Sale device

• US 20040040753A1
• Filed: 05/13/2003
• Published: 03/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mettler Toledo GmbH
• Original Assignee: Mettler Toledo GmbH
• Inventors: Wallisch, Gebhard
• Granted Patent: US 6,998,542 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 177/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00

Abstract

The invention relates to a device to be used for the sale of goods in a store. Said device comprises a unit for generating goods-related signals, a unit for generating identification signals, which represent the type of the goods to be sold, and comprises a display unit for generating a visual representation of information contents that are determined on the basis of the goods-related signals and/or identification signals. For generating a visual representation, the invention provides that the sales device is operated by quantity information that represents the present quantity of the goods of the type indicated by the identification signals.

Claims

1. Device for use in the sale of merchandise in a store with a unit for generating merchandise-specific signals, with a unit for generating identification signals representing the type of merchandise to be sold, and with a display unit for generating a visual representation of information content determined on the basis of the merchandise-specific signals and/or the identification signals, characterized in that the unit for generating a visual representation can be operated on the basis of the quantitative information representing the existing quantity of the merchandise of the type indicated by the identification signals.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the quantitative information is displayed by the display unit.

3. Device according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that a data storage device for storing quantitative data representing the existing quantities of merchandise is assigned to the device.

4. Device according to claim 3, characterized in that an updating unit for updating the quantitative data during and/or after the sales transaction is assigned to the data storage device.

5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by a device for indicating data indicating the type of merchandise, on the basis of which data the identification signals are generated.

6. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the unit for generating merchandise-specific signals is designed to generate signals representing the weight and/or signals representing the sale price of the merchandise.

7. Sales system with a device according to one of the preceding claims and a central data processing system for recording and processing the sales data transmitted to it from the minimum of one device.

8. Sales system according to claim 7, characterized in that the data storage device and/or the updating unit is provided in the central data processing system.

9. Sales system according to claim 7 or claim 8, characterized in that an input unit for entering the quantitative information is assigned to the data storage device.

10. Sales system according to one of claims 7-9, characterized in that the central data processing system is realized in the form of a device according to one of claims 1-6.

11. Process for visually representing merchandise-specific information content during a sales transaction, in the course of which process information content is displayed on the display unit of a sales device, this content being generated by the sales device on the basis of merchandise-specific signals which include signals representing the weight of merchandise and/or identification signals representing the type of merchandise being sold, characterized in that the device generates a visual representation of quantitative information representing the existing quantity of merchandise of the type indicated by the identification signals.

12. Process according to claim 11, characterized in that the merchandise-specific signals and/or the identification signals are transmitted to a central data processing system, and in that data corresponding to the information content to be represented are generated in the central data processing system and transmitted to the sales device for the visual representation of the information content or quantitative information.