A cash storage apparatus including a housing which is arranged in a horizontal orientation state where a surface from which a cash storage case is pulled out or pushed out serves as a front surface, or in a vertical orientation state where this front surface serves as an upper surface, an open/close cover which is provided to be positioned on a portion of an upper surface or undersurface of the housing when the housing is in the horizontal orientation state and is opened frontward when the housing is in the vertical orientation state, a lock mechanism which individually locks the cash storage case and the open/close cover, and an open/close mechanism having a rotator which releases locking of the cash storage case by the lock mechanism when rotating in one direction and releases locking of the open/close cover by the lock mechanism when rotating in a reverse direction.

A dispenser shutter assembly for an automated teller machine and an associated method of preventing damage to a shutter operating mechanism of the dispenser shutter assembly. The dispenser shutter assembly includes: a shutter plate; and a shutter operating mechanism that includes a motor assembly including a drive shaft mounting a worm gear and attached to a frame member by a pivotable mounting. The worm gear is moveable out of engagement with the worm segment by pivoting the motor assembly away from the frame member about the pivotable mounting. When the shutter plate is subject to an external force for moving the shutter plate to open a shutter from a closed position, the external force thereby applied to the worm gear by the worm segment moves the worm gear about the pivotable mounting out of engagement with the worm segment thereby preventing damage to the shutter operating mechanism.

A valuable medium handling apparatus configured to handle a plurality of types of valuable media. The valuable medium handling apparatus includes an inlet configured to deposit the plurality of types of valuable media, a setting unit configured to set the types of the valuable media being handled by the apparatus as a first type or a second type, a determination unit configured to determine whether a type of each of the valuable media deposited in the inlet is the first type or the second type based on the setting result of the setting unit and determine whether the valuable medium determined as the first type is a genuine medium or a counterfeit medium, and a plurality of stackers configured to stack the valuable medium of the type determined by the determination unit, the plurality of stackers including a first stacker and a second stacker.

Provided is a money handling apparatus that can be easily introduced in a store. The money handling system includes: a money handling apparatus installed in a store and capable of executing basic functions including a checkout function; and a operation terminal connected to the money handling apparatus. When executing the checkout function, the money handling apparatus receives, through the operation terminal, an input of prices and quantities of items a customer purchases in the store, to calculate a transaction amount. The apparatus recognizes and counts money, which is deposited through an inlet for paying the transaction amount, to calculate a deposit amount of deposited money, and stores the deposited money inside the money handling apparatus. When the deposit amount exceeds the transaction amount, the money handling apparatus feeds out money corresponding to a difference therebetween, and dispenses the fed out money as change to an outlet.

In order to facilitate transfer of ownership of a huge amount of cash between a plurality of bases, a cash handling system includes: a cash handling apparatus configured to handle banknotes whose ownership is to be transferred between a first owner and a second owner, and generate cash data including serial numbers of the banknotes and attribute information regarding whereabouts of the banknotes; and a management apparatus configured to obtain the cash data from the cash handling apparatus, perform a process of transferring the ownership of the banknotes from the first owner to the second owner if the attribute information satisfies a condition that allows the second owner to own the banknotes, and perform a process of transferring the ownership of the banknotes from the second owner to the first owner on condition that the attribute information satisfies a condition that allows the first owner to own the banknotes.

Proceeds deposit machine has determination setting data containing correspondence between types of the coupons and information relating to necessity of authentication determination. A type determination unit determines the type of deposited coupon and then refers to the determination setting data. If yes has been set for the necessity of the authentication determination for the determined type of coupon, an authentication determination unit performs authentication determination. If the coupon is determined to be counterfeit as result of the authentication determination, the proceeds deposit machine discharges this coupon. If the coupon is determined to be genuine, proceeds deposit machine stores this coupon in one of sheet cassettes. If no has been set for the necessity of the authentication determination for the determined type of the coupon, proceeds deposit machine stores this coupon in one of the sheet cassettes without performing the authentication determination by the authentication determination unit.

A settlement apparatus contains a case body; a coin inserting slot, provided at the case body, which receives a deposited coin; a coin depositing/dispensing device, provided in the case body, which stores the deposited coin received through the coin inserting slot and dispenses the stored coin; and a concaved shape money placement portion, arranged at the case body, which has a money placement surface on which the deposited coin which is received by the coin inserting slot is temporarily placed, wherein the money placement surface is connected to the coin inserting slot in a width direction of the case body and is formed flatly, and the money placement portion is arranged across a center of the case body in the width direction.

A valuable medium processing apparatus that stores a valuable medium in a storage bag, the valuable medium processing apparatus having: a mounting sections, the storage bag being mounted on the mounting sections; an acquisition section that acquires recognition information attached to the storage bag, and mounting information of the mounting section to which the storage bag has been mounted; and an association section that associates the recognition information with the mounting information, the recognition information and the mounting information being acquired by the acquisition section.

A sheet storage apparatus (for example, banknote handling machine includes: a holding unit (for example, each holding member) configured to hold a storage bag in a state where an opening portion of a banknote storage bag is opened or in a state where the opening portion of the banknote storage bag is sealed; a regulation unit configured to selectively regulate access to the banknote storage bag held by the holding unit; and a control unit configured to control the regulation unit so as to allow access to the banknote storage bag held by the holding unit in a state where the opening portion of the banknote storage bag is opened when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

When a banknote cassette is taken out from a change machine installed in a store A in which a money handling apparatus is installed and is mounted to the money handling apparatus, the money handling apparatus specifies a store, stores banknotes, calculates a fee, and updates the proceeds from sales and the fee. In this case, since the store A in which the money handling apparatus is installed is specified, the fee is 0, and the proceeds from sales of the store A is updated. Meanwhile, when a banknote cassette is taken out from a change machine installed in another store B, a fee to be paid by the store B is calculated, and the proceeds from sales and the fee of the store B are updated.