JPH0962873A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an inconvenience that an opened upper cover is imprudently closed and that a passenger is hurt by providing an operation pestle energized by a spring member between the upper cover and a casing and always energizing it in a direction where the upper cover is opened. SOLUTION: An opening/closing mechanism 30 is provided with the operation pestle 31 whose one end is freely turnably fitted to a lower part near the hinge mechanism of the side wall 7a' of the upper cover 7a and whose other end part is fitted near the ticket examination passage-side of a frame F' on the side wall-side of an upper casing H1 through a long hole. The spring member 32 consisting of a coil spring adding force to the direction where the upper cover 7a is opened is fitted to the center part of the operation pestle 31 with the long hole-side of the lower part of the operation pestle 31 as a fulcrum. The spring member 32 is provided by bending it through a roller 32a provided for the frame F' for securing a length for obtaining prescribed spring force, and the end part is fixed to the frame F'. The turning force of the upper cover 7a by the spring member 32 is decided so that it is not closed by the gravity of the upper cover 7a.

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,
Particularly, it relates to an automatic ticket gate convenient for maintenance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a main body of an automatic ticket gate of this type (hereinafter referred to as a main body) has a device such as a card handler and a control device necessary for the automatic ticket gate incorporated in a housing. The housing is provided with a cover that opens and closes via a hinge mechanism. For example, when the card handler causes a card jam, the cover can be opened for maintenance.

[0003]

By the way, the upper cover of the cover, which is provided with the ticket insertion opening and the discharge opening, is closed by its own weight even if it is opened once. Not only does it require a complicated support mechanism to keep it, but when it is inadvertently closed due to its own weight, the operator's fingers could get caught and injured.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and its purpose is to prevent it from being inadvertently closed by its own weight due to its simple structure, and
It is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can keep the upper cover open at an arbitrary angle.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention comprises an upper cover of a casing which is opened and closed by a hinge mechanism having a spindle in the same direction as the ticket gate passage direction. In the automatic ticket gate, one end is rotatably attached to the upper cover, and the other end is provided with an operating rod movably attached to the housing through an elongated hole, and the operating rod is provided with The operating rod is always provided with a spring member for urging the upper cover in the opening direction. Further, a disc spring is interposed on the support shaft.

[0006]

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 housing H, which is the outer shape of the main body 1, is divided into an upper housing H1 and a lower housing H2 by being vertically divided 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 in the upper housing H1, and tickets (main body) inserted from an insertion opening 2 provided on the upper side surface of the entrance 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. The upper cover 7a provided with the insertion port 2 and the ejection port 3 will be described later in detail with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 1, L is a lamp provided near the outlet 3, which lights up in blue when the ticket inserted through the inlet 2 allows passage 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, reference numeral 4 denotes a buzzer provided on the side of the ticket gate passage of the upper housing H1, which 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 for displaying 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 rear 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. . Therefore, this cover 7 and the upper cover 7 described later
When a 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 passage side of the lower housing H2 facing the collection box 10 is an openable cover 1 which can be opened and closed.
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 side and the back side of the entrance and exit sides of the ticket gate passage of the lower housing H2, a total of four handles 14a to 14d similar to the handles of the upper housing H1 are provided.
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.

Next, the opening / closing mechanism of the upper cover 7a will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 is an enlarged view of the left side surface of the upper part of FIG. 1 (a), and FIG. 4 is a right side view of FIG.
The chain double-dashed line in FIG. 3 shows a state in which the upper cover 7 a is rotated via the hinge mechanism 20.

The hinge mechanism 20 will be described with reference to FIG. 5, which is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.
It has a pair of hinges 21a and 21b provided at a predetermined interval along the passage direction of the ticket gate passage. The hinge portions 21a, 21b are support members 22a, 2 fixed to the frame F of the upper housing H1 on the side away from the ticket passage side.
2b, and support shafts 23a and 23b are fixedly provided on these support members 22a and 22b in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the upper cover 7a (passing direction of the ticket gate passage) and on the same axis. .

The receiving members 24a and 24b are the support shaft 23.
The a and 23b are rotatably inserted and fixedly provided on the back surface of the upper cover 7a. Therefore, the upper cover 7a can rotate about the support shafts 23a and 23b.

A plurality of disc springs 25, 25 ... Are interposed on the support shafts 23a, 23b, respectively.
When the nuts 26a and 26b screwed to the a and 23b are tightened, a force for rotating the upper cover 7a increases, that is, a braking force (brake) is added to the rotation of the upper cover 7a. Is configured to.

The opening / closing mechanisms 30 are provided on both sides of the upper casing H1 on the side of the ticket gate passage. Opening mechanism 3 on both sides
Since 0 and 30 are the same, the left side opening / closing mechanism 30 shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 will be described. The opening / closing mechanism 30 may be provided on only one of the left and right sides, but if it is provided on both sides, the upper cover 7a can be opened and closed smoothly.

The opening / closing mechanism 30 has one end rotatably attached to a lower portion of the side wall 7a 'of the upper cover 7a near the hinge mechanism 20, and the other end of the opening / closing mechanism 30 on the side wall side frame F'of the upper casing H1. It has an operating rod 31 attached to the side of the passage through an elongated hole 31a. A spring member 32, which is a coil spring that applies a force in a direction of opening the upper cover 7a, is attached to a central portion of the operating rod 30 with the elongated hole 31a side of the lower portion of the operating rod 31 as a fulcrum. The spring member 32 is provided by bending through a roller 32a provided on the frame F'to ensure a length for obtaining a predetermined spring force, and its end is fixed to the frame F '. There is.

The turning force of the upper cover 7a by the spring members 32, 32 provided on the left and right opening / closing mechanisms 30, 30 (one spring member 32 when provided on either one of the left and right sides) and the disc spring. The braking force of 25 is opened when a staff member rotates the upper cover 7a in the direction of the arrow (counterclockwise direction) in FIG. 3, and when the staff member releases the hand from the upper cover 7a,
It is determined that the opening angle is maintained, that is, the upper cover 7a cannot be closed by its own weight. Further, it is determined that the staff can close the upper cover 7a when the upper cover 7a is exerted with a force in the downward direction (clockwise direction).

The lock mechanism 40 of the upper cover 7a is an L provided on the lower side of the upper cover 7a opposite to the hinge mechanism 20.
It comprises a metal fitting 7a 'and a bent portion 7'which is bent in an L shape on the upper side of the cover 7 on the ticket passage side of the upper housing H1. Therefore, in this lock mechanism 40, when the cover 7 is opened by the staff member, the locked state of the upper cover 7a is released and the upper cover 7a can be opened (see FIG. 6).

As described above, since the upper cover 7a of the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment uses the spring member 32, the opened upper cover 7a is inadvertently closed by its own weight and the staff member is injured. There is no fear and the spindle 23
Since the disc spring 25 is interposed between a and 23b, the upper cover 7a can be maintained at an arbitrary opening angle.

In order to install the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment at a temporary ticket gate or the like, first, two staff members work on the lower housing H2.
The handles 14a to 14d are used to carry them to the installation site for installation, and then two staff members handle the upper housing H1 to the handles 6a to 6d.
It is carried by using 6d and placed on the lower housing H2. After that, the upper housing H1 and the lower housing H2 are fixed with nuts N and 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.

The automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment is of a type without a door, but when the automatic ticket gate is equipped 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 along the ticket gate passage direction. 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.

[0031]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is provided with the operating rod urged by the spring member between the upper cover and the casing, and always urges the upper cover in the opening direction. It is possible to prevent an inconvenience that the opened upper cover is inadvertently closed and the staff member is injured. Further, when the disc spring is used, the upper cover can be maintained at an arbitrary opening angle.

[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 view of the left side surface of the upper portion of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a right side view of FIG.

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body of the automatic ticket gate (main body) 2 Insertion port 3 Ejection port 4 Buzzer 5 Display section 6a to 6d, 14a to 14d Handle 7,11 Cover 7a Upper cover 8,12 Key hole 9,13 Handle cover 10 Collection box 11a Opening and closing Covers 15a to 15d Fall prevention tool 16 Power supply intake part 20 Hinge mechanism 21a, 21b Hinge part 23a, 23b Spindle 25 Disc spring 30 Opening / closing mechanism 31 Actuating rod 32 Spring member 40 Lock mechanism L Lamp S Seat H Housing H1 Upper housing H2 lower housing

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An automatic ticket gate equipped with an upper cover of a casing opened and closed by a hinge mechanism having a support shaft having the same direction as the ticket passage direction, one end of which is rotatably attached to the upper cover, and the like. An operating rod whose end is movably attached to the housing through an elongated hole is provided, and the operating rod is provided with a spring member for constantly urging the operating rod in a direction to open the upper cover. An automatic ticket gate that is characterized. 2. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, wherein a disc spring is provided on the support shaft.