Patent ID: 7770709

Claim:
A bill discriminating and counting apparatus comprising: a hopper which receives bills to be processed; a feeding and carrying section which feeds the bills received by said hopper one by one to a transport path and carries the bill; a discriminating and counting section which is provided on a downstream side of said feeding and carrying section, said discriminating and counting section discriminating denominations of the carried bills and counting the bills; a stacker which is provided on the downstream side of said discriminating and counting section, said stacker collecting the bills in which normality is confirmed; a plurality of various sensors which are provided in said transport path; and various actuators, wherein said bill discriminating and counting apparatus includes: a memory area in which pieces of output signal information on said various sensors and said various actuators are sequentially stored, said output signal information being generated in processes of carrying, discriminating, and counting the bill; a registration memory area in which an association between said output signal information and an error event is previously registered; a non-volatile memory; and a control section which, when a particular error event occurs, searches said registration memory area to specify output signal information associated with the particular error event, reads data concerning the specified output signal information from the memory area, the data having been stored in the memory area immediately before occurrence of the particular error event, and stores the read data concerning the specified output signal information and a code of the particular error event into the non-volatile memory.