JPH08297700A - Ic card for on-vehicle toll receiving equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a method for recording and holding information effective for practical use and to improve ease of use concerning the information and its quantity to be recorded and held in the toll on-vehicle receiving equipment and the IC card. CONSTITUTION: The on-vehicle equipment for automatically receiving a road toll is composed of two pieces of the on-vehicle toll receiving equipment having an IC card contact part 5 and an IC card 4, and the IC card 4 has a magnetic stripe part and a memory cell for holding the recorded information inside an IC chip without any power source and holds various kinds of information for automatically receiving the road toll. This IC card for on-vehicle road toll receiving equipment is shared with a conventional bank/credit card, is suitable for the toll systems of various toll roads and further can attain privacy protection, illegal use prevention and improvement in ease of use.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for automatically collecting road charges by radio waves, and relates to the type and amount of various information recorded in an IC card used for an onboard device for collecting charges.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a publicly known example closest to the present invention, there is Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2-183389, "External Storage Medium Removable On-Board Terminal". However, although there is a description about the in-vehicle terminal and the IC card, nothing is described about the type and amount of various information recorded in the IC card.

[0003]

Radio waves are mainly used for communication between a roadside device and a vehicle-mounted device for automatic road toll collection. In addition, in order to collect the automatic road charge,
A vehicle ID or a payment account ID for identifying the payer of the charge is required. Payment methods include a prepaid payment method, a coupon payment method, and a postpaid payment method that is paid by deducting from a bank account. For this reason, the vehicle-mounted device for receiving the automatic road charge needs to be composed of two pieces, that is, the vehicle-mounted device having the IC card contact portion and the IC card, rather than the shape of the ID tag which is composed of one piece. In addition, there is information that the privacy of the user is protected, unauthorized use is prevented, or the road administrator needs. These large amounts of various kinds of information must be appropriately recorded and held in an in-vehicle device having an IC card contact portion and an IC card.

An object of the present invention relates to information and amount of information to be recorded and held in an on-vehicle fee collection device and an IC card, and is to provide a practically effective method of recording and holding information and to improve usability.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object is to automatically collect and settle road charges by wireless communication.
The toll collection vehicle-mounted device is composed of a toll collection vehicle-mounted device and an IC card, and the IC card has two information storage sections, a magnetic stripe section and an IC chip section. Record information related only to credit sales,
This is achieved by making it possible to record and erase both bank and credit related information and road toll collection related information in the IC chip section.

[0006]

[Function] The conventional bank / credit card and the road toll collection IC card for in-vehicle equipment should be used in common, and the system conforms to the toll system of various toll roads, and also protects privacy, prevents unauthorized use, and improves usability. It is possible to provide an on-board IC card that can collect charges.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to the present invention will be described.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a usage example of a non-contact type toll collection vehicle-mounted device at a toll gate. In FIG. 1, a passing vehicle 2 in which a toll collection vehicle-mounted device 3 is mounted on a front window glass
However, when passing the road toll booth 1, it is possible to settle the charges by wireless transmission / reception without directly delivering cash or a card to the staff at the toll booth.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example in which a general-purpose type toll collection vehicle-mounted device is attached to a front window glass part. The general-purpose toll collection in-vehicle device is composed of two pieces, a toll collection in-vehicle device section 3 having an IC card contact section 5 built therein and an IC card 4.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a fee settlement relationship of an IC card for a toll collection vehicle-mounted device. Charge collection IC for vehicle
The card 4 is issued, for example, from a joint business processing center 6 that jointly makes a payment for the usage fees of various toll roads at the national or local level. This IC card 4 enables payment of various toll road usage fees, and the prepayment (prepaid) and additional coupons can be accumulated by the additional machine 7 installed at the toll booth or service area. . In addition, this addition machine 7
By inserting the IC card 4 into, it is possible to issue a receipt and a usage fee statement. The IC card 4 can also be used as an ordinary bank / credit card for payment at restaurants in service areas or at gas stations.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a general-purpose type toll collection vehicle-mounted device. The IC card 4 is a CPU
It is composed of EEPROM and RAM.
Recorded in EEPROM. The RAM is a work area used when reading and writing information. The CPU controls the reading / writing of information and also performs security control such as encryption of card information.
The microcomputer 13 is a toll collection vehicle-mounted device dedicated microcomputer and has an IC card interface, a decode / encode driver and the like in addition to the functions of a normal microcomputer. The driver is an LCD (liquid crystal display) that displays katakana and fee numbers, and an LED (issued diode) that displays an alarm in red or green.
Alternatively, the piezoelectric buzzer 14 that emits an alarm sound is driven. Decode encoding switches Tx (transmission) and Rx (reception) and performs waveform conversion. The signal received by the antenna 15 is detected by the filter. When the detection signal exceeds the specified level, the standby microcomputer is woken up. The transmission signal is modulated and amplified by the high frequency signal amplification section, and is transmitted from the antenna 15 through the transmission / reception switching switch. Enter the PIN with the operation key 8 and then the IC card 4
It is possible to collate with the PIN code recorded in. In addition, it is possible to select a payment method such as a prepaid payment method, a coupon ticket payment method, and a postpaid payment method (postpay), which is recorded on the IC card 4, by using the operation key 8. It is possible.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a toll collection vehicle-mounted device with a built-in navigation device. The IC card 4 is connected to the center controller 10 of the navigation device through the IC card contact section 5 and the information LAN 9. It is possible to input a personal identification number using the operation keys on the screen provided on the display 11 and collate it with the personal identification number recorded in the IC card 4. Similarly, it is possible to select a payment method such as a prepaid payment method, a coupon ticket payment method, and a postpaid payment method (postpay), which is recorded on the IC card 4, and is paid by deducting from a bank account. . As the IC card 4, not only for automatic collection of road tolls, but also an IC card for vehicle inspection and maintenance history, an IC card for tourist information, etc. can be inserted into the IC card contact portion 5 and used.

FIG. 6 shows an IC to be inserted into the toll collection vehicle-mounted device 3.
It is a figure which shows the example of an external appearance of the card 4. This IC card 4
Is an example showing on the appearance print diagram that it can be used as a coupon ticket, a prepaid card of a prepaid system, or a postpay card for bank account withdrawal.

FIG. 7 shows the I to be inserted into the road charge collection vehicle unit.
It is a figure which shows the external dimension example of the C card 4. By using the card with the magnetic stripe 12, it can be used as a conventional bank / credit card at gas stations and restaurants. An IC chip is built in the lower part of the IC card connection terminal portion 131.

FIG. 8 shows the I to be inserted into the road charge collection vehicle unit.
It is a figure which shows the example of specifications of C card 4. That is, I in FIG.
6 is a configuration example of an IC chip built in a lower portion of a C card connection terminal portion 131. ROM 16K bytes records the program software for reading and writing the card. RAM 512 bytes is a work area for CPU operation. EEPROM
Is a recording unit capable of reading and writing various information relating to road charge collection as shown in FIG. 9, and retains the recorded information even when the power is turned off. Instead of the EEPROM, it is possible to use another memory element that retains the recorded information even when the power is turned off.

FIG. 9 is a table showing an example of the types of information used for the road fee collection vehicle-mounted device. No. 1 [command type] is a code indicating the type of system. For example, in FIG. 5, if the command type code for road charge collection is recorded in the IC card 4, the entire system becomes a road charge collection vehicle by simply inserting the IC card 4.
Further, for example, if the command type code of vehicle inspection / maintenance is recorded in the IC card 4, the entire system becomes a vehicle inspection / maintenance display system, and the history of vehicle inspection / maintenance and when oil is changed are displayed on the display. When changing oil, the date and time, the number of miles traveled, etc. can be recorded on the IC card using the operation keys on the display. No. 6 [number of axles] is the number of axles of the vehicle wheel. A typical four-wheeled passenger car has two axles. However,
If a passenger car pulls a trailer house or motorboat carrier in the rear, the toll on the toll road may be extra. In this case, the user can change the number of axes by operating the operation keys of the vehicle-mounted device by himself. If the user forgets this change, the axis counter of the on-road equipment installed at the entrance of the toll gate measures the number of axles of the vehicle passing through the toll gate, and the axis sent from the road toll collection vehicle By comparing with the number code, and if different, rewrite the axis number code of the road toll collection in-vehicle device by wireless communication at the tollgate,
It is possible to collect a toll fee.

FIG. 10 is a table showing an example of the types and amounts of information recorded in the memory of the vehicle-mounted device. [Random number 1] and [Random number 2] of Nos. 2 and 3 are random numbers used for cryptographic communication between the vehicle-mounted device and the roadside device at the tollgate to prevent fraud. Further, No. 13 [card validity key] No. 14 [vehicle-mounted communication unit validity key] is a key code used for encrypted communication between the vehicle-mounted device and the IC card to prevent fraud. This key code makes it extremely difficult to illegally tamper with, or illegally use, the IC card that has been found.
No. 11 [credit information] is the same as the information recorded on the magnetic stripe 12 shown in FIG. 7, and the same information is also recorded on the IC chip in the IC card, and the postpay (postpaid) for automatic collection of road charges. Used for etc.

FIG. 11 is a table showing the types and amounts of information recorded in the IC card according to the embodiment of the present invention. The details of the 63-byte contents of [Ticket ticket information] shown in No. 15 are the contents of the table shown in FIG. Further, the usage statement information [for 100 passages] 8000 bytes shown in No. 16 is obtained by multiplying 80 bytes of information for one passage in the table shown in FIG. 13 by 100 passages.

FIG. 12 is a table showing the types and amounts of coupon ticket information recorded in the IC card according to the embodiment of the present invention. As a coupon ticket, three types of coupon tickets A, B and C can be purchased and recorded in advance (prepayment).

FIG. 13 is a table showing the type and amount of information for one pass of the embodiment of the present invention recorded in the IC card. N
o.10 Barrier number is a toll gate with a unique barrier number called "barrier" that allows you to determine which route is used when there are multiple routes from the toll gate X to the toll gate Y on the toll road. Set up. For example, when driving from Aomori to Kagoshima, the driving routes are very diverse, and the road business group that ultimately receives the toll varies depending on the driving route. Therefore, a maximum of 10 barrier numbers can be recorded for each pass. No. 19 [balance amount]
Records the remaining number in the case of a coupon ticket and the remaining amount in the case of prepaid (prepayment). The initially purchased number of coupons is recorded in Nos. 6, 12, and 18 of FIG. The initial prepaid amount in case of prepaid payment is recorded in No.14. If information is erased and written as the remaining number of sheets or the remaining amount of money for each pass of these recordings, the same memory cell of the EEPROM is erased and written each time. However, the number of rewritable times of the EEPROM is about 10,000, and if another memory cell is used as one of the traffic information as described above, 100 times,
That is, one IC card can be used up to one million times. Therefore, it can be used for business purposes such as taxis.

FIG. 14 is an example of a processing flow (initial setting) between the vehicle-mounted device and the IC card. A method of collating the personal identification number will be described in this processing flow. When the IC card is inserted into the vehicle-mounted device, the basic information recorded on the card is transferred from the IC card to the memory of the vehicle-mounted device. The personal identification number (password) is included in this basic information. Enter the password with the operation key of the vehicle-mounted device and check it. At this time, if the verification is NG three consecutive times, a code indicating the card invalidity is sent to the vehicle-mounted device. No. 9 [Validity of IC card] in FIG. 11 is an area for recording this code, and if invalidity is recorded in this area, the card cannot be used thereafter. If you bring it to the card issuing institution and confirm that you are who you are, you can use it again. In the case of a cash dispenser of a general bank, if you try to acquire and use another person's card, if you make a mistake in entering the PIN code multiple times, the card will be automatically taken into the machine and will not be returned. Security measures have been taken, such as the installation of a security camera near the cash dispenser. In the case of an in-vehicle device that collects road charges,
Since it is a closed room in the passenger compartment, invalid records are written on the card and disabled.

[0022]

According to the present invention, the following effects are obtained depending on the type and amount of various information recorded in the IC card used in the toll collection vehicle-mounted device of the system for automatically collecting road tolls by radio waves. Can be obtained.

Conventional bank / credit card and IC card for automatic collection of road charges can be used together IC card for automatic collection of road charges and other applications I
C card can also be used. It is possible to prevent illegal use of IC card for automatic toll collection of road charges. Supports three types of toll payment system: multiple ticket payment system, prepaid payment system, and postpaid payment system (postpay). Yes It is possible to record various travel history information on toll roads and issue a usage statement. It is possible to extend the service life of the IC card for automatic road toll collection. It is possible to record subscriber categories and improve usability and prevent fraud. It is possible to use multiple IC cards for various purposes such as road fee collection, vehicle inspection and maintenance history, and tourist information. The number of axes code can be corrected by radio waves from the tollgate

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a usage example of a non-contact type toll collection vehicle-mounted device at a road toll gate.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example in which a general-purpose type toll collection vehicle-mounted device is attached to a front window glass part.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a fee settlement relationship for an IC card for a fee collection vehicle-mounted device.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an example of a general-purpose toll collection vehicle-mounted device.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an example of an on-vehicle device for collecting a charge collection type navigation device.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an external appearance of an IC card to be inserted into a road charge collection vehicle-mounted device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of external dimensions of an IC card to be inserted into a road charge collection vehicle-mounted device.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of specifications of an IC card to be inserted into a road charge collection vehicle unit.

FIG. 9 is an example of types of information used for a road charge collection vehicle unit.

FIG. 10 is an example of the type and amount of information recorded in the memory of the vehicle-mounted device.

FIG. 11 shows types and amounts of information recorded in an IC card according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 shows the type and amount of coupon information of an embodiment of the present invention recorded on an IC card.

FIG. 13: Passage 1 of the embodiment of the present invention for recording on an IC card
Type and amount of batch information.

FIG. 14 is an example of a processing flow (initial setting) between an in-vehicle device and an IC card.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Road toll booth, 2 ... Passing vehicle, 3 ... Charge collection vehicle, 4 ... IC card, 5 ... IC card contact section,
6 ... Joint business processing center, 7 ... Stacking machine, 8 ... Operation keys, 9 ... Information LAN, 10 ... Center controller, 11
... display, 12 ... magnetic stripe, 13 ... microcomputer, 14 ... piezoelectric buzzer, 15 ... antenna.

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. In a system for automatically collecting and settling a road charge by wireless communication, an on-vehicle device for collecting a fee is composed of an on-vehicle device for collecting a fee and an IC card, and the IC card comprises a magnetic stripe portion. The IC chip section has two information storage sections, the magnetic stripe section records information only on bank and credit sales, and the IC chip section stores information on bank and credit and road charge collection information. A fee collection vehicle IC card that is capable of recording and erasing both. 2. The toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claim 1, wherein information relating to banks and credit sales, information relating to road fee collection, and information for other purposes can be recorded / erased in the IC chip section. A toll collection in-vehicle IC card characterized by the above. 3. The toll collection vehicle-mounted device and the IC card according to claim 1, wherein the IC chip section has a personal identification number recording section and an IC.
A card validity recording section is provided, and when the IC card is inserted into an IC card contact section provided in the toll collection vehicle-mounted device, the personal identification number is input in the toll collection vehicle-mounted device to input the personal identification number recording section. When the collation mismatches with the already recorded PIN of No. 1 and the collation disagreement continues for the specified number of times or more, the information indicating "validity" in the validity recording section is erased and the information indicating "invalidity" is displayed. An IC card for a toll collection vehicle-mounted device, which is configured to record and disable the IC card. 4. In the toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claim 1 or 2, as the information on the road toll collection of the IC chip portion, a coupon ticket payment method, a prepaid payment method, a bank account An IC card for a toll collection vehicle, which is capable of recording and erasing information for multiple payments such as post-payment payments made by debit. 5. The toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claims 1 and 2, wherein various toll road travel history information is recorded as road fee collection information of the IC chip section, and a usage statement is issued. A toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card that is capable of 6. The toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claims 4 and 5, wherein the information on the road fee collection of the IC chip portion is the balance amount of a prepaid method or the coupon payment method. An IC card for a toll collection vehicle-mounted device, which is characterized by extending the service life of the IC card by recording the remaining number of sheets together with various kinds of traffic history information on toll roads. 7. In the toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claim 4 or 5, the subscriber classification of an individual / corporation / cooperative or the like is recorded as the information on the road toll collection of the IC chip part. An IC card for in-vehicle equipment that collects charges. 8. The toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claim 4 or 5, wherein a command type information recording section is provided in the IC chip section, and road fee collection and vehicle inspection are performed by a code indicating the recorded command type. Charge collection vehicle-mounted IC card that enables distinction of applications such as repair maintenance history and tourist information. 9. The toll collection vehicle-mounted IC card according to claim 4 or claim 5, wherein a vehicle axle number recording section is provided as a vehicle axle number recording information for road fee collection relation information of the IC chip section. The number of axles of the vehicle measured and detected by the ground equipment at the tollgate is checked against the number of axles obtained from the axis number code when the vehicle passes through the tollgate. An IC card for a toll collection vehicle-mounted device, characterized in that the record is updated to an axis number code corresponding to the number of axes.