CHANGE REPLENISHMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Main Authors: NISHIDA, KOICHI, IWATA, TSUTOMU, SHIMIZU, KAZUYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 01.12.2010
• Subjects: CHECKING-DEVICES; HANDLING OF COINS OR OF PAPER CURRENCY OR SIMILAR VALUABLEPAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING,DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING; PHYSICS; REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS

This invention provides a change refill and management system, which can substantially reduce the initial cost for a coin-roll management apparatus, even in the case in which a plurality of register units are provided in the system. The change refill and management system related to this invention includes: a coin-roll management apparatus (20) capable of storing therein coin rolls of a plurality of denominations; and a plurality of register units (10), each register unit (10) including at least a change machine (14) or drawer, more than one register unit (10) being provided to the one coin-roll management apparatus (20) in the vicinity of this coin-roll management apparatus (20). The coin-roll management apparatus (20) includes a coin-roll-total-amount detection unit (22a) for detecting the total amount of money of the coin rolls stored in each coin-roll drawer (23, 24, 25) provided to this coin-roll management apparatus (20). Each of the register units (10) includes a coin-refill-information detection unit (14c) for detecting refill information on the coins refilled to the change machine (14) or drawer of this register unit (10). Further, each of the register units (10) is connected, for communication, with the coin-roll management apparatus (20).