Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Computer Engineering Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Saitou

Minoru Ikeda

Katsumi Yoshida

Yuichiro Kota

Asako Katayama

Masao Kato

Yukio Akimoto

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Hironori Kashiki

Takayoshi Ishii

Ikuo Shimanuki

Masaho Sakamoto

Shigenori Takagi

Yasuhiro Abe

Kimikazu Sato

Takayuki Nakajima

Mobile telephone

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.

Self check-out system and POS system

A POS terminal device which performs the function of a cash register upon input of a commodity code, with date and hour data included in the commodity code being checked at the time of data input and a caution indication that the term of validity has expired or the term of validity is approaching. The POS terminal device comprising time measuring device, input device for inputting a commodity code including date and hour data, judgment step for comparing date and hour data indicated by the time measuring device with date and hour data included in a commodity code inputted by the input device, and caution device, whereby in the case where the date and hour data indicated by the time measuring device represents a time not earlier than that represented by the date and hour data included in the commodity code as a result of comparison in the judgment step, and which informs an operator about that fact.

POS system including use of expiration dates in commodity codes

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Hadano, Japan

Takeshi Saitou