JPH0954840A - Automatic ticket checking on machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily switch an automatic ticket checking on machine to be exclusive for entrance or exit by vertically dividing a housing forming the main body of the automatic ticket checking on machine, providing a hook to be turnable from the outside on its one side and providing the lock element of hook on another side. SOLUTION: Upper and lower housings H1 and H2 are freely turnably connected by a turn table mechanism provided at the central part of their divided plane, and when a lock mechanism R is unlocked, the upper casing H1 can be turned by half through this turn table mechanism. The lock mechanism R is provided with a rotary shaft 30, which can be turned from the outside of main body by a 10-yen coin or the like, and hooks 32a and 32b fixed on both the sides of the rotary shaft 30 are turned at the same angle by the turns of the rotary shaft 30. When the top ends of hooks 32a and 32b are turned to the side of lower housing H2 by the rotary shaft 30, lock elements 34a and 34b provided on a frame F1 of the lower housing H2 confronted with these hooks 32a and 32b are respectively engaged with the hooks 32a and 32b and turned to locked states and the locked states are stably held by a coil spring provided at one hook 32a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate,
In particular, it relates to an automatic ticket gate that can be applied to both ticket gates and ticket exits with one automatic ticket gate body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to perform a ticket gate (entry) and an exit ticket (entrance) with an automatic ticket gate, two types of automatic ticket gates, one for entrance and one for entrance, are installed at the ticket gate, or an automatic ticket gate. It is configured by incorporating two card handlers for entry and exit in the housing of the main body (hereinafter referred to as the main body).

[0003]

However, when two types of automatic ticket gates for entrance and exit are installed at the ticket gate, the installation cost is high, and when two sets of card handlers are built in the housing. Has a drawback that not only is the case lengthened and the size increased, but also the control device is complicated and the cost is increased.

In particular, when an automatic ticket gate is installed at a temporary ticket gate for rush hour at a station or at the entrance of various event venues, it is operated exclusively for entrance in the morning and exclusively for entrance in the afternoon. However, it is not a good idea to use an automatic ticket gate installed at such a special entrance / exit as an expensive automatic ticket gate.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can easily switch one automatic ticket gate to entrance or exit only. It is in.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention divides a casing forming a main body into upper and lower parts, and rotates the central part of the divided surface. In an automatic ticket gate in which a base mechanism is provided and an upper case of the two cases is rotatable with respect to a lower case, one of the two cases can be rotated from the outside. The present invention is characterized in that a hook is provided and a locking piece for locking the hook is provided on the other housing. Also,
The hook is characterized by being provided with a maintaining mechanism for maintaining a state in which the hook is engaged with the locking piece and a state in which the hook is separated from the locking piece. And
The automatic ticket gate is a type without a door.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1A is a front view of the doorless type automatic ticket gate according to the embodiment as seen from the ticket gate passage side, and FIG. 1B is a right side view of FIG. 1A.

A casing H having the outer shape of the main body 1 is divided into an upper casing H1 and a lower casing H2 by being divided into upper and lower portions at a position of about half height. Figure 2 (a)
Shows the divided upper housing H1 and (b) shows the divided lower housing H2.

Although not shown, a card handler is incorporated inside the upper housing H1, and tickets (main body) inserted through an insertion opening 2 provided at an upper side surface of an entrance side of the upper housing H1. 1 is an admission ticket when it is installed at the entrance / exit of the event venue. Hereinafter, the admission ticket is also referred to as a boarding ticket.) It is configured so that it can be taken into the main body 1. Then, among the tickets taken in the main body 1, the tickets that need to be returned to the user are conveyed to the outlet 3 provided on the upper surface of the upper housing H1 on the exit side and returned. It is configured to be able to.

In FIG. 1, L is a lamp provided near the outlet 3, which lights up in blue when the tickets inserted from the inlet 2 can be allowed to pass through the ticket gate passage. When the passage is not permitted, it lights up in red, and when the tickets are for children, it lights up in yellow to notify the user and staff. That is, in the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment, when the lamp L lights up in red, it means that the door of the automatic ticket gate equipped with the door is closed.

In FIG. 1, 4 is a buzzer provided on the side of the ticket gate passage of the upper housing H1 and is configured to ring when the lamp L lights up in red, and the ticket gate is rejected. This is configured so that the user and the staff can be notified by voice.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 5 denotes a display plate, which is provided to display the operating state of the main body 1 to the user. The arrow shown in the figure indicates that the main body 1 is in operation and the user can enter the ticket gate passage. When the operation is stopped, a bar-entry graphic with a bar is displayed in the horizontal center of the circle to inform the user that he / she cannot enter the ticket gate passage.

A total of four concave handles 6a to 6d are provided on the front side and the back side of the lower part of the entrance side and the exit side of the ticket gate passage of the upper housing H1. The body H1 is configured to be portable. The cover 7 on the side of the upper housing H1 on the side of the ticket gate is constructed so that a key (not shown) can be inserted into the key hole 8 to unlock it, and the handle cover 9 can be opened by inserting a hand. . Then, when the cover 7 is opened, maintenance of the card handler and the like can be performed.

The above-mentioned upper casing H1 is used to hold tickets in the main body 1
It is an insertion type that takes in the inside, reads the data recorded on the tickets through the magnetic head and performs arithmetic processing,
When the ticket is an IC card having a wireless communication function, and the IC card and the main body 1 exchange data to perform an automatic ticket gate, in the case of the non-contact type, the entrance side of the upper housing H1 is provided. An antenna is provided for communicating with the IC card.

The lower housing H2 has a collection box 10 for collecting tickets that do not need to be returned to the user, and a control board (not shown) having a CPU for controlling the main body 1 and the like. Is provided.

The portion of the cover 11 on the ticket gate passage side of the lower housing H2 facing the collection box 10 is an openable / closable cover 1.
Since it is configured as 1a, the recovery box 10 can be taken out of the main body 1. That is, this opening / closing cover 11a
Like the cover 7 of the upper housing H1, the key can be inserted into the key hole 12 to unlock it, and the handle cover 13 can be opened by inserting the hand.

On the front and back sides of the entrance and exit sides of the ticket gate passage of the lower housing H2, there are provided a total of four handles 14a to 14d similar to the handles of the upper housing H1.
The lower case H2 can be carried by a person in charge.

From the plurality of L-shaped members (four in the illustrated example) whose lower surface corresponds to the floor surface G at a predetermined interval on the lower ticket passage side and the opposite side of the lower housing H2. Fall prevention tools 15a to 15d are provided. Of these fall prevention devices 15a to 15d, the fall prevention device 1 on the side of the ticket gate
The fall prevention tools 15b and 15d on the opposite side of 5a and 15c are provided so as to be offset from each other so that their mounting positions do not match. Therefore, when storing the main body 1 in a warehouse,
The storage space can be reduced because the fall prevention devices of the main bodies do not contact each other.

These fall prevention tools 15a to 15d
1 protrudes into the ticket gate passage, but as shown in FIG. 1B, the sheet S stretched over the ticket gate passage does not obstruct the passage of the user.

The above-mentioned upper casing H1 and lower casing H2 are
The rotation mechanism T provided at the central portion of the lower surface of the upper housing H1 and the central portion of the upper surface of the lower housing H2 is connected to rotate automatically, and the lock mechanisms R and R are unlocked. Sometimes, through the rotary base mechanism T, the upper housing H1
Is configured so that it can be rotated half a turn.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 1B, and FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3, showing the details of the rotary base mechanism T. , Will be described with reference to FIG.

The turntable mechanism T is made of a synthetic resin ring member 20 whose lower surface is fixed to the frame F1 of the lower housing H2 and whose upper surface is open, and is rotatable in an inner cylinder of the ring member 20. It has a cylindrical portion 21a having an outer diameter to be inserted and a rotating member 21 having a collar portion 21b placed on the upper surface of the ring member 20. Then, this rotating member 21
A flange member 22 is provided on the lower surface of the ring member by screwing so that the rotating member 21 does not come off from the ring member 20.

As shown in FIG. 4, an arcuate groove 22 is provided on the upper surface of the ring member 20 over 180 °. A pin 23 provided on the rotary member 21 is movably provided in the groove 22.

Therefore, the rotary member 21 can reciprocate within a range in which the pin 23 can move within the groove 22, that is, within a range of 180 °.

A plurality of (three in the illustrated example) split pins 24a to 24 are provided on the upper surface of the rotating member 21 at a predetermined interval.
c is projected. These split pins 24a to 24c are
Holes 25a-2 provided in the frame F2 of the upper housing H1
It is positioned so that it can be inserted into each of 5c.
This positioning is such that when the pin 23 is located at one end of the groove 22, the upper housing H1 and the lower housing H2 are parallel in the longitudinal direction, and the pin 23 is at the other end of the groove 22. When it is positioned at, the upper casing H1 rotates half a turn (180
It is determined that the upper housing H1 and the lower housing H2 are parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction by rotating (rotating).

Further, on the upper surface of the rotating member 21, a plurality of (4 in the illustrated example) screw holes 26a to 26a are provided at a predetermined interval.
26d is provided, and the split pins 24a to 24c described above are provided.
The frame F2 of the upper housing H1 positioned at is fixed by the nuts N, N, N.

The terminal mounting plate 27 is screwed to the upper surface of the rotating member 21 so that the wiring sockets S1 to S3 can be mounted. By mounting the plugs P1 to P3 in the socket, the upper housing H1 and the lower housing H2 can be electrically connected.

5 to 7 show details of the lock mechanisms R and R, of which FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line BB of FIG. 1, and FIG. 6 is taken along the line CC of FIG. 7A is a left side view when the frames F1 and F2 are removed from FIG. 5, and FIG. 7B is a frame F view from FIG.
It is a right side view when removing 1 and F2. In addition,
In FIG. 1, a pair of lock mechanisms R located on the left and right sides,
Since R has the same structure, the lock mechanism R located on the left side shown in FIGS. 5 to 7 will be mainly described.

The lock mechanism R has a rotary shaft 30 which can be rotated by a 10-yen coin or the like from the outside of the main body 1. That is, the rotating shaft 30 is rotatably supported by the bearings 31a and 31b on the upper surface of the bottom wall F2 'of the frame F2 of the upper housing H1 and in the direction orthogonal to the passage direction of the ticket gate passage. A slit 30a into which a coin is inserted is provided at one end of the rotary shaft 30, and one end thereof is provided with a hole F provided in the frame F2.
Located at 2 ″.

On both sides of the rotary shaft 30, hooks 32a, 3 are provided.
2b are respectively fixed, and both hooks 32a and 32b can be rotated at the same angle by the rotation of the rotary shaft 30 (see the solid line position and the chain double-dashed line position in FIG. 7).

A coil spring 33 is provided on one of the pair of hooks 32a and 32b, at a position slightly closer to the tip than the mounting position on the rotary shaft 30.
The other end of the coil spring 33 (the side opposite to the hook 32a side) is fixed to the frame F2 so that a force in a predetermined direction always acts on the hook 32a.

The locking pieces 34a and 34b are provided on the hook 32.
The rotary shaft 30 is provided on the frame F1 of the lower housing H2 facing the a and 32b, respectively, and the rotary shaft 30 has the hooks 32a and 3b.
When the tip of 2b is rotated to the lower housing H2 side, the hook 3
2a and 32b are positioned and provided so as to engage with the locking pieces 34a and 34b, respectively (see solid line positions in FIG. 7).

In FIG. 7, reference numerals 35a and 35b denote stoppers provided on the frame F2 above the rotary shaft 30 from positions where the hooks 32a and 32b are engaged with the locking pieces 34a and 34b, respectively (see FIG. 7). See the solid line position), hook 32
The rotation angles of about 90 ° are regulated until the positions of the tips of a and 32b become substantially horizontal and are positioned inside the upper housing H1 (see the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 7). . Therefore, the range in which the coin can be inserted into the slit 30a and rotated is within this rotation angle range.

To lock the lock mechanism R described above, a coin is inserted into the slit 30a and the rotary shaft 30 is rotated counterclockwise.
34b is engaged and locked. In this locked state, in addition to the weights of the hooks 32a and 32b, the coil spring 3
3, the hooks 32a and 32b are engaged with the locking pieces 34a and 34b.
Since it is urged so as to always come into contact with, the locked state is stably maintained.

In order to unlock the above-mentioned lock mechanism R, a coin is inserted into the slit 30a and the rotary shaft 30 is rotated clockwise, so that the hooks 32a and 32b engage with the locking pieces 34a and 3.
4b are unlocked separately from each other. This unlocked state is
Since the hooks 32a and 32b are constantly urged horizontally by the coil spring 33, the unlocked state is stably maintained.

Although the coil spring 33 is used as a mechanism for maintaining the hooks 32a and 32b in the locked or unlocked position, the hooks 32a and 32b are provided with a convex portion or a concave portion and are engaged with the convex portion or the concave portion. A matching concave portion or convex portion may be provided on the frame F2 side.

Although the above description of the lock mechanism R is for the lock mechanism located on the left side in FIG. 1, the lock mechanism R located on the right side is also configured similarly.

Although the lock mechanism R is provided at two locations on the main body 1, it may be provided at either one. However, as described above, when the number of positions is two, the fixed state of the upper housing H1 with respect to the lower housing H2 can be made stronger.

In order to install the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment in, for example, a temporary ticket gate, first, two staff members carry the lower housing H2 to the installation place by using the handles 14a to 14d. Then, two staff members carry the upper housing H1 by using the handles 6a to 6d, and place the split pin 2 on the lower housing H2.
Place according to the instructions of 4a to 24c. After that, the upper case H1 is fixed with the nuts N, N ... And the cover 7 is closed to complete the installation. Further, the driving power source is taken in from a power source taking-in portion 16 provided in the lower part of the lower housing H2 by disposing the power cord under the seat S described above.

When the upper casing H1 is rotated a half turn and the automatic ticket gate that has been used as the entrance or the exit until then is used for the entrance or the entrance, the lock mechanisms R and R are unlocked and the upper housing H1 is unlocked. After releasing the fixed state of the body H1 from the lower housing H2, the upper housing H1 is rotated by half a turn. Then, after the half rotation, the lock mechanisms R and R are locked again.

The automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment is of the type without a door, but when the automatic ticket gate is provided with a door, the door and its drive unit are provided in the lower housing H2.

Further, regardless of the presence or absence of a door, when detecting an unpaid person in the ticket gate passage, the upper casing H1 or the lower casing H2, or both the casings H1 and H2 are provided in a predetermined direction along the ticket passage passage. A human detector including a photoelectric element or the like is provided at a distance. At this time, when detecting an adult and a dwarf separately, an arm parallel to the ticket gate is provided on the upper part of the upper housing H1, and a human detector is also provided on the arm.

[0043]

According to the automatic ticket gate of the present invention, one of the two divided housings is provided with a hook which can be rotated from the outside, and the other housing is engaged with the hook. Since the piece is provided, the upper housing can be rotated half a turn by using the rotating table mechanism, which can be easily applied for entry or exit, and the upper housing and the lower housing can be connected via the lock mechanism. It can be fixed or unfixed. In addition, when the hook is provided with a maintaining mechanism that maintains the hook engaged with the locking piece and the hook separated from the locking piece, the locked state and the unlocked state are stable. Can be maintained. Furthermore, when the automatic ticket gate is of the type without a door, it can be a simple automatic ticket gate.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a front view of an automatic ticket gate of a doorless type according to an embodiment as seen from a ticket gate passage side, and FIG. 1B is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a state when the housing is divided into two.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3;

5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along the line BB of FIG. 1 (a).

6 is a view taken along the line CC of FIG.

7A is a left side view showing a frame removed from FIG. 5, and FIG. 7B is a right side view showing a frame removed from FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body (main body) of the automatic ticket gate 2 Insertion port 3 Ejection port 4 Buzzer 5 Display part 6a-6d, 14a-14d Handle 7,11 Cover 8,12 Key hole 9,13 Handle cover 10 Collection box 11a Open / close cover 15a- 15d Fall prevention tool 16 Power intake part 20 Ring member 21 Rotating member 30 Rotating shafts 32a, 32b Hook 33 Coil springs 34a, 34b Locking piece T Rotating base mechanism R Locking mechanism L Lamp S Seat H Housing H1 Upper housing H2 Lower part Case

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A housing forming a main body of an automatic ticket gate is vertically divided into two parts, and a turntable mechanism is provided in a central portion of a surface of the two parts, and an upper housing of the two parts is a lower part. In an automatic ticket gate that is rotatable with respect to a housing, one of the two divided housings is provided with a hook that can be rotated from the outside, and the hook is locked to the other housing. An automatic ticket gate featuring a locking piece. 2. The hook is provided with a maintaining mechanism for maintaining a state where the hook is engaged with the locking piece and a state where the hook is separated from the locking piece.
Automatic ticket gate described. 3. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, wherein the automatic ticket gate is a doorless type.