Banking apparatus controlled responsive to data bearing records
View Patent ↗A banking system is controlled responsive, at least in part, to data read from data bearing records. The banking system includes an automated banking machine. The machine is operable to carry out a financial transaction responsive to a determination that data read from a data bearing record, such as a card that is read by a card reader in the machine, corresponds to stored information for an authorized user or financial account. The machine is operable to receive and dispense documents. The machine includes a check acceptor that is operative to receive checks and a cash dispenser that is operative to dispense cash. Document holding cassettes in the machine include circuitry that is wirelessly powered through inductive coupling. The machine can wirelessly read data from a cassette through use of induction.
1. Apparatus comprising:
an automated banking machine configured to operate responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers wherein the machine includes:
a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts,
a display, wherein the display is operative to provide outputs to machine users,
at least one processor associated with the machine, wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with the card reader and the display, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to operate to cause financial transfers involving accounts corresponding to the card data,
wherein the machine includes at least one sheet opening, wherein the at least one sheet opening is configured to at least one of receive sheets into the machine from machine users and dispense sheets from the machine to machine users,
a cassette, wherein the cassette is configured to hold a plurality of sheets within an interior area thereof, wherein the cassette is removably positionable within the machine,
wherein in an operative position within the machine the cassette is enabled to at least one of deliver sheets from the interior area and receive sheets into the interior area,
at least one first electrically powered coil within the machine, wherein in the operative position the at least one first coil is adjacent and external of the cassette,
wherein the cassette includes at least one electrically powered internal cassette circuit, wherein the at least one cassette circuit in at least one second coil, wherein in the operative position, electrical power usable in operation of the at least one cassette circuit is inductively produced in the at least one second coil responsive to the at least one first coil;
wherein the machine includes at least one driver circuit, wherein the at least one driver circuit includes the at least one first coil and at least one first capacitor;
wherein the at least one driver circuit is operative to use amplitude shift keying communicate data to the at least one cassette circuit by varying the magnetic field intensity of the at least one first coil, wherein the variation is of the magnetic field of the at least one first coil is detectable through the at least one second coil.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one processor and at least one data store.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one sensor.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one electrical actuator.
5. The apparatus according to claim 4
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one battery.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5
wherein the machine includes:
at least one driver circuit, wherein the at least one driver circuit includes the at least one first coil and at least one first capacitor,
wherein the at least one driver circuit is operative at a driver frequency near but other than a series resonant frequency of the at least one first capacitor and the at least one first coil.
7. The apparatus according to claim 6
wherein the at least en one driver circuit is operative to communicate first transmitted data to the at least one cassette circuit through the at least one first coil and the at least one second coil.
8. The apparatus according to claim 7
wherein the at least one driver circuit is operative to vary the magnetic field intensity of the at least one first coil, wherein the variation corresponds to the first transmitted data,
wherein the variation in magnetic field intensity causes detectable electrical changes in the at least one second coil,
wherein the first transmitted data is determinable through operation of the at least one cassette circuit.
9. The apparatus according to claim 7
wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to communicate second transmitted data from the cassette through the at least one second coil and the at least one first coil.
10. The apparatus according to claim 6
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes a rectifier, wherein the cassette circuit operates responsive to direct current (DC) power produced responsive at least in at to operation of the rectifier.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one second capacitor, wherein the at least one second capacitor is in operative connection with the at least one second coil,
wherein the at least one second coil and the at least one second capacitor have a parallel resonant frequency wherein the parallel resonant frequency is close to the series resonant frequency.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11
wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to communicate second transmitted data from the cassette through the at least one second coil and the at least one first coil.
13. The apparatus according to x claim 12
wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to vary the parallel resonant frequency,
wherein variation of the parallel resonant frequency corresponds to the second transmitted data,
wherein variation of the parallel resonant frequency causes detectable electrical changes in the at least one first coil,
wherein the second transmitted data is detectable through the at least one driver circuit.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13
wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes a selectively switchable capacitive load,
wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to vary the parallel resonant frequency through switching of the capacitive load in a manner that corresponds to a binary representation of the second transmitted data.
15. The apparatus according to claim 14
wherein the first transmitted data corresponds to at least one of a document type, a document quantity, a document property, document ownership, document handling responsibility, a public key of a first public/private key pair, and at least one device operation instruction, and
wherein the second transmitted data corresponds to at least one of a document type, a document quantity, a document property, a time value, a cassette identifier, a cassette property, cassette age, cassette cycles, cassette ownership, cassette history, a public key of a second public/private key pair, and at least one property of at least one sensor in the cassette.
16. The apparatus according to claim 15 wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to charge the battery.
17. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one data store includes data corresponding to documents in the cassette.
18. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one data store includes data usable to identify the cassette.
19. The apparatus according to claim 1
wherein the at least one driver circuit includes at least one of a driver processor and a FPGA operative to produce a square wave pulse signal, and a half-bridge MOSFET driver in operative connection with the at least one of the driver processor and FPGA,
wherein the square wave pulse signal is varied between two frequencies in manner that corresponds to a binary representation of the first transmitted data.
20. The apparatus according to claim 1
wherein data is transmitted at least one of to and from the cassette circuit through the at least one first coil and the at least one second coil.
21. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one battery, wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to charge the at least one battery.
22. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one cassette circuit includes at least one sensor.
23. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the et least one cassette circuit includes at least one circuit resonant frequency, wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to communicate data to the first coil through a variation of the circuit resonant frequency.
24. The apparatus according to claim 1
wherein the machine includes at least one circuit, wherein the at least one circuit includes the at least one first coil,
wherein the at least one circuit is operative determine if the at least one second coil is in proximity to the at least one first coil,
wherein the at least one circuit is operative to cause first data to be transmitted through the at least one first coil to the at least one cassette circuit, responsive at least in part to the determination.
25. The apparatus ac girding to claim 24 wherein the at least one cassette circuit is operative to transmit second data to the at least one circuit through the at least one second coil, responsive at least in part to the first transmitted data.