Banknote Processing System Currency Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Banknote processing devices face challenges in efficiently managing and specifying banknotes of foreign currencies, leading to difficulties in identifying and collecting specific currency types, especially in environments with multiple currency types and requiring frequent replacements.

Innovation Solution

A banknote processing system that includes a reader unit to identify currency type, an accommodation unit to store banknotes, a transmitter to send currency type signals, and an external device to store and specify the location of banknote processing terminals based on the currency type, allowing easy identification and management of banknotes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a banknote processing device accommodates multiple currency types, then the device can accept foreign currencies, but it becomes difficult to specify and collect banknotes of a specific currency type

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecapability to accept foreign currenciesVSAvoiddifficulty in specifying and collecting specific currency type

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by transmitting currency type information from the banknote processing terminal to an external device. The external device receives signals indicating the currency type of accommodated banknotes and uses this feedback to specify and present location information of terminals holding specific currency types, thereby resolving the difficulty in locating specific currencies among multiple currency types

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

An external device acts as an intermediary between the banknote processing terminal and the user. This intermediary receives currency type signals from the terminal, stores the information in storage units, and provides location information to users who need to collect specific currency types, thus simplifying the collection process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If banknote processing devices frequently replace accommodated banknotes, then daily requirements are met, but management time and effort increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to meet daily banknote replacement requirementsVSAvoidtime and effort for managing and replacing banknotes

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-storing location information of banknote processing terminals in the external device. When banknote replacement is needed, the system quickly retrieves and presents the location information without requiring manual search or investigation, thereby reducing the time and effort for banknote management and replacement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11568699B2Banknote processing system

Publication Date: 2023.01.31 UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORP

AI summary

An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote processing system capable of easily specifying a banknote processing terminal which accommodates banknotes of a particular currency in a container. In a banknote processing system 1000, a slot machine G10 is configured to read to which currency type an accommodated banknote T belongs and to send a currency type signal to a management server 260 configured to store location information specifying an installation location of each of slot machines G10, to store the slot machine G10 which has sent the currency type signal, in association with a currency type indicated by the currency type signal, to specify the slot machine G10 associated with a predetermined currency type, and to present the installation location of the specified slot machine G10.