Time-metering intelligent card

• US 20030227827A1
• Filed: 11/07/2002
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Herman Ruther Valencia, Jaime Garza Morton
• Original Assignee: Herman Ruther Valencia, Jaime Garza Morton
• Inventors: Elizalde, Luis E., Morton, Jaime G., Pichardo, Jorge C.
• Application Number:
  US10/289,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20030227827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 368/109
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/30 Parking meters registering or indicating waiting time of vehicles by means driven by the vehicle G07C5/02; coin-freed parking meters G07F17/24

Abstract

The present invention relates to an intelligent time-metering card for the charging of public street parking, which consists mainly of a real-time clock controlled by a microcontroller, and a memory for storing the time control data, a display that can be luminous to report credit time to the user and inspectors by means of encoded lights. The device can sense violations to its components and includes an expiry time control.

Claims

1. Intelligent time-metering card characterized by including a control button, a power supply, a real-time clock, an oscillating crystal, a microcontroller with a user-inaccessible memory and light emitting diodes LEDs.

2. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein it comprises time metering means which include jointly a microcontroller, a real-time clock and a oscillating crystal for metering time stretches or segments.

3. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein it has a control button for initiating the card systems, by generating a signal from a power supply to the microcontroller, a real-time clock and an oscillating crystal for metering time stretches or segments and reporting them to the process control unit and storing the information on the memory to thereafter report it to the user.

4. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein it comprises a credit time counting system.

5. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein it comprises a buffer memory microcontroller.

6. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein it comprises an inspection system.

7. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein it has a finite useful lifetime, independent from the prepaid time.

8. Intelligent card as recited in claim 1, wherein the time counting system is disabled upon expiry of the credit time or when a tampering or violation of the device is detected.