JP3146651B2 - Automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function - 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 installed in station services such as railways, and more particularly, to an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function for reducing the occurrence of data processing defective tickets at the time of ticket gates. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A ticket gate machine that automatically processes tickets such as ordinary tickets, coupon tickets, and commuter passes when using a train or the like,
As shown in FIG. 5, the ticket entrance 5a and the ticket exit 5
b and a conveyor belt device 5c, an aligning unit 5d for widening the inserted ticket between the conveyors, and a ticket for indirectly changing the information by reading and writing magnetic information of the ticket. An indirect data processing unit 5e, a ticket direct data processing unit 5f that prints a ticket and punches holes to directly change the outer surface of the ticket, and a discharge unit 5i are mounted on the main frame in this order. I have.

[0003] In this case, even if a writing failure such as magnetic writing leakage occurs in the inserted ticket, the once inserted ticket is guided to the subsequent stage through the conveyor belt device, and remains in the defective ticket state. The reliability of the magnetic processing performance is poor, such as being released to the discharge port and causing troubles.
g. When the card indirect data processing unit 5h is connected to use a boarding card such as an amount card or a number card, the writing process at the time of indirect data processing is equivalent to the transfer of money, and therefore the magnetic processing is performed. Improving performance has been a major issue.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has been made so that even if a writing failure occurs in an inserted ticket or boarding card, the writing process is executed again to prevent the occurrence of a writing failure ticket. The purpose is to provide an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function to eliminate.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention, also with respect to the input direction of the surface of the table back have <br/> deviation of ticket, reading and writing the ticket information
The data processing unit capable of an automatic ticket gate which is disposed in the ticket gate conveying path, a defective tickets occurrence detection means for detecting that the data processing defects flights above Kide over data processing unit has occurred, the upper Kide chromatography a loop transport path which connects to the subsequent <br/> data processing unit to circulate conveying permit data processing defective tickets, defective tickets occurrence detection means that the data processing defects flights above Kide over data processing unit has occurred When detected, the data processing defective ticket is led from the ticket gate transport path to the loop transport path, circulated and transported, and returned to the ticket gate transport path.
By reversed by, led in front of the data processing unit data processing defects ticket reversed driving the ticket gate conveying path again
Characterized in that it is a re-processing function with automatic ticket gate machine and a re-processing control means for Dode over data processing.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF] According to the present invention, the inserted ticket when treated data processor Dede over data, the defective tickets occurrence detection means detects the occurrence of a data processing defects ticket, the re-processing control unit the data The processing failure ticket is guided to the loop transport path and circulated and transported,
By reversed by returning to the ticket gate conveying path, a wicket conveyor path reversely driven to-out guide in front of the data processing unit executes from <br/> re Dode over data processing it.

[0007]

Effect of the Invention] Therefore, for the thrown-in ticket can be subjected to ensure that data processing and re-processing acceptable, will not release the data processing defects ticket to unexpected, to ticket and boarding card it is possible to perform a suitable high reliability Ide over data processing.

[0008] Moreover, in the re-data processing, for inverting the front and back of the defective tickets, both of the data processing unit with a front and for the back which are arranged corresponding to the insertion of the front and back of the ticket among them, at the time of reprocessing it would be data processed by the data processing unit of the untreated side, different first and second data processing unit, re
The processing performance of the data can be reliably improved. In addition, a complicated transport structure is not required, and it is possible to naturally turn over the sheet only by guiding it to the loop transfer path, and the reversing operation can be sped up by speeding up the operation of turning over the defective ticket.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function. This automatic ticket gate is provided at front and rear positions on the side of a ticket gate main body 11 to control opening and closing doors 12 and 12 for a ticket gate user.
A ticket entrance 13 and a ticket exit 14 are opened at front and rear positions on the upper surface of the ticket gate main body 11.

As shown in FIG. 2, a ticket ticket processing system 15 having a ticket insertion slot 13 and a ticket discharge port 14 at both ends is provided inside the ticket gate main body 11. The system 15 handles both a normal ticket such as a ticket, a coupon ticket, a commuter pass and the like, and a boarding card such as an amount card, a coupon card and the like in common. , An indirect data processing section B, a front / back reversing device C, a direct data processing section D, a loop transport path E, and a discharge section F.

The arranging section A wraps the ticket or the card inserted from the ticket insertion slot 13 to the main frame side by using the eccentrically rotating wrapping roller 16.

The indirect data processing section B has a face information reading section B1, a face information writing section B2, and a face information checking section B3 arranged in this order in series.

The ticket surface information reading section B1 reads magnetic information on one of the upper and lower magnetic recording 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 ticket surface information writing section B2 performs writing processing on either the upper or lower magnetic recording surface of the ticket or the boarding card by a pair of upper and lower write magnetic heads 19 and 20 for front and back.

The face information checking unit B3 uses a pair of upper and lower confirmation magnetic heads 2 for front and back magnetic information written on either the upper or lower magnetic recording surface of the ticket or the board.
Read and confirm in 1 and 22.

By the way, these magnetic heads 17 to 22
Is installed on the front side of the main transport belt device 23 that is penetrated from the ticket input port 13 to the ticket discharge port 14 of the ticket gate processing system 15 and branches to this rear side,
Before the ticket discharge port 14, the main transport belt device 2
The sub-conveying belt device 24 which joins the sub-belt 3 is provided in parallel on the lower side.

This sub-transport belt device 24 is equipped with a front / back reversing device C and a direct data processing section D, and is provided with a main or sub-transport belt device 23 by a first flapper f1 disposed at a branch position on the starting end side. 24, and a second transfer belt disposed at an intermediate position of the sub-transport belt device 24.
By the flapper f2, the sorting operation is performed between the front and back reversing device C side and the direct data processing unit D side, and the third flapper f3 disposed at the end of the merging position connects the sub-transport belt device 24 to the main transport belt device 23. , To the discharge section F side.

When the ticket and the boarding card are conveyed face up, the front / back reversing device C does not operate the second flapper f2, but conveys the face up to the direct data processing section D in the subsequent stage. The second flapper f
2 to distribute the ticket and the boarding card to the reversing passage 25 in a direction substantially perpendicular to the transport direction and reverse the same, and then merge with the original sub-transport belt device 24 side to directly face up. It is transported to the data processing unit D.

The direct data processing unit D includes a punching device 26
And a thermal printing device 27, which are based on the magnetic information of the indirect data processing unit B described above, and are used for forming a predetermined punched hole on a ticket or a boarding card and for performing predetermined printing. And run.

In the loop transport path E, the first flapper f1 described above is used as a loop connection position on the front side, and the third flapper f3
Is set as a loop connection position on the rear side, the rear side of the main transport belt device 23 and the entire length of the sub-transport belt device 24 are connected in a loop, and a ticket or a boarding card is allowed to be circulated and transported. .

This circulating transport is conducted to the loop transport path E when there is an abnormality in the writing data of the ticket or the board card guided from the indirect data processing section B at the preceding stage, and is reversed here to start from the preceding stage. In order to process the indirect data again, especially by guiding the data on the loop transport path E,
The boarding ticket or boarding card guided here is naturally turned upside down in the clockwise or counterclockwise loop-like transfer process, and can be easily turned upside down simply by leading to the loop transfer path E. As a result, it has a high-speed reversal reprocessing function for accelerating the reversal operation by reversing the reversal operation for a defective ticket or a defective card in which a writing error has occurred.

The discharge section F is controlled by a discharge conveyance belt 28.
It is responsible for releasing tickets and boarding cards.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function.
2, a solenoid driver circuit 33, a motor driver circuit 34, a print head driver circuit 35, a magnetic data read / write unit 36, and a sensor driver circuit 37 are connected, and these circuits are controlled according to a program stored in a ROM 38. Necessary information obtained by the control is stored in the RAM 39 in a readable manner.

Each of the solenoids SOL... Drives the solenoid driver circuit 33 to cause the flappers f1, f2, f3. Each of the motors M drives the transport systems such as the transport belt devices 23 and 24 and the width shifting roller 16 in the forward and reverse directions. Also, the sensor S
Is equipped for the insertion and ejection of tickets and boarding cards, and other position detection.

When 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, the CPU 31 releases the write failure ticket or the write failure card. And output them to the loop transport path E corresponding to the succeeding stage, invert them, and then drive them in reverse to guide the defective ticket or defective card to the preceding stage of the indirect data processing unit B to temporarily stop it. It has a re-processing function of performing normal writing again, executing writing processing again, and reliably performing magnetic writing processing on a once-inserted ticket and boarding card.

In this re-indirect data processing,
Since the front and back sides of the defective ticket are reversed and reprocessed, of the write magnetic heads 19 and 20 for the front and back sides which are arranged corresponding to the insertion of the front and back sides of the ticket, the first magnetic field is used at the time of reprocessing. The write processing is performed by the non-corresponding magnetic head different from the head, and the first and second write magnetic heads 19,
20, the processing performance of the re-indirect data is definitely improved. Further, since the reversing operation can be easily performed by simply guiding the defective ticket to the subsequent loop transport path E, the reversing operation can be accelerated by speeding up the reversing operation.

Next, the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function 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 object 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, while during the alignment operation in the alignment section A, the shutter of the ticket insertion slot 13 is closed to insert the ticket. The interval is controlled (steps n1 to n3).

After the alignment processing, the program is led to the indirect data processing section 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 (steps n4 to n6). ).

At this time, when it is checked that the magnetic processing has been properly performed (step n7), the CPU 31 determines the type of the magnetically processed ticket, and if the ticket is a ticket such as a ticket or a coupon, the direct data processing unit D. Here, if the ticket is a ticket, a punching process is performed. If the ticket is a coupon, the station name,
A printing process such as date printing and a punching process are performed, and in the case of a commuter pass, the commuter pass is discharged directly to the ticket discharge port 14 without directly performing data processing (steps n8 to n13).

On the other hand, when the input object is a boarding card such as a money card or a number card, if the inserted boarding card is a front-side insertion surface, it is not necessary to flip the front and back. D, and if it is a reverse loading surface, it is guided to the reversing passage 25 of the front / back reversing device C and turned upside down, and then the boarding card is guided to the subsequent direct data processing unit D (steps n14 to n15). .

After the punching process and the thermal printing process are directly performed by the data processing unit D, the boarding card is joined again to the main transport belt device 23 and discharged from the ticket release port 14 (steps n16 to n16). n17).

By the way, at the time of the above magnetic check, the CP
When U31 detects the occurrence of writing failure in the ticket or the boarding card inserted through the confirmation magnetic heads 21 and 22, it outputs a command not to release the bad ticket or the bad card, and leads to the loop transport path E in the subsequent stage. Circulate and transport
This circulation transport reverses the front and back. After the reversal (step n18), the reverse rotation drive is performed to reversely transport the defective ticket or the defective card to the position of the alignment section A, and then forward forward again, and the indirect data processing section B again performs indirect data such as magnetic writing processing. Execute the process. At this time, the badly written magnetic ticket is turned over and written by a magnetic head different from the first one, so that the inserted ticket or card is subjected to a reliable and reliable writing process. (Steps n19 to n26).

Then, the CPU 31 confirms that the confirmation magnetic head 2
If it is determined through steps 1 and 22 that the magnetic processing has been properly performed, the subsequent direct data processing and the like at step n8 and thereafter are performed (step n27).

However, if it is determined that the magnetic data is defective even in the second check operation, it is determined that a non-tradable input material has been input and released, and an inspection operation is immediately performed on the device itself by a staff member. (Steps n28 to n2
9).

As described above, re-processing is allowed for the inserted ticket or boarding card, and the indirect data processing can be reliably performed. It is possible to execute highly reliable indirect data processing suitable for a boarding card.

Further, in the re-indirect data processing, in order to invert the front and back of the defective ticket, of the magnetic heads for both front and back disposed in accordance with the insertion of the front and back of the ticket, At the time of reprocessing, data processing is performed by the unprocessed magnetic head, so that the first and second magnetic heads are different, and the processing performance of re-indirect data is reliably improved. In addition, it is possible to easily turn the front and back of a defective ticket only by guiding the defective ticket to the loop transfer path without requiring a complicated transfer structure, and to speed up the reversing operation by speeding up the front and back flipping operation.

[0037] and the present invention, the correspondence between the configuration of the foregoing embodiment, the modified bill conveyance path of the invention corresponds to the main conveyor belt apparatus 2 3, and so on to, defective tickets occurrence detection means, the table Check magnetic head 21 and back check magnetic head 22
And the reprocessing control means corresponds to the CPU 31, but the present invention is not limited to only the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an internal configuration diagram of the automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of the automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of a conventional automatic ticket gate.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11… Ticket machine bookbody 1 7-22: magnetic heads 23, 24: conveyor belt device 31: CPU B: indirect data processingDepartment E … Loop transport path

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] With respect to the input direction of the table back have the plane of displacement of 1. A ticket
Also, an automatic ticket gate which is disposed the ticket information read write data processing unit to the ticket gate conveying path, failure ticket generation detection for detecting that the data processing defects ticket occurs above Kide over data processing unit means and, connected downstream of the upper Kide over data processing unit data processing and a loop transport path which the defective tickets permit circulation transportation, on Kide over data processing unit generates defect ticket that the data processing defects ticket occurs in When the detecting means detects, the defective data processing ticket is led from the ticket gate transport path to the loop transport path to be circulated and transported.
And return it to the above ticket gate transport path to turn it over.
Te, the data processing defects ticket reversed driving the ticket gate conveying path
Reprocessing control means and reprocessing function automatic ticket gate having a to re Dode over data processing leading to the previous stage of the data processing unit.