JP3216178B2 - Numbered tickets for vehicles - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicular rearranging ticket which is mainly used for fare settlement in a route bus or a tram, and is printed to indicate a boarding section (or a stop) where a passenger has boarded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when getting on a one-man bus, a numbered ticket is received, a number indicating the boarding section is printed on the numbered ticket, and when getting off, the fare corresponding to the numbered number on the fare table Money and its numbered ticket into the fare box. The number of the numbered ticket is read in the fare box, and it is determined whether the inserted money is the correct fare.

In order to issue this numbered ticket, a numbered ticket issuing machine is provided near the entrance of the bus, the roll paper in the numbered ticket issuing machine is cut out, and a number indicating the boarding section is printed at the end of the rolled paper. It is printed by means, cut into an appropriate length, and partly protrudes from the issuing port of the numbered ticket issuing machine to the outside as a numbered ticket, and the protruding end is grasped by the passenger and the numbered ticket is extracted. The next numbered ticket is issued as soon as it is removed.

[0004] In order to facilitate the issuance of a numbered ticket, the roll paper used is somewhat hard. Also, after the numbered ticket is separated from the money in the fare box, its number needs to be read. A relatively strong and relatively expensive paper has been used as a numbered ticket so that the reading can be performed relatively easily and reliably. Note that the numbered tickets may also be used for passenger getting on and off surveys. In some cases, the numbered ticket is not read in the fare box, and the crew can visually check the number of the numbered ticket and the inserted money to check whether the correct fare has been inserted.

[0005]

Conventionally, a numbered ticket is discarded once used, but is economically unfavorable because a good quality paper is used.

[0006]

According to the proposed technique , a recording layer is formed on a printed surface of a numbered ticket, and the recording layer is brought into a color-developed state at a normal temperature after a first temperature, and then at a second temperature. After that, it becomes a transparent state at normal temperature, and by forming a pattern indicating the boarding section by the colored state portion and the transparent state portion, it is possible to print the boarding section.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a recording layer is formed on the printing surface of the numbered ticket, and the recording layer can rewritably print the print indicating the boarding section and indicates the boarding section. A memory for storing codes and a transmitting means for radiating the stored codes by electromagnetic waves are incorporated in the numbered ticket. According to the invention of claim 2 , a recording layer is formed on the printed surface of the numbered ticket, and the recording layer is in a light scattering state by horizontal magnetization and is in a light transparent state by vertical magnetization. By forming a pattern indicating the boarding section by the state part and the light transparent state part, it is possible to print the boarding section.

[0008]

1A and 1B show an embodiment of the invention of the proposed technology . This numbered ticket 11 has, for example, a rectangular plate shape,
In this example, both sides are used as print surfaces, and a print 12 indicating a boarding section, in this example, a number “15” is printed on the print surface. In the present invention, the recording layer 13 is provided on the printing surface.
Are formed. That is, for example, light reflection layers 15 for increasing the contrast are formed on both surfaces of the base layer 14 made of an organic polymer material, if necessary.
A recording layer 13 is formed thereon, and a transparent protective layer 16 is formed on the recording layer 13 as necessary.

The recording layer 13 is formed, for example, in Japanese Patent Publication No. 3-3567.
No. 3 can be used, in which a low molecular organic substance is dispersed in a matrix material such as a thermoplastic resin, and the first and second state transition temperatures t higher than the temperature t _0.
1 and t ₂ (t ₁ <t ₂ ). When heated to and maintained at t ₂ or more and then cooled to t ₀ or less, it becomes cloudy (colored) and at normal temperature (t ₁
(Lower), the clouded state is maintained, and the recording layer 13 in the clouded state is heated and maintained at a temperature between t ₁ and t _2, and then cooled when cooled to t ₀ or less, and the transparent state at room temperature becomes It is what is kept.

[0010] Thus, for example after the ticket 11 to t ₂ or more, after the entire surface clouding (colored) state of t ₀ following to the recording layer 13, a thermal head used in the printer for normal thermal paper When the number is heated and printed between t ₁ and t _2, and thereafter becomes t ₀ or less, the number is printed as a transparent pattern on a cloudy background. Alternatively, the entire surface of the recording layer 13 of tickets 11 and the transparent state, after heating printed numbers t ₂ or more by the thermal head, when the t ₀ or less, the number is printed as opaque pattern on a transparent background.

Therefore, this numbered ticket can be issued by printing the number indicating the boarding section from the numbered ticket issuing machine with the thermal head. When the numbered ticket is used, it can be reused by heating to make the entire surface cloudy or transparent. The appearance of the numbered ticket 21 of the embodiment of the first aspect of the present invention is the same as, for example, FIG. 1A, and this numbered ticket 21 is also a case where both sides are printed surfaces in this example, and as shown in FIG. The recording layer 22 is formed on the surface. The recording layer 22 is capable of performing rewritable printing indicating the boarding section. For example, the recording layer 1 according to the embodiment of the invention of the proposed technique is used.
3 or the same as the recording layer 32 of the embodiment of the invention of claim 2 described later can be used. In the case where the recording layer 13 is used as an example, the same reference numerals are given to portions corresponding to those in FIG.

In the first aspect of the present invention, as shown in FIG.
The numbered ticket 21 has a built-in memory 23 for storing a code indicating a boarding section, and further has a built-in means for radiating the stored code to the outside as an electromagnetic wave. For example, a modulation circuit 24 including a high-frequency oscillator, a control circuit 25, a coil antenna 26, and in this example, a demodulation circuit 27 are modularized or an IC other than the antenna 26 is modularized to form a module 28 as a base of the numbered ticket 21. Embedded in layer 14.

When the boarding section is printed on the recording layer 22 in the numbered ticket issuing machine and a code for the boarding section is input together with a write command via a high-frequency signal via the antenna 26, the circuits 23, 2 are powered by the power of the high-frequency signal.
The control circuits 25 write the codes demodulated by the demodulation circuit 27 into the memory 23. When a high-frequency current is supplied to the coil antenna from the transmission / reception means provided in the fare box of the bus vehicle and the numbered ticket 21 is inserted into the fare box, electric power is induced in the antenna 26 by electromagnetic induction, and the electric power is induced in the circuit 23 by this electric power. , 24, 25, and 27 are activated, and when the control circuit 25 determines that the demodulated output of the demodulation circuit 27 is a calling code, the control circuit 25 reads the code in the memory 23 and uses the code to read the radio frequency of the modulation circuit 24. The output of the oscillator is modulated and transmitted from the antenna 26. This is received and demodulated by the fare box transmission / reception means, and the boarding section of the numbered ticket 21 is detected. The fare is calculated based on the detected boarding section. Is determined.

In this way, the fare settlement process is performed quickly and accurately, and the used numbered ticket 21 can be used again by deleting its print. Claim 2
FIG. 1C shows a cross section of an embodiment of the present invention. That is, the external appearance of this embodiment is, for example, a square or a circle as shown in FIG. 1A or 2C. In the cross section, for example, a black background layer 31 is formed on both surfaces of the base layer 14, and the recording layers 32 are formed on both the background layers 31. These recording layers 32 have capsules containing magnetic fine powder dispersed therein. When a horizontal magnetic field parallel to the plate surface of the numbered ticket is applied, the recording layer 32 enters a light scattering state. Even when the horizontal magnetic field is released, the light scattering state is maintained. When a perpendicular magnetic field perpendicular to the plate surface of the numbered ticket is applied to this state, the state becomes a light-transparent state, and the light-transparent state is maintained even when the perpendicular magnetic field is released. Therefore, if the entire surface is in the light scattering state and a pattern indicating the riding section in the light transparent state portion is formed, the black pattern of the background layer 31 appears in the cloudy background portion. Also in this case, the whole can be used again by being in the light scattering state. Protective layer 1 on the surface
6 are formed.

As shown in FIG. 2C, each of the numbered tickets 11 and 21 is formed in a disk shape, and if the diameter is different from the diameter of the coin, the separation of the numbered ticket and the coin in the fare box is performed only by the diameter. And the separation becomes very easy. In the above, the recording layers 13, 22, 32 may be only one side of the numbered ticket. However, in the case of the numbered ticket 11, if the printing is double-sided, there is no need to distinguish between the front and back sides when the printing 12 is optically read.
Reading is easier. If both numbered tickets are printed on both sides, the passenger can see the numbered ticket at a time (without returning from the back to the front).

[0016]

As described above, according to any one of the first and second aspects of the present invention, a numbered ticket which has been used once and collected can be used repeatedly, which is economical as a whole. Further, according to the first aspect of the present invention, since the optical reading is not required, the fare settlement process can be performed quickly and accurately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1A is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the invention of the proposed technology , FIG. 1B is a diagram showing a partial cross-sectional structure thereof, and FIG. 1C is a diagram showing a partial cross-sectional structure of the embodiment of the invention of claim 2 ; FIG.

FIG. 2A is a diagram showing a partial cross-sectional structure of an embodiment of the invention of claim 1 , B is a block diagram showing an example of an electrical configuration of the embodiment, and C is an outer shape of a numbered ticket of the invention. It is a perspective view showing other examples.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A vehicular numbered ticket issued with a boarding section printed on a printing surface, wherein a recording layer capable of rewritably printing the printing indicating the boarding section is formed on the printing surface. A numbered ticket for a vehicle, comprising: a memory for storing a code indicating a section; and transmitting means for radiating the stored code by electromagnetic waves. 2. A vehicular numbering ticket issued with a boarding section printed on a printing surface, wherein a recording layer of a material which is in a light scattering state by horizontal magnetization and is in a light transparent state by vertical magnetization is formed on the printing surface. A numbered ticket for a vehicle, wherein the recording layer has a light scattering state portion and a light transparent state portion to form a pattern indicating the boarding section.