Passenger Seat Access Control Using Ticket Code Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

In the transport sector, passenger seats are often occupied by individuals without tickets or bookings, leading to passenger discomfort and significant costs for staff to verify ticket payments.

Innovation Solution

A seat with integrated identification devices and activation systems that use bar-code, optical, radio frequency, or keypad systems to verify an identification code, enabling or disabling the seat's functions and configuration based on verification, ensuring only authorized users can access and use the seat, connected to a central processor for real-time monitoring of availability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual ticket verification and seat monitoring are performed by staff, then passenger seating compliance can be ensured, but operational costs and staff requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveseat occupation verificationVSAvoidoperational efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The seat system performs automatic identification code verification and occupancy detection without requiring staff intervention. The identification devices and activation devices on each seat independently verify passenger authorization and monitor seat status, eliminating the need for manual ticket checking and seat monitoring by personnel.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical verification processes with automated electronic systems. Identification devices (such as barcode readers or RFID scanners) and activation devices automatically verify passenger authorization codes and control seat accessibility, substituting human staff operations with electronic automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of operation

If all seat functions remain active continuously, then passenger comfort is maintained, but energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepassenger comfortVSAvoidseat energy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The activation devices are enabled or disabled periodically based on detected occupancy status. When a passenger is present (identified by scanning code), the seat functions are activated. When no passenger is present, the functions are deactivated, creating a periodic on/off pattern that reduces energy consumption while maintaining comfort when needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses detection devices to monitor seat occupancy status and provides feedback to the activation devices. This feedback mechanism allows the seat to automatically adjust its functional state based on real-time occupancy information, enabling comfort when occupied and energy savings when unoccupied.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20110278884A1Seat, Operating and Control System of Seats, Method of Operating and Controlling Seats

Publication Date: 2011.11.17 CLERPREM

AI summary

A seat for passengers comprising a seat body and at least one seat portion, wherein the seat comprises identification devices able to receive and verify the correctness of an identification code of the seat and activation devices, operatively connected to the identification devices, so as to be enabled and/or disabled depending on the result of verification of the identification code.