JPH0725505A - Recording medium processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] In an automatic ticket gate, the ticket to be collected should be collected surely to prevent a failure. [Structure] A discharging section 4 of this automatic ticket gate apparatus, based on the information recorded on the ticket 2, a CPU 42 for determining a carrying route for carrying the ticket 2 to the exit side and the ticket collecting section 40 side, It has a rotating roller and a belt that normally and reversely convey the ticket 2 in accordance with the determined conveyance path, a support roller 31 arranged near the outlet, and a pressing roller 39 facing the support roller 31. This pressing roller 39
The solenoid 37 that presses the pressing roller 37 toward the supporting roller 31 when the ticket 2 is conveyed between the supporting roller 31 and the supporting roller 31, and the driving direction of the driving roller 34 provided on the rotating shaft 30 of the supporting roller 31 is the rotating shaft. A 1-way clutch-equipped pulley 35 that transmits the driving force to the rotary shaft 30 only in the direction of reversing 30 is provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recording medium processing device such as an automatic ticket inspection device for performing ticket collection or ticket collection on a recording medium such as a ticket.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, for example, in relation to railways, it is provided at the entrance or exit of facilities such as railways for the purpose of labor saving at ticket gates, and when users who use the facility enter or leave the facility, When changing facilities,
An automatic ticket gate system has been introduced that takes in a ticket carried by a user, inspects it, permits the passage of the user if the ticket is appropriate, and blocks the passage of the user if the ticket is inappropriate.

This automatic ticket gate apparatus has magnetic information recorded on one side (back side) of a ticket inserted by the user from the receiving section when the user enters, exits or changes trains.
For example, read information such as the entrance station and the effective charge,
Based on this read information, it is determined whether to allow or block passage of the user, and after the ticket is subjected to a predetermined process, such as printing or punching, the ticket is discharged from the discharge section through a predetermined transport path. It is used for discharging or collecting the bills in the bill collecting section.

The exit section of the conventional automatic ticket gate apparatus supports a belt mechanism for transporting the ticket in the direction of the exit, an exit guide provided in the vicinity of the exit, and a rotating roller facing the exit guide to support the ride. It consists of a solenoid that presses the rotating roller against the ejection guide when the ticket is conveyed into the ejection guide and holds the ticket. This solenoid is a type that pulls when it is on and pushes it with the force of a spring when it is off.

In the case of this automatic ticket gate, if the ticket at the exit is not pulled out and a predetermined time elapses, the rotating roller is separated from the ejection guide and the ticket naturally drops to the drive belt. It has a mechanism to collect the tickets in the ticket collection section provided at, which prevents troubles such as the stop of the ticket gate caused by forgetting to take the ticket.

By the way, in this automatic ticket gate apparatus, when a ticket forgotten by the user is collected in the ticket collecting section, if the ticket is deformed, for example, is twisted or curled, the belt near the discharge section is Sometimes the device does not fall normally in the bill collecting part due to being caught in the mechanism and the bills are not collected. in this case,
The ticket becomes a factor that causes a failure because it is jammed or pinched by the belt mechanism.

[0007]

As described above, in the above-described conventional automatic ticket gate apparatus, when the user forgets to pick up the ticket, the ticket is naturally dropped from the discharge portion to collect the ticket. If it is deformed, there is a problem in that it may be jammed or pinched in the device and cause a failure. The present invention has been made to solve such problems,
An object of the present invention is to provide a recording medium processing device such as an automatic ticket gate device capable of surely collecting the tickets to be collected and preventing the occurrence of a failure.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the recording medium processing apparatus of the present invention drives the recording medium forward in accordance with the transport path to transport the recording medium to the take-out port, and reversely drives the recording medium. And a rotation support member fixed to a rotatable central shaft located near the outlet, and a support member facing the rotation support member via the transport path. Pressing means for pressing the support member toward the rotation supporting member when the recording medium is conveyed between the rotation supporting member and the supporting member by the forward rotation of the conveying means, and provided on the central axis, And a unidirectional driving force transmitting means for transmitting the driving force to the central axis only when the driving direction of the conveying means is the direction for reversing the central axis.

Further, this recording medium processing device is provided on the central axis, and the conveying means is driven to rotate in the forward direction and the one-way driving force transmitting means is idling with respect to the central axis, so that the friction force causes the recording medium processing apparatus to move. It further comprises rotation blocking means for blocking rotation of the central shaft.

[0010]

In the recording medium processing apparatus of the present invention, when the recording medium conveyed by the forward drive of the conveying means is located between the rotation supporting member and the supporting member in the vicinity of the take-out port, the supporting member is pressed by the pressing means. The recording medium is pressed against the side of the rotation support member and is sandwiched between the recording media. At this time, the rotation supporting member does not rotate due to the action of the one-way driving force transmitting means, so that the recording medium remains supported at that position.

When the recording medium is not taken out from the take-out port, the conveying means is reversed, but the driving force in the opposite direction is transmitted to the rotation supporting member via the central axis by the one-way driving force transmitting means. To be done. Then, the recording medium supported by the rotation supporting member is forcibly conveyed to and accommodated in the accommodating portion by the rotation thereof.

That is, the recording medium to be accommodated in the accommodating portion is surely accommodated in the accommodating portion without being caught on the way, so that the occurrence of failure can be prevented in advance.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing the structure of an automatic ticket gate apparatus of one embodiment according to the recording medium processing apparatus of the present invention.

As shown in the figure, at one end of the automatic ticket gate apparatus main body 1, a ticket as a card-shaped recording medium is provided with a magnetic recording portion for storing information by a magnetic recording method or the like on a predetermined surface (back surface). A receiving section 3 for receiving 2 and a discharging section 4 for discharging the boarding ticket 2 inserted from the receiving section 3 are provided at the other end. As the ticket 2, for example, a fare prepaid method having a monetary value (normal ticket, commuter pass, coupon ticket, etc.), or a method of deducting the fare prepaid having a monetary value each time it is used (stored fair method) )
Those having different thickness, width, etc. are used.
Of these tickets, for example, a regular ticket is small (30 mm
X57.5mm) paper ticket, so-called Edmonson ticket. On the other hand, commuter passes and coupons are large plastic cards (57.5 mm x 85 mm) compared to Edmonson tickets. It should be noted that the coupon ticket is a ticket in which a punch hole is punched at a predetermined position on the ticket surface for each boarding. The thickness of these tickets varies from about 0.18 mm to 0.45 mm depending on whether they are made of paper or plastic. That is, the ticket 2 is roughly divided into two types according to the width, and when the thickness is increased, it varies from about 0.18 mm to 0.45 mm depending on the material.

Between the receiving portion 3 and the discharging portion 4, a transport path 5 for transporting the ticket 2 received from the receiving portion 3 to the discharging portion 4 side is formed by a plurality of transport belts or the like. . A plurality of detectors (sensors) 6,
7, 8 and 9 are provided to detect passage of the ticket 2 being conveyed. Further, on the transport path 5, between the receiving section 3 and the discharging section 4, magnetic information reading sections (reading heads) 10 and 11 for reading the magnetic information recorded on the ticket 2 are provided.
Magnetic information recording units (writing heads) 12 and 13 for recording magnetic information on the ticket 2 and magnetic information reading units (reading heads) 14 and 15 for reading the recorded magnetic information are provided. Each of the read / write heads 10 to 15 is provided with a support member (rotating roller) 16 so that a predetermined space is provided as the transport path 5 and each space is maintained.
21 are provided. In addition, each read / write head 10
˜15 are attached to one side surface of the automatic ticket gate apparatus main body 1 together with the rotating rollers 16 to 21. In addition, each reading
The write magnetic heads 10 to 15 are provided one above and one below the transport path 5 so that the magnetic information on the back side can be read and written when the ticket 2 is inserted either on the front side or the back side. . In addition, distribution units 22 and 23 for distributing the tickets 2 are provided on the transport path 5. Since the sorting unit 22 performs different post-processing on ordinary tickets and other tickets, depending on the ticket 2, for example, a coupon ticket and a stored fair system card (hereinafter referred to as SF card) are SF
The processing section 24 side allocates the commuter pass and the Edmonson ticket to the boarding ticket pool section 25 side. When the ticket 2 that has been inserted is to be discharged, the sorting unit 23 extracts the ticket 2 from the exit 26 of the discharging unit 4.
In the direction, or when the inserted ticket 2 is to be collected, the ticket 2 is distributed toward the collecting section 40. Further, the automatic ticket gate apparatus main body 1 is provided with a door portion 41 which is closed to prevent passage of a user.

Next, the structure of the control system of the automatic ticket gate will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in the figure,
The automatic ticket gate control system includes a central processing unit 42 (hereinafter referred to as CPU) that controls the entire automatic ticket gate, and a read-only memory 44 (hereinafter referred to as RO) that stores a control program for the CPU 42.
R), a random access memory 46 (hereinafter referred to as RAM) for storing information read from the ticket 2 and a buffer of a control program, an entrance station where the use of the ticket 2 is started (or A fare memory 48 storing fare information corresponding to an entrance station code corresponding to an entrance station, a reading circuit 50 for controlling the reading heads 10, 11, 14, 15 and a recording circuit for controlling the writing heads 12, 13. 52, ticket 2 based on the outputs of detectors 6-9
Board detection circuit 54 for detecting the carrying state of the vehicle, a carrying control circuit 56 for controlling a carrying motor 55 for carrying the boarding ticket 2 along the carrying path 5, and a door for controlling a door opening / closing mechanism 58 for driving the door section 41. The control circuit 60 is composed of a control panel (not shown) for controlling the main body 1 of the automatic ticket gate, a transmission control circuit 62 for transmitting information to and from a host computer, and the like.

Next, referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the discharge section 4
Will be described in detail.

In FIGS. 3 and 4, reference numeral 30 is a rotary shaft. Two support rollers 31 are fixed on the rotating shaft 30 at a position where the ticket is conveyed, and the two supporting rollers 31 rotate together with the rotating shaft 30. A 1-way clutched pulley 32 is provided on the rotary shaft 30. In this 1-way clutched pulley 32, the belt 33 hung on the outer peripheral portion 32a of the pulley 32 is moved in the forward direction by the drive roller 34 (arrow a
Direction) and the opposite direction (direction of arrow b),
The driving force in only the reverse direction is transmitted to the rotating shaft 30 to rotate the rotating shaft 30, and the driving force in the positive direction idles and does not transmit the driving force to the rotating shaft 30. Furthermore, this rotating shaft 30
Pulley 35 with 1-way clutch to prevent reverse rotation
Is provided. The outer peripheral portion 35a of the 1-way clutch pulley 35 for preventing reverse rotation is fixed to the apparatus main body 1 by a metal fitting 36. When the belt 33 is driven in the forward direction and the 1-way clutched pulley 32 is idling with respect to the rotating shaft 30, the 1-way clutching pulley 35 for preventing the reverse rotation rotates the rotating shaft 30 by the frictional force. It serves to hold down the rotating shaft 30 so as not to.

On the other hand, a solenoid 37 of a type that is pulled when turned on and pushed by a spring force when turned off is fixed to the automatic ticket gate body 1. A pressing roller 39 is supported on the movable portion 38 of the solenoid 37 so as to face the two supporting rollers 31 of the rotary shaft 30.
The pressing roller 39 is pressed against the supporting roller 31 by the force of the return spring of the solenoid 37 when the ticket 2 is conveyed, and the pressing roller 39 and the supporting roller 31 cause a part of the ticket 2 to be projected from the exit 26 to be sandwiched. To do.

In this automatic ticket gate apparatus, when the ticket 2 is inserted from the inserting section 3, the size of the ticket 2 in the width direction is first detected by the detectors 6 and 7, and the detection result is the ticket detection. It is taken into the CPU 42 through the circuit 54.

The ticket 2 is conveyed through the conveying path 5 as it is regardless of the front and back sides, and the magnetic information is read by either one of the reading heads 10 and 11 provided one by one, and the magnetic information is read by the reading circuit 50. Through CPU4
Taken in 2. At this time, the CPU 42 obtains the information indicating which side of the ticket 2 that has been inserted is facing up by the reading head 10 or the reading head 11 that has read the magnetic information. The CPU 42 allows the boarding ticket 2 to pass through as it is, and performs magnetic processing and punching processing based on the captured information. For example, when performing magnetic processing, 1
Magnetic information is written on the back surface of the ticket 2 by one of the write heads 12 and 13 provided in pairs, and the write result is displayed by the read head 14 or the read head 15 provided in the same direction as the surface. Read and confirm. If the ticket 2 is an Edmonson ticket or the like, the CPU 42 controls the distribution unit 22 to distribute the ticket to the ticket pool unit 25 side. If the ticket 2 is a coupon ticket, etc., the sorting unit 2
2 is controlled and the ticket 2 is distributed to the SF processing unit 24 side.

After the above processing, when the CPU 42 determines that the ticket 2 is appropriate, the CPU 42 instructs the door control circuit 60 to permit the passage of the user, and opens the door portion 41 of the door opening / closing mechanism 58. The sorting unit 23 is controlled in the discharging direction, and the ticket 2 is sent out toward the outlet 26 of the discharging unit 4 through the transport path 5.

In this case, the drive roller 34 rotates in the forward direction along with the flow of the other conveyor belt 27, the ticket 2 is conveyed to the discharging portion 4, and the leading end of the ticket 2 passes through the support roller 31. When contacting the sensor 9, the CPU 42 controls the solenoid 37 to press the pressing roller 39 against the support roller 31. Then, the ticket 2 and the support roller 31 with only the tip of the ticket 2 ejected.
Sandwiched between. At this time, the 1-way clutch-equipped pulley 32 is driven in the forward direction and therefore runs idle. Moreover, even if a rotational force is generated on the rotary shaft 30 by the idling frictional force, the 1-way clutched pulley 35 for preventing reverse rotation is fixed to the apparatus main body 1 by the metal fitting 36, so that the rotary shaft 30 cannot rotate in the forward direction at all. Therefore, the ticket 2 will not move from the sandwiched position. Here, when the passenger ticket 2 is pulled out by the user who has passed through the door portion 41, the sensor 9 detects it and the CPU 42 shifts to the next operation so as to send the next ticket 2 to the discharging portion 4.

Here, the user who has passed through the door portion 41
When the driver forgets to take the ticket 2 from the ejection unit 4, the CPU 42 controls the drive roller 34 together with the other conveyor belts 27 so as to reverse the drive roller 34 after a lapse of a predetermined time. Then, the belt 33 is driven by the drive roller 34.
Are driven in the opposite direction (direction of arrow b). When the driving force in the reverse direction is applied to the 1-way clutch pulley 32, the driving force is transmitted, so that the rotating shaft 30 rotates and the supporting roller 31 rotates in the opposite direction. As a result, the ticket 2 held between the support roller 31 and the pressing roller 39
Is forced to go backwards and be conveyed to the bill collecting section 40 side, and the bill collecting section 40
Will be surely collected.

That is, when the ticket 2 is not pulled out from the ejecting section 4, the ticket 2 is forcibly conveyed to the ticket collecting section 40 by the reverse rotation of the support roller 31 and surely collected.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the user does not pull out the ticket 2 from the discharge section 4,
The driving roller 34 of the discharging section 4 reverses, the driving force is transmitted to the supporting roller 31 by the pulley 32 with the 1-way clutch, and the supporting roller 31 delivers the sandwiched ticket 2 to the conveyor belt and forcibly collects the bill. Since the vehicle 2 is transported to and collected securely, the ticket 2 is not jammed or pinched in the device as in the conventional case, and the occurrence of a failure can be prevented.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the recording medium is not pulled out from the take-out port, only the driving force in the reverse direction is transmitted by the one-way driving force transmitting means via the central axis to the rotation supporting member. And the recording medium sandwiched between the rotation supporting member and the supporting member is forcibly conveyed to the accommodating portion, so that the recording medium to be accommodated, such as a ticket, can be collected securely.

As a result, it is possible to prevent a failure from occurring.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of an automatic ticket gate of the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a control system of the automatic ticket gate apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of only a discharge section of the automatic ticket gate of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing in detail a main part configuration of a discharge part of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Main body of automatic ticket gate, 2 ... Ticket, 3 ... Reception section, 4 ...
Ejection part, 5 ... Conveyance path, 30 ... Rotating shaft, 31 ... Support roller, 32 ... 1WAY clutch-included pulley, 33 ... Belt, 34 ... Drive roller, 35 ... 1WAY clutch-included pulley for preventing reverse rotation, 36 ... Metal fittings, 37 …solenoid,
38 ... Moving part of solenoid, 39 ... Pressing roller.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A transporting unit that drives the recording medium to a take-out port by rotating in the forward direction according to a carrying path, and drives the recording medium to a storage unit by driving in a reverse direction, and is rotatable near the take-out port. A rotation support member fixed to the central axis and a support member facing the rotation support member via the transport path are provided, and the recording medium is transferred between the rotation support member and the support member by forward rotation of the transport means. A pressing unit that presses the supporting member toward the rotation supporting member when being conveyed, and a pressing unit that is provided on the central axis and that is driven only by the central axis when the driving direction of the conveying unit is the direction that reverses the central axis. A recording medium processing device, comprising: a one-way driving force transmitting means for transmitting a driving force. 2. The recording medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conveying means is provided on the central axis, the conveying means is driven in the forward direction, and the one-way driving force transmitting means is idling with respect to the central axis. The recording medium processing apparatus further comprising rotation preventing means for preventing the central shaft from rotating due to the frictional force.