Sales data processing system

• US 4,661,908 A
• Filed: 06/10/1985
• Issued: 04/28/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co.
• Inventors: Yamato, Hajime, Karasawa, Hideo, Hamano, Koichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Harkcom, Gary V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAYES, GAIL O
• Application Number:
  US06/743,167
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 364/405, 364/567, 364/568, 235/383, 235/385
• US Class Current: 705/23
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/4144 for controlling weight of goods in commercial establishments, e.g. supermarket, P.O.S. systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/42 electrically operated
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0054 with control of supplementary check-parameters, e.g. weight or number of articles

Abstract

A sales data processing system reads sales data containing article codes previously attached to sales articles, and executes registration of sales data according to the sales data thus read. The sales data processing system includes an initial weighing scale for measuring weight of a plurality of sales articles whose sales data is to be read out, a second weighing scale for measuring weight of a plurality of sales articles whose sales data have been read out, first and second data memories for storing stable weight data from the first and second weighing scales, third and fourth memories for storing variation amounts of weight data derived from the first and second weighing scales when an article is removed from the first weighing scale and is then placed on the second weighing scale after the sales data of the article is read out, and a data processing unit for executing the registration of the sales data according to the readout sales data when it is detected that the contents in the third and fourth memories are substantially coincident with each other.

Claims

1. A sales data processing system comprising:

data reading means for reading sales article data previously attached to sales articles;

first weighing scale means for measuring weight of one or a plurality of sales articles whose sales data are to be read out by said data reading means, to produce weight data corresponding to a stable measured value;

second weighing scale means for measuring weight of one or a plurality of sales articles whose sales data have been read out by said data reading means, to produce weight data corresponding to a stable measured value;

first and second memory means for storing weight data from said first and second weighing scales;

third memory means for storing data representing a difference between the weight data derived from said first weighing scale means and the contents in said first memory means when the former contents have varied from the latter contents;

fourth memory means for storing data representing a difference between the weight data derived from said second weighing scale means and the contents in said second memory means when the former contents have varied from the latter contents;

fifth memory means for storing sales data read by said data reading means;

means for comparing the respective differences stored in said third and fourth memory means; and

data processing means for executing the registration of the article data according to the sales data stored in said fifth memory means, when said data processing means detects that the contents of said third and fourth memory means are substantially coincident with each other.

2. A sales data processing system, according to claim 1, which further comprises display means and initial weight data memory means for storing initial weight data derived from said first weighing scale means when at least one article, the sales data of which is to be read out, is placed on said first weighing scale means, and in which said data processing means terminates the registration of sales data for said at least one article when it is detected that the weight data derived from said second weighing scale means is substantially equal to the weight data in said initial weight data memory means, and which, at the same time, displays, by said display means, the total amount data as obtained on the basis of the registration data stored in said registration memory means.

3. A sales data processing system, according to claim 1, which further comprises article weight data memory means for storing weight data corresponding to a plurality of article data, and wherein said data processing means inhibits said registration when it is not detected that the contents of said third and fourth memory means are each equal to the registered weight data as determined by the article data in said article data memory.

4. A sales data processing system, according to claim 3, wherein said registration memory means includes article data memory areas for storing a plurality of article data, unit price memory areas for storing a plurality of unit price data corresponding to said article data and a plurality of total amount memory areas provided for said article data and said data processing means, and which, in executing registration, detects one of said article data memory areas which stores article data corresponding to the sales data stored in said article data memory, and reads out unit price data from corresponding one of said unit price memory areas, accumulatively storing the unit price data into a corresponding one of said total amount memory areas.

5. A sales data processing system, according to claim 2, wherein said data processing means compares weight data from said second memory means and initial weight data memory means with each other to determine whether the weight data from said second weighing scale means is equal to the weight data in said initial weight data memory means.

6. A sales data processing system, according to claim 2, wherein said registration memory means includes article data memory areas for storing a plurality of article data, unit price memory areas for storing a plurality of unit price data corresponding to said article data and a plurality of total amount memory areas provided for said article data and said data processing means, which, in executing registration, detects one of said article data memory areas which stores article data corresponding to the sales data stored in said article data memory, and reads out unit price data from corresponding one of said unit price memory areas, accumulatively storing the unit price data into a corresponding one of said total amount memory areas.

7. A sales data processing system according to claim 1, wherein said registration memory means includes article data memory areas for storing a plurality of article data, unit price memory areas for storing a plurality of unit price data corresponding to said article data and a plurality of total amount memory areas provided for said article data and said data processing means, which, in executing the registration, detects one of said article data memory areas which stores article data corresponding to the sales data stored in said article data memory, and reads out unit price data from a corresponding one of said unit price memory areas, accumulatively storing the unit price data into corresponding one of said total amount memory areas.

8. A sales data processing system according to claim 1, which further comprises article weight data memory means for storing weight data corresponding to a plurality of article data, and in which said data processing means inhibit said registration when it is not detected that the contents of said third and fourth memory means are each equal to the registered weight data as determined by the article data in said article data memory.

9. A sales data processing system, according to claim 2, which further comprises article weight data memory means for storing weight data corresponding to a plurality of article data, and wherein said data processing means inhibits said registration when it is not detected that the contents of said third and fourth memory means are each equal to the registered weight data as determined by the article data in said article data memory.

10. A sales data processing system, according to claim 3, wherein said registration memory means includes article data memory ares for storing a plurality of article data, unit price memory areas for storing a plurality of unit price data corresponding to said article data and a plurality of total amount memory areas provided for said article data and said data processing means, and which, in executing registration, detects one of said article data memory areas which stored article data corresponding to the sales data stored in said article data memory, and reads out unit price data from corresponding one of said unit price memory areas, accumulatively storing the unit price data into a corresponding one of said total amount memory areas.