JP3095644B2 - Automatic toll collection device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic toll collection device installed at a tollgate such as a toll road.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, an automatic toll collection device that automatically collects tolls for vehicles installed at tollgates such as toll roads is provided.
Receipt of change, receipts, and the like is performed at each payout port and payout port provided on the front panel of the automatic toll collection device.

FIG. 6 is an external view showing an example of a conventional automatic toll collection device. In FIG. 6, each payout port and payout port are provided in the upper and lower rows, respectively. A attached after the numeral of each code indicates an upper row, and B indicates a lower row.

[0006] In FIG. 6, reference numeral 50 denotes an apparatus main body;
A and 51B are coin insertion slots, 52A and 52B are bill insertion slots, 53A and 53B are card insertion slots, and 54A and 54B are coupon insertion slots. Passengers (drivers)
Perform the payment operation at the corresponding entrance. Also,
55A and 55B are change bill payout outlets, 56A and 56B are change coin and receipt payout outlets, and the driver receives change or receipts at dedicated payout outlets in the same manner as in the case of payment. 57A and 57B are toll display devices for displaying tolls corresponding to the vehicle type determined by a vehicle type determination device (not shown). 58A and 58B are input fee display devices for displaying the amount of input by the driver.

[0005] A passing driver stops the vehicle so that his / her driver's seat approaches the collection device, and usually, the upper or lower operation port near the height of the driver's seat while sitting in the driver's seat. They pay more and receive change.

[0006]

In the conventional apparatus having the above-described structure, since there are a plurality of operation ports for collecting the toll, a series of operations are particularly confused for an unfamiliar driver. In other words, the time required to understand the positions of the payout ports and the payout ports and the time spent for the operation thereof become enormous.

Although these operation ports are arranged at a plurality of levels and at a fixed height position of the apparatus main body, the types of automobiles that have recently passed are extremely diversified, and the height of the driver's seat is higher or lower. Some models do not fit either.
As described above, when there is a difference in the height of the driver's seat depending on the type of vehicle passing therethrough, or when the stop position in the width approaching direction is located farther than the operation unit of the receiving device due to inexperienced driving, etc. The operation unit may not be reachable,
The charge collection operation was extremely complicated. In the worst case, there is a problem that the driver must get off the car and perform a series of operations.

An object of the present invention is to provide the following automatic toll collection device. (A) A plurality of toll collections can be made at a common payout port or a common payout exit without being confused at the time of the toll collection operation.
How to process quickly and quickly
The driver sits in the seat even if the stop position
An automatic toll collection device that can easily perform toll collection operations .

(B) An automatic toll collection device that allows a driver to easily perform a toll collection operation while sitting in a seat, even if the height of the driver's seat differs depending on the type of passing vehicle .

[0010]

In order to solve the above problems and achieve the object, an automatic toll collection device according to the present invention is configured as follows. (1) An automatic toll collection device of the present invention is an automatic toll collection device that automatically collects tolls at a tollgate such as a toll road. A front panel having a payout port, a common payout port for receiving returnable goods such as change bills, change coins, and receipts, a discriminating processing means for discriminating and processing each type of the value and returnable goods; conveying means for conveying the of value and the return prepared by discrimination processing by discriminating processing means of the centering direction of the traveling vehicles the front panel
Forward / backward movement mechanism that enables forward / backward movement depending on the stop position
And is composed of (2) the electronic toll collection system of the present invention, the vertical movement mechanism The apparatus according to (1), and in accordance with the front panel to the height of the driver's seat of the traveling vehicles, and vertically movable It has .

[0011]

As a result of taking the above-mentioned means (1) and (2) , the following effects are produced. (1) In the automatic toll collection device of the present invention, the front panel is provided with a common payout port and a common payout port, so that it can handle several types of values such as bills, coupons, cards, coins, and the like for payment. Many slots, change bills,
Change coins, a number of discharge opening which has been provided corresponding to the return of the receipt and the like, are aggregated into one single Dzu respectively. As a result, a plurality of toll collections can be made at the common payout port or the common payout port, without being confused at the time of the toll collection operation, the operability is significantly improved, and the operation can be quickly performed within a short time. In addition, the width of the vehicle passing through the front panel
Can move back and forth depending on the stop position of
In the front panel that performs the toll collection operation,
Move to a position in the width adjustment direction that is easy for the driver of the car to operate.
Can be For this reason, compared to the conventional stationary type,
The fare collection operability can be greatly improved. (2) In the automatic toll collection device of the present invention, the front panel can be moved up and down according to the height of the driver's seat of the passing vehicle. There is no need to arrange a plurality of operation units, and a single-stage operation unit can be sufficiently used. In addition, the front panel that performs the toll collection operation can be set at a height that is easy for the driver of the passing car to operate, so that the toll collection operability is greatly improved as compared with the conventional fixed stationary type. . Furthermore, the up-down movement mechanism is the same
By setting them together, we will dramatically improve toll collection operability.
Can be

[0012]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing the configuration of an automatic toll collection device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an apparatus main body, and 2 denotes a front panel. The front panel 2 is mounted on the apparatus main body 1 through windable shutters 3a and 3b and bellows 4. Thus, the front panel 2 is moved up and down (arrow Y) by the shutters 3a and 3b.
In addition to being movable in the directions a and Yb), the bellows 4 are also capable of moving in the front-rear direction (directions of arrows Za and Zb).

The front panel 2 is provided with a payout port 5 for the driver to pay a toll and a payout port 6 for receiving change and receipt. Further, indicators 7a and 7b, push buttons 8a and 8b, a telephone set 9, a contact sensor 10, and a vehicle position detection sensor 11 are arranged as shown in the figure.

The payout port 5 guides coins and bills, cards, coupons and the like to be inserted or inserted by the driver to a coin sorting machine (not shown), bills, cards and coupon identification units, respectively. The payout port 6 returns to the driver a change paid out from a change coin payout unit (not shown) and a change bill paying machine, a receipt issued from a receipt issuing machine, and the like.

The display 7a displays a toll amount set for each vehicle type determined by a vehicle type determination device (not shown), and the display 7b displays a toll amount entered by the driver.
The push button 8a is a receipt issue push button, and a receipt is issued from the payout port 6 when the driver presses it as needed. The push button 8b is a clerk call button, and when the driver presses the button, the driver is connected to a clerk via the telephone 9 so that two-way communication can be performed.

The contact sensor 10 is a sensor composed of a tape switch or a limit switch for detecting contact with a vehicle, and the vehicle position detecting sensor 11 detects the distance from a vehicle to which a toll is paid by light or ultrasonic waves. It is a distance sensor.

FIG. 2 is a structural diagram showing more specifically the arrangement and configuration of each mechanism in the automatic toll collection device shown in FIG. The same parts as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals. However, the shutters 3a and 3b and the bellows 4 shown in FIG. 1 are not shown in FIG.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 12 denotes an up-down moving frame for moving the front panel 2 in the up-down direction (directions of arrows Ya and Yb). Sprockets 13a, 13b, 13c, 1
3d (13d is not shown) is arranged. A chain 14 having one end fixed to the upper part of the vertical moving frame 12 and the other end connected to the lower part of the moving frame 12 is looped by these four sprockets 13a to 13d. As shown in FIG. 2, a sprocket 13 c provided at a lower portion of the apparatus main body 1 is connected to a motor 15. Therefore, by rotating the motor 15, the chain 14 is transferred in the forward or reverse direction via the sprockets 13a to 13d, and thereby the vertical moving frame 12 is moved.
Moves up and down.

Further, a pair of slide rails 16 for slidingly moving the front panel 2 in the front-rear direction (the directions of arrows Za and Zb) are attached to the up-and-down moving frame 12 on both inner side surfaces. A motor 17 provided below the vertical moving frame 12
When the ball screw 18 rotates forward or backward, the front panel 2 moves forward and backward.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 2, an identification unit 19 for identifying and storing bills, cards, coupons and the like, and a coin to be inserted are transported inside the front panel 2 at a position corresponding to the payout slot 5 as shown in FIG. Conveyor 20 is mounted. At a position corresponding to the payout port 6, a change bill dispensing machine 21, a receipt issuing machine 22, and a conveyor 23 for transporting change coins are mounted.

A coin discriminator 24 installed at the lower portion of the apparatus main body 1 discriminates and stores "true" and "false" coins to be inserted. The shader 25 attached to the upper part of the coin discriminator 24 guides inserted coins to the coin discriminator 24, and has a multi-cylinder structure that can be extended and contracted. The change coin dispensing unit 26 installed on the upper part of the apparatus main body 1 is a change coin dispensing unit of 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, and 500 yen.
Numeral 7 is for guiding the change coins downward, and has a multi-cylinder structure that can be extended and contracted.

FIGS. 3 to 5 are explanatory views of the mechanism of the automatic toll collection device as viewed from the right side of FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG.
4 shows the structure of the up / down / back-and-forth moving mechanism, FIG. 4 shows the structure of the fee processing mechanism, and FIG. The same parts as those in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

A description will now be given of the up / down / forward / backward moving mechanism shown in FIG. 3, the shutters 3a and 3b have their winding sides fixed to the apparatus main body 1 and their moving sides fixed to the vertical moving frame 12, respectively. The bellows 4 has a vertically movable frame 12 on one side.
The other side is fixed to the front panel 2. The two vehicle position detection sensors 11 (one in FIG. 3) are fixed to the lower left and right of the front panel 2, respectively. The contact sensor 10 is also fixed to the lower front part of the front panel 2. Each of the sprockets 13a to 13d is rotatably mounted in the apparatus main body 1 and has both ends meshed with a chain 14 fixed to the upper and lower ends of the vertical moving frame 12, respectively. Further, a motor 15 for vertical movement is connected to the sprocket 13c so as to be rotatable.

On the other hand, the slide rail 16 is
The moving side is guided while supporting its own weight, and the fixed side is fixed to the vertical moving frame 12 and the moving side end is fixed to the front panel 2. The geared motor 17 for forward and backward movement is attached to the rear part of the vertically movable frame 12 and rotates the ball screw 18. 18a is a ball nut, 18
Reference numeral b denotes a support frame. One end of the support frame 18b is fixed to the ball screw 18a, and the other end is fixed to the front panel 2.

The operation of the moving mechanism of the automatic toll collection device will be described with reference to the configuration diagram of FIG. In a standby state of the apparatus, that is, when there is no passing vehicle at the tollgate where the apparatus is installed, the front panel 2
Is stored in the vertical movement frame 12 up to a position substantially in line with the front surface of the frame. The vertical movement frame 12 is maintained at a height position of a passing vehicle (for example, a position as shown in the figure).

When the toll collection is performed from this standby state, first, the type of the passing vehicle is determined by a vehicle type determination device (not shown) installed in front of each gate of the tollgate, and a toll is set. At the same time, the driver's seat height depending on the vehicle type is also detected.

Based on the detected driver's seat height position information, the automatic toll collection device drives the up / down moving motor 15 and the chain 14 and the sprockets 13a, 13a.
b, 13c, 13d, the vertical movement frame 12 is moved to the arrow Ya.
Or it is moved up and down in the Yb direction. The movement amount (height) is detected by a detector (a potentiometer or the like) not shown, and when the set height is reached, the motor 15 is stopped, and at the same time, a brake (not shown) is operated.

Next, the position of the vehicle stopped in order to collect the toll in the width direction is detected by a vehicle position detecting sensor 11 provided on the front panel 2, and is detected at a position equal to or larger than a preset position (for example, a distance that is easy for the driver to operate). If there is a distance, the front-rear movement motor 17 is driven, and the front panel 2 is advanced (Za direction) via the ball screw 18, the ball nut 18a and the support frame 18b. Then, when the motor 17 reaches the set position, the motor 17 is stopped, and at the same time, a brake (not shown) is operated.

The front panel 2 can be set to a height and a width approaching direction that can be reached by the driver sitting on the seat by the vertical moving mechanism and the front and rear moving mechanism. afterwards,
The driver performs a predetermined toll collection operation and can leave the toll booth. The exit detection of the automobile is detected by a starting device provided at a gate exit (not shown), and upon receiving this signal, the motor 17 of the forward / backward movement mechanism is reversed to retreat the front panel 2 to the standby position described above (Zb). Direction) and wait in this state until the next passing vehicle comes.

Note that the above-described control of the up / down and forward / backward movement is automatically performed by a control device (not shown). In addition, the contact sensor 10 normally keeps the distance between the car and the front panel 2 at a certain position within a range easily accessible by the car position detection sensor 11 when moving back and forth. If the detection is not possible, the emergency stop sensor detects that the front panel 2 has come into contact with the vehicle, and stops or avoids the operation (moves in the Zb direction). The shutters 3a and 3b and the bellows 4 are provided to protect the internal devices of the apparatus main body 1 from external dust and the like. The shutters 3a and 3b are automatically wound as the front panel 2 moves up and down. Taken or rewound. In addition, the bellows 4 expands and contracts with the forward and backward movement.

Next, the charge processing mechanism shown in FIG. 4 will be described. In FIG. 4, the fee payout port 5 is composed of a bill, a card insertion port 5a and a coin insertion port 5b. The identification unit 19 includes a coupon processing machine 19a, a card (highway card) processing machine 19b, a bill validator 19c, a belt 19d, and an insertion slot 19e. The coupon, card or bill inserted from the insertion slot 19e is a belt 19d.
, And are conveyed to and processed by the processing machine and the identification machine, respectively.

The telescopic shooter 25 has a fixed side fixed to the coin discriminator 24 and a movable side fixed to the vertical moving frame 12, respectively. One end of the belt conveyor 20 is rotatably mounted on the front panel 2 together with a belt drive motor and a belt pulley (not shown), and the other end is supported by the other pulley via a plate (not shown).

The coin inserted through the payout port 5 can be transported to the coin discriminating machine 24 arranged at the lower part of the apparatus main body 1 by the above configuration. That is, the coin from the coin slot 5b is guided under the slot by its own weight, and reaches the belt conveyor 20. The belt conveyor 20 has a payout port 5
When a coin passing is detected by an optical sensor or the like (not shown) provided at an entrance of the coin, the coin is driven by a motor (not shown) and the coin is conveyed rearward (right side) in the figure. Next, the coin is guided to the inside of the shooter 25 fixed inside the vertical moving frame 12 and enters the lower coin discriminator 24 under its own weight to be discriminated. The transport path of the inserted coins can be adapted to the front panel 2 moving up and down or back and forth. The up and down movement is achieved by a shooter 25 having a multi-cylinder configuration that expands and contracts vertically. 20. The inserted or inserted fee is displayed on the display 7b.

Next, the change dispensing mechanism of FIG. 5 will be described. The change is paid out by the identification unit 19 shown in FIG.
The presence / absence of change and the amount of money are determined by the coin discriminator 24, and a change bill or coin is automatically paid out. Also,
The receipt is issued by the driver of the automobile by the push button 8a shown in FIG.
By pressing, automatic issuance is performed.

In FIG. 5, reference numeral 26 denotes a change coin payout unit. The change coin payout unit 26 includes 26a and 26.
b, 26c and 26d. Reference numerals 26a to 26d denote coin dispensers of 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, and 500 yen, respectively, which are installed above the apparatus main body 1 together with the guide cylinder 26e. Reference numeral 27 denotes a telescopic shooter having a multi-cylinder structure for guiding the change coins to the belt conveyor 23 below. The shooter 27 has a fixed side fixed to the guide cylinder 26e and a movable side fixed to the vertical moving frame 12, respectively.

On the other hand, the front panel 2 is provided with a payout port 6 on the front surface thereof, inside which a bill payout machine 21 having a bill payout port 21a, a receipt issuing machine 22, and a guide for change and receipt. Guide tube 28, receiving tray 29, receipt transport belt 3
0 and one end of the belt conveyor 23 are rotatably mounted together with a belt drive motor and a belt pulley (not shown). The other end of the belt conveyor 23 is rotatably attached to the other pulley via a plate (not shown).

With the above configuration, a receipt is issued from the receipt issuing machine 22 through the belt 30 and the tray 29, and change bills are paid out from the payout machine 21 to the payout port 6 through the bill payout port 21a. Is done. The change coins are dispensed from the coin dispensing machine 26 of the change coin dispensing unit 26.
a to 26d, the guide cylinder 26e, the shooter 2
7. The paper is paid out to the payout port 6 via the belt conveyor 23, the guide cylinder 28 and the tray 29, respectively.

The transport path of the change coins is on the front panel 2.
Can cope with up-and-down or back-and-forth movement.
The belt conveyor 23 moves forward and backward.
It is a mechanism that can respond.

(Summary of Embodiment) The configuration, operation and effect shown in the embodiment are summarized as follows. [1] The automatic toll collection device described in the embodiment is an automatic toll collection device that automatically collects tolls at tollgates such as toll roads. A front panel 2 having a common payout port 5 to be inserted, a common payout port 6 for receiving returned goods such as change bills, change coins, and receipts, etc .; Discrimination processing means 19, transport means 23 for transporting the value object and the returned goods discriminated by the determination processing means 19, and the front panel
2 depending on the stop position of the passing vehicle in the width direction
And a forward / backward moving mechanism 17 that is movable .

[0040] In this way the apparatus, since with a common payment port 5 on the front panel 2 and the common payout opening 6, banknote for payment, tickets, cards, several kinds of consideration of such coins A large number of input ports provided correspondingly, and a large number of payout ports provided corresponding to returned articles such as change bills, change coins, receipts, etc., are collected one by one. As a result, a plurality of tolls can be collected at the common payout port 5 or the common payout port 6, and there is no confusion at the time of the toll collection operation, so that the operability is remarkably improved and the operation can be quickly performed in a short time. In addition, a car passing through the front panel 2
Moving back and forth according to the stop position in both width shift directions
The front panel that performs the toll collection operation is now available.
Width-adjustable position for easy operation of the driver of a passing car
Can be set to move. For this reason the conventional stationary fixation
Significant improvement in toll collection operability can be achieved compared to the model type. [2] The automatic toll collection apparatus shown in the examples, an apparatus according to the above [1], and the front panel 2
Depending on the height of the driver's seat of the passing vehicles, and a vertical movement mechanism 15 to be vertically moved.

Therefore, in the above device, the front panel 2 can be moved up and down in accordance with the height of the driver's seat of the passing vehicle. There is no need to arrange a plurality of stages, and a single-stage operation unit can sufficiently cope with this. In addition, the front panel 2 that performs the toll collection operation can be set at a height that is easy for the driver of the passing car to operate, so that the toll collection operability is greatly improved as compared with the conventional fixed stationary type. Become. Further, the vertical movement mechanism 15 is moved back and forth as described above.
By providing it together with the moving mechanism 17, the charge collection operability is improved
Improvement can be achieved.

[0042]

[0043]

According to the present invention, the following automatic toll collection device can be provided. (A) A plurality of toll collections can be made at a common payout port or a common payout exit without being confused at the time of the toll collection operation.
How to process quickly and quickly
The driver sits in the seat even if the stop position
An automatic toll collection device that can easily perform toll collection operations .

(B) An automatic toll collection device that enables a driver to easily perform a toll collection operation while sitting in a seat even if the height of the driver's seat differs depending on the type of passing vehicle .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing a configuration of an automatic toll collection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a structural diagram showing the arrangement and configuration of each mechanism in the automatic toll collection device according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a mechanism of the automatic toll collection device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of a mechanism of an automatic toll collection device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a mechanism of an automatic toll collection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an external view showing an automatic toll collection device according to a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Apparatus main body 2 ... Front panel 3a ... Shutter 3b ... Shutter 4 ... Bellows 5 ... Toll payment port 5a ... Bill insertion slot 5b ... Coin insertion port 6 ... Payout exit 7a ... Toll display 7b ... Input display 8a ... Push button 8b Push button 9 Telephone 10 Contact sensor 11 Vehicle position detection sensor 12 Vertical movement frame 13a to 13d Sprocket 14 Chain 15 Vertical drive motor 16 Slide rail 17 Front / rear drive motor 18 Ball screw 18a Ball nut 18b Support frame 19 Identification unit 19a Coupon processor 19b Card processor 19c Banknote discriminator 19d Belt 19e Insertion slot 20 Belt conveyor 21 Banknote dispenser 21a Banknote outlet 22 Receipt Letter issuing machine 23 ... Belt conveyor 24 ... Coin discriminator 25 ... Shooter 26 ... Coin Out unit (26a, 26b, 26c, 2
27, a shooter 28, a guide cylinder 29, a tray 30, a receipt conveyor belt 50, an apparatus main body 51A, a coin slot 51B, a coin slot 52A, a bill slot 52B, a bill slot 53A. ... card insertion slot 53B ... card insertion slot 54A ... coupon ticket insertion slot 54B ... coupon ticket insertion slot 55A ... change banknote payout outlet 55B ... change banknote payout outlet 56A ... change coin / receipt payment port 56B ... change coin /
Receipt payout exit 57A ... toll display 57B ... toll display 58A ... input display 58B ... input display

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Kazumi Fukuda 1-1-1, Wadazakicho, Hyogo-ku, Hyogo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 1-1 1-1 Tazakicho Inside Kobe Shipyard, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (56) References JP-A-60-204093 (JP, A) Japanese Utility Model H5-75868 (JP, U) Japanese Utility Model H3-16-16464 (JP) , U) Hikaru 1-164574 (JP, U) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07B 15/00

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] An automatic toll collection device for automatically collecting tolls at a tollgate such as a toll road, comprising: a common payout slot for inputting consideration such as bills, coupons, cards, coins, etc .; A front panel having a common payout port for receiving returned goods such as change coins and receipts; a discriminating processing means for discriminating and processing each type of the value goods and the returned goods; conveying means for conveying the consideration thereof and the return thereof, respond to the front panel in the centering direction of the stop position of the traveling vehicles
An automatic toll collection device, comprising: a back and forth movement mechanism that enables the back and forth movement . Wherein in accordance with the front panel to the height of the driver's seat of the passing vehicles, electronic toll collection system according to claim 1, characterized in that with a vertical movement mechanism that vertically movable.