Automatic gate apparatus

• US 5,414,249 A
• Filed: 07/20/1993
• Issued: 05/09/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Kozo
• Primary Examiner(s): PITTS, HAROLD I
• Application Number:
  US08/093,755
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• Field of Search: 235/384, 235/380, 235/382
• US Class Current: 235/384
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

An automatic gate apparatus is located at a station and located at regular intervals apart from other automatic gate appratus, for communicating data stored in a wireless medium which is carried by a customer and has a data memory storing the data including identification data and section information representative of a section from one to the other of the station and a transmitter transmitting the data stored in the memory. The apparatus includes a memory for storing location information representative of the location of the apparatus. The apparatus generates a first level signal so as to cause the medium, in the regular intervals from the apparatus, to transmit the identification data and the section information and receives the identification data and the section information transmitted by the transmitter of wireless medium in response to the first level signal. The location information stored in the memory is judged that the location information exists within the section information The apparatus further generates a second level signal higher than the first level signal so as to transmit the identification data and the result of the judgment to the wireless medium which stores the same identification data and which is out of the regular intervals from the apparatus, in response to the judgment. The apparatus allows the customer passing thereof in response to the judgment.

Claims

1. An automatic gate system, including at least a first automatic gate apparatus having a pair of gate members defining a passageway therebetween, wherein a second automatic gate apparatus is capable of being arranged side-by-side to the first automatic gate apparatus, the first and second gate apparatuses are adapted to be installed at a station in a transit system, the first automatic gate apparatus including first transmission means and the second automatic gate apparatus including second transmission means for communicating with a wireless medium which is carried by a customer, the wireless medium including a memory capable of storing identification data therein and a transmitter capable of wirelessly transmitting the data stored in the memory when the wireless medium receives correspondence data specifying a correspondence between the wireless medium and the first automatic gate apparatus, the system comprising:

means for storing station name information representative of the location of the automatic gate system within the transit system;

first generating means for generating a first signal for wirelessly transmitting data via the first transmission means to the wireless medium, the first signal being limited to a first communication area defined within the passageway;

means for receiving the identification data transmitted by the wireless medium, the identification data being transmitted by the wireless medium in response to the reception of correspondence data provided in the first signal;

means for judging whether the identification data transmitted by the wireless medium is proper based on the station name information stored in the storing means;

second generating means for generating a second signal, for wirelessly transmitting identification data and the station name information to the wireless medium, wherein the wireless medium is capable of storing the identification data in the memory, the second signal being transmitted at a level so as to cover a second communication area, the second communication area including therein the first communication area of the first automatic gate apparatus and a first communication area of the second automatic gate apparatus located adjacent to the first automatic gate apparatus;

means for switching from the first generating means to the second generating means when the judging means judges that the identification data transmitted by the wireless medium is proper; and

means for allowing a customer to pass through the passageway when the judging means judges that the identification data is proper.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first generating means includes an antenna.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first generating means generates microwave signals.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second generating means generates microwave signals via a single antenna.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second generating means include a first amplifier and a second amplifier, wherein the degree of amplification in the second amplifier is larger than that of the first amplifier.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the gate member includes an insert port into which an information medium with magnetic examination data recorded is capable of being inserted, means for conveying the information medium inserted from the insert port, and a take-out port which discharges the information medium conveyed by the conveying means.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the gate member includes a magnetic head for reading the magnetic examination data recorded on the information medium which is conveyed by the conveying means.