Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Katsumi Harashima

Akihisa Iwata

Kunihiro Akaba

Yuta Sasaki

Takahiro Iwamoto

Yohei Ikegami

Shinichirou Yonemaru

Yuki Kobata

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

Point-of-sale terminal

A display device of this invention, includes a front case including a touch panel; and a rear case including a lock unit, which is configured to regulate movement of the front case, and a display unit, in which the front case is mounted to the rear case by inserting a protrusion that is formed in a peripheral edge portion of the front case into a guide groove that is formed in an outer edge portion of the rear case to bring the front case into contact with the rear case, subsequently moving the front case along the guide groove to engage the protrusion with the guide groove, and moving the lock unit of in the rear case from a first position to a second position, which is different from the first position, to regulate the movement of the front case.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Katsumi Harashima