JPH0316669B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a parking lot management device that automatically manages the entry and exit of vehicles and the payment of parking fees using a parking card incorporating a display section. .

[Conventional technology]

In conventional parking lots, where all types of management such as entry and exit of vehicles, calculation and collection of parking fees are automated, and the parking lot is managed unmanned or partially manned, a parking lot is issued at the time of parking. Parking tickets generally come in various forms, such as paper parking tickets that are issued with the time of entry punched or printed, and magnetic card parking tickets that are issued with the time of entry magnetically recorded. However, as a recent trend with the remarkable development of electronic technology, the demand for magnetic card-type parking tickets, on which various information such as entry time can be easily written and read, is increasing.

However, the drawback of this magnetic card type parking ticket is that information such as entry time and fee cannot be displayed on the parking ticket. Therefore, the present applicant filed the earlier patent application filed in 1983-
In the application No. 71358, we proposed a so-called IC parking card with a liquid crystal display that can display various information on the liquid crystal.

Furthermore, the present applicant has proposed patent application No. 1986-61668 and the like in order to prevent congestion when leaving the parking lot using fare adjustment machines.
No. 59-86947 and other applications have been filed for parking lot management devices configured to eliminate crowding at parking exits by having parking fees be paid using a payment machine installed at a location other than the parking exit. , In addition, setting the time for permission to exit the vehicle from the time the fee is paid to the time the vehicle exits the vehicle.
It is also possible to display this on the card to call attention to it.
-It has been filed under No. 86883.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The above-mentioned IC parking card with a liquid crystal display (LCD) function is very convenient and useful because all the various data such as parking time can be displayed on the display on the card for visual confirmation. , Since this IC parking card only displayed the entry time as display data, if you want to know the current elapsed parking time while parking, you can compare the displayed parking entry time with the current time. It was necessary to calculate the time, which was cumbersome and error-prone, and parking fees were often misjudged.

In addition, since the set time for permission to leave the warehouse is simply a display of that time, it is necessary to check the clock each time to know the remaining permission time, and if you make a mistake or forget to check, the time runs out. There were many cases.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention has been developed in view of the above-mentioned points, and its purpose is to provide a parking card with a display section that allows direct visual confirmation of the elapsed parking time and the remaining parking permission setting time. The object of the present invention is to provide a parking lot management device that is devised so that it can perform various types of management such as vehicle entry and exit management and parking fee settlement management using the above-mentioned method. In order to do so, if you insert a parking card issued at the time of parking into the parking lot or another place other than the parking lot, the parking fee will be calculated based on the recorded entry time. When the parking fee is paid, an automatic fare adjustment machine is installed that records the predetermined exit permission setting time on the parking card and returns it. When you insert a parking card with a record of In a parking lot equipped with an exit control machine configured to prevent the exit gate from being opened, a display section that displays the month, day, and time of entry on the above parking card. and,
An elapsed time display section for counting and displaying the elapsed time since entering the warehouse in real time, a permission time display section for displaying the above-mentioned exit permission setting time, and a storage section for storing the display contents of each of these display sections are provided. ,
The exit permission set time displayed on the permission time display section of the parking card is configured to be displayed as a negative count at the same time as the display.

〔Example〕

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A preferred embodiment of a parking lot management device according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a parking lot management device according to the present invention.
is a first entrance vehicle detector such as a loop coil installed on the entrance side of the entrance P1, and when this detector 11 detects a vehicle (not shown) entering as indicated by arrow PA, the detector 11 The detection signal f1 is input to the parking card issuing machine 10R provided in the warehousing management machine 10, and the parking card issuing machine 10R receives this signal f1.
Based on this, a parking card T is issued to the issuing port 10a. Next, when the customer pulls out the issued parking card T from the issuing slot 10a, the parking management machine 1
0, the gate open signal f2 is sent to the entrance gate driver 12.
and the entrance gate driver 12 receives this signal f.
2, the entrance gate bar 13 is opened to allow the vehicle to enter. Reference numeral 14 denotes a second entrance vehicle detector consisting of a loop coil or the like provided in the entrance passageway of the entrance gate bar 13. When an incoming vehicle passes through this detector 14, the entrance gate driver 12 is activated. The gate closing signal f3 is output to close the entrance gate bar 13, and the warehousing is completed.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the parking card 1 issued by the card issuing machine 10R. The surface of the parking card 1, which is made entirely of a rectangular thin plate using synthetic resin such as vinyl chloride, has the following features: Display parts 2A, 2B for parking data with indexes of "month/day", "entering time", "elapsed time", "permitted time",
A liquid crystal display 2 including 2C and 2D is formed, and a terminal 3 for inputting and outputting warehousing data is provided at the leading edge of the parking card 1.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the control device 1R built into the parking card 1 described above. 2 and a battery 4 such as a lithium battery for power supply
, a program memory ROM that stores the system program that defines the operation of the CPU1M, and a random access memory that stores incoming data.
A storage section 5 consisting of RAM is connected to a clock circuit 6 that oscillates a reference clock signal, and is further connected to the terminal 3 mentioned above via a data exchange circuit 7.

The card issuing machine 10R that issues the parking card 1 configured as described above inputs the month, day, and parking time (current time) data into the CPU 1M of the parking card 1 through the terminal 3, and Each data is displayed S1, S2 on each display section 2A, 2B of the display device 2, and an elapsed time count start signal is similarly inputted to start counting display S3 of the elapsed time on the display section 2C.

In Fig. 1, 15 is a parking fee adjustment station installed inside the parking lot P or at an appropriate place other than the parking lot where users stop by, and 16 is an automatic fee adjustment machine installed inside this adjustment station 15. 17 is an arithmetic processing unit built into the payment machine 16. This arithmetic processing device 1
7, when the customer inserts the parking card 1 issued at the parking entrance P1 into the card acceptance slot 16a provided on the front side of the automatic fare adjustment machine 16, the entry time stored in the storage unit 5 of the parking card 1 is displayed. The parking fee is calculated by calculating the time difference between the current time and the current time, and the calculated parking fee is displayed on the display section 16b.
When the customer (driver) completes the payment by inserting the amount corresponding to the displayed parking fee into the fee slot 16c, the user (driver) will then park the vehicle for an appropriate time (e.g. 10 to 30 minutes) set for permission to leave the parking lot. It is displayed on the display section 2D of the card 1, stored in the storage section 5, and returned to the card receiving slot 16a. Furthermore, the set time for permission to leave the warehouse displayed on the display section 2D starts to display a negative count at the same time as the return of the vehicle, and the memory in the storage section 5 is also subtracted at the same time.

Furthermore, in FIG. 1, 20 is a parking management machine installed at the exit P2 of the parking lot P, and 21 and 22 are a parking card reader and a control device built into this management machine 20. This parking card reader 21 is located at the exit P.
When the vehicle detection signal f4 outputted by the first exit vehicle detector 23, which is formed of a loop coil or the like provided inside the parking card 2, is sent and received, the parking card receiving opening 20a is opened and the parking card 1 can be inserted. In addition, the remaining time of the exit permission setting time stored in the storage unit 5 of the inserted parking card 1 is read through the terminal 3, and if there is a remainder in the exit permission setting time, the inserted parking card 1 is read out. 1 inside the management machine, and the above control device 2.
2 outputs a gate opening signal f5 to the exit gate driving machine 24 to open the exit gate bar 25, allowing the vehicle to leave the garage. In addition, if there is no remainder in the exit permission setting time in the storage unit 5 and the time has expired, the gate opening signal f5 is not output and exit is not possible, and the parking card 1 is sent back to the parking card receiving slot 20a. It is configured to display on the display 20b that the time-over charge will be settled again by the automatic charge settlement machine 16.

Reference numeral 26 denotes a second exit vehicle detector consisting of a loop coil or the like provided on the exit side of the exit gate P1. When a vehicle to be garaged passes through this detector 26 by opening the exit gate bar 25, the exit gate drive motor 24
The gate close signal f6 is outputted, the exit gate bar 25 is closed again, and the exit of the vehicle is completed as shown by the arrow PB.

In addition, the above-mentioned warehousing management device 10 and warehousing management device 20
For example, the patent application developed by the applicant in 1983
Since the warehousing and warehousing management machine described in No. 202500 can be used, a detailed explanation of its structure will be omitted.

Although not shown, by making the display 2 of the parking card 1 even larger, in addition to the above data, it is possible to display the current parking fee, various messages, guides, etc. If the card 1 itself is a fixed-rate parking card having an amount memory, the remaining amount of the memory amount, etc. may be displayed.

[Effect]

Next, the operation of the parking lot management device according to the present invention described above will be explained according to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 to 7.

In the figure, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing in detail the operation at the time of parking in one embodiment of the present invention described above. Steps S1 to S6 in FIG. 4 are performed in accordance with the program stored in the computer.

That is, in step S1, the first entrance vehicle detector 11
When detects a vehicle entering entrance P1,
In step S2, the parking card issuing machine 10R of the warehousing management machine 10 operates to display the current month, day and time on the display sections 2A and 2B, S1 and S2, and to store these data in the storage section 5. At the same time, the parking card 1 is issued with the elapsed time count start displayed on the display section 2C, and thereafter, steps S3 to S3 are issued.
The warehousing process is performed in the order of S6.

Further, FIG. 5 shows that the parking fee is settled using the automatic fare settlement machine 16, and the exit permission time is displayed on the display section 2D of the parking card 1 S4.
This is a flowchart showing in detail the operation of storing this time data in the storage unit 5 and returning it.
S15 shows each step of fee settlement and exit permission time recording.
(not shown). Although it is not described in the flowchart of FIG. 5, the display S4 and memory of the exit permission setting time displayed on the cleared parking card 1 returned from the automatic fare adjustment machine 16 are performed according to the time. A minus sign S4M is displayed in front of the display S4 as long as there is a surplus in the delivery permission setting time, and a plus sign (not shown) is displayed in front of the display S4 when there is no surplus left and the time is over. Display and call attention to the information.

Figure 6 is a flowchart showing in detail the operation when leaving the warehouse, and S16 to S28 indicate each step.
In particular, in step S22, it is determined whether or not the delivery is within the set delivery permission time, and if it is within the time, the delivery process is completed, and if the time is over, the system prompts for repayment. The processing is programmed and stored in each ROM of the card reader 21 and control device 22 provided in the exit management machine 20, which is configured using a microcomputer or the like.

Furthermore, FIG. 7 is a time chart explaining the procedure for re-settlement of time-over charges when the permitted departure time has expired. It is carried out in the order of S29 to S33,
After step S33, the processing from step S12 onward in FIG. 5 is carried out again, and then the delivery processing is carried out in the same manner as in FIG. 6.

〔effect〕

As explained above, according to the parking lot management device according to the present invention, the parking management device automatically issues a parking card when entering the parking lot, and when exiting the vehicle after shopping etc., the parking lot management device automatically issues the parking card. If you insert the parking card into the automatic fare adjustment machine and pay the displayed fare, a parking card with the set exit permission time will be sent back to you, and if you insert this parking card into the exit management machine within the set time,
Since the exit gate can be opened to allow the vehicle to leave the parking lot, all vehicle parking management can be automated and congestion at the exit gate can be alleviated, which is very convenient. The elapsed parking time is displayed in real time, and after the parking fee is paid, the exit permission setting time is displayed as a negative count, so you can confirm the parking time and calculate the parking fee accurately and easily. It is possible to accurately grasp the time elapsed from the time to the time of delivery, and to take advantage of the advantage of being able to prevent time-outs as much as possible.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure of a parking lot management device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of a parking card used in the present invention, and Fig. 3 is an electrical block diagram thereof.
Figure 4 is a flowchart explaining the processing procedure for receiving goods, Figure 5 is a flowchart explaining the processing procedure for charge settlement, Figure 6 is a flowchart explaining the processing procedure for leaving the warehouse, and Figure 7 is a flowchart explaining the procedure for payment of charges. This is a flowchart explaining the processing procedure. 1 is a parking card, 2 is a display, 2A, 2B, 2
C and 2D are display units, 3 is a terminal, 4 is a battery, 5 is a storage unit, 6 is a clock circuit, 10 is a parking management machine, 10R is a parking card issuing machine, 16 is an automatic fare adjustment machine, and 20 is a parking management machine , P is the parking lot, P1
is the warehouse entrance, and P2 is the warehouse exit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. If you insert a parking card issued at the time of parking into a parking lot or another location other than the parking lot, with the entry time recorded, the parking fee will be calculated based on the recorded entry time, and this calculated parking fee will be calculated based on the recorded parking time. When payment is made, an automatic fare adjustment machine is installed that records the predetermined time for leaving the parking lot on the parking card and returns it, and at the parking lot exit, the time for leaving the parking lot is recorded. When you insert your parking card, the remaining time of the recorded exit permission setting time is scanned,
An exit control machine is provided that is configured to open the exit gate when the exit permission setting time has elapsed, and not to open the exit gate when the exit permission setting time has expired. In the parking lot, the above-mentioned parking card has a display section that displays the month, day, and time of entry, an elapsed time display section that displays a real-time count of the elapsed time since entering the parking lot, and the above-mentioned exit permission setting time. A permitted time display section for displaying the above-mentioned parking card, and a storage section for storing the display contents of each of these display sections are provided, and a negative count is displayed at the same time as the exit permission set time displayed on the permitted time display section of the parking card. A parking lot management device characterized in that it is configured to do so.