JP2827418B2 - Automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate installed in station services such as railways, for example, and more specifically, to reduce the occurrence of defective data processing tickets at ticket gates. The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function.

(B) Conventional technology A ticket gate that automatically processes tickets such as ordinary tickets, coupons, and commuter passes when using a train or the like has a ticket entrance 5a and a ticket release, as shown in FIG. It is connected to the exit 5b by a conveyor belt device 5c, and between the conveyors, an aligning unit 5d for narrowing the inserted ticket, and reading magnetic information of the ticket.
A ticket indirect data processing unit 5e for writing and giving an indirect change, a ticket direct data processing unit 5f for giving a printing process to a ticket, punching a punch hole, and giving a change directly on the outer surface of the ticket, and a discharging unit 5i. Are installed on the mainframe in this order.

In this case, even if writing errors such as magnetic writing leakage occur in the inserted ticket, the once inserted ticket is guided to the subsequent stage through the conveyor belt device, and is discharged to the discharge port in a defective ticket state. The reliability of magnetic processing performance is poor, such as being a cause of trouble being released, especially in recent years, in addition to the normal ticket described above, in addition to the card direct data processing unit 5g, card indirect data processing unit 5h Therefore, when a configuration is adopted in which a boarding card such as a money card or a frequency card is allowed to be traded, the writing process at the time of indirect data processing is equivalent to the transfer of money, and this data processing performance is increasingly regarded as important, and the data processing performance is improved. It was a big challenge to make it happen.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention In view of the above problems, the present invention makes it possible to reliably perform rewriting processing with another magnetic head even if a writing failure occurs in an inserted ticket or boarding card. The purpose is to provide an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention reads both different ticket types of a ticket and a boarding card at the slot side and reads the ticket information on any recording surface of the ticket. An indirect data processing unit for performing write processing;
An automatic ticket gate in which a direct data processing unit for performing punching processing and sheet printing processing located on the discharge port side is disposed on a transport path, and a front / back reversing device is disposed downstream of the indirect data processing unit. When the indirect data detection unit detects that a data processing failure ticket has occurred in the indirect data processing unit, the data processing failure ticket is guided to a reversing device to perform a reversing operation, and then the transport path is reversely driven. This is an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function including reprocessing control means for guiding a data processing defective ticket to a stage preceding the indirect data processing unit and performing indirect data processing again.

According to the present invention, when indirect data processing is performed on an inserted ticket or board by the indirect data processing unit and the indirect data detection unit detects the occurrence of a data defect, the reprocessing control unit performs After the defective data processing ticket is guided to the front and back reversing device and reversed, the transport path is driven in reverse to reverse the front and back to the front stage of the indirect data processing unit, and the indirect data processing is executed again.

(F) Effect of the Invention For this reason, the data processing defective ticket is again subjected to indirect data processing, and the defective ticket at this time is reversed in the front and back, and the data is processed in the data processing unit different from the first time, so that the front and rear sides are processed. Indirect data processing will be performed twice in both data processing units, and as a result, indirect data processing can be reliably performed on the inserted ticket, and unsuccessful data processing tickets And performs highly reliable indirect data processing suitable for a ticket and a boarding card.

Also, a highly reliable indirect data processing operation can be easily achieved with a transport path configuration that only performs reverse transport and reverse transport without requiring a complicated transport structure.

(G) Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an external view of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function,
Opening and closing doors 12 and 12 are provided in front of and behind the ticket gate main body 11 for controlling passage of passengers, and a well-known ticket entrance 13 and a ticket discharge opening 14 are opened on the upper surface of the ticket gate main body.

As shown in FIG. 1, a ticket ticket processing system 15 having a ticket insertion slot 13 and a ticket discharge port 14 at both ends is provided inside the ticket gate main body 11. Is a regular ticket such as a ticket, coupon, commuter pass, and a price card,
It handles both riding cards such as frequency cards in common.

The ticket processing system 15 includes an alignment unit A, an indirect data processing unit B, a front / back reversing device C, a direct data processing unit D, and a discharging unit E in the direction of transporting the ticket.

The arranging unit A narrows the ticket or the board card inserted from the ticket slot 13 to the main frame side by using the eccentrically rotating width shifting roller 16.

The indirect data processing unit B is configured by arranging a face information reading unit B1, a face information writing unit B2, and a face information check unit B3 in series in this order.

The face information reading unit B1 functions to read magnetic information recorded on one of the upper and lower surfaces of a ticket or a boarding card by a pair of upper and lower reading magnetic heads 17 and 18 for front and back. .

The face information writing unit B2 executes writing on the upper or lower magnetic surface of the ticket or the board by a pair of upper and lower write magnetic heads 19 and 20 for the front and back sides.

The face information check unit B3 functions to read and check the magnetic information written on either the upper or lower face of the ticket or the card by a pair of upper and lower check magnetic heads 21 and 22 for the front and back sides.

By the way, these magnetic heads 17 to 22 are provided on the front stage side of the main transport belt device 23 which is penetrated from the ticket entrance 13 to the ticket exit port 14 of the ticket gate processing system 15, and A sub-transport belt device 24 is provided in parallel with the main transport belt device 23 again before the ticket discharge port 14.

The sub-transport belt device 24 is equipped with a front / back reversing device C and a direct data processing unit D, which will be described later. Sorting operation is performed to one of the conveyor belt devices 23, 24, and furthermore, a second flapper f2 disposed at the subsequent stage of the belt device 24 causes the front / back reversing device C side and the direct data processing unit D to operate.
Perform the sorting operation to the side.

When the ticket and the boarding card enter face-up, the front-back reversing device C does not operate the second flapper f2, but transports the face-up face-to-face directly to the subsequent data processing unit D,
When the vehicle enters backward, the second flapper f2 is operated to distribute the ticket and the boarding card to the reversing passage 25 in a direction substantially perpendicular to the carrying direction, to reverse the vehicle, and then to the front sub-transport belt device. The sheets are joined to the 24 side and are directly conveyed to the data processing section D in a face-up state.

The direct data processing unit D is provided with a punching device 26 and a thermal printing device 27, which are provided with predetermined punches on a ticket and a boarding card based on the magnetic information of the indirect data processing unit B described above. The hole formation and the predetermined station name printing are executed in common.

The discharge unit E controls the discharge of tickets and cards by the discharge conveyance belt 28.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function. The CPU 31 has a solenoid driver circuit 33, a motor driver circuit 34, a print head driver circuit 35, a magnetic data read / write unit 36, a sensor via an interface 32. These are connected to a driver circuit 37 and control these in accordance with a program stored in a ROM 38, and the necessary information obtained by the control is stored in a RAM 39.

The solenoid SOL drives the solenoid driver circuit 33 to cause the flappers f1, f2,.

In the motor M, the transport belts 23 and 24 drive a transport system such as the width shifting roller 16.

The sensor S is used for inserting and releasing a ticket and a boarding card, and for detecting other positions.

By the way, when the CPU 31 detects, via the confirmation magnetic heads 21 and 22, a write failure such as a magnetic write leak in the inserted ticket or board card, the CPU 31 instructs not to release the data defective ticket or data defective card. Output,
These are guided to a front / back reversing device C provided at the subsequent stage of the indirect data processing unit B to perform a reversing operation, and then temporarily stopped at the pool unit P set on the sub-transport device 24 corresponding to the subsequent stage position. By driving both transport paths 23 and 24 in the reverse direction, the defective ticket or defective card is guided to the previous stage of the indirect data processing unit B and temporarily stopped, and then forwarded again to execute the magnetic writing process again, It has a re-processing function to reliably perform magnetic writing processing on a once-inserted ticket and boarding card.

At the time of re-processing, the magnetic write failure ticket is turned over with the magnetic heads 19 and 20 for both the front and back sides, and the write process is performed with a magnetic head different from the first one. The magnetic processing performance is enhanced by making it possible to reliably perform the writing process on the inserted ticket or boarding card.

Next, the processing operation of the automatic ticket gate with reprocessing function will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Now, when a ticket or boarding card is inserted into the ticket slot 13, the sensor S detects this, and the CPU 31 determines whether the input material is a small ticket size or a large card size, and In the case of the size, the width adjusting roller 16 is retracted so as not to obstruct the passage of cards and commuter passes, while at the time of loading of this input material, the shutter of the ticket input slot 13 is closed to control the interval of ticket insertion. (1st to 3rd steps n1 to n3), and after the alignment processing, it is led to the indirect data processing section B, where the face information of the input material is read, and the face information is written as necessary and written. Check ticket information (4th ~
Sixth steps n4 to n6).

At this time, when it is checked that the magnetic processing has been properly performed (seventh step n7), the CPU 31 determines the type of the magnetically processed ticket, and if the ticket is a ticket, a coupon, a commuter pass, etc., the ticket It is led directly to the data processing unit C. If this ticket is a coupon, print processing such as station name and date and punching processing are performed; if it is a ticket, punch processing is performed; if it is a commuter pass, direct processing without data processing is required It is released to the ticket outlet 14 (eighth to thirteenth steps n8 to n13).

On the other hand, if the input object is a boarding card, it is guided to the sub-transport belt device 24 side, and if the inserted boarding card is facing up, it is guided to the boarding card direct data processing unit D as it is, and the facing-down loading surface If so, it is led to the reversing path 25 and reversed, and then to the boarding card direct data processing unit D (the fourteenth to fifteenth steps n14 to n15).

Then, after the punching process and the thermal printing process are performed by the boarding card direct data processing unit D, the boarding unit is again merged with the main transport belt device 23 and discharged from the ticket release port 14 (16th to 17th steps n16). ~ N17).

By the way, at the time of the magnetic check in the seventh step n7, when the CPU 31 detects that the writing failure has occurred in the ticket or the boarding card inserted through the confirmation magnetic heads 21 and 22, the CPU 31 determines the writing failure ticket in the subsequent stage. Reverse device C
, The pool portion P corresponding to this subsequent position is temporarily turned to the state opposite to the loading surface and temporarily stopped (eighteenth to nineteenth steps n18 to n19).

In this reverse state, the two conveyance paths 23 and 24 are driven to rotate in reverse,
Send the bad ticket or bad card back to the position of the alignment section A,
From this, forward feeding is again performed, and it is led to the indirect data processing section B, and indirect data processing such as magnetic writing processing is executed again. At this time, since the magnetically inferior magnetic writing ticket is turned upside down and is written by a magnetic head different from the first writing, the writing magnetic heads 19 and 20 for both the front and back are written twice. The written ticket or boarding card that has been processed is securely written (steps 20 to 27).
0 to n27).

When the CPU 31 determines that the magnetic processing has been properly performed via the confirmation magnetic heads 21 and 22, the above-described eighth step is performed.
The processing after n8 is performed (28th step n28).

However, if it is determined that the magnetic data is defective even in the second check operation, it is determined that a non-attractable foreign bill or foreign card has been inserted and released, and at that time, a clerk is notified and clerk processing is performed (29th to 29th). 30th steps n29 to n30).

As described above, the badly written magnetic ticket is subjected to the second magnetic writing process, and the badly written ticket at this time is written with a magnetic head different from the first time, with the front and back reversed. In this case, the writing operation is performed twice by both of the magnetic heads. As a result, it is possible to surely perform the magnetic writing process on the inserted ticket or the boarding card, and to detect a badly written magnetic ticket. And perform highly reliable magnetic data processing suitable for a ticket and a boarding card. In addition, a highly reliable magnetic data processing operation can be easily achieved with a transport path configuration that does not require a complicated transport structure and only performs reverse transport and reverse transport.

In correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the slot of the present invention corresponds to the ticket slot 13 of the embodiment, and similarly, the outlet corresponds to the ticket outlet 14 in the same manner. The transport path corresponds to the main transport belt device 23 and the sub transport belt device 24, and the indirect data detection means corresponds to the front confirmation magnetic head 21 and the back confirmation magnetic head 22, and the reprocessing control means. Corresponds to the CPU 31, but the present invention is not limited to only the configuration of the embodiment described above.

[Brief description of the drawings]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is an internal configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, FIG. 2 is an external view of an automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of the automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, and FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of a conventional automatic ticket gate. 11 ticket gate machine, 13 ticket entrance 14 ticket exit 17-22 magnetic head 23, 24 conveyor belt unit 31, CPU B indirect data processing unit C: Front / back reversing device D: Direct data processing unit

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An indirect data processing unit which is located at an insertion slot and reads and writes ticket information on any recording surface of a ticket, and releases a ticket having a different ticket type from a ticket card. An automatic ticket gate in which a direct data processing unit for performing punching processing and sheet surface printing processing located on the exit side is disposed on a transport path, and a front / back reversing device is disposed at a stage subsequent to the indirect data processing unit. ,
When the indirect data detection unit detects that a data processing defective ticket has occurred in the indirect data processing unit, the data processing defective ticket is guided to a front / back reversing device to perform a reversing operation. An automatic ticket gate with a reprocessing function, equipped with reprocessing control means for guiding defective data processing tickets to the stage preceding the indirect data processing unit and processing the indirect data again.