Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Nec Infrontia Corporation

Akihisa Iwata

Yohei Ikegami

Katsumi Harashima

Kunihiro Akaba

Satoru Sugiyama

Yuta Sasaki

Hayato Mikami

Mariko Jinno

Takuro Nagano

Katsutoshi Hayashi

Motohisa Watanabe

Misako Motohashi

Takeshi Komatsu

Cumbersomeness that is caused when a protective sheet is attached over a touch panel is alleviated. A touch panel apparatus () according to an example embodiment includes a roughly rectangular touch panel (), a transparent protective sheet () having a shape roughly identical to that of the touch panel () and detachably disposed so as to cover a front surface of the touch panel (), a lower-side holding part () that holds the protective sheet (), disposed on a lower side of the touch panel (), and a left-side holding part () and a right-side holding part () that hold the protective sheet (), disposed on two lateral sides, respectively, of the touch panel (), the two lateral sides being adjacent to the lower side of the touch panel ().

Touch panel apparatus and manufacturing method therefor

In a POS terminal device () according to the present invention, a rotation center of an operator-side rotation shaft () is at a position spaced apart from a longitudinal center line of a housing (), a rotation center of a customer-side rotation shaft () is at a position spaced apart from the center line on an opposite side of the operator-side rotation shaft (), an operator display () is rotated by 90 degrees in a horizontal direction around the operator-side rotation shaft () in such a way that a lateral end surface having a shorter distance from the rotation center of the operator-side rotation shaft () approaches a customer display (), and the customer display () is rotated by 90 degrees in the horizontal direction around the customer-side rotation shaft () in the same direction as the operator display ().

POS terminal device with rotatable operator and customer displays

A scanner apparatus (A) includes: a housing (); a hand scanner (); and a hand scanner holder () attached to a side of the housing () and configured to hold the hand scanner (), in which the hand scanner holder () includes a base part () configured to be attached to the side of the housing (), the base part () includes a pair of holding pieces () opposed to each other with a first interval therebetween, and the pair of holding pieces () form a holding recess () configured to hold a lower part () of a grasping part () of the hand scanner (), which is inserted, from above the pair of the holding pieces (), between the pair of holding pieces (), in a state in which an upper part () of the grasping part () protrudes upward.

Scanner apparatus, hand scanner holder, and hand scanner holding method

Provided is a charge base for mounting a portable terminal having a shoulder belt and for charging the mounted portable terminal. The portable terminal charge base comprises: a base portion; a terminal accommodating portion which is disposed over and to the front of the base portion, has a groove shape extending in a width direction W of the base portion, and accommodates a lower part of the portable terminal; a shoulder belt accommodating portion which is disposed to the rear of the terminal accommodating portion over the base portion, has a groove shape extending in the width direction, and accommodates at least a part of the shoulder belt of the portable terminal mounted to the terminal accommodating portion; and a contact pin which is disposed in the terminal accommodating portion and electrically connects with a charge terminal provided in the portable terminal accommodated in the terminal accommodating portion.

Portable terminal charging stand

A self-service POS terminal device comprises a first antenna and a second antenna, and reads, via each of the first antenna and the second antenna, commodity-related information stored in IC tags of commodities. The first antenna is positioned at a position for reading the IC tags of the commodities loaded in a shopping basket at a prescribed position, and forms a first reading area. The second antenna is positioned at a position for reading the IC tags of the commodities taken out from the shopping basket at the prescribed position and put into a shopping bag, and forms a second reading area.

Self-service POS terminal device

Point-of-sale terminal

A support device for a portable terminal includes a placement portion configured to place a portable terminal having a hand belt mounted to a back surface of the portable terminal and configured to receive a user's hand. The placement portion includes: a terminal placement surface configured to support the back surface of the portable terminal; and a belt-receiving recessed portion, which has a shape recessed with respect to the terminal placement surface in a direction perpendicular to the terminal placement surface and is configured to receive the hand belt of the portable terminal placed on the placement portion. The support device for a portable terminal is configured to support the portable terminal placed on the placement portion under a state in which the portable terminal is inclined rearward.

Support device for portable terminal

An electronic device and a battery pack housing structure capable of housing a battery pack without use of a contour width of the battery pack for positioning. The battery pack housing structure includes a battery-pack lower-surface protruding portion protruding from a lower surface of the battery pack and the housing portion including a housing-portion bottom-surface groove portion, which is formed in a bottom surface of the housing portion and capable of being fitted to the battery-pack lower-surface protruding portion.

Battery pack housing structure, and electronic equipment

A paper roll setting structure includes a paper roll receiving section (), a setting shaft structure (), and a receiving frame (). The receiving frame () includes a shaft position guide (). The shaft position guide () includes a pair of guide pieces () and a loading recess (). The setting shaft structure () includes shaft portions () so as to rotatably support a paper roll (). Viewing the positions of the pair of guide pieces () enables an operator to recognize the positions of the shaft portions (). Using the loading recess () enables the operator to insert his/her finger in the paper roll receiving section () to a deep side (Z) in a roll loading direction. As a result, the operator can easily and reliably load the roll ().

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akihisa Iwata