JP2001175789A - Automatic refunding device provided with point registration function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a point service system without installing a private automatic point registration device and to prevent a losing ticket from being scattered on a passage. SOLUTION: An automatic refunding device has a card management part 2 receiving an processing the point card 7 of a customer, a betting ticket management part 3 receiving and processing a betting ticket 8, a cash management part 4 counting and refunding cash and a control part 5 executing communication with a host computer 6 and controlling and functioning respective parts. When the betting ticket 8 received based on a race result received from the host computer 6 is the winning ticket, cash is refunded in accordance with a betting content. A point value corresponding to the betting content is added to the point card 7 of the customer and it is written although the received betting ticket 8 is the winning one or not. The point value corresponding to the betting content on the received betting ticket is added for every customer and it is registered to the host computer. When the received betting ticket is the losing one, the point value corresponding to the betting content is added. Then, the ticket is stored in a betting ticket collection box and the diffusion of the losing ticket is prevented.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a public match such as a horse race, a bicycle race, a boat race, an auto race, and the like, in which points corresponding to the purchase contents of a voting ticket are added for customer service and a hit ticket is refunded. The present invention relates to an automatic refund device having a point registration function for performing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As one of various customer services in a public stadium, a point service system for adding points according to the number of visits and the visit time has been introduced.
As an extension of this system, adoption of a service (point service) for adding points according to the amount of a voting ticket purchased by a customer is being considered, but in order to realize this, for example, a voting ticket is issued. It is conceivable to add a card handling unit for accepting and processing a customer's point card to the ticketing machine. Incidentally, such a point service system is already employed in, for example, a register (POS) of a store or the like, and is configured such that a customer adds points in accordance with the purchase price when purchasing a product.

[0003] However, in such a method, it is necessary to connect a card handling unit to each of a large number of ticketing machines installed at various places, and thus a large cost is required. Therefore, if you accept a voting ticket issued by a normal ticketing machine and a customer's point card, an automatic registration function equipped with a point registration function that calculates points according to the content of the previous voting ticket and adds the point card A point service system in which the required number of point registration devices are installed is being studied. This is already adopted in the aviation industry, for example, and is known as a so-called mileage registration system using air tickets.

[0004]

However, there are a large number of visitors in public competitions, and the number of voting tickets issued is enormous. For this reason, to avoid customer retention,
In order to install the automatic point registration device, a very large number is required, and the installation space and cost have been issues. In addition, voting tickets in public competitions are classified into "hits (hits)" and "unspots (missing)" when the race is over and wins or loses are determined. The ticket will be discarded. Since customers with bad manners throw away "unsatisfied bills" as they are in a passage or the like, many customers are often scattered. Such scattered “unsatisfied tickets” not only impair the aesthetics of the stadium and the surrounding area, but also require enormous costs for cleaning.

[0005] When a voting ticket in a public event becomes a "hit", a refund will be refunded. In recent years, when a voting ticket has been inserted into this refund operation, it communicates with the host computer of the totalizer system, and "judgment" or "calculation of refund"
After that, automatic refund devices that count and pay out cash have come to be used. Many automatic refund devices are installed in public stadiums so that many customers can receive a refund in a short time. In view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides an automatic refund device used in a refund business when a point service system is employed as one of customer services in public sports such as horse racing, bicycle racing, boat racing, and auto racing. The point registration function has been added to the system to reduce the space and cost issues associated with the installation of an automatic point registration device, and to provide an automatic point registration function that can prevent scattering of "unsatisfied middle tickets" after the race. It is an object to provide a refund device.

[0006]

In other words, the invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is a card handling unit that accepts and processes a customer's point card, and is used in public sports such as horse racing, bicycle racing, boat racing, and auto racing. A voting ticket handling unit that accepts and processes voting tickets, a cash handling unit that counts and pays out cash, and a control unit that communicates with the host computer and controls and functions each of the above units. If the accepted voting ticket is a hit ticket based on the race result received from the automatic refund device that refunds cash according to the contents of the vote if the accepted voting ticket is a hit ticket, regardless of whether the accepted voting ticket is a hit ticket This is an automatic refund device provided with a point registration function in which a point value according to the content of a vote is written on a customer's point card.

[0007] The invention described in claim 2 is the first invention.
Automatic refund apparatus having a point registration function having the same configuration as the invention according to the invention, wherein a point value corresponding to the content of the vote of the accepted betting ticket is added for each customer and registered in the host computer. It was done.

[0008] The invention according to claim 3 is configured to store the accepted voting ticket after adding the point value according to the content of the voting if the accepted voting ticket is improper. An automatic refund device having a point function according to claim 1 or 2, wherein an erroneous hit ticket is prevented from scattering.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic payout device having a point registration function according to the present invention. The automatic refund device 1 provided with the point registration function includes a card handling unit 2, a voting ticket handling unit 3, a cash handling unit 4, and a control unit 5, and is connected to a host computer 6. .

The card handling unit 2 accepts a later-described point card 7 for specifying a customer and recording information for presenting a prize and performing other services, and a customer number and other information recorded on the point card 7. And magnetic recording and reading means capable of reading information and writing information as needed. The card handling unit 2 has a printing unit such as a thermal head, and can print characters, images, and the like on a rewrite display unit 72 formed on the surface of the point card 7 described later.

The voting ticket handling unit 3 receives the voting ticket 8 issued by the ticket issuing machine, and records the data recorded on the voting ticket 8 (for example, a record of the voting ticket 8 shown in FIG. 3 such as a magnetic stripe or a bar code). (Recorded in the section 81). This data is originally used when various types of refund devices such as the automatic refund device 1 read the voting ticket 8 in order to promptly refund the "hit ticket". , A race, a betting ceremony, a group number, a purchase price, and the like. In addition, this voting ticket handling department 3
Is the OCR (Optical Character R
eader), and the character information printed on the face of the ticket can be directly read. The function of discharging the inserted voting ticket 8 to the outside of the automatic refund device 1 and a part of the voting ticket handling unit 3 Is provided in the betting ticket collection box 31.

The cash handling unit 4 includes a safe 41 for storing bills and coins, and a counting unit 42 for counting them.
The control unit 5 is connected to the card handling unit 2, the voting ticket handling unit 3, and the cash handling unit 4, and reads the point card 7 in the card handling unit 2, and reads the voting ticket 8 by the betting ticket handling unit 3. At the same time, the cash handling unit 4 performs counting and payout of the refund, and writes information to the card handling unit 2. The control unit 5 is connected to a host computer 6 via a communication line. Since the host computer 6 is a part of the totalizer system for controlling the operation of races in public sports, the progress and results of the races in each public stadium can be confirmed and recognized in real time by the communication line. ing.

The point card 7 is made of, for example, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and includes a recording section 71 and a rewrite display section 72 as shown in FIG. The recording unit 71 is made of, for example, a magnetic stripe and is formed on the back surface of the point card 7 so that information can be written by a magnetic head or the like of the card handling unit 2. The rewritable display section 72 is formed of, for example, a rewritable recording medium using a thermoreversible recording material, and can repeatedly print characters, images, and the like by a thermal head or the like of the card handling section 2.

Next, a service point registration operation using the automatic refund apparatus having the point registration function according to this embodiment will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG. This point card registration operation is composed of a first step S1 to a tenth step S10. In a first step S1, a customer point card 7 (supposedly issued by a point card issuing section prior to the current race) is inserted into the card handling section 2. In the second step S2, the separately purchased voting ticket 8 is inserted into the voting ticket handling unit 3.

In a third step S3, the customer number and other information recorded in the recording section 71 of the point card 7 are
Based on the voting information recorded in the recording unit 81 of the betting ticket 8,
It communicates with the host computer 6 and obtains the customer information and the progress and results of the race recorded on the betting ticket 8 in real time. In a fourth step S4, it is determined whether or not the race recorded on the betting ticket 8 has ended.
Here, if the race corresponding to the inserted betting ticket 8 has already ended, the process branches to a fifth step S5, and if it has not ended, the process branches to a ninth step S9. In the fifth step S5, the card handling unit 2 adds the point value read from the recording unit 71 of the point card 7 to
The new point value is calculated by adding the point values based on the information on the current betting ticket 8, and the new point value is written to the point card 7. Further, the new point value is printed on the rewrite display section 72 of the point card 7.

In a sixth step S6, it is determined whether or not the betting ticket 8 is a hit ticket. Here, the betting type / group number described in the inserted betting ticket 8 is compared with the result of the corresponding race, and if it is a hit, the process proceeds to step S7 on the left branch side, and a refund is paid out. Proceeding to step S9 on the right branch side, the betting ticket 8 is discharged. Note that the victory branch includes a voting ticket that has some kind of refund, such as occurrence of a return due to the absence of a player or a special refund if no hit ticket has been released. In the seventh step S7, the cash in the safe 41 is counted by the counting unit 42 of the cash handling unit 4, and the refund corresponding to the betting ticket 8 is returned to the automatic refund device 1.
It is paid out of. In an eighth step S8, the betting ticket 8 is collected in the betting ticket collection box 31 which is a part of the betting ticket handling unit 3. In a ninth step S9, the voting ticket 8 is discharged out of the automatic refund device 1 and returned. Tenth step S1
At 0, the point card 7 is ejected out of the automatic payout apparatus 1, and the point registration operation is completed. In the above-described embodiment, only one voting ticket can be processed by one operation. However, it is needless to say that a plurality of voting tickets can be continuously processed.

In this embodiment, the points are recorded on the card. However, by treating them as a part of the customer data of the host computer 6, the structure of claim 2 can be obtained.
Further, in the sixth step S6, the voting ticket 8 determined to be unsuccessful is not branched to the ninth step S9 for discharging the voting ticket 8 to the outside of the automatic refund apparatus 1, and the voting ticket 8 is By branching to the eighth step S8 of collecting in the betting ticket collection box 31, which is a part, the configuration of claim 3 is achieved.

[0018]

As is clear from the above description, according to the automatic payout apparatus having the point registration function according to the present invention, the point service which can add points without installing a dedicated automatic point registration apparatus.・ The system can be configured, and installation space and cost can be reduced. Also, if the accepted betting ticket is improper,
When a customer inserts a voting ticket into an automatic refund device equipped with a point registration function in order to add points, an unsatisfactory middle ticket will be collected, and it will be possible to prevent the unsatisfactory middle notes from being scattered in a passage or the like. . Furthermore, even if there is a customer who discards the unsuccessful hit as it is, another customer picks it up and adds it to the points on his point card and inserts it into an automatic refund device equipped with a point registration function. As a result, it can be expected that the unsatisfactory middle note will be collected, so that scattering of the unsatisfactory middle notes can be prevented in this respect as well.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic payout device having a point registration function according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing an example of the reward card of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a betting ticket of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a point registration operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Automatic refund device with point registration function 2 Card handling unit 3 Voting ticket handling unit 4 Cash handling unit 5 Control unit 6 Host computer 7 Point card 8 Voting ticket

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Soji Takeuchi 1-9-9 Motohongo-cho, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo F-term in Chuo Denshi Co., Ltd. (reference) 3E038 GA02 KA06 5B049 AA06 BB36 CC39 DD04 FF08

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A card handling unit that accepts and processes customer loyalty cards, a betting ticket handling unit that accepts and processes voting tickets in public sports such as horse racing, bicycle racing, boat racing, and auto racing. A cash handling unit that pays out and pays off, and a control unit that communicates with the host computer and controls and operates the above units, and the voting ticket received based on the race result received from the host computer is a hit ticket In an automatic refund device that repays cash according to the content of the vote, the point value according to the content of the vote is added to the customer's point card and written regardless of whether the accepted betting ticket is a hit ticket or not An automatic refund device provided with a point registration function. 2. The point registration function according to claim 1, wherein a point value corresponding to the contents of the vote of the accepted betting ticket is added for each customer and registered in a host computer. Automatic refund device. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the accepted voting ticket is improper, the accepted voting ticket is stored after adding a point value according to the contents of the voting. An automatic refund device provided with the point registration function according to 2.