JP3044870B2 - Automatic sales equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic sales apparatus for automating and clearing a product purchased by a customer in a retail store such as a supermarket.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A sales system in a retail store such as a supermarket or the like generally adopts a form in which a customer walks in a sales floor to purchase a desired product and settles it at a cash register. In that case,
A cash register is provided with a scanner that reads a bar code attached to a product to increase the speed of settlement, thereby improving the efficiency of the cash register operation and improving service to customers.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned method, since the merchandise purchased by the customer is read by the scanner each time, the speeding up of the settlement is limited, and when the customer is busy, a line of customers is formed at the cash register. In addition, there is a tendency for consumers to buy in bulk in recent years, so that there is a time zone in which the degree of congestion is further increased. Therefore, the present invention is to read and store the information about the product selected by the customer sequentially at the stage where the customer selects the product and walking in the sales floor, and input these stored information to the clearing means at the time of clearing, It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic sales device that automatically performs a settlement based on this input data, and thus can speed up cashier operations.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, each commodity displayed in a counter is specified and the commodity is specified.
Function for storing card data for
A price tag card having a transmission function of transmitting password data ,
Attached to the shopping basket has a pluggable memory card, and <br/> card controller to be stored in the memory card crowded remove the card data individually from price tag card of each product which is put into the shopping cart, items At the time of settlement , accept the memory card removed from the card controller ,
It is an automatic sales device comprising a clearing means to which the card data stored in the memory card is inputted collectively.

[0005]

According to the present invention, every time a customer walks in a sales floor to select a product and puts it into a shopping basket, card data about the product is taken into the card controller and stored in the memory card , Controller during liquidation
The card data stored in the memory card extracted from the server is collectively input to the clearing means and processed for clearing .

[0006]

As a result, there is no need to read product data with a scanner for each purchased product at the time of settlement, and the settlement process is speeded up accordingly.
In addition, when clearing, the card controller in the shopping basket
Cleared by removing the memory card
Even if another customer's shopping basket is approaching the middle customer,
Will not be mistakenly added to the clearing, and
The inability of oneself to settle the goods in another person's shopping basket
Without a sense of security, clearing customers will be cleared
Is a product in the shopping basket owned by the customer
And you can be confident that
Can be managed. In addition, the clearing process involves the customer placing a shopping basket.
Since it can be carried out while holding it,
Around the register, there is no need for a table to place shopping baskets.
Therefore, space around the register can be saved.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows an automatic sales device in a retail store,
The cart 1 shown in FIG. 1 is for a customer to push and walk in a sales floor, and is provided with a shopping basket 2 for putting in and merchandise selected by the customer.

[0010] The cart 1 is provided with a card controller 3 which takes in and records product information on the product from a price tag card attached to the product every time the product is put into the shopping basket 2. .

That is, as shown in FIG.
Is attached to a price tag card 4 in which card data specifying each product is recorded in a registered data area of a memory. The price tag card 4 is a contactless card having a communication function, and when inserted into the shopping basket 2, transmits card data in accordance with the input of the data transfer command signal from the card controller 3 described above. This is stored in the card controller 3.

FIG. 3 shows a control circuit of the above-mentioned price tag card 4. The CPU 5 transmits the RO signal to the antenna 6 as the card data transfer command signal from the card controller 3 is inputted.
The card data including the product code recorded in the memory 8 is transmitted from the antenna 6 to the card controller 3 in accordance with the program stored in the M 7, and these processing operations are stored in the RAM 9.

FIG. 4 shows a control circuit of the card controller 3 described above. The CPU 10 transmits and receives signals to and from the price tag card 4 using the antenna 12 in accordance with a program stored in the ROM 11, and outputs a product code in the price tag card. Is stored in the memory card 13 and these processing operations are stored in the RAM 14. The memory card 13 can be inserted into and removed from the card controller 3.

FIG. 5 shows a register 15 used in the automatic sales apparatus of the present invention. The register 15 includes a well-known keyboard 16, a display unit 17, and a printer 18, and has an arithmetic circuit (not shown) for input data. Further, an insertion port 19 for the memory card 13 removed from the card controller 3 is provided.

FIG. 6 shows a control circuit for the register 15 described above. The CPU 20 processes data input from the keyboard 16 in accordance with a program stored in the ROM 21 to display the data (and settlement data) on the display unit 1.
7 and the printer 18 prints sales details and the like. When the memory card 13 is inserted, the CPU 20 collectively reads all card data including the product code recorded in the memory of the memory card 13 and performs an arithmetic processing (clearing processing). The processing result is displayed, and the sales details and the like are printed by the printer 18. Then, a series of these processing operations are recorded in the RAM 22.

Next, the processing operation of the price tag card 4, the processing operation of the card controller 3, and the processing operation of the register 15 will be described in order with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. Helps understand processing behavior.

In the flowchart of the price tag card 4 shown in FIG. 7, in a first step n1, the CPU 5 receives a data signal from the card controller 3 and in a second step n1.
When the data signal is determined to be a card data transfer command signal in step 2, the card data in the memory 8 is transmitted to the card controller 3 in a third step n3. If the data signal is write data, the registration determination area in the memory 8 is set to registered or unregistered in the fourth step n4 according to the write data.

On the other hand, in the flowchart of the card controller 3 shown in FIG. 8, in a first step n11, the CPU 10 sends a card transfer command to the price tag card 4 and a second step n11.
At 12, the card data from the price tag card 4 is received and taken in.

Next, in a third step n13, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the product has been registered properly depending on whether the product has been left in the shopping basket 2 or has been taken out and returned again. Fourth step n14
In step 5, the merchandise code of the card data is registered in the memory card 13, and in the fifth step n15, the write data is transmitted, and the registration determination area in the memory 8 of the price tag card 4 is registered, and the process returns. On the other hand, in the latter case, the CPU 10 deletes the product code in the sixth step n16, transmits the write data in the seventh step n17, and does not register the above-described registration determination area of the price tag card 4 of the returned product. To

In the flowchart of the register 15 shown in FIG. 9, the CPU 20 reads the registration start key in the first step n21. This registration start key has been input to the memory card 13, and when it is determined in the second step n22 that the registration start key has not been read, in other words, the memory card 13 has not been inserted into the register 15. At this time, the CPU 20 enables the normal register processing of the third step n23. On the other hand, if the registration start key signal is detected because the memory card 13 is inserted into the register 15 in the above-mentioned second step n22, the CPU 20 reads the card data registered in the memory card 13 in a fourth step n24. The process proceeds to the fifth step n25.

[0019] In the fifth step n25, when there is card data to the memory mosquitoes <br/> over de 13 described above, i.e., when there is a commodity to be purchased customer, CPU 20 in the memory card 13 in the sixth step n26 A settlement process corresponding to the registered product code is performed, and the process ends. In this case, the settlement process is automatically performed for all products registered in the memory card 13.

On the other hand, if there is no data in the above-mentioned fifth step n25, that is, if there is no product to be purchased, the process proceeds to the seventh step n27, and the CPU 20
Initialize the registration data area of.

As described above, since the merchandise stored in the memory card 13 is collectively cleared, it is not necessary to read the merchandise data for each of the purchased merchandise with a scanner, thereby speeding up the clearing process.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the settlement means of the present invention corresponds to the register 15, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

Perspective view of the cart used in the Figure 1 automatic sales apparatus.

2 is a perspective view of product automatic sales system is intended.

[3] Control circuit diagram of a price tag card used for automatic sales apparatus.

[4] The control circuit diagram of the card controller to be used in automatic sales apparatus.

5 is a perspective view of the register to be used for automatic sales apparatus.

[6] the control circuit diagram of the registers used in automatic sales apparatus.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the above mentioned price tag card.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the above mentioned card controller.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the above mentioned register.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1. Cart 2. Shopping cabinet 3. Card controller 4. Price tag card13. Memory card  15 Register A, B ... Product

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. Card data attached to each product displayed in a sales floor for specifying the product is stored.
Memory function to transmit and the transmission function to transmit the card data
And price tag card with, attached to the shopping basket has a pluggable memory card, and stored in the memory card crowded remove the card data individually from price tag card of each product which is put into the shopping basket <br / > and the card controller, when the commodity liquidation, withdrawn from the card controller
Accept the memory card and store it on the memory card.
An automatic sales apparatus comprising a clearing means for inputting all card data at once.