Patent ID: 11030842

Abstract:
In a banknote handling apparatus capable of dealing with a depositing/dispensing process by a banknote cassette and a manual depositing/dispensing process, the banknote handling apparatus enables a depositing process without dispensing a reject banknote, which has been deposited from the banknote cassette, to the outside. A banknote accounting apparatus 22 capable of receiving a banknote from banknote feeding units (a banknote receiving unit 201a, a banknote cassette 30a) includes: a transport unit 230a configured such that the banknote feeding unit is connected thereto, the transport unit configured to transport a received banknote; a recognition unit 240a configured to recognize the banknote being transported; an apparatus-internal reject unit 224a configured to store a reject banknote inside the apparatus; an apparatus-external reject unit 22a configured to dispense a reject banknote outside the apparatus; a unit deciding part configured to decide the banknote feeding unit for feeding a banknote; and a control unit configured to decide, when the recognition unit recognizes a banknote having been received from the banknote feeding unit as a reject banknote, to which one of the apparatus-internal reject unit 224a and the apparatus-external reject unit 222a the reject banknote is transported, based on the banknote feeding unit having fed the banknote.