Point of sale apparatus including a depositing/withdrawing apparatus

• US 5,302,811 A
• Filed: 07/16/1991
• Issued: 04/12/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukatsu, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Willis, Davis L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SIKORSKI, EDWARD
• Application Number:
  US07/731,072
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 235/383, 235/384, 364/404, 364/405, 902/14, 902/21, 902/22, 902/8
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/00 Counting coins in combination with coin-sorting G07D3/16; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 5/24 with change-giving
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

In an article sales system, a POS terminal 100 is connected to a depositing/withdrawing apparatus 200. Purchased articles may be paid for by inserting a credit or cash card into slot 102, or a prepaid card into slot 122. Banknotes and coins are inserted into the depositing/withdrawing apparatus 209, 210. The customer selects whether excess cash inserted into the depositing/withdrawing apparatus is to be paid to the customer in cash, or in the form of a prepaid card, or deposited in the account read from the credit or cash card.

Claims

1. A point of sales apparatus including a depositing/withdrawing apparatus, comprising:

first means for determining a total sales amount of at least one article sold to a customer;

second means for receiving cash from the customer;

third means for identifying the denominations of the cash and the number of bank notes and coins involved in the cash;

fourth means for determining the amount of cash received from the customer on the basis of the denominations and the number of banknotes and coins identified by the identifying means;

fifth means for storing the cash identified by said second means;

sixth means connected to the first and fourth means for calculating the difference between the total sales amount and the amount of cash from the customer;

reading means for reading an account information of the customer from an identity medium;

designating means for designating a payment mode to the customer, either payment in credit, cash or to a prepaid card;

depositing means, connected to the sixth means and the reading means, for automatically depositing the difference calculated by the sixth means to the account corresponding to the account information read by the reading means when said designation means designates payment by credit;

dispensing means for dispensing cash corresponding to the difference calculated by the sixth means when said designating means designates payment in cash; and

dispensing means for dispensing a prepaid card corresponding to the difference calculated by the sixth means when said designating means designates payment by prepaid card.

2. A terminal apparatus for use in an article sales system, comprising:

first means for determining total sales amount of at least one article sold to a customer;

reading means for reading account data from an identity medium;

designating means for designating an amount of money to be withdrawn from the account read by the reading means;

second means connected to the first means and designating means for calculating the difference between the total sales amount and the amount of money to be withdrawn;

payment-mode designating means for designating a payment mode to the customer, said payment mode being either payment in cash or payment to a prepaid card;

dispensing means for either dispensing cash or a prepaid card, corresponding in value to the difference calculated by the second means, in response to the payment mode designated by the payment-mode designating means; and

settling means for withdrawing the designated amount of money from the customers account corresponding to the account data read by the reading means.