JPH07306919A - Terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the waste of the processing time of a cutform and to improve the overall processing speed by releasing the fixed cutform in a magnetic processing part before the next non-magnetic processing command is received when the access processing is normally finished to the magnetic stripes of the cutform. CONSTITUTION:When a cutform is processed, the cutform is sent to a magnetic stripe processing part 2 from a cutform hopper part 1 based on the received magnetic processing command string. Then the cutform is temporarily fixed at a prescribed position of the part 2. The MS read processing is carried out to read the magnetic information out of the stripes of the cutform. Meanwhile the fixed cutform is released in the part 2 at a terminal equipment as long as the magnetic processing command string includes an MS holding cancel command and also the MS read processing is normally carried out. When a non-magnetic processing command string is received under such condition, the cutform is sent to a print processing part 3 and printed there as prescribed. When the print processing is finished, the printed cutform is stored in a stacker part 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a terminal device for performing a predetermined process such as an access process to a magnetic stripe provided on a cut sheet by an external command.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of terminal device, a magnetic stripe processing section is provided in the middle of a conveyance path for guiding a cut sheet from a paper feed section to a paper discharge section, and a cut sheet is sent based on an external command. For the purpose of preventing misalignment from the reading / writing position of cut sheets when accessing the magnetic stripe of paper, that is, reading magnetic information from the magnetic stripe or writing predetermined magnetic information to the magnetic stripe. The cut sheet is temporarily fixed in the magnetic stripe processing section.

When a cut sheet is processed by such a terminal device, a magnetic processing command string A consisting of a series of commands as shown in FIG. 8A, that is, an inhalation command and an MS (magnetic stripe) read command. Is received from the host computer, the control unit of this apparatus is designed to perform the processing shown in FIG.

That is, first, it is judged whether or not the received command string is the command string A, and when it is judged that the command string A is received, the cut sheet is sucked from the paper feeding section based on the suction command. Inhalation processing is performed, and the sheet is conveyed along the conveying path to the magnetic stripe processing section, and the cut sheet is temporarily fixed in the magnetic stripe processing section.

Next, an MS read process for reading magnetic information from the magnetic stripe is performed based on the MS read command, and the result is transmitted to the host computer. Then, in the host computer, the magnetic information read by the MS read process is processed.

At this time, the apparatus waits for the reception of the next command sequence with the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic stripe processing section. When the host computer receives from the host computer a series of commands as shown in FIG. 8B, that is, a non-magnetic processing command sequence B consisting of a transport command, a print command, a normal discharge command, and print data, the control of this apparatus is performed. The unit is adapted to perform the processing shown in FIG.

That is, first, it is determined whether or not the received command sequence is the command sequence B, and if it is determined that the command sequence B is received, first, the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic stripe processing unit is released. The MS hold release process is performed, and the cut sheet is transported to the print processing unit provided on the downstream side of the magnetic stripe processing unit based on the transport command.

Subsequently, a command sequence B is issued by a print command.
Printing processing is performed on cut-sheet paper based on the print data set in. Then, when the printing process is completed, a paper discharge process of discharging the printed cut paper to the paper discharge unit is performed, and a series of process results is transmitted to the host computer.

As described above, the conventional terminal device releases the cut sheet at that timing only after receiving the instruction of the next process to be performed after releasing the cut sheet with the fixed instruction sequence from the host computer. The next process was performed.

[0010]

However, in such a terminal device, even if the magnetic processing by the magnetic processing command sequence is completed, the terminal device is still in the magnetic stripe processing section until the next non-magnetic processing command sequence is received. There was a problem that the fixed cut paper could not be released.

Therefore, the time for releasing the cut sheet from the reception of the waiting time of the next command and the non-magnetic processing command string until the processing by this non-magnetic processing command string is wasted. .

Therefore, the present invention is intended to provide a terminal device which can prevent the waste of the processing time of the cut sheets and therefore can improve the processing speed as a whole.

[0013]

According to the present invention, a magnetic stripe processing section is provided in the middle of a conveyance path for guiding a cut sheet provided with a magnetic stripe from a paper feeding section to a paper discharging section. An external magnetic processing command string consisting of a series of commands for performing the processing is used to convey a single-cut sheet from the paper feed section to the magnetic stripe processing section, and temporarily fix it inside the magnetic stripe processing section. After performing the access process, wait for the reception of the non-magnetic processing command string consisting of a series of commands for performing the predetermined processing after the magnetic processing, and when the non-magnetic processing command string is received, the non-magnetic processing command string In a terminal device that performs processing based on a magnetic stripe processing unit, a magnetic paper processing unit that releases the fixed-cut paper fixed in the magnetic stripe processing unit A normal termination determining means for determining whether or not the access processing to the magnetic stripe of the cut sheet in the processing section has been completed normally, and whether or not the received magnetic processing command string has a cut sheet release command. The release command determining means for determining whether or not the release command determining means determines that the received magnetic processing command sequence has a cut sheet release command when processing the cut sheet, and the normal end determining means. When it is determined that the magnetic processing has been normally completed, a cut sheet release control means for releasing the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic processing section by the cut sheet releasing means before receiving the non-magnetic processing command is provided. It is a thing.

[0014]

In the present invention having such a structure, when a cut sheet provided with a magnetic stripe is processed and a magnetic processing command sequence having a cut sheet release command is received, the cut sheet processing is performed based on this magnetic processing command sequence. The bills are conveyed from the paper feed unit to the magnetic stripe processing unit along the conveyance path, and temporarily fixed in the magnetic stripe processing unit to perform access processing to the magnetic stripe. Then, when the access processing to the magnetic stripe of the cut sheet is normally completed, the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic processing unit is released by the cut sheet releasing means before the next non-magnetic processing command is received.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a schematic structure of the present embodiment. Reference numeral 1 is a hopper section as a sheet feeding section for setting cut sheets to be processed, and 2 is a magnetic stripe provided on the cut sheets. A magnetic stripe processing unit for performing magnetic processing such as reading and writing with respect to a printing unit, 3 is a printing processing unit for performing predetermined printing on a cut sheet, and 4 is a paper ejection unit for storing the cut sheet after performing various processes. Is the stacker section.

The magnetic stripe processing section 2 and the printing processing section 3 are arranged in the middle of a conveying path 5 which guides the cut sheets in one direction from the hopper section 1 to the stacker section 4. The cut-sheet paper set in the hopper unit 1 is sucked by a command received from an externally connected host computer 30 and is conveyed to the magnetic stripe processing unit 2 along the conveyance path 5 to be subjected to a predetermined magnetic treatment. After that, the print processing unit 3 performs a predetermined print process and the sheet is discharged to the stacker unit 4.

The stacker unit 4 includes a normal-side stacker unit 4a for storing cut sheets that have been normally processed, an abnormal-side stacker unit 4b for storing cut-sheets in which an abnormality has been detected in processing, and these normal-side stacker units. 4a and an abnormal side stacker section 4b, and a flap section 4c provided on the upstream side of the stacker section 4b for distributing cut sheets to either of the stacker sections 4a and 4b.

The magnetic stripe processing unit 2 has a magnetic processing unit 2a having a magnetic head for reading and writing a magnetic stripe on a cut sheet, and fixes the cut sheet at a predetermined reading and writing position of the magnetic processing unit 2a. Or a hold box portion 2b as a cut sheet releasing means for releasing the fixing.
Equipped with.

A control unit 6 for controlling the above-mentioned units is provided in the terminal device. The control unit 6 includes a CPU (central processing unit) 21, which constitutes the control unit main body, as shown in FIG.
ROM (read only memory) 2 in which program data for the CPU 21 to control each part is stored
2. R provided with memory used for data processing
An AM (random access memory) 23 is provided.

The control section 6 includes a transport section controller 25, a magnetic processing section controller 26, a hold box section controller 27, a print processing section controller 28,
Flap controller 29, host computer 30
Includes an external interface 31 externally connected via a communication line.

The CPU 21 includes a ROM 22 and a RAM 2
3, transport section controller 25, magnetic processing section controller 26, hold box section controller 27, print processing section controller 28 that controls the print processing section 3, flap section controller 2 that controls the flap section 4c.
9. The external interface 31 is electrically connected via the bus line 32.

The transfer section controller 25 controls the transfer path 3
A plurality of sheets are provided along the sheet, and the conveyance section 24 including a conveyance roller that conveys the cut sheet to each section is controlled to suck from the hopper section 1 to the magnetic stripe processing section 2 and from the magnetic stripe processing section 2 to the printing processing section It is configured to be conveyed to the sheet 3 and discharged from the print processing section 3 to the normal side stacker section 4a or the abnormal side stacker section 4b.

The magnetic processing unit controller 26 controls the magnetic head of the magnetic processing unit 2a of the magnetic stripe processing unit 2 to read the magnetic information written on the magnetic stripe of the cut sheet and to cut the cut sheet. The predetermined information is written on the magnetic stripe of paper.

The hold box section controller 27
When the magnetic processing of the cut sheet is performed, the hold box section 2b is controlled to fix the cut sheet at a predetermined position of the magnetic processing section 2a, and when the magnetic processing is completed and the next print processing is performed,
It is designed to release fixed cut sheets.

When the CPU 21 processes a cut sheet, the CPU 21 hosts a magnetic processing command string C consisting of a series of commands as shown in FIG. 5A, that is, an inhalation command, an MS read command, and an MS hold command. When it is received from the computer 30, the processing shown in FIG. 3 is performed. That is, first, it is determined whether or not the received command sequence is the command sequence C.

At this time, when it is determined that the command sequence C has been received, the transport unit 24 is controlled via the transport unit controller 25 based on the suction command and the cut sheet is transported from the hopper unit 1 to the transport path 5. Inhalation processing for inhaling is performed, and then the magnetic stripe processing unit 2 is conveyed along the conveyance path 5. Then, the hold box section 2b is controlled via the hold box section controller 27 to temporarily fix the cut sheet at a predetermined position in the magnetic stripe processing section 2.

Next, based on the MS read command, the magnetic processing unit 2a is controlled via the magnetic processing unit controller 26 to read magnetic information from the magnetic stripe of the cut sheet M.
S read processing is performed, and the result is sent to the host computer 3
Send to 0. Then, the host computer 30 processes the magnetic information read by the MS read process.

During this period, the terminal device continues the following processing. That is, the CPU 21 determines whether or not the MS read process has been normally performed (normal end determination means). At this time, when it is determined that the MS read processing is normally performed, it is determined whether or not the magnetic processing command sequence C has an MS hold release command (release command determination means).

When it is determined that the magnetic hold command sequence C has an MS hold release command, the hold box section 2b is controlled via the hold box section controller 27 and fixed in the magnetic stripe processing section 2. The MS hold release process for releasing the cut sheet is performed (cut sheet release control means), and the process based on the command sequence C is ended.

When it is determined that the MS read processing is not normally performed, and when the magnetic processing command sequence C is the MS
Even when it is determined that the hold cancel command is not included, the process based on the command sequence C is ended.

When a series of commands as shown in FIG. 5 (b), that is, a non-magnetic processing command string D consisting of a transport command, a print command, a normal discharge command, and print data is received from the host computer 30, FIG. The processing as shown is performed.

That is, first, it is determined whether or not the received command sequence is the command sequence D, and if it is determined that the command sequence D is received, the transport unit controller 25 transmits the transport unit based on the transport command. By controlling 24, the cut sheet is conveyed to the print processing unit 3.

Then, a command sequence D is issued by a print command.
Printing processing is performed on cut-sheet paper based on the print data set in. Then, when the printing process ends, the printed sheet is stored in the stacker unit 4, and the sheet discharging process is performed. The series of processing results is transmitted to the host computer 30 and the process based on the command sequence D ends.

In the present embodiment having such a configuration, when the cut sheet is processed, the host computer 30 sends the data to FIG.
When the magnetic processing command sequence C as shown in (a) is received, the cut sheet is conveyed from the hopper unit 1 to the magnetic stripe processing unit 2 based on the command sequence C, and at a predetermined position in the magnetic stripe processing unit 2. Fix the cut sheet temporarily.

Next, an MS read process for reading the magnetic information from the magnetic stripe of the cut paper is performed, and the result is transmitted to the host computer 30. Then, the host computer 30 processes the magnetic information read by the MS read process.

In the meantime, in the terminal device, the magnetic processing command sequence C has the MS hold release command,
In addition, when the MS read process is normally performed, the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic stripe processing unit 2 is released.

In this state, when the non-magnetic processing command sequence D as shown in FIG. 5B is received from the host computer 30, the cut sheet is conveyed to the print processing section 3 and predetermined printing is performed. When the printing process is completed, the printed cut sheets are stored in the stacker unit 4.

As described above, when the magnetic processing command sequence has the MS hold release command and the magnetic processing is normally completed, the magnetic stripe processing is performed before the next non-magnetic processing command sequence is received. Since the cut sheets fixed by the unit 2 are released in advance, it is possible to immediately execute the processing after receiving the next non-magnetic processing command sequence and after releasing the cut sheets.

Further, after the magnetic processing is completed, the idle time before receiving the next non-magnetic processing command sequence can be effectively used. As a result, it is possible to prevent waste of processing time for cut sheets. Therefore, the processing speed can be improved as a whole.

In this embodiment, the magnetic processing command string has the read command, but the magnetic processing command string is not limited to this. The magnetic processing command string has the write command instead of the read command. It may be one. In this case, it is possible to receive a magnetic processing command string in which information to be written on a magnetic stripe of a cut sheet is placed.

[0042]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, after the magnetic processing is completed and before the next non-magnetic processing command is received, the cut sheet is released in advance, so that the next non-magnetic processing command is released. It is possible to provide a terminal device capable of immediately executing a process after receiving a magnetic process command string and releasing a cut sheet. As a result, it is possible to prevent the waste of the processing time of the cut sheet, and thus to improve the processing speed as a whole.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the terminal device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing when a command string shown in FIG. 5 (a) is received.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing when a command string shown in FIG. 5 (b) is received.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a command sequence received externally by the terminal device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing when a command string shown in FIG. 8A is received.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing processing when a command string shown in FIG. 8B is received.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a command sequence received from the outside by a conventional terminal device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Hopper part 4 ... Stacker part 5 ... Conveyance path 2 ... Magnetic stripe processing part 2a ... Magnetic processing part 2b ... Hold box part 21 ... CPU

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A magnetic stripe processing section is provided in the middle of a conveyance path for guiding a cut sheet provided with a magnetic stripe from a sheet feeding section to a sheet discharging section, and a series of processing for performing processing by this magnetic stripe processing section is provided. The cut sheet is conveyed from the paper feeding section to the magnetic stripe processing section by an external magnetic processing command string consisting of commands, and temporarily fixed in the magnetic stripe processing section to the magnetic stripe of the cut sheet. When the non-magnetic processing command string is received after receiving the non-magnetic processing command string consisting of a series of commands for performing the predetermined processing after the magnetic processing, the non-magnetic processing command In a terminal device that performs processing based on a row, based on the magnetic processing command row, a cut sheet release means that releases the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic stripe processing unit. And a normal termination determining means for determining whether or not the access processing to the magnetic stripe of the cut sheet in the magnetic stripe processing unit is normally completed, and the received magnetic processing command string sends a cut sheet release command. Release command determining means for determining whether or not the release command determining means determines that the received magnetic processing command string has a cut sheet release command when processing the cut sheet. When the normal termination determining means determines that the magnetic processing has normally terminated, the cut sheet fixed in the magnetic processing section is received by the cut sheet releasing means before the non-magnetic processing command is received. A terminal device provided with a cut sheet release control means for releasing the cut sheet.