JP2008004086A - Gate opening/closing device, and bar code reading method in the gate opening/closing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten reading time of bar codes and to sharply increase its number of person for processing with a gate opening/closing device where an entrance ticket to which the bar codes are attached is used. <P>SOLUTION: The bar codes 6 attached to the front surface of the entrance ticket 5A are read by two bar code readers 31, 32 having predetermined intervals. Thus, even when the inserting direction of the entrance ticket 5A is the normal direction or the opposite direction, the bar codes 6 are read only by stopping the entrance ticket 5A at a fixed position once. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a gate opening / closing device used at an entrance of a park, a stadium, a museum, a science museum, an amusement park, etc., and in particular, a gate opening / closing device capable of shortening the reading time of a barcode attached to the surface of an entrance ticket. And a bar code reading method in the gate opening and closing device.

  In a conventional gate opening / closing device installed at an entrance of a park, a stadium, a museum, a science museum, an amusement park, etc., for example, a barcode including information such as a usable period is printed on the surface of the entrance ticket ( When the use ticket is set in the use ticket reader of the gate opening / closing device, the gate opening / closing device first reads the contents of the barcode printed on the use ticket. When it is determined that the content of the read barcode is appropriate, for example, when the current date and time are within the usable period read from the barcode, the gate opening signal is sent to the gate device. Is output. Then, the gate device that has received the gate open signal opens the gate and allows the user to enter.

  4A and 4B are diagrams showing a schematic configuration example of the gate opening and closing device. FIG. 4A shows a top view, FIG. 4B shows a side view, and FIG. The front view seen from the entrance side is shown. The gate opening / closing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 4 has a ticket insertion slot 2 through which a user inserts an entrance ticket for a ticket gate, and a ticket release slot 3 through which an entrance ticket is released after a ticket determination. Further, it has a flapper (gate) 4 for opening and permitting the passage when the admission ticket is received normally, and for restricting the passage at other times. In this gate opening / closing device, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, an entrance passage is formed by the gate opening / closing device 1 serving as the main machine and the gate opening / closing device 1A serving as the auxiliary machine, and the entrance ticket gate of the user is automated.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an admission ticket, and shows an example of an admission ticket 5 used in a museum. On the surface of the admission ticket 5, information such as the expiry date of the admission ticket, the ticket number, and the date of issue are printed in characters, and the admission ticket information is attached by a barcode 6. The gate opening / closing device 1 opens and closes the flapper 4 by reading information on the barcode 6 on the entrance ticket 5 inserted from the ticket insertion slot 2.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a ticket transport unit of a gate opening / closing device, and shows a part directly related to the present invention. In FIG. 7, the entrance ticket 5 inserted into the ticket insertion slot 2 is sandwiched between belts 10 and 11 provided in parallel in the vertical direction, is transported through the apparatus, and is temporarily stopped at a fixed position indicated by the entrance ticket 5A. Then, in a state where the entrance ticket 5A is stopped at a fixed position, the barcode 6 attached to the entrance ticket 5A is read by the barcode reader 30. The barcode reader 30 has a light source and an optical sensor (CCD or the like), and has a function of scanning the barcode 6. The admission ticket 5A from which the barcode 6 has been read is then sandwiched between the belts 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and conveyed through the apparatus, and is discharged from the ticket discharge port 3 to the outside. Each belt 10 to 16 in the figure is rotationally driven by a driving roller 20 driven by a motor and pulley (or gear) (not shown), and each belt 10 to 16 is driven by a roller 21 and a pressing roller 22. The belt position is regulated.

  In the above configuration, when reading the barcode 6 of the admission ticket 5A, if the admission ticket 5A is inserted in the normal direction, as shown in FIG. The barcode 6 of the ticket 5A can be read by the barcode reader 30. However, when the admission ticket 5A is inserted in the opposite direction, as shown in FIG. 7C, the admission ticket 5A is stopped again at a position further advanced, and the bar code 6 is moved to the bar code reader. It is necessary to read in accordance with 30 reading positions. That is, when the entrance ticket 5A is inserted in the opposite direction, it is necessary to stop at a fixed position twice until the barcode 6 can be read. In order to avoid the two stoppages at the fixed position, it is necessary to read and read the barcode 6 in a state where the transport speed of the entrance ticket 5A is reduced (slow mode state).

  For this reason, it takes time to read the barcode printed on the admission ticket, and the number of people that can be processed in the gate opening / closing device is reduced.

In addition, there exists a reader of a prior art (for example, refer patent document 1). An object of the prior art reading device is to provide a reading device and a method for adjusting the reading device that can eliminate the deviation of the reading position and the deviation of the focal position. For this purpose, a transport unit that transports the rewrite card in a predetermined direction, a lens that forms an image of a pattern formed on the surface of the rewrite card transported by the transport unit at a predetermined position, and the lens. A reading apparatus having a detecting means for detecting an image formed is provided with a focus adjusting means for moving the lens in the optical axis direction of the lens. However, this conventional technique does not attempt to solve the problem that it takes time to read the bar code of the entrance ticket in the gate opening and closing device described above, and the number of people that can be processed is reduced.
JP 2001-319185 A

  As described above, when reading the barcode of the admission ticket in the gate opening / closing device, the admission ticket is stopped at a fixed position twice according to the insertion direction of the admission ticket, or the admission ticket transport speed is increased. The bar code had to be read in a lowered state. For this reason, it takes time to read a bar code, and problems such as a reduction in the number of people that can be processed in the gate opening / closing device have occurred.

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a bar opening / closing device using a bar code attached (printed or affixed) admission ticket bar code. An object of the present invention is to provide a gate opening / closing device and a bar code reading method in the gate opening / closing device that can shorten the reading time and can greatly increase the number of persons handling the same.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and the gate opening and closing device of the present invention reads a barcode attached to an entrance ticket and opens and closes the gate of the entrance passage according to the content of the barcode. A gate opening / closing device for performing the above operation, wherein two barcode readers are arranged at a predetermined interval in the entrance ticket transport direction in order to read the barcode attached to the entrance ticket.
With such a configuration, the barcode attached to the surface of the entrance ticket is read by two barcode readers having a predetermined interval, so that the insertion direction of the entrance ticket is a normal direction. Even in the opposite direction, the bar code can be read by stopping the entrance ticket at a fixed position once. For this reason, the barcode reading time can be shortened, and the number of processing persons in the gate opening / closing device can be greatly increased.

The gate opening and closing device according to the present invention includes an entrance ticket transporting means for sandwiching and transporting the entrance ticket by belts arranged in parallel vertically, and the entrance ticket is temporarily stopped at a predetermined fixed position. And a fixed position stop means for reading the barcode attached to the item by one of the two barcode readers.
With such a configuration, when the admission ticket is held between the belt and transported, the admission ticket is temporarily stopped at a predetermined fixed position, and the bar code attached to the admission ticket is one of the two bar code readers. Be able to read with a bar code reader. Thereby, even if the insertion direction of the entrance ticket is the normal direction or the opposite direction, it is possible to read the barcode only by stopping the fixed position of the entrance ticket once. For this reason, the barcode reading time can be shortened, and the number of processing persons in the gate opening / closing device can be greatly increased.

The gate opening / closing device of the present invention is arranged to face the two barcode readers, and is a barcode reader for reading a surface opposite to the surface of the entrance ticket read by the two barcode readers. Further, two are arranged, and the barcode attached to the admission ticket is read by a total of four barcode readers.
With such a configuration, two places on the upper surface side and two places on the lower surface side of the entrance ticket are simultaneously read by the four barcode readers. As a result, the barcode can be read regardless of whether the entrance ticket is inserted with the front side up or the back side.
In the gate opening and closing apparatus of the present invention, an entrance ticket in which a barcode is attached only to one surface may be read.
Moreover, the gate opening / closing device of the present invention described above may read an admission ticket having barcodes on both surfaces.

The barcode reading method of the present invention is a barcode reading method in a gate opening and closing device that reads a barcode attached to an entrance ticket and opens and closes the gate of the entrance passage according to the content of the barcode. In order to read the bar code attached to the admission ticket, the method includes a procedure of arranging two bar code readers at a predetermined interval with respect to the admission ticket transport direction.
With such a procedure, the barcode attached to the surface of the entrance ticket is read by two barcode readers having a predetermined interval, so that the insertion direction of the entrance ticket is the normal direction. Even in the opposite direction, the bar code can be read by stopping the entrance ticket at a fixed position once. For this reason, the barcode reading time can be shortened, and the number of processing persons in the gate opening / closing device can be greatly increased.
In the barcode reading method of the present invention, the gate opening / closing device may read an entrance ticket in which a barcode is attached only to one surface.
In the barcode reading method according to the present invention, the gate opening / closing device may read an entrance ticket having barcodes on both surfaces.

  In the present invention, since the barcode attached to the surface of the entrance ticket is read by two barcode readers having a predetermined interval, the barcode reading time can be shortened, and the processing in the gate opening / closing device is performed. The number of people can be increased significantly.

  Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a ticket transport unit of a gate opening / closing device according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 (A), in the gate opening / closing device of the present invention, two bar code readers 31 and 32 are arranged at a predetermined interval L in the ticket transport section. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, a bar code 6 is attached to the entrance ticket 5. As shown in FIG. 1B, the distance L between the bar code readers 31 and 32 is opposite to the position of the bar code 6A when the admission ticket is inserted in the normal direction and stopped at a fixed position. It becomes equal to the distance L from the position of the bar code 6B when it is inserted in the direction of

  In FIG. 1A, the entrance ticket 5 inserted into the ticket insertion slot 2 is transported into the apparatus while being sandwiched between belts 10, 11A, 12A provided in parallel in the vertical direction, and is shown in the entrance ticket 5A. Stops at a fixed position.

  When the entrance ticket 5A is inserted in the normal direction in a state where the entrance ticket 5A is stopped at a fixed position, the barcode 6 is read by the barcode reader 32 as shown in FIG. It is done. When the entrance ticket 5A is inserted in a direction opposite to the normal direction, the barcode 6 is read by the barcode reader 31 as shown in FIG.

  The admission ticket 5A from which the barcode 6 has been read is then sandwiched between the belts 10, 12B, 13, 14, 15, 16 and conveyed through the apparatus, and is discharged from the ticket discharge port 3 to the outside. Each belt 10 to 16 in the figure is rotationally driven by a driving roller 20 driven by a motor and pulley (or gear) (not shown), and each belt 10 to 16 is driven by a roller 21 and a pressing roller 22. The belt position is regulated.

  With such a configuration, the barcode 6 can be read only by stopping the entrance ticket 5 once at a fixed position regardless of the insertion direction of the entrance ticket 5. Thereby, the barcode reading time can be shortened, and the number of processing persons in the gate opening / closing device can be greatly increased.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a control unit in the gate opening / closing device of the present invention, and shows only a part directly related to the present invention.

  In FIG. 2, the barcode reading processing unit 41 in the control unit 40 instructs the two barcode readers 31 and 32 to read the barcode attached to the entrance ticket 5A stopped at a fixed position. Further, the barcode information of the entrance ticket 5A is received from the barcode readers 30 and 31. The belt fixed position stop processing unit 42, for example, receives a ticket detection signal from the ticket sensor 33 that detects the tip of the entrance ticket 5A, and temporarily stops the belt 10 at a fixed position when the entrance ticket 5A is detected. Thus, the belt drive motor control unit 43 is instructed. The belt drive motor control unit 43 is a control circuit for the belt drive motor 34. The belt drive motor 34 is a servo motor or the like, and rotates the belt 10 or the like by rotationally driving the drive roller 20 of the belt 10.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the barcode attached to the admission ticket 5 may be a two-dimensional barcode as well as a one-dimensional barcode. Further, a two-dimensional code such as a QR code may be used instead of the barcode.
In the present embodiment, the barcode is attached to the surface on one side of the entrance ticket 5, but the barcode may be attached to the surfaces on both sides of the entrance ticket 5.
In this case, in the gate opening / closing device shown in FIG. 1, when the entrance ticket 5 is inserted into the ticket insertion slot 2, the entrance ticket 5 is inserted with the insertion direction, front side up, or the back side up. Regardless of whether it is inserted or not, the bar code can be read only by stopping the entrance ticket 5 once at a fixed position. The same applies to a case where a two-dimensional coat such as a two-dimensional barcode or QR code is attached to both sides of the entrance ticket 5.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3, two bar code readers 35 and 36 are further added at positions facing the bar code readers 31 and 32 so that the bar code readers 31 and 32 read the front side of the entrance ticket 5. The back side can also be read by the bar code readers 35 and 36. In this way, it is possible to read the barcode 6 of the entrance ticket 5 even if the entrance ticket 5 is inserted with the front side facing up or the back side is inserted.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the gate opening and closing device of the present invention is not limited to the above-described illustrated examples, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Of course.

  In the present invention, the effect of shortening the barcode reading time of the admission ticket can be shortened. Therefore, the present invention is useful for gate opening / closing devices used at entrances of parks, stadiums, museums, science museums, amusement parks, etc. is there.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the ticket conveyance part of the gate opening / closing apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the control part of a ticket conveyance part. It is a figure which shows the other structural example of the ticket conveyance part of a gate opening / closing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the schematic structural example of a gate opening / closing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of formation of the entrance passage by a gate opening / closing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of an admission ticket. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the ticket conveyance part of the conventional gate opening / closing apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 1A Gate opening / closing device 2 Ticket insertion port 3 Ticket discharge port 4 Flapper 5, 5A Entrance ticket 6 Bar code 10, 11, 11A, 12, 12A, 12B Belt 13, 14, 15, 16 Belt 20 Drive roller 21 Roller 22 Push roller 30, 31, 32, 35, 36 Bar code reader 33 Ticket sensor 34 Belt drive motor 40 Control unit 41 Bar code reading processing unit 42 Belt fixed position stop processing unit 43 Belt drive motor control unit

Claims (8)

A gate opening and closing device that reads a barcode attached to an entrance ticket and opens and closes the gate of the entrance passage according to the content of the barcode,
In order to read the barcode attached to the admission ticket, two bar code readers are arranged at a predetermined interval in the admission ticket transport direction. Admission ticket transport means for sandwiching and transporting the admission ticket by belts arranged in parallel in the vertical direction;
A fixed position stop means for temporarily stopping the admission ticket at a predetermined fixed position and reading a barcode attached to the admission ticket by one of the two barcode readers; The gate opening and closing device according to claim 1. The two barcode readers are arranged opposite to the two barcode readers, and two barcode readers for reading the surface opposite to the surface of the entrance ticket read by the two barcode readers are arranged, for a total of four The gate opening / closing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a bar code attached to the admission ticket is read by a bar code reader.   The gate opening / closing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein an entrance ticket in which a barcode is attached only to one surface is used as a reading target.   The gate opening / closing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein an entrance ticket having barcodes on both surfaces is to be read. A barcode reading method in a gate opening and closing device that reads a barcode attached to an entrance ticket and opens and closes the gate of the entrance passage according to the content of the barcode,
A bar code reading method comprising a step of arranging two bar code readers at a predetermined interval with respect to a direction in which an admission ticket is conveyed in order to read a bar code attached to the admission ticket.   The barcode reading method according to claim 6, wherein the gate opening / closing device reads an entrance ticket in which a barcode is attached only to one surface.   The barcode reading method according to claim 6, wherein the gate opening / closing device reads an entrance ticket having barcodes on both surfaces.

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