Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Commodity-vending system and weight-scale apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 商品售货系统和重量秤
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Application No.: US12028162Application Date: 2008-02-08
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Publication No.: US07971787B2Publication Date: 2011-07-05
- Inventor: Kazuharu Teraoka , Lim Kok Hooi
- Applicant: Kazuharu Teraoka , Lim Kok Hooi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Teraoka Seiko Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Teraoka Seiko Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: K&L Gates LLP
- Priority: JP2007-030679 20070209
- Main IPC: G06K15/00
- IPC: G06K15/00

Abstract:
When a customer picks up a commodity at a store aisles and operates a tag device, a PLU code of the commodity is transmitted from the tag device to a weight-scale apparatus. The terminal device is provided corresponding to each commodity. The weight-scale apparatus upon receiving the PLU code increments a counter value (prepared per commodity) in only one step, and displays a commodity icon corresponding to the PLU code on a liquid-crystal touch panel. The counter value increments every time the PLU code is received. The weight-scale apparatus subsequent to weighing issues a label and decrement only a step of the counter value. The icon corresponding to the counter value continues to be displayed unless the counter value does not indicate “0 (zero)”. The icon is erased when the counter value indicates “0 (zero)”. This results in providing superior operations in weighing and selecting various types of commodities, displayed at the store aisles, that are objects to be weighed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090072028A1 COMMODITY-VENDING SYSTEM AND WEIGHT-SCALE APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-03-19
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