Patent ID: 6834267
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
A toll-paying device for use in a vehicle passing through a lane having a tollhouse in a toll collection system, the device comprising:means for permitting a driver an insertion of an IC (integrated circuit) card, which at least stores a card ID to use said IC card; means for permitting said driver to enter a code associated with said IC card; means, responsive to said code, for keeping an indication of the validity of said IC card during a period of use of said IC card only if said IC card is valid; means responsive, only during said indication, to a detection of said tollhouse for executing a toll paying process; means for detecting by using a car traveling status sensor a traveling status of said vehicle to indicate an immobile or running state; and means operative during said running state for prohibiting said driver from entering said code and disabling said means for permitting said driver to enter a code.