WO2000051082A1 - Appareil de taxation automatique embarque a bord d'un vehicule - Google Patents

Appareil de taxation automatique embarque a bord d'un vehicule Download PDF

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WO2000051082A1
WO2000051082A1 PCT/JP1999/000816 JP9900816W WO0051082A1 WO 2000051082 A1 WO2000051082 A1 WO 2000051082A1 JP 9900816 W JP9900816 W JP 9900816W WO 0051082 A1 WO0051082 A1 WO 0051082A1
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toll collection
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Masahiro Shimizu
Takashi Sadahiro
Toshiyuki Kuroda
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Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
    • G07B15/06—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
    • G07B15/063—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/28—Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/30—Combinations of separate antenna units operating in different wavebands and connected to a common feeder system

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  • This invention is installed and used on vehicles to automatically pay tolls and other information by performing two-way communication with an automatic toll collection system installed at toll gates such as expressways. It relates to the automatic toll collection device and the in-vehicle antenna module that are used. Background art
  • An ETC Electric Toll Collection
  • the driver inserts the IC card into the IC card holder of the automatic toll collection device (hereinafter abbreviated as “in-vehicle device”) installed in the vehicle, and the vehicle passes through the toll gate.
  • in-vehicle device the automatic toll collection device
  • two-way wireless communication is performed between the automatic toll collection system installed in the tollgate gate and the onboard machine installed in the vehicle, and the authentication code and other information are sent to the tollgate gate. It transmits the information and provides the driver with necessary information such as tolls and IC card balances, and automatically pays the tolls.
  • the purpose of this automatic toll collection system is to eliminate congestion caused by toll payment at tollgates on toll roads, improve convenience by reducing cash, and reduce administrative costs in toll collection.
  • the end of the IC card may protrude from the monitor. It is necessary to make the depth dimension of the monitor housing of the aircraft and navigation equipment longer, which results in an increase in the size of the on-board equipment and the monitor housing, etc., which makes it difficult to install the onboard equipment and the monitor housing There was a problem that. Furthermore, there was a problem that if the installation was carried out in a vehicle where the installation location was restricted, the driver's driving would be hindered depending on the installation location, which would adversely affect safe driving.
  • the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and has a case of an automatic toll collection vehicle-mounted device installed in a vehicle for performing two-way wireless communication with an automatic toll collection system.
  • the body size can be made small, and even when the automatic toll collection device is integrated with the navigation device for automobiles, the size of the monitor housing of the navigation device for automobiles can be easily increased without increasing the size.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to obtain an automatic toll collection device and an on-board antenna module that can be incorporated into a vehicle. Disclosure of the invention
  • the in-vehicle automatic toll collection device is installed in a vehicle to display various information by performing two-way wireless communication with an automatic toll collection system on a toll road using an IC card.
  • An IC card holder rotatably provided in the automatic toll collection device so that the IC card insertion opening can be exposed to the outside, and after the IC card is inserted into the IC card holder, When one point is stored as a rotation fulcrum in the automatic toll collection device, the IC power
  • -It is characterized by having a circuit contact part of the automatic toll collection vehicle unit that makes electrical contact with the contact part of the vehicle.
  • An on-board automatic toll collection device is used for an automobile installed in a vehicle. It is characterized by being integrated with the monitor housing of the navigation device.
  • the width of the IC card inserted into the card holder is determined by: This is characterized by the depth direction of the automatic toll collection device.
  • An automatic toll collection vehicle device includes an antenna module in which an ETC antenna for an automatic toll collection vehicle device and a GPS antenna for an automobile navigation device are formed on the same substrate. It is said that.
  • the automatic toll collection vehicle unit according to the present invention is characterized in that the ETC antenna and the GPS antenna are connected to a control processing unit that controls the operation of the automatic toll collection vehicle unit by a coaxial cable.
  • the in-vehicle antenna module includes an automatic toll collection device that performs two-way wireless communication with an automatic toll collection system on a toll road to display various information, and receives radio waves from GPS satellites.
  • This is an in-vehicle antenna circuit that is shared with an automotive navigation device that detects and displays the current position of the vehicle, and a circular ETC antenna for an automatic toll collection vehicle device and an automotive navigation device It is characterized by the concentric arrangement of the circular GPS antenna.
  • the vehicle antenna module according to the present invention is characterized in that a monitor housing for displaying an automatic toll collection vehicle device and a vehicle navigation device are integrated with an ETC antenna and a GPS antenna. is there.
  • the in-vehicle antenna module includes an ETC antenna for an automatic toll collection vehicle device and a GPS antenna for an automobile navigation device. Are formed on the same substrate.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the monitor housing of the automatic toll collection device shown in FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an automotive navigation device integrated with an automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the housing of the integrated navigation device for an automobile shown in FIG.
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of an antenna module used in an automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a plan view of an antenna module used in the automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a side view of an antenna module used in an automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a bottom view of an antenna module used in an automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a sectional view showing a control processing unit of the on-board automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a control processing unit of the on-board automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 11 is a side view showing a control processing unit of the automatic toll collection vehicle-mounted device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 shows an automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram illustrating an antenna in the antenna module. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an on-board automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
  • reference numeral 1 denotes an on-board automatic toll collection device (hereinafter abbreviated as “on-vehicle device”) incorporated in a vehicle.
  • the monitor housing 2 is a monitor screen that displays various information to the driver, for example, a map, a TV, an air conditioner, a current position, and an automatic toll collection state, and is configured by a liquid crystal display or the like.
  • Reference numeral 3 denotes an IC card holder incorporated in the monitor housing 1, into which, for example, a contact type IC card is inserted.
  • 4 is a rotation fulcrum for rotating and storing the IC card holder 3 in the monitor housing 1 of the automatic toll collection device
  • 5 is an IC card insertion slot for inserting the IC card into the IC card holder 3
  • 6 is the IC card
  • 7 is the contact part of the IC card
  • A is the direction of inserting the IC card 6 into the IC card holder 3
  • B is the direction of rotation of the IC card holder 3 after the IC card 6 is inserted.
  • H is the height direction of the monitor housing 1
  • D is the depth direction of the monitor housing 1
  • L is the length direction of the monitor housing 1.
  • the IC card 6 to be inserted into the IC card holder 3 is generally rectangular, and the length in the vertical direction is longer than the length in the horizontal direction (width).
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the monitor housing 1 of the in-vehicle automatic toll collection device shown in FIG.
  • ETC Electronic Toll Collection
  • This ETC system is installed inside the vehicle with the antenna of the automatic toll collection system installed at the toll gate. Two-way wireless communication is performed with the installed automatic toll collection device, and tolls are displayed via the monitor screen 2 and automatically collected when passing through the toll gate. In addition, various necessary information such as displaying the balance of the IC card 6 is provided to the driver.
  • the ic card 6 is inserted into the IC card insertion slot 5 of the IC force holder 3 along the insertion direction A.
  • the driver rotates the IC card holder 3 about the rotation fulcrum 4 in the rotation direction indicated by the arrow B in FIG.
  • the IC card holder 3 rotates and is housed in the monitor housing 1.
  • the contact at the end of the IC card 6 The contact section 7 and the contact section in the automatic toll collection vehicle unit in the monitor housing 1 make electrical contact, and the IC card 6 and the on-board unit Input / output is performed overnight.
  • the IC card 6 housed in the monitor housing 1 is housed in the height direction H of the monitor housing 1, it is not necessary to configure the depth direction D of the monitor housing 1 to be long. It is possible to prevent the dog from increasing in depth and increasing the overall size of the onboard unit.
  • the IC card holder 3 is rotated around the rotation fulcrum 4 for storage, so that the length in the depth direction D is equal to the width of the IC card. They can be almost equal. Therefore, when installed as a dedicated machine for the ETC's automatic toll collection machine, for example, when it is installed in the front window of the vehicle, or when it is installed on the dashboard However, even when integrated into a side mirror, etc., it can be efficiently installed in vehicles with limited installation locations without increasing the size of onboard equipment, depending on the application and installation location be able to. In addition, when the IC card holder 3 is rotated at the time of taking out, a part of the IC card 6 comes out from the IC card holder 3, so that the IC card holder 3 can be easily taken out.
  • the IC card 6 is inserted in the depth direction D of the vehicle-mounted device, and the IC card holder 3 is rotated about the rotation fulcrum 4 so that the IC card holder 3 is mounted on the vehicle.
  • the case where the direction of the IC card 6 when completely housed in the machine is the height direction H has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this example, and depending on the installation location of the vehicle,
  • the IC card holder 3 may be configured in the vehicle-mounted device according to the direction in which the driver can easily insert the IC card 6, and the same effect can be obtained in this case.
  • the size can be increased without depending on the installation location.
  • an automatic toll collection machine of an optimal size can be obtained.
  • the configuration can be made without increasing the size of the monitor housing of the automatic toll collection device equipped with the IC card 6, the driver can twist his body from the seat position or take an unreasonable posture.
  • various information can be obtained by inserting the IC card 6 into the vehicle-mounted device without taking it, that is, without impairing driving.
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an on-board automatic toll collection device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention, in which the on-board automatic toll collection device of Embodiment 1 is incorporated in a monitor of an automobile navigation device. is there.
  • Fig. 4 shows a car navigation system incorporating the automatic toll collection device shown in Fig. 3.
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a monitor housing of the device.
  • reference numeral 30 denotes a monitor housing of an automobile navigation device integrated with an on-board automatic toll collection device
  • 32 denotes a monitor screen
  • 3 denotes an IC card holder described in the first embodiment
  • 4 denotes an IC card holder.
  • the rotation fulcrum 3 and the antenna 31 are integrated with the antenna of the navigation device 30 and the antenna of the automatic toll collection device.
  • the in-vehicle automatic toll collection device of the first embodiment is integrated into a navigation device for an automobile, and in particular, the IC holder 3 is mounted on a monitor housing of the navigation device for an automobile. It is provided on the side of 30.
  • the on-board automatic toll collection device of the first embodiment is integrated into the monitor of the navigation device for an automobile, the IC card holder 6 is centered on the rotation fulcrum 4 as in the case of the first embodiment. , And is stored in the monitor housing 30 of the navigation device for an automobile. Therefore, the length of the monitor housing 30 in the depth direction D can be made substantially equal to the width of the IC card used in the ETC, so that the vehicle navigation device can be installed in the automatic toll collection device. When integrated, it can be configured without increasing the size of the monitor housing 30 of the navigation system for automobiles, especially without increasing the length in the depth direction D. It is possible to obtain an in-vehicle device that can be efficiently placed in a vehicle with limited space.
  • the IC card holder 3 is still connected to the rotating fulcrum.
  • the size of the monitor housing of the navigation system for automobiles has been increased because it was configured to rotate around 4 This has the effect that the automatic toll collection device integrated with the navigation device for vehicles can be installed without being limited to the installation location.
  • the driver since it can be formed integrally with the monitor housing of the car navigation device without increasing the size of the automatic toll collection device, the driver does not wear the IC card in an unreasonable posture. This has the effect that the in-vehicle device can be installed at the location.
  • FIGS. 5 to 8 are diagrams showing an antenna module of an automatic toll collection vehicle-mounted device according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • This automatic toll collection device has a configuration integrated with the navigation device for a vehicle described in the second embodiment.
  • 5 is a cross-sectional view of the antenna module
  • FIG. 6 is a plan view of the antenna module
  • FIG. 7 is a side view of the antenna module
  • FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the antenna module.
  • 51 is a printed circuit board
  • 52 is a GPS (global positioning system) antenna used in navigation devices for automobiles
  • 53 is an ETC antenna for an ETC (Electric Toll Collection) system.
  • Reference numeral 54 denotes a GPS cable connected to a GPS antenna 52 for an automobile navigation device
  • 55 denotes an ETC cable connected to an ETC antenna 53
  • 56 denotes an antenna module.
  • the GPS cable 54 and the ETC cable 55 are formed by a coaxial cable 50.
  • FIGS. 9 to 11 are connected to a coaxial cable 50 composed of a GPS cable 54 and an ETC cable 55 of the antenna module 56 shown in FIGS.
  • the figure shows a control processing unit that controls the operation of an automatic toll collection machine for transmitting and receiving radio waves.
  • Fig. 9 shows the control processing section.
  • a top view, FIG. 10 is a plan view thereof, and FIG. 11 is a side view thereof.
  • 60 is a casing of a control processing unit for controlling the operation of the automatic toll collection vehicle-mounted device.
  • Reference numeral 61 denotes a printed board, and 62 denotes an IC card holder, which is provided in a housing 60 of the control processing unit.
  • This IC card holder 62 may be an IC card holder having a conventional configuration, or may be an IC card holder 3 having a configuration shown in the first and second embodiments of the present invention.
  • 6 3 is an IC card to be mounted on the IC card holder 62
  • 6 4 is a coaxial cable 50 composed of a GPS cable 54 and an ETC cable 55, and a control processing unit in the housing 60. This is a connector for electrical connection.
  • a navigation device for an automobile receives radio waves of a frequency of 1.5 GHz emitted from an artificial satellite and calculates the position of the vehicle.
  • the on-board automatic toll collection machine that is, the ETC system uses 5.8 GHz radio waves to perform wireless communication with the automatic toll collection system and automatically pay tolls and other charges.
  • the automatic toll collection device of the third embodiment is integrated with the navigation device for the vehicle as in the second embodiment, and the antenna module 56 and the GPS antenna 52 and the ETC Since the antenna 53 and the antenna 53 are formed on the same printed circuit board 51, it is not necessary to install both an automobile navigation device and an automatic toll collection device in the vehicle. And the limited space inside the vehicle can be used effectively.
  • the GPS antenna and the ETC antenna may be formed by an annular antenna line, and the annular antennas may be arranged vertically. However, if the antennas are arranged concentrically, the compactness of the device is improved. Can be further improved. When formed on a substrate, it can be made more compact.
  • FIG. 12 is a configuration diagram showing an antenna in an antenna module of the automatic toll collection vehicle-mounted device according to the third embodiment.
  • An ETC antenna for the on-board cash collector and 72 are GPS antennas for navigation devices for automobiles. These ETC antennas 71 and 72 are coaxial circles on the same printed circuit board. Formed above.
  • the ETC antenna 71 and the GPS antenna 72 are integrally formed on the concentric circle, compared with the case where antennas are separately provided, The size of the antenna module can be reduced, and the size of the automatic toll collection device that integrates this integrated antenna module with the monitor housing of the navigation device for automobiles can be reduced.
  • the monitor housing is installed in a place where it can be seen by the user (for example, on the dashboard), it should be installed in a place where ETC and GPS radio waves can be easily received. be able to.
  • the in-vehicle automatic toll collection device of the second embodiment is configured such that the in-vehicle automatic toll collection device is integrated into the navigation device for an automobile.
  • the ETC antenna 71 and the GPS antenna 72 for car navigation systems are formed integrally on the concentric circle of the printed circuit board in the antenna module, so the antenna module size is reduced. It is also possible to reduce the size of the automatic toll collection vehicle unit integrated with the monitor housing of the navigation device for a vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to form an automobile navigation device integrated with an automatic toll collection vehicle of the optimal size according to the installation location without increasing the size of the monitor housing. This has the effect that the IC force can be mounted on the vehicle-mounted device without taking a posture.
  • the automatic toll collection device is configured so that the IC card holder is configured to rotate around the rotation fulcrum, so that the depth size is reduced.

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L'invention concerne un appareil embarqué à bord d'un véhicule, présentant un support de carte à circuit intégré (IC), lequel, lorsqu'une carte IC est insérée, tourne en même temps que la carte IC (6), autour d'un axe de rotation, dans une direction prédéterminée et est logé dans l'appareil de manière à amener un élément de contact (7) de la carte IC (6) en contact électrique avec un élément de contact du circuit de l'appareil. La profondeur de l'appareil est presque égale à la largeur de la carte IC (6). L'invention concerne également un appareil embarqué intégré à un système de navigation, ainsi qu'un appareil embarqué à bord d'un véhicule, présentant un module d'antenne (56), dans lequel une antenne ETC (53) et une antenne GPS (52) sont intégrées concentriquement l'une par rapport à l'autre.
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JPH0520506A (ja) * 1991-07-09 1993-01-29 Nec Corp タクシー用車載ｉｃカード読取り装置のセイフテイストツパ機構
JPH0629711A (ja) * 1992-07-09 1994-02-04 Nhk Spring Co Ltd 自動車用アンテナ
JPH07270513A (ja) * 1994-03-30 1995-10-20 Hitachi Ltd ビ−コン端末装置
JPH09128572A (ja) * 1995-10-27 1997-05-16 Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd 自動課金装置
JP3045530U (ja) * 1997-07-22 1998-02-03 俊彦 島津 小型無指向性広帯域アンテナ

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JPH0520506A (ja) * 1991-07-09 1993-01-29 Nec Corp タクシー用車載ｉｃカード読取り装置のセイフテイストツパ機構
JPH0629711A (ja) * 1992-07-09 1994-02-04 Nhk Spring Co Ltd 自動車用アンテナ
JPH07270513A (ja) * 1994-03-30 1995-10-20 Hitachi Ltd ビ−コン端末装置
JPH09128572A (ja) * 1995-10-27 1997-05-16 Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd 自動課金装置
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