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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8006901 | Mobile terminal, register device, and commodity sale processing system A mobile terminal is provided. A scanner unit reads code information attached to a commodity. A RAM stores the code information read by the scanner unit as commodity-for-purchase information. The scanner unit, to confirm whether the commodity-for-purchase informatio... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7971787 | Commodity-vending system and weight-scale apparatus When a customer picks up a commodity at a store aisles and operates a tag device, a PLU code of the commodity is transmitted from the tag device to a weight-scale apparatus. The terminal device is provided corresponding to each commodity. The weight-scale apparatus ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7313894 | Packaging and pricing device A packaging and pricing device for sticking labels on a packaged substance including a first label issuing unit and a second label issuing unit, arranged at both sides around the packaging unit, for issuing labels having different display contents. There is a first ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7183506 | Measuring and printing device The present invention is to provide to provide a measuring and printing device by which an operation for replacing a label paper can be performed from the front face of the device and a desired size of the operation screen (display operation unit) can be employed in... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6895728 | Film packaging method and film packaging device The purpose of this invention is to provide a packaging method and a packaging device in which a loading work and an unloading work for a packaged item performed by an operator can be reduced, a longitudinal length of the device can be made short and it can be manuf... | 05/24/2005 |
| 5478639 | Adhesive tape for preventing implosion of cathode ray tube An adhesive tape for preventing implosion of a CRT is provided. The tape includes a backing, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on one side of the backing and a hot melt adhesive layer on the opposite side of the backing. The backing is a union cloth of ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5473861 | Packing method and packing apparatus The present invention relates to a packing method and an apparatus, wherein a substance to be packed is carried from a carrying-in section in which the substance is carried to a position under a packing section where a film stands by in a horizontally str... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5246771 | Adhesive tape for preventing implosion and removing electrostatic charge A circuit for removing electrostatic charges from the surface of a cathode ray tube is formed by adding electrically conductive particles to an adhesive used to prevent an implosion of the tube and located between a metal clamping band and the surface of ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5200889 | System for maintaining continuous total of refund amounts due a customer and for allowing customer designation of the amount of refund to be applied to a purchase A sales-data-processing apparatus having a storing device for storing rebate information or the equivalent thereof, an input device for entering a desired rebate which a customer wants to be refunded from the rebate, a subtracting device for subtracting t... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5157415 | Stationary thermal printer for using detachable cassette The present invention provides an improved printer head for using a detachable cassette, particularly the printer head stationary mounted on a print station for using a detachably loadable cassette on the station, the cassette integrally having a webbed l... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5154247 | Load cell Disclosed herein is a load cell provided with a high-precision load-sensing member of ceramic on which are formed patterns of thin-film resistance for strain gages which are not subject to breakage and variation of resistance. The load cell comprises a be... | 10/13/1992 |
| 4951447 | Wrapping apparatus A wrapping apparatus designed so that an attractively wrapped package is obtained at all times irrespective of the kind of a film used and the shape of a tray selected. Namely, there is provided a wrapping apparatus of the type in which a predetermined cu... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4932485 | Electronic scale device with printer for retail stores An electronic scale device which measures weight of an item and calculates a price of the item by multiplying the weight of the item by a unit price of the item, and has printing device for printing out item data including the weight of the item and the p... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4928229 | Label printer The label printer comprises at least two printing units and a control unit. Each printing unit can print a specific label under the control of the control unit. The label is printed with information concerning a commodity, such as a price and a weight of ... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4884209 | Film folding control apparatus of wrapping system A film folding control apparatus of a wrapping machine is a type in which a length of film fed by a film feeding mechanism is extended at a predetermined section of the wrapping machine. An article to be wrapped is raised into taut engagement with the ext... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4862670 | Stretch film packaging machine This invention relates to a packaging machine in which an item is stored on a container such as a tray. The container is mechanically and automatically packaged in a bag-form with a stretch film. The film is folded down to the bottom surface of the contai... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4757451 | Film folding control apparatus of wrapping system A film folding control apparatus of a wrapping machine is a type in which a length of film fed by a film feeding mechanism is extended at a predetermined section of the wrapping machine. An article to be wrapped is raised into taut engagement with the ext... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4726433 | Combined weighing apparatus An improved combined weighing apparatus is provided for weighing vegetables and fruits, confectionary articles, secondary products, perishables and other articles having high variations in single weight with high accuracy to produce packages having a pred... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4709531 | Stretch film packaging machine This invention relates to a packaging machine in which an item is stored on a container such as tray. The container is mechanically and automatically packaged in a bag-form with a stretch film. The film is folded down to the bottom surface of the containe... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4700791 | Electronic scale printer This invention provides an electronic scale printer, and more particularly an electronic scale printer in which a printer is connected electrically to the electronic scale used in a department store or supermarket etc., and required data are printed on a ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4685702 | Label printer A label printer prints article name together with required data such as weight, rate, price on a label adhered to products or packed products, or the label printer prints only the article name. Improved input means for article name, display means, date se... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4674269 | Wrapping machine A wrapping machine includes a mechanism for feeding a stretchable film, means for lift an article to be wrapped, a mechanism for underfolding the film, means for controlling the timing at which various elements of the wrapping machine are actuated, and me... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4669381 | Cassette type labeler and cassette case A novel and easy-to-use labeler, also called a price gun, label gun, pricer or labeler, that can be used to fasten labels containing information on prices, commodity names, dates etc., to food articles and clothes, by workers at supermarkets, department s... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4630067 | Bar code printer A bar code printer is disclosed which may be used as a standard desk type bar code printer, a weighing bar code printer, etc. by connecting outer peripheral equipment, such as weighing instruments or price indicating balances, to the bar code printer. A c... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4605082 | Combined weighing apparatus An improved combined weighing apparatus is provided for weighing vegetables and fruits, confectionary articles, secondary products, perishables and other articles having high variations in single weight with high accuracy to produce packages having a pred... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4598780 | Electronic scale printer This invention provides an electronic scale printer, and more particularly an electronic scale printer in which a printer is connected electrically to the electronic scale used in a department store or supermarket etc., and required data are printed on a ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4578140 | Cassette type labeler and cassette case A novel handy labeler, and more particularly a handy machine for labelling is provided, which is called also as a price gun, label gun, pricer or labeler, and is used to fasten labels containing information on prices, commodity names, dates etc., to food ... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4565254 | Measuring apparatus A measuring apparatus includes a plurality of measuring hoppers combined, and measuring means for measuring product to be measured accommodated in the respective measuring hoppers to select a set of a plurality of measured values equal or near to a set we... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4551962 | Weighing and packing apparatus A novel weighing and packing apparatus is provided by which an article is weighed, and weighed article is manually packed with film. The apparatus may be provided at its working table with a packing device for manual packing and a weighing mechanism in an... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4548287 | Combination weighing machine with vibratory feeding and collecting hopper A measuring apparatus for measuring various kinds of products irregular in weight such as vegetables and fruits, confectionery, secondary processed goods, perishable foods and the like with constant qualities. According to the invention, the apparatus com... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4544287 | Printing control apparatus for a label printer, method of using the apparatus, and a label used in conjunction with the apparatus Printing control apparatus includes structure for selectively preventing the operation of a thermal head comprising part of a label printer for thermosensitive labels. The thermal head can be moved away from and into contact with a label to limit its oper... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4460428 | Scaling and labeling apparatus This invention relating to an improvement of a scaling and labeling apparatus which is assembled to a packing machine for automatically or semiautomatically packing the product, scaling the packed product packaged by the packing machine automatically and ... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4440248 | Bar code printer A bar code printer is disclosed which may be used as a standard desk type bar code printer, a weighing bar code printer, etc. by connecting outer peripheral equipment, such as weighing instruments or price indicating balances, to the bar code printer. A c... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4422376 | Printing control apparatus for a label printer Printing control apparatus includes structure for selectively preventing the operation of a thermal head comprising part of a label printer for thermosensitive labels. The thermal head can be moved away from and into contact with a label to limit its oper... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4109857 | Automatic unit price setting apparatus of electronic digital display scale with printing device An automatic unit price setting apparatus for an electronic digital display scale with a printing device in an equipment adapted to compute and display a price of an article of goods by multiplying a weight of said article to be weighed by a unit price of... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4101366 | Electronic digital display scale with label printer An electronic digital display scale with a label printer adapted to weigh an article, to print a measured weight of said article on a label and to adhere said label onto said article weighed, wherein the printed label is held by a label transfer device by... | 07/18/1978 |