JPS58101388A - Chip selector for ticket and selector for fare or the like using same - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a ticket chip sorting machine for sorting ticket chips to which code information is attached using a magnetic material and made reusable; This invention relates to a fare sorting machine that sorts ticket chips, coins, and numbered tickets.

Generally, tickets are made of paper and are disposable.
It will never be reused. The present invention is based on the above background and has been proposed by the applicant to enable efficient use of a reusable ticket, that is, a ticket chip with code information attached using a magnetic material. The object of the present invention is to obtain a ticket chip sorting machine capable of sorting ticket chips by code, and a fare sorting machine capable of sorting coins and numbered tickets as well. It is something.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure @1 shows a pass fee processing system using reusable ticket chips, in which a coupon ticket 2 containing, for example, 11 ticket chips L is sold at a ticket sales counter at a pass sales office 3. Tickets can be sold by hand from 4m or (b) from the ticket vending machine 4b.

Passengers can use 1 chip or 6 coins for this ticket in Pass 5.
and Tsutomu Keiri 7 into the fare box 8 and use the pass. These ticket chips 1, coins 6, and bundled tickets 7 are stored in a cassette safe 9 within a fare box 8.

When the pass finishes running and arrives at the pass garage 10, the cassette safe 9 is taken out from the fare box 8 and sorted by fare etc.
It is set to ll and the payment is made.

In other words, coins are sorted by denomination (6a, 6b, and 6c indicate coins sorted by denomination) by this sorting of fares, etc. Sorted by company, such as lb...1 company chip 1 fish, and own company chip in, and! 1 note is also separated.

Note that ticket chips have a code for each company, and we assume a system in which each company agrees that chips from any company can be used in common when boarding a bus. There is. Table 121 shows the number of ticket chips used by each company. ...12
The total amount is 1.12m, and the one made by another company is Company A...
...Sent to each company's 13F...13i.

The company's tickets/tickets/m are recycled into tickets by the packaging machine 14, and the recycled tickets 2' are sold again.

The ticket chip l is formed integrally into a disk shape by concentrically arranging one or more annular magnetic bodies of different sizes.For example, in the example shown in FIG. An annular protrusion 16 for a synchronization cord is formed on the upper surface of the disk 15 made of magnetic material at the outer peripheral edge of the liquid, and a recess 1 inside the annular protrusion 16 is formed on the outer peripheral edge of the liquid.
6m, annular protrusions are formed or not formed on each of the S data bit portions, that is, the first bit portion 17a, the second bit portion, etc. in sequence in the direction toward the center of the disk. Code information is attached. The surface is coated with plastic 18. In this embodiment, 24 to 32 types of encoding are possible, since the five data bit portions are combinations of whether or not there is an annular protrusion. For example, in the case of the one shown in FIG. 3, the first bit portion 1'J'a, the second bit portion 17b
, @4 bit part lid each has an annular protrusion of 17 m
, 17b.

17d. If there are annular protrusions on adjacent bit parts, they will not appear as individual protrusions, but even in that case, each of them will function as a protrusion. There is.

In addition, Figure 4 shows another example of a ticket chip.
Rings 20 of magnetic material are arranged concentrically on a plastic disc 19 and coated with plastic.

Note that the annular protrusions 16, 17i, 17b...
Alternatively, the ring 20 constitutes an annular magnetic body. The coupon ticket 2, as shown in FIG. 5(A) @, is made by packing the ticket chips 1 into, for example, 11 sheets using plastic films 21 and 22.

Next, to explain the charge sorting machine 11, as shown in FIG. 23, the bottom plate 9m can be opened using, for example, a key.The receiver is equipped with a conveyor belt 25 driven by a motor 24 at the lower part of the container 23. The belt 25 transports the ticket chips 1, 6 coins, and the numbered tickets 7 discharged from the cassette safe 9 and drops them into a dropping passage 26. A proa 27 is provided on one side of this dropping passage 26. Another lateral arrangement is a numbered ticket container 28, and a numbered ticket case 29 is stored in the lower part of the numbered ticket container 28.The drop passage 26, the blower 27, and the numbered ticket container 28 are connected to the numbered ticket sorting section. 3
Configure 0. A feeder section 31 is located below the drop passage 26.
- This feeder section 31 is provided with a rotating disk 33 having a gentler inclination on an inclined main body 32, the rotating disk 33 of ξ is surrounded by a paddle-shaped frame 34, and a motor 3s The rotary disk 33 is driven to rotate.

This feeder section is generally used as a mechanism of a coin processing device.

A discharge port (not shown) of the feeder section 31 is connected to an inclined sorting passage 36 that guides ticket chips and coins in an upright position. A sorting chute 37 having a slightly larger width is provided to accommodate small-diameter denominations, and each sorting chute 37 is provided with an electronic coin verification device W138. This electronic coin verification device 38 detects the authenticity of a coin by utilizing the fact that when a coin or the like passes through a path through which magnetic flux passes, the change in magnetic flux varies depending on the material of the coin.
This is omniscient.

A drop shoe (not shown) 40 is connected to an outlet (not shown) of each electronic coin verification device 38, which guides the coin to a coin slot 11f39 provided for each denomination. Although omitted here, a removal port is provided to remove ticket chips (including counterfeit coins), and the rejected ticket chips fall into an inclined removal path 41, roll, and are guided to a chip guide path 42. It is like that. The feeder section 312, the sorting passage 362, the sorting chute 37. Electronic coin verification device 38. Falling shade 40. The removal passage 41 and the like constitute a coin sorting section 43.

A ticket chip sorting machine 44 is connected to the chip guide path 42 .

As shown in Figure 7, this ticket sorting machine 44 is equipped with magnetic sensors 4 facing the upper surface of an internal chip passage 45 and a small hole 46 made downward at the center in the width direction. There is.

As shown in FIG. 8, this magnetic sensor 47 is constructed by winding a coil 49 around an iron core 48 and applying an alternating current bias to the coil 49 to generate a magnetic flux (A). When 16, 17 m, . . . pass, the magnetic flux changes and this is detected as a voltage change through the amplifier 50. Then, the magnetic sensor 47 detects the annular protrusions 16, 1 of the ticket chip 1.
When the presence or absence of 7F... is detected, the detection signal is not shown! - The arrangement of the annular protrusions is input to a microcomputer and read as code information, and a chip identification signal corresponding to the code information is emitted. The magnetic sensor 4 and the microcomputer constitute a code information reading device.

Further, the exits of the chip passage 45, that is, the chip shades 53 are respectively connected to the chip storage boxes S2 provided corresponding to the company identification codes. Inside the chip separation tube 51, as shown in Figure @9 and Figure @10, there is a guide passage 54 having a width equal to the diameter of the ticket chip l.
A plate-shaped shutter 55 is provided in the opening 54m through which the guide passage 54 and each chip chute 53 communicate. This shutter 54 is attached to a plunger (movable iron core) 57 of a solenoid 56 provided for each shutter, and this solenoid 56 receives the chip identification signal corresponding to the chip identification signal output from the ticket chip sorting machine 44. It is activated by a signal. Reference numeral 58 in FIG. 6 indicates a case housing each solenoid 56. The chip separation 11151, the chip shade 53, the guide passage 54, the shutter 5s, the solenoid 5
6, and the micro combinator constitute a distribution device.

In addition, in order to separate counterfeit coins or false ticket chips (including counterfeit tickets), a shade 59 for defective products similar to the chip chute 53 is provided, and a defective product collection 1i601CI! It is continued.

Next, the operation of the above-mentioned fee sorter will be explained.

The cassette safe 9 taken out from the fare box 8 of the bus is stored in the container 23, and when the bottom 9m is opened with a key etc., ticket chips, coins, etc. One ticket falls onto the conveyor belt 25, is conveyed by the conveyor belt 25, and falls into the drop path 26. When it falls, the numbered ticket 7 is blown away by the blower 27 and enters the numbered ticket container 28. It is stored in a case 29.

The ticket chips and coins fall into the bowl-shaped frame 34 of the feeder section 31 without being blown away, and are eventually arranged one by one on the rotating rotary disk 33, and
The cotton is made into standing cotton (1'(6') in FIG. 6) and sent one by one to the sorting passage 36.

As the coin passes through this sorting passage 36, it falls into a sorting chute 37 of a size corresponding to its denomination, and is then judged for authenticity by an electronic coin verification device A138, and if it is a genuine coin, it is rejected as is. The tickets pass through the falling shade 40 and are stored in the safe 39 for coins of that denomination. On the other hand, ticket chips (including counterfeit coins) also pass through the sorting passage 36 and fall into one of the sorting chutes 37. In this case, the electronic ticket verification device 38 determines that the coin is a fake, and the coin falls into the rejection passage 41 from the rejection opening (not shown), rolls along the slope, passes through the chip guide path 42, and enters the ticket chip sorting machine. Sent to 44.

In this car ticket chip sorting machine 44, when the red boarding chip 1 passes through the chip passage 45, the magnetic sensor 4
7 detects the presence or absence of the annular protrusions 16, 17 formed on the ticket chip l at their diametrical positions, and the micro combinator detects the presence or absence of the annular protrusions 16, 17 formed on the ticket chip l.
, 17m, . . , the code information as a combination of arrays is assembled. In this case, when the ticket chip 1 passes, data reading is started by detecting the annular protrusion 16 for the synchronization code and the recess 16a following this, and then the first bit part The presence or absence of the annular protrusion 17m in the 171 to 5th bit portions 17e is read. edict, each data bit part 17a to 17e
To detect the position of the annular protrusion 16 for the synchronization cord, its width (in the diametrical direction) is sampled. Based on the code information read by the microcomputer (information that distinguishes the company in this case), a chip identification signal corresponding to the code information is output, and the solenoid 56 corresponding to the chip identification signal is activated. Then, the shutter 55 is opened.

In this way, the ticket chip 1 is stored in the company chip storage box 52 corresponding to its code.

In addition, defective ticket chips or counterfeit coins are identified by the magnetic sensor 47 and similarly stored in the defective product collection box 60 via the unnecessary product chute 59.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the ticket chip sorting machine 44
, the ticket tip 1 is sorted by company, but it goes without saying that it is not limited to this. In other words, the ticket tip 1 has not only a code by company but also a code by amount (for example, 20 yen chip, 50 yen chip, etc., or code for pass ride for 1 section, 2 sections, etc.),
Code indicating whether the ticket chip is within the expiration date,
If there is a fare revision, it is possible to add various markings, such as a code to indicate whether the fare was before or after the revision. On the other hand, the method #c9111 is not applied to a fare sorting machine like the present invention, but can also be applied to a fare receiving device in a pass, an automatic ticket gate of a train, etc.

As explained above, according to the ticket chip sorting machine of the present invention, single or plural annular magnetic bodies of different sizes are arranged concentrically to form a disc shape and coded, and can be reused. Ticket chips can be sorted by code, and according to a fare sorter using this ticket chip sorter, the above-mentioned ticket chips, coins, and numbered tickets can be sorted. Therefore, it is possible to carry out the processing of ticket chips and coins very efficiently, and it is possible to effectively operate the fare processing system using the ticket chips described above.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures show one embodiment of the present invention. Figure 1 is a diagram of a pass fare processing system using the present invention, Figure 2 (a),
B) is a plan view and a sectional view of the ticket chip, FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing another aspect of the ticket chip shown in FIGS. A cross-sectional view showing another example, Figure 5 (a), @ is a plan view and a cross-sectional view of a coupon using a ticket chip, Figure 6 is a perspective view of the internal structure of the fare sorting machine, Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view of the main part of the internal structure of the ticket chip sorting machine, Figure 8 is an explanatory diagram of the magnetic sensor, Figure 9 is a cross-sectional view taken along the shoulder-α line in Figure 6, and Figure 1O is Figure 9. It is an x-X cross-sectional view at 1.°°... ticket chip, 2.2'......
Coupon ticket, 6゜6m, 6b, 6c... Coin, 7.
...Numbered ticket, 9 ...Cassette safe, 11
...Fee sorting machine, 15...Disc, 1
6.17m, 17b, 17d..., circular 17d, 1
7@... Data bit part, 19...
Disc, 20...Ring, 23...Receiver is container, 26...Drop passage, 27...Blower, 29...Organization Ticket case, 30...
・Sorting and Sorting Department, 31...Feeder Department, 33.
... Rotating disk, 36 ... Sorting passage,
37... Sorting shade, 38... Electronic coin verification device, 39... Coin safe, 43...
... Coin sorting section, 44 ... Chip sorting machine for tickets, 45 ... Chip passage, 47 ... Magnetic sensor, 51 ... Chip separation tube , 52...
... Chip storage box, 53 ... Chip shade, 54 ... Guide passage, 55 ... Shutter, 56 ... Solenoid, 59 ... ...Chute for unnecessary items, 60...Unwanted items collection box. Applicant Shinko Electric Co., Ltd. Figure 2 Figure 3 +b No. 4r? 1 Figure 5 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] When a ticket chip formed in a disk shape by concentrically arranging one or more annular magnetic bodies with different loudnesses passes through a chip passage, the ticket chip A code information@reading device that magnetically detects the presence or absence of the annular magnetic body at a diametrical position and reads the detected arrangement combination of the annular magnetic body as code information necessary for a ticket; A ticket sorting machine includes a dispensing device that emits a signal in response to information and puts the ticket chips into chip storage boxes provided for each code. 2) A single receptacle that receives coins, tickets, and ticket chips formed into a disc by concentrically arranging one or more annular magnetic bodies of different kennel sizes is a container. When the coins, numbered tickets, and ticket chips discharged from the container fall, this receiver blows off only the sorted red with a blower installed at the side of the falling passage, and this is installed on the opposite side of the proa. A numbered ticket sorting section accommodates the numbered ticket container, and the coins that have passed through the numbered ticket sorting section and the ticket chips are sent one by one, and only the coins are sent to the numbered ticket sorting section provided according to the size of each denomination. A coin sorting section that sorts the coins by denomination by dropping them into the corresponding falling shade of the chute, and when the ticket chips separated in the coin sorting section are guided and passed through a chip passage inside the chip sorting section. , Magnetically detects the presence or absence of the annular magnetic material on the ticket chip at the diametrical position of the ticket chip, reads the arrangement of the annular magnetic material as code information necessary for the ticket, and reads and records the arrangement of the annular magnetic material. A fare sorting machine equipped with a chip sorting machine that emits a signal in accordance with the code information and inserts the ticket chip into a chip storage box provided for each code.