Self check-out system and POS system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5543607
SERIAL NO

08340380

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In a check-out system, in which a purchaser himself who intends to purchase commercial products performs a check-out processing, having a commercial product casted portion, a stocker for stocking the commercial products, a transport unit for transporting the commercial product from the commercial product casted portion to the stocker, and a commercial product identifying unit located between the commercial product casted portion and the stocker for identifying the commercial product transported from the commercial product casted portion, the commercial product casted portion is provided with a commercial product code inputting unit for inputting a commercial product code, and a commercial product detecting unit for detecting that the commercial product is put on the transport path, and the commercial product identifying unit is provided with a commercial product code reading unit for reading the commercial product code of the commercial product being transported; and a first mode in which when the commercial product detecting unit detects that the commercial product is put on the transport path, the commercial product of interest is started to be transported, and in accordance with the identification result provided by the commercial product identifying unit, the commercial product is selectively transported to either the stocker or the commercial product casted portion, and a second mode in which after the commercial product code has been input by the commercial product code inputting unit, the commercial product of interest is started to be transported, and also in accordance with the identification result provided by the commercial product identifying unit, the commercial product is selectively transported to either the stocker or the commercial product casted portion are provided.

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HITACHI LTDJAPAN
HITACHI COMPUTER ENGINEERING CO LTD1 HORIYAMASHITA HADANO-SHI

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Abe, Yasuhiro Hadano, JP 33 375
Akimoto, Yukio Hadano, JP 7 351
Ishii, Takayoshi Hadano, JP 3 77
Kashiki, Hironori Zama, JP 1 76
Kato, Masao Hadano, JP 230 4194
Saitou, Takeshi Hadano, JP 35 447
Sakamoto, Masaho Hadano, JP 1 76
Watanabe, Kiyoshi Kanagawa-ken, JP 223 2462

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