JPH1139520A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly perform automatic ticket examination by forcibly resetting a main body before all plural boarding tickets are fed. SOLUTION: When the boarding ticket is fed (S100), data are read, an arithmetic processing is performed in a CPU, then it is tentatively held by a stopper and a guide for urging the feeding of the next ticket is simultaneously displayed at a display part (S102Y and S104). When a future ticket is fed (S106Y and S108Y), it is read, arithmetically processed and tentatively held by the stopper. When the future ticket is judged as valid (S110Y) and tentatively held by the stopper, for a get-off ticket, leaving data are written by a magnetic head in the middle of carriage by a main carrying path and it is checked and then recovered in a recovery box. Relating to the future ticket, entrance data are written by the magnetic head in the middle of the carriage by the main carrying path and it is checked, and then returned to a discharge port by a discharge carrying path. Simultaneously, a door is operated so as to allow the entrance of a using customer (S112).

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 in particular, a single user needs a plurality of tickets, such as an exit ticket and an advance ticket, or an ordinary ticket and an express ticket. The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate used when making a ticket.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
As shown in the official gazette, this type of automatic ticket gate corresponding to a plurality of tickets is a main body of the automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as a main body).
The doors are opened and closed to allow entry (gates) or exits (tickets) when the results of the data recorded on the multiple tickets inserted into the slot are valid. It is configured. If entry is permitted, entry data is recorded on a plurality of inserted tickets, discharged from the exit provided on the opposite side of the entrance, and returned to the user (passenger). If at least one of the plurality of tickets has an invalid ticket, the door is rotated so as to prevent entry, and all the tickets are ejected from the exit and returned to the user. In addition, at the time of entry, a plurality of inserted tickets are collected in the main body, but tickets that need to be returned, such as commuter passes, are discharged from the exit and returned. When at least one of the plurality of invalid tickets has an invalid ticket, the door is turned so as to prevent participation, and all the tickets are returned from the outlet.

[0003]

However, in the conventional automatic ticket gate corresponding to a plurality of tickets, when an invalid ticket is first inserted, the invalid ticket inserted at that time is discharged, and The entry / exit processing operation of is canceled, that is, the main body is reset, and the automatic ticket gate of the next user (passenger) is enabled, but when the valid ticket is inserted first and the next ticket is not inserted, The main body is held in a state of waiting for insertion of the remaining ticket.

[0004] For example, if the previous user does not come out easily even after searching for a second ticket in the ticket gate passage, the main body is kept in a waiting state during that time. Has a drawback that automatic ticket gates cannot be used and the ticket gates are congested.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve such a drawback, and an object of the present invention is to forcibly move the main body until all the tickets of a plurality of tickets are inserted. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic ticket gate that can be reset at a low speed and can automatically perform automatic ticket gates.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a data reading / writing means in the middle of a transport path provided between an input port and an output port of a main body. In an automatic ticket gate that processes data recorded on a plurality of tickets inserted from the mouth and performs entrance / exit operations based on the calculation results, temporarily holds the transporting ticket provided along the transport path. A stopper that is provided on the upper surface of the main body, and a cancel button for canceling an entrance / exit operation pressed by a user. While controlling the stopper so as to temporarily hold the ticket, when the cancel button is pressed until a later ticket is inserted into the slot, the temporary hold of the stopper is released. , Its suspended It is characterized by a control means for discharging the ticket to the outlet.

[0007]

Embodiments of 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, in which a slot 2 is provided at one end in a longitudinal direction of a main body 1 and a slot 3 is provided at the other end. Is provided.

In the main body 1, there is provided a well-known transport path 4 composed of a belt conveyor driven by a motor M. The transport path 4 is composed of an aligned transport path 4a, a main transport path 4b, and a discharge transport path 4c. Among them, the aligned transport path 4a has a function of aligning the tickets inserted from the slot 2. ing. The main transport path 4b and the discharge transport path 4c
A wing W which operates when the ticket inserted into the main body 1 is collected in the collection box 5 without being returned to the outlet 3 is provided between the main body 1 and the main body 1.

In the transport path of the main transport path 4b, a magnetic head H1 for reading magnetic data recorded on the ticket is arranged in order from the upstream side in the transport direction from the input port 2 to the output port 3 and a pair of magnetic heads H1. Stoppers S1, S2 and magnetic head H1
A magnetic head H2 for performing arithmetic processing on the data read by the controller C composed mainly of a microcomputer and writing the calculation result on a ticket, and whether the written data is correctly recorded or not. Is provided with a verifying magnetic head H3.

The pair of stoppers S1 and S2 are operated by a solenoid 6 as shown in FIG. 2 and are provided in series on the main transport path 4b. That is, these stoppers S1,
S2 has a lower end rotatably supported at one end and an L-shaped stopper piece 7 projecting upward at the other end, and a spring 8 when the solenoid 6 is OFF. The portion protrudes from the upper surface position of the main transport path 4b, and is configured to be able to temporarily hold a ticket transported by the main transport path 4b. In addition, since this conveyance path 4b is provided with a pair of left and right belts with a gap,
The upper end of the stopper piece 7 is configured to protrude from the gap. When the solenoid 7 is turned on, the tip of the stopper piece 7 is located below the lower surface position of the main transport path 4b (see the dashed line in FIG. 2), and the transport of the ticket by the main transport path 4b is stopped. It is configured as possible.

Although not shown, the main transport path 4b includes:
It has a punching unit for making a punch hole in a ticket that requires punching based on the calculation result, and a thermal head for printing predetermined contents on a ticket that needs printing based on the calculation result.

In the figure, reference numeral 9 denotes a display unit provided near the discharge port 3, and reference numeral 10 denotes a cancel button provided on the upper surface of the main body 1 on the side of the input port 2. This cancel button is pressed when the user wants to cancel the ticket gate processing, as shown in part A of FIG. 1, and therefore, the word "cancel" is displayed to display this. . And this cancel button 1
The push signal of 0 is configured to be taken into the controller C. D in the figure is a door that opens and closes a ticket gate passage.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the controller C. The central processing unit (CPU) 20 includes a ROM
System program stored in RAM 21 and RAM 22
The CPU 20 performs an arithmetic process using the working data stored in the read / write (R / W) driver 24 connected to each of the magnetic heads H1 to H3 via the I / O unit 23. A wing driver 25 for driving the wing W, a display driver 26 for controlling the display unit 9, a stopper driver 27 for driving the solenoids 6, 6 for the stoppers S1, S2, and a door driver 28 for driving the door D. And an input driver 29 for inputting a signal from the cancel button 10 are connected. In addition,
The I / O unit 23 is connected to various sensors such as a sensor for detecting the position of a ticket, and various drivers such as a punching unit or a thermal head, which are directly connected to the description of the present invention. It is omitted because it has nothing to do with it.

Next, the control operation of the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The main body 1
An example will be described in which a 1-latch type automatic ticket gate installed at a ticket gate between a company's own line and another company's line is used, and two passing tickets, an exit ticket and an advance ticket, satisfy the passing conditions. First, a case where both sheets are valid will be described.

It is assumed that a get-off ticket a (shown as a ticket a in FIG. 4) is first inserted into the slot 1 of the main body 1 (step 100; hereinafter, the steps are referred to as S). The alighting ticket a is transported to the main transport path 4b via the aligned transport path 4a.
Then, the data of the ticket a is read by the magnetic head H1, and the data is subjected to arithmetic processing by the CPU 20 using this data. The data is temporarily held by the stopper S1. The prompting guidance is displayed (Yes at S102, S104).

Next, when an advance ticket (shown as ticket B in FIG. 4) is inserted into the slot 2 without a break (S1).
(06 affirmative, S108 affirmative), read and calculated in the same manner as the ticket a, and then temporarily held by the stopper S2. When the stopper S1 holds the ticket A, the solenoid 6 is turned off, and the tip of the stopper piece 7 projects from the upper surface of the main transport path 4b by the spring 8.

If it is determined that the advance ticket B is valid (S110 affirmative) and the advance ticket B is temporarily held in the stopper S2, the solenoid 6 of the stopper S1 is turned on, and the getting-off ticket A is transferred to the main transport path 4b. Conveyance is started. During this conveyance, entry data is written via the magnetic head H2, and after being checked via the magnetic head H3, the data is collected in the collection box 5 via the wing W. Next, the solenoid 7 of the stopper S2 is turned on, and the forward ticket b is started to be conveyed by the main conveyance path 4b. During this conveyance, entry data is written via the magnetic head H2 and checked by the magnetic head H3. After that, it is returned to the discharge port 3 by the discharge conveyance path 4c. At the same time, the door D is operated to allow a customer to enter (S
112).

In some cases, the user may not be able to continuously insert the ticket into the slot 2 continuously. For example, there is a case where the advance ticket b does not easily come out of the pocket or the like, and in this case, the user presses the cancel button 10 (S10).
6 affirmation).

When the cancel button 10 is pressed, the disembarkation ticket A temporarily held in the stopper S1 is turned on by the solenoid 7, is conveyed to the discharge port 3 and returned to the user (S11).
4). Therefore, the user can exit the ticket gate passage with the returned alight ticket a. Thereafter, the main body 1 enters a standby state for a next customer. The returned disembarkation ticket a is returned to the user without processing and does not hinder reuse. The above example is a case where a valid alighting ticket a is first inserted into the slot 2. However, the same applies to a case where a valid forward ticket b is inserted first and the alighting ticket a cannot be continuously inserted. .

If the first inserted disembarkation ticket a is an invalid ticket (No at S102), or if the next inserted front ticket B is an invalid ticket (No at S110), all the inserted tickets are returned. Then, naturally, the door D is closed, and the passage is blocked (S114 or S118, S119).

As described above, if the cancel button 10 is pressed before the second ticket is inserted, the first ticket is returned, and the main body 1 is reset. Can automatically check the ticket, so that the inconvenience of congestion at the ticket gate is eliminated.

In the above-described example, the example of the two-disc set of the disembarkation ticket A and the advance ticket B is shown. However, it is needless to say that a combination such as an ordinary ticket and an express ticket may be used. is there. The number of tickets may be three or more. In this case, the number of stoppers may be increased according to the number of stoppers.

[0023]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention includes a stopper provided in the middle of the transport path for temporarily holding a ticket being transported, and an entrance / exit operation provided on the upper surface of the main body and pressed by the user. A cancel button for canceling, and when the calculation result of the ticket previously inserted into the slot is valid, controlling the stopper so as to temporarily hold the ticket,
When the cancel button is pressed before the subsequent ticket is inserted into the slot, the temporary hold of the stopper is released, and the temporarily held ticket is discharged to the outlet. Since the control means is provided, the main body can be used for the next user, and congestion at the ticket gate can be prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of a stopper.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an electrical configuration of a controller.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic ticket gate main body (main body) 2 Input port 3 Discharge port 4 Transport path H1-H3 Magnetic head S1, S2 Stopper C Controller

Claims (1)

[Claims] An automatic ticket gate has a data reading / writing means in the middle of a transport path provided between an entrance and an exit of a main body of an automatic ticket gate, and is recorded on a plurality of tickets inserted from the entrance. An automatic ticket gate that performs data entry and exit operations based on the calculation result, a stopper provided in the middle of the transport path for temporarily holding a ticket being transported, and an upper surface of a main body of the automatic ticket gate. And a cancel button for canceling the entry / exit operation pressed by the user, such that when the calculation result of the ticket previously inserted into the slot is valid, the ticket is temporarily held. While controlling the stopper, when the cancel button is pressed before the subsequent ticket is inserted into the slot, the temporary hold of the stopper is released and the temporarily held ride is released. Discharge tickets to the outlet An automatic ticket gate having: