JP2008242767A - Gate system for parking lot for bicycle - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gate system of a parking lot for bicycles capable of solving the problems of convenience, RF-ID medium coping, and deterioration by ultraviolet rays, in a conventional parking lot for bicycles. <P>SOLUTION: This gate system for the parking lot for the bicycles has: the bicycle 1 disposed with a non-contact type data carrier 2 wherein first information including ID information is incorporated inside an IC; a gate 5 making the bicycle pass; a reading part 3 reading the first information of the non-contact type data carrier; a storage part 4a holding second information including the ID information of the non-contact type data carrier wherein use of the parking lot for the bicycles is permitted; and a processing part 4 collating the first information obtained from the reading part and the second information of the storage part, and deciding whether gate opening is permitted or not. The reading part has a flat sheet state, is installed such that the bicycle passes thereon before the gate, and is disposed such that its reading direction becomes perpendicular to a face of the reading part when the non-contact type data carrier approaches closest to the flat sheet-like reading part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a gate system for controlling the passage of a bicycle in a bicycle parking lot.

In recent years, various types of non-contact IC tags in the form of sheets or bills, in which IC chips loaded with data are connected to antenna coils, have been proposed and attached to products and packaging boxes to prevent shoplifting, logistics systems, products It has come to be used for management.
As such a non-contact type IC tag, in general, a system that exchanges signals with an external read / write device or performs signal exchange and power supply by electromagnetic waves is preferably used.
Of course, a simple resonance tag having no IC is also used to detect the presence of an article.

Under such circumstances, a bicycle parking gate system using RF-ID media (also referred to as a non-contact data carrier) has been proposed.
For example, in the case of the bicycle parking gate system described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-173461 (Patent Document 1), as shown in FIG. 3, the RF-ID media 11 in which information related to the expiration date of the bicycle parking lot is written is used. The gate 10 based on the information read from the attached bicycle 10, the gate 12 through which the bicycle 10 should pass, and the RF-ID media 11 attached to the bicycle 10 passing through the gate 12, the reader 12a being attached to a part thereof 12 is provided with a control unit 13 for controlling the opening and closing of 12, and an alarm generation unit 14 that issues an alarm based on information read from the RF-ID media according to an instruction of the control unit 13.
JP 2003-173461 A

However, in such a conventional bicycle parking gate system, the RF-ID media (non-contact data carrier) needs to be brought close to the reader 12a attached to the gate 12 to some extent due to the data reading distance.
For this reason, the user needs to bring the reader and the non-contact data carrier closer in order to pass through the gate consciously, which has been a problem in terms of convenience.
Also, in conventional bicycle parking gate systems, non-contact data carriers are attached to fenders, etc., but bicycle fenders are often made of metal, so it is difficult to handle metal with general non-contact data carriers. However, even if it can cope, there is a problem that the reading distance becomes short.
Further, when RF-ID media (non-contact data carrier) is attached to the outside, deterioration due to ultraviolet rays has been a problem.

As described above, conventionally, an RF-ID medium (non-contact data carrier) is attached to a bicycle, information is read from the RF-ID medium by a reader attached to the gate, and the gate is opened and closed based on the obtained information. There is a known gate system for a bicycle parking lot with a control system. However, in this type of parking gate system, even if it is difficult to handle metal and RF-ID media is difficult to handle, the reading distance There is a problem that the process becomes shorter, and there is a problem of deterioration due to ultraviolet rays.
The present invention is compatible with this, and there is a problem of convenience in conventional bicycle parking lots, a problem that RF-ID media is difficult to deal with metal, and even if it can cope with it, the reading distance becomes short, deterioration due to ultraviolet rays It is intended to provide a bicycle parking gate system that can solve this problem.

The gate system for a bicycle parking lot according to the present invention is a gate system for controlling the passage of a bicycle in a bicycle parking lot, and includes at least one non-contact type data carrier having at least first information including ID information incorporated in an IC. Bicycles placed in or between the tires and tubes, a gate through which the bicycle passes, a reading unit for reading the first information of the non-contact data carrier, and use of a bicycle parking lot are permitted. The storage unit holding the second information including at least the ID information of the non-contact type data carrier, the first information obtained from the reading unit and the second information in the storage unit are collated, A processing unit for determining whether or not the bicycle is acceptable. The reading unit is in a flat sheet shape and is installed so that the bicycle passes above the gate in front of the gate. Is arranged such that when the non-contact type data carrier comes closest to the flat sheet-shaped reading unit by rotation, the reading direction is perpendicular to the surface of the reading unit. It is what.
In the above bicycle parking gate system, the reading unit is a two-dimensional array of a plurality of readers along the seat surface.
Also, in any of the above bicycle parking gate systems, the non-contact type data carrier is a proximity type IC tag.

(Function)
The gate system of the bicycle parking lot according to the present invention can cope with the problem of convenience in the conventional bicycle parking lot as shown in FIG. 3 and the RF-ID media is difficult to deal with metal as shown in FIG. However, it is possible to provide a bicycle parking gate system that can solve the problem of a short reading distance and the problem of deterioration caused by ultraviolet rays.
More specifically, a bicycle in which one or more non-contact type data carriers having at least first information including ID information built in an IC are arranged in a wheel tire or between a tire and a tube, and a bicycle 2nd information including at least ID information of a non-contact type data carrier permitted to use a bicycle parking lot, and a reading unit for reading first information of the non-contact type data carrier And a processing unit that determines whether the gate can be opened by comparing the first information obtained from the reading unit with the second information in the storage unit. The sheet is installed in front of the gate so that the bicycle passes through it, and the wheel of the bicycle is rotated so that the non-contact data carrier is closest to the flat sheet-shaped reading unit. When the, by the reading direction are arranged so as to be perpendicular to the plane of the reading unit, which achieves this.
In particular, the reading unit is in the form of a flat sheet, installed so that the bicycle passes over it in front of the gate, and when the bicycle wheel is rotated closest to the flat sheet-shaped reading unit In addition, since the reading direction is arranged to be perpendicular to the surface of the reading unit, the information of the non-contact type data carrier can be reliably transmitted only by the bicycle passing over the reading unit. It is convenient and can be read by the reading unit.
In addition, the non-contact type data carrier is arranged in the tire of the wheel or between the tire and the tube, so that the structure is not exposed to ultraviolet rays and can be prevented from being deteriorated by ultraviolet rays. To withstand vibration).
Examples of the reading unit include a plurality of readers arranged two-dimensionally along the sheet surface.
In this case, the number of readers arranged can be reduced by increasing the number of non-contact data carriers attached to the bicycle.
Examples of the non-contact type data carrier include a general-purpose proximity type IC tag.
In this case, a frequency of 13.56 MHz is generally used.

  As described above, the present invention has a problem of convenience in a conventional bicycle parking lot as shown in FIG. 3 and the RF-ID media is difficult to handle metal, and even if it can be handled, the reading distance is short. It has become possible to provide a bicycle parking gate system that can solve problems and deterioration caused by ultraviolet rays.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1A is a schematic configuration diagram of a first example of an embodiment of a bicycle parking gate system according to the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a positional relationship in a reading operation between a non-contact type data carrier and a reading unit. FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a cross section taken along line A1-A2 of FIG.
1-2, 1 is a bicycle, 2 is a non-contact type data carrier, 2a is a direction of magnetic flux, 3 is a reading unit, 3a is a reader, 4 is a processing unit, 4a is a storage unit, 5 is a pass gate, 6 is a wheel, 6a is a wheel, 6b is a tube, and 6c is a tire.

First, an example of an embodiment of a bicycle parking gate system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 1A, the gate system of the bicycle parking lot in this example is a gate system that controls the passage of bicycles in the bicycle parking lot, and includes at least one first information including ID information in the IC. A bicycle 1 in which the non-contact type data carrier 2 is disposed in the tire of the wheel 6 (6c in FIG. 2) or between the tire 6c and the tube (6b in FIG. 2), and a gate 5 through which the bicycle 1 passes. And a reading unit 3 for reading first information of the non-contact type data carrier 2 and second information including at least ID information of the non-contact type data carrier 2 permitted to use a bicycle parking lot. The storage unit 4a includes a processing unit 4 that collates the first information obtained from the reading unit 3 with the second information stored in the storage unit 4a to determine whether the gate can be opened.
In particular, in this example, the reading unit 3 is in a flat sheet shape, and is installed so that a bicycle passes over the gate in front of the gate. As shown in FIG. It is arranged two-dimensionally along the sheet surface.
When the wheel 6 of the bicycle 1 is rotated and the non-contact type data carrier 2 comes closest to the flat sheet-like reading unit 3, the direction 2 a of the magnetic flux, that is, the reading direction is the reading unit 3. It is arranged to be perpendicular to the surface.
In this example, a 13.56 MHz proximity IC tag is used as the non-contact type data carrier 2.
By adopting such a configuration, it is said that the convenience of the conventional bicycle parking lot as shown in FIG. 3 and the RF-ID media are difficult to handle metal, and even if it can be handled, the reading distance will be short. It is possible to provide a bicycle parking gate system that can solve problems and deterioration caused by ultraviolet rays.

Hereafter, each part of the gate system of the bicycle parking lot of this example is demonstrated easily.
The non-contact type data carrier 2 includes an IC chip mounted on a base material, an antenna circuit portion is formed along the surface of the base material, and the antenna circuit portion and the IC chip are electrically connected. It communicates with each reader 3a of the reading unit 3 through the circuit unit.
Here, an IC tag is used as the non-contact type data carrier 2, but it is not limited to this as long as it is applicable.
For example, a non-contact type data carrier using a small substrate made of glass epoxy, etc., forming an IC chip or antenna circuit part on one side of the substrate or inside the substrate, and sealing them with solder resist or resin The thing which was done is mentioned.
Recently, as a minute non-contact type data carrier with a size of 5 mm □ and a thickness of about 0.7 mm, a substrate in which a part of an antenna circuit part is formed on the surface of each substrate made of glass epoxy or the like is laminated. Each layer is electrically connected through a through-hole provided in the wiring substrate to form an antenna circuit portion. An IC chip is mounted on the surface portion of the laminated wiring substrate and the antenna There is also known one that is electrically bonded to a circuit portion by wire bonding.
In this case, the number of windings of each layer is about 9, and the entire layer is rigid and can maintain a planar shape.
The antenna coil of the antenna circuit section has a line width of about 80 μm, a line width of about 70 μm, and a line thickness of about 18 μm, and can be formed in such a laminated structure by a known additive method or semi-additive method.
The laminated wiring substrate is, for example, a single-sided copper in which each layer is made of a hard insulating substrate made of glass epoxy, FR4, etc. with a thickness of 0.1 mm, and a copper foil with a thickness of 18 μm is laminated on one side or both sides. Using a stretched substrate and a double-sided copper-clad substrate, the antenna circuit part of a desired shape is etched by photoetching for the outer layer and the inner layer, respectively, and each layer is heated via an insulating adhesive layer. It laminates by pressing, and further, a through hole is formed and produced.
This size is much smaller than the standard size of 54 mm × 85.6 mm for a card-type RF-ID tag (IC card).
And it arrange | positions in the tire (6c of FIG. 2) of the wheel 6, or between the tire 6c and a tube (6b of FIG. 2).
The IC chip is mainly composed of a ROM, a RAM, a logic circuit, and a CPU.
As the IC chip, a chip that is commercially available as a chip for a 13.56 MHz band RFID tag, such as an I-CODE SLI chip manufactured by Philips or a my-d chip manufactured by Infineon Technology, is appropriately used.

For example, the non-contact type data carrier 2 is formed by forming a recess in a part of the tire 6c, putting the recess in the recess, and covering with a tape or the like. (See Figure 2)
In some cases, a non-contact type data carrier may be incorporated when molding the tire.
The direction perpendicular to the surface of the non-contact type data carrier 2 is the direction of magnetic flux, that is, the reading direction. Here, as shown in FIG. The magnetic flux is arranged so that the magnetic flux direction 2 a, that is, the reading direction is perpendicular to the surface of the reading unit 3 when it is closest to the reading unit 3.

As shown in FIG. 1B, the reading unit 3 has a flat sheet shape (also called a mat shape), and a plurality of readers 3a are two-dimensionally arranged along the sheet surface.
In this example, when any one of the readers 3a receives first information including its ID from the non-contact type data carrier 2, a circuit unit for transmission so that this information can be transmitted to the processing unit. Is formed.
The pitch of the arrangement of the readers 3a is set according to the pitch in the running direction of the non-contact type data carrier 2 attached to the wheel 6 of the bicycle 1 and the communication distance between the non-contact type data carrier 2 and the reader 3a.
In order to reduce the number of readers 3a, it is preferable to arrange a plurality of non-contact type data carriers on the wheels 6.

In this example, the processing unit 4 includes therein a storage unit 4a that holds second information including at least ID information of a non-contact type data carrier that is permitted to use a bicycle parking lot. 2 is compared with the first information including at least the ID information of the non-contact type data carrier obtained from the read portion 3 to determine whether the gate can be opened.
In this example, when any one reader 3a of the reading unit 3 receives the first information including the ID from the non-contact type data carrier 2, this information is obtained from the reading unit.
When the processing unit 4 determines that the gate can be opened, the processing unit 4 instructs the passing gate 5 to open the gate. When the processing unit 4 determines that the gate is not open, the processing unit 4 passes the gate. The gate 5 is prevented from opening.
Here, the pass gate 5 performs the gate opening operation according to the instruction of the processing unit 4.

The gate system of the bicycle parking lot of this example is one example, and the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, in the case of the bicycle parking gate system shown in FIG. 1, the storage unit 4a is provided in the processing unit, but it may be a separate unit.
In the case of the bicycle parking gate system shown in FIG. 1, the processing unit 4 directly receives the first information from the reading unit 3, and directly instructs the passage gate unit 4 whether or not the gate can be opened. Although serving as a control unit for each unit, the control unit for controlling each unit may be configured separately from the processing unit.

FIG. 1A is a schematic configuration diagram of a first example of an embodiment of a bicycle parking gate system according to the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a positional relationship in a reading operation between a non-contact type data carrier and a reading unit. It is a figure for demonstrating. It is the schematic sectional drawing which showed the cross section in A1-A2 of Fig.1 (a). It is the figure which showed the gate system of the conventional bicycle parking lot.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bicycle 2 Non-contact type data carrier 2a Magnetic flux direction 3 Reading part 3a Reader 4 Processing part 4a Memory | storage part 5 Passing gate 6 Wheel 6a Wheel 6b Tube 6c Tire 10 Bicycle 11 RF-ID media (non-contact data carrier)
12 Gate 12a Reader 13 Control unit 14 Alarm

Claims (3)

  A gate system for controlling the passage of a bicycle in a bicycle parking lot, wherein at least one non-contact type data carrier containing at least first information including ID information is incorporated in a tire of a wheel or a tire and a tube Between the bicycle, the gate through which the bicycle passes, the reading unit for reading the first information of the non-contact type data carrier, and the non-contact type data carrier permitted to use the bicycle parking lot A storage unit that holds second information including at least ID information, and a processing unit that compares the first information obtained from the reading unit with the second information in the storage unit to determine whether or not to open the gate. The reading unit is a flat sheet that is installed so that the bicycle passes over the gate in front of the gate, and the bicycle wheel rotates, and the non-contact type data is provided. When Yaria is closest to the reading portion of the flat sheet, bicycle parking gate system of the reading direction is characterized in that it is arranged so as to be perpendicular to the plane of the reading unit.   The bicycle parking gate system according to claim 1, wherein the reading unit is a two-dimensional array of a plurality of readers along a seat surface thereof.   3. The bicycle parking gate system according to claim 1, wherein the non-contact type data carrier is a proximity IC tag.

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