Patent ID: 8356747

Claim:
A banknote deposit transaction apparatus that confirms a number of deposited banknotes in continuous deposit transactions on a per transaction basis, the banknote deposit transaction apparatus comprising: an inlet port for depositing a plurality of banknotes; a transporting unit that feeds and transports, one by one, the banknotes deposited into the inlet port; a bundling-object-banknote stacking unit that sequentially sorts and stacks banknotes of a specific denomination that are bundling-object-banknotes among the banknotes that are sequentially transported by the transporting unit; a bundling-object-banknote counting unit that counts a number of the bundling-object-banknotes that are sorted and stacked in the bundling-object-banknote stacking unit as a number of unconfirmed deposited banknotes; a banknote bundling unit that, when the number of bundling-object-banknotes that are sorted and stacked in the bundling-object-banknote stacking unit reaches a predetermined number, bundles the predetermined number of the bundling-object-banknotes; a tentative confirming unit that performs a tentative confirmation of the number of unconfirmed deposited banknotes in a current transaction among the banknotes that are to be bundled, at a timing of bundling of the predetermined number of bundling-object-banknotes; and a confirming unit that, upon detecting an operation for ending a transaction, confirms a total of the number of tentatively confirmed deposited banknotes and the number of unconfirmed deposited banknotes in the current transaction as a total number of banknotes deposited in the current transaction, and performs recording and management of the number of stacked banknotes that are stacked in the bundling-object-banknote stacking unit as a number of loose banknotes of a previous transaction.