Patent ID: 7458506

Claim:
A bill handling apparatus for handling bills each having an IC chip which holds unique discriminative information, the bill handling apparatus comprising: a manipulating unit for selecting the type of transaction to be done by a customer; a controller for recognizing the type of the transaction selected with the manipulating unit; a conveying path for conveying the bills; a bill discriminator for reading surface information on the bills conveyed over the conveying path and performing true/false determination of the bills; a wireless IC reader for reading discriminative information held by the IC chips of the bills being conveyed on the conveying path; and a memory unit for storing a first bill management table and a second management table, wherein said first bill management table registers the discriminative information obtained from the IC chips through said the wireless IC reader, information on a result of discrimination of bills through said bill discriminator, and transaction information including a type of transaction by the customer, the discriminative information, and the information on the result of discriminative information, and the information on the result of discrimination being obtained ever time the bill passes through said the wireless IC reader and said bill discriminator, wherein the same information can be registered a plurality of times in said first bill management table, wherein said second management table registers said discriminative information, the result information, and the transaction information from said first bill management table of which the information is rearranged in sequence of the discriminative information without duplication of the same discriminative information, and wherein said discriminative information, the result information, and the transaction information are searchable by a processing means for tracing the bill.