JPS599328Y2 - Distribution terminal equipment - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a distribution terminal device which has a rewritable product name table memory and can load product names to be rewritten from a stored central processing unit.

2. Description of the Related Art In distribution terminal devices that are located at distribution terminals and perform printing processing on various products, printing product names is an important element for improving customer service.

For example, if the customer is a general retail store and the distribution terminal is a cashier, conventionally a mechanical register is used to process the customer's ordered products, so detailed product numbers and product names cannot be printed.

Recently, this type of equipment is equipped with a product name table memory in which the product names of all products handled are written in the central processing unit, and the product code is stored in the central processing unit CPU through online or inline processing (referred to as online processing) at the distribution terminal. The method used is to transmit the product name, receive the product name, and print it.

However, in this system, if a failure occurs in the central processing unit or its transmission system, there is a risk that all product distribution in that system will be stopped.

Furthermore, if the terminal itself is provided with a product name table in which the product names of all products handled are written, a large capacity buffer memory will be required in the terminal device.

In order to eliminate such drawbacks, the present applicant proposed a new distribution terminal device suitable for terminals in Utility Model Application No. 50-909 (Utility Model Publication No. 59-2590).

This distribution terminal device is equipped with a product name table memory in which a specified product name is written in the terminal, and a printer having at least a printing function corresponding to the product name table memory. The corresponding product name is read out and printed, and if there is no corresponding product code in the product name table memory, the field is left blank, or the product code is transmitted to the central processing unit, and the product name is received and printed. It is characterized by:

According to this proposal, the product name table can be stored separately in the central processing unit and the terminal device, and the memory capacity for storing the product name table can be optimally selected between the two.

Therefore, if the terminal device side is provided with a product name table corresponding to the products handled at the sales floor where the terminal device is installed, this product name table can be used more effectively.

However, in the above proposal, the contents of the product name table of the terminal device are fixed.

However, in this type of distribution terminal device, the installation location of each device, in other words, the products handled by one device are not always constant.

For example, measures are often taken such as temporarily installing terminals from other sales areas in sales areas where shoppers are concentrated to deal with a large number of customers.

Furthermore, depending on the sales floor (or store), different types of products are handled depending on the season.

Considering these cases, it is preferable that the product name table on the terminal device side corresponds to the type of product that the device handles most often.

In view of the above-mentioned points, an object of the present invention is to provide a distribution terminal device that makes it possible to use product name tables more effectively.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention loads a part of the contents of the product name table owned by the controller (central processing unit) into the rewritable memory that stores the product name table. This is what I did.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, input data is input from an input terminal 10 using a numeric keypad or a tag reader to a control circuit 1 via an input circuit 11.
Put it in 2.

The input data includes the product number, unit price, etc., and the control circuit 12 drives the address counter 13 from this input to read it from the product name table memory 14, and the match circuit 15 detects whether the read data matches the product number in the manual data.

FIG. 2a shows a specific example of the address counter 13 and product name table memory 14, where the addresses are O to 255 and the capacity of the product name table memory 14 is 256 bytes (
One byte (8 bits) is used, and the output is taken out in 8-bit parallel from 0 to 255 bytes.

That is, the control circuit 12 sets the address counter 13 to 0.
1. 2 and drive.

As an example of the input data, as shown at the bottom of the input end 10 in FIG.
If the unit price is 2,000 yen and an example of the contents of the product name table memory 14 is as shown in FIG. 1. 2, the read data is 001, which does not match the upper three digits of the input data product number 123456.

Therefore, the output of the coincidence circuit 15 is "NO" and the control circuit 1
2 sets the address to 11, 11, 12. 13 and drive.

At this time, the output is 123 and the coincidence circuit becomes "YES", so the control circuit 12 reads out the following 8 bytes and prints "Shinshi Shirt" on the slip etc. 18 by the printer 17 via the printer control circuit 16 in FIG. Print.

FIG. 3 shows an example of printing in this case.

This figure matches the contents of the product name table memory in FIG. 2b, but in the case of input product number 812194, there is no matching data in the table in FIG.

Therefore, even after the final comparison, the output of the coincidence circuit 15 remains "NO".

At this time, the control circuit 12 is controlled by the contents of the online/offline (ONL/OFL) switch 19 shown in FIG.
Leave the corresponding product name column in the diagram blank.

This can be later handwritten by the operator. Next, in the case of online (with CPU controller connection), all input data is transmitted from the control circuit 12 via the transmission control circuit 20 to the CPU controller 31 shown by a dotted line.

Based on the input category received from the terminal, the controller 31 searches the attached large-capacity product name table memory 32, reads out the corresponding product name, for example, "Silk Set" in FIG. 3, and transmits it to the terminal device. is printed in the product name column of the bill shown in Figure 3.

If there is no corresponding product name, leave it blank as in offline mode.

In this case, an asterisk (*) is printed in the summary column to indicate that the corresponding product name was not found online.

The same applies to product number 351002 in item 6 of FIG. 3, and it is clear that the product name was printed online because 351 is not present between 311 and 352 in the product name table memory of FIG.

The contents of the product name table memory shown in Figure 2C are one way to use memory effectively.Numeric values can be expressed in 4 bits, and 2 numerical values can be written in 1 byte with 8 bits.For example, 3 digits can be written in 1.5 bytes. good.

Further, this number of digits is not fixed and may be 2 or 4 digits.

Furthermore, the contents of the product name table memory shown in FIG. 2d can be used when the product number and product name do not correspond one-to-one, but when the same product name continues with the product number, thereby saving memory usage.

That is, in the case of figure d, 123 out of 1234 is the starting number, and 4 indicates that the fourth number 123 to 127 from 123 are the same product name.

The above structure is the same as that of the distribution terminal device shown in the other proposal mentioned above.

In this embodiment, in addition to these structures, the product name table memory 14 is also configured to be rewritable.

Furthermore, a cassette deck 22 is attached, and a write data line is provided in the product name table memory 14.

As a result, the optimal product name list to be stored in the product name table memory can be loaded from this deck 22.

Furthermore, the contents of the product name table memory 32 controlled by the CPU controller 31 can be input to the control circuit 12 through the transmission line 21 and the transmission control circuit 20 to rewrite the product name table memory 14.

In any of these cases, the required product name is read out and checked from a storage device attached to the terminal such as the cassette deck 22 or from the product name table memory 32 of the CPU, and the format of the product name table memory 14 of the terminal as shown in FIG. The information is edited and written into the product name table memory 14.

As explained above, the distribution terminal device of the present invention can process most of the printing functions almost independently as a terminal, and the deficiencies can be compensated for by online processing and handwriting processing by the terminal operator. In addition, even in the event of an online failure, most of the print processing required by the terminal can be performed regardless of the failure.

In addition to the effects of the above proposal examples, the effect of this invention is to change the season,
Changes in product types in terminals due to trends or customer requests can be easily carried out using a simple structure in which the contents of the product name table memory of the terminal are read from and written to the product name table memory of the central processing unit. This is extremely effective in expanding the functionality of distribution terminals.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an example of the contents of a product name table memory used in the present invention, and Fig. 3 is an example of printed contents. 12 is an input circuit, 12 is a control circuit, 13 is an address counter, 14
is a product name table memory, 15 is a matching circuit, 16 is a printer control circuit, 17 is a printer, 18 is a slip, etc., 19 is an online/offline switch, 20 is a transmission control circuit,
21 is a cassette control circuit, and 22 is a cassette lock.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] A printer connected to a controller having a product name table for converting product codes into product names, input means for inputting product codes, and a printer for printing product names corresponding to manually entered product codes. A distribution terminal device comprising:
゛A rewritable table memory for storing product names corresponding to product codes; loading means for loading a part of the product name table of the controller that corresponds to the device itself and storing it in the table memory; a detection means for detecting that a product name corresponding to the product code inputted by the input means does not exist in the table memory; , and control means for causing a printer to print out the product name obtained from the product name table of the controller.