JPH0520530A - Card issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the cost of a card itself and to effectively use resources by discounting a prescribed fare in accordance with the use history of a card and entering prescribed new data on the inserted card to issue it. CONSTITUTION:When a commutation ticket (e) already used twice is inserted to a main body (a), communication is started through a communication control part C of the main body (a) and the communication control part of the commutation ticket (e) to read contents of the storage part of the commutation ticket (e). This read-out data is subjected to arithmetic processing to not only decide the classification of the term of the commutation ticket (e) but also detect the frequency in repeated use of the commutation ticket (e) itself, and the fare reduced in accordance with this frequency is calculated and displayed on a display picture 2. When receiving the fare displayed on the display picture 2, a clerk operates a keyboard 4 to perform the ticket issue processing. That is, data of the term of validity of the inserted commutation ticket (e) is rewritten with a new term of validity and printed contents and the frequency in repeated use on the surface are rewritten to issue the commutation ticket.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card issuing device, and in particular, when the cost of the card itself is relatively high, the repeated use of the card is promoted to substantially reduce the cost of the card itself. The present invention relates to a card issuing device that can be operated.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an IC card having a large storage capacity has been widely used in various information devices, and even in an automatic ticket gate, an IC card type contactless commuter pass with a communication function is available. Proposed (for example, JP-A 1-2)
46687). This non-contact type commuter pass has the advantage that it can be automatically ticketed without inserting the commuter pass into the automatic ticket gate body.

[0003]

However, since IC cards (hereinafter referred to as cards or cards) applicable to the non-contact type commuter pass have an arithmetic circuit and a power supply circuit inside, they are currently used. There is a drawback that the cost of the card itself is higher than that of the magnetic card used.
For example, when this card is applied to a commuter pass, it is discarded after the expiration date of the commuter pass, leading to a waste of resources.

Therefore, according to the present invention, such a card is
It was made paying attention to the fact that it is possible to easily rewrite the data of predetermined items, and to note that the card itself has a long life of several years due to recent technological advances,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a card issuance device capable of issuing a card that a user can positively desire to reuse.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the device of the present invention issues cards such as a commuter pass in which data of a predetermined matter is recorded when a condition of a predetermined amount of money is satisfied. In the card issuing device, detection means for detecting the usage history of the cards inserted in the main body of the card issuing device, and a predetermined discount rate from a predetermined prescribed charge based on the usage history detected by the detecting means And a issuing control means for recording and issuing predetermined new matter data to the inserted card when the condition of the amount reduced by the reducing means is satisfied, Is characterized by having.

[0006]

In the above structure, when the detecting means detects the usage history of the cards inserted in the main body of the card issuing device, the reducing means reduces the amount of money according to the predetermined discount rate based on the detected usage history. Ask for the charges made. And
When the condition of the amount of the charge is satisfied, the issuing control means records the data of the predetermined new matter in the inserted card and issues it.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a main body a of a card issuing device for issuing a non-contact type commuter pass a as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.

In this non-contact type commuter pass (a), characters such as a boarding section and a valid period similar to those of a known commuter pass are rewritably printed on the surface (a). To rewrite the print, a thermal recording medium having two kinds of temperature bands, that is, a coloring temperature band and an erasing temperature band, as shown in JP-A-1-304996, is applied to the surface a '. Can be done using. Further, inside the non-contact type commuter pass a, like the well-known non-contact type commuter pass, a storage unit 20 in which data such as the print contents of the front side a'is stored and is stored in the storage unit 20. It has a calculation unit 21 that performs calculation processing based on existing data, a communication control unit 22 that exchanges data with an automatic ticket gate body (not shown), and a power supply unit 23.

On the upper part of the front panel 1 of the main body a, a display screen 2, an insertion slot 3 for a commuter pass a and a keyboard 4 are provided in order from the upper part to the lower part. A central processing unit (CPU) 1 for performing arithmetic processing on the internal controller C using the system program stored in the ROM 10 and the working data stored in the RAM 11.
Two are provided. Then, the CPU 12
A communication control unit 14 for exchanging data with the inserted commuter pass B and a display driver 15 for the display screen 2 are connected via the / O unit 13. In addition to the above, various amplifiers such as sensors and drivers such as a printing mechanism are connected to the I / O unit 13, but they are omitted because they are not directly related to the description of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a discount table T for commuter commuter passes stored in the RAM 11 in advance. The commuter pass discount table T indicates the period and the number of updates, that is, the usage history of how many times the commuter pass itself has been used. , Includes the discount rate according to its provenance. Although not shown, such a discount table T is also prepared for a school commuter pass. Also,
Various discount tables are also provided when the new period is changed from 3 months to 1 month.

Next, the control operation of the apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Now, suppose that the commuter pass B, which has already been used twice repeatedly, is inserted into the main body a (Yes in step 100. Hereinafter, step is referred to as S). The communication of the commuter pass a inserted in the main body a is started via the communication control unit 14 of the main body a and the communication control unit 22 of the commuter pass a, and the contents of the storage unit 20 of the commuter pass a are read ( S102). Then, the read data is arithmetically processed to determine the type of period of the commuter pass a, the number of times of repeated use (use history) of the commuter pass a itself is detected, and the number of times of use is determined according to the number of uses. The reduced charge is calculated and displayed on the display screen 2 (S104, S10).
6, S108, S110). Since the charge displayed on the display screen 2 is the third repeated use, 0.6% off the regular charge for a one-month commuter pass, and 3% off the regular charge for a three-month commuter pass. If you have a 6-month commuter pass, you will get a 7% discount.

When the clerk has accepted the fee displayed on the display screen 2, the keyboard 4 is operated to execute the ticket issuing process (Yes at S112, S114). This ticket issuing process is performed by rewriting the data of the validity period of the inserted commuter pass B to a new validity period and rewriting the print contents of the front face B '. At this time, the number of times the commuter pass B has been used repeatedly (the number of updates) is also rewritten (see B in FIG. 5).

As described above, according to the history of use of the commuter pass a, the device of this embodiment is issued at a discounted discount from the prescribed charge, so that the user positively repeatedly uses the commuter pass itself. It is possible to reduce the cost of the ticket itself and contribute to the effective use of resources.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the ticket issuing process is carried out when the clerk receives the fee. However, like the well-known automatic ticket vending machine, the main body a is provided with a money processing function so that the user can use it. It may be performed by itself by putting money of the fee displayed on the display unit into the main body a. Further, although the issued card is the commuter pass B, the card can be used as an external storage device of a personal computer and the data in the storage device can be rewritten with the latest data for a fee.

[0015]

The device of the present invention is designed to be issued at a discount from the prescribed fee depending on the history of use of the card, so that the user will positively repeatedly use the card itself and the cost of the card itself. Can contribute to effective use of resources.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a controller.

FIG. 3 is a discount table stored in RAM.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control operation.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a non-contact type commuter pass.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a non-contact type commuter pass.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Display screen 3 Insertion port 4 Keyboard C Controller (detection means, reduction means, issuance control means) a Commuter pass (cards, cards)

Claims (1)

What is claimed is: 1. A card issuing device for issuing cards such as commuter tickets in which data of predetermined items are recorded when a condition of a predetermined amount of money is satisfied. Detecting means for detecting the usage history of the cards inserted in the main body of the device, and a reduction means for reducing the usage history detected by the detection means from a predetermined regulation fee in accordance with a predetermined discount rate; Issuance control means for recording and issuing data of predetermined new matter in the inserted cards when the condition of the amount reduced by the means is satisfied, and issuance of cards apparatus.