JPH05298683A - Manufacture system for magnetic card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To manufacture magnetic cards in a short time at low cost even when a small number of many kind of magnetic cards are produced and to eliminate restrictions of magnetic layers on the design of print layers. CONSTITUTION:A plain card is manufactured by a supply part 10 which supplies a card base, a magnetic layer formation part 20 which forms a magnetic layer on the card base supplied from the supply part, a press part 30 which makes the surface of the card smooth, where the magnetic layer is formed by the magnetic layer formation part, and a card formation part 40 which forms the card base, made smooth by the press part, in a card shape of specific size, and then a pattern layer is formed on the magnetic card by a pattern layer formation part 50.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a magnetic card manufacturing system having a magnetic layer such as a cash card and a credit card.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 9 is a process diagram showing an example of a conventional magnetic card manufacturing method, and FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a conventional magnetic card. A conventional magnetic card manufacturing method is
Printing step a, laminating step b, magnetic layer transfer step c
And a pressing step d and a punching step e.

The printing step a is a step of forming a printing layer 202 by offset printing or screen printing a design such as a design or characters on the front and back surfaces of a card substrate 201 such as a white PVC sheet which is a thermoplastic resin. is there. At this time, a card having a predetermined size is used for the card base 201.
The so-called multi-sided printing, which prints about 50 sheets, is performed. The laminating step b is a step in which an oversheet 203 such as a transparent PVC sheet is attached to the card substrate 201 on which the printed layer 202 is formed and laminated by a hot press machine or the like. In the magnetic layer transfer step c, a transfer magnetic tape slit into a predetermined width is heat-bonded to a predetermined position of the bonded oversheet 203, and after cooling, a base film such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is peeled off. This is a step of transferring the magnetic layer 204.

The pressing step d is a step of fusion-bonding the molded card substrate 201 of the printing layer 22 and the transferred oversheet 203 of the magnetic layer 204 by hot pressing to integrally form a card. At this time, the overseat 20
3 and the surface of the magnetic layer 204 are processed to be smooth. In the pressing step d, a heat sealing agent is applied to the card base 201 on which the printing layer 202 has been formed in advance,
In some cases, the card is integrally formed by bonding the oversheet 203 having the magnetic layer 204 transferred thereto by hot pressing. In the punching step e, the card substrate 20 with multiple surfaces is attached.
1 is a step of punching 1 into a predetermined card size to obtain a magnetic card 200.

[0005]

However, according to the conventional method for manufacturing a magnetic card described above, after forming the printing layer 202, the oversheet 203 and the magnetic layer 204 are formed on the surface of the printing layer 202.
Therefore, the magnetic card 200 could not be manufactured until after the pattern of the printing layer 202 was formed. Therefore, even when a small amount of magnetic cards are manufactured, the time from ordering to delivery is long and it is not suitable for manufacturing a small amount of magnetic cards.

Further, since the card base 201 and the oversheet 203 have a multi-layered structure of about 3 to 8 layers, the material cost becomes high, and at a predetermined position so as not to cover the design of the printing layer 202 and the like. Since the magnetic layer 204 must be molded, it was difficult to register it in the magnetic layer transfer step c. Furthermore, since the printing layer 202 is formed by multi-sided printing, the plate cost is high, and the number of uses is small and wasteful. Furthermore, the card base 20
In No. 1, since the print layer 202 was formed by multiple-sided printing, it was difficult to register the print step a.

On the other hand, the stripe-shaped magnetic layer 204
Since it is formed on the front side of the print layer 202, there is a problem that the design of the print layer 202 is restricted.

The object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, to enable high-speed production at low cost even when high-mix low-volume production is performed, and the design of the printing layer is not restricted by the magnetic layer. It is to provide a magnetic card manufacturing system.

[0009]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a magnetic card manufacturing system according to the present invention is a magnetic card manufacturing system for manufacturing a magnetic card having a magnetic layer of a predetermined width. Preliminarily manufactured a card shape of a predetermined size with a common magnetic layer formed,
According to an order, printing or other additional information unique to each magnetic card may be additionally processed.

In the magnetic card manufacturing system according to the present invention, a supply unit 10 for supplying a card substrate, a magnetic layer forming unit 20 for forming a magnetic layer on the card substrate supplied from the supply unit, and the magnetic layer are provided. A pressing unit 30 for smoothing the surface of the card base on which the magnetic layer is formed by the forming unit, and a card forming unit 40 for forming the card base smoothed by the pressing unit into a card shape having a predetermined size. It can be a feature.

Further, the magnetic card manufacturing system according to the present invention is characterized in that the card manufactured by the magnetic card manufacturing system is provided with a pattern forming portion for forming a pattern layer such as a design or a character. it can.

[0012]

According to the present invention, the magnetic layer is directly formed on the card base by the magnetic layer forming section, and the magnetic card is manufactured by the card forming section. Since this magnetic card is a plain card with no pattern, it can be mass-produced and stocked. After the pattern such as the design is determined, the pattern layer may be formed by the pattern layer forming section provided on another manufacturing line, and thus it is possible to cope with a large variety of products and small quantity production.

[0013]

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the like. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a pattern layer forming portion of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to the embodiment, and FIG. It is a schematic diagram which shows the manufacturing process of the manufacturing system of a card. This magnetic card manufacturing system includes a supply unit 10 and a magnetic layer molding unit 2 shown in FIG.
0, the press section 30, and the card molding section 40 are arranged on one manufacturing line, and the pattern layer forming section 50 shown in FIG.
Only has another production line.

The supply section 10 is a section for supplying the card base 101, and is formed and supplied by injection molding or the like. The supply unit 10 includes, for example, an injection molding machine 11 and a polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), vinyl chloride-
Vinyl acetate copolymer (PVCA), acrylonitrile-
By supplying a thermoplastic synthetic resin such as butadiene-styrene copolymer (ABS) and molding it into a predetermined shape and thickness by a molding roll 12, and fixing the shape and thickness by a cooling roll 13, a card substrate 101 is supplied [see FIG. 3 (A)].

The magnetic layer forming portion 20 is a portion for forming the magnetic layer 102 on the card substrate 101 supplied from the supplying portion 10, and is formed by magnetic tape transfer or the like. The magnetic layer forming unit 20 supplies a magnetic tape 21 a that can be thermally transferred from a magnetic tape roll 22, and the magnetic tape 21 a
The magnetic layer 21b of a is heated by the heating roll 23 to the card substrate 101.
After the transfer, the peeled roll 24 peels off the transferred tape 21c, and the rolled tape 25 is wound up, so that the magnetic layer 10 is placed at a predetermined position on the card substrate 101.
2 (the magnetic layer 21b is transferred) is formed [FIG.
(B)].

The press section 30 is a section for smoothing the magnetic layer 102 formed on the card base 101 by the magnetic layer forming section 20 so that the magnetic layer 102 is flush with the surface of the card base 101. The pressing unit 30 presses the unevenness of the magnetic layer 102 formed on the card base 101 with a plurality of heating rolls 31 to smooth the surface of the card base 101, and then cools it with a cooling roll 32 to fix it. (See FIG. 3C).

The card forming portion 40 is a portion for punching the card base 101 smoothed by the pressing portion 30 into a magnetic card 100 having a predetermined size. This card molding part 40
Is an accumulator 41 for accumulating the card base 101 in order to intermittently feed the card base 101.
Based on information from the intermittent feed control unit 42 that controls the sideley (horizontal) and intermittent feed (longitudinal), the position register reading mechanism 43 that reads the punching position register (vertical and horizontal), and the rotational speed based on the information from the intermittent feed controller 42. By changing the magnetic card 100 having a predetermined size, the intermittent feed roller 44 that intermittently feeds the card base 101 according to the punching speed, and the plurality of punching punches and dies to move the card base 101 to a predetermined size (see FIG. 3).
(See (D)], a punching machine 45 for punching, a card collecting section 46 for collecting the magnetic card 100, and a punching dust collecting roll 47 for collecting punched dust.

The magnetic card 10 manufactured in this way
0 is stocked as a plain card. When the card design or the like is determined according to the customer's order, the pattern layer forming unit 50 as shown in FIG. 2 forms the pattern layer 103 on the plain magnetic card 100 by a printing method or the like. In the case of the printing method, the pattern layer forming unit 50 includes a card supply unit 51 that supplies the magnetic card 100, a printer 52 that prints the pattern layer 103 on the magnetic card 100, and a magnetic card on which the pattern layer 103 is formed. Dryer 53 for drying 100 [see FIG. 3 (E)] and dried magnetic card 10
A glossing roll 54 for glossing 0, and a pattern layer 103
And a card collecting section 55 for collecting the magnetic card 100A (see FIG. 3 (F)). In the printing machine 52, an overcoat layer for protecting the pattern layer 103 may be formed with an overcoat varnish or the like, if necessary. As the overcoat layer, a layer containing a synthetic resin such as cellulose acetate, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, acrylate as a main component can be used. Further, the magnetic card manufacturing system of this embodiment can be combined into one manufacturing line by connecting the manufacturing line shown in FIG. 1 and the manufacturing line shown in FIG.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made, which are also within the scope of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the supply unit may supply the thermoplastic synthetic resin to be the card base 101 by the card base roll 61, or may supply the sheet-shaped card base.

The magnetic layer forming portion may be formed by magnetic silk screen printing as shown in FIG. In this case, the magnetic layer forming unit 70A screen-prints the magnetic ink to form a magnetic layer.
Immediately after forming the magnetic layer, an aligner 72 that orients the direction of the magnetic material in a certain direction to match the magnetization direction during magnetic recording, and a drier 73 that dries the oriented magnetic layer.
It can consist of

Further, the magnetic layer forming portion may be formed by a coater method as shown in FIG. In this case, the magnetic layer forming unit 70B can be configured by a coater 74 that prints magnetic ink by a coater method to form a magnetic layer, an aligner 72 similar to the above, and a drier 73. ..

The card molding section may mold the card into a predetermined size by a cutting machine (not shown). In this case,
The magnetic card 100 may be cut into one, or 2 to 10
You may cut in the state of multiple imposition of about one sheet. In the case of the multiple face attachment, the pattern layer forming unit 50 may form the face by the multiple face attach and punch the magnetic card 100 with the punching machine 45.

The pattern layer forming portion may be formed by a sublimation transfer method as shown in FIG. In this case, the sublimation transfer device 80 performs image processing on the image information captured by the video camera 81 by the computer 82, and forms the pattern layer 103 on the magnetic card 100 by sublimation transfer by the sublimation transfer printer 83. Sublimation transfer is a method in which a dye that is sublimable is used to evaporate the dye by heat, and the evaporated dye is adhered to and dyed on a support (magnetic card) to be transferred. If necessary, an overcoat layer for protecting the pattern layer may be formed.

In the pattern layer forming portion, as shown in FIG. 8, a transfer pet 91 having a pattern layer formed on a transfer sheet such as PET is aligned with the magnetic stripe of the magnetic card 100 as a reference. , Stick it on the magnetic card 100,
The magnetic card 10 is applied to the pattern layer by a heating roll (not shown).
It may be transferred to 0. In addition, the magnetic layer forming unit 2
In 0, even if a magnetic layer is not formed, a predetermined card is punched out by the card forming unit 40, and a pattern is formed on a plain card by the pattern layer forming unit 50, so that a card without a magnetic layer is manufactured. Good.

Next, the difference between magnetic cards such as cash cards and credit cards (hereinafter referred to as cash cards) to which the present invention is applied and magnetic cards such as telephone cards and orange cards (hereinafter referred to as prepaid cards). The points will be described. Cash cards, etc. are stipulated in Japan by JIS X 6301 and standard specifications for magnetic cards, etc. as materials, shapes, dimensions, physical characteristics, positions and dimensions of magnetic stripes, electromagnetic conversion characteristics of magnetic stripes, etc. There is. Also, the magnetic information recording format of the card is defined by JIS X 6302 as a standard. Furthermore, this JIS X
6301, JIS X 6302 is an ISO standard IS
Since it is based on O 2894 and ISO 3554,
We are also satisfied with international standards. Although cash cards and the like are defined by the above-mentioned standard, additional processing of print information and the like is unique information of the cards, and is not defined as rules of cash cards and the like.

The magnetic card manufacturing system according to the present invention is
Up to a card shape with a magnetic layer satisfying the above definition,
The magnetic card is manufactured in advance. This magnetic card is a plain card with no pattern, can be mass-produced and stored, and can be subjected to additional processing after design information unique to the card and pattern printing information such as characters are determined.

Since cash cards and the like have been used for a long period of time, an oversheet layer has been laminated in order to protect the printed layer of a card substrate from rubbing, scratching, etc. Therefore, the printed layer is determined. It could not be manufactured unless However, according to the present invention, since the printed layer can be protected by the overcoat layer, the magnetic layer is formed so as to satisfy the above-mentioned standard, and the magnetic card previously manufactured into a card shape of a predetermined size is manufactured. hand,
Additional processing can be performed after the design peculiar to the card and the pattern printing information such as characters are decided according to the order.

On the other hand, in the prepaid card,
Material, shape, size, physical characteristics, position and size of magnetic layer,
Since the electromagnetic conversion characteristics of the magnetic layer, the magnetic information recording format, etc. are not defined as standards, the prepaid card can be used for each card depending on the individual usage status, required functions, manufacturing cost, reader / writer used, etc. Individual standards are established. For this reason, since there is nothing common as a magnetic card, the magnetic card must be manufactured for each individual card. Furthermore, since the prepaid card is a disposable card whose number of times of use is fixed, the manufacturing cost is low and the durability of the protective layer of the printing layer is low.

In the prior art, since the prepaid card is mass-produced, a roll of wide polyethylene terephthalate (PET) 301 or the like is preliminarily coated with the coater C.
Magnetic ink 302 on either side
To form the magnetic layer (magnetic layer forming step f) and the magnetic hiding ink 303 to form the magnetic hiding layer (magnetic layer hiding step g) over the entire width. Next, after slitting to a predetermined width (slitting step h), a sheet-shaped sheet processing (sheet processing step i) is used as a card substrate.

When a large number of sheets are manufactured, the ink 304
After forming a printing layer by (printing layer forming step j), a protective layer is formed on the surface of the printing layer (protecting layer forming step k).
Then, a magnetic card (prepaid card) 300 is obtained by punching into a predetermined size (punching step m). On the other hand, when the number of sheets to be manufactured is small, punching is performed in advance to a predetermined size (punching step n), a printing layer is formed by the ink 304 (printing layer forming step p), and then the surface of the printing layer is formed. A protective layer is formed (protective layer forming step q) to obtain a magnetic card (prepaid card) 300 ′.

In the prior art, as described above, in order to mass-produce the coater C, a large number of magnetic layers having a predetermined width as in the present invention must be formed. It is difficult for a layer to satisfy predetermined conditions such as meandering, coat thickness, cord width and magnetic properties. Therefore, the method of manufacturing a prepaid card cannot form a magnetic layer having a predetermined width on a part of the card as in the present invention.

Further, in the prior art, the formation of the magnetic layer of the prepaid card by the coater C requires a sufficient drying process and the like, so that the equipment of the coater C becomes large in scale, and thus the magnetic substance is formed on the card base. The layer forming part and the pattern forming part are separated and batch processed. Therefore, unlike the present invention, the part where the magnetic layer is formed and the part where the pattern is formed cannot be made into one manufacturing line.

[0033]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a large amount of plain magnetic cards without a pattern layer can be manufactured, so that the manufacturing time and the manufacturing cost can be greatly reduced and the material cost can be reduced. it can. Further, since a plain magnetic card is prepared and a pattern layer can be formed in a post-process in accordance with an order, it is possible to cope with a large variety of products and a small amount of production.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a pattern layer forming unit of the magnetic card manufacturing system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a process diagram showing a magnetic card manufacturing system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a supply unit of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to another embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a magnetic layer forming unit of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a view showing a magnetic layer forming unit of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to still another embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a pattern layer forming unit of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to another embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a pattern layer forming unit of a magnetic card manufacturing system according to still another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a process drawing showing an example of a conventional magnetic card manufacturing method.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view showing an example of a conventional magnetic card.

FIG. 11 is a process chart showing an example of a conventional method for manufacturing a prepaid card.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Supply Part 11 Injection Molding Machine 12 Molding Roll 13 Cooling Roll 20 Magnetic Layer Forming Part 21 Magnetic Transfer Tape 22 Magnetic Tape Roll 23 Heating Roll 24 Peeling Roll 25 Transferred Tape Roll 30 Pressing Part 31 Heating Roll 32 Cooling Roll 40 Card Forming Part 41 Accumulator 42 Intermittent Feed Control Unit 43 Position Register Reading Mechanism 44 Intermittent Feed Roller 45 Punching Punching Machine 46 Card Collecting Unit 47 Punching Waste Collecting Roll 50 Pattern Layer Forming Unit 51 Card Supplying Unit 52 Printing Unit 53 Dryer 54 Glowing Roll 55 Card Collection unit 100 Magnetic card 101 Card base 102 Magnetic layer 103 Design layer

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A magnetic card manufacturing system for manufacturing a magnetic card having a magnetic layer of a predetermined width, wherein a card shape having a predetermined size in which a magnetic layer common to the magnetic card is formed is manufactured in advance, and an order is accepted. A magnetic card manufacturing system characterized by additionally processing additional information such as printing unique to each magnetic card. 2. A supply unit for supplying a card base, a magnetic layer formation unit for forming a magnetic layer on the card base supplied from the supply unit, and a card base for which a magnetic layer is formed by the magnetic layer formation unit. A magnetic card manufacturing system, comprising: a press section for smoothing a surface; and a card molding section for molding a card substrate smoothed by the press section into a card shape having a predetermined size. 3. A magnetic card manufacturing system, characterized in that the card manufactured by the magnetic card manufacturing system according to claim 2 is provided with a pattern forming portion for forming a pattern layer such as a design or a character.