JPS60167082A - Ticket processor - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket processing device for a parking ticket issuing machine having a commuter pass processing function used, for example, in parking lot parking processing.

(b) Background of the Invention A parking ticket issuing machine senses when an incoming vehicle enters the parking gate, and issues a parking ticket with ticket data such as the time of parking printed on it to the parking ticket exit. Issue.

However, if the entering vehicle uses a commuter pass, not only is a parking ticket not necessary, but the issued parking ticket may be lent to a vehicle that has been in the parking lot for a while, fraudulently shortening the parking time of that vehicle. There is a possibility that you will be charged $11 for parking.

For this reason, conventional parking ticket issuing machines, when a commuter pass is inserted into the commuter pass insertion slot, take in and collect the island 1 ticket issued to the parking ticket discharge slot, and then take in the fixed Ill ticket. Stock processing was carried out using commuter passes.

However, with this processing method, it took time to process the warehousing process for light rain when using a commuter pass, resulting in a long waiting time. Furthermore, if the inserted commuter pass is invalid due to expiration, etc., a new parking ticket must be issued, causing a rise in costs.

(c) Purpose of the Invention Therefore, the present invention shortens the parking processing time when a vehicle using a commuter pass enters the vehicle, minimizes the waiting time, and, if the commuter pass is invalid, is captured and held. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a ticket processing device that performs parking processing using parked parking tickets.

(D) Summary of the Invention This invention performs parking processing for vehicles using a commuter pass that enters a parking lot using a commuter pass inserted into the commuter pass insertion slot, and for vehicles not using a commuter pass. This is a ticket processing device of a parking ticket issuing machine that issues a parking ticket to a parking ticket exit and performs parking processing, and includes a conveyance path of an upper conveyor belt that conveys a commuter pass and a lower conveyor belt that conveys a parking ticket. A flapper rotated by a solenoid is provided at the branch point, and a touch roller disposed at the parking ticket dispensing port for dispensing and retrieving parking tickets is disposed in conjunction with this flapper. When entering, the commuter pass and the issued parking ticket are taken in at the same time, the flapper is rotated downward and the touch roller is rotated upward, and the horse car ticket is held between the flapper and the bracket. At the same time,
Disable the conveying force of the tap rollers and hold the bird 1 ticket so that it cannot be moved while processing the parking ticket using the commuter pass. If the commuter pass is valid, collect the reserved parking ticket, and if the commuter pass is invalid, hold it. The present invention is characterized in that the ticket processing device is configured to re-release commuter passes that have been used.

(B) Effects of the Invention According to this invention, when a vehicle using a commuter pass enters, the commuter pass and the issued parking ticket are taken in at the same time, and the flapper is rotated downward and the touch roller is rotated in the -[direction]. At the same time, the conveyance force of the touch roller is disabled and the parking ticket is held immovably even though the lower conveyance belt is sliding in the receiving direction. Since the system is configured to perform warehousing processing using a commuter pass, the time required for warehousing processing using a commuter pass can be shortened and waiting time can be reduced.

Furthermore, if the commuter pass is invalid, the parking ticket that has been retrieved and held can be used again] Strikes can be reduced and resources can be saved. Since transportation of the parking ticket is stopped by holding the parking ticket, there is no need to configure the transportation system and drive system for the parking ticket independently from the commuter pass, and it can be stopped at the same time as the commuter pass. The configuration and control of the transport system and drive system are simplified.

(f) Examples of the invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

The drawings show the ticket processing device of the parking ticket issuing machine, and are shown in Figures 1 to 3.
In the figure, the ticket processing device includes a roll paper supply section 1, a printing section 2, a parking ticket discharge port 3, and a commuter pass insertion port 4.
There is.

The above-mentioned roll paper supply unit 1 is divided into a feeder 6 that feeds out the parking ticket roll 5 upward and a rotary cutter 7 that cuts the front 1ffl of the parking ticket roll 5 to cover the length of the parking ticket. A guide roller 8 that guides the parking ticket P to the above-mentioned printing section 2
It is equipped with

The above-mentioned feeding roller 6 is driven to rotate in the direction of the arrow while sandwiching both sides of the above-mentioned parking ticket roll paper 5, which is rolled into a roll of arbitrary length, in order to make it possible to create a large number of parking tickets P. , the parking ticket roll paper 5 is fed out to the aforementioned rotary cutter 7.

The aforementioned rotary cutter 7 is connected to a solenoid 1 via an operating rod 9.
0, the above-mentioned driven ticket roll paper 5 is driven by the parking ticket P.
Cut to length.

The above-mentioned guide roller 8 presses the belt 12 stretched between the continuous tension roller 11 and the guide roller 13 to cause the guide roller 13 to rotate, and the belt 12 and the guide roller 13 A parking ticket P is sandwiched between them, and the stepping motor 14 rotates the parking ticket P in the direction of the arrow.
The parking ticket P is guided to the above-mentioned printing section 2 via a guide plate 15 installed at the upper end.

The above-mentioned printing unit 2 prints the date, parking time, and
A ticket surface printing printer 16 that prints ticket data such as the ticket number, and a writing head 1 that magnetically records the above-mentioned ticket data on the surface.
7 and a read head 1 for v&verifying the recorded magnetic content.
8.

The above-mentioned ticket face printing printer 16 takes in the parking ticket P guided by the above-mentioned guide roller 8 with the guide roller 19, prints the ticket data on the parking ticket P with the print head 20 and the platen roller 21, and print completion 49 is as described above. The guide roller 19 is used to feed out the rod 17 in the above-mentioned manner.

The aforementioned write head 17 and read head 18 are connected to the upper conveyor belt 1 driven by a stepping motor 22.
- 23 and a pressure roller 25 which is disposed below the conveyance path of the lower conveyor belt 24 and which roughly prevents the parking ticket P from floating up.

The above-mentioned upper conveyor belt 23 is formed as a pair at left and right positions corresponding to the left and right end positions of the commuter pass T, and is stretched around the rollers 26 to 30 so that the commuter pass is inserted into the above-mentioned commuter pass insertion slot 4. 1 is taken in and released by a flapper 31.

The aforementioned lower conveyor belt 24 is formed in pairs at left and right positions corresponding to the left and right end positions of the parking ticket P, and rollers 32. '33, and the above-mentioned flapper 31 and touch roller 34 take in and release the parking ticket P.

The above-mentioned flapper 31 is arranged in the central space of the above-mentioned pair of left and right lower conveyor belts 24, and has a pressing part 35 formed approximately in the center thereof and a guide piece 36 formed at the tip thereof. 38 and 39 and rotated around a rotating wheel 40.

The above-mentioned suppressing part 35 is formed above the parking ticket P holding position @41 of the above-mentioned lower conveyance belt 24, and is also formed above the holding position @41
A bracket 42 is provided below the guide plate 1, and when the guide piece 36 is rotated upward, a gap is created between the lower conveyor belt 24 and the bracket 42 through which the parking ticket P can pass. is formed. In addition, when the above-mentioned guide piece 36 is rotated downward, the parking ticket P held in the above-mentioned holding position @41 is placed between it and the above-mentioned bracket 42 and is temporarily held so that it cannot be moved. .

The above-mentioned touch roller 34 is pivotally supported by the rotating shaft 40 of the above-mentioned 7-lapper 31 and is engaged with an engagement pin 43. Therefore, when the guide piece 36 is rotated upward, it rotates downward in conjunction with the rotation, presses against the lower conveyor belt 24, rotates as a slave, and rotates the lower conveyor belt 24.
4, and the parking ticket P is released and taken in.

Furthermore, when the aforementioned guide piece 36 is rotated downward as shown in FIG. 3, it rotates upward in conjunction with the rotation, and is separated from the aforementioned lower conveyor belt 24. Therefore, the temporarily held parking ticket P is released from the conveying force of the lower conveyor belt 24, which rotates in synchronization with the upper conveyor belt 23, which rotates in the taking direction to take in the lower part of the commuter pass. do.

The above-mentioned M conductor piece 36 is arranged near the conveyance path branch point 44 of the above-mentioned upper conveyance belt 23 and lower conveyance belt 24,
When the parking ticket P is rotated upward, the released parking ticket P is guided to the lower conveyor belt 24, passes through the above-mentioned suppressing part 35, and is released into the above-mentioned parking ticket discharging port 3. At this time, parking ticket P
The above-mentioned lower conveyor belt 24 is used to facilitate removal.
The left and right rear end portions of the parking ticket ticket are held between the touch roller 34 and the touch roller 34, and the front portion is projected from the parking ticket discharge port 3 and released.

Further, when the aforementioned guide piece 36 is rotated downward, the commuter pass T to be taken in is conveyed to the aforementioned pick-up head 17, and the commuter pass T to be ejected is conveyed to the aforementioned upper conveyor belt 23.
and discharged into the above-mentioned commuter pass insertion slot 4. At this time, in order to facilitate removal of the commuter pass T, its left and right rear ends are held between the above-mentioned upper conveyor belt 23 and the commuter pass holding roller 45 which is placed in pressure contact with the lower end of the above-mentioned roller 26. The commuter pass is then ejected with the front portion protruding from the commuter pass insertion slot 4.

A collection cylinder 46 is provided at the rear and lower part of the printing unit 2, and the collected parking ticket P is collected when the issued parking ticket P becomes unnecessary.

A first sensor 47 is disposed in the vertical direction of the central space of the lower conveyor belt 24 of the parking ticket dispensing port 3 described above to detect the discharge and removal of the discharged parking ticket P.

Further, a second sensor 48 for detecting insertion and removal of the commuter pass F is disposed in the vertical direction of the central space of the upper conveyor belt 23 of the above-mentioned commuter pass insertion slot 4.

Further, in the vertical direction of the central space of the lower conveyor belt 24 at the above-mentioned holding position 41, there is a sensor 3-1 for detecting the held parking ticket P. A remote control i49 is installed.

Furthermore, a fourth sensor 50 for detecting the conveyed parking ticket P and commuter pass T is disposed one step below the front stage position of the writing pad 17 described above.

Furthermore, a fifth sensor 51 for detecting the AI ticket P that has been conveyed is disposed in the vertical direction at the downstream position of the printing section 2 described above.

Further, a sixth sensor 52 is disposed in the left-right direction of the above-mentioned parking ticket roll paper 5 payout position, which detects when the parking ticket roll paper 5 has been completely paid out and is no longer used.

Each of the above-mentioned lenses 47 to 52 is constituted by a well-known photoelectric sensor.

FIG. 4 shows a control circuit, and the CPU 61 controls each circuit device.
Drive control is performed according to the program stored in the OM 62, and the RAM 63 stores and reads various data.

The date setter 64 sets the current date, and the clock device 65 sets the time to ff1 o'clock.

The magnetic recording/reproducing device 66 is composed of a write head 17 and a read head 18, and is controlled by the CPU 61 to record and reproduce ticket data on the parking ticket. The ticket face printing printer 16 prints ticket data under the control of the CPU 61.

The motor drive circuit 67 drives the stepping motor 14.22 under the control of the CPU 61. The solenoid drive circuit 68 drives the solenoids 10.37 under the control of the CPU 61. The sensors 147 to 52 input detection signals of the parking ticket P and the commuter pass T to the CPLI 61. Vehicle detector 6
Reference numeral 9 is provided at the entrance gate of the parking lot, detects the entry of vehicles entering the parking lot, and inputs the detection signal to the CPU 61.

The operation of the ticket processing device of the parking ticket issuing machine constructed as described above will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In a first step 71, the CPU 61 checks whether the vehicle detector 69 has detected the entry of a vehicle. When the entry of a vehicle is detected, in a second step 72, the CPU 61 drives the stepping motor 14 to roll the li1 ticket. Paper 5 as parking ticket P 1
The parking ticket roll paper 5 is fed out by the length of the paper, and then the solenoid 10 is driven to rotate the rotary cutter 7 to cut the parking ticket roll paper 5, and the cut parking ticket P is conveyed to the printing unit 2 by the bell i.12.

At a third step 73, ticket data is printed on the surface of the parking ticket P by the print head 20 of the ticket face printing printer 16, and at a fourth step 74, the stepping motor 22 is driven in the forward direction, and the parking ticket P is moved in the ejection direction. During this transportation process, the write head No. 17 magnetically records the ticket data on the magnetic film on the back side of the parking ticket P, and the read head 18 reads the recorded data to check for errors. At step 75, the parking ticket P is discharged to the ticket outlet 3.

In a sixth step 76, it is checked whether the parking ticket P has been taken out.
C is carried out based on the ticket removal detection signal, and when the removal of the parking ticket P is detected, the parking ticket storage process ends with this detection.

”-If the removal of the ticket P is not detected in the sixth step 76, the insertion of the commuter pass T is checked in the seventh step 77, and this check is performed by the second sensor 48 of the commuter pass insertion slot 4. This is done based on the detection signal.

If the insertion of the commuter pass J is accepted, the CP LJ 61 determines that the commuter pass T has been used to enter the parking lot, and in an eighth step 78, the parking ticket P that has been discharged into the parking ticket outlet 3 is inserted into the parking lot by stepping up the parking ticket P. When the tip of the groove is detected by the third sensor 49, the tip of the groove is detected by the third sensor 49.
The solenoid 37 is driven, the flapper 31 is switched, and the pressing part 3Jl presses the parking ticket P against the brown 1 42 and touches the parking ticket P in the holding position fi'i'41. 1. By rotating in one direction ( ), the parking ticket P is released by the conveying force of the lower conveying belt 24.

Due to this suspension, the parking ticket P is transferred to the upper and lower conveyor bells h23,
24 is driven, the parking ticket P is not conveyed.

When the parking ticket P is held in the holding position 41 at the ninth step 79, the stepping motor 22 is moved at the tenth step 8o.
is driven in the reverse direction, and the upper and lower conveyor bells 1 to 23 and 24 are driven in the take-in direction to convey and cover the commuter pass 1- in the take-in direction.

During this conveyance, the reading head 18 determines the validity of the commuter pass T, and in an eleventh step 81, the CP determines that the commuter pass T is valid.
Ll 61 is judgment 1. . - is conveyed in the ejection direction, and during this conveyance, the write head 17 magnetically records the ticket data, and the read head 18 reads the ticket data to check whether there are any errors in the magnetic recording.

If there is no error in the above check, the commuter pass T is returned to the commuter pass insertion slot 4, and the second sensor 4 controls the ejection of the commuter pass T.
8, the stepping motor 22 stops F.
Then, the commuter pass stocking process of the twelfth step 82 is completed.

In a thirteenth step 83, it is checked whether the commuter pass T has been taken out.
This is done based on the ticket removal detection signal. When the removal of the commuter pass T is detected, in the 14th step 8/l, the solenoid 37 is driven and the flapper 31 is switched,
The parked parking ticket P is released by the pressure between the pressing part 35 and the bracket 42, and the parking ticket P is conveyed in the receiving direction by the reverse drive of the stepping motor 22, and passed through the guide roller 19 to the collection box 46. When the fifth sensor 51 detects this collection, the stepping motor 22 is stopped, and the parking ticket collection process of the fourteenth step 84 is completed.

Also, in the 11th step 81 mentioned above, the commuter pass T is invalidated and the CP
If the U61 makes a determination, the stepping motor 22 is driven to rotate in the normal direction in a fifteenth step 85 to return the commuter pass T to the commuter pass insertion slot 4, and when the second sensor 48 detects the ejection of the commuter pass T, the stepping motor 22 is stopped, and the commuter pass return process of the fifteenth step 85 is completed.

In a sixteenth step 86, it is checked whether the commuter pass T has been taken out.
This is performed based on the ticket removal detection signal of No. 8. When the removal of the commuter pass T is detected, in step 17, the solenoid 37 is driven, the flapper 31 is switched, and the parked parking ticket P is released due to the pressure between the pressing part 35 and the brackets 1 to 42. Then, the parking ticket P is ejected to the parking ticket dispensing port 3 by normal rotation of the stepping motor 22. When the first sensor 47 detects the ejection of the parking ticket 1], the stepping motor 22 is stopped. The suspended parking ticket re-release process ends.

In the 18th step 88, it is checked whether the re-discharged one ticket P has been taken out. This check is performed based on the ticket removal detection signal of the first sensor 47 of the parking ticket dispensing port 3, and it is detected that the parking ticket P has been taken out. When this is detected, the warehousing process for the invalid commuter pass T ends.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 1 is an external front view of a parking ticket issuing machine. Figure 2 is an internal side view. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a parking ticket P being held while it is being held. FIG. 4 is a control circuit block diagram. FIG. 5 is a flowchart. P... Parking ticket T... Commuter pass 3... Parking ticket outlet 4... Commuter pass insertion slot 23...
・Upper conveyor belt 2/I...Lower conveyor belt 31...Flapper 3/l...Touch opening-ra 37・
...Solenoid 42...Bratat 44...Conveyance path branch point Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 67

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. For vehicles using commuter passes entering the parking lot, entry processing is performed using the commuter pass inserted into the commuter pass insertion slot, and for vehicles not using commuter passes, This is a ticket processing device for a parking ticket issuing machine that issues parking tickets to a parking ticket exit and performs parking processing. A flapper rotated by a solenoid. In addition, a touch roller that is disposed at the parking ticket dispensing opening and that feeds and takes in parking tickets is arranged in conjunction with this flapper, so that when a vehicle using a commuter pass enters, the commuter pass and the issued parking ticket are removed. At the same time, the flapper is rotated downward and the touch roller is rotated upward to sandwich a ticket between the flapper and the flap, and at the same time, the conveying force of the touch roller is disabled to park the ticket. We process the stocking process using commuter passes while holding the tickets so that they cannot be moved.
A ticket processing device characterized by being configured to collect the reserved parking ticket when the commuter pass is right-handed, and to re-discharge the reserved parking ticket when the commuter pass is invalid.