Rotating Conveying Means for Simultaneous Card Reading and Document Joining
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automatic envelope machines face a significant reduction in processing rate when attempting to safely associate documents with magnetic cards or smart cards, as the time required to read data from magnetic stripes or chips significantly slows down the operation.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus with a magazine for supports, multiple reading devices, and a work unit with rotating conveying means that allows simultaneous feeding and recognition of supports without affecting the document feeding speed, using electronic processors and control units to coordinate the operation and ensure efficient data recognition and association with documents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If reading operations are performed on magnetic stripes or chips to ensure safe joining of supports to documents, then security and accuracy of association is improved, but processing rate drops drastically from 7000-8000 per hour to 1300-2400 per hour
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs reading operations on magnetic stripes or chips in advance, before the actual joining operation. The apparatus reads identifying data from supports (magnetic cards, chip cards) beforehand, stores this information, and then uses it to guide the subsequent joining process. This preliminary reading action separates the time-consuming recognition operation from the joining operation, allowing the machine to maintain high processing rates while still ensuring secure association through pre-verified data matching.
2Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If multiple reading devices and rotating conveying means are added to perform recognition operations, then data recognition capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a rotating conveying means that brings different supports (magnetic cards, chip cards, barcode documents) to different reading devices in sequence. A single rotating mechanism serves multiple reading functions by positioning different supports at different angular positions around the rotation axis. This multi-functional approach allows the apparatus to handle various card types and reading operations without requiring separate dedicated mechanisms for each function, thereby managing device complexity while maintaining comprehensive data recognition capability.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus (100) recognizes user identifying data, stored in a support, for joining the support to a document containing personal information. A plurality of reading devices (12) read and recognize the data stored in each support (11). A work unit (L) has a work surface (1) on which the reading devices (12) are placed, the work surface (13) rotated to convey angularly the reading devices (12), so that each of them is placed subsequently in a position corresponding to a first section (S1) and to a second section (S2) of the work unit (L). First conveying means (T1) convey the supports (11) to a respective reading device (12). Second conveying means (T2) then convey the supports (11) from the reading device (12) to a section (20) of a feeding line (A), so as to join the support (11) to corresponding documents (D), fed to the section (20).