JP6328526B2 - Information processing terminal device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing terminal device such as an electronic cash register or a POS terminal.

  Information processing terminal devices such as an electronic cash register and a POS terminal are configured by connecting peripheral devices such as a display, a printing device, a scanner and a keyboard to a control unit housed in the main body. The control unit includes connection members such as a connector to which an external recording medium such as a USB memory is mounted, a slot into which a hard disk drive is inserted, and an I / O port to which a communication cable for connection with an external host device is mounted. ing. In addition, the control unit and peripheral devices are supplied with commercial power via an AC-DC adapter.

  Some conventional information processing terminal devices include a keyboard that is detachably attached to a main body so that keyboard maintenance can be easily performed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-076159

  However, in the conventional information processing terminal device, the communication cable used for the connection with the host device and the data cable and the power cable between the peripheral device arranged separately from the main unit are exposed on the back of the main unit The control unit is connected via a member. For this reason, a space for arranging the cables is required on the back side of the main body, and a plurality of cables are exposed to give a complicated impression.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing terminal capable of preventing a plurality of cables from being exposed from the back side of the main body without reducing the ease of maintenance, reducing the arrangement space, and improving the appearance of the back of the main body. To provide an apparatus.

  The information processing terminal device according to the present invention includes a main body, a first internal device, and a front cover. The main body is a housing having an opening on the front side. The first internal device has a connection member exposed on the front surface, is inserted into the main body through the opening, and is housed in the main body with an upper space provided on the upper surface side. The front cover is detachably attached to the front side of the main body and is attached to the front side of the main body with a front space provided on the front side of the first internal device housed in the main body to close the opening. .

  With this configuration, when the front cover is removed from the front side of the main body, the connecting member on the front surface of the first internal device housed in the main body is exposed to the outside. For connecting a cable for connection with a peripheral device arranged on the upper surface of the main body to a connection member on the front surface of the first internal device via the upper space, for connection with a peripheral device arranged on the front cover The operation of directly connecting the cable to the connection member on the front surface of the first internal device is facilitated. A front cover mounted on the front side of the main body covers the cable located in the front space.

  In this configuration, the front space includes a first front space and a second front space positioned in the front-rear direction, and the first space positioned in front of the second space includes the second internal device. It is preferable to store. By storing the second internal device, which is a heavy object, on the front side of the main body, when a peripheral device is arranged on the upper surface of the main body, the weight balance in the front-rear direction of the main body is maintained, and the apparatus is stably installed. be able to.

  The front cover is divided into an upper front cover with peripheral devices and a lower front cover on which the second internal device is placed. The upper front cover is detachable from the front side of the main unit from above. The lower front cover is preferably detachable from the front side of the main body. The front cover can be easily attached to and detached from the front side of the main body.

  Furthermore, it is preferable to provide a defining member that selectively defines the range of movement in the forward direction on the front side of the main body of the lower front cover to a predetermined length. By defining the movement range of the lower front cover in the forward direction to a predetermined length by the defining member, it is possible to prevent the lower front cover from being inadvertently removed from the main body. Safety is ensured when the second internal device is placed on the lower front cover.

  Moreover, it is preferable to provide the extension part of the plate-shaped body extended to the front side from the left and right side surfaces of the main body. The front cover is elastically engaged between the left and right extending portions, and the front cover can be easily detachably attached to the front side of the main body.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the plurality of cables from being exposed from the back side of the main body without impairing the ease of maintenance, to reduce the arrangement space, and to improve the aesthetic appearance of the main body.

1 is an external view of a POS terminal device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic assembly drawing of the POS terminal device. It is an assembly drawing of the outline of the POS terminal device which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic side view of the POS terminal device according to the second embodiment. It is a schematic side view of the POS terminal device which concerns on 3rd Embodiment of this invention. (A) And (B) is a top view of the principal part of the POS terminal device which concerns on the 3rd embodiment, and is a figure which shows the mounting position and drawer position of a lower front cover, respectively.

  Hereinafter, an information processing terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described using a POS terminal device as an example with reference to the drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the POS terminal device 10 </ b> A according to the first embodiment of the present invention has a hollow housing structure including a main body 1, an upper front cover 2, and a lower front cover 3. The main body 1 includes a store-side display 11, a customer-side display 12, and a printer 13 on the upper surface, and an opening 102 is formed on the front side. The upper front cover 2 is integrally provided with a keyboard 14. The lower front cover 3 is located below the upper front cover 2. The upper front cover 2 and the lower front cover 3 constitute a front cover of the present invention. Moreover, the store side display 11, the customer side display 12, and the printer 13 keyboard 14 are peripheral devices of this invention.

  The store side display 11 is arranged so that the display surface faces store employees existing on the front side, and displays information to be displayed to store workers. The customer side display 12 is arranged so that the display surface faces the customer existing on the back side, and displays information to be displayed to the customer. The printer 13 prints a receipt. The keyboard 14 accepts an input operation of point-of-sale information by a store employee. The main body 1 can also include a card reader as a peripheral device on the front surface. The card reader accepts insertion of an employee card held by a store employee and a customer card owned by a customer, and reads card data recorded on the employee card and the customer card.

  The POS terminal device 10A records the point-of-sale information input from the keyboard 14 on an internal recording medium, and transmits it to an external host device via a communication cable.

As shown in FIG. 2, the main body 1 is a hollow housing having an opening 101 on the front side. The upper front cover 2 is detachably attached to the front side of the main body 1 from above. The lower front cover 3 is detachably attached to the front side of the main body 1 from the front. The control unit 21 is a first internal device of the present invention, and is inserted into the main body 1 from the front via the opening 102. The lower front cover 3 houses the power supply unit 22 on the front side of the main body 1. The power supply unit 22 is a second internal device according to the present invention, and includes a heat radiating plate 221 at the top, and is placed on the lower front cover 3 from above. The upper front cover 2 and the lower front cover 3 are attached to the front side of the main body 1 in a state where the opening 101 is closed. The upper front cover 2 is attached to the main body 1 after the lower front cover 3 is attached to the main body 1.

  The control unit 21 is disposed in a chassis 210 made of sheet metal, and has connectors 211 to 215 exposed on the front surface. Connectors 211 to 215 are connecting members of the present invention. Connected to the connectors 211 to 215 are a store-side display 11, a customer-side display 12, a printer 13, a keyboard 14, and a power supply unit 22 via cables (not shown). The control unit 21 controls the operations of the store-side display 11, the customer-side display 12, the printer 13, and the keyboard 14, receives power from the power supply unit 22, and further stores the store-side display 11, the customer-side display 12, and the printer 13. Then, power is supplied to the keyboard 14.

  The control unit 21 includes HDD slots 216A and 216B, USB connectors 217A and 217B, and a LAN socket 218 as connection members of the present invention on the front surface. Hard disk drives as recording media are mounted in the HDD slots 216A and 216B. A USB memory as an external storage medium is attached to the USB connectors 217A and 217B. A LAN cable plug for connection with the host computer is attached to the LAN socket 218.

  As shown in FIG. 3, an upper space 301 is formed between the control unit 21 and the main body 1 on the upper surface side of the control unit 21 in a state where the control unit 21 is housed in the main body 1. In the upper space 301, cables connected between the store-side display 11, the customer-side display 12 and the printer 13 and the connectors 211 to 213 are arranged.

  In addition, with the upper front cover 2 and the lower front cover 3 attached to the main body 1, between the front surface of the control unit 21 housed in the main body 1 and the upper front cover 2 and the lower front cover 3, A front space 302 is formed. The front space 302 is composed of a first front space 302A and a second front space 302B arranged in the front-rear direction of the main body 1. The first front space 302A is located above the lower front cover 3 in front of the second front space 302B. The power supply unit 22 is disposed in the first front space 302A. The second front space 302B is located between the back surface of the power supply unit 22 and the front surface of the control unit 1. Cables connected between the keyboard 14 and the power supply unit 22 and the connectors 214 and 215 are arranged in the second front space 302B.

  The lower front cover 3 has a hole 304 on the bottom surface. The power cable extending from the power supply unit 22 and the LAN cable having a plug attached to the LAN socket 218 of the control unit 21 are connected to the commercial power supply via the hole 304 of the lower front cover 3 via the bottom surface side of the main body 1. Connected to LAN.

  With the above configuration, the store-side display 11, the customer-side display 12, the printer 13, and the keyboard 14 are connected to the front side of the control unit 21 inside the main body 1, and these connection cables are stored in the main body 1. The Only the power cable of the power supply unit 22 and the LAN cable connected to the control unit 22 are exposed outside the main body 1, and in particular, no wiring is exposed on the back surface of the main body 1. Further, the control unit 21 is not accessed from the back surface of the main body 1, and there is no need to provide an opening on the back surface of the main body 1. For this reason, the arrangement space of the POS terminal device can be reduced in size, and the beauty of the back side of the main body 1 can be improved.

  By removing the upper front cover 2 upward from the front side of the main body 1, the front surface of the control unit 21 in the second front space 302B can be exposed to the outside. As a result, the cable can be easily attached to and detached from the connectors 211 to 215 of the control unit 21 and the USB memory can be easily attached to and detached from the USB connectors 217A and 217B.

  Moreover, since the power supply unit 22 which is a heavy article is accommodated in the front side of the main body 1, the weight balance in the front-back direction of the main body 1 in which the store-side display 11, the customer-side display 12 and the printer 13 are arranged on the upper surface is maintained. The main body 1 can be stably installed.

  Further, since the upper front cover 2 is detachable from the front side of the main body 1 from above and the lower front cover 3 is detachable from the front side of the main body 1 from the front direction, The attaching and detaching work of the cover 2 and the lower front cover 3 can be easily performed.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the main body 1 of the POS terminal device 10B according to the second embodiment of the present invention is made of an elastically deformable resin material, and the plate-like body extends from the left and right side surfaces to the front side. The projecting portions 103A and 103B are extended, and a frame 102 made of sheet metal is provided inside the main body 1. Other configurations are the same as those of the POS terminal device 10A, and the same reference numerals are given and the description thereof is omitted. In the POS terminal device 10B, the upper front cover 2 and the lower front cover 3 can be easily attached to and detached from the front side of the main body 1 by elastically engaging the extension portions 103A and 103B. Further, the main body 1 including the extending portions 103A and 103B can be reinforced by the sheet metal frame 102. The frame 102 can be omitted when the main body 1 including 103A and 103B has sufficient strength, and can also be provided in the POS terminal device 10A.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the lower front cover 3 of the POS terminal apparatus 10C according to the third embodiment of the present invention is moved upward after the upper front cover 2 is removed and the front cover 2 is pulled forward by a predetermined length. It can be removed from the front side of the main body 1 by lifting. By pulling the lower front cover 3 forward, the second front space 302B is expanded in the front-rear direction, and the space on the front side of the control unit 21 housed in the main body 1 is increased to prevent the connectors 211 to 215 and the like. Workability can be improved.

  As shown in FIGS. 6 (A) and 6 (B), the POS terminal device 10C is configured such that the shaft portion 303A is fitted into the elongated hole 304 of the lower front cover 3 and the extension portion 103A. A defining member 303 that selectively regulates the range of movement of the main body 1 in the forward direction to a predetermined length is provided to be movable in the left-right direction.

  Between the mounting position shown in FIG. 6 (A) and the drawing position shown in FIG. 6 (B), the defining member 303 contacts the edge of the long hole 304, and the lower front cover 3 The main body 1 moves only in the front-rear direction. The lower front cover 3 is moved to the drawing position shown in FIG. 6B, and the regulating member 303 is moved in the direction of the arrow X in a state where the shaft portion 303A of the regulating member 303 reaches the end on the back side of the long hole 304. When moved, the shaft portion 303 </ b> A moves in the release hole 305 that is continuous in the direction orthogonal to the long hole 304. The release hole 305 is sized so that the defining member 303 can pass in the vertical direction, and can be removed from the front side of the main body 1 by lifting the lower front cover 3 upward.

  In order to remove the lower front cover 3 from the main body 1, an operation for moving the defining member 303 from the long hole 304 into the release hole 305 is required. In order to improve workability with respect to the connectors 211 to 215 and the like, the lower front cover 3 is inadvertently disposed even when the lower front cover 3 is pulled forward and the second front space 302B is expanded in the front-rear direction. 1 can be prevented from being removed. The lower front cover 3 on which the power supply unit 22 that is a heavy object is placed can be prevented from falling off, and safety can be ensured. In addition, even when the lower front cover 3 is pulled forward, the control unit 21 cannot be pulled out from the main body 1, so that the control unit 21 can be prevented from being easily attached and detached.

  The defining member 303 can be provided only in the extension part 103B or in both the extension part 103A and the extension part 103B. In particular, the lower front cover 3 can be stably moved in the front-rear direction by providing the defining member 303 in both the extending portion 103A and the extending portion 103B.

  The above description of the embodiment is to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown not by the above embodiments but by the claims. Furthermore, the scope of the present invention is intended to include all modifications within the meaning and scope equivalent to the scope of the claims.

1-Main body 2-Upper front cover 3-Lower front cover 10A to 10C-POS terminal device 11-Store display (peripheral device)
12-Customer side display (peripheral equipment)
13-Printer (peripheral device)
14-Keyboard (peripheral device)
21-Control unit (first internal device)
22-Power supply unit (second internal device)

Claims (4)

A main body of a housing having an opening on the front side;
A first internal device provided with a connecting member exposed on the front surface, inserted into the main body from the opening, and housed in the main body with an upper space provided on the upper surface side;
Removably attached to the front side of the main body, and attached to the front side of the main body with the front space provided on the front side of the first internal device housed in the main body to close the opening. A front cover,
With
The front space includes a first front space and a second front space located in the front-rear direction,
The first front space is located in front of the second front space and houses a second internal device,
The front cover is divided into an upper front cover having at least one peripheral device and a lower front cover on which the second internal device is placed,
The upper front cover is detachable from the front side of the main body from above,
The information processing terminal device , wherein the lower front cover is detachable from the front side of the main body . The information processing terminal device according to claim 1, wherein a cable connected to the connection member is stored in the second front space. 3. The information processing terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a defining member that selectively defines a movement range of the lower front cover in a front direction on the front side of the main body to a predetermined length. The information processing terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the main body includes a plate-like extending portion extending from the left and right side surfaces to the front side.

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