Development of an efficient page-turning mechanism for automated teller machines

Abstract

This paper describes an efficient page-turning mechanism for automated teller machines (ATMs). Conventional page-turning mechanisms are more complicated than the new mechanism that we have developed. The validity of the concept was confirmed using a newly-developed simulator the new mechanism. The mechanism concept is that a friction roller with a hollow elastic structure absorbs considerable structure deformation and produces optimal page turning force as a result. The simulation results we obtained demonstrated that the concept was good enough to provide an efficient page-turning mechanisms, and consequently designed a prototype of the mechanism and conducted experiments on it. The experimental results showed that the new page-turning mechanism is three times as fast as and has one twenty-fifth the failure rate of a conventional page-turning mechanism.