JPS5833789A - Ticket issuing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device K11 for issuing tickets, commuter passes, designated tickets, etc., used for transportation machines 11 such as railways and buses.
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Ticket issuing devices for railways, passes, etc., such as unused tickets, commuter passes, and designated red table tickets, include automatic ticket vending machines where the ticket purchaser inserts currency (into the currency slot); Automatic commuter pass vending machines, ticket making machines that issue small quantities under the operation of a full-time O operator, and commuter pass issuing machines are well known.

The printing mechanisms used in these ticket issuing devices include dot printing, electrostatic printing, and thermal printing. Occasionally, due to mechanical failures, tickets were issued that were completely white, completely black, or had part of the printing part missing.

However, conventional $11 ticket issuing devices are not equipped with a detection means to detect such poorly printed tickets within the device, and some of the tickets end up directly in the hands of purchasers or are discarded. The operator has to check and deal with the original notes discharged to the department, which poses problems such as the operation is cumbersome.

This invention was developed based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is important to reliably detect and deal with defective printed notes as soon as they are issued.Moreover, the structure is extremely simple and reliable. The object of the present invention is to provide a ticket issuing device that can supply products with high quality at low cost.

This invention will be described with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of Jin's invention O ticket issuing device, Fig. 21% is a plan view showing an example of a commuter pass that can be issued by the same device, and Fig. 3 is a checking mechanism. In Figure 1C, which is a schematic explanatory diagram of It is equipped with a card hopper section 3 for storing cards. Below this card hopper section A 6, there is disposed a reciprocating picker 4 which sequentially takes out the cards 2 stored in this card hopper one by one and has an appropriate drive device (not shown). ,
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A, 5B - Supplied to the carry-in path 5 and conveyed to the printing mechanism 6. This printing mechanism 6 is equipped with an appropriate printing section such as dot printer printing, electrostatic recording printing, thermal recording printing, etc., and this printing section is used to print out a predetermined destination, for example, as shown in FIG. Information about the power outage, such as the date, charge, and red number, will be printed. The card 2 printed in a zigzag pattern is conveyed to the fixing section 8 via the conveyor roller 7, and the printed portion of the card 2 is fixed in the fixing section 8. The fixed card 2 is supplied via the conveyor belt 9 to an inspection mechanism 10, the details of which will be described later. This inspection mechanism 10 is configured to discharge the inspected card 2 to a discharge port 11 via a conveyor belt 9.

The 11ffi inspection mechanism 10 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3. The inspection mechanism 10 is equipped with light emitting sources, such as lamps 12A and 12B, which illuminate the printed surface of the cart °2 being transported. There is. This lamp 12A,
The light emitted from the card 12B comes into contact with the printed surface of the card 2 and is reflected, and the reflected light travels through the lens 13 so that an image is formed on the image sensor 14.

Electric signals based on the nine images formed on the image sensor 14 are amplified and judged as bright or dark by an amplifier (AMP) 15, and the output signals are stored in a memory 16 in order. This information stored as data decomposed into dot patterns is compared with predetermined information in the processing device 17, thereby determining whether or not the printing surface of the card 2 is printed normally. For example, the processing device 17 determines whether the data read out by the image sensor 14, stored, and decomposed into a 160-dot pattern matches the data of the dot pattern on the printed surface of the card 2. It is not possible to judge whether or not to inspect the entire printed surface (specific characters on a part of the printed surface of card 2, such as the ticket number 12345 stamped in the upper right corner (12345 in the drawing) 2A, is the subject of inspection. (In other words, if only the ticket number of card 2 is printed correctly, the other two printed sides may be temporarily). 10, it is easy to find defective notes, and it is possible to make multiple copies and reissue them before handing them over to the purchaser. In addition, the processing unit [17] determines that if the opening of the dark number of the data decomposed into dot patterns is within a predetermined aSS, it will be ejected as a valid bill; on the other hand, if it is outside the predetermined range! , the warning device 18 issues a warning, or the discarded ticket flapper 19 is driven to process the horse racing ticket. Furthermore, the pattern of data that stores at least four specific parts such as the ticket number etc. of one ticket is compared with the characters of the specific parts such as the ticket number, and when it is determined that they are equivalent, the ticket is ejected as a genuine ticket.
．． - When the ticket is male equivalent, it will be treated as a defective ticket. Also, a specific part such as the ticket number of a ticket is scanned and stored as data separated into dot patterns, and if the ratio of the number of dark dots in a specific part such as a round number is within a predetermined range @IK! It may be configured such that the bill is discharged as a normal bill, and if the color is outside a predetermined range, it is treated as a defective bill.

On the other hand, the result determined by the processing device 17.

If the ticket is determined to be defective, the warning device 18 may be activated to notify the postal clerk and at the same time stop the sales tabulation process. The device 18 is designed to give more warnings, and the processing after inspection is shown. It goes without saying that the system may be configured so that the used tickets are disposed of in a betting ticket tray (51 not shown) in the device without being ejected.Furthermore, if a defective ticket is found, a warning is issued by the warning device 18. Needless to say, it would be advantageous to have a structure in which the defective note flapper 19 is used to store the defective note in the waste note tray in the device and automatically enter the reissuance operation.

In the ticket issuing device configured as described above, when an issuing command is input, the picker 4 operates to send out the card 2 stored in the card hopper section 3, and the card 2 is sent out to the nine-card ZFi ticket entry path. 5 to a printing mechanism 6. #'
The card 2 printed on the printing surface by the printing mechanism 6 is transported to the fixing unit 8 via the transport roller 7 and fixed. After the fixed card 2 is inspected by the ship inspection system 10, it is ejected from the ejection port (or waste card receptacle ff1l) K via the conveyor belt 9.

The scanning mechanism 10 irradiates the printed surface of the card 2 being transported with light from lamps 12A and 12B, and the reflected light passes through the lens 13 and becomes an image formed on the image sensor 114. The images formed on the image sensor 14 are amplified and judged as brightness and darkness by the amplifier 15, and are stored in the memory 16 in order. The data decomposed into dot patterns stored in this memory 16 is processed by a processing device! 17
When it is determined that they are equivalent, the ticket is normally ejected to the ejection port 11. On the other hand, when it is determined that they are not equal! is warning device 1at
A warning will be issued or the ticket will be discarded.

In the above, the comparison in the processing device 17 is performed based on the ratio of the number of dots between the dot pattern obtained by scanning and a predetermined dot pattern, and when the number is within a predetermined range, the ticket is considered normal; If the value is outside the predetermined range, the ticket will be treated as a defective ticket. In addition, when inspecting a specific part of ticket 2, such as the ticket number for 2 people, this ticket number is scanned and stored in the memo 116 as data broken down into dot patterns, and the pattern of 9 days is stored in the memo 116. If it is determined to be equivalent to a specific character such as a ticket number, f! If the ticket is normally ejected and it is determined that the ticket is unequal, the ticket will be processed as a defective ticket as described above. Furthermore, it is not necessary to inspect the entire printed surface of the card 2, and the purpose can be sufficiently achieved by inspecting at least a specific part such as the ticket number.

Note that the above embodiment is just an example, and each member -)
Needless to say, it can be replaced with other members having the same function.

This invention has an inspection mechanism installed behind the printing mechanism as described above, so it is possible to accurately detect whether or not the information printed on the card is reliably printed. It is possible to prevent it from getting into the hands of others. But 4.
It has nine excellent effects, such as being extremely simple in structure and capable of supplying highly reliable products at low cost.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing a practical example of the ticket issuing device of this invention, Figure 2 is a plan view showing an example of a commuter pass issued by the same device, and Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the inspection mechanism. It is an explanatory diagram. 1...Ticket issuing device, 2...Original ticket, 3...
・Card hopper part% 4...Vicca, 5A, 5
B... Endless belt % 6... Printing mechanism, 8...
Fixing unit, 10-inspection mechanism, 12A, 12B...lamp, 14--image sensor, 16--memory,
17・-Processing device, 1st...Warning device, 19・-
Discarded ticket surappa. Figure 1

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) In a ticket issuing device that prints information on an original ticket using a printing mechanism and discharges the printed original ticket. The print image of one original note is scanned behind the printing mechanism O.
The data is stored as data broken down into patterns, and the stored data is compared with the printing and data that should be printed on this ticket. A ticket-issuing device characterized by discriminating. (2) The 1m scanning mechanism scans the entire printed surface of the original note, separates it into dot patterns, stores them as nine data, and determines whether the note is genuine or defective based on the ratio of brightness and darkness of the stored dot pattern. A ticket issuing device according to claim 1, characterized in that: (3) The inspection mechanism scans at least a specific part such as the ticket number printed on the printed surface of the original ticket, records it in a dot pattern, and stores it as a 9-day I, and stores the stored data in the ticket number, etc. The first claim is characterized in that a valid note or a defective note is determined based on the comparison with characters in a specific part of the note.
The ticket issuing device described in item 1 or 2. (4) When the inspection mechanism determines that the ticket is defective, it discards the ticket and also sets a trap for reissuing the ticket. Ticket issuing device according to any one of the above.