JPH0567122A - Card processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a user to recognize the approach of an expiration date before the expiration date elapses by displaying the fact that the number of days to the expiration date of a card goes less than that of near-end set in advance when it arrives. CONSTITUTION:This card processor 1 is comprised by connecting a keyboard 20, a display 30, a printer 40, a card reader/writer 50, and memory 60 to a CPU 10. When a premium card is inserted into the card processor 1 in transaction processing, the CPU 10 reads data written on the premium card by using the card reader/writer 50. Thence, the number of remaining days is calculated by subtracting expiration date data read from the premium card from the present date. When the number of remaining days shows a value less than the number of days of near-end, the fact that the expiration date approaches is displayed the display 30. Thereby, the user can recognize the above fact before the expiration date elapses.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention executes transaction processing through a card storing data such as expiration date,
The present invention relates to a card processing device that writes new data to a card.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Premium points issued to members and corresponding to the transaction amount are added and stored for each transaction processing,
There are premium cards that offer services according to points. Some of these premium cards have an expiration date, and it is necessary to disable a premium card whose expiration date has passed during transaction processing. Therefore, the conventional card processing device reads the expiration date data written in the premium card, compares it with the current date and time, and outputs an error message when the premium card with the expired expiration date is inserted. There is.

[0003]

However, in the conventional card processing device, there is no way to know the approach of the card before the expiration date of the card, and it is necessary to confirm that the card cannot be used only after the expiration date. There is a problem in that it may happen that appropriate continuous processing may not be performed in advance.

An object of the present invention is to notify in advance that the expiration date of a card is imminent by displaying that fact when the number of days until the expiration date of the card becomes less than or equal to a preset near-end number of days. It is an object of the present invention to provide a card processing device capable of ensuring that an appropriate continuation procedure is executed.

[0005]

In the card processing device of the present invention, a storage means for storing a preset number of near-end days and a difference between the expiration date read from the card and the current date and time are stored in the storage means. And a display means for displaying that the expiration date of the card is approaching when the number of days is less than the number of near-end days.

[0006]

In the card processing device of the present invention, the expiration date data is read from the presented card and the difference between the expiration date and the current date and time is compared with the preset number of near-end days. In this comparison, the display means displays that the expiration date of the card is approaching when the difference between the expiration date and the current date and time is smaller than the number of near-end days.

Therefore, the user can know that the expiration date is approaching before the expiration date of the card by the instruction from the clerk who sees the displayed contents.

[0008]

1 is a block diagram showing the construction of a card processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Card processing device 1
Is configured by connecting a keyboard 20, a display device 30, a printer 40, a card reader / writer 50, and a memory 60 to the CPU 10. As shown in FIG. 2, the keyboard 20 is composed of a numeric key 21, a transaction key 22 and a card reference key 23. The numerical key 21 is a key for inputting the transaction amount. Transaction key 22 is numeric key 21
It is operated when registering the amount of money input by. The card reference key 23 is operated when referring to the data written in the presented premium card.

The display 30 displays a predetermined message to the operator (clerk) and the user. Further, the printer 40 prints out a part of the displayed contents on a predetermined paper. The card reader / writer 50 reads / writes data from / to a premium card inserted in an insertion slot (not shown). The memory 60 stores a program that defines the operation of the CPU 10, and also stores the expiration near end days in a predetermined memory area 61 as shown in FIG. This near-end number of days is a numerical value preset and input to the card processing device 1, and is a number of days which is a standard for determining that the expiration date of the premium card is approaching.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a part of stored data of a premium card applied to the above card processing device.
The premium area corresponding to the transaction amount is accumulated and stored in the memory area 71 of the premium card. The memory area 72 stores the expiration date data of the premium card. The memory area 73 stores the number of transactions with the premium card. Also, memory area 7
The membership numbers and card numbers of the owners of premium cards are stored in 4, 75, respectively.

5 and 6 are flowcharts showing the processing procedure of the card processing apparatus, FIG. 5 shows the processing procedure at the time of transaction processing, and FIG. 6 shows the procedure at the card data reference processing.

When a premium card is inserted into the card processing device during transaction processing, the CPU 10 uses the card reader / writer 50 to read the data written in the premium card (n1, n2). Next, the expiration date data read from the premium card is subtracted from the current date and time to calculate the remaining days R (n3).

It is judged whether or not the remaining number of days R is 0 or more (n4). If the number of remaining days R is less than 0, it is judged that the expiration date of the premium card has passed and the expiration processing is performed. Is executed (n5). When the remaining number of days R is 0 or more, it is determined whether or not the remaining number of days R is less than or equal to the number of near-end days E stored in the memory area 61 of the memory 60. If the number of remaining days R is less than or equal to the number of near-end days E, it means that the expiration date is imminent.
It is displayed at 0 (n7).

After that, when the transaction amount related to the transaction processing is input (n8) and the transaction key 22 is operated (n9),
The points corresponding to the input transaction amount are added to the premium points, and written into the memory area 71 of the premium card via the card reader / writer 50 (n1
0), the inserted premium card is released (n1
1).

During the card data reference processing, after the card reference key 23 is operated (n21) and the premium card is inserted (n22), the data written in the premium card is read via the card reader / writer 50 ( n23), the number of remaining days R is calculated in the same manner as the above-mentioned n3 (n24). Next, according to the value of the remaining days R, the same processing as the above-described processing of n4 to n7 is executed (n2
5 to n28), when the expiration date is approaching, a display to that effect is displayed. After that, the data read from the card is displayed on the display 30 and the printer 40 prints out on a predetermined paper (n29), and the premium card is ejected (n30).

In the above processing, n6, n7 and n2
The processing of 7 and n28 corresponds to the display means of the present invention. As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the number of days from the current date and time until the expiration date of the premium card is equal to or less than the preset near-end number of days, it is displayed that the expiration date is imminent, and the expiration date is The user can be made aware of this before the elapse.

[0017]

According to the present invention, the user can be made aware that the expiry date is approaching before the expiry date of the card has passed, and the expiry date of the card is required without being overrun. There are advantages to ensuring that the continuation procedure is performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a card processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a keyboard provided in the card processing device.

FIG. 3 is a memory map of a main part of a memory included in the card processing device.

FIG. 4 is a memory map showing stored contents of a premium card applied to the card processing device.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure at the time of transaction processing of the card processing device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in a card data reference processing of the card processing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-Card Processing Device 30-Display 60-Memory

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takashi Murakami 2770 Kamikaihikuma, Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture Omron Nogata Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a preset number of near-end days, and a card expiration date approaching when the difference between the expiration date read from the card and the current date and time is smaller than the near-end days stored in the storage means. A card processing device comprising: a display unit for displaying a message.