JPH0769397A - Gas station data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify a selecting operation of oil feeding data to be adjusted, by a method wherein unadjusted data of a plurality of meters is all displayed by one and the same display means, and an adjustment is carried out by selecting data in a range concerned with a finger. CONSTITUTION:A POS 20 inputs oil feeding data from a computer 1, stores them in a memory, and transfers them to a data input and output device 13 and an adjusting means 24. The data input and output device 13, based on the oil feeding data, issues a bill from a printer 17. The adjusting means 24 stores the oil feeding data as unadjusted data and displays a bill number and oil fee in one of empty ranges 26 of a display 25. A gas station worker receives money based on the bill issued by the data input and output device 13 and touches a range in a touch key in which the bill number is displayed. Then, if the received money is thrown into a money discriminating means 27, a total amount is displayed in another display 28. After that, if a setting button 30 is pushed, an amount determining means compares the oil fee and the thrown amount of money and carries out an adjustment.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing device for processing various data generated by refueling.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a part of simplification of work at a gas station and customer service, one refueling data input / output device is arranged outdoors for a plurality of refueling devices.
Connect to the POS provided in the office through the transmission line,
A system is used to issue a voucher at the refueling site and perform data processing of the entire refueling station by POS.

That is, a refueling data input / output device arranged outdoors is a card reader / writer for reading and writing a card possessed by a customer, a printer for issuing a refueling slip based on refueling data, and further required data. It is equipped with a keyboard for inputting, and issues a refueling voucher on site, and this refueling voucher is presented to the customer and used for delivery of the price. In this way, when change is required for the price paid by the customer, the refueling site goes to the office from the refueling site to prepare the change and returns to the refueling site to hand the change to the customer. There is a problem that work efficiency is poor because it is necessary to make a round trip between the office and the office.

In order to solve such a problem, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-97193, a refueling data input / output device installed at a refueling site is provided with a change releasing function, A system has also been proposed that enables settlement work at the refueling site. However, since this stem is usually arranged at a ratio of one to a plurality of refueling devices, the weighing machine that is the target of settlement work is specified by its machine number, and this machine number is input by switch means such as a keyboard. Therefore, there is an inconvenience that one is inconvenient to use.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its object is to simplify the operation of selecting refueling data to be used for settlement and to improve the usability. An object is to provide an improved refueling data input / output device.

[0006]

In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, a printer for issuing a slip based on refueling data from a weighing machine, a storage means for storing the refueling data, and Only the unsettled data of the storage means is displayed in the allocated area, and the display means having the touch key function of selecting the data of the area by the touch of the finger, and the authenticity of the inserted money are determined and input. The currency discriminating means for calculating the total amount of money, the change discharging means for storing the money in advance and discharging the necessary amount of money based on the discharge signal, and the total amount thrown into the currency discriminating means by the display means. A control means for outputting a discharge signal to the change discharging means when the amount of fuel selected is larger than the refueling charge is provided.

[0007]

[Function] Since all unbalanced data of multiple weighing machines are displayed on the same display means, the target data can be selected by touching each display area without checking the machine number. Yes, it can be taken as basic data for the subsequent settlement operations. Further, since the data is not displayed when the settlement is completed, it is possible to easily distinguish the unsettled data.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to the illustrated embodiments. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which reference numeral 1 is a weighing machine, a pump 3 driven by a pump motor 2, a flow meter 4 for measuring the discharge flow rate of the pump 3, and a flow rate. Fuel oil hose 5 from the total 4
A nozzle 6 that is received via a control unit 7, a display unit 8, a display unit 8, and a nozzle switch 9, which will be described later, are provided.

The control device 7 converts a signal from the flow rate pulse transmitter 7 provided in the flow meter 4 into an oil supply amount and is connected to the POS 20 via a display 8 and a transmission line 10 described later, and The pump motor 2 is turned on and off based on a signal from the nozzle switch 9.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a data input / output device installed at a refueling site, which is provided with a card reader / writer 14, a keyboard 15 for inputting staff numbers and the like, a display 16 and a printer 17 for issuing slips. P via the transmission line 10
It is connected to the OS 20 and is configured to execute the calculation of the settlement process and the issuance of slips based on the refueling data from each weighing machine 1.

20 is a POS installed in the office 21
With the transmission line 10, the weighing machine 1 and the data input / output device 1
3 and the settlement device 24, the weighing machine 1, each data input / output device 13 and the settlement processing device 24 are connected with necessary information.
Input and output to. Refueling date and time,
There are slip number, clerk number, weighing machine number, oil type, refueling amount, etc.

Reference numeral 24 is a settlement device characterized by the present invention.
The data input / output device 13 is installed close to the data input / output device 13 so as to serve as a settlement operation valve, and is connected to the data processing device 13 and the POS 20 via the transmission line 10.

In this embodiment, the data input / output device 13 is constructed separately from the data input / output device 13 so that it can be additionally installed. However, the data processing device 13 can be incorporated in the same housing.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the above-mentioned settlement device 24. In the figure, reference numeral 25 is a display constituted by a display means having a relatively large display area such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display. Then, the display area of this is divided into a plurality of areas 26a,
26b, 26c, etc., and a touch key 26 is provided on the surface thereof by providing a switch means that does not obstruct the display such as an electrostatic switch means or an ultrasonic matrix switch.

At the top of each display section 26a, 26b, 26c, ..., the unsettled slip numbers “202”, “204”,
“205” is displayed, and the refueling charges “3628”, “2179”, and “1654” of the respective weighing machines are displayed in the center.

Reference numeral 27 is a currency discriminating means, which is a bill insertion slot 27.
a and a coin slot 27b are provided, and the total amount of coins inserted is calculated and displayed on the indicator 28 for displaying the inserted amount. 29 is a change discharge means,
When it is confirmed by pressing the setting button 30 that the amount of money to be charged has been confirmed after the end of refueling, when change is present, money is discharged to the tray 29a.
Reference numeral 31 in the figure indicates an alarm device that issues an alarm when the amount of money input is less than the refueling charge.

FIG. 3 shows the control means of the above-mentioned settlement device 24. In the figure, reference numeral 36 is a storage means for storing unsettled data, and POS2 via the transmitting / receiving means 35.
When it is connected to 0 and receives unsettled data from the POS 20, displays the unsettled data on the display unit 25 constituting the touch key 26, and when the settlement operation of the slip selected by the selecting means 37 is completed, It is configured to erase data.

Reference numeral 37 denotes the selection means described above, which is the touch key 26.
Of the specific area 26a, 26b, 26c, ... Of the area is detected, the amount of the slip displayed in this area is read from the storage means 36, and the amount determination means 3 to be described later is described.
It is configured to output to 9. Numeral 38 is a counting means, which is configured to calculate the total amount of money put into the currency discriminating means 27 and output it to the display 28 and the amount judging means 39.

Reference numeral 39 denotes the above-mentioned amount judgment means, which compares the total amount of money input from the counting means 38 with the refueling charge from the storage means 36 read out by the selection means 37. Change amount calculation means 2
9 is used to release the change, and when the amount of money input is less than the refueling charge, the alarm 31 is activated to call attention.

Next, the general operation of each device of the system configured as described above will be described based on the flowcharts shown in FIGS. When the nozzle 6 is removed from the nozzle hook to refuel and the nozzle switch 9 is turned on (see FIG. 4).
Step a), the control device 7 controls the indicator 8 of the weighing machine 1.
Is reset to zero and the pump 3 is activated (step 4 in FIG. 4). When the nozzle 6 is inserted into the vehicle fuel tank and refueling is started and the flow rate pulse is output from the flow rate pulse transmitter 11 (step C in FIG. 4), the control device 7 converts this into the refueling amount and displays it on the display unit 8. (Fig. 4, Step D). In this way, when the predetermined amount of fuel is completed and the flow rate pulse is stopped (step C in FIG. 4), and the nozzle 6 is returned to the nozzle hook and the nozzle switch 9 is turned off (step E in FIG. 4), the control device 7 turns off the pump motor 2 and transmits the oil type and the amount of oil supply to the POS 20 through the transmission line 10 (step in FIG. 4).
F).

On the other hand, when the refueling data is input from the weighing machine (step B in FIG. 5), the POS 20 stores the refueling data in the storage means, and at the same time, stores the data of the weighing machine in the data input / output device 13, and The data is transferred to the settlement device 24 via the transmission line 10 (step B in FIG. 5). At this time, the data input / output device 13 is provided with a slip number, a weighing machine number, a staff number, a refueling amount, a unit price, a consumption tax amount, etc. to be assigned to the weighing machine that has generated the refueling data from the series of slip numbers. Output as data.

Based on these data, when the settlement is completed at the refueling site by the process described later, and data such as the amount of money received and the settlement completion is input from the settlement device 24, FIG.
Step c) This is stored (step in FIG. 5)
D).

Further, the data input / output device 13 is the POS 2
0 sends the above refueling data (Fig. 5 Step B)
When the data is received by the transmission line 10 (step B in FIG. 6), this data, that is, the slip number, the weighing machine number, to be assigned to the weighing machine that has generated the refueling data,
A slip is issued by the printer 17 based on the refueling amount, the unit price, and the consumption tax (step B in FIG. 6).

Next, the operation of the settlement device 24 will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. Settlement device 24
When the POS 20 transmits the refueling data (step B in FIG. 5) and receives the data via the transmission line 10 (step B in FIG. 7), the storage means 36 stores the data as unadjusted data.
And the data is displayed in one of the vacant areas 26a, 26b, 26c, ... Of the display 25 (step B in FIG. 7). In this way, the slip number “202” and the refueling charge “3” are displayed in the area 26a.
628 ”, the slip number“ 204 ”and the refueling charge“ 2179 ”are displayed in the area 26b, and the slip number“ 205 ”and the refueling charge“ 1654 ”are displayed in the area 26c.

The refueling staff receives the payment from the customer with the slip issued by the printer 17 of the data input / output device 13 for the settlement work after the refueling work is completed, and receives the payment from a specific area of the touch key 26, for example, After touching the area 26b where the customer's slip number “204” is displayed (step B in FIG. 8), the amount deposited by the customer is put into the currency discriminating means 27 (step B in FIG. 8). The total amount is calculated and displayed on the display 28 (step c in FIG. 8).

When the setting button 30 is pressed at the stage when all the coins have been inserted (step D in FIG. 8), the amount judgment means 39 indicates the refueling charge of the slip selected by the touch key 26 and the inserted amount. To compare. When the input amount is less than the refueling amount (step E in FIG. 8), the alarm 31 is activated to prompt the addition of the input amount and wait.

Further, when the input amount is larger than the refueling amount, the difference is released from the change releasing means 29 (step H in FIG. 8). The staff of the gas station hands the money in the tray 29a to the customer as change.

When the settlement operation is completed in this way, the data is output to the POS 20 by the transmission / reception means 35 and the data of the slip is deleted from the storage means 36 (step 8 in FIG. 8). As a result, the display of the area 26b is switched to the blank state.

Further, when the refueling fee and the charging fee match (step in FIG. 8), the data is transmitted to the POS 20 without releasing the change, and the data of the slip is erased from the storage means 36 (step in FIG. 8). Re). As a result, the display of the area 26b is switched to the blank state.

[0030]

As described above, in the present invention,
A printer that issues a voucher based on the refueling data from the weighing machine, a storage unit that stores the refueling data, and displays only the unsettled data in the storage unit in the allocated area, and the data in that area by touching with a finger. Display means having a touch key function for selecting, a currency discriminating means for determining the authenticity of the inserted money and calculating the total amount of money inserted, and a necessary amount based on the emission signal in which the money is stored in advance. And a control means for outputting a release signal to the change releasing means when the total amount of money inserted into the currency discriminating means is larger than the refueling charge of the data selected by the display means. Since it has been prepared, all unbalanced data of multiple weighing machines are displayed on the same display means, and you can touch each display area without checking the machine number one by one. In simple operation, target weighing machine data can be selected that become, also, when the settlement is completed because the display data is not performed, it is possible to distinguish the data of unsettled easily.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a fuel supply facility to which a data processing system of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing an embodiment of a settlement device in the same device.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a settlement device.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an operation of the weighing machine in the same system.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an outline of POS operation in the same system.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the data input / output device in the same system.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an outline of an operation of a settlement device in the same system.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing in detail the operation of the settlement device in the same system.

[Simple explanation of symbols]

 1 weighing machine 3 pump 4 flow meter 6 nozzle 7 control device 9 nozzle switch 8 display device 13 data input / output device 14 card reader / writer 15 keyboard 16 display device 17 printer 24 settlement device 25 display device 26 touch panel 27 currency discriminating means 29 change release Means 28 Display 30 Setting button

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A printer for issuing a voucher based on refueling data from a weighing machine, a storage means for storing the refueling data, and an unallocated data of the storage means are displayed in an allocated area and a finger is displayed. Display means equipped with a touch key function to select the data in the area by touching, the currency discriminating means for determining the authenticity of the inserted money and calculating the total amount of money inserted, and the money stored in advance. If the change discharging means for discharging the required amount of money based on the discharge signal and the total amount of money inserted into the currency discriminating means are larger than the refueling charge of the data selected by the display means, the change discharging means is A gas station data processing device comprising a control means for outputting a discharge signal. 2. The filling station according to claim 1, wherein the control means issues an alarm by the notifying means when the total amount of money put into the currency discriminating means is less than the refueling charge of the data selected by the display means. Data processing device. 3. The gas station data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the data in the storage means is erased when the settlement operation is completed.