Printer and weight measuring apparatus configured to a weigh a target and output weight data of the target and medium storing print processing program

• US 10,642,543 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ishii, Hidekazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas D
• Application Number:
  US16/356,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20190369928A1
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/415 combined with recording means
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/18 Indicating devices, e.g. for remote indication; Recording devices; Scales, e.g. graduated
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/42 electrically operated
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1215 achieving increased printing speed, i.e. reducing the time between printing start and printing end
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1243 Variable data printing, e.g. document forms, templates, labels, coupons, advertisements, logos, watermarks, transactional printing, fixed content versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1251 for continuous media, e.g. web media, rolls
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00323 with a measuring, monitoring or signaling apparatus, e.g. for transmitting measured information to a central location

Abstract

A printer connectable to a weight measuring apparatus includes: a printing head performing printing on a print medium; and a controller. The controller performs: a data base obtaining processing of obtaining a data base having first and second fields; a template obtaining processing of obtaining a template having an input object and an output object arranged therein in a predetermined aspect; a weight data allocating processing of allocating the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus to the input object of the template; an output value allocating processing of allocating, to the output object, an output value corresponding to the weight data and determined based on the data base; and a printing processing of performing the printing on the print medium based on the template wherein the weight data is allocated to the input object and the determined output value is allocated to the output object.

Claims

1. A printer connectable to a weight measuring apparatus which is configured to measure weight of a measurement object and to output weight data corresponding to the measured weight, the printer comprising:

a printing head configured to perform printing on a print medium; and

a controller,

wherein the controller is configured to execute;

a data base obtaining processing of obtaining a data base having a first field and a second field, weight values being stored in the first field, output values corresponding respectively to the weight values being stored in the second field;

a template obtaining processing of obtaining a template in which an input object and an output object are arranged in a predetermined manner, the input object being linked with the first field of the data base, the output object being linked with the second field of the data base;

a weight data allocating processing of allocating the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus to the input object of the template;

an output value allocating processing of determining, based on the data base, an output value which corresponds to the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus, and of allocating the determined output value to the output object of the template; and

a printing processing of performing the printing on the print medium based on the template in which the weight data is allocated to the input object and the determined output value is allocated to the output object, wherein

in the data base obtaining processing, the controller is configured to further obtain another data base of which content is different from that of the data base,

in the output value allocating processing, the controller is configured to;

further determine another output value which corresponds to the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus, based on the another data base; and

allocate one optimum output value, which is one of the determined output value and the determined another output value and which optimally satisfies a predetermined selective condition, to the output object of the template, and

in the printing processing, the controller is configured to perform the printing on the print medium based on the template in which the weight data is allocated to the input object and the optimum output value is allocated to the output object.

2. The printer according to claim 1,

wherein each of the weight values is a digit string,

each of the output values is a character string or a digit string, and

in the output value allocating processing, the controller is configured to determine a weight value which is included in the weight values stored in the first field and which corresponds to the weight data, and to determine, as the output value, an output value which is included in the output values stored in the second field and which corresponds to the determined weight value.

3. The printer according to claim 2,

wherein each of the output values is the digit string, and

the output values are made to correspond proportionally to the weight values, respectively.

4. The printer according to claim 2, wherein each of the output values is the character string indicating whether the weight data satisfies a predetermined condition.

5. The printer according to claim 1,

wherein each of the weight values is a digit string,

each of the output values is a character string or a digit string,

the weight values correspond respectively to numerical ranges, the weight values representing, respectively, boundary values of the numerical ranges, and

in the output value allocating processing, the controller is configured to determine a weight value which is included in the weight values stored in the first field and which corresponds to a numerical range including the weight data therein, and to determine, as the output value, an output value which is included in the output values stored in the second field and which corresponds to the determined weight value.

6. The printer according to claim 5,

wherein the data base further has a third field,

conditions regarding the measurement object are stored in the third field,

each of the conditions is a character string or a digit string, and

in the output value allocating processing, the controller is configured to further determine a condition which is included in the conditions stored in the third field and which is satisfied by the measurement object, and to determine, as the output value, an output value which is included in the output values stored in the second field and which corresponds to the determined weight value and the determined condition.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a processor of a terminal which is connectable to a printer and a weight measuring apparatus, the weight measuring apparatus being configured to weigh a target and output weight data of the target, the programs, when executed by the processor, causing the terminal to execute:

a data base generating processing of generating a data base having a first field and a second field, weight values being stored in the first field, output values corresponding respectively to the weight values being stored in the second field;

a first template generating processing of generating a template in which an input object and an output object are arranged in a predetermined manner, the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus being allocated to the input object, an output value which corresponds to the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus and which is determined based on the data base being allocated to the output object;

a first transmitting processing of transmitting the data base and the template to the printer, wherein

in the data base generating processing, obtaining another data base of which content is different from that of the data base,

in the first template generating processing;

further determining another output value which corresponds to the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus, based on the another data base; and

allocating one optimum output value, which is one of the output value and the another output value and which optimally satisfies a predetermined selective condition, to the output object of the template; and

a printing processing, including printing on a print medium based on the template in which the weight data is allocated to the input object and the optimum output value is allocated to the output object.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a processor of a terminal which is connectable to a printer, the printer being connectable to a weight measuring apparatus which is configured to weigh a target and output weight data of the target, the programs, when executed by the processor, causing the terminal to execute:

a data base generating processing of generating a data base having a first field and a second field, weight values being stored in the first field, output values corresponding respectively to the weight values being stored in the second field;

a template generating processing of generating a template in which an input object linked with the first field and an output object linked with the second field are arranged in a predetermined manner;

a weight data allocating processing of obtaining the weight data from the weight measuring apparatus via the printer and of allocating the weight data to the input object of the template;

an output value allocating processing of allocating an output value, which corresponds to the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus and which is determined based on the data base, to the output object of the template;

a print data generating processing of generating print data usable for performing printing on a print medium, by using the template in which the weight data is allocated to the input object and the output value corresponding to the weight value is allocated to the output object;

a transmitting processing of transmitting the print data to the printer, wherein

in the data base generating processing, further obtaining another data base of which content is different from that of the data base,

in the template generating processing;

further determining another output value which corresponds to the weight data received from the weight measuring apparatus, based on the another data base; and

allocating one optimum output value, which is one of the output value and the another output value and which optimally satisfies a predetermined selective condition, to the output object of the template; and

a printing processing, including printing on a print medium based on the template in which the weight data is allocated to the input object and the optimum output value is allocated to the output object.