JPH05108895A - Optical card processor with ic - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain miniaturization and cost reduction by forming a contactor at a position corresponding to the terminal part of an optical card with IC and, furthermore, providing a contactor at the top of an operating piece operating vertical movement, which is provided on a releasing mechanism. CONSTITUTION:When the optical card with IC 9 is carried into a fixed position on a card supporting board 22, after a lord auxiliary mechanism 71 falls, the operating piece 30 of the releasing mechanism 3 falls, a press plate 23 prssurizes the optical card board with IC 9 onto the card supporting board 22 of the card holder 2 with the force of the spring of a pressurizing mechanism 24. After recording and reproduction, when the card holder 2 returns to the initial position, the operating piece 30 ascends to lightly contact the contactor 60b of the terminal part provided at the top of the operating piece 30. At the time of coming into the state of lightly touching, data information which is previously stored in RAM of a main body is sent to an IC part. Afterward, in the state where the pressurizing of the press plate 23 is completely released, a driving roller 7 rotates to eject the optical card with IC 9.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an erasable / rerecordable I
The present invention relates to an optical recording body of an optical card with an IC provided with C and an information processing apparatus for an optical card with an IC that records / reproduces information recorded in the IC section.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional information processing apparatus for an optical card having only optical recording information, for example, an optical recording stripe, those shown in FIGS. 8 to 13 are known. First, as shown in FIGS. 8 to 9, the internal mechanism of the optical card processing device includes two guide shafts 11 and 11 arranged in parallel in a case 10 having a card insertion slot 1 to reciprocate a card holder 2. An optical head 5 is provided on the side closer to the card insertion slot 1 and a holder feed mechanism 4 is provided on the back side, which is supported below the holder transfer path.

The card holder 2 has bearings 2 provided on both sides.
1 is supported by the guide shafts 11 and 11. The card holder 2 has a card holding mechanism 20 for holding four sides of the rectangular optical card 8, that is, both sides and both sides in a pressed state. It is provided.

The card holding mechanism 20 includes a card support plate 22 that forms the bottom surface of the card holder 2 and a holding plate 23 that presses the optical card 8 against the card support plate 22 by pressing the holding plate 23 against the card support plate 22. Pressure mechanism 24 and presser plate 2
3 and a release mechanism 3 for releasing the holding state of the optical card 8.

The card holder 2 is attached to the card support plate 2.
Front wall 2a, rear wall 2b and both side walls 2c, 2d
A rectangular window 25 is formed in the plate surface of the optical card 8 to position the information recording section 80 of the optical card 8 at the corresponding position. Therefore, the information recording unit 8 is placed on the card support 22.
When the optical card 8 is set with 0 facing downwards, both sides of the optical card 8 are located at both sides 22c to 22c of the card support plate 22.
The front and rear sides of the card supporting plate 22 are supported by the front end 2 of the card supporting plate 22.
It is supported by 2a and the rear end portion 22b.

The holding plate 23 is of a size corresponding to the optical card 8, one end of which is pivotally supported on the rear end portion 22b of the card support plate 22 and the other end is formed so as to be freely undulating. An arm piece 26 protruding to one side is attached to the upper surface.

The pressurizing mechanism 24 has a mounting wall 27 installed between both side walls 2c and 2d of the card holder 2, and two torsion coil springs 28 are provided between the mounting wall 27 and both side portions of the holding plate 23. 28 is interposed.

The releasing mechanism 3 is composed of a cam mechanism, a solenoid, etc., and is provided on one side portion behind the card loading / ejecting mechanism 7, which will be described later. The releasing mechanism 3 is provided with an operating piece 30 for raising and lowering, which corresponds to a cam or a rod, and when the operating piece 30 is raised, the arm piece 26 of the holding plate 23 is pushed up to raise the holding plate 23 diagonally and to operate. When the piece 30 descends, the presser foot lifting force is released to return the presser plate 23 horizontally.

On the rear wall 2b of the card holder 2, there is provided a guide shaft 12 which is perpendicular to the holder moving direction, and a sland member 13 is provided. The slide member 13 is connected to the holder feeding mechanism 4.

In the holder feeding mechanism 4, two supporting shafts 40a and 40b are vertically provided on a fixed frame 14 provided in the case 1, and pulleys 41a and 41b are respectively fixed to the upper ends of the supporting shafts 40a and 40b. Then, the endless belt 42 is wound, a connecting pin 43 is provided at an appropriate position of the endless belt 42, and the connecting pin 43 is pivotally connected to the slide member 13.

A pulley 4 is attached to the lower end of one supporting shaft 13b.
5 is connected to a unidirectionally rotating drive motor 46 via a transmission means 44 such as a belt, and the lower end of the other support shaft 40a is for controlling the feed amount of the card holder 2. An encoder 47 is attached.

The optical head 5 is supported by a lead screw 50 and a guide shaft 51 arranged in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the card holder 2. The lead screw 50 is connected to a head feed motor 52 that can rotate in the forward and reverse directions. When the motor 52 operates, the optical head 5 moves the guide shaft 51.
Then, the lead screw 50 shifts to the direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the optical card 8 to access the information recording track 81.

Then, as shown in FIG. 11, a detector 6 for detecting the inserted optical card 8 is provided inside the card insertion slot 1, and the optical card 8 is activated by the detecting operation of the detector 6. A card loading / ejecting mechanism 7 for automatically loading the card holding mechanism 20 of the holder 2 and unloading the optical card 8 is provided.

The card loading / ejecting mechanism 7 is
It is composed of a drive roller 70 disposed near the card insertion slot 1 above the holder transfer path, and a load assist mechanism 71 disposed below the holder transfer path and facing the drive roller 70. There is.

The load assisting mechanism 71 includes a driven roller 7
2 and a solenoid 73 for moving the driven roller 72 up and down
When driven up, the driven roller 72 passes through the rectangular window 25 of the card holder 2, approaches the drive roller 70, and faces the drive roller 70.

The driving roller 70 is a loading motor 74.
The optical card 8 which is driven forward and backward by the above is sandwiched between the optical card 8 inserted into the card insertion slot 1 and the driven roller 72 and taken into the card holder 2, and the processed optical card 8 is sent out to the card insertion slot 1.

In FIG. 8, 29 is a hole for projecting the drive roller 70 downwardly of the pressing plate 23, and FIG.
29 'is a notch for making the driven roller 72 project above the card support plate 22.

Next, the operation of the card processing device having the above configuration will be described. In the standby state before the optical card 8 is inserted,
The card holder 2 is located near the card insertion slot 1 and
As shown in FIG. 1, the holding plate 23 of the card holder 2 is pushed up by the operating piece 30 of the release mechanism 3. Therefore, the space between the card support plate 22 and the pressing plate 23 of the card holder 2 is opened, and the optical card 8 can be taken in onto the card support plate 22.

When the optical card 8 is now inserted through the card insertion slot 1 and the detector 6 detects it, the card load /
The loading motor 74 of the eject mechanism 7 starts operating and the drive roller 70 rotates. In this standby state, the driven roller 72 of the load assist mechanism 71 is located at the rising end so as to face the drive roller 70, and the optical card 8 is driven by the drive roller 7.
0 and the driven roller 72 are sandwiched between the card holder 2
Is taken into. In this case, since the carrying surface of the optical card 8 and the plane formed by the card supporting plate 22 of the card holder 2 do not coincide with each other, the information recording portion 80 of the optical card 8 is not rubbed by the card supporting plate 22 and damaged. Absent. When the optical card 8 is carried in to a fixed position on the card support plate 22, as shown in FIG. 12, after the load assist mechanism 71 descends, the operating piece 30 of the release mechanism 3 descends and the holding plate 23 presses the pressing mechanism. The optical card 8 is pressed onto the card support plate 22 of the card holder 2 by the spring force of the coil spring 28 of 24.
When the loading motor 74 is stopped, the driving roller 70 stops driving.

FIG. 13 shows a state in which the optical card 8 is held on the card support plate 2 by the holding plate 23. The information recording section 80 of the optical card 8 is located at the position corresponding to the rectangular window 25, and The four sides of the optical card 8 are in close contact with the front end portion 22a, the rear end portion 22b, and both end portions 22c of the card support plate 2 and are sandwiched between the holding plate 23. Therefore, even if the optical card 8 is warped, its deformation is corrected by the pressure applied by the coil spring 28. Further, since all four sides of the optical card 8 are held, there is no free end and no vibration occurs.

When the optical card 8 is held on the card holder 2, the holder feeding mechanism 4 starts to operate in conjunction with this, and the drive motor 46 causes the endless belt 42 to run.
Accordingly, the connecting pin 43 on the endless belt 42 moves the card holder 2 to the guide shafts 11 and 11 via the slide member 13.
Tow along and move the way out.

When the connecting pin 43 reaches the outer periphery of the pulley 41b, the connecting pin 43 slides the slide member 13 in the width direction of the card holder 2 and moves halfway around the pulley 41b to the backward movement side. After that, the connecting pin 43 shifts the card holder 2 through the slide member 13 along the guide shafts 11 and 11 in the return path similarly to the operation of the forward path, and the drive motor 46 rotates in one direction to continuously rotate the card holder 2 in one direction. Reciprocating operation is realized.

When the card holder 2 is moved back, the optical head 5 moves relative to the information recording track 81 of the optical card 8 to record or reproduce information.

When the card holder 2 returns to the initial position, the head feed motor 52 operates in conjunction with this, and after the track access operation is performed along the guide shaft 51 and the lead screw 50, the same card feed is performed again. The operation is repeated.

The operation of taking out the optical card 8 by the card loading / ejecting mechanism 7 is the opposite operation to that at the time of taking in the card, and its explanation is omitted here.

An information processing apparatus for an optical card having the above-mentioned structure and operating as described above, having the following effect, that is, the information recording section of the optical card is rubbed and damaged by the card support plate. Even if the optical card is warped, its deformation is corrected by the pressure applied to the coil spring,
Further, the present inventors have succeeded in realizing an optical card processing device in which all four sides of the optical card are held, there is no free end, and vibration does not occur, and the performance is sufficiently satisfactory. I applied.

[0027]

However, with the progress of information technology, an optical card with an IC provided with an IC has been proposed, and the development of an information processing device therefor has been strongly desired recently. The conventional optical card processing device
When the C processing function is added, the following problems occur. (1) It is necessary to add a new contact actuating mechanism in order to bring the contact into contact with the IC section, which increases the cost. In addition, the device becomes larger accordingly. (2) A time for operating the contact actuating mechanism is required at the time of recording on the IC section, and a recording / reproducing time until the card is inserted and ejected becomes long.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems relating to the invention previously filed. The optical card processing apparatus shares a mechanism as much as possible with a low cost, small size and high speed optical card with an IC. It is an object of the present invention to provide a processing device of the above.

[0029]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to make contact with a lower surface of a holding plate of a conventional optical card holder, which is installed on a lower part of an arm piece attached to the upper surface of the holding plate and protruding to one side. The contactor which is electrically connected to the child is formed at the lower part of the holding plate and at the position corresponding to the terminal part of the optical card with an IC, and the contactor is also provided on the upper end of the operating piece for lifting operation provided in the release mechanism. Can be achieved by providing.

That is, in the information processing apparatus for an optical card with an IC according to the present invention, a means for accommodating and unloading the card holder for an optical card with an IC and a card holder accommodating the optical card with an IC are provided along a conveying path. In an optical card processing device with an IC having an erasable and rewritable IC unit in an optical card, the card holder holding the card and reciprocating, and attached to the card holder. The card is provided with a pressing portion for pressing the card against the reference surface of the holder, and a releasing mechanism for releasing the pressing force of the pressing portion as necessary, and the terminal portion provided in the releasing mechanism makes contact with the contact point from the IC. It is characterized by recording / reproducing information in the IC section.

[0031]

According to the present invention, a contactor which is electrically connected to a contactor provided on the lower part of the arm piece attached to the upper surface of the pressing plate and protruding to one side is provided on the lower part of the pressing plate of the optical card holder. A contactor is formed at a position corresponding to the terminal portion of the optical card with an IC, and a contactor is also provided on the upper end of the operating piece for lifting operation provided in the release mechanism. Then, when the optical card is housed in the optical card holder and pressed onto the card support plate by the pressing plate, and the contactor of the terminal portion of the operating piece touches the contactor installed under the arm piece lightly, The information in the RAM in the main body is sent to the IC section.

Therefore, it is not necessary to add a new contact actuating mechanism to bring the contact into contact with the IC portion, and I
No time is required to operate the contact actuating mechanism when recording to the C section, and by simply forming the IC contactors on the card holder and the pressing force releasing mechanism of the holding plate of the optical card processing device previously proposed. Also, the device can be configured as inexpensive and small as an optical card processing device, and the recording / reproducing time from card insertion to card ejection can be the same as that of a single optical card processing device.

[0033]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. It should be noted that the same reference numerals are given to the portions that perform the same operations as those of the optical card processing device according to the above proposal. The configuration and operation of the previously proposed optical card processing apparatus are the same as those of the previously proposed optical card processing apparatus, except for the mechanism for recording / reproducing information recorded in the IC section, and therefore description thereof will be omitted.

An optical recording stripe 91 is provided on the front surface (FIG. 1 (a)) of the optical card 9 with an IC whose appearance is shown in FIG. 1, and an IC terminal portion 92 is provided on the back surface (FIG. 1 (b)). ..

2 to 7, the card holder portion 2 and the IC are shown.
The mechanism related to information processing is shown. As shown in FIG. 2, a contact 60a is formed by etching on the lower surface of the card pressing plate 23 and at a position corresponding to the IC terminal portion 92 of the IC-equipped optical card 9. The contactor 60a is electrically connected to the contactor 60b installed on the lower surface of the arm piece 26 attached to the upper surface of the pressing plate 23 and protruding to one side. On the other hand, a contactor 60c is installed at the terminal portion of the tip of the operating piece 30 for lifting operation provided in the release mechanism 3. And contactor 60
c is connected to a CPU (not shown).

Next, the operation mode of the optical card processing device with an IC having the above configuration will be described. As shown in FIG. 7, the optical card 9 with the IC is taken in with the holding plate 23 of the card holder 2 being pushed up by the operating piece 30 of the release mechanism 3.

When the optical card 9 with an IC is carried in to a fixed position on the card support plate 22, as shown in FIG. 5, the load assist mechanism 71 descends, and then the operating piece 30 of the release mechanism 3 descends to hold it down. The plate 23 presses the optical card plate with IC 9 onto the card support plate 22 of the card holder 2 by the force of the spring of the pressing mechanism 24. Thereafter, according to the operation of the previously proposed optical card processing device, optical information is recorded or reproduced when the card holder 2 is returned.

When the card holder 2 is returned to the initial position, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the operating piece 30 rises and the contact piece 60c of the terminal portion provided on the upper end of the operating piece 30 moves to the arm piece 26. Lightly touch the contactor 60b provided on the lower surface. When the lightly touched state is reached, the data information previously stored in the RAM (not shown) in the main body is sent to the IC section. After that, as shown in FIG. 7, the drive roller 70 rotates with the pressing plate 23 completely released, and the optical card 9 with the IC is ejected.

In this embodiment, the contactor 60c is shown in FIG.
The information processing apparatus of the optical card 9 with an IC configured to come into contact with the contactor 60b provided on the lower surface of the arm piece 26 projecting to one side of the pressing plate 23 shown in FIG. IC installed on the back of the optical card 9
The same effect can be obtained even if the structure is in direct contact with the terminal portion 92. FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the card holder 2 showing the contacts on the bottom surface of the arm piece 26 protruding to one side of the card holder 2.

[0040]

As described above, according to the optical card processing device with an IC of the present invention, it is not necessary to add a new contact actuating mechanism to bring the contact into contact with the IC section.
The device is small and inexpensive to manufacture. Moreover, since the time for operating the contact actuating mechanism when recording on the IC section is unnecessary, the effect that the time required for recording / reproducing from card insertion to card ejection is the same as that of a processing device using only optical cards can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an appearance of an optical card with an IC.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a card holder.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view in the width direction of the device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the card holder when reading and writing IC information of the optical card with IC.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a card holder in a state of holding an optical card with an IC just before the optical card with an IC is conveyed.

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the card holder.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a card holder showing a state in which an optical card with an IC is taken in.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a state in which the top plate is removed from the casing of the optical card processing device according to the previous proposal.

FIG. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view of the optical card processing device.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view in the width direction of the optical card processing device.

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of the card holder showing a state of taking in an optical card.

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view of a card holder showing a state where an optical card is held.

FIG. 13 is a bottom view of the card holder showing a state where an optical card is held.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Card Holder 3 Release Mechanism 9 Optical Card with IC 22 Card Support Plate 23 Card Holding Plate 24 Pressing Mechanism 26 Arm Piece 30 Actuating Piece 60 Contact 70 Drive Roller 71 Auxiliary Mechanism 91 Optical Recording Stripe 92 IC Terminal Section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An optical card equipped with means for storing / carrying out an IC-equipped optical card in a card holder and means for conveying a card holder accommodating an IC-equipped optical card along a conveying path. In a processing device for an optical card with an IC having a rewritable IC unit, a card holder that holds a card and reciprocates, and a pressing unit that presses a card attached to the card holder against a reference surface of the holder,
A release mechanism for releasing the pressing force of the pressing portion as necessary, and the information of the IC portion is recorded / reproduced by the contact of the terminal portion provided in the release mechanism with the contact from the IC. Optical card processing device with IC.