JPH08241439A - Automatic ticket vending device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an automatic ticket vending device which attains the effective use of an unchanged reserved seat ticket against the change of the seat reservation and also attains the effective use of resources. CONSTITUTION: The inputted information on the seat reservation is magnetically written in a magnetic storage area that is previously provided on an inserted coupon ticket. Then the seat reservation information is printed in a print area prepared on the ticket, and a coupon ticket is issued as a reserved seat ticket. In such a constitution of the automatic ticket vending device, it is decided that the coupon ticket is equal to an updating object of the seat reservation ticket when the coupon ticket issued as a reserved seat ticket is inserted again. When the new seat reservation information is rewritten into the magnetic information on the coupon ticket to be updated, seat reservation information which is printed on the coupon ticket before its updating is invalidated. At the same time, the new seat reservation information is printed on the ticket instead of the invalidated reservation information by a print updating means (control part 8).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to a seat reservation system, etc.
The present invention relates to an automatic ticket issuing device which issues a seat reservation ticket based on a user's own operation, and particularly relates to an automatic ticket issuing device which specifies a seat using a coupon ticket.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional automatic ticket issuing apparatus, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-237193, issues a seat-specifying ticket by using a coupon ticket, or an airline ticket issuing machine. In some cases, an area for printing seat designation contents is provided on an airline ticket, and seat designation contents are printed in the area. However, the technique described in JP-A-63-237193 does not use the coupon ticket as a seat-designating ticket. Further, in any of the technologies, when the seat designation is changed, the ticket with the new seat designation content must be reissued. As a result, waste of seats for ticket issuance occurs, and it is necessary to provide seat reservation tickets in advance in the automatic ticket issuing device.

[0003]

The problem to be solved is that the prior art cannot effectively use the ticket before the change when the seat designation is changed. An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket issuing device which solves the problems of the conventional techniques and enables effective use of resources.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the automatic ticket issuing apparatus 1 of the present invention is configured such that the magnetic field of the seat designation information input by operation is stored in a magnetic storage area provided in advance in the inserted coupon ticket 5. It is provided with at least magnetic information writing means (ticket reading / printing unit 6) for writing, and printing means (ticket reading / printing unit 6) for printing seat designation information in a printing area provided in advance on the ticket 5. ,
An automatic ticket issuing device that issues a coupon ticket 5 as a seat reservation ticket, and when the coupon ticket 5 issued as a seat reservation ticket is reinserted, it is determined that the coupon ticket 5 is a target for updating seat specification information, When rewriting new seat designation information by the magnetic information writing means (ticket reading / printing unit 6) for the ticket to be updated, the seat designation information before the update printed on the ticket to be updated 5 is invalidated. In addition, a print update means (control unit 8) for printing new seat designation information in place of the invalidated seat designation information before updating on the coupon ticket 5 is provided.

[0005]

In the present invention, the coupon ticket is provided with a magnetic storage area and a printing area in advance, and the seat designation information is magnetically written and printed, the coupon ticket is issued as a seat ticket, and the seat designation information is issued. At the time of updating, the printing contents are updated along with the magnetic storage contents of the coupon ticket. For example, multiple print areas are provided on the coupon ticket in advance, new seat designation information is printed in a different area from the seat designation information before update, and the printed seat designation information is invalid. A mark indicating that is printed. Alternatively, the number of print areas is one, the print of the seat designation information before the update is erased, and new seat designation information is printed in the same area. As described above, according to the present invention, the coupon ticket itself can be used as the seat reservation ticket, and the same coupon ticket can be used when the seat reservation is updated. As a result, it is not necessary to previously equip the automatic ticket issuing device with a seat-designating ticket, the ticket can be reused, and waste of resources can be avoided.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the internal configuration of the automatic ticket issuing apparatus of the present invention according to the present invention.
[Fig. 3] is a perspective entity view showing its appearance. As shown in FIG. 2, the automatic ticket issuing device 1 of the present embodiment includes a display 2 for displaying guidance guidance to users, a touch panel 3 placed so that an input area overlaps the display 2, and a coupon ticket. It has a ticket insertion / ejection opening 4 for insertion and ejection.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the automatic ticket issuing apparatus 1
In addition to the display 2 and the touch panel 3, it is possible to read the magnetic information of the coupon ticket 5 inserted from the ticket insertion / ejection slot 4 of FIG. 2 and to designate a seat in the area in which the seat designation content of the coupon ticket 5 is described. Communication for transmitting / receiving data to / from a ticket reading / printing unit 6 that prints and magnetically writes necessary seat information and train information, and issues a coupon ticket 5 as a seat-specified ticket, and a host computer 9 that manages ticketing of seats. It is composed of an adapter 7 and a control unit 8 including a microprocessor for controlling these and a program and a storage unit for storing train information, reservation information and the like, and is connected to a host computer 9 via a communication line.

The control unit 8 also operates as a print update means according to the present invention. Further, the ticket reading / printing unit 6 operates as magnetic information writing means and printing means according to the present invention. That is, when the coupon ticket 5 is inserted from the ticket insertion / ejection slot 4,
The ticket reading / printing unit 6 magnetically writes the seat designation information input from the touch panel 3 to the magnetic storage area of the coupon ticket 5 which is provided in advance, and stores the seat designation information in the coupon ticket 5 in advance. Print in the provided print area. Then, the coupon ticket 5 thus printed is ejected from the ticket insertion / ejection slot 4 as a seat-designated ticket.

[0009] The coupon ticket 5 thus issued once
However, when the ticket is inserted again from the ticket insertion / ejection port 4, the control unit 8 determines, for example, based on the seat designation information written in the magnetic storage area of the coupon ticket 5 read by the ticket reading / printing unit 6. 5 is a target for updating seat designation information, and through the ticket reading / printing unit 6,
The new seat designation information from the touch panel 3 for the coupon ticket 5 to be updated is rewritten, and the seat designation information before the update, which is already printed on the coupon ticket 5, is invalidated, and the new coupon ticket 5 is updated. Prints various seat designation information.

The operation of the automatic ticket issuing apparatus 1 of this embodiment according to the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to FIGS. It is assumed that the automatic ticket issuing apparatus 1 described here is installed in Nagoya station and handles only trains from Nagoya to Tokyo. In addition, the equipment information to be specified is limited to normal cars / green cars and non-smoking seats / smoking seats. FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing an operation example of the automatic ticket issuing apparatus according to the present invention in FIG. 1, and FIGS. 4 to 12 are explanatory views showing examples of screen contents displayed by the operation in FIG. 3, and FIGS. 15 is
It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of printing of the seat designation ticket issued by operation | movement in FIG.

The screen display examples of FIGS. 4 to 12 and FIG.
The operation of the automatic ticket issuing device 1 of FIG. 1 will be described based on the flowchart of FIG. 3 with reference to the seat designation ticket printing examples of FIGS. The automatic ticket issuing device displays a coupon ticket insertion guide screen 41 shown in FIG. 4 on the display as an initial screen.
The user inserts a coupon ticket having at least two areas in which seat designation contents such as seat numbers and train numbers can be described (step 301), and then the guidance of the boarding date selection screen 51 shown in FIG. According to the instruction, the touch panel is operated to select and input the boarding date (step 302).

Next, the user operates the touch panel according to the guidance on the boarding time zone selection screen 61 shown in FIG. 6 to select and input the boarding time (step 303). FIG.
The control unit 8 stores the contents thus selected and input in the storage unit, creates vacant seat request information from the input contents, and transmits it to the host computer 9 via the communication adapter 7 in FIG. And make a seat inquiry (Step 3)
04). After receiving the reply from the host computer 9 in FIG. 1, the control unit 8 in FIG. 1 stores the received reply information in the storage unit and displays it on the display as a train selection screen 71 shown in FIG.

The user can select the train selection screen 7 shown in FIG.
First, a desired train is selected from the vacant train information of 1 on the touch panel (step 305). Next, in accordance with the guidance of the vehicle equipment selection screen 81 shown in FIG. 8, a green vehicle or an ordinary vehicle is selected and input by the touch panel (step 306). Then, in accordance with the guidance of the type selection screen 91 shown in FIG. 9, the selection input of the non-smoking seat or the smoking seat is performed by the touch panel (step 30).
7).

The control unit 8 of FIG. 1 stores the information thus selected and input in the storage unit, displays the confirmation screen 101 shown in FIG. 10 on the display, and waits for the user's confirmation (step 308). Then, when the confirmation is input from the user, the control unit 8 in FIG. 1 creates reservation request information based on the contents stored in the storage unit, and the host computer via the communication adapter 7 in FIG. 9 is inquired (step 309). When the answer is full, a full screen 111 shown in FIG. 11 is displayed on the display (step 310), and a coupon ticket return screen 121 shown in FIG. 12 is displayed on the display to return the coupon ticket. Then, the process ends (step 311).

In step 309, when the reply to the reservation request information is not full, the control unit 8 in FIG. 1 stores the received reply information in the storage unit and, via the ticket reading / printing unit 6 in FIG. Whether or not the designated seat is changed is determined by, for example, reading the magnetic information of the coupon ticket (step 312). If the designated seat has not been changed, the control unit 8 in FIG. 1 uses the ticket reading / printing unit 6 in FIG. Number, departure time, arrival time,
The seating ticket 131 shown in FIG. 13 is issued by printing and magnetically writing the boarding date, type (non-smoking, smoking), etc. (step 313).

If the designated seat is changed, the control unit 8 in FIG.
The ticket reading / printing unit 6 of FIG. 1 indicates that the train information of the ticket before the change, the reserved seat number, etc. is invalid, for example, a double line is printed, and the reserved seat up to the previous time is invalid. At the same time as printing (step 314), new seat information is printed in another blank area, and is again issued as seat designation ticket 141 shown in FIG. 14 (step 313). If the train information, designated seat number, etc. on the coupon printed by the ticket reading / printing unit 6 of FIG. 1 can be deleted, the seat shown in FIG. 15 is processed by the processing of step 315 indicated by the broken line in the figure. A designated ticket 151 is issued. That is, the printing of the seat designation content that has already been printed is erased, the new seat designation content is printed again in the same area, and a seat designation ticket is issued.

As described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 15, in the automatic ticket issuing apparatus 1 of this embodiment, the coupon ticket 5
In advance, a magnetic storage area and a printing area are provided, and the seat designation information is magnetically written and printed, the coupon ticket 5 is issued as a seat designation ticket, and the seat designation content is printed when the seat designation information is updated. Disable (print or delete double lines), print in another area or in the same area again, and issue an updated seat reservation ticket.

As a result, there is no need to issue a new seat-designating ticket accompanying a change in the reservation content, the configuration of the ticket-issuing printer or the like is unnecessary as the device configuration, and the replenishment of consumables such as printer paper is unnecessary. . The present invention is
The embodiment is not limited to the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 15, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

[0019]

According to the present invention, when the seat designation is changed,
The seat reservation ticket before the change can be effectively used, and the resources can be effectively used.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an internal configuration according to the present invention of an automatic ticket issuing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective substantial view showing an appearance of the automatic ticket issuing device in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the automatic ticket issuing apparatus of FIG. 1 according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a coupon ticket insertion guide screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a boarding date selection screen displayed by the operation in FIG. 3. FIG.

6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a boarding time zone selection screen displayed by the operation in FIG. 3. FIG.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a train selection screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a vehicle equipment selection screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a type selection screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a confirmation screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a full-occupancy display screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a coupon ticket return screen displayed by the operation in FIG.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing a print example of a seat-specifying ticket newly issued by the operation in FIG.

14 is an explanatory diagram showing a first print example of a seat-designating ticket that is reissued by the operation in FIG.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing a second print example of a seat designation ticket that is reissued by the operation in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Automatic ticket issuing device, 2: Display, 3: Touch panel, 4: Ticket insertion / ejection slot, 5: Ticket ticket, 6: Ticket reading / printing unit, 7: Communication adapter, 8: Control section, 9:
Host computer, 41: coupon ticket insertion guide screen, 5
1: Boarding date selection screen, 61: Boarding time zone selection screen, 7
1: Train selection screen, 81: Vehicle equipment selection screen, 91: Type selection screen, 101: Confirmation screen, 111: Full seat display screen, 121: Coupon return screen, 131, 141, 15
1: Seat reserved ticket

Front page continued (72) Inventor Kazuya Seo 1 Ikegami Ichigami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Hitachi Asahi Electronics Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masaru Miyazaki 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasaichi, Aichi Hitachi Ltd. Office Systems Within the business unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A magnetic information writing means for magnetically writing operationally input seat designation information in a magnetic storage area previously provided in the inserted coupon, and the seat designation information is provided in advance in the coupon. An automatic ticket issuing device for issuing the coupon ticket as a seat-specifying ticket, the coupon ticket being printed at a designated printing area, wherein the coupon ticket is reinserted when the coupon ticket is issued as the seat-specifying ticket. Is the update target of the seat designation information, and when the new seat designation information is rewritten by the magnetic information writing means with respect to the update target coupon, the pre-update printed on the update target coupon And a print update unit for invalidating the seat designation information of the above and printing the new seat designation information in place of the invalidated seat designation information on the coupon ticket. An automatic ticket issuing device.