JPS5816513B2 - Stamp change device for fare revisions in automatic ticket issuing devices - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a device for changing stamp plates when fares are revised in an automatic ticket issuing device, in particular, by operating a selection button provided on the customer service surface, the operator selects the operated selection button from among a plurality of stamp plates. This invention relates to a printing plate changing device at the time of fare revision in an automatic ticket issuing device in which a printing plate of a corresponding account is placed at a printing position and a ticket is printed and issued using this printing plate.

In conventional automatic ticketing devices, fare revisions were handled by manually rotating a printing plate drum provided with printing plates and changing the printing plates one by one.

In this way, the printing plate drum had to be rotated by hand each time, which was extremely troublesome and inefficient.

In addition, depending on the device, it may be difficult or impossible to rotate the printing plate drum by hand, making the operation even more difficult.

In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket issuing device that prints tickets using a printing plate, in which the printing plate can be easily replaced when fares are revised.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a printing device, in which a rolled ticket 1 is fed by a conveying device 2 to the length of one ticket each time a ticket is issued, and is printed by a printing section 3.

The printed roll is cut by a cutting device 4 and issued to a tray 5 as a ticket.

Since the printing section 3 is well known, a detailed explanation thereof will be omitted, but printing plates are provided in a large number of printing plate storage chambers provided in the radial direction of the drum 6 so that printing plates can be freely inserted and removed, and the drum is rotated to produce a predetermined printing plate. Select , pull out the selected printing plate to print position 7, place it, and print.

The individual printing plate storage chambers of the drum 60 correspond to the accounts of the respective selection buttons on the customer service side. For example, if the ten selection buttons on the customer service side are for issuing a 100 yen ticket, this 1]
In the storage room corresponding to the seat, there are printing plates for printing 100 yen tickets.

When fares are revised, the printing plate in this storage room will be replaced.
For example, if the 100 yen section becomes 120 yen, 10
Remove the 0 yen stamp plate from the storage room and insert the 120 yen stamp plate into it.

A printing plate outlet 8 is provided above the drum 6.

The printing device configured in this manner is integrated on the base 9 and can be pulled out to the rear of the automatic ticket issuing device.

10 is a protrusion that is integrally fixed to the base 9; 11 is a protrusion 10;
This detector 11 detects whether the printing device is installed at a predetermined position.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the main components of the present invention, in which 15 is an arithmetic control unit C microcomputer of the automatic ticket issuing device;
Reference numeral 16 designates a print control section of the printing apparatus, 17 an interface between the print control section 16 and the arithmetic control section 15, and 18 an operation box for inputting necessary data when revising fares and the like.

This operation box 18 has a relay connector 19, and as shown in FIG. a printing plate setting button 22 that is operated to place the printing plate in the
A ticket issuing unit 23 that prints when making a trial print; a switch 24 that specifies the type of adult or child when making a trial print;
It also has a button 25 for data confirmation.

FIG. 4 is a block circuit diagram showing the main configuration block diagram shown in FIG. 2 in more detail.

The data in the operation box 18 is outputted to the interface 17 via the print control section 16 via the output buffer 30.

31 is a stepping motor for conveying the ticket 1;
2 is the driver circuit of this motor 31, 33 is the drum 6
34 is an amplifier circuit for amplifying the signal from the sensor 33, and 35 is an output sofa.

The signal from the sensor 33 indicating the storage compartment is sent to the output buffer 3.
5 to the interface 17.

36 is a data input/output gate circuit, 37 is an address designation circuit, and 38 is a read/write control circuit, and the input/output of the data input/output gate circuit 36 and the address designation circuit 37 is controlled by a signal from the control circuit 38. .

39 is an input signal switching circuit that outputs the data from the sensor 33 or the operation box 18 to the data input/output gate circuit 36; 40 is a counter that sets and outputs the number of pulses for rotating the stepping motor 31; 41 is the stepping motor 31; Lunch that memorizes the direction of rotation of
In response to the address signal output from the address designation circuit 37, the input signal switching circuit 39 outputs the data from the sensor 33 or the operation box 18 to the data input/output gate circuit 36, and the counter 40 outputs the data from the sensor 33 or the operation box 18 to the data input/output gate circuit 36.
The number of pulses is counted based on the data from.

Reference numeral 42 denotes a forward/reverse pulse sending control circuit which outputs pulses for forward or reverse rotation in response to signals from the counter 40 and latch 41; 43 represents this control circuit 42;
This is an output buffer that outputs pulses from the driver circuit 32 to the driver circuit 32.

The relay connector 19 of the operation box 18 is disconnected from the printing apparatus, so that only data from the sensor 33 is input to the input signal switching circuit 39.

Next, the operation of the automatic ticket vending machine configured as described above will be explained.

First, the normal ticket issuing operation will be explained.

When a coin is inserted and the selection button is pressed, the address signal from the address designation circuit 37 and the data from the clearance sensor 33 are input to the arithmetic control section 15 via the input signal switching circuit 39 and the data input/output gate circuit 36. Ru.

This input data is compared with the account data output when the selection button is pressed, and it is determined in which direction the drum 6 should be rotated in order to place the selected printing plate on the printing section 3. At the same time, the stepping motor The number of pulses required to turn 31 is calculated, and data indicating this is output from data input/output gate circuit 36 to counter 42 along with an address signal from address designation circuit 37.

It will be set here.

The pulses set in the counter 42 are sequentially sent to the stepping motor 31 and rotated around the drum 6, and after the selected printing plate is placed at the printing position, the printed ticket is issued to the tray 5.

Along with this operation, the transport device 2 and cutting device 4 for the ticket paper 1
Of course, etc. will work.

In this way, a normal ticket issuing operation is performed. Next, the operation of changing the printing plate at the time of fare revision will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When changing printing plates, turn on the power switch, turn the release switch to 0FFL, pull the printing device backwards, and pull it out of the automatic ticket issuing device.

When the printing device is pulled out backwards, the detector 11 detects the protrusion 10.
This condition is detected because it is no longer detected.

Thereafter, the cover of the printing outlet 8 is removed and the relay box 19 of the operation box 18 is connected to this printing device.

At this time, since the printing device is exposed outside the automatic ticket issuing device, this operation is easy.

Next, select the account setting button (digital switch) 21 of the operation box 18 to change the account of the selection button to be changed (this is also the account of the printing plate storage room of the drum where the printing plate to be changed is stored). Operate and set.

Then, the printing plate setting button 22 is pressed. Since the arithmetic and control unit 15 scans the status of the printing device, it determines the conditions for fare revision, namely, that the release switch is turned OFF, that the printing device is pulled out to the rear, and that the printing plate setting button 2 is pressed.
2 is pressed, the account data set in the account setting switch 21 of the operation box 18 is transmitted via the output buffer 30, the input signal switching circuit 39, and the data input/output gate circuit 36. It is input to the calculation control section 15.

The arithmetic control unit 15 determines whether the read account is in the automatic ticket issuing device, and if this account (selection button for this account, printing plate storage room) is present, reads the sensor 33 and prints the printing plate from the read data. Calculate the account for the printing plate storage room at outlet 8.

Furthermore, it is calculated how many accounts the drum 6 needs to be rotated in order to arrange the plate storage chamber of the account read from the operation box 18 in the plate outlet 8.

Then, if the printing plate storage room of the set account is located at the printing plate outlet 8, the drum 6 remains as it is.

On the other hand, if the stamp storage room for the set account is not located at the stamp outlet 8, 1. At the same time as it is determined which direction the drum 6 should be rotated, the number of pulses required to rotate the plate storage chamber of this account to the plate outlet 8 is calculated, and the address signal and pulses indicating this rotation direction are calculated. Data indicating the number is output and stored in the counter 40 and latch 41.

Based on this data, the stepping motor 31 is driven to rotate the drum 6 in a predetermined direction by a predetermined number of times.

After the drum 6 has stopped, the calculation control unit 15 activates the sensor 33.
is read, and the account in the printing plate storage room located at the printing plate outlet 8 is calculated based on the data from this sensor.

Then, it is determined whether this account matches the account set in the account setting switch of the operation box 18, and if they match, the operation is stopped as is, and if they do not match, this is notified to the operator by sounding a buzzer or the like. .

After placing the stamp storage room of the specified account at the stamp plate outlet,
The stamp plate before the fare revision is taken out from the stamp storage room through the stamp outlet, and the stamp plate after the fare revision is inserted into the stamp storage room to exchange the stamp in the predetermined account.

In this way, the printing plates of all accounts are replaced by sequentially operating the operation boxes.

After all the printing plates have been replaced, put the cover over the printing plate outlet 8, and make a trial print to confirm that the printing plates have been replaced correctly while keeping the release switch of the automatic ticket issuing device OFF.

In the case of trial printing, the subsequent winding unit 23 with an account set in the account setting switch 21 of the operation box is pressed.

The subsequent trial printing is similar to the normal ticket issuing operation described above, so a detailed explanation will be omitted.

After trial printing tickets for all accounts, remove the relay connector from the printing device to complete the change in printing plate due to fare revision.

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, a printing outlet is provided at a position different from the printing position, and an operation box for setting an account is provided to the printing device so that it can be connected at the time of fare revision. Printing can be easily changed when fares are revised.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the printing plate changing device at the time of fare revision in the automatic ticket issuing device according to the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of the printing device, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the main configuration, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a plan view of the operation box, FIG. 4 is a detailed block diagram of the main components shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart. 8...Print plate outlet, 18...Operation box, 19...Relay connector, 21...
・Account setting switch, 22...Print setting button.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. By operating a selection button provided on the customer service surface, a stamp plate for an account corresponding to the operated selection button is placed at a printing position from among a plurality of stamp plates, and by this stamp plate. In an automatic ticket issuing device configured to print and issue tickets, a printing plate outlet provided at a position opposite to the printing and different from the printing position is electrically connected to the automatic ticket issuing device at the time of fare revision. an operation box, the operation box includes an account setting means for setting the [1 seat] of the selection button, and a printing plate to be operated to place a printing plate to be changed at the time of fare revision in the printing plate outlet. When the fare is revised, the account in the operation box is read into the automatic ticket issuing device, and the read account signal is used to place the stamp corresponding to this account in the stamp outlet, and this stamp is A printing plate changing device at the time of fare revision in an automatic ticket issuing device, characterized in that the printing plate before the fare revision is replaced with the stamp after the fare revision at the plate take-out port. 2. The reason why the account in the operation box is read into the automatic ticketing device at the time of fare revision is that the automatic ticketing device is no longer on sale, the printing device of the automatic ticketing device has been pulled out of its designated position and is not in the installed state, and The printing plate changing device at the time of fare revision in an automatic ticket issuing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the condition is that the printing plate setting means has been operated. 3. Claim 1, characterized in that the operation box has a ticket issuing switch for trial printing and also has a trial printing function.
A device for changing the printing plate when revising fares in the automatic ticket issuing device described in Section 2.