Data collection terminal with an upper portion wider than a hand-grip and located over the hand-grip
First Claim
1. A hand-held data collection terminal, comprising:
- (a) a bottom portion having a hand-grip portion to support the terminal on an open palm of a user;
(b) an upper portion of said data collection terminal having a display screen;
(c) the hand-grip portion of said bottom portion being positioned underneath said upper portion; and
(d) said upper portion being of a size that is wider than the hand-grip portion.
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Abstract
A portable, hand-held data collection terminal unit is of modular structure including among other modules a display screen module, a keyboard module and a base module, each of which may be chosen from a plurality of modules available for assembly into the terminal unit. Consequently, a wide combination of terminal units may be assembled from a comparatively limited number of modular choices, such that the cost of assembly of a terminal unit with specific functions may be minimized A particular selected module is a scanning module including a pivotable scanning head to permit a user to adjust the scanning head to a convenient position for operating the scanning module without sacrifice of visual access to a display screen of the display screen module. The display screen module may be selected from modules of standard width equal to the width of the terminal unit, of extended width extending when assembled to a selected keyboard module beyond either or both lateral edges of the terminal unit. The selected display screen module may include one of different sized screens, function keys and alphabetical keys.
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68 Claims
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1. A hand-held data collection terminal, comprising:
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(a) a bottom portion having a hand-grip portion to support the terminal on an open palm of a user; (b) an upper portion of said data collection terminal having a display screen; (c) the hand-grip portion of said bottom portion being positioned underneath said upper portion; and (d) said upper portion being of a size that is wider than the hand-grip portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A hand-held data collection terminal, comprising:
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(a) a bottom portion having a hand-grip portion to support the terminal on a palm of a user; (b) an upper portion, having a display screen, and further having a section located above and adjacent the hand-grip portion; (c) the hand-grip portion of said bottom portion being positioned underneath said upper portion; and (d) wherein the section of said upper portion located above and adjacent the hand-grip portion is of a size that is wider than the hand-grip portion. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A hand-held data collection terminal, comprising:
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(a) a bottom portion having a hand-grip portion permitting support of the terminal on a palm; (b) an upper portion of said data collection terminal having a display screen; (c) the hand-grip portion of said bottom portion being positioned underneath said upper portion; and (d) said upper portion being of a size that is wider than the hand-grip portion. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A hand-held data collection terminal, comprising:
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(a) a bottom portion having a hand-grip portion permitting support of the terminal on a palm of a user; (b) an upper portion, having a display screen, and further having a section located above and adjacent the hand-grip portion; (c) the hand-grip portion of said bottom portion being positioned underneath said upper portion; and (d) wherein the section of said upper portion located above and adjacent the hand-grip portion is of a size that is wider than the hand-grip portion. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68)
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Specification