Data handling system

• US 4,804,829 A
• Filed: 04/28/1987
• Issued: 02/14/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Terminal Systems AB
• Original Assignee: International Terminal Systems AB
• Inventors: Jacobsen, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US07/051,684
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• Field of Search: 235/377, 235/375
• US Class Current: 235/377
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/14 with apparatus adapted for use with individual cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/22 in combination with an identity check of the pass holder

Abstract

A data handling terminal includes a microcomputer and a memory, the microcomputer preferably being intended for connection to a central computer. The data handling terminal (1) is characterized in that it includes a feed path (5) arranged to advance a so-called time card (29), in that arranged along the path (5) is a reader (18), which is arranged to read a bar code (30), a printer (19) and a sensor (21), which is arranged to transmit a signal to the microcomputer (2) when the time card (29) occupies a pre-determined position in relation to the printer (19). The terminal is further characterized by a first control circuit which is arranged to control the printer (19) in response to signals arriving from the microcomputer, and by an identifying device which is arranged to read a code individual to a respective employee, and in that the microcomputer is arranged to store in the memory information corresponding to the bar code (30), the bar code and information printed by the printer (19) containing the time concerned.

Claims

1. A data handling terminal comprising:

a microcomputer which is intended for connection to a central computer, and a memory, said data handling terminal (1) includes;

feed path (5), intended for advancing a so-called time card (29); and

along the feed path (5), a printer (19) and a sensor (21), said sensor being arranged to transmit a signal to the microcomputer (2) when a time card (29) occupies a pre-determined position relative to said printer (19);

said data handling terminal also comprising a first control circuit (20) arranged to control said printer (19) in response to signals received from said microcomputer (2), and said data handling terminal further comprising an identifying device (22) arranged to read from a code device, a code individual to a respective employee; and

wherein said microcomputer (2) is arranged to store in said memory (4), information corresponding to said employee code together with information printed by the printer (19), including the time concerned, the improvement comprising, in said data handling terminal, said sensor (21) which is arranged to transmit a signal when a mark, such as a spot (32-34), included on the time card (29) is detected by said sensor during passage of the time card along said feed path (5); and

that said sensor (21) is arranged to transmit said signal to said microcomputer (2), which is thereupon programmed to transmit a signal containing information relating to the time in question to said first control circuit (20), said control circuit (20) being arranged to thereupon actuate said printer (19) so as to print the time concerned on the time card (29) together with a further correlated said mark spot (33;

34), of the first mentioned mark spot type, which last mentioned mark spot is used for positioning the time card the next time the card is inserted into the data terminal whereby said last mentioned mark spot is sensed by said sensor (21).

2. A data handling terminal according to claim 1, further including a bar code reader (18) located along said feed path (5), said reader being located and arranged to read a bar code (30) included on said time card.