| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enhance the workability in the production and distribution business of an apparatus to be controlled, by mounting a clocking device to the apparatus to be controlled to perform the timewise operational control of the apparatus to be controlled on the basis of the clocking function of the clocking device. CONSTITUTION:When the clocking device T of an IC card equipped with a clock is inserted in the card insert port 3a formed, for example, to a copier X being an apparatus to be controlled, the clocking signal from the clock in the card is outputted to the apparatus X from an interface terminal 4 in such a state that the card is mounted and held to a card holding part 3. The timewise operational control of the apparatus X can be performed corresponding to the comparing result of the set time due to the ten key provided to the apparatus X and the clocking signal. Therefore, it is unnecessary to mount a time-piece for controlling the apparatus X timewise in the apparatus X. Even in the case of the delivery to a region different in standard time, the initial setting of the time in the manufacturing process of the apparatus X becomes unnecessary and distribution can be performed in the perfectly same measure, and production and distribution businesses can be performed with good workability. |
