Patent ID: 7886914
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A received banknote processing apparatus for performing banknote reception processing by sequentially separating and feeding one by one banknotes of each banknote receiving transaction which are placed on a hopper, the received banknote processing apparatus comprising: a denomination discrimination means for discriminating a denomination of each of the banknotes; a fitness determination means for determining whether each of the banknotes is a usable banknote or a damaged banknote as a fitness of the banknotes; a count means for counting a number of the banknotes having the respective discriminated denominations, a number of the banknotes which are determined as usable banknotes, and a number of the banknotes which are determined as damaged banknotes; a memory means for storing the counted number of the banknotes having the respective discriminated denominations, the counted number of the banknotes which are determined as usable banknotes, and the counted number of the banknotes which are determined as damaged banknotes; a plurality of stackers for accommodating the banknotes having the respective denominations, the usable banknotes, and the damaged banknotes of the counted banknotes; a failure detection means for detecting an occurrence of a failure while the banknote reception processing is being performed; an information means for informing that the occurrence of the failure is detected by the failure detection means; a failure recovery processing means for recovering numbers of accommodation of banknotes of the stackers to respective numbers of accommodation accepted in the stackers at an end of a last transaction before the failure occurred; and a recovery mode switching means for starting the failure recovery processing means, wherein, when the occurrence of the failure is informed by the information means while banknotes of a second or subsequent banknote receiving transaction are being subjected to the banknote reception processing, the recovery mode switching means starts the failure recovery processing means, the failure recovery processing means, for each denomination, causes the received banknote processing apparatus to sequentially separate and feed one by one all the banknotes placed in sequence from the stackers on the hopper again, causes the denomination discrimination means to discriminate the denominations of the banknotes, causes the fitness determination means to determines the fitness of the banknotes, causes the stackers to accommodate the banknotes being discriminated by denomination and being determined by fitness, and causes the counts means to count the number of the accommodated banknotes, and wherein, when the number of the banknotes being accommodated in any one of the stackers reaches the corresponding counted number of the banknotes being accommodated in the stacker which is stored to the memory means, the failure recovery processing means accommodates the banknotes having the same denomination as the banknotes accommodated in the one stacker in another stacker being allocated to the denomination regardless of a result of the fitness determination; when the number of the banknotes being accommodated in the another stacker reaches the corresponding counted number of the another stacker which is stored to the memory means, the failure recovery processing means subsequently accommodates any remaining banknotes having the same denomination in the stackers for the usable banknotes and the damaged banknotes having the denomination according to the fitness determination; and failure recovery processing is performed by repeating the above processing to all of the denominations.