JPS61114393A - 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] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device such as an automatic commuter pass vending machine that automatically issues a commuter pass (hereinafter referred to as a commuter pass) according to a user's operation. Regarding.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] In the past, for example, commuter passes were often purchased with cash, but in recent years, with the arrival of the cashless era, credit cards have become extremely popular, and commuter passes are also being purchased using credit cards. It is becoming possible.

However, when refunding commuter passes, cash purchasers & IT
There is no m+ title, but when purchasing with a credit card, the credit company makes a contract with the commuter pass issuer, and once the commuter pass is sold, the commuter pass issuer charges the credit company for the payment. Since it is a deferred payment system in which the credit company pays the commuter pass issuer, and then the credit company bills the card user, the commuter pass purchaser with a credit card cannot receive a refund after purchasing the commuter pass. However, there was a problem in that it was impossible to determine whether the commuter pass was a cash purchase or a credit card purchase.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a ticket that can be printed and issued so that it can be easily distinguished whether the purchase is made by cash or by credit card. The purpose is to provide a publishing device.

[Summary of the invention 1] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention records purchase classification information indicating whether the ticket is purchased with cash or with a credit card when the ticket is printed and issued. It is.

[Embodiment of the Invention] Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 to 4 show an automatic commuter pass vending machine as an example of a ticket issuing device according to the present invention.

That is, 11 is a vending machine main body, and an operating section (customer service surface) 12 is formed on the front surface of this main body 11.

The vertical surface 12a of the operating section 12 includes an application form insertion slot 13 into which a commuter pass purchase application form is inserted, as shown in FIG.
Commuter pass insertion slot 1 for inserting the old commuter pass or refund commuter pass
4. A card insertion slot 15 for inserting a credit card, and a withdrawal slot 16 for receiving issued new commuter passes, receipts, change coins, etc. are provided. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, on the horizontal surface 12b of the operation section 12, a CRT display device 17 is provided as a guide display device for displaying instructions such as operations to the user according to the procedure. a group of operation buttons 18 provided around the display screen and operated according to displayed guidance;
A numeric keypad 19 for data input, a deposit slot 20 for inserting banknotes representing purchase fees or receiving change banknotes, etc. are provided.

On the other hand, inside the main body 11, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, there is an application form processing device 2 corresponding to the application form insertion slot 13.
1. A commuter pass reader 22 corresponding to the commuter pass insertion slot 14;
A card reading device 23 corresponds to the card insertion slot 15, and a ticket issuing mechanism 24 that prints and issues a new commuter pass corresponds to the withdrawal slot 16.
, a change mechanism 25 for discharging change coins, a receipt printer 26 for issuing receipts, and a deposit/withdrawal mechanism 27 for depositing and withdrawing banknotes corresponding to the deposit 020.

Additionally, inside the main body 11, there is a safe 28, a floppy disk device 29 for data storage, an attendant operation panel 30, a power supply/
Ill 1 part 31 etc. are provided.

FIG. 5 shows the control section. That is, 41 is a main control section mainly composed of a microcomputer and its peripheral circuits, which includes the CRT display device 17, operation button group 18, numeric keypad 19, application form processing device 21, commuter pass reading device 22, etc. , card reader! 23,
receipt printer 26, floppy disk device 29,
Attendant operation panels 30 are connected respectively. The main control unit 41 also has the ticket issuing t! 5f124, and a change control unit 4 that controls the change mechanism 25.
3. A deposit/withdrawal control unit 44 that controls the deposit/withdrawal mechanism 27 is connected to each. The main control section 41 is in charge of controlling the entire vending machine, and is designed to perform control according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the CRT display device 17 displays a guide to select whether to purchase a commuter pass or get a refund (step 81). Here, when the user selects and operates the operation button group 18 according to the guidance on the CRT display device W117 to specify, for example, "purchase" (step S2), the CRT display device 17 prompts the user to insert the old commuter pass. A guide is displayed (step 83). Here, when the user inserts the old commuter pass into the insertion slot 14 (step S4), the commuter pass reading device 22 reads the inserted old commuter pass and records the magnetic recording part formed on the back side of the commuter pass. Magnetic information (departure station color, transit station name, arrival station name, end date, commuting 1 school, adult,
dwarf, etc.) is read (step S5). At this time of reading, please check whether the information on the old commuter pass was read correctly (step S6). If it could not be read correctly, the CRT display fi117 will indicate "This commuter pass cannot be used."
A message to that effect is displayed (step 87), and the old commuter pass is returned to the commuter pass insertion slot 14 (step S8), returning to the initial state. If the information can be read correctly, the CRT display device 17 displays instructions for inserting the commuter pass purchase application form and setting the validity period (step S9). Here, the user inserts the application form filled with prescribed items into the insertion slot 13, and selects and operates the operation button group 18 according to the guidance on the CRT display device 17 to determine the validity period (1 month, 3 months, etc.). month, 6 months) (step 510). When the validity period is set, the main control unit 41 calculates the fare (fare) based on the set validity period and the read information (step 511), and displays the calculated fare on the CRT display device 17. , prompting you to select whether to purchase with cash, credit card, or cancel the purchase (Step 5).
12).

Here, when the user specifies, for example, "cancel" by selecting and operating the operation button group 18 according to the guidance on the CRT display device 17 (step 813), the old commuter pass and application form that have been imported are inserted into the Mouth 13.1
Return to Step 4) and return to the initial state.

On the other hand, when "cash purchase" is specified in step S13, the CRT display device 17 displays a guide to insert banknotes (step 515). Here, when the user inserts banknotes into the deposit 020 (step 316), the main control unit 41 calculates the inserted amount and checks whether the amount is equal to or greater than the displayed fee. (Step 517). When the price is equal to or higher than the displayed price, the CRT display device 17 displays a guide to issue or cancel the commuter pass (step 518). Here, if the user specifies "cancellation" (step 519) to return the accepted banknotes to the deposit 020 (step 520), the process proceeds to step 814 and the same operations are performed thereafter. On the other hand, when "issue" is specified, the ticket issuing mechanism 24 operates,
A new commuter pass is printed and issued based on the information read from the old commuter pass (step 521). At this time, when the printing of the new commuter pass starts, purchase classification information indicating whether the purchase is made with cash or a credit card is printed at a predetermined position on the ticket. In this case, since the purchase is made in cash, a stamp A is printed on the face of the ticket so that it can be easily identified, for example, "Cash payment" is expressed in characters, as shown in FIG. 7, which shows an example of printing of the issued ticket. Also, at this time, by operating the name reading device (not shown) in the application form processing device 21,
By optically reading the name, age, etc. from the name entry side of the loaded application form and transferring it to the printing section of the ticket issuing mechanism 24, it is printed on the name transfer section B of the ticket as shown in Fig. 7. (transcription). Furthermore, when the printing of the ticket is completed, magnetic information (departure station name, transit station name, destination station name, end date, commuting 1 school, adult,
At this time, purchase category information indicating whether the purchase was made in cash or by credit card is encoded and recorded. When issuing the new commuter pass is thus completed, the issued new commuter pass is ejected to the exit 16 (step 522), and the process returns to the initial state. At this time, if there is change, the change mechanism 25 and/or the cash withdrawal mechanism 27 operate, and the change is discharged in the form of coins and/or banknotes to the withdrawal port 16 and/or the deposit port 20.

Further, when "Card Purchase" is specified in step 813, the CRT display device 17 displays a guide to insert a card (step 523). here,
When the user inserts a credit card into the card insertion slot 15 (step 824), the card reading device W12
3 takes in the inserted credit card and reads magnetic information (
account number, validity period, etc.) (step 525)
. Then, it is checked whether the credit card is correct based on the read information (step 326).
), if the credit card is correct, the process advances to step 818 and the same operations are performed thereafter. In this case, since the purchase is made with a credit card, when "issue" is specified in step 819, the account number read from the credit card and the calculated charge are stored in correspondence in the floppy disk device 29. This will be used for settlement with the credit card company at a later date. In addition, since the purchase is made with a credit card in this case, as shown in Figure 8, which shows an example of the printing of the issued ticket, it can be easily identified, for example, "
A seal A with the text "Pay by Card" is printed on the face of the ticket. On the other hand, if it is determined that the credit card is not the correct one in step S26, the CRT display device 7 displays a message prompting the user to select cash purchase or cancellation of the purchase since this credit card cannot be used.
27), return the credit card to the card insertion slot 15 (step 828).

Here, if the user specifies "cancel", step 82
9>, the process advances to step 814 and the same operations are performed thereafter. On the other hand, if "cash purchase" is specified, the process advances to step S15 and the same operations are performed thereafter.

On the other hand, when "refund" is specified in step $2, the CRT display device 17 displays a guide to insert a refund commuter pass (step 530). Here, when the user inserts a refund commuter pass (commuter pass issued as described above) into the insertion slot 14, step 831
), the commuter pass reading device 22 reads the inserted refund commuter pass, and reads magnetic information (departure station name, transit station name, destination station name, end date, commuting 9
(school, adult, child, purchase category information, etc.) is read (step 532). During this reading, please check whether the information on the refundable commuter pass has been read correctly (step 833). If it cannot be read correctly, the CRT display device [17] should display a message stating that ``This commuter pass is not refundable.'' Step 534), insert the refunded commuter pass into the commuter pass insertion slot 14.
Return to step 835) and return to the initial state. If the information is read correctly, the main control unit 41 calculates the refund amount based on the information read from the commuter pass (Step 836).
The calculated amount is displayed on the CRT display 1117, and a guide is displayed to prompt the user to select whether to issue a refund or cancel the refund (step 537). Here, if the user specifies "cancel" (step 538
), the process proceeds to step 835, and similar operations are performed thereafter.On the other hand, when "refund" is specified in step 538, the main 111110 section 41 converts the cash purchase into a credit card based on the content of the purchase classification information read from the commuter pass. It is determined whether the purchase is by card (step 539), and if the purchase is by credit card, the process proceeds to step S34 and the following operations similar to W4 are performed. On the other hand, in the case of cash purchase, the main control unit 41 operates the change mechanism 25g5 and the deposit/dispensing machine 127 to discharge banknotes and coins corresponding to the calculated refund amount to the deposit port 20I5 and the withdrawal port 16 (step 340). ), return to the initial state.

In this way, when a commuter pass is printed and issued, purchase classification information indicating whether the purchase was made with cash or a credit card is printed on the face of the ticket.
For example, a seal A as shown in FIG. 7 or 8 is printed and recorded, and purchase category information is also encoded and recorded on the magnetic recording section on the back side. Therefore, when refunding a commuter pass, it is easy for staff to determine whether the purchase was made with cash or a credit card, and cash can be refunded for a commuter pass purchased with a credit card that cannot be refunded. You can prevent it from being put away. Furthermore, even with automatic commuter pass vending machines equipped with the automatic refund function mentioned above, it is easy to determine whether the purchase was made in cash or with a credit card at the time of refund. It is possible to prevent cash from being refunded for commuter passes.

Note that the purchase category information printed and recorded on the face of the commuter pass is not limited to the seal as described above, but may be any other mark as long as it can be easily distinguished.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the application is applied to a commuter pass automatic vending machine that is directly operated by a user has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can also be applied to a commuter pass issuing device that is operated by an attendant. Furthermore, the present invention can be applied not only to commuter passes, but also to ticket issuing devices that print and issue other securities such as regular tickets, meal tickets, movie theater and theater admission tickets, horse racing tickets, and stock certificates.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a ticket issuing device that can print and issue a ticket that can easily distinguish whether the purchase was made with cash or a credit card.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 1 is a front view showing the external appearance of the automatic commuter pass vending machine, Fig. 2 is a side view showing the external appearance, and Fig. 3 is the same internal mechanism. FIG. 4 is a plan view schematically showing a part of the operation section, FIG. 5 is a block diagram schematically showing the control section, FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation, and FIG. 7 and 8 are plan views showing examples of printed tickets. 12... Operation unit, 14... Commuter pass insertion slot, 15... Card insertion slot, 16...
Take-out port, 20... Deposit port, 22... Commuter pass issuing device, 23... Card reading device, 24
...Ticket issuing mechanism, 25...Change mechanism, 2
7...Deposit/withdrawal m structure, 41...Main control section, A...Purchase classification information. Applicant's agent Patent attorney T. Hiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 6 (a) Figure 6 (b) Figure 6 (c) Figure 7 s8

Claims (5)

[Claims] (1) In a ticket issuing device that prints and issues a desired ticket by inputting predetermined information, when printing and issuing a ticket, purchase classification information indicating whether the ticket was purchased with cash or a credit card is added to the ticket. A ticket issuing device characterized in that it records information. (2) The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, wherein recording the purchase category information on the ticket means magnetically encoding and recording the purchase category information on a magnetic recording section formed on the back side of the ticket. (3) The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, wherein recording the purchase category information on the ticket means printing and recording the purchase category information on the surface of the ticket. (4) The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the ticket is a commuter pass used in transportation facilities. (5) The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the ticket is a regular ticket used for transportation.