JPH06266917A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the automatic ticket examination machine which can prevent a train ticket from being erroneously recognized and taken out while making a user and the train ticket visually correspondent by changing the color of a display with the move of the train ticket inserted from an inserting port to an ejecting port. CONSTITUTION:A display 10 composed of a bar-shaped LED is provided between an inserting port 1 and an ejecting port 2 at a central part in a lengthwise direction on the upper face of a main body (a). This display 10 is bisected at the almost center part and composed of two display blocks 10a and 10b, and the respective display blocks 10a and 10b can be turned on and off while successively changing the color in the order of red, green and yellow. A color change control means moves the color of the display block of the display on the side of the inserting port 1 to the display block of the display 10 on the side of the ejecting port 2 with the move of a train ticket A' inserted from the inserting port 1 to the ejecting port 2. Thus, the train ticket inserted from the inserting port 1 can be made correspondent to the color and can be distinguished from the ticket of the other person. Therefore, the trouble of erroneously taking away the train ticket of the other person can be prevented.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate and, more particularly, to an automatic ticket gate that can be used by a user and a ticket inserted in the main body of the ticket gate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an automatic ticket gate of this type is provided with an insertion opening at one end of a main body (hereinafter referred to as a main body) of the automatic ticket gate and an outlet at the other end of the main body. When a ticket (including a commuter pass and a card-type ticket such as a prepaid card) is inserted into the insertion slot, it is guided by the conveyor mechanism (card handler) consisting of a belt conveyor and discharged. Is configured. Then, during the transportation by the transportation mechanism, the magnetic data recorded on the ticket is read and used for the arithmetic processing, and the opening and closing of the door is controlled by the result of the arithmetic processing.

In order to cope with the rush hour, the automatic ticket gate is constructed so that the ticket of the next user can be inserted into the insertion slot even before the ticket processing of one user is completed. However, until the previous user takes out the ticket from the exit, the ticket of the latter user is held in the middle of the transport mechanism, and the previous user can take out the ticket from the exit. By this, the ticket of the subsequent user is discharged to the discharge port.

[0004]

However, in the above-described conventional automatic ticket gate, since the ticket of the subsequent user can be inserted even before the ticket processing of the previous user is completed, There was a possibility that the situation where the correspondence with the ticket could not be taken.

For example, when the previous user takes out the ticket from the exit, the ticket for the latter user is ejected to the exit, so that the former user also obtains the subsequently issued ticket. There was a risk of accidentally removing the ticket.

In order to prevent such inconvenience, it is possible to close the shutter of the insertion port so that the ticket of the next user cannot be inserted into the insertion port until one user leaves the main body. However, if such shutter control is performed, the processing speed of the automatic ticket gate decreases, which makes it impossible to cope with the rush hour and cannot be adopted at all.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object thereof is to visually associate a user with a ticket so as to prevent mistaking of the ticket. It is in the provision of automatic ticket gates.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention reads data recorded on a ticket inserted into an insertion opening provided at one end of a main body, and the data is read. In the automatic ticket gate, which performs arithmetic processing based on the data, controls the opening and closing of the door according to the arithmetic result, and ejects the inserted ticket from the outlet provided on the other end side of the main body, It is provided from the insertion port side to the discharge port side, and the display section is almost 2 at the center.
Divided display, color display control means for displaying the divided display sections of the display in different colors, and as the ticket inserted from the insertion port is moved to the ejection port And a color change control means for changing the color of the display section of the display unit on the insertion port side to the color of the display section of the display unit on the discharge port side.

[0009]

In the above structure, the color change control means changes the color of the display section of the indicator on the insertion opening side to the indicator on the ejection opening side as the ticket inserted from the insertion opening is moved to the ejection opening. Move to the display category.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An automatic ticket gate according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to an embodiment, in which a well-known transport mechanism 3 driven by a motor M is arranged between an insertion opening 1 and an ejection opening 2 of a main body a. ing. The transport mechanism 3 is composed of an alignment transport path 4 and a main transport path 5, of which the alignment transport path 4 has a function of aligning the ticket a inserted from the insertion slot 1.
Further, the main transport path 5 has a magnetic head H1 for reading the magnetic data recorded on the ticket a in the transport path,
The magnetic data read by this magnetic head is arithmetically processed by a controller c mainly composed of a microcomputer, and a magnetic head H2 for writing the arithmetic result and whether or not the data is normally written are determined. It has a magnetic head H3 for reading and a stopper S driven by a solenoid (not shown) for temporarily holding the ticket B. In the figure, reference numeral 6 denotes a door which is provided on the side surface of the main body a and is opened and closed so as to permit or block passage through the ticket gate passage based on the calculation result of the controller c.

A display 10 composed of a rod-shaped LED is provided at the center of the upper surface of the main body a in the longitudinal direction and between the insertion opening 1 and the discharge opening 2 (see FIG. 2). This display 10
Is divided into two in the almost central part and is divided into two display sections 10a,
10b, each display section 10a, 10b is red,
It is configured so that it can be turned on in the order of green and yellow in order, and can be turned on and off.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the controller c. The controller c is mainly composed of a central processing unit (CPU) 22 which performs arithmetic processing based on a system program stored in the ROM 20 and working data stored in the RAM 21. This CPU2
2 to each magnetic head H via the I / O unit 23.
A read / write (R / W) driver 24 for 1 to H3,
A solenoid driver 25 that drives the solenoid of the stopper S, a display driver 26 that lights the display 10, and a door driver 25 that drives the door 6 are connected.
In addition to the above, the driver of the motor M and drivers such as a punching unit and a print head (not shown) are connected to the I / O unit 23, but they are omitted because they are not particularly necessary for the description of the present invention. is there.

Next, the control operation of the automatic ticket gate apparatus according to this embodiment will be described with reference to the operation explanatory view of FIG.

Now, let's assume that a certain passenger inserts a ticket a (this user is the previous passenger and the ticket owned by the user is the ticket) into the insertion slot 1 of the main body a. And that. In this case, the display section 10a on the insertion slot 1 side is illuminated in red (FIG. 4 (a)).

When the ticket is inserted into the insertion slot 1, the red lighting state of the display section 10a changes to a blinking lighting state (FIG. 4 (b)). As a result, the preceding user can know that his / her own ticket has been taken into the main body a and processed.

When the ticket is transported to the outlet 2 by the transport mechanism 3, the display section 10b on the outlet 2 side changes to a blinking red light, indicating that the ticket is on the outlet 2 side. At the same time, the display section 10a on the insertion slot 1 side lights up in green. Then, it is assumed that the next user (this user is referred to as a later user, and the ticket owned by the user is a ticket) is about to enter (FIG. 4).
(C)).

When a subsequent user inserts a ticket into the insertion slot 1, the ticket is held in the stopper S until the ticket is taken out from the outlet 2 by the previous user, and the display section 10a is displayed. The green lighting of changes to blinking lighting. As a result, it is possible to know that the ticket has been taken into the main body a and is being held (FIG. 4 (d)).

The passenger ticket will be sent to the outlet 2 by the previous user.
When the ticket is pulled out from the exit S, the ticket held by the stopper S is transported to the outlet 2 by the transport mechanism 3, and the display section 10b on the outlet 2 side is blinked in green, so that the ticket is released. It is displayed that it exists on the side (FIG. 4 (e)). Also, the display category 1 on the insertion slot 1 side
0a is lit from blinking green to yellow.

When the display section 10a is lit yellow, the next passenger (this user is called the third user, and the ticket owned by that user is called the ticket).
Waited for.

The passenger ticket will be sent to the outlet 2 by a later user.
When the ticket of the third user is inserted into the insertion slot 1 before being taken out from, the ticket is held by the stopper S and the yellow lighting of the display section 10a changes to the yellow blinking lighting ( FIG. 4 (f)).

The passenger ticket will be sent to the outlet 2 by a later user.
When pulled out from the board, the ticket held by the stopper S until then is conveyed to the outlet 2 by the conveying mechanism 3 and the blinking yellow light is moved from the display section 10a to the display section 10b (FIG. 4 (g)). ).

Then, when the automatic ticket gate is pulled out from the outlet 2 by the third user, the yellow blinking lighting of the display section 10b is turned off, and the display section 10a is turned off as shown in FIG.
As in (a), it lights in red and waits for the next user's ticket a to be inserted (FIG. 4 (h)).

As described above, the automatic ticket gate according to this embodiment has the display category 1 corresponding to the ticket a inserted into the insertion slot.
The color of 0a is specified, and as the ticket a moves to the discharge port 2 by the transport mechanism 3, the lighting display of the display section also moves while blinking, so that the moving state of the ticket a can be visually checked and Even during the hour, it is possible to prevent the inconvenience of accidentally taking away another person's ticket a.

When the user does not continue, such as in a quiet time, the display 1 shown in FIG. 4 (a) to FIG. 4 (c) is displayed.
Each display section 10a, 10b of 0 changes. Then, in FIG. 4C, when the ticket is pulled out from the outlet 2, the blinking red light of the display section 10b is turned off and the next user waits.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the moving state of the ticket B is displayed by blinking and lighting, but it may be simply lighting. However, there is an advantage that the effect of notifying the user becomes large when the light is turned on and off.

[0026]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is provided from the insertion port side to the ejection port side, and the display section is divided into two at the substantially central portion, and the display is divided into two sections. Display means on the side of the insertion port as the ticket inserted from the insertion port is moved to the ejection port Since the color change control means for changing the color of the section to the color of the display section of the indicator on the outlet side is provided, the color can be made to correspond to the ticket inserted from the insertion port. This makes it possible to distinguish the ticket from another person's ticket, thus preventing the inconvenience of accidentally taking away the ticket of another person.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a controller.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an operating state.

[Explanation of symbols]

 a Main body of the automatic ticket gate (main body) c Controller (color display control means, color change control means) 1 insertion slot 2 discharge slot H1 to H3 magnetic heads

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] January 20, 1992

[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Name of item to be corrected] 0015

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

When the ticket is inserted into the insertion slot 1, the red lighting state of the display section 10a remains unchanged (see FIG. 4).
(B)) The ticket taken into the main body a is transported to the outlet 2 side by the transport mechanism 3.

[Procedure Amendment 2]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Name of item to be corrected] 0024

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

When the user does not continue, such as in a quiet time, the display 1 shown in FIG. 4 (a) to FIG. 4 (c) is displayed.
When the ticket is removed from the outlet 2 in the state where the display categories 10a and 10b of 0 are changed, the blinking red light of the display category 10b is turned off and the next user waits.

[Procedure 3]

[Document name to be corrected] Drawing

[Name of item to be corrected] Fig. 4

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

[Figure 4]

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The data recorded on a ticket inserted into an insertion opening provided on one end side of the main body of the automatic ticket gate is read, arithmetic processing is performed based on the read data, and the arithmetic result is used. An automatic ticket gate that controls opening and closing of a door and discharges the inserted ticket from an outlet provided on the other end side of the main body of the automatic ticket gate, from the insertion slot side to the outlet slot side. A display unit which is provided over the entire area and whose display section is divided into two substantially in the center; and a color display control means for displaying the two display sections of the display unit in different colors, respectively, A color that changes the color of the display section of the indicator on the side of the insertion port to the color of the display section of the indicator on the side of the outlet as the ticket inserted from the mouth is moved to the outlet. Change control means, and Automatic ticket gate, wherein the Rukoto.