JPH04286782A - Magnetic medium issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily discriminate for an operator the position of an error occurred in a magnetic medium issued as an ineffective magnetic medium when the presence of magnetic error is detected. CONSTITUTION:In a magnetic medium issuing device which writes and reads magnetic information, checks the magnetic information written by the writing processing by means of the reading processing, and when the error is detected, issues the erroneous magnetic medium while conducting a invalidating processing, an error position detection means 21 detecting the error position in the magnetic information and an error mark display means 23 displaying the error mark at a prescribed position of the magnetic medium corresponding to the error position are provided.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a magnetic medium issuing device that handles magnetic media capable of holding magnetic information and issues, for example, airline tickets and commuter passes.
If an error is detected during the magnetic information reading process,
The present invention relates to a device that displays an error on a magnetic medium.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional magnetic medium issuing device. Here, an airline ticket issuing machine that issues airline tickets will be explained as an example. In Figure 5, 1
2 is a main control unit for controlling the entire card processing operation of the magnetic medium issuing device; 2 is a magnetic control unit that controls magnetic information processing of the magnetic medium according to instructions from the main control unit 1; A write head 4 writes magnetic information to a magnetic medium (not shown), and a read head 6 reads magnetic information from the magnetic medium via a read circuit 5. 7 is a memory for storing some data such as information written by the write head 4 and information read by the read head 6; 8 is a printing unit that performs predetermined printing on the magnetic medium; 9 is a printing unit for this printing. Part 8
10 is a mechanism control unit for controlling a large number of mechanical units that are driven when performing the printing process of the magnetic medium, and 11 is an operation unit for the operator to instruct the printing process. The device is configured with operation switches and the like arranged on the front of the device.

Next, a schematic structure of a magnetic medium issuing device equipped with the above-mentioned control system will be explained using a schematic structural diagram of a conventional device shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, reference numeral 12 denotes a magnetic medium handled by a magnetic medium issuing device, which is used for airline tickets, commuter passes, etc., and is capable of holding magnetic information. A stacker 13 stores a plurality of magnetic media 12 in a stacked state, and is disposed at the bottom of the magnetic media issuing device. 14 is this stacker 13
A medium conveyance path that conveys the magnetic medium 12 fed out from the magnetic medium 12 to each processing section above is branched into multiple directions, and multiple pairs of conveyance rollers 15 are arranged along each conveyance direction.

Reference numeral 16 denotes a medium insertion slot provided at the top of the device, and is used when manually inserting the magnetic medium 12 into the device. Reference numeral 17 denotes a temporary stack section provided at the bottom of the device, which temporarily accommodates the magnetic medium 12 inserted through the medium insertion port 16. Reference numeral 18 denotes a hopper disposed near the medium insertion slot 16, and this hopper 18 issues the magnetic medium 12, which is fed out from the stacker 12 and becomes an airline ticket or the like after undergoing a predetermined issuing process. It becomes the issuing outlet. and,
A printing unit 8 is arranged in front of this hopper 18,
This printing section 8 includes a thermal head 19 and a thermal transfer ribbon 20. Further, the write head 4 and the read head 6 are arranged along the medium transport path 14, and the write head 4 is arranged in front of the stacker 13.

[0005] To explain the issuing process using the above-mentioned configuration, first, when the operator operates the operation unit 11 shown in FIG. is driven, and the magnetic media 12 are fed out one by one from the stacker 13 and conveyed to the medium conveyance path 14. The magnetic medium 12 fed out from the stacker 13 is
The medium is transported upward along the medium transport path 14, and magnetic information is first written by the write head 4, and then the written information is read by the read head 6, and the content of the written information is controlled by the main controller. Check in Part 1. If there is no abnormality in the check, the magnetic medium 12 is sent to the printing section 8, and predetermined card data is printed by the thermal head 19 and thermal transfer ribbon 20 of the printing section 8 driven via the printing control section 9. The magnetic medium 12 becomes an airline ticket, is transported to the hopper 18, and is issued.

Furthermore, when the magnetic medium 12 is inserted from outside the apparatus and processed, the operator inserts the magnetic medium 12 to be processed through the medium insertion slot 16 arranged at the top of the apparatus, and performs the predetermined operation using the operating section. When an instruction is given from 11, the magnetic medium 12 is taken into the apparatus and conveyed along the medium conveyance path 14 to the temporary stack section 17. After this, the magnetic medium 12
is fed out from the temporary stacking section 17 and placed in the stacker 13.
Similarly to the magnetic medium 12 fed out from the write head 4
writes magnetic information, reads it with the read head 6, compares and checks the data with the main control unit 1, and if it is normal, sends it to the printing unit 8, prints the predetermined face data, and issues it to the hopper 18. .

[0007] If an error is detected when checking the magnetic information in the above-described process associated with issuing the medium, the main control unit 1 displays the presence of an error using a display lamp provided on the operation unit 11, or The magnetic medium 12 in which the error has occurred is sent to the printing unit 8, and as shown in the top view of the magnetic medium showing an example of a conventional error display in FIG. Print the characters. Thereafter, by conveying it to the hopper 18 and discharging it, the operator is notified that a magnetic encoding error has occurred, that is, an error has occurred in the magnetic information.

[0008]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, according to the above-mentioned conventional technology, if one looks at the magnetic medium issued to the hopper, one can easily determine that the medium has a magnetic encoding error. It is not clear where the error occurred, and it is difficult to identify the causes of the error, such as bends in the magnetic media, adhesion of dust, holes in the stapler, etc., and appropriate guidance must be given to media manufacturers and media owners. The problem was that it could not be done on the spot. Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and allows the operator to easily identify which part of the magnetic information is written in error. It is an object of the present invention to provide a magnetic medium issuing device that can identify error locations.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention performs writing and reading processing of magnetic information on a magnetic medium capable of holding magnetic information.
This reading process verifies the magnetic information written in the writing process, and if an error is detected, the error position in the magnetic information is detected in a magnetic medium issuing device that disables and issues this error medium. The apparatus is provided with an error position detection means and an error mark display means for displaying an error mark at a predetermined position on the magnetic medium corresponding to the error position.

0010

[Operation] According to the above-described structure, the magnetic information written on the magnetic medium is read by the error position detection means. Then, from this read information, the physical error position on the magnetic medium is calculated, and at this calculated position,
Apply a preset error mark. Thereafter, invalid printing processing is performed and the document is issued to the issuing port. Thereby, by recognizing the error mark, the operator can see at a glance where on the magnetic medium the magnetic error has occurred. As a result, appropriate guidance can be given to the card holder etc. on the spot.

[0011]

Embodiments Below, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a magnetic medium issuing device, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure for detecting an error position of magnetic information, FIG. 3 is a plan view of a magnetic medium showing an example of error display, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the magnetic medium similarly showing an example of error display. Note that in these figures, parts that are substantially the same as those in the prior art are designated by the same reference numerals as in the prior art, and their explanations are omitted here. In FIG. 1, 21 is a magnetic medium 12
This is an error position detection means for detecting where an error has occurred in the magnetic information written in the magnetic information, that is, the error position, and detects the error position according to the procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2, which will be described later.

Reference numeral 22 denotes an error position specifying means for recognizing which position on the magnetic medium 12 the error position detected by the error position detecting means 21 specifically corresponds to and specifying the position. Reference numeral 23 denotes an error mark display means for displaying an error mark 24 at the error position specified on the magnetic medium 12 by the error position specifying means 22, indicating that the error position is an error position.
As shown in FIG. 3, means for printing codes such as symbols and characters on the printing unit 8, or as shown in FIG. 4, it may be displayed by making holes with a punch block.

Next, a procedure for detecting an error position will be explained based on FIG. Note that the symbol S shown below indicates a processing step. When the magnetic medium 12 inserted from the stacker 13 or the medium insertion port 16 is sent to the read head 6 via the write head 4 during the issuing process,
The read head 6 starts reading processing and first detects and determines a start code of magnetic data information (S1). When the star code is detected, magnetic data is read (S2), and it is determined whether the read data is 1 byte (S3).

[0014] In S3, if reading of one byte of data is not completed, the process returns to S2 to continue reading, and when one byte is completed, it is determined whether the read data is normal or not (S4). If it is determined in S4 that the read data is normal, the read character count, which is set with one byte of information as one count, is incremented by one (S5). After that, it is determined whether or not the magnetic data has been completed (S7), and if it has not been completed, the process returns to S2,
Continue reading, and if all data is finished,
A reading end process is performed (S8). In addition, the above-mentioned S
In step 6, if it is determined that 1 byte of read data is not normal, an error is detected and error processing is performed (S6), subsequent data is discarded, and the process immediately moves to read end processing and operation. end.

According to the above processing, the error position is determined because the number of normally read characters up to the error position is stored in the read character number counter (not shown) provided in the error position detection means. You can see where the error occurred.

Next, a physical value for specifying where the error position detected as described above is located with respect to the magnetic medium 12 is determined by the error position specifying means 22 as follows. In other words, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, if the dimension from the starting edge A of the magnetic medium 12 to the magnetic data write start edge B is X, and the dimension from the write start edge B to the error detection position E is Y, then , this total value (X+Y) becomes the error position. Furthermore, at this time,
The dimension of X is fixed to a constant value at the start of the write process, and the number of bits per byte and the size of the write pitch are also constant. Therefore, based on the number of normally read characters remaining in the number of read characters counter, the dimension Y to the error detection position can be easily calculated from the preset dimension value per byte and the count value of the number of normal characters. By adding the dimension X up to the reading start end to this, the error detection position E can be determined as a specific numerical value.

In this way, when a specific value for the magnetic medium 12 is obtained, the main control unit 1 uses the error mark display means 23 to mark a symbol, punch hole, etc. at the corresponding position on the magnetic medium 12 based on this value. Display error mark 24. Note that the magnetic medium 12 to which this error mark 24 is applied
When the error position corresponds to the thermal head 19 of the printing section 8 or the punch block provided for punching holes, a means for determining the feed amount of the magnetic medium 12, such as a pulse motor, is used. The feed rate of the magnetic medium 12 is controlled via this pulse motor, and after the end of the magnetic medium 12 is detected by a medium end detection sensor or the like that detects the end of the magnetic medium 12, the magnetic error is detected. Error position E (distance from the beginning of the medium (X+Y))
The magnetic medium 12 is sent to the thermal head 19 to print a code, and to the punch block to punch a hole, respectively.

Furthermore, the printing of "invalid" to indicate that the error medium is invalid is performed together with the display of the error mark 24, and if the error mark 24 indicates printing processing, simultaneous processing is performed, and the punched hole If so, after performing punch hole processing, the paper is sent to the printing unit 8, where "invalid" is printed.

[0019]

Effects of the Invention As explained above, according to the present invention, magnetic information is written and read on a magnetic medium capable of holding magnetic information, and the reading process causes the magnetic information to be written by the writing process. A magnetic medium issuing device that checks the magnetic information that has been generated and, if an error is detected, disables and issues the error medium, includes an error position detection means for detecting an error position in the magnetic information, and an error position detecting means for detecting an error position in the magnetic information; and an error mark display means for displaying an error mark at a corresponding predetermined position on the magnetic medium, the error position of magnetic information written on the magnetic medium can be easily recognized by the error mark. Become. Therefore, the operator can tell at a glance where the magnetic error is occurring on the magnetic medium just by looking at the invalid issued magnetic medium.
It is possible to easily determine the cause of a defect, which was difficult to determine simply by conventional error detection, such as whether the defect is due to folds or scratches on the medium, or whether the magnetic information itself is defective. The effect is that it becomes possible to give appropriate guidance to the card holder etc. on the spot.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a magnetic medium issuing device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an error position detection procedure.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a magnetic medium on which error marks are printed.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a magnetic medium with error marks formed by punch holes.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a conventional magnetic medium issuing device.

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram showing a configuration example of a conventional magnetic medium issuing device.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a magnetic medium showing an example of conventional invalid printing.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Main control section 4 Light head 6 Read head 8 Printing section 12 Magnetic media 14 Media conveyance path 21 Error position detection means 22 Error location identification means 23 Error mark display means 24 Error mark

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: Writing and reading magnetic information to a magnetic medium capable of holding magnetic information, and confirming the magnetic information written by the writing process through the reading process, and detecting an error. In the magnetic medium issuing device that invalidates and issues the error medium when the error occurs, the error position detection means detects the error position in the magnetic information, and the error mark is placed at a predetermined position on the magnetic medium corresponding to the error position. 1. A magnetic medium issuing device comprising: error mark display means for displaying an error mark.