JPH11259698A - Automatic checking and collecting machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily distinguish and take out a jammed ticket by distinguishing the jammed ticket from the other normal tickets and turning on indicators at the time of detecting the jam of a train ticket carried on a carrying path. SOLUTION: Plural sensors consisting of photoelectric elements shown by a block-triangle mark are provided at prescribed places of a carrying path L including a carrying path that forms a pooling part P and LED indicators that correspond to the sensors and are shown by a double circle mark are provided to form an indicator group. And, because a clerk in charge opens a cover of a body (a) that is abnormally stopped when jam takes place in the body (a), the part of a card handler A appears and the indicator group can be seen. Because a LED that detects a train ticket is turned on in an indicator, the clerk can easily confirm the position of the train ticket and also can distinguish a jammed ticket from a normal ticket because the LED of a sensor that decides the jammed ticket (1) is blinkingly turned on and a LED that detects another normal ticket (2) held in the body (a) is always turned on.

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, the present invention relates to a device capable of promptly coping with a jam ticket.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an automatic ticket gate, when a ticket inserted in a main body of the automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as "main unit") is being conveyed and a jam occurs, the jam position is notified. Automatic ticket gates are known.

For example, in an automatic ticket gate disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 49-115400, a large number of sensors are provided along a conveyance path, and a display is provided corresponding to each sensor to handle a sensor that detects a jam. The blinking indicator lights to indicate the jam position.

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned conventional automatic ticket gate can only notify the position of a jam, and can be employed as it is in a multiple-sheet automatic ticket gate where a plurality of sheets are simultaneously held in the main body. There was a disadvantage that it could not be done.

That is, an automatic ticket gate that can handle a plurality of sheets is:
Multiple tickets are inserted into the main body for entry / exit processing of a single user, such as a normal ticket and an express ticket, or an advance ticket and a disembarkation ticket. It was not clear whether the ticket was a ticket that caused a jam (hereinafter referred to as a “jam ticket”), or the stage of the entrance / exit processing of the jam ticket, which could cause inconvenience in subsequent processing. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object of the present invention is to clarify the position of all tickets in a main body and to make a jam ticket and other normal tickets. An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate capable of notifying a ticket (hereinafter, referred to as a "normal ticket") separately.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, an automatic ticket gate according to the present invention provides a state in which a ticket is transported at a plurality of predetermined locations on a transport path for transporting a ticket inserted into a main body. , A display group consisting of a plurality of display devices provided corresponding to the respective sensors forming the sensor group, and a detecting means for detecting a jam of a ticket conveyed on the conveyance path And lighting control means for turning on the indicators in the display group by distinguishing the jam ticket from other normal tickets when a jam is detected. Further, a display control means for displaying the number of tickets detected by the sensor group on a display screen provided in the main body is provided. And it is characterized by having a number display control means for displaying the number of jam tickets and the number of normal tickets on the display screen separately. Further, after the jam ticket is taken out of the main body, a predetermined entry / exit process is performed on the normal ticket.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a card handler A portion of a main body a. The main body a is configured so that a plurality of (two in FIG. 1) tickets can be stacked and inserted collectively. ing.

[0009] A transfer path L for a ticket driven by a motor M is provided between the insertion port 1 of the main body a for inserting a ticket and the discharge port 2 for returning the ticket to the user. In this transport path L, from the inlet 1 to the outlet 2,
A plurality of tickets stacked at the slot 1 and inserted at once,
Section 3 that separates one by one by changing the peripheral speed of a pair of upper and lower feed rollers, an aligning section 4 that adjusts the posture of the separated ticket while conveying the same, and data recorded on the ticket. Read heads H1, H1 'for reading
A write head H2 for writing new data obtained by the arithmetic processing, a verify head H3 for checking the written data, and a solenoid (not shown) for guiding the ticket to the pool P Punching / printing unit comprising a wing W1 to be used, a punching unit for punching a used hole in a ticket, if necessary, and a printing unit for printing predetermined contents such as an entrance station name on the ticket, as necessary. A portion 5 and a stopper S driven by a solenoid (not shown) for stacking and returning a ticket from the discharge port 2 are provided.

The pool portion P is formed by a transport path bypassing the transport path L provided with the write head H2 and the verify head H3, and the ticket introduced by the wing W1 is turned upside down. A reversing section 6 for reversing the ticket in a switchback manner when the ticket is inserted into the slot 1 and a plurality of (two in the illustrated example)
The stoppers are provided in multiple stages so as to temporarily hold individual tickets. In addition, W2 of pool part P
W3 is a wing for guiding a ticket requiring reversal to the reversing unit 6, and W3 is a wing for guiding the ticket to the upper stage of the pool P. The wings W1 to W3 are driven and controlled by a solenoid (not shown).

In the drawing, the symbol ▲ indicates a sensor comprising a photoelectric element, and a plurality of sensors are provided at predetermined positions of a transport path L including a transport path forming a pool portion P, and form a sensor group of the present invention. doing. In addition, ◎ indicates a display device including LEDs provided corresponding to each sensor, and forms a display device group of the present invention. Further, in the figure, reference numeral 7 denotes a display screen which is provided in the vicinity of the discharge port 2 and is configured to provide predetermined guidance to a user and to notify a staff member of a jam content when a jam occurs. I have.

In the figure, reference numeral C denotes a controller mainly constituted by a microcomputer which controls the main body a. The magnetic head H1 (or H1) is provided similarly to a known automatic ticket gate.
′) Is configured to perform arithmetic processing based on the data read, and to control opening and closing of a door (not shown) based on the result of the arithmetic processing. The controller C receives a signal from the sensor group to detect the presence or absence of a jam and, when a jam occurs, distinguishes between a jam ticket and another normal ticket as described later. Is configured to be able to control lighting.

The automatic ticket gate having the above configuration will be described from a normal state where no jam occurs. Now, when a plurality of tickets are collectively inserted into the slot 1 of the main body a by the user, the input plurality of tickets are separated by the separating unit 3.
To separate the magnetic heads H1 (or H1 ').
, The data is read, and the data is pooled one by one in each stage of the pool section P. When the last-read ticket does not need to be inverted, it can be conveyed to the punch / printing unit 5 without holding it in the pool P. However, here, for convenience of explanation, all the tickets , Are held in the pool section P.

When all the tickets are pooled in the pool portion P, the pool portion P outputs the write tickets H one by one.
2. The data is sequentially conveyed to the verifying head H3 and the punching / printing unit 6, where the incoming / outgoing data is written, punched and printed as necessary, and held in the stopper S. And
When all the tickets have been held, the stopper S is released, and the tickets are discharged to the discharge port 2 and returned. A ticket whose main body a is for participation and does not need to be returned is collected in a collection box (not shown) provided in the main body a.

Next, a control operation in which a jam occurs in the main body a will be described.

A predetermined time, that is, punching and printing are performed after the ticket first sent from the pool section P to the punching / printing section 5 is detected by a sensor provided on the entrance side of the punching / printing section 5. Is not detected by the sensor provided on the exit side of the punching / printing unit 5 after a lapse of time necessary for the control, the controller C determines that a jam has occurred,
The main body a is stopped abnormally. When the main body a is abnormally stopped, a shutter (not shown) provided at the insertion slot 1 is closed, and further ticket insertion is prohibited.

As described above, when a ticket is not conveyed for a predetermined time between successive sensors provided on the conveyance path L, or when a specific sensor detects a ticket for a predetermined time or more, The controller C determines that a jam has occurred, abnormally stops the main body a, displays the jam on a monitoring panel (not shown) provided in the staff room, and notifies the staff.

When the main body a stops abnormally due to the occurrence of a jam, the number of tickets and the number of jam tickets in the main body a detected by the sensor group are displayed on the display screen 7 (see the display screen 7 in FIG. 1). . Therefore, the attendant can easily grasp the situation in the main body a from the display contents of the display screen 7.

When a jam occurs in the main body a, a cover (not shown) of the main body a is opened by an attendant, so that a portion of the card handler A appears, and the display group becomes visible.

Since the LED (the indicator of the present invention) for detecting the ticket is illuminated on the display, the attendant can easily confirm the position of the ticket and display the jam ticket (ticket). The LED related to the determined sensor blinks and lights,
The LED for detecting another normal ticket (ticket) held in the main body a is always lit, so that the jam ticket and the normal ticket can be distinguished.

The jam ticket (ticket) is sent to the main body a by an attendant.
After being taken out, the cover is closed and the main body a is reset. Then, the ticket in the normal state is sent from the pool section P to the punch / print section 5 side, and a predetermined entry / exit process is performed. Since the jam ticket has already passed through the writing head H2, it is returned to the user without reinserting it into the main body a (collected when the main body a is for participation and need not be returned). As described above, since the processing state of the jam ticket can be known from the jam position in the main body a, the post-processing can be easily performed.

In the above example, the number of tickets has been described as two, but the jam detection is performed similarly even in the case of one ticket. Also, three or more sheets may be used. In this case, the capacity of the pool P is increased according to the number of processed sheets.

In the above example, the jam ticket and the normal ticket are distinguished by blinking and constantly lighting the LED. However, the lighting color of the LED may be changed.

[0024]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention comprises a sensor group for detecting the transport state of a ticket at a plurality of predetermined locations on a transport path for transporting the ticket inserted into the main body, and a sensor group for the sensor group. A display group consisting of a plurality of display devices provided corresponding to the respective sensors, detecting means for detecting a jam of a ticket conveyed on the conveyance path, and detecting the jam when the jam is detected. Since the lighting control means turns on the indicators of the indicator group while distinguishing between the ticket and the normal ticket, the jam ticket can be easily distinguished and taken out. Further, when the display control means for displaying the number of tickets detected by the sensor group on a display screen provided in the main body is provided, all the tickets reserved in the main body can be known. Further, when the number display control means for displaying the number of jam tickets and the number of normal tickets on the display screen is provided, the status of the ticket in the main body can be easily known. Then, when the predetermined entry / exit processing is performed on the normal ticket after the jam ticket is removed from the main body, the normal ticket left in the main body can be entered / exited. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a card handler portion of an automatic ticket gate according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Inlet 2 Outlet 3 Separation section 4 Alignment section 5 Punch / Print section 6 Inversion section 7 Display screen P Pool section S Stopper H1, H1 'Read head H2 Write head H3 Verify head L Transport path C Controller M Motor a Automatic ticket gate body (body) A Card handler

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A sensor group for detecting a transport state of a ticket at a plurality of predetermined locations on a transport path for transporting a ticket inserted into a main body of an automatic ticket gate, and a sensor group forming the sensor group. A display group consisting of a plurality of display devices provided in correspondence with each other, detection means for detecting a jam of a ticket conveyed on the conveyance path, and when a jam is detected, a ticket relating to the jam Lighting control means for turning on a display of the display group while distinguishing the ticket from other normal tickets. 2. An automatic ticket gate according to claim 1, further comprising display control means for displaying the number of tickets detected by the sensor group on a display screen provided on a main body of the automatic ticket gate. 3. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 2, further comprising a number display control means for displaying the number of tickets related to jam and the number of other normal tickets on a display screen. 4. A predetermined entry / exit process is performed on a normal ticket after the jam ticket is taken out of the main body of the automatic ticket gate. Automatic ticket gate described.