JP2680491B2 - Automatic ticket gate - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate, and more particularly to a contactless card type automatic ticket gate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Automatic ticket gates which are frequently used at present are constructed such that a ticket or a commuter pass is inserted into a main body of the automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as a main body) so that the automatic ticket gate is performed. However, this insertion-type automatic ticket gate has a problem that the commuter ticket user has to take out and put in the commuter ticket from the commuter pass each time the commuter ticket user passes through the ticket gate.

Therefore, in order to solve such a problem, data is exchanged between the main body and the commuter pass (card) in a non-contact manner, and the automatic ticket gate is inserted without inserting the commuter pass into the main body. A contactless card type automatic ticket gate that can be used has been proposed (for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-246687).

[0004]

By the way, in the contactless card type automatic ticket gate, when the card is an error card such as expired when communicating with the card,
Make sure that the error card holder has exited from the wicket, but must be kept the body for the next user to the reset state, the ticket gate passage of the error card holder
It may be difficult to detect the withdrawal out from the road.

[0005] This is because, when the card is brought close stretched out arm the communication area of the body, because the human sense is not carried out by the human detector consisting of photosensor provided in the main body, the error cardholder wicket it is not possible to detect that out withdrawal from the passage. In this respect, in the conventional insert-type main body, since the error card is returned from the insertion opening or the return opening, the main body can be reset on condition that the card is removed, and the above-mentioned inconvenience does not occur.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can reset the main body even in the case of an error card.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is an automatic ticket gate that performs contactless communication between a main body and a card to perform an automatic ticket gate.
A communication area provided in the main body so that the communication range can be changed, and normally, a communication range of a part of the communication area is set to be in a communicable state with the card. When the card is determined to be an error card by communication, when communication between the communication control means for expanding the communication range of the communication area and communication with the card for expanding the communication area is interrupted, the card is In possession
Judgment means to judge that a user who has exited from the ticket gate passage
If, when the front Symbol judging means determines an exit, is characterized by having a reset control means for controlling the main body in a reset state.

[0008]

The communication control means normally sets a part of the communication range of both communication areas to the communicable state. Then, when it is determined that the card is an error card by communication with the card through the communication range of a part thereof, the range of the communication area is expanded. If not been conducted communicate with this state, the mosquito
Over de possession person is determined to have left the ticket gate passage, the body
There is control to the reset state.

[0009]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a main body a according to an embodiment, and doors 1a and 1b are provided in front of and behind a side wall of the main body a, respectively. In FIG. 1, the user is set to be able to pass from the right side to the left side of the main body a. Therefore, a mark indicating the passing direction of the user is lit on the display panel 2 provided on the end face on the near side.

The front side of the upper surface of the main body a includes an antenna for transmitting and receiving data to and from the card C held by the customer at a predetermined interval in the passage direction of the ticket gate. A first communication area 3 and a second communication area 4 are provided.

Reference numeral S denotes a human detector composed of a photo sensor for detecting passage of a user, and a plurality of S are provided on the side wall of the main body a and the arm 5.

L is a lamp for informing the user of whether or not the main body a can be used. When the red display is made, it means that the user in front of the user has not finished the ticket gate processing, and the blue display is provided. When, it means usable.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a speaker, which is used when giving guidance for prompting the user to exit or other guidance.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a controller mainly composed of a microcomputer, which is constituted so as to integrally control the main body a, and includes a communication control means, a judging means and a judging means of the present invention.
It is responsible for reset control .

FIG. 2 shows an electrical configuration of the controller 10 and the card C. The central processing unit (CPU) 11 is an RO
System program stored in M12 and RAM1
The arithmetic processing is performed using the working data stored in 3. The CPU includes a door driver 15 that drives the doors 1a and 1b via the I / O unit 14, a lamp driver 16 that controls lighting of the lamp L, and a human detector S.
And Se Nsaa amplifier 17 incorporating a detection signal, an audio driver 18 from the speaker 6 performs a predetermined guide, a communication control unit 19 is connected to perform data exchange with the card C.

The communication control unit 19, like the well-known non-contact type automatic ticket gate, transmits the radio waves transmitted from the card C to the antenna 3'and the antenna 3'provided in the first communication area 3 and the second communication area 4, respectively. It has a function of receiving via the antenna 4'and transmitting from the main body a to the card C. The data transfer method between the main body a and the card C is not limited to the above-described radio wave method, but may be an optical communication method, an electromagnetic coupling method, an electromagnetic induction method, or the like.

The electrical configuration on the card C side is the antenna 20.
A communication control section 21 having the same function as the communication control section 19 of the main body a, an I / O unit 22, a CPU 23,
It has a memory 24 composed of a RAM and a power supply 25. Note that the power supply 25 may be configured to receive a power wave supplied from the main body a and serve as a power supply without having the power supply 25 inside the card C.

The CPU 23 controls the data in the memory 24 to be transmitted to the main body a side via the communication control unit 21, and records the data from the main body a, that is, the ticket gate data such as entry / exit times in the memory 24. To control.

Next, the operation of the automatic ticket gate according to this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Body a now
When the lamp L is lit in blue and the main body a can be used, the first communication area 3 is in the communicable state (Yes at Step 100, S102. Hereinafter, Step S will be described as S).
And ). At this time, the user carrying the card C approaches the main body a, and the data in the memory 24 of the card C is received by the antenna 3'and taken into the RAM 13. Then, the ticket gate processing is performed based on the fetched data (Yes in S106, S108, S110).

That is, the CPU 11 performs arithmetic processing based on the data received from the card C, determines whether or not the passage through the card C can be permitted, and as a result of the determination,
When the passage can be permitted, the door 1b is maintained in the open state (closed to open when the main body a is a normally closed type), and the ticket gate time and the like are transmitted to the card C. In the card C, the received ticket gate data is written in the memory 24, and a series of ticket gate processing ends.

Of course, when the judgment does not permit passage, for example, when the taken-in data is an error card whose expiration date has expired, the door 1b is closed (in the normally closed type, it remains closed). Passage of passengers is blocked.
In this case, the user who owns the error card
Normally, since the vehicle has entered the middle of the ticket gate passage, when the human detection S detects the exit of the user, the main body a is reset. In the case of the unsigned person as well, the main body a is reset on the condition that the unpaid person exits as in the error card.

However, when the owner of the error card C communicates with the first communication area 3 without entering the ticket gate passage, for example, the user extends his / her arm to approach the first communication area 3. The resetting of the main body a when it is not detected by the human detector S is performed as follows. That is, when it is determined that the card C is invalid without being detected by the human detector S (No in S106), the door 1b is naturally closed (it is the same in the case of the normally closed type).
Then, the lamp L changes from blue to red to indicate to the subsequent user that the main body a cannot be used during the processing of the preceding user, and the user who has the error card exits. An announcement for prompting is given via the speaker 6 (S112). Then, the first communication area 3 and the second communication area 4 are alternately placed in a communicable state until the communication with the card C is cut off, and the range of the communication area is expanded (S114, S116, S118, YES, S1).
20, S122, S124 affirmative). That is, CPU1
1 includes a communication control unit 19 for the antenna 3'and the antenna 4 '.
Are controlled so that they alternately poll.

When the first communication area 3 and the second communication area 4 are alternately in a communicable state and the card C cannot communicate with all communication areas, a user who has an error card since but means that out withdrawal from ticket checker passage body a is reset, the lamp L is blue lights (S118 negative, S124 negative, S126).

As described above, in the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment, even when the card C is an error card and the human detector S does not detect it, communication is performed in the pair of communication areas 3 and 4 in which communication is possible alternately. The range can be expanded, and the main body a can be set to the reset state assuming that the user exited when the communication was interrupted.

In the above embodiment, the pair of communication areas 3 and 4 each having the antenna 3'and 4'incorporated as the means for changing the communication area are used, but a single antenna is used. The directivity may be changed to change the range of the communication area.

[0026]

In the automatic ticket gate according to the present invention, when the card is an error card, communication is performed by expanding the communication area, and when the communication is interrupted, the user who has the error card
It is possible to determine that the player has exited the ticket gate passage and reset the main body.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a main body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a main body and a card.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

3 first communication area 4 second communication area 10 communication control means, determination means and reset control means
Eggplant controller a main body (main body of automatic ticket gate)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An automatic ticket gate that performs contactless contact between a main body of the automatic ticket gate and a card to perform an automatic ticket gate, wherein a communication area provided in the main body of the automatic ticket gate so as to change a communication range. Normally, a part of the communication area of the communication area is set to be in a communication state with the card, and when the card is determined to be an error card by communication by the part of the communication area, the communication is performed. Communication between the communication control means for expanding the communication range of the area and the card for expanding the communication area is interrupted.
When the user holds the card, the ticket passage
Automatic ticket gate, wherein a determining means and exited, when the determination means determines an exit, and reset control means for controlling the body before Symbol automatic ticket gate in a reset state, that having from.