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18293236

    申请日:2022-06-07

    IPC分类号: G07D11/16 G07D11/14 G07D11/22

    CPC分类号: G07D11/16 G07D11/14 G07D11/22

    摘要: The present invention enables determination as to whether a banknote 100 is to be discharged even when only the feature quantity of a portion of the banknote is acquired at the time of discharging the banknote in a case in which a transport route length L1 from a reading position 18a of an optical recognition sensor 18 to an inlet/outlet 12 as a banknote discharge port is shorter than a total length LA of the banknote in a transport direction. At the time of discharging the banknote 100 already authenticated, a control unit 200 judges the type (denomination) of the banknote on the basis of a feature quantity of a reading target 103 that passes the optical recognition sensor 18 before a leading end 100a of the banknote 100 transported in a discharge direction protrudes to outside the device from the inlet/outlet 12.

    OPTICAL SENSOR FOR BILL VALIDATION
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240312280A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18576015

    申请日:2022-06-02

    IPC分类号: G07D7/20

    CPC分类号: G07D7/20 G07D2207/00

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to easily assemble and exchange a reflection type optical device and their parts in an optical sensor for bill validation by fitting unitized housings into openings of partitions. The optical sensor for bill validation includes a reflection type optical device (13, 30) that has a housing (41) for receiving an optical component (40) and also forming a part of a bill passageway (20). The housing (41) has a lid (42) and a box (43), the lid (42) being formed of light-permeable materials to allow lights irradiated from the inner optical component (40) and lights reflected on the bill to pass through the lid (42), and the box (43) surrounding the inner optical component (40) in combination with the lid (42) that is fit into an opening (53) formed in a partition (11, 12).

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING FLEXIBLE DOCUMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20240253930A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18403830

    申请日:2024-01-04

    发明人: Paolo Martinotti

    摘要: A method for storing a series of flexible documents ( . . . , B(n−1), B(n), B(n+1), . . . ) in a system (100), each flexible document ( . . . , B(n−1), B(n), B(n+1), . . . ) having a front side and a rear side and the method comprising activating at least a sensor group (30), at least one external sensor unit (40) and an internal sensor unit (140) arranged at the entrance of system (100), in proximity of a storing and issuing module (10) and inside the storing and issuing module (10), respectively, for sensing each flexible document ( . . . , B(n−1), B(n), B(n+1), . . . ) of the series, while it is transported on a conveyor belt (20) into a storing and issuing module (10), and providing corresponding dimension information and position information with respect to a longitudinal symmetry axis (y-y) to a central processing unit (50) or a processor (150); B. when a flexible document B(n) is sensed by the internal sensor unit (140) inside the storing and issuing module (10), and C. if a next flexible document B(n+1) transported on conveyor belt (20) is sensed and corresponding position information for the next flexible document B(n+1) is provided to the central processing unit (50) and forwarded to processor (150) before the internal sensor unit (140) stops sensing the flexible document B(n), and also if the next flexible document B(n+1) is within a predetermined storage distance (dST) from the storing and issuing module (10), D. based on dimension information and the last obtained position information on the flexible document B(n), dimension information and the last obtained position information on the next flexible document B(n+1) and known design parameters of the system, determining the actual minimum distance (dpred), along an axis (yMIN-yMIN) parallel to longitudinal symmetry axis (y-y), that would be left on a transport tape (170) inside the storing and issuing module (10), between the rear side of flexible document B(n) and the front side of the next flexible document B(n+1) of the series, if transport tape (170) moved at linear speed (vt(t)) according to a conventional pattern having a constant speed value (V) at regime operational conditions, E. comparing the actual minimum distance (dpred) calculated at step D with a desired minimum distance dd, and F. if the actual minimum distance (dpred) is different from the desired minimum distance dd, adjusting, by sending corresponding signals through processor (50), linear speed (vt(t)) of transport tape (170) with respect to the conventional pattern, between a time instant tj(n) at which flexible document B(n) is engaged with transport tape 170 and a time instant tj(n+1) at which the flexible document B(n+1) is engaged with transport tape (170) inside the storing and issuing module (10), such that: the desired minimum distance dd along the axis (yMIN-yMIN) parallel to the longitudinal symmetry axis (y-y) is left on transport tape (170) between the rear side of the flexible document B(n) and the front side of the next flexible document B(n+1), and when, at tj(n+1), the next document B(n+1) is engaged with transport tape (170), the linear speed value of transport tape (170) is the constant speed value (V) of the conventional pattern of transport tape linear speed (vt(t)) at regime operational conditions.