JPH0354783A - Prepaid card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily judge an inserting direction by boring a hole in a position, which is determined in advance, on an end side to be inserted excepting for a part on the center line of the card. CONSTITUTION:A hole 13 is bored in the position, which is determined in advance, on the end side to be inserted excepting for the part on the center line of a card 10. This hole 13 is provided to confirm whether the prepaid card 10 inserted to the card inserting port of a prepaid card reader/writer is inserted in a regular read direction or not. Thus, whether the prepaid card 10 is inserted from the regular direction or not can be instantaneously judged simultaneously with the insertion of the prepaid card and time for processing the card can be shortened.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a Bripay card, and particularly to regulation of the method of inserting a Bripay card.

[Prior art] Conventionally, confirmation of the reading direction of this type of bripaid card was done by
As shown in Figures 3 and 4. A Vrivaid card reader/writer (not shown) absorbs the magnetic data written on a part (magnetic data recording area) 11 on the back side of the Vrivaid card 10'.
Read and determine the presence or absence of data. I was checking. still,
12 is a card insertion direction display mark.

Therefore. If the prepaid card 10' is inserted from a direction other than the normal reading direction, the Vrivaid card 10'
After performing a reading operation and determining the presence or absence of data, the prepaid card 10' was ejected. A large amount of processing time was required to determine whether or not the bripaid card 10' was inserted in the correct direction.

C Problem to be Solved by the Invention] The conventional VIVADE card 10' described above has no distinction in its external shape with respect to the insertion direction of the VIVADE card 10'. For that reason. The Bripaid card reader/writer sucks in the Prepaid card 10', reads the magnetic data written in advance on the Bripaid card 10', determines the presence or absence of data, and confirms that the reading direction of the Prepaid card 10' is correct. I was checking to see if it was. Processing was taking a long time.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The BriPaid card according to the present invention is characterized in that a hole is punched at a predetermined position on the end side to be inserted, except on the center line of the card.

When the prepaid card according to the present invention is inserted, the C-action Co-Privade card reader/writer detects the position of the hole and instantly detects the inserted Prepaid card at the card insertion slot of the prepaid card reader/writer. It is possible to determine whether or not it has been inserted in the correct direction.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 and 2, the Vrivaid card 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
It has a structure similar to that shown in the figure.

Hole 13 is a Vrivaid card reader/writer (not shown)
However, the Bripaid card 1 inserted into the card slot
This is to confirm whether or not 0 has been inserted in the normal reading direction. In this embodiment, the hole 13 is formed at a position other than the card center line (imaginary line) 14, that is, on the right or left side of the card center line 14. It is also one place on the end side where the Vliveid card 10 is to be inserted.

When the prepaid card 10 with a reading direction identification mark having such a structure is inserted into a prepaid card reader/writer, the prepaid card reader/writer recognizes the reading direction identification mark 13 and if the reading direction is correct, it is inserted into the prepaid card reader/writer. Inhale 10 and start normal operation. On the other hand, when the reading direction of the prepaid card 10 is incorrect, the prepaid card reader/writer performs an operation indicating that the prepaid card 10 is inserted in the wrong direction without inhaling the Vliveid card 10.

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, the present invention has the following advantages. Since holes are made at predetermined positions on the edge where the card should be inserted, excluding the center line of the card, it is possible to instantly determine whether or not the inserted prepaid card was inserted from the correct direction at the same time as the prepaid card is inserted. This has the effect of reducing card processing time.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a front view showing the structure of a prepaid card according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a back view of the prepaid card shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a front view showing the structure of a conventional prepaid card. , FIG. 4 is a back view of the Bripaid card shown in FIG. 3. 10... Prepaid card, 11... Magnetic data recording area, 12... Card insertion direction indicator, 13...
- Reading direction identification mark (hole), 14...Card center line (imaginary line). Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 2 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A prepaid card characterized by having a hole punched at a predetermined position on the end side where it is to be inserted, excluding the center line of the card.