JP2003308546A - Booking machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve operability in having a plurality of information recording media such as tickets issued. <P>SOLUTION: A booking machine (automatic ticket dispenser) for issuing a given information recording medium from a body of the booking machine upon given operation by a user has an addition key button operable for a plurality of persons when a plurality of users are the case, and a controlling means for simultaneously issuing information recording media according to an operation of the addition key button. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket dispenser such as an automatic ticket vending machine and an automatic checkout machine, and more particularly to a ticket dispenser having improved usability.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, to purchase a ticket at an automatic ticket vending machine, a predetermined account button is selected (pressed) from a group of account buttons provided on the main body of the automatic ticket vending machine, and the selection is made. When money (including cards such as prepaid cards) that meets the amount of the selected account button is inserted into the main body of the automatic ticket vending machine, a ticket corresponding to the selected account button will be issued. It is configured.

When purchasing a plurality of tickets at the same time with the conventional ticket vending machine, a desired ticket setting button is selected from a plurality of ticket setting buttons provided on the main body of the ticket vending machine. It is configured to (press). Further, when the passengers (users) of one group such as family members perform the settlement processing by the conventional automatic settlement machine, simultaneous settlement cannot be performed, and therefore each person carries out the settlement processing.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional bill issuing machine, the number of sheets must be set by selecting one button from a selection button group consisting of a large number of button groups, or by operating a plurality of buttons. There were some inconveniences, such as not being able to settle people at the same time.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to provide a ticket dispenser capable of improving the usability of the user.

[0006]

A ticket dispenser according to the present invention comprises:
In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is
When a predetermined operation is performed by a user, in a ticket dispenser that issues a predetermined information recording medium from the main body of the ticket dispenser, when there are a plurality of users, an addition key operated corresponding to the plurality of users A button is provided, and a control means for simultaneously issuing the information recording medium corresponding to the operation of the addition key button is provided. The bill dispenser according to claim 2 of the present invention is characterized in that the main body of the bill dispenser is a main body of an automatic ticket vending machine. The bill dispenser according to claim 3 of the present invention is characterized in that a main body of the bill dispenser is a main body of an automatic settlement machine.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a main body of an automatic ticket vending machine when the ticket dispenser according to the present invention is used as an automatic ticket vending machine (hereinafter,
It is called the "ticket vending machine body". ) Is a front view of FIG.

The ticket vending machine body 1 has a slant type customer service surface 2, and a guide portion 3 for indicating the operating state of the ticket vending machine body 1 is provided on the upper portion thereof, and a slant portion at the center thereof is provided. Is provided with a well-known touch panel type display screen 4 for displaying a substantially square account button group and predetermined guidance. At the bottom of the display screen 4, an adult mark button 5a, a child (child) mark button 5b, and an addition key button K, which are features of the present invention, are displayed, and the contents set by the user are canceled. A cancel button 5c that is pressed (touched) when (clearing) and a call button 5d that is pressed when responding to an attendant
Is displayed.

At the lower part of the customer service surface 2, an amount display for displaying the amount of money inserted from the coin slot 6 and the banknote slot 7, or the balance of cards such as prepaid cards inserted from the card slot 8. Section 9, ticket issuing slot 10 for discharging a ticket (corresponding to the information recording medium of the present invention), change discharging slot 11 for discharging change, when providing voice guidance to the user, or via a microphone 12 A speaker 13 for responding to is provided. In FIG. 1, the buttons (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d and K) are provided on the display screen 4, but they may be displayed on a display screen different from the display screen 4, or may be of a push button type. You can also

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 14 is a controller for controlling the ticket vending machine body 1 in a centralized manner. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the controller 14, which is formed by a microcomputer. It is mainly composed of a central processing unit (CPU) 20.

The CPU 20 is a ticket vending machine body 1 for storing fare data and predetermined guidance data stored in the first memory 21.
The station-specific data and the control program stored in the second memory 22 are used to perform arithmetic processing. Further, the CPU 20 includes a variable display section 23 for driving and controlling the display of the display screen 4, a touch panel input section 24 for driving and controlling the input of the display screen 4,
A coin processing unit 25 that performs a coin inspection process on coins inserted from the coin insertion port 6, a banknote processing unit 26 that performs a coin inspection process on banknotes inserted from the banknote insertion port 7, and a ticket issuing unit 27 that performs a ticket issuing process. It is provided on the back side of the ticket vending machine body 1, and sets the ticket vending machine body 1 in various modes such as a ticket issuing mode,
Alternatively, a staff operation section 28 having an input section such as a ten-key pad operated by a staff at the time of maintenance and inspection of the ticket vending machine body 1 and a display screen, a change processing section 29 for discharging change to the change discharge port 11, and a card insertion slot 8. A card processing unit 30 for processing cards such as inserted prepaid cards and the contents to be guided are combined and generated from the speaker 13, and a voice response is made to the monitoring panel side via the microphone 12 and the speaker. A voice guidance processing unit 31 having a so-called intercom function is connected.

The control operation will be described below with reference to FIGS. Now, it is assumed that the ticket vending machine body 1 is operated by one adult user. In this case, when a predetermined account button (hereinafter referred to as an account button of 130 yen) is pressed (touched), the display screen 4 shows a ticket for one adult, and the purchase price is 130 yen. Is displayed (Fig. 3
(See (a)). That is, in the case of one adult user,
The buttons 5a, 5b and K are not operated. Then, when money satisfying the above-mentioned purchase amount is inserted from the coin insertion slot 6 or the like, the ticket with the displayed content is issued from the ticket issuing slot 10. The same applies to the following cases.

If the user is a child (child), the child button 5
When b is pressed and the 130-yen account button is further pressed (the 130-yen account button may be pressed before the child button 5b. The same applies below), the display screen 4 shows the ticket. Indicates that the purchase price is 70 yen for a child ticket (child ticket) (see FIG. 3B).

When the user is one adult and one child, the addition key button K is pressed, then the child button 5b is pressed,
Further, the 130 yen account button is pressed. In this case, on the display screen 4, one adult ticket and one child ticket (child ticket) 1
It is displayed that the purchase amount is 200 yen (see FIG. 3 (c)).

When there are two adults, the addition key button K
Is pressed, then the adult button 5a is pressed, and
The 130-yen account button is pressed. In this case, display screen 4
Indicates that the ticket is for two adults and the purchase price is 260 yen (see FIG. 3 (d)).

When there are two adults and one child, the addition key button K is first pressed, the adult button 5a is then pressed, the addition key button K is pressed, and then the child button is pressed. 5
b is pressed. Note that this button operation may be performed with the child button 5b first. When the 130 yen account button is pressed, it is displayed on the display screen 4 that the ticket price is 330 yen for two adults and one child (FIG. 3).
(See (e)).

When there are two adults and two children, first, the addition key button K is pressed, then the adult button 5a is pressed, and after the addition key button K is pressed, the child button is pressed. 5b is pressed. Further, the addition key button K is pressed, and the child button 5b is pressed. Note that this button operation may be performed with the child button 5b first. Then, when the 130 yen account button is pressed, the display screen 4 displays that the ticket for two adults and two children is 440 yen (FIG. 3).
(See (e)).

As described above, the ticket vending machine body 1 has a feature that a plurality of tickets can be easily purchased by operating the buttons 5a, 5b, K.

FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b) are display examples of the display screen 4'of the main body of the automatic payment machine when the ticket dispenser according to the present invention is the automatic payment machine. On this display screen 4 ', the addition key button K similar to that of the above automatic ticket vending machine is also displayed.
This addition key button K
It is not operated (see FIG. 4 (a)).

When there are a plurality of users, for example, two, who make the payment, the addition key button K is pressed once. By this pressing, the display screen 4'displays that the settlement processing of two users is simultaneously performed, as shown in FIG. 4 (b). If there are three or more payment users, the addition key buttons K are pressed by the number corresponding to the number.

When the addition key button K is pressed, the main body of the automatic settlement machine is set to the simultaneous processing mode, and the settlement original tickets put into the main body of the automatic settlement machine are collectively settled. That is, the display screen 4'displays the shortage charge (settlement charge) for each settlement original ticket and the total amount of the shortage charges. Then, when money satisfying the total amount is put into the main body of the automatic settlement machine, the same number of settlement tickets (corresponding to the information recording medium of the present invention) as the number of the settlement original tickets are issued. The settlement original ticket is not limited to a magnetic ticket and may be a non-contact ticket including an IC card having a wireless communication function. In this case, the automatic checkout machine is provided with a reader / writer for processing contactless tickets.

[0022]

The bill dispenser according to claim 1 of the present invention is a bill dispenser in which a predetermined information recording medium is issued from the main body of the bill dispenser when a predetermined operation is performed by the user. Is provided with an addition key button to be operated corresponding to the plurality of persons when there are a plurality of, and the control means for simultaneously issuing the information recording medium corresponding to the operation of the addition key button, It is possible to easily issue the passenger ticket desired by the user. The bill issuing machine according to claim 2 of the present invention is
Since the main body of the ticket dispenser is the main body of the automatic ticket vending machine, it is possible to easily purchase a plurality of tickets. In the bill dispenser according to claim 3 of the present invention, since the signal of the main body of the bill dispenser being the main body of the automatic settlement machine can be easily input, the settlement processing of a plurality of users can be easily performed. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a ticket vending machine body when an automatic ticket vending machine is used as a ticket dispenser according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a control operation.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Main body of automatic ticket vending machine (main body of ticket vending machine) 2 customer service 4,4 'display screen 5a Adult mark button 5b Child mark button 5c Cancel button 5d call button K addition key button 6 coin slot 7 banknote slot 8 card slot 9 Amount display 10 ticket gates 11 Change outlet 12 microphone 13 speakers 14 Controller

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine in which a predetermined information recording medium is issued from the main body of the vending machine when a predetermined operation is performed by the user, and when the number of users is plural, operation is performed corresponding to the plural people. And a control means for simultaneously issuing the information recording medium in response to the operation of the addition key button. 2. The ticket dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a main body of the ticket dispenser is a main body of an automatic ticket vending machine. 3. The bill dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the main body of the bill dispenser is a main body of an automatic settlement machine.