Automatic ticket gate apparatus

• US 6,749,118 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2001
• Issued: 06/15/2004
• 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: Kobayashi, Takashi, Yoshida, Hisashi, Muraoka, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Uyen-Chau N.
• Application Number:
  US09/793,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20010017585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,203 Days
• Field of Search: 235/384, 235/380, 235/382, 235/449, 235/492, 705/13
• US Class Current: 235/449
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means

Abstract

An automatic ticket gate apparatus comprising a box defining the passage for ticket checking and a communicating face inclined to the horizontal to the side of passage, which is provided on the top of box and is provided with a wireless communicator communicating with a wireless ticket, and

a ticket checking unit, which performs the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with a wireless ticket through the wireless communicator.

Claims

1. An automatic ticket gate apparatus comprising:

a main body having a first side to define a first passage and a second side to define a second passage;

a first top cover which is provided on a top face of the main body and provided from an entrance portion of the first passage to a central portion of the main body, the first top cover being inclined downwardly from the second passage side to the first passage side;

a first wireless communicator provided on the inclined first top cover which communicates with a wireless ticket;

first checking means for checking propriety of passing through the first passage based upon the result of the communication with the wireless ticket through the first wireless communicator;

a second top cover which is provided on a top face of the main body and provided from an entrance portion of the second passage to the central portion of the main body, the second top cover being inclined downwardly from the first passage side to the second passage side;

a second wireless communicator provided on the inclined second top cover which communicates with a wireless ticket; and

second checking means for checking propriety of passing through the second passage based upon the result of the communication with the wireless ticket through the second wireless communicator; and

first and second display units to display results obtained from the first and second checking means respectively wherein the display units are provided at a central portion of the main body where the first and second top covers define a boundary portion.

2. An automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first display unit is provided on the side which supports the second top cover and protrudes against the first top cover, for displaying the ticket checking result of the first checking means; and

the second display unit is provided on the side which supports the first top cover and protrudes against the second top cover, for displaying the ticket checking result occurred by the second checking means.

3. An automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a first insert port provided on the main body to receive a generally rectangular shaped magnetic ticket;

first conveying means for conveying the magnetic ticket from the vicinity of one side of the main body to the center along the first passage;

first reading means for reading data recorded on the magnetic ticket transferred by the first conveying means;

first delivery means provided on the first top cover for delivering the magnetic ticket which is transferred by the first conveying means, with a longitudinal side of the magnetic ticket parallel to the inclined first top cover;

wherein the first checking means executes the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with the wireless ticket through the first wireless communicator or basing upon the data read out from the magnetic ticket by means of the first reading means;

a second insert port provided on the main body to receive a generally rectangular shaped magnetic ticket;

second conveying means for conveying the magnetic ticket from the vicinity of the other side of the main body to the center along the second passage;

second reading means for reading data recorded on the magnetic ticket transferred by the second conveying means; and

second delivery means provided on the second top cover for delivering the magnetic ticket which is transferred by the second conveying means, with a longitudinal side of the magnetic ticket parallel to the inclined second top cover;

wherein the second checking means executes the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with the wireless ticket through the second wireless communicator or basing upon the data read out from the magnetic ticket by means of the second reading means.

4. An automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the first display unit is provided on the side which supports the second top cover and portrudes against the first top cover, for displaying the ticket checking result occured by the first checking means, and

the second display unit is provided on the side which supports the first top cover and portrudes against the second top cover, for displaying the ticket checking result occured by the second checking ticket means.

5. An automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a first insert port provided on the main body to receive a generally rectangular shaped magnetic ticket;

first conveying means for conveying the magnetic ticket from the vicinity of one side of the main body to the center along the first passage;

first reading means for reading data recorded on the magnetic ticket transferred by the first conveying means;

first delivery means provided on the first top cover for delivering the magnetic ticket which is transferred by the first conveying means, with a longitudinal side of the magnetic ticket nonparallel to the inclined first top cover;

wherein the first checking means executes the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with the wireless ticket through the first wireless communicator or basing upon the data read out from the magnetic ticket by means of the first reading means;

a second insert port provided on the main body to receive a generally rectangular shaped magnetic ticket;

second conveying means for conveying the magnetic ticket from the vicinity of the other side of the main body to the center along the second passage;

second reading means for reading data recorded on the magnetic ticket transferred by the second conveying means;

second delivery means provided on the second top cover for delivering the magnetic ticket which is transferred by the second conveying means, with a longitudinal side of the magnetic ticket non-parallel to the inclined second top cover;

wherein the second checking means executes the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with the wireless ticket through the second wireless communicator or basing upon the data read out from the magnetic ticket by means of the second reading means.

6. An automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 5 wherein

the first display unit is provided on the side which supports the second top cover and protrudes against the first top cover, for displaying the ticket checking result occurred by the first checking means;

and

the second display unit is provided on the side which supports the first top cover and protrudes against the second top cover, for displaying the ticket checking result occurred by the second checking means.