JPH0546837A - Medium processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To save a conventional width-moving mechanism, to realize the processing of a medium different in a farm, to make a whole processor small and compact and to shorten processing time. CONSTITUTION:The medium processor receiving and returning two types of mediums different in a size is provided with a concave groove 25 which supplies and guides the small medium A in a Prescribed direction, an opening opening part 26 which is connected to the concave groove 25 and which supplies and guides the large medium in the prescribed direction, plural detection means 21-23 detecting the medium supplied to the concave groove 25 and the opening part 26 and a control means executing a reception processing when the respective mediums are normally supplied based on the detection outputs of the detection means 21-23.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is, for example, attached to a settlement machine or the like used in station affairs, to provide a medium of a small size such as a ticket and a medium of a large size such as a commuter pass or a card. The present invention relates to a medium processing device that performs reception and return processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a medium processing device for receiving and returning two types of media (tickets, commuter passes, cards) of different sizes as described above, for example, a device having a configuration shown in FIG. is there.

That is, a ticket insertion opening 82 is formed in the customer service portion of the apparatus main body 81, and the width next to the ticket insertion opening 82 is provided with belts 83 and 84 which are vertically opposed to each other and a width guide plate 85. An arranging mechanism 86 is arranged, belts 89, 90 driven by a motor 87 and a driving belt 88 are arranged in the next stage of the arranging mechanism 86, and belts 89, 90 which are vertically opposed to each other are arranged. While the reading head 91 and the writing head 92 are provided in the middle of conveyance of 90, the above-mentioned belts 89,
A flapper 93 for allocating the medium to one side and the other side is arranged at the end of conveyance of 90, and a punching portion 94 and a thermal head 95 are arranged on one side of the flapper 93, and the flapper 93 described above is used. A belt 96 opposite to a part of the belt 90, a first movable stopper 97 and a second movable stopper 98 are arranged on the other side of the belt 93. This is an apparatus in which a recovery box 99 is arranged.

Further, according to this conventional apparatus, in order to allow the ticket as the small-sized medium to be width-shifted to the reference surface side by the width-shifting mechanism 86 to be processed by the next-stage apparatus, In addition to the width adjusting guide plate 85, complicated configuration requirements such as an aligning roller and a belt arranged in a slanting manner with respect to the reference surface are indispensable. Therefore, the structure of the width adjusting mechanism 86 becomes complicated, and the width is reduced. Since the total length of the shifting mechanism 86 is relatively long, there is a problem that the entire apparatus becomes large and the processing time becomes long.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, it is possible to process irregular shaped media (tickets, commuter passes, cards) by omitting the width-shifting mechanism described above, and to reduce the size and size of the entire apparatus and shorten the processing time. It is an object of the present invention to provide a medium processing device capable of achieving the above.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a medium processing device for receiving and returning two types of medium having different sizes, and a concave groove for guiding and guiding a small medium in a predetermined direction, and the concave groove. An opening communicating with the groove for guiding the insertion of a large-sized medium in a predetermined direction, a plurality of detecting means for detecting the medium inserted in the concave groove and the opening, and each medium based on the detection output of the detecting means. Is a medium processing device provided with a control means for executing a receiving process when the medium is normally input.

[0007]

According to the present invention, when a small-sized medium (ticket, etc.) is normally inserted in the above-mentioned concave groove, and a large-shaped medium (commuter pass, card, etc.) is normally inserted in the above-mentioned opening. At this time, the above-mentioned control means executes the receiving process of each of these media based on the normal-injection detection signal from the complicated detection means, and conversely the small shape and the large shape of the above-mentioned concave groove and opening. When each medium is abnormally loaded (when the loading position is defective), the above-mentioned control means executes the return processing of each medium based on the abnormal loading detection signals from the plurality of detection means.

[0008]

As a result, the complicated width-adjusting mechanism found in the conventional structure can be omitted, and two types of media having different sizes can be received and returned.
Therefore, it is possible to reduce the size and size of the entire apparatus and shorten the processing time.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows a settlement machine used in station service as an example of a medium processing device, in which a ticket insertion port housing 2 is formed in the front customer service portion of the device main body 1, and the ticket insertion port housing 2 is vertically connected to the next stage. The belts 3 and 4 to be installed are arranged, and the belts 3 and 4 are configured to be driven and driven by the first motor 5 and the drive belt 6, and a magnetic head is used during the transportation of the belts 3 and 4 described above. Readhead 7 configured
And a writing head 8 are provided.

Further, a flapper 9 for allocating two kinds of media having different sizes to one side and the other side is arranged at the end of conveyance of each of the belts 3 and 4, and one side of the flapper 9 is provided. A punch-type punching machine 10 and a thermal head 11 are provided, and a conveying roller 1 interposed between the two is provided.
The second motor 14 drives the motors 2 and 13 in the forward and reverse directions.

Further, on the other side of the flapper 9 described above, a belt 15 that opposes a part of the lower belt 4 and a solenoid 1 are provided.
First stopper 18 and second driven by 6 and 17
While the stopper 19 is provided, each of the belts 4 and 1 described above is provided.
A recovery box 20 is arranged below the conveyance end portion of No. 5.

By the way, the above-mentioned ticket insertion slot housing 2 is constructed as shown in FIGS. That is, the small-sized medium is formed with a groove 25 having a width L1 and a height H1 for guiding and guiding A (for example, a ticket) in a fixed position and in a predetermined direction, and the width L1 and the height H1 are set to the width of the small-sized medium A. And an opening 26 having a width L2 and a height H2, which is set to be slightly larger than the thickness and communicates with the above-mentioned concave groove 25 to guide the insertion of the large-sized medium B (eg, commuter pass, card) in a fixed position and in a predetermined direction.
And the width L2 and height H2 of the opening 26 are set to be slightly larger than the width and thickness of the large medium B, and the predetermined range X on the insertion side shown in FIG. For the purpose of facilitating easy insertion, the opening is formed so as not to surround the upper part.

Further, at the center of the above-mentioned groove 25 in the width direction, the first sensor 21 which vertically opposes through the through holes 27 of the ticket insertion housing 2, and the opening 26 which does not overlap the above-mentioned groove 25. At the front and rear offset positions of the through hole 28, 28 of the ticket insertion slot housing 2,
A second sensor 22 and a third sensor 23, which are vertically opposed to each other via 29, 29, are provided.
2 and 23 are configured to detect the media A and B put in the groove 25 and the opening 26 described above. Here, as each of the above-mentioned sensors 21, 22 and 23, for example, a photoelectric sensor including a light emitting element and a light receiving element is used, but a photodiode array is used instead of such a photoelectric sensor. Good.

Further, in the vicinity of the inner depths of the conveying rollers 30 and 31 immediately after the above-mentioned ticket insertion slot housing 2, FIG.
4th sensor 2 for detecting the presence / absence of medium insertion as shown in FIG.
4 are arranged.

FIG. 6 shows a control circuit of the settlement machine, which is a CPU 4
0 is the first sensor 21, the second sensor 22, the third sensor 2
ROM 3 based on each signal from the third and fourth sensors 24
According to the program stored in 2, the read head 7, the write head 8, the first motor 5, the second motor 14, the flapper 9, the first stopper 18, the second stopper 19, and the punch 1
0 and thermal head 11 drive control, RAM
Reference numeral 33 stores necessary data such as a medium determination table as shown in Table 1 below.

[0016]

[Table 1]

Interfaces 34 and 35 are provided between the input / output device and the CPU 40. Further, as is clear from FIGS. 3 to 5, each of the above-mentioned sensors 21 to 23 transmits the light beam from the light emitting element to the light receiving element to the medium A,
When the light is blocked by B, these sensors 21 to 23 are set to be turned on.

Further, the above-mentioned CPU 40 executes the receiving process only when the small-sized medium A and the large-sized medium B are normally loaded based on the medium detection output from each of the above-mentioned sensors 21 to 23, while it is not normally loaded (loaded). It is a control means for executing a return process when the position is defective. In addition, each of the through holes 2 described above
A transparent body such as a glass member may be embedded in 7, 28 and 29.

The operation of the settlement machine thus constructed will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First step 41
Then, the CPU 40 uses the first sensor 21 or the second sensor 2
It is determined whether or not one of the two is turned on, and only when it is turned on, the process proceeds to the next second step 42, and in this second step 42, the CPU 40 turns on the fourth sensor 24 (see FIG. 1). It is judged whether or not
Only when it is N, the process proceeds to the next third step 43.

In the above-mentioned third step 43, the CPU 40 causes each ON / OFF signal from the first sensor 21, the second sensor 22, and the third sensor 23 and the data in the table (see Table 1) stored in the RAM 33 in advance. The medium determination is performed by comparing and.

Next, in a fourth step 44, the CPU 40 determines whether or not the small-sized medium A or the large-shaped medium B is normally loaded based on the determination result in the above-mentioned third step 43, and when defective loading is performed. The process proceeds to the next fifth step 45, and in this fifth step 45, the CPU 40 drives the first motor 5 in the reverse direction so that the medium A or B in which the loading state is defective is bad.
Is returned through the belts 3 and 4 and the conveyance rollers 30 and 31.

On the other hand, when it is determined in the above-mentioned fourth step 44 that the small-sized medium A or the large-shaped medium B is normally loaded, the process proceeds to the next sixth step 46, and in this sixth step 46, the CPU 40 Based on the determination result in the third step 43, it is determined whether the inserted medium is a ticket as a small medium A or a commuter pass or a card as a large medium B. 7 Step 47
Meanwhile, when the commuter pass and the card are normally inserted, the process proceeds to another ninth step 49.

In the above-mentioned seventh step 47, the CPU 40 executes the ticket processing for the small-sized medium A (specifically, the processing based on the subroutine not shown), and in the next eighth step 48, the CPU 40 executes the processing. The ticket is collected in the collection box 20 and the series of processing of the small medium A is finished, while the CPU 40 executes the processing of the commuter pass and the card as the large medium B in the above-mentioned ninth step 49 (specifically. Processing based on a subroutine not shown in the figure)
In step 50, the CPU 40 returns the commuter pass and the card, and ends the series of processing of the large-sized medium B.

In short, when the small-sized medium A (ticket or the like) is normally put into the above-mentioned concave groove 25, only one of the three sensors 21, 22 and 23 is turned on, When the large-sized medium B (commuter pass, card, etc.) is normally inserted into the opening 26, all of the three sensors 21, 22, 23 are turned on. 22, 2
The ON / OFF signals from the RAM 3 are collated with the table (see Table 1) stored in the RAM 33, and when the media A and B are normally loaded, the acceptance processing of the media A and B is executed, and the media A and B are received.
At the time of improper insertion of B, the return processing of each medium A and B is executed.

As a result, the complicated width-adjusting mechanism 86 as seen in the conventional structure shown in FIG. 8 can be omitted, and two types of media A and B having different sizes can be received and returned. Therefore, there is an effect that the entire apparatus can be made compact and compact and the processing time can be shortened.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the medium processing device of the present invention corresponds to the station service adjusting machine of the embodiment, and hereinafter, similarly, the small medium A is a ticket. The large medium B corresponds to a commuter pass and a card, the detecting means corresponds to the photoelectric first sensor 21, the second sensor 22 and the third sensor 23, and the control means corresponds to the CPU 4
Although it corresponds to 0, the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a medium processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a ticket insertion slot housing.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a ticket insertion slot housing.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a sensor output signal when a small medium is normally inserted.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a sensor output signal when a large-sized medium is normally inserted.

FIG. 6 is a control circuit block diagram.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing medium processing.

FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing a conventional medium processing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21 ... 1st sensor 22 ... 2nd sensor 23 ... 3rd sensor 25 ... Recessed groove 26 ... Opening 40 ... CPU A ... Small medium B ... Large medium

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] May 20, 1992

[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0014

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

Further, in the vicinity of the inner depths of the conveying rollers 30 and 31 immediately after the above-mentioned ticket insertion slot housing 2, FIG.
The fourth sensor 24 for detecting the presence or absence of the medium insertion as shown in FIG.
Are installed.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A medium processing device for receiving and returning two types of media having different sizes, comprising a concave groove for guiding and guiding a small medium in a predetermined direction, and a large medium communicating with the concave groove. An opening for guiding the insertion in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of detecting means for detecting the medium inserted in the groove and the opening,
A medium processing apparatus comprising: a control unit that executes a receiving process when the medium is normally inserted based on a detection output of the detection unit.