Patent ID: 8978865
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: B07C,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
1. A money handling apparatus comprising: an inlet configured to receive money of a plurality of different currencies and to take the received money into an apparatus body; a plurality of outlets; a transport unit configured to transport, one by one, the money having been taken into the apparatus body from the inlet to the respective outlets; a recognition unit disposed on the transport unit and configured to recognize the money of different currencies; and a control unit configured to control the transport unit such that the money is sorted and delivered from the transport unit to the respective outlets, based on the money recognition result by the recognition unit; wherein in a first counting process: the control unit is configured to judge whether the currency of each money having been recognized by the recognition unit is assigned to any of the outlets, and when the currency of the money having been recognized by the recognition unit is assigned to any of the outlets, the control unit is configured to perform such a control that the money is transported to the assigned outlet, when the currency of the money having been recognized by the recognition unit is not assigned to any of the outlets, if there is an outlet to which no currency is assigned, the control unit is configured to perform such a control that the currency is assigned to the outlet and that the money is transported to the assigned outlet, and when the money having been sorted and delivered to the respective outlets are counted for the second time by the money handling apparatus, the control unit is configured to perform such a control that the money is sorted for each currency and for each denomination and delivered to the respective outlets.