Cubic Corporation

Cubic Automatic Revenue Collection Group

Graham H Hilton

Paula Miller

Richard A Pearson

Thomas Busch-Sorensen

Chad S Sanfilippo

Mark Varney

Kevin Bryant

Gavin Ford

Matthew J Newsome

Jesse Shackleford

Walter C Bonneau, Jr

Alan Manley

Stephen W Sansom

Gregory E Miller

Peter L Pham

Michael McWhirr

Christopher Palmer

Katarzyna Lombardi

Neal Blodgett

Thomas Bush-Sorensen

A Universal Ticket Transport (UTT)may be configured to read from and write to many types of magnetically encoded ticketscurrently used in fare collection systems. The UTTincludes a mechanical insertion interface and automated movement along a transport pathfor ticketsof varying thicknesses that are presented at a range of different anglesinto and exiting from the UTT. The UTTincludes a mechanical assemblywhich may be rotated, and the beltsand rollersreconfigured, to accommodate ticketshaving top-face or bottom face magnetic stripes. The belt subassemblies A, C and the magnetic head subassembly B are configurable across a width W of the UTTto process ticketshaving magnetic stripes which are offset from a center line. The UTTincludes a control processorhaving analog to digital interfacesand control logicfor operating the transport mechanismslocally and communicating data through a serial interfaceto a host system

Universal ticket transport

An add value terminal provides an automatic fare collection environment with a compact, easy to use, and easy to install device that re-values and issues transit fare smart cards exclusively utilizing credit and debit functions. The add value terminal alleviates long lines often associated with automatic vending machines that allow bill and coin transactions. The add value terminal also can be configured to sell tickets in out-of-station environments including malls, grocery stores, post offices, and airports.

System for rapidly dispensing and adding value to fare cards

A Universal Ticket Transport (UTT) may be configured to read from and write to many types of magnetically encoded tickets currently used in fare collection systems. The UTT includes a mechanical insertion interface and automated movement along a transport path for tickets of varying thicknesses that are presented at a range of different angles into and exiting from the UTT The UTT includes a mechanical assembly which may be rotated, and the belts and rollers reconfigured, to accommodate tickets having top-face or bottom face magnetic stripes. The belt subassemblies A, C and the magnetic head subassembly B are configurable across a width W of the UTT to process tickets having magnetic stripes which are offset from a center line The UTT includes a control processor having analog to digital interfaces and control logic for operating the transport mechanisms locally and communicating data through a serial interface to a host system

A ticket transport machine accepts fare media cards of various types and dimensions through an input bezel. The card is then fed through entry rollers where it is transported onto a rotating transport carrier and passed under a reader/writer antenna. The reader/writer antenna reads information encoded onto the card and based upon this information, the machine determines if the card can be re-circulated for later use. The card is then deposited into a storage stacker magazine where it can be retrieved at a later date for reissue to another user.

Dual magazine recirculating transport

An add value terminal provides an automatic fare collection environment with a compact, easy to use, and easy to install device that re-values and issues transit fare cards exclusively utilizing credit and debit functions. The add value terminal alleviates long lines often associated with automatic vending machines that allow bill and coin transactions. The add value terminal also can sell tickets in out-of-station environments including malls, grocery stores, post offices, and airports.

An apparatus automatically analyzes and culls-out defective contactless smart cards. Analysis of smart cards may include RF ranging for both near and far ranges, card type decoding for sorting or encoding using a multi-protocol reader, full memory reading and writing, concave and convex card flexing, optical graphics verification of both sides of card, reading and verifying printed serial numbers, and matching encoded serial numbers with printed serial number. The apparatus also provides high speed encoding and initializing of contactless smart cards. Contactless cards moved through machine serially without belts and rollers. The testing and encoding sequence includes bending and flexing the smart cards followed by RF testing. Self-positioning capability provides accurate card positioning over RF antennas.

Contactless smart card high production encoding machine

A device for communicating data with a contactless smart card in which a user initiates such communication by at least partially inserting the smart card through an entrance to a cavity of the device. The electromagnetic field produced by the device is largely confined to the cavity and largely oriented in a vertical direction. This structure prevents unintended communication with a smart card carried in a person's shirt pocket and minimizes potential health risks from exposure to the field. It also discourages users from moving the card too quickly into and out of the field for a transaction to complete.

Contactless card automatic check-in check-out device

A continuous strip of ticket stock from which individual tickets can be separated includes an elongated strip of a ticket stock material and, at each preselected ticket-separation location, a collinear transversely extending perforation, bursting slot, and slit at each end of the bursting slot. A ticket dispenser for dispensing individual tickets from such a strip of stock includes a drive mechanism that drives the strip of ticket stock in both a forward direction and a reverse direction through a bursting station. The bursting station includes a burst barb, and a guide that permits the strip of ticket stock to move past the burst barb when the strip of ticket stock is driven in the forward direction, and to engage the burst barb to the bursting slot when the strip of ticket stock is driven in the reverse direction. The burst barb propagates a separation from the bursting slot outwardly through the perforation to separate the individual ticket cleanly from the strip.

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Graham H Hilton