JPS5892074A - Bank book printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the accuracy of print position by taking a page number as a reference of position. CONSTITUTION:A bar code 2 is printed near the left end of a bank book 1 as a page number. To discriminate the print start line, the printed line and the presence/absence of the bar code 2, the bank book 1 is suctioned through the rotation of a roll shaft 6 driven with a pulse motor P1 and a feeding mechanism 3. A sensor S1 is provided almost at the center of a carrying surface on which the bank book 1 passes and a sensor S2 is located at a part corresponding to the position of the bar code 2 at the suction side from the position of the sensor S1. The sensor S1 detects the arrival of the bank book 1. The sensor S2 reads the content of the bar code 2 and the print start position of a print head 5 is determined based on the output of the sensor S2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a passbook printing device that prints information regarding monetary transactions and the like on a passbook operated by an automatic teller machine or the like.

In conventional bankbook printing devices, the printing position is determined by using the upper end surface of the bankbook to be printed as a position reference. However, due to misalignment between the end face of the passbook and the inner paper, the print position on the passbook was not accurately determined, resulting in a mismatch between the position where the passbook should be printed and the position where it was actually printed. This makes it difficult to read the printed contents of the bankbook because the information is printed on other lines or across two lines, and is also inaccurate. In addition, such poor printing position accuracy makes the reading sensor inaccurately detect the number of printed lines, which is particularly undesirable in the operation of automatic transaction devices.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and provide a bankbook printing device that can print accurately at the printing position on a bankbook, that is, has excellent printing position accuracy.

To summarize, this invention usually consists of 6 pages (pages) of a bankbook.
The page symbol commonly printed on the passbook is used as a position reference, the page symbol is read, the printed area of the passbook is detected, the print start position to be printed this time is determined, and this print start position is determined. It is characterized by what it did.

The page mark in the above invention is usually printed on the inner paper of the passbook. This may be a bar code indicating the number of pages and/or the type of passbook, or a specific passbook mark printed on the passbook.

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

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the vicinity of the conveyance device in the passbook printing device of this embodiment. Passbook 1 has 24 printed lines and is for horizontal writing, and barcode 2 is printed as a page symbol near the upper left end of 6 pages. The barcode 2 represents the page number by the number of horizontal lines or a combination of widths. A barcode consisting of vertical lines can also be used. The bankbook 1 is sucked in the direction of the arrow A by the roller shaft 60 rotated by the pulse motor P1 and the feed mechanism 3 in order to check the presence or absence of the barcode 2, the printed line, and the line to start printing. Further, arrow B indicates the direction in which the passbook is ejected. Passbook 1
A sensor S1 is disposed approximately at the center of the conveying surface through which the barcode 2 passes, and a sensor S2 is disposed at a position corresponding to the barcode 2 on the suction side from the position of the sensor S1. The sensor S1 detects whether the bankbook has reached this sensor position or not, and outputs a signal corresponding to the presence or absence of the bankbook. A sensor 52Fi is a sensor that reads the barcode 2 and the printed contents of each line. Further, a print head 5 of a dot printer or the like is placed at a print execution position in the upper part of the figure.

Next, a control circuit that performs processing such as setting a print start position in this passbook printing device will be explained.

A circuit diagram of this control circuit is shown in FIG. In this invention, the page mark means for reading the page mark of the passbook and the print start position determining means for detecting the printed area and dividing the print start position by 1'lJ are implemented by a microprocessor that performs judgment and timing control of this control circuit. (PU No. 6) 10, and memories such as FROM II and RAM 12. CPUIOlPROMl
l, and the RAM 12 are connected to the interface (
Ilo) 26.27.28 (hereinafter referred to as l101, respectively)
1102 and 1103). FROMll
The execution program for this device is written in . R.A.
M12 has data areas shown in FIG. 4, and stores data in each area.

The contents corresponding to each label are defined as follows.

■ LFI to L F 26 is a data area corresponding to the print position of the passbook, that is, the print line. Note that usually
As shown in Figure 1, the areas before and after the bending position 4 at the center of the passbook are not used as printing lines, so the number of lines used for printing is 24.
It is.

■ Represents the number 26 corresponding to the number of lines printed in the LFNC passbook.

■ C0NT represents the number of lines in the printing method of the passbook.

(2) LFND is an arithmetic unit used to detect the number of lines printed in a passbook.

■PCONT is a data area for bankbook counter numbers.

Here, when "1" is set in each area of LFI to LF26, it represents a state with printing and a state of , respectively. In FIG. 4, it is shown that up to the fourth line of the passbook has been printed.

Sensor S1 is introduced into l101 via amplifier 33. Further, the output of the sensor S2 outputs a signal every time each bar of the barcode 2 is read, and this signal is waveform-shaped by the waveform shaping circuit 21 and then introduced into the differentiating circuit 22. The rising pulse S2S of the differentiating circuit 22 is a flip 70.
Tube (F/F) 23 set S and l102 INO
The falling pulse S2T is also introduced into the reset l-R of the F/F 23 and the AND gate 35. F
/F23 output Q is connected to AND gate 34. AN
The output S2R of the D gate 35 is connected to INl of l102. l103 includes a kakunta which is reset by signal R5 from output (OUT) 3 of l102. The pulse generators 24 and 25 each have an output unit (
OUT)'. 29 pulse generators generate a pulse motor shift clock (CK) at a predetermined period.
1 drive circuit 36 and pulse generators 24 and 25. The drive surface path 36 is driven by the pulse motor P1 according to CK.
At the same time, the rotation direction of the pulse motor P1 is switched by the forward/reverse switching instruction signal DS from 0UTI of l102.

Next, the operating sequence of this control circuit will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7. Further, FIG. 3 is a time chart showing operations such as printing position reference detection and printing method line number detection.

First, printing position reference detection will be explained according to the flowchart 7 in FIG. In the process 100, the signal DS of the RAM 12
Output and set the forward rotation direction, and then set the 0UT of l102.
2, the start signal SS is outputted to operate the pulse generator. After performing this start setting, as shown in FIG. 1, the bankbook 1 is inserted between the roller shaft 6 and the conveyance surface, and the bankbook 1 is conveyed in the direction of arrow A. In Figure 3,
The arrow indicates the direction of transport. At this time, when the end face of the sensor SIK passbook 1 reaches, the sensor S1 is turned on. It is determined whether this sensor S1 is on or not.

The CPU 10 detects the INO signal of the l101, and in process 102, when the sensor S1 is turned on, it sends a tree signal (TRG) from 0UTO of the l102 to start the operation of the pulse generator 25. .

The pulse generator 25 generates predetermined pulses nl to n2- in synchronization with the CK output by the pulse generator 29.
! Turn on the OUT output. In g processing 103, which refers to this on time as the print position reference gate, the rising pulse S2
Barcode 2 is read by determining whether S is on or not. This S2S pulse is counted until the fall of the OUT output of the pulse generator 25, that is, the off-state of the above-mentioned print position reference gate is detected, and the PCONT
Add data to . This kakuto value corresponds to the number of pages of the passbook.

Furthermore, in 'tJ disconnection 104, CPU10
The OUT output of the pulse generator 25 is introduced into IN4 of 1102, and the AND gate 35 is introduced into IN2 of 1102.
The output S2R is introduced to detect whether or not S2R is on while the print position reference gate is on. If S2R is not on, reading of barcode 2 is continued, and if there is no S2R after a predetermined period of time, the process moves to process 105, where a passbook without a barcode and 't' are read.
Reverse lJ constant L, /<nov smoke P1 and eject the passbook. On the other hand, if S2R is turned on, it is determined in step 106 that the passbook is a normal printed passbook, and the valid signal C is output from 0UT4 of l102.
E is output to AND gate 37. This AND gate 3
CK is also input to 7, and the gate output is connected to 1103. In process 107, CPIJIO adds 4 smoke shift number 2 corresponding to the total number of rows to the kakunta of 1103.
6 and start the movement of this kakunta.

The CPU 10 detects the number of printed lines by counting the kakuntas, but before that, in step 108, the CPU 10 initializes the data in the RAM 12 and performs a data area 1NO.

Next, a flowchart for detecting the number of lines in the printing method is shown in FIG. The S2R signal is the TRG signal of the /<Russ generator 24, while the Norms generator 24 outputs a predetermined Z) response output from OUT in synchronization with CK. This ON time of the OUT output is called the printed line number gate. In addition, this OUT output is connected to the AND gate 34 and IN3 of l102, and the output S2Q of the AND gate is connected to IN2 of l102. It is determined whether the OUT output of No. 25 is on. Therefore, if the number of printed lines gate mentioned above is on, ≠
At 1 disconnection 201, 1 of l102 determines whether the S2Q signal is on or not.
Judgment is made at N2. If the S2Q signal is on, in step 202, the content of the address in the RAM 12 corresponding to the label LFI is set to 1. At this time, the next judgment 20
3, it is determined whether the 01JT output of the /Kursian generator 25 remains on, and if not, the LFL
The data will remain as an analogy.

Next, when the 0LJT output power of the pulse generator 25 is turned off, in process 204, the CPU10 outputs the LJT output power of the RAM 12.
An address obtained by adding 1 to the address of Fl is set, and 1 is subtracted from the content 75- of the label LFNC of the RAM 12. Judgment 205 is added, and operations 202 to 204 are executed until LFNC becomes O. This LF
When NC becomes O, the results of whether printing has been completed or not are stored in the data areas LFI to LF26 of the RAM 12 for each line. For example, if up to the fourth line has been printed, the data is stored as shown in FIG. 4 above. When the storage of the printed line is completed, the CPU 10 detects the counter value of l103. That is, in process 207, CP
Ul0 stops the tally of the pulse generator 29 when the counter value of l103 becomes 0, and also
Check the data contents of FI to LF26. Processing 20
7, the detection of the number of printed lines of the passbook is completed, and the RA
Data acquisition of M12 also ends.

Next, FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of the setting operation of the print start position of the passbook, that is, the print start line.

CPUl0 determines that the data content of LFI is 1 in judgment 300.
or O. In the next process 301, if the data content is 1, 1 is added to the data in C0NT of the RAM 12, and 1 is also added to the data in LFND.

Then, LF until the counter 4m of LFND reaches 26.
1 is added to the take of C0NT according to the contents from l to LP01. Through such processing, the take of C0NT corresponds to the number of printed lines detected in the number of printed lines detected. Therefore, the number of lines (CONT+1) becomes the printing start line of the passbook to be printed this time. Through process 302, this data [[:ONT+1) is converted into the number of pulse motor shift clocks, and the number of shift clocks is set in the counter 1103. After this setting,
Pulse generator 29 starts operating and drives pulse motor P1. , l103 is conveyed to the position where the counter value becomes O, and in process 303, the counter value becomes O.
When the print start line of the passbook reaches the bottom of the print head, the CPU 10 stops the pulse generator 29 and the pulse motor P1 and executes printing.

Finally, the relationship between the line ruled lines of the bankbook and the shift clock of the pulse motor P1 will be explained. As shown in FIG. 8, the interval between the ruled lines is divided into 24 equal parts, and the width of 1/24 of the interval is set as the 1-pulse feed amount of the pulse motor P1.

If Kt- is like this, the number of pulses and motor shift clocks becomes the passbook feed amount. Therefore, CPU10 is l10
The number of pulses instructed to the counter No. 3 can be set by this number of shift clocks, and the passbook can be freely conveyed to a predetermined position by operating as described above.

As described above, according to the present invention, since the printing start position is determined using the page symbol commonly printed on the six pages of the passbook as a position reference, errors in detecting the printing position due to misalignment of the end face etc. do not occur. A passbook printing device that can accurately detect the number of printed lines of a passbook and print accurately at the position of the passbook to be printed can be obtained. Furthermore, since the page symbols normally printed on passbooks are used, it can be implemented economically without adding additional symbols.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the vicinity of a conveying device in a passbook printing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 2 is a circuit diagram showing the control circuit of the passbook printing device. Figure 3 is a time chart showing the operation of the control circuit. Figure 4 is a RAM data diagram of the control circuit. 7 to 7 are flowcharts showing the operation of the control circuit. 8 is a diagram showing the relationship between the pulse motor shift clock of the same control circuit and the ruled lines. 1... Passbook, 2... Barcode (page symbol), 10...
・CPU, 11...PROM, 12 ・RAM. 24.25...Pulse generator, 26.27.2
8... Interface, 29... Pulse generator,
Pl ・Pulse motor, Sl, S2...Sensor. Applicant Tateishi Electric Co., Ltd. Agent Patent Attorney Hisao Komori Figure 2 Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] +11 In a device for printing information regarding monetary transactions, etc. on a passbook in which a common page symbol is printed on six pages, a page symbol reading means for reading the page symbol and a page reading signal outputted by the page symbol reading means are introduced. , a printing start position determining means for detecting a printed part of the passbook and classifying the printing start position by 'f4J, and determining the printing start position using the page symbol as a device reference.