JP2864648B2 - Automatic ticket gate - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION (a) Technical field to which the invention pertains This invention relates to an automatic ticket gate installed in station services such as railways, and more particularly to an automatic ticket gate with improved ticket data processing performance at the time of ticket gates. About ticket gates.

(B) Conventional technology A ticket gate that automatically processes tickets such as ordinary tickets, coupons, and commuter passes when using a train or the like has a ticket entrance 5a and a ticket release, as shown in FIG. It is connected to the exit 5b by a conveyor belt device 5c, and between the conveyors, an aligning unit 5d for narrowing the inserted ticket, and reading magnetic information of the ticket.
A ticket indirect data processing unit 5e that performs a writing process and indirectly changes the ticket, a ticket direct data processing unit 5f that performs a printing process on a ticket, punches a punch hole, and directly changes the outer surface of the ticket,
It is equipped on the mainframe in this order.

In this case, even if the inserted ticket has a magnetic writing defect, a printing defect, a punch hole defect, or the like, the ticket once inserted is guided to the subsequent stage through the conveyor belt device, and the defective ticket state is determined. It is released to the exit as it is, and even if it can be turned on at the time of getting on, it has a low reliability of data processing performance such as causing trouble such as being regulated at getting off, especially in recent years, In addition, if the card direct data processing unit 5g and the card indirect data processing unit 5h are connected in series to use transaction cards such as money cards and frequency cards, magnetic writing processing becomes equivalent to money transfer. ,
Therefore, improving the processing performance for tickets and cards has been a major issue.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention In view of the above problems, the present invention can manage such that even if a data processing failure occurs in an inserted ticket or boarding card, the defective ticket is not unexpectedly released. The purpose is to provide automatic ticket gates.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is directed to an indirect data processing unit which is located on the insertion port side and reads and writes ticket information such as a ticket and a boarding card, and is punched on the ejection port side. An automatic ticket gate provided with a direct data processing unit for processing and printing on a card surface on a transport path, and detecting means for detecting whether a data processing defective ticket has occurred in the indirect data processing unit or the direct data processing unit. And a pool means for temporarily guiding the defective ticket to a pool unit provided at a subsequent stage of the data processing unit and temporarily waiting when the detection means detects the occurrence of a data processing defective ticket. It is characterized by.

Further, in the automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, when the detection means detects a data processing defective ticket, the automatic ticket gate is provided with a notifying means for notifying that the data processing defective ticket has occurred. It is characterized by.

Further, in the automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, when the detection means detects a data processing defective ticket, the automatic ticket gate provided with a notifying means for notifying an attendant of the occurrence of the data processing defective ticket. There is a feature.

(E) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, the inserted ticket or boarding card is subjected to magnetic data processing in the indirect data processing unit, and is punched and printed in the direct data processing unit and released. . At this time, when the detecting means detects the occurrence of a data processing defective ticket, the pooling means temporarily guides the defective ticket to the pool unit and waits.

Further, the notifying means notifies when a data processing fault ticket is generated, and also notifies a staff member.

(F) Effect of the Invention As a result, when a data processing defective ticket is generated, it is temporarily stopped in the pool unit and is not released, so that trouble due to the generation of the defective ticket can be prevented beforehand.

Furthermore, if a data processing bad ticket is held at each position where an indirect data processing unit or direct data processing unit occurs, the staff must search for multiple complicated processing units, and time and capacity to deal with However, since the pool section of the present invention is always located at the subsequent stage of the direct data processing section, that is, always at the same position between the discharge port and the direct data processing section, each processing section is provided. Even on a complicated and long transport path, a defective data processing ticket can be easily searched for and taken out, and the handling of the defective ticket can be performed easily and quickly.

Further, as described above, once the pool section is located between the discharge port and the direct data processing section, that is, after the entire processing section on the transport path, the transport of the data processing defective ticket is performed by a normal ticket. In the same processing direction as (without reverse transport)
Because it can be continued and transported to the pool once,
The transport control and the transport load are the same as those for a ticket with a normal load, and the transport process for a ticket with a poor data processing is also facilitated.

In addition, once a defective ticket pooled is taken out by an attendant, it can be made a good ticket if it is re-input operation and re-processed data, it can be made a good ticket, it will not be released unexpectedly as a bad ticket, and A highly reliable ticket inspection process capable of reliably executing data processing performance is obtained.

(G) Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an external view of the automatic ticket gate, and an opening / closing door 1 for passing control for passengers before and after the ticket gate main body 11.
A well-known ticket slot 13 on the top of the ticket gate
And an opening 14 for the ticket, and an alarm device 41 such as an alarm lamp is further provided on the upper part.

As shown in FIG. 1, inside the ticket gate main body 11, a ticket ticket processing system 15 having a ticket insertion slot 13 and a ticket discharge port 14 at both ends is provided. Is a regular ticket such as a ticket, coupon, commuter pass, and a price card,
It handles both riding cards such as frequency cards in common.

The ticket processing system 15 includes an alignment section A, an indirect data processing section B, a front / back reversing device C, a direct data processing section D, and a temporary pool section E in the direction of transporting the ticket.

The arranging unit A narrows the ticket or the board card inserted from the ticket slot 13 to the main frame side by using the eccentrically rotating width shifting roller 16.

The indirect data processing unit B is configured by serially arranging a ticket information reading unit B1, a ticket information writing unit B2, and a ticket information checking unit B3 in this order.

The face information reading unit B1 functions to read magnetic information recorded on one of the upper and lower surfaces of a ticket or a boarding card by a pair of upper and lower reading magnetic heads 17 and 18 for front and back. .

The face information writing unit B2 executes writing on the upper or lower magnetic surface of the ticket or the board by a pair of upper and lower write magnetic heads 19 and 20 for the front and back sides.

The face information check unit B3 functions to read and check the magnetic information written on either the upper or lower face of the ticket or the card by a pair of upper and lower check magnetic heads 21 and 22 for the front and back sides.

By the way, these magnetic heads 17 to 22 are provided on the front stage side of the main transport belt device 23 which is penetrated from the ticket entrance 13 to the ticket exit port 14 of the ticket gate processing system 15, and A sub-transport belt device 24 is provided in parallel with the main transport belt device 23 again before the ticket discharge port 14.

The sub-transport belt device 24 is equipped with a front / back reversing device C and a direct data processing unit D, which will be described later. Sorting operation is performed to one of the conveyor belt devices 23, 24, and furthermore, a second flapper f2 disposed at the subsequent stage of the belt device 24 causes the front / back reversing device C side and the direct data processor D
Perform the sorting operation to the side.

When the ticket and the boarding card enter face-up, the front-back reversing device C does not operate the second flapper f2, but transports the face-up face-to-face directly to the subsequent data processing unit D,
When entering backward, the ticket and the boarding card are guided to the reversing passage 25 in a direction substantially perpendicular to the carrying direction to be reversed by allocating the second flapper f2, and then the front sub-transport belt device is operated. The sheets are joined to the 24 side and are directly conveyed to the data processing section D in a face-up state.

The direct data processing unit D is provided with a punching device 26 and a thermal printing device 27, which are provided with predetermined punches on a ticket and a boarding card based on the magnetic information of the indirect data processing unit B described above. The hole formation and the predetermined station name printing are executed in common.

The pool section E once sets the transport path of the discharge conveyance belt 28 corresponding to immediately before the ticket release port 14 to the pool section E, and temporarily pools the data processing defective ticket so as not to release it. .

Fig. 3 shows the control circuit block diagram of the automatic ticket gate,
U31 is connected to a solenoid driver circuit 33, a motor driver circuit 34, a print head driver circuit 35, a magnetic data read / write unit 36, a sensor driver circuit 37, and an alarm driver circuit 38 via an interface 32, and is stored in a ROM 39. These are controlled in accordance with the above, and necessary information obtained by the control is stored in the RAM 40.

The solenoid SOL drives the solenoid driver circuit 33 to cause the flappers f1, f2,.

The motor M is connected to the conveying belt devices 23 and 24 and the
Drive etc.

The sensor S is used for inserting and releasing a ticket and a boarding card, and for detecting other positions.

The alarm device 41 is an alarm lamp mounted on the ticket gate body 11,
A customer-specific alarm means such as an alarm chime and a staff-only alarm means such as a staff monitoring panel at the center are provided so that the customer and the staff can detect the occurrence of a defective ticket.

By the way, the CPU 31 detects a write failure such as a magnetic write leak in the inserted ticket or board card via the confirmation magnetic heads 21 and 22, and also detects an operation signal from the punching device 26 and a thermal printing device 27. Punch hole defects and printing defects are detected based on the operation signals described above, and the occurrence state of indirect and direct data processing defects is always grasped and managed. Then, when any of the data processing defective tickets is generated, the defective tickets are once led to the pool unit E, and are temporarily pooled, and a command is issued so as not to release the defective tickets as they are.
The attendant is notified that a bad ticket has occurred.

In addition, once a defective ticket is pooled, it is taken out and processed again by data processing of the defective ticket so that the once-inserted ticket and boarding card can be reliably processed.

Next, the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Now, when a ticket or boarding card is inserted into the ticket slot 13, the sensor S detects this, and the CPU 31 determines whether the input material is a small ticket size or a large card size, and In the case of the size, the width adjusting roller 16 is retracted so as not to obstruct the passage of the card or the commuter pass (first and second steps n1 to n2).

After the alignment process, the information is guided to the indirect data processing unit B, where the face information of the input material is read, and if necessary, the face information is written, and the written face information is checked (third to third).
Fifth steps n3 to n5).

At this time, if it is checked that the magnetic processing has been properly performed (sixth step n6), the CPU 31 determines the type of the magnetically processed ticket, and if the ticket is a ticket such as a ticket, a coupon, a commuter pass, etc. It is led directly to the data processing unit C. If this ticket is a coupon, print processing such as station name and date and punching processing are performed; if it is a ticket, punch processing is performed; if it is a commuter pass, direct processing without data processing is required It is discharged to the ticket discharge port 14 (seventh to twelfth steps n7 to n12).

On the other hand, when the input material is a boarding card, the board is guided to the sub-transport belt device 24 side, the front and back are properly aligned via the reversing passage 25, and then the board is directly guided to the boarding card data processing unit D (13th
~ 14th step n13 ~ n14).

Then, after the punching process and the thermal printing process are performed by the boarding card direct data processing unit D, the boarding unit D again joins the main transport belt device 23 and discharges it from the ticket release port 14 (fifteenth to sixteenth steps n15). ~ N16).

By the way, at the time of the magnetic check in the sixth step n6, if the CPU 31 detects that a writing failure has occurred in the ticket or card inserted through the check magnetic heads 21 and 22, the operation from the punch device 26 Signal, thermal printer
When a punch hole defect or printing defect is detected based on the operation signal from 27, the fact that this defective ticket has occurred is notified to the user and the attendant via the alarm device 41, and the defective ticket is once sent to the pool section E. Lead and pool once (Step 17
n17).

With this, the customer grasps that an abnormality has occurred in the ticket and waits without passing through, and the clerk takes out the pooled defective ticket once, executes the reprocessing for data processing of the defective ticket again, and is once inserted. Data processing is performed on the ticket and boarding card without fail, and ticket gate management is performed so that the ticket is not released in a bad data state.

As described above, even when a defective ticket is generated, the pool is temporarily stopped in the pool unit and is not released, so that trouble due to the generation of the defective ticket can be prevented. Also, once a pooled defective ticket is taken out by the attendant, it can be turned into a good ticket if it is re-inserted and re-processed. A highly reliable ticket inspection process capable of reliably executing the processing performance is obtained.

In correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the slot of the present invention corresponds to the ticket slot 13 of the embodiment, and similarly, the outlet corresponds to the ticket outlet 14 in the same manner. The transport path corresponds to the main transport belt device 23 and the sub-transport belt device 24, and the detecting means includes the front confirmation magnetic head 21, the back confirmation magnetic head 22, the punch device 26, and the thermal printing device 27. The present invention is limited to only the configuration of the above-described embodiment, although the pool means corresponds to the pool unit E once, and the notification means corresponds to the alarm device 41. Not something.

[Brief description of the drawings]

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is an internal configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate, FIG. 2 is an external view of the automatic ticket gate, FIG. Is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate, and FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of the conventional automatic ticket gate. 11 Ticket gate machine, 13 Ticket entrance 14 Ticket exit 17-22 Magnetic head 23, 24 Transport belt unit 31, CPU 41 Alarm device B … Indirect data processing section D… Direct data processing section, E… Once pool section

Continuation of the front page (58) Field surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07B 11/02

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. An indirect data processing unit which is located at a slot and reads and writes ticket information such as a ticket and a boarding card, and a direct data processing which is located at a discharge port and performs punching and ticket printing. And a detecting means for detecting whether or not a data processing defective ticket has occurred in the indirect data processing section or the direct data processing section; and An automatic ticket gate provided with a pool means for temporarily guiding the defective ticket to a pool unit provided at a subsequent stage of the data processing unit and causing the defective ticket to stand by when detecting occurrence of a ticket. 2. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, further comprising: a notifying unit for notifying that the data processing defective ticket has occurred when the detection unit detects the data processing defective ticket. . 3. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, further comprising: a notifying means for notifying an attendant of the occurrence of the data processing fault ticket when the detection means detects the data processing fault ticket. Ticket machine.