JPH08171669A - Change certification ticket issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To perform a prescribed processing operation even at the time of the fault of a change processing unit by printing the money amount of change on a change certification paper and issuing it when the change processing unit is abnormally stopped due to the run-out of the change or the like, then the change is generated. CONSTITUTION: A ticket issuing processing unit 8 is constituted of a printing mechanism for printing the money amount and a date, etc., on the surface of a passenger ticket and a write mechanism such as a magnetic head or the like for recording the magnetic data of the money amount. Also, the ticket issuing processing unit 8 can issue a change certification ticket from a ticket issuing port 7. For the change certification ticket, the date and the money amount of the change, etc., are printed on the surface through the printing mechanism and the magnetic data of the date and the money amount, etc., are written on a rear surface through the write mechanism. When a main body 1 is in operation and cash capable of purchasing a prescribed passenger ticket is fed from a feeding port 2, even at the time of the fault (including the run-out of the change as well) of the change processing unit 9, the passenger ticket is issued. At the time, along with the passenger ticket, the change certification ticket is also issued.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is incorporated into an automatic ticket vending machine, an automatic checkout machine, an automatic ticket gate with a checkout function, or other various automatic vending machines, and when a change processing unit abnormally stops due to a change out or the like, a change is made. The present invention relates to a change certificate issuing device capable of issuing a certificate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, an automatic ticket vending machine includes a main body of an automatic ticket vending machine (hereinafter, a main body of a processing machine such as an automatic ticket vending machine or an automatic settlement machine in which a change certificate issuing device according to the present invention is incorporated. When a coin or a bill is inserted into the main body.) And one account button is selected from the corresponding account button group within the amount of the inserted money and is pressed, the button is pressed. A ticket corresponding to the account button is issued.

When the amount of money input is larger than the fare of the ticket corresponding to the pressed account button, the difference is released from the change processing unit as change into the return port.

In the case where the main body is an automatic settlement machine, when the amount of money inserted into the main body is larger than the settlement amount, the adjustment ticket is issued and the difference amount is returned as change, and the main body is In the case of various vending machines, when the amount of money thrown into the main body is equal to or more than the price of the sale item, the sale item is discharged from the main body, and when there is change, the change item is also discharged from the main body.

[0005]

However, in the main body in which the above-mentioned conventional change unit is incorporated, the change processing unit abnormally stops due to a change out or the like (hereinafter, such an abnormal stop is also described as a failure). In this case, when another processing unit, for example, the main body of an automatic ticket vending machine, even if the ticketing processing unit is normal, the entire main body is abnormally stopped, and subsequent ticketing processing cannot be performed.

For this reason, conventionally, stations that are rarely used,
For example, even when an automatic ticket vending machine is installed in an unmanned station, it is necessary to install a plurality of automatic ticket vending machines to prepare for an abnormal stop, which has a drawback of high cost.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and its purpose is to issue a boarding ticket or an adjusting ticket even if the change processing unit fails, or sell a predetermined sale product. To provide a change certificate issuing device capable of increasing the operating rate of the main body by allowing the predetermined processing operation to be continued without abnormally stopping the main body when the predetermined processing operation is possible. is there.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the change certificate issuing device according to the present invention has a predetermined amount of money, such as a fare of a ticket issued to the main body, which has been inserted. Sometimes, when a predetermined processing operation such as issuing a ticket is performed and the amount of money inserted exceeds the amount necessary to perform the predetermined processing operation, the amount of money exceeded In a change certificate issuing device incorporated in the main body having a change processing unit for discharging change as change, a change certificate sheet provided in the main body, and the change certificate sheet is printed with the change amount and When a change issuing unit for issuing a change certificate and the change processing unit abnormally stop due to a change out, etc., and a change occurs when performing the predetermined processing operation,
It is characterized by further comprising control means for controlling the print issuing means so as to print and issue the change amount on the change certificate sheet. Further, the printing and issuing means is characterized by writing magnetic data of at least the amount of money other than printing the amount of change.

[0009]

In the above structure, the control means prints the amount of change on the change proof sheet when the change processing unit abnormally stops due to running out of change or the like and change occurs when a predetermined processing operation is performed. The print issuing means is controlled so that the print is issued.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 shows the main body 1 when the processor is an automatic ticket vending machine.
FIG.

A coin slot (not shown) 2 is provided in the main body 1.
The coins inserted from here are discriminated by the discriminator 3 for the type of fake coins (including the 1-yen coin, which is not accepted by the main body 1, for example). The coins returned to the return port 4 provided in the main body 1 and accepted are sent to the money processing unit 5.

Since the money processing unit 5 is the same as a known money processing unit, a detailed description thereof will be omitted, but coins from the classifier 3 are transferred for every money, for example, 1 through the distribution unit.
The coins of 0 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, and 500 yen are sorted and accepted into the temporary holding unit for each coin.

When the main body 1 is of a bill handling type capable of accepting and processing bills as well, the main body 1 is provided with a bill insertion slot, and a bill sorter and a money handling unit are provided. In the present embodiment, it is omitted to simplify the drawing.

The main body 1 is provided with an account button group 6 corresponding to the purchase price of the ticket. And this account button group 6
When the account button within the range of the amount of money inserted from the insertion slot 2 or a bill (including the card when the main body 1 is a card compatible) is selected from among the A ticket (not shown) corresponding to the pressed account button is issued from the mouth 7 via the ticket issuing processing unit 8.

The ticket issuing processing unit 8 is composed of a printing mechanism for printing the amount of money, the date and the like on the surface of the ticket and a writing mechanism such as a magnetic head for recording the magnetic data of the amount of money, like the well-known ticket issuing processing unit. Has been done.

Further, the ticket issuing processing unit 8 is constructed so that, in addition to the above-mentioned boarding ticket, a change certificate ticket a as shown in FIG. 3 can be issued from the ticket issuing port 7. That is, in this change certificate voucher, the date, the amount of change, and the like are printed on the front side through the printing mechanism, and the magnetic data such as the date and the amount are written on the back side through the writing mechanism. It is rare.

The change processing unit 9 is, for example, 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, 5 like the known change processing unit.
Every 00 yen (if the main body 1 is a bill-type and can accept 5,000-yen and 10,000-yen bills, 1,000 or 5,000-yen bills), the amount of money corresponding to the change will be returned to the return port 4 from each hopper. Is discharged.

In FIG. 1, C is a controller mainly composed of a microcomputer, which is constituted so that the main body 1 can be comprehensively controlled. That is, the controller C has a central processing unit (CPU) 12 that performs arithmetic processing using a system program stored in the ROM 10 and working data stored in the RAM 11. The CPU 12 is connected to the processing units 5, 8 and 9 via the I / O unit 13, respectively.

Next, the control operation of the automatic ticket vending machine according to this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

It is now assumed that the main body 1 is in operation and that the amount of money for purchasing a predetermined ticket has been inserted from the slot 2 (Yes at step 100. Hereinafter, step is referred to as S). Then, a predetermined account button is pressed from the account button group 6 (Yes in S102), and when the amount of money inserted and the fare of the ticket related to the pressed account button match, that is, the change. When there is no ticket (No at S104), the boarding ticket is issued from the ticket issuing port 7 and the series of processing operations ends (S105).

By the way, when the fare of the ticket issued is smaller than the amount of money inserted, the difference or the change is returned (S104: Yes). This change is returned to the return port 4 via the change processing unit 9 as described above.

Conventionally, when the main body 1 is in a change mode for discharging change, for example, when the change cannot be discharged due to a change out or the like, the main body 1 stops abnormally (all the money thrown into the main body 1 is returned. However, in the present embodiment, even if the change processing unit is out of order (including change out) (No at S106), the ticket is issued. . Then, at this time, along with the issuance of the boarding ticket, the change certificate certificate a in which the amount of change and the like are shown is also issued as shown in FIG. 3 (S108).

Although not shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the malfunction of the change processing unit 9 is notified to the staff through the controller C and repaired (S110).

[0024] The user can later submit the change certificate voucher to the counter to receive the change amount described in the change certificate voucher a. In addition, since the amount of change and the like is recorded in the change certificate a by magnetic data, the change can be received through another automatic ticket vending machine or automatic checkout machine.

For example, when the change is received at another automatic ticket vending machine, when the main body 1 is of a card type, the card read / write mechanism is used. By adding a reading mechanism for change certificate a
The amount of money recorded in the change certificate a is read, and the change is discharged based on the read data.

When the change is received by the automatic checkout machine, a magnetic data read / write mechanism provided in advance in the automatic checkout machine can be used. That is, the change certificate voucher a can be inserted into the original ticket insertion slot to receive the change.

Furthermore, it is possible to use the automatic ticket gate with the settlement function so that the change can be received.
In other words, the automatic ticket gate with the payment function has a money processing unit and a money processing unit in addition to the mechanism for reading the magnetic data of the getting-off ticket for which the charge is insufficient. You can also insert it to receive change.

Of course, when the change processing unit 9 is normal, a ticket is issued and the change is normally discharged to the return port 4 as in the conventional case (Yes at S106, S1).
12).

As described above, the automatic ticket vending machine according to this embodiment can perform the ticket issuing process even if the change unit is out of order, so that the operating efficiency of the automatic ticket vending machine can be improved. The user can also receive the change later with the change certificate v.

As described above, since the operation efficiency of the automatic ticket vending machine is high, a small number of automatic ticket vending machines are sufficient at the station where the frequency of users is low, and the equipment cost can be reduced.

In the prior art, when the change processing unit fails, the entire main body abnormally stops and a card completely unrelated to change cannot be used. However, such a problem can be solved.

Although the main body 1 is the main body of the automatic ticket vending machine in the above-mentioned embodiment, it may be an automatic checkout machine or an automatic ticket gate with a checkout function, and may be various automatic vending machines.

[0033]

The change certificate issuing device according to the present invention prints the change certificate sheet provided in the main body of the processing machine, prints the change amount on the change certificate sheet, and issues the printed change certificate. When the change issuing unit and the change processing unit abnormally stop due to a change out, etc., and a change occurs when the predetermined processing operation is performed, the change amount is printed on the change certificate sheet. Since the control unit controls the print issuing unit so as to issue the print issuing unit, a predetermined processing operation can be performed even if the change unit is out of order, and the operation efficiency of the processing machine can be improved. The user can also receive the change later with the change certificate.

When the print issuing means writes magnetic data of the change amount other than printing the change amount,
The change can be received by using another automatic ticket vending machine having a magnetic data reading mechanism or a processing machine such as an automatic checkout machine.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a main body when the processing machine of the present invention is an automatic ticket vending machine.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a controller.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a change certificate.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body of processing machine (main body of automatic ticket vending machine (main body)) 2 Entry slot 3 Discriminator 4 Return slot 5 Money processing unit 6 Account button group 7 Ticketing port 8 Ticketing processing unit 9 Change processing unit C Controller i Change proof ticket

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A predetermined processing operation such as ticket issuing is performed when money of a predetermined amount such as a ticket fee issued to a main body of a processing machine such as an automatic ticket vending machine is inserted. , When the amount of money input exceeds the amount necessary to perform the predetermined processing operation,
In a change certificate issuing device incorporated in the main body of a processing machine having a change processing unit for discharging the amount of money exceeding the change, a change verification sheet provided in the main body of the processing machine, and the change verification sheet. The change issuing unit prints the amount of change on and prints the change certificate, and the change processing unit abnormally stops due to a change or the like, and a change occurs when the predetermined processing operation is performed. And a control means for controlling the print issuing means so as to print and issue the amount of change on the change proof sheet. 2. The change certificate issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the print issuing means writes magnetic data of at least the amount of money in addition to printing the amount of change.