ONBOARD COMPUTER TICKETING TERMINAL

• US 20100176198A1
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: Delville, Florence
• Granted Patent: US 8,544,738 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/384
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/349 Rechargeable cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/352 Contactless payments by cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/363 with the personal data of a user
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 5/00 Details of, or auxiliary devices for, ticket-issuing machines for validating inserted tickets G07B11/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0833 Card having specific functional components
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0893 the card reader reading the card in a contactless manner

Abstract

The present invention relates to an onboard ticketing terminal notably aboard a public transport vehicle.

The ticketing terminal (30) comprises a body (39) equipped with at least:

• • a card reader;
  • a swiveling customer interface (36, 37);
  • a printer, incorporated into said body (39), paper output (40) from the printer being performed through a swiveling slot made in the body (39);
  • a swiveling driver interface (34).

The ticketing terminal (30) makes it possible notably to implement transport ticket sales applications by virtue of an interface with an onboard central unit (21).

Claims

1. An onboard ticketing terminal (30) aboard a transport vehicle, comprising a body equipped with at least:

a contactless card reader;

a swiveling customer interface;

a printer, incorporated into said body, paper output from the printer being performed through a swiveling slot made in the body;

a swiveling driver interface.

2. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 1, being linked by one or more interfaces to a central processing unit, remote from said ticketing terminal.

3. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein a contactless card reading location and an antenna for detecting the presence of a contactless card on the reading location, which are linked to the contactless card reader, are situated on a substantially horizontal upper face of the ticketing terminal.

4. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the customer interface comprises an swiveling screen, situated on a substantially horizontal upper face of the ticketing terminal.

5. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the driver interface comprises a swiveling screen, physically tied to the ticketing terminal.

6. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 5, wherein the driver interface comprises a touch panel.

7. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the orientation of the customer interface is performed by a first rotation of the customer interface about a first substantially vertical axis.

8. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 7, wherein the orientation of the paper output of the printer is achieved by a second rotation of the printer in relation to a second substantially vertical axis.

9. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 8, wherein the orientation of the driver interface is performed by a third rotation in relation to a third substantially horizontal axis.

10. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 9, wherein the driver interface pivots about the third axis passing through the upper part of the driver interface.

11. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first rotation and the second rotation are locked.

12. The ticketing terminal as claimed in claim 11, wherein the locking of the first rotation and the locking of the second rotation are carried out by means of removable screws.