Patent ID: 7014105
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A bill handling machine for handling bills, which is operated by a user, comprising: a deposit/withdraw port configured to allow a deposit of bills and a return of the deposited bills; a discrimination component configured to check the authenticity of bills; a conveyance component for conveying bills to the discrimination component; a temporary stacker for temporarily holding bills that have undergone a discrimination process; a storage box for storing bills; and a control component, wherein: the control component is configured to control the conveyance component so that bills discriminated as genuine bills by the discrimination component are conveyed to the temporary stacker and bills discriminated as reject bills are conveyed directly to the deposit/withdraw port without going through the temporary stacker, and the control component further is configured to control the discrimination component and the conveyance component so that the reject bills conveyed again to the deposit/withdraw port and the bills discriminated as genuine bills conveyed to the temporary stacker are conveyed to the discrimination component for re-discrimination while a shutter of the deposit/withdraw port is closed, when certain conditions for re-discrimination are met, and the bills conveyed to the discrimination component are checked again, and the control component is further configured to convey bills discriminated as reject bills in the re-discrimination process to the deposit/withdraw port, open the shutter of the deposit/withdraw port so as to return the reject bills to the user, present the re-discrimination results to the user, carry out a deposit process for depositing bills re-discriminated as genuine bills in response to a deposit command entered by the user, and convey the bills discriminated as genuine bills in the re-discrimination process from the temporary stacker to the storage box for storage.