Modular Banknote Deposit System With Extracted Transport Mechanisms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automatic banknote deposit and withdrawal systems are complex, expensive, and require high reliability and safety, with high operational costs due to the complexity of the modules and mechanisms, and pose challenges in easy operation and tamper prevention.
Innovation Solution
A banknote processing system with a store-safe and modular design, where banknotes are stored in removable cartridges within receipting and dispensing modules, featuring a transport mechanism and security features to ensure safe and efficient operation, including a recycling container for banknotes, which are easy to use and maintain, with anti-effraction features and cost-effective solutions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If receipting or dispensing modules have onboard moving mechanisms for introducing and extracting banknotes, then the modules can execute recycling functions, but the modules become complex and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into two functional parts: a stationary equipment containing the moving mechanisms for introducing and extracting banknotes, and removable receipting/dispensing modules containing only storage containers. This segmentation allows the complex recycling functions to be performed by the stationary equipment while the modules remain simple storage units, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The moving mechanisms (introduction and extraction devices) are extracted from the removable modules and placed in the stationary equipment. The modules retain only the essential storage function, eliminating unnecessary complexity while preserving the recycling capability through the stationary equipment's mechanisms.
2Volume of moving object
If modules have high storing capacity and limited dimensions with horizontal banknote stacking, then the modules are compact, but the weight of the structure and mechanisms is high requiring relevant physical effort
Solution Approach 1:
The heavy moving mechanisms are extracted from the modules and placed in the stationary equipment. The modules contain only lightweight storage containers for banknotes, dramatically reducing their weight and the physical effort required for mounting and removal while maintaining high storing capacity through optimized container design.
3Reliability
If multiple spare modules are necessary to ensure service continuity, then the reliability is improved, but the overall cost of installation increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the system into a stationary equipment with expensive moving mechanisms and multiple identical removable modules with simple storage containers, the cost of spare modules is dramatically reduced. Only the inexpensive containers need to be replicated, not the entire module with mechanisms, thereby maintaining reliability through multiple spares while controlling overall installation cost.
4Ease of operation
If modules are removable for loading and emptying operations, then the ease of operation is improved, but the risk of effractions or unauthorized operations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The stationary equipment acts as an intermediary between the removable modules and the external environment. All loading and emptying operations must occur through the stationary equipment's controlled interfaces (introduction and extraction devices), which can monitor and record operations. This mediator role maintains ease of operation while preventing direct unauthorized access to the modules themselves.
Data Source
AI summary
Equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes (31 ) comprising a store safe (36) and a series of banknote receipting and dispensing modules or boxes (32-1, 32-2,... 32-N), and in which each module comprises a collecting seat (78) and an insertion and extraction device (79) for the banknotes. The receipting and dispensing modules or boxes are mounted with individual possibility of shifting in the store safe between an internal operative position and an external service position. At least one of the receipting and dispensing modules (32n) is a removable module and includes a container or recycling cartridge (111 ). The recycling container is removable and is assemblable with respect to the insertion and extraction device (79) in the position of service of the module and defines the collecting seat for lodging a stack (83), with arrangement of the banknotes (83) substantially in vertical.