JPH097008A - Contactless automatic ticket examination machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To exactly report a user with an invalid card to the user himself and a clerk by lighting a lamp in an indicator lamp group corresponding to the user for whom a transmitter doesn't communicate at the time when a human being detection means detects the user and the transmitter doesn't communicate. CONSTITUTION: When the user tries to enter a ticket examination passage P of an automatic ticket examination machine, he is detected by a human being detector S on the entrance side of this passage P, and data is communicated between a card C shading an antenna and the automatic ticket examination machine G. When entrance/exit is permitted as the result of the operation processing for ticket examination, a door D is opened to perform the automatic ticket examination processing of the card C. If data is not smoothly communicated or the card C is invalid to identify that the user is a free rider, the door D is closed to stop his passage, and a lamp L2 corresponding to the user is lit to inform the user and the clerk that his passage is stopped.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a non-contact type automatic ticket gate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, as disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 1-246687, the main body of an automatic ticket gate is provided by contactlessly exchanging data between the main body of the automatic ticket gate and a commuter pass. There has been proposed a non-contact type automatic ticket gate that can perform an automatic ticket gate without inserting a commuter pass.

The non-contact automatic ticket gate has a feature that the convenience of the user can be improved because it is not necessary to insert a ticket such as a commuter pass into the main body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate.

[0004]

However, even in the non-contact type automatic ticket gate, in the case of an invalid non-contact type card (commuter pass) (hereinafter referred to as a card), such as when the valid period has passed, or no card. In the case of a bill (hereinafter also referred to as a non-billed card, referred to as an invalid card), when the user enters the center of the ticket gate, the door is closed and the passage of the invalid card is blocked.

By the way, in the case of the non-contact type automatic ticket gate, even if the previous user is a user who has an invalid card, unlike the automatic ticket gate of the insertion type, the shutter of the insertion slot for inserting the tickets is closed. Since there is no operation, the next user will enter the ticket gate passage, and it will be difficult for the user and the staff to know which user is the invalid card user.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and provides a non-contact type automatic ticket gate capable of accurately notifying a user and a staff member of a user of an invalid card. To do.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a non-contact type automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is provided between a wireless transmitter and a card provided in the main body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate. In a non-contact automatic ticket gate that performs data transfer in a non-contact manner and performs automatic ticket gate processing, a human detecting means for detecting a user position in the ticket gate passage of the non-contact automatic ticket gate, and the ticket gate passage. A group of display lamps provided in the main body of the non-contact type automatic ticket gate corresponding to the passing direction of the user, and the human detecting means detects the user, and the transmitter communicates. And a lamp control means for turning on the lamp in the display lamp group corresponding to the user who does not communicate.

[0008]

In the above structure, the lamp control means, when the human detection means detects the user and the transmitter does not communicate, the lamp control means controls the display lamp group corresponding to the user who does not communicate. Turn on the lamp inside.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a non-contact type automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as an automatic ticket gate). The automatic ticket gate G has a door D for opening and closing a ticket gate passage P on a side surface of a housing H, and a display unit 1 for displaying a passable direction to a user is provided on the front surface of the housing H. Has been. In addition, a communication area of a transmitter T (see FIG. 2) having an antenna a to be described later for transmitting and receiving data to and from the card C carried by the user by wireless communication is provided on the upper portion of the front of the housing H. Two are provided.

Numerals S, S ... Are photoelectric type human detectors for detecting the entrance of the user into the ticket gate passage P, the exit from the ticket gate passage P, or the passage thereof, and the side surface of the housing H and the arm 3 Installed on. Further, a display screen 4 for displaying a predetermined guide to the user is attached to the upper surface of the housing H.

Reference numeral 5 is a controller for controlling the operation of the automatic ticket gate G, which is constructed by using a microcomputer. A transmitter T for transmitting / receiving data to / from the card C is connected to the controller 5. Like the well-known non-contact type automatic ticket gate, the transmitter T transmits a transmission signal modulated by data such as a station name and the date of the day from the automatic ticket gate G to the card C through the antenna a and is reflected by the card C. It has a function of receiving the reflected signal and demodulating the data of the boarding section and the like sent from the card C.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the electrical construction of this embodiment. Explaining from the side of the automatic ticket gate G, the controller 5 is connected to the transmitter T as well as the door D. A door drive unit 6 for opening and closing, a sensor amplifier 7 for inputting signals from the human detectors S, S ..., and a plurality of (three in the example of FIG. 1) lamps L1 to L3 provided on the arm 4. The lamp drive unit 8 to be turned on is connected. A display driving unit for driving the display screen 4 and the like are also connected to the controller 5, but they are omitted here.

The card C, like an ordinary IC card having a wireless communication function, has a receiving antenna 10a and a reflecting antenna for phase-modulating the data sent from the card C to the automatic ticket gate G to generate a reflected signal. 10b, a receiving unit 11 that processes a signal received by the receiving antenna 10a, a CPU 12 that stores data from the automatic ticket gate G and a memory that stores data (card data) such as a boarding section, and a card A phase modulator 13 for modulating the subcarrier from the CPU 12 with data to modulate the phase of the reflected signal, and a battery E for driving the card C are provided.

In the card C having the above structure, the antenna a
When the transmission signal transmitted from the receiving antenna 10a is received, the transmission data from the automatic ticket gate G side is extracted by the receiving unit 11 including a detection circuit, a demodulation circuit, etc., and the CPU 1
2 memory.

The CPU 12 controls the frequency of the main carrier (for example, 2.45 GH) when the transmission signal of the automatic ticket gate G is generated.
z) A subcarrier of, for example, 500 KHz, which is sufficiently lower than that of z), is generated and output to a multiplication circuit (not shown) of the phase modulator 13 and card data (digital signal) to be transmitted to the automatic ticket gate G is generated. The signal is output to a multiplication circuit (not shown) of the phase modulation unit 13. Therefore, a signal obtained by modulating the subcarrier with the card data is generated from the multiplication circuit.

The generated signal is transmitted through the phase modulation circuit (not shown) of the phase modulation unit 13 to the reflection antenna 10b.
Power is supplied to Therefore, when the main carrier that is transmitted from the antenna a of the transmitter T in a time-division manner and hits the reflecting antenna 10b and is reflected, the phase is just modulated with the card data.

When the antenna a of the transmitter T receives the reflection signal reflected by the reflection antenna 10b, a reception circuit (not shown) performs detection processing, filtering processing, and amplification processing to extract data from the card C side. Then, the extracted card data is sent to the controller 6 of the automatic ticket gate main body G.
To be used for the automatic ticket gate calculation process.

Next, the control operation of the automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment will be described.

First, when a user tries to enter the ticket gate passage P by using an automatic ticket gate, the human detector S provided at the entrance side of the ticket gate passage P detects it, and
Data is exchanged between the card C held over the antenna a and the automatic ticket gate G. Then, when the result of the calculation processing for the ticket gate processing can permit entry and exit, the door D is opened (when the automatic ticket gate G is a normally open type, the door D remains unchanged), and the automatic ticket gate processing by the card C is performed.

By the way, when data is not exchanged smoothly between the card C and the automatic ticket gate G, or when the card C is an invalid card and the user is judged to be a non-billed person,
The door D is closed to prevent passage, and the lamp (lamp L2 in FIG. 1) corresponding to the user is turned on to inform the user and the staff that passage has been blocked. Further, when a user who cannot pass through occurs, the user is notified by voice through the display screen 4 and a speaker (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 1, the automatic ticket gate G according to this embodiment easily recognizes who is a ticketless person even if there are plural users a and b in the ticket gate passage P. be able to. If the automatic ticket gate G is a doorless type automatic ticket gate in which the door D is omitted, such as the one installed at a small station, the doorless person cannot block the passage of the ticketless person. Although there is a possibility that it will pass through, the automatic ticket gate of this embodiment can identify and display unpaid persons,
It is possible to effectively prevent an unauthorized passage of a billless person.

[0022]

The non-contact type automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is provided with a human detecting means for detecting the position of the user in the ticket gate passage of the non-contact automatic ticket gate, and in the passage direction of the user in the ticket gate passage. Correspondingly, when a plurality of display lamp groups provided on the main body of the non-contact type automatic ticket gate and the human detection means detect the user and the transmitter does not communicate, the communication line is provided. Since it has the lamp control means for turning on the lamps in the display lamp group corresponding to the unintentional user, it is possible to easily recognize the billless person.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a non-contact type automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration.

[Explanation of symbols]

 G Non-contact type automatic ticket gate (Automatic ticket gate) a Antenna D Door 5 Controller 6 Door drive unit 7 Sensor amplifier 8 Lamp drive unit C Non-contact type card (card) S, S ... Human detector L1 to L3 Lamp T Transmitter 10a Reception antenna 10b Reflection antenna 11 Reception unit 12 CPU 13 Phase modulation unit E Battery

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A non-contact automatic ticket gate that performs non-contact data transfer between a wireless transmitter provided on the main body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate and a non-contact card to perform automatic ticket processing. In the machine, a human detection means for detecting a user position in a ticket passage of the non-contact automatic ticket gate, and a main body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate corresponding to a passing direction of the user in the ticket passage. A plurality of display lamp groups provided, and among the display lamp groups corresponding to the users who do not communicate when the human detection unit detects the user and the transmitter does not communicate. A non-contact type automatic ticket gate, comprising: a lamp control means for lighting the lamp.