TWI262452B - Automatic fee collection system of manual gas station - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic fee collection system of a manual gas station, comprising a card reader, at least one refueling machine, and a front controlling server. The card reader is used to read a payment card; the refueling machine can be used to refuel with fuel selected by a customer and calculate the an amount of fuel used and the fee thereof; the front controlling server is connected to the card reader and the refueling machine and a remote financial server so that a customer can read the payment card by the card reader and then refuel his/her tank with the refueling machine; afterward, the amount of fuel used and the fee derived thereby can be transmitted to the financial server to complete the disbursement.

Description

1262452 V. INSTRUCTIONS (1) [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention is an automatic collection system for a self-service gas station, in particular, a terminal sales of a self-service gas station (P〇int 0f Sale, P0S) ) automatic collection management system. [Prior Art] According to Point Of Sale (P0S), where the payment is stored in the market, the computerized transaction collection system (hereinafter referred to as P0S system) is introduced at the point of sale (P 〇S). The use of scanners that read labels and barcodes, electronic cashbooks, and other cash registers at the point of sale to help purchase points effectively manage the sale of goods. In recent years, P0S systems have been widely used in convenience stores, mass merchandisers, etc., as data collection, information processing, integration and application, which can bring manpower savings, automation, instant and data-based information to managers. In front of it, the depth, breadth and speed of management are more convenient than ever. The more complete the system integration, the more accurate the data collection, the higher the credibility of the information presented to the decision makers; the more the collection system is integrated, the wider the system integration, the more convenient the convenience of consumption, the more convenient It will give consumers a more impression of the brand of the company, which will make a company more competitive because of the information age, and he will establish a good brand for the company. In recent years, gas station operators have responded to the future growth of oil products, the operation and cooperation of upstream, downstream and downstream oil products, as well as the opening of oil imports and the privatization of CNPC.

1262452 V. Invention Description (2) Accelerate the brand growth and competition opportunities of the gas station chain industry. However, the current gas stations are still old-fashioned systems that require manpower refueling. Therefore, how to streamline the manpower of gas stations, achieve full automation of gas stations, provide real-time information and strengthen management at the operational level are still issues for gas station operators to be resolved. . Therefore, in order to solve the problem of the above-mentioned gas station manpower, it is necessary to design a brand-new self-service gas station, which is self-fueled by the customer, but it needs to be equipped with an automatic collection mechanism and a collection management system to truly implement the self-service gas station. achieve. To this end, the inventor of this case is to solve the inconvenience and lack of self-service gas stations at present, and to study and cooperate with the application of the theory, and propose a self-service automatic charging system for gas stations, by first swiping the card in the way of refueling. , complete the management system of automatic collection. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to provide a new self-service gas station collection system, which uses a customer's credit card, financial card or cash card (hereinafter collectively referred to as a payment card) to pay for the fueling fee to solve the self-service gas station fueling. The fee payment problem is achieved, the labor cost is reduced, and the management function of the gas station is fully automated. In order to achieve the above object, the present invention mainly provides a self-service gas station collection system, comprising a card reader, at least one fuel dispenser and a front-end control server, wherein the card reader is configured to read the payment card; The tanker is used to allow the customer to select the fuel and then add fuel, and calculate the fueling amount and the fueling fee; and the front-end control server is connected to the card reader and the tanker, and can be connected to one far

1262452 V. Inventive Note (3) The financial terminal server of the terminal, after the customer can read the payment card by the card reader, refueling the fuel dispenser by himself, after the fueling is completed, the fueling amount and the fueling fee are transmitted to the The financial side server to complete the payment of the fueling fee. In particular, the present invention provides the above-mentioned automatic self-service gas station automatic collection system, which further includes an invoice printer and a front-end collection terminal, and the invoice printer is connected to the front-end control server. Accepting the control of the front-end control server to print the invoice; the front-end payment terminal is connected to the front-end control server for displaying and managing the transaction record of the fuel dispenser, the card reader and the invoice machine. In particular, the present invention provides an automatic collection system for the self-service gas station described above, which further includes a database server and a background management terminal, the database server being connected to the front-end control server for storing The payment card account number, the fueling amount and the fueling fee; the background management terminal is connected to the database server for counting, printing and managing the transaction record of the database server. In particular, the present invention provides a self-service fueling method, in which the customer first inputs the payment card to the card reader and inputs a password. After the password is confirmed, the customer can select the type of oil to be refueled by the fuel dispenser. Then, the fuel dispenser automatically refuels the fuel, and at the same time, calculates the fueling amount and the fueling fee. When the fueling is completed, the fueling fee is sent together with the account of the payment card to the server of the financial terminal, waiting for receiving a fee payment message. After receiving the fee payment message, the fuel type, fueling amount and fueling fee are transmitted to the invoice printing machine to print out the invoice of the refueling, and then the fuel type, fueling amount and fueling fee of the refueling are sent to the Database server storage

1262452 V. Description of invention

After completing the self-service refueling deposit form, the actions of the payment card and the invoice and the payment are taken back. [Embodiment] It is to be understood that the present invention is intended to achieve the pre-effects. </ RTI> </ RTI> </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt; The automatic self-service gas station of the self-service gas station of the present invention 1 is limited to the cash payment (hereinafter collectively referred to as payment card) as the cash payment 'so can be effective 1' the payment card 11 can be a magnetic stripe card or prevent fraudulent card theft brush. In order to enable the review committee to adopt a more detailed description of the techniques, means and detailed explanations and drawings, it is believed that this can be used for an in-depth and specific examination and explanation. It is not intended to refer to the first figure for this issue. Shown as a schematic diagram of the structure of the collection system. This issue uses a credit card, financial card or cash card to pay for the refueling, instead of traditionally controlling and managing the automatic gas station 1 | IC card containing the chip' and the IC card is more than 2 stations in the self-service plus 10 There is a front end refueling end 2〇 and a rear end official end 30, and a front end control servo Is 2 in the W end refueling end 2 连 is connected to at least one refueling machine 2 2, a card reader 2, a single printer 24 and a front-end payment terminal 25, and a back-end management terminal 3 具备 has a background management terminal 3 1 and a database server 3 2; and the front-end server 21 can be connected to at least one financial server 41, such as a bank, through a network system 40 to authorize the payment credit of the payment card ii. As shown in the second figure, it is a schematic diagram of the fuel dispenser of the present invention. The fuel dispenser 22 has a refueling grab 2 2 1 , an oil selection cry 2 2 2 and a metering

1262452 V. Invention Description (5) / Billing Table 2 2 3 'The oil material remote selector 2 2 2 can choose the type of fuel, such as ordinary gasoline, high grade gasoline, error-free gasoline or diesel...etc.' by the fuel gun 2 2 1 The selected oil is output, and the metering/accounting table 2 2 3 shows the amount of fuel added and the cost. The card reader 2 3 can be disposed on the fuel dispenser 2 2 or next to the fuel dispenser 2 2 . The third diagram is a schematic view of the card reader of the present invention. The card reader 23 is provided with a card input port 231 . a display screen 23 2 and a keyboard 233, when the customer wants to refuel, the payment card 1 1 is first input into the card input ^ 2 3 1 of the card reader 2 3, at which time the card reader 2 3 will be The display screen 2 3 2 displays a message requesting a password, and the password is entered by the keyboard 2 3 3, like an automatic teller machine (AT Μ ). After the card reader 2 3 confirms the password, the account of the payment card is transmitted to the front-end control server 2 1. The front-end control server 2 then controls the fuel dispenser 2 2 'to allow each of the fuels to be selected Refueling action. When the refueling is completed, the refueling machine 2 2 will rotate the refueling amount and the cost shown in the metering/accounting table 2 2 3 to the front-end control server 2丨, and the front-end official servo state 2 1 will refuel The amount and cost together with the account number 11 read by the card reader 23 are connected to the server 4 1 ' of the financial terminal through the network system 4 'When the server 4 of the financial terminal replies After the fee payment message, the W-end official server 2 1 controls the invoice printer 24 to automatically print the invoice of the relevant fee, and the customer retrieves the payment card and the invoice to complete the refueling and payment. Actions. In addition, the front-end payment terminal terminal 25 can be a computer, which can display and manage each of the front-end fueling terminals 20, 2, the card reader 2 3 and the invoice machine.

Page 9 1262452 V. Description of the invention (6) The parent of the 24th, the terminal of the payment terminal 25 can be monitored by a manager for the trading action of all the front-end fueling terminals 20, when there is any problem, 'If the invoice machine has no paper, 'the tanker is not working properly or the card reader is wrong, etc.', etc.' can be displayed by the front-end collection terminal 4, 25, to help solve the problem. And the terminal receiving terminal 25 can also directly connect to the back-end management server 2: for the purpose of documenting or modifying the data, such as the customer joining the second day » and inputting the customer data in the data Library server 3 2 . The background management terminal machine 3 can be set up in the office of the gas station in the office of the gas station, the L, and the gentleman 3 2, and the servo state line is connected to the database server 32. The data port management terminal unit 31 is connected to the server 21. °Huibei library server 32 is connected to the front end of the database server 3 2, the end of the fueling end 20 can be generated by the customer's data and all the previous statistics, printing And the pipe material 'and the background management terminal machine 31, please refer to the transaction record of the heart ί Γ Γ 2Γ/2. Yin apricot + mountain * ’, 糸 is a schematic diagram of the process. The customer enters the payment card 11 at the card reader 23^0 0) to ask the customer to input the account number in the password i ,, and to send the payment card η 夕 ')' s code is correct, the reading The card machine is transferred from the fuel tank 22: ί to the front-end control server 2, at this time, the customer can (S104), the selector 2 2 2 selects the type of fuel to be refueled, and the fuel gun 221 of the tanker Come on, refueling Π two:: its...(si(6), and show that one w 4 5 ten $ / billing table 2 2 3 on.

1262452 V. Invention Description (7) After the refueling is completed, the front-end control server 2 1 transfers the fueling fee of the fueling material and the account number of the payment card 11 to the server 41 of the financial terminal, and waits The server 4 receiving the financial terminal replies with a fee payment message (S 1 0 8 ), and when the front-end control server 2 1 receives the fee payment message, the fuel type, the fuel amount and the fueling fee are transmitted. To the invoice printing machine, the invoice printing machine is controlled to print out the refueling invoice (S 1 1 0 ), and the front-end control server 2 1 transmits the refueling oil type, refueling amount and fueling fee to The database server 3 2 stores (S 1 1 2 ), and finally the customer retrieves the payment card 1 1 and the invoice, and completes the self-service refueling and payment action. The present invention is capable of providing a design that is quite different from the prior art by the above-mentioned disclosed technology, which can improve the overall use value, and is not found in the publication or public use before the application, and has already met the requirements of the invention patent. , 提出 filed an invention patent application in accordance with the law. However, the drawings and descriptions disclosed above are only examples of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make various other modifications according to the above description, and these changes still belong to the inventive spirit of the present invention. The scope of the patents defined below.

Page 11126245 Description of the drawings: (1), schematic description: The first diagram is a schematic diagram of the system architecture of the present invention; the second diagram is a schematic diagram of the fuel dispenser of the present invention; The schematic diagram; and the fourth diagram are schematic diagrams of the process of the present invention. (2), the main part of the symbol:

Page 12 10 White-assisted gas station 11 Payment card 20 Front-end fueling end 21 Front-end control servo 22 One fuel dispenser 221 Fueling gun 222 Oil selector 223 Metering/billing table 2 3 Card reader 231 Card ¥m into π 232 Display 233 Keyboard 24 Invoice Printer 25 Front Receiving Terminal 30 Back End Management 31 Back Office Management Terminal 32 Database Server 1262452 Graphical Description 40 Network System 41 Financial Server Page 13

Claims (1)

1262452 Case No. 931 Π 月 修正 修正 修正 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 、 The utility model comprises: a card reader for reading the payment card; at least one fuel dispenser for allowing the customer to select the fuel and refueling, and calculating the fueling amount and the fueling fee; a front-end control server is connected to the reading card And the fuel dispenser, and can be connected to a remote financial server, the front control server is used to control the card reader to read the payment card, and then transfer the account of the payment card to the financial server. And controlling the refueling action of the refueling machine, and when the refueling machine is refueling, generating a transaction record to the financial end server; a database server, storing the transaction record and the information of the meeting, a front receiving terminal The machine is used to manage the transaction record and input the member data; and a background management terminal is used to manage the data stored by the database server. 2. For the self-service gas station of the patent application, please refer to the collection machine of the self-service gas station, where the card reader can be placed on the tanker or next to the tanker. 3. For the self-service gas station collection system described in claim 1, wherein the card reader has: -1 input port for inputting the payment card; Used to display messages; and a keyboard for entering passwords. 4. The collection system of the self-service gas station as described in item 1 of the patent application scope Page 14 1262452 Case No. 93Π1014 Revised 々, the scope of application for patents is 'the one-force oil-oil one meter 5 · If the application is unified, the oil, the advanced steam 6 · If the application is unified, the 〗 Good tool 7. If the application is unified, which amount. 8. If the application is on the tanker, there are: rushing 5 for outputting oil, selector for selecting the type of fueling; and / billing table for displaying the amount of fuel and cost. The collection of the self-service gas station mentioned in item 4 of the patent scope is optional for the oil selector: ordinary gasoline, non-angered gasoline or diesel. The self-service gas station of the patent scope mentioned in item 1 is the front-end control server connected to the financial terminal of the self-service gas station mentioned in item 1 of the scope of the patent. The server is used to authorize the payment card of the payment card. The self-service gas station receiving system described in claim 1 is wherein the financial server responds to the front-end control server with a fee payment message. 9. The collection system of the self-service gas station described in the patent application scope 1 includes: an invoice printing machine connected to the front-end control server to receive the control column of the front-end control server Invoice ◦ 1 〇. For the self-service gas station collection system described in claim 1, wherein the front-end collection terminal can be a computer. 11. A self-service refueling method that uses a customer's credit card, financial card or cash card (hereinafter collectively referred to as a payment card) to pay for the fueling fee, including: No. 5 page 1262452 Case No. 931110] 4 years of month 曰 correction ^, the scope of application for patents Read the account number of the payment card, select the type of oil, refueling and refueling, transfer the server, complete the payment of the fee; store the account of the payment card 5 Tiger customer information provides a background management final statistics, printing and management on a data server. 1 2. If the step of reading the payment card account is read in the patent application scope 1 to read the payment card account 1 3. Enter the payment card as the step of reading the payment card account number in the patent application scope 1 Password 1 4. As in the scope of patent application, the payment card is a magnetic stripe card. 5. 5. Select the type of oil after selecting the type of oil in the scope of the patent application, and select the type of oil. The gasoline, unleaded petrol or diesel oil selected by the oil selector in the first patent range. 1 7. Calculate the fueling amount and fueling fee or 曰曰ill illi in the first part of the patent application scope, and calculate the fueling amount and fueling fee; pay the card account and fueling fee to a financial end, oil type, fuel quantity, fueling And the self-service refueling method described in the item 1 is the data stored in the data server, and the payment card is input into the card number. The self-service refueling method described in item 1 further includes: and confirming whether the password is correct. The self-service refueling method according to item 1, wherein the self-service refueling method described in the first embodiment of the tablet card is selected from the oil of a refueling machine to refuel and refuel. The self-service refueling method described in the fifth item, the oil type includes the ordinary gasoline, the self-service refueling method described in the first item, and the steps further include: Page 6 of 1262452 __ Case No. 93 Chuan 014_Year 曰 丫 丫 _ _ / 6, the scope of application for patents. Show the refueling amount and fueling fee in a metering / billing table. 1 8. The self-service refueling method described in claim 1 of the patent application, wherein the step of transmitting the payment card account and the fueling fee to a financial end-feeding device further comprises: the financial server replies a fee Pay the message; and transfer the fuel type, fuel quantity and fueling fee to an invoice printer to print the invoice. Page 17