JPS6057488A - Electroinc cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a cash register that displays a message indicating suspension of registration on a customer display during practice operations.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Generally, in electronic cash registers (hereinafter abbreviated as registers), the sales amount, number of items sold, department codes, etc. of sold products are input by manually changing various registration keys provided on the key card. That's what I do. There are also registers in which the above sales data can be directly input using an external scanner, OCR (optical reader), etc.

There are many types of registration keys provided in the above key gates, such as number keys, department keys, subtotal keys, and deposit/cash keys.
It is necessary to practice key operations, scanner, and OCR operating procedures in advance.

Conventionally, when the need for the above-mentioned practice arose, the register installed in the sales floor was used for practice by suspending sales registration operations for a certain period of time. However, for general customers, it is not easy to determine whether the register is in the process of registering or practicing. Therefore, the customer is not informed by the cashier or instructor that he/she is practicing until after he/she brings the purchased item to the register.

As a result, the customer has to carry purchased items to another register, and the cashier or instructor is interrupted from practice, resulting in a reduction in practice efficiency.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and its purpose is to notify customers of the suspension of registration operations by displaying a message indicating suspension of registration operations on the customer display section during practice operations. To provide an electronic cash register that can notify the status and improve practice efficiency.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention provides an electronic cash register having a main body display section and a dot matrix type customer display section.
A message memory for storing a message notifying customers of the registration suspension state and a practice designation key for designating practice work are provided, and when this practice designation key is manually pressed, "2F
At step 17, the contents of the message memory are displayed on the customer display section.

[Embodiments of the invention]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An electronic cage 1 and a register according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an electronic cash register (l/・nosta), in which a keyboard 2 as an input device provided on the front of a housing 1 has a number key for entering the sales amount of a product. 3. Department key indicating product classification 4. Prophecies/Present Words; Key 5. Practice designation*-6, control keys 7, etc. are arranged. Further, a main body display section 8 is provided on the front upper part of the casing I for electronically displaying the department code and amount (9, 11) of the product being sold, and a receipt issuing port 9 is formed in the middle part. Furthermore, a drawer 10 is installed at the bottom of the housing 1.
, and each display section 11 supported by a support member is provided at an upper position.

The main body display section 8 and the customer display section 11 have almost the same configuration, and are composed of a plurality of display elements of a dot matrix or box type in which a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged in a matrix. Therefore, in addition to numbers, it is possible to display kana characters, alphabetic characters, etc. on these display sections 8 and 11.

The control key 7 is a control switch for controlling the power on and off, as well as instructing the central processing unit to execute various tasks such as "registration", "preference", and "setting j". "Registration" refers to the task of storing the price of sold products in the storage unit, performing tlη of the total price, etc., printing the results on the receipt and recording paper, and displaying them on each display unit 8.11. be.

In addition, "settlement" means, for example, "settlement" at the end of the day's work.
This is a job to clear the contents of the storage unit after printing out the total sales amount, total sales points, etc. accumulated in the storage unit according to the registration process.

Furthermore, "setting" is a task in which a message to be displayed on the customer display section 11 during practice is stored in advance in the storage section.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the register.

A CPU (central processing unit) 12 has a built-in arithmetic circuit, a command register, etc., and has a key date 2. Various calculation processes are performed based on the input information from the control keys 7, and the address bus 13, data bus 14. Control signal line 1
5, the ROM 16 stores fixed data such as "registration", "payment", "setting", etc., and the RAM 17 stores the sales data of each product entered by the key, the above-mentioned messages, etc. let Also, drawer 1
Drawer control circuit 18 that controls opening and closing of 0, key date 2
A key date input circuit 19 to which a key signal is input.
A control key input circuit 209 into which command signals from the control keys 7 are input; a display control circuit 21 which sends display drive signals to the main body display section 8 and the customer display section 11; printer control of the printer 22 which prints on receipts and recording paper. Each of the circuits 23 connects to the aforementioned data bus 14. It is connected to the CPU 72 via a control signal line I5.

In the RAM I 7, as shown in FIG. 3, the sales amount of the product entered using the registration key of the keyboard 2,
In addition to the sales data area RA1 consisting of a sales amount area and a sales data area for cumulatively storing sales data such as the number of items sold for each department, there is also a meso sage area RA2. A practice flag area RAS is formed.

In such a register, press control key 7 to
When a key input signal is input from the keyboard 2 in a state where the "Registration" task is set, the CPU 12 determines the type of the key input signal and operates each part according to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 to 7. has been done. That is,
In FIG. 4, when a key human input signal is input from key 2, pl first determines whether or not the key human input signal is a key signal from practice designation key 6. If the key signal is , the process proceeds to the PA shown in FIG. 5, and the setting task for starting the practice task is performed. That is, after setting the practice flag in the practice flag area RAS of the RAM 17 to 1#, a message previously stored in the message area RAE is read out, and this message is displayed in the dot matrix type customer display via the display control circuit 21. Display it on the display.

Note that the above message was input by setting the control key 7 to the "setting" task before setting it to the "registration" task, and by operating the combination key. It is composed of characters such as "chu".

If the key human input signal is not the key signal of the practice designation key 6 at Pl, it is determined at PB whether the key signal is from a registration key such as the numeric key 31 or department key 4, and the key of the registration key is If it is a signal, it is determined that the sales data of the sales amount and the number of sales items of 1 department code has been input, and the process moves to PB shown in FIG.

That is, in PJ, check whether the practice flag in the practice flag area RAJ of RAM Z 7 is 11", and
If it is 1", it is determined that the practice work is in progress, and the sales data entered manually using the registration key is transferred to the sales data area R.
Execute the registration process to 1. Then, the results are printed out on a receipt and recording paper by the printer 22 via the printer control circuit 23, and are also displayed on the display section 8 of the main body. In addition, if the practice flag is "0#" in Pl,
It is determined that normal registration work is in progress, and after registering the input sales data in the sales data area RAI, it is printed out on receipts and recording paper. Furthermore, the results are displayed on the main body display section 8.
and is displayed and output to the customer display section 11.

Furthermore, if the key human input signal is not the key signal of the registration key at PB in FIG. If the key signal is , the process moves to the PC shown in FIG. On the PC, after resetting the practice flag in the practice flag area ILA s of RAM 17 to "0", clear the sales data registered in the practice business, turn off the practice business end process, and complete all practice business. finish.

When a cashier newly employed in the sales registration business practices operating the register in a register configured in this way, by manually pressing the practice designation key provided on the keyboard 2, the dot matrix system of the customer display W511 is displayed. As shown in FIG. 8, a message consisting of the eight characters "Renshuuchu" is displayed on the eight-digit display element.

During practice, the main body display section 8 displays the department code, sales amount, etc. corresponding to the practice content, but the customer display section 11 continues to display the above-mentioned message. Further, when the practice work is completed and the end key is pressed manually, the message displayed on the customer display section Z1 goes out.

Incidentally, before starting the practice work, it is sufficient to set the control key 7 to the "settlement" work, print out the sales data that has been properly input, and then clear the stored contents of the sales data area RAI.

With such a register, customers can immediately understand that the register is in practice and the registration process is suspended. Furthermore, since the cashier or the instructor is not interrupted from practice, the efficiency of practice can be improved.

Note that the present invention has 1! The message to be displayed on I (not specified, customer display section 1) is
It is not limited to ``renshuuchu'' shown in Figure 8, but may be other characters such as ``teishichuu'' as shown in Figure 9(,), or as shown in Figure 9(b). May be displayed in English. Furthermore, if the number of digits that can be displayed on the customer display section 11 is 16, it is possible to display many detailed and kind messages as shown in FIG.

In addition, in the embodiment, the message area RA, ? RAM 1
However, if there is no need to change the message, the message area YtA2 may be provided in the ROM 16.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a message indicating the registration suspension state is displayed on the customer display section during practice work. Therefore, the customer can immediately know that the register is in a suspended state, and the cashier or instructor can improve their practice efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 8 show an electronic cash register according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a perspective view, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram, FIG. 3 is a main memory configuration diagram of RAM, FIGS. 4 to 7 are flowcharts showing operations, FIG. Figure (-> (
+, ) (C) is a diagram showing the display contents of the customer display section of the electronic cash register according to another embodiment of the present invention. 2...Keepade, 3...Number key, 4...Department key, 6...Practice designation key, 7...Control key, 8...Main display section, 11...Customer use Display section, 12
...CPU, 17...EtAM, 22...Printer, RAI...Sales data area, Rb2...Message area, RAJ...Practice flag area. Applicant's Representative Patent Attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8

Claims (1)

[Claims] The electronic cash register registers the sales data of the sold products in the storage section via the hexagonal device, and also sends a message to the customer informing the customer that the registration is suspended on the main body display section and the dot matrix type customer display section. A message memory for storing a message, a practice designation key for designating a practice task, and means for displaying and outputting the stored contents of the message memory to the customer display section when the practice designation key is pressed manually. electronic cash register.