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US 4,984,156 AGranted
Automatic checkin apparatus
AssigneeOmron Tateisi Electronics Co.
InventorYoshikazu Mekata
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Abstract
In an automatic checkin apparatus, an air ticket is received by an air ticket reading section; a data indicative of the number of baggages is inputted via key board; and a boarding card and baggage tags are automatically issued by a boarding card printer, a boarding card magnetic recorder and a tag printer. This apparatus can save labor necessitated for boarding procedure, improve checkin efficiency and prevent erroneous checkin due to clerk intervention.
Claims4
A method of automatically checking-in passengers which comprise the steps of:
- (a) reading data recorded on an air ticket;
- (b) checking whether the read air ticket is valid;
- (c) if the air ticket is valid, checking whether the air ticket is a reserved ticket;
- (d) if the air ticket is a reserved ticket, inquiring of a host computer if boarding is accepted;
- (e) if boarding is accepted, entering seat requirements;
- (f) inquiring of the host computer about the entered seat requirements to secure a seat under the entered seat requirements;
- (g) if a seat is secured, printing and recording at least one item of flight data on a boarding card;
- (h) reading data entered at a baggage number input means indicative of the number of bags to be checked;
- (i) if the number of bags to be checked is not zero, printing a number of tags corresponding in number to the entered data indicative of the number of bags to be checked;
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- (j) issuing a boarding ticket and said printed tags and stocking the air ticket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.