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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2003
David M. Wilz, Sr., Sewell, NJ (US);
George Rockstein, Audubon, NJ (US);
Robert E. Blake, Woodbury Heights, NJ (US);
Mark Schmidt, Williamstown, NJ (US);
Garrett Russell, Wilmington, DE (US);
C. Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
David M. Wilz, Sr., Sewell, NJ (US);
George Rockstein, Audubon, NJ (US);
Robert E. Blake, Woodbury Heights, NJ (US);
Mark Schmidt, Williamstown, NJ (US);
Garrett Russell, Wilmington, DE (US);
C. Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Blackwood, NJ (US);
Abstract
An automatically-activated bar code symbol reading system for carrying out bar code symbol reading operations, comprising a hand-supportable housing; a manually-actuatable data transmission activation switch integrated with the hand-supportable housing; and an automatically-activated laser scanning bar code symbol reading engine, disposed within the hand-supportable housing, and having (i) a preprogrammed set of operational states wherethrough the system automatically passes during each bar code symbol reading operation, and (ii) a preprogrammed symbol character data transmission state of operation into which the system is automatically induced in response to the manually-actuation of the symbol character data transmission activation switch.