Conveyor Guide Rotation for ATM Banknote Path Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automatic teller machines face challenges in reliably connecting the conveyance paths of storage box loading cases and distribution conveyor units due to positioning discrepancies, leading to instability in banknote conveyance.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of pairs of conveyor guides that form a sheet paper conveyance path with predetermined widths, supported by rotatable portions to maintain parallelism and prevent narrowing or formation of step/recessed portions, ensuring stable connection regardless of positioning discrepancies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If rigid connection between conveyor guides is used, then structural simplicity is maintained, but positioning discrepancies cause conveyance path narrowing or step portions
Solution Approach 1:
The supporting portions are designed to rotate about rotation axes, allowing the conveyor guides to dynamically adjust their positions according to the actual positioning of connection-side conveyor guides. This dynamic adjustment eliminates rigid connection constraints while maintaining structural simplicity, preventing conveyance path narrowing and step portion formation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conveyor guides are engaged at tilted attitude due to positioning discrepancies, then adaptability to positioning errors is improved, but conveyance path width varies and instability occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable supporting portions enable the conveyor guides to dynamically adapt to positioning discrepancies by rotating to appropriate angles, while the engagement structure ensures that the conveyance path width and parallelism are maintained throughout the connection, preventing geometric instability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the angular parameter of the conveyor guides through rotation about horizontal axes, allowing adaptation to positioning errors while maintaining the critical parameters of conveyance path width and parallelism through the engagement mechanism between guide surfaces.
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AI summary
A sheet paper conveyor includes pairs of conveyor guides that form a sheet paper conveyance path between guide surfaces which face each other with a predetermined conveyance path width between them and which are parallel to each other, and that are engaged with end portions of pairs of connection-side conveyor guides that form a conveyance path for the sheet paper using connection subject conveyance path guide surfaces that face each other with the conveyance path width between them and are parallel to each other, and with one end portions in a conveyance direction of the sheet paper. Supporting portions rotatably support the pairs of conveyor guides in accordance with positions of the pairs of connection-side conveyor guides such that the conveyance path width is maintained and such that the parallel state between the guide surfaces is maintained.