JP3235752B2 - Magnetic card encoder - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is used for writing necessary data on a magnetic card when preparing a prepaid magnetic card such as a telephone card and a card-type ticket.
The present invention relates to a magnetic card encoder for storing a large number of magnetic cards in a cartridge in a stacked manner, taking out the magnetic cards one by one from the cartridge, and performing writing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a cartridge is mounted in a magnetic card encoder, an opening is formed in one end plate of the cartridge, a part of a card take-out roller is inserted into the cartridge from the opening, and the cartridge is superposed on the cartridge. One end surface of the magnetic card is brought into contact with the card take-out roller, and the other end surface of the stacked magnetic cards is kept pressed toward the card take-out roller by a fixed amount, and the card take-out roller is rotated to contact the magnetic card. The magnetic card has been taken out of the cartridge one by one, and the magnetic card has been moved to the card take-out roller side by a fixed amount.

[0003]

Conventionally, the magnetic card is moved to the card take-out roller side by a fixed amount. However, if the moving amount is too large, two magnetic cards are simultaneously fed out or the moving amount is reduced. If it was too small, no magnetic card could be extended.

[0004]

According to the present invention, a card holding plate capable of pressing a magnetic card toward a card take-out roller is provided in the cartridge so as to be movable in the direction in which the magnetic cards are stacked, and is provided outside the cartridge. A slider is provided so as to be movable in the direction in which the magnetic cards are stacked, and the slider is adapted to engage with a card holding plate in the direction of a card ejection roller. The slider is driven by driving means in the direction in which the magnetic cards are overlaid. The card take-out roller is rotatably mounted on the roller arm, and the roller arm is rotatable in a plane perpendicular to the surface of the magnetic card, and is biased toward the magnetic card. When the card ejection roller is displaced in the direction of exiting the cartridge by a predetermined value or more, the sensor detects the displacement, and the drive to the slider is stopped by the detected output.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, an outline of a magnetic card encoder according to the present invention will be described. That is, as shown in FIG. 1, the magnetic card encoder
The cartridge 14 is inserted into the housing 11 from above through the opening 13. A large number of magnetic cards are accommodated in the cartridge 14 in an overlapping manner, and the magnetic card overlapping direction is the longitudinal direction of the cartridge 14, and is the left-right direction in the drawing. The inserted cartridge 14 is received by a slide receiving piece 16 that is attached to the cartridge path 15 at a position on the way of the cartridge path 15 where the cartridge 14 descends, and is put on standby. After the slide receiving piece 16 is retracted and the cartridge 14 is further lowered, the cartridge 14 is moved in the lateral direction (the left side in the figure) and is arranged at the card removal position.

[0006] An opening is formed in the end surface (left end surface in the figure) of the cartridge 14 at the card ejection position in the magnetic card stacking direction, and a part of the card ejection roller 17 enters the cartridge 14 from the opening, and the outermost end. It is connected with a magnetic card. The magnetic card in the cartridge 14 is moved toward the card take-out roller 17 by the card feed mechanism 18. The card removal roller 17 is rotated, and the magnetic card in contact therewith is removed from the cartridge 14.
In the figure, the magnetic card is taken out at the upper side, the sending direction of the taken out magnetic card is changed to the lower side by the sending section 19, and the magnetic card is sent to the code reading section 21. The bar code attached to the magnetic card is read in the code reading unit 21. The magnetic card from which the barcode has been read is placed in the separation unit 2
2 to the writing / reading unit 23. writing/
The reading unit 23 reads data from the magnetic card, writes data to the magnetic card, reads data for confirmation of the written data, and the like. The magnetic card passing through the writing / reading unit 23 passes through the separating unit 24. The paper is discharged from the delivery unit 25 to an external card storage case (not shown). In the separation units 22 and 24, the defective magnetic card is removed.

When all of the magnetic cards in the cartridge 14 are removed, the empty cartridge is removed from the housing 11 as shown in the figure, and then the cartridge 14 in the standby state is lowered to the card removal position. Be moved. The lowering of the cartridge in the standby state is performed by a cartridge lowering mechanism (not shown). Next, a specific example of a mechanism for feeding out a magnetic card from the cartridge 14, which is a main part of the present invention, will be described with reference to FIG. An opening 31 is formed in the end plate 14 a of the cartridge 14 on the side of the delivery portion 19.
The opening 31 is formed in the cartridge 1 in this example.
4 is extended to a part of the upper plate 14b. Opening 31
A part of the card take-out roller 17 is inserted into the cartridge 14 through. One end face of the superposed magnetic card 32 in the cartridge 14 is
Is confronted with. Further, in this example, the spacers 3 are arranged so that the magnetic card 32 at the end on the card take-out roller 17 side does not come into contact with the end plate 14a and a narrow interval is maintained.
3 is attached to the inner surface of the end plate 14a.

A pressing plate 34 for pressing the stacked magnetic cards 32 toward the roller 17 is provided in the cartridge 14 so as to be movable in the direction in which the magnetic cards are stacked. A guide rod 35 is attached to the lower part of the cartridge 14 so as to extend in the longitudinal direction of the cartridge 14, and the holding portion 34 a of the pressing plate 34 is passed over the guide rod 35. The auxiliary plate 37 is attached to the surface of the holding plate 34 on the card take-out roller 17 side with a spring piece 36 with a play. That is, the attachment portion 36a of the spring piece 36 with the holding plate 34 is attached so that it can slightly move back and forth with respect to the holding plate 34. Therefore, the holding plate 34 is such that the auxiliary plate 37 is in uniform contact with the surface of the magnetic card 32 at each part.
Each part of the magnetic card 32 is uniformly removed from the card take-out roller 17.
The magnetic card 32 is not pushed too hard by the spring piece 36.

In this embodiment, the magnetic card 3 of the holding plate 34
An arm 38 is rotatably mounted on the opposite side of the arm 2, and a roller 39 which is rotatable in only one direction is mounted on a lower end of the arm 38. A plate 41 extending close to the bottom plate 14 c of the cartridge 14 and in contact with the roller 39 and extending in the longitudinal direction of the cartridge 14 is fixed to the cartridge 14. Although not shown, the arm 38 is rotated and biased by a spring, and the roller 39 is pressed against the plate 41.
When the holding plate 34 moves in the direction opposite to the card take-out roller 17, the roller 39 rotates. However, when the holding plate 34 moves to the card take-out roller 17, the roller 39 cannot rotate. The movement of the holding plate 34 is prevented by the frictional connection between the pressing plate 34 and the plate body 41. By rotating the arm 38 so that the roller 39 is separated from the plate 41, the pressing plate 34 can be moved in a direction away from the card take-out roller 17.

A slider 42 is mounted on the magnetic card 3 outside the cartridge 14 and on the lower side in FIG.
The slider 42 is provided so as to be movable in the overlapping direction, and the slider 42 moves to the card take-out roller 17 side so as to engage with the presser plate 34 and press the presser plate 34 toward the roller 17. A guide shaft 43 is provided outside the cartridge 14 in parallel with the guide rod 35, and the slider 42 is passed over the guide shaft 43. Although not shown in the drawing, the bottom plate 14c of the cartridge 14 is formed with an elongated cut groove extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, through which a protruding piece 42a protruding from the slider 42 is inserted into the cartridge 14,
The protruding piece 42 a is opposed to the surface of the holding portion 34 a of the holding plate 34 on the side opposite to the card take-out roller 17. Therefore, when the slider 42 is moved to the card take-out roller 17 side,
The holding plate 34 is also moved by the projecting piece 42a to the card takeout roller 17
Move to the side.

A stepping motor 44 for driving the slider is provided, a timing belt 45 is provided along the guide shaft 43, and the rotation of the rotating shaft of the motor 44 is transmitted to the timing belt 45 via the belt 46. The slider 42 is fixed to the timing belt 45. Therefore, the slider 42 can be moved by driving the motor 44.

The card take-out roller 17 is a roller arm 4
7 is rotatably mounted on the roller arm 47.
It is configured to be rotatable around 8 in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the magnetic card 32. The card take-out roller 17 is moved by the coil spring 49 stretched between the roller arm 47 and the fixed portion to the magnetic card 32 side, that is, the cartridge 1.
4 to be moved into. In this example, a restriction roller 51 is provided above the card take-out roller 17 with a part inserted from the opening 31 into the cartridge 14. The limit roller 51 and the card take-out roller 1
7 is a timing belt 5 driven by a stepping motor 52.
3 is driven to rotate. That is, the timing belt 53 is stretched in a triangular shape by the pulley 54, the limiting roller 51, and the roller 55 on the rotating shaft of the motor 52, and the rotation of the roller 55 is rotated via the idle gear 56 around the shaft 48. It is transmitted to the shaft of the card take-out roller 17.

When the card take-out roller 17 is displaced from the cartridge 14 by a predetermined value or more, the sensor 57 detects the displacement. For this reason, the light shielding piece 5 is
8, a photosensor is used as the sensor 57, and the photosensor 57 is normally in a light-shielded state by the light-shielding piece 58. When the card take-out roller 17 is taken out of the cartridge 14 by a predetermined value or more, the roller arm 4
7, the light shielding piece 58 is moved, and the photo sensor 57 is set to the light receiving state. Card removal roller 17
The sensor 5 detects that
When 7 is detected, the rotation of the slider driving stepping motor 44 is stopped by the detection output.

One end of the upper plate 14b is opposed to the limit roller 51 so that the limit plate 59
1 has been inserted. The card removal roller 17 is rotated, and the magnetic card 32 is moved to the upper plate 14b by frictional coupling.
And the upper end of the magnetic card 32 is
9 and is guided between the limiting roller 51 and the limiting plate 59, and is guided by the slope 59 a of the limiting roller 51 and the limiting plate 5.
9 is equal to the thickness of one magnetic card 32, and one magnetic card passes through the space between the limit roller 51 and the limit plate 59 and exits from the cartridge 14. The magnetic card 32 19 between the pulleys 61 and 62 and is taken out. The restricting plate 59 is movable in its mounting position by a screw 63, and the restricting plate 59 and the restricting roller 5
1 can be adjusted.

With this configuration, the motor 4
4, the pressing plate 34 is pushed toward the magnetic card 32 via the slider 42, and the magnetic card 32 is pressed against the card take-out roller 17. When the card take-out roller 17 is driven, the magnetic card in contact with this roller 17 is driven. 32 is fed from the cartridge 14. If the force for pushing the magnetic card 32 is too strong and the card take-out roller 17 is displaced outward by a predetermined value or more, the roller arm 47 rotates against the biasing force of the spring 49, and the light shielding piece 58 moves out of the optical path of the sensor 57. In this case, the motor 44 is stopped by the output of the sensor 57 at this time, and the pressing force against the pressing plate 34 is lost.
And the plate body 41 keeps the holding plate 34 stopped at that position. In this state, the magnetic card 32 is fed out by the rotation of the card take-out roller 17, and when some magnetic cards are fed out, the roller arm 47 returns to the original position, and the light blocking piece 58 blocks the sensor 57 with the light blocking piece 58. The motor 44 is released again, and the presser plate 34 is released.
Of the magnetic card 32, that is, the magnetic card 32 is moved to the card take-out roller 17 side. Therefore, when the contact pressure between the magnetic card 32 and the card take-out roller 17 does not become too weak or becomes too strong, the rotation of the roller arm 47 stops the rotation of the motor 44 and becomes too strong. Not even.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, instead of continuously moving the magnetic card by a fixed amount,
When the contact pressure between the magnetic card and the card take-out roller 17 is likely to be too strong, this is detected by the displacement of the card take-out roller 17, the drive for pushing the magnetic card is stopped, and there is no danger that the two cards will be fed out at the same time. Further, before the contact pressure becomes too weak, the drive for pressing the magnetic card is automatically performed, and there is no possibility that the magnetic card is not fed out.
Because of this operation, it is not necessary to adjust the feed amount of the magnetic card so delicately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a main part of the present invention.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A magnetic card encoder for taking out a magnetic card, which is housed in an overlapping manner, one by one from a mounted cartridge and writing data to the taken-out magnetic card. A card holding plate movably provided in opposition to one end surface of the magnetic card in the stacking direction of the magnetic card; and a card holding plate movably provided in the magnetic card stacking direction outside the cartridge, the card holding plate, and the magnetic card. A slider that can be engaged in the stacking direction, a slider driving unit that drives the slider in the magnetic card stacking direction, and a part of the cartridge through an opening formed in an end surface of the cartridge in the magnetic card stacking direction. A card take-out roller into which the magnetic card is inserted and rolled, and the card take-out roller A roller arm that is rotatably held and rotatably provided in a plane substantially perpendicular to the surface of the magnetic card, and biases the card ejection roller toward the magnetic card; and rotates the card ejection roller to rotate the card ejection roller. Roller rotating means for removing the magnetic card in contact with a roller from the cartridge; a sensor for detecting when the card removal roller is displaced from the cartridge by a predetermined value or more, and a slider for detecting the displacement of the card removal roller; A magnetic card encoder comprising: means for stopping driving of the driving means.