EP0675463A1 - Frankiermaschine mit zusätzlichen Anzeigen - Google Patents

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EP0675463A1
EP0675463A1 EP94400706A EP94400706A EP0675463A1 EP 0675463 A1 EP0675463 A1 EP 0675463A1 EP 94400706 A EP94400706 A EP 94400706A EP 94400706 A EP94400706 A EP 94400706A EP 0675463 A1 EP0675463 A1 EP 0675463A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00266—Man-machine interface on the apparatus
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00266—Man-machine interface on the apparatus
    • G07B2017/00298—Visual, e.g. screens and their layouts

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  • the present invention relates to an electronic franking machine comprising printing means, means for entering postal values, printing means and postal accounting means, all of these means being enclosed in a security box, and first display means, for displaying so-called "regulatory" postal accounting data, these first display means being arranged in said box, so that the data displayed therein are visible from outside the box .
  • the known electronic franking machines are constructed so that the postal accounting data, which represent sums of money and which are stored there, are protected from all kinds of fraud; for this purpose, they include a security box, closed by a lock, a plumb or any other suitable device, which contains the printing means, the printing management circuits, and the postal accounting circuits; such a machine has been described for example in document FR-A-2,360,136.
  • One of the functional extensions desired relates to display.
  • postal administrations require at least the display of so-called "regulatory" postal data, these consisting of the content of certain sensitive machine registers in which, for example, the postal balance or accumulated postage are stored.
  • users want to be able to have access to management functions and for this they need to see other data displayed such as: statistics, number of franked envelopes with a given rate etc ...
  • the format of the data to be displayed may vary.
  • the present invention proposes to solve all the problems mentioned here and related to the display.
  • a franking machine of the kind mentioned above characterized in that it also comprises, on the one hand, a serial transmission link transmitting permanently, outside the security box, data to be displayed including at least some of the data displayed by the first display means and, on the other hand, a device external to the security box comprising second display means and a serial reception link capable of cooperating with said transmission serial link to display all or part of the data transmitted.
  • the present invention also relates to additional display means adaptable to a postage meter comprising printing means, control and postal accounting means, means for entering postal values and first display means for displaying postal accounting data called "regulatory", and further comprising a serial transmission link transmitting outside the security box, permanently, data to be displayed including at least some of the data displayed by the first means of display, said additional display means being associated with a serial reception link capable of cooperating with said serial transmission link, so that all or part of the data transmitted can be displayed on the additional display means.
  • the present invention overcomes the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • the second display means, or the additional display means make it possible to display the desired data by the user. All the data transmitted by the serial link need not be displayed, and a selection can be made from it.
  • the first display means remain integral with the security box and protected by the latter, the post office being able to access it to operate these usual checks.
  • the machine is characterized in that the external device is arranged to be adaptable to said security box, so as to mask the display of the data achievable by said first display means.
  • This advantageous arrangement makes it possible to avoid the user being hampered by the continuous display of data on the first display. In practical terms, at the user level, everything happens as if the first display means had been replaced by the second.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram of a postage meter according to the present invention.
  • the franking machine comprises input means 11 for postal values, connected has a postal control and accounting circuit 12, the latter being connected to electromechanical printing means 13. There is also provided a regulated power supply 16, supplying the entire machine.
  • the structure of the means 11, 13, 16 is well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the input means may for example consist of a keyboard or an input of binary data from a control member external to the franking machine.
  • the control and accounting circuits include various memory and microprocessor registers, intended to control the electromechanical printing means 13.
  • the control and accounting circuits shown diagrammatically under the reference 12 also include sensitive memories intended for memorizing postal data such as than the postal balance or the cumulative postage. This and other data can be displayed on an external display 15a, 15b.
  • All of the means 11, 13, 16, as well as the circuit 17 for controlling the display 15a, 15b are enclosed in a tamper-proof security box, and possibly sealed, only the reading window of the display 15a, 15b being arranged so that it is visible from the outside of the housing.
  • FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the safety box 14, at the place where the display 15 is arranged, which will be called in the following description "first display means".
  • These means include two display lines 15a, 15b.
  • the displays 15a, 15b are arranged on inclined support walls 18a, 18b.
  • contacts 21 are arranged on the external housing 14.
  • these contacts are arranged on the support 18a, and are in the form of oblong areas capable of cooperating with contacts spring carried by the structure of the second display means.
  • control and accounting means 12 are adapted to transmit data, including regulatory postal data, to a serial link.
  • the serial link is constituted by a set of two emitting diodes 22, 22 ', arranged in a conventional manner and connected to the control and accounting circuit 12, the latter having been adapted to transmit signals binary at diodes 22, 22 'representing the postal data required by the post ("regulatory" data) as well as a set of data including the position of all counters such as ascending, descending, fold counters, statistical information, information on the state of the machine (incidents, information for maintenance).
  • the diodes 22, 22 ′ are here of the SIEMENS type, reference SFH 487.
  • FIG. 3 shows an external device comprising a second display, arranged on the franking machine illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • the external device 30 comprises a lower housing 31 and an upper housing articulated on a hinge 33, so that it is orientable.
  • the lower housing 31 includes a lower part 32 of a shape suitable for marrying the external shape of the security housing 14, at the level of the support walls 16a, 16b of the display lines 15a, 15b.
  • the lower housing 31 comprises two movable fasteners 34, 34 ', arranged laterally and adapted to cooperate with the lateral tabs 35, 35' arranged on the housing 14, to fix the external device 30 there.
  • the lower case 31, which comes into contact with the safety box, is provided with two spring contacts, arranged to bear on the contact pads 21, 21 ′ and thereby allow the supply of the external device 30.
  • the spring contacts have been shown diagrammatically under the references 43, 43 ′.
  • the external device includes a serial reception link capable of cooperating with the serial transmission link.
  • the serial reception link 41 comprises two photo-transistors 42, 42 '.
  • the photo-transistors 42, 42 ' are arranged on the lower housing 31 so as to be opposite the emitting diodes 22, 22', when the housing 31 is fixed on the safety housing 14, as illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the photo-transistors used in this embodiment are of the SIEMENS type, reference SFH 309.
  • the electronic card essentially comprises a circuit 46 for controlling the display 40 (here an integrated circuit marketed by PHILIPS under the reference PCF 8576), as well as the connection circuits to the display 40 and the serial reception link 41, constituted in this case by the phototransistors 42, 42 '.
  • This circuit also includes supply conductors 44 (shown in dashed lines in FIG. 4) connected to the spring contacts 43, 43 ', and supplying power to the display 40 and the integrated circuit 46.
  • control circuit 46 of the liquid crystal display is available in the PHILIPS catalog and is classic in the state of the art. It will therefore not be described in more detail here. It will be noted that it is capable of receiving binary data such as that transmitted by the photo-transistors 42, 42 ′ on its inputs, and of carrying out the whole of the processing to deliver to the liquid crystal displays, the appropriate control signals, so as to display said data.

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FR2407536A1 (fr) * 1977-10-28 1979-05-25 Pitney Bowes Inc Machine a affranchir electronique
EP0131967A2 (de) * 1983-07-18 1985-01-23 Pitney Bowes Inc. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum kundenspezifizierten Einstellen der Firmware einer Frankiermaschine und Frankiermaschine mit einer so kundenspezifizierten Firmware
GB2151833A (en) * 1983-12-16 1985-07-24 Kitagawa Ind Co Ltd Appliance for fixing electronic display board
EP0278874A1 (de) * 1987-01-30 1988-08-17 Jet Services System zum Wiegen eines Gegenstandes und zur Ausgabe eines gültigen Transportetiketts

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FR2407536A1 (fr) * 1977-10-28 1979-05-25 Pitney Bowes Inc Machine a affranchir electronique
EP0131967A2 (de) * 1983-07-18 1985-01-23 Pitney Bowes Inc. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum kundenspezifizierten Einstellen der Firmware einer Frankiermaschine und Frankiermaschine mit einer so kundenspezifizierten Firmware
GB2151833A (en) * 1983-12-16 1985-07-24 Kitagawa Ind Co Ltd Appliance for fixing electronic display board
EP0278874A1 (de) * 1987-01-30 1988-08-17 Jet Services System zum Wiegen eines Gegenstandes und zur Ausgabe eines gültigen Transportetiketts

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