JPH053635B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention is applicable to vehicle entry and exit, calculation of parking fees,
The present invention also relates to a parking card with a liquid crystal display suitable for use in a parking lot where all management operations such as collection are performed unmanned or partially manned under the supervision of a computer or the like.

At paid parking lots with entrance/exit gates, you usually receive a parking ticket that records the time of entry, etc. when you enter the parking lot, and when you exit the parking lot, you put this parking ticket into an automatic fare adjustment machine to calculate the parking fee, and the machine calculates the parking fee. After paying the parking fee, the exit gate will open and you can exit the parking lot. However, for regular customers who frequently use the parking lot, it is extremely troublesome to receive a parking ticket or pay a parking fee each time they park, and they must always have small change on hand. Collecting parking fees in cash is cumbersome, and there is a high risk of theft, so it is necessary to strengthen the fee collection mechanism or have a dedicated employee manage the collected fees. As a result, there was a disadvantageous problem for the parking lot side, which was that manufacturing costs and management costs increased accordingly.

Therefore, we came up with the idea of a fixed-term parking card, but since it is purchased by paying a fee in advance, regardless of the number of times (time) you park, it is not suitable for customers who use it infrequently. There is a problem with it being expensive. Also, like the recently developed phone card,
It was also considered to use a parking card based on a ticket system, in which a fee corresponding to the number of usage times (number of parking hours) is subtracted from the sequential fee, but in the case of a parking card based on a multiple ticket system, the fee is charged every time the parking lot is entered and exited. Since the time etc. cannot be displayed (printed) on the card, it is not possible to know from the card the number of hours the car was actually parked, the parking fee paid, or the balance of the coupon ticket.
Even if for some reason an error occurs in the entry/exit time, parking time, fare, etc. recorded on the management machine, there is a problem in that it is not possible to identify or point out the error.

In addition, when using the above-mentioned parking ticket system, it may be possible to issue a regular parking ticket at the same time each time the vehicle enters the parking lot, and to print the fare and time on the parking ticket and visually check it when exiting the parking lot. However, having to insert and remove both a parking card and a parking ticket every time you park your car becomes a double hassle, and even if you achieve the goal of eliminating cash, it actually makes the procedure for entering and exiting the parking lot more troublesome. There was a problem with high management costs.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned points, and its purpose is to record parking fee payments on a pre-purchased card, without issuing a parking ticket each time the vehicle enters a parking lot. This can be done with a cashless system that subtracts the parking fee from the principal amount, and also shows the parking fee, parking fee, and entry/exit time on the card each time it is used.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a parking card with a liquid crystal display that displays the balance amount on the liquid crystal display so that the customer can visually check the parking situation on the card.
Every time you insert a parking card with amount information that sequentially subtracts the amount of parking fees into the parking lot's entry and exit management machines and perform parking and exit processing, the time of entry and exit is calculated. The above-mentioned objectives are achieved by providing a liquid crystal display section that displays the parking fee or balance on a liquid crystal display.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a parking lot management device using a parking card with a liquid crystal display according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a parking lot 10 entrance 10A.
11 is a first entrance vehicle detector such as a photoelectric detector or a loop coil detector installed on the entrance side of the entrance 10A, and a vehicle proceeding in the direction of arrow PA is detected by this detector. After passing through the vessel 11,
A detection signal f1 is inputted from the detector 11 to the warehousing management machine 1, and the warehousing management machine 1 opens the shutter 2 of the card receiving slot 1a to enable the reception of the parking card P based on this signal f1.

As shown in Figure 2, the parking card P is made entirely of a thin plate like a bank savings card or credit card using a synthetic resin plate such as vinyl chloride, and has a magnetic recording medium formed on the card surface. P1 records the entry time record field and the amount information that can be used for this card P (2,000 yen in the case shown), and the card also has indexes for entry, exit, charge, and balance. Liquid crystal display sections P2, P3, P4, and P5 are formed to display the parking time, exit time, parking fee, and current balance of amount information.
A signal terminal P6 is provided for inputting a control signal for operating the display. P7 is a one-chip microcomputer element (IC chip) embedded in the card P, and if the memory of this element is provided with an area for the above-mentioned storage time and amount information, the formation of the above-mentioned magnetic recording medium P1 becomes unnecessary. However, for example, the time of warehousing may be recorded on the magnetic recording medium P1, and the amount information may be recorded on this element P7. Although not shown, a battery for maintaining the liquid crystal display is also embedded together with this element P7.

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the warehousing card processing device 1A provided inside the warehousing management machine 1 configured to allow the parking card P configured as described above to be freely inserted. As shown in the figure, a card insertion passage 3 is connected to the card reception slot 1a equipped with a shutter 2 that opens with a shutter 2, and a card detector 4 consisting of a pair of light-emitting and light-receiving elements is provided at the entrance of this passage 3. detects the insertion of the parking card P, the motor 5 starts rotating in the forward direction and the card feed roller 6
The parking card P into which the parking cards a and 6b are inserted is pulled into the passageway 3. Reference numeral 7 indicates a magnetic head provided in the middle of the passage 3. The magnetic head 7 stores the magnetic recording medium P of the parking card P sent in.
The secret code and amount information recorded on the medium P1 are read, and the storage time is recorded on the medium P1. If it is determined as a result of reading by the magnetic head 7 that the parking card P is not a legitimate card or that the registered amount is zero, the parking card P will be returned and a message to that effect will be displayed.
Further, 8 is a main body signal terminal provided at the inner bottom of the card insertion passage 3, and when the signal terminal P6 of the inserted parking card P is connected to this main body signal terminal 8, a microcomputer etc. is used to configure the main body signal terminal 8. In response to the control signal sent from the arithmetic processing unit 1T, the parking card P's parking time (current time) is displayed on the parking liquid crystal display section P2. Note that the configuration of the calculation processing unit 1T is a simplified configuration of the calculation processing unit of the shipping management machine described later.
A detailed explanation thereof will be omitted in favor of the explanation that will be given later.

Reference numeral 12 denotes an opening/closing actuator for an entrance gate 12G provided on the path of the entrance 10A, and this actuator 12 inserts the parking card P into the guard receiving opening 1 of the warehousing management machine 1.
When a is extracted, the gate opening signal f2 outputted from the arithmetic processing section 20T is activated to open the entrance gate 12G, allowing the vehicle to enter. Reference numeral 13 denotes a second entrance vehicle detector, and when a vehicle enters the detector 13 by opening the entrance gate 12G, the arithmetic processing unit 2
In addition to outputting a warehousing confirmation signal f5 to the gate T, a gate closing signal f3 is output to the gate opening/closing actuator 12 to close the entrance gate 12G.

The vehicle that has passed through the entrance 10A as described above enters the parking area of the parking lot 10 as indicated by the arrow PAf.

Next, 21 is a first exit vehicle detector installed at the exit 10B of the parking lot 10. When a vehicle exiting the garage passes over this detector 21 as shown by the arrow PB, the exit vehicle also installed at the exit 10B is detected. The acceptance start signal f4 is output to the management machine 20, and the card acceptance slot 20
The shutter 22 provided at a opens to allow insertion of the parking card P. Inside the card receiving slot 21a, as described with reference numerals in FIG.
0A is provided. That is, in Figure 3, 2
3 is a card insertion passage, 24 is a card detector, 25
is a motor, 26a and 26b are card feed rollers,
27 is a magnetic head, and 28 is a main body signal terminal.

The magnetic head 28 reads the parking time recorded on the magnetic recording medium P1 of the incoming parking card P. When the main body signal terminal 28 is connected and conductive to the signal terminal P6 of the parking card P, the arithmetic processing unit 20T outputs the signal terminal P6 of the parking card P.
The time difference between the entry time and the exit time (current time) recorded on the parking liquid crystal display section P2 is calculated into the parking fee, and this parking fee is calculated based on the amount information recorded on the magnetic recording medium P1 of the parking card P. The record of the amount information is updated (decreased) by subtracting the amount, and each liquid crystal display section P2 to P2 of the parking card P is
At P4, the calculated times and amounts are displayed on the liquid crystal display.

When using the 1-chip microcomputer element P7 without using the magnetic recording medium P1, reading of the storage time and updating of each information are carried out by the magnetic head 2.
Of course, the arithmetic processing unit 20 instead of 8 performs this.

In the figure, 20B is a cash slot used to pay the insufficient amount in cash when the parking fee cannot be paid with the amount recorded on the parking card P, and 20C is a cash slot used to pay the insufficient amount in cash. It is a display device that displays information. Further, 29 is an opening/closing actuator for an exit gate 29G provided on the path of the exit 10B, and when the above-mentioned parking card P, on which the parking fee has been paid, is pulled out from the card receiving slot 21a, this actuator 29 operates as follows: The exit gate 29G is activated by the gate opening signal f5 outputted from the arithmetic processing section 20T to enable the vehicle to leave the garage.
Further, 30 is a second exit vehicle detector, and when a vehicle exiting the garage passes over this detector 30, it outputs a gate close signal f6 to the actuator 29 to close the exit gate 2.
Close 9G and complete the removal of the vehicle as shown by arrow PBf.

Next, the electrical configuration of the arithmetic processing unit 20T built into the delivery management machine 20 will be explained with reference to FIG. 4.

As shown in the figure, the arithmetic processing section 20T constructed using a microcomputer etc. is mainly composed of an arithmetic control section CPU31 that monitors the overall control, and the main parts of the flowchart described later are stored in this PU31. ROM 32, clock circuit 33, insufficient charge adjustment machine 34, card detector 24 of the exit management machine 20, card feed motor 25, magnetic head 27, main body signal terminal 28, exit gate opening/closing actuator 29, display 20C are connected to each other via a bus.

Next, based on the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the operation when parking a vehicle in and out of a garage using the above-described parking card P of the present invention will be described. The main parts of these flowcharts at the time of warehouse entry and exit are the ROM (not shown) of the arithmetic processing unit 1T and the ROM3 of the arithmetic processing unit 20T.
4 is programmed and stored.

First, in the first step S1 of the parking process shown in FIG. 5, the output of the card detector 4 is checked to determine whether or not the parking card P has been inserted.
When the parking card P is inserted, the process proceeds to the next step S2, where the card feeding motor 5 is started to rotate normally, and the parking card P is pulled into the passage 3. In the next step S3, the magnetic head 7 reads the secret number etc. recorded on the parking card P to determine whether the card is a legitimate card or not. If the card is a legitimate card, the process proceeds to the next step S4 and records the information. Check the amount information listed and check whether there is an amount (balance).
If the inserted parking card P is a fraudulent card or if there is no balance, the process advances to step S13 and the card is immediately ejected.

In step S5, the signal terminal P6 of the pulled-in parking card P connects to the main body signal terminal 8 and becomes electrically conductive. In the next step S6, the entry time is stored in the memory of the one-chip microcomputer element P7 of the parking card P. In the next step S7, the same data as the entry time data stored in the memory is sent out, and the parking card P is stored in the parking card P. The storage time is displayed on the liquid crystal display section P2. Incidentally, if the storage time is magnetically recorded, the magnetic head 7 performs this at the time of card ejection, which will be described later.

At step S8, the card feed motor 5 is reversed to eject the card, and the next step S9
Then, it is determined whether or not the parking card P has been removed from the card receiving slot 1a, and when the parking card P has been removed, the process advances to the next step S10 and the parking card P is removed from the entrance gate 12G.
opens to allow vehicle entry and proceed to the next step.
In S11, it is determined whether or not the second entrance vehicle detector 13 has detected an incoming vehicle, and if it is detected, the next step is started.
In S12, the entrance gate 12G is closed to complete the warehousing process.

In addition, in the shipping process shown in FIG. 6, the detector 2
4, the card is drawn in by normal rotation of the card feed motor 25, and the magnetic head 27 determines whether or not the card is a legitimate card.
After S20, S21, and S22 are performed in the same way as when entering the warehouse,
When both terminals P6 and 28 are coupled and conductive in the next step S23, the warehousing data (warehousing time) stored in the element P7 is read out in the next step S24.

In the next step S25, the parking time, that is, the parking fee, is calculated based on the entry time and the current time (card insertion/exit time) read from the element P7, and when the calculation is completed, it is recorded on the parking card P in the next step S26. Compare this parking fee with the amount information stored in the memory (memory amount), and if the amount in memory is greater, proceed to the next step S27 and display the entry time, exit time, parking fee, and balance on each LCD of the parking card P. The display portions P2, P3, P4, and P5 display liquid crystal displays as shown in FIG. The above memory amount will be rewritten to the same amount as the balance when it is displayed on the LCD, but if the amount information is magnetic information, the time of arrival can be read before connecting to the terminal, and the amount can be rewritten using the magnetic information when the card is ejected. Head 27 does this.

Furthermore, if it is determined that the amount is insufficient in step S26, this fact and the amount of shortage are displayed on the display 20C in step S28, and when the insufficient amount is paid in cash in step S29, the process returns to step S27. In this case, the balance becomes 0 and cannot be used again.

After the liquid crystal display is completed in step S27, the card is ejected by reversing the motor 25 in the next step S30, and if the amount information is magnetic information,
As mentioned above, during the discharge, the amount rewriting process of step S31 is performed, that is, the magnetic head 27 updates and records on the card the remaining amount obtained by subtracting the parking fee from the memory amount. After rewriting the amount, the exit gate 2 is the same as steps S8 to S11 when warehousing.
Each step to open and close 9G S32, S33, S34, S35
is executed and the removal of the vehicle is completed.

Generally, the displays on each of the liquid crystal displays P2 to P5 are configured to automatically disappear after a certain period of time to save power, and the balance can only be checked using a dedicated button (not shown) on the parking card P. In some cases, the screen may be configured so that it can be displayed on a liquid crystal display at any time by pressing .

The parking card according to the present invention is as described above, and while it is possible to pay the parking fee without cash as long as there is a memory amount remaining, it is also possible to pay the parking fee without paying the parking fee each time you enter or exit the parking lot, the parking fee, and the memory. Since the remaining amount is displayed on each display section on the card, the parking card can be used safely and accurately while visually checking this information, and there is no need for a ticket issuing machine. It also has the advantage of greatly simplifying the structure of the warehousing control machine and reducing manufacturing costs.
Since the structure is simple and easy to implement, this system is particularly suitable for allowing regular drivers to use an unmanned parking lot where the parking lot is managed unmanned.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the schematic configuration of a parking lot using a parking card according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of a parking card with a liquid crystal display according to an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a parking management control. Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the arithmetic processing unit, and Figs. 5 and 6 show each processing procedure at the time of warehousing and warehousing. This is the flowchart shown. P...Parking card, P1...Magnetic recording medium recording amount information, P2, P3, P4, P5...Liquid crystal display unit, 1...Entering management machine, 20...Exiting management machine, 1T, 20T... Arithmetic processing unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A parking card with amount information that allows parking,
A liquid crystal display is provided for the current balance of parking fee and amount information, as well as entry and exit times with indexes for exit, fee, and balance.When this card is inserted into the parking management machine at the parking lot, parking The liquid crystal display displays the time of entry and exit, and when this card is inserted into the exit control machine in the parking lot, the entry and exit times are displayed on each LCD display, and the parking fee is displayed on the LCD. The parking charge calculated from the times of entry and exit is displayed in the parking area, and the current balance liquid crystal display part displays the current balance of amount information after deducting the calculated parking charge. Parking card with LCD display. 2. The amount information is recorded by a magnetic head,
The parking card according to claim 1, wherein the parking card is magnetic information that can be updated. 3. The parking card according to claim 1, wherein the amount information is memory information stored in a rewritable manner in a memory of a one-chip microcomputer element embedded in the card.