JPH0737128A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To realize the ticket examination processing of a former route ticket which is inserted into a ticket examination machine main body and to cancel the inconvenience of the double subtraction of a train fare by returning the former route ticket without processing it when entering data is written within a prescribed time into the former route ticket becoming a pair with an adjustment ticket. CONSTITUTION:When two pieces of NG data exist in the inserted adjustment ticket (b'), and entering data does not exist in the former route ticket (c) which is inserted next, entering data is recorded into the former route ticket (c) and it is returned to a discharge port 11. Then, a door D is opened. When the former route ticket is once inserted into the ticket examination machine main body (a) and time is within prescribed time from insertion time, the former route ticket (b) which is inserted this time is not processed and returned to the discharge port. When time is not within prescribed time from previous entering time, previous entrance and this time adjustment are not necessarily matched. Thus, it is not appropriate to permit ticket examination in a case when entering data is that of yesterday, for example. In such a case, the former route ticket (c) and the adjustment ticket (b') are both returned and the door D is closed.

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 a one-latch type automatic ticket gate installed at a transit station.

[0002]

BACKGROUND ART Recently, the automatic ticket gate is widespread, as shown in FIG. 8, in transit can instep stations A Shasen and B Shasen, companies dedicated automatic ticket gate machine body a _1, a _In addition to ₂ , there is a 1-latch type automatic ticket gate body at the contact ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as the ticket gate body)
a is being installed.

In order for this ticket gate body a to be automatically ticketed effectively, one ticket, such as a contact ticket, will be automatically ticketed if the connection condition is satisfied, and in addition, there are two tickets. In the case of a group of tickets, for example, when transferring from Company A line to Company B line, the automatic ticket gate starts at the first station with a valid A line ticket for A company line and a valid B line ticket for B company. Is configured to be done.

Therefore, when a user (passenger) has a valid advance ticket (including a commuter pass) for the B company line, but has a getting-off ticket that does not satisfy the conditions for the A company line, ,
The ticket is inserted into the automatic checkout machine body (hereinafter referred to as the checkout machine body) to perform the checkout, and the checkout ticket issued from the checkout machine body and the advance ticket are inserted into the ticket checker body to perform the automatic ticket gate There is a need.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional ticket gate body, the automatic ticket gate is normally operated when the two-ticket set including the ticket for the exit and the ticket for the advance ticket is inserted. There were times when I couldn't forget.

[0006] For example, if the user has a stored fair (S
F) Insert the advance tickets other than the card into the ticket gate body a first,
Next, when you have inserted an alighting ticket that does not meet the alighting conditions into the ticket gate body a, or you have an advance ticket that was inserted and returned earlier, and you realized that the alighting ticket does not meet the alighting conditions The person will have the advance ticket with the entry data written.

A user who knows that the automatic ticket gate cannot be used will settle at the checkout machine main body b to obtain a checkout ticket. The checkout ticket is collected in the main ticket checker main body a, but the advance ticket is
Since the admission data is written, it is judged that it has been used and the automatic ticket gate cannot be used.

Further, in the above case, when the advance ticket is an SF card, the automatic ticket gate can be performed because the forward condition is satisfied, but the initial fare is deducted at the time of the previous insertion into the ticket inspection machine main body a. Nevertheless, there is a drawback that the first fare is deducted again by the insertion into the ticket inspection machine main body a this time.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to automatically and normally enable automatic ticket gates in the case of an effective double ticket. To provide a ticket gate.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention performs arithmetic processing based on data of a getting-off ticket inserted in a ticket gate body, or a ticket and an advance ticket data. In an automatic ticket gate that carries out automatic ticket gates, when a valid advance ticket and an alighting ticket that does not satisfy the exiting conditions are inserted into the main body of the ticket gate, when the advance ticket and the alighting ticket are returned, the exit A writing unit that writes data indicating that the ticket is an invalid ticket in a set of two sheets, and an alighting ticket in which data indicating that the ticket is an invalid ticket is written in a set of two sheets by the writing unit. Extraction means for extracting the ticket issued based on the above, and when the ticket is extracted by the extracting means, when the admission data is written within the predetermined time on the ticket in front of which the ticket is paired Has advance ticket processing means for returning the advance ticket without processing it. It is characterized by a door.

[0011]

In the above structure, when the advance ticket processing means extracts, by the extraction means, that the settlement ticket is a two-sheet set at the time of the previous automatic ticketing processing and is issued based on the invalid ticket, If the admission data is written on the advance ticket that will be paired with the checkout ticket within the specified time, that is, if the advance ticket was previously inserted into the ticket gate body, the advance ticket is returned without processing. To do.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 will be described as a two-ticket set ticket a, b (hereinafter, alighting ticket a or settlement ticket a ', and advance ticket b). ) Is a front view showing a cross section of a part of the ticket gate main body a capable of processing the ticket gate main body a, and a ticket insertion slot 10 is provided at an upper part of one end side (right side in the illustrated example) of the ticket gate main body a. Is provided, and at the upper part of the other end, a discharge port 11 for discharging a ticket is provided slightly near the center. Then, in the ticket inspection machine body a between the insertion port 10 and the ejection port 11, an alignment conveyance path 12 for positioning and aligning the ticket inserted from the insertion port 10 in a predetermined direction, a reading head H ₁ , and a writing unit. A transport path 1 including a main transport path 13 having a head H ₂ and a verifying head H _3, and a return transport path 14 for returning a ticket.
5 is provided, and these transport paths are configured to be rotationally driven by the motor M. Although not shown, a stopper for temporarily holding a well-known ticket driven by a solenoid is provided behind the verifying head H _{3 on} the main transport path 13.

In FIG. 1, D is a door for opening and closing the ticket gate passage, W is a wing provided between the main transport path 13 and the return transport path 14, and these are the ticket gate main body a. Is configured to be controlled by a controller C including a microcomputer that controls the control of the. In addition,
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 16 is a collection box for collecting the ticket B in the ticket gate body a when the wing W rises.

The electrical construction of the controller C is shown in FIG. The controller C is a central processing unit (CP) that performs arithmetic processing using a system program stored in the ROM 20 and working data stored in the RAM 21.
U) 22. Then, the CPU 22
A read driver 24 for taking in data from the read head H ₁ via the / O unit 23, and a write head H for writing new data as a result of calculation by the CPU 22.
₂ and a write driver 25 for driving the verifying head H ₃ for reading to confirm new written data.
Verify read driver 26 that captures data from
, A door driver 27 for driving the door D, and a wing driver 28 for driving the wing W are connected.

The CPU 22 has an I / O unit 2
Various devices such as a driver of the motor M are connected via 3, but they are omitted here.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the settlement machine main body b which can issue the settlement ticket a'based on the getting-off ticket a when the getting-off ticket a does not satisfy the getting-off condition. A display unit 31 for displaying a payment amount and a message to the customer is provided on the upper portion of the customer service panel 30 of the machine body b, and the alighting ticket a. A ticket insertion slot 32 for inserting a coin and a coin slot 33 for making a payment with a coin are provided. Below the coin insertion slot 33, there is provided a bill / card insertion slot 34 for settlement with a bill or a card.
Further, below the bill / card insertion slot 34, an outlet 35 for a settlement ticket and change is provided. Furthermore, C'in the figure
Is a controller composed of a microcomputer that controls the main body of the settlement machine b.

FIG. 4 shows an electrical configuration of a controller C'for driving and controlling the main body b of the settlement machine, which is a ROM.
A central processing unit (CPU) 42 that performs arithmetic processing using system data stored in 40 and working data stored in RAM 41 is mainly configured. In order to read the data recorded in the display driver 44 of the display unit 31 and the boarding ticket insertion slot 32 inserted into the boarding ticket insertion opening 32 or to write new data to the CPU 42 via the I / O unit 43. Read / write driver 45 of the magnetic head H (not shown in FIG. 4) and the adjustment machine main body b
It is connected to a money unit 46 that processes the money thrown therein.

Next, the control operation of the ticket inspection machine main body a according to the embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
Now, it is assumed that the user transfers from Company A line to Company B line at A station shown in FIG.

First, the front ticket B for company B line is the ticket gate main body a
It is assumed that the ticket a is inserted into the insertion slot 10 of the ticket gate main body a and then the getting-off ticket B is inserted into the insertion slot 10 of the ticket gate body a (step 10).
0 affirmation. Hereinafter, the step will be referred to as S. ). If the inserted advance ticket B is valid, the entry data is written by the write head H ₂ , and further confirmed by the verifying head H ₃ , and then temporarily held in the ticket inspection machine main body a (Yes at S102, (S104, S106), and the waiting for the insertion of the getting-off ticket a described later is made.

Of course, when the inserted advance ticket B is an invalid ticket, for example, when it is an expired commuter ticket or the remaining amount of the stored fair card does not satisfy the initial fare, the door is closed and the The advance ticket B is returned (No in S102, S108, S109).

Next, if the getting-off ticket a is inserted into the ticket gate main body a and the getting-off ticket a satisfies the getting-off condition (S11).
0 affirmative, S112 affirmative), the wing W rises and the alighting ticket a is collected in the collection box 16, then the wing W descends and the front ticket B is returned to the discharge port 11, and the door D is opened. (S116, S118, S120). Therefore, the user can transfer from Company A to Company B.

The front ticket B is inserted into the ticket gate body a first,
Next, when the inserted alighting ticket a does not satisfy the alighting condition (No in S112), the user must perform the settlement process based on this, and thus the alighting ticket a is output from the outlet 1
Although it is returned from No. 1, at this time, it is judged that the alighting ticket a is a two-piece set with the preceding ticket b and is invalid in the ticket gate main body a via the writing head H ₂ . The data to the effect (hereinafter referred to as the 2-sheet set NG data) is written, and the data to the effect that the front ticket B has been processed is written (S122, S124, S126).

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing a settlement ticket issuing operation of the settlement machine main body b when the getting-off ticket a does not satisfy the getting-off condition at A station.

First, when the boarding ticket a is inserted into the boarding ticket insertion slot 32 of the main body b of the settlement machine, the data recorded in the boarding ticket a is read (Yes in S200). Then, it is determined whether or not the read data contains the 2-sheet set NG data written in S126 of FIG. 5 (S202). That is, it is determined whether or not the inserted ticket a is inserted once into the ticket gate main body a and determined to be invalid.

The settlement amount is displayed according to the result of the arithmetic processing based on the read data (see FIG. 3, this step is omitted in FIG. 6), and the money corresponding to the settlement amount is put into the settlement machine main body b. Then, (S204 affirmative), the settlement ticket a '
Is added and issued with data indicating that the original ticket (alighting ticket a) has been recorded with the two-sheet set NG data (S206).

When the original ticket (alighting ticket a) is not added with the 2-sheet set NG data (No in S202), that is, when the original ticket has not been inserted into the ticket inspection machine main body a at all, the settlement issued. As in the conventional case, the ticket a'is not added with the two-sheet set NG data.

By the above-mentioned settlement process, the user can transfer at Ko Station. Therefore, the ticket examination operation of the ticket examination machine main body a will be described again with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 7.

First, an example in which the checkout ticket a'is inserted into the insertion slot 10 of the ticket gate body a will be described (Yes in S300). If there is NG data for the set of 2 tickets in the inserted ticket voucher (Yes in S302) and there is no entry data in the next advance ticket b, that is, if the insertion of the advance ticket is the first time, the advance ticket b The entrance data is recorded in and returned to the outlet 11 (S304 negative, S308 positive, S310 negative, S3
12, S314) and the door D is opened (S316). Although not shown in the step of FIG.
Are recovered.

If the ticket is inserted into the ticket inspection machine main body a once and is within a predetermined time (for example, 30 minutes) from the insertion time, the preceding ticket B inserted this time is returned to the outlet 11 without being processed ( S310 affirmation, S322 affirmation, S323 affirmation,
S324), if it is not within the predetermined time from the previous entrance time, the previous entrance and the current settlement do not necessarily match, so it is appropriate to allow the ticket gate if the entrance data is yesterday, for example. So, in this case,
The ticket A'is also returned and the door D is closed (S32).
2 negative. Note that the return steps of the settlement ticket a'and the advance ticket b are omitted. ).

Of course, when only the check ticket a'is inserted and the user enters the ticket passage more than a predetermined amount, the door D is closed and the check ticket a'is returned as in the known automatic ticket gate (S304). Yes, S306, S307).

As described above, even if the advance ticket b is once processed by the ticket gate main body a, it can be returned if it is valid and the ticket is returned without processing. Even if is a stored fair card, the inconvenience that the initial fare will be reduced twice will be resolved.

Even if the advance ticket b is inserted before the checkout ticket a, if there is admission data in the advance ticket b, the ticket is processed based on the previous entry time, so that the illegal ticket is effectively prevented. (No at S300, affirmative at S318).

If there is no admission data for the ticket in advance,
(No in S320), the admission data is written in the advance ticket
The ticket is processed on condition that the checkout ticket a'is inserted (S326,
S328, S330 affirmative, S332).

[0034]

EFFECT OF THE INVENTION The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention, when a valid front ticket and an exit ticket that does not satisfy the exit conditions are inserted into the main body of the ticket machine, returns the ticket and the exit ticket. , Writing means for writing two sets of data on the exit ticket,
Extraction means for extracting the adjustment ticket issued on the basis of the alighting ticket in which the writing means writes two sets of data, and the adjustment ticket when the adjustment ticket is extracted by the extraction means. When the admission data is written on a pair of advance tickets within a predetermined time, it consists of advance ticket processing means that returns the advance ticket without processing it, so the advance ticket inserted into the ticket gate body last time However, since the ticket gate processing is possible and the ticket is returned without processing, the inconvenience that the initial fare is reduced twice when the advance ticket is an SF card is eliminated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a ticket gate body.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a ticket gate body.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a settlement machine main body.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a main body of the settlement machine.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a ticket examination operation of the ticket examination machine main body when an advance ticket and an alighting ticket are inserted.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a settlement operation of the settlement machine main body.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing a ticket examination operation of the ticket examination machine main body when an advance ticket and a settlement ticket are inserted.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a transit station.

[Explanation of symbols]

a Main body of automatic ticket gate (main body of ticket gate) b Main body of automatic checkout machine (main body of checkout machine) C Controller (extracting means, advance ticket processing means) H ₂ writing head (writing means)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An alighting ticket inserted into the main body of the automatic ticket gate,
Or, in an automatic ticket gate that performs automatic processing through data processing of ticket and advance ticket, when a valid ticket and an exit ticket that does not meet the exit conditions are inserted into the main body of the ticket gate. A writing unit for writing data indicating that the ticket is an invalid ticket when the advance ticket and the alighting ticket are returned, and the writing unit is a two-element set and is invalid. Extraction means for extracting the adjustment ticket issued based on the getting-off ticket in which the data indicating that the ticket is written, and when the adjustment ticket is extracted by the extraction means, a way to be paired with the adjustment ticket An automatic ticket gate, comprising: advance ticket processing means for returning the advance ticket without processing if the entry data is written within a predetermined time.