JP2996292B2 - Electronic cash register - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic register which outputs both a receipt and a journal using a common printer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in addition to outputting a receipt issued at the time of sales, a register plays a role of outputting a journal displaying sales data registered at the time of sales in the order of registration. Each time the receipt is printed according to sales, it is cut off as a short piece and handed to the customer, whereas the journal is printed continuously without being cut off during business hours and rolled up after business hours. And stored as a sales record.

Incidentally, a conventional register generally has both a printer dedicated to receipt printing and a printer dedicated to journal printing. In this type of register, the printing of the receipt and the printing of the journal are performed simultaneously with each sales, and only the receipt is cut out of the printing.

[0004] However, such a register equipped with a plurality of printers has disadvantages in that the register body becomes large and the cost increases. Further, since the two printers operate at the same time, there is a possibility that loud noise is generated and the customer may feel uncomfortable.

In order to solve the above-mentioned inconvenience, Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 60-30000 discloses an electronic register in which only a single printer is mounted and both the receipt and the journal are printed by this printer. Have been. The electronic register has a plurality of modes including a registration mode, and includes a mode switch for selecting an appropriate mode from these modes. During the business hours, for example, by selecting the registration mode, the sales data is registered, and at the same time, a receipt corresponding to the sales data is printed by the printer. By selecting a predetermined mode other than the registration mode (inspection mode in the rear) and operating a specific journal key in this mode, journals based on sales data registered during the business hours are continuously printed. It has become.

That is, in this register, only the receipt is printed at the time of registering the sales data, and the journal is printed collectively after the registration of the sales data, thereby realizing the unification of the printer.

[0007]

In the above register, in order to print a journal on the printer after the end of sales registration, first, a mode switch is operated to switch the processing mode from the previous registration mode to another mode. Further, a two-step operation of operating the journal key is required. Printing this journal is a task that must be performed every day in principle for settlement, and repeating this two-step operation each time for this task is very cumbersome and inconvenient for the user. .

As a means for avoiding such complicated operations, it is conceivable to start journal printing immediately (ie, without waiting for operation of other keys) at the time of switching from the above-mentioned registration mode to another specific mode. However, in this case, for example, if the mode switching operation is performed erroneously during business hours, journal printing is started against the user's will, and there is a problem that the receipt cannot be printed or issued until the end. Moreover, the journal has much more contents than the receipt, and once the printing is started, it takes a considerable amount of time until the printing is completed. Therefore, the loss that the printer cannot print the receipt during that time is extremely large.

Further, since the journal is stored as a business record for the day, it is preferable that the journal for one day be stored in a state of being continuously printed on a single piece of paper. If journal printing is performed in the middle of the time, the journal must be separated from the roll paper at the time of receipt issuance after this journal printing, and the separated journal and the journal printed after the receipt is issued The inconvenience of being divided before and after also occurs.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic register capable of printing both receipts and journals with a common printer without trouble and without troublesome operations. I do.

[0011]

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a common printer for receiving a receipt issued at the time of sale and a journal displaying sales data registered at the time of sale in the order of registration. An electronic register configured to output the sales data; a sales data input unit for inputting the sales data; a journal data storage unit for storing journal data corresponding to the contents of the journal; and at least a registration mode and a settlement mode Mode selection means for selecting an appropriate mode from among a plurality of processing modes, including: the sales data input by the sales data input means in the registration mode in the journal data storage means; Output the receipt based on the above to the printer Recording mode control means, time measuring means for measuring time, and when the time measured by the time measuring means at the time when the settlement mode is selected is outside the preset journal output allowable time, the printer If output of journal data is prohibited, and the time measured by the timing means is within the permissible journal output time when the settlement mode is selected, another
A settlement mode control means for causing the printer to immediately start outputting journal data without waiting for an operation .

According to this configuration, for example, by setting the time after the end of business as the journal output allowable time, the following suitable use can be performed.

First, during the business hours, by switching the processing mode to the registration mode, sales data can be input, and at the same time, a receipt corresponding to the sales data can be output to the printer. Data can be registered in the journal data registration means. Even if the processing mode is erroneously switched from the registration mode to the settlement mode during the business hours (that is, outside the journal output allowable time), the journal output by the printer is not performed, and the receipt is issued by the interruption of the journal output. Is prevented from being disabled.

On the other hand, if the current time is within the journal output allowable time after the business is over, the processing mode is switched from the registration mode to the settlement mode, and no other operation is required. Can be immediately output to the printer.

The data for settlement is not limited to the above-mentioned journal data. For example, data for each department in which sales are totaled for each department, and data for each department which is totaled for each person in charge may be added. In other words, the system further comprises adjustment data storage means for storing adjustment data in which the sales data is arranged in a format different from that of the journal, and the sales data input by the sales data input means in the registration mode is used as the adjustment data as the adjustment data. The registration mode control means may be configured to register in the storage means. However, in this case as well, the journal data should always be output at the time of settlement, while the other settlement data may be arbitrarily output according to circumstances.
If the time measured by the timing means at the time when the settlement mode is selected is within the permissible journal output time, first, the printer starts outputting the journal data, and then the settlement data can be output. It is more reasonable to configure the settlement mode control means as follows.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The electronic register 10 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3
The printer 14 includes a display unit 12, a single printer 14, a drawer (safe) 16, a control device 18, and an operation unit 20, and a roll paper P for printing is set on the printer 14.

As shown in FIG. 4, the operation unit 20 includes:
Numeric keys 22, other input operation keys 24, and a mode switch (mode selection means) 2 constituting a key insertion unit
6 is provided. At the "OFF" position of the mode switch 26, a registration key and a setting key and an adjustment key managed by the administrator can be inserted. When the registration key is inserted, the key after the insertion is inserted. While the registration mode can be selected by the rotation operation, when the settlement key is inserted, three modes of the registration mode, the inspection mode, and the settlement mode can be selected by the rotation operation of the key, When the setting key is inserted, the setting mode can be selected by rotating the key.

The control unit 18 comprises a microcomputer, and includes a CPU 30 and a RAM 4 as shown in FIG.
0, and a printer driver 50. CP
U30 displays the display unit 1 based on a signal input by the operation of the operation unit 20 and data stored in the RAM 40.
2 to output an appropriate display, output a control signal to the drawer 16 to control its operation, output a control signal to the printer driver 50, and
4 and controls the writing of necessary data into the RAM 40.

FIG. 1 shows the functional configuration of the CPU 30 and the RAM 40. As shown in the figure, the CPU 30 includes a mode determination unit 31, a setting mode control unit 32, a registration mode control unit 33, an inspection mode control unit 34, a settlement mode control unit 35, and a timer 36. Also, R
The AM 40 includes a condition data storage unit 41, a journal data storage unit 42, a total adjustment data storage unit 43, a divisional data storage unit 44, a charge-specific data storage unit 45, and the like.

The mode discriminating means 31 discriminates the processing mode selected by operating the mode switch 26, and sends a command signal to the control means corresponding to the selected one of the mode control means 32-35. Output. The timer 36 is a time measuring means for measuring the current time, and its role will be described later in detail.

Next, control operations performed in each processing mode by the mode control means 32 to 35 will be described.

1) Setting mode: In this mode, condition data for using the electronic register 10 can be input by operating the operation unit 20, and this condition data is registered in the condition data storage means 41. As the condition data, condition data such as a department (an item such as “coffee”), a person in charge code, and a consumption tax rate are input.

However, the permissible journal output time (that is, the range of permissible journal output times), which is the condition data characteristic of the present invention, can be set in the setting mode. The journal output allowable time may be set to a time other than the time for performing the sales registration operation, that is, a time after the end of business, a break time in the daytime, or the like. 55 ".

The present invention is not limited to the above-described one in which the journal output allowable time is freely set on the user side, and the journal output allowable time may be programmed in advance in the manufacturer. . Alternatively, only the end time (for example, midnight) of the journal output allowable time is fixedly set in the program, and the user can input only the start time (for example, 20:00) of the journal output allowable time. Good.

2) Registration mode: When this mode is selected, a control operation as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5 is performed. That is, every time sales data (generally, a department, its price, and a person-in-charge code) is input using the numeric keypad 22 or the like (YES in step S11), a receipt for the roll paper P is generated based on the input sales data. Is printed by the printer 14 (step S
12), this receipt is handed to the customer. Further, at the same time when the receipt is issued, the sales data is stored in a different format in each of the data storage units 42 to 45 (step S13).

More specifically, the journal data storage means 42
In the above, the sales data is in the input order (that is, sales order)
It is stored in an organized form. That is, the journal storage unit 42 stores journal data corresponding to the contents of a journal in which the sales data are arranged and displayed in the order of registration.

On the other hand, every time the sales data is input, the total of the prices is updated and registered in the all settlement data storage means 43. In addition, in the section-specific data storage means 44, the cumulative number and price of each section are updated and registered in a form arranged for each section. Similarly, in the section-specific data storage section 45, the number and price processed by each person in charge are processed. Is updated and registered in a state where the total number is arranged for each person in charge.

That is, every time sales data is input,
This data is distributed and stored in each of the data storage means 42 to 45 as payment data in a form arranged in a plurality of different formats. Journal data of the payment data is registered in the journal data storage means 42. And other settlement data are stored in other data storage means 43-4.
5 are registered.

3) Inspection mode: When this mode is selected, the adjustment data registered in the RAM 40 at that time is displayed on the display unit 12 so that it can be confirmed. That is, in the inspection mode, only the registered data is inspected.

4) Settlement Mode: This mode is for performing the settlement operation of the day after the end of business hours, and can be selected only by the holder of the settlement key (generally, an administrator). That is, in the settlement mode, the registration key inserted in the mode switch 26 is returned to the "OFF" position, extracted at this position, and then the settlement key is inserted at the same position, and is inserted into the position of the settlement mode. You can only select by turning to.

In the settlement mode, a control operation as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6 is executed.

First, when this settlement mode is selected, it is determined whether or not the current time measured by the timer 36 is within the journal output allowable time (step S21). If it is within the frame (YES in step S21), the journal printing operation is immediately started without any condition without waiting for the operation of another key. Specifically, it is confirmed whether or not journal data is registered in the journal data storage unit 42 (step S22). If registered, print the registered journal data and erase the printed data (step S22). (Deletion of registration) is performed in order one line at a time (steps S23, S24).

FIG. 7 shows an example of the journal printed on the roll paper P in this manner. As shown in the figure, in this journal, blocks B having the same content as each receipt issued at each sales are displayed in the registration order. That is, in each block B, the department (item) and its price, whether or not batch cancellation or receipt issuance, receipt issuance time, person in charge code, etc. are posted, and these blocks B are continuously printed in the registration order. The data is organized so that the daily sales results can be understood at a glance.

At the time when all the registered journal data is printed as described above (ie, when all the registered journal data is deleted; NO in step S22), a state in which the settlement process other than the journal data printing can be executed. (Step S25). At this stage, each key 2
When, for example, an instruction to output section-specific data is input by the operations of steps 2 and 24, the data registered in the section-specific data storage section 44 is called by the settlement mode control section 35, and the data is printed by the printer 14. Is done.

On the other hand, if the adjustment data is not yet within the journal output allowable time at the time of selection (NO in step S21), journal printing is not performed even if the adjustment mode is selected. .

That is, this electronic register 10
A function is provided for determining whether the current time is within the journal output allowable time. If the current time is outside the journal output allowable time, the journal is not output by the printer 14 regardless of the selection of the settlement mode. A single printer 14 can be used for both receipt printing and journal printing while reliably avoiding the troubles caused by journal output, that is, the trouble that the printer 14 cannot issue a receipt for a long time or the trouble that the journal is divided. can do.

Further, when the journal output allowable time is entered, the journal output is started immediately without waiting for another operation when the above-mentioned settlement mode is selected. It is very convenient for the settlement processor.

In this embodiment, the registration and output of various settlement data such as total settlement data in addition to the journal data is described. However, the present invention stores only journal data as settlement data. Alternatively, data of a type different from the settlement data exemplified in the above-described embodiment (for example, settlement data by time zone or settlement data by transaction) may be registered and output. However, in the latter case as well, journal data is basically data that needs to be output each time a payment is made, while other payment data is output as needed as needed. Similarly, it is more preferable that the journal data is output first when the adjustment data is selected, and thereafter, the other adjustment data can be output.

[0040]

As described above, according to the present invention, at least the registration mode and the settlement mode can be selected. In the registration mode, the input sales data is registered in the journal data storage means and the receipt is output to the printer. If the mode is selected, determine whether the time is within a preset journal output allowable time,
Since the printer starts the journal data output immediately only when it is within the frame, the printer is unified and the journal output is mistaken during business hours when receipts are required. There is an effect that the operation for journal output can be simplified and usability can be improved while reliably preventing troubles.

In addition, there is provided adjustment data storage means for storing adjustment data in which the sales data is arranged in a format different from that of the journal, and the sales data input by the sales data input means in the registration mode is used as the adjustment data. The registration mode control means is configured to register in the settlement data storage means, and when the time measured by the clock means at the time when the settlement mode is selected is within the journal output allowable time, first, Make the above printer start outputting journal data,
According to the above-described arrangement of the settlement mode control means so that the settlement data can be output thereafter, it is possible to output the other settlement data while simplifying the operation for outputting the journal data as described above. Is obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a CPU and a RAM provided in an electronic register according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view of the electronic register.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the electronic register.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing an operation unit of the electronic register.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a control operation performed in a registration mode of the electronic register.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a control operation performed in the settlement mode of the electronic register.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a journal output in the settlement mode.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Electronic register 14 Printer 18 Control device 20 Operation part (Sales data input means) 26 Mode switch (Mode selection means) 30 CPU 31 Mode discrimination means 33 Registration mode control means 35 Settlement mode control means 36 Timer (Time measuring means) 40 RAM 42 Journal data storage means 43 Total payment data storage means (payment data storage means) 44 Departmental data storage means (payment data storage means) 45 Assigned data storage means (payment data storage means)

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] An electronic register configured to output, by a common printer, a receipt issued at the time of sales and a journal displaying sales data registered at the time of sales in the order of registration, and input the sales data. Data input means, journal data storage means for storing journal data corresponding to the contents of the journal, and a mode for selecting an appropriate mode from a plurality of processing modes including at least a registration mode and a settlement mode Selection means, registration mode control means for registering the sales data input by the sales data input means in the registration mode in the journal data storage means and outputting a receipt based on the sales data to the printer, and measuring time Timekeeping means and the settlement mode If the time measured by the timing means at the time when is selected is outside the preset journal output allowable time, the output of journal data by the printer is prohibited, and at the time when the settlement mode is selected. If the time measured by the clock means is within the journal output allowable time, wait for another operation.
An electronic register, comprising: a settlement mode control means for causing the printer to immediately start outputting journal data without the need for the printer. 2. The electronic cash register according to claim 1, further comprising a settlement data storage means for storing settlement data in which said sales data is arranged in a format different from that of said journal, and wherein said sales data input means in said registration mode. The registration mode control means is configured to register the input sales data as the payment data in the payment data storage means, and the time measured by the timing means when the payment mode is selected is output to the journal output. An electronic register, wherein the settlement mode control means is configured to first cause the printer to start outputting journal data when the time is within the allowable time, and thereafter allow the settlement data to be output.