Patent ID: 9563189
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06K

Claim:
1. A card issuing apparatus for creating a processed card and issuing the processed card to a card user, the card issuing apparatus comprising: a plurality of processing units comprising at least a first processing unit configured to form at least one of a character string and a symbol on a surface of a card to be processed, and a second processing unit configured to record information on a recording medium comprised in the card to be processed; an accommodation unit configured to accommodate the card to be processed; a lifting unit configured to receive the card to be processed from the accommodation unit and to convey the received card to be processed in an up-down direction to deliver the card to be processed to each of the plurality of processing units; and a control unit configured to control the lifting unit, wherein each of the plurality of processing units comprises a plurality of constituent components integrated into a unit, is arranged in the up-down direction to be detachably fixed to a card issuing apparatus body, and delivers the card to be processed to the lifting unit after executing respective processing on the card to be processed which is received from the lifting unit, the lifting unit is located outside of the accommodation unit, is provided between the accommodation unit and the plurality of processing units, conveys the card to be processed one-by-one in the up-down direction when the card to be processed is dispensed from the accommodation unit, delivers the card to be processed to one of the plurality of processing units, receives the card to be processed from the one of the plurality of processing units after the one of the plurality of processing units executes processing, and conveys the card to be processed in the up-down direction in order to deliver the card to be processed received from the one of the plurality of processing units to another processing unit, the card issuing apparatus body comprises an equal or more number of storage units to a number of the plurality of processing units, which are arranged in the up-down direction, each storage unit storing only one processing unit inside thereof, and the control unit recognizes which processing unit of the plurality of processing units is stored in each storage unit and controls the lifting unit based on correspondence between the storage unit and the processing unit so that the card to be processed is conveyed in the up-down direction to a position of the storage unit in which the processing unit that receives the card to be processed is stored.