EP0983567A1 - Card package production system - Google Patents
Card package production systemInfo
- Publication number
- EP0983567A1 EP0983567A1 EP98923533A EP98923533A EP0983567A1 EP 0983567 A1 EP0983567 A1 EP 0983567A1 EP 98923533 A EP98923533 A EP 98923533A EP 98923533 A EP98923533 A EP 98923533A EP 0983567 A1 EP0983567 A1 EP 0983567A1
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- Prior art keywords
- card
- production system
- cards
- track
- package production
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
- G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
- G06K13/08—Feeding or discharging cards
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- This invention generally relates to card insertion systems and methods.
- the ob ect is also achieved by having the elongate track providing underlying support of the planer cards with the plane of the cards m a substantially horizontal position and providing a plurality pusher members for pushing the cards along the card track to said succession of reading stations, respectively.
- the object is also achieved by providing a plurality of readers that read card information at different locations on the cards are different types of readers which read different types of information, providing a lateral reject station located along the track after the succession of reading stations with means for laterally removing rejected cards from the elongate track which have been improperly coded, and providing a pocket station located along the track after the succession of reading stations, said pocket station including means for laterally removing a card from the track to a pocket position for attachment to a carrier form.
- a computer chip reading assembly including a chip reader with a plurality of contacts for making electrical contact with corresponding terminals of a computer chip carried by the card, mounting the plurality of contacts for lateral movement toward and away from the terminal, and laterally moving said contacts into engagement with the corresponding terminals after the card has been moved to the reading station of the chip reader.
- the object is also achieved by providing a control system for the simultaneous sliding including a sensor at each of said plurality of reading stations to detect when a card is present at the reading station.
- the object is further achieved by providing a card feeder assembly for feeding cards into the elongate track having a pair of card hoppers for respectively storing two stacks of cards to be read, and providing a pair of picker mechanisms respectively associated with the pair of card hoppers for picking the bottom card of each stack to remove it from the stack, and a bidirectional motor linked to both of the pair of picker mechanisms to selectively drive the picker mechanism in opposite directions to alternatively drive the pair of picker mechanisms to remove the cards from the associated pair of hoppers .
- the object is also achieved by providing a method of reading the card information, comprising the steps of simultaneously sliding a plurality of cards along the track in seriatim relationship through a succession of reading stations and simultaneously reading the card information at the different locations on the card with different readers at the succession of reading stations, providing underlying support of the cards with the plane of the cards in a substantially horizontal position, and pushing the cards along the card track to said succession of reading stations, respectively.
- the object is also achieved by providing a method of reading card information at different locations including, different types of readers which read different types of information, laterally rejecting cards from the elongate track which have been improperly coded, and laterally removing a card from the track which has been properly encoded to a pocket position for attachment to a carrier form.
- the object is further achieved by providing a method including the steps of reading a computer chip carried by the card with a computer chip reading assembly having a chip reader with a plurality of contacts for making electrical contact with corresponding terminals of the computer chip carried by the card, mounting said plurality of contacts for lateral movement toward and away from the terminal, and sliding means for laterally moving said contacts into engagement with the corresponding terminals after the card has been moved to the reading station of the chip reader.
- the object is also achieved by providing a method for controlling the simultaneous sliding having a sensor at each of said plurality of reading stations to detect when a card is present at the reading station. Moreover the object is achieved by providing a method of feeding cards into the elongate track having including the steps of storing two stacks of cards to be read within a pair of card hoppers respectively, picking the bottom card of each stack to remove t from the stack with a pair of picker mechanisms respectively associated with the pair of card hoppers, selectively driving the picker mechanism m opposite directions with a bidirectional motor to alternatively drive the pair of picker mechanisms to remove the cards from the associated pair of hoppers.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the card package production system of the present invention in a configuration that employs an in-line printer to provide carriers to the inserter;
- Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the front of a prior art smart card of the type which is inserted into matching carriers by the card package production system of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 3 is a functional block diagram of the insertion card package production system of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 4 is a schematic illustration of the various stations of the card track of the card package production system of claim 1 for transporting and reading the data from the card of Fig. 2 at the various data locations;
- Fig. 5 is a schematic plan view of a portion of the card package production system of Fig. 1 with the cover and cabinet removed to show the card hopper, card picker mechanism, card track inserter, carrier folder and card package outlet in greater detail;
- Fig. 6 is a simplified side elevational view of the card hopper and card picker mechanism of Fig. 5;
- Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the card hopper and associated card picker mechanism of Fig. 6;
- Fig. 8 is a sectional side view of the card hopper and card picker mechanism taken along section line 8-8 of Fig. 7;
- Fig. 9 is an enlarged portion of Fig. 8 to more clearly illustrate the movement of the picker finger into engagement
- Fig. 10 is a sectional view of the card picker mechanism taken along section line 10-10 of Fig. 7;
- Fig. 11 is a side view of the pulley drive portion of the picker mechanism of Fig. 7;
- Fig. 12 is a schematic illustration of the single motor drive mechanism when a card is being picked from the first stack of the hopper viewed from the right;
- Fig. 13 is a schematic illustration of the single motor picker drive mechanism when it is functioning to pick a card from the left stack of the card hopper;
- Fig. 14 is a perspective view of the card picker mechanism of Fig. 7 in conjunction with a portion of a preferred embodiment of the card track;
- Fig. 15 is a side view of the entire card track of Fig. 14 when the first carriage is disengaged from the second carriage;
- Fig. 16 is another side view of the card track similar to that of Fig. 15 but m which the first carriage is m engagement with and has moved the second carriage;
- Fig. 17 is a plan view of the card track of Fig. 15;
- Fig. 18 is a side view of a section of the card track taken along section line 18-18 of Fig. 17;
- Fig. 19 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the card track including the IC chip reader and pusher fingers;
- Figs. 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D are side view schematic illustrations of a portion of the card track associated with the movement illustrating the sequence of steps for moving the IC chip reader into and out of reading engagement with the cards;
- Fig. 21 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the card track illustrating the removal mechanisms for removing cards from the card track at the reject station and the card insertion stations illustrated in Fig. 4;
- Fig. 22 is another perspective view of a portion of the card support mechanism of Fig. 21;
- Fig. 23 is a sectional end view of the card support mechanism of Figs. 21 and 23 showing the card being supported by the support mechanism;
- Fig. 24 is a sectional side view similar to that of Fig. 23 but in which the card support mechanism has been moved to a nonsupport position.
- the card package production system 30 of the present invention is seen to include an inserter module 32 which is fed single sheet carriers from a carrier printer 34.
- the carrier printer 34 is fed blank individual carrier forms by a burster 36 which receives continuous, fan- folded blank carrier forms 38 from a supply of carrier forms 40 and separates them into individual single sheet carrier forms which are fed to a carrier form inlet of the printer 34.
- a computer (not shown) with a CRT display 42 which communicates with the printer 34 to provide it with control signals and the data required by the printer to be printed on the individual carrier forms before being passed to the inserter module 32.
- the inserter module 32 includes, protectively enclosed in an upper cabinet 44, a card hopper 46 containing a plurality of cards 48, Fig. 2, to be inserted into, or attached to, the individual carrier forms 38.
- the card hopper 46 is part of a card picker mechanism 50 which functions to selectively place individual ones of the cards 48 onto a card track 52 of a card multireader 54.
- the card 48 has a plurality of locations at which is place encoded account data.
- This data is machine readable data found at a mag stripe 56, embossed characters 58, a bar code location 60 on the front of the card, a bar code location 62 on the back of the card and encoded within an IC chip 64 embedded in the card 48 and accessible for communication with a reader by means of IC chip contacts 66 .
- the multireader 54 functions to read data at all the different locations on the card described above with reference to Fig.
- the account data memory 68 is connected with a controller 70, or computer, preferably a Pentium computer, via a communication line 72. Received information read from the various data locations on the card
- the verification controller 70 is also interconnected with an inserter folder 78 via a line 79 section of the card package production system 30, and also receives account data read from the carriers 38 from a carrier form reader 80 via a line 82. If there is a match between the account data read at the various locations on the card as described above with reference to Fig.
- the controller 70 controls the inserter folder 78 to insert the card 48 into a carrier 38 to form a card package which is provided to a card package outlet 84 also seen in Fig. 1.
- the carrier forms 38 are capable of holding two different credit cards in side by side relationship, and accordingly the card track 52 includes a first card entry station 86 and a second entry station 88 for receiving cards to be inserted into the first and second card pocket locations on the carrier form 48.
- the card picker mechanism 50 selectively drops cards one at a time onto the card track 52 at the first card entry station 86, the second card entry station 88 or both card entry stations 86 and 88. After the cards 48 are dropped onto the card track
- both the encoded data encoded on the mag stripe 56 is read by a magnetic stripe reader 94, and the embossed characters 58 are read by an embossed character reader 96 as the card 48 moves through the first read station 92.
- the information read by the magnetic stripe reader 94 and by the embossed character reader 96 is fed to the controller 70. If it is determined that there is a match between the information read and the corresponding account data stored m the account data memory 68, then corresponding carrier data stored in the account data memory
- the card 48 is moved to a smart card reader station
- a bad card reject mechanism is provided to reject and remove any cards from the card track 52 which have been incorrectly prepared as indicated by the failure of the read data at any one data location to match the data read from other locations, to match the corresponding account data stored m the account data memory 68, or both. If the card is not rejected, it is next moved m the direction of arrow 90 to the first card insertion station 112.
- the carrier 38 If the information read from the carrier 38 matches the card, the data stored in memory 68 or both and there is only one card to be inserted, then the one card is inserted into the carrier at the first card insertion station 112. If, on the other hand, two cards are to be inserted, if the two cards correspond to the carrier information, then the first card is moved to a first card station 112 and the second card to be inserted is moved to the second card insertion station 110.
- both cards are then simultaneously inserted into a matching carrier presuming there is a match.
- the information read from the carrier 38 does not match or correspond to the corresponding data stored m the account data memory 68 or does not match the account data read from the various data locations on the card 48 or cards 48 which are to be inserted into the carrier, the cards are not inserted into the carrier at the first and second card insertion stations 112 and 110. Instead, the cards are allowed to continue down the card track 52 in the direction of arrow 90 to a mismatched carrier card reject station 114 from where the card 48 is rejected off of the end of the card track 52. Likewise, the mismatched carrier is rejected by suitable rejection mechanism (not shown) associated with the inserter folder 78, Fig. 3.
- the first and second cards 48 are stored or stacked m two separate card stack mechanisms 116 and 118 and are placed onto the track 52 laterally with respect to the direction of movement of the cards 48 on the track 52 as indicated by arrow 90, Fig. 4.
- the cards 48 then move down the track, as described above with reference to Fig. 3, to the first and second card insertion stations 110 and 112.
- the cards are then inserted into the carriers by the inserter folder 78 and the folded carriers with the cards inserted, or card packages, are turned at a turning station 120 as indicated by arrow 122 and are then transported out the card package outlet 84 in the direction of arrow 124. Rejected cards fall into a card reject bin 113.
- the card hopper 46 is seen to be elevated above the card track at the first card entry station 86 and the second card entry station 88.
- the cards 48 are contained in the hopper 46 in a stack 48'.
- the bottom card 48 m each stack
- the picker mechanism is driven by a reversible electrical motor 132.
- the picker mechanism is seen to include a pair of picker arm assemblies 134 and 136 which are restrained to ride along guide bars 138 and 140, respectively. In keeping with an important advantage of the invention, both picker arms 134 and 136 are driven for movement along their respective guide rods 138 and 140 alternatively and selectively through use of the single reversible drive motor 132.
- the drive motor 132 has its shaft linked via a pulley and pulley belt linkage which includes a drive pulley 142 driven directly by the drive shaft of reversible electrical motor 132 and a pulley belt 144 with a pair of opposed ends each connected to the picker arm 134 by a belt connector, such as the picker arm belt connector 146 shown in Fig. 7 interconnecting the end of pulley belt 144 to the picker arm assembly 134.
- a picker finger 152 engages the edge of the bottom card 48 in the stack
- FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view of the picker mechanism 52 taken along section line 8-8 of
- the card block, or stack pusher, 130 which is used to press down on the stack of cards 48' to insure that the card at the bottom of the stack is in the correct picker position respectively include a constant tension bias spring 160 and
- the finger 152 has an edge 152' which is substantially the same depth as the thickness of the card 48.
- Fig. 10 is a sectional view taken through section line 10-10 of Fig. 7, it is seen that the drive motor 132 and its shaft is offset from the center of the drive pulley 142 and that the pulley belt 144 has an intermediate portion between the end fixed to the picker arm assembly and the drive pulley wheel 142 which is wrapped around an idler pulley wheel 170, an opposed portion of the pulley belt 144, on the other hand, attached to the other picker arm 136 at one end is wrapped around another idler pulley 172 before wrapping around the drive pulley 142.
- Fig. 11 is an enlarged sectional side view of the pull drive mechanism
- the drive pulley 142 carries a flag member 174 which is located at a center position when the picker mechanism is m a central neutral position such as shown m Fig. 10.
- This flag 174 is detected by a sensor (not shown) to determine when the picker mechanism is in its neutral or central position.
- Tension is created in the portion of the pulley member between the drive pulley 142 and the idler pulley 172 while slack is created m the portion of the pulley belt 144 extending between the drive pulley 142 and the idler pulley 170 and between the idler pulley 170 and the left hand picker arm assembly 134, as illustrated in Fig. 12.
- the pulley wheels have serrations or other surface features enhancing frictional engagement between the pulley wheel and the pulley belt which cooperate with pulley teeth on the pulley belt 144.
- the left idler pulley 170 rotates in a counter clockwise direction to lower the left hand picker assembly 134 as the portion of the pulley belt 144 between the drive pulley 142 and the idler pulley 170 is pulled taut.
- the portion of the pulley belt extending between the drive pulley 142 and the idler pulley 172 and between the idler pulley 172 and the end of the pulley belt attached to the picker arm assembly 136 becomes slack.
- a bias spring 178 biases the picker arm assembly 134 to move upwardly away from the idler wheel 170 when not being pulled downward by the rotation of the drive pulley 142 in the direction 178 shown in Fig. 13.
- a bias spring 180 spring biases the picker arm 136 to move upwardly away from idler wheel 172 when not being pulled downward due to rotation of the drive pulley 142 m the direction of arrow 176 as shown in Fig. 12.
- an in-line card embosser places the cards on the track 52 at station 114.
- the card track portion comprises a flat shelf along which the cards shelf 180 along which the cards 48 are slid in a direction indicated by arrow 90.
- the cards are moved along the track 52 by means of a carriage assembly.
- the carriage assembly includes a first carriage 182 with at least one pusher 184 for pushing the cards 48 from the first card entry station 86 and the second card entry station 88 located beneath finger mechanism 52 to the first reading station 92,
- the first carriage 182 is driven to move in the direction of arrow 90 by means of an electrical motor 186 which drives a drive pulley 188 to move m the direction to rotate m a counter clockwise direction.
- the drive pulley wheel 188 is connected to an idler pulley wheel 190 by way of a pulley belt 192 and the pusher member
- the carriage 182 rides along a pair of guide bars 196 and 198 which extend above and parallel with the portion 180 of the card track.
- the first carriage 182 is caused to move to a central home position before cards are dropped from either the stacks of the picker mechanism 50. In the case of a card being dropped from the right hand stack associated with card block
- the pusher 184 remains m the central home position until after the card falls down onto the portion 180 of the track.
- the pusher member 184 is caused to move to the right m a direction opposite arrow 90 along with carriage 182 to move out of the path of the dropping card.
- the second carriage 200 is also mounted for slideable movement on the guide rods 196 and
- a constant tension coil spring 206 spring biases the second carriage 200 to move to the right 182 due to the spring bias until another stop member described below is engaged.
- the second carriage 200 is seen to carry at spaced locations pusher arms 208, 210, 212 and 214 to enable four different cards 48 to be pushed by the first carriage 200 along the card track in spaced relationship, simultaneously.
- Each of the pusher arms is pivotally mounted to a pivot axis that is transverse to the elongate direction of the card track, such as pivot axis 216 of pusher member
- 104 is a reject mechanism that will be described in detail below which is operated by means of a solenoid 218 to enable lateral removal of a rejected card from the card track.
- a stop member 224 mounted on the lower guide rod 196 which engages another end portion
- Fig. 16 is another side elevational view of the card track 52, the first carriage 182 has been driven to move to the left in the direction of arrow
- pusher member 214 is at station 114; pusher member 212 is at the first card insertion station 112; pusher member 210 is at the second card insertion station 110; and pusher member 208.
- Pusher member 208 is located at the bar code reader/bad card reject station 104.
- the cards are dropped off the track into position to be attached to the carrier form by the inserter folder 78 as shown in Fig. 5.
- the pusher member 184 of the first carriage 182 is therefore located at the smart card reader station 100.
- the card track 52 at the card insertion stations 112 and 110 and at the bad card reject station is defined by a pair of rails 226 and 228.
- the track 228 is defined by the top edges 230, 232 and 234 of pivotally mounted card support members 236, 238 and 240, respectively.
- Each of the card support members 236, 238 and 240 is mounted for pivotal movement about 242 of card support member 236 as best seen m
- an arm 244 of solenoid 222 which is attached to the card support member 236 when energized moves the arm 244 and the edge 230 of support member 236 in a direction opposite to directional arrows 246. This removes the underlying support from the edge of the card 248 being supported thereby which causes the card to pivotally drop off of the tracks 228 and 226 downwardly m the direction of arrow 248, Fig. 18.
- the mismatch carrier card reject station 114 none of the solenoids associated with the card support members 244, 238 and 240 are actuated and the card is allowed to continue to be pushed off of the track at the end 250 by pusher member 214.
- Each of the stations 114, 112 and 104 have reflective photosensors 252 for securing the presence of cards and at the rejection station 104 are located two bar code readers.
- the IC chip reader 102 as seen m Fig. 17 is illustrated in greater detail m Fig. 19 and the series of drawings Figs. 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D.
- the IC chip reader 102 is carried by a reader holder 260 mounted for pivotal movement about a pivot axis 262.
- a bias spring 264 spring biases the IC reader mounting member 260 to pivot in a direction opposite to that indicated by arrow 266 to a relatively elevated position in which the card 48 is enabled to pass beneath the IC chip reader 102 without engagement.
- the mounting member 260 has a ramp 268 upon which rides a roller 270 rotatably mounted to the same pivot axis 272 as the pusher finger 210.
- the roller 272 rolls up the ramp 268 and presses the IC chip reader mounting member 260 downwardly m the direction of arrow 266 which causes the IC chip reader to engage the contacts 66 after the movement of the card 48 has stopped.
- the IC chip is then read and the next card 48 at the previous station 92 is moved into a position beneath the IC chip reader 102.
- a next successive card is being moved toward the IC chip or smart card reader station 100.
- the carriage 200 is moved further to the right in the direction of arrow 90 and moved down the ramp to enable the IC chip reader mounting member 260 to pivot upwardly to a position in which the card 48 is enabled to pass beneath the IC chip reader 106 carried by the mounting member 260.
- the pusher 208 then commences pushing the card 48 from beneath the IC chip reader mounting member 260 and toward the next station 104.
- the solenoid arm such as solenoid arm 244 passes through an opening 262 m a support wall 264 and the support member 236 is mounted for pivotal movement about a pivot axis passing through a pivot axle bearing hole 264, Fig.
- Fig. 24 In that event, the card falls off of the card track, pivoting downwardly about support edge 226, while the supported edge of the card 268 is restrained in its downward movement by a lower segment 270 of the support member 236.
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