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  • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a vehicle recording and billing system which is used in fuel stations during fuel delivery to vehicles and which enables automatic transfer of the vehicle information to the pump-cash register.
• Payment recording devices functioning in integration with the fuel pumps are used in order to control the sales carried out in the fuel stations.
• information e.g. license plate number, registration information
• the cash register gives an authorization for the filling and filling is carried out.
• the payment recording device gives an automatic slip related to the transaction. This way, a slip is provided for all fuel sales and sales are kept under control.
• the Chinese patent document No. CN 1590174 in the state of the art, discloses an application wherein filling fuel into the vehicle and payments are monitored by the help of mobile phones.
• the information related to the bank card with which the customer will make the payment is transferred to the station, then the payment information is sent from the station to the bank center, and finally the payment information is sent from the bank to the mobile phone of a responsible person.
• the transaction is completed upon confirming the information that arrives to the mobile phone.
• the objective of the present invention is to provide a vehicle recording and billing system which enables the sales transaction at the fuel stations to be carried out fast and in a controlled manner.
• Another objective of the invention is to provide a vehicle recording and billing system which enables the sales recording and monitoring at the fuel stations to be performed free of errors.
• a further objective of the invention is to provide a vehicle recording and billing system which can function in harmony with the pump-cash register apparatuses.
• the vehicle recording and billing system which is realized to fulfill the objective of the present invention and defined in Claim 1 and in its dependent claims, is developed to be used in fuel stations.
• the identity cards including the vehicle information are read from the vehicles by the readers and a wireless data transmission is realized to the pump-cash register apparatuses which are developed specifically for fuel stations.
• the system of the invention which comprises pump-cash registers and vehicle recognition apparatuses all together, wireless data transfer is ensured and an effective solution is provided for the problems in the related technical field.
• the system comprises a tag, which includes the vehicle information and which is provided on the vehicle, a reader terminal, which reads the information provided in the tag and which transfers the said information to the pump-cash register apparatuses in a wireless manner; and a payment recording device (cash register), which automatically produces a sales document (slip, invoice, etc.) after the sales is confirmed by using the information coming from the reader.
• the wireless data transfer between the reader and the payment recording device is provided by Zigbee standard and the vehicle information transmitted by the reader is printed on the sales slips by the payment recording device.
• Figure 1 is the representative view of the vehicle recording and billing system.
• Figure 2 is the schematic view of the vehicle recording and billing system.
• the inventive system (1) comprises a tag (2) which is fixed on the vehicle (A) and includes information related to the vehicle (A); a reader (3) having a receiver module
• a cash register (4) which functions in integration with the fuel pump (P) located at the fuel station and which has another Zigbee module (7) that receives vehicle (A) information coming from the reader (3), a microprocessor (8) and a printer (9) that receive the sales quantity and amount information coming from the pump (P).
• the tag (2) used by the fuel station customers is fixed on the vehicle at a point which will allow electronic reading, preferably on the front window of the vehicle (A).
• the tag (2) preferably functions in accordance with the radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
• the tag (2) stores the vehicle (A) information (e.g. license plate number, previous transaction records) that might be used in customer follow-up and sales control.
• the RFID tag (2) transmits the information that it comprises to the reader (3) during radio frequency interrogations (when reading is performed by RF).
• Reading the vehicle (A) information provided in RFID tag (2) is carried out by the reader (3).
• the reader (3) is a portable hand held device used by the fuel station employees.
• the vehicle (A) information is received from the tag (2) by the receiver module (5).
• Zigbee communication standard developed for short distance data transfer is used in wireless transmission of the received vehicle (A) information to the cash register (4).
• the Zigbee modules used in this standard may serve as both a receiver and a transmitter. Transmission of the vehicle (A) information is carried out by using the Zigbee module
• a cash register (4) which is used in integration with each pump (P) at the station.
• the integrated structure which consists of the pump (P) and the cash register (4), and which is developed for following up and controlling the fuel sales, is also named as pump-cash register.
• the Zigbee module (7) comprised by the cash register (4) serves as a receiver and communicates with the Zigbee module (6) located in the reader (3), and enables the cash register (4) to receive the vehicle (A) information sent by the reader (3).
• the microprocessor (8) is the component which enables performance of the cash register (4) functions and it uses the vehicle (A) information received by the Zigbee module (7) and the sales quantity and amount information coming from the pump (P) for preparation of the sales slip.
• the sales slip prepared by the microprocessor (8) is delivered to the printer (9) and it is printed out by the printer (9) onto paper.
• the cash register (4) functioning in integration with the fuel pump (P) is enabled to receive, in a wireless manner, the vehicle (A) information read by the portable reader (3) from the RFID tag (2) located on the front window of the vehicle (A), and to print it our onto a sales slip.
• the wireless transmission of the vehicle information to the pump- cash register apparatus consisting of a pump (P) and a cash register (4), the errors resulting from the manual entry of the vehicle (A) information to the pump-cash register is prevented. Additionally, owing to the automatic reading of the vehicle (A) information and wireless transmission thereof to the cash register (4), right amount of fuel is delivered to the right vehicle (A) in a controlled manner and the sales is controlled by being documented by a slip.

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