JP3161905B2 - Automatic page break mechanism - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to relates to an automatic form feed mechanism in a passbook processing devices that are commonly used in financial institutions banks and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a passbook processing apparatus, a printing unit prints unregistered print data and transaction print data in a passbook, and print data remains even after printing to the last line of a print page. In this case, the passbook is conveyed to the page change section, page turning is performed, and the remaining print data is printed. A conventional example of such an automatic page break mechanism will be described with reference to a schematic side view shown in FIG.

[0003] Reference numeral 10 a denotes a center shaft of the page feed roller 10, and an outer peripheral portion of the page feed roller 10 protrudes into the transport path 12. Reference numeral 16 denotes a light guide that is fixed to the rotating shaft 16a and is rotatable in the direction of the arrow by a solenoid (not shown). Reference numeral 17 denotes a left guide that is fixed to the rotating shaft 17a and is rotatable in the direction of the arrow by a solenoid (not shown). Has become. These right guides 16 are used for turning pages in the forward direction, and the left guides 17 are used for turning pages in the reverse direction, such as when turning over when turning too much or when it is determined that the page does not match when inserting. When a page is turned, an opening is formed in a part of the transport path 12.

A press roller 13 a is opposed to the page feed roller 10 and is rotatably supported at the tip of a roller arm 18. Reference numeral 18a is a fulcrum of the roller arm 18 and is configured so that the press roller 13a can be brought into close contact with the page feed roller 10 with a contact pressure F by a solenoid (not shown) or the like. Reference numeral 19 denotes a relief hole for operating the press roller 13a. 25 is a separator, not shown
This is to prevent the inside paper from being broken due to the paper being in contact with the outer peripheral portion of the page feed roller 10 and being caught by friction. Reference numeral 11 denotes a page / line detection sensor, which optically reads a page mark (not shown) attached to the page whose page has been changed, and judges the quality of the page whose page has been changed by the host device.

[0005]

However, in the automatic pagination mechanism having the above structure, a separator mechanism for preventing entanglement and a right guide (or a left guide, hereinafter referred to as a left guide) for forming an opening in a part of the conveyance path. Since the guide is omitted), it is necessary to increase the number of parts, and it is necessary to keep holding the solenoid or the like during the page break operation, and there is a problem in terms of power consumption. In addition, since the operation direction of the separator and the light guide is in the same space, it is necessary to devise the shape and the operation order. Furthermore, since the rotation guide of the light guide is centered on the position distant from the page break roller, the page break roller side is in an open state, so that the light guide is closed until it is conveyed to a position near the position immediately below the page break roller at the time of retraction. However, there is a problem that the transfer path becomes large because the transfer cannot be performed. The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems, and has an automatic pagination that has a simple configuration to prevent a page to be paginated from being caught, and that can reduce the power consumption of the apparatus and further reduce the size. The purpose is to provide a mechanism.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is directed to a rotating shaft provided on a transport path for transporting a passbook, and turning the passbook in a page-break direction and a transport direction.
A rotatable page break roller, a page break when and only possible press roller with pressing passbook to the page break roller during conveyance of the passbook, provided in the conveyance path, corresponding to the page to be turned over of the passbook
Position comprising a <br/> movable guide which is rotatably supported to construct an opening in which, after the raised turning the page turning of the passbook by rotating the page break rollers form feed direction, the form feed rollers Reverse
Conveying the passbook is rotated in the direction, in complete automatic form feed mechanism turns the pages by inverting the page turning, the form feed rollers
Is turned in the opposite direction to the page break direction to flip the page
When moving, move the movable guide to the rotation axis side of the page break roller.
Rotated as a rotation fulcrum, the page turned up and the page break
Controlled so that the roller does not touch
It is.

[0007]

With the above arrangement, the light guide also functions as a separator for preventing the page to be changed from being caught in the page, and the movable guide for closing the opening is rotated about the rotation axis of the page changing roller to open the opening. After turning up the page of the passbook and operating the movable guide to control the contact between the turned page and the page break roller, it is possible to prevent entanglement at the time of page break.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view showing an outline of a page feed mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the page feed mechanism of FIG. 1, and FIG. -A
It is an arrow view. FIG. 4 is a control block diagram showing a control system of the page feed mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention. Elements common to the drawings are assigned the same reference numerals. In the figure, a page break roller 10 is fixed by a center shaft 10a, and an outer peripheral portion of the page break roller 10 protrudes into a transport path 12. 3
Reference numeral 3 denotes a light guide that is rotatably supported around the center shaft 10a. Reference numeral 34 denotes a left guide, which is supported rotatably about the center shaft 10a similarly to the right guide 33, and can be opened and closed by about 135 degrees from a horizontal state as shown in the figure by a stepping motor 37 for guiding, which will be described later. I have. S3 and S4 detect the height of the inner sheet 2a which is turned up by an optical sensor provided in parallel with the transport path 12.

In this embodiment, two page feed rollers 10 are provided, and are fixed to the center shaft 10a.
The center shaft 10a is rotatably supported by a frame (not shown), and a driven gear 35 is fixed to one end. The driven gear 35 is engaged with a motor gear 36 fixed to the page feed motor 15 to enable the page feed roller 10 to rotate forward and reverse. Reference numeral 37 denotes a guide stepping motor. A motor gear 38 is fixed coaxially, and a sensor plate 39 is further attached. A cutout portion 39 a is provided in a part of the outer peripheral portion of the sensor plate 39. Numeral 40 denotes an optical sensor, which is fixed with a certain gap from the sensor plate 39, so that the optical axis passes through the cutout portion 39a. 41 is a guide drive gear and the center shaft 1
The shaft is rotatably supported at 0a and meshes with the motor gear 38.

A post 41a is fixed to a side of the guide drive gear 41 away from the center, and a light guide 33 is provided.
And extends to the page feed roller 10 side to a position where it engages with the support portion of the left guide 34. Reference numerals 33a and 34a denote limiters, which are fixed near the support portions of the right guide 33 and the left guide 34, respectively, and restrict one end of the torsion spring 42 inserted into the center shaft 10a. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 3, the right guide 33 is always rotated by the right rotation direction, and the left guide 34 is rotated by the left rotation direction.
The four support parts are closely attached. In addition, the right guide 33 and the left guide 34 are set to be horizontal in a close contact state, and a gear system is attached so that the cut portion 39a and the sensor 40 correspond to each other.

In FIG. 4, reference numeral 50 denotes a main controller which controls the overall operation of the page feed mechanism. A passbook type recognition unit 51 and a page break control unit 52 are connected to the main control unit 50. The passbook type recognizing unit 51 reads the type of passbook (for example, a general account passbook or an ordinary bank passbook) from the magnetic stripe 2c of the passbook 2, and recognizes a code assigned to the page mark 2a of each page of the passbook. This is to determine the processing page after the page break. Reference numeral 53 denotes an amplifier circuit for amplifying the detection signals of the optical sensors S3, S4, and 40, which is connected to the page break control unit 52. Reference numeral 54 denotes a driver circuit for driving motors, solenoids, and the like for conveying and rotating the page-break roller 10. Reference numeral 55 denotes a pulse count circuit that constantly counts the rotation amount (number of pulses) of the motors.

Next, a schematic side view showing the configuration of the passbook processing apparatus shown in FIG. 15 will be described. 1 is a passbook processor, 2 is a passbook to be processed, 3 is a passbook insertion / ejection port for inserting and discharging the passbook 2, 4 is a printing unit for printing on the passbook 2 by a print head 5, and 6 is a printing unit. The platen is provided to face the print head 5. Reference numeral 7 denotes a magnetic read / write unit for writing or reading magnetic information on the magnetic stripe of the passbook 2 by using a magnetic head 8; 9, a page feed unit for turning the page of the passbook 2 by a page feed roller 10; This is a page / line detection sensor that reads a page mark and a printed line. Reference numeral 12 denotes a transport path connecting the above components, which is constructed by an upper guide 12a and a lower guide 12b, and both guides 12a and 12b are fixed in parallel with each other. 13
Reference numeral denotes a transport roller provided at a constant gap in the transport path 12, which is configured to sandwich the passbook 2 from above and below, to be able to press and contact, and to be rotatable by the transport motor 14.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a page feed motor for driving the page feed roller 10 to rotate. The transport roller 13 can pinch, press-contact and open the bankbook 2 with a solenoid (not shown) or the like. S1 and S2 are sensors provided in the transport path 12 for detecting insertion of the passbook 2 and controlling the transport amount to each processing unit.

The operation of the passbook processing apparatus having the above configuration will be described. First, when a page to be processed in the passbook 2 is opened and inserted from the passbook insertion / ejection port 3, the insertion is detected by the sensor S 1, and the sheet is nipped by the transport roller 13. Subsequently, the sheet is conveyed to the magnetic read / write unit 7 by the rotation drive of the conveying motor 14,
Information such as an account number and name is read from the magnetic stripe 2c. At the same time, the information is transmitted to a center computer (not shown), and the page / line detection sensor 11 is scanned to read the page mark 2a and the printed line. The read information is compared with the data received from the center computer (page information and unrecorded print data). If there is no problem, the data is conveyed to the print unit 4 and printing processing is performed. Here, when an incorrect page is opened and inserted, for example, the page is returned to the page break section 9 and page turning is executed. (Note that the page turning operation will be described later in detail.) When a printing process is executed, and a print column is not present on the opened page of the passbook 2 and unrecorded print data remains, a page break is necessary. become. When there is no more data to be printed, the data is conveyed to the magnetic read / write unit 7, the information is updated to the magnetic stripe 2c, the passbook 2 is discharged to the passbook insertion / ejection slot 3, and the entire process is completed.

The page break operation of the embodiment having the above configuration will be further described with reference to the operation flowchart shown in FIG. 5 and the operation process explanatory diagrams shown in FIGS. 6 to 14. The bankbook 2 is conveyed to the inner page turning position shown in FIG. 6 and stopped (SA1). Next, when the guide motor 37 is rotated clockwise by a predetermined amount, the post 41 is rotated.
The light guide 33 as shown by the one-dot chain line in FIG.
Is opened (SA2), and at the same time, a solenoid (not shown) is excited and the passbook 2 is pressed against the page break roller 10 by the press roller 13a (SA3). With this operation, the passbook 2 comes into pressure contact with the outer peripheral portion of the page feed roller 10.

When the page-breaking motor 15 is rotated clockwise, the page-break roller 10 is rotated counterclockwise (SA4), and the inner sheet 2b is turned upward as shown by the broken line in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 8, the rotation is continued until the optical axis of the optical sensor S3 is shut off (hereinafter referred to as ON) (SA5). Optical sensor S
When 3 is turned on, the solenoid (not shown) is turned off, and the press roller 13a is separated from the passbook 2 (SA6).
This prevents the next page from being turned up. Subsequently, the page feed motor 15 is further rotated clockwise to be turned up above the page feed roller 10 as shown in FIG. 9 (SA7). If the optical sensor S3 does not turn on even after executing a certain amount of rotation operation, a time-out (SA8) occurs and the apparatus performs an error (S8).
A9) and stop.

Next, if it is detected that the optical sensor S4 has been jumped up to above the page feed roller 10 as shown in FIG. 9 by cutting off the optical axis of the optical sensor S4 (hereinafter referred to as ON) (SA1).
0), the rotation of the page feed roller 10 is stopped (SA1).
1). Subsequently, after the solenoid (not shown) is excited to operate the press roller 13a (SA12), the guide motor 3
When the torsion spring 42 is rotated to the left, the light guide 33 starts to rotate to the right by the action of the torsion spring 42. When the light guide 33 returns to almost 90 degrees as shown in FIG. 11 (SA14), and then starts the right rotation of the page feed roller 10 and the left rotation of the press roller 13a (SA15), the passbook 2 is shown in FIG. Is transported in the direction of arrow D. At this time, the right rotation operation of the light guide 33 is controlled to be performed in parallel, and the conveyance is stopped at a predetermined position as shown in FIG. (SA16). If the optical sensor S4 is not turned on, a timeout (SA17) occurs as in the case of the optical sensor S3, and the apparatus detects an error (SA17).
9).

The page turning operation of the passbook 2 is completed as described above, and thereafter, the page mark 2a is confirmed by the page / line detection sensor 11 and is conveyed to the next processing section. If the page / line detection sensor 11 determines that the page is turned too much, the left guide 34 is opened and the page return (reverse page) operation is performed in the same manner as described above, as shown in FIG. become. As described above, in the present embodiment, since the pulling-in operation can be performed without bringing the turned-up inner paper into contact with the page feed roller, the inner paper can be reliably turned.

[0019]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the page break roller is rotated in the page break direction to turn up the inner sheet of the passbook, and then the movable guide is rotated to rotate the page break roller. The inner paper is brought into a non-contact state, and the effect of preventing entanglement at the time of a page break can be realized without increasing a plurality of solenoids or power consumption. Further, since the rotation fulcrum of the movable guide is provided on the page break roller side, the conveyance amount for conveying the passbook to the rotation fulcrum side is sufficient when the binding portion of the passbook is almost immediately below the page break roller, so that the conveyance path can be shortened. There is an effect that downsizing of the device can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view showing an outline of a page breaking mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a page break mechanism according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a page break mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;
-A arrow view.

FIG. 4 is a control block diagram according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an operation flowchart of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing operation steps of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing operation steps of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing operation steps of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing operation steps of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing an operation process of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory view showing operation steps of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory view showing an operation process of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory view showing operation steps of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory view showing a reverse turning operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a schematic side view showing a passbook processing device.

FIG. 16 is a schematic side view showing a conventional mechanism of a page break section.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Passbook 2a Page mark 2b Inner paper 2c Magnetic stripe 2d Binding part 10 Page break roller 11 Page / line detection sensor 15 Page break motor 25 Separator 33 Right guide 34 Left guide 37 Guide stepping motor 39 Sensor plate 40 Optical sensor 52 Page break control unit 54 Driver circuit S3, S4 Optical sensor

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A transport path for transporting a passbook, a page feed roller fixed to a rotating shaft provided on the transport path and rotatable in a page feed direction for turning up the passbook and a transport direction,
A press roller capable of pressing the passbook against the page break roller at the time of page break and transport of the passbook; provided on the transport path , corresponding to a page to be turned of the passbook
A movable guide rotatably supported to construct an opening at a position, turning the page break roller in the page break direction to turn a page of a passbook, and then rotating the page break roller in the reverse direction Conveying the passbook and turning over the page in the automatic page breaking mechanism to complete the page turning, when turning the page breaking roller in the direction opposite to the page breaking direction to turn the page, Move the movable guide to the page break row
An automatic page-breaking mechanism, wherein the page-turning roller is rotated so as to rotate around the rotation shaft side of the roller so that the turned-up page does not contact the page-breaking roller. 2. A driving means for driving so as to be engaged predetermined angle range rotation in a part of the movable guide, biasing means for said movable guide acts to close the constantly open portion, the form feed rollers 2. The automatic page break mechanism according to claim 1, comprising a press roller and control means for controlling said driving means. 3. When the page break roller is rotated in the direction opposite to the page break direction to turn over the page, the closing operation of the opening by the movable guide also starts in parallel, and the conveyance is completed. 2. The automatic page breaking mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the opening is closed by the movable guide. 4. The automatic page break mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the movable guide is provided on the left and right around the page break roller, and is opened and closed by the same drive source.