EP0675463B1 - Machine à affranchir munie d'afficheurs additionnels - Google Patents
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- 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
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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
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- G—PHYSICS
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- 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
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- the present invention relates to a machine electronic franking comprising printing means, means for entering postal values, printing means and postal accounting, all of these means being enclosed in a security box, and first display means, for displaying data of postal accounting known as "regulatory", these first display means being arranged in said housing, such so that the data displayed there is visible from outside the case.
- Known electronic franking machines are built so that the accounting data postal, which represent sums of money and which are there stored, be safe from all kinds of fraud; for this purpose they include a closed safety box by a lock, plumb or any other suitable device, which contains the printing means, the management circuits printing, and postal accounting circuits; such a machine has been described for example in the document FR-A-2360136.
- postal administrations require at least the display of so-called postal data "regulatory", these consisting of the content of some sensitive machine registers in which are stored, for example, the postal balance or the cumulative postage.
- postal data regulatory
- users want ability to access management functions and to this needs to see other data such as that: statistics, number of mail franked with a rate given etc ...
- the data format to be displayed may vary.
- Document EP-A-0 125 526 discloses a postage in two parts of which the first is a counter counting postal data and the second serves as mechanical support and electrical supply to the meter.
- the second part has a display to display the data recorded in the first part.
- the present invention proposes to solve all the problems mentioned here and related to the display.
- a postage meter electronic of the kind comprising input means for postal values, printing means and means of order and postal accounting, all of these means being enclosed in a security box, and the first display means for displaying accounting data so-called "regulatory" postal services, these first means display being arranged in the housing, so as to allow reading of said data from outside the housing, machine characterized in that it comprises a serial transmission link transmitting permanently to outside the security box, data to display including at least some of the data displayed by first means of display.
- the present invention also relates to a machine for electronic postage of the kind comprising means input of postal values, printing means and means of ordering and postal accounting, all of these means being enclosed in a security box, and first display means to display data from postal accounting called "regulatory", these first display means being arranged in the housing, so as to allow reading of said data from outside the housing, said machine comprising a device external to the safety box, machine characterized in that it further includes a serial transmission link, transmitting permanently, outside the security box, data to display including at least some of the data displayed by the first display means, the device comprising second display means, and a link reception series capable of cooperating with said serial link to display all or part of the data transmitted.
- the present invention overcomes the aforementioned drawbacks.
- the second display means, or additional display means allow you to display the desired data by the user. All data transmitted by the serial link need not be displayed, and it can be made a selection from among these.
- the machine is characterized in that the external device is agency to be adaptable to said security box, so as to hide the display of data achievable by said first means of display.
- This advantageous arrangement makes it possible to prevent the user is bothered by the continuous display of data on the first display. On a practical level, at the level of the user, everything happens as if the first means had been replaced by the latter.
- Figure 1 is a block diagram of a franking machine according to the present invention.
- the franking machine comprises input means 11 of postal values, connected to a control and postal accounting circuit 12, this the latter being connected to electromechanical means printing 13.
- a power supply is also provided regulated 16, supplying the whole machine.
- Control and accounting circuits include various memory and microprocessor registers, intended to control electromechanical printing means 13.
- Control and accounting circuits shown diagrammatically under reference 12 also include sensitive memories for storing postal data such as postal balances or cumulative postage. This and other data can be viewed on a first display 15a, 15b. All the means 11, 13, 16 as well as the display control circuit 17 15a, 15b are locked in a tamper-resistant security box, and possibly sealed, only the window for reading the display 15a, 15b being arranged so that it is visible from the outside of the case.
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the security box 14, where the display is located 15, which will be called hereinafter description "first means of display”. 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 outer casing 14.
- these contacts are arranged on the support 18a, and are in the form of oblong areas suitable for cooperate with spring contacts carried by the structure second display means.
- control and accounting means 12 are adapted to transmit data, including postal data regulatory, towards a serial link.
- the serial link is constituted by a set of two emitting diodes 22, 22 ', conventionally arranged and connected to the control circuit and accounting 12, the latter having been adapted for transmit binary signals to the diodes 22, 22 'representing postal data required by post (data "regulatory") and a set of data including the position of all counters such as up counters, descendants, fold counters, statistical information, machine status information (incidents, maintenance information).
- the diodes 22, 22 ' are here of SIEMENS type, reference SFH 487.
- Figure 3 shows an external device comprising a second display, arranged on the machine postage illustrated in Figure 2.
- the external device 30 comprises a housing lower 31 and an upper housing articulated on a hinge 33, so that it is orientable.
- the box lower 31 has a lower part 32 of a shape suitable for conforming to the external shape of the safety box 14, at the support walls 16a, 16b of the lines display 15a, 15b.
- the lower case 31 has two fasteners mobile 34, 34 ', arranged laterally and adapted to cooperate with the lateral tabs 35, 35 'arranged on the housing 14, to fix the external device there 30.
- the lower case 31, which comes into contact with the safety box, has two spring contacts, arranged to bear on the contact pads 21, 21 'and thereby allowing 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 includes two photo-transistors 42, 42 '.
- the photo-transistors 42, 42 ' are arranged on the lower case 31 to be opposite the emitting diodes 22, 22 ', when the housing 31 is fixed to the housing security 14, as illustrated in FIG. 3.
- the photo-transistors used in this embodiment are of the type SIEMENS, reference SFH 309.
- the map electronics essentially includes a circuit 46 of control of the display 40 (here an integrated circuit sold by PHILIPS under the reference PCF 8576), as well as link circuits to display 40 and serial link reception 41, constituted in this case by photo-transistors 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.
- the circuit diagram 46 of the display liquid crystal is available in the PHILIPS catalog and is classic in the state of the art. It will therefore not described in more detail here. Note that it is suitable for receive binary data such as those transmitted by the photo-transistors 42, 42 ', and to execute the entire processing to deliver to the displays liquid crystal, the appropriate control signals, so as to display said data.
- FIG. 5 it is possible to interpose between the control circuit 46, and the serial link of reception 41, a selection circuit 50 comprising a decoder of the data received from the serial link 41, and a series of doors allowing some to pass, selected, data, to the driving circuit 46.
- This arrangement allows you to select the data to be pin up.
- the selection circuit 50 is arranged outside of the security box 14, and that it has not to be subject to the same strict security rules that the devices arranged inside the box 14. In this way, it is possible to plan by a selection circuit adapted to each type of clientele, without having to question the approval of the whole machine.
- the external device or the additive display means which have just been described are designed to be fixed on the machine above the displays integrated into the machine, which is therefore protected. In this way, the user benefits from the improved performance of the additional display device, but postal services can always check postal balances on the first display means 15a, 15b which are protected.
- serial link has been described. optical type. Such a serial link can be replaced by a galvanic type serial link.
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- la figure 1 est un schéma fonctionnel d'une machine à affranchir,
- la figure 2 est une vue partielle simplifiée de la machine à affranchir illustrée en figure 1,
- la figure 3 est une vue correspondant à la figure 2, la machine à affranchir ayant été munie des seconds moyens d'affichage,
- la figure 4 est un schéma fonctionnel du dispositif comportant les seconds moyens d'affichage illustrés en figure 3, et
- la figure 5 est une vue correspondant à la figure 4, illustrant une variante de réalisation.
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- Machine à affranchir électronique du genre comportant des moyens d'entrée (11) de valeurs postales, des moyens d'impression (13) et des moyens de commande et de comptabilité postale (12), l'ensemble de ces moyens étant renfermés dans un boítier de sécurité (14), et des premiers moyens d'affichage (15a, 15b) pour afficher des données de comptabilité postale dites "réglementaires", ces premiers moyens d'affichage étant agencés dans le boítier, de manière à permettre la lecture desdites données depuis l'extérieur du boítier, machine caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte une liaison série d'émission (22, 22') transmettant en permanence, à l'extérieur du boítier de sécurité (14), des données à afficher incluant certaines au moins des données affichées par les premiers moyens d'affichage (15a, 15b).
- Machine à affranchir électronique du genre comportant des moyens d'entrée (11) de valeurs postales, des moyens d'impression (13) et des moyens de commande et de comptabilité postale (12), l'ensemble de ces moyens étant renfermés dans un boítier de sécurité (14), et des premiers moyens d'affichage (15a, 15b) pour afficher des données de comptabilité postale dites "réglementaires", ces premiers moyens d'affichage étant agencés dans le boítier, de manière à permettre la lecture desdites données depuis l'extérieur du boítier, ladite machine comportant un dispositif (30) externe au boítier de sécurité, machine caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte en outre une liaison série d'émission (22, 22') transmettant en permanence, à l'extérieur du boítier de sécurité (14), des données à afficher incluant certaines au moins des données affichées par les premiers moyens d'affichage (15a, 15b), le dispositif (30) comportant des seconds moyens d'affichage (40a, 40b), et une liaison série de réception (42, 42') apte à coopérer avec ladite liaison série d'émission (22, 22') pour afficher tout ou partie des données transmises.
- Machine à affranchir selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif externe (30) est agencé pour être adaptable audit boítier de sécurité, de manière à masquer l'affichage des données réalisées par lesdits premiers moyens d'affichage.
- Machine à affranchir selon la revendication 2 ou 3, caractérisé en ce que lesdites liaisons séries sont réalisées sous forme optique.
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DE1994634037 DE69434037T2 (de) | 1994-03-31 | 1994-03-31 | Frankiermaschine mit zusätzlichen Anzeigen |
EP19940400706 EP0675463B1 (fr) | 1994-03-31 | 1994-03-31 | Machine à affranchir munie d'afficheurs additionnels |
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