CURRENCY PROCESSING MACHINE

• Main Author: NISHIDA KOICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.10.2020
• 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

To provide a currency processing machine and a currency processing method, allowing an operator to easily recognize information relating to currency stored in a storage bag and any other various pieces of information only by viewing the appearance of the storage bag.SOLUTION: A currency processing machine (for example, a bill processing machine 10) includes: mounting units 32 each of which mounts a storage bag (for example, a storage bag 34) for storing currency (for example, bills); sealing units 38 each of which seals an opening of the storage bag mounted on the mounting unit 32; an identification unit 26 that identifies currency to be stored in the storage bag mounted on the mounting unit 32; a setting unit 40 that sets a sealing method of the opening of the storage bag by selecting it from a plurality of sealing methods on the basis of the identification result by the identification unit 26; and a control unit 50 that controls the sealing unit 38 to seal the opening of the storage bag mounted on the mounting unit 32 on the basis of the sealing method set by the setting unit 40.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】収納袋の外観を見ただけで当該収納袋に収納されている貨幣に関する情報や他の様々な情報を操作者が容易に認識することができる貨幣処理機および貨幣処理方法を提供する。【解決手段】貨幣処理機（例えば、紙幣処理機１０）は、貨幣（例えば、紙幣）を収納する収納袋（例えば、紙幣収納袋３４）が装着される装着部３２と、装着部３２に装着されている収納袋の開口を封止する封止部３８と、装着部３２に装着されている収納袋に収納されるべき貨幣を識別する識別部２６と、識別部２６による識別結果に基づいて、収納袋の開口の封止方法を複数の封止方法から選択して設定する設定部４０と、設定部４０により設定された封止方法に基づいて装着部３２に装着されている収納袋の開口を封止させるよう封止部３８を制御する制御部５０とを備えている。【選択図】図１