Automatic ticket checking apparatus

• US 6,732,924 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2001
• Issued: 05/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsutani, Yasuhiro, Imazuka, Katsuo, Ishigame, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): St.Cyr, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US09/793,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20010017317A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,168 Days
• Field of Search: 235/384, 235/375, 235/383, 235/440, 235/441, 235/382, 235/449, 235/493
• US Class Current: 235/384
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 11/00 Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means

Abstract

An automatic ticket checking apparatus of the present invention is arranged along a passage and has a first conveying mechanism which conveys a magnetic ticket in a first direction along the passage and a second conveying mechanism which is arranged facing in the passage direction against the first conveying mechanism. This automatic ticket checking apparatus reads the information recorded on magnetic tickets and wireless tickets and executes the checking process for user who are advancing in the first direction along the passage and further, reads the information recorded on magnetic tickets and wireless tickets carried by users who are advancing in the second direction along the passage and executes the checking process for users who are advancing in the second direction.

Claims

1. A radio communication equipment comprising:

a main body;

first receiving means associated with the main body for receiving using data from a first radio equipment which records using data and is carried by a first user who is passing along a prescribed passage;

first judging means associated with the main body for judging a passing of the first user based on the using data received by the first receiving means;

approving means associated with the main body for approving the passing of the first user when the passing is approval by the first judging means;

second receiving means associated with the main body for receiving using data from a second radio equipment which records the using data and is carried by a second user who is passing along a passage in the direction differing from the prescribed passage;

second judging means associated with the main body for judging a passing of the second user based on the using data received by the second receiving means;

third judging means associated with the main body for judging whether the second radio equipment is the same as the first radio equipment carried by the first user who is approved for the passing by the approving means based on the using data received by the second receiving means;

prohibiting means associated with the main body for prohibiting the execution of judging the passing propriety by the second judging means; and

control means associated with the main body for making the judgment of the passing propriety when the third judging means judged that the second radio equipment is not the same as the first radio equipment.