JPH0293888A - Ticket issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate work to take notes of pay-back amount or to subtract the pay-back amount from sum-up amount and to always know exact sales sum-up amount by setting a sum-up cancel mode by a mode switch, which is provided in an enclosure, and a key switch which is provided out of the enclosure. CONSTITUTION:A mode switch 44 for mode selection is provided in the enclosure and an external key switch 46 is provided out of the enclosure. Then, a data sum-up means 30A is provided to operate both the key switch 46 and a selection switch 14 for cancel and to subtract the amount of the selection switch 14 from the sales sum-up amount. A pay-back means 40 is provided to be operated together with the data sum-up means 30A in a condition to select a specified mode by the mode switch 44 and to pay back the amount of the selection switch 14. Thus, even when pay-back is executed, the exact sales sum-up amount can always be known and pay-back work is simplified. Thus, the error of money control can be prevented from being generated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device that issues tickets and tallies sales by inserting money and operating one of the selection switches. It is something.

(Background of the Invention) Ticket issuing devices that issue tickets such as train tickets and restaurant meal tickets unattended are widely used. In this type of device, the user inserts money and presses one of a number of selection buttons (switches), such as the selection button corresponding to the fare to the destination or the selection button indicating the desired cuisine. It is designed to issue a predetermined ticket and return change. Furthermore, the sales amount is totaled and the total amount is outputted by a printer or the like based on instructions from a maintenance person or administrator.

However, customers sometimes press the selection button incorrectly.
In this case, conventionally, upon a customer's request to a maintenance person or manager, the maintenance person or manager would open the door of the ticket issuing device and extract a predetermined amount from the inserted money and refund it, or use a pre-prepared refund ticket. He was handing over money. In this way, when refunds are made manually, the refund amount is added to the total sales amount and does not match the actual sales amount.

For this reason, always write down the refund amount on memo paper, etc.
At the time of tabulation, it was necessary to subtract the refund amount from the total amount shown by the device, which was troublesome. Furthermore, opening the door and taking out the money collected inside or preparing money for refund in advance is likely to cause mistakes in money management, and there are also problems from the viewpoint of safety.

(Purpose of the Invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it eliminates the need to write down the refund amount or subtract it from the total amount when a refund is made, thereby ensuring accurate sales at all times. To provide a ticket issuing device which allows the total amount to be known, allows easy refund work, prevents errors in money management, and is desirable from the viewpoint of safety in money management.

(Structure of the Invention) According to the present invention, an object of the present invention is to provide a ticket issuing device in which a ticket is issued on the condition that money is inserted or a card is inserted, and a selection switch is operated, and sales are totaled. a mode switch for selection, an external key switch provided outside the housing, and data aggregation means for subtracting the amount of the selection switch from the total sales amount on the condition that the key switch and the selection switch to be canceled are operated. This is achieved by a ticket issuing device characterized by comprising: refund means that operates in conjunction with the operation of the data aggregation means to refund the amount of money selected by the selection switch when the mode switch selects a specific mode.

(Embodiment) Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of a food ticket issuing device, Fig. 3 is a right side view thereof, and Fig. 4 is an operation flowchart.

In FIGS. 2.3, reference numeral 10 denotes a housing, and a door 12 on the front thereof can be opened and closed forward using the right edge in FIG. 2 as a fulcrum. On the front surface of the door 12, a large number of push button type selection switches 14 are arranged vertically and horizontally. Each selection switch 1
A display board 16 showing a menu is attached adjacent to the left side of 4. Each display board 16 lights up only menus that can be sold, and the user purchases a meal ticket for the desired menu by pressing the selection switch 14 on the lit display board 16.

Above the group of selection switches 14, a display 18, an input amount display 20, a coin slot 22, a card slot 23, a return button 24, and a call button 26 are arranged. The display unit 18 is made of color CRT, etc., and is currently on sale, discontinued,
Various promotional displays are displayed, including messages such as refunds.

The display 20 is made of a 7-segment LED for displaying numbers.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 28 denotes a coin discriminator, which discriminates the type and number of coins inserted from the coin slot 22, and sends the results to the control device 30. This control device 30 has a built-in CPU and various types of memory, and performs various calculations and outputs control signals to various parts.6 For example, based on the type and number of coins discriminated by the coin discriminator 28, this control device 30 The input amount is calculated and the total amount is displayed numerically on the display 20.

Further, when a card is inserted into the card insertion slot 23, a card league (not shown) reads out the data of the card and checks it, and if the card can be used, that fact is displayed on the display 20 or the display device 18.

A food ticket/change outlet 32, a settlement button 34, and a bill insertion slot 36 are arranged below the group of selection switches 14.

In FIG. 3, 38 is a ticket issuing device consisting of a printer, 40 is a refund means, and 42 is a keyboard.

44 is a key switch for selecting a refund mode, and is attached to the left side inside the exit 32. The key of this key switch 44 is in the possession of a maintenance person or administrator, who inserts the key into the keyhole of the key switch 44 in response to a refund request from the user to enter the refund mode.

46 is a mode switch mounted inside the housing 10 for mode selection. This mode switch 46 allows selection of two modes; mode 2 is for only canceling the tally, and mode 1 is for canceling the tally and automatically refunding a predetermined amount of money.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. The maintenance person or manager opens the door 12 and uses the keyboard 42 to input the types, quantities, prices, dates and times of the menu that can be sold.

Which initial settings do you make? This setting data is stored in a memory within the control device 30. The user inserts coins into the coin slot 22
When the banknotes are inserted into the banknote insertion slot 36, the total amount is calculated by the control device 30, and the total amount is displayed on the display 20. Further, when a predetermined card is inserted into the card insertion slot 23, it is determined whether or not the card can be used, and if it is usable, that fact is displayed on the display 20 or the display device 18. The user selects a desired menu from among the menus on sale that are lit on the menu display board 16 and presses the selection switch 14. When coins or banknotes are used, the control device 30 subtracts the amount on the menu from the total amount being displayed, and causes the display 20 to display the amount after the subtraction. If a card is used, a display corresponding to the card will be displayed, for example, if it is a prepaid card, the remaining amount will be displayed. The signal from the designated selection switch 14 is input to the control device 30, and the control bag device 30 causes the ticket issuing device 38 or the exit 32 to issue a meal ticket indicating this menu. That is, the ticket issuing device 38 is comprised of a printer that prints on a roll of paper, and prints the selected menu, amount, etc. on the roll of paper and then cuts the paper to issue meal tickets one by one. In this way, by pressing the selection switches 14 one after another within the range of input amounts, meal tickets are issued in order. And payment button 34
If the user presses the button, the remaining amount will be returned to the exit 32 and the card will be returned. The control device 30 has the function of a data accumulation means 30A, and accumulates the sales amount and stores the total amount in the memory.

On the other hand, when a user mistakenly issues an unnecessary meal ticket,
The user presses the call button 26 and notifies the maintenance person or administrator of this fact. The mode to be used by the ticket issuing device is determined in advance depending on the place of use, and this mode is not changed each time the ticket issuing device is used. Therefore, the maintenance person/manager sets in advance either mode 1 or mode 2 using the mode switch 46 according to the installation conditions of the ticket issuing device (FIG. 3, step 100). If the administrator issues a meal ticket by mistake, the administrator inserts the key into the key switch 44 outside the housing 10,
This key switch 44 is turned on (step 102,
103). That is, in the case of mode 1, in which the refund amount is automatically sent to the exit 32, the control device 30 displays the display device 18.
A message indicating that the refund is in progress is displayed (step 104). If you press the selection button 14 of the meal ticket to be refunded (step 106
) The control device 30 uses its data aggregation means 30A to subtract the amount of this selection switch 14 from the total sales amount to correct the total sales amount (step 108). At this time, the refund amount, date and time, menu, etc. are stored in the control device 30, and at the same time, the control device 30 sends a signal to the refund means 40 to discharge this amount to the exit 32 (step 110). The control device 30 monitors whether the key switch 46 has been turned off (step 112), and if it remains on, waits for the selection switch 14 to be pressed again, and if it is off, returns to normal operation to issue the next meal ticket. The system is set to ticket issuing mode and stands by (step 114).

On the other hand, when the mode switch 46 is set to mode 2, the control device 30 causes the display device 18 to display ``Refunding'' (step 116), and when any selection switch 14 is pressed (step 118). , the amount to be refunded is subtracted from the total amount (step 120), the amount to be refunded,
Memorize date, time, menu, etc. and key switch 4
If 4 is on, select switch 1 for the next refund.
It waits until 4 is pressed, and if it is off, it waits for the next ticket issuing operation (step 122).

When aggregating sales data, maintenance personnel and managers should use door 12.
is opened and the command for counting is entered manually using the keyboard 42. The control device 30 sends a signal to the ticket issuing device 38 to print the contents stored in the memory, that is, the total sales amount, date and time of sales, quantity, refund amount and date and time, etc., on the roll paper.
2 to be discharged. Therefore, by looking at the ejected printed paper, the total sales amount, refund amount, etc. can be immediately known.

In this embodiment, mode 1, in which refunds are made automatically, and mode 2, in which refunds are made manually, are set using the mode switch 46, but the present invention may also allow selection of other modes, and it is not clear how this operation method should be used. This can be handled very easily by changing the contents of the operation program stored in the control device 30.

This example is applied to a food ticket issuing device, but
The present invention can be applied to a ticket issuing device for a large number of vehicles, such as tickets, and includes such devices.

In the above embodiment, the ticket issuer 38 consisting of a printer prints out the tally results, but the present invention can output the tally results using an independent printer separate from the ticket issuer, or print out the tally results using a printer other than the ticket issuer 38, or use a printer other than the ticket issuer 38 to print out the tally results. It is also possible to store the data in a portable storage medium or to transmit the data to another host computer via a telephone line or the like.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the present invention uses a mode switch provided inside the housing to select either a mode that only cancels the tally or a mode that also refunds the amount, and a key switch installed outside the housing that selects a mode that only cancels the tally or a mode that also refunds the amount. Since the switch amount is set to the aggregation cancellation mode where the amount is subtracted from the total sales amount, there is no need to write down the refund amount or subtract it from the total amount.
You can always know the accurate total sales amount. In particular, with this type of ticket issuing device, the mode to be used is determined depending on the place of use, etc., so once the -degree mode switch is set, there is no need to change the settings and all that is required is the key switch, making it very easy to operate. Since there is no need to open the door, it also has the unique effect of increasing the security of money inside the case. Furthermore, when making a refund, the refund can be made without having to separately prepare money for the refund, so the refund operation is easy and safe, with no money management mistakes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view of a food ticket issuing device, FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof, and FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart. 14... Selection switch, 30... Control device, 32... Meal ticket/change exit, 34... Settlement switch, 38... Ticket issuer, 40... Refund means, 44... Mode switch , 46...Key switch. Patent applicant: Shibaura Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a ticketing device that issues tickets and tallies sales on the condition that money is inserted or a card is inserted and a selection switch is operated, a mode switch for mode selection provided inside the casing;
an external key switch provided outside the housing, a data aggregation means for subtracting the amount of the selection switch from the total sales amount on the condition that the operation of the key switch and the selection switch to be canceled is performed, and a specific mode selection of the mode switch. A ticket issuing device comprising: refund means that operates together with the operation of the data aggregation means and refunds the amount of money selected by the selection switch.