Development of A Simulation System for Sheet Transport Path

When developing sheet-handling machinery, it is important to be able to reliably predict the behaviour of the sheet. For automated teller machine, in particular, a dynamic analysis of the deformation of each sheet is needed to predict the behaviour of the sheets that will be fed at high speed. Accordingly, we have developed a simulation system that can predict the behaviour resulting from various sheet conditions by means of FEM. To predict the sheet behaviour with high accuracy and efficiency, we identified several sets of sheet conditions and guide configurations that likely cause problems by analysing the results of sheet transport tests. We also save an example of sheet path design for the sheet handling apparatus which proved that the simulation system is useful for designing sheet path.