JPH0962875A - Automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an automatic ticket examination machine from being opened/closed when an opening/closing order is not correct by providing a protruding piece which protrudes in a state where an upper cover is closed and providing a protruding piece positioned at the upper part of the protruding piece when a side cover is closed. SOLUTION: The locking mechanism 30 of the upper cover 7a is provided with the protruding piece 7a' consisting of L-metal fittings bent to a ticket examination passage-side provided at the lower side of the upper cover 7a opposite to a hinge mechanism 20 and of the the protruding piece 7' obtained by bending the upper side of the side cover 7 of the ticket examination passage- side of an upper casing to the inner side of the upper casing in an L-shape. The position relation between the protruding piece 7a' and the protruding piece 7' is decided in such a way that the protruding piece 7' is positioned on the protruding piece 7a' when the side cover 7 is closed in a state where the upper cover 7a is closed. In the locking mechanism 30, the locked state of the upper cover 7a is released when a clerk in charge opens the upper cover 7a, and the upper 7a becomes the locked state when the upper cover 7a is closed and the side cover 7 is closed.

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. The cover arranged around the case is formed so that the end of one cover is inserted into the end of the other cover so that no gap is created at the joint between the covers.

[0003]

By the way, for example, at the time of maintenance and the like, after the side cover of the casing on the side of the ticket gate and the upper cover provided with the ticket insertion slot and the ejection slot are opened, When closing both covers, the joints of both covers may collide and damage the covers unless they are closed in the reverse order of the opened covers.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object thereof is to provide an automatic ticket gate with a simple structure so that the cover cannot be opened and closed unless the opening and closing order is correct. To do.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is provided on an upper surface of a casing which is opened and closed by a hinge mechanism having a support shaft in the same direction as the ticket gate passage direction. The upper cover and the hinge mechanism provided at the lower end having a support shaft in the same direction as the ticket passage direction are opened and closed, and the upper part when closed is provided on the side surface of the housing that contacts the upper cover. In an automatic ticket gate equipped with a side cover, a protruding piece protruding toward the ticket passage side with the upper cover closed is provided at the lower end of the upper cover on the ticket passage side, and the side cover is provided at the upper end of the side cover. It is characterized in that a protruding piece located above the protruding piece when it is closed is provided. Further, the engaging portion or the engaging portion is provided on the upper cover, and the engaging portion or the engaging portion that is engaged with the engaging portion when the side cover is closed while the upper cover is closed on the side cover. It is characterized in that an engaging portion to be engaged with the locking portion is provided.

[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) of FIG.
Indicates a 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 side cover 7 of the upper casing H1 on the side of the ticket gate passage is provided with a hinge mechanism 7b having a spindle at the lower end in the same direction as the passage direction of the ticket gate passage, as shown in FIG. It is rotatably mounted on the body H1. Then, a key (not shown) is inserted into the key hole 8 to unlock, and the handle cover 9
It is configured so that it can be opened by putting a hand on the (see arrow mouth in FIG. 6 described later). Therefore, when the side cover 7 and the upper cover 7a described later are 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 for the upper cover 7a and the side cover 7 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the upper part of FIG. 1 (b), and the two-dot chain line in this figure shows a state in which the upper cover 7 a is rotated about the hinge mechanism 20 as indicated by arrow a.

The hinge mechanism 20 includes a pair of hinges 21 provided at a predetermined interval along the passage direction of the ticket gate passage.
a and 21b. Each hinge part 21a, 21b
Has support members 22a and 22b fixed to the frame F of the upper housing H1 on the side away from the ticket gate passage side, and these support members 22a and 22b extend in the longitudinal direction of the upper cover 7a (passing through the ticket gate passage). (Direction), and support shafts 23a and 23b are fixedly provided 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 torsion bar 27 is provided so that its axis coincides with the axes of the support shafts 23a and 23b. One end of the torsion bar 27 is bent in an L shape, and that portion is attached via the attachment piece 28a to the upper cover 7.
It is fixed to the back surface of a and the other end is bent in an S shape, and that portion is fixed to the frame F of the upper housing H1 via the attachment pieces 28b and 28c. The torsion bar 27 is always provided so as to bias the upper cover 7a in the opening direction.

The upper cover 7 by the torsion bar 27
The turning force of a and the braking force of the disc spring 25 are opened when the staff manually rotates the upper cover 7a in the clockwise direction of FIG.
It is determined that when the clerk removes his / her hand from the upper cover 7a, the opening angle is maintained, that is, the upper cover 7a cannot be closed by its own weight. Further, it is determined that the clerk can close the upper cover 7a when applying a force to the upper cover 7a in the counterclockwise direction.

The lock mechanism 30 of the upper cover 7a includes a projecting piece 7a 'formed of an L metal fitting bent toward the ticket gate passage provided on the lower side of the upper cover 7a opposite to the hinge mechanism 20, and a ticket gate of the upper housing H1. The upper side of the side cover 7 on the passage side is composed of a protruding piece 7b 'which is bent in an L shape inside the upper housing H1. The positional relationship between the projecting piece 7a 'and the projecting piece 7'is determined so that the projecting piece 7'is located on the projecting piece 7a' when the side cover 7 is closed while the upper cover 7a is closed. Has been. Therefore, in this lock mechanism 30, when the side cover 7 is opened by an attendant, the locked state of the upper cover 7a is released, and the upper cover 7a can be opened. Further, the upper cover 7a is closed and the side cover 7a is closed.
When a is closed, the upper cover 7a is kept in the locked state.

An engaging portion 31 composed of a pair of rollers 31a, 31a is provided on the rear surface of the upper cover 7a on the protruding piece 7a 'side. These rollers 31a and 31b are shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 7, the side cover 7 is bonded between the rollers 31a and 31b by joining them to each other with a predetermined pressure by a spring not shown.
When the locking portion 32 provided on the
2 is allowed to be inserted, and the locking portion 32 can be held at a predetermined pressure. Therefore, the attachment position of the engaging portion 31 and the engaging portion 32 is such that the upper cover 7a is closed,
Next, when the side cover 7 is closed, the engaging portion 31 and the locking portion 32 are engaged with each other.

In the above example, the upper cover 7a is provided with the engaging portion 31 and the side cover 7 is provided with the engaging portion 32, but these can be reversed.

As described above, since the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment is provided with the lock mechanism 30, the engaging portion 31 and the engaging portion 32, the upper cover 7 must be opened unless the side cover 7 is opened.
a cannot be opened, and the side cover 7 cannot be closed unless the upper cover 7a is closed. Moreover, even if the side cover 7 is closed earlier than the upper cover 7a, the closed state cannot be maintained, so that the inconvenience of opening and closing the both covers 7a, 7 is eliminated.

The upper cover 7a is provided with the torsion bar 2
7, the opened upper cover 7a is prevented from being inadvertently closed due to its own weight and the staff may not be injured, and the disc springs 25 are interposed between the support shafts 23a and 23b. It can be maintained at any open 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 are required to operate 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 has 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.

[0033]

In the automatic ticket gate according to the present invention, the upper cover is provided with a projecting piece projecting toward the ticket passage side in the state where the upper cover is closed, and the side cover is provided with the side surface at the upper end thereof. When the cover is closed, the protruding piece located above the protruding piece is provided, so the upper cover cannot be opened without opening the side cover, and the side cover cannot be closed without closing the upper cover. Can not. Also,
When the engagement portion and the locking portion are provided, the side cover can be kept closed.

[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 upper part of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a torsion bar.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a view taken along the line CC in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body (main body) of automatic ticket gate 2 Insertion port 3 Ejection port 4 Buzzer 5 Display section 6a-6d, 14a-14d Handle 7 Side cover 7a Top cover 7 ', 7a' Projecting piece 8, 12 Key hole 9, 13 Handle Cover 10 Collection box 11 Cover 11a Open / close cover 15a to 15d Fall prevention tool 16 Power supply intake part 20 Hinge mechanism 21a, 21b Hinge part 23a, 23b Spindle 25 Disc spring 27 Torsion bar 30 Lock mechanism 31 Engagement part 31a, 31b Roller 32 Locking part L lamp S seat H case H1 upper case H2 lower case

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An upper cover provided on an upper surface of a housing opened and closed by a hinge mechanism having a support shaft having the same direction as the ticket gate passage direction, and a lower end having a support shaft having the same direction as the ticket gate passage direction. In the automatic ticket gate equipped with a side cover provided on the side surface of the housing, which is opened and closed by the hinge mechanism provided, and the upper part of the upper cover comes into contact with the upper cover, the upper cover is provided at the lower end of the upper cover on the ticket passage side. A protruding piece protruding toward the ticket gate passage in a state where the upper cover is closed is provided, and a protruding piece positioned above the protruding piece is provided at an upper end of the side cover when the side cover is closed. And an automatic ticket gate. 2. An engagement part or an engagement part is provided on the upper cover, and an engagement part is engaged with the side cover when the side cover is closed with the upper cover closed. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, further comprising an engaging portion that is engaged with the portion or the locking portion thereof.