JPH0883368A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To use the combination of a magnetic ticket and a noncontact ticket and to improve the usability of the automatic ticket examination machine for a user by providing a control means reading ticket booking and ticket examining data from the magnetic ticket and the noncontact ticket and performing a ticket examination processing. CONSTITUTION: At first, a magnetic ticket C1 is inserted into the insertion port 1 of a main body (a) and, next, a noncontact ticket C2 is held up to a communication area 7. At this time, when the both of the magnetic ticket C1 and the noncontact ticket C2 are valid, a door 6 is opened, a user is given admission. At the time, the magnetic ticket C1 is returned from an ejection port 2. When the user goes not, the magnetic ticket C1 is collected within the body (a). When either one of the magnetic ticket C1 or the noncontact ticket C2 is invalid or both of them are invalid, the admission is naturally rejected. When the user can enter or goes out by only the inserted magnetic ticket C1 or only the held up noncontact ticket C2 , a ticket examination processing is performed by each single ticket. The processing may be performed by even plural of each ticket such as a magnetic ticket and a noncontact ticket or a magnetic ticket and two noncontact tickets.

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 handle both magnetic tickets and contactless tickets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, the automatic ticket gates that are widely used are magnetic disks such as ticket and commuter ticket in which predetermined ticket gate data are magnetically recorded in the main body of the automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as the main body). When the ticket is inserted, the ticket gate data recorded on the magnetic ticket is taken into the main body. Then, the main body performs arithmetic processing based on the ticket gate data, performs entrance / exit processing based on the arithmetic result, and writes the entrance / exit data which is the arithmetic result on the magnetic ticket.

Further, in recent years, the above-described magnetic ticket insertion type automatic ticket gate eliminates the inconvenience that the commuter ticket has to be put in and taken out of the commuter ticket every time the commuter ticket user passes through the ticket gate. And an IC with a communication function on the commuter pass
A contactless ticket that is a card-type contactless ticket, and the contactless ticket exchange data is sent and received between the contactless ticket and the main body in a contactless manner, and the ticket is automatically inserted without inserting a commuter pass into the main body. A ticket gate has been proposed (for example, JP-A-1-246).
687).

[0004]

By the way, even if non-contact type automatic ticket gates are adopted in the future,
Since a magnetic ticket having a low cost is advantageous for a special ticket such as a one-time limited express ticket or a seat reservation ticket, it is necessary to perform one automatic ticketing process with a two-sheet set that is not in contact with the magnetic ticket.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to meet the above-mentioned demand, and an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate capable of one automatic ticket gate with a magnetic ticket and a non-contact ticket.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention reads out ticket gate data recorded on a magnetic ticket inserted in an insertion slot provided in a main body. Automatically perform the entrance / exit processing by calculating the entrance / exit processing by processing the exit / exit ticket data, and reading the exit / ticket data of the contactless ticket approaching the communication area provided in the main body In the ticket gate, read out the ticket gate data from the magnetic ticket and the non-contact ticket
It is characterized by having a control means for performing one ticket gate processing.

[0007]

In the above structure, the control means performs one ticket processing by reading the ticket output data from the magnetic ticket and the non-contact ticket.

[0008]

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 one embodiment, and a transport mechanism 3 driven by a motor M is disposed between an insertion opening 1 and an ejection opening 2 of a main body a. . The transport mechanism 3 is composed of a well-known aligned transport path 4 and a main transport path 5, of which the aligned transport path 4 has a function of aligning the magnetic tickets C ₁ inserted from the insertion slot 1. Further, the main transport path 5 has a magnetic ticket C _{1 in the} transport path.
A magnetic head H ₁ for reading the magnetic data recorded on the magnetic disk, and magnetic data read by the magnetic head for arithmetic processing by a controller b mainly composed of a microcomputer and for writing the arithmetic result. It has a magnetic head H ₂ and a verifying magnetic head H ₃ for reading whether data has been normally written.

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 b. Further, although not shown, in the main body a, a punching unit for punching the magnetic ticket C ₁ taken in the main body a,
A mechanism for collecting the magnetic ticket C ₁ in the main body a is provided, but is omitted for simplification of the drawing.

A communication area 7 is provided on the upper surface of the main body a on the user's entry side for exchanging data by wireless communication with the contactless ticket C ₂ carried by the user.
An antenna connected to a communication control unit, which will be described later, faces the communication area 7.

Reference numeral S is a human detector for detecting a user's entry into a ticket gate passage formed between the main body (not shown) adjacent to the main body, exit from the ticket gate passage, or passage. , Is attached to the side surface of the main body a and the arm 8. Further, a speaker 9 for broadcasting a predetermined guide to the user is attached to the side surface of the main body a.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the electrical construction of the automatic ticket gate of this embodiment. First of all, from the main body a side, the central processing unit (CPU) 10 of the controller b is
Program data stored in M11 and RAM 12
In the CPU 10, a magnetic head controller h for controlling the magnetic heads H _{1 to} H ₃ via the I / O unit 13 is provided. Door driver 14 for driving the door 6
A display driver (not shown in FIG. 1) 17 provided at the rear of the upper surface of the main body a (the upper surface on the user's advance side), a display driver 18 for displaying a message to the user, and a magnetic field. Ticket C1
Sensor (not shown in FIG. 1) for detecting the insertion state of the sensor, a sensor driver 19 that receives detection signals from various sensors such as the human detector s, a voice driver 20 that drives the speaker 9, and a contactless ticket. A communication control unit 21 that transmits and receives data to and from C ₂ is connected.

Based on the control from the controller b, the communication control section 21 transmits the name of the station, the day of the day, etc. from the main body a to the non-contact ticket C ₂ through the antenna 22 like the well-known non-contact automatic ticket gate. It has the function of transmitting data and receiving the radio waves transmitted from the contactless ticket C ₂ . The communication method between the main body a and the non-contact ticket C ₂ is not limited to the radio wave method described above, and an optical communication method, an electromagnetic coupling method, an electromagnetic induction method, or the like can be adopted.

Next, the electrical structure of the contactless ticket C ₂ will be described. This contactless ticket C ₂ is an ordinary IC having a communication function.
Similar to the card, the antenna 30, the communication control unit 31 having the same function as the communication control unit 21 of the main body a, the I / O unit 32, the CPU 33, the memory 34 including ROM and RAM, and the power supply 35. have. The power supply 25 may be configured to receive the power wave supplied from the main body a and use it as a power supply without having the power supply 25 inside the contactless ticket C ₂ .

Next, the control operation of the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Now, a case will be described in which the user uses the non-contact ticket C ₂ as a boarding ticket and the magnetic ticket C ₁ as a special ticket such as a limited express ticket, and the entry is not possible without these two tickets.

First, it is assumed that the magnetic ticket C ₁ is first inserted into the insertion slot 1 of the main body a, and then the non-contact ticket C ₂ is held over the communication area 7 (Yes at Step 100, Step 102).
Yes, step 104 affirmative. Hereinafter, the step will be referred to as S. ).

If both the magnetic ticket C ₁ and the non-contact ticket C ₂ are valid (Yes at S106 and Yes at S108), the door 6 is opened (as it is when the main body a is the normally open type), and the user enters. It is possible (S110), in which case the magnetic ticket C ₁ is returned from the outlet 2. In addition, at the time of participation, the magnetic ticket C ₁ is collected in the main body a.

If either or both of the magnetic ticket C _{1 and the} non-contact ticket C ₂ are invalid tickets, the entry is naturally rejected (No at S108, S112).

When the inserted magnetic ticket C ₁ alone or the held contactless ticket C ₂ alone can enter and exit, the ticket inspection process is performed by each individual ticket (No at S102, No at S114 and S106). , S116).

As described above, in the automatic ticket gate according to this embodiment, the combination of the magnetic ticket and the non-contact ticket can be used, so that the usability can be improved.

In the above-described embodiment, the number of the magnetic tickets and the number of the non-contact tickets are each one, but two magnetic tickets and one non-contact ticket, or one magnetic ticket and two non-contact tickets. There may be a plurality of tickets, such as a ticket.

[0022]

Since the automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is provided with the control means for reading the ticket output data from the magnetic ticket and the non-contact ticket to perform one ticket processing, the combination of the magnetic ticket and the non-contact ticket. It can be used together and the usability can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an automatic ticket gate and a contactless ticket according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 insertion slot 3 transport mechanism 7 communication area a automatic ticket gate main body (main body) b controller C ₁ magnetic ticket C ₂ non-contact ticket H _{1 to} H ₃ magnetic head M motor

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The ticket gate data recorded on a magnetic ticket inserted in an insertion slot provided in the main body of the automatic ticket gate is read, and the ticket gate data is arithmetically processed to perform entrance / exit processing. In the automatic ticket gate that reads out the ticket gate data of the contactless ticket approaching the communication area provided in the main body of the automatic ticket gate and performs arithmetic processing to perform entrance / exit processing, the magnetic ticket and the contactless ticket An automatic ticket gate, which is provided with a control means for reading one ticket gate data from the ticket gate and performing one ticket processing.