EP 0033234 A3 19810812 - IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO TIME RELATED FEE DETERMINATION SYSTEMS
Title (en)
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO TIME RELATED FEE DETERMINATION SYSTEMS
Publication
Application
Priority
GB 8002633 A 19800125
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP0033234A2] In automatic car parking systems it has been known to provide at entry a ticket which is encoded with the time of entry. This requires encoding at the entrance gates. This invention proposes providing tickets carrying a serial number and not the time. The time is instead held in a store 2 in association with the coded number. At exit the serial number read by a ticket reader 4 and is used to call up the entrance time. The two times are compared by circuits (7-10) to calculate the fee due and this is collected at an appropriate cash unit (5). It is applicable to other time-related services in addition to or instead of car parking. Where several services are combined payment may be effected individually or by a single payment. The same ticket may be used to gain entry to non-time-related services and the fee therefor collected with the time-related fee.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G07B 15/02 (2011.01); G07F 17/24 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G07B 15/02 (2013.01); G07F 17/24 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
- [X] US 3541308 A 19701117 - RUBY GEORGE S
- DE 2019805 A1 19701105 - SCHAERER CHARLES
- US 3816707 A 19740611 - KLEINMEYER V, et al
- [A] FR 2078269 A5 19711105 - RCS REGISTRATORI CASSA
Designated contracting state (EPC)
CH DE FR GB NL SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 81300307 A 19810123