A money handling apparatus is constituted by a mechanical processing unit configured to mechanically process money, and a manually-handled money storage unit for storing money by a manual handling. The mechanical processing unit includes an inlet for receiving money, a recognition and counting unit configured to recognize and count the money that has been received in the inlet, a mechanically-processed money storage unit configured to store the money, an outlet to which the money fed from the mechanically-processed money storage unit is discharged, and a money transport unit configured to connect these units and portions. The manually-handled money storage unit is not connected to the money transport unit of the mechanical processing unit, and has a structure in which money to be manually managed can be directly stored therein by hand and the stored money can be directly taken out therefrom by hand.

A banknote bundling apparatus includes a hopper that receives banknotes, a recognition unit that recognizes a banknote kind of the banknotes received by the hopper, a stacking unit in which bundling-object-banknotes are stacked based on the banknote kind recognized by the recognition unit, a bundling unit that forms a banknote bundle by bundling with a bundling tape the bundling-object-banknotes stacked in the stacking unit when the bundling-object-banknotes stacked in the stacking unit reaches a predetermined number, and a printing unit that prints information on the bundling tape to be used by the bundling unit.

A medium handling device is provided including a stage on which a rectangular shaped medium is stacked in an vertical direction, and a liquid spraying mechanism including plural liquid spray nozzles that extend along the vertical direction and that spray a liquid at a medium stacked on an upper face of the stage. The plural liquid spray nozzles are respectively provided at positions facing at least three side edges of the stacked medium, and each of the plural liquid spray nozzles is disposed so as to spray the liquid at a specific spray angle with respect to the respective facing side edge.

According to an embodiment, a money handling apparatus has an illuminating unit and a controller.

The illuminating unit illuminates a support that holds dispensed money by illuminating thereon with light emitted from a light emitting source. The controller turns on the light emitting source of the illuminating unit according to a timing in a money dispensing process.

A banknote processing apparatus including: one or more banknote storage boxes that store banknotes; an information management section that manages banknote management information including identification information for banknotes respectively stored in the one or more banknote storage boxes; a search information receiving section that receives input of search information including part of, or all of, identification information of a banknote to be searched for; a banknote search section that searches for a banknote matching the search information based on information being managed by the information management section; and a payout controller that effects control of feeding out and dispensing a detected banknote that has been detected by the banknote search section from the banknote storage boxes.

A banknote distribution method, a banknote distribution device and financial self-service equipment are provided. The method includes: acquiring the sequences and the corresponding denominations of banknotes of a plurality of mixed banknote boxes wherein banknotes with a plurality of denominations are stored in a mixed mode in the mixed banknote boxes and taken or stored in a stack mode; acquiring the number and the denomination of banknotes of a plurality of single banknote boxes wherein banknotes with only one denomination are stored in the single banknote boxes; acquiring a current banknote distribution limit; obtaining a banknote distribution result according to preset banknote distribution rules and the banknote distribution limit; and outputting the banknotes according to the banknote distribution results.

A media transaction device comprising: a device housing having a front panel; a media processor provided at an interior of the device housing; a media accommodating unit provided at an interior of the media processor; and a foreign matter sensor detecting absence/presence of a foreign object at the media accommodating unit. The front panel includes a first port for inserting and dispensing the media, and a first shutter opening and closing the first port. The media processor includes a second port disposed to face the first port, and a second shutter for opening and closing the second port. The media are inserted into and dispensed from the second port such that the media are inserted into and dispensed from the first port, and opening and closing of the first shutter and the second shutter are controlled based on detection results by the foreign matter sensor.

A coin processing apparatus configured to: cause a coin output conveying unit to collectively convey coins taken out for each denomination from a plurality of coin containers where the coins are housed in the respective coin containers for each denomination; and dispense the conveyed coins from a coin output port through a coin output shoot unit, the coin processing apparatus includes: a coin stay detecting sensor configured to detect a coin stay on a shoot face of the coin output shoot unit; a reporting unit configured to perform report output for abnormality; and a controller configured to cause the reporting unit to perform report output for coin stay abnormality in the coin output shoot unit when the coin stay detecting sensor detects the coin stay.

A money handling apparatus that handles money includes an inlet for taking in money; a money storing unit that stores therein the money; an outlet for dispensing the money; a money transport unit that transports the money between the inlet and the outlet, and the money storing unit; a money recognition unit that is provided to the transport unit and recognizes the money; a check receiving port for receiving a check; a scanner that scans the check to acquire a check image; a check transport unit that transports the check between the check receiving port and the scanner; a check recognition unit that recognizes check information that includes at least a check amount from the check image acquired by the scanner; and a control unit that dispenses money equivalent to an amount of difference between a transaction amount acquired from outside the money handling apparatus and a sum of the check amount and an amount of the deposited money.

An automatic transaction device includes: a customer service port that accumulates and holds bills so as to be accessible from a customer side; a shutter that closes a deposit/withdrawal port of the customer service port; a sensor that detects an abnormality of the shutter; a bill holding unit that holds accumulated bills, and changes a state in the customer service port from a state in which the bills can be accessed from the customer side to an inaccessible state; and a control unit that controls a change of state of the bill holding unit and an opening and closing operation of the shutter, wherein, in a case in which an abnormality of the shutter is detected, the control unit changes the state of the bill holding unit to the inaccessible state from the customer side.