JP2007335041A - Magnetic stripe processor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce writing/reading failure of magnetic data by making a magnetic head able to surely be in contact with a magnetic stripe although there is differences in thickness or parer quality of a passbook, or in the folding habit of seam. <P>SOLUTION: The writing/reading process of the magnetic data is carried out in such a manner that MS guides are moved according to the thickness or the amount of deformation of the passbook and the magnetic head is made to be in contact with the magnetic stripe after the deformation of passbook is corrected, or carried out in such a manner as a retry process that the MS guides are moved to the position different from the previously moved position and the magnetic head is made to be in contact with the magnetic stripe by changing the correction amount of the deformation of the passbook. Or, in the magnetic stripe processor provided with a plurality of magnetic heads, the MS guides around the magnetic head are moved so that effect of the seam of the passbook is eliminated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a magnetic stripe processing apparatus for performing a magnetic data writing / reading operation on a magnetic stripe attached to a booklet-like medium such as a passbook used in a financial institution or the like.

Conventionally, as is well known, automatic transactions are established by writing and reading magnetic data using a magnetic stripe attached to a bankbook or a card during financial transactions. As such a magnetic stripe processing apparatus, after the passbook is conveyed until the magnetic stripe of the inserted passbook reaches the magnetic head position, it is pressed by a magnetic stripe guide that presses the passbook that moves up and down by a rotating arm or the like, There has been a technique for reading and writing magnetic data by suppressing deformation due to the binding of the passbook, bringing the magnetic head and magnetic stripe into contact with each other (for example, see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent No. 2667705

  However, in the conventional magnetic stripe processing apparatus, since the pressing by the magnetic stripe guide is constant, the crease shape due to the stitches of the passbook is magnetic as shown in FIG. 4 due to the thickness of the passbook and the difference in paper quality. The head 22 could not contact the magnetic stripe 4, and a gap Lo was formed between the magnetic head 22 and the magnetic stripe 4, so that writing and reading of magnetic data might become unstable.

  The present invention employs the following configuration in order to solve the above-described problems. That is, in a magnetic stripe processing apparatus for writing and reading magnetic data by bringing a magnetic stripe affixed to a medium into contact with a magnetic head, medium thickness measuring means for measuring the thickness of the medium, and a pressing member for pressing the medium Then, according to the measurement result measured by the medium thickness measuring means, the pressing member is moved to read and write magnetic data.

  According to the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the present invention, the medium thickness measuring means for measuring the thickness of the medium, the pressing member for pressing the medium, and the pressing member according to the measurement result measured by the medium thickness measuring means. Since the magnetic data is written and read by moving the magnetic head, the magnetic head cannot be brought into contact with the magnetic stripe due to the thickness of the media or the folding due to the stitches, and the magnetic data writing / reading failure is reduced. To do.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Elements common to the drawings are given the same reference numerals. In the description of the embodiment of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus described below, a passbook generally used as a medium will be described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  Further, the passbook has a vertical passbook provided with magnetic stripes 4 in the direction of the stitches 8 of the passbook 3 as shown in FIG. 13 and a direction perpendicular to the direction of the stitches 8 of the passbook 3 as shown in FIG. Although there is a horizontal passbook provided with the magnetic stripe 4, in the following embodiments, for the sake of convenience, the horizontal passbook shown in FIG. 14 will be described as an example. The present invention can be similarly applied to the vertical bank shown in FIG.

(Constitution)
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a printer equipped with the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the printer 80 has a built-in print head 81 disposed opposite to the magnetic stripe processing device 40 and the platen 82, and the bankbook 3 is conveyed by a conveyance guide and a conveyance roller, which will be described later. The magnetic data writing / reading process to the magnetic stripe 4 of the bankbook 3 and the printing process to a predetermined position of the bankbook 3 are performed by the control command of the control PC 85 connected by the connection cable 87.

  1 and 2 are a schematic side view and a schematic top view of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to the first embodiment. As shown in the figure, the magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to the first embodiment includes a transport guide (10a to 10d) that guides the transport of the bankbook 3 transported from the direction of arrow B, and a transport roller 1a that transports the bankbook 3. 1b and the conveying rollers 2a and 2b and a magnetic stripe that moves in the direction of arrow A via gears 36 and 37 and presses the passbook 3 by power from a magnetic stripe guide driving motor (hereinafter referred to as "MS guide motor 35"). A guide (hereinafter referred to as “MS guides 30, 31”), a magnetic stripe carriage (hereinafter referred to as “MS carriage 21”) that holds the magnetic head 22 by urging it in the direction of the passbook 3 with a spring 24, and a magnetic head 22. The magnetic stripe roller (hereinafter referred to as “MS roller 9”) that is provided facing and presses the bankbook 3 from above is configured.

  And the magnetic head 22 is arrange | positioned in the position through which the magnetic stripe 4 of the bankbook 3 passes, as shown in FIG. The MS guides 30 and 31 are arranged on both sides of the transport path in parallel with the transport direction, and can be moved up and down by the gear 36 and the gear 37 using the MS guide motor 35 as a drive source as described above. .

(Operation)
With the above configuration, the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the first embodiment operates as follows. This operation will be described below with reference to the operation explanatory diagrams of FIGS.

  First, as shown in FIG. 3, the passbook 3 inserted into the printer 80 in the direction of arrow B is provided with a roller 50 that contacts the passbook 3 passing in the direction of arrow B as shown in FIG. A rotation angle detection unit 52 rotated by an arm 51 connected to 50 is provided, the thickness of the bankbook 3 is measured by the rotation angle of the rotation angle detection unit 52, and the thickness of the bankbook 3 is managed by the control PC 85. At this time, the thickness Z of the passbook 3 is measured by including the passbook warp which varies depending on the material.

  Then, the position is detected by a position detection sensor (not shown), and transported to a magnetic data writing / reading start position by a transport roller (not shown) and transport rollers 1a and 1b and transport rollers 2a and 2b, as shown in FIGS. After moving the MS guides 30 and 31 to a position corresponding to the thickness Z of the bankbook 3, the magnetic head 22 is raised to perform the magnetic data writing / reading process, and the magnetic data is written / read while the bankbook 3 is being transported. Process. Of course, the movement of the MS guides 30 and 31 and the raising of the magnetic head 22 may be performed in parallel.

  FIG. 8 shows the relationship between the thickness Z of the bankbook 3 and the movement amount Ly of the MS guides 30 and 31 at this time. For example, when the thickness Z of the bankbook 3 is 0.5 mm, the MS guide movement amount Ly is 2.5 mm, and when the thickness Z is 1.0 mm, the MS guide movement amount Ly is 2.0 mm. In addition, the MS guide movement amount Ly is decreased as the passbook thickness Z increases.

  As described above, since the movement amount of the MS guides 30 and 31 is changed according to the thickness of the bankbook 3, the stitches as described in FIG. 8, the gap Lo between the magnetic head 22 and the magnetic stripe 4 can be eliminated as shown in FIG.

(Effect of Example 1)
As described in detail above, according to the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the first embodiment, since the MS guide is moved according to the thickness of the passbook and the amount of deformation, the magnetic data writing / reading processing is performed. It is possible to reduce the occurrence of magnetic data writing / reading failure due to the magnetic head not being able to contact the magnetic stripe due to the thickness of the passbook or the folding due to the binding.

(Constitution)
Since the configuration of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment, detailed description thereof is omitted for the sake of brevity.

(Operation)
First, the passbook 3 inserted in the printer 80 measures the thickness of the passbook 3 with the roller 50, the arm 51, and the rotation angle detection unit 52, and manages the thickness of the passbook 3 with the control PC 85. At this time, the thickness Z of the passbook 3 is measured including the passbook warp that varies depending on the material and the like, as in the first embodiment.

  Then, the position is detected by a positioning sensor (not shown), and is conveyed to the writing / reading start position of the magnetic data by the conveying rollers 1a and 1b and the conveying rollers 2a and 2b, and the MS guide 30 is moved to a position corresponding to the thickness Z of the bankbook 3. , 31 is moved, the magnetic head 22 is moved up to carry out the magnetic data writing / reading process, and the bankbook 3 is conveyed to carry out the magnetic data writing / reading process. Of course, the movement of the MS guides 30 and 31 and the raising of the magnetic head 22 may be performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.

  As described above, the gap between the magnetic head 22 and the magnetic stripe 4 is reduced by moving the MS guides 30 and 31 according to the thickness of the bankbook 3, but there may be a gap remaining. Therefore, as the retry process, the magnetic data write / read process is performed again. In this case, the position of the MS guides 30 and 31 is moved to a different position, and the magnetic data write / read process is performed.

  FIG. 9 shows the number of retries and the amount of movement of the MS guides 30 and 31. As shown in FIG. 9, for example, when the initial setting position is Ly = 0 and the magnetic data writing / reading cannot be performed normally at this initial setting position, the movement amount Ly is increased by about 0.1 mm, The MS guides 30 and 31 are moved to positions different from the previous time, the deformation of the bankbook is corrected, and the magnetic head 22 is brought into contact with the magnetic stripe 4 to perform magnetic data writing / reading processing (one retry).

  If normal reading is not possible even after the retry, the movement amount Ly is further increased by about 0.1 mm, the MS guides 30 and 31 are moved to positions different from the previous time, the deformation of the passbook is corrected, and the magnetic head 22 Is brought into contact with the magnetic stripe 4 and magnetic data writing / reading processing is performed (two retries).

  If normal reading is not possible even after the above retry, the initial setting position Ly = 0 is returned, the movement amount Ly is decreased by about 0.1 mm, the MS guides 30 and 31 are moved to positions different from the previous time, and the passbook The magnetic head 22 is brought into contact with the magnetic stripe 4 and magnetic data writing / reading processing is performed (three retries).

  If normal reading is not possible even after retrying, the movement amount Ly is further reduced by about 0.1 mm, and the same magnetic data writing / reading process is performed (4 retries).

  In the above description, the movement amount Ly is first increased by about 0.1 mm and then decreased. However, while alternately increasing / decreasing, the deformation of the passbook is corrected and the magnetic data writing / reading process is performed. It may be. In the above description, Ly has been described as changing the amount of movement. However, as shown in FIG. 5, the MS guides 30 and 31 are moved in the direction of the arrow X to correct the deformation of the bankbook, and the magnetic head 22. May be brought into contact with the magnetic stripe 4 to perform magnetic data write / read processing.

(Effect of Example 2)
As described above in detail, according to the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the second embodiment, as the retry process, the MS guide is moved to a position different from the previous position, the correction amount of the passbook deformation is changed, and the magnetic head is magnetically moved. Since it is in contact with the stripe, it is possible to further reduce the occurrence of magnetic data write / read failure.

(Constitution)
The configuration of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to the third embodiment is also the same as that according to the first embodiment, and detailed description thereof is omitted for the sake of brevity. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to the third embodiment. In the magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to the third embodiment, another magnetic head 25 is mounted in addition to the magnetic head 22. .

  As shown in the figure, the magnetic head 25 is another magnetic head mounted in the same apparatus as the magnetic head 22, and corresponds to the magnetic stripe 5.

(Operation)
First, the passbook 3 inserted in the printer 80 measures the thickness of the passbook 3 with the roller 50, the arm 51, and the rotation angle detection unit 52, and manages the thickness of the passbook 3 with the control PC 85. At this time, the thickness Z of the passbook 3 is measured including the passbook warp that varies depending on the material and the like, as in the first embodiment.

  Then, a position detection sensor (not shown) detects the position, and as shown in FIG. 11, after the conveyance rollers 1a and 1b and the conveyance rollers 2a and 2b convey the magnetic data to the write / read start position, the thickness Z of the bankbook 3 After moving the MS guide 30 in the direction of the arrow Y1 to a position corresponding to the position, the magnetic head 22 is raised in the direction of the arrow Y2 to perform the magnetic data write / read process, and the magnetic data write / read process is carried while the bankbook 3 is conveyed. I do. Of course, the movement of the MS guide 30 and the raising of the magnetic head 22 may be performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 12, when there is another magnetic stripe 5, the magnetic data is written by the transport rollers 1a and 1b and the transport rollers 2a and 2b in the same manner as the magnetic data write / read processing by the magnetic head 22. After transporting to the reading start position, the MS guide 31 is moved in the direction of the arrow Y4 to the position corresponding to the thickness Z of the bankbook 3, and then the magnetic head 25 is moved up in the direction of the arrow Y3 to perform the magnetic data writing and reading The magnetic data is written and read while the bankbook 3 is being conveyed. Of course, the movement of the MS guide 31 and the raising of the magnetic head 25 may be performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.

  As described above, when magnetic data is written and read by the magnetic head 22, only the MS guide 30 is moved, the passbook 3 is pressed to correct the deformed shape, and the magnetic head 22 and the magnetic stripe 4 are brought into contact with each other. When the magnetic head 25 writes and reads magnetic data, only the MS guide 31 is moved, the passbook 3 is pressed to correct the deformed shape, and the magnetic head 25 and the magnetic stripe 5 are brought into contact with each other.

  In the above description, the number of mechanisms for measuring the thickness of the bankbook 3 has not been described in detail, but each mechanism is provided at each magnetic head position, and can be used according to the measured thickness of the bankbook 3. The MS guide to be moved may be moved.

  In the above description, the case of two magnetic heads, that is, the magnetic head 22 and the magnetic head 25 has been described. Even when there are three or more magnetic heads, an MS guide is provided in the vicinity of each magnetic head, By performing the operation, stable magnetic data writing / reading processing can be realized. Even in this case, a rotation angle detector for measuring the thickness of the bankbook 3 may be provided at the position of each magnetic head, and the corresponding MS guide may be moved according to the measured thickness of the bankbook 3. .

(Effect of Example 3)
As described above in detail, according to the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of the third embodiment, in the magnetic stripe processing apparatus having a plurality of magnetic heads, the MS guide on the side close to the magnetic head is moved to bind the passbook Since the influence is eliminated, even a multi-head magnetic stripe processing apparatus can perform stable magnetic data writing / reading processing.

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In the above description of the embodiment, the thickness Z is managed by the control PC 85. However, the thickness Z is not managed by the control PC 85 but may be managed by the control unit in the printer 80. Good.

  As described above, the present invention can be widely used in a medium processing apparatus that handles a medium having a magnetic stripe.

1 is a schematic side view of a magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. 1 is a schematic top view of a magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is the schematic of the printer carrying a magnetic stripe processing apparatus. It is a figure explaining the influence of the binding of the passbook of a magnetic stripe processing apparatus. It is a figure explaining the effect by MS guide of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 2. FIG. 6 is a schematic front view of a magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to Embodiment 3. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 3. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the magnetic stripe processing apparatus of Example 3. FIG. It is a figure explaining the structure of a vertical passbook. It is a figure explaining the structure of a horizontal passbook. It is a block diagram of the thickness measuring mechanism of a passbook

Explanation of symbols

3 Passbook 4, 5 Magnetic stripe 8 Stitch 22, 25 Magnetic head 30, 31 MS guide L0 Gap

Claims (3)

In a magnetic stripe processing apparatus that reads and writes magnetic data by bringing a magnetic stripe affixed to a medium into contact with a magnetic head,
Medium thickness measuring means for measuring the thickness of the medium;
A pressing member that presses the medium;
A magnetic stripe processing apparatus characterized in that the pressing member is moved in accordance with the measurement result measured by the medium thickness measuring means to read and write magnetic data. 2. The magnetic stripe processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the magnetic data writing / reading failure is detected, the pressing member is moved to a position different from the position to read / write magnetic data. In a magnetic stripe processing apparatus having a plurality of magnetic heads,
3. The magnetic stripe according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic member is read and written by moving the pressing member in the vicinity of the magnetic head according to the measurement result measured by the medium thickness measuring means. Processing equipment.

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