JP2711713B2 - Collation system - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a collation system in which individual forms forming a continuous form are overlapped to form a unit form.

[Related Art] A conventional collation system includes a form supply unit, a collation device, a mark reading sensor, and a control device.

The form supply unit can continuously draw out continuous forms.

The collating apparatus can execute collation work in which individual forms constituting a continuous form extracted from the form supply unit are overlapped with each other to form a unit form.

The mark reading sensor is disposed between the form supply unit and the collating device, and reads a form of an identification mark attached along a supply direction of an individual form constituting a continuous form extracted from the form supply unit.

Based on the reading result of the mark reading sensor, the control device checks the form of the identification mark attached to the individual form constituting the continuous form extracted from the form supply unit at the time of carrying the individual form to the collating device. On the condition that the collation is performed, a collation device is executed to perform collation work on those individual forms.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned conventional collating system, the identification mark attached to the individual form is a bar code attached to a certain length range along the supply direction of the form. And so on.

Therefore, the reading result of the mark reading sensor needs to be read from the head of one identification mark in order to use the reading result for the control operation by the control device. .

For this reason, in the conventional collation system, when a continuous form is first set in the form supply unit, or when the collation system is restarted after an abnormal stop, the mark reading sensor is manually operated by the operator. It is necessary to adjust the relative position between the mark and the identification mark.

The present invention enables the form of the identification mark to be accurately read from the head of the mark regardless of the relative positional relationship between the mark reading sensor and the identification mark at the start of the operation of the collation system, and enables the collation operation by the collating device. The purpose is to control automatically.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a form supply unit capable of continuously extracting continuous forms, and a unit form in which individual forms forming a continuous form extracted from the form supply unit are superimposed on each other to form a unit form. A collating device capable of performing joint work, and an identification mark disposed between the form supply unit and the collating device and provided along a supply direction of an individual form constituting a continuous form extracted from the form supply unit. The form of the identification mark attached to the individual form constituting the continuous form taken out from the form supply unit based on the reading result of the mark reading sensor and the mark reading sensor, and the form of the identification mark to the individual form collating device. And a control device for performing a collating operation on those individual forms, provided that the collation is performed during the transportation of the documents. In the collation system, the control device determines in advance a discrimination interval at which the form of each identification mark attached to an adjacent individual form in the continuous form can be discriminated from each other, and sets a mark when the continuous form is drawn out. The reading sensor calculates a blank distance in a continuous form in which the form of the identification mark is not read, and determines that the identification mark to be read after the blank distance exceeds the determination interval does not lack the mark head. Then, the form of the identification mark is read, and the read result is used for a control operation for the collating apparatus.

[Operation] In the collating system according to the present invention, when executing the collating operation, the control device discriminates in advance the form of each of the identification marks respectively attached to the adjacent individual forms in the continuous form. Possible determination intervals are predetermined.

However, the collating system performs the collating operation as follows.

A continuous form is produced by the form supply unit.

A mark reading sensor reads an identification mark of an individual form constituting a continuous form.

The control unit obtains the reading result of the mark reading sensor, and obtains the blank distance in the continuous form in which the mark reading sensor does not read the form of the identification mark when the continuous form is drawn.

The control device determines that the identification mark to be read after the blank distance exceeds the determination interval does not lack the leading portion of the mark, reads the form of the identification mark, and reads the read result. Provide for control operation for the joint device.

That is, the control device causes the collating device to execute collation work on the individual forms on condition that the read result is to be compared when the individual forms are carried into the collating device. .

That is, according to the present invention, due to the presence of the above-described determination operation by the control device, the form of the identification mark is changed to the mark head portion regardless of the relative positional relationship between the mark reading sensor and the identification mark at the start of the operation of the collating system. Can be read accurately, and the collating operation by the collating device can be automatically controlled.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a collating system to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an identification mark reading procedure of the collating system, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a continuous form. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing mark display positions in a continuous form.

As shown in FIG. 1, the collating system 10 includes a form supply unit 11A to 11C, a collating device 12, and a mark reading sensor 13A.
13C and a control device 14.

The form supply units 11A to 11C each have a continuous form 15A.
~ 15C can be continuously extracted. More specifically, the form supply units 11A to 11C allow the continuous forms 15A to 15C to be drawn out by the rotation of the pin tractor 16 which rotates while being locked to the marginal punch of the continuous forms 15A to 15C.

The collating apparatus 12 can perform collating work in which individual forms constituting the continuous forms 15A to 15C extracted from the form supply units 11A to 11C are overlapped with each other to form a unit form.
Specifically, the collating device 12 presses the individual forms stacked on each other with a pair of pressure rollers 17. Reference numeral 18 denotes a servo motor for driving the pressure roller 17, and reference numeral 19 denotes a rotary encoder linked to the output shaft of the servo motor 18.

The mark reading sensors 13A to 13C
A page mark 20 disposed between A to 11C and the collating device 12 and attached along the supply direction of the individual forms constituting the continuous forms 15A to 15C extracted from the form supply units 11A to 11C. And the form of the collation mark 21 are read.

The page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 are specifically displayed by bar codes as shown in FIG. 4, and the page mark display area J divided into the range of the top and bottom size H of each individual form.
Is displayed in each area of the collation mark display area K. At this time,
The page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 can be displayed at the head of each area and at a plurality of positions at a fixed interval from the head, and only the head is displayed with a single bar display of the first page and the collation number “1”. Then, the n-th page and the collation number “n” are displayed on the bar display of the n positions. The number of pages displayed by the page mark 20 indicates the number of pages of the form in the unit form, and the collation number displayed by the collation mark 21 indicates a collation number to be collated as a unit form. Therefore, if the page mark 20 of the individual form is “1” and the collation mark 21 is “2”, the form constitutes the first page of the unit form and the collation number is also “2”. This indicates that a unit form is formed together with the individual form.

In the continuous forms 15A to 15C, when one page mark 20 is displayed, the blank distance between the page mark 20 and the head of the next collation mark 21 is L1 (for example, 9/6 inch). Yes, when five reference marks 21 are displayed,
The blank distance between the tail edge of the page and the beginning of the next page mark 20 is
L2 (for example, 11/6 inch). Therefore, the blank distance is L1
By continuing the above, the mark appearing after the blank can be recognized as the page mark 20. That is, in this embodiment, the discrimination interval at which the forms of the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 attached to the adjacent individual forms can be discriminated from each other is L1.

However, the control device 14 controls each of the mark reading sensors 13A to 13C.
, The detection result of the rotary encoder 19 provided on the servo motor 18 of the collating device 12, and the size of each part of each of the continuous forms 15A to 15C set by the setting unit 22 (the above-described discrimination interval L1 and the like) Then, the following steps (1) to (4) are used to control the motor control unit 23 and, consequently, the servo motor 18 to control the collating operation by the collating device 12.

Mark reading sensor 13 for continuous form 15A to 15C
A blank distance Lx where A to 13C does not read the forms of the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 is obtained from the outputs of the mark reading sensors 13A to 13C and the output of the rotary encoder 19.

When the reading of the page mark 20 to be read after the blank distance Lx exceeds the discrimination interval L1, a mark head detection signal is output. As a result, it is determined that the page mark 20 does not lack the mark head, the form (number of bars) of the page mark 20 is read, and the form (number of bars) of the subsequent collation mark 21 is also read.

Based on the above reading result, the form supply units 11A-1A
The condition that the form of the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 attached to the individual forms forming the continuous forms 15A to 15C extracted from 1C is to be matched when the individual forms are loaded into the collating apparatus 12 Then, the servo motor 18 is driven via the motor control unit 23 as described above, and the collating operation by the collating device 12 is executed.

 Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

In the above embodiment, when performing the collation work, in advance, in the control device 14, the form of the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 that are respectively attached to adjacent individual forms in each of the continuous forms 15A to 15C. A determination interval L1 that can be determined mutually is predetermined.

Thus, the controller 14 performs the collating operation as follows.

Continuous forms 15A to 15C are produced by the form supply units 11A to 11C.

The mark reading sensors 13A to 13C read the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 of the individual forms constituting the continuous forms 15A to 15C.

The control device 14 obtains the reading results of the mark reading sensors 13A to 13C, and the mark reading sensors 13A to 13C do not read the form of the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21 when the continuous forms 15A to 15C are drawn out. Blank distance at ~ 15C
Find Lx.

The controller 14 controls the page mark 20 to be read after the blank distance Lx exceeds the determination interval L1.
It is determined that the mark head is not missing, and the form of the page mark 20 is read, and the read result is provided to a control operation for the collating device.

In other words, the control device 14 is conditioned on the condition that the above-mentioned read result is to be compared when the individual forms are carried into the collating device. The collation mark 21 attached to the form is the same,
In addition, on condition that the page marks 20 are in the order of "1", "2", and "3", the collating device 12 is caused to execute collating work on those individual forms.

The operation of detecting the head of the identification mark according to the present invention may be performed only at the beginning of the operation of the system, or may be performed repeatedly after the operation of the system is started. When this head detection operation is repeatedly performed, it is possible to constantly prevent the occurrence of a collation defect due to a deviation of the perforation interval (top and bottom size H) of the continuous form, a printing deviation of the identification mark, and the like.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the collation system may be one in which a plurality of individual forms continuously supplied from a single form supply unit are overlapped with each other.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the identification mark may indicate only a single item, for example, one of the page mark 20 and the collation mark 21.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the identification mark is not limited to a bar code, and other marks are displayed in a scattered manner in the form supply direction, and a mark having a different identification function depending on the number of scattered points,
Alternatively, any mark such as a mark extending in the supply direction of the form and having a different identification function depending on its length may be used.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the form of the identification mark is accurately read from the head of the mark regardless of the relative positional relationship between the mark reading sensor and the identification mark at the start of the operation of the collating system. It is possible to automatically control the collating operation by the collating device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a collating system to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an identification mark reading procedure of the collating system, FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a continuous form, and FIG. Is a schematic diagram showing mark display positions in a continuous form. 10… Collation system, 11A-11C… Form supply unit, 12…
Collating device, 13A to 13C: mark reading sensor, 14: control device, 15A to 15C: continuous form, 20: page mark (identification mark).

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A collating device capable of continuously collating a continuous form to form a unit form by superimposing individual forms constituting a continuous form extracted from the form supply unit on a unit form. A mark reading sensor disposed between the form supply unit and the collating device, for reading a form of an identification mark attached along a supply direction of an individual form forming a continuous form taken out from the form supply unit; and Based on the reading result of the mark reading sensor, the form of the identification mark attached to the individual form constituting the continuous form extracted from the form supply unit is to be matched when the individual form is carried into the collating device. A collation system having a collation device and a control device for executing collation work on those individual forms on condition that The control device sets in advance a discrimination interval at which the form of each of the identification marks respectively attached to the adjacent individual forms in the continuous form can be distinguished from each other, and the mark reading sensor sets the form of the identification mark when the continuous form is drawn. The blank distance in a continuous form in which the mark is not read is obtained, and it is determined that an identification mark to be read after the blank distance exceeds the above-described determination interval does not lack the head of the mark, and the form of the identification mark is determined. A collation system configured to read the collation data and to provide the read result to a control operation for the collation device.