JP2932495B2 - Medium processing system and medium processing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Technical field to which the present invention relates This invention relates to the illegal use of a train ticket such as a commuter pass or a commuter pass ticket of a commuter pass system that can be used multiple times in railways and other transportation means. The present invention relates to a medium processing system and a medium processing apparatus capable of suppressing free rides.

(B) Conventional technology For example, a commuter pass, a coupon, and a ticket of a ticket are used for the use of transportation such as a railway, but the current ticket collection ticket system uses two commuter passes. (One ticket is valid at the boarding station and the other is valid at the disembarking station and used separately when getting on and off.) Unauthorized unpaid boarding, or receiving an admission with an admission ticket and entering with a commuter pass, and entering with a commuter pass To
It is impossible to check with an automatic ticket gate.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention For this type of fraudulent free ride (so-called Kissel ride), only the in-vehicle ticket is effective, and the effect of eliminating fraudulent free rides is large. The number of trains and passengers to be covered by the crew is large, which leads to an increase in labor and labor costs, and there is a problem in that it is not possible to carry out an in-vehicle ticket inspection when the trains are crowded.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, the present invention can suppress illicit use of free media by stimulating the guilt of a person who intends to use the unpaid free usage, and exerting psychological pressure on the unauthorized use of the use medium. It is an object of the present invention to provide a medium processing system and a medium processing apparatus capable of easily determining whether or not a used medium is illegally used by a machine or the like.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is directed to a first medium processing device installed at a platform of a transportation means and a second medium installed at a landing area of a transportation means. A medium processing system comprising:
A first printing unit that visually prints information about the use start including a use start time on a use medium inserted into the medium processing device, and the second medium processing device when use of the transportation unit is completed. And a second printing means for visually printing information on the use end including the use end time with respect to the use medium inserted into the system.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medium processing apparatus for receiving and processing a use medium on which information about a use start including a use start time has been printed so as to be visually perceived. The medium processing apparatus includes a printing unit that visually prints information about the end of use including a time, and a discharging unit that discharges the usage medium printed by the printing unit.

(E) Function According to the present invention, when a use medium such as a commuter pass is illegally used, the use medium contains either information on the use start including the use start time or information on the use end including the use end time. One of the records is missing, and the lack leaves a trace on the used medium as a visible record of recorded information, which can stimulate the guilt of the unauthorized user, and improperly use the medium because the lack may leave a trace. As a result of psychological pressure on those who are going to use it, restraint works and at least the number of fraudulent unpaid uses is reduced.

If a media processing device such as an automatic ticket-gathering machine at the platform of the transportation means is provided with a function to check the presence or absence of recording of information on the start of use including the start time of use, suspicion of unauthorized use of the used medium can be determined based on the presence or absence of the function. Can be automatically determined, and fraudulent and unpaid use can be easily detected.

Further, even at the time of the ticket inspection during use, the information on the use start including the use start time is visibly recorded in the use medium that the ticket inspector asked the customer to present as long as this is used correctly. From this record, it is possible to quickly check for unauthorized free use based on the presence or absence of this record.

(F) Effects of the Invention Accordingly, if the media processing system and the media processing apparatus according to the present invention suppress the unauthorized use of the transportation means, the psychology of the passenger using the transportation means can be used to prevent the unauthorized use of the transportation means. Not only can the number of times be reduced, but also the number of times of finding fraudulent and unpaid usage can be increased, and the number of personnel required to suppress or detect fraudulent and unpaid usage such as a ticket check being used can be minimized.

Further, past fraud can be found from the use history based on the use information of the use medium.

Further, since the use start time and the use end time are recorded in the use medium, the use time is calculated from these times. For example, there is a case where the use time is abnormally longer than the average use time based on the use history. In this case, it can be determined as unauthorized use through different routes.

In addition, if the use media is used legitimately, the actual use time from the start of use to the end of use is recorded on the use media. Can be.

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

FIG. 1 shows an example of an internal schematic structure of an automatic ticket gate 13 used as a medium processing system and a medium processing apparatus according to the present invention, and a conveyor device 2 for taking in a ticket inserted from an insertion port 1 on the right side of the drawing is provided. Provided.

The main transport conveyor device 3 which is continuous with the take-in conveyor device 2 includes a pair of upper and lower reading magnetic heads R1, R2.
Similarly, a pair of upper and lower write magnetic heads R3, R4 are provided.

On the outlet side of the main transport conveyor device 3, a return conveyor device 5 communicating with the discharge port 4 on the left side of the drawing is provided continuously, and each of the devices 2, 3, 5 uses the pulley 6, 6, It is configured to be driven by inputting via the belt 7 and 7.

Further, a printing means 9 for printing information (to be described in detail later) on a boarding station where the automatic ticket gate 13 is installed is provided for a ticket inserted after the write magnetic heads R3 and R4. Have been.

FIG. 2 is a control circuit diagram for controlling the configuration of FIG. 1, in which the CPU 10 reads the magnetic data of the inserted ticket by the read magnetic heads R1 and R2 according to a procedure programmed in the ROM 11 in advance. When the inserted ticket is a ticket, the ticket information is given to the ticket as magnetic information by the magnetic heads R3 and R4 for writing, and then information about the boarding station is printed on the ticket by the printing means 9, and the main transport conveyor device is used. 3. Discharge to the discharge port 4 through the return conveyor device 5. Necessary data is stored in the RAM 12.

Here, a system for operating the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3. In the case of a ticket, for example, a commuter pass A, at the boarding station, information on the boarding station is printed using the printing means 9 in the automatic ticket gate 13 at the time of a ticket gate. I do. This information is the boarding station name, date, and ticket gate time, and is printed as boarding station information B as shown in FIG. 4B on the back side of the commuter pass A with the ticket surface as shown in FIG.

When the customer puts the commuter pass with the above-mentioned ticket gate into the automatic ticket collecting machine at the disembarkation station, in addition to the well-known ticket collection process, the passenger gets off on the back side of commuter pass A as shown in FIG. The station name, date and billing time are printed as the getting-off station information C. Therefore, although not shown in the drawing, the automatic ticket collecting machine is configured to have the same printing means as the automatic ticket gate 13.

In this manner, the boarding station information B and the disembarking station information C are printed on the commuter pass A for each use of transportation, but in the case of a commuter pass that is used many times, the printing space gradually increases. When the printing is completed up to the last line, the CPU 10 operates to return to the first line and rewrite the printing from the next use as shown by the arrow D in FIG. Thus, the limitation on the number of times of use can be removed.

According to the above-described embodiment, the automatic ticket collecting machine adds the commuter pass A or the like to the boarding station information B at the time of using the transportation means on that day.
If a function to check whether or not the board is correctly printed can be provided, it is possible to judge whether there is a fraudulent free ride based on the presence or absence of the boarding station information B, thereby facilitating the discovery of the fraudulent free ride. Can be.

In addition, when an in-vehicle ticket inspection is performed, checking whether or not the boarding station information B is printed on the ticket presented by the user makes it easier to find an unauthorized free ride.

The commuter pass A that has been correctly used will record both the station information B and the station information C for each transportation use, and the commuter pass A that has been used illegally will get on as shown in FIG. Either the station information B or the getting-off station information C remains as a missing record. Since the blank trace E due to the lack is visible and can be identified at a glance, it can be expected that a person who has abused the user will feel guilty of having used the fraudulent free ride from the above-mentioned trace E. Psychological restraint acts on fraudulent free rides. In addition, since a person who intends to take a fraudulent free ride is likely to leave a trace as a trace E, psychological oppression is exerted and restraint is exerted.

Further, in order to increase the effect of suppressing fraudulent free rides, the following effective means can be adopted.

That is, when the above-mentioned missing trace E is detected from the commuter pass A by the automatic ticket gate or the automatic ticket collecting machine, the number of the missing trace E considered to have been illegally used by using the magnetic data is counted. For example, it is possible to print a moral warning text F as shown in FIG. 5 to draw moral attention.
Then, when the number of missing traces (illegal use) further increases, a warning can be issued from the automatic ticket gate as described above, and a notification can be given to a staff member to control the fraud.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned automatic ticket gate may be an attendant machine or the like instead, and the automatic ticket collecting machine may be an attendant machine or a checkout machine.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the media processing apparatus including the first and second embodiments of the present invention corresponds to the automatic ticket gate 13 of the embodiment. The exit corresponds to the boarding station and the disembarking station. The information on the use start including the use start time corresponds to the boarding station information B, and the information on the use end including the use end time corresponds to the get off station information C. The printing means including the first and second printing means corresponds to the printing means 9, and the discharging means corresponds to the return conveyor device 5. However, the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above embodiment. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the internal structure of an automatic ticket gate, FIG. 2 is a control circuit diagram, FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a printed example of a fraudulent use warning. 9: printing means, 13: automatic ticket gate A: commuter pass (ticket), B: boarding station information C: getting off station information

Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-2-90390 (JP, A) JP-A-1-305493 (JP, A) JP-A-1-116788 (JP, A) JP-A-61-39181 (JP) , A) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07B 11/00-17/04 G07B 1/00-9/02 G06F 15/20-15/20 102 G06F 15/21-15 / 21 360 G06F 15/24-15/28

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] In a medium processing system comprising a first medium processing device installed at a platform of a transportation means and a second medium processing device installed at a landing of the transportation means, use of the transportation means is started. A first printing unit that visually prints information on the use start including a use start time on the use medium inserted into the first medium processing device, and the second print unit when the use of the transportation unit ends. And a second printing unit for visually printing information on the use end including the use end time on the used medium input to the medium processing device. 2. A medium processing apparatus for receiving and processing a use medium on which information about use start including a use start time is already visually visibly printed, wherein the medium processing apparatus is configured to execute a use end including a use end time for the use medium. A medium processing apparatus, comprising: a printing unit that prints information visually; and a discharge unit that discharges a use medium printed by the printing unit.