Registers – Records – Conductive
Patent
1997-07-21
1999-10-19
Le, Thien Minh
Registers
Records
Conductive
235322, G06N 1906
Patent
active
059693320
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to a system for issuing and utilizing tickets that can treat information on ticket-purchasing by utilizing IC cards and non-contact terminals, without needs of any contacting. The non-contact terminal hereunder called for convenience in this specification is a kind of computer that gives information to or receives information from the relating outside apparatus by way of electromagnetic waves.
BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY
In the past, if a passenger wants to utilize a train or such, he must first purchase a ticket (including a commutation ticket), which has a record of the purchasing information, with cash or a prepaid card from a ticket-selling machine or from a station employee, and thereafter insert the ticket into the slot of the ticket gate.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
The present invention aims to provide a system for issuing and utilizing tickets, which makes it possible for a passenger to obtain the ticket, confirming the money amount information and without any contacting, and to pass the ticket gate without any contacting, by utilizing an IC card with description of the amount of money and a non-contact terminal which can transmit and/or receive information on the permitted section (the section permitted for his being aboard) without contacting.
A system for issuing and utilizing a ticket for attaining the above object comprises: non-contact-signal-receiving-decoding means to read out the information involved in the received non-contact signal, a communication control means to transfer the decoded information to the CPU, a non-volatile memory to store the information, a non-volatile-memory-write-in means and a non-volatile-memory-read-out means to write information in and to read information from the non-volatile memory, a non-contact-signal-transmitting means to transform the information to the non-contact-signal, an IC-card-reader and IC-card-reading means to read the information stored in the IC card, a character-displaying panel and character- displaying means to display the information in a form to be recognized from the outside, and a CPU to control said each means; information in the IC card, and an antenna to transmit the non-contact signal; and reader, reads out the information stored in the IC card, and displays it on the character-displaying panel, money amount information stored in the IC card by the IC card reader, and transmit the non-contact signal involving the permitted-section information corresponding to the section, over which the passenger is aboard the train, and, on the other hand, receives the non-contact signal involving said permitted-section information, and writes into the non-volatile memory the permitted-section information which is decoded and transferred through the non-contact-signal-receiving-decoding means, the communication control means, and the non-volatile-memory-write-in means which are controlled by the CPU, and part of said non-contact terminal, controls, responding to the on-board-section confirming information which was transmitted from the ticket gate and decoded and transferred at the non-contact-signal-receiving-decoding means and communication-controlling means, said non-volatile-memory-read-out means, to read out the permitted-section information stored in said non-volatile memory, and transmits the non-contact signal involving the permitted-section information via the communication control means and the non-contact-signal transmitting means.
The non-contact-terminal in the system for issuing and utilizing ticket of the present invention has also a function of IC card reader of contact type. When the IC card with description of the amount of money is inserted to the IC card reader of the non-contact terminal, the money amount information is displayed on the character display panel, and the amount of money memorized in the IC card can be confirmed.
When a user inserts the IC card into a ticket-selling machine and selects the section he wishes to be abroad, the non-contact-terminal receives the non-contact
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Aoki Shigeo
Oka Takuya
Ueda Masaaki
Le Thien Minh
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd
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