JPH06150092A - Card type gate device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the card type gate device which improves the operability of cards and further can improve card throughput by continuously accepting the cards. CONSTITUTION:Concerning this card type gate device for automatic ticket examination for judging whether the magnetic card is valid or invalid by reading the information of the magnetic card and for permitting the passage of a visitor when the card is valid, a card inserting port 5 is opened in the upper oblique direction, a card fetching mechanism 14 for pulling a card 11 thrown in from the card inserting port 5 into the machine and dispatching it to a card judge part 9 in a rear stage is installed between a shutter mechanism 8 in the back and the card judge part 9 in the rear stage and further, card sensors 15 and 16 are provided at the ends of entrance and exit of the card fetching mechanism 14. Thus, the cards can be continuouly accepted by accepting the next card during the procesisng of the preceding card basing on the signals of the card sensors 15 and 16 and temporarily holding the card inserted during this period inside the fetching mechanism 14.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card type gate device for an automatic ticket gate installed at a closed area such as an amusement park or the entrance of a play facility in the area.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a gate device for the automatic ticket gate mentioned above, a gate device with a gate door is installed in the gate passage of the entrance, and a magnetic card (prepaid card, A card-type gate that reads information recorded on a coupon ticket, determines whether the card is valid or invalid, and opens the gate door to permit passage of visitors when the card is valid. Devices are known.

3 and 4 are conventional block diagrams of such a card type gate device, in which 1 is a gate body, 2 is a gate guide facing the gate body 1 with a gate passage 3 interposed therebetween, and 4 is a gate body. 1. A gate door which is a flapper door equipped on the exit side of the gate guide 2. The gate main body 1 has a horizontal card insertion opening 5 on the end surface on the entrance side, and a card loading slot on the upper surface on the exit side. The exit 6 and display 7 are arranged side by side. Also,
The gate main body 1 and the gate guide 3 have a built-in opening / closing mechanism (not shown) for the gate door 4, and as shown in FIG. Along the card transport path inside the machine leading to the exit 6,
A shutter mechanism 8 that closes the card insertion opening 5 in order from the card insertion opening side to stop acceptance, a card determination unit (information processing unit including a card reader / writer) 9 that determines whether the card is valid or invalid, and a card determination unit 9 A belt-type card transport mechanism 10 that carries out the card discharged from the card to the card take-out port 6 is equipped. Reference numerals 9a, 9b, 9c are a magnetic head for reading card information, a magnetic head for writing, and a magnetic head for verifying.

With such a structure, when the visitor fully inserts the card 11 into the card insertion slot 5 while the shutter 8 is open and the card is being received, a carrier roller incorporated in the card determination section 9 inserts the card 11 inside. In addition, the shutter mechanism 8 is closed by the detection signal of the photoelectric card sensor 12 provided in the card insertion slot 5, and the subsequent card reception is temporarily stopped. Further, the card determination unit 9 reads the recorded information of the taken-in card 11 and determines whether it is valid or invalid.
When it is determined that the card 11 is valid, the gate door 4 is opened by a command from the gate controller to permit passage of the visitors, and the card determination unit 9 rewrites the card information before the card 11 is rewritten. Card transport mechanism 10
The card is delivered to the card ejection slot 6. Then, when a visitor receives the card 11 carried out to the card outlet 6 and exits from the gate passage 3 (the card outlet 6 is provided with a card sensor 13) (the exit of the person from the gate passage is the exit side). In response to this signal, the gate door 4 is closed again, and the shutter mechanism 8 which has closed the card insertion slot 5 is opened to resume the next card reception.

On the other hand, the card 1 inserted in the card insertion slot 5
1 is determined to be invalid by the card determination unit 9, the gate door 4
With the card closed, the invalid card is carried out to the card ejection slot 6 in the same manner as the valid card. Therefore, people with an invalid card will be denied entry, so after receiving an invalid card from the card exit 6 at a position before the gate door 4, it is necessary to go back through the gate passage 3 and exit from the gate entrance. Become. There is also a system in which the gate door 4 is always open and the gate is closed only when it is determined that the card is invalid.

[0006]

The conventional card type gate device described above has the following problems in terms of card operability and processing function. (1) When entering the gate, people who are unfamiliar with card operation often try to pass through the gate as it is by simply placing the card 11 at the entrance without inserting it deep into the card insertion slot 5. In this case, since the card 11 is not reliably drawn into the card determination unit 9, the predetermined card processing is not performed, and therefore, the entrance person remains stopped in front of the gate door 4 (closed). There will be a situation where you wait until the opens. As a result, there is confusion at the gate entrance, and it is not possible to efficiently handle subsequent visitors waiting in line in a queue.

(2) The card insertion slot 5 and the card determination section 9 are close to each other through the shutter mechanism 8, and the card determination section 9 is preceded by a plurality of cards so as to avoid being fed in duplicate. When the card is taken into the machine, the shutter mechanism 8 is closed until the card is taken out to the card take-out opening 6, and the next card reception is stopped. For this reason, the next person waiting in turn stops at the gate entrance and waits until the processing of the preceding card is completely completed, and this waiting time becomes a loss time and is a major cause of lowering the processing capacity of the gate device. Become.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to solve the above problems, improve the operability of a card (first object), and further continuously accept a card to process the card. It is an object of the present invention to provide a card type gate device capable of improving the ability (second purpose).

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the gate device of the present invention is constructed as follows. (1) For the first purpose, the card insertion slot is opened obliquely upward, and the card inserted from the card insertion slot between the shutter mechanism provided behind it and the card determination section at the rear stage is placed inside the machine. It shall be configured by installing a card take-in mechanism that draws in and delivers it to the card determination unit in the subsequent stage.

(2) For the second object, the card taking-in mechanism having the above-mentioned structure is arranged along the card taking-in passage corresponding to at least one card length and the taking-in passage. The transport roller and the drive motor dedicated to the loading mechanism are provided, and the card holding function of temporarily holding the card loaded from the card insertion slot in the loading path is configured.

(3) In addition to the card taking-in mechanism of the above item (2), card sensors are provided at the entrance and exit sides of the taking-in passage, and the preceding card is used as a card based on the detection signal of the card sensor. Under the condition that the card is sent from the take-in mechanism to the card determination unit, the shutter is opened to accept the next card, and if the next card is inserted during card acceptance, the card is taken into the card take-in mechanism. Until the processing of the preceding card is completed, the drive motor of the card loading mechanism is stopped to hold the card in the loading path and wait, and after the processing of the preceding card is finished, it is held in the loading path. There is an embodiment in which the existing card is sent to the card determination unit and the shutter is opened to restart the card reception.

[0012]

In the gate device having the above structure, the card insertion opening is opened obliquely upward, and the card loading mechanism is installed behind it, so that the user can put the tip of the card in his hand into the card insertion opening. Just put in together,
The card falls into the card slot under its own weight, and the card loading mechanism works to pull the card directly into the machine.

Further, by providing the card take-in mechanism with the card holding function, a series of processing steps of the preceding card (judgment of validity / invalidity of the card, transportation to the card take-out port, take-out of the card) are not completely completed. Even before, the next card can be accepted under the condition that the preceding card is passed from the card loading mechanism to the subsequent card determination section. In other words, in this case, the card loading mechanism temporarily holds the next accepted card in the loading mechanism and waits until the preceding card is removed from the card outlet, and the processing of the preceding card is completed. It waits until it does, and sends it to the card determination unit in the subsequent stage. This makes it possible to accept cards continuously, and before the occupant of the preceding card exits the gate aisle, subsequent entrants can insert the card into the card insertion slot and proceed as it is. , By reducing the amount of time lost, many visitors will be able to handle efficiently.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. In the drawings of the embodiments, the same members corresponding to FIGS. 3 and 4 are designated by the same reference numerals. First, in FIG. 1, the card insertion opening 5 of the gate main body 1 is opened obliquely upward and between the shutter mechanism 8 provided behind the card insertion opening 5 and the card determination section 9 arranged in the subsequent stage. Is newly equipped with a card loading mechanism 14. The card take-in mechanism 14 has a card take-in passage 14a extending over the card insertion opening 5 and the entrance of the card determination section 9, conveying rollers 14b and 14c arranged along the passage, and belts 14d for these rollers. A drive motor 14e dedicated to a card taking-in mechanism that is transmission-coupled, and photoelectric card sensors 15 and 16 provided at the entrance and exit sides of the taking-in passage 14a.
It is constructed by and. Here, the card intake passage 14a is set to have a passage length longer than or equal to at least one card 11, and the first half of the intake passage is inclined obliquely upward and its entrance Is the card slot 5
In the latter half, a horizontal passage is arranged so that its exit end faces the entrance of the card determination section 9. Further, the transport roller 14b is rotatably supported by a rotary shaft 14f which is rotationally driven via a belt 14d, and a drive pin 14g and a roller 1 which are erected on the shaft of the rotary shaft 14f.
The driven pin 14h provided on the side surface of the roller 4b is used as a coupling to rotate the roller 14b.

On the other hand, the shutter mechanism 8 provided behind the card insertion slot 5 includes a shutter plate 8a protruding and retracted in the card insertion slot, a solenoid 8c connected to the shutter plate 8a via a link 8b, and a shutter plate 8a. It is an assembly with a spring 8d that biases in the closing direction. Further, 17 is a gate controller, which is used for the card sensors 15 and 1 described above.
6 and the card sensor 13 installed at the card outlet 6
Based on the detection signal (see FIG. 4), an operation command is given to the shutter mechanism 8 and the card loading mechanism 14 as described later to control.

Next, a card receiving operation using the shutter mechanism 8 and the card loading mechanism 14 together will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS. First, in the standby state of the gate device, insert the first card into the card insertion slot 5
1 is inserted, the card sensor 15 on the entrance side detects the card in step S1, and based on this, the drive motor 14 of the card loading mechanism 14 is instructed by the gate controller 17
e is started, and the card is taken in through the card insertion passage 14a.
Is forcibly drawn in, and the first card is further conveyed to the exit end and delivered to the card determination section 9 (step S
2). Here, when the first card 11 passes through the card sensor 16 on the exit side of the intake passage 14a, the intake passage 14a
Becomes a vacant state, the drive motor 14e is stopped based on the signals of the card sensors 15 and 16, and the shutter mechanism 8 is opened to receive the second card.

When the second card 11 is inserted, the card take-in mechanism 14 is activated to draw the second card into the take-in passage 14 (step S3), and then the shutter mechanism 8 is closed. And stop accepting the next card (step S
4) Further, when the card 11 reaches the exit side card sensor 16, the drive motor 14e is stopped to temporarily hold the second card in the intake passage 14a of the card intake mechanism 14 and make it stand by. (Step S5).

In this state, in the next step S6, the card holding state is continued until the processing of the preceding first card is completed, and the card processing is completed and the card ejection port 6
When the card carried out to the card is taken out, the card sensor 1
3 (see FIG. 4) based on the detection signal from the drive motor 14e
The second card that has been waiting until then is sent to the card determination unit 9 (step S7), and the shutter mechanism 8 is opened based on the signal from the card sensor 16 (step S8). Card acceptance is restarted (step S9). After that, the process returns to step S2 again and the same step operation as described above is repeated to successively receive and take in subsequent cards one after another.

[0019]

As described above, according to the card type gate device of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. (1) According to the configuration of claim 1 of the present invention, the card inserted into the card insertion slot enters the machine by its own weight and is forcibly taken into the card taking-in mechanism. Therefore, even a person who is unfamiliar with card operation does not have a time loss due to an insertion operation error or an insertion operation error, and a person who inserts a card at the gate entrance can proceed directly to the gate aisle. Can be handled efficiently.

(2) According to the second and third aspects of the present invention, the second card is not waited for until the processing of the first card is completed and without any trouble in the card processing. It will be possible to accept the following, which will reduce the waiting time for subsequent entrants and smooth the flow of entrants walking through the gate passage, significantly increasing the gate processing capacity compared to conventional gate devices. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the card processing operation according to FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an entire conventional card type gate device.

4 is a schematic diagram of a card processing mechanism inside the gate main body in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Gate Main Body 3 Gate Passage 4 Gate Door 5 Card Insertion Port 6 Card Ejection Port 8 Shutter Mechanism 9 Card Judgment Unit 10 Card Transport Mechanism 11 Card 14 Card Intake Mechanism 14a Card Intake Passage 14e Drive Motor 15 Card Sensor (Inlet Side) 16 Card sensor (exit side) 17 Gate controller

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A card type gate device for an automatic ticket gate that reads information on a magnetic card, determines whether the card is valid or invalid, and permits the passage of visitors when the card is valid, the entrance side of the gate body. , Card exit on the exit side and card exit, and a shutter mechanism for the card entrance along the card transport path between the card entrance and the card exit, card judgment to judge whether the card is valid or invalid Section and a card transport mechanism that carries out the card from the card determination section to the card outlet, the card insertion opening is opened obliquely upward, and the shutter mechanism provided behind it and the card determination in the subsequent stage. A card-type gate equipped with a card loading mechanism that draws in the card inserted from the card insertion slot into the machine and transfers it to the card determination section in the subsequent stage. Location. 2. The card type gate device according to claim 1, wherein the card taking-in mechanism has a card taking-in passage corresponding to a length of at least one card, and a conveying roller arranged along the taking-in passage. And a drive motor dedicated to the take-in mechanism and having a card holding function for temporarily holding a card taken in from the card insertion slot in the take-in passage. 3. The card type gate device according to claim 2, wherein a card sensor is provided at the entrance and exit sides of the card intake mechanism with respect to the card intake mechanism, and the preceding card is based on the detection signal of the card sensor. If the card is sent from the card loading mechanism to the card determination unit, the shutter is opened to accept the next card, and if the next card is loaded during card acceptance, the card is placed in the card loading mechanism. Along with capturing
Until the processing of the preceding card is completed, the drive motor of the card loading mechanism is stopped and the card is held in the loading passage to wait, and after the processing of the preceding card is completed, it is held in the loading passage. The card type gate device is characterized in that the card is sent to the card determination unit and the shutter is opened to restart the card reception.