JPS58149558A - Issuing machine of magnetic card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To record different information volumes onto magnetic tracks having the same size, by selecting an information recording density. CONSTITUTION:In case of a kind of passenger ticket purchased independently each time, a form get out from a roll paper 1 is cut to a prescribed size, and visual information such as a starting station and a destination station are printed on the surface of the form by a printing part 3 and are fixed in a part 4, and the form is sent to a write head 5. In the head part, information for an automatic ticket examining machine such as a start date, an end date, a starting station code, and a destination station code are recorded on the first magnetic track having a low density. Further, information required for reservation cancelling and refunding works are recorded on the second magnetic track having a low density by the head part 5. A read head 6 information for the automatic ticket examining machine and information required for reservation cancelling and refunding works, which are recorded on tracks, and checks the recording state. After a prescribed recording state is confirmed, a passenger ticket and a reserved ticket are issued.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention includes a first magnetic track that prints visual information such as departure and arrival stations on the front side and records magnetic information for automatic ticket gates on the back side. Other feelings! ii! The present invention relates to an apparatus for issuing all magnetic cards such as train tickets, reserved tickets, commuter passes, etc. (hereinafter referred to as train tickets), which is equipped with a second magnetic track for recording.

[Technical background of the invention]

In recent years, automatic ticket gates have come into widespread use as part of the rationalization of ticket gate operations in railways, etc.

Among the conventional tickets used in such automatic ticket gates, if the size is the width of a commuter pass, the departure station,
While visual information such as the destination station is printed, the back side is provided with, for example, ten magnetic tracks α to No as shown in FIG. 1, of which the middle two tracks t and f are empty tracks. Necessary magnetic information such as start date, end date, departure station code, arrival station code, transit code, etc. is recorded on the remaining 8 magnetic tracks ad and 1 to 1. Automatic ticket gates read the magnetic information from the trains to determine whether passengers could board or alight at the stations where they were installed.

[Problems with background technology]

There are two types of commuter pass-sized tickets: those that are purchased individually each time, such as train tickets and reserved seat tickets, and those that are purchased continuously, such as commuter passes. In the former case, cancellation and refund operations due to cancellation of reservations, and in the latter case, issue operations to continuing purchasers, are the major rationalization themes. Therefore, there has been no proposal to record cancellation information or continued purchase information on the two empty tracks to achieve the rationalization described above. However, in order to encode the information necessary for cancellation/refund operations due to reservation cancellation, boarding date, train number, seat number, etc.
While it is sufficient to store approximately 80 bits of data such as ticket fees and reserved seat ticket fees, in order to encode the information necessary for issuance to continuous purchasers, it is necessary to store the departure station, destination station, and transit station group. ,
There must be a recording capacity of about 600 bits, such as riding distance by railway company, fares by railway company, discount type, name, age, grade, etc., which is about 80 bits for the former and about 600 bits for the latter. Because of the large difference, it was not possible to record both of them on the empty track using the same recording method, and as a result, it was difficult to issue both with one issuing machine.

[Purpose of the invention]

This invention was developed based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and in the case of magnetic cards such as train tickets and reserved seat tickets that are purchased independently each time, there is a In addition to magnetic information, information necessary for refunding, canceling, repurchasing, and reissuing the card, such as cancellation/refund operations due to reservation cancellation, and in the case of magnetic cards of the type that are continuously purchased such as commuter passes, In addition to the magnetic information used to check when the card is used, the magnetic cards are selectively recorded with information necessary for issuance to repeat purchasers, and can be issued using a single issuing machine. The purpose is to provide a issuing machine.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is characterized in that by selecting the recording density of information, different amounts of information can be recorded on magnetic tracks of the same size.

[Embodiments of the invention]

This invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment shown in FIGS. 2-4. Of the magnetic tracks of the magnetic card, eight magnetic tracks excluding l and f'fr are referred to as first magnetic tracks, and magnetic tracks e and f are referred to as second magnetic tracks. 2 is a schematic mechanical diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a write circuit that operates the enrichment head of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a write circuit that operates the read head of FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a read circuit.

In Fig. 2, 1 is a roll paper with a magnetic film on the back side;
2 is a hopper which has a magnetic film on the back side and stores paper that has been cut to a predetermined size of the commuter pass width;
6 prints visual information such as the departure station and destination station on the surface of the paper that is fed out from the roll paper 1 and cut into a predetermined size of the width of the commuter pass, or the paper sent out from the hopper 2. 4 is a fixing unit that fixes the printing condition; 5 is magnetic information for automatic ticket gates on the back of the paper, information necessary for cancellation and refund operations due to cancellation of reservations, or information necessary for issuing operations to continuing purchasers. A writing head 6 encodes one of the selected pieces of information, and a reading head 6 checks the record B of the information encoded onto the paper by the writing head 5.

The write head 5, as shown in FIG.
It is composed of ten head parts 5α to 5, corresponding to zero magnetic tracks α to 5. In Figure 3, α
. ~of. Input terminals of the write circuit corresponding to the magnetic tracks a to no, 'P are clock pulse input terminals, 7
α~7 are data storage solitub flops that temporarily latch the data input from input terminals α0~No0 and output this data according to clock pulses;
8α~8 is that way data storage flip 70 knob 7α
NR for magnetic recording of ~7 outputs using the NRZI method
The ZI control circuits 9α to 9 are head drivers that amplify the outputs of the NRZI control circuits 8α to 8, respectively, and cause the head portions 5α to 5 to perform writing operations, respectively. Head drivers 9g and 9f have switches 10g and 107ffi.
The NRZ I control circuits Be, Bf and the switching pH control circuits 11t, 11f are connected through the
pH control circuit 11e.

Reference numeral 11f is for magnetically recording the outputs of the data storage flip-flops 12t and 127 using the PM method. PM
This type of magnetic recording has a higher recording density than the NRZI type magnetic recording.

As shown in FIG. 4, the thread removing head 6 is connected to
It consists of ten head parts 6α to 6' corresponding to zero magnetic tracks α to . In Figure 4,
13α to 13 are NRs that read only the information magnetically recorded using the NRZI method through the recording head portions 6a to 6, respectively.
ZI amplifier, 14α~14no is 1t-t"-1-LN
R;ll is a flip-flop that temporarily latches the data input from the input terminals 13α to 13 and outputs this data in accordance with the clock pulse from the clock pulse input terminal cp; These are the output terminals of the reading circuit corresponding to the n magnetic tracks α to No.

The head portions 61 and 6f are equipped with pAI amplifiers 15e and 15f that read only information magnetically recorded using the PM method.
Connected in parallel with NRZI Ang 13# and 13f, respectively.
The outputs of the data storage flip-flops 16e and 16j, to which data is input from the #1 amplifiers 15g and 15f, are switched between the outputs of the data storage flip 70 knobs 14g and 14f via switches 171 and 171'. It has become.

The switches 10e, 10f, 17e, and 17f are configured as described above, and operate in conjunction with the operation of a selection button that selects all types of volumes. The ticket issuing machine operates as follows. In the case of train tickets, reserved seat tickets, etc. that are purchased separately each time, the paper fed out from the roll paper 1 is cut into a predetermined size of the commuter pass width size, and then printed in the printing section 6. Visual information such as the departure station and destination station is printed on the surface of the paper, and after being fixed in the fixing section 4, the paper is sent to the writing head 5.

The head portions 5α to 5d and 5g to 5 are input terminals α. - the start date entered from do and da 0 to ha,
Information for automatic ticket gates such as end date, departure station code, arrival station code, transit code, etc. is magnetically recorded on tracks α~d and f~no (first magnetic track) using the NRZ1 method. 0 This information can be used at a relatively low density, so NRZ I
methods are available. In addition, since the switches 10g and 10f are connected to the A side in this case, the head portion 5g,
5f is the input terminal e (y4, f6) The information necessary for reservation cancellation/refund operations inputted from f6A, such as boarding date, train number, seat number, ticket price, reserved seat ticket price, etc. Track 80-bit information using NRZI method
, fc second magnetic track).

Since this information also requires relatively low density, the NRZI method can be used.

The paper is then sent to the reading head B. Head part 6α-
6d and 61 to 6 read the information for automatic ticket gates magnetically recorded in tracks α to d and f using the NRZI method to check the recording status. Also switch 17. ．． 1; Since # is connected to the A side in this case, the head portions 6g and 6f are connected to the track t,
The recording state is checked by reading the information necessary for canceling/refunding operations for canceling reservations magnetically recorded using the f ic NRZ1 method. Once it is confirmed that the predetermined recording status is met, the ticket, reserved seat ticket, etc. will be issued.

In addition, in the case of S-class tickets that are purchased continuously, such as commuter passes, the paper that has been cut and stored in advance to a predetermined size of the commuter pass width is sent out from the hopper 2,
Visual information such as the departure station and arrival station is printed on the surface of the paper at the printing station 2, and after being fixed in the fixing section 4, the paper is sent to the writing head 5. The lead portions 5α to 5d and 51 to 5 are C input terminals α. -do and qo~ノ. Information 2 for automatic ticket gates, such as the start date, end date, departure station code, destination station code, transit code, etc., inputted from 2 is magnetically recorded on tracks α to d and I to No by the NRZI method. Since this information requires relatively low density, the NRZI method can be used. In addition, the switch 106.10f is Bj in this case.
The head portions 5e and 5f are connected to the input terminal e. The information input from BJoB and necessary for issuance to continuing purchasers, namely departure route, destination station, transit station group, riding distance by railway company, fare by railway company, discount type, name, year Approximately 600 bits of information such as age, grade, etc. are recorded on tracks t and f using the PM method.

Since this information has a relatively low density and cannot be recorded on the track eif, the NRZI method can only be used, and the PM method can be used. Subsequently, the paper is sent to the all-read head 6. Head portions 6α to 6d and 6g to 6
NRZ J on tracks α~d and y~no
The above-mentioned information for automatic ticket gates that has been magnetically recorded using the method is read and the recording state is checked. Also switch 17. ．． 1#
In this case, since it is connected to the B side, the head part 6g
, 6f read the information necessary for the issuance work to the continuous purchaser, which is magnetically recorded on the tracks t and f using the PM force method, and check the recording state. Once the predetermined recording status is confirmed, the commuter pass will be issued.

In the above embodiment, eight magnetic tracks a - d and 1 to 1 are used to record information for automatic ticket gates, but the invention is not limited to this. Two magnetic tracks e,
The use of ff is not limited to the following o'! In the above embodiment, NR21 is used as a magnetic recording method for low density information.
p as a magnetic recording method for high-density information.
Although the H method is used, any other suitable available magnetic recording method may be employed. Further, in the above embodiment, the roll paper 1 for train tickets, reserved seat tickets, etc. and the hopper 2 for commuter passes are provided separately, but all the train tickets, reserved seat tickets, commuter passes, etc. are fed out from the roll paper 1 each time. Alternatively, all the sheets that have been cut and cut may be stored in the hopper 2 without using roll paper.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the above explanation, according to the present invention, in the case of a magnetic card of the type that is purchased independently for each ticket, reserved seat ticket, etc., magnetic information for checking at the time of use is provided. In addition to information necessary for operations such as cancellation, refund, and repurchase, in the case of magnetic cards that are purchased continuously such as commuter passes, in addition to magnetic information for checking when using the card, it also contains information necessary for continuous purchases. It has the advantage of being able to select and record information necessary for issuance work to individuals, and then issue magnetic cards with a single issuing machine.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a magnetic track provided on the back surface of a magnetic card, FIG. 2 is a schematic mechanical diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an illustration of the write head of FIG. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a write circuit for operating the read head of FIG. 2; FIG. αebaC2ds! 1ehpLe)"...First magnetic track, e. f...Second magnetic track,':s, 5f...Recording device (head) 0 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] A magnetic card is issued that includes a first magnetic track for recording first information and a second magnetic track for recording second information, wherein the second magnetic track has low-density information or high-density information. A magnetic card issuing machine characterized by being provided with a recording device for selectively recording information.