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Technique for automatic tracking of cassette rentals and managing of information related thereto

  • US 4,839,875 A
  • Filed: 05/14/1987
  • Issued: 06/13/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A rent control system for controlling the rent and return of cassettes, said system comprising:

  • a plurality of cassettes to be controlled, each internally containing an article, and being provided with IC circuit means for storing commodity information concerning said article, and signal output means for transferring said commodity information stored in said IC circuit means to outside;

    a plurality of shelf means for respectively accommodating a plurality of said cassettes to be controlled; and

    control means connected with said plurality of shelf means, and having a plurality of signal input means for receiving signals from said signal output means of said cassettes, and memory means being coupled with said control means so as to store signals from said plurality of signal input means;

    wherein said control means includes detectors provided in said respective shelves, each detecting the cassette insertion into the shelf;

    a rent control memory including a plurality of tables respectively corresponding to said cassettes, said tables each consisting of a commodity information area for storing commodity information, a rent information area for storing rent information, and a shelf number area for storing a shelf number;

    a timer for measuring time from the instant that said detector detects the pull-out of the cassette from the shelf;

    rent registering means for registering rent information into the rent information area of the table corresponding to the number of the shelf from which said cassette is pulled out, in response to a rent key operation which has been done before the time measures a predetermined allowance time;

    status pending registering means for registering status pending information into the rent information area of the table corresponding to the number of the shelf from which said cassette has been pulled out, in response to the end of the allowance time measured by said time.

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