JP3344879B2 - Automatic ticket gate - 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 ticket gate,
In particular, it relates to an automatic ticket gate that is convenient for maintenance management.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a main body of an automatic ticket gate of this type (hereinafter referred to as a main body), devices necessary for the automatic ticket gate, such as a card handler and a control device, are incorporated in a housing. The housing is provided with a cover that opens and closes via a hinge mechanism. For example, when the card handler becomes jammed, the cover is opened so that maintenance can be performed.

[0003]

By the way, the upper cover of the cover, which is provided with the ticket entrance and the exit, is closed by its own weight even if it is opened once. In order to maintain it, not only was a complicated support mechanism required, but also when the worker closed carelessly under his own weight, the operator's fingers could be pinched and injured.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to provide a simple structure that does not inadvertently close by its own weight.
An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can maintain an upper cover opened at an arbitrary angle.

[0005]

Automatic ticket gate according to the present invention SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the top of the housing body,
In the automatic ticket gate having an upper cover which can be opened toward the upper side by wicket passage direction and the same direction of the <br/> Nji mechanism the disc spring is interposed the support shaft, straight torsion bar
Of the intermediate portion of the shaft with the axial direction of the support shaft with the disc spring interposed.
And fix one end of the torsion bar to the housing
In addition, the other end is fixed to the cover, and the torsion bar constantly urges the upper cover in the opening direction.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1A is a front view of an automatic ticket gate without a door according to an embodiment viewed from a ticket gate passage side, and FIG. 1B is a right side view of FIG.

The casing H, which forms the outer shape of the main body 1, is divided vertically into upper and lower casings H1 and H2 at approximately half the height. FIG. 2 (a)
Shows a divided upper casing H1, and FIG. 4B shows a divided lower casing H2.

Although not shown, a card handler (not shown) is incorporated in the upper housing H1. Tickets (the main body) inserted from an insertion slot 2 provided at the upper side of the upper housing H1 on the entrance side are provided. When the ticket 1 is provided at the entrance of the event venue, the ticket becomes an admission ticket. Hereinafter, the ticket including the admission ticket will be referred to as a ticket). Of the tickets taken into the main body 1, those that need to be returned to the user are conveyed to the outlet 3 provided on the upper surface on the exit side of the upper housing H1 and returned. It is configured to be able to. The upper cover 7a provided with the insertion port 2 and the discharge port 3 will be described later in detail with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 1, L is a lamp provided in the vicinity of the outlet 3 and lights up in blue when a ticket inserted from the inlet 2 can be passed through the ticket gate passage. When passing is not permitted, it lights up in red, and when the tickets are for children, it lights up in yellow to notify the user and the attendant. That is, in the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment, when the lamp L lights up in red, it means that the door of the automatic ticket gate provided with the door is closed.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 4 denotes a buzzer provided on the side of the ticket gate passage of the upper case H1. The buzzer is designed to sound when the lamp L lights up in red. This is configured to notify the user and the attendant also by voice.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 5 denotes a display plate, which is provided for displaying the operating state of the main body 1 to a user. The arrow shown in the figure indicates that the main body 1 is operating and the user can enter the ticket gate passage. During the stoppage of the operation, an entry-prohibited graphic with a bar is displayed at the center of the circle to notify the user that entry into the ticket gate passage is not possible.

A total of four concave handles 6a to 6d are provided on the front side and the back side of the lower part of the entrance passage and the exit side of the ticket gate passage of the upper casing H1. The body H1 is configured to be portable. Further, the cover 7 on the side of the ticket gate passage of the upper housing H1 is configured such that a key (not shown) is inserted into the key hole 8 to unlock the cover, and the handle cover 9 can be opened by putting a hand. . Therefore, this cover 7 and an upper cover 7 described later are used.
When a is opened, maintenance of the card handler and the like can be performed.

The above-mentioned upper housing H1 is used for storing tickets and the like in the main body 1.
It is an insertion type that takes in the inside, reads the data recorded in the ticket etc. via the magnetic head and performs the arithmetic processing,
When the ticket is an IC card having a wireless communication function and is a non-contact type in which data is exchanged between the IC card and the main body 1 to perform an automatic ticket gate, the ticket is provided at the entrance side of the upper housing H1. An antenna for communicating with the IC card is provided.

The lower housing H2 includes a collection box 10 for collecting tickets that do not need to be returned to the user, and a control board (not shown) including a CPU for controlling the main body 1 and the like. Is provided.

A portion of the cover 11 on the side of the ticket gate passage of the lower housing H2 facing the collection box 10 has an openable / closable cover 1
1a, the collection box 10 can be taken out of the main body 1. That is, the opening / closing cover 11a
As in the case of the cover 7 of the upper housing H1, the key is inserted into the key hole 12 and unlocked, and the handle cover 13 can be opened by putting a hand.

A total of four handles 14a to 14d similar to the handles of the upper case H1 are provided on the front side and the back side of the entrance side and the exit side of the ticket gate passage of the lower case H2.
The lower housing H2 is configured to be carried by a person in charge.

A plurality of (four in the illustrated example) L-shaped members whose lower surface coincides with the floor surface G are provided on the lower side of the lower casing H2 on the side of the ticket gate passage and on the opposite side thereof at predetermined intervals. Overturn prevention tools 15a to 15d are provided. Among these fall prevention devices 15a to 15d, the fall prevention device 1 on the ticket gate passage side is used.
5a and 15c are provided so as to be shifted from each other so that the mounting positions of the overturn prevention devices 15b and 15d on the opposite side do not coincide with each other. Therefore, when storing the main body 1 in a warehouse or the like,
Since the fall prevention devices of the main bodies do not contact each other, the storage space can be reduced.

Note that these fall prevention devices 15a to 15d
1 protrudes into the ticket gate passage, but as shown in FIG. 1B, the sheet S is stretched in the ticket gate passage so as not to hinder the traffic of the user.

Next, an opening and closing mechanism of the upper cover 7a will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the upper part of FIG. 1B, and a two-dot chain line in this figure shows a state in which the upper cover 7a is rotated via the hinge mechanism 20.

The hinge mechanism 20 includes a pair of hinges 21 provided at predetermined intervals along the direction of the ticket gate passage.
a and 21b. Each hinge part 21a, 21b
Has support members 22a and 22b fixed to the frame F of the upper housing H1 remote from the ticket gate side, and these support members 22a and 22b are attached to the longitudinal direction of the upper cover 7a (passage of the ticket gate passage). ), And the support shafts 23a and 23b are fixedly provided in the same direction as the first direction) and on the same axis.

The receiving members 24a and 24b are connected to the support shaft 23.
a and 23b are rotatably inserted and fixed to the back surface of the upper cover 7a. Therefore, the upper cover 7a can rotate about the support shafts 23a and 23b, and as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG.
-7a can be opened upward .

A plurality of disc springs 25 are interposed between the support shafts 23a and 23b, respectively.
When the nuts 26a and 26b screwed to the screws a and 23b are tightened, a braking force (brake) is applied so that the force when the upper cover 7a rotates is increased, that is, the rotation of the upper cover 7a. It is configured to:

The torsion bar 27 has a linear intermediate portion.
The axis corresponding to the portion is aligned with the axis of the support shafts 23a, 23b , that is, the upper cover 7a is connected to the hinges 21a, 21b.
It is provided so as not to hinder the rotation through b . One end of this torsion bar 27
It is bent in an L-shape, that part is fixed to the back surface of the upper cover 7a via a mounting piece 28a, and the other end is bent in an S-shape, and that part is connected via mounting pieces 28b, 28c. To the frame F of the upper housing H1. The torsion bar 27 always holds the upper cover 7a.
Is provided so as to bias in the opening direction toward the upper side (arrow in FIG. 3, and straight torsion bar 27 in FIG. 5
( See the rotation arrow provided in the middle part of ).

The upper cover 7 by the torsion bar 27
The turning power of a and the braking force of the disc spring 25 are opened when the staff turns the upper cover 7a by hand in the direction of the arrow (clockwise) in FIG. 3 and when the staff releases the hand from the upper cover 7a. To maintain the opening angle, that is, the upper cover 7a
It is determined not to be closed by its own weight. In addition, it is determined that the upper cover 7a can be closed when a clerk applies a force downward (counterclockwise) on the upper cover 7a.

The lock mechanism 30 of the upper cover 7a is provided on a lower side of the upper cover 7a on the opposite side of the hinge mechanism 20.
It comprises a metal fitting 7a 'and an L-shaped bent portion 7' on the upper side of the cover 7 on the ticket gate passage side of the upper housing H1. Therefore, when the cover 7 is opened by the attendant, the locked state of the upper cover 7a is released, and the lock mechanism 30 can open the upper cover 7a.

As described above, since the upper cover 7a of the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment uses the torsion bar 27, the opened upper cover 7a is inadvertently closed due to its own weight, and a staff member is injured. There is no fear and the support shaft 2
Since the disc spring 25 is interposed between 3a and 23b, the upper cover 7a can be maintained at an arbitrary opening angle.

In order to install the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment at a temporary ticket gate or the like, first, two persons in charge use the lower housing H2.
Using the handles 14a to 14d to carry it to the installation location, and then install the upper housing H1 by two staff members.
6d and carried on the lower housing H2. Thereafter, the upper housing H1 and the lower housing H2 are fixed with nuts N, N, and the cover 7 is closed to complete the installation. The driving power is supplied from a power supply section 16 provided below the lower housing H2 by arranging a power supply cord below the sheet S.

Although the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment is of the type without a door, when the automatic ticket gate is provided with a door, the door and its drive unit are provided in the lower housing H2.

Further, regardless of the presence or absence of the door, when detecting a ticketless person in the ticket gate passage, the upper case H1 or the lower case H2, or both cases H1 and H2, are provided along the direction of the ticket gate passage in a predetermined direction. A human detector including a photoelectric element or the like is provided at an interval. At this time, when detecting an adult and a child separately, an arm parallel to the ticket gate passage is provided above the upper housing H1, and a human detector is also provided on the arm.

[0030]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention has a torsion
The linear intermediate part of the bar is
Align the torsion bar with one end of the torsion bar.
To the body and the other end to the cover.
Was always because the upper cover is urged in the opening direction by the torsion bar, with attendant a cover over the open closes inadvertently can be prevented a disadvantage that the injury, the disc spring Since it is used, the upper cover can be maintained at an arbitrary opening angle.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is a front view of an automatic ticket gate without a door according to an embodiment viewed from a ticket gate passageway side, and FIG. 1B is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a state where a housing is divided into two parts.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the upper part of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a torsion bar.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body (automatic body) of an automatic ticket gate 2 Insertion opening 3 Discharge opening 4 Buzzer 5 Display part 6a-6d, 14a-14d Handle 7,11 Cover 7a Top cover 8,12 Key hole 9,13 Handle cover 10 Collection box 11a Opening and closing Cover 15a to 15d Fall prevention device 16 Power supply unit 20 Hinge mechanism 21a, 21b Hinge part 23a, 23b Support shaft 25 Disc spring 27 Torsion bar 30 Lock mechanism L Lamp S Sheet H Housing H1 Upper housing H2 Lower housing

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An automatic cover having an upper cover which can be opened upward by a hinge mechanism in which a disc spring is interposed on a support shaft in the same direction as the direction of a ticket gate , at an upper portion of a casing of a main body of the automatic ticket gate. In the ticket gate, a linear intermediate portion of the torsion bar is interposed with the disc spring.
Of the torsion bar
One end is fixed to the housing, and the other end is
An automatic ticket gate which is fixed to the cover and is always urged by its torsion bar in a direction in which the cover is opened.