Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
  • G06K1/00—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion
  • G06K1/12—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion otherwise than by punching
  • G06K1/126—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion otherwise than by punching by photographic or thermographic registration
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
  • G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
  • G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
  • G06K13/07—Transporting of cards between stations
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
  • G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
  • G06K7/10—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
  • G06K7/14—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S283/00—Printed matter
  • Y10S283/904—Credit card

Definitions

• CH-PS 574 144 be means of the 'type mentioned in the preamble of claim 1 in which a card- or tape-like payment means comprises a plurality of Wertein-, units in the form of machine-readable optical indicia includes, for example, holograms or diffraction gratings can.
• Services for cashless payment for goods or services the payment means is canceled step by step according to the amount to be paid by 'are gen means of a transparent heating element thermally markings erased.
• a reading light beam is directed through the transparent heating element onto a marking, the authenticity of the marking is checked by means of light sensors, the marking is deleted and then checked on the basis of the signals emitted by the light sensors whether the marking has actually been deleted.
• CH-PS 594 935 a method for producing a document is known (CH-PS 594 935), according to which a large number of optical markings, e.g. Holograms or diffraction gratings can be recorded on a recording medium and markings selected for entering a code can then be deleted again.
• the markings are erased using heating elements which consist of a resistance layer applied to a substrate.
• the invention disclosed in claim 1 is based on the object s by simple dimensional closely to improve the quality of the erasure and ensure that the conclusions Markie ⁇ adequate, beits horrinus pulposus, and / or for optimum utilization of the ' Loes' chen energy available but will not be unnecessarily wiped out.
• Fig. 2 shows the record carrier after
• FIG. 3 shows a coding device for recording media according to FIG. 1,
• FIG. 4 shows parts of a coding device
• FIG. 5 shows a block diagram of the coding device
• FIG. 6 shows a heating element in an enlarged side view
• FIG. 7 shows the heating element according to FIG
• Section and Fig. 8 parts of an erase head with a projection lamp are identical to Section and Fig. 8 parts of an erase head with a projection lamp.
• 1 means a card-shaped record carrier made of thermoplastic material, which can be an identity card, an admission card, a credit card, a security, a check, a ticket, a money replacement card etc.
• This record carrier 1 has a clock track 2 with advantageously three different types - of optical clock markings 3, 4 and 5, which are arranged in a cyclical order.
• the recording medium 1 has a data track 6 parallel to the clock track 2 with optical markings 7, which for the time being merge seamlessly into one another. The actually invisible boundary line between adjacent markings 7 results from the geometrical arrangement of the timing markings 3, 4 and 5.
• timing markings and the marking 7 are embossed in the recording medium 1 and differ from the marking-free area of the recording medium 1 a ' mechanically detectable characteristic modification of incident light Diffraction or refraction. Accordingly, they can be, for example, diffraction gratings, holograms, kinoforms, Fresnel lenses, etc.
• the recording medium 1 consists of a thermoplastic carrier layer 8 with the embossed markings 7 in the form of a phase diffraction grating, a thin reflection layer 9 and a top layer 10.
• the top layer 10 is opaque and the carrier 8 for e.g. infra-red reading light rays permeable, but also impermeable to visible light.
• the coding device shown in FIG. 3 has a screw 11 which is rotatably mounted in a device housing 12 and is coupled to a drive motor (not shown).
• the screw 11 When the screw 11 is driven, it linearly guides a card holder 13 and thereby moves the record carrier 1 inserted into a receiving slot 14 between a read head 15 and an erase head 16.
• the card holder 13 has openings 17 in the effective range of the read head 15 and the erase head 16.
• the read head 15 has light sources 18, 19 and light sensors 20 to 24, the light source 18 and the light sensors 20, 21 of the data track 6 and the light source 19 and the Light sensor. 22 to 24 of clock sense 2 are assigned. Each of the light sensors 22 to 24 responds to one of the clock markings 3 to 5.
• An undeleted marker 7 An undeleted marker 7
• WIPO ⁇ ⁇ »_ predominantly excites the light sensor 20 and a deleted marking 7 "predominantly excites the light sensor 21.
• FIG. 4 shows an advantageous embodiment of the extinguishing head 16.
• This contains a heating element 25 in the form of a metal bracket, which is bent in a P-shape and one end of which is spaced from its central part by an insulating piece 26 and by means of rivets 27 made of insulating material thereon is attached.
• the extinguishing section 28 of the heating element. 25 is offset to a width which corresponds approximately to that of the markings 7.
• the heating element 25 is rotatably mounted on a fixed plate 29 and biased by a spring 30 which provides in the working position of the heating element 25 during erasing a mark 7 1 that the erase section '28 layer with a low predetermined pressure on the Deck ⁇ 10 of the Au drawing carrier 1 rests.
• the force of a spring 31 counteracts that of the spring 30 and lifts the heating element 25 from the recording medium 1 via a solenoid armature 32 and a pull rod 33. If a solenoid coil 34 is energized, the pull rod 33 releases the heating element 25, which then swivels into the working position by the force of the spring 30.
• the heating element 25 is connected to the secondary winding of a transformer 35 which supplies a current which flows through the heating element 25 directly.
• Light sensors 22 to 24 are connected to the two inputs of a comparator 36 to 38. For example, hikes one
• the light sensors 20 and 21 are connected to a comparator 39. If a marking 7 ', which is located between the reading head 15 and the erasing head 16, is deleted, the signal of the light sensor 20 becomes smaller and that of the light sensor 21 is larger. The output signal of the comparator 39 changes abruptly as soon as the thermal action has caused the deletion of the marking 7 'to be regarded as sufficient.
• the comparators 36 to 39 are connected to a control device 40, which evaluates the signals of these comparators and controls the erase head 16 and the drive motor designated 41 in FIG. 5.
• the control device 40 contains an input element, not shown.
• a voltage is applied to the transformer 35, so that the heating element 25 is heated to a certain temperature.
• the controller 40 sets the drive motor 41 in operation and introduced into the card holder 13 Aufzeich- drying carrier 1 head 15 and the Lösch ⁇ between d em reading head passed sixteenth
• a counter in the control device 40 counts the clock markings 3 to 5 passing the read head 15 on the basis of the signals from the comparators 36 to 38.
• a comparator of the control device 40 compares the counter reading of this counter with the code entered in the input element.
• the drive motor 41 is stopped and the solenoid coil 34 is energized.
• the heating element 25 goes into the working position, the recording medium 1 is heated in the area below the erase section 28 and the marking 7 'is erased, ie in the example described the relief structure of the embossed phase diffraction grating recedes.
• the reading device consisting of the light source 18, the light sensors 20, 21 and the comparator 39 is in operation.
• the control device 40 interrupts the current supply to the solenoid coil 34, as a result of which the heating element 25 is lifted off the recording medium 1 and sets the drive motor 41 in operation again.
• the advantages of the invention are now easily recognizable.
• the deletion process is not terminated after a predetermined period of time, but instead is stopped immediately when sufficient deletion of the marking 7 1 has been achieved. This ensures adequate deletion even under different working conditions, excessive deletion of the marking 7 ′ to be deleted and undesired deletion of adjacent markings 7 is avoided and, depending on the application, a rapid working speed and / or an optimal use of the available standing energy achieved.
• the arrangement of the erase head 16 on one side and the read head 15 on the other side of the recording medium 1 enables the simultaneous erasure and monitoring of the erasure with simple means.
• the described scanning and counting of the clock markings 3 to 5 when searching for the positions to be erased on the data track 6 permits the erasure head 16 to be positioned very precisely at the location to be erased, regardless of the length tolerances of the recording medium 1. If the recording medium 1 has no clock markings, then, for example, the front edge of the recording medium or the front edge of the data track 6 can serve as a location reference for locating the positions to be erased. In this case, a stepping motor is advantageously used to drive the screw 11 which moves the card holder 13 by a constant amount with each step, a certain number of steps resulting in the card holder 13 being advanced by a pitch corresponding to the spacing of the markings 7.
• the control device 40 associated with the selection device to preselect the number of steps of the stepping motor according to the distance between the markings 7 and thus to change the division at any time, so that record carriers of different division can be coded with the same coding device.
• the depth of the receiving slot 14 (FIG. 4) can advantageously be changed by means of an interchangeable insert 42.
• an erase head 43 contains a heating element 44 with a low heat capacity, the current supply of which can be switched off to interrupt the extinguishing process.
• the heating element 44 consists of a resistance layer produced or vapor-deposited using the screen printing process, which is arranged on a substrate 45 and provided with electrical contacts 46.
• the substrate 45 consists of a poorly heat-conducting material, for example of glass or a ceramic material.
• the substrate 45 is formed in the shape of a truncated pyramid so that its thermal resistance decreases with increasing distance from the heating element 44 and the energy flowing into the substrate is rapidly dissipated after the quenching process has ended.
• a recess 47 ensures a uniform wall thickness of the substrate 45 to avoid material stresses.
• FIG. 8 shows a non-contact erase head 48 with a projection lamp 49, which serves as a heat radiator and is arranged at a distance from the recording medium 1.
• An aperture 50 shields the recording medium 1 from the heat radiation, with the exception of the area to be erased.
• the projection lamp 49 Before encoding the recording medium 1, the projection lamp 49 is heated to the operating temperature, the heat radiation falling on the card holder 13 and remaining ineffective. Then the drive motor 41 is started and the recording medium 1 is advanced at such a high speed that the heat radiation in
• OMPI data track 6 does not cause any noticeable change. As soon as a position to be erased is reached, the drive motor 41 is stopped and the heat radiation causes the erasure of a marking 7 '. After sufficient deletion, the deletion process is terminated by switching on the drive motor 41 again.

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