JPS6072095A - 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 electronic cash register that prints receipt paper replacement information on internal recording paper when the receipt paper is replaced.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Some electronic cash registers (hereinafter abbreviated as registers) installed in stores, etc., are equipped with electronic cash registers (hereinafter abbreviated as "registers") that store product sales data manually through registration keys such as numeric keys and department keys on the keyboard. Some machines are configured to store the above-mentioned manual sales data in a storage unit and print it out on internal recording paper called a receipt and journal.

The receipt and journal papers are wound into a roll and set in the printer.

Each time the total amount of money is transferred or received, the receipt is cut off and handed to the customer. On the other hand, in the journal, sales data including the cash amount and the like are printed in the same way as receipts for registration work, and also printed are ilv calculation, settlement data for setting work, setting data, etc. Then, at the end of the day's work or at the start of the next morning's work, the sales amount for the day is compared with the amount recorded in the journal.

In this register, when the receipt is finished during the above-mentioned registration process, the end detection circuit in the printer is activated and an audible notification is issued by the paper end lamp or buzzer.1/The registration process is temporarily stopped. Interrupt. Then, when the cashier replenishes a new roll of receipt paper,
Registration work will resume.

1- However, since department stores, large-scale supermarkets, etc. use many registers and sell large quantities of products in a short period of time, the above-mentioned receipt paper is frequently replaced. In this case, it is difficult to accurately determine how many rolls of receipt paper are consumed in which register. Therefore, there was a problem in that it was not possible to purchase qualified L/receipt paper and manage inventory.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and its purpose is to reduce the consumption of receipt paper by printing out receipt paper replacement information on internal recording paper (journal). The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic cash register that can grasp the quantity, purchase appropriate receipt paper, and perform inventory management.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention detects zero in the printable area of receipt paper,
an end detection means for sending out end No. 18; and at least one
A storage means is provided for storing exchange information including the number of times the notebook paper has been exchanged.

When the end detection means sends out an end signal, the exchange information stored in the storage means is printed out on internal recording paper.

[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 (hereinafter abbreviated as register), in which a keyboard 2 provided on the front of a housing 1 includes a counting key 3 for inputting the sales amount of products, and a clear button. A key 4, a department key 5 indicating product classification, a control key 6, a manual forwarding key 7, and the like are arranged. Further, a display section 8 is provided at the upper front of the housing 1, and a journal monitoring window 9 and a receipt issuing port 1o are formed in the middle section.

The n-column display section 8 is composed of a number display section for electronically displaying the department code, price, total price, etc. of the sold product, and a plurality of try marks including a paper end lamp 8a and the like.

The control key 6 is a side leg switch for controlling the power on and off, and instructing the central processing unit to execute various functions such as 1-registration, payment, and setting. be. In addition, [Registration, 1] refers to the work of storing the price of sold products in the storage unit, calculating the final price, etc., and printing the results on receipts and internal records (journals). Aoi. In addition, "settlement" means, for example, 1 day's ¥: At the end of work 1 (second time), print out the "Climbing - 1 Nyoshi storage section, 7 crushed sales - H, rt total money γM, total sales points, etc." This is the task of clearing the contents of the storage unit after the transaction is completed.Also, "setting" is the task of setting the register number, cashier number, etc. in the storage section before starting the sales operation.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of the registers.○CPU
(Central processing unit) 11 has a built-in arithmetic circuit, command register, etc., and performs various arithmetic processing based on input information from the keyboard 2. , "Registration", "Payment", "
ROMJ that stores fixed data of programs such as "Settings"
5 and the RAM 1G which stores the sales data of each product manually entered. In addition, the CPU 11 has
A control key input circuit 17 receives command signals from the control keys 6, a keyboard input circuit 18 receives key signals from the keyboard 2, a display control circuit 19 sends display drive signals to the display section 8, and prints on receipts. A printer control circuit 23 that sends a print signal to the printer drive circuit 22 of the receipt printer 20 that prints and the journal printer 21 that prints on the journal, a buzzer output circuit 25 that sends a drive signal to the buzzer 24, the date of sale, day of the week, time, etc. A clock circuit 26 and the like that send out data are connected via the data bus 13 and control line 14.

Further, an end detection circuit is incorporated in the receipt printer 20, which sends an end signal to the printer control circuit 23 via the printer drive circuit 22 when the printable area of the receipt paper becomes zero.

In the RAM 16, as shown in Fig. 3, in addition to the sales data area 'R'1 that stores product sales data such as department code, number of sales items, and sales amount, it is also printed in a journal when receipt paper is replaced. a print message area RA2 for storing message characters to be printed, a work area RA3, a receipt paper exchange counter RAJ for measuring the number of exchanges of receipt paper;
For example, "registration" and "payment" when exchanging receipt paper.
Register status area RAS that stores the business status of the register such as "Settings", and cashier number area RA6i that stores the cashier's number in the case where the business status is 1 registered.
A register number area RA7 is formed to store the register number of the worker.

The CPU II detects, for example, when a receipt sheet ends during normal registration work, an end detection circuit built into the receipt printer 20 is activated, and an end signal is sent via the printer drive circuit 22, printer control circuit 23, and data bus 13. When input, the configuration is such that each unit executes the receipt paper exchange operation according to the flowchart shown in FIG. That is, when the end signal is received, the printer control circuit 23 drives the journal printer 21 via the printer drive circuit, and as shown in FIG. Next, data representing time such as year, month, day, day of the week, time, etc. is read from the clock circuit 26 and printed on the journal 27 using the same means. Further, the register operation status in the register status area RA5 of the RAM 16 is checked, and characters indicating this operation status are set in the work area RA,9. However, if the business status is a registered business as in the embodiment, the cashier number read from 6 to the cashier number area R is set in the work area RAs. Next, when the memory contents of the work area RAS and message characters such as [RECEIPT ENDJ] set in advance in the setting operation are sent to the printer control circuit 23, as shown in FIG. The letter C is printed out. Furthermore, 1 is added to the number of exchanges in the receipt paper exchange counter RA4, and the incremented number of exchanges is read out.
Reads the register number of 0 and prints out the read number of exchanges and the register number E to the journal 27. Number of exchanges.

When the printing of register number E is completed, the asterisk character r%J string F similar to the BiJ description is printed. This completes the printing of exchange information on the journal 27.

When the printing of the exchange information is completed, the paper end lamp 8a of the display section 8 is blinked via the display control circuit 19, and the buzzer 24 is sounded via the buzzer output circuit 25 to notify the cashier that the receipt paper is finished. Notice.

When the cashier sets new receipt paper in the receipt printer 20 and confirms that the replacement work has been completed, for example by manually pressing the clear key 4 provided on the keyboard 2, the paper end lamp 8a is turned off and the buzzer is activated. stop. Then, the state shifts to a state where a new registration key is waiting, and the receipt paper exchange operation ends.
With an electronic register configured in this way, for example, when the receipt paper ends during registration, the end detection circuit in the receipt printer 20 is activated, temporarily interrupting the registration, and as shown in FIG. In the journal 27, there is data G representing the year, month, day, day of the week, time, etc., and cashier number B.

Message character C, number of exchanges of receipt paper.

The exchange information consisting of register number E is the asterisk character r.
-X-J It is printed between columns A and F.

Therefore, by checking the journal 27 at a later date, it is possible to accurately grasp the consumption amount of receipt paper for each register.

Therefore, it is possible to purchase qualified receipt paper and manage inventory.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. That is, in the embodiment, the receipt printer 2
When the end of the receipt paper is detected at step o, the journal 27 first prints out exchange information indicating that the receipt paper should be replaced, and then the paper end lamp 8a and the buzzer 24
At the store, the cashier was notified that the receipt paper was no longer available and had the cashier replace the receipt paper. However, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6, when the receipt printer 2o detects the end of the receipt paper, the paper end lamp 8
a) Notify the cashier at the counter 24 that the receipt paper has ended, and have the cashier exchange the receipt paper.Next, after printing the exchange information indicating the exchange of the receipt paper at the journal 27, the paper is finished. Even if the lamp 8a is used to cancel the buzzer 24, the same effect as in the above embodiment can be obtained.

Further, the contents of the exchange information may be arbitrarily set except for the number of exchanges of receipt paper.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, when the receipt paper is used up, replacement information including the number of times the receipt paper has been replaced is printed out on the internal recording paper (journal), so the consumption amount of the receipt paper can be accurately determined. It is possible to purchase suitable receipt paper and manage inventory.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 5 show an electronic gear resistor according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a perspective view, FIG. 2 is a block diagram, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the main components of RAM. 84 is a flowchart showing the operation, FIG. 5 is a journal print format diagram, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of an electronic cash register according to another embodiment of the present invention. . 2...Key chain, 3...Number key, 4...Clear key, 6...Control key, 8...Display section,
8a...Paper end lamp, 9...Journal supervisor P
A window, 10...Receipt issuing port, 11...CPU. 16-RAM, 20-L/sheet printer,
21... Journal printer, 22... Printer drive circuit, 23... Printer side 1 circuit, 24...-Buzzer, 26... Clock circuit, 27... Journal (internal recording paper), B. ... Cashier number, D... Number of exchanges, E... Register [to LR8... Sales data area, RA 4... Receipt paper exchange counter. Applicant's Representative Patent Attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure 2 IU 21 Figure 3 Figure 6 Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] Registering product sales data manually using a registration key provided on the keyboard, and detecting zero in the printable area of the receipt paper in an electronic cash register that prints on receipt paper and internal recording paper; end detection means for sending out an end signal; storage means for storing exchange information including at least the number of times the receipt paper has been exchanged; An electronic cash register characterized by comprising: printing means for printing out exchange information on the internal recording paper.