Multi-Space Medium Storage Box with Selective Pickup Roller

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional medium storage boxes in financial devices can only store a single kind of bill, limiting the number of bill types that can be stored without increasing the device's size, which restricts their functionality.

Innovation Solution

A medium storage box with multiple storage spaces and a single pickup roller that can selectively pick up media from different spaces, allowing for the storage and retrieval of various media types within a compact device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple medium storage boxes are provided to store various kinds of bills, then the number of bill types that can be stored increases, but the size of the financial device increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of bill types storedVSAvoidsize of financial device

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple medium storage spaces are integrated into a single medium storage box, allowing different kinds of bills to be stored in different storage spaces within the same box. This merging approach enables the financial device to store multiple bill types without requiring multiple separate storage boxes, thereby maintaining a compact device size while increasing storage versatility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

A single pickup roller is designed to perform multiple functions by selectively picking up different kinds of bills from different medium storage spaces. The pickup roller can switch between serving different storage spaces based on which kind of bill needs to be dispensed, making one component serve multiple purposes and eliminating the need for separate pickup rollers for each storage box

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Device complexity

If a single pickup roller is used to pick up media from multiple storage spaces, then the device complexity decreases, but the mechanism for selectively picking up different media becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of pickup rollersVSAvoidselective pickup mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The pickup roller is designed to be movable relative to the supporting plates, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position to contact different medium storage spaces. This dynamic capability enables a single pickup roller to selectively serve multiple storage spaces by changing its position, maintaining simplicity in component count while achieving selective pickup functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

Supporting plates are introduced as intermediary elements between the medium storage spaces and the pickup roller. The supporting plates facilitate the selective pickup process by providing a structured interface that works with the movable pickup roller to enable easy access to different kinds of bills stored in different spaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP2600322B1Medium storage box

Publication Date: 2018.07.25 ATEC AP CO LTD

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AI summary

A medium storage box is provided. The medium storage box includes a first supporting plate for storing first medium, a second supporting plate spaced apart from the first supporting plate, for storing second medium, and a pickup roller, disposed between the first supporting plate and the second supporting plate, for selectively picking up one of the first medium and the second medium.