JP5685009B2 - Bezel with LED light emitting function - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an improvement of a paper discharge guide (hereinafter referred to as a bezel) installed at a paper discharge port of a printer mechanism so that an LED light emitting function can be provided so that a notification function such as a paper exit position or a ticket is being issued can be exhibited. The present invention relates to a bezel with an LED light emitting function.

In the conventional bezel with a light emitting function, the bezel body is formed of a member such as a transparent resin, and the LED light emitting unit is disposed in the vicinity of the paper insertion opening away from the paper discharge opening.

However, when the paper outlet of the bezel is incorporated into the ticketing system, the printer is installed in the system and only the paper outlet is configured to appear outside. In this case, since the LED emits light inside the system, it was difficult to see from the outside, and the notification function such as the exit position of the paper and that the ticket was being issued was not fulfilled by the lighting of the LED.
In addition, depending on the system, a printer without an LED light emitting function is used so that the area around the ticket opening opened in the system casing emits light so that an equivalent function can be used. It was supposed to be.

JP 2008-689509 A JP 2002-52778 A JP 2000-280585 A JP 2003-326788 A

When the bezel is incorporated in the paper discharge port of the ticketing system, the printer mechanism is installed in the system so that only the paper discharge port appears outside.
In this case, since the LED light emitting unit emits light inside the system, it is difficult to see from the outside, and when such LED light emitting unit is lit, a notification function such as the paper exit position or ticketing is being provided. Did not play well.
Also, depending on the ticketing system, a printer that does not have an LED light emitting function is used, and a light emitting mechanism is installed around the ticketing opening opened in the case of the ticketing system to notify the paper exit position and that the ticket is being issued. As a result, the cost was increased.

In order to eliminate the disadvantages of the conventional example, the present invention reliably recognizes the exit position of the paper by incorporating the LED light emitting unit in the bezel and causing the front end surface of the exit position of the paper of the bezel attached to the printer mechanism to emit light. It is possible to provide a bezel with an LED light emitting function that can be used and has a notification function such as that a ticket is being issued.

In other words, the bezel with LED light emitting function of the present invention comprises a paper discharge member having a paper discharge function, and a transparent or translucent material disposed at a part or all of the paper outlet position from the inner wall surface of the paper discharge member. An LED light guide tube member and an LED light emitting unit attached to the LED light guide tube member, and guides the light of the LED light emitting unit to the paper exit position via the light guide tube of the LED light guide tube member In the bezel with an LED light emission function that emits light at the paper exit position of the paper discharge member, a photo interrupter for paper detection is mounted on the LED light emission unit .

In the bezel with LED light emitting function of the present invention, a transmissive photo interrupter is used as a paper detecting photo interrupter in the LED light emitting unit, and a lever that rotates by inserting a paper attached to the paper discharging member is a transmissive type. It is also characterized in that the light of the photo interrupter is appropriately blocked .

As described above, according to the present invention, the LED light emitting unit is built in the bezel, and the front end surface of the paper outlet position of the bezel attached to the printer mechanism is caused to emit light, so that the paper outlet position can be surely visually confirmed. It is possible to provide a bezel with an LED light emitting function that can be used and has a notification function such as that a ticket is being issued.
In addition, since the LED light emitting unit is built in the bezel and attached to the printer mechanism, for example, a light emitting mechanism is installed around the ticketing opening opened in the case of the ticketing system, and the exit position of the paper or the ticket is being issued, etc. Compared to the case where the notification function of can be demonstrated, it has become possible to lead to a significant cost reduction.

It is a perspective view which shows one Embodiment of the bezel with an LED light emission function of this invention. It is a perspective view of the decomposition state. It is a perspective view which shows an example of an LED light emission unit. It is a perspective view which shows the other example of a LED light emission unit. It is a perspective view which shows a LED light guide tube member. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a main part of the paper detection mechanism in the bezel with an LED light emitting function according to the present invention, in a stage before detection of the paper in which a lever is assembled to the photo interrupter. It is the side view. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a paper detection mechanism in a bezel with an LED light emission function according to the present invention, and is a cutaway perspective view of a main part in a paper detection stage in which a lever is separated from a photo interrupter by paper. It is a perspective view which shows the state which incorporated the bezel with an LED light emission function of this invention in the printer.

Embodiments of a bezel with an LED light emitting function according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.
1 and 2, a bezel 100 with an LED light emission function according to the present invention includes a paper discharge member 1 having a paper discharge function.
The paper discharge member 1 is installed at a paper discharge port of the printer, and includes a paper transport unit 10 that feeds the paper with a predetermined transport length, and a support member 20 of the paper transport unit 10.
The paper transport unit 10 includes a paper introduction port 11 that communicates with a paper discharge port of the printer, a paper delivery port 12, and a cavity 13. The concave portion 14 provided on the upper side of the paper delivery port 12 is for fitting an end portion of an LED light guide tube member to be described later.

The hollow portion 13 has a tapered shape with a tip that swells in the thickness direction of the paper from the paper inlet 11 toward the paper outlet 12 and has a horizontally long shape.
An LED light guide tube member 15 made of a transparent or translucent material formed so as to be continuous with a part or all of the exit position of the paper is attached to the top plate portion 13a.

The support member 20 is integrally formed below one end of the paper transport unit 10 and has screw fixing holes 20a at a plurality of locations.
With such a structure, the bezel with an LED light emitting function of this embodiment can be easily connected to the paper discharge port of the printer.

The LED light guide tube member 15 is as shown in FIGS. An LED light emitting unit storage portion 15a and a light guide tube storage portion 15b are provided from the paper introduction port 11 toward the paper delivery port 12, and are attached to the paper discharge member 1 through attachment members 15c and 15e provided at both ends in the width direction. It is designed to be worn using the elasticity of the material.
The LED light emitting unit 16 is housed in the LED light emitting unit housing portion 15a, and the LED light emitting tube member 15 is fixed to the paper discharge member 1 so that the LED light emitting unit 16 does not move. Or it is also possible to fix in the LED light emission unit accommodating part 15a with small screws.
In the LED light guide tube member 15, the light guide tube 18 is arranged in a fan shape toward the exit position of the paper, and the LED 17 of the LED light-emitting unit 16 is positioned at the crimped portion of the fan light guide tube 18. It is attached to do.

In the bezel with an LED light emitting function of the present invention, a sheet detecting photo interrupter 21 is mounted on the LED light emitting unit 16 as shown in FIGS. As the photo-interrupter 21 for detecting paper, a transmissive photo-interrupter is used, and a lever 22 that rotates by inserting a paper attached to the paper discharge member 1 is configured to appropriately block the light from the photo-interrupter 21. Has been.

Furthermore, the LED light emitting unit 16 is configured to emit light by selecting a single color or two or more colors of the LEDs 17. In FIG. 3, for example, a pair of red and blue LEDs 17a and 17b are arranged on both sides of the photo interrupter 21. In FIG. 4, a single LED 17c capable of emitting light of, for example, two colors of red and blue is used alone. They are arranged on both sides of the photo interrupter 21.

In particular, in the LED light emitting unit 16, the presence or absence of the paper 30 is detected by a paper detection mechanism having a photo interrupter 21 and a lever 22 made of the transmissive photo interrupter provided in the bezel.
That is, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, a lever 22 pivotally attached to the lower portion of the cavity 13 of the paper discharge member 1 is fitted in the photo interrupter 21 attached to the LED light emitting unit 16. The lever 22 has an arm 24 extending on the opposite side across the shaft-attached portion 23, and the arm 24 is disposed between the end of the lever 24 and a mounting pin 25 provided at an appropriate position of the paper discharge member 1. 26 is always towed. Accordingly, the lever 22 is normally biased toward the photo interrupter 21.
When the paper 30 passes through the cavity 13 of the paper discharge member 1, the paper 30 pushes down the lever 22, so that the lever 22 is pushed down from the photo interrupter 21 as shown in FIG. 8, thereby detecting the passage of the paper 30. The

Then, detection of the paper 30 by the paper detection mechanism, or paper detection information by a paper detection mechanism installed in the paper path of the printer 33 (not shown), or printing from a control board that controls the operation of the printer 33 is started. During the printing, the light emission state of the LED 17 can be turned on, turned off, and blinked based on the information on the completion of printing.
In addition, it is also possible to make it possible to identify more reliably by combining the change of the blinking interval and the change of lighting, extinction, blinking, or change of the blinking interval for each emission color.

In the bezel with LED light emitting function according to the present invention, the LED light emitting unit 16 uses two or more colors of LED light emission to identify the presence / absence of paper according to the lighting state using one or more colors, and other colors. Is based on the information of the error signal from the control board that controls the operation of the printer 33 according to the error state generated in the printer mechanism in preference to the presence or absence of paper, the light emission state of the LED 17 is changed to the emission color, turned on, turned off Alternatively, it may be switched to blinking.

As described above, the bezel with an LED light emitting function of the present invention includes the LED light emitting unit 16 attached to the LED light guide tube member 15, and the light from the LED light emitting unit 16 is guided to the light guide tube 18 of the LED light guide tube member 15. The exit position of the paper is guided to the exit position of the paper, and the exit position of the paper of the paper discharge member 1 is made to emit light, so that the exit position of the paper can be reliably recognized and the ticket is being issued. The functions can be fully utilized.

In FIG. 9, reference numeral 31 denotes a ticket issuing system, and a printer 33 performs predetermined printing on a sheet 30 made up of a ticket issuing sheet or the like stored in a tray 32 behind. The bezel with LED light emitting function of the present invention is attached to the front surface of the printer 33. And it fixes to the screw stop hole 20a of several places of the supporting member 20 using a small screw.
In use, the sheet 30 made of a ticket issuing sheet or the like stored in the tray 32 is pulled out and subjected to predetermined printing by the printer 33, and then the sheet 30 is discharged through the bezel with LED light emitting function of the present invention.
At that time, the passage of the paper 30 is detected by a paper detection mechanism including the photo interrupter 21 and the lever 22 provided in the bezel, and the paper 30 is detected, or the paper installed in the paper path of the printer 33 (not shown). The light emission state of the LED 17 can be turned on, turned off, and blinked based on the paper detection information by the detection mechanism or the information on the printing start, printing, and printing end from the control board that controls the operation of the printer 33.

The present invention is useful not only as a ticketing system but also as a bezel with an LED light emitting function installed at a paper discharge port of various printers.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Paper discharge member 10 Paper conveyance part 11 Paper introduction port 12 Paper delivery port 13 Cavity part 13a Top plate part 14 Recessed part 15 LED light guide tube member 15a LED light emission unit accommodating part 15b Light guide tube accommodating part 15c Attachment member 15e Attachment member 16 LED light emitting unit 17 LED
18 Light guide tube 20 Support member 20a Screw stop hole 21 Photo interrupter 22 Lever 23 Axis mounting portion 24 Arm 25 Mounting pin 26 Coil spring 30 Paper 31 Ticketing system 32 Tray 33 Printer

Claims (2)

A paper discharge member having a paper discharge function;
An LED light guide tube member made of a transparent or translucent material disposed at a part or all of the paper exit position from the inner wall surface of the paper discharge member;
An LED light emitting unit attached to the LED light guide tube member,
Led the light of the LED light emitting unit to the exit position of the paper via the light guide tube of the LED light guide tube member,
In the bezel with LED light emitting function that emits light at the paper exit position of the paper discharge member,
A bezel with an LED light emission function, wherein a photo interrupter for paper detection is mounted on the LED light emission unit. In the LED light emitting unit, a transmissive photo interrupter is used as a photo interrupter for paper detection,
The bezel with an LED light emitting function according to claim 1, wherein a lever that rotates by inserting a sheet attached to the sheet discharge member appropriately blocks light from the transmissive photo interrupter.