JPS61109184A - Coupon ticket processor - 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] [Explanation] in this column will be given in the following order.

(al Technical field (b1 Overview of the invention (C) Prior art and its drawbacks, (d) Purpose of the invention (e) Structure and effects of the invention (fl Examples [Explanation]) The present invention relates to a ticket processing device that issues tickets.

(b) Summary of the Invention The ticket processing device according to the present invention has a ticket circulation function that collects unsold tickets brought home by crew members and uses them for reissuance.

(C) Prior Art and Its Disadvantages At bus service offices, there is a device that issues tickets for sale by the crew inside the bus, but in the past, unsold tickets were not used for issuance. For this reason, there are disadvantages in that manpower is required to manage and settle the unsold coupons, and the number of coupons prepared must be increased because the unsold tickets reduce the storage capacity of the issuing coupon storage section.

(d1 Purpose of the Invention In view of the above drawbacks, the object of the present invention is to provide a ticket processing device that can collect and reuse unsold tickets.

(e) Structure and Effects of the Invention The present invention is characterized in that it includes a collection mechanism for collecting unsold coupons into the issued coupon storage section.

With the above configuration, according to the present invention, unsold coupon tickets are circulated in the issuing coupon storage section in the order of collection, reissue, and release, so the unsold coupon tickets can be collected and reused. This has the advantage of eliminating the effort required to manage and settle unsold coupons, and requires less number of tickets to be prepared since the unsold tickets are returned to the issuing coupon storage section.

(f) Embodiment FIG. 2 is an external view of a coupon processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 0, 1 is an insertion slot for a crew member ID card. Reference numeral 2 denotes a group of illuminated push button switches on the issue number side, which consists of push buttons for specifying 1 to 3 copies at a time. 3 is a tray for receiving the issued tickets, and 4 is an insertion slot for the tickets taken home by the crew. Reference numerals 5 and 6 indicate a bill slot and a coin slot for inserting sales proceeds such as banknotes and coins. Reference numeral 7 is a display device that displays the amount of money that is insufficient at the time of payment.

FIG. 4 shows a booklet-shaped coupon issued by the coupon processing device of this embodiment. The end surface 9 of the booklet-like coupon ticket is glued, and an identification barcode is printed on one side.

FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of a coupon processing device.

First, the ticket dispensing mechanism will be explained. Reference numeral 21 denotes an issue ticket storage section. The coupon tickets are accumulated and stored on the lid 25 in the coupon storage section 21. 42 is a stepping motor which transmits rotational force from its output shaft 43 to the picker camshaft 10 and the lifter shaft 11 via a belt 44.

Picker cam shaft 10. Electromagnetic clutches 12 and 13 are mounted on each lifter shaft 11, and a pinker cam 14° and a lifter pulley 15 are mounted on the armature of each clutch.
is installed. When the electromagnetic clutch 12 is energized, the picker cam 14 attached to its armature rotates clockwise in the figure, and the binker lever 18, which is biased by a spring 16 against the picker cam 14, rotates around the shaft 17. The ticket 22 at the top of the zero-ticket storage section 21, which swings clockwise, rises together with the other tickets accumulated on the lifter 25 until it comes into contact with the movable contact of the micro-sinch 26. When the microsinch 26 is turned on, the movement of the slip cover 25 is stopped. A pressure roller 27 is pressed against the top ticket 22 to apply pressure suitable for pushing out the ticket. When the picker lever 18 moves clockwise, the picker 20, which is locked at the tip of the lever with a pin 19, moves into the coupon storage section 21.
The tip 23 of the ticket 22 is at the top of the
Push out until you reach 4.

The force that pushes the lifter 25 upward is provided by lifter pulley 1.
Given by 5. That is, at the same time as the electromagnetic clutch 12 is excited, the electromagnetic clutch 13 is also excited, and the lifter boo I715 attached to the armature of the electromagnetic clutch 13 is excited.
By rotating clockwise, the lid 25 is fixed to the belt 28 and the lid 25 is raised as the belt 28 moves. As mentioned above, when the microswitch 26 is activated,
Although the electromagnetic clutch 13 is turned off, the lifter pulley 15
The lifter 25 is held in the position where the microswitch 26 is actuated by a ratchet wheel and notch (not shown) secured to the lifter 25.

31 is a motor that drives the conveying roller pair 24. Coupon ticket 22 fed into conveyance roller pair 24 by picker 20
is detected by a photoelectric sensor 41 for detecting discharge, and the receiver falls down a chute 29 by a pair of conveying rollers 24 and is discharged into a tray 3. The electromagnetic clutch 12 continues to be energized even after the picker 20 pushes out the coupon, and is turned off when the picker lever 18 returns and the microswitch 30 is actuated.

Next, the ticket collection mechanism will be explained. 36 is insertion port 4
This is a collection conveyance path that guides coupons inserted from the inside. When the insertion detection photoelectric sensor 32 detects a coupon ticket, the motor 31 is driven to rotate the pair of conveyance rollers 24, 33, and 34. Subsequently, the shutter solenoid 35 is excited, and the shutter 37, which had been shielding the conveyance path 36 until the photoelectric sensor 32 detects the coupon ticket, rises, and the coupon ticket is taken into the conveyance path 36. 38 is a barcode reader that reads the barcode of the ticket taken into the conveyance path 36. When the barcode read by the barcode reader 38 determines that the ticket is valid, the shutter solenoid 39 is energized and the ticket is released to the upper part of the ticket storage section 21 by the pair of transport rollers 24 while pushing down the flapper 40. Ru.

When it is determined that the ticket is invalid, the shutter solenoid 39 is not energized and the ticket is returned to the insertion slot 4. Incidentally, when discharging the coupons into the coupon storage section 21, the position of the topmost coupon is lowered by lowering the lid 25 so that the coupons are properly stored.

FIG. 3 shows a schematic configuration of the control section. The control unit is CP
U50. Program memory 51. It consists of a microcomputer system consisting of a data memory 52. The outputs of the photoelectric sensor and microswitch are given to the CPU 50 through the input device 1/F circuit 54. The motor, clutch, and solenoid are connected to C via the output device I/F circuit 53.
Controlled by PU50. Note that the CPU 50 processes the issuance and collection of coupon tickets, and also performs payment processing. That is, the crew inserts the sales proceeds brought back into the bill slot 5 and coin slot 6, and if there are any unsold tickets, inserts them into the slot 4. Payment is made based on the number of tickets. If there is a shortage of money due to settlement, the amount is displayed on the display 7.

Next, the operation of the ticket processing device will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

First, as a prerequisite for issuing coupon tickets, an ID card is read and checked, and the number of tickets to be issued is input. When a crew member inserts an ID card into an insertion slot 1, a 10 card reader (not shown) checks whether the card is valid or not, and when the card is valid, a push button switch group 2 flashes. The crew member presses the pushbutton switch group 2 to input the desired number of tickets. FIG. 5 shows the subsequent issuing operation.

Step nl (hereinafter step ni is simply referred to as ni)
The stepping motor 42 is rotated clockwise.

Next, the motor 31 is turned on to rotate the transport roller pair 24 clockwise (n2). Further, the electromagnetic clutch 12 is turned on and the picker cam 14 is rotated, and the picker lever 18 is rotated.
oscillate clockwise (n3). Subsequently, the electromagnetic clutch 13 is also turned on and the lifter pulley 15 rotates clockwise, thereby lifting the lifter 25 (n4). When the ticket 22 at the top of the ticket storage section 21 rises until it comes into contact with the movable contact of the micro-sinch 26, the electromagnetic clutch 13 is turned off and the lid 25 stops (n5, n6
). The electromagnetic clutch 12 remains on even after the picker 20 pushes out the coupon, and turns off when the picker lever 18 returns after pushing out the coupon and activates the microswitch 30 (n7, n8). When the electromagnetic clutch 12 is turned off, the stepping motor 42 is also turned off (n9). Next, when the photoelectric sensor 41 turns off and the receiver detects that the ticket 22 is released into the tray 3, the motor 31 is turned off and the process ends (nlo, n1l).

FIG. 6 shows the operation of collecting coupon tickets.

When the crew member inserts the ID card into the insertion slot 1 and then inserts the coupon ticket he brought home into the insertion slot 4, the photoelectric sensor 32 turns on and detects the insertion of the coupon ticket.

Next, the motor 31 is turned on and the conveyor roller pair 24, 33.3 is turned on.
Rotate 4 (n20.n21). The rotation direction at this time is counterclockwise, which is the opposite direction to that at the time of release. Subsequently, the shutter solenoid 35 is turned on, and the shutter 37 is raised until the photoelectric sensor 32 is turned off (n22 to n24). When the coupon ticket is taken into the conveyance path 36, the barcode reader 38
The bar code of the coupon ticket is read, and when the coupon ticket is determined to be invalid, the pair of conveying rollers 33 and 34 are driven in the reverse direction to return it through the insertion slot 4 (n25 and n38). If the ticket is valid, the lifter 25 is lowered to the ticket receiving position.

That is, turn on the stepping motor 42 and the electromagnetic clutch 13 n26. n27), and by turning on a notch release solenoid (not shown), the above-mentioned notch that prevents the lifter pulley 15 from reversing is released and the lid is turned on.
The shaft 11 is made rotatable in the counterclockwise direction (n28). As a result, when the stepping motor 42 rotates counterclockwise by N steps, the lifter 25 is lowered to the ticket receiving position 25' (n29). At this time, the uppermost ticket is separated from the pressure roller 27 and lowered to a position 23'. Subsequently, the notch release solenoid is turned off and the notch holds the lifter 25 in that position (n30). Next, the shutter solenoid 39 is turned on, and the coupon is transferred to the conveyor roller pair 24.
The ticket is released to the upper part of the coupon storage section 21 (n31).

When the completion of emission is detected by turning off the photoelectric sensor 41,
It is necessary to judge whether the photoelectric sensor 32 is on or not n3
2. n33), when it is on, returns to n22 to collect the next coupon. When there is no next collection ticket, the shutter solenoid 39° motor 31. stepping motor 42
Then, the electromagnetic clutch 13 is turned off and the process ends (n34~
n37).

By the above operation, unsold tickets are automatically collected.
Can be stored and used for reissue

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a structural diagram of a multi-use ticket processing device which is an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an external view of the multi-use multi-use ticket processing device, Fig. 3 is a block diagram of the control unit, and Fig. 4 is a multi-use ticket processing device. 5 and 6 are flowcharts showing the operation of the ticket processing device. 4 - Coupon ticket insertion slot, 21 - Coupon ticket storage section, 24.33
．． 34-conveyance roller pair; 36-conveyance path for collection of coupon tickets;

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A ticket processing device that issues and releases tickets to a flight attendant from an issuance ticket storage section, which is equipped with a collection mechanism that collects unsold tickets into the ticket storage section.