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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kohei Ushikubo, Gunman, JP;
Assignee:
Sanden Corporation, Gunma, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235385 ; 235472 ;
Abstract
A data exchanging system, for exchanging data between electrical devices, such as, an automatic vending machine and a data collecting device, is disclosed. Each device includes a data delivery section for converting data into a signal resembling the light reflected by a bar code when the bar code is optically scanned, a data receiving section for receiving data in the form of optically coded signals, and a control device for controlling the operation of the data delivery section and decoding data provided from the data receiving section.