JP2001022967A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely return a train ticket to be returned to a user, who inserted the train ticket, by discharging a temporarily held train ticket to a take-out port on the main body of an automatic ticket examination machine and discharging a train ticket, which is discriminated as being invalid, to that take-out port after that train ticket is pulled out. SOLUTION: When a first inserted train ticket 1 is valid, that train ticket 1 is held temporarily by a stopper S1 of a pool part P, and the insertion of the next train ticket 2 is awaited. When the next inserted train ticket 2 is valid, the train tickets 1 and 2 are discharged in batch to a take-out port 2 similar to batch insertion. When the train ticket 2 inserted later is invalid, however, a door D is closed and the train ticket 1 held temporarily by the stopper S1 of the pool part P is discharged to the take-out port 2. When the train ticket 1 is pulled out by the user, the train ticket 2 held temporarily by a stopper S2 is discharged to the take-out port 2 and user is notified of the reason for entrance refusal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate,
In particular, the present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate that can process a plurality of tickets when a plurality of tickets are required for entry and exit processing of one user.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, entry and exit (meaning entry or exit) of a single user (passenger) is processed by a plurality of services such as an ordinary ticket and an express ticket, or an exit ticket and an advance ticket. An automatic ticket gate that can handle a plurality of tickets (hereinafter, a plurality of tickets are described as two for the sake of simplicity). The apparatus is configured such that when a plurality of tickets are inserted into the slot at once, the separation unit separates the tickets one by one and performs reading processing.

When all of the read tickets are valid tickets, the door is opened (if the main body of the automatic ticket gate (hereinafter, referred to as "main body") is a normally open type), entry and exit are performed. Is permitted and the tickets that need to be returned to the user are returned to the exit at once. If at least one of the read tickets includes an invalid ticket, for example, if one of the two tickets is an invalid ticket whose validity period has expired, entry / exit is prohibited. Because permission is not granted, the door is closed and all tickets are returned to the exit at once.

[0004] When a plurality of tickets are inserted one by one into the slot, if the previously inserted ticket is a valid ticket, the valid ticket is temporarily held in the pool section of the main body and the remaining tickets are retained. Waiting for the entry of a ticket, the possibility of entry / exit is determined based on the combination with the ticket entered afterwards. In this determination, when it is determined that entry / exit can be permitted, the door is opened, and if there is a ticket to be returned to the user, the tickets are collectively returned. If the ticket inserted later is an invalid ticket, the ticket is returned together with the first inserted ticket. If the first ticket is an invalid ticket, the door is closed and 2
The first ticket inserted without waiting for the insertion of the second ticket is discharged to the exit and returned.

[0005]

However, in the above-described conventional automatic ticket gates for a plurality of tickets, if a ticket is inserted into the slot one by one and the result of the judgment is that the entrance and exit cannot be permitted, the ticket is sent to the main body. Since the inserted ticket is collectively discharged to the exit and returned at once, there is a possibility that another person's ticket is accidentally taken away.

For example, when a certain user inserts the first valid ticket, the ticket is held in the pool of the main body, and when the remaining tickets are to be inserted, the subsequent user may enter the ticket. When it is inserted, it is determined that the combination of the first ticket and the ticket entered by the subsequent user cannot permit entry / exit, and the first ticket and the subsequent user enter the ticket. Tickets and tickets are collectively discharged to the exit. When all of the discharged tickets are returned to the user who has issued the first valid ticket, there is a disadvantage that the ticket issued by the subsequent user will not be returned to the subsequent user. Will occur.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate capable of reliably returning a returned ticket to a user who has entered the ticket. Is to do.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention requires a plurality of tickets when a plurality of tickets are required for entry / exit processing of one user. In an automatic ticket gate capable of processing a plurality of tickets, a plurality of tickets that are inserted into the slot of the main body, out of a plurality of tickets that are determined to be valid tickets, A holding means for temporarily holding, and when a ticket inserted later into the slot is determined to be an invalid ticket, the ticket temporarily held by the holding means is discharged to an outlet of the main body, and the discharge is performed. And discharging control means for discharging the ticket determined to be invalid to the exit after the used ticket is removed.

In order to achieve the above object, the automatic ticket gate according to the present invention processes a plurality of tickets when a plurality of tickets are required for entry / exit processing of one user. In the automatic ticket gate capable of supporting a plurality of tickets, among a plurality of tickets inserted into the slot of the main body, a holding means for temporarily holding a ticket inserted earlier determined as a valid ticket; and When the ticket later inserted into the slot is determined to be invalid, and when it is detected that the user has entered the ticket gate passage, the ticket temporarily held in the holding means is After the ejected ticket is extracted to the exit of the main body and the ejected ticket is extracted, the ticket determined to be invalid is ejected to the exit, and the entry of the user into the ticket gate passage is not detected. Occasionally a ride that was temporarily held in the holding means And it is characterized by having a discharge control unit for discharging collectively the invalid ticket been judged ticket to the outlet, a.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to one embodiment. A ticket entry slot 1 is provided at one longitudinal end of a main body a.
On the other end side, an outlet 2 for returning the ticket to the user is provided.

In the main body a, there is provided a separating section 3 which separates two tickets from the slot 1 when they are stacked and inserted one by one, and is driven by a motor M. A well-known transport path 4 composed of a belt conveyor is provided. The transport path 4 is composed of an aligned transport path 4a, a main transport path 4b, and a discharge transport path 4c. Among them, the aligned transport path 4a has a function of arranging a ticket inputted from the slot 1. are doing. Also, the main transport path 4
A wing W is provided between b and the discharge conveyance path 4c to operate when the ticket inserted into the main body a is collected in the tag collection box 5 without returning to the exit 2.

In the transport path of the main transport path 4b, a magnetic head H1 for reading magnetic data recorded on the ticket and a magnetic head H1 for reading the magnetic data recorded on the ticket are sequentially arranged from the upstream side in the transport direction from the slot 1 to the outlet 2. A pool P temporarily holding a ticket formed by a pair of stoppers S1 and S2, and data read by a magnetic head H1 are processed by a controller C mainly composed of a microcomputer. A magnetic head H2 for writing on each ticket,
A verifying magnetic head H3 is provided to check whether the written data is correctly recorded. The discharge conveyance path 4c is provided with a grouping portion E including a stopper S3 for discharging the tickets collectively.

A pair of stoppers S1, S2 of the pool portion P
Is driven by a solenoid (not shown), and is provided in series with the main transport path 4b. As a result of arithmetic processing by the CPU, which will be described later, it is possible to temporarily hold tickets one by one, which are determined to be valid tickets. It is configured to be able to.
The stopper S3 of the grouping unit E is also driven by a solenoid (not shown), and when the ticket is discharged to the outlet 2 and returned to the user, the stopper S3 is temporarily stopped until the ticket is completely discharged to the outlet 2. When the ticket is held and all the tickets have been discharged, the tickets are stacked on the outlet 2 and can be discharged in a lump.

Although not shown, the main transport path 4b includes:
It has a punching unit for making a punch hole in a ticket that requires punching according to the calculation result, and a printing unit including a thermal head for printing predetermined contents on the ticket that needs printing according to the calculation result. .

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 9 denotes a display section provided near the take-out port 2, which is configured to provide predetermined guidance to a user together with a speaker (not shown). Also,
D in the figure is a door for opening and closing the ticket gate passage.
Reference numerals 0, 10... Denote human detectors for detecting a user position in the ticket gate a, and are provided on the side surface of the main body a at predetermined intervals along the ticket gate a direction.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the controller C. The central processing unit (CPU) 20 includes a ROM
The CPU 20 performs arithmetic processing using a system program stored in a non-volatile storage device (ROM in FIG. 2) 21 and working data stored in a RAM 22, and the CPU 20 controls the I / O unit 23. A read / write (R / W) driver 24 connected to the magnetic heads H1 to H3, a wing driver 25 for driving the wing W, a display driver 26 for controlling the display unit 9, and stoppers S1, S2 , S3, a solenoid driver 27 for driving a solenoid (not shown), a door driver 28 for driving the door D, a human detector 10,
.. Are connected to 10 sensor amplifiers 29. In addition,
The I / O unit 23 is connected to a drive driver for the motor M and various drivers such as a punching unit and a thermal head, but these are omitted here.

Next, the control operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Now, it is assumed that the user is going to enter using two tickets. And that 2
When a number of tickets are put into the slot 1 in a lump (Yes at Step 100, Yes at Step 102, Step 104; hereinafter, the step is referred to as “S”), the separating unit 3 is used.
Are sent to the magnetic head H1 for reading.

When the ticket is first sent to the reading head H1 and the ticket is determined to be valid by the CPU 12 of the controller C, the ticket is transferred to the stopper S of the pool P.
It is temporarily held at 1 and waits for the judgment of the next ticket. If the next ticket is determined to be a valid ticket (S1)
06 affirmation), the door D is opened and the ticket,
Are collectively discharged to the outlet 2 through the grouping unit E (S116). That is, the second ticket is temporarily held in the stopper S2 of the pool section P, and the ticket held in the stopper S1 is stored in the grouping section E.
Is stopped by the stopper S3. And the stopper S
When the ticket is held at 3, the stopper S3 is released, and the ticket is discharged from the outlet 2 at once.

In the case of participation processing, of the two tickets, only the ticket that needs to be returned (for example, a commuter pass) is discharged to the exit 2.

If at least one of the tickets put into the slot 1 at the same time is judged to be invalid (No at S106), the door D is closed and entry is refused.
The ticket is returned to the exit 2 in a lump (S10
8). When the entrance is rejected in this way, the reason is notified to the user via the display unit 9 and the speaker (not shown). The same is true for participation.

If tickets are inserted into the slot 1 one by one (No at S104), and if the first inserted ticket is an invalid ticket (No at S110), the system waits for the next ticket. No, the ticket is discharged to the exit 2 and the door D is closed to deny entry (S
111). Also in this case, the reason for the entry refusal is notified to the user. The same applies to the entry processing.

If the first inserted ticket is a valid ticket, the ticket is temporarily held at the stopper S1 of the pool P and waits for the next ticket. If the next inserted ticket is a valid ticket (Yes at S114), the ticket is discharged to the outlet 2 at a time in the same manner as in the above-described lump-in operation (S116).

If the ticket inserted later is an invalid ticket (No at S114), the door D is closed and the ticket temporarily held at the stopper S1 of the pool P is discharged to the exit 2 (S118). ). Then, when the ticket is extracted by the user from the exit 2 (S1).
20 is affirmative), the ticket temporarily held in the stopper S2 of the pool P is discharged to the exit 2 (S122).
Also in this case, the user is notified of the reason for the entry refusal. The same applies to the entry processing.

As described above, when the later-inserted ticket is an invalid ticket, the ticket is discharged to the exit 2 separately from the previously-inserted ticket.
Can be received while confirming, and it is possible to prevent a situation in which another person (follower user) accidentally removes the ticket.

In the above-described example, when the later-inserted ticket is an invalid ticket, the ticket is discharged to the exit 2 separately from the previously-inserted ticket, but it is determined that the later-inserted ticket is invalid. By the time the user has not entered the ticket gate P, the subsequent user will not be able to insert a ticket into the slot 1, and the user who has been refused entry / exit will Is not accidentally removed,
Tickets and tickets may be discharged to the exit 2 in a lump.

In the above example, two tickets are shown as a plurality of tickets, but it goes without saying that three or more tickets may be used. In this case, the capacity of the pool P is increased by that amount.

[0027]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention has a holding means for temporarily holding a previously inserted ticket determined to be a valid ticket among a plurality of tickets inserted into the slot of the main body. ,
When the ticket inserted later into the slot is determined to be invalid, the ticket temporarily held in the holding means is discharged to the outlet of the main body, and the discharged ticket is removed. After that, the ticket is determined as an emission control means for discharging the ticket determined as the invalid ticket to the exit, so that it is possible to prevent a situation in which a subsequent user's ticket is accidentally taken away.

[0028] The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention comprises: a holding means for temporarily holding a previously inserted ticket determined as a valid ticket among a plurality of tickets inserted into the slot of the main body; The ticket that was later inserted into the slot is determined to be invalid,
And when it is detected that the user has entered the ticket gate passage, the ticket temporarily held in the holding means is discharged to the exit of the main body, and the discharged ticket is removed. After that, the ticket determined to be invalid is discharged to the exit, and when the entry of the user into the ticket gate passage is not detected, the ticket temporarily suspended in the retaining means and the invalid ticket It is possible to prevent a situation in which a subsequent user's ticket is erroneously taken away because of the discharge control means that collectively discharges the ticket determined to be to the exit.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an electrical configuration of a controller.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 G Automatic ticket gate main body (main body) 1 Slot 2 Outlet 3 Separation unit 4 Transport path 10 Human detector H1 to H3 Magnetic head E Grouping unit S1, S2, S3 Stopper C Controller

Claims (2)

[Claims] When a plurality of tickets are required for entry / exit processing of a single user, an automatic ticket gate corresponding to a plurality of tickets capable of processing the plurality of tickets is provided. A holding means for temporarily holding a previously inserted ticket determined as a valid ticket among a plurality of tickets inserted into the slot of the ticket gate body, and a ticket subsequently inserted into the slot. Is determined to be an invalid ticket, the ticket temporarily held in the holding means is discharged to the exit of the main body of the automatic ticket gate, after the discharged ticket is removed, the invalid ticket Discharge control means for discharging the ticket determined to be to the exit of the automatic ticket gate. 2. When a plurality of tickets are required for entry / exit processing of a single user, a plurality of ticket gates capable of processing the plurality of tickets are provided. A holding means for temporarily holding a previously inserted ticket determined as a valid ticket among a plurality of tickets inserted into the slot of the ticket gate body, and a ticket subsequently inserted into the slot. Is determined to be an invalid ticket, and when it is detected that the user has entered the ticket gate passage, the ticket temporarily held in the holding means is discharged to the exit of the main body of the automatic ticket gate. After the ejected ticket is removed, the ticket determined to be invalid is ejected to the exit, and when the user's entry into the ticket gate passage is not detected, the holding means is used. It is determined that the temporarily held ticket and its invalid ticket are Automatic ticket gate, characterized in that it comprises a and a discharge control means for discharging a batch ticket to the outlet.