JPH11110490A - Card segmenting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a card segmenting device in which the problem of the double carriage or jam of a card can solved. SOLUTION: This card segmenting device is provided with a card housing chamber 1 in which cards 2 are housed in a vertically laminated state, a card segmentation port 3 provided at the lower part of the side wall of the card housing chamber 1, and feeding rollers 4a and 4b arranged on the bottom part of the card housing chamber 1 and for feeding the card 2 in the lowest level among the cards 2 housed in the card housing chamber 1 from the card segmentation port 3 to the outside. The clearance of the card segmentation port 3 is made to 1.1-1.8 times as thick as the card 2 and when the card 2 in the lowest level among the cards 2 housed in the card housing chamber 1 is fed from the card segmentation port 3 by the feeding rollers 4a and 4b, the upper face of the card 2 is made to abut on one part of the upper side of a passage in the card segmentation port 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card cutting device used in a card issuing machine for issuing cards such as prepaid cards.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a card issuing machine for issuing a card such as a prepaid card is provided with a card cutout device having a mechanism for stocking a plurality of cards and sending out the cards to the outside as necessary. I have. A conventional card cutout device has a card storage chamber for stacking and storing a plurality of cards, and a card cutout opening for sending out the card to the outside is formed in a lower portion of a side wall of the card storage chamber. A feeding roller for sending out the card laterally from the card cutout is arranged at the bottom, and the card cutting is performed sequentially from the lowest card among the cards stored in the card storage chamber by the feeding roller. It is sent out from the exit. However, in such a card cutout device, when the lowest card among the cards stored in the card storage chamber should be sent out one by one from the card cutout, the card immediately above the card is dragged. Together with the card exit, and as a result,
This is likely to cause a problem that two cards are conveyed to the outside or jammed at the card cutout.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a card cutting device which eliminates the problem of double conveyance and jamming of cards. It is in.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a card cutting device according to the present invention is configured as follows.
That is, the card cutout device is arranged at the bottom of the card storage room, and at the bottom of the card storage room, a card storage room for storing cards stacked vertically, a card cutout provided at the lower part of the side wall of the card storage room. A feeding roller for sending the lowest card out of the cards stored in the card storage chamber to the outside from the card cutout. The card cutout is for sending out the card stored in the card storage room to the outside, and the clearance is set in a range of 1.1 to 1.8 times the thickness of the card. By setting the clearance in this manner, one card is surely passed through the card exit, and two cards are not passed at the same time. In addition, the clearance mentioned above refers to the dimension of the narrowest space in the card cutout. Then, the lowest card among the cards stored in the card storage chamber is sent out from the card cutout by the feeding roller,
At this time, the upper surface of the card comes into contact with a part of the upper side of the passage at the card cutout. Thereby, even if the second card is sent to the entrance of the card exit together with the second card superimposed on the lowermost card, the upper surface of the card and the upper side of the passage of the card exit are formed. Since the second card abuts on the abutting portion, the second card does not enter deep into the path of the card cutout, and as a result, card jamming at the card cutout does not occur. Is prevented.

In the present invention, when the lowermost card is sent out from the card cutout, the lowermost card is brought into contact with the upper corner portion of the opening on the card storage chamber side in the card cutout. As a technique, for example, the following aspects will be possible. That is, as one of the methods, there is a method in which the lowest card in the card storage chamber is fed into the card cutout from an obliquely upward direction with respect to the card feedout direction in the passage of the card cutout. In this case, the card fed into the card cutout from the upper oblique direction is bent by the elasticity of the card along the card feedout direction in the card cutout passage, and is sent out from the card cutout to the outside. However, at this time, the upper surface of the card is slid in a state in which the upper surface of the card is in contact with the upper corner portion of the opening on the card storage chamber side at the card cutout. As another method, there is a method in which the path of the card cutout is changed to be obliquely upward in the middle. In this case, the card sent into the card cutout tries to go straight through the path of the card cutout, but as the path becomes obliquely upward on the way, the card bends along the path. The upper surface of the card slides in a state where the upper surface of the card is in contact with the lowest point of the upper surface in the passage of the card cutout. Note that a mode in which these two methods are combined is also possible.

In the present invention, at the upper corner of the opening on the card storage chamber side at the card cutout,
It is preferable to form the guide surface by performing chamfering or curved surface processing. In this case, when the card is fed into the card cutout, the card is smoothly guided along the guide surface into the passage of the card cutout, so that even if the card is warped, for example, the card may be jammed. It is possible to send out the card from the card cutout without fail.

Further, in the present invention, a sensor for detecting a card sent from the card cutout is provided outside the card cutout, and the sensor detects arrival of the card sent from the card cutout. It is preferable that the feeding roller is stopped sometimes so that the card waits in the passage of the card cutout until a command to convey the card to the outside comes. In this case, since one card is always in a standby state in the passage of the card cutout, two cards are not sent to the card cutout at the same time, and clogging is more reliably prevented. .

[0008] In this case, if the card sent out from the card cutout is not detected by the sensor, the feed roller is once rotated in the reverse direction (reverse rotation) and then rotated in the forward direction again (forward rotation). It is preferable to do so. By controlling in this way, even if the card is clogged in the middle of the card cutout, the clogged card can be sent once again from the card cutout by reversing the jammed card to eliminate the jam. In the unlikely event that a card is clogged, this can be automatically eliminated. In this case, the feed roller may be repeatedly rotated in reverse / forward until the sensor detects the card sent from the card cutout.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. Here, FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a card cutting device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[0010] The card cutting device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a card storage chamber 1 for storing a card 2. In the card storage room 1, a plurality of cards 2 are accommodated in a vertically stacked state, and a weight 5 is placed on the uppermost portion thereof.

A card cutout 3 for sending out the card 2 stored in the card storage room 1 to the outside is provided at a lower portion of one side wall of the card storage room 1. The substantially horizontal direction is the transport direction of the card 2. Here, the side wall of the card storage chamber 1 above the card cutout 3 is referred to as a partition plate 6.

At the bottom of the card storage room 1, as a feeding roller for sending out the lowermost card 2 of the cards 2 stored in the card storage room 1 to the outside from the card cutout 3, One feed roller 4a and second feed roller 4b are arranged side by side at an interval d in the transport direction of the card 2. The first feeding roller 4 a is provided at a position directly below the card 2 stored in the card storage chamber 1 so as to be partially exposed above the bottom plate of the card storage chamber 1. On the other hand, the second feeding roller 4 b is provided so as to be partially exposed above the bottom plate of the card storage chamber 1 in the passage of the card cutout 3. The distance d between the first and second feed rollers 4a and 4b is smaller than at least the size of the card 2 stored in the card storage chamber 1 in the transport direction. The lower surface of the card 2 located at the lowest position in the card storage chamber 1 is in contact with the first feeding roller 4a, and the first and second feeding rollers 4a and 4b rotate (forward rotation) in the transport direction of the card 2. By doing so, the card 2 is sent out through the card cutout 3.

In this embodiment, the distance between the upper end of the second feed roller 4b and the upper surface of the passage of the card cutout 3 (the lower end surface of the partition plate 6) is the narrowest part in the passage of the card cutout 3. The dimension is set in a range of 1.1 to 1.8 times the thickness of the card 2 by using this portion as a clearance of the card cutout 3. This ensures that one card 2 passes through the card exit 3 and that two cards 2 do not overlap and pass at the same time.

The upper end of the first feeding roller 4a is located at a position slightly higher than the upper end of the second feeding roller 4b. As a result, the lowest card 2 in the card storage chamber 1 is fed into the card cutout 3 obliquely from the upper direction with respect to the transport direction of the card 2 (the card sending direction in the passage of the card cutout 3). I have. At this time, when the lowermost card 2 is fed into the card cutout 3 from the upper oblique direction, the card 2 is bent by the elasticity of the card 2 along the card feeding direction in the path of the card cutout 3, and the card cutout is performed. Exit 3
At this time, the upper surface of the card 2 is positioned at the upper corner of the opening inside the card storage chamber 1 at the card cutout 3 (the corner at the lower end of the partition plate 6 inside the card storage chamber 1). ) Will slide in the state of contact. As a result, even if the second card 2 is sent to the entrance of the card cutout 3 together with the second card 2 superimposed on the lowest card 2,
Since the lower end of the partition plate 6 abuts against the inner corner of the card storage chamber 1, the second card 2 does not enter deep into the passage of the card cutout 3, and card jamming occurs at the card cutout 3. Is prevented.

In the card cutting device according to the embodiment, the upper and lower transports for sandwiching the card 2 sent from the card exit 3 from above and below and further transporting the card 2 in the transport direction outside the card exit 3. Rollers 4c and 4d are provided.

Further, the card 2 is located outside the card exit.
The card 2 sent out from the card cutout 3 at a position beyond the upper and lower transport rollers 4c and 4d in the transport direction of
Is provided.

The card cutting device according to the embodiment is controlled as follows. That is, the card 2 sent into the card cutout 3 by the first and second feeding rollers 4a and 4b is sandwiched between the upper and lower transport rollers 4c and 4d that rotate forward outside the card cutout 3, and the card is cut. Exit 3
The card is further pulled out from the inside in the transport direction, and it is detected by the sensor 7 that the card has been safely sent out without being clogged in the card cutout 3. At this time, when the sensor 7 detects the arrival of the card 2, the first and second feeding rollers 4
a, 4b are stopped, and the upper and lower transport rollers 4 are stopped.
c, 4d are also stopped, and the card 2 is made to stand by in the passage of the card cutout 3. The waiting card 2 is kept waiting until a command to convey the card 2 to the outside comes. Then, when a command to convey the card 2 to the outside comes, the first and second feeding rollers 4
a, 4b are rotated forward and the upper and lower transport rollers 4
By rotating c and 4d forward, this card 2 is further transported beyond the sensor 7, and at the same time, the next card 2 stored in the card storage chamber 1 is fed out from the card cutout 3, and Similarly, it is detected by the sensor 7 and enters a standby state. By repeating such an operation, two cards 2 are not sent to the card cutout 3 at the same time, and jamming is more reliably prevented. Here, when the first and second feed rollers 4a and 4b are stopped, and the upper and lower transport rollers 4c and 4d are also stopped, the time required for stopping the motor (not shown) serving as a driving source of the rollers is stopped. Because of the delay, after the card 2 arrives at the sensor 7 for the purpose of correcting the stop position of the card 2, a reverse rotation command or a stop command is issued to the motor for a short time (about 0.01 second or less). It is also possible to finely adjust the stop position of the card 2 by delaying or the like.

The card cutting device according to the embodiment is further controlled as follows. That is, when the card 2 sent from the card cutout 3 is not detected by the sensor 7, the first and second feeding rollers 4a,
4b and the upper and lower transport rollers 4c and 4d are both once rotated in the reverse direction (about 0.5 second), and then rotated in the forward direction again. By controlling in this way, even if the card 2 is clogged in the middle of the card cutout 3, the clogged card 2 once runs backward to clear the clogging, and is then sent to the card cutout 3 again. Therefore, even if the card 2 becomes clogged, it can be automatically resolved.
This operation may be repeated several times until the sensor 7 detects the card 2 sent from the card cutout 3.

Next, a modified example in which the card cutting device according to the above embodiment is used as a basic structure will be described.

FIG. 2 shows a first modification of the above embodiment. In the card cutting device according to the first modification, in the basic structure described above, the upper corner portion of the opening on the card storage chamber 1 side in the card cutout 3 (the corner portion inside the card storage room 1 at the lower end of the partition plate 6). ) Is chamfered to form an inclined surface 61.

FIG. 3 shows a second modification of the above embodiment. In the card cutting device according to the second modification, in the basic structure described above, the upper corner portion of the opening on the card storage chamber 1 side in the card cutout 3 (the corner portion inside the card storage room 1 at the lower end of the partition plate 6). ) Is subjected to a curved surface processing to form a curved surface 62.

The inclined surface 61 of the first modified example and the curved surface 62 of the second modified example are designed so that when the card 2 is fed into the card cutout 3, the card 2 smoothly moves along the card cutout 3. Since the card 2 serves as a guide surface for guiding the card 2 into the passage, the card 2 can be reliably sent out from the card cutout 3 without being jammed even if the card 2 is warped.

FIG. 4 shows a third modification of the above embodiment. In the third modification, in the first modification, the path of the card cutout 3 is configured to change obliquely upward in the middle. That is, a portion of the lower end surface of the partition plate 6 from the middle to the outer side is an inclined surface 63 that is inclined obliquely upward. In the third modification, the distance between the inclined surface 63 and the second feed roller 4b is the clearance of the card cutout 3. Therefore, the card 2 fed into the card cutout 3 bends along the inclined surface 63 at the point of time when it passes over the second feeding roller 4b, and abuts on the lowest point between the inclined surfaces 61 and 63. It will slide in the state where it did.

FIG. 5 shows a fourth modification of the above embodiment. In the fourth modified example, in the third modified example, the position of the second feed roller 4b is moved to the outer position in the card cutout 3, and the distance between the inclined surface 63 and the second feed roller 4b is reduced. The structure is such that the clearance of the card cutout 3 is provided. Therefore, the height of the upper end of the second feeding roller 4b is higher than that of the third modification. Therefore, the card 2 located at the lowest position in the card storage chamber 2 in a stacked state is
The upper surface of the card 2 can be brought into contact with the upper surface of the passage of the card cutout 3 without the need to feed the card 2 into the card cutout 3 in such a manner as to incline in the upper oblique direction.

As described above, the card cutting device according to the embodiment of the present invention has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various embodiments can be made within the technical idea of the present invention. It is.

[0026]

As described above, according to the card cutting device of the present invention, by setting the clearance of the above-mentioned card cutout to be 1.1 to 1.8 times the thickness of the card, the card cutout can be reduced by one. Two cards do not pass at the same time and two cards pass reliably. Further, even if the second card is sent to the entrance of the card exit together with the second card superimposed on the lowermost card, the upper surface of the card and the upper side of the passage of the card exit are in contact. Since the second card abuts on this portion and comes into contact therewith, the second card does not enter deep into the path of the card cutout, and as a result, card jamming occurs at the card cutout. Is prevented.

In the present invention, at the upper corner of the opening on the card storage chamber side at the card cutout,
It is preferable to form the guide surface by performing chamfering or curved surface processing.In this case, when feeding the card into the card cutout, the card is smoothly moved along the guide surface into the passage of the card cutout. I will be guided,
For example, even if the card is warped or the like, the card can be reliably sent out from the card cutout without being jammed.

Further, in the present invention, a sensor for detecting a card sent from the card cutout is provided outside the card cutout, and the sensor detects arrival of the card sent from the card cutout. It is preferable that the feeding roller be stopped when the card waits in the passage of the card cutout until a command to convey the card to the outside comes, and in this case, in the passage of the card cutout, In this case, one card is always in a standby state, so that two cards are not sent to the card cutout at the same time, and clogging is more reliably prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a card cutting device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a first modification of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a second modification of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view showing a third modification of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing a fourth modification of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Card storage room 2 Card 3 Card cut-out opening 4a First feeding roller 4b Second feeding roller 6 Partition plate 7 Sensor

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A card storage chamber for storing cards stacked vertically, a card cutout provided at a lower portion of a side wall of the card storage chamber, and a card storage chamber disposed at a bottom of the card storage chamber. A feeding roller for laterally sending out the lowermost card among the cards stored in the card cutting device from the card cutting device to the outside, wherein the clearance of the card cutting device is set to 1.1 of the card thickness. When the lowermost card among the cards stored in the card storage chamber is sent out from the card cutout by the feeding roller, the upper surface of the card is made to pass through the card cutout. A card cutting device characterized by contacting a part of an upper side. 2. A card positioned at a lowermost position in the card storage chamber is fed into the card cutout from an obliquely upward direction with respect to a traveling direction of the card in a passage of the card cutout. 2. The card cutting device according to claim 1, wherein an upper surface of the card cutting device is in contact with an upper corner of an opening on the card storage chamber side in the card cutting opening. 3. The card cut-out passage is turned obliquely upward in the middle thereof so that the upper surface of the card comes into contact with a part of the upper surface of the card cut-out passage. The card cutting device according to claim 1, wherein 4. The card cutting device according to claim 1, wherein an upper corner portion of the opening at the side of the card storage chamber at the card cutting opening is chamfered. 5. The card cutting device according to claim 1, wherein an upper corner of an opening on the card storage chamber side in the card cutting opening is subjected to a curved surface processing. 6. A sensor for detecting a card sent from the card cutout is provided outside the card cutout, and when the sensor detects the arrival of the card sent from the card cutout, the feeding is performed. 6. The card cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the roller is stopped, and the card stands by in a path of the card cutting port until a command to convey the card to the outside comes. vessel. 7. When the card sent from the card cutout is not detected by the sensor, the feed roller is rotated once in a reverse direction and then rotated in a forward direction again. The card cutting device according to claim 6, wherein