JPS6298483A - System utilizing advance payment card - 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] [Field of Industrial Application] This invention relates to toll road traffic management, and proposes a system that allows toll roads to be used within the amount recorded on an IC card purchased in advance. It is something to do.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, coupon tickets have been used to travel on toll roads, but these coupons have a fixed section of use.9For example, 1.
There are 31 or 11,010 yen tickets for each section.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] With the conventional coupon ticket mentioned above, you can only use the predetermined section 1~, so if you drive in a section other than the section where the single coupon ticket can be used, you have to pay a separate toll in cash. This is inconvenient for drivers of public transport.

[Failure to solve the problem]

In one embodiment of the present invention, an IC card is used that is purchased by paying a predetermined prepaid fee and has a predetermined amount recorded thereon, and restrictions are placed on the usage section until the amount recorded on the card becomes zero. Toll road entrance booths are equipped with devices that record information such as the name of the toll gate on an IC card so that the toll road can be used without having to pass.

In addition, the exit booth is equipped with a device that calculates the toll from the toll gate you pass through when entering the toll road to the toll gate you pass through when exiting the toll road, and deducts the toll from the amount recorded on the card. Therefore, one IC card can serve as both a toll ticket and a coupon ticket.

[Operation] Record the name of the toll gate etc. on an IC card at the entrance booth, check it at the Kawaguchi booth, and calculate the toll.

Subtract the calculated fee from the amount recorded on your IC card.

〔Example〕

Figure 1 shows an IC card (1+) which is a feature of the present invention, and the feature of this card (11) is that an RC (integrated circuit) (3) is built inside a plastic plate (2). rH3) is connected to a plurality of input/output terminals (4) including a power supply and ground provided on the - side of the plastic plate (2) by a conductor (not shown) passing through the inside of the plastic plate (2). .

This IC card is purchased by the user and is sold for an amount such as 10,000 yen or 20,000 yen.
Users can use toll roads only for the amount they purchase. (The receipt will be handed to you at the time of card purchase.) Therefore, the same amount as the original purchase amount is set in the memory section of the IC built into the card.

Then, each time the vehicle is used, the toll fee is deducted from the amount recorded in the memory section. That is, assuming that the toll was 2,000 yen for the first use, it would be 10,000 yen - 2,000 yen - 8,000 yen. Furthermore, assuming that the toll was 3,000 yen the second time, it would be 8,000 yen - 3,000 yen - 5,000 yen, which would mean that you could use another 5,000 yen.

In addition, the name of the toll gate to which the entrance booth belongs is recorded on the IC card of the second person, and the toll gate from the toll booth of the entrance booth to the toll gate to which the exit booth belongs is calculated at the exit booth. The calculated amount is subtracted from the amount recorded on the IC card.

Write the remaining amount after the deduction on the IC card as the updated amount.

Additionally, the tollgate name and other information posted at the entrance booth will be deleted.

Figure 2 shows the relationship between the entrance and exit of a toll road in one direction. (5) is the entrance located on one side of the toll road (6), Exit to.

(8) is the entrance booth, and (9) is the exit booth.

Note that a car (not shown) travels in the direction of the arrow.

In this relationship between the inlet and outlet, the input lobes (8
), a car arrives at the entrance (5), and after being located in the entrance lane On, the driver hands over the above-mentioned IC card (1) to the staff member at the entrance booth (8). Then, necessary items such as the name of the toll gate are recorded on the IC card (1) using a device to be described later.

The IC card with the necessary items recorded in this way is transferred to the exit lane (11) by the vehicle, handed over to the staff at the exit booth (9), and allowed to pass through by checking the toll gate name recorded on the IC card. The fee will be calculated. And I.C.
The calculated fee will be deducted from the amount recorded on the card. After the amount is subtracted, necessary items such as the toll gate name recorded at the entrance booth are deleted from the IC card.

As a result, the IC card becomes in a state where the amount after a certain amount has been deducted is recorded, and is used for a second time.

Figure 3 is an information recording machine installed at the entrance booth, and the IC card contains information necessary for calculating tolls, such as the name of the toll gate to which the entrance booth belongs and the type of vehicle.

and record necessary information such as 1 o'clock on the day.

In Fig. 3, (1) is an IC card, aa is an information recording machine installed at the entrance booth tL, 0 is an information memory, and θ◇ is the contents of memory 03, that is, the name of the toll gate, the vehicle type 2, etc. This is a write circuit for writing date and time etc. to the IC of the IC card (1).

Figure 4 shows the device α9 installed at the exit booth, where (1) is an IC card, and 0[9 is a circuit that reads the inner world of the IC card, information recorded at the entrance booth.

Read the recorded amount. G-Riki is a toll calculation method that calculates tolls based on the toll gate name at the entrance booth (18
Q is an information input means in which necessary information such as the name of the exit booth toll gate is recorded, and information is input into the toll calculation means.
Let l be the amount of money recorded on the IC card, and B be the calculated toll.

A, - B - Calculate the remaining amount and write I through the write circuit -
Rewrite to C card (1). Therefore, the updated amount is recorded on the IC card.

0υ is a display that displays the contents of the IC card.

It can be seen by the staff at the booth. The fA is a printer that prints out the contents of the IC card.

A sheet with the contents printed on it is handed to the driver.

Note that when a new amount is recorded using the write circuit (2), the toll gate name of the entrance booth recorded at the entrance booth (7) will be erased.

In other words, except for recording the remaining amount on the IC card.

Return to a blank slate. If the information is not returned to a clean slate in this way, confusion will arise in calculating tolls during the first use.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the toll is calculated in 12. IC it
Although the amount is deducted from the amount recorded in , it is also possible to reverse this.

In other words, the calculated tolls are accumulated.

It is also possible to allow the IC card to be used until the amount originally recorded on the IC card is reached.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, this invention is useful for the transportation industry, etc., because it allows IC cards to be used in the same way as conventional coupon tickets, and without being restricted by the area of use.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing an IC card that is a feature of this invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the relationship between the entrance and exit of a toll road, and Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating the writing of information on an IC card at an entrance booth. Figure 4 is a diagram for explaining toll calculation at the exit booth and related processing.
1) is an IC card. (2) is a plastic board, (3) is an IC, (61 is a toll road, (8) is an entrance booth, (9) is an exit booth, 0ri is an information recorder, and 09 is a device installed at the exit booth. Note that the same or corresponding parts in FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) At the entrance booth of a toll road, a device is installed that records the information necessary for calculating the toll, such as the name of the toll gate at the entrance booth and the type of vehicle, on the IC card purchased by paying the prescribed toll.
The information is recorded on the IC card, and at the exit booth, the entrance booth calculates the toll based on the information recorded on the IC card, and the toll is subtracted from the amount recorded on the IC card. A toll road that is equipped with a device that debits the card, writes the remaining amount on the IC card, and erases the information recorded at the entrance booth, so that the IC card can be used until the amount originally recorded on the IC card reaches zero. prepaid card usage system. (2) At the entrance booth of the toll road, a device is installed that records the information necessary for calculating the toll, such as the name of the toll gate at the entrance booth and the type of vehicle, on the IC card purchased by paying the prescribed toll.
The above information is recorded on the IC card, and at the exit booth, the entrance booth calculates a toll based on the information recorded on the IC card, adds up the toll, and writes it on the IC card. A prepaid card usage system for toll roads in which a device is installed to erase information recorded at the entrance booth, and the toll road can be used until the total amount of tolls equals the amount originally recorded on the IC card.