JPS6351311B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field]

The present invention is particularly applicable to paid parking lots equipped with entrance/exit gates, which are used exclusively by customers of stores, companies, etc. (hereinafter simply referred to as tenant stores) that have a contractual relationship with the parking lot. The present invention relates to a suitable management device.

[Conventional technology]

Tenant stores that do not have their own parking lot may provide services such as free or discounted parking to customers based on a contract with the parking lot (management company, etc.) when they visit the store. By handing out special parts such as issued service tickets, metal or chips, and checking these parts when leaving the parking lot, parking fees can be waived, or
The amount has been reduced. However, the above-mentioned management method requires special parts such as a service ticket and metal parts in addition to the parking ticket, so it is very troublesome for the customer to handle, and it is difficult for the parking lot side to handle it. However, it was also uneconomical due to high issuing costs. In addition, management methods that use special parts such as service tickets and metal parts make it extremely difficult to aggregate discounted (credit-based) parking fees for each tenant store, and furthermore, there is a staff member dedicated to credit-based discounts stationed at the exit of the parking lot. Because of this, there was a problem in which complete automation of toll collection could not be achieved. In addition, when parking fees are collected at a fixed discount, customers have to pay the discounted fee in cash each time, which is a hassle. Therefore, instead of paying in cash, like the recently developed telephone card, the above charges are subtracted from the principal amount recorded in sequence according to the number of usage times (number of parking hours), and the balance is printed in the printing field in sequence. It has been considered to use a pre-pay type parking magnetic card (for example, see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 150400/1983). [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the above-mentioned magnetic parking card has a small storage capacity like a general magnetic card, so instead of using the above-mentioned service ticket or metal card, it is possible to use credit cards or discounts for parking fees instead of using a cash card. It is very difficult to automatically manage each tenant store separately, and the balance display of the amount memory is also printed in order in the print field of the card, so the number of times it can be printed is limited and the amount memory is limited. There was also a problem that even though there were still some pages left, there was not enough space to print them, making them unusable. Therefore, the technical problem of the present invention is to use an IC parking card that has a much larger storage capacity than a magnetic parking card and is equipped with a display section that can display the balance of the amount memory repeatedly as long as there is a balance. To provide a parking lot management device that can automatically manage services such as credit sales and discounts for parking fees without having to make a cash payment, and moreover, can be settled for each tenant store. [Means for Solving the Problems] The measures taken in the present invention to solve the above technical problems are as follows. (1) A parking lot that manages the entry and exit of vehicles using an IC parking card that has a function to process information, a memory function including memory for the amount of money, and a function to display the data entered in the memory on a display unit. In this case, each tenant store that has a contract with the parking lot will receive the code of each tenant store and the parking fee in the memory of the IC parking card with the entry time entered, or sell the parking fee to the tenant store on credit, or Installing a terminal for inputting information for discounting to a predetermined amount. (2) At the exit of the above-mentioned parking lot, the amount memory of the IC parking card is rewritten by subtracting the above-mentioned discount amount, and this rewritten amount is displayed as the balance on the above-mentioned display section, and the above-mentioned An exit management machine is provided that opens the exit gate after storing the credited or discounted parking fee in the memory of the tenant store specified by the code. [Operation] The above means operates as follows. According to element (1) above, when the customer enters the parking lot, the customer inserts an IC parking card with an amount memory that has been purchased or received in advance into the parking management machine, and the time of parking is stored in the memory. Also,
In addition to being able to display this parking time on the display, customers can use the terminals installed at storefronts to display the above information when they have finished shopping, business negotiations, or other errands at tenant stores that have a contractual relationship with the parking lot. Insert the IC parking card, store the tenant store code in memory, and sell the parking fee to the tenant store, or
Information for discounting to a predetermined amount is entered and the IC parking card allows this information to be displayed on its display. According to the factor (2) above, when exiting the parking lot, the customer inserts the IC parking card mentioned above into the exit management machine, and in the case of a credit sale (free of charge), the customer can open the exit gate and exit the garage. On the other hand, in the case of a discount, the discount amount is subtracted from the amount memory, the memory contents are rewritten, and this rewritten amount is displayed as the balance on the display section.
After inputting the above-mentioned credit sale or discounted parking fee into the memory of the tenant store specified from the read code, the exit gate is opened to enable the vehicle to exit the garage. As described above, the above-mentioned technical problem can be solved by the above-mentioned means, and the problems of the conventional technology can be solved.

【Example】

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of a parking lot management device according to the present invention will be described in detail below with accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a parking lot management device according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a parking management machine installed at a parking entrance 10A of a parking lot 10, and 11 is an entrance of the parking lot 10A. This is a first entrance vehicle detector such as a photoelectric detector or a loop coil detector installed on the side. When a vehicle traveling in the direction of arrow PA passes this detector 11, the detector 11 emits a detection signal f.
1 is input to the warehousing management machine 1, and the warehousing management machine 1 opens the shutter 2 of the card receiving slot 1a based on this signal f1 to enable the reception of the IC parking card P. The IC parking card P used in the present invention is made of a synthetic resin plate such as vinyl chloride, as shown in Figure 2, and is made entirely in a thin plate shape like a bank deposit card or credit card. IC40 for
A 40V battery is incorporated, and a liquid crystal display R is formed on the card P surface. This liquid crystal display R is a liquid crystal display section R1, R2, R3, R with each index of warehousing, warehousing, charge, store type, and balance.
4 and R5 are formed, and a signal terminal TA1 for inputting a control signal for the IC 40 is provided at the leading edge of the card P. Furthermore, Figure 4 is the same as above.
This is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the IC parking card P. IC40 is the central processing unit 41 and the program memory storing the system program.
It is constituted by a memory 42 consisting of a ROM 42a and a data memory RAM 42b which stores data from each device side device and a memory for the usable amount of this card P (10,000 yen in the illustrated case) in a readable and writable manner. has been done. In addition, 43 in the figure is a push button for checking the balance, 44 is a battery check circuit,
45 is a battery capacity display lamp. FIG. 3 shows an example of the structure of the warehousing card processing device 1A provided inside the warehousing management machine 1 configured to allow the IC parking card P configured as described above to be freely inserted. The card receiving slot 1a is equipped with a shutter 2 that opens according to f1.
As shown in the figure, a card insertion passage 3 is arranged in series, and when a card detector 4 consisting of a pair of light emitting and light receiving elements provided at the entrance of this passage 3 detects insertion of an IC parking card P, a drive circuit described later is activated. is designed to turn on. Further, 5 is a main body signal terminal provided at the inner bottom of the card insertion passage 3, and when the signal terminal TA1 of the inserted IC parking card P is brought into contact with this main body signal terminal 5,
The time information sent from the drive circuit 1T configured using a microcomputer or the like is written in the RAM 42b of the IC parking card P, and the time information is displayed on the liquid crystal display section R1 as the storage time. 6 is a card ejection roller rotated by the motor 7, which rotates when the above liquid crystal display is displayed.
Send the IC parking card P back to its original position. Further, the discharge roller 6 is activated when the inserted IC parking card P is read and verified by the drive circuit IT on the warehousing management machine 1 side and is determined to be not a legitimate card or the balance in the amount memory is zero. immediately ejects card P. The configuration of the drive circuit 1T is a simplified configuration of the drive circuit of the delivery management machine, which will be described later, so its details will be explained later. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 12 denotes an opening/closing actuator for an entrance gate 12G provided on the passageway of the entrance 10A, and this actuator 12 extracts the IC parking card P from the guard receiving opening 1a of the warehousing management machine 1. Then, the gate opening signal f2 outputted from the drive circuit 1T opens the entrance gate 12G, allowing the vehicle to enter. Reference numeral 13 denotes a second entrance vehicle detector, which outputs a gate close signal f3 to the gate opening/closing actuator 12 when a vehicle enters the detector 13 by opening the entrance gate 12G. It is designed to close the entrance gate 12G. The vehicle that has passed through the entrance 10A as described above enters the parking area of the parking lot 10 as indicated by the arrow PAf. Next, 21 is a first exit vehicle detector installed at the exit 10B of the parking lot 10. When a vehicle exiting the garage passes over this detector 21 as shown by the arrow PB, the exit vehicle also installed at the exit 10B is detected. The acceptance start signal f4 is output to the management machine 20, and the card acceptance slot 20
The shutter 22 provided at a opens to allow insertion of the IC parking card P. Card acceptance slot 21 above
As described with reference numerals in FIG. 3, inside a, there is provided an outgoing card processing device 20A having exactly the same structure as the incoming card processing device 1A provided in the warehousing management machine 1. That is, in FIG. 3, 23 is a card insertion passage, 24 is a card detector,
25 is a main body signal terminal, and 26 is a card discharge roller rotated by a motor 27. The drive circuit 20T of the delivery management machine 20 is an IC
When the signal terminal TA1 of the parking card P contacts and conducts with the main signal terminal 25, the parking time and information stored in the memory 42 of the IC parking card P are read out, the time difference between this and the current time is calculated, and the parking fee is calculated. is calculated, and the above memory 42
This parking fee is subtracted from the amount memory recorded on the IC parking card P, and the above amount information is rewritten, and the LCD display path R provided on the IC parking card P is subtracted.
The respective times and amounts are displayed on the respective liquid crystal display sections, that is, the exit time display section R2, the parking fee display section R3, and the balance display section R5. In the figure, 20B is a cash slot used to pay the insufficient amount in cash when the parking fee cannot be paid with the amount recorded on the parking card P, and 20C is a cash slot used to pay the insufficient amount in cash. It is a display device that displays information. Further, 29 is an opening/closing actuator for an exit gate 29G provided on the path of the exit 10B, and when the above-mentioned parking card P, on which the parking fee has been paid, is pulled out from the card receiving slot 21a, this actuator 29 operates as follows: The exit gate 29G is activated by the gate opening signal f5 outputted from the arithmetic processing section 20T to enable the vehicle to leave the garage.
Further, 30 is a second exit vehicle detector, and when a vehicle exiting the garage passes over this detector 30, it outputs a gate close signal f6 to the actuator 29 to close the exit gate 2.
Close 9G and complete the removal of the vehicle as shown by arrow PBf. Next, the electrical configuration of the drive circuit 20T built into the delivery management machine 20 will be explained with reference to FIG. The above-mentioned drive circuit 20T configured using a microcomputer etc., as shown in the figure, is mainly configured with an arithmetic control unit CPU31 that monitors the overall control.
A program memory ROM 3 in which the main parts of the flowchart described later are stored in this CPU 31
2a, and a data memory RAM 32b for temporarily storing processed data and storing credited or discounted parking fees for each tenant store, a clock circuit 33, and a shortfall fee adjustment machine 3.
4. Shutter opening/closing machine 35, card detector 24 for the exit management machine 20, card ejection motor 27, display 20C, main body signal terminal 25 and exit gate opening/closing actuator 29, and first exit vehicle detector 21 are connected to each other via a bus. In Figure 1, Ta, Tb...Tn are parking lot 1
At various tenant stores such as companies and stores that have a contractual relationship with the owner or management company of 0, 50... is a terminal installed at the customer service counter of each of these tenant stores Ta to Tn. Each of these terminals 50...
The IC parking card P reception port 50a is opened, and the inside of this reception port 50a is exactly the same as the entry/exit card processing devices 1A and 20A shown in FIG. 3 (except for the shutters 2 and 22). ) A tenant store processing device 50A is provided. As described with reference numerals in FIG. 3, this tenant store processing device 50A has a main body connected to a drive circuit 50T mainly composed of a card insertion passage 53, a card detector 54, and a microcomputer. It is composed of a signal terminal 55 and a card ejection roller 56 rotated by a motor 57, and when the signal terminal TA1 of the IC parking card P inserted from the receiving opening 50a is connected to the main body signal terminal 55 and conductive. By the action of the drive circuit 50T, the code of the tenant store and the information for selling the parking fee on credit or discounting it to a certain amount are input and stored in the IC 40 of the IC parking card P, and these pieces of information are also stored. It is displayed on the store-specific liquid crystal display section R4 of the liquid crystal display R. 6A, 7A, and 8A are flowcharts for entering and leaving the parking lot 10 by using the management device of the present invention, and the main parts of these flowcharts are Each drive circuit 1
T, 20T, 50T program memory ROM
and is stored in the program memory ROM 42a incorporated in the IC 40 of the IC parking card P. The warehousing process shown in FIG. 6A is carried out by the customer inserting into the warehousing management machine 1 an IC parking card P with an amount memory that he or she purchased himself or was given in advance by the tenant store. Steps S1 to S13 explain the procedure in order, and in particular, if it is determined that the IC parking card P inserted in step S4 is not a legitimate card,
And, in the next step S5, the amount memory RAM 42b
If it is determined that the balance is zero, the card ejecting motor 7 is driven in step 14, and the card is ejected by the rollers 6, and warehousing is not permitted. Further, in step S7, as shown in FIG. 6B, the storage time display section R1 of the liquid crystal display R shows the storage date,
Displays hours and minutes (11:30 on the 15th in the case shown) R1
A. The tenant store processing shown in FIG. 7A is performed in the illustrated order of steps S20→S24 by the customer inserting his or her card P into the terminal 50 installed at the tenant stores Ta to Tn, and then step S21. The IC parking card P inserted in the above storage process, that is,
If it is determined that the card has not entered the storage time or is otherwise an invalid card, the discharge roller 56 is moved by the motor 57 in step S25.
The card is rotated and the card is ejected, and the tenant store processing is disallowed. Further, in step S23, the store-specific display section R of the liquid crystal display R is shown in FIG. 7B.
4, the store code of the tenant store and the discounted parking fee (in the case shown, store B, 100 yen) are displayed on the liquid crystal display R4A. In the exit process shown in FIG. 8A, the IC parking card P on which the parking time, tenant store code, and discount fee are entered and displayed is sent to the exit management machine 2 when leaving the parking lot.
This is accomplished by inserting the
Normally, the work proceeds in the order of steps S30 → S43, but if it is determined in step S33 that the IC parking card P has not entered the parking time or that there is some other reason for fraud, the motor 27 rotates the ejection roller 26 to eject the card, and the delivery is not permitted. In addition, if it is determined in the next step S34 that the code of the tenant store is not entered on the card P, that is, the parking is at the normal rate and the tenant store is not used,
After that, each step of S45, S46, S47, and S48 is executed in order, and the parking fee can be paid without using the card P using the memory amount.Furthermore, in step S46, the memory amount of the card P is If it is determined that the balance is insufficient,
Steps S49, S50, and S51 for paying the shortfall fee are executed. In addition, FIG. 8B shows the state in which the balance of the memory amount after subtracting the discounted parking fee in step S37 is displayed on the balance display section R5 of the liquid crystal display R, and FIG. Displayed departure time R2A, regular parking fee R3
A. This shows an example of how the balance R5A is displayed. In addition, each of the liquid crystal displays R mentioned above is designed to automatically turn off after a certain period of time to save power, but the balance can only be checked by pressing the dedicated button 43 on the IC parking card P. Therefore, it can be displayed on the liquid crystal display section R5 at any time.

【effect】

As described above, the parking lot management device according to the present invention manages the entry and exit of vehicles using an IC parking card equipped with a memory function including an amount memory and a display section consisting of a liquid crystal display. As long as there is memory left, you can pay for parking fees without using cash, but each time you enter or leave the parking lot, the time of entering and leaving the parking lot, the parking fee, and the amount remaining in the memory are displayed on the card. This method has the advantage of being able to be used accurately while visually checking the card, but in particular, in the present invention, a dedicated terminal is installed at each tenant store, and this terminal stores each tenant store's code and credit card information in the memory of the IC parking card. Alternatively, by simply entering discount information, parking fees can be sold on credit or discounted to each tenant store without issuing service tickets, coins, chips, etc. In addition, there is no need to assign a discount clerk or the like, and the parking lot used by the tenant store customers can be managed labor-savingly and economically.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the schematic configuration of a parking lot management device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view showing an example of an IC parking card with a liquid crystal display used in the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a parking management device. A configuration diagram showing each processing device of the machine, the delivery management machine, and the terminal for tenant stores;
Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the IC parking card, Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the drive circuit used in the exit management machine, and Fig. 6A shows each processing procedure at the time of parking. flowchart, 6th
Figure B is a front view showing the state of the liquid crystal display during processing, Figure 7A is a flowchart showing the procedure of tenant store processing, Figure 7B is a front view showing the state of the liquid crystal display, and Figure 8A is a front view showing the state of the liquid crystal display during processing. The figure is a flowchart showing the procedure of the shipping process, and FIGS. 8B and 8C are front views showing the state of the liquid crystal display, respectively. P is IC parking card, R is liquid crystal display, R1,
R2, R3, R4, R5 are liquid crystal display units, 1 is a storage management machine, 20 is a storage management machine, 29G is an exit gate, 32 is a memory, Ta to Tn are tenant stores, 50
is a terminal.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a parking lot where the entry and exit of vehicles is managed using an IC parking card that has the function of processing information, a memory function including memory of the amount of money, and a function of displaying the data entered in the memory on the display. and to each tenant store that has a contractual relationship with the parking lot,
A terminal will be installed to input the code of each tenant store and information for crediting the parking fee to the tenant store or discounting it to a predetermined amount in the memory of the IC parking card with the entry time entered. , At the exit of the above parking lot, the amount memory of the IC parking card is rewritten by subtracting the above discount amount, and this rewritten amount is displayed as the balance on the above display section, and the above code is written. After storing the credited or discounted parking fee in the memory of the tenant store thus identified,
A parking lot management device characterized by being provided with an exit management machine that opens an exit gate.