JPH05314346A - Pos system device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To use one card for purchase of balls, recording of prize balls, and conversion of held balls to money by preliminarily writing the frequency corre sponding to the amount of money on the personal card any time and allowing a user to draw money corresponding to the frequency held on the card later if necessary. CONSTITUTION:When a card body C is inserted to a money/ball exchanger 10 and money is thrown in, the number of balls corresponding to the amount of thrown-in money is stored in the card body C. When the card body C is inserted to a card reader device 14, the number of held balls is displayed. When the user sees this display to deeignate the number of balls to be used by a switch board 15, he can purchase the designated number of balls. When balls are left at the time of the end of the game and these left prize balls are put in a ball number counter 26, the counted number of these balls is added to the number of held balls stored in the card C and the addition result is stored. Thus, left balls can be drawn and used for the next game.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a POS system device capable of writing beforehand the amount of money corresponding to the amount of money on a personal card in advance and withdrawing the amount of money corresponding to the amount of money held in the card when needed later. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A POS (or LAN) system device including a plurality of terminal processing devices and one system main body processing device is, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, a plurality of terminal processing devices 1 and one system main body device 2. It is composed of a (server), and has an advantage that a database and peripheral devices can be shared by exchanging data via the node 3. In recent years, for example, such a system device has been adopted even in a pachinko amusement store, and each pachinko game is played. We manage the ball output.

That is, each pachinko game table is provided with a microprocessor having a processing capacity of a predetermined number of bits, and the system main body processing unit manages the number of balls output per unit time.

[0004]

By the way, conventionally, the use of the POS system in a pachinko amusement store has been limited to such a payout management, and has not been applied to the customer's ball processing. In other words, it is premised that the customer's possession ball is exchanged for a prize each time, and it was thought that managing the record and returning the recorded possession ball would complicate the processing procedure. There is a situation that will not be realized.

On the other hand, from the customer's point of view, the ball is left while playing within a limited time, but if there is not enough coins to exchange for a prize, the game is ended early, so the ball is intentionally wasted. I often hit it.

[0006] However, since pachinko play is an entertainment activity involving money, it is not preferable to impose a disadvantage on the customer due to the circumstances of the store.

In recent years, a system using a prepaid card has also been realized, but a system using this prepaid card merely records the possessed balls and is recorded on this prepaid card. If all the used balls are used, the card will be discarded and it will be a waste of resources, and the user will be forced to inconvenience that the balls must be exchanged for prizes. At present, there is a strong demand for improvement of the problem.

The present invention was devised in view of the present situation, and its purpose is to purchase a ball by using a POS system device introduced in, for example, a pachinko amusement store. An object of the present invention is to provide a POS system device capable of recording balls and converting held balls into money with one card.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a POS system device records a card body having an identification number recorded therein and a frequency corresponding to money in the card body. The present invention is characterized by comprising a writing means and a cash dispenser device for converting the possession frequency recorded on the card body into money.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described below in detail based on an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the PO according to this embodiment
The S system device 10 uses the card body C on which the identification number is recorded, the money / ball exchange 11 for recording the frequency corresponding to money on the card body C, and the possession frequency recorded on the card body C for money. Cash dispenser device 1 for conversion
2, and is comprised.

The card body C is formed of an IC card, an optical card, a magnetic card or the like having a large recording capacity. In the card body C, an identification number peculiar to the card is preliminarily input in the initial state. Besides being recorded, the number of balls etc. is not recorded.

Therefore, the user first purchases the card body C at a pachinko parlor or an agency.

After such work is completed, the user inserts the card body C into the money / ball exchange 11 at a pachinko parlor or the like and puts money into the money / ball exchange 11 to correspond to the inserted money. The number of balls (frequency) is registered (recorded) in the card body C.

Next, the user inserts the card body C on which the above frequency is recorded into the card reader device 14, and the card reader device 14 determines the number of balls held by the inserted card body C, for example, It is displayed on a display (not shown), and the user sees this display and determines the number of balls to be used by the switch board 1.
Specify with 5.

The ball drawing information and the identification number specified by the switch board 15 are input to the microprocessor device 16.

The microprocessor device 16 is a number reading device 17 for reading the customer identification number and the number of held balls N ₀ recorded on the card body C, and the designated number of drawn balls N ₁ input from the switch board 15 is N _1. When ≦ N ₀ , the withdrawal permission device 18 is output, the operation control device 20 that operates the dispenser device 19 based on the output of the withdrawal permission device 18, and the withdrawal ball number N ₁ is subtracted from the possessed ball number N ₀ a subtraction processing unit 21 to calculate the Do owned piece count _{N 01,} the number held ball updated _{N 01 (N 01 = N 0} -N 1) the server 22 and the rewriting device 23 to be stored in the card body C
And are equipped with.

The card reader devices 14 are connected to one server (system main unit) 22 via a bus 24. Reference numeral 25 in the drawing denotes an auxiliary memory of the server 22, such as a hard disk.

When all the number of balls recorded in the card body C is exhausted in this way, the user again follows the above-mentioned procedure at the pachinko parlor or the like to use the money / ball exchange bowl 1
By inserting (inserting) the card body C into 1 and again inserting money into the money / ball exchange 11 and registering (recording) the number of balls (frequency) corresponding to the inserted money in the card body C, the card body C Can be reused.

On the other hand, when there are balls left at the end of the game, the user puts the remaining balls into the ball number counter 26.

The number-of-balls counter 26 adds the number of held balls N ₂ stored this time to the number of held balls N ₀ stored in the card body C or the updated number of held balls N ₀₁ via the addition processing device 27. , The number of added balls N ₃ (N ₃ = N ₀ or N ₀₁ +
N ₂ ) is written to the card body C via the writing device 28. Of course, these data processings are automatically input to the server 22 via the addition processing device 27.

Therefore, the user can use the card body C having the number of held balls N ₃ or N ₀ or N ₀₁ recorded in the above procedure to pull out the balls in the next procedure, or The card body C is inserted into the prize dispenser device 29 for exchanging the pachinko game balls and the prize, and exchanged for a desired prize, or the card body C is inserted into the cash dispenser device 12 for exchange with cash. be able to.
The configurations of the pachinko game ball dispenser device and the prize dispenser device have already been proposed by the present applicant, and therefore the description thereof is omitted here.

This cash dispenser device 12 is
It supplies money corresponding to the number N ₃ or N ₀ or N ₀₁ of the balls stored in the card body C, and the identification number of the card C and the number N ₃ or N ₀ or N _{01 of the} balls held. And a card reader device 30 for reading the number of balls N ₃ or N ₀ or N ₀₁ read by the card reader device 30.
An arithmetic processing unit 31 for calculating a monetary amount corresponding to the above and a switch board 32 for designating the number of coins to be exchanged
And a dispenser 33 for supplying money based on the rate calculated by the arithmetic processing unit 31 when the number of exchanged balls designated by the switch board 32 is equal to or less than the number N _{3 of} held balls or N ₀ or N _01. , The number of balls held corresponding to the withdrawal monetary amount is subtracted from the number of held balls N ₃ or N ₀ or N ₀₁ recorded in the card body C when the money is supplied, and the subtracted number of held balls is calculated. And a subtraction / write processing device 34 for writing. Of course, all the operations performed by the cash dispenser device 12 are automatically input and recorded in the server 22 via the bus 24. It should be noted that the signal lines in the figure show only the main ones for data transmission, and, for example, the handshake signal line and the like are omitted.

Therefore, in the POS system apparatus according to this embodiment, it is possible to easily exchange balls for rewards and cash with a single personal card, and use a used card as in the conventional case. Since it is not necessary to dispose of it, it is resource-efficient, and because it is easy to manage, its usability is greatly improved, and at the same time, it is not necessary to waste the remaining number of balls at least, which is a great convenience. The effect of being improved.

In the present embodiment, reference to a display device such as a CRT is omitted for simplification of description, but an appropriate display device can be provided for facilitating input operation and the counterfeit. In order to prevent this, a personal identification number may be registered in addition to the above identification number.

In the above embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to the POS system for pachinko balls has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and, for example, a telephone card or a railway. Of course, it can be applied to the orange card format or a combination of these, as well.
The OS system wiring is shown as a so-called loop type wiring, but it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented even by so-called bus type or star type wiring processing.

[0027]

As described above, the P according to the present invention
According to the OS system device, since it is not necessary to discard the used card, it is useful in terms of resources and is easy to manage. Therefore, it is possible to greatly improve the usability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration example of a POS system device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional POS system device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 C card body 10 POS system device 12 cash dispenser device 11 cash / ball exchange device 14 card reader device 16 microprocessor device 17 number reading device 22 server (system main unit memory)

Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁵ Identification number Office reference number FI Technical display location G06F 15/21 310 Z 7218-5L 15/30 G 6798-5L

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A card body on which an identification number is recorded, a writing means for recording the frequency corresponding to money on the card body, and a cash dispenser device for converting the possessed frequency recorded on the card body into money. A POS system device configured by including.