JP3040659B2 - Automatic toll collection device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic toll collection device for a toll collection system on a toll road or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in an automatic toll collection system for a toll road, a toll collection device as shown in the front view, side view and plan view of FIG. 3 is known. In this type of device, a plurality of insertion ports are arranged on the front of the housing, and the vehicle approaches the device and stops, the driver extends his arm, and inserts bills, prepaid cards, etc. into the insertion port. Although the change is discharged, there is a drawback that the operation is considerably difficult for the driver.

[0003]

This type of toll collection device installed at a tollgate on a toll road is shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, 250 mm from the island end
As shown in FIG. 3, the appearance and operation panel of a conventional automatic toll collection device are fixed similarly to a general vending machine, and the driver can reach and operate it. There is a need. As a result, there are complaints such as the driver's inaccessibility during operation and a decrease in service time (processing capacity), which may make it difficult to operate the system smoothly.

The present invention has been proposed in view of such circumstances, and when a vehicle stops in front of the apparatus of the present invention, a movable type
It extends to within reach of the tip Gad screwdriver operation opening arm, inserting a charge driver is displayed, and an object thereof is to provide an operation easy automatic toll collection device to quickly produce and change with the receipt .

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An automatic toll collection apparatus according to the present invention.
The installation stands along one side such as a toll road.

[0006] This automatic toll collection device expands and contracts in the front-rear direction.
And a movable operation port with an operation port at the tip.
And the telescoping built into this movable operation arm
Transfer belt support arm and this transfer belt support arm
The endless transport belt that has been
With a distance sensor attached to the tip of the operation port arm
ing.

When the vehicle stops, the distance sensor
Checks the distance to the vehicle body, and the movable operation port arm
When the tip of the movable operation port arm moves to the vehicle
When the toll is put into the operation port, the toll is
The endless conveyor belt is moved into the automatic toll collection device.
Media to be processed by the processing device and then returned to the driver.
Is the endless transport belt in the automatic toll collection device?
To the operation port, and then the movable operation port arm is retracted.
It has returned to its original position .

[0008]

According to such a configuration, the following operation is performed. (1) The approaching vehicle stops in front of the automatic toll collection device . (2) The movable operation port arm is extended, and the movable operation port arm is extended.
Is moving toward the vehicle body. At that time, a movable operation port
Arm of the tip of the distance sensor is a distance the check <br/> the vehicle body. (3) The driver selects payment medium (for example, paper money, coins, prepaid card, etc.), the movable-type operation opening Ah
Insert the payment medium into the operation port at the end of the system. (4) Then, the conveyor or the arm detects the medium (a known optical sensor or the like), and the medium is moved into the automatic toll collection device by the medium transport mechanism in the movable operation port arm . (5) The conveyed medium is processed by a predetermined medium processing device, for example, a banknote recognition machine, a prepaid processing machine or the like (not shown). (6) If the medium is returned to the driver, for example,
Receipts, prepaid cards , change, etc. are endlessly transported.
It is returned to the operation port at the tip of the movable operation port arm by the feeding belt . (7) When the payment of the regular toll is completed, the blocking bar at the front of the lane is opened upward and the vehicle can be started.

[0009]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an overall three-view diagram showing an automatic toll collection system for a toll road. .

[0010] First, in FIGS. 1-2, 7 in a soluble dynamic type operation opening arm which expands and contracts in the longitudinal direction toward the driver, together with the operation hole 8 is opened at its front end central portion, touches the front end lower portion A sensor 10 is provided, and a distance sensor 9 is provided at one of the left and right ends. 1 4 is a conveyor belt arms of the telescopic by a fluid pressure cylinder having a built, endless conveyor belt 13 which is wound around a plurality of movable pulleys 15 is wound around the conveyor belt supporting arm 1 4, conveyor belt supporting arm 1 4 upper and lower surfaces and sides of which are surrounded by a bellows 17 having a rectangular cross-section.
The bellows 17 can extend and contract in the front-rear direction through the opening of the shutter 11, and is provided so as to be able to move in parallel with the shutter 11 in the vertical direction.
2 allows for expansion and contraction. For automatic toll collection equipment
Has a built-in processing unit.

The approach lane of the toll road and the toll gate is generally 3 m wide, and if the vehicle enters the center of the lane and stops at the position of the device, the driver is provided with services from passenger cars to heavy trucks. Considering the case,
As shown in FIG. 1, the operation of the movable operation port arm 7 requires about 500 mm in the front-rear direction and about 1000 mm in the vertical direction. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the structure includes an arm body and a transfer mechanism in the arm that are telescopic in the front-rear direction. In the vertical direction, a lift mechanism (known means) for raising and lowering the entire arm is provided. The above embodiment shows the first column, extendable arms Ru also der intended to the 3-dimensional motion. The medium conveyed in the arm by these means is processed by various processing units (banknote recognition machine, prepaid card processing machine, etc.) installed in the automatic toll collection device.
, And the processing unit is a known technique, and thus the description thereof is omitted. As shown in FIG. 1, a distance sensor (for example, an ultrasonic sensor) 9 and a touch sensor (micro switch) 10 are provided at the tip of the movable operation arm 7 as a safety device for collision or the like.

Next, the overall operation of the toll road system including the automatic toll collection device according to the present invention will be described as follows. (1) The vehicle type and the vehicle height of the vehicle entering the toll gate are determined by the vehicle type determination device, and the information is transmitted to the automatic toll collection device. (2) The entering vehicle stops in front of the automatic toll collection device, and the automatic toll collection device displays a toll according to the vehicle type. At that time, the position of the stopped vehicle is measured by a vehicle position detection device installed immediately above the lane and transmitted to the automatic toll collection device. (3) The movable operation port arm 7 operates according to the vehicle height and the vehicle position information. That is, first, the vertical direction is determined by the vehicle height information, the lifter (not shown) moves up and down, and the entire arm moves horizontally to the window position of the driver seat. Next, as shown in FIG. 1, the movable operation port arm 7 extends in the front-rear direction based on the vehicle position information, and the tip of the arm moves near the driver window. At this time, the distance sensor 9 at the tip of the arm checks the distance from the vehicle body. (4) The driver selects fee payment means (for example, bills, coins, prepaid cards, etc.) and inserts a payment medium into the operation port 8 at the tip of the movable operation port arm 7 . (5) Then, detecting the medium body (known light sensor, etc.)
Then, the medium is moved into the automatic toll collection device by the medium transport mechanism in the movable operation port arm 7 . (6) The transported medium is processed by a predetermined medium processing device, for example, a banknote recognition machine, a prepaid processing machine, and the like (not shown). (7) When returning the medium to the driver, for example, a prepaid card or change is returned to the operation port at the tip of the arm by driving the drive motor 12 in the arm to the discharge side. Movable
The mold operation port arm 7 allows the driver to receive receipts and change.
Automatically returns to the original position after receipt. (8) When the payment of the regular toll is completed, the blocking bar in the front is opened upward, and the vehicle can be started. (9) When the vehicle has passed the blocking bar position, the blocking bar returns to the lower blocking position, and the following vehicle is processed. As shown in FIG. 2, the slack of the endless conveyor belt 13 and the tension adjustment are performed by the conveyor belt support arm 14, the movable pulley 15, and the like. In addition, a movable operation port
At the operation port 8 of the system 7, a toll and change delivery plate is attached,
End of the transfer tray on the side of the conveyor belt support arm 14
Part projects toward the conveyor belt support arm 14.
It is also possible to configure so that

According to the present invention, the operation relating to the payment of the toll by the driver of the vehicle to be used is easily performed while sitting on the seat, which not only reduces the operation load on the driver, but also reduces the processing time per vehicle, ie, By shortening the service time, smooth toll collection is possible.

[0014] required, the vehicle is stopped in front of the apparatus of the present invention, extends from the front surface to the extent that the tip of the movable type operation opening arm is automatically reach of the driver, inserting a charge driver is displayed Thus, the present invention is extremely useful in industry because it provides an automatic toll collection device for quickly changing a receipt together with a receipt. In addition, telescopic transport bell
Endless transport belt looped around the support arm
Move the toll from the operation port into the automatic toll collection device.
Automatic collection of media to be returned to the driver
Moved from inside the device to the operation port, which is extremely useful in industry
It is something.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line II-II of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an overall three view showing an automatic toll collection system including the automatic toll collection device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a conventional automatic toll collection device.

5 is a layout diagram of the automatic toll collection device of FIG. 4 with respect to a road.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Coin insertion opening 2 Change and receipt discharge opening 3 Bill insertion opening 4 Coupon insertion opening 5 Prepaid card insertion opening 6 Operation panel 7, 7 ' movable operation opening arm 8 Operation opening 9 Distance sensor 10 Touch sensor 11 Shutter 12 Drive motor 13 medium transport belt 14 transport belt support arm 15 movable pulley 17 bellows

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] (1) standing along one side of a toll road, etc.
The automatic toll collection device can expand and contract in the front-rear direction and have an operation port at the tip.
And the dynamic type operation opening arm, extendable transportable built into the movable type operation opening arm
The transport belt support arm and the endless transport looped around the transport belt support arm
A feed belt and a distance sensor attached to the tip of the movable operation port arm
When the vehicle stops, the distance sensor checks the distance to the vehicle.
The movable operation port arm extends, and the movable operation port arm
When the tip of the arm is moving toward the vehicle and a toll is put into the operation port, the toll is
The dress conveyor belt is moved into the automatic
Media, and then return the medium to the driver
The feed belt is moved from the automatic toll collection device to the operation port, and then the movable operation port arm contracts and returns to the original position.
Electronic toll collection system, characterized in that is.