JP3322287B2 - Refueling device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to relates to technology to prevent unauthorized receipt of put Keru change the oil supply apparatus capable of refueling by prepayment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to simplify the refueling work, when a certain amount of money is input, the refueling device becomes ready for refueling.
There has been proposed a refueling apparatus provided with a mechanism for performing liquidation after refueling and discharging change (Japanese Patent Publication No. 49-36440). According to such a device, a clearing operation can be simplified, but on the other hand, a cash payment device capable of releasing various kinds of coins required for change is required. The change is received by being inserted into one change payment device arranged for a plurality of refueling units. However, when the change payment device and the refueling unit are linked, it is impossible to use the change card unless at least the person who refueled, so that unauthorized use such as falsification of the change card can be performed. Although the possibility is low, there is a problem that the possibility of unauthorized use increases when the link with the refueling unit is weakened.

[0003]

[SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention was made in view of such circumstances, it is an object only for genuine Oilers, to pay change
It is to provide a refueling equipment that can be.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a sales management system, a currency discriminating means for discriminating inserted money, and a refueling unit.
And a slip issuing means for issuing a slip based on the refueling data in the refueling unit.
The sales management system uses the money discriminating means to
When the injection is confirmed, the refueling unit can be refueled.
State, and when the refueling in the refueling unit is completed
Refueling price based on the refueling data and the money discriminator
If there is a difference from the amount entered in the column,
The refueling slip containing the data about
Issue it.

[0005]

[Action] The data for specifying the change amount is marked on the refueling slip.
It is printed, so make sure to pay the changer
It is possible.

[0006]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a refueling facility to which the present invention is applied.
‥‥ is a refueling device characterized by the present invention, is arranged to connect the entrance and exit of the vehicle provided facing the road,
Each is composed of a refueling unit 2 and an accounting management device 3.

On the other hand, an office 8 has a POS (sales management system) 9 for controlling and controlling each device, and a change payment device 7 for releasing change based on data of a refueling slip described later.
However, in this embodiment, a plurality of fuel supply units are provided at a ratio of one to two.

As shown in FIG. 3, the refueling unit 2 includes a refueling nozzle 10, a nozzle switch 12 for detecting that the refueling nozzle 10 has been set on the nozzle hook 11, and a refueling pump 14 driven by a pump motor 13. And a flow meter 15 connected to the discharge port thereof, a flow rate pulse transmitter 16 for converting a flow rate into a pulse signal, a solenoid valve 17 connected to the discharge port of the flow meter 15, and a display for displaying an amount of refueling. Vessel 1
The operation is controlled by control means 19 described later.

The accounting management device 3 is located adjacent to the refueling unit 2.
Is installed. The accounting management device 3 includes a money input port 20.
A currency discriminator 21 having a display unit 4 for displaying the amount of inserted money, a confirmation button 22 for instructing that refueling conditions have been confirmed, and a refueling slip issuing machine 23 for issuing a slip. 25 controls its operation.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, wherein reference numeral 2 denotes a refueling unit, reference numeral 3 denotes an accounting management device, reference numeral 7 denotes a change payment device, and reference numeral 9 denotes a change payment device. POSs for controlling these devices are shown. First, the accounting management device 3 will be described.

Reference numeral 26 in the figure denotes counting means for summing up the amounts of money determined by the money discriminator 21. 22 is
When the customer confirms the refueling conditions, such as selection of the machine number and the type of oil, with the confirmation button, and presses the button, the counting means 26 and the amount of money are transmitted and received.
8 to be transmitted to the POS 9.
In addition, the POS 9 receives this signal and transmits a refueling permission signal and data of a prepaid amount to the refueling unit 2.

Reference numeral 23 in the figure denotes a refueling slip issuing means, which is configured to print the refueling slip printing data transmitted from the POS 9 when refueling is completed, on the refueling slip. Based on the data from the POS 9, the refueling slip issuing machine 23 provides a machine-readable form, such as a barcode, in addition to the refueling amount, refueling date, input amount, consumption tax, and change amount. And data (hereinafter, referred to as specific data) that can specify a voucher such as a voucher and a voucher number are recorded at a predetermined position.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a refueling slip suitable for the refueling apparatus according to the present invention. In the drawing, reference numeral 50 denotes a slip sheet, a column 51 for printing the oil type, and the amount of refueling is printed. Column 5
2. A column 53 for printing the unit price, a column 54 for printing the amount, a column 55 for printing the consumption tax, a column 56 for printing the billed amount, a column 57 for printing the deposit amount, a column 58 for printing change, and a predetermined At the position, in this embodiment, a machine-readable form is provided at the lower left corner. In this embodiment, a column 59 for printing specific data by a bar code is provided.

Next, the refueling unit 2 will be described. The refueling unit 2 has three refueling systems, one of which will be described as a representative. Reference numeral 30 denotes a gate means, which is opened by a refueling permission signal from the POS 9 received via the transmission / reception means 38. It is set so that refueling is possible.

When the gate 30 is opened in this way, when the nozzle 10 is removed from the nozzle hook 11, the nozzle switch 12 is turned on, and the counting means 32 for integrating the flow pulses from the flow pulse transmitter 16 is turned on. It returns to zero, and at the same time, the pump motor 13 is operated, and the valve 17 is also opened to be in a refueling preparation system.

Numeral 33 denotes arithmetic means, which is the refueling amount obtained by the counting means 32 and the unit price data of the unit price storing means 34;
Based on the tax rate data in the tax rate storage means 35, a total billing amount corresponding to the refueling amount is calculated and displayed on the display 18. Numeral 36 denotes a comparing means, and the amount of the charge including the tax calculated by the calculating means 33 and the POS through the transmitting / receiving means 38.
9 compares the total amount of prepaid money sent from 9 with the amount stored in the amount storage means 37 and outputs a signal for closing the valve 17 and stopping the operation of the pump motor 13 when the amounts match. It is.

When the nozzle 10 is returned to the nozzle holder 11 and a signal is output from the nozzle switch 12, the refueling price calculated by the calculating means 33 and the machine number of the refueling device are sent to the POS 9 via the transmitting / receiving means 38. It is configured to output. In addition, the POS 9 receives this signal and transmits refueling slip print data to the accounting management device 3, and transmits change data to the change payment device 7 when there is a change.

Next, the change payment device 7 will be described.
40 is a temporary storage means for storing only data generated by a refueling action requiring change,
It is configured to temporarily store change data transmitted from the POS 9 after refueling is completed. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the slip number 60 serving as specific data is used as a heading item, and a refueling amount item 61 and a deposit amount item 6 are set.
2. A change amount item 63 and a change release item 64 are set.

Reference numeral 41 denotes a determination means which is a specific data read by a specific data reader 42 for reading a print column 59 of specific data of a refueling slip and data stored in the temporary storage means 40, in this embodiment, a slip number. Is determined, and if they match, the change dispensing machine 44 is operated to release the amount stored in the change amount item 63 of the temporary storage means 40. Done "
Is recorded, and a warning is issued from the annunciator 43 without activating the change dispenser 44 when the coincidence cannot be confirmed.

Next, the operation of the apparatus thus constructed will be described with reference to FIG.
A description will be given based on the flowcharts shown in FIGS.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the accounting management device 3,
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the refueling unit 2, and FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the change dispenser 7. A customer who has entered to refuel can proceed with the vehicle to the refueling device 1 where no vehicle is present. Is stopped, and money, for example, 5000 yen is inserted into the money discriminator 21 (step in FIG. 6).
I). The counting means 26 calculates the total amount of all the inserted money and displays the total amount on the display 4 (FIG. 6, step
B). When the customer confirms the input amount and presses the confirmation button 22 (step c in FIG. 6), these data are transmitted from the transmission / reception means 28 to the POS 9 (step d in FIG. 6). The POS 9 receives this signal and transmits a refueling permission signal and a prepaid amount signal to the refueling unit 2.

At this stage, the nozzle hook 1 of the refueling unit 2
When the nozzle 10 is removed from 1, the nozzle switch 12 is turned on
Then, it is determined whether or not the prepaid amount data from the POS 9 has been received (step b in FIG. 7). When data is being input, the gate 30 is opened, the counting means 32 is cleared by the signal of the nozzle switch 12, the indicator 18 is also reset to zero, the valve 17 is opened, and the pump motor 18 is turned off. Activate (step c in FIG. 7).

If the data on the prepaid amount has not been input (step b in FIG. 7), the operation is terminated and the operation waits for money.

When the refueling lever is pulled to start refueling, a flow pulse is output from the flow pulse transmitter 16 (step d in FIG. 7), and is accumulated by the counting means 32 and displayed on the display 18 as a refueling amount. (Step E in FIG. 7). During refueling, the comparing means 36 constantly compares the current amount of the refueling charge calculated by the calculating means 33 with the advance payment amount stored in the amount storage means 37 (FIG. 7). Refueling is stopped at the stage of refueling less than the prepaid amount, and the nozzle switch 12 is turned off.
At F (step F in FIG. 7), the valve 17 is closed and the pump motor 13 is stopped (step S7 in FIG. 7).
G).

At this stage, the refueling data such as the amount of money stored in the temporary storage means 39 and the refueling amount “2843 yen” calculated by the calculating means 33 are transmitted to the transmitting / receiving means 3.
It is transmitted to the POS 9 by 8 (FIG. 7 step 1).
Upon receiving this signal, the POS 9 transmits refueling slip print data to the accounting management device 3 and, if there is a change, transmits change data to the change payment device 7. The change payment device 7 stores the change data from the POS 9 in the temporary storage unit 40.
(Fig. 8 e, f).

Also, the refueling slip print data from the POS 9 is received by the receiving means 29 in the accounting management device 3 (FIG. 6).
Step E) If there is a change based on this data (Step F in FIG. 6), the refueling is printed together with the specific data using a machine-readable bar code in the specific data print column 59 (FIG. 4). The slip is issued by the refueling slip issuing machine 23 (FIG. 6 step).

The customer takes a refueling slip from the accounting management device 3, goes to the change payment device 7 installed in the office 8, and inserts the refueling slip into the specific data reader 42 (step A in FIG. 8). Thereby, the specific data printed in the column 59 of the refueling slip is read, and the P
The consistency with the data of the item number 60 of the slip number transmitted from the OS 9 and stored in the temporary storage means 40 is determined by the determination means 41 (step B in FIG. 8). If both match, the change discharging machine 44 sends the temporary storage means 4
The amount stored in the change amount item 0 of 0, 2157 yen, is released, and after release, the changed item 6 in the temporary storage means 40 is released.
4 stores a check mark.

On the other hand, if no match is found between the specific data printed on the refueling slip and the slip number stored in the storage means 40, it is notified that the change cannot be paid.
3 (step d in FIG. 8) to prevent change fraud.

If the amount of refueling is equal to the amount stored in the amount storage means 37 during refueling (step (FIG. 7)), the valve 17 is closed to forcibly stop refueling. The pump motor 13 is turned off (step n in FIG. 7), and a display or notification such as "the refueling of the prepaid amount has been completed" is performed as necessary. With this notification, the nozzle 10 is returned to the nozzle hook 11 and the nozzle switch 12 is turned off (FIG. 7 step).
Refueling data is transmitted to POS 9 (step in FIG. 7)
J). The POS 9 receives this signal and transmits the refueling slip print data to the accounting management device 3.

The account management device 3 determines that the refueling corresponding to the input amount has been made and that there is no change (step S6 in FIG. 6).
F), without recording the machine-readable specific data in the specific column 59, only the refueling data in the corresponding column 5
The refueling slips printed on 1, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, and 57 are issued (Stepchi in FIG. 6).

In this embodiment, the case where the price is paid in advance has been described.
The present invention is also applicable to a postpaid type in which a charge of 5000 yen is accepted after refueling for 247 yen is completed and 2753 yen is released as change.

In the above-described embodiment, data in a machine-readable form, that is, a bar code is printed using a recording head for character printing. However, machine reading can be performed even with ordinary characters. When using other recording heads capable of printing character-characterized characters or machine-readable data, for example, a magnetic data recording head, a recording area suitable for recording this, for example, It is preferable to form a magnetic region in advance.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention , the true
A salary that can only be paid to legitimate refuelers
An oil device can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a fuel supply device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a gas station to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of a fueling device.

FIG. 4 is a view showing one embodiment of a refueling slip suitable for the above device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing temporary storage means in the above device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the accounting management device among the operations of the above device.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an operation of a refueling unit among operations of the above device.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an operation of the change payment device in the device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 1 Refueling device 2 Refueling unit 3 Account management device 4 Display 7 Change payment machine 9 POS 21 Currency discriminator

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A refueling apparatus comprising: a sales management system; currency discriminating means for discriminating inserted money; a refueling unit; and a slip issuing means for issuing a slip based on refueling data in the refueling unit. The sales management system sets the refueling unit in a refuelable state when the money discriminating means confirms the insertion of money, and refueling charges based on the refueling data at the time when refueling in the refueling unit is completed. A refueling voucher that causes the voucher issuing device to issue a refueling voucher including data relating to a change amount when there is a difference between the amount and the amount input to the money discriminating device. 2. The refueling device according to claim 1, wherein the change amount of the refueling slip is printed in a machine-readable form.