JPH05159122A - Time recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To cancel troublesomeness at the time of inserting a time card. CONSTITUTION:When a time card detecting pat 1 detects the time card, a punched hole detecting part 6 moves the time card until a range designating punched hole is detected, and a top and bottom discrimination circuit 8 discriminates the top and the bottom from the number of fed lines. Then, a back discrimination circuit 9 discriminates a front side and a rear side from the result of detection that by either of right and left detecting parts of the punched hole detecting part 6, the range designating punched hole is detected and the result of the discrimination of the top and the bottom. A control circuit 10 moves one of a printing part 11 and the printing part 12, at least, from the result of the discriminatinon of the top and the bottom and the front side and the back to print time, etc., on the prescribed position of the time card.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a time recorder which prints at a predetermined position on the front and back of a time card by inserting a time card having top and bottom and front and back identifying portions.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional time recorder prints the time and the like on a predetermined position of a time card by inserting the time card into the time recorder in a predetermined direction (upside down and front side). When the time card is inserted by mistake in a direction other than the predetermined direction, for example, when it is inserted upside down, the time recorder ejects the time card without printing at a predetermined position.

[0003]

In the above, when the time card is inserted into the time recorder by mistakenly inserting the time card upside down or front and back, the time card is ejected once and the time card must be inserted again in the predetermined direction. That was a troublesome operation.

Further, when the data printed on both sides of the time card are to be corrected or totaled, the time card is once inserted into the time recorder, the time card is ejected when printing on the back side becomes necessary, and the time is again read. There was the hassle of changing the direction of the card and inserting it again.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the inconvenience of inserting a time card into a time recorder.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, one side of a time card is determined based on the result of a discrimination between a top / bottom discriminating means and a front / back discriminating means for discriminating a time card having an inserted top / bottom and front / back discriminating portion. The above-mentioned object is achieved by providing a control means for operating at least one of the first printing means for printing at the position 1 and the second printing means for printing at the predetermined position on the other surface of the time card. is doing.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be specifically described below based on an embodiment shown in the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a time card detecting section which detects a time card 2 as shown in FIG. 2, for example. The time card 2 is composed of a data section 3 in which employee numbers and the like are entered or punched, and a printing field 4 in which attendance / leaving times and the like are printed. In addition, the time card 2 is provided with upper and lower parts on the left side of the surface of the data part 3 as shown in FIG. It is provided. A punch hole detection unit 6 has a detection unit on each of the left and right sides and detects the punch hole data of the data unit 3. Reference numeral 7 denotes a feeding unit, which starts its operation when the time card detecting unit 1 detects the insertion of the time card 2. Reference numeral 8 denotes an upper / lower discriminating circuit which constitutes an upper / lower discriminating means, and from the time the card detecting section 1 detects the time card 2 until the punch hole detecting circuit 6 for one row detects the range-designating punch holes 5, the feeding section 7 is provided. Stores the number of lines sent by the time card 2, and the top and bottom of the time card 2 are discriminated by the stored number of lines. Reference numeral 9 is a front / back surface discrimination circuit which constitutes front / back surface discrimination means, and the punch hole detection unit 6
The front and back of the time card 2 are discriminated by the outputs from the upper and lower discriminating circuits 8. Reference numeral 10 is a control circuit which constitutes a control means,
It is composed of a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, a clock IC, etc., and determines a print line, and controls the operations of the printing section 11 and the printing section 12 based on the above operation and the determination results of the up / down determination circuit 8 and the front / back determination circuit 9. The printing unit 11 constitutes a first printing unit, has a character generator whose printed characters face upward and a character generator whose printed characters face downward, and displays the time and the like at a predetermined position on one surface of the time card 2. Print. The printing unit 12 constitutes a second printing unit, and like the printing unit 11, has a character generator whose printed characters are directed upward and a character generator whose printed characters are directed downward, and the other surface of the time card 2. The time and the like are printed at a predetermined position of.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the time recorder of the present invention. Reference numeral 13 is a time recorder, 14 is a time card insertion section, and the time card detection section 1, punch hole detection section 6,
The feeding unit 7 and the printing units 11 and 12 are arranged at the positions shown in the figure.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to FIG. Now, it is assumed that the number of feed lines stored in the up / down determination circuit 8 has been reset.

The time card 2 is inserted in the time card insertion section 14.
When is inserted, the time card detector 1 detects the time card 2 (step a). Then, the control circuit 10 operates the feeding unit 7, feeds the time card 2 by one line (step b), and outputs the number of lines sent to the up / down determination circuit 8 (step c). The operations of steps b and c described above are repeated until the punch hole detection unit 6 detects the range-designating punch holes 5 (step d), and the upper / lower discrimination circuit 8 is added at any time.
Stores and counts the number of lines sent. The up / down determination circuit 8 determines up / down of the time card 2 based on the number of lines sent by the feeding unit 7. In this example, as shown in FIG. 2, since the range-designating punch holes 5 are provided below the upper and lower central portions of the time card 2, the upper / lower determination circuit 8 has the number of lines fed by the feeding unit 7 smaller than the predetermined number of lines. At this time, it is determined that the time card 2 is inserted from the lower side, and when the number of lines to be fed by the feeding unit 7 is larger than the predetermined number, the time card 2 is inserted from the upper side. Now, the up / down determination circuit 8 determines that the number of lines to be fed by the feeding unit 7 is less than the predetermined number of lines (step e) and the time card 2 is inserted from the lower side (step f), and the punch hole detecting unit 6 determines When the right-side detection unit detects the range-designating punch hole 5 (step g), the front / back discrimination circuit 9 determines that the time card 2 is the front surface (step h). Then, the punching hole detecting unit 6 detects the punching hole data of the data unit 3 while feeding the time card 2 line by line by the feeding unit 7 (step j). The control circuit 10 determines the printing unit and the character generator to be used by determining that the time card 2 has been inserted from the lower side in the present case, as a result of the discrimination between the upper and lower sides and the front and back sides. It is moved to the front of the selected printing section and printing such as time is carried out in the direction of the selected character (step k). For example, when the control circuit 10 determines that the printing unit 12 prints,
Move the line you want to print on the card to the front of the printing unit 12,
Printing is performed by the printing unit 12. When printing is performed by the printing unit 11, the line to be printed on the card is moved to the front of the printing unit 11 and printing is performed by the printing unit 11. In this case, the direction of the printed characters is upward. When the printing operation is completed, the feeding unit 7
Thus, the time card 2 is ejected (step 1), and the control circuit 10 resets the number of feed lines stored in the up / down determination circuit 8 (step m).

If it is determined that the time card 2 has been inserted from the lower side (step f) and the range-specified punched hole 5 is detected by the left side detection section of the punched hole detection section 6 (step g), the front and back sides are discriminated. The circuit 9 determines that the time card 2 is the back side (step i). And time card 2
Is sent line by line by the feed unit 7, the punch hole detection unit 6 detects the punch hole data of the data unit 3 (step j).
The control circuit 10 determines whether the result of the top / bottom or front / back determination is
By determining that the time card 2 has been inserted from the bottom side down, the printing section and the character generator to be used are selected, and the time and the like are printed at a predetermined position of the time card 2 in the same manner as described above (step k). ). In the present case, the direction of the printed characters is upward. When the printing operation is completed, the time card 2 is ejected by the feeding unit 7 (step l), and the number of feeding lines stored in the up / down discrimination circuit 8 is reset (step m).

When the upper / lower discriminating circuit 8 determines that the time card 2 is inserted from the upper side (step e) when the number of lines to be fed by the feeding section 7 is larger than a predetermined number (step e), the time card 2 is fed by the feeding section 7. The punch hole detection unit 6 detects the punch hole data of the data unit 3 while feeding the data one line at a time (step o). When the punch hole detecting unit 6 finishes the data detection from the data unit 3 (step p) and the range-specified punch hole 5 of the last detected row is detected by the right side detecting unit of the punch hole detecting unit 6 (step q). The front / back discriminating circuit 9 discriminates that the time card 2 is oriented to the back side (step r), and the control circuit 10 discriminates that the time card 2 is inserted from the upper side to the rear side. The generator is selected and the time and the like are printed at a predetermined position on the time card 2 in the same manner as above (step k). In this case, the print characters are oriented downward. When the printing operation is completed, the time card 2 is ejected (step l), and the number of feed lines stored in the up / down determination circuit 8 is reset (step m).

When the data detection from the data section 3 by the punch hole detection section 6 is completed (step p), the range-specified punch hole 5 of the last row detected is detected by the left detection section of the punch hole detection section 6. (Step q), front / back discrimination circuit 9
Determines that the time card 2 is on the front side (step s), and the control circuit 10 determines that the time card 2 has been inserted face-up from the upper side in the same manner as the above-described operation. The character generator is selected, and the time and the like are printed at a predetermined position on the time card 2 as described above (step k). In this case, the print characters are oriented downward. Thereafter, the same operation as above is performed.

For example, from 1 to 20 days on the surface, 21 to 21 days
In the case of a time card that prints on the back side for 31st, printing is selectively performed on either side according to the result of the above-mentioned upper / lower surface discrimination.

Even when data is printed in a predetermined field such as data correction or total daily working hours, the predetermined print field can be detected by the top / bottom and front / back discrimination. It is possible to print at a predetermined position regardless of the direction in which the time card is inserted.

Further, in the present embodiment, since the data of the data section 3 is the data depending on the positional relationship of the punch holes, the upper and lower and front and back discriminating portions are punch holes, and the punch hole detecting circuit is used as a device for detecting the punch holes. However, the same effect can be obtained by using a bar code, a magnetic stripe or the like for the data of the data section 3 and using the above bar code or magnetic stripe detecting device instead of the punch hole detecting circuit.

[0018]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the one side of the time card is determined based on the result of the discrimination between the top / bottom discriminating means and the front / back discriminating means of the inserted top / bottom and front / back discriminating portions. By providing the control means for operating at least one of the first printing means for printing at the position and the second printing means for printing at the predetermined position on the other surface of the time card, Since the print is performed at the specified position of the time card regardless of the insertion direction, if you insert it in the time recorder by mistakenly inserting the time card upside down or front and back, you have to insert the time card again in the specified direction. Can be eliminated, and once the data printed on both sides of the time card is to be corrected or totaled, the time card can be It eliminates the hassle of inserting the time card, ejecting the time card when it becomes necessary to print on the back side, and changing the direction of the time card again to insert it again, eliminating the hassle of inserting the time card. be able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a time card used in the time recorder of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 time card 5 top and bottom and front and back discriminating section 8 top and bottom discriminating means 9 front and back discriminating means 10 control means 11 first printing means 12 second printing means 13 time recorder

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A time recorder for performing printing at a predetermined position of the time card by inserting a time card having top and bottom and front and back identification parts, and an up / down identification means for identifying up / down of the inserted time card, A front and back side discriminating means for discriminating between the front and back sides of the time card, a first printing means for printing at a predetermined position on one side of the time card, and a printing for a predetermined position on the other side of the time card. The second printing means to be performed, and the control means for operating at least one of the first printing means and the second printing means based on the discrimination results of both the upper and lower discrimination means and the front and back discrimination means. The equipped time recorder.