JPS628264A - Oil feed data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To smooth processing in relation to a part of troubles of an oil feed system by successively acting a card reader and writer for issuing an advance card disposed in a center for the operation of the failed card reader and writer. CONSTITUTION:After oil feeding is completed, when a card reader and writer 20a is failed, an operator specifies a processing mode of a card reader and writer 34 of a center side by a keyboard 24 of the center side. Thereby, a CPU obtains the amount of the residual oil before feeding oil based on the data read by the card reader and writer 34 and calculates the amount of the residual oil based on the contents of the oil feeding inputted from the keyboard 24 and the amount of the residual oil of the card magnetically store is rewritten by the card reader and writer 34.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a refueling data processing system (88-POS) at a gasoline sales station, and in particular to a refueling data processing system (88-POS) at a gasoline sales station, and in particular to a refueling system that allows refueling using an advance card in which refillable oil m is stored. The present invention relates to a data processing device.

Summary of the Invention In a refueling data processing device in a refueling system that allows refueling using an advance card, for example, when a card reader/writer installed corresponding to a refueling machine that writes the amount of remaining fuel on the advance card malfunctions, By making the card reader/writer installed at the center for issuing advance cards take over the operations of the malfunctioning card reader/writer, the advance card inserted in the malfunctioning card reader/writer can be refueled without any problems. It is possible to write the amount of remaining oil in the oil supply system, making it possible to smoothly handle problems associated with some equipment in the oil supply system.

Conventional technology Online system for refueling processing data (sales data) at gasoline sales stations (so-called 5s-pos)
With the spread of the system), so-called advance liter tickets have also become available.
The amount of oil that can be refilled (for example, 100 ml of regular gasoline) is magnetically stored on a printable magnetic card, instead of paper strips bound together like in the past.
Moreover, it is becoming more and more visually printed.

By the way, when refueling is performed using such an advance card, the amount of oil stored in the card is read by an external card reader/writer installed corresponding to the refueling machine, and the amount of oil stored in the card is read by the refueling machine. A series of processing is performed in which the amount of oil left is subtracted, the amount of remaining oil is stored again, and printed.

However, in the conventional refueling data processing device, if the external card reader/writer provided corresponding to the refueling machine fails, the remaining amount after refueling cannot be stored or printed on the advance card.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Therefore, if the card reader/writer installed in a refueling machine breaks down, data processing will not proceed smoothly.
There were drawbacks such as the inability to store and update the amount of remaining oil on the advance purchase card after refueling, and the time it took to do so.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a refueling data processing device that is improved so that data processing can be performed smoothly even when an external card reader/writer installed in correspondence with a refueling machine breaks down. .

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is a refueling data processing device in a system that allows refueling using a pre-sold advance card in which the amount of refuelable oil is stored. a first card reader/writer, which reads the amount of oil stored in the advance card, and writes on the card the amount of remaining oil obtained by subtracting the amount of oil supplied by the fueling machine; a second card reader/writer provided separately; a storage means provided in association with the fuel dispenser for storing the amount of oil supplied by the fuel dispenser; and a processing mode of the second card reader/writer. mode identification means for identifying
In response to the output of the mode specifying means, the second card reader/writer reads the oil amount stored in the card, and subtracts the oil supply amount stored in the storage means from the oil amount. The refueling data processing device includes a control unit that calculates the amount of remaining oil on the card and causes the second card reader/writer to write the amount of remaining oil on the card.

Operation When the first card reader/writer becomes disabled due to a malfunction or the like, the mode specifying means specifies the processing mode of the second card reader/writer, and the second card reader/writer is activated in place of the disabled first card reader. The card reader writer is
The card data can be read and written. The control means causes the second card reader/writer to read the card data, calculates the remaining oil amount based on the oil amount and the oil amount stored in the storage means, and writes and updates the remaining oil amount on the card. Perform print update processing. The amount of oil stored in the storage means is
It may be transmitted online from the refueling machine and stored, or it may be manually entered using a keyboard or the like and stored.

EXAMPLE Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a system at a gasoline sales station to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. With reference to FIG.
Each device is connected to the PU 12. In other words, multiple refueling units 1 are controlled via the refueling machine controller 14.
116a.

...16n is connected. Further, a plurality of sets of card reader/writers 20a and keyboards 22a, . . . , card reader/writers 20n and keyboards 22n are connected via the transmission circuit 18.

Each set of the card reader/writer 20 and the keyboard 22 corresponds to the oil supply Ia 16 on a one-to-one basis.
It is provided every 116. And, consisting of refueling machine 16
For example, when refueling is performed at the refueling machine 16a, data regarding the refueling is stored in the corresponding card reader/writer 20.
a and keyboard 22a, and cannot be processed by other card reader/writers 2o and keyboards 22. Note that the refueling machine 16, the card reader/writer 20, and the keyboard 22 are external devices provided outside.

Furthermore, the CPU 12 includes a keyboard 2 for data input.
4. A display 26 for displaying data, a ROM 28 in which an operating program for the CPU 12 is stored, and a RAM 30 in which data can be rewritten. A printer 32 for outputting print data and a card reader/writer 34 for issuing advance cards are connected. Each of these devices constitutes a center device installed inside the gas station where this system is installed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the key layout of the keyboard 24. The keyboard 24 is provided with a numeric keypad 36 for inputting numerical data and a function key 38 for inputting predetermined functional data.

FIG. 4 is an illustrative diagram showing the memory configuration of the RAM 30. The RAM 30 includes at least a card information reading area 40 and a calculation data area 42. In the card information area, there is a card reader/writer 20 or 34.
The card information read by is stored. In addition, the calculation data area 42 includes a pre-refueling (subtraction) residual oil storage area Q1, a refueling (subtraction) amount storage area Q2, and a refueling (subtraction) amount storage area Q2.
(subtraction) Contains the residual oil flea storage area Q3.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of one embodiment of the present invention. Next, following the flow shown in Figure 1,
The operation of one embodiment of this invention will be explained.

It is now assumed that a customer's advance card serving as the card reader/writer 20a is set and refueling is performed by the corresponding refueling machine 16a. Then, after refueling was completed, the card reader/writer 20a tried to memorize and print the remaining Urayama on the advance card and updated the data on the advance card), but the card reader/writer 20a malfunctioned for some reason and the remaining oil on the advance card Consider a case where the same memorization and printing are not possible. In this case, in the conventional device, the refueling machine 16
Updating the data on the advance card along with refueling a could only be done by the card reader/writer 20a, and could not be done by any of the other card reader/writers 20b, . . . , 20n or the card reader/writer 34.

In this embodiment, in such a case, the card reader/writer 3
4 is used to replace the broken card reader/writer 20a.

For this purpose, data for specifying the processing mode of the center-side card reader/writer 34 is input using the center-side keyboard 24. For example, card reader writer 3
By inputting mode specific data from the keyboard 24 that allows data subtraction processing in step 4, the card reader/writer 34 enters a state in which it is possible to update the remaining data on the already issued advance card. . At this time, if the card reader/writer 34 is set to be active for advance tickets that have already been sold only in accordance with the data to be subtracted, the card reader/writer 34 can be used to read the advance tickets. This has the advantage of preventing fraud such as adding and updating data.

After specifying the processing mode of the card reader/writer 34, the advance card is input to the card reader/writer 34. The card data read by the card reader/writer 34 is
It is stored in the card information reading area 4Q of M30. Next, the CPU 12 checks the card based on the data read by the card reader/writer 34 and determines whether or not the card is defective. If the card is defective, eject it and
The operation ends.

If the card is normal, the replenishable oil amount (residual oil amount before refueling) stored in the card in the card information reading area 40 is moved to the pre-refueling oil amount area Q1 in the calculation data area 42. It will be done. Next, the refueling machine is input from the keyboard 24. CPIJ12 records the input oil supply amount as R.
It is stored in the refueling amount storage area Q2 of AM30.

Then, the CPU 12 calculates Ql in the calculation data area 42.
The remaining oil amount is calculated based on the contents of Q2 and written in the remaining oil amount storage area Q3 after refueling (subtraction). Then, the information in area Q3 is transferred to the card information leaking area 40, and the data of the advance card is updated, that is, the amount of remaining card oil stored magnetically by the card reader/writer 34 is rewritten, and a new amount of remaining oil is added. Print. Then, the printer 32 issues a slip, and the card reader/writer 3
The advance card is ejected from step 4 and the operation is completed.

In this embodiment, the amount of refueling is manually input using the keyboard 24;
The amount of refueling is determined from CPtJ via the refueling machine controller 14.
12, manual input processing of the refueling machine can be omitted.

Effects of the Invention As described above, the present invention enables, for example, a card reader/writer for advance ticket issuing processing on the center side to operate when a card reader/writer corresponding to a refueling machine becomes inactive. Therefore, 1. Even if the card reader/writer corresponding to the refueling machine malfunctions, the refueling data processing device can be provided that can smoothly perform data processing without disrupting the flow of data processing.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. FIG. 3 is a diagram without showing an example of the key layout on the keyboard. FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the RAM. In the figure, 10 is an oil supply processing system, 12 is a CPU,
16.16a, 16n are refueling machines, 20°20a, 2O
n indicates a card reader/writer compatible with the refueling machine, and 34 indicates a card reader/writer on the center side. Fig. 1 O (to C) C 3 Close One key drawer layout Fig. 4

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) A refueling data processing device in a refueling system that allows refueling using a pre-sold advance card in which the amount of oil that can be refueled is stored, which is provided in correspondence with a refueling machine and is stored in the advance card. a first card reader/writer that reads the amount of oil supplied and writes on the card the amount of remaining oil obtained by subtracting the amount of oil supplied by the refueling machine from the amount of oil; and a second card reader/writer provided separately from the refueling machine. a card reader/writer; storage means provided in association with the refueling machine for storing the amount of oil supplied by the refueling machine; mode specifying means for specifying a processing mode of the second card reader/writer; In response to the output of the mode specifying means, the second card reader/writer reads the oil amount stored in the card, and calculates the oil supply amount stored in the storage means from the oil amount. A refueling data processing device comprising: a control unit that calculates the amount of remaining oil on the card by subtracting the amount, and causes the second card reader/writer to write the amount of remaining oil on the card. (2) The refueling data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the storage means is online-connected to the first card reader/writer and the control means. (3) The mode specifying means outputs a mode specifying signal for activating the control means when the first card reader/writer becomes inactive. The refueling data processing device described in Section 1. (4) The refueling according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein the second card reader/writer is an advance card issuing card reader/writer provided at the center of the refueling system. Data processing equipment.