JPS63157294A - Card information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately recognize a balance amount in a card by providing a print means to print a bit of prescribed information in the print information recording part of a card driven by a drive mechanism part, a magnetic information recording means to record a bit of information in the magnetic information recording part of the card, and a control means to respectively control the drive mechanism part, the print means, and the magnetic information recording means. CONSTITUTION:A card is fetched into a frame body 1 along a feeding path 3 by the rollers 8A, 8B of the card drive mechanism part 4. When various kinds of character information are inputted through a keyboard 17, a CPU16 fetches a bit of design information preliminarily stored in a memory part 18 and the character information, and these are transmitted to a print head control part 13 and the magnetic head write control part 15 as write signals. Consequently, a control signal is transmitted from then print head control part 13 to a print head 12 to operate it 12, and thus the character information and the design information are printed on the card. Simulta neously, the control part 15 transmits a control signal to a magnetic head 14 based on a write signal supplied from a control means 7. The control means 7 is provided with the CPU16 capable of controlling the entire parts of the titled processor and an arithmetic part 21 having an arithmetic function.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Eleventh aspect of the present invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention provides a method for issuing a simple issuing type card that is used as a specific transaction medium such as a telephone card or the like. Alternatively, the present invention relates to a card information processing device that can rewrite recorded information.

(Conventional Technology) In recent years, with the advancement of the information society, various relatively low-priced cards (hereinafter referred to as "simple issue cards") such as telephone cards, orange cards, and various membership cards have come into widespread use.

Conventionally, the means of issuing the above-mentioned simple-issue cards is that a specialized printing company uses various printing techniques to produce expensive plates each time, runs them through a printing machine, and prints and issues a predetermined number of the simple-issue cards. I was worried.

However, the above-mentioned conventional card issuing means requires the production of a block and the installation of a printing machine, which limits the issuing location, requires highly specialized technology, and requires a large amount of time for the issuing work. Since this method requires a lot of effort and effort, there is a problem in that the unit cost of issuing a simple issue card becomes high.

Furthermore, in the conventional card issuing means, since the simple issue cards are printed using the same version, there is a problem that the characters and designs attached to each issued simple issue card are standardized. Ta.

Furthermore, among this type of simple issue cards, those using a thermal transfer method and using a magnetic stripe 32 as shown in FIG.
In addition, in the case of using magnetic information in a magnetic stripe 32 as shown in FIG. 6, an identification hole 33 is punched in the remaining amount Q30 on which the remaining amount display is printed in advance. There was also the problem that the actual remaining balance could not be accurately determined.

(Problems to be Solved by the Present Invention) The present invention has been developed in view of the above-mentioned conventional circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a system that can be easily operated by any number of people without requiring any installation location. It is possible to issue low-cost cards with unique information attached to each card in an extremely short amount of time, and card information that allows you to accurately grasp the remaining amount used on this card. The purpose of this invention is to provide a processing device.

[Configuration of the present invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) A card information processing device according to the present invention includes a card drive mechanism section for inserting and ejecting a card having a print information recording section and a magnetic information recording section, and a card drive mechanism section for driving a card to be inserted and ejected, and the card drive mechanism section. a printing means for printing predetermined information on a print information recording section of the card driven by a magnetic information recording section for magnetically recording predetermined information on a magnetic information recording section of the card; and a control means for respectively controlling the magnetic information recording means and the magnetic information recording means.

(Operation of the present invention) The operation of the card information processing arrangement having the above configuration will be explained below.

First, a card on which a print information recording section and a magnetic information recording section are provided in advance is inserted into this device.

A card inserted into this device is taken into the device by a card drive mechanism section. Then, predetermined information is printed on the printed information recording section of the card by the printing means, and predetermined information is recorded on the magnetic information recording section by the magnetic information recording means.

The above-mentioned predetermined information includes 1, for example, information such as the symbol pattern stored in advance in the control means of this device, the serial number, the amount based on the operator's input, the name, etc., and further information such as the card calculated by the control means of this device. The remaining amount used will be used. .

The card on which printing and magnetic recording have been performed in this manner is then driven again by the card drive mechanism and ejected from the apparatus.

(Embodiments of the present invention) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3 of the attached drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic cross-section of the card information processing device of this embodiment, FIG. 2 shows the configuration blocks of the device, and FIG. 3 shows the original card C inserted into the device.

The card information processing device of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. A card drive mechanism section 4 is disposed along a card transport path (indicated by a dotted line in FIG. 1) formed on a line connecting the insertion LI 2A and the ejection port 2B, and A printing means 5 that prints predetermined information, which will be described later, using a printing method, a magnetic information recording means 6, which records predetermined information that will be described later on the original card C in the form of magnetic information, and driving the card drive mechanism section 4. The control means 7 performs control and sends a write signal indicating predetermined information to be described later to the printing means 5 and the magnetic information recording means 6.

As shown in FIG. 1, the card drive mechanism section 4 includes a pair of rollers 8A and 8B disposed within the frame l and facing the card conveyance path 3 near the insertion slot 2A, and In addition, a pair of rollers 9A and 9B are arranged facing the conveyance path 3 near the discharge port 2B, a rubber roller 1O is arranged below a print rad 12, which will be described later, and a magnetic head 14, which will be described later.
A magnetic head stand 11 is provided below the magnetic head.

The rollers 8A, 8B, 9A, and 9B are rotated by a control means 7 in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG.

The printing means 5 includes a print head 12 disposed above the rubber roller 10, and a print head controller JiJ 13 that sends a control signal to the print head 12 based on a writing signal sent from the control means 7. are doing.

As the printing method by the printing means 5, various methods such as a thermal transfer method, a plotter method, an inkjet method, or a dot method can be used.

The Fji information recording means 6 is connected to the magnetic head stand 11.
A magnetic helad 14 placed above the magnetic helad 14,
4, a magnetic head write control section 15 is provided which sends a control signal to the old 0 sent from the control means 7.

The control means 7 includes a CPU 16 that controls the entire device.
and a keyboard 17 that sends character information such as amount information, name information, serial number information, expiration date information, etc. to the CPU 16;
It is equipped with a storage section 18 that stores each of these characters as well as symbol information of a predetermined pattern in advance, and a calculation section 21 that has a calculation function. Although not particularly shown in FIG. 1, the keyboard 17 is disposed, for example, near the insertion opening 2A of the frame l.

As shown in FIG. 3, the original card C is formed in advance into a rectangular shape with predetermined dimensions, and includes a printed information recording section 19 and a strip-shaped magnetic information recording section 20.

Next, the operation of the apparatus having the above-described structure will be explained.

When issuing a simple issue card CO, first the third
Insert the original card C shown in the figure into the two insertion slots. and,
The original card C is taken into the frame l along the transport path 3 by rollers 8A and 8B of the card drive mechanism section 4 whose drive is controlled by the control means 7, and the print information recording section 19 is placed under the print head 12. The magnetic information recording section 20 is located at
It stops in a state where it is located below the magnetic helad 14.

At this stage, when the various character information described above is input from the keyboard 17, the CPU 16 takes in the character information and the pattern information stored in advance in the storage section 18, and sends them to the print head control section 13 and magnetic The information is sent to the head prediction control section 15.

As a result, a control signal corresponding to the character information and pattern information is sent from the print head control unit 13 to the print controller 12, and the print head 12 is activated to print on the original card.
Character information and pattern information are printed in the print information recording section 19 of.

At the same time, a control signal corresponding to the character information is sent from the magnetic head card writing control unit 15 to the magnetic head card 14, and the character information is written in the magnetic information recording unit 20 by the magnetic head card 14 in the form of a magnetic signal. It will be done.

Thereafter, this original card C becomes an easy-to-issue card CO on which one character information and symbol information are printed, and the character information is written as a magnetic signal, and is driven by rollers 9A and 9B and ejected in the direction of the ejection port 2B. Ru. Simple issue card C
o is a print information recording section 19 as illustrated in FIG. 4(a).
Text information such as store name, membership number, name 1 expiry date, etc. is printed on the card, and the magnetic information recording section 20 records, for example, amount of money, membership number, number of times of use, etc.

The easy-to-issue card CO issued by the above operation of this device is read by a card reader installed in a store, for example, and is read by a card league that has a distance and magnetic information reading function, and is used to identify the individual owner. Served. In this case, the same -
It will be more effective if the above-described card issuing device and card league are installed side by side in a store or the like, or separately installed at arbitrary locations.

Next, a case will be described in which the remaining amount used is recorded for the above-mentioned simple issue card Co.

The operation of this device in this case is basically the same as that described above, but the CPU 16 reads the amount and number of uses recorded in the magnetic information recording section 20 of the simple issue card CO read by the magnetic helad 14. and sends this information to the calculation section 21. The filter calculation unit 21 calculates this simple issue card Co based on the information on the amount and the number of times of use.
The remaining usage amount is calculated and the result is sent to the CPU 16. C
The PU 16 controls the print head 12 via the print head control unit 13 based on the information indicating the remaining usage amount.

As a result, the simple issuance type card CO can be used as shown in Figure 4(b).
The usage remaining amount information 19a is printed as shown in FIG.

At the same time, the CPU l 6 sends a write signal to the magnetic head via the 81-2 card write control unit 15 based on the information indicating the remaining amount used, and writes the magnetic information recording unit 2.
Rewrite the amount information and usage frequency information in 0.

Thereafter, the simple issue type car 1-'Co is discharged in the direction of the discharge port 2B in the same manner as in the case described above.

Since the remaining amount information 19a is displayed in this way,
The user of this simple issue card CO can accurately know his or her usage status.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, but may be modified in various ways within the scope of its gist.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, a case was explained in which a membership card with a store's membership number etc. printed or recorded was issued, but this device can also be applied to issuing various other cards such as telephone cards and orange cards. Of course.

In addition, if a thermal transfer method is used as the printing method, if one character information is printed on the original card, the color will be solid black, but
It is also possible to print designs and the like in color on the original card in advance using another printing method, and only the card-specific information (name, number, etc.) to be printed by the apparatus of this embodiment.

Furthermore, although the card drive mechanism of this embodiment device takes in the card from the insertion slot and ejects it from the discharge port on the back side, it is possible to use the card drive mechanism as the insertion slot and the discharge port so that the card reciprocates within the frame. It can also be implemented by configuring Furthermore, although not specifically shown in the above-mentioned embodiment, a display section such as a liquid crystal display for displaying information entered from the keyboard is provided near the keyboard, and the card issuance operation can be performed while visually checking the displayed contents. You can do it as well.

(Effects of the present invention) According to the present invention described in detail above, the entire device can be constructed in a compact size without any restrictions on the installation location, and a simple issuing card with a low issuing unit price can be produced with extremely simple operation. In addition, it is possible to provide a card information processing device that can issue cards in a single hour, and also to print or record unique information for each card, and to further clarify usage status by displaying the remaining amount. An information processing device can be provided.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a schematic sectional view showing an embodiment of the device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the device, Fig. 3 is a plan view of an original card used in the device, and Fig. 4(a) is the same. A plan view of a simple issue card issued by the device, FIG. 4(b) is a plan view of a simple issue card with a remaining amount display attached, and FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an example of a conventional card remaining amount display. figure,
FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the other side of the conventional card showing the remaining amount. Main symbols in the figure 1φ... Frame 3... Urn... Conveyance path 4... Card drive mechanism section 5... Fist... Printing means 6... Fist Magnetic information recording means 7 ...Sound/control means C...--Original card Co ++...Tsutsuyoshi issued card. 12th wS1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A card drive mechanism unit for inserting and ejecting a card having a print information recording unit and a magnetic information recording unit, and printing predetermined information on the print information recording unit of the card driven by the card drive mechanism unit. The present invention is characterized by comprising a printing means, a magnetic information recording means for magnetically recording predetermined information in a magnetic information recording section of the card, and a control means for controlling the card drive mechanism section, the printing means, and the magnetic information recording means, respectively. card information processing device. (2) The card information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the card is a simple issue card. (3) The predetermined information includes an amount, a remaining amount, a serial number that can identify each card, and a valid card. The card information processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the information includes a deadline, a name, a number of times of use, etc.