JP2003233845A - Automatic ticket examining machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently calculate a fare by using two new and old fare tables when fare revision is executed. <P>SOLUTION: This automatic ticket examining machine corresponding to a plurality of tickets capable of processing the plurality of tickets when a plurality of tickets are required for the exit processing of one passenger is provided with a pre-fare revision fare table in which prescribed fare data for calculating a pre-fare revision fare are stored, a post-fare revision fare table in which prescribed fare data for calculating a post-fare revision fare are stored, and a calculating means for calculating the cheapest fare by referring to the two fare tables when a sum type ticket to be sold before the fare revision which is valid even after the fare revision and another ticket are inputted to the main body of the automatic ticket examining machine after the fare revision. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

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,
It relates to the one that enables the efficient calculation of the cheapest fare when there is a direct route that mutually connects with other railway companies.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an A railway company (hereinafter, referred to as "A railway") and a B railway company (hereinafter, referred to as "B railway") as shown in FIG. In addition, a plurality of mutually direct routes (in the illustrated example, 2
root. That is, a1 station, a2 station, b1 station, and a1 station
Two routes: station, a3 station and b1 station. ), The fare judgment at the b1 station when entering (riding) from the a1 station and exiting from the b1 station exists for each route according to the rule, but the automatic ticket gate installed at the b1 station. Since the main route of the above cannot determine the usage route of the user (passenger), the fare of the route with the lowest total fare of the A and B railways, the so-called lowest fare, is installed at that b1 station as the fare between a1 station and b1 station The fare of tickets such as money-priced tickets and SF cards that are inserted into the main body of the automatic ticket gates is determined.

Further explaining with reference to FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b), FIG. 4 (b) shows the fares on the route shown in FIG. The fare before the fare change is shown, and the fare after the fare change is shown below it. Note that these fares are also shown in the route of FIG. 4 (a).

As is apparent from FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b), the lowest fare boarding routes (lowest routes) are a1 station, a3 station, and b1 station before and after the service revision. Is. Therefore, in the automatic ticket gate installed at b1 station,
Even before or after the fare change, the fare judgment is performed according to the procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3A so that the fare becomes the lowest fare regardless of the passenger's use route.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional automatic ticket gate, the cheapest route may be changed due to fare change. For example, if you use a coupon ticket that is a value-based ticket that is sold before the upgrade and is valid even after the upgrade is used in combination with other tickets (including SF cards) after the upgrade, Since it is necessary to combine the other ticket with the lowest fare, it is necessary to calculate the lowest fare with the automatic ticket gate by combining the fare before the fare change and the fare after the fare change. , Conventional automatic ticket gates were not equipped with such a function of calculating the lowest fare.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and its purpose is to improve the efficiency even if a ticket that is released before the renewal and is effective after the renewal is used in combination. It is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can often calculate the lowest fare.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is such that the invention according to claim 1 requires a plurality of tickets for the entry processing of one passenger. In a multiple ticket type automatic ticket gate that can process those multiple tickets when operating, a pre-fare fare table in which predetermined fare data for calculating fare before fare revision is stored , A post-freight fare table that stores the predetermined fare data for calculating the fare after the fare revision, and a fare ticket that is released before the fare revision and is valid even after the fare revision and other Calculating means for calculating the lowest fare by referring to the two fare tables when the ticket and the ticket are put into the main body of the automatic ticket gate after the fare is revised;
It is characterized by having. In the automatic ticket gate according to claim 2 of the present invention, the fare table before the fare change and the fare table after the fare change are provided in the main body of the automatic ticket gate, or in a higher-level device behind the automatic ticket gate. It is characterized by being. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 3 of the present invention is characterized in that the lowest fare is calculated by the main body of the automatic ticket gate or a higher-order device behind the main body of the automatic ticket gate.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic ticket gate according to one embodiment. This automatic ticket gate is shown in Fig. 4.
Participating station on the route map in (a) (b1 station in the case of (a) in the diagram)
Is an automatic ticket gate that can handle multiple tickets (two in this case) for the entry processing of one passenger.

Inside the main body of the automatic ticket gate supporting a plurality of sheets (hereinafter referred to as "the main body of the ticket gate") G, tickets such as ordinary tickets and coupon tickets from the slot 1 and SF cards, etc. 1 for inserting cards (when referred to as ticket in the present invention, including these).
And an outlet 2 for discharging the tickets. In addition, inside the ticket inspection machine main body G, there is provided a separating unit 3 that separates the tickets one by one when they are stacked and put in one at a time, and from a belt conveyor driven by a motor M. The well-known transport path 4 is provided. The transport path 4 includes the aligned transport path 4a and the main transport path 4
It is constituted by b and the discharge conveyance path 4c, and the alignment conveyance path 4a among them has a function of aligning the tickets inputted from the insertion slot 1. In addition, between the main transport path 4b and the discharge transport path 4c, there is a wing W that operates when collecting the tickets inserted in the main body G into the bill collecting box 5 without returning them to the exit 2. It is provided. In addition, in FIG.
Is shown as a coupon and as a SF card.

In the main transport path 4b, magnetic heads H1 for reading the magnetic data recorded on the tickets are sequentially loaded from the upstream side in the transport direction from the inlet 1 to the outlet 2. H1 ', a plurality of stoppers (two in the illustrated example) S1 and S2, a pool portion P for temporarily holding tickets, and magnetic heads H1 and H1'. Configured controller C
And magnetic heads H2 and H2 'for writing the result of calculation on the tickets, and magnetic heads H3 and H3 for verifying to check whether the written data is correctly recorded. 'And a printing / punch section T for printing predetermined contents on the tickets and for punching holes. Further, the discharge / conveyance path 4c is provided with a collecting portion E which is a stopper for discharging the tickets in a lump. The magnetic heads H1 ', H2
′ And H3 ′ are for back-side loading tickets when the tickets are loaded into the slot 1 with the back side facing up.

The stoppers S1 and S2 of the pool portion P are driven by solenoids (not shown), and are connected to the main transport path 4b.
Are provided in series and are configured so that the tickets, which are determined to be valid as a result of the arithmetic processing of the CPU to be described later, can be temporarily held one by one. Further, when the stopper of the collecting section E is also driven by a solenoid (not shown) and the tickets are discharged to the exit 2 and returned to the user, the tickets are temporarily held until they are discharged to the exit 2. However, when all the cards are discharged, they are stacked on the outlet 2 and can be discharged all at once.

In the figure, reference numeral 9 is a display portion provided in the vicinity of the outlet 2, and is configured to provide predetermined guidance to the user together with a speaker (not shown). Further, D is a door for opening and closing the ticket gate a. further,
10a, 10a ..., 10b, 10b ... Are human detectors for detecting the user position in the ticket gate a. Of these, the human detectors 10a, 10a ... Are composed of reflection type sensors, and are provided in a sensor box G1 provided on the upper surface of the main body G at a predetermined interval along the passage direction of the ticket gate passage a. Has been. This human detector 10a, 1
0a ... Is configured to detect an adult user. The human detectors 10b, 10b are composed of transmissive sensors, and are provided on the side surface of the casing G2 of the ticket gate main body G at a predetermined interval along the passage direction of the ticket gate a. The human detectors 10b, 10b ... Can detect all users who pass through the ticket gate a, and therefore, are detected by the human detectors 10b, 10b ... And not by the human detectors 10a, 10a. , The user is determined to be a child (child).

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the controller C. The central processing unit (CPU) 20 performs arithmetic processing using a system program and working data stored in the memory 21. Is configured to be done. Then, the CPU 20 uses the I / O unit 22
A read / write (R / W) driver 23 connected to each of the magnetic heads H1 to H3, a wing driver 24 for driving the wing W, a display driver 25 for controlling the display unit 9, and stoppers S1 ,. Solenoid driver 26 for driving the solenoid for S2, door driver 27 for driving door D, and human detectors 10a, 10a ... 1
Sensor amplifiers 28 of 0b, 10b ... And a print / punch section driver 29 for driving the print / punch section T are connected. The I / O unit 22 has a motor M
Various drivers and the like such as the drive driver of are connected, but are omitted here.

In the memory 21, the fare table (fare data table) T1 before fare change and the fare table T2 after fare change after fare change having the fare contents as shown in FIG. 4B are shown. The fare table on the two sides is stored.
In these fare tables T1 and T2, the data of the fare between stations is stored for each railroad for the judgment target range station. And these fare tables T1 and T
The fare revision date is recorded in 2 and it is configured so that the fare table before the fare valid on the day can be identified.

In the fare judgment using these fare tables T1 and T2, the fare judgment of the ticket of the amount type is performed by comparing the fare of the inserted ticket with the fare of the fare table (T1 or T2) valid on the day, If the fare of the ticket ≧ fare data is established, it is determined to be valid. In addition, when determining a ticket that is still effective before and after the ticket is revalued, such as a coupon ticket of the amount type, the fare table (T1 or T2) used by the ticket for fare modification recorded in the ticket. ) Is selected. Incidentally, in the conventional single ticket processing type ticket gate that processes one passenger using one ticket, the fare table used for ticket determination is a two-sided fare table T1,
It is a fare table for any one of T2.

[0016] In the main body G of the above-mentioned multi-ticket gate, 2
The judgment is made by combining a number of tickets. At that time, the fare tables T1 and T2 on the two sides may be used to judge the fare of one passenger, and FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b) are as follows. The flowchart which shows the control operation at that time is shown.

In the following description of FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b), a specific amount of money is applied to the route map of FIG. 4 (a) to facilitate understanding of the invention. Here, the ticket gate main body G is for participation at the b1 station.

[0018] First, before a fare change, when a 160-yen ticket and an SF card entered from the a1 station of the A railway are inserted into the slot 1 of the ticket gate body G, the fare table T before the fare change is inserted.
Since the lowest fare is 340 yen due to 1, the entry is performed with 180 yen reduced from the SF card (step 100, step 102, hereinafter step is referred to as "S"). In this case, the ticket inserted into the ticket gate main body G is collected in the collecting box 5, and the SF card is discharged to the exit 2 and returned to the user (passenger).

After the fare change, the slot 1 of the ticket gate body G
180 yen ticket and SF which entered from a1 station of A railway
When the card is inserted, the lowest fare is 380 yen according to the post fare fare table T2, so from the SF card,
200 yen will be reduced to participate (S100, S1
02. ). Also in this case, the ticket inserted in the ticket gate main body G is collected in the collecting box 5, and the SF card is discharged to the exit 2 and returned to the user (passenger).

Next, after the fare change, it is assumed that a 160-yen a1 station issued before the fare change and a SF card, which had been issued before the fare change, were inserted into the slot 1 of the ticket gate body G (see FIG. 1). ). The validity of the boarding section of the numbered ticket that was input is the same as it was before the transportation change, so the valid section is from a1 station to a2 station.
Since it is a station, therefore, the fare determination for this coupon ticket is performed using the fare table T1 before fare change (S200, S
202 affirmative). In this case, from the a2 station to the b1 station, it is 210 yen using the post fare fare table T2 because it is after the fare change, so the total fare is 160 yen + 210 yen =
It will be 370 yen (S204).

Next, the fare is calculated via the cheapest route a3 station using the post-reform fare table T2.
There is a shortage of 160 yen coupons for 190 yen from a1 station to a3 station, so after the fare change, the coupon ticket will be 160 yen. Therefore, the content of the cheapest fare via a3 station is 50 yen, which is the difference between 160 yen for a coupon ticket (price ticket) and 210 yen for the fare from a1 station to a3 station after the transportation change. The total fare of 170 yen from the a3 station to the b1 station (160 yen + 50 yen + 170 yen) is 380 yen (S206).

As described above, the coupon ticket is sent from a1 station to a2
The fare when it is a valid ticket to the station is 370 yen, while the lowest fare after fare change is 380 yen, so in this case, the lowest fare after fare change is not applied and it is 370 yen. Is the lowest fare (S208). Therefore, the coupon ticket inserted into the ticket gate main body G is collected in the bill collection box 5, 210 yen is reduced from the SF card, and the SF card is discharged to the exit 2 to be entered.

Note that S210 indicates that when the fare ticket of the fare formula does not satisfy the fare of the section used by the A railway, the fare ticket is treated as a cash ticket and the normal fare processing is performed.

In the above example, the SF card is a magnetic ticket, but it may be a non-contact ticket which is an IC card having a wireless communication function inside. In this case, an antenna for communicating with the contactless ticket is provided at the entrance side of the upper surface of the casing G of the ticket gate body G, and the controller C is connected to the reader / writer to which the antenna is connected. To be done. Further, in the above example, both fare tables T1 and T1 before and after the fare change are carried out.
2 was installed inside the ticket gate body G, but these fare tables T
1 and T2 may be provided in a rear upper device provided at a designated place such as a management center for controlling and controlling the ticket gate main body G, and the lowest fare is calculated by the rear upper device. It may be performed.

An automatic ticket gate according to claim 1 of the present invention,
Pre-fare change fare table that stores the specified fare data for calculating the fare before the fare revision and post-fare fare table that stores the specified fare data for calculating the fare after the fare revision Was released before the fare was revised, and
When a fare ticket that is still valid after the fare revision and another ticket are put into the main body of the automatic ticket gate after the fare revision, the lowest fare is calculated by referring to the two fare tables. Since it comprises a calculation means, it is possible to perform efficient fare calculation using the two fare tables, old and new. In the automatic ticket gate according to claim 2 of the present invention, the fare table before transportation and the fare table after transportation are provided in the main body of the automatic ticket gate, or a host device behind the automatic ticket gate managing the main body of the automatic ticket gate. Therefore, the processing can be efficiently performed by using the higher-level device in the rear. In the automatic ticket gate according to claim 3 of the present invention, the lowest fare is calculated by the main body of the automatic ticket gate or the higher-ranking device that manages the main body of the automatic ticket gate. Can be used for efficient processing.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

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

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a control operation.

FIG. 4A is an example of a route map, and FIG. 4B is an example of a fare table.

[Explanation of symbols]

G Automatic ticket gate body (gate itself) 1 input port 2 Exit 3 Separation section 4 transport paths 10a, 10b human detector H1 to H3, H1 'to H3' magnetic heads E Summary section S1, S2 stopper P pool section T print / punch part C controller

Claims (3)

[Claims] Claims: 1. When a plurality of tickets are required to process the departure of one passenger, an automatic ticket gate for multiple tickets capable of processing those tickets, the fare before the fare revision Before fare revision, which stores the prescribed fare data for calculating the fare table, and after fare revision table, which stores the prescribed fare data for calculating the fare after the fare revision, and before fare revision When the fare ticket that was released on the market and is valid after the fare revision and another ticket were put into the main body of the automatic ticket gate after the fare revision, refer to the two fare tables. An automatic ticket gate, comprising: a calculating means for calculating the lowest fare. 2. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1,
An automatic ticket gate, wherein the fare table before transportation and the fare table after transportation are provided on the main body of the automatic ticket gate or a higher-level device behind the main body of the automatic ticket gate. 3. The automatic ticket gate according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the lowest fare is calculated by the main body of the automatic ticket gate or a higher-ranking device behind the automatic ticket gate main body. Characteristic automatic ticket gate.