JPH02163891A - Method for examining ticket - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To completely eliminate an illegal ride by recording a mark by a magnetic signal in a repeatedly using type ticket at a wicket in a getting on station and reading the mark and magnetically erasing the mark at another wicket in a getting off station. CONSTITUTION:In a ticket A, while information about the getting on and off stations, a section, the date of an expiration date, etc., is recorded in its magnetic layer 2 in the same manner as in a conventional commutation ticket when the ticket A is issued, the mark to indicate either the getting on station or the riding section is to be visibly recorded in its recording and displaying layer 3 as the magnetic signal at the wicket in the getting on station at each riding time. Further, this mark is read and magnetically erased at the wicket in the getting off station. Thus, for the repeatedly using type ticket, the getting on station or the riding section can be decided at the wicket in the getting off station, and a free ride can be easily and surely found out.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention relates to a ticket inspection method for repeatedly used vehicle tickets such as commuter passes and coupon tickets, and in particular, to prevent unauthorized boarding using tickets applied to automatic ticket gates. This article relates to a ticket gate method useful for preventing such problems.

[Conventional technology]

Commuter tickets that are applied to conventional automatic ticket gates have a magnetic layer that has information such as the station or section where you get on or off the train, and the date of expiration as a magnetic signal recorded in advance as a magnetic signal when the ticket is issued. At the ticket gates, the above-mentioned recorded information was simply read to determine whether or not the use was authorized, and signals were not recorded or erased when boarding or alighting.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As mentioned above, conventional commuter passes do not record that you have passed through the ticket gate at the boarding station, so for example, you can use a regular ticket or admission ticket for a short section at the boarding station, and use the commuter pass at the boarding station. Or, even if fraud was committed by using two commuter passes for a short section starting from the boarding station and the exiting station, and boarding the intermediate section without paying, it would not be detected at the ticket gate at the exiting station. .

Therefore, conventionally, fraudulent boarding has been detected exclusively by ticket inspection inside the train, but this goes against labor-saving measures and imposes large personnel constraints, and it is difficult to check tickets during the morning and evening rush hours or inside trains that stop at each station. The probability is extremely small, J
It is estimated that the actual losses incurred by R companies and railway companies due to unauthorized boarding will amount to a huge amount of money.

[Means to solve the problem]

As a result of intensive study on means to prevent unauthorized boarding as described above, the inventors of the present invention discovered that, regarding repeated-use type tickets such as commuter passes and coupon tickets, the mark recorded at the ticket gate at the boarding station should be pasted at the exit station. The inventors have discovered that the above-mentioned unauthorized boarding can be completely prevented by a method of reading and erasing tickets at ticket gates, and have come up with this invention.

That is, the present invention provides a ticket gate method characterized by recording a mark using a magnetic signal on a reusable ticket at a ticket gate at a boarding station, and reading and magnetically erasing the mark at a ticket gate at a disembarking station. This is related to.

[Function/Examples of the invention]

In the ticket inspection method of this invention, the mark recorded on the ticket as a magnetic signal at the boarding station is an information signal representing the boarding station, or if the fare is for a section including multiple stations, an information signal representing the section. do it. Then, at the ticket gate at the exit station, the information signal is compared with a prescribed information signal or display recorded in advance at the time of ticket issuance, and if appropriate, the information signal is magnetically erased. Therefore, if the above-mentioned recording and erasing is repeated each time the passenger gets on and off the train, the ticket can be used as a repeatedly used ticket such as a commuter pass or a coupon ticket without any problems as in the past.

In the case of a ticket applied to an automatic ticket gate, the part where the mark based on the magnetic signal is recorded is the magnetic layer that is conventionally provided on the ticket for recording information, such as a stripe formed by pasting magnetic transfer tape. Although a surplus area such as a magnetic layer or a magnetic layer on the entire surface of one side of the card base material coated with magnetic paint may be used, a dedicated magnetic recording area may be provided separately from these existing magnetic layers. If the marks recorded in such a dedicated magnetic recording area are set to be visible, they can be read magnetically by automatic ticket gates and also read with the naked eye by station staff at stations or ticket gates where automatic ticket gates are not installed. It is possible to read the .

Any of various image forming methods using magnetic force can be employed as means for making visible the marks recorded on the ticket using magnetic signals. For example, a recording layer in which microcapsules containing magnetic particles such as magnetic powder or magnetically sensitive metal pieces are dispersed is formed on the card base material of a ticket, and a horizontal or perpendicular magnetic force is applied to this recording layer. There is a method of obtaining contrast in an image by applying magnetic force in a predetermined pattern and rotating and displacing the magnetic particles in a portion corresponding to the pattern. Another example is a method in which a recording layer containing movably magnetic particles similar to those described above is formed, and the magnetic particles are aggregated in a pattern by applying magnetic force similar to that described above to form an image.

Note that these visually visible image patterns can be set in various ways, such as letters, numbers, barcodes, symbols, and patterns.

Furthermore, in addition to making the mark itself visible as described above, an automatic ticket gate can be installed by using a suitable video device that forms a predetermined corresponding image based on the magnetic signal of the mark. The boarding station or boarding section may be determined at the station or ticket gate on the exiting side.

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an example of a reusable ticket used in the ticket inspection method of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line n-ng in FIG. It is a sectional view showing an example. In addition, in FIGS. 2 and 3, the thickness direction (vertical direction in the figure) is enlarged with respect to the width direction in order to make the structure easier to understand.

Ticket A shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 has coating layers 1a and 1b as printed display layers and colored layers formed on the front and back surfaces of a card base material 1 made of hard synthetic resin such as hard vinyl chloride resin. On the front side thereof, a striped magnetic N2 formed by heat-pressing using a magnetic transfer tape adhesive and a rectangular recording/displaying layer 3 for forming an image by magnetic force as described above are embedded. 2a and 3a are magnetic layer 2 and recording display N3
It is a surface protective layer.

On the other hand, the ticket B shown in FIG. 3 has a card base material 4 such as paper.
A magnetic layer 5 is formed on the entire back surface by applying magnetic paint, and the entire surface is coated with the same coating N 1 a as described above.
is formed, and a recording/display layer 3 similar to that described above is embedded in this coating N1a.

In these tickets A and B, information such as the boarding/disembarking station, section, expiry date, etc. is recorded on the magnetic layer 2.5 at the time of ticket issuance, similar to conventional commuter passes, while the recording display layer 3 Each time you board a train, a mark representing the station or boarding section can be visually recorded as a magnetic signal at the ticket gate of the boarding station. The above mark is then read at the ticket gate at the boarding station and then magnetically erased.

Recording and erasing of this mark can be easily done by incorporating the necessary magnetic recording and degaussing mechanisms into existing automatic ticket gates. Furthermore, at stations or ticket gates where automatic ticket gates are not installed, a station staff member can record or erase the ticket by picking up the ticket using a portable magnetic recording device or degaussing device.

Note that the structure of the ticket used in this invention can be set in various ways other than those illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3. In addition, as mentioned above, it is possible to record and erase magnetic signal marks related to boarding stations or boarding sections without passing through automatic ticket gates, so it is possible to record the above marks even for tickets that cannot be used at automatic ticket gates. By providing the area, the ticket inspection method of the present invention can be applied.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the ticket inspection method of the present invention, with regard to tickets that can be used repeatedly, the station or section where the train was boarded can be determined at the ticket gate at the exit station, and it is possible to use other tickets or admission tickets at the boarding station, which was frequently used in the past. Since unpaid rides in intermediate sections can be easily and reliably discovered, unauthorized boarding can be completely eliminated, eliminating the huge losses that JR and electric railway companies previously incurred due to unauthorized boarding.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing an example of the ticket used in the present invention, Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line I[-If in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing another example of the same ticket. It is.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A ticket gate method characterized by recording a mark using a magnetic signal on a reusable ticket at the ticket gate at the boarding station, and reading and magnetically erasing the mark at the ticket gate at the exit station.