Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Measuring or testing
Patent
1980-10-06
1983-06-21
Zache, Raulfe B.
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Measuring or testing
364467, 235 30R, 235 45, 377 24, 377 26, G07B 1310, G06F 1520
Patent
active
043895638
ABSTRACT:
This anti-fraud system includes a process and devices for avoiding fraud on the price indicated by an electronic taximeter. The taximeter apparatus, which includes a luminous display unit and a computing unit, is supplied with d.c. voltage V by the vehicle battery. One particular fraud, made more difficult by this system, involves voluntary cut-off of the voltage supply to the meter. To execute this fraudulent maneuver the cabdriver firstly starts the meter, and records a price on the fare meter, with no passenger in the taxi. Secondly, before a customer is picked up, the operator cuts off the current supply to the meter, which extinguishes the fare display. Thus, as the customer enters the cab, it is not apparent that the meter has already been run-up to a non-zero value. To preclude this maneuver, the anti-fraud system has a first comparator which compares the voltage V with a reference voltage Vr and emits a constant voltage Vc if V<Vr and a zero voltage if V>Vr. Another comparison device compares the duration during which V remains lower than Vr with a reference time period duration. The computing unit and the display unit are returned to zero each time the reference time period duration is exceeded.
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Williams Archie E.
Zache Raulfe B.
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