JP2570876B2 - Card system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a card system for punching a hole in a reference amount printed on a magnetic card, the remaining amount of the card and the amount of use after payment with a magnetic card. .

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, the punch holes provided to prevent the card data from being tampered with and used as a guide for the amount of card used in this type of card system, each time a card reader / writer exceeds the fixed amount It was a system that could be opened.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

Since the above-mentioned conventional card system has a fixed amount of money with a card reader / writer, the standard remaining amount printed on the card surface must be adjusted to the position of the hole controlled by the card reader / writer. For this reason, if the type of card use is different and you want to freely change the range of the usage amount, or if you want to add an additional amount to the face value of the card, either develop a new card reader / writer that matches the print pattern of the approximate remaining amount, or There is a disadvantage that the improvement must be made in accordance with the above.

[Means for solving the problem]

The card system of the present invention stores the balance and the estimated remaining amount print pattern information as magnetic data, and a magnetic card having the estimated remaining amount printed at a specific interval, and accepting the magnetic card and calculating the magnetic card billing amount from the remaining amount. Magnetic card processing means for reducing the amount and comparing the punch position information with the reference remaining amount printing pattern information based on the remaining amount information of the magnetic card, and punching a punch hole at an appropriate position of the reference remaining amount printing section of the magnetic card; Magnetic card information management means for registering and managing punch position information based on print pattern information. Further, in the above card system, the magnetic card information management means includes information transmission means for holding information unique to each of a plurality of industries and distributing the information to a plurality of magnetic card processing means arranged for each of the industries. .

〔Example〕

 Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a magnetic card, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a management table of punch position information based on a reference remaining amount printing pattern.

The magnetic card 100 has a magnetic stripe portion 510 shown in FIG.
Having. The magnetic stripe unit 510 deducts the price of the service or product from the available amount of the magnetic card when purchasing a certain service or product as a magnetic card,
A data storage unit 110 that stores information that makes the deducted amount the usable amount again, and a hole to prevent the modification of the estimated amount of the remaining magnetic card used and the magnetic card data located in A1 to An It includes a reference hole printing pattern information storage unit 120 for the reference remaining amount printing of a1 to an indicating a punch hole position and a range of the punch hole position.

The management table of the punch position information based on the reference remaining amount printing pattern shown in FIG.
It is a usage table of individual punch hole positions A1 to An by 1 to Pn. For example, in the print pattern of P1,
At the punch hole position of A4, the punching process is performed when the magnetic card remaining available amount X4 is exceeded. Similarly, at the punch hole position of A3, the punching process is performed at the time exceeding the magnetic card available remaining amount X3. Similarly, in the case of the print patterns P2 to Pn, the punching process is performed when the remaining amount of the magnetic card available for each punch hole position is exceeded. If it is assumed that the punching process is performed on the punch hole position A1 without using the remaining amount of the magnetic card available in this table, it is not necessary to have information in the management table of the punch position information based on the estimated remaining amount printing pattern. May be stored.

 Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the card system registers and manages punch position information using a guideline remaining amount printing pattern using a magnetic card information management means 400 constituted by a host computer or the like (punch position information registration section 430, punch position information management section 42).
0). The punch position information based on the estimated remaining amount printing pattern corresponds to the estimated remaining amount printing of the magnetic card used in the present system and the estimated remaining amount printing pattern information, and the punch position information based on the estimated remaining amount printing pattern for each magnetic card printing pattern. It is configured and managed by a management table (see FIG. 3).

This information is transmitted by the management information communication unit 410 to the magnetic card processing unit 200 via the information transmission unit 300 including a communication line and an intermediate information storage medium.

The magnetic card processing unit 200 has an information communication unit 2640 therein, and is provided with an information transmission unit 300 using an information storage medium, a communication line, or the like.
The punch position information based on the estimated remaining amount print pattern registered and managed by the host computer is received, and stored in the punch position information storage unit 220 based on the estimated remaining amount print pattern. The magnetic card processing unit 200 compares the magnetic card remaining balance after the magnetic card payment and the estimated remaining balance print pattern information of the magnetic card with the punch position information management table stored in the punch position information storage unit based on the estimated remaining balance print pattern. Then, the punch position is calculated, and a punch hole is made in the appropriate position A1 to An of the magnetic card by the card punch unit 230.

For example, if the punch hole print pattern of the magnetic card is Pn, the available amount is Pn, and the first card usage amount is K1, the card access unit 210 subtracts K1 from Pn and subtracts the remaining amount K2. First, compared with P1 (here, 0), if it is the same as P1, punch a hole in A1.
If it is larger than P1, it is sequentially compared with P2, P3,... Pn, and when K2 becomes smaller than the value in the pattern of Pn for the first time, A1
A punch hole at the appropriate punch hole position located at An.

The management table of the punch position information can be stored in the magnetic card information management means 400 unique to each industry, and the magnetic card processing means 20 for processing a magnetic card unique to each industry.
On the other hand, punch position information specific to each type of industry can be stored in the punch position information storage unit 220 based on the reference remaining amount printing pattern.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the punch position information based on the reference balance print pattern is held in the magnetic card information management means and transmitted to the magnetic card processing means, so that the remaining print on the card surface is adjusted to a value unique to the card reader. There is an effect that can be freely changed without any change.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of a magnetic card, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a management table of punch position information based on a remaining balance printing pattern. 100: magnetic card, 200: magnetic card processing means, 300
... Information transmission means, 400... Magnetic card information management means.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A magnetic card in which a balance and an estimated remaining amount print pattern information are stored as magnetic data, and a magnetic card on which an estimated remaining amount is printed at a specific interval, and a magnetic card billing amount is reduced from the remaining amount by accepting the magnetic card. Magnetic card processing means for punching a punch hole at an appropriate position of the guide balance printing section of the magnetic card by comparing the guide position information with the guide balance print pattern information based on the magnetic card balance information; And a magnetic card information management means for registering and managing punch position information based on the information. 2. The card system according to claim 1, wherein
A card system, wherein the magnetic card information management means holds information unique to each of a plurality of industries and distributes the information to a plurality of magnetic card processing means arranged for each of the industries. .