Automatic money transaction machine
US7314160B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 25, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jan 1, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 27, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07D11/175
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An automatic money transaction machine, which is small in size, to be able to detect a state of a tear in a bill with good accuracy and gives good service and no discomfort to a customer, includes a receipt/payment opening 4, a discriminating unit 6, a temporary accumulation section 8, and a bill discriminating device 20 for discriminating a state of a bill. The bill discriminating device 20 includes an energizing drive device provided on a conveyance path 5 between the receipt/payment opening 4 and the temporary accumulation section 8 for application of tensile or compressive forces in a direction horizontally perpendicular to a direction of conveyance in a plane of a bill, and a bill image acquiring device 53, such as image sensors, imagers or the like, provided close to the energizing drive device for acquiring an image of a bill, to which tensile or compressive forces are applied by the energizing drive device. A state of a bill is distinguished on the basis of bill image data acquired by the bill image acquiring device 53, and gates 7A, 7B are switched over in accordance with the distinguishing result and the result from the discriminating unit 6.
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