JP3325212B2 - 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,
In particular, in the case where a commuter pass as a disembarkation ticket and a commuter pass as an advance ticket are required, or when two or more consecutive commuter passes in a boarding section are possessed, a plurality of tickets can be processed by one user. The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate when a commuter pass is required.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of automatic ticket gate corresponding to a plurality of commuter passes has been known in the case where the main body of the automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as "main body") is used as, for example, a one-latch type. When the calculation result of the data recorded in the commuter pass as the disembarkation ticket and the commuter pass as the advance ticket inserted into the slot is valid, the door is opened and closed so as to permit passage through the ticket gate passage. It is configured to: And
If the passage is permitted, entry data is recorded on the commuter pass as an inserted disembarkation ticket, entry data is recorded on the commuter pass as an advance ticket, and the entry data is discharged from the outlet and returned to the user. If at least one of the commuter passes is invalid, the door is rotated to prevent entry,
All the commuter passes are discharged from the outlet and returned to the user.

[0003] In the case of participation using a plurality of commuter passes that are consecutive in the boarding section, when the inserted plurality of commuter passes are valid tickets, entry data is recorded on the commuter pass and discharged from the outlet. Will be returned. When at least one of the plurality of tickets has an invalid ticket, the door is rotated so as to prevent participation, and all commuter tickets are returned from the discharge port.

[0004]

However, in the conventional automatic ticket gate corresponding to a plurality of commuter passes, when an invalid ticket is first inserted, the door is closed at that time and the invalid ticket is discharged. In addition, if the user who enters the invalid ticket does not leave the ticket gate passage, the next user can not insert a commuter pass or other ticket, so there is no problem,
When a valid ticket is inserted first, the main body is in a state of waiting for the insertion of the remaining commuter pass. At this time, when a subsequent user inserts a valid ticket that is paired with the previously issued valid ticket,
The ticket qualification condition of the preceding user is satisfied, and the passing of the preceding user is permitted. In this case, the subsequent user may experience a shortage of the ticket (lost ticket), and the passage of the ticket gate passage will be refused.

[0005] In particular, since automatic ticket gates capable of handling a plurality of tickets are configured as a batch-in / batch-out type in consideration of user's convenience, even a ticket such as a commuter pass that is inserted one by one is collected. Therefore, there is a risk that a user who inserts only one card may take it away without knowing the ticket inserted by a subsequent user.

[0006] Further, when boarding using a plurality of commuter passes, it is required that all commuter passes are commuter passes of the same person, but the boarding sections are continuous and must be within the validity period. If it was, it would be considered a valid ticket, thus allowing fraudulent acts such as borrowing a commuter pass of another person.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can accurately correspond a user to a commuter pass. is there.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention has a gate inserted into a main body.
Can hold multiple commuter passes in the holding section,
An automatic ticket gate that is used when multiple tickets are required for ticket processing for one user, and some of the multiple valid tickets are put into the main unit first. First extracting means for extracting data specifying a purchaser of the commuter pass recorded on the commuter pass when the remaining valid commuter passes of the plurality of commuter passes are stored in the main body. A second method for extracting data for identifying a purchaser of the commuter pass recorded on the commuter pass when the ticket is later inserted.
Extraction means, and matching means for checking the data of the buyer of the commuter pass inserted earlier and the data of the purchaser of the commuter pass inserted after being extracted, and When the data of the buyer and the data of the buyer of the commuter pass inserted later match, the users of the plurality of commuter passes are determined to be the same and the entry and exit are permitted,
In the case of disagreement, there is provided a determining means for determining that the users of the plurality of commuter passes are different and rejecting entry / exit.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to one embodiment, in which an inlet 1 is provided at one end in a longitudinal direction of a main body a, and an outlet 2 is provided at the other end. Is provided.

[0010] In the main body a, a plurality of commuter passes (in FIG. 1, a commuter pass) are stacked and put in batches from the slot 1 (two commuter passes are described for the sake of simplicity). A separating section 3 for separating the sheets one by one is provided, and a well-known transport path 4 including a belt conveyor driven by a motor M is provided. The transport path 4 is composed of an alignment transport path 4a, a main transport path 4b, and a discharge transport path 4c. Among them, the align transport path 4a has a function of aligning commuter passes inserted from the slot 1. are doing.
Between the main transport path 4b and the discharge transport path 4c, there is provided a wing W that operates when the ticket inserted into the main body a is collected in the collection box 5 without being returned to the discharge port 2. ing.

In the transport path of the main transport path 4b, a magnetic head H1 for reading magnetic data recorded on a commuter pass, in order from the upstream side in the transport direction from the inlet 1 to the outlet 2 is provided. The data read by the pair of stoppers S1 and S2 and the magnetic head H1 are processed by a controller C mainly composed of a microcomputer, and the calculation result is written on a commuter pass by a magnetic head H2. A verifying magnetic head H3 is provided to check whether or not the inserted data is correctly recorded. Further, a stopper S3 for discharging the commuter pass at once is provided in the discharge conveyance path 4c.

[0012] A holding section composed of a pair of stoppers S1 and S2 is driven by a solenoid (not shown), is provided in series with the main transport path 4b, and is a commuter pass conveyed on the main transport path 4b. , Can be temporarily held one by one. The stopper S3 is also driven by a solenoid (not shown), and is temporarily held until all commuter passes are discharged to the discharge port 2.
Is discharged to the discharge port 2 at a time when is discharged.

Although not shown, the main transport path 4b includes:
It has a punching unit for making a punch hole in a ticket that requires punching based on the calculation result, and a thermal head for printing predetermined contents on a ticket that needs printing based on the calculation result.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 9 denotes a display unit provided near the outlet 3, which is configured to provide predetermined guidance to a user together with a speaker (not shown). Also,
D in the figure is a door that opens and closes a ticket gate passage.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the controller C. The central processing unit (CPU) 20 includes a ROM
The CPU 20 performs arithmetic processing using a system program stored in a non-volatile storage device (ROM in FIG. 2) 21 and working data stored in a RAM 22, and the CPU 20 controls the I / O unit 23. A read / write (R / W) driver 24 connected to the magnetic heads H1 to H3, a wing driver 25 for driving the wing W, a display driver 26 for controlling the display unit 9, and stoppers S1, S2 , S3, a stopper driver 27 for driving a solenoid (not shown), and a door driver 28 for driving the door D are connected. The I / O unit 23 is connected to various sensors such as a sensor for detecting the position of a commuter pass or a regular ticket, and various drivers such as a punching unit or a thermal head. The description is omitted because it does not directly relate to the description of the invention.

Next, the control operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. An example will be described in which the main body 1 is an automatic ticket gate set to be a one-latch type, and a pass condition is satisfied by two pieces of a commuter pass as a getting-off ticket and a commuter pass as an advance ticket.

The commuter pass and commuter pass include, when the user purchases both of these coupons, data of the purchaser, for example, data identifying the purchaser such as the telephone number of the purchaser or the name of the purchaser itself. That is, the data of the holder of the commuter pass is recorded. This buyer's data includes both tickets,
Is issued at a predetermined position of both tickets.

When a commuter pass and a commuter pass are stacked and inserted into the input port 1, no problem occurs because confusion does not occur with the subsequent user, but a valid commuter pass is first used. (Step 100 affirmative; hereinafter, the step is referred to as “S”). The same applies to a case where a valid commuter pass is inserted first, but here, a description will be given assuming that a commuter pass is inserted first.

When a commuter pass is inserted into the slot 1, the data recorded on the commuter pass is read via the magnetic head H1, and the read data is used for the arithmetic processing of the CPU 20. Commuter ticket purchaser data is extracted and stored in the RAM 22 (S10).
4). Thereafter, the commuter pass is held by the stopper S1 and waits for the commuter pass.

Although not shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3, the result of the above-described data processing of the commuter pass is as follows.
When it is determined that the ticket is invalid, the door D is closed, and the commuter pass is discharged to the discharge port 2 without being held by the stopper S1 and returned.

When the commuter pass is inserted into the slot 1 in the above-mentioned waiting state (Yes at S106), the data recorded on the commuter pass is read in the same manner as the commuter pass previously inserted. At the same time, the purchaser data of the commuter pass is stored in the RAM 22 (S108). Of course, as a result of this processing, if the commuter pass is determined to be invalid, the door D is closed, and the commuter pass held in the stopper S1 and the inserted commuter pass are discharged to the discharge port 2. It is returned (omitted in the flowchart of FIG. 3).

If the commuter pass is determined to be a valid ticket, the purchaser data of both tickets is compared (S110).
If they match, door D is opened (body a
When the ticket is a normally open type, the ticket is allowed to pass through the ticket gate passage, and both tickets are stacked in the stopper S3, and then are discharged collectively to the discharge port 2 (S114).

In the above collation, if it is determined that the purchaser of the commuter pass does not match the purchaser of the commuter pass (No at S112), it is determined that the users of the both pass are different, and the door D is closed and Guidance indicating that confusion has occurred in the combination of tickets is provided via the display unit 9 and a speaker (not shown) (S116). And both tickets,
Is discharged to the discharge port 2 and returned (S118).
Therefore, when the commuter pass is for the first user and the later pass is for the subsequent user, the pass of the previous user is rejected, and the ticket and the user are The inconvenience of not being able to respond can be prevented beforehand.

Although the above-described example is an example in which a commuter pass is inserted first, the same applies when a commuter pass is inserted later. Also, when the main body a participates in using a plurality of commuter passes, the same is performed as in the case described above. Furthermore, in the case of participation, there may be a combination of three or more commuter passes, but in this case, the number of stoppers for temporarily holding the commuter pass is only the number of commuter passes to be inserted. It will be expanded.

In the above-mentioned example, the main body a is of the insertion type into which a commuter pass is inserted. However, the main body a is made to be able to process an IC card type non-contact ticket having a wireless communication function, May be a combination of a commuter pass and a contactless ticket, or a combination of contactless tickets. In particular, for contactless tickets,
Since the storage capacity is larger than that of the magnetic ticket, it is easy to record the data of the purchaser.

Therefore, in the present invention, the commuter pass includes a non-contact ticket, and when a non-contact ticket is used as a commuter pass, the “insertion” is performed by the non-contact ticket and the main body. Means communication between.

[0027]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention has a main body inserted.
Holding multiple commuter passes in the mouth in the holding section
An automatic ticket gate used when a plurality of commuter passes are required for ticket processing of a single user, wherein some of the valid commuter passes among the plurality of commuter passes are stored in the main body. First extracting means for extracting data specifying a purchaser of the commuter pass recorded on the commuter pass when the commuter pass is previously inserted; and the remaining of the plurality of commuter passes on the main body. A second extracting means for extracting data identifying a purchaser of the commuter pass recorded in the commuter pass when a valid commuter pass is inserted later, and a commuter pass inserted earlier Matching means for comparing the data of the purchaser of the commuter pass and the data of the purchaser of the commuter pass inserted after being extracted, and the data of the purchaser of the commuter pass inserted earlier and the purchaser of the commuter pass inserted later. When the data matches, the respective settings of the Since the ticket user judges that they are the same and permits entry and exit, and when they do not match, the judgment means rejects the entrance and exit by judging that the users of each of the plurality of commuter passes are different, The correspondence between the commuter pass and the user can be taken accurately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an electrical configuration of a controller.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic ticket gate main body (main body) 2 Input port 3 Discharge port 4 Transport path H1-H3 Magnetic head S1, S2, S3 Stopper C Controller

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An automatic ticket gate inserted into an entrance of a main body.
It is an automatic ticket gate used when a plurality of commuter passes are required for ticket processing of a single user, which can hold a plurality of commuter passes in a holding unit. First extraction for extracting data identifying a purchaser of the commuter pass recorded in the commuter pass when a part of the valid commuter passes among the plurality of commuter passes is first inserted. Means, when a remaining valid commuter pass of the plurality of commuter passes is later inserted into the main body of the automatic ticket gate, identifies a purchaser of the commuter pass recorded in the commuter pass. Second extracting means for extracting data; collating means for collating data of a buyer of a commuter pass inserted earlier and data of a buyer of a commuter ticket inserted after being extracted; Data of the purchaser of the commuter pass that was inserted and the commuter When the ticket buyer's data matches,
The users of the plurality of commuter passes are determined to be the same and entry and exit are permitted, and when they do not match, the users of the plurality of commuter passes are determined to be different and entry and exit are rejected. An automatic ticket gate comprising: determining means.