Toll receiving terminal for toll road

[Detailed Description of the Invention]

Use field Co on [industry The present invention is used for the cashless payment system to the toll of a toll road, and relates to the terminal for fee acceptance of a suitable toll road. (PRIOR ART]) Generally, the fee acceptance system using a magnetic card is adopted as the toll acceptance system in the toll road of the other sections. This magnetic card method installs a traffic ticket processing machine in a tollgate entrance and a tollgate exit, The fee acceptance member of a tollgate entrance publishes the traffic ticket with which entrance tollgate information, vehicle type information, etc. were recorded from the above-mentioned traffic ticket processing machine, and hands it to a toll road user, and the fee acceptance member of a tollgate exit takes Acceptance, and inserts a toll road user to the above-mentioned traffic ticket in a traffic ticket processing machine. Since the toll of the vehicles concerned will be computed from the information recorded on the traffic ticket by this traffic ticket processing machine, and exit tollgate information if it does so, the user has paid this fee in cash. However, by this magnetic card method, the toll road user has to bring cash, and also it once had to stop at the tollgate entrance and the exit, and he caused traffic congestion. The fee acceptance member must be arranged to the tollgate entrance and the exit also for the toll road business entity side, and it had become the hindrance of formation of prefecture people. Then, the system shown below is proposed as a fee acceptance system of the toll road which can achieve full automation of cashless-payment-izing of a toll, a tollgate entrance, and an exit and through which it can pass nonstop. That is, while carrying an in-vehicle opportunity in a toll road user's vehicles, the machine on the street which can read the radio information from the above-mentioned in-vehicle opportunity is installed in the entrance of a toll road, At a tollgate entrance, it is the system which transmits tollgate entrance number information to an in-vehicle opportunity from a machine on the street, transmits a tollgate entrance number and vehicle type information to On the street Qin from the above-mentioned in-vehicle opportunity at a tollgate exit, calculates a toll with a machine on the street, and was made to perform fee acceptance processing by a cashless payment.

In problem 1 which [invention tends to solve, however this system, Since the in-vehicle opportunity was used even if it differed in a banking card or a credit card of the cashless payment, etc. and did not need information peculiar to a user, there was a possibility that an illegal use might be easily carried out by loss or a theft of an in-vehicle opportunity, etc. Then, the present invention is f to a tollgate! It is not necessary to carry out a vehicle and dissolution of traffic congestion can be expected, and full automation of a tollgate is possible and it aims at being able to achieve prefecture people-ization and also providing the fee acceptance system of a toll road without a possibility that an illegal use may be carried out.

[Means for Solving the Problem] The present invention inputs peculiar information of the vehicles user concerned by a peculiar information input means from a main part of a terminal carried in vehicles which pass through a toll road, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem and to achieve the object, Required information in connection with fee acceptance of a toll road is recorded by an information storage means at the time of effective of this inputted peculiar information, Information recorded by information reading means is read, and it transmits to a machine on the street installed in a prescribed position on the toll road in this read information by a wireless communication means, and receives fee acceptance information from the above-mentioned machine on the street.

[Function] By having provided such a means, this terminal user inputs peculiar information before toll road penetration, Since acceptance processing of the toll of the above-mentioned toll road will be carried out by wireless communications with a cashless payment if the validity of this terminal is checked according to this peculiar information, full automation of a tollgate entrance and nonstop passing of a toll road are attained.

[Example] Drawing 1 (a) and (b) is the perspective view and side view showing the appearance composition of terminal 10 for fee acceptance which is one example of the present invention. 11 is the main part of a terminal formed with non-metal, such as a plastic, indicator 12 and key Bud 13 are provided in the surface of this main part 11 of a terminal, card slot 14 is formed in the upper surface, and transceiver antenna 15 is built in the inside of the back. Indicator 12 displays the information which should be transmitted to the information and the above-mentioned machine on the street which were received from the machine on the street formed in the middle of [ its ] the entrance of a toll road. Key Bud 13 consists of the ten key and the various function keys to 0~9, and when it inputs a password peculiar to a user, it is used. Various cards, such as a banking card and a credit card, have been that card slot 14 can be inserted for, and it considers it as what can apply the IC card in which IC (integrated circuit) was included in this example. Transceiver antenna 15 is an antenna for a wireless communication means to perform data communications between main part 1 and the above-mentioned machine on the street. Drawing 2 is a side view showing the internal configuration of the above-mentioned terminal 10. 21 in a figure is a collection [ of cards ] optical part, and if it is pulled by the direction by operation of the spring which is not illustrated to the card insertion Towards figure Nakaya seal and IC card 22 is manually inserted from card slot 14, card 22 will contact and it will be stuffed into an inside with the above-mentioned card 22. If IC card 22 is inserted to the position where sensor 23 detects insertion of IC card 22 per back from the position information on the above-mentioned collection [ of cards ] optical part 21, and card insertion is detected by this sensor 23, electrode 24 touches the electrode part of IC card 22. At this time, the nail of locking mechanism 25 moves to the upper part, discharge of a card is controlled, and IC card 22 is inserted in main part 11. Inserted IC card 22 is discharged from card slot 14 by lock release Fascination which is not illustrated outside. 26 is a main control part of this terminal 1110. Drawing 3 is a control block diagram of this example. Between terminal nio and IC card 22, it is connected in contact part 31 and data transfer and source supply of ! are performed. Change circuit 32 carries out switching control of transmitting operation of the above-mentioned transceiver antenna 15, or the reception operation. Transmission and reception after amplifying a signal from a machine on the street received with the above-mentioned transceiver antenna 15 via change circuit 32 in amplification circuit 33 and getting over in recovery circuit 34! II m circuit 35 is given. The function in which the above-mentioned transceiver control circuit 35 transmits the signal from a machine on the street to CPU36, It has a function which transmits the signal from CPU36 to transceiver antenna 15, It modulates with modulation circuit 37, and after the signal from CPU36 transmitted from this transceiver control circuit 36 is amplified in amplification circuit 38, it is transmitted to a machine on the street from transceiver antenna 15 via the above-mentioned change circuit 32. The above-mentioned CPU36 controls an exchange of the data of a between [ terminal 10, 22 IC cards and terminal 10, and a machine on the street ], and is terminal ttii from the send data and the machine on the street from terminal iio to a machine on the street. The receiving data through which it passes is memorized by memory 39 temporarily. The ID number information on terminal R10 is stored in the above-mentioned memory 39. 40 is reading and a write-in control circuit, and has the function to take the information from IC card 22 into the above-mentioned CPLI36, and a function which reads the information on terminal one f110 from memory 39, and it sends out to IC card 22 via CPU36. 41 is a battery used as terminal 10 and the drive power supply of IC card 22. IC card 22 is a card currently used as a common banking card or a credit card. It comprises transceiver interface 44 which performs data transmission and reception with CPU42. memory 43 and terminal 10. Next, operation in case the vehicles carrying terminal 110 of this example pass through the toll road where the machine on the street was installed in the entrance is explained while referring to the data flow diagram showing in Drawing 4. A toll road user inserts IC card 22 from IC card loading slot 14, before advancing into a toll road. And if IC card 22 is inserted until card insertion is detected by sensor 23 per back, electrode 24 and the electrode part of IC card 22 will contact, it will be in an energization state electrically, and an exchange of mutual data will be attained. Card discharge is controlled by lock 4 style 25. In this state, a toll road user inputs a password peculiar to a user from key Bud 13. If it does so, this input password information S1 will be given by the operation of CPU36 into ID card 22 via reading and write-in control circuit 40. point-of-contact part 31. And comparison collation is carried out with setting PIN number information 111S2 beforehand set up by the operation of CPU42 in memory 43, If both passwords are in agreement, coincidence signal S3 passes CPU42 to interface 44. point-of-contact part 31, and it is a terminal! It is outputted to reading and write-in control circuit 40 of 11o, and is given to CPLI36 by the operation of control circuit 40. 3 which CPU36 reads ID number information S4 on terminal 10 from memory 39, and will be in the output possible state of this ID number information S4 to on the street [ 1150 ] if it does so Next, if the vehicles concerned go into the tollgate entrance of a toll road, the Agreement signal is transmitted to terminal 10 from on the street [ 11150 ], and it unites in the meantime, and a signal will be received by transceiver antenna 15 and will be given to CPU36 via change circuit 32. amplification circuit 33 and recovery circuit 34. transceiver control circuit 35. If it does so, the above-mentioned CPU36 will output ID number information S4 according to this demand signal, and this ID number information S4 will be transmitted to machine 50 on the street from transceiver antenna 15 via transceiver control circuit 35. modulation circuit 37. amplification circuit 38. change circuit 32. Then, the check of the above-mentioned ID number is performed based on predetermined function information S5 which occurred by the function generating means in machine 50 on the street. The check by this function 85 is performed, using three memories also in CPU36 of terminal 10, and solution S6' of check data, i.e., a function, is in the road from transceiver antenna 15! It is transmitted to fi50. A deer is carried out, in machine 50 on the street, if comparison collation with check data S6 of the inside of a plane on the street and check data S6' within a terminal is performed and it is in agreement, coincidence signal S7 will be given to an entrance tollgate number output means, and, thereby, wireless transfer of entrance tollgate number information $8 will be carried out to terminal 10 from machine 50 on the street. In terminal 10, transceiver antenna 15 receives the above-mentioned entrance tollgate number information S8, and it gives CPU36 via change circuit 32 and amplification circuit 33. recovery circuit 34. transceiver control circuit 35, and memorizes in memory 39 by the operation of above-mentioned CPU36 temporarily. The above is the data flow in a tollgate entrance, and sets to a tollgate exit, If simple is carried out and it explains, the entrance tollgate number information and vehicle type information which are stored in memory 39 of terminal 1110 are transmitted to machine 50 on the street with rD number information, in an oak on the street, a toll will be computed based on each receiving information, and toll information will be transmitted to the center of a business entity to which IC card 22 belongs. A deer is carried out and acceptance processing by a cashless payment is performed. Thus, according to this example, the cashless payment payment of the toll of a toll road becomes possible by inputting the password peculiar to a user set as the card using various cards, such as a banking card or a credit card. Therefore, unless it is known by the password, even if it causes loss or the theft of a terminal, there is no possibility that an illegal use may be carried out. Forming a machine on the street in a tollgate entrance, since artificial operation is not needed, it can achieve full automation of a tollgate and prefecture people-ization of it is attained. Common, since the acceptance of a toll of a toll road user will be attained also once it does not stop at a tollgate, he can pass through a toll road nonstop and can aim at dissolution of traffic congestion. Next, terminal 60 which does not use IC card 22 as other examples of the present invention is explained. Drawing 5 (a) and (b) is the perspective view and side view showing the appearance composition of terminal 60 in other examples, and Drawing 6 is a control block diagram of the above-mentioned terminal 1160. The same numerals are given to the same portion as the above-mentioned example, and detailed explanation is omitted. It only differs in that card slot 14 was removed compared with the above-mentioned example in [ main part 61 of a terminal in this example ] appearance. Read-out and write-in control circuit 40 are removed internally, and it differs in that memory 62 for passwords which newly carries out setting memory of the password peculiar to a user beforehand was provided. That is, a toll road user inputs a password from key Bud 13 before toll road penetration. If it does so, CPU36 of terminal 60 reads the setting password information set up beforehand from memory 62 for passwords, and if comparison collation is performed with the above-mentioned input password information and it is in agreement, it will enable fee acceptance processing by a cashless payment as shown in the above-mentioned example. Even if it has such composition, the same effect as the above-mentioned example can be produced, and also since a card is not used, it can use also in the time of card loss. The present invention is not limited to the two above-mentioned examples. For example, although cards, such as a banking card and a credit card, were illustrated in the 1st above-mentioned example, a user pays the fixed amount of money, a card is purchased, and it may be made to apply to the card which can be used until this amount paid is set to O. Things are also possible so that the card which specified the amount of money and the passing section as IC card 22 may be applied and it may use as a section coupon ticket. in addition, the range which does not Losing clothes the gist of the present invention -- various -- modification -- of course, it is feasible

Effect Co of [invention According to the present invention, as explained in full detail above, it is not necessary to stop at a tollgate and dissolution of traffic congestion can be expected, and full automation of a tollgate is possible, prefecture people-ization can be achieved and also the terminal for fee acceptance of a toll road without a possibility that an illegal use may be carried out can be provided.

[Brief Description of the Drawings]

Drawing 1 (a> (b) thru/or Drawing 4 being figures showing - example of the present invention) In Drawings 2, Drawing 1 (a) and (b) is a perspective view showing appearance composition, a side view, and a side view showing an internal configuration, The distribution diagram in which Drawing 3 shows a control block configuration, the distribution diagram in which Drawing 4 shows data flow, Drawing 5 (a), (b), and Drawing 6 are figures showing other examples of the present invention, and the perspective view, the side view, and Drawing 6 in which 5th [ The ] figure (a) <b shows appearance composition are a distribution diagram showing a control block configuration. 11.61 ... main part of a terminal, 12 ... indicator, 13 ... key Bud, 14 ... card slot, 15 ... transceiver antenna, 21 ... card Proposal part, 22 [ ... A lock R style 26 / ... A main control part, 36.42 / ... CPU, 39.43 / ... A memory, 62 / ... Memory for passwords. ] ... An IC card, 23 ... It is a sensor and 24 per back... An electrode, 25 Applicant sub-agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue (a) (b) Drawing 1 Drawing 2 An animal Pitiful 5 figure