JPS63226798A - Card issuing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a card issuing device for newly issuing a magnetic card or the like having a predetermined denomination encoded based on an input amount.

[Prior Art] As a card issuing device of this type, one is known that issues a magnetic card having a face value in units of 1,000 yen, for example, based on the amount of money inserted. In other words, this card issuing device magnetically writes encoded data such as the card number, issued amount, company code, and issued date on a magnetic card (hereinafter referred to as encoding), and issues this as a new card. It looks like this.

In addition, some of these card issuing devices automatically determine the face value of the card based on the amount inserted, and a new card is issued by operating the issuing key, and others automatically determine the face value of the card based on the amount inserted. In some cases, by specifying a card, a card with a specified amount will be issued.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, such a card issuing device can be used to obtain a new card when the remaining balance on the card currently being used is low and it becomes difficult to purchase products by itself. However, in this case, the user has to own two cards, the old card that is currently being used and the newly issued new card, which has the problem of being cumbersome to handle when carrying the card. . Also, when purchasing products, after using the old card,
There is a problem in that it is necessary to use an additional new card, which is complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a card issuing device that does not require the use of an old card and a new card in combination and can improve the convenience of the card.

[Means for Solving the Problems] That is, in order to solve the above problems, the card issuing device of the present invention, as shown in the functional block diagram of FIG. an amount determination section 1, a new amount data storage section 2 that stores the determined new amount data, an old card data reading section 3 that reads the data of the inserted old card, and an old card that stores this old card data. A data storage unit 4 and a sum totaling the amount data stored in the new amount data storage unit 1 and the remaining balance data of the old card stored in the old card data storage unit 4 to determine the issued amount of the new card. means 5, an issue amount storage section 6 for storing issue amount data by the totaling means 5, an encoding storage section 7 having a data area for one card, and an encoding storage section from the old card data storage section to the encoding storage section. rewriting the amount data of the transferred old card data to 0 yen, encoding this into the old card, and writing predetermined new data including the issued amount data for issuing a new card in the encoding storage section; The present invention is characterized in that it includes an encoding section 8 that encodes this into a new card.

[Operation] The old card is returned to the user with the remaining balance encoded to 0 yen or stored in the device. On the other hand, the new card is supplied to the user with the total amount of the old car r's balance and the desired new amount encoded.

[Embodiment] FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a card issuing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, this card issuing device has an operation section configured on a front panel 11, a card slot 121, a bill slot 13, and a banknote slot 13. It is equipped with a card issue key 14, a return key 15, and display sections 16a, 16b, 16c, and 16d.
By inserting an old card with a low balance into the card slot 12, inserting a predetermined banknote into the bill slot 13, and operating the card issuing key 14 corresponding to the desired denomination within the range of the inserted amount. , a new card with a face value of the designated amount plus the balance of the old card is issued, and the old card with a balance of 0 yen is returned.

In order to process the old card and new card as described above, this card issuing device has a new amount determining section as shown in FIG. , new amount storage unit 2. Old card data reading section 3. Old card data storage section 49 totaling means 59
Issue amount storage section 6, encoding storage section 7. and an encoding section 8.

The new amount determining unit 1 includes an inserted amount detecting means 17 that counts the inserted banknotes, and a new amount determining means 18 that determines a new amount based on the inserted amount and the selection operation of the card issuing key 14 described above. There is. That is, in this embodiment, the card issuing key 14 is composed of five operation keys displaying predetermined denominations, for example, 1,000 yen, 2,000 yen, 3,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and -10,000 yen. By selecting the key, the denomination of class 58j can be specified. Then, the new amount determining means (1st) determines the new amount after confirming that the specified face value is within the range of the input amount.

The amount data determined in this manner is then stored in the new amount data storage section 2.

Note that if the input amount is smaller than the designated amount, the display section 16
d indicates that it cannot be issued.

Further, the old card data reading section 3 reads the data of the inserted old card. This old card data consists of various data such as the company code and the date of issue of card number 9, in addition to the balance data.

This old card data is then stored in the old card data storage section 4. In other words, the old card data storage section 4 has a storage area for data for one old card as described above, as shown in FIG.

Further, the old card data stored in this manner is supplied to the card discriminating means 19. Based on the data stored in the data file storage section 20, this card discriminating means 19 discriminates whether the inserted old card is a card that can be processed by this device or not. If it is determined that there is a card eject 1, the determination signal is
% 21 and the old card is discharged from the aforementioned card entrance/exit 12.

Further, if the old card can be processed, the remaining amount reading means 22 reads the amount data of the remaining amount from the old card data storage section 4.

The totaling means 5 reads out the amount data stored in the new amount storage section 2 described above, and adds up this amount data and the amount data read out by the balance reading means 22 to calculate the issued amount. For example, if the new amount specified as described above is 1,000 yen and the balance on the old card is 300 yen, the issued amount will be 1,300 yen.

This issue amount data is then stored in the issue amount storage section 6.

As shown in FIG. 5, the encoding storage section 7 has a storage area for one card's worth of data, similar to the old card data storage section 4 described above. The old card data is transferred and stored7.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the encoding unit 8 encodes one card.
The one with the function of processing each sheet is used.

Therefore, in this device, data for one card stored in the encoding storage section 7 is encoded into one card by the encoding section 8, and the encoding storage section 7 is encoded every - times of encoding processing. By rewriting the data and exchanging the cards in the encoding unit 8, a plurality of encoding processes can be sequentially performed.

Then, such encoding processing is performed by writing 1184
This is done based on the operation of means 23. This write control means 23 rewrites the amount data to 0 yen in the old card data stored in the encoding storage section 7 in advance. Note that this rewriting operation is performed by putting the 0 yen data stored in the data file storage section 20 into the address in the encoding storage section 7 where the amount data is stored. Then, encoded data for one card with a balance of 0 yen is supplied to the encoding unit 8, and this encoded data is encoded onto the old card. When this encoding process is completed, the old card is ejected from the encoding unit 8 and returned to the user through the card slot 12.

Further, when the encoding process for the old card is completed, the write control means 23 writes data such as amount data and issue date data for issuing a new card into the encoding storage unit 6. In other words, among these data, the amount data is the issued amount data stored in the above-mentioned issued amount storage section 6, and other data such as company code, card number 9
Each data such as the date of issue is stored in the data file storage unit 20.
Pre-stored data is used.

This new card data is then supplied to the encoding unit 8, and after being encoded into a new card,
This new card is sent out from the card entrance/exit 12 by the card ejecting section 21.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the card issuing device as described above.

In this flowchart, first, in step STI, it is determined whether a banknote or a card has been inserted. Then, if a banknote is inserted in step ST2, the inserted amount is displayed in step ST3.

Note that this display is performed by displaying an image on the display section 16a. In addition, step ST4 and step ST5
If banknotes are continuously inserted in , a similar display operation is performed in step ST6.

Then, when the card issuing key 14 is operated in step ST7 just by inserting this banknote, the new amount is displayed on the display section 16a in step ST8. This new amount is the amount determined by the new amount determination unit 1 described above. In addition, when displaying this new amount, the display section 16
Waiting for card issuance, etc. is displayed using .b.

When the new card encoding process is completed, a new card is issued in steps ST9 to 5TII.

Further, in step STI or step ST4,
When it is determined in step 5T12 that the old card is to be inserted, the balance of the old card and the amount of money that has been inserted so far are displayed in step 13. After inserting the old card, if a banknote is inserted, step ST4 described above in step 5T14 to step 5T16 is performed.
The same operation as step ST6 is performed.

Then, when the card issue key 14 is operated in step 5T17, the new amount and the balance of the old card are displayed on the display section 16a in step 5T18. Further, after confirming that the old card inserted in step 5T19 is a card of a type that can be processed, if it is processable, the above-mentioned encoding process is performed on the old card in step 5T20, and this old card is transferred to step 5T21. will be returned to the user. After processing the old card, the above-mentioned encoding process to the new card is performed, and a new card with the total amount of the new amount and the balance of the old card is issued in steps ST9 to 5TII.

Further, if it is determined in step 5T19 that the old card cannot be processed, the old card will not be processed;
Only encoding and issuance of a new card is performed.

In the embodiment described above, the apparatus is described as having the encoding unit 8 that processes cards one by one, but the apparatus may be configured to encode the old card and the new card in parallel.

Further, as described above, the configuration does not necessarily have to be such that the new amount of money is selectively designated, but the configuration may be such that the new amount of money is automatically determined according to the input amount.

Further, in the embodiment described above, a configuration was described in which the old card is returned to the user, but a configuration may also be adopted in which the old card is stored in the device and disposed of all at once.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, since the balance of the old card is added to the new card and issued, the user has two cards, the old card and the new card. There is no need to use them together, and there is an effect that the convenience of the card can be improved.

Furthermore, since the remaining balance on the old card can be rewritten to 0 yen, there is no fear that such an old card will be misused. Therefore, since it is also possible to return the used old card to the user, it is also possible to make effective commercial use of such a used card, for example, by making it the object of a sweepstakes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram explaining the present invention in detail;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a card issuing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a front view showing an operation section configured on the front panel of the card issuing device, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of an encoding storage section provided in the same card issuing device, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation of the same card issuing device. It is. 1--New amount determination unit, 2--New amount data storage unit,
3.--old card data reading section, 4-- old card data storage section, 5--totaling means, 6-.issued amount storage section, 7.--encoding storage section, 8--encoding section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A new amount determining unit that determines a new amount based on the inserted amount, a new amount data storage unit that stores the determined new amount data, and an old card that reads data of the inserted old card. a data reading section; an old card data storage section that stores the old card data; and a sum of the amount data stored in the new amount data storage section and the remaining balance data of the old card stored in the old card data storage section. an issuance amount storage unit that stores the issuance amount data by the summing means; an encoding storage unit that has a data area for one card; and the old card data storage unit. Out of the old card data transferred from the storage section to the encoding storage section, the amount data is rewritten to 0 yen, this is encoded on the old card, and the encoding storage section includes the issued amount data for issuing a new card. A card issuing device comprising: an encoding section that writes predetermined new data and encodes it onto a new card.