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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:
Mar. 14, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kensaku Komai, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364466 ; 177 2515 ; 235383 ; 364405 ; 902 22 ;
Abstract
A point-of-sale apparatus having a key input unit including a 'scale' key, a scale, one or more memories for storing an article code and, in correspondence to the article code, whether registration of the article weight is compulsory and, if not compulsory, is prohibited. The weight of the article is registered if the means for judging determines that registration of the article weight is compulsory and an error message is displayed if the means for judging determines that: (1) registration of the article weight is prohibited and (2) the scale key has been pushed.