Sheet processing system and sheet processing method

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  "publication_number": "US10059531B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Sheet processing system and sheet processing method",
  "abstract": "A sheet processing system comprising: a plurality of sheet processing apparatuses; a conveying unit conveying a container containing a plurality of sheets; a distribution unit for distributing the container to any one of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses; an identification information reading unit for obtaining identification information from the container; a communication unit for receiving information about the paper sheets contained in the container; and a controller for controlling a distribution destination of the container, on the basis of information about processing situations of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses, the identification information about the container, and the information about the sheets contained in the container.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A sheet processing method, comprising: receiving a container containing a plurality of sheets; obtaining identification information about the container from the container and obtaining information about the sheets contained in the container; and controlling a distribution destination of the sheets, on the basis of information about processing situations of a plurality of sheet processing apparatuses and the information about the sheets contained in the container, wherein the information about processing situations includes a number of receivable sheets, and the information about the sheets includes a number of the sheets.",
    "2. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sheets are distributed to any one of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses.",
    "3. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sheets are accumulated in any one of the sheet processing apparatuses.",
    "4. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein a vacant container is conveyed to a vacant container accumulation unit, and the conveyed container is distributed to any one of the sheet processing apparatuses.",
    "5. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein sheets having a requested specification are loaded to the container, and information capable of identifying the container is recorded to the container.",
    "6. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein sheets having a requested specification are loaded to the container, and information capable of identifying the container is recorded to the container, and the identification information about the container and a processing result are transmitted via a communication unit.",
    "7. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein sheets having a requested specification are loaded to the container, and the sheets are distributed to a delivery container accumulation unit in accordance with a delivery destination.",
    "8. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein information is receive and/or transmitted to/from an Automated Teller Machine of banknotes.",
    "9. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sheets are taken into the sheet processing apparatus automatically.",
    "10. The sheet processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sheet processing apparatus including a plurality of accumulation units, and performing fixing processing and auto assign processing whose type of accumulation sheet is automatically changed.",
    "11. A sheet processing method, comprising: receiving a container containing a plurality of sheets; obtaining identification information about the container from the container and obtaining information about the sheets contained in the container; selecting a sheet processing apparatus from a plurality of sheet processing apparatuses, on the basis of information about processing situations of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses and the information about the sheets contained in the container; conveying the sheets to the selected sheet processing apparatus; and processing the sheets in the selected sheet processing apparatus, wherein the information about processing situations includes number of receivable sheets, and the information about the sheets includes number of the sheets.",
    "12. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein the sheets are distributed to any one of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses.",
    "13. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein the sheets are accumulated in any one of the sheet processing apparatuses.",
    "14. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein a vacant container is conveyed to a vacant container accumulation unit, and the conveyed container is distributed to any one of the sheet processing apparatuses.",
    "15. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein sheets having a requested specification are loaded to the container, and information capable of identifying the container is recorded to the container.",
    "16. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein sheets having a requested specification are loaded to the container, and information capable of identifying the container is recorded to the container, and the identification information about the container and a processing result are transmitted via a communication unit.",
    "17. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein sheets having a requested specification are loaded to the container, and the sheets are distributed to a delivery container accumulation unit in accordance with a delivery destination.",
    "18. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein information is receive and/or transmitted to/from an Automated Teller Machine of banknotes.",
    "19. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein the sheets are taken into the sheet processing apparatus automatically.",
    "20. The sheet processing method according to claim 11, wherein the sheet processing apparatus including a plurality of accumulation units, and performing fixing processing and auto assign processing whose type of accumulation sheet is automatically changed."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "An embodiment of the present invention relates to a sheet processing system and a sheet processing method.\n\nIn the past, paper sheets contained in an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and the like are contained in a housing of an ATM cassette and the like taken out from the Automated Teller Machine and the like. In the past, a person such as an operator has to manually count the paper sheets contained in the housing of the ATM cassette and the like.\n\nTherefore, it used to be required to efficiently process the paper sheets contained in many housings (cases) collected from the Automated Teller Machine and the like.\n\nFIG. 1 is a figure illustrating how an ATM cassette 10 according to an embodiment is collected and distributed.\n\nFIG. 2 is a configuration diagram illustrating an example of the paper sheet cassette 10 according to the embodiment.\n\nFIG. 3 is a configuration diagram illustrating a paper sheet P contained in the paper sheet cassette 10 according to the embodiment.\n\nFIG. 4 is a perspective view illustrating a front view an Automated Teller Machine 200 according to the embodiment.\n\nFIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a back surface of the Automated Teller Machine 200 according to the embodiment.\n\nFIG. 6 is a configuration diagram illustrating the paper sheet processing apparatus 300 according to the embodiment.\n\nFIG. 7 is a functional configuration diagram illustrating a paper sheet processing apparatus 300 according to an embodiment.\n\nFIG. 8 is a configuration diagram illustrating an example of the paper sheet processing system 1 according to the embodiment.",
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  "assignees": [
    "Toshiba Corp"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Ayaka Nakanishi",
    "Hisashi Oosawa"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2017-06-27",
  "publication_date": "2018-08-28",
  "grant_date": "2018-08-28",
  "priority_date": "2015-09-09",
  "application_number": "US-201715633818-A",
  "family_id": "55696850",
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