JPH0594667A - Device for processing card sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decide low coercive card sheets with high sensitivity without degaussing a magnetic face by an external magnetic field with a magnetic sensor when the low coercive card sheets are used. CONSTITUTION:The card sheets that are fetched from the same inserting port are decided whether the sheets are high coercive card sheets or low coercive card sheets by a discriminating part 30. The high coercive card sheets decided by the discriminating part 30 are processed by the magnetic sensor 40 being a second card sheets discriminating means, and simultaneously, the magnetic sensor 40 is controlled at such a magnetic level that the magnetic face of the low coercive card sheets discriminated by the discriminating part 30 is not affected by the external magnetic field.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket processing apparatus used for processing a medium such as an automatic checkout machine or an automatic ticket issuing machine, and a medium such as a commuter pass, a prepaid card and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of ticket processing apparatus, notes such as a banknote and a commuter ticket or a prepaid card having a magnetic surface on which magnetic information is written and stored are taken in from the same insertion port of the apparatus main body. The denomination and authenticity of the bill are determined by the sensor.

However, in such a conventional ticket processing apparatus, the magnetic surface of the ticket is only a high-coercive ticket such as a bill, and in the case of a low-coercive ticket such as a commuter ticket or a prepaid card. Since the magnetic information is demagnetized by the external magnetic field generated by the magnetic sensor, the use of the low coercivity ticket is currently limited.

[0004]

Therefore, conventionally, in order to enable the use of such a low coercive ticket, the surface magnetic flux density of the magnetic sensor has been reduced. However, there is a problem that the determination sensitivity of tickets is significantly reduced.

The present invention has been made under the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to achieve high sensitivity without demagnetizing the magnetic surface by an external magnetic field generated by a magnetic sensor even when using a low coercive ticket. It is to provide a ticket processing device that can be determined by.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides an accepting means for accepting a plurality of tickets having magnetic information recorded thereon and having different thicknesses, and the above-mentioned ticket accepted by the accepting means. And a reading unit that changes the magnetic field strength applied to read the magnetic information recorded on the ticket based on the detection result of the detection unit. It was done.

[0007]

That is, according to the present invention, the thickness of the ticket received from the receiving means is detected, and the magnetic field strength applied to read the magnetic information recorded on the ticket is changed based on the detection result. Therefore, the magnetic surface of the low coercive force notes is not demagnetized by the external magnetic field by the reading means.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 schematically show a ticket processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a card processing machine 10 and a ticket issuing machine 70, which will be described later, are provided in the apparatus main body 1 so as to be adjacent to each other on the left and right sides. The operation panel section 3 of the card processing machine 10 and the ticket issuing machine 70 is provided, and below the operation panel section 3, banknotes of the card processing machine 10 and tickets such as commuter tickets and prepaid cards are provided. An insertion port 11 and a card outlet 12 as receiving means into which the same type is inserted and a ticket issuing port 71 of the ticket issuing machine 70 are provided.

As shown in FIG. 3, the card processing machine 10 located on the right side of the apparatus main body 1 has a bill unit 20 on the upper portion and a card unit 60 on the lower portion of the bill unit 20. , These two units 20, 60
Are connected via a joint member 13.

At the front of the bill unit 20, there is provided a discriminating section 30 for discriminating the bills inserted through the insertion slot 11 provided in the customer service section 2 of the apparatus body 1. The discriminating section 30 includes The ticket thickness detector 3 as a detection means for detecting the high and low coercive force as the ticket determination means of 1 by the thickness of the ticket.
1 and a second bill determination for determining the denomination or authenticity of the bill which is a highly coercive bill that is in contact with the lower portion of the guide roller 32 provided on the downstream side of the bill thickness detector 31. A magnetic sensor 40 as a reading unit, which will be described later, as a unit is installed on the pass line 33 as a conveyance route for tickets.

Further, reference numeral 34 in the drawing denotes a ticket sorting gate which is controlled to be sorted by the discriminating section 30, and bills which are high-coercivity bills that have passed through the magnetic sensor 40 are passed through the first transport path 35. A commuter pass or a prepaid card, which is a low-coercivity ticket that has passed through the magnetic sensor 40, is selectively conveyed to the banknote unit 20 side to the card unit 60 side via the second conveying path 36. ing.

That is, when a bill (high coercive bill) is inserted from the insertion slot 11, the bill is discriminated by the discriminating unit 30 and then conveyed to the first bill storing unit 21 of the bill unit 20. This temporary bill holding section 21
Is a conveyor belt 22, which is in contact with the upper, middle, and lower sides,
23 and 24, and the upper and middle conveyor belts 2
2 and 23 are reversed when a bill is conveyed, and are sandwiched between the middle conveyance belt 23 and the lower conveyance belt 24 through the switching gate 25, and similarly when the next bill is conveyed. By reversing, the banknotes are transported between the middle transport belt 23 and the lower transport belt 24, and are sandwiched with a certain gap so as to partially overlap the previous banknote, and by repeating such a sandwiching operation, A plurality of banknotes can be accumulated and temporarily held.

As described above, the banknotes temporarily accumulated in the first retaining section 21 are conveyed to the second retaining section 27, which is a conveyor belt, via the sorting gate 26 and accumulated, and the second banknotes are accumulated. The banknotes conveyed and accumulated in the storage section 27 can be visually confirmed through a window portion 14 provided on the upper rear surface of the card processing machine 10.

The banknotes thus conveyed and accumulated in the second holding unit 27 are opened in the sorting gate 26 when the next transaction is carried out, and are stored in the storage safe 29 via the temporary storage unit 28. It is designed to be stored in.

On the other hand, when a low coercivity ticket such as a commuter pass or a prepaid card is inserted from the insertion slot 11, the low coercivity ticket is detected by the ticket thickness detector 31 of the discrimination section 30 and the magnetic sensor It is conveyed to the ticket sorting gate 34 side through 40.

At this time, the magnetic sensor 40 detects that the inserted bill is a low coercive bill such as a commuter pass or a prepaid card by the bill thickness detector 31 of the discrimination section 30. The magnetic level of the low coercive ticket is controlled by a level control means described later so that an external magnetic field does not act on the magnetic surface.

This low magnetic coercive ticket is a ticket sort gate 34.
Is opened, it is guided into the card unit 60 through the second transport path 36, and the first magnetic head 62 installed on the transport path 61 in the card unit 60 makes it After the magnetic information that has been written and stored is read and written by the second magnetic head 63, the punching device 6
4 is used for drilling.

In this way, the low coercive ticket such as the commuter pass or the prepaid card punched by the punching device 64 is printed by the thermal head 65, and then the temporary holding section 6 is provided.
It will be temporarily held at 6.

After the ticket is issued, the low-coercivity ticket is again conveyed to the second conveying path 36 side, is conveyed to the discharging conveying path 38 via the sorting gate 37, and is discharged from the card exit 12. It is like this.

When issuing a commuter pass or a card, the first and second storage sections 6 provided in the card unit 60 are provided.
Take out the commuter pass or card from 7, 68
The card 1 is conveyed to the second conveyance path 36 side via 1 and is issued from the card exit 12 via the sorting gate 37 and the discharge conveyance path 38.

Further, when the commuter pass expires or there is no remaining amount on the card, it is stored in the collection box 69 and collected.

FIG. 1 is for explaining the discrimination section 30 and a ticket taking-in detection sensor 15 as a ticket taking-in means for taking in the tickets, which is installed on the upstream side of the discriminating section 30. It is a detailed view, the detection sensor 15 is the insertion port 11
It is made by detecting whether or not a ticket inserted from the card is taken in.

As described above, in order to control the magnetic sensor 40 to a magnetic level that does not cause an external magnetic field to act on the magnetic surface of the low coercive ticket such as the commuter pass or prepaid card, the magnetic sensor 40 shown in FIG.
Further, as shown as the first level control means in FIG. 4, the permanent magnet 41 that is in contact with the guide roller 32 is made movable, and the guide roller 32 and the permanent magnet 41 are connected to each other as shown by the two-dot broken line in FIG. The distance between the two is controlled so as to maintain a predetermined distance L.

That is, in order to control the lowering of the permanent magnet 41 so as to maintain a predetermined distance from the guide roller 32, guide pins 51 and 52 are provided on both upper and lower sides of the permanent magnet 41, and the permanent magnet is provided in the holder 53. The head surface 41a of the permanent magnet 41 is exposed, and the guide pins 52 provided at the lower portion of the permanent magnet 41 are projected to the outside from the guide holes 54 formed on both sides of the holder 53, so that the permanent magnet 41
And a spring 56 is interposed between the guide pin 52 and the fixing pins 55 provided on both sides of the holder 53 to urge the permanent magnet 41 so that it can always move upward. ..

On the other hand, a link 57 is connected to a guide pin 52 provided below the permanent magnet 41, and the link 57 is pulled downward by a suction operation by energization of a solenoid 58, whereby the permanent magnet 41 is springed. The magnetic sensor 4 is lowered against the urging force of 56, so that the magnetic sensor 4 is at a magnetic level at which the external magnetic field does not act on the magnetic surface of the low coercive ticket.
0 is controlled by descending.

FIG. 5 shows a second level control means for controlling the magnetic sensor 40 to a magnetic level that does not act an external magnetic field on the magnetic surface of the low coercive sheet.
A gap G of about 3 mm is formed between the permanent magnet 41 and the magnetoresistive element 42 which form 0, is set to a low level in advance, and the output of the magnetoresistive element 42 is discriminated and controlled by the amplifier 43. It has become.

Further, FIG. 6 shows a third level control means for controlling the magnetic sensor 40 to a magnetic level which does not act an external magnetic field on the magnetic surface of the low coercive sheet, and the magnetic sensor 40 is controlled by a bias lead. It will be the discrimination section 30
The determination result by the ticket thickness detector 31 is determined by the determiner 44, and the energization of the primary coil 45 and the secondary coil 46 is intermittently controlled.

Further, FIG. 7 shows a fourth level control means for controlling the magnetic sensor 40 to a magnetic level that does not act an external magnetic field on the magnetic surface of the low coercive sheet, and the magnetic sensor 4
0 is composed of a magnetoresistive element 42 and an electromagnet 47, and the discriminator 44 indicates the determination result by the ticket thickness detector 31 of the discriminating unit 30.
The control is performed by controlling the energization of the electromagnet 47.

FIG. 8 shows, for example, 300 Oersted (Oe)
Is a magnetic characteristic diagram showing the magnetic output attenuation rate with respect to the applied magnetic field of the magnetic sensor 40. According to this magnetic characteristic diagram, the surface magnetic flux density of the magnetic sensor 40 is 50 to 200 gauss (G). It can be seen that it is attenuated by about 30%.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 9, the ticket issuing machine 70 located on the left side of the apparatus main body 1 is slidably supported in the front-rear direction on a pair of left and right slide rails 16,
Inside thereof, the adjustment port 7 provided on the front surface of the apparatus main body 1
A ticket transport path 72 connected to 1 is provided.

A magnetic reading device 73, a magnetic writing device 74, and a printing device 75, which constitute issuing means, are provided on the ticket conveying path 72.
A cutter device 76 is provided, and a cutter motor 77, a print motor 78, and an encode motor 79 are provided near the respective devices.

Further, in the figure, reference numeral 80 denotes an unsettled ticket collecting transport path branched from the ticket transport path 72 on the settlement port 71 side through a sorting gate 81, and the collecting transport path 80 includes a large number of rollers. 82 and a conveyor belt 83 wound around these rollers 82, and a recovery box 17 is provided below the conveyor belt 83 via gates 84 and 85 and shooters 86 and 87.
In addition, the wrong boarding ticket box 18 is installed.

Reference numeral 91 in the drawing denotes a ticket detection sensor installed at the settlement port 71 of the ticket issuing machine 70, and 92 denotes a shutter for opening and closing the settlement port 71 by the detection operation of the ticket detection sensor 88.

Further, reference numeral 100 in the drawing denotes roll paper, and the roll paper 100 is fed to the printing device 75 via feed rollers 101, 102 and 103.

Reference numeral 104 in the drawing denotes a loading motor for the roll paper 100, and the roll paper 100 is loaded into the printing device 75 by the rotational driving of the loading motor 104.

When an unsettled ticket is inserted into the settlement port 71 of the above-mentioned ticket issuing machine 70, this state is detected by the ticket detection sensor 91 and the shutter 92 is opened, whereby the encode motor 79 is operated. Rotate.

By the rotation of the encode motor 79, the unsettled ticket is transported to the ticket transport path 72, and the magnetic information written and stored on the magnetic surface provided on the back surface of the unsettled ticket is read by the magnetic reader 73.

At this time, the loading motor 104 is rotationally driven to load the roll paper 100 into the printing device 75, and the magnetic information of the unsettled ticket read by the magnetic reading device 73 by the printing device 75 is printed on the roll paper 100. Printed on.

After such printing, the cutter motor 77 rotates, the cutter device 76 operates, and the roll paper 100 is cut into a predetermined size.

The roll paper 100 cut in this way
Causes the magnetic writing device 7 to rotate by the rotation of the encode motor 79.
4, the information is written on the magnetic surface on the back side thereof, and then it is conveyed to the checkout port 71 and issued as a ticket.

On the other hand, the unsettled ticket read by the magnetic reading device 73 is sent to the collecting conveyance path 80 by the sorting gate 81, and the collecting box 1 through the gate 84 and the shooter 86.
It is stored in 7 and collected.

Further, the incorrect ticket inserted from the checkout port 71 of the ticket issuing machine 70 is sent to the collecting conveyance path 80 by the sorting gate 81, and then, in the incorrect ticket box 18 through the gate 85 and the shooter 87. Are stored in and collected.

By the way, when the inside of the collection box 17 for collecting the unsettled ticket becomes full, the collection box 17 is moved to the ticket issuing machine 7.
To take it out from 0, the ticket issuing machine 70 installed on the slide rail 16 is slid backward (in the direction of the solid arrow shown in FIG. 9) and pulled out, thereby exposing the collection box 17 to the outside. It is something like this.

Therefore, with such a configuration of the ticket issuing machine 70, the collection box 17 can be easily taken out without being restricted by the installation space, so that the capacity of the collection box 17 can be increased. Become possible,
The number of times of taking out can be reduced.

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention, the present invention detects the thickness of the ticket received from the receiving means, and based on the detection result, the magnetic information recorded on the ticket is read. Therefore, the magnetic field strength applied is changed so that the magnetic surface of the low coercive force ticket is not demagnetized by the external magnetic field by the reading means, and thus the high sensitivity of the ticket can be determined. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view showing a first embodiment of a level control means for controlling a magnetic level of a magnetic sensor incorporated in a card processing machine of a ticket processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view schematically showing an overall configuration of a ticket processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view schematically showing the overall configuration of a card processing machine equipped in the ticket processing apparatus according to the present invention when viewed from the direction of arrow A in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a schematic explanatory view showing a movable control state of level control means for controlling a magnetic level of a magnetic sensor.

FIG. 5 is a schematic explanatory view showing a second embodiment of the level control means for controlling the magnetic level of the magnetic sensor according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic explanatory view showing a third embodiment of level control means for controlling the magnetic level of the magnetic sensor according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic explanatory view showing a fourth embodiment of the level control means for controlling the magnetic level of the magnetic sensor according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing magnetic characteristics of a low coercive force ticket.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view schematically showing the entire configuration of a ticket issuing machine equipped in the ticket processing apparatus according to the present invention as viewed from the direction of arrow B in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Device main body, 10 ... Card processing machine, 11 ... Inserting port (accepting means), 15 ... Ticket taking-in means, 20 ... Banknote unit,
30 ... Discrimination unit (first ticket determination means), 31 ... Ticket thickness detector (detection means), 40 ... Magnetic sensor (reading means).

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving a plurality of tickets having magnetic information recorded thereon and having different thicknesses, a detecting means for detecting the thickness of the tickets received by the receiving means, and a detection result by the detecting means. And a reading unit for changing the magnetic field strength applied to read the magnetic information recorded on the ticket based on the above. 2. A receiving means for receiving a plurality of tickets having magnetic information recorded thereon and having different thicknesses, a detecting means for detecting the thickness of the tickets received by the receiving means, and a detection result by the detecting means. Reading means for changing the magnetic field strength applied to read the magnetic information recorded on the ticket, and control means for changing the magnetic field strength applied by the reading means based on the detection result of the detection means. A ticket processing apparatus comprising: 3. The control unit controls the reading unit so as to apply a magnetic field strength smaller than the predetermined magnetic field strength based on the detection result of the detection result. Ticket processing device. 4. The control unit controls the reading unit so as to apply a magnetic field intensity higher than the predetermined magnetic field intensity based on the detection result of the detection result. Ticket processing device. 5. The ticket processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the reading unit so as to intermittently apply the magnetic field intensity based on a detection result of the detection result. .. 6. A receiving means for receiving a plurality of tickets having magnetic information recorded thereon and having different thicknesses, a carrying means for carrying the tickets accepted by the receiving means along a predetermined carrying path, and the carrying means. A detection unit that is provided on the path and detects the thickness of the ticket, and a predetermined magnetic field strength is applied to the ticket based on the detection result provided by the detection unit that is provided on the conveyance path. A ticket processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit that reads magnetic information; and a moving unit that moves the reading unit from the transportation path based on a detection result of the detection unit. 7. The ticket processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the moving unit moves the reading unit to a position away from the transport path based on the detection result of the detection result. 8. The ticket processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the moving unit moves the reading unit to a position closer to the conveyance path based on a detection result of the detection result.