Banknote Storage Vault Count Correction Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

In existing paper currency deposit-withdrawal mechanisms, pay-out irregular banknotes with conveyance irregularities are incorrectly stacked in the reject box, leading to poor cash utilization efficiency and delays in pay-out processing, and inaccuracies in stored note counts, requiring lengthy re-counting during audits.

Innovation Solution

A mechanism that includes a detection section to identify pay-out irregular banknotes, a correction note count section to accurately count and correct the stored note count, and a conveying and stacking section to re-stack these banknotes at the paying in/paying out section, using a stacking sequence table to track serial number data and update the stored note count.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If pay-out irregular banknotes with conveyance irregularities are stacked in the reject box, then the classification section can identify and separate these banknotes, but cash utilization efficiency deteriorates and pay-out processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveclassification accuracyVSAvoidcash utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts only the truly irregular banknotes (those with actual defects) from the pay-out irregular banknotes and sends them to the reject box. Pay-out irregular banknotes that are merely irregular during conveyance but are actually regular banknotes are excluded from the reject box and instead stored back in the banknote storage box, thus improving cash utilization efficiency while maintaining classification reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention performs preliminary identification and classification of pay-out irregular banknotes before final disposition. The identification section detects whether a pay-out irregular banknote is actually a regular banknote before it is sent to the reject box, allowing for preliminary separation of truly irregular banknotes from those that are merely irregular during conveyance but are actually regular banknotes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If pay-out irregular banknotes are stacked in the reject box, then conveyance irregularities can be identified, but pay-out processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveirregularity detection accuracyVSAvoidpay-out processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts only the truly irregular banknotes from the pay-out irregular banknotes and sends them to the reject box. Pay-out irregular banknotes that are actually regular banknotes are excluded from the reject box and instead stored back in the banknote storage box, thus reducing unnecessary processing steps and shortening pay-out processing time while maintaining irregularity detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention performs preliminary identification of pay-out irregular banknotes to determine whether they are actually regular banknotes before final disposition. This preliminary action allows for early separation of truly irregular banknotes from those that are merely irregular during conveyance but are actually regular banknotes, reducing unnecessary processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If stored note count is not corrected for pay-out irregular banknotes, then counting process is simple, but count value differs from actual number of notes requiring lengthy re-counting during audits

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecounting process complexityVSAvoidstored note count accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention implements a feedback mechanism where the stored note count is automatically corrected based on the identification results of pay-out irregular banknotes. When a pay-out irregular banknote is identified as an actual regular banknote, the stored note count is incremented to reflect this. This feedback loop ensures that the stored note count accurately reflects the actual number of notes without requiring complex manual re-counting during audits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-correction of the stored note count automatically based on the identification results. The correction section automatically updates the stored note count when pay-out irregular banknotes are identified as actual regular banknotes, eliminating the need for manual intervention or lengthy re-counting during audits while maintaining count accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS8708128B2Paper currency deposit-withdrawal mechanism
Publication Date: 2014.04.29 OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a means whereby improvement in fund efficiency of stored paper currency of a paper currency storage vault and reduction in withdrawal processing time are effected, and whereby a count value of a number of stored sheets and an actual number of sheets are matched. An accumulation order table, which stores an accumulation order of paper currency which is stored in a paper currency storage vault (8) and serial number information of the paper currency in accumulation sequence, is stored in a storage unit of a paper currency deposit-withdrawal mechanism (1). When making a withdrawal, if the paper currency which is dispensed from the paper currency storage vault (8) is withdrawal anomaly paper currency which is differentiated with a differentiation unit (6) as a conveyance anomaly, the serial number information of the next successive paper currency of the withdrawal anomaly paper currency is detected by the differentiation unit (6). Based on the detected serial number information and the accumulation order table, a corrected number of sheets, which is the number of sheets of paper currency which configures the withdrawal anomaly paper currency, is counted, the corrected number of sheets is subtracted from the current count of the stored number of sheets of the paper currency storage vault (8), the current stored number of sheets is corrected, and the withdrawal anomaly paper currency of the counted corrected number of sheets is conveyed to and accumulated in a deposit-withdrawal unit (5).