Patent ID: 7694797

Claim:
A printed note deposit machine, comprising: a user recognition unit identifying a user with an authenticated person; an inlet unit serving as a receiving teller in which printed notes are deposited; a dispensing unit receiving printed notes deposited in the inlet unit to dispense them in sequence; an identifying unit classifying the dispensed printed notes into four categories of authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, unidentifiable notes, and rejected notes; a temporary money holder for temporarily storing therein the printed notes identified and classified in the identifying unit as authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, and unidentified notes with all other printed notes classified as rejected notes with the rejected notes segregated from said temporarily stored printed notes; a plurality of storage cells provided inside the machines, respectively, for storing said printed notes which have been temporarily stored in the temporary month holder with said plurality of storage cells having a predetermined storage cell assigned for separately capturing counterfeit notes; and a rejection unit for accumulating the printed notes which have been identified and classified as rejected notes by the identifying unit for return to a user, wherein authenticated notes temporarily stored in the temporary money holder are stored in any of the plurality of the storage cells other than said predetermined storage cell for return to a user in response to an instruction to return the deposited printed notes and wherein the counterfeit and unidentifiable notes temporarily stored in the temporary money holder remain captured in the predetermined storage cell of the plurality of the storage cells for further examination, such that counterfeit notes deemed to be counterfeit are never returned to the user and may be used as proof that such notes are counterfeit.