JPH11175776A - Automatic ticket examining machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic ticket examining machine which can prevent passage from being disabled owing to medium misinsertion at the time of exiting from a ticket barrier of another company and also prevent illegal passage service by indicating which of these inserted media holds passage service information when plural media are inserted. SOLUTION: This automatic ticket examining machine 15 is provided at a connection gate from a line of one company to a line of another company and records passage service information showing that the passenger can exit through the yard 12 of the latter company. This machine 15 is equipped with an indicating means that indicates which medium c among media a, b, and c holds passage service information when those media (a), (b), and (c) are inserted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is provided at a connection point between a company line and another company line, and records pass service information indicating that the user can pass through the other company line premises and enter a medium such as an inserted ticket. As for the automatic ticket gate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in an automatic ticket gate installed at a connection between a company's own line and another company's line, in order to improve the convenience of users, the company passes through the ticket gate with its own boarding medium and participates ( Exit service is available.

In this case, pass-through service information is recorded on the effective medium of the station by an automatic ticket gate installed at the entrance from the company line to the other company line, and pass-through service information is recorded at the ticket gate of another company. Only provide transit services to owners of certain media.

However, in an automatic ticket gate capable of processing a plurality of boarding media, since there are a plurality of boarding media to be used, if a ticket gate of another company cannot process a plurality of ticket gates, the user is required It is unclear which of the plurality of media can be used to participate, and there has been a problem that entry is not possible using a medium on which pass service information is not recorded.

In addition, when pass-through service information is recorded in a ticket gate at a contact point for a plurality of media inserted by a user, the medium on which this information is recorded is separately sent to ticket gates at other companies' ticket gates. When put in, there is a problem that a passing service can be performed in each of them, so that a plurality of persons can make unauthorized use.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the first aspect of the present invention, when a plurality of media are inserted, which one of the plurality of media records the passing service information is notified. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an automatic ticket gate that can prevent improper insertion of a medium when exiting a ticket gate of another company and prevent improper use of a passing service.

According to the invention of claim 2 of the present invention, in addition to the object of the invention of claim 1, the above-mentioned notification is transmitted to the display device of the ticket gate on which medium the passing service information is recorded. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate that allows the user to visually recognize which of the plurality of media is the specific medium of the passing service information record by displaying.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the first aspect, printing is performed on a medium on which pass-through service information is recorded, to the effect that the information has been recorded. An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate capable of clearly confirming that a specific medium (a medium on which passing service information is recorded) by this printing.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the first aspect, a specific medium on which pass-through service information is recorded is discharged first or last so that a visual display or printing can be performed. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic ticket gate capable of confirming that a medium is a specific medium based on the order in which the medium is released, without requiring any additional means such as.

[0010] According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the first aspect of the present invention, a medium in which pass-through service information is recorded is positioned at the uppermost surface of a plurality of release media and released. It is another object of the present invention to provide an automatic ticket gate that can determine a specific medium based on the vertical positional relationship of a discharged medium without requiring any additional means such as a visible display function and printing.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pass-through service provided at a communication port of a company line from another company's line to inform that an inserted medium can pass through the company line of another company and exit. An automatic ticket gate for recording information, wherein when a plurality of media are inserted, the automatic ticket gate is provided with a notifying means for notifying on which of the plurality of media the pass-through service information is recorded. It is characterized by the following.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect of the present invention, the notification means determines on which display medium the passing service information is recorded on the display of the automatic ticket gate. It is an automatic ticket gate as a display means for displaying.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect of the present invention, the notifying means prints, on a medium on which the passing service information is recorded, that the information is recorded. It is an automatic ticket gate as a printing means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect of the present invention, the notification means is a release means for releasing the medium on which the passing service information is recorded first or last. It is an automatic ticket gate.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect of the present invention, the notifying means is an automatic ticket gate that discharges the medium on which the passing service information is recorded at the uppermost surface. Machine.

[0016]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when a plurality of media are inserted in an automatic ticket gate provided at a communication port from a company line to another company line, the above-mentioned notification means is provided. Informs of which of the plurality of media the pass service information is recorded (hereinafter, the medium on which this information is recorded is referred to as a specific medium).

As a result, the user can easily identify the specific medium, so that when the user passes through the premises of another company and exits the ticket gate of another company, erroneous insertion of the medium can be prevented, and the service can be reliably received. At the same time, since the above-described recording is performed only on a specific medium, there is an effect that unauthorized use of the passing service can be prevented.

According to the invention described in claim 2 of the present invention,
In addition to the effect of the first aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned notifying means is set as a display means for displaying on which medium the pass-through service information is recorded on the display, so that the user can use the display means. There is an effect that a plurality of media can be recognized by visually checking the display.

According to the third aspect of the present invention,
In addition to the effect of the first aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned printing means prints on a medium (specific medium) on which pass-through service information is recorded.
Since printing is performed to the effect that the information has been recorded, this printing has the effect that the specific medium can be clearly confirmed.

According to the invention described in claim 4 of the present invention,
In addition to the effect of the first aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned discharging means discharges the specific medium on which the passing service information is recorded first or last, so that there is no need for an additional means such as a visual display or printing, and There is an effect that it can be easily confirmed that the medium is the specific medium by the order of releasing the medium.

According to the invention described in claim 5 of the present invention,
In addition to the effect of the first aspect of the present invention, since the above-mentioned notifying means emits the medium on which the pass-through service information is recorded at the uppermost surface of the plurality of emission media, the additional means such as a visual display and printing are provided. Therefore, there is an effect that it is possible to easily determine that the medium is the specific medium based on the vertical positional relationship of the ejected medium without requiring.

[0022]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows an automatic ticket gate, but first, FIGS.
An example of a position where the automatic ticket gate is installed will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, a route for company Y having stations A to D, a route for company Z having stations E to H, and a route for company X having each station (not shown) are provided. Stations C are shared between Company Z and Company Y, and Station A is also shared between Company Y and Company X, which have mutually formed a partnership.

At the above-mentioned station A, as shown in FIG.
The company's own line premises 11 and the company X's other company line premises 12 are separated by a partitioning section 13, and a plurality of ticket processing machines 14 capable of processing multiple sheets are installed at the exit side in the other company line premises 12, and from the company line to the other company line An automatic ticket gate 15 capable of processing a plurality of sheets according to the present invention is installed in the partitioning section 13 at the communication port. In addition, the above-mentioned company Z and company Y may be set to the same company, and the route Y and the route Z may be formed.

FIG. 3 shows the above-mentioned automatic ticket gates 15 installed at the entrance from the company line to the line of another company.
5 is an opening / closing door 1 for passing control before and after the ticket gate main body 16.
7 and 18, and at the front and rear positions of the upper surface of the ticket gate main body 16, there are provided input ports 19 and discharge ports 20 for the ride media a, b, c (see FIGS. 1 and 2). A guidance display 21 for displaying guidance information at the time of ticket inspection is provided on the rear side of the upper surface.

FIG. 4 shows the internal structure of the automatic ticket gate 15. Inside the ticket gate main body 16, a boarding medium transport line 22 connecting between the boarding medium input port 19 and the boarding medium discharge port 20 is provided.
The medium transport line 22 receives a boarding medium such as a ticket, a coupon, a commuter pass, and a boarding card and performs ticket data processing. In the transport direction, the sorting unit 23, the indirect data processing unit 24, A riding medium processing unit including a direct data processing unit 25 and a discharge unit 26 is provided. Further, first to fifth medium detection sensors 27 to 31 are arranged along the boarding medium transport line 22.

Here, the above-mentioned first medium detection sensor 27 is set as an input port sensor, and the fifth medium detection sensor 31 is set as an ejection port sensor.

The loading port 19 allows a plurality of loading media a, b, and c (see FIGS. 1 and 2) to be loaded at a time. The transporting media a, b, and c, which have been loaded at once, are arranged and transported one by one by changing the transport speed of the transport belt on the side.

Further, a pair of upper and lower read magnetic heads 32 for reading information recorded on the boarding media a, b, and c are disposed at a position upstream (upstream) of the above-mentioned indirect data processing unit 24. At the back (downstream) of the vehicle 24, pass service information indicating that the vehicle can exit through the other company line premises 12 with respect to a specific medium c described later is recorded, and the boarding media a, b, and
A pair of upper and lower write magnetic heads 33 for recording other information necessary for c are provided.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the control circuit of the automatic ticket gate 15. The CPU 40 includes the input sensor 27,
1. Based on each signal input from the read magnetic head 32, drive control of the transport drive unit 35, the door control unit 36, the write magnetic head 33, the guide display 21, and the thermal printer 37 in accordance with the program stored in the ROM 34. And RA again
M38 records necessary data.

Here, the above-mentioned transport drive section 35 controls the drive of the boarding medium transport line 22 shown in FIG.
Drives the open / close doors 17 and 18 shown in FIG. 3, the write magnetic head 33 magnetically records necessary information such as the above-mentioned pass service information on a medium, and the guide display 21 shows the pass service information on any medium. Visually indicate whether the
Other necessary information is visually displayed, and the thermal printer 37 performs thermal printing on the medium on which the passing service information is recorded, to the effect that the information is recorded. Note that this thermal printing is erased (cleared) by a thermal printing machine (not shown) in the ticket gate 14 when entering through the ticket gate 14 on the other company line side shown in FIG.

Further, the above-mentioned CPU 40 is a validity judging means (flow chart shown in FIG. 6) for checking the validity of this station (see station A in FIG. 2) with a plurality of media a, b and c based on date data and the like. Of the second and third steps S2, S
3), and a selecting means (fourth step S4 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 6) for selecting which of the plurality of media a, b, and c which are input into the input port 19 to which the passing service information is to be added. And whether or not the pass-through service information may be added this time based on whether or not the previous pass-through service information has been cleared (if the previous pass-through service information has not been deleted, it is regarded as unauthorized use). ) To be determined (see the fifth step S5 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 6) and the above-mentioned fourth step S4,
And a pass service information recording unit (see the sixth step S6 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 6) for recording pass service information only on the specific single medium determined to be valid in the fifth step S5. It also serves as a notifying unit (see a first routine R1 comprising steps S7 and S8 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 6) for notifying which of the boarding media a, b and c the passage service information has been recorded.

Further, the above-mentioned notification means (first routine R1)
Means for displaying on the guidance display 21 of the automatic ticket gate 15 on which medium the pass-through service information has been recorded (see the seventh step S7 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 6).
A printing unit (see a thermal printer 37 shown in FIG. 5) for printing that the information has been recorded on the medium on which the passing service information is recorded; Release means for specifying the release form and releasing (see the eighth step S8 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 6).

There are the following two types of specification of the above-mentioned release form, and any of them may be used. That is, the above-mentioned specific medium is discharged first or last among a plurality of media a, b, and c, and the above-mentioned specific medium is disposed on another non-specific top surface and discharged. One of them is used. It should be noted that this release mode is specified by controlling the boarding medium transport line 22 shown in FIG.

The operation of the automatic ticket gate configured as described above will be described below in detail with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
Note that, for convenience of explanation, the train between the stations H and G shown in FIG.
After boarding with a boarding medium b such as a commuter pass between stations, and between stations C and A, boarding with a boarding medium b such as another commuter pass, the train is provided at the connection port from the own lane yard 11 shown in FIG. Automatic ticket gate 15
The operation will be described by taking as an example a case in which the user exits through the other company line premises 12 via the other company.

In the first step S 1, when the user superimposes a plurality of boarding media a, b, and c and inserts them all at once into the slot 19, these media a, b, and c become one by the action of the alignment unit 23. The sheets are arranged one by one and are sequentially conveyed to the indirect data processing unit 24. Next, in a second step S2, the CPU 40 checks the validity of the station (refer to the station A) with a plurality of boarding media a, b, c based on the read information from the read magnetic head 32. This check is performed based on the date validity of each of the boarding media a, b, and c.

Next, in a third step S3, the CPU 40 makes a determination as to whether or not it is valid. When it is valid (when YES is determined), the process proceeds to the next fourth step S4. The process proceeds to the ninth step S9. In the ninth step S9, the CPU 40 controls the guidance display 21 to visually display that the medium is invalid, and then proceeds to an eighth step S8 described later.

In the above-described fourth step S4, the CPU 40 selects a single medium (specific medium) to which the passing service information is to be added from the plurality of loaded mediums a, b, and c. In this case, the medium c is selected as the specific medium from the mediums a, b, and c shown in FIGS.

Next, in a fifth step S5, the CPU 40 determines whether or not passing service information may be added to the specific medium c. This determination is performed, for example, based on whether or not the previous pass service information has been cleared. When the grant is OK (when the previous information is cleared), the process proceeds to the next sixth step S6, while when the grant is NG (when the previous If there is any remaining information), it is regarded as illegal and another ninth step S
Move to 9.

In the above-described sixth step S6, the CPU 40 drives the write magnetic head 33 and only writes data to the specific medium c.
That is, the passing service information is recorded only on one sheet. Next, in a seventh step S7, the CPU 40 drives the guidance display 21 to guide the specific medium c to be used in the ticket gate 14 of another company (see company X) by visual display. This guidance display content is displayed, for example, "Please put the boarding medium c from station C to station A in the exit ticket gate 14". In addition, in this seventh step S7, the CPU 40 places the heat-sensitive printing surface of the specific medium c as shown in FIG.
Is printed by the thermal printing machine 37 to indicate that the passing service information has been recorded. The content of this printing is, for example, “this riding medium c
Please enter the exit ticket gate 14 ”. The printed contents are erased (cleared) when passing through the exit ticket gate 14.

Next, in an eighth step S8, the CPU 40 controls the boarding medium transport line 22 to control the plurality of boarding media a,
b and c are discharged from the discharge port 16. In this case, the specific medium c is discharged first or last to the other media a and b, or the specific medium c is discharged to the other media a and b. b is released at once at the uppermost position of b, and a series of processing ends.
It is an automatic ticket gate.

As described above, according to the automatic ticket gate of the embodiment, when a plurality of riding media a, b, and c are inserted in the automatic ticket gate 15 provided at the communication port from the company line to the other company line, The above-mentioned notification means (see routine R1) is used for the plurality of riding media a. Which of the media b and c has the passing service information recorded is notified. As a result, the user can easily identify the specific medium c to which the above-mentioned passing service information has been added, so that the user passes through the other company line premises 12 (see FIG. 2) and exits from the ticket gate 14 of the other company ticket gate. Time, medium a. b can be prevented from being erroneously inserted, and the traffic service can be reliably received.
Is executed only for the service, so that there is an effect that unauthorized use of the passing service can be prevented.

Further, the above-mentioned notifying means (see routine R1) is replaced with a display means (see seventh step S7) for displaying on which medium the passing service information is recorded on a display (see guidance display 21). Since the setting has been made, the user can easily recognize the plurality of media c by visually observing the display on the guidance display 21.

Further, the above-mentioned printing means (thermal printing machine 37)
) Prints the fact that the information has been recorded on the medium (the specific medium c) on which the passing service information is recorded, so that it is possible to clearly confirm the specific medium c by this printing.

In addition, the above-mentioned discharging means (the eighth step S
8) indicates the specific medium c on which the passing service information is recorded,
Since the liquid is discharged first or last, there is an effect that the specific medium c can be easily confirmed by the discharge order of the medium without requiring any additional means such as visible display or printing. As described in the embodiment, it is needless to say that the conventional display, printing, and emission forms may be combined.

The above-mentioned notification means (first routine R1)
), The medium on which the pass-through service information is recorded is discharged at the uppermost surface of the plurality of discharge media c, so that the vertical position of the discharged medium is not required without additional means such as visual display and printing. There is an effect that the specific medium c can be easily determined from the relationship.

In the correspondence between the structure of the present invention and the above-described embodiment door, the medium of the present invention is the riding medium a,
b, c, and similarly, the medium on which the passing service information is recorded corresponds to the specific medium c, and the notifying means is CP
The display means corresponds to the seventh step S7, the printing means corresponds to the thermal printer 37, and the discharging means corresponds to the eighth step S8. However, the present invention is not limited only to the configuration of the above embodiment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a route.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing points at which an automatic ticket gate of the present invention is installed.

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic internal configuration diagram of the automatic ticket gate of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a control circuit block diagram of the automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a notification process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 12 ... other company premises 15 ... automatic ticket gate 21 ... guidance display 37 ... thermal printer R1 ... notification means S7 ... display means S8 ... emission means a, b, c ... boarding media

Claims (5)

[Claims] Claims: 1. An automatic ticket gate provided at a communication port of a company line from another company's line and recording passing service information to the effect that the inserted medium can pass through the premises of the other company's line and exit. An automatic ticket gate provided with a notifying means for notifying which of the plurality of media the pass-through service information has been recorded when inserted. 2. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, wherein said notification means is a display means for displaying on which display the passing service information is recorded on a display of the automatic ticket gate. 3. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, wherein said notifying means is a printing means for printing on a medium on which the passing service information is recorded, that the information is recorded. 4. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, wherein said notifying means is a discharging means for discharging the medium on which the passing service information is recorded first or last. 5. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, wherein said notifying means discharges the medium on which the passing service information is recorded by positioning the medium on the uppermost surface.