JPH05165786A - Ticket issuing and collating terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make a maintenance area larger than the ground contact area of a main body base unnecessary, and to make terminal equipment compact by packaging an LCD case in the main body base. CONSTITUTION:Components to be packaged in the main body base are a ticket issuing port 3, a printer mechanism 8, rolled paper 9, a hard disk 10, a floppy disk 11, a card reader mechanism 12, a power unit 13, and a control base board 19. Besides, the components to be packaged in a cover 1 are a key lock, a ticket inserting port, and a keyboard. Then, the cover 1 is packaged on the main body base 6 by a cover rotating shaft and a cover hinge fitted directly on the main body base 6. Further, a liquid crystal display is packaged in the LCD case 7, and this LCD case 7 too is installed on the cover 1 by an LCD rotating shaft and an LCD hinge fitted on the main body base 6. Accordingly, since the LCD case 7 never becomes larger than the main body base 6, the maintenance area becomes unnecessary.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a desk-top type terminal device, and more particularly to a ticket issuing and collating terminal device for issuing and collating tickets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional ticket issuing terminal device is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 1-6.
As described in No. 2705, the LCD was mounted on the cover.

[0003]

A problem with conventional products is that a back space is required when the cover is opened depending on the device configuration. First, the necessity of opening the cover will be described from the device configuration.

In the apparatus, there are consumables such as a paper journal (roll paper) for ticketing and a printer ink ribbon for printing. Since the replacement and replenishment are regularly performed, it is necessary to open the main body cover widely. Even in the case of regular maintenance and inspection, the terminals on the printer board and the terminals such as motors and LEDs scattered in the equipment may come into contact with measuring equipment such as testers. desirable.

Next, problems of the configuration of the conventional example will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

In the configuration of the conventional device as shown in FIG. 4, when the cover is opened, the LCD case 7 further projects behind the cover and behind the cover 1 as shown in FIG. . Due to this distance A, a constraint condition is required for the device installation location, and the following problems occur.

(1) It is a desk-top type device and needs to be miniaturized, but the space at the installation site is required to be equal to or larger than the size of the device, and it cannot be miniaturized.

(2) If there is no back space depending on the customer's installation location, it is necessary to replace consumables, force unreasonable work in the half-opened state during maintenance, or move the device.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a small ticket collation terminal device which does not require a space larger than the grounding area of the main body base when the cover is opened and is easy to replace consumables and perform maintenance work as compared with the conventional method. It is in.

[0010]

The present invention adopts the following technical means in order to achieve the above object.

1. LCD mounting an LCD as a display unit
The case was located above the rear surface of the device, and a rising portion was provided on the rear surface of the main body base, and the case was attached to the main body base.

2. A keyboard is mounted as an operation unit, a cover that can be opened and closed for replacement of consumables and maintenance, a hinge serving as a fulcrum of rotation of the cover is installed on the rising portion of the rear surface of the main body base, and a stopper is provided on the rotating unit of the hinge.

3. The hinge has a load resistance during rotation and can be fixed at any angle.

[0014]

The above-mentioned individual means operate as follows.

1. Since the LCD case is attached to the main body base, the LCD does not move even when the cover is opened, and therefore does not protrude rearward from the cover. Also,
Since the weight of the LCD is added to the main body base, not to the cover, the cover open stopper only needs to support the cover weight, and a simple hinge stopper will suffice.

2. Since the hinge, which is the fulcrum of rotation of the cover, is provided at the upper rear part of the device, the cover can be released without protruding to the rear if it reaches a predetermined angle, and if it is released further, the stopper provided on the hinge will work and release it. It obstructs and keeps a predetermined opening angle, so there is no need for a back space when the cover is opened unlike the conventional case.

3. Since it does not use a hinge that can be fixed at any angle, it does not require a stopper arm, etc., and it is possible to fix the cover in the state of opening and closing the cover depending on the surrounding conditions and applications to be installed. .

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the configuration will be described. This device is roughly divided into three parts. As shown in FIG. 3, the main body base 6, the cover 1, and the LCD case 7 are arranged from the bottom.

As shown in FIG. 1, what is mounted on the main body base 6 is a ticket issuing slot 3, a printer mechanism 8, a roll paper 9, a hard disk 10, a floppy disk 11, a card reader mechanism, a power source 13 and a control board 19. .

Mounted on the cover 1 are a key key 4, a ticket insertion slot 5 and a keyboard 2. Further, the cover 1 is mounted on the cover 1 by the cover rotating shaft 14 and the cover hinge 15 provided directly on the main body base 1.

A liquid crystal display is mounted on the LCD case 7. The LCD case 7 is also mounted on the cover 1 by the LCD rotary shafts 16 and 18 and the LCD hinge 17 installed on the main body base.

Next, the operation of this apparatus will be described. This device has two operations, that is, issuing a lottery ticket and checking. First, at the time of issuing the former lottery ticket, insert paper into which the number desired by the end user is inserted through the ticket insertion slot 5 and insert the card reader mechanism 1 inside.
2 reads the number, the printer mechanism 8 prints a predetermined content on the roll paper 9, creates a lottery ticket, and outputs it to the end user from the ticket issuing port 3. Next, the matching operation of the lottery ticket will be described. After the lottery winning number is announced, the end user inserts the lottery ticket received by the above-mentioned operation through the ticket insertion slot 5 and causes the card reader mechanism 12 to read it. If it is a winning lottery at that time, it is output to the LCD in the LCD case and the hitting table is printed by the printer mechanism 8 on the roll paper 9 and output from the winding ticket 3.

The maintenance work and the consumable supply replenishment work which occur other than the maintenance management operation of a certain device by the above operation will be described. These occur in association with the printer mechanism 8 and the card reader mechanism 12. First, the printer mechanism 8 requires maintenance operations such as cleaning of the transport sensor and level check for the purpose of replenishing the roll paper 9 and the printer ribbon and removing stains from the paper during paper transport. Further, the card reader mechanism 12 also requires maintenance operations such as cleaning of the OCR sensor for reading characters, cleaning of the conveyance sensor, and level check to remove stains on paper.

Regarding the replenishment work of consumables in the first printer mechanism 8, there are roll paper 9 and printer ribbon having large sizes. During busy periods, the usage rate increases, the number of replenishments increases, and the end user does not have to wait, so it is necessary to complete the operation in a short time. For the above two reasons, it is necessary to have good replenishment workability, and it is preferable that the cover 1 can be opened wide.

In the conventional example, the LCD cover 7 is directly attached to the cover 1 as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. When the cover is opened as shown in FIG. 5, the LCD cover 7 falls down by its own weight and the upper cover itself. Since it also protrudes, the depth of the distance A is required to be longer than the length of the main body base 6. Therefore, depending on the installation conditions of the user, there is no space after the device for 2 and it is necessary to perform the refilling work with the cover 1 half-opened. Further, as the structure of the device, since the LCD case 7 is mounted on the cover 1 to be opened, the rotation moment of the cover becomes large, and it is necessary to provide the cover stopper 20 and hold the open position by using a damper or the like. Therefore, the maintenance space is limited by the cover stopper 20, and maintenance and replenishment work may be difficult.

In the present invention, the LCD case 7 is the main body base 6
Since it is directly attached to and does not become larger than the main body base, no maintenance area is required. Further, since the weight of the LCD case 7 is not applied to the cover 1 and the rotation moment is small, a commercially available chilled hinge with a stopper can be used, and the support stopper 20 does not need a support column, so
It has an effect that a replenishment space can be secured.

[0028]

According to the present invention, since the LCD case upper cover is on the main body base, it is possible to provide a compact ticket collation terminal device which does not require a maintenance area larger than the ground area of the main body base. Also, since the weight of the LCD is not applied to the cover, the cover can be fixed during rotation with a simple chiller and stopper mechanism, and it is not necessary to install a stopper such as a damper in the maintenance space for easy maintenance. Is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a view on arrow B in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an external mounting configuration diagram.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a conventional example.

FIG. 5 is a side view of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Cover 2 ... Keyboard 3 ... Ticket issuing slot 4 ... Key lock 5 ... Ticket insertion slot 6 ... Main body base 7 ... LCD case 8 ... Printer mechanism 9 ... Roll paper 10 ... Hard disk 11 ... Floppy disk 12 ... Card reader mechanism 13 ... Power supply 14 ... Cover rotating shaft 15 ... Cover hinge 16 ... LCD rotating shaft 17 ... LCD hinge 18 ... LCD rotating shaft 19 ... Control board 20 ... Cover stopper

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued Front Page (72) Inventor Masaharu Teshima 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Hitachi-Asahi Electronics Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The exterior is a hard disk, floppy disk, printer with journal, card reader, power supply,
What is claimed is: 1. A ticket issuing collation terminal device comprising a main body base for mounting a main board, a cover for mounting a keyboard, and an LCD case for mounting an LCD, wherein the LCD case is mounted on the main body base.