JP2826048B2 - Card ejection device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card ejection device for ejecting a card from a passage of a device or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a card processing apparatus for a magnetic card having a magnetic recording layer capable of recording and reproducing magnetic information, a magnetic card is taken in from a card insertion slot and conveyed through a card path in which a plurality of belts and rollers are arranged. During the transportation, the card is magnetically processed by a magnetic head provided in the card path, and the processed card is discharged from the card discharge port to the outside of the apparatus.

[0003]

By the way, in the above-mentioned card processing apparatus, when ejecting the card after the magnetic processing, the card is ejected at the conveying speed at the time of ejection, or in the vicinity of the card ejection port. In some card stoppers, the card is temporarily stopped by giving resistance to the card.

When the card is ejected at the transport speed, the card is ejected at a high speed, so that it is difficult to receive the card. When the card is stopped by a stopper, the card to be transported and the stopper are stopped. Since the stopper is intended to be stopped by friction, the abrasion of the stopper is large and there is a problem in durability.

[0005]

Therefore, in the card ejection device of the present invention, the rotation of the shaft in the ejection direction is transmitted to the shaft on which the roller on which the conveyor belt is fixed is fixed, and the shaft is rotated in the direction opposite to the ejection direction. A discharge roller supported via a one-way clutch so as to rotate freely when rotating to a pad member facing the discharge roller, and a path for a card conveyed by a conveyance belt. It was made to protrude more toward the passage side than the conveyor belt and was opposed to the pad member.

[0006]

[Function] On a shaft on which a roller with a conveyor belt is fixed,
A discharge roller supported via a one-way clutch so as to transmit the rotation of the shaft in the discharge direction and rotate freely when rotated in the direction opposite to the discharge direction is moved to the card path side for conveying the card by the conveyance belt. Since the projecting roller is protruded from the conveyor belt and supported so as to face a pad member that comes into contact with the discharge roller, the discharge roller becomes rotatable with respect to the shaft unless the shaft rotates in the discharge direction. Is conveyed by the pad member and the discharge roller.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 8 shows an example of a boarding pass (hereinafter, referred to as a “card”) as a thin magnetic card. The card 1 is made of a paper material having a small thickness, and data (not shown) such as a departure place and a destination is displayed on a front surface thereof. A layer (magnetic stripe) 1a is provided along the longitudinal direction. In the magnetic stripe 1a,
Data similar to the surface data is magnetically recorded.

The card 1 can be separated into a boarding ticket 1A and a collection ticket 1B to be passed to the passenger at the perforation 1b, and is taken in from the insertion slot 3 of the magnetic card processing device 2 shown in FIG. The processing is performed. Then, the boarding pass ticket 1A is discharged out of the device from the card discharge port 4, and the collected ticket 1A is collected.
B is collected in the apparatus. The insertion of the back of the card 1 in the present embodiment the direction of the arrow A in the lower side and a reverse insertion, referred insertion direction of the arrow B and the forward insertion.

A magnetic card processing device 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2
Are arranged at an airport gate or the like, and are roughly divided into a card reader device 2A in which a card insertion slot 3 is arranged and a card ejection device 2B in which an ejection slot 4 of the card 1 is arranged. Have been.

First, the card reader 2A will be described, and then the card ejection device 2B will be described. The card reader 2A includes a drive-side transport belt unit (hereinafter, referred to as a “drive belt unit”) 6 driven by a forward-reversely-rotatable drive motor 5, a driven-side transport belt unit (hereinafter, a “driven belt unit”). The card transport path 10 communicates with the insertion slot 3 formed by the frame 7 and the frames 8 and 9, the magnetic head 11 provided in the card transport path 10, and the magnetic head 11 disposed between the insertion slot 3 and the magnetic head 11. It is mainly composed of a branch path 12 and a first stamp unit 13 provided.

The driven belt unit 7 is wound around belt rollers (hereinafter referred to as "rollers") 7a and 7b rotatably disposed between a pair of substrates 14 extending in the longitudinal direction of the card reader 2A. It comprises two endless belts 7c and rollers 7d and 7e rotatably supported on the substrate 14 and pressing the belt 7c downward.

The roller 7a is mounted on the frame 8 at the base end 16 thereof.
a is rotatably supported by a fixed support shaft 16. The support shaft 16 penetrates the substrate 14 and rotatably supports the driven belt unit 7. Further, the substrate 14 includes a pad roller 15 for applying a predetermined pad pressure to the magnetic head 11 and a first stamp for stamping the conveyed card 1.
The stamp unit 13 is supported and is integrated with the driven belt unit 7.

The drive belt unit 6 is disposed at a position facing the driven belt unit 7 below and supported by the frames 8 and 9 by a drive shaft 18 and a support shaft 26. In the drive belt unit 6, the drive roller 6a and the driven roller 6 around which the endless belt 6c that contacts the belt 7c
b is rotatably supported by the side plate 17 and is disposed substantially at the center of the card transport path 10.

The drive shaft 18 to which the drive roller 6a is fixed by the screw 20 is mounted on a bearing 1 provided on the frames 8, 9.
9 rotatably supported. At one end 18a of the drive shaft 18, a belt pulley 5d over which a belt 5c connected to a drive pulley 5b attached to the output shaft 5a of the drive motor 5 is mounted. The other end 1 of the drive shaft 18
8b, a handshake 2 for manually rotating the drive shaft 18 is provided.
1 is fixed.

As shown in FIG. 4, the side plate 17 has an endless belt 6c smaller than the outer diameters of the driving roller 6a and the driven roller 6b and pressed and deformed by the rollers 7d and 7e.
Is formed so as to have substantially the same shape as the shape of.

As shown in FIG. 3, a bearing bush 22 for supporting the driving roller 6a in the side plate 17 is press-fitted into the shaft hole 21 provided in one of the side plates 17 from outside the side plate.

The sleeve 22a of the bearing bush 22 projects inside the side plate 17, and supports the drive roller 6a by loosely fitting into a concave portion 6d provided on the end face of the drive roller 6a. The inner peripheral surface of the sleeve 22a is coated with a film such as Teflon (trade name) to make the rotation of the drive shaft 18 inserted into the bearing bush 22 smooth.

A sleeve 24a of a cylindrical bush 24 is inserted into the shaft hole 23 formed in the other side plate 17 from the inside of the side plate 17. The shaft hole 23 is formed so that the distance between the drive shaft 18 and the support shaft 26 can be changed.
4 is formed with a slight play.

The large-diameter portion 24b of the bush 24 supports the driven roller 6b by loosely fitting into a concave portion 6e provided on the end face of the driven roller 6a. The inner peripheral surface of the bush 24 is Teflon-coated like the bearing bush 22.

A bush 24 is provided inside the driven roller 6b.
Is fixed, and a support shaft 26 fixed to the frames 8 and 9 with screws 20a is inserted into the bearing 25 and the bush 24.

As shown in FIG. 2, the card transport path 10
The width D is regulated by the frames 8 and 9. This width D is set to substantially the same size as the width d of the card 1 shown in FIG. 8, and the positioning of the card in the width direction is performed.

The magnetic head 11 is an R / W head having a read / write (hereinafter referred to as "R / W") function, and is arranged on both sides of the belt 6c so as to match the position of the magnetic stripe 1a of the card. And faces the transport path 5. One of the magnetic heads 11 (a) is
The other head 11 (b) corresponds to the card 1 inserted in the forward direction, and the other head 11 (b) corresponds to the card 1 inserted in the reverse direction.

The first stamp unit 13 is connected to the transport path 10
The stamp is timely stamped on the collected ticket 1B or boarding pass ticket 1A which is conveyed, and is normally (when not stamped) located at a position evacuated from the conveyance path 10 and is actuated by the actuator 13A at the time of stamp stamping. And enters the transport path 10.

The branch path 12 is formed toward the lower side of the apparatus, and a first flap 27 for guiding the reversely transported card 1 to the branch path 12 is rotatably supported on a shaft 28 at an upper portion thereof. Have been. A solenoid (not shown) is connected to the flap 27.
When the inserted card 1 is in a position retracted from the transport path 10 and needs to be returned once, the transport path 10 and the branch path 12
And the card is guided to the branch road 12. At this time, the drive motor 5 is driven to rotate in the direction opposite to the direction when the card is inserted.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the card ejection device 2B includes a card ejection path 30 serving as a card path, one of which is connected to the ejection port 4 and the other of which is communicated with the card conveyance path 10 via the cutter unit 29. One is the card ejection path 30
And a collection box 3 arranged at the bottom of the device.
The card collection path 33 is connected to the card collection path 33. The card collection path 33 connects the card discharge path 30 and the card conveyance path 34 for conveying cards in the card collection path 33, the second stamp unit 35, and the drive motor 36.

The cutter unit 29 is connected to the card transport path 1
The card 1 is cut into a passenger ticket 1A and a collection ticket 1B. When the unit 29 operates, the drive motor 36 is driven.

The drive belt 38 hung on the pulley 37 fixed to the shaft 36a of the drive motor 36
9 and pulleys 39 fixed to shafts 39 and 40
a and 40a, and constitutes driving means of the card ejection device 2B.

The drive belt unit 4 is attached to the shafts 39 and 40.
Drive rollers 41a and 42a constituting the first and second drive rollers 42a and 42b are fixed.
The belts 41c and 42d are stretched between the belts 2b and 42c, respectively.

On the opposite side of the drive belt units 4 1 and 4 2 , rollers 43 a, 43 b and 43 c are attached to a transport belt 43 d.
, A driven belt unit 43 and a roller 45
The driven belt units 45 each having a belt 45c hung on a and 45b are arranged.

The belt 45c includes the roller 42a and the roller 4
2c is in contact with the belt 42d. The conveyor belt 43d is a belt 4 between the rollers 42b and 42a.
Contact with 2d, in contact with the belt 41c between the roller 41a and the roller 4 1 b. The roller 4 is attached to the belt 41c.
The tension is given by 3c.

The shaft 46 supporting the roller 45b has a second
A third flap 48 is provided between the roller 42c and the roller 45a. The switching of the second flap 47 is controlled by an actuator (not shown) based on the card insertion direction and magnetic data . The second flap 43 is switched according to a switching mode set in a control device (not shown) .

As shown in FIG. 1, the second stamp unit 35 is disposed in the vicinity of the discharge port 4, and is driven by an actuator 35a as needed to enter the card discharge path 30, and is conveyed through the same conveyance path 30. It operates so as to seal the passenger ticket 1A. A platen guide 44 is arranged at a portion facing the second stamp unit 35.

As shown in FIG. 6, the driven belt unit 43 has side plates 8, 9 around a support shaft 49 of a roller 43a as a fulcrum.
Normally (during operation of the apparatus), it is fixed between the side plates 8 and 9 by a lock mechanism 50 so as to form the card ejection path 30.

The support shaft 49 includes rollers 43a, 43b, 43
It is rotatably supported via a bearing 52 on a pair of side plates 51 which are smaller than the outer diameter of c and which are formed so as to have substantially the same belt shape as when they are stretched over each roller. The rollers 43b and 43c are rotatably supported by shafts 56 and 57 supported by the side plate 51. The bearing 52 is
As shown in FIG. 6, it has been protruding from the side plate inside holes 51a formed in the side plate 51, side plates and the outer end portion 52a
Is held in .

The frame 8, which is disposed outside the side plate 51,
9, a cap 53 is fixed to the portion facing the bearing 52 with a screw 54 as shown in FIG. Cap 5
3 supports the outer end 52a by being fitted into a hole 55 formed in the frames 8, 9 and protruding a part thereof to the side plate side (see FIG. 5).

Here, the configuration of the lock mechanism 50 will be described. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the lock mechanism 50 includes a lock guide 58 fixed to the inner side surfaces 8 a and 9 a of the frames 8 and 9, a lock bar 59 fixed to one side, and a guide fixed to the side plate 51 at the other side. Elongated hole 60 to be engaged with pin 61
The slider 60 is provided with a slider 60 provided with a, and a coil spring 62 which is engaged with a guide pin 61 and a lock bar 59 to urge the slider 60 to a lock position indicated by a solid line in FIG.

The lock guide 58 is plate-shaped, and has a horizontal guide surface 58b for guiding the end of the lock bar 59 to the engagement recess 58a. Slider 60
Has a U-shaped cross section and a substantially L-shaped side surface, and a handshake 60c is fixed to the upper end 60b. The slider 60 is slidable in the horizontal direction by a lock bar 59, a guide surface 58b, a guide pin 61, and a long hole 60a.

On the other hand, a discharge roller 64 is supported on a support shaft 49 located between the rollers 43a, 43a via a one-way clutch 63. The discharge roller 64 has a pad roller 65 as a pad member. Are arranged facing each other.

The one-way clutch 63 is press-fitted to the discharge roller 64 as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and when the support shaft 49 is driven to rotate counterclockwise as the discharge direction, the shaft 49 and the discharge roller 64 are connected. It can be rotated integrally. In other words, when the support shaft 49 rotates clockwise or when the support shaft 49 is stopped and the discharge roller 64 is rotated counterclockwise, the discharge roller 64 rotates freely with respect to the support shaft 49. It has become.

The discharge roller 64 has an elastic member having a hygroscopic property pressed against the outer periphery thereof, and has a diameter that protrudes toward the card discharge path 30 from the conveyor belt 43a wound around the collection roller 43a. , And is in contact with the pad roller 65.

The second stamp unit 35 and the discharge roller 6
Between 4 have the card sensor S2 is provided for detecting the trailing edge of the boarding ahead pass 1A, so that the card sensor S2 stops driving the drive motor 36 detects the trailing edge of the boarding ahead pass 1A It has become. The distance from the card sensor S2 to the card ejection slot 4 is set shorter than the entire length of the boarding ticket 1A, and the boarding ticket 1A stopped in the ejection path 30 due to the stop of the drive motor 36. Is projected from the card ejection section 4.

[0042] will be described This separation The operation of the magnetic card processing device to the card reader device 2A and the card discharge device 2 B. (Operation of Card Reader Device) When the card 1 is inserted from the card insertion slot 3 and the sensor S1 shown in FIG. 1 is operated, a shutter (not shown) is opened, the drive motor 5 is driven to rotate forward and the belt 6c is rotated clockwise. To rotate. When the belt 6c rotates, the belt 6c
The belt 7c in contact with the belt c is driven in a counterclockwise direction, and the leading end of the card is sandwiched between the two belts so that the card 1 is taken in and conveyed.

When the conveyed card 1 reaches the magnetic head 11, the magnetic data is read from the magnetic stripe which is held between the magnetic head 11 and the pad roller 15 and comes into contact with the head. Here, checks the recorded contents, etc., of the card 1, unless the writing required, stamped in time Osamuken 1B in the first stamp unit 1 3 shown in FIG. 1, is fed to the cutter unit 29.

When an error occurs when writing is necessary or when reading is performed by the magnetic head 11, the drive motor 5 rotates in the reverse direction, and the first flap 27 operates so as to connect the retreat path 12 and the transport path 10. Reverse card transport and branch 1
2 and the drive motor 5 is rotated forward to write or read again.

When the card 1 is sent to the cutter unit 29, the unit 29 is operated in accordance with the length of the card 1 to cut the card 1 at the perforations 1b shown in FIG. .

(Operation of Card Ejector) Drive Motor 36
Is driven, the belt 38 rotates clockwise, and the driving of this belt drives the pulleys 39a and 40a, and the belts 41c and 42d of the drive belt units 41 and 42 rotate clockwise. By the rotation of the belts 41c and 42d, the transport belt 43d of the driven belt unit 43 and the belt 45c of the driven belt unit rotate counterclockwise, respectively.

When the conveyor belt 43d rotates in the counterclockwise direction, the integral support shaft 49 also rotates in the same direction, and the feed roller 64 is driven to rotate in the discharge direction by the action of the one-way clutch 63, so that the contacting pad roller 65 Is driven.

Assuming that the inserted card 1 is inserted in the insertion slot 3 in the reverse direction, when the cutter unit 29 operates, the boarding ticket 1A is sent to the card ejection device 2B first, and then the collection ticket 1B Is sent.

In such a case, the second flap 47 first takes the state of being retracted from the card discharge path 30, and holds the boarding ticket 1A between the conveyor belt 43d and the belts 42d, 41c to form the second stamp unit. It is transported to 35.
Boarding pass ticket 1A sent to the second stamp unit 35
Is stamped at a predetermined timing, and is conveyed toward the discharge port 4.

When the trailing end of the boarding ticket 1A is detected by the card sensor S2, the drive motor 36 stops. Then, while the leading end of the boarding ticket 1A protrudes from the card discharge port 4, the discharge roller 64 and the pad roller 65 are separated from the belt 43b by the discharge roller 64 protruding from the conveyor belt 43b into the card discharge path 30. Sandwiched between.

When the user grips the tip of the boarding ticket 1A and pulls it upward in FIG. 1, the discharge roller 64 is rotatable with respect to the support shaft 49 by the action of the one-way clutch 63, and torque is applied. Since it is away from the conveyor belt 43d, the boarding ticket 1A is
From the discharge roller 6 without having to apply an excessive rotational load to the discharge roller.
4 leads to a reduction in wear.

Further, since the ink at the time of stamping the boarding ticket 1A by the second stamp unit 35 can be absorbed by the discharge roller 64, the scumming at the time of card removal can be reduced, and the boarding ticket 1A and the equipment can be absorbed. It leads to dirt prevention.

On the other hand, the collection ticket 1B is
, The drive motor 36 is driven again,
The drive belt units 41 and 42 rotate clockwise,
The driven belt units 43 and 45 rotate counterclockwise.

Then, the second flap 47 is moved to the discharge path 30.
A collection ticket 1B, which is positioned and conveyed by a solenoid (not shown), is transferred to a card collection path 33,
It is introduced between 2d and the belt 45c. The introduced collection ticket 1B is conveyed toward the third flat 48 and is sorted to either the collection box 31 or the collection box 32 depending on the position of the flap 48.

Next, the disassembly and assembly of the drive belt unit 6 will be described. First, the driven belt unit 7 is
It is pivoted about 6 and taken out from between the frames 8 and 9. Next, the drive pulley 5d is detached from the drive shaft 18, and the screw 20 fixing the drive roller 6a to the drive shaft 18 is loosened, the drive shaft 18 is pulled out from the handshake 21 side, and the support shaft 26 is fixed to the frame 9. Loosen the screw 20a that is
Pull out 6.

The driving roller 6a and the driven roller 6b are arranged as shown in FIG.
As shown in (1), since the bearing bush 21 and the bush 24 respectively support the side plate 17, the drive belt unit 6 and the drive belt unit 6 can be taken out of the frames 8, 9 without disassembling the rollers and belts.

The shaft hole 23 with respect to the bush 24
Since there is play, the support shaft 26 is removed from the driven roller 6b, the driven roller 6b is moved toward the drive roller 6a to loosen the tension of the belt 6c, and then the belt 6c is removed from the roller. At this time, since the side plate 17 is formed smaller than the outer diameter of the roller, the belt 6c can be easily removed.

In the case of assembling, after the driving belt unit 6 is supported on the frames 8 and 9 by performing the above-described disassembling procedure in reverse, the driven belt unit 7 is rotated about the shaft 16 to rotate the frames 8 and 9. Return it to the middle and fix it. Rollers 7d, 7
e, the belt 6c is pressed downward.

Next, the disassembly and operation of the driven belt unit 43 will be described with reference to FIGS. By pulling the handshake 60c in the direction of arrow A, the slider 60 is slid against the spring force of the coil spring 62 to move the lock bar 59 from the engagement recess 58a, and the lock of the driven belt unit 43 is released.

Next, the screw 5 for fixing the cap 53
4 is removed and the cap 53 is removed from the frames 8 and 9. At this time, the lock mechanism 50 and the driven belt unit 43
Since the is supported by the side plate 51, the lock mechanism 50 and the driven belt unit 43 can be easily and easily taken out from the frames 8, 9.

[0061]

As described above, according to the present invention, the discharge roller is made to protrude toward the passage side from the conveyor belt, and the discharge roller is rotated coaxially and integrally with the one-way clutch only by rotating the shaft supporting the roller in the discharge direction. Since it is possible, no excessive rotation load is applied to the discharge roller when removing the card, and the protrusion of the discharge roller can reduce the contact between the transport belt and the card, so that the card can be smoothly removed from the card discharge port. In addition, the wear of the discharge roller can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a card processing device having a card ejection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view illustrating a schematic configuration of a card processing device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a transport belt unit of the card reader device.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the transport belt unit shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a support structure of a discharge roller in the card discharge device which is a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing a schematic configuration of a card ejection device which is a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a partially enlarged view of the card ejection device.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a magnetic card used in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1A card (boarding ticket) 2B card ejection device 43d transport belt 43a roller 49 shaft 63 one-way clutch 64 ejection roller 65 pad member (pad roller) 30 passage (card ejection path)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A one-way clutch for transmitting rotation of the shaft in a discharge direction to a shaft on which a roller on which a conveyor belt is hung is fixed and rotating freely in a direction opposite to the discharge direction via a one-way clutch. A discharge roller supported and supported, a pad member disposed to face the discharge roller, and a path for a card conveyed by the conveyance belt, wherein the discharge roller protrudes toward the path from the conveyance belt. And a card ejection device which faces the pad member.