JPH03273379A - Automatic ticket examination machine with reprocessing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a reprocessing and to execute an indirect data processing with high reliability by returning a defective ticket, which is detected by an indirect data processing part to read and write ticket information at a certain position on a inserting port side, and guiding the ticket to the front step of the indirect data processing part. CONSTITUTION:The train ticket or a train ticket card inserted from a train ticket inserting port 13 is put in order at an arrangement part A and the indirect data processing is exerted upon this ticket or card by a ticket surface information reader part B1, ticket surface information writer part B2 and ticket surface information check part B3 or the like of the indirect data processing part B. When a CPU detects write defect on the inserted ticket or card through magnetic heads 21 and 22, conveyance paths 23 and 24 are stopped and inverted afterwards, and the defective ticket or card is returned to the arrangement part A. Then, the reprocessing is executed and the automatic ticket examination machine can be obtained to execute indirect reprocessing with high reliability.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (a) Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate equipped, for example, at a railway station, and more specifically, to reduce the occurrence of defective tickets through data processing at the time of ticket gate. This invention relates to an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function.

(b) Conventional technology A ticket gate that automatically processes tickets such as regular tickets, coupon tickets, and commuter passes when using railways, etc., has a ticket slot 5a and a ticket ejection slot, as shown in Figure 5. 1'i 5b are connected by a conveyor belt device 5c, and between this conveyor section there is an alignment section 5d that aligns the inserted tickets, and an alignment section 5d that reads and writes the magnetic information of the tickets and indirectly processes the tickets. A ticket indirect data processing unit 5e that applies changes to the ticket, a ticket direct data processing unit 5f that performs printing processing on the ticket and punches holes to directly change the outer surface of the ticket, and a discharge unit 51 are installed in the main frame in this order. is equipped with.

In this case, even if a writing error such as a magnetic writing omission occurs on the inserted ticket, the inserted ticket will be guided to the subsequent stage through the conveyor belt device and remain in the defective state at the exit. In recent years, in addition to the above-mentioned normal ticket, a card direct data processing section 5g and a card indirect data processing section 5h have been installed in parallel. When transportation cards such as money cards and travel tickets were used for transactions, the writing process during indirect data processing became equivalent to sending and receiving money, and therefore improving magnetic processing performance became a major issue. .

(c) Problems to be Solved by the Invention In view of the above-mentioned problems, the present invention solves the problem by performing the writing process again even if a writing error occurs on the inserted ticket or boarding card. The purpose is to provide an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function that can solve the problem.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems This invention provides an indirect data processing unit that is located on the entry gate side and reads and writes ticket information for both the ticket and the boarding card, which are of different types. This is an automatic ticket gate in which a direct data processing section is located on the exit side and performs punching processing and ticket surface printing processing, and is disposed on the conveyance path, and the indirect data processing section detects that a ticket with defective data processing has occurred. An automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, comprising a reprocessing control means that, when detected by the indirect data detection means, drives the conveyance path in reverse to guide the data-processed defective ticket to the front stage of the indirect data processing section and performs indirect data processing again. It is.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, magnetic data processing is performed on the inserted ticket or boarding card during the transportation process passing through the indirect data processing section, and at this time, the indirect data detection means detects the defective data processing ticket. When the occurrence is detected, the reprocessing control means drives the conveyance path in the reverse direction to guide the defective data processing ticket to the front stage of the indirect data processing section, and performs indirect data processing again.

(F) Effects of the invention Therefore, the indirect data processing of the ticket or boarding card is reliably performed in the indirect data processing section, and tickets with defective data processing are not released unexpectedly, and the reliability suitable for the boarding ticket or boarding card is improved. It is possible to perform highly indirect data processing.

Moreover, the reprocessing operation can be easily achieved with a simple structure of the conveyance path, which does not require a complicated conveyance structure and simply rotates the conveyance path in the forward and reverse directions.

(g) Examples An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

Figure 2 shows an external view of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function.In front and behind the ticket gate main body 11, there are opening/closing doors 12 and 12 for controlling passage for boarding passengers. Ticket insertion U113 and ticket ejection [114] are opened.

Inside the ticket gate main body 11, as shown in FIG. This service commonly handles both regular tickets such as tickets, coupon tickets, and commuter passes, and boarding cards such as fare cards and y-dos.

This ticket gate processing system 15 is provided with a sorting section A1, an indirect data processing section B, a front/back reversing device C1, a direct data processing section D1, and a discharging section E in the ticket conveyance direction.

The alignment section A uses a width adjustment roller 1G that rotates eccentrically to width-align the ticket or boarding card inserted through the ticket slot 13 toward the main frame side.

The indirect data processing section B includes a ticket information reading section B1, a ticket information writing section B2, and a ticket f~information checking section [13,!
: are arranged in series in this order.

The ticket information reading section B1 functions to read the magnetic information recorded on either the upper or lower side of the ticket or boarding card using a pair of reading magnetic heads 17. .

The ticket information writing section B2 is used to write the ticket or ride) 1-1.
Writing is performed on either the upper or lower magnetic surface of the .

The ticket face information checking section B3 functions to read and confirm magnetic information written on either the top or bottom of the ticket or card using a pair of confirmation magnetic heads 23, 22 on the front and the top and bottom.

By the way, these magnetic heads 17 to 22 are installed on the front side of the main conveyor belt device t23, which is installed through the ticket gate processing system 15 from the ticket input port 13 to the ticket discharge port 14, and on the rear side of the main conveyor belt device t23. Branch to and release ticket]
A sub conveyor belt device 24 is installed in parallel, which joins the main conveyor belt device 23 again at the front stage of the conveyor belt device 14.

This sub-conveyor belt device 24 is configured by being equipped with a front-back reversing device C and a direct data processing section, which will be described later, and includes a first flap f1 disposed at a branch position on the starting end side.
Therefore, one conveyor belt device on the latter side! At 23 and 24, the distribution is performed, and furthermore, by the 27th wrapper f2 disposed after the belt device 24, the distribution is performed between the front and back reversing device C side and the direct data processing section side.

The front-back reversing device c is configured such that when the ticket and the boarding card are entered face-up, the second flapper f2 is not operated and the ticket and boarding card are conveyed face-up directly to the subsequent data processing section;
When entering face down, the second flapper f2 is activated to sort the tickets and boarding cards, and the ticket and boarding card are guided to the reversing path 25 side in a direction approximately perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and after being reversed, they are transferred to the front sub-conveyor. The sheets are merged into the belt device 24 and transported directly to the data processing section with both sides facing up.

The direct data processing section is equipped with a punching device 26 and a thermal printing device 27, which punch predetermined punches on tickets and boarding cards based on the magnetic information of the indirect data processing section B described above. Hole formation and predetermined station name printing are performed in common.

The discharge section E is in charge of discharging tickets and cards by means of a discharge conveyance belt 28.

FIG. 3 shows a control circuit block diagram of an automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function.
, a print head driver circuit 35, a magnetic data read/write unit 36, a sensor driver circuit 37, and a ROM
These are controlled according to the program stored in the R, A M
39.

The solenoid SQL drives the solenoid driver circuit 33 to operate each flapper fl, f2, . . . in a distributed manner.

The motor M drives the conveyor belt device ff123, 24, the width adjusting roller 16, and the like.

The sensor S also controls the insertion and release of tickets and boarding cards.
It is used for other position detection.

By the way, this CPU 31 has a confirmation magnetic head 21.
．． 22, when a writing failure such as a magnetic writing omission is detected on the inserted ticket or boarding card, the drive of both conveyance paths 23 and 24 is stopped to prevent a good data ticket or a good data cart from being released. The commands are output and these are sent to the ticket corresponding to the subsequent position of the indirect data processing section B.
After being temporarily stopped at either the card pool section P1 or the card pool section P2, both conveyance paths 23 and 24 are driven in reverse to lead the defective ticket or card to the front stage of the indirect data processing section B, where it is temporarily stopped. It has a reprocessing function that reliably performs the magnetic writing process on the ticket and boarding card that have been inserted, by forwarding the card forward again and executing the magnetic writing process again.

Next, the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Now, when a ticket or a ride cart is inserted into the ticket slot 13, the sensor S detects this, and the CPU 31 determines whether the inserted item is a small ticket size or a large cart size, and When the card size is selected, the width adjustment roller 16 is retracted so that it does not interfere with the passage of cards and commuter passes, while the shutter of the ticket input 113 is closed during the alignment operation in this alignment section to insert the ticket. The intervals are controlled and the first to third steps n1 to n3) After the alignment process, the data is led to the indirect data processing section B, where the card face information of the immersive object is read, and if necessary, the card face information is written. Check the ticket face information (4th to 6th steps n4 to n6).

At this time, if it is checked that the magnetic processing has been properly performed (seventh step n?), the CF'U31 determines the type of ticket that has been magnetically processed, and if it is a ticket, coupon ticket, commuter pass, etc. , the ticket is directly led to the data processing section C. If this ticket is a coupon ticket, the station name,
Dates are printed and punched, tickets are punched, and commuter passes are printed at ticket outlet 1 without requiring direct data processing.
4 (8th to 13th steps n8 to n13)
.

On the other hand, if the input item is a ride card, it is guided to the sub-conveyor belt device 24 side, and after properly aligning the front and back sides via the reversing path 25, the ride card is directly guided to the data processing section (
14th to 15th stage tube n14 to n15).

After the ticket card is subjected to punch processing and thermal printing processing in the direct data processing section, it is again joined to the main conveyor belt device 23 and discharged from the ticket discharge port 14 (16th to 17th steps n16). ~n17).

By the way, when the CI'U 31 detects that a writing failure has occurred in the ticket or card inserted into the confirmation magnetic field 21 and 22 during the magnetic check in the seventh step n7, it Stop driving the .24,
In the case of a good data ticket, the ticket is temporarily suspended in the ticket pool section P1, and in the case of a good data card, it is temporarily stopped in the card pool section P2 so as not to be released in a defective state (18th step n18). After that, both conveyance paths 23 and 24 are driven in reverse to reversely transport the defective note or card to the position of the alignment section, and from there, it is forwarded again and led to the indirect data processing section B, where it is again subjected to magnetic writing processing, etc. Executes indirect data processing (19th to 2nd
6 Ste Tub n19-n26).

At this time, when the CPU 31 determines that the magnetic processing has been properly performed via the confirmation magnetic field 21 and 22, the processing from the 8th step n8 described above is performed (27th step n27). If it is determined that the magnetic data is good even after the checking operation of -29th step n28-n29).

As mentioned above, the ticket or boarding card is reliably subjected to indirect data processing in the indirect data processing unit, so that tickets with defective data processing are not released unexpectedly, and reliable indirect data processing suitable for the boarding ticket or boarding card is performed. Data processing can be performed. Moreover, the reprocessing operation can be easily achieved using a simply configured transport path that simply rotates the transport path in forward and reverse directions without requiring a complicated transport structure.

In the correspondence between this invention and the configuration of the embodiment described above, the insertion L] of the invention is the ticket insertion I1 of the embodiment. +
13, and similarly below, release [] corresponds to ticket release [] 14, and the conveyance path is
Main conveyor belt device 23 and sub conveyor belt device! 24, the indirect data detection means corresponds to the surface phase confirmation magnetic head 21 and the practical confirmation magnetic head 22, and the reprocessing control means corresponds to C.
Although the present invention corresponds to the PU 31, it is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is an internal configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, and FIG.
The figure is an external view of the automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function, Figure 3 is a control circuit block diagram of the automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function, Figure 4 is a small flowchart of the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function, FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of a conventional automatic ticket gate.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) An indirect data processing unit located on the input slot side that reads and writes ticket information for both ticket types and boarding cards, and an indirect data processing unit located on the ejection slot side that performs punch processing and prints on the ticket surface. An automatic ticket gate is provided with a direct data processing unit that executes processing on a conveyance path, and when the indirect data detection means detects that a data processing defective ticket has occurred in the indirect data processing unit, the automatic ticket gate is arranged on the conveyance path. An automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, which is equipped with a reprocessing control means that reversely drives the data processing section to guide defective data processing tickets to the front stage of an indirect data processing section and performs indirect data processing again.