JPS6037096A - Electronic cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to an improvement in an electronic cash register device that is capable of printing sales data as well as names of sold products, messages such as commercials, and sage characters on receipts.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, printers have become popular as a receipt printing mechanism.Equipped with IJ printers, receipts can be printed with standard character patterns for sales data, commercial characters that can be freely set, product names, department names, etc. Electronic cash registers are used that can also print message characters.

When printing the above me and v seno characters on the receipt with such an electronic cash register (hereinafter abbreviated as register), first print the me and sausage characters one by one on the front keyboard. The information is manually operated using a predetermined combination of keys such as number keys, department keys, various function keys, etc., and stored in a mevseno area formed in the storage unit. Then, when registering the sale of the product, the message characters are read out and printed out on the receipt together with the sales tag using the printer.

However, message characters such as the one above are usually
Hiragana, katakana, alphanumeric characters, numbers.

In many cases, the number of characters can be as long as several lines. Moreover, operations such as setting, canceling, and changing message characters are extremely complicated as described above.

Therefore, in addition to the keyboard provided in the register, an external key date with character keys was connected to the register, making it possible to easily set, cancel, and change message characters in a short time. A cab-renostar device has been proposed.

However, if such a foreign key is assigned to the register key yJ? -1', there is a risk that the cashier may accidentally press a key on the external keypad during normal sales registration after operations such as setting, canceling, or changing message characters have been completed. On the other hand, in cases where the external keypad is detachably attached to the register and connected to the register only for operations such as setting message characters (well, securing a storage space when the external keyboard is not in use becomes a problem, and the external keyboard is lost). In addition, it took time to connect the foreign key ?-1 to the register, and there was a possibility of incorrect connection. [Objective of the Invention] The purpose of this is to form a accommodating section on the front of the register body that accommodates the external key -P (z register) during normal sales registration. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic cash register device that can be housed in a main body, completely prevent erroneous key operations, and improve work efficiency such as setting message characters.

[Summary of the invention]

The electronic cash register device of the present invention (well, it has an opening on the front side of the cash register body at a position close to the body keyboard 1, and is provided with a housing part in which an external key can be housed and fixed;
A lid body that selectively covers all of the openings of the storage portion is wide-opened.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an electronic cash register device, and this electronic cash register device (hereinafter abbreviated as register) is composed of a register main body I and an external keypad 2 for setting characters. In the register main body I, as shown in the figure, a main body key key 4 having keys for various sales registrations is provided on the front surface of the casing 3.
At the top of the front is the department code of the product being sold.

A display unit 5 is provided to display the total amount etc. electronically, and a receipt issuing port 6 is provided at the middle and lower part, respectively.
．． A drawer 7 is provided. Furthermore, a display section 8 for customers having the same configuration as the display section 5 is attached to the upper surface of the housing 3 using a support rod. Further, adjacent to the main body key bead 4, a housing part 1 is provided with a socket 11 on the bottom surface into which a connection plug 10 of the connection cord 9 of the external keepad 2 is inserted.
2 is formed. The external keyboard 2 is housed in this housing portion 12 as described later.

As shown in FIG. 2, the main body key date 4 includes a round number key 13 for entering the sales amount and number of products sold.
A department key 14 indicating product classification, a subtotal key 151, and a deposit/cash total key 16 for calculating the total amount are provided. Further, the main body key bead 4 is provided with a control key 17 operated by a key. This control key 17 controls the power on and off, as well as "registration",
This is a control switch that instructs the central processing unit to execute various tasks such as "accounting" and "setting." Note that "registration" is a task of storing the price of sold products in the storage unit, calculating the total price, etc., and printing the results on a cash receipt and recording paper. Also.

"Settlement" means "registration" at the end of the day's work, for example.
This is a task of printing out the total sales amount, total sales points, etc. accumulated in the storage section, and then clearing the contents of the storage section. Furthermore, "setting" is a task of storing message characters such as product names, commercials, etc. to be printed on the receipt in advance in the storage unit.

In addition, the external key 2 can be freely connected to and removed from the register body 1 by means of the connected Prada 10, and has a start and end section as shown in FIG.

Function keys I8 for English, kana, settings, etc., and character keys 19 for kana characters, English characters, number characters, etc. are arranged.

FIG. 4 shows the next state in which the external key date 2 is housed and fixed in the accommodating part 12 formed on the front surface of the casing 3 of the register main body I, and then this accommodating part 12 is covered with the lid body 20. 5 is a perspective view, and FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing the housing portion 12. FIG. That is, as shown in FIG.
Two grooves 21 IL and 21b parallel to the surface are carved, and a groove 21a on the opposite side wall.

At a position opposite to 21b, there are two step portions 22a,
22b is formed. And the bottom groove? x
b eT side step part 22b-t/C, function key 18 and character key 19f upper surface and external key bead 2
is inserted. Further, the thin plate-shaped lid body 2o described above is fitted into the upper groove 21a and the upper step portion 22a.

Then, the lid body 20 and the external key 2 are inserted into the housing part 12.
In order to fix it to both side walls inside, cover body 2o and external key? -12 respective side surfaces and stepped portions 22a.

Leaf springs 23a and 23b are respectively inserted between the springs 22b and 22b. In addition, the connection Prada 10 of external keyboard 1-2
remains inserted into the socket 11 of the register main body 1, and the external key 9 is connected to the bottom surface of the card 2 and the housing part Z.
It is stored in the gap between the bottom surface of 2.

FIG. 6 shows a state in which the lid body 20 is removed with the external key &-P2f housing section I2 housed and fixed as shown in FIG. It is arranged approximately parallel to the one hand 4.

In an electronic cash register system with such a configuration, commercial characters to be printed on the receipt,
When performing the "setting" task of pre-storing message characters such as product names and department names in the storage section, remove the lid 20f provided at the opening of the storage section 3 on the front of the housing 3 and open the sixth section.
In the state shown in the figure, set the control key 17 to the "setting" mode. Then, the message character is stored in the message character formed in the storage section of the register main body 1 using the character key 19 of the external key bead 2.

Next, when the "setting" work is finished and the normal "registration" work is to be performed, the lid body 2o is inserted and fixed into the opening of the housing part number, that is, the groove 21a9 and the stepped part 22IL, and the state shown in FIG. 4 is set. Then, the control key 17 can be set to the registration mode.

As shown in FIG. 1, it is also possible to take out the external keyboard 2 from the accommodating portion 12 and move it to a position where it can be easily operated by the person making the settings (cashier) to perform the "setting" task.

In this way, the lid 2o of the accommodating section I2 is removed only when performing the "setting" task, and the accommodating section 12 is covered with the lid 2o when performing the "registration" task. It is possible to prevent the cashier from accidentally pressing the function key 18 or character key 19 of one or two external keys during the operation.

Furthermore, when the external keyboard 2 is not in use, it can be accommodated within the accommodating portion 12 of the register main body 1, so there is no need to secure a separate storage space outside.

Therefore, the total installation space for the entire electronic cash register device 4 can be reduced, and the external key 1j? There is no need to worry about losing the -12. In further examples, the connection Prada
Since the external key bead 2 is accommodated in the accommodating portion 12 with the external keyboard 2 inserted into the socket 11, the work time and erroneous connections for connecting the external keyboard 2 to the register body 1 can be reduced. Therefore, the efficiency of work such as messeno character setting can be greatly improved.

Furthermore, the external key date 2 is the case 3 of the register main body 1.
It is configured such that it can be easily attached to and detached from the register main body 1 by inserting the connection plug 10 into a socket 11 on the bottom surface of the accommodating portion 12 provided on the front surface of the register body 1. Therefore, in Denote, Sue i4-Market, etc. where a large number of registers are installed, it is possible to set Mevceno to a large number of register bodies with one external key date 2, reducing the overall equipment cost. can be done.

Note that by attaching the lid body 20 to the storage portion 12 and locking it, it is possible to further secure the storage of the external keymate 2. [Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, During normal sales registration, the external key is housed and fixed in the storage section provided in the register body, and the storage section is covered with a lid, eliminating the need to provide a separate external storage location for the external key bead. , it is possible to prevent erroneous key operations during sales registration. It is also possible to improve the efficiency of tasks such as setting message characters.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures show an electronic carrier and a J Schrezoster device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view, Figs. FIG. 6 is a perspective view for explaining the effect, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing the storage section taken out. 1...Register body, 2...Foreign key date, 4.
...Main body key date, 5.8...Display section, 10...
Connection plug, I2...accommodating part, 13...number key,
14... i gate key, z y... control key,
I8...Function key, 19...Character key,
20... Lid body, 21a, 2lb-groove,
22a, 22b... step, 23tL, 23b...
...Plate spring.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Keys from the main body keyboard provided on the front are used to manually store product sales data in the storage unit and print it out on receipts using a printer device.The electronic cash renosurf main unit can be freely attached and detached from the electronic cash renosuf main body. an external key y+?, which is connected to the sales data and has a character key for inputting characters to be printed on the receipt together with the sales data into the electronic cash receipt main body. - the main body of the electronic cash desk has a housing part which opens at a position near the main body key on the front surface and can accommodate and fix the external key date therein; An electronic cash register device characterized in that it has a lid body that selectively closes.