WO1996031839A1 - Etiquetage de stock - Google Patents

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WO1996031839A1
WO1996031839A1 PCT/GB1996/000846 GB9600846W WO9631839A1 WO 1996031839 A1 WO1996031839 A1 WO 1996031839A1 GB 9600846 W GB9600846 W GB 9600846W WO 9631839 A1 WO9631839 A1 WO 9631839A1
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Gerhard Mynhardt
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Dyer, Alison, Margaret
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K17/00—Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K1/00—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion
    • G06K1/12—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion otherwise than by punching
    • G06K1/126—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion otherwise than by punching by photographic or thermographic registration
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K2019/06215—Aspects not covered by other subgroups
    • G06K2019/06281—Aspects not covered by other subgroups rewritable

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  • This invention relates to the labelling of stock in supermarkets and the like.
  • South African patent 94/2953 describes in detail the problems associated with shelf-edge marking As bar-coded stock items are not themselves individually priced, it is necessary for the shelves or gondolas on which those items are placed to be marked with the price of such items. In large stores, the prices of items may change on a daily basis. There is a logistic and organisational problem in ensuring that the prices of goods marked on the shelf correspond with the prices that those goods are charged for at the tills.
  • a printing apparatus comprising an elongate printing track defining a print-receiving surface which is integral with the track.
  • the printing carriage is arranged to travel along the track, the carriage including ; printing heads which receive data from a central database for printing on the printing surface at predetermined positions along the track for labelling items of stock on the shelf located at these positions.
  • the print receiving surface is typically formed from a material such as melamine, which is bonded to the printing track.
  • a material such as melamine
  • the system described above is typically, though not exclusively, an ink- based system which requires a combination of delible inks, a glossy printing surface and a non-toxic solvent which is capable of removing the ink from the printing surface.
  • a labelling apparatus comprising a printing unit and at least one printing label, the printing unit including a non-dispensing printing head for printing erasable indiciae on a passive re-w ritable surface zone defined on the label, receiver means for receiving data associated with the indiciae and embodied in machine -readable format on the label, and processor means for processing the data and providing updated indiciae associated with the data for printing on the passive surface zone.
  • the receiver means includes a reader and the label includes data embodied in machine-readable format adapted to be read by the reader.
  • Updating or changing data associated with the particular indiciae will normally mean that a machine readable format identifying the particular indiciae will be read and verified before all or any of the particular indiciae is modified, in order to ensure that the correct indiciae is modified.
  • non-dispensing is meant that no material such as printing ink or the like is physically dispensed from the printing head, which relies rather on differences in properties on the surface zone such as heat, magnetism, passive serni-permanent polarisation of liquid crystals and/or pressure to convey information onto the passive surface zone.
  • passive it is meant that no external source of power is required to maintain the indiciae or display on the label, as is the case with an electronic LCD or LED display module.
  • the indiciae include pricing indiciae for pricing items of stock
  • the data includes stock identification data
  • the label is arranged to be located in the region of a shelf edge at a position corresponding to at least one item of stock on the shelf, the stock identification data including lettering and/or a pictorial representation of the item of stock, and a machine readable stock identification code.
  • the printing unit has an operatively front contact face through which the printing head extends, the front contact face including locating or aligning means for locating and/or aligning the printing head in a contact position over the passive surface zone of the label.
  • the printing unit includes display means for displaying the indiciae and entry means for entering the indiciae
  • the processor means includes a microprocessor having memory means for storing the indiciae.
  • the printing unit may include drive means for scanning the printing head over the passive surface zone of the label.
  • the reader is a barcode reader and the machine readable stock identification code is a barcode printed on the label.
  • the passive surface zone may comprise heat-sensitive, magnetic or pressure- sensitive film.
  • a ferro-Iiquid crystal based film may be used in conjunction with a magnetic printing head which causes the crystals to alter their colour or tone with a change in polarity or alignment.
  • the film is a thermo-chromic film which is thermo-reversible, and which comprises a bistabl e thermo-sensitive compound which can be both printed on and erased repcatedly by the application of heat, with the printing and erasing steps occurring at different temperatures, corresponding to opaque and transparent states of the film, or vice versa.
  • the entry means includes a receiver forming part of a data link between a central host computer and the printing unit, for receiving updated pricing indiciae and associated stock identification data, the memory means including a look up table correlating the data and the updated indiciae, together with a keypad carried on the printing unit for manually entering data and controlling the operation of the printing unit.
  • the printing unit may com prise a hand-held battery-powered printing gun.
  • the printing unit comprises a printing carriage arranged to travel along a printing track on a shelf edge for printing at least one label supported on the printing track.
  • the printing label comprises an elongate strip having either a continuous centrally located passive surface zone or intermittent spaced apart surface zone portions corresponding to shelf item location.
  • the passive surface zone occupies the entire label, and is adapted to receive the data in machine readable format.
  • the erasing head may be separate from or integral with the printing head.
  • the invention extends to a label comprising a first printing zone for printing relatively static stock sacredtification data and a second passive re-writable printing zone for printing relatively dynamic stock pricing data, the first printing zone including machine-readablc coded data which is readable by means of a printing unit, together with lettering and/or a pictorial representation of the stock, the printing unit being arranged to print the pricing data onto the second zone using the machine readable data, and the label being arranged to be affixed to a shelf edge at a position corresponding to an item of stock identified and priced by the label.
  • the second passive re-writable printing zone comprises a thermo- chromic film which is thermo-reversible.
  • the invention further provides a printing unit comprising a non-dispensing printing head for printing erasable volatile indiciae on a passive surface zone defined on a label for labelling items of stock, an erasing head for erasing the indiciae, a reader for reading data associated with the indiciae and embodied in machine readable format on the label, and processor means for processing the data and providing updated indiciae associated with the data for printing on the passive surface zone, the indiciae including pricing indiciae for pricing items of stock, and the data including stock identification
  • the invention extends t ⁇ a method of printing labels using a labelling apparatus of the type described, including the steps of forming labels having first and second zones, the second zone typically comprising a heat- or pressure-sensitive film, pre-printing the first zone with relatively static indelible stock identification data, positioning the labels at locations corresponding to the stock being identified thereby, pricing the stock by applying relatively volatile delible pricing indiciae to the second zone, and periodically updating the pricing indiciae in situ by erasing the old pricing indiciae and applying new pricing indiciae
  • Figure 1 shows a plan view of one embodiment of a label of the invention
  • Figure 2 shows a schematic partly cut-away side view of a printing gun or unit of the invention in position on a shelf edge;
  • Figure 3 shows a partly schematic perspective view of the printing gun of Figure 2;
  • Figure 4 shows a block circuit diagram illustrating circuitry of the printing gun
  • Figure 5 shows a schematic block circuit diagram illustrating circtiitry of a docking station.
  • a printing card or label 10 is typically formed from a stiff sheet of cardboard or similar material which is capable or receiving printing ink.
  • Printed on the card 10 is information identifying a particular product on a shelf, in this case a 350g tin of Al baked beans.
  • a barcode 12 containing identification information in connection with the tin of baked beans.
  • a strip of erasable thermal film 14 is laminated to the card.
  • the thermal film is known as a thermo-chromic film, which is a type of thermo-reversible image medium.
  • the film comprises a transparent polyester substrate, an intermediate recording layer and an overlying layer.
  • the recording layer has an organic low molecular weight material, such as a high fatty acid, dispersed in a polymer resin matrix having a particle size which is smaller than 1 ⁇ m.
  • the material is typically in a milky opaque state at room temperature. When this material is heated, the transparency begins to increase from about 70°C.
  • the thermo-sensitive layer In order to change from the maximum or partial opaque state to the maximum transparent state, the thermo-sensitive layer must be heated to a temperature of at least 95oC but no higher than 110°C. When the material is cooled back to roorii temperature, the maximum transparency is maintained. When the reversible thermo-sensitive material is then re-heated to a temperature of 110°C or above, an intermediate state is reached midway between the maximum transparency and the maximum opacity. When the material is cooled once mpre to room temperature, it reverts to the original milky white colour.
  • the film can be recorded thermo-reversibly, and can semi-peixnanently maintain each of the white and transparent states.
  • the film can be printed by a thermal print head, which : s used to print the price R12.33.
  • the temperature for changing from the opaque to the transparent state is from 95°C to 110oC, as a result of which the film can be erased by a heating roll, a heating plate or the same thermal head, when repricing is necessary.
  • the printing card or label 10 may be replaced by a continuous printing strip having a central continuous or broken band of erasable thermo-chromic film.
  • a slanted shelf edge 16 is shown fitted with a pair of opposed rails 18 which are dimensioned to hold captive a series of cards 10 of the type illustrated in Figure 1, or alternatively a continuous print-receiving strip.
  • the shelf edge 16 forms part of a supermarket shelf or gondola for carrying items of stock.
  • a portable printing gun 20 which is illustrated in schematic form in Figures 2 and 3, comprises a housing 22 including a handle enclosing a battery pack 24.
  • the battery pack is connected to a power supply circuit incorporated on a first printed circuit board (pcb) 26 which is provided with a suitable heat sink 28.
  • the power supply circuit on the printed circuit board 26 in turn supplies control circuitry incorporated on additional pcb's 30, 32 and 34.
  • the power supply circuitry also controls the supply of power to a motor and gearbox assembly 36 from which a worm gear 38 extends.
  • a thermal print head 40 rests on a heat sink 42, and is arranged to travel up and down along the worm gear between limits determined by top and bottom optical sensors
  • the position of the thermal printing head is determined by a position sensing disc 48 which is used to sense the motor speed or position of the worm gear.
  • the disc is chemically etched with small serrated edges or holes, the position of which is sensed by means of an optical speed sensor
  • a CCD barcode reading head 52 is arranged to move up and down in concert with the thermal print head 40, and is used to read the barcode 12 on the card 10 so as to ensure that the correct pricing information corresponding to the goods reflected on the card is downloaded.
  • the topmost surface of the gun is formed with a graphics LCD display 54 having a minimum size of 256 x 128 pixels and a software-controlled back- light display.
  • a sixteen key keypad 56 is located adjacent the display.
  • the keypad is based on a self-scanning parallel keyboard controller chip providing de-bouncing and an interrupt to the central microprocessor indicating that a key is down.
  • the keypad includes an on-off key, an enter key and an update key to trigger an update cycle, together with conventional numerical keys.
  • the thermal print head 40 which extends through a front window 58 in the printing gun, is an intelligent 320 pixel print head incorporating a pixel data shift register and latches, as well as a temperature control thermistor. Pixel data is shifted into an associated shift register, and the print head is enabled for a short period of time so as to heat the elements to the desired temperature. Temperature monitoring is continuous, and the enable period is adjusted so as to ensure that the desired temperatures are achieved and maintained.
  • the head is also used for erase mode, in which a higher temperature is attained, as was described earlier on in the specification. Alternatively, a separate erase head issued, which is heated from 95° to 110°.
  • the motor drives trie head up and down the area to be printed via the worm gear 38.
  • the printing gun is formed with a front face 59 slanted at approximately 45° so as to accommodate the corresponding slanted shelf edge 16.
  • a locating lip or ridge 59A extends from the printing gun, overhangs the top rail 18, and is used to position the printing gun 20 relative to the shelf edge 16.
  • the handle of the gun is provided with an on-off trigger switch 60.
  • Infra- red optical transmitters and receivers 61 and 62 are mounted on a front surface of the handle, and are used to establish a serial short range optical data link in a manner to be described further on in the specification.
  • a schematic block circuit diagram of the printing gun includes a 16 bit 80C188EC microprocessor 64 driven by a clock 66 having a speed of at least 28 Mhz.
  • the microprocessor includes integral functional peripherals such as serial ports and timers.
  • a key interrupt input 68 is connected to the keyboard interface circuit 34, and indicates when a key is down as well as when the thermal print head 40 is ready to accept additional inputs.
  • the microprocessor 64 also includes a reset input line 72. When not operational, the microprocessor is maintained in a sleep mode in order to conserve battery power, with an interrupt from the keyboard serving to boot up the microprocessor.
  • the microprocessor is provided with 128K of static RAM 74 via a 22 line address bus 75 for receiving updated pricing data.
  • a number of sectored flash memory devices 76 are provided in the form of between two and 16 Mb of flash ROM. At least one paging line 78 is used to achieve the required address range.
  • the LCD display 54 is linked to the microprocessor via the address bus 75 and an eight bit data bus 82.
  • the keypad 56 is linked to the keypad interface circuit 34 in the manner indicated.
  • the data bus is also linked to motor driver circuitry 86 which has inputs from the upper and lower optical sensors 44 and 46 and the speed control sensor 50.
  • the motor and gearbox assembly 36 is driven via an amplifier 88.
  • the thermal print head 40 is a 320 pixel print head coupled to a corresponding 320 bit serial shift register 90. Pixel data is shifted into the shift register 90, after which the print head is enabled for a short period of time.
  • a thermal print head control circuit 92 has an output enable line 94 coupled to a DC to DC convenor 96. The supply of voltage to the thermal print head is stepped up by the DC to DC convenor 96 from the nominal 6V battery supply to 24V. The convenor is designed to handle the relatively short term high current peaks at this voltage.
  • a control line 98 is linked directly to the thermal print head, and the shift register 90 includes a latch line 100, a clock line 102 land a serial data line 104 via which pixel data is shifted into the shift register 90. Temperature monitoring of the print head is continuously undertaken via a temperature sense line 106 which is fed back to the print head control circuitry 92. Temperature monitoring is continuously undertaken, and the enable period is adjusted in order to ensure that the desired temperat ⁇ re is achieved and maintained.
  • the barcode reader 52 includes a high output light emitting diode 10_. Light from the diode 108 is reflected off the barcode 12 via a focusing lens arrangement 110 to a phot o-sensitive transistor 112. The sensed signal is fed via an amplifier 114 to an analogue multiplexer 116, which also has as an input for the temperature sense line 106. Signals from the multiplexer are fed via a buffer 118 to a twelve bit A/D convenor 120 which allows the print head temperature to be measured as well as the barcode signal to be read by the microprocessor via the data bus line 82. The A/D convenor presents its digital output in two bytes, namely the most significant four bits and the least significant eight bits.
  • the power supply circuitry 122 incorporated on the power supply pcb 26 is provided with a pair of charging terminals 124 for connection to an external DC power supply, via which the battery pack 24 incorporating NiCad or NiMh batteries is charged.
  • the battery supply is converted to a regulated 5V DC supply voltage which is enabled and disabled under software control
  • the power supply circuitry 122 also converts the battery supply to a low current 5V DC supply which is always present, and which is used to power the microprocessor and the memory at all times via a power supply line 126.
  • a system reset line 128 provides a system reset when power has been fully restored.
  • An off-the-shelf battery charger controller is used to charge the battery pack and to provide battery conditioning, and a switching DC to DC converter is used to provide the 5V DC supply voltage 130.
  • Asynchronous data is transmitted to and received from a docking station, which is illustrated in more detail in Figure 5, and is in turn connected to a host computer, via the optical transmitter and receiver 61 and 62, at a speed of approximately 9600 bits per second.
  • These are in the form of an infrared light emitting diode 134 and a reciprocal photo-sensitive transistor 136 at speed of approximately 9600 bits per second.
  • Full duplex transmission is provided via a pair of similar optical components carried on the docking station.
  • a buffer 138 is used to buffer and to drive the light emitting diode 134, and an infra-red filter 140 is placed in front of the photosensitive transistor 136 so as to allow only infra-red signals to be received.
  • the received optical signal is converted to an electrical signal and is amplified and shaped via receiver circuitry provided with a TTL output 142.
  • a docking station illustrated in highly schematic form at 144 is provided with both data transfer circuitry 146 and charging circuitry 148.
  • the data transfer circuitry 146 is linked via an RS 232 link
  • the infra-red light emitting diode 134 transmits data to a photosensitive transistor 154 forming part of an optical receiver 156 which is in turn linked to the RS 232 link 150 via a RS 232 convenor 158.
  • the photo-sensitive transistor 136 in the printing gun receives information from an infra-red light emitting diode 160 which forms pan of an optical transmitter 162 linked to the RS 232 link 150 via a similar RS 232 converter 164.
  • the charging circuitry 148 includes a low voltage DC power supply 166 which has a mains input 168 and a 12 volt output coupled to a battery charger circuit 170 having terminals 172 which are arranged to be plugged into the corresponding charging terminals 124 forming part of the power supply circuitry 122.
  • the labelling apparatus of the invention is used in the following manner.
  • Cards 10 provided with laminated strips of thermal film 14 arc stored in a card hopper located in the store manager's office.
  • the card hopper feeds a colour printer which is do wnloaded with information relating to all the items of stock in the supermarket.
  • This information is relayed from the host computer 152 having a central database which is also linked to the supermarket tills, and inco rporates all the printed information on the card 10, and specifically includes the barcode 12.
  • the host computer 152 having a central database which is also linked to the supermarket tills, and inco rporates all the printed information on the card 10, and specifically includes the barcode 12.
  • the strips are left blank and the printing takes place by means of the printing gun 20.
  • the central database downloads the list of product codes to be changed, together with the new prices and any position or location information which will assist the operator in identifying the particular shelf or gondola location where updating has to take place.
  • This information may be downloaded via a hardwired link or alternatively via the previously described infra-red link using the docking station 144, which provides for simultaneous data downloading and charging of the printing gun.. All the relevant information is displayed on the keypad-activated LCD display 54 located on the pricing gun 20.
  • Alignment means for laterally aligning the printing gun may also be, provided, typically in the form of a series of aligning arrows, with the width of the contact surface 59 typically corresponding to the width of the card 10.
  • the fixed CCD head 52 reads the barcode 12, and the printing head 40 is then activated so as to print the updated pricing data retrieved from the static RAM module 74.
  • the pricing data may be manually downloaded via the keypad, and then verified using the barcode.
  • the keypad display is merely used to assist the operator in identifying the correct label, which is then automatically read and updated via the barcode.
  • Each re-printing transaction is recorded in a volatile memory in the printing gun.
  • the entire erase and print step takes approximately three seconds.
  • the transactions recorded in the printing gun are downloaded into the central database so as to ensure that all the stock requiring re-pricing has been correctly and completely repriced.
  • An advantage of the labelling apparatus and method of the invention is that it can readily be used to update that information which changes the most rapidly, namely the pricirig information. It therefore becomes unnecessary to re-print all the other information in connection with a particular product. In addition, the operator can target only those items requiring repricing, and the entire shelf edge does not need to be updated.
  • a further advantage associated with a passive thermal film or the like is that it docs not tend to smudge or stain, being non-absorbent, it does not require the use of an erasing solvent or the like, and it does not require a mass of wiring as in the case of a powered LCD or LED display.

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L'invention porte sur un appareil à étiqueter comprenant une unité d'impression et au moins une étiquette d'impression. L'unité d'impression comporte une tête d'impression pouvant être chauffée servant à imprimer des indications susceptibles d'être effacées comme des renseignements concernant les prix sur un secteur d'un film thermochromique prévu sur l'étiquette. Une tête d'effacement pouvant être chauffée est destinée à effacer les indications de prix. Un lecteur de codes à barres se trouvant sur l'unité d'impression lit un code à barres se trouvant sur l'étiquette à côté du secteur thermochromique. L'étiquette comporte également des représentations par images ou des textes concernant un article faisant partie d'un stock sur un rayon. L'unité d'impression lit le code à barres et les renseignements mis à jour concernant les prix, conservés dans l'unité d'impression, sont alors chargés sur le film thermochromique via la tête d'impression.
PCT/GB1996/000846 1995-04-05 1996-04-09 Etiquetage de stock WO1996031839A1 (fr)

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