JP2883847B2 - 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 machine installed at a transportation station such as a train or a ship and automatically processing ticket gate media such as commuter tickets, tickets, and prepaid cards possessed by passengers. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional example of this type of automatic ticket gate will be described with reference to FIGS.

The automatic ticket gate 100 shown in FIG. 1 has an entrance unit 101 for entering the station yard and an exit unit 102 for exiting from the station premises to the outside of the station. A passage 103 for traffic is provided.

[0004] The entrance machine 101 comprises a support 104, a rectangular parallelepiped ticket gate main body 105 supported horizontally by the support 104, and a column 1 on the ticket gate main body 105.
A human detection pole 107 as a sensor supporting member supported by the gates 06a and 106b, and a gate 108 attached to the side of the ticket gate main body 105 so as to block or open the passage 103 as shown in FIG. I have.

On the upper surface of the ticket gate main body 105, an insertion port 109 is provided at an end outside the station yard, and a discharge port 110 is provided in front of the gate 108. On the upper surface of the human detection pole 107, a display lamp 111 for displaying an operation state of the entrance device 101 (for example, blue when in operation and red when stopped) is projected.

On the side of the human detection pole 107 and on the side of the support 104, a sensor 112 for detecting the traffic condition of the user is provided so as to face the exit device 102 side.

The exit unit 102 is symmetrically arranged with the entrance unit 101.

[0008] Further, the entrances 109 of the entrance unit 101 and the exit unit 102 are arranged in parallel to the passage 103, and a user inserts a ticket.

[0009]

As described above, in the conventional automatic ticket gate, the insertion slot 109 is arranged in parallel with the passage 103.

[0010] With this configuration, there is a problem that it is very difficult for a user who holds a ticket with his left hand to insert the ticket into the insertion slot 109, and that it is difficult to use the ticket.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic ticket gate that is easy for a user who holds a ticket with his left hand to insert the ticket.

[0012]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a passageway.
In an automatic ticket gate equipped with an input section into which a ticket inspection medium is input by a user and an output section for discharging the ticket inspection medium input to the input section, the input section includes the input section as supplying side end portion is disposed close to the said passage in its charging direction is about a horizontal plane
Non-parallel to the direction of travel of the user in the passage
Automatic ticket gates that are arranged in
is there. The invention according to claim 2 is arranged and used along a passage.
And the slot where the ticket gate medium is inserted by the
And an ejection section for ejecting the entered ticket gate medium.
In the ticket gate, the input section is provided at the input section.
Horizontal so that the entry end is close to the passage
On the surface, with respect to the direction of travel of the user in the passage
And the input side end is on the side of the user's passage.
Automatic ticket gates,
You.

[0013]

The structure of the present invention, that is, the advance of the user in the above-mentioned passage with the direction of inserting the ticket of the inserting section on the horizontal plane
Placed non-parallel to the direction, or on a horizontal plane
With respect to the direction of travel of the user in the passage.
By arranging the ticket in parallel with the insertion side end so as to be on the side of the passage of the user , it is possible to easily insert the ticket with the left hand, thereby obstructing the flow of people in the automatic ticket gate. Will not be done.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail.

The automatic ticket gate 1 shown in FIG. 1 has an entrance unit 2 for entering the station premises and an exit unit 3 for exiting from the station premises to the outside of the station, which are arranged in parallel, as in the conventional example. A passage 4 for passenger passage is provided therebetween.

As shown in FIG. 2, the entrance unit 2 includes a support 5, a rectangular parallelepiped ticket gate main body 6 supported by the support 5 in a horizontal arrangement, and a support 7 on the ticket gate main body 6.
a, a human detection pole 8 as a sensor supporting member supported along the ticket gate main body 6 via the gate 7a, and a passage 4 on the side surface of the ticket gate main body 6 as shown in FIG. And a gate 9 attached thereto.

In addition, on the upper surface of the ticket gate main body 6, an insertion port 10 is provided at an end outside the station, and a discharge port 11 is provided in front of the gate 9, and a discharge port 11 is provided.
Is displayed immediately before the ticket, for example, a ticket K.
₁ enabled, disabled, and expired commutation ticket K _2, such as a liquid crystal display guidance display unit 12 for displaying by character the balance or the like of the prepaid card C is provided.

The operation state of the automatic ticket gate 1 is displayed in blue at the end of the human detection pole 8, at the end inside the station, and at the center of the station, and the stop state is displayed in red, respectively. Corner display sections 13a and 13b, center display section 1
An operation state display means 13 comprising 3c is provided.

On the side of the human detection pole 8 and on the side of the ticket gate main body 6, a sensor 39 for detecting a traffic state of the user is provided so as to face the exit 3 side.

The inlet 10 is not arranged parallel to the passage 4 as shown in FIG. 1, but is arranged closer to the passage 4 toward the outer end of the station.

The exit unit 3 has the same configuration as the entrance unit 2.
It has a symmetrical arrangement.

Here, the internal structure of the ticket gate main body 6 in the entrance machine 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

The ticket gate main body 6 has various elements for automatic ticket gate processing described below arranged in a row from the slot 10 to the exit 11.

[0025] That is, ticket checker main body 6, wicket medium, a commutation ticket K ₂ or tickets K _1, for example, magnetic information is attached inlet 1
Alignment means 15 for taking in and aligning from zero, magnetic reading means 18 having a pair of magnetic heads 16 and 17 with the head surfaces turned up and down, and unification of the front and back of the transaction medium, which is always unified and sent to the next stage Processing means 19, magnetic writing means 21 having a magnetic head 20 with a head surface facing upward, magnetic checking means 23 also having a magnetic head 22 with a head surface facing upward, and a print head surface facing upward A thermal printer 24 as printing means and scissors means (punches) 25 for punching punch holes in a ticket inspection medium are arranged along the transport path R.

In FIG. 3, reference numerals 26, 27, 28 and 29 denote transport roller pairs, and reference numeral 30 denotes a transport motor for driving the respective transport roller pairs 26 to 29.

The unifying processing means 19 is shown in FIG.
As shown in an enlarged manner, first and second parallel arrangements are arranged vertically downward from the conveyance path R between the magnetic heads 17 and 20.
, And a sorting gate 33 that introduces a ticket inspection medium conveyed along the conveyance path R between the belt conveyance units 31 and 32.

FIG. 4 shows a control system of the automatic ticket gate 1. This automatic ticket gate 1 has a program memory 35,
A control unit 37 comprising a control unit 36;
Alignment means 15, magnetic reading means 18, front and back unifying processing means 19, magnetic writing means 21, magnetic checking means 2
3. Thermal printer 24, scissors means 25 and sensor 3
9 is performed.

Further, the guidance display means 1 is controlled by the control unit 36.
2. Display control of the operation state display means 13 is performed. Further, the control unit 36 includes the magnetic reading unit 1.
8 is connected to a discriminating means 38 for taking in the reading result of No. 8 and judging the front and back of the ticket inspection medium.

Next, the operation of the automatic ticket gate 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b).

[0031] assumed that tickets K ₁ as wicket medium is charged in the inlet 10 in Figure 5 while the top surface of the recorded magnetic stripe MS of the wicket information as shown in (a) (back state).

After the ticket K ₁ is aligned by the aligning means 15, the magnetic stripe MS is scanned by the magnetic head 17 with the head surface facing downward, and the ticket gate information is read.

[0033] The reading result is sent to the determining means 38 by the control unit 36, discriminating means 38 discriminates tickets K ₁ is a back condition, and sends the discrimination result to that effect to the control unit 36.

The control unit 36 controls the distribution of the distribution gate 33 and the rotation of the first and second conveyor belt units 31 and 32 based on the result of the determination.

[0035] Thus, tickets K ₁ returns to the conveyance path R in a state where the magnetic stripe MS displaced upwards after entering between the two conveyor belts 31 and 32 from the conveyance path R and the lower surface side (Table state) Are conveyed to the magnetic writing means 21 side.

On the other hand, if the ticket K ₁ is turned in a state where the magnetic stripe MS and the lower surface (Table state) as shown in FIG. 5 (b), the determination means 38 determines that the table state,
Thereby, the control unit 36 sets the distribution gate 33 to the transport path R.
And the first and second conveyor belt units 3
Both 1 and 32 are driven in the transport direction.

[0037] As a result, tickets K ₁ is conveyed toward the left magnetic writing means 21 side of the table states.

[0038] Thus, by the operation of front and rear unification unit 19, always magnetic stripe MS tickets K ₁ is to be conveyed to the magnetic writing means 21 are unified in a state where the lower surface.

Thereafter, the ticket K is written by the magnetic writing means 21, checked by the magnetic check means 23, written by the thermal printer 24 to write predetermined character information, and punched by the scissors means 25. this ticket K ₁ after made to ₁ is discharged to the discharge port 11.

During the operation of the automatic ticket gate 1 as described above, the corner display section 13 of the operation state display means 13 is provided.
a, 13b is a blue display under the control of the control unit 36, thereby, the inlet before the user even those shorty such as children, to inject tickets K ₁ into the slot 10 It can be visually recognized that the machine 2 is operating.

The present invention can be variously modified in addition to the above-described embodiment.

[0042]

As described above, according to the automatic ticket gate of the present invention, the insertion direction of the ticket entrance medium is set on a horizontal plane so that the end of the ticket entrance medium is arranged close to the passage.
Since it is arranged non-parallel to the traveling direction of the user in the aisle, it is easy for a user who holds the ticket checking medium with the left hand to insert the ticket checking medium into the insertion section to easily insert the ticket checking medium.

Further, the ticket insertion direction of the automatic ticket gate insertion section is arranged on the horizontal plane so as to be arranged close to the passage.
The ticket is not parallel to the direction of travel of the
By arranging the front end side in the entry direction to be on the side of the passage of the user, it is possible to easily insert the ticket with the left hand, thereby reducing the obstacle to the flow of people in the automatic ticket gate. Can be done.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an entrance machine in the automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional view of an entrance machine in the automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a control system of an entrance machine in the automatic ticket gate.

FIGS. 5A and 5B are perspective views of tickets respectively.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a conventional automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 7 is a front view of an entrance machine in a conventional automatic ticket gate.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic ticket gate 2 Entrance machine 3 Exit machine 4 Passage 8 Human detection pole 13 Operation state display means

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-56-159778 (JP, A) JP-A-58-213391 (JP, A) JP-A-58-132880 (JP, A) 292584 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07B 1/00-9/02 G07B 11/00-17/04 G06F 15/20-15/20 102 G06F 15 / 21-15/21 360 G06F 15/24-15/28

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] An automatic ticket gate arranged along a passage and provided with an insertion section into which a ticket inspection medium is inserted by a user and an ejection section for discharging the ticket inspection medium inserted into the insertion section. In the input device, the input side end of the input portion is the communication port.
Injection direction is horizontal so that it is close to the road
About the above with respect to the direction of travel of the user in the passage
An automatic ticket gate provided in a non-parallel arrangement . 2. It is arranged along a passage and modified by a user.
The slot where the bill medium is inserted and before it is inserted into this slot
Automatic ticket gate equipped with a discharge section for discharging the ticket gate media.
In the charging section, a charging-side end of the charging section has the communication port.
So that it is located close to the road,
Non-parallel to the direction of travel of the user in the passage and
The input side end is provided so that it is on the side of the user's passage.
An automatic ticket gate characterized by the following.