CN102034308B - Automatic vending system and method, magnetic valuable notes and automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic vending system, which includes an automatic vending machine and magnetic valuable ticket paper, wherein the magnetic area of the ticket paper has an original area for recording the use information of the ticket paper and a mark for recording commodity collection information area, the automatic vending machine includes an information identification device and a control device for processing magnetic paper of value, wherein the information identification device includes a magnetic reading mechanism for reading the information of the original area of the ticket paper and the information of the marked area, and the control The device is used to compare the information read by the information identification device with the reference data used to confirm the ticket is valid, and control the commodity distribution operation according to the comparison result. The invention also discloses an automatic vending method, an automatic vending machine and a magnetic valuable ticket paper. The invention controls the number of times the ticket paper receives commodities while ensuring the normal use of the original purpose of the ticket paper. The purpose of paper collection of goods once or multiple times.

Description

Vending system and method, magnetic voucher and vending machine

technical field

The invention relates to an automatic vending system and method, and also relates to an automatic vending machine of the automatic vending system and magnetic valuable ticket paper.

Background technique

The vending machine includes a product storage rack, a delivery module, an operation panel and a transaction module, etc. Traditional transaction modules are usually coin recognizers or card readers. Users use cash, smart cards (such as bank cards, magnetic cards, IC cards, etc.) to trade with vending machines. For example, the user inserts appropriate coins or banknotes into the transaction module of the vending machine, and selects the desired product through the operation panel; after the transaction module recognizes that the coin or banknote is correct, it controls the delivery module to issue the product selected by the user; The transaction module of the vending machine inserts the smart card, and the vending machine is connected to the financial system. After deducting the transaction amount from the user's smart card, the vending machine controls the delivery module to release the goods selected by the user.

The inventor found that the traditional trading method of vending machines cannot meet the needs of some special occasions. For example, railways or scenic spots have introduced some preferential policies. Users can receive mineral water and other commodities at designated places by virtue of purchased tickets or tickets. Since these ticket papers themselves have specific uses, it is required that the original ticket paper should not be damaged during the sales process. information, and can effectively control the number of sales, so as to ensure that the use of a ticket paper can achieve dual purposes. However, traditional vending machines can only rely on cash or smart cards, a single-purpose medium, to distribute goods, which cannot meet this new demand.

Therefore, railways or scenic spots can only organize staff to distribute manually at the set location. This mode of operation not only wastes manpower cost, but also causes inconvenience to the user to receive the goods because the setting location is too limited. Therefore, there is an urgent need to provide a new type of automatic vending machine and automatic vending method, so that users can collect commodities by themselves by virtue of valuable tickets.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic vending system and method to meet the needs of special occasions. The object of the present invention is also to provide a magnetic paper of value used in an automatic vending system and an automatic vending machine.

Therefore, in one aspect, the present invention provides an automatic vending system, which includes an automatic vending machine and magnetic paper of value, wherein the magnetic area of the paper has an original area for recording the use information of the paper and a magnetic area for recording the use information of the paper. A marking area for recording commodity collection information, the automatic vending machine includes an information identification device and a control device for handling magnetic valuable paper, wherein the information identification device includes information for reading the original area of the paper and the information of the marking area The magnetic reading mechanism, the control device is used to compare the information read by the information identification device with the reference data used to confirm the validity of the ticket paper, and control the commodity distribution operation according to the comparison result.

Preferably, the above-mentioned information identification device further includes: a magnetic writing mechanism for writing commodity collection information in the marked area of the ticket paper.

Preferably, the above-mentioned information identification device further includes: a conveying mechanism for inputting or outputting ticket paper into or out of the information identification device.

Preferably, the above-mentioned magnetic reading mechanism includes a first magnetic reading mechanism for reading the information of the original area of the ticket paper and a second magnetic reading mechanism for reading the information of the marking area, when the above-mentioned original area is located in the width direction of the ticket paper In the middle of the ticket paper, the information identification device further includes: a third magnetic reading mechanism, which is symmetrically arranged on both sides of the ticket paper with the second magnetic reading mechanism.

Preferably, the above automatic vending machine further includes a coin validator and/or a card reader.

Preferably, the above-mentioned magnetic paper of value includes magnetic bus tickets, movie tickets, tickets for scenic spots or tickets for exhibition halls.

In another aspect, the present invention provides a magnetic paper of value used in the above automatic vending system.

In yet another aspect, the present invention provides an automatic vending machine used in an automatic vending system.

In yet another aspect, the present invention provides an automatic vending method, which includes the following steps: using a magnetic paper of value, and selecting a marking area in the magnetic area of the magnetic paper of value, for recording commodity collection information; And use the automatic vending machine to read the original use information of the magnetic area of the ticket paper and the information of the marking area, compare the read information with the reference data used to confirm the validity of the ticket paper, and control the commodity distribution operation according to the comparison result.

Preferably, the above-mentioned automatic vending method further includes: after the commodity distribution operation is completed, the step of writing commodity collection information in the marked area of the ticket paper.

Preferably, when the original area is located at the center in the width direction of the ticket paper, the automatic vending machine performs a magnetic reading operation on the areas on both sides of the ticket paper respectively.

Preferably, the information recorded in the marking area of the above-mentioned ticket paper includes the number and/or quantity of commodities that have been collected.

The present invention has the advantages of selecting an area (referred to as a marking area) among the unused magnetic areas on the ticket paper to record the information of the user receiving the commodity, marking the validity of the ticket paper, and controlling the receipt of the commodity by the ticket paper. frequency and/or quantity. The vending machine reads the original magnetic code data recorded in the original magnetic area of the ticket paper and the product collection information recorded in the marked area, and judges the legitimacy and validity of the ticket paper to control the distribution of goods. Therefore, without destroying the original magnetic encoding data of the ticket paper, that is, ensuring the normal use of the original purpose of the ticket paper, the purpose of receiving one commodity or multiple commodities with one ticket paper is realized.

In addition to the objects, features and advantages described above, the present invention has other objects, features and advantages. Other objects, features and effects of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the drawings.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principle of the invention. In the picture:

Figure 1a is a schematic diagram of a ticket paper provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 1b is a schematic diagram of ticket paper provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a vending machine module provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an information recognition device for an automatic vending machine that uses the ticket paper shown in Fig. 1a;

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of an automatic vending method using ticket paper vending shown in Fig. 1a; and

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an information recognition device for an automatic vending machine that uses the ticket paper shown in Fig. 1b for vending.

Detailed ways

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention can be implemented in many different ways defined and covered by the claims. The same components are denoted by the same reference numerals in the drawings.

The magnetic paper of value in the present invention refers to a magnetic medium with value and specific use. The surface of the paper is completely covered by a magnetic coating, and the magnetic code data related to the use of the paper is recorded in the set area of the magnetic coating. , such as magnetic tickets, movie tickets, scenic spots and exhibition hall tickets, etc. During the ticket making process of the ticket paper, information such as the train number, fare, and ticket sales location are written in the set magnetic area of the magnetic ticket; the ticket sales date, fare price, and other information are written in the set magnetic area of the magnetic ticket. For the convenience of expression, this type of information is referred to as the original magnetic encoding data of the ticket paper, and the magnetic area where the original magnetic encoding data is recorded is recorded as the original area. By reading the original magnetic code data recorded in the original area, the authenticity of the ticket paper can be judged, that is, the legitimacy of the ticket paper.

As shown in Figure 1a and Figure 1b, the difference between the ticket paper shown in Figure 1a and Figure 1b lies in the different positions of the original area on the ticket paper, wherein the original area of the ticket paper P shown in Figure 1a is located near the side of the ticket paper The A area of the ticket paper P' shown in Figure 1b is located in the A' area in the center of the ticket paper. It can be seen from the figure that there are still a large number of unused magnetic regions on the ticket paper. The idea of the present invention is to select one of the unused magnetic regions on the ticket paper, such as the B region in Figure 1a and the B in Figure 1b The 'area is used to record the information of the user receiving the goods, and is used to mark the validity of the ticket paper, so as to control the number and/or quantity of the goods received by the ticket paper. For convenience of description, the selected area is referred to as a marked area. In this way, the vending machine reads the original magnetic code data recorded in the original area of the ticket paper and the product collection information recorded in the marked area to judge the legitimacy and validity of the ticket paper, and control the distribution of goods when the ticket paper is legal and valid. .

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a vending machine module provided by an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the automatic vending machine includes a commodity storage device 1 , a commodity transport device 2 (or referred to as a commodity distribution device), an information identification device 3 , an information storage device 4 and a control device 5 . The commodity storage device 1 is used to store commodities; the commodity handling device 2 is used to controlly transport the commodities from the commodity storage device to the pick-up port of the vending machine; the information identification device 3 is used to read the information recorded on the paper of value, And record the information that the user receives the commodity on the legal and valid valuable ticket; the information storage device 4 is used to store the reference information for confirming the legality and validity of the ticket; the control device 5 is used to read the ticket by the information identification device 3 The paper information is compared with the reference data stored in the information storage device 4 to judge the legitimacy and validity of the ticket paper, and control the action of the product handling device 2 according to the judgment result.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an information recognition device for an automatic vending machine that uses the ticket paper shown in Fig. 1a for vending. As shown in the figure, the information identification device 3 includes an original information identification mechanism 31 , a marked information identification mechanism 32 , and a conveying mechanism 33 . The original information identification device 31 includes a first magnetic reading mechanism 311 for reading the original magnetic coded information recorded in the original area of the ticket paper. The marking information recognition mechanism comprises a first magnetic writing mechanism 321 and a second magnetic reading mechanism 322. The first magnetic writing mechanism 321 is used to record the information (i.e. magnetic coded data) of goods received in the marking area, and the second magnetic reading mechanism 322 is used to Read the magnetically encoded data recorded in the marked area. The first magnetic reading mechanism 311 corresponds to the original area A of the ticket paper P, and the first magnetic writing mechanism 321 and the second magnetic reading mechanism 322 are arranged along the transport direction of the ticket paper, and both correspond to the marked area B of the ticket paper P. The conveying mechanism 33 is used to convey the ticket paper into or out of the information identification device 3 .

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of an automatic vending method using the ticket paper shown in Fig. 1a. The automatic vending method of the automatic vending machine provided by the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 4 .

Step S402: Feed paper

The user inserts the ticket paper into the entrance of the information identification device 3 of the automatic vending machine, and the transport mechanism 33 of the information identification device 3 drives the ticket paper into the information identification device.

Step S404: read the original area data, judge the validity of the ticket, if the ticket is legal, execute step S406; otherwise, execute step S412.

The first magnetic reading mechanism 311 reads the magnetically encoded data recorded in the original area, and the control device 5 judges whether the magnetically encoded data is read. Whether the data is consistent, when the read magnetic encoding data is consistent with the reference data, it is confirmed that the ticket paper is legal. Otherwise, the confirmation ticket is invalid. If the magnetically encoded data cannot be read, it is confirmed that the ticket paper is invalid.

Step S406: Read the marked area data, and judge the validity of the ticket paper. If the ticket paper is valid, execute step S408; otherwise, execute step S412.

For the case where a ticket can only be used to receive the product once, the method for judging the validity of the ticket is:

The second magnetic reading mechanism 322 reads the magnetic code data recorded in the mark area, and the control device 4 judges whether the magnetic code data has been read. If not, it means that the ticket paper has never received a commodity. Therefore, the ticket paper is confirmed to be valid. Otherwise, it means that the ticket has already received the product, and it is confirmed that the ticket is invalid.

For the case where a ticket can be used to collect goods multiple times, the method for judging the validity of the ticket is:

The second magnetic reading mechanism 322 reads the magnetically encoded data recorded in the marked area, and the control device 5 judges whether the magnetically encoded data is read. If not, it means that the ticket has never received a commodity. Therefore, it is confirmed that the ticket is valid. If the magnetically encoded data is read, then the control device 5 judges whether the read magnetically encoded data exceeds the threshold value set in the information storage device 4, and the threshold value is determined by the number of times the ticket is allowed to be used. If the set threshold is not exceeded, the ticket is confirmed to be valid; otherwise, the ticket is confirmed to be invalid.

Step S408: Issuing commodities

After confirming that the ticket paper is valid, the control device 5 instructs the commodity transfer device 2 to transport the commodity from the commodity storage device 1 to the pick-up port of the self-service vending machine 100, so that the user can pick up the commodity.

Step S410: Write the set magnetic encoding data into the marking area

After the commodity is released, the first magnetic writing mechanism 321 writes the set magnetic code data in the marking area, as the basis for receiving the commodity on the ticket. The written magnetically encoded data may only include simple information on whether the ticket paper is used, or may include complex information such as the number of times the ticket paper is used and the number of goods received.

Step S412: Discard ticket

After the first magnetic writing mechanism 321 writes the set magnetic encoding data in the marking area, the control device 5 controls the conveying mechanism 33 to eject the ticket paper out of the information identification device 3 .

It can be seen from the above description that the automatic ticket vending method provided by the present invention records the information of receiving goods by using the unused magnetic area of the ticket paper, without destroying the original magnetic encoding data of the ticket paper, that is, ensuring the normal use of the original purpose of the ticket paper , Realize the purpose of receiving one commodity or multiple commodities with one ticket.

It should be noted that there is no strict sequence requirement for judging the legitimacy and validity of the ticket. The legitimacy of the ticket can be judged first, and when the ticket is legal, the validity of the ticket can be judged; the validity of the ticket can also be judged first , when the ticket is valid, the legitimacy of the ticket is judged; the two can also be judged at the same time. But only when the ticket paper is legal and valid, the control device can control the distribution of commodities.

Since the original area A' of the ticket paper P' shown in Figure 1b is located in the center of the ticket paper, any unused area on both sides of the original area can be selected as the marking area. In order to prevent the misjudgment of the validity of the ticket caused by the position of the mark information identification mechanism not corresponding to the position of the mark area of the ticket due to the different insertion directions of the ticket, it is preferable to add a magnetic reading mechanism to assist in the judgment.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an information recognition device for an automatic vending machine that uses the ticket paper shown in Fig. 1b for vending. As shown in the figure, the information identification device 3 includes an original information identification mechanism 31 , a marked information identification mechanism 32 , and a conveying mechanism 33 . The original information identification device 31 includes a first magnetic reading mechanism 311 for reading the original magnetic coded information recorded in the original area of the ticket paper. The mark information identification mechanism comprises a first magnetic writing mechanism 321, a second magnetic reading mechanism 322 and a third magnetic reading mechanism 323, the first magnetic writing mechanism 321 is used to record the information (i.e. magnetic coded data) of goods received in the marking area, the second The second magnetic reading mechanism 322 and the third magnetic reading mechanism 323 are used to read the magnetically encoded data recorded in the mark area. The first magnetic reading mechanism 311 corresponds to the original area A' of the ticket paper P', the first magnetic writing mechanism 321 and the second magnetic reading mechanism 322 are arranged along the transport direction of the ticket paper, and both correspond to the marked area B' of the ticket paper P' Correspondingly, the third magnetic reading mechanism 323 and the second magnetic reading mechanism 322 are symmetrical about the center of the ticket paper in the width direction of the ticket paper. The conveying mechanism 33 is used to convey the ticket paper into or out of the information identification device 3 .

The automatic vending method of the self-service ticket vending machine provided in this embodiment is basically the same as the automatic vending method shown in FIG. The method of judging the validity of ticket paper is:

The second magnetic reading mechanism 322 and the third magnetic reading mechanism 323 simultaneously read the magnetically encoded data recorded in the corresponding area, and the control device 4 judges whether the magnetically encoded data is read. The ticket has never been picked up, so the confirmation ticket is valid. Otherwise, it means that the ticket has already received the product, and it is confirmed that the ticket is invalid.

For the case where a ticket can be used to collect goods multiple times, the method for judging the validity of the ticket is:

The second magnetic reading mechanism 322 and the third magnetic reading mechanism 323 simultaneously read the magnetically encoded data recorded in the corresponding area, and the control device 5 judges whether the magnetically encoded data is read, and if there is neither, it means that the ticket paper has never been taken. Merchandise, therefore, confirms that the ticket is valid. When one of the two reads the magnetically encoded data, then the control device 5 judges whether the read magnetically encoded data exceeds the set threshold in the information storage device 4, and the set threshold is determined by the number of times the ticket is allowed to be used. If the set threshold is not exceeded, the ticket is confirmed to be valid; otherwise, the ticket is confirmed to be invalid.

In this way, the mark information identification mechanism can prevent the error of ticket validity judgment caused by different ticket insertion directions by arranging two magnetic reading mechanisms symmetrically on both sides of the original area located in the center of the ticket paper to read the mark area information.

It is easy to understand that coin recognizers and/or card readers can also be set on the automatic vending machine of the present invention, so that cash or smart cards can also be used to purchase commodities.

The advantage of the present invention is that an area (referred to as a mark area) is selected from the unused magnetic areas on the ticket paper to record the information of the user receiving the goods, so as to control the number and/or quantity of the goods received by the ticket paper. In this way, by reading the original magnetic code data recorded in the original area of the ticket paper and the product collection information recorded in the marked area of the automatic vending machine, the legitimacy and validity of the ticket paper can be judged, and when the ticket paper is legal, the distribution of goods can be controlled. . Therefore, without destroying the original magnetic encoding data of the ticket paper, that is, ensuring the normal use of the original purpose of the ticket paper, the purpose of receiving one commodity or multiple commodities with one ticket paper is realized.

The above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. For those skilled in the art, the present invention may have various modifications and changes. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (12)

1. an automatically vending system is characterized in that, comprises that automatic vending machine and magnetic have valency ticket paper, wherein,

The magnetic regions of described ticket paper (P) has for the original area (A) of record ticket paper purposes information and is used for the marked region (B) that the record commodity are got information,

Described automatic vending machine comprises information recognition device (3) and the control device (5) that valency ticket paper (P) is arranged for the treatment of described magnetic, wherein,

Described information recognition device (3) comprise be used to the information of the information of the original area (A) that reads described ticket paper (P) and marked region (B) read magnetic mechanism (311,322),

The information that described control device (5) is used for described information recognition device (3) is read is compared with being used for the effective reference data of affirmation ticket paper (P), and according to the operation of comparative result control commerce distribution.

2. automatically vending system according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described information recognition device (3) also comprises:

Write magnetic mechanism (321), write commodity for the marked region (B) at described ticket paper (P) and get information.

3. automatically vending system according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described information recognition device (3) also comprises:

Conveying mechanism (33) is used for described ticket paper (P) is inputed or outputed described information recognition device (3).

4. automatically vending system according to claim 3 is characterized in that,

Described read magnetic mechanism (311,322) comprise be used to first of the information of the original area (A) that reads described ticket paper (P) read magnetic mechanism (311) and be used for reading marked region (B) information second read magnetic mechanism (322)

When described original area (A) was positioned at central on ticket paper (P) Width, described information recognition device (3) also comprised:

Third reading magnetic mechanism (323), magnetic coded data for marked region (B) record that reads ticket paper (P), wherein, described second reads magnetic mechanism (322) arranges along ticket paper throughput direction, corresponding with the marked region (B) of ticket paper (P), described third reading magnetic mechanism (323) and second read magnetic mechanism (322) on ticket paper (P) Width about ticket paper Central Symmetry.

5. automatically vending system according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described automatic vending machine also comprises coin identifier and/or card reader.

6. automatically vending system according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

Described magnetic has valency ticket paper (P) to comprise magnetic ticket, film ticket, entrance ticket or museum's admission ticket.

7. a magnetic of using in each described automatically vending system in claim 1 to 6 has valency ticket paper.

8. automatic vending machine that in claim 1 to 6, uses in each described automatically vending system.

9. an automatic vending method is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:

Use magnetic that valency ticket paper (P) is arranged, and have in the magnetic regions of valency ticket paper (P) in described magnetic, a selected original area (A) is used for record ticket paper purposes information, and a marked region (B), is used for the record commodity and gets information; And

Automatic vending machine is read the original applications information of the magnetic regions of described ticket paper (P) and the information of marked region (B), with the information that reads be used for confirming described ticket paper (P) effectively reference data compare, according to the operation of comparative result control commerce distribution.

10. automatic vending method according to claim 9 is characterized in that, also comprises:

After commerce distribution operation is finished, write the step that commodity are got information at the marked region (B) of described ticket paper (P).

11. automatic vending method according to claim 9 is characterized in that,

When described original area (A) is positioned at central authorities on ticket paper (P) Width, and when marked region was positioned at original area with respect to the side on the ticket paper Width, described automatic vending machine was to reading respectively the magnetic operation about the zone of the centrosymmetric ticket paper of ticket paper (P) two avris on the ticket paper Width.

12. each described automatic vending method in 11 is characterized in that according to claim 9,

The information of record comprises commodity number of times and/or the quantity of having got in the marked region of described ticket paper (B).

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