JPS59220890A - Time card printing system - 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 [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a printing method of a time card printing device that prints the arrival time or leaving time at a predetermined position corresponding to the date.

[Prior art]

Conventionally, the above-mentioned time card printing device changes the final position of the time card in accordance with the date every day, and prints the arrival time or leaving time on the time card inserted up to this final position.

[Problems with conventional technology]

However, in the above-mentioned time card printing device, a regulation plate for regulating the final position where the time card can be inserted and a mechanism for changing this regulation plate according to the date are required, and the mechanism is The drawbacks are that the device is complicated, the device itself is large, and there are many failures.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a time card printing method that makes it possible to realize a time card printing device with a simple mechanism and fewer failures.

[Key points of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention moves a time card set at a predetermined position from the predetermined position by a length corresponding to the current date, and prints the current time on the transferred time card. The main points are the points that were made to do so.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a slip printer connected to an electronic register will be described with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, an electronic register 1 is a slip printer 2.
and is electrically connected via a cord 3. The electronic register 1 is provided with a drawer 4 at the bottom of its housing, and on the drawer 4 are provided an input section 5, a printing section 61, and a display section 7, respectively. Additionally, electronic circuit components, a receipt issuing device, etc. are arranged inside the housing. The input unit 5 is provided with various keys such as numeric keys and department keys necessary for normal electronic register registration operations, as well as a rotary set mode switch 8 and a sliding attendance/exit setting switch 9. It is provided.

This mode switch 8 is set to power off mode (0'FF), registration mode (REG), as shown in FIG.
, refund mode (REF), inspection mode (X), payment mode lZ&), setting mode (PR), and tie card mode (T). In addition, the attendance setting switch 9 is in dispatch mode (dispatch),
This is to set the clock-out mode (clock-out).

The printing unit 6 consists of the receipt issuing device inside the housing, and the receipt on which registered contents are printed is taken out to the outside. Further, two display sections 7 are provided, and both display the current time data and registered data in a switched manner.

The slip printer 2 consists of a lower housing 10 and a dot printing type printer 11 installed on the lower housing 10. A transport mechanism for transporting the time card 12 shown on the left side of the slip printer 2 in the transport direction shown by the arrow 13 is provided within the lower housing. As shown in the figure, this transfer mechanism rotates rollers 14 and 15 provided at two locations along the transfer direction, respectively, to transfer the time card 12 into and out of the printer 11. guy
The board plate 16 is fixed along the transfer direction as shown in the figure, and has the function of bringing the right end of the time card 12 into contact with it to kite it. Further, a photo sensor 18 is provided near the time card insertion slot 17 between the bottom surface of the printer 11 and the top surface of the lower housing to detect the presence or absence of a time card.
Further, on the right side thereof, there is also provided a seven-point sensor 19 for detecting 31 holes 20 formed at equal intervals along the transport direction and corresponding to the date position at the right end of the time card. .

As shown in the figure, the time card 12 has numbers "1", "2", . . . indicating days (=J) along the transport direction.
``31'' is printed on the left end, and on the right side of each date, there is a printing field in which the dispatch time and clock-out time are printed by the slip printer 2, and further, On the right side of each printing column, one hole is provided corresponding to the date.

Next, the circuit configuration will be explained with reference to FIG. A CPU (central processing unit) 25 is a circuit that controls all operations of the electronic register 1 and the slip printer 2, and as shown in the figure, a ROM (read only memory) 26-1 that stores a control program stores each persimmon data. , R from which reading is performed
AM (random access memory) 27, arithmetic circuit 28,
It consists of a control circuit 29 that performs predetermined control associated with calculations, various calculation registers 30 such as X and Y, a counter 31, and the like. The output signal from the input unit 1 is input to the CPU 25 and processed, and various operations such as registration and printing are performed. Further, the slip printer 2 sends a signal a to the CPU 25 to detect the presence or absence of the time card 12 by the photosensor 18.
A position detection signal of the hole 20 by the photo sensor 19 is supplied and processed. In response, the 0PU 25 supplies the slip printer 2 with a setting signal for the attendance setting switch 9 (for example, a signal for specifying "dispatch") C1, a feed signal f1 for the transport mechanism, data for printing, and A printing operation is executed on the card 12, slip, etc. The counter 31 is a circuit that counts the number of inputs of the position detection signal, and the count value indicates the current transfer position of the time card 12.

The clock circuit 32 is a circuit that measures the current time and date, and the current time information is set in the register TM□, and the date information is set in the register TM2, and then transferred to the 0PU25, and then transferred to the display unit 7 and the slip printer. 2 and displayed or printed. Note that this clock circuit 32
is supplied with power by the backup power supply even when the electronic register 1 is powered off, and is always in operation.

The 0PU 25 further supplies printing data and the like to the printing unit 6, and prints the registered contents on the receipt. Also CP
The total memory 33 connected to U25 consists of RAM;
Various total data such as by department is written. This total memory 33 is also supplied with backup power and data is stored therein.

Next, the time card printing operation, etc. will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, when an employee handling the electronic register is dispatched, the employee sets the mode switch 8 of the electronic register 1 in charge to time card mode (T). In addition, the attendance setting switch 9 is set to ``1 dispatch''. As a result, power is started to be supplied to both the electronic register 1 and the slip printer 2, and the time card mode (T) is set at the same time. Then, the output of the mode switch 8 is input to the 0PU25. Accordingly, the CPU 25 reads the contents and determines that it is the time card mode (T) (step S1 of the flowchart in FIG.
each process of S2). Next, the CPU 25 reads the time card 12.
Step S4 is performed to determine whether or not the time card has been inserted into the time card insertion slot 17 of the slip printer 2. In this case, the state of the output signal of the PU25Gt photo sensor 18 (the presence/absence detection signal a of the time card 12) executes this judgment process. Then, the employee brings the right end of the time card 12 into contact with the guide plate 1b, and then When the card is inserted into the insertion slot 17, it is determined that the card is present, and as a result, the pU 25 outputs a feed signal f to the slip printer 2 and starts driving its transfer mechanism (swift).

As a result, the rollers 14 and 15 begin to rotate in the direction of taking in the time card 12, that is, in the direction of the arrow 13, and begin to take in and transport the time card 12.

Further, each information of the current time and the current date from the clock circuit 32 is sent to X via the register TM or register TM2, respectively.
transferred to the register or Y register (step S6
．． 87) o Furthermore, the counter OT is cleared.

When the time card 12 starts to be transferred in this way, the photosensor 19 reads the daily "1", "2", etc.
The first, second, and so on are drilled in correspondence with ・, respectively.
Each time each hole 20 passes through, a position detection signal which is a pulse signal is output one by one, and the CPU 25
supply to Then, the 0PU25 judges this position detection signal (step 5Ill), and then judges whether the date information in the X register and the count value of the counter 31 are equal (Stella 7'51o);
1 is increased by 1 (step S+t) and the process returns to step S. That is, until the date information and the count value become equal, each time the 0PU 25 outputs the position detection signal, the step Sg N 810% s,...
Execute each process once. So the current date is, for example, 1
If it is day 0, then tff! J position detection The hanging position detection signal is output and the count value becomes 110'', and therefore the steps Sg%S+o%So are performed 10 times each until the count value becomes equal to the date information ``10'' in the X register. executed. After matching, step S
1□, the CPU 25 stops outputting the feed signal and stops driving the transfer mechanism. Therefore roller 1
4. The rotation of 15 has stopped, and time card 12 is daily ``1''.
The print position is taken up to the print position corresponding to "Day 0" and then stopped.

Next C! The PU 25 determines the presence or absence of a signal based on the setting state of the attendance setting switch 9, that is, the "dispatch" designation signal C (step Sss).

The current time information in the X register is sent as data to the slip printer 2, and the printer 11 displays the current time in the dispatch column of the current daily 110th day of the time card 12. , for example, "8:54" is printed (step 814). After this printing, the OPU 25 outputs an inverted feed signal f to the flip printer, and therefore the rollers 14, 15
begins to be reversed, and begins to transport the time card 12 in the opposite direction to the arrow 13, and begins to take it out (step S2.
). When the time card 12 is completely taken out, the employee returns the time card 12 to the predetermined location and switches the mode switch 8 to the registration mode (BEG). Therefore, this is determined by each process of steps s1 and S2, and since the mode is other than time card mode 1'(T), the process proceeds to step S, and in this case, the registration process in the registration mode is executed.

When leaving work next time, the mode switch 8 is set to the time card mode (T) again, and the attendance and leaving setting switch 9 is set to "clocking out". Also, the time card 12 is inserted into the time card insertion slot 17. As a result, in the same way as when going to work, after each process of steps Sl, S2, S, ~S in FIG. 4, each process of steps S, ~Si is repeated 10 times, and then the time card 12 is
It stops at the printing position of "Date 110th". Then, in step SIq, it is determined that the iu work designation signal C is hot, and the process proceeds to step S1o, where the state and time side information in the X register is sent to the slip printer 2, and one time card 1 is printed.
2, the current side is printed on the clock-out button for the current date "10th". Then, the time card 12 is sent back by the processing in steps S and S. Next, the time card 12 is returned to the predetermined place, and the mode switch 8 is set to the power off mode (OFF).

However, in the second embodiment, a hole 20 was drilled in the time card 12 and the same date was detected by the 7-autosenser.
Instead, other types of v1 detectors, such as conductive tape, may be used.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the time card is “month-end a.
7th", so the length to transfer the time card was lengthened each time the date increased. For example.

For example, the time card is “due on the 20th” and “May 21st”.
If the dates ``January 20 to June 20'' are printed on one card, some correction calculations are required for the numerical values calculated by the detection of the position detection object.

In the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a slip printer that is connected to an electronic register G and performs normal authentication printing or slip printing, and the slip printer is used to print time cards. It goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to a single printer tube equipped with a clock function, paper transfer function, and position detection function.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention moves a time card set at a predetermined position from the predetermined position by a length corresponding to the current date, and prints the current time on the transferred time card. Therefore, there is no need for conventional mechanical devices such as a time card insertion position regulation plate and a mechanism for changing this regulation plate, and the entire device can be made smaller and the time card printing device is less likely to malfunction. can be provided. In particular, if this invention is applied to a slip printer connected to an electronic register, it is possible to provide a slip printer that can perform authentication printing for customers and time card printing for employee time management. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 shows an electronic register 1- according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view of the Motos R border 8, FIG. 3 is a circuit configuration diagram, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart explaining the operation. 1... Electronic register, 2... Slip printer, 5... Input section, 7... Display section, 8... Mode switch, 9... Time and attendance setting switch, 11... Printer, 12.
...Time card, 14.15...Roller, 16...Guide plate, 17...Time card insertion slot, 18.19... Photo sensor, 20...hole, 25...OPU',
26...ROM, 27...RAM, 2
8... Arithmetic circuit, 29... Control circuit,
30... Arithmetic register, 31... Counter, 32... Clock circuit, 33...
Total memory.

Claims (1)

[Claims] He had a timer to measure the current date and time, and a time card set in the designated position of the #nail printing device.
transporting means for transporting the time card from this predetermined position by a length corresponding to the current date measured by the clocking means; and printing the current time measured by the 4 o'clock means on the transferred time card. A time card printing method characterized by comprising a printing means for printing.