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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2002
Graham H. Hilton, San Diego, CA (US);
Paula Miller, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Busch-Sorensen, San Diego, CA (US);
Richard A. Pearson, San Diego, CA (US);
Cubic Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
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