JP5963364B2 - Card timer device for operating the charging of the refrigerator - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a card timer device that charges when using a refrigerator or a television set installed in a facility such as a hospital, a hotel, a nursing home, or a nursing facility, and more particularly, a card timer device that operates charging of the refrigerator.

  In hospital hospital rooms or hotel rooms, billing management is performed using prepaid cards that store billing information when using electrical appliances such as televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers, and telephone equipment installed in rooms. Has been done. Users can use electrical appliances controlled by the card timer device by purchasing a prepaid card at a store, vending machine, etc., and inserting it into a card timer device that manages billing such as TVs and refrigerators. It becomes. This card timer device monitors the operating status of a television, a refrigerator, etc., and executes billing processing for reducing billing information stored in a prepaid card every predetermined time.

Patent Document 1 discloses a card timer device that can set and control simultaneously different charging rates for two electric devices to be used such as a television and a DVD device.
Patent Document 2 discloses subtracting the billing frequency for a television by detecting the light emission of an active light emitting diode of the television for such a card timer device. With this card timer device, it is possible to accurately detect the operation and standby state of a television even if the television model has different power consumption. Patent Document 2 also discloses that the same prepaid card is used to charge for the operation of the television and for the operation of the refrigerator.

  Patent Document 3 discloses a first process in which billing information of a card timer device is reduced and power is supplied to a power supply means, and an external card attached to the card reading means is a refrigerator, a television in a special room such as a private room. A device is disclosed that uses a free card that makes use of the device free of charge, etc., and allows the controlled device to be used free of charge.

Conventionally, at least in a card timer device that controls a TV and a refrigerator, the charge time for the TV and the refrigerator is different, and the refrigerator has a set time for one operation because it needs to be operated continuously for a long time. It is longer than TV and is relatively inexpensive to charge.
Normally, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, every time the operating time setting button of the refrigerator is pressed once (pressed for 1 second or longer) in Sa (step a), the refrigerator billing process in the card timer is performed in Sb (step b). The system is charged 200 yen and power is supplied for 24 hours. Similarly, if you press twice, you can add 24 hours and use it for 48 hours. It is set so that it can be added up to 99 hours. However, once charged, it cannot be restored.
For this reason, there is a complaint that the setting button of the refrigerator is accidentally pushed and the time frequency is restored, and the conventional card timer device has a disadvantage that the frequency of the refrigerator time cannot be changed for this claim. It was. In addition, there is a problem in that there is a bed movement of the same user in a hospital, and if it is attempted to move the remaining time of the refrigerator, it is necessary to move the floor table.

JP 2007-299218 A JP 2006-186827 A JP 2012-208552 A

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned inconveniences, and to make corrections to restore the time frequency within a predetermined time after pressing the setting button of the refrigerator. It is an object of the present invention to provide a card timer device that can move only the usage time of a new floor-to-top refrigerator without moving the refrigerator even when the bed of the same user moves.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the invention of claim 1 is a charging device provided with a card reader unit that charges and controls a usage time using a prepaid card for a television and a refrigerator. If it is, the user sets the usage time of the refrigerator arbitrarily by the card timer unit and charges in advance, and if the prepaid card is not inserted in the card timer device, a moving card for operating the remaining time is used. Insert into the card timer part, and if the card timer part has the remaining time to use the refrigerator, the remaining time data is transferred to the moving card and the remaining time data in the card timer part is set to 0, and conversely If there is no remaining time used by the refrigerator in the card timer part and there is remaining time data on the moving card, the remaining time data is stored in the card timer. A card timer device for operating the refrigerator billing, characterized in that the transition to the mer unit.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the card timer device for operating the charging of the refrigerator according to the first aspect, when the prepaid card is inserted, the user arbitrarily sets the usage time of the refrigerator by the card timer unit. Thus, when charging in advance, the card timer unit can cancel the set contents within a predetermined time after the setting.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, in a billing apparatus provided with a card reader unit that charges and controls the use time using a prepaid card for a television and a refrigerator, the hospital moves while changing the bed of the same user. Even if you do not move the refrigerator, the remaining usage time of the refrigerator that has been connected to the card timer device of the floor head unit up to now is transferred to the card timer device of the new floor head unit using the transition card. The usage time can be transferred to the refrigerator.
In addition, even if the user does not move the bed, it is used by patients and other users even though the refrigerator currently in use is operating normally due to a malfunction of the TV or storage. It is also effective when the floor heads that are installed must be replaced. In other words, the card timer device becomes a new card timer device in association with the floor base to be replaced, but according to the present invention, the remaining use time of the refrigerator in the previous card timer device is newly set using the transfer card. It can be transferred as the usage time of the refrigerator of a simple card timer device.
Further, according to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the effect of the invention of claim 1, it is possible to perform correction to restore the time frequency within a predetermined time after pressing the setting button of the refrigerator. .

The figure of the flowchart of the card timer apparatus which operates the charge of the conventional refrigerator, The perspective view of the floor head stand incorporating the card timer device of the present invention, It is a figure of the flowchart of the refrigerator charge processing system which operates charge of the refrigerator of the card timer apparatus of this invention.

A preferred embodiment of a card timer device for operating charging of a refrigerator according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 2, the card timer unit 2 of the present embodiment is incorporated in a floor head base 1 arranged in a facility such as a hotel, a nursing home, or a nursing facility, and the card timer incorporated in the floor head base 1. A control system such as a television 21 and a refrigerator 22 is connected to the unit 2, and billing management is performed by the prepaid card 3 that stores billing information by the card timer unit 2. The user purchases the prepaid card 3 at a store, a vending machine, etc., and inserts the prepaid card 3 into the card insertion slot 23 of the card timer unit 2 that performs billing management of the TV 21, the refrigerator 22, etc. The television 21 and the refrigerator 22 controlled by the unit 2 can be used.

The card timer unit 2 of the card timer device shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 inserts a TV card 3 that is a paid prepaid card and monitors the operating status of the TV 21 and the refrigerator 22. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an extract of a refrigerator billing processing system 25 that prepares a transfer card 4 that can be operated for free by a nurse or the like and charges the refrigerator 22 of the card timer unit 2 using these cards.
In FIG. 3, when this billing system is started in S1 (step 1), first, when a card is inserted into the card insertion slot 23 of the card timer unit 2 in S11 (step 11), this card is the TV card 3. At the same time that the television 21 can be operated, the type of the card is determined in S2 (step 2), and if it is the television card 3, the operation time can be set for the refrigerator 22 in S21 (step 21).
In S21 (step 21), when the refrigerator button 221 of the operation setting time of the refrigerator 22 provided in the card timer unit 2 is pressed once continuously for 1 second or longer, the refrigerator billing processing system 25 in the card timer (see FIG. 3). Thus, in this embodiment, a charge of 200 yen is charged and power is supplied for 24 hours. Similarly, when pressed twice, 24 hours are added and 48 hours can be used, and 3 times and 4 times are set to 96 hours. It is set so that it can be added even during use of the refrigerator and can be used for a maximum of 99 hours, and the display of the setting content display section 24 blinks for 5 seconds after being pressed.

Next, when proceeding to S22 (step 22), the refrigerator button 221 is pressed again for 1 second or more again within 5 seconds while the display of the setting content display section 24 is blinking, or the TV card 3 is removed. If it is detected and the refrigerator button 221 is pressed again within 5 seconds (Yes), or if the TV card 3 is removed (Yes), the process proceeds to S23 (Step 23), and the CL cancel display is displayed on the display unit 24. At the same time, the billing system performs processing for canceling billing, and proceeds to S7 (step 7) and ends.
In the above example, when the second time is pressed, 24 hours are added and 48 hours usage is displayed on the display unit 24, and the display blinks for 5 seconds. If the refrigerator button 221 is pressed again for 1 second or more during the blinking, the cancel display is displayed. Is displayed and it is displayed that it can be used for 24 hours in the original charged state of 200 yen. Even if the television card 3 is removed while the display unit 24 is blinking, the same original state is obtained.
Although the display unit 24 blinks for 5 seconds, the blinking time of 5 seconds can be set to an arbitrary time. However, if it is too short, the correction may not be in time. Since time becomes long, about 3 to 10 seconds are good.

Conversely, if the refrigerator button 221 is not pressed within 5 seconds (No), or if the television card 3 is still inserted (No), the process proceeds to S24 (Step 24) and is set to 5 seconds ago. The set operation time is determined, and the charging process for the refrigerator 22 is performed by the refrigerator charging processing system 25 in the card timer unit 2.
In this manner, the refrigerator button 221 is pushed again when the display blinks on the display unit 24 for a predetermined set time, in this embodiment, for 5 seconds in steps S2 (step 2) to S23 (step 23) or S24 (step 24). At the same time as the CL cancel display is displayed on the display unit 24, a process for canceling the charge for the refrigerator 22 is performed. As a result, the additional operation of the refrigerator 22 is not charged and the refrigerator 22 is not turned on. Therefore, even if the button is pressed by mistake, the charge can be canceled.

However, even if the user is convinced and the refrigerator 22 is set to operate for a long time, the hospital may move the bed of the same user, and if the floor table 1 incorporating the refrigerator 22 can be moved together with the bed, there is a problem. Although it does not occur, usually, when the bed is moved, the user and the bed or the floor head base 1 are not moved together. In this case, even if the floor head base 1 is not moved when the bed is moved, when the remaining time of the refrigerator 22 is present in the card timer unit 2 of the bed before the movement, for example, the remaining time of 20 hours and its display It is also a feature of the card timer device according to the present invention that the remaining time, for example, 20 hours, can be moved to the card timer section 2 next to the bed after the movement.
This is executed after S4 (step 4) in FIG. 3, but the steps for extracting the remaining time from the old card timer unit 2 are S4 to S5, and the steps from S4 to shift the remaining time to the new card timer unit 2 Process in S6.
This will be described with reference to FIG. 3 after S4 (Step 4). If the card inserted into the card insertion slot 23 in S2 (Step 2) is not the television card 3 (No), S4 (Step 4) will be described. ), It is determined whether or not the nurse or the like is a transfer card 4 that can operate the card timer unit 2 for free.
Here, when it is neither the television card 3 nor the transfer card 4 (No), the process proceeds to S7 (step 7) and the work is ended (END).

If the card inserted in S4 (step 4) is the transfer card 4, it is determined in S41 (step 41) whether the remaining time data stored in the transfer card 4 is 0 or more, and the remaining time Is not 0 or more (No), that is, when the remaining time is 0 hours and there is no data, in other words, when it is used for the old card timer unit 2 where the remaining time remains, S5 (step 5), the remaining time data of the card timer unit 2 is sucked into the transfer card, the remaining time of the old card timer unit 2 is set to 0, and the transfer card is discharged from the card insertion slot 23 in S51 (step 51). Proceed to (Step 7) and finish the work (END).
In S41 (step 41), if the remaining time of the data stored in the transfer card 4 is 0 or more (Yes), that is, if it is the transfer card 4 having the remaining time as data, in other words, a new new card timer When used for the unit 2, the remaining time data of the card timer unit 2 is supplied from the transfer card 4 in S6 (step 6), the remaining time of the transfer card is set to 0, and the transfer card is carded in S61 (step 51). The sheet is discharged from the insertion port 23, and the process proceeds to S7 (step 7) and the work is ended (END).
As described above, in FIG. 3, S5 (step 5) and S6 (step 6) are shown in the same flowchart, but the process of S5 (step 5) is performed in the old card timer unit 2 before the movement. The operation of S6 (step 6) is effectively activated for the new card timer unit 2 after movement.

  Here, the TV card 3 which is a pay prepaid card is the same as a conventional prepaid card for watching TV, but the moving card 4 has the same dimensions as the TV card 3 and is inserted into the card insertion slot 23 of the card timer unit 2. It is a specification that is a transfer card (dedicated card) 4 that can be inserted and discharged and that can be operated free of charge by nurses and the like, and can read and write the remaining time of the refrigerator 22 in the refrigerator billing system 25 of the card timer unit 2 It is necessary to have a specification having such an application and memory.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to perform correction to restore the time frequency within a predetermined time after the setting button 221 of the refrigerator 22 of the card timer unit 2 is pressed.
Further, when the user's bed is moved, the remaining time can be moved to the destination refrigerator 22 without moving the floor head 1, and the card timer unit 2 and the refrigerator 22 used so far can be moved. When the remaining time is left, for example, when 20 hours are displayed, the moving card 4 of the dedicated card for sucking up the remaining time of the refrigerator 22 is used to transfer the remaining time to the new card timer unit 2 at the moving destination. Move 20 hours. As a result, the remaining time display of the refrigerator 22 of the old card timer unit 2 disappears, and there is a remaining time of 20 hours in the moving card 4 during the movement, but the new card timer unit of the floor head stand 1 after the movement 2 is inserted into the card insertion slot 23, and the remaining 20 hours of data is transferred, so that the remaining usage time for the refrigerator 22 in the display unit 24 of the new card timer unit 2 is displayed. The new refrigerator 22 connected to the card timer unit 2 is also turned on.

Furthermore, even when the user does not move the bed, the user such as a patient uses it even though the refrigerator 22 currently used is operating normally due to a failure of the TV or the storage. This is also effective when it is necessary to replace the floor base 1 that is being used. That is, the card timer unit 2 becomes a new card timer unit 2 in association with the floor base 1 to be replaced, but according to the present invention, the remaining usage time of the refrigerator 22 in the card timer unit 2 up to that time is shifted. The card 4 can be used as the usage time of the refrigerator 22 of the new card timer unit 2.
In other words, even if the usage time of the refrigerator 22 remains in the card timer unit 2 in the past, for example, even if there is a remaining time of 35 hours, if the card timer unit 2 is replaced, it cannot be refunded or a new card timer unit The remaining time until 2 could not be moved to 2. In order to cope with this, the maintenance staff bothered to purchase the TV card 3 and pushed the use button of the refrigerator 22. Moreover, it was not possible to accurately shift, for example, 35 hours (48 hours when pressed twice) other than a multiple of 24 hours. For this reason, it has been pointed out that the management of the television card 3 has been deficient in the past, causing trouble. In addition, since the management company or the leasing company also pays a fee in a predetermined percentage from the sales of the TV card 3, if the purchase of the TV card 3 is repeated, the loss is not the original sales. However, the use of the transfer card 4 of the present invention can prevent such inconvenience.

  Needless to say, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as long as the features of the present invention are not impaired.

1. The floor head,
2. ・ Card timer part (card timer device), 21 ・ ・ TV,
22 .. Refrigerator, 221 .. Refrigerator button, 23 .. Card insertion slot,
24 .. Display unit, 25. Refrigerator billing system 3. TV card (prepaid card)
4. Transfer card (dedicated card)

Claims (2)

  When a prepaid card is inserted in a billing device provided with a card reader unit that charges and controls the usage time of a TV and a refrigerator using a prepaid card, the user uses the refrigerator by a card timer unit. Set the time arbitrarily and charge in advance, if a prepaid card is not inserted in the card timer part, insert a moving card to operate the remaining time in the card timer part and use the refrigerator in the card timer part If there is remaining time, the remaining time data is transferred to the moving card and the remaining time data of the card timer part is set to 0, and conversely, the card timer part is moved when there is no remaining time to use the refrigerator. If the card has remaining time, the remaining time data is transferred to the card timer unit to operate the charging of the refrigerator Dotaima apparatus.   When the prepaid card is inserted, when the user sets the usage time of the refrigerator arbitrarily by the card timer unit and charges in advance, the setting contents within the predetermined time after setting in the card timer unit The card timer device for operating the charging of the refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the charging of the refrigerator can be canceled.

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