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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4838367 | Price indicating means for a weighing scale A price indicating apparatus for a spring-loaded weighing scale used for calculating the total price and displaying the price of an article, comprising an inducing component and a transducing component. The inducing component is mounted on the rack of the... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4836352 | Express package collection locker An express package collection locker capable of automatically calculating the portage fee of a package. The locker comprises a plurality of boxes for storing packages, a plurality of weight sensors incorporated in the boxes, respectively, and a plurality ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836309 | Electronic weighing instrument An electronic weighing instrument includes an IC card reading and writing device. An IC card is inserted into the IC card reading and writing device, and as a commodity to be weighed is designated by inputting, a price per unit weight of the designated co... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4779706 | Self-service system A self-service checkout station allows a purchaser to scan coded labels on each merchandise item purchased and to generate the weight of the items at a first checkout counter. The weight of each merchandise item is compared with corresponding data stored ... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4742878 | Weighing module A mailing system for metering batches of mixed weight mail. The system includes a demand feed for singulating mailpieces, a weighing module for weighing the singulated mailpieces and determining the appropriate postage amount and a postage meter responsiv... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4718506 | Prom card arrangement for postal/shipping scale Efficient insertion of alternate carrier (AC) PROM boards and drop ship (DS) PROM boards into a limited number of slots in the rate rack of a microprocessor-based weighing scale is achieved by providing a distinguishing characteristic on the PROM board in... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4693329 | Electonic scale with label character size change capability An electronic scale for weighing an article and displaying and/or printing the weight, price and other data of the article. The scale includes a key input unit for registering and recalling article data. The key input unit has preset keys indicating artic... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4656344 | Integrated scale and optical scanner A checkout counter having an optical scanning unit located therein and includes a surface portion comprising a scale apparatus which includes a transparent portion enabling scanning beams projected by the optical scanner unit to be transmitted through the... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4638439 | Postage metering system with display A postage value determining scale includes a scale for determining the weight of an item to be mailed, a system processor for determining the applicable postage value and a display for displaying a breakdown of such postage value, all inter-connected by a... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4597457 | Electronic scale with CRT display An electronic scale with a CRT display has an input means composed of a manual data input device, weighing means for measuring the weight of an article, a CRT display unit, and a control unit for effecting an arithmetic operation based on signals from the... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4535419 | System and method for computing fractional postage values A postage value computing system includes both apparatus and a method for determining the postage of an article to be mailed for various domestic and international classes of postal service. Postal information such as carrier type, class and destination d... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4516209 | Postage metering system having weight checking capability A postage metering system including a scale and having the capacity to check the weight of items to be mailed and including apparatus for printing postage indicia on items falling outside a preselected range is disclosed. The system includes a postage met... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4506330 | Electronic mailing apparatus and method An improved electronic mailing apparatus and method is disclosed which provides customized zip to zone data reflecting variations in postal cost for a particular class of postal service. The apparatus includes a first memory means for storing standard zip... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4499545 | Method and apparatus for individualized selection of special fee postage value computations A method and apparatus are described for controlling access of a user of a postal value computing system to the computation of special fees. A directory memory stores a special fee control byte which is combined with a rate fee screen byte that is generat... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4495581 | User programmable postal rate calculator A calculator for determining postage or shipping fees which has a bus-oriented microprocessor structure having several memories, including a read only memory with programmed quadrangles corresponding to geographic areas represented by the three most signi... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4488610 | Sorting apparatus Mail sorting apparatus feeds mail items past a printing postage meter into a hopper from which the items are dropped successively into sorting bins which revolve along a circular path. Collection bins, also disposed along the circular path below the sorti... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4481587 | Apparatus for providing interchangeable keyboard functions An electronic weighing scale system capable of performing a plurality of functions. Predetermined subsets of the functions can be accessed from the system keyboard. The subset of functions which a particular keyboard can access is easily changed by replac... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4462473 | Apparatus for electronically determining postage in response to weight An electronic scale electronically determines postage or shipping rates and displays also actual weight in chosen increments of items weighed by a platform atop an enclosure of the scale. A weight sensor provides an analog signal representing item weight.... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4430716 | Postage value determining scale with expandable memory port A postage value determining scale includes a processor which accesses postage data stored in a rate PROM carried on a card. In a basic implementation, the PROM card is mounted to a memory port socket of a circuit board which carries the processor. The pro... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4415048 | Weight measuring, price computing and packing apparatus A weight measuring, price computing and packing apparatus has a weight measuring unit, a packing device for automatically packing a commodity, and a label printer. An unpacked commodity is placed on the weight measuring unit, which is located at the inlet... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4410962 | Mailing system interface interconnecting incompatible communication systems An automated mailing system includes a postage value determining system processor, a scale for providing weight indicative signals, a keyboard for operator entry of information relating to a determination of postage, and a plurality of peripheral devices.... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4398253 | Scale controller A controller is described which interfaces with a scale and a label printer for computing prices of weighed commodities, for displaying a human readable description of the commodity being weighed and other characteristics of the commodity, and for activat... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4392535 | Zero-point adjusting method for automatic weighing apparatus In an automatic weighing apparatus wherein a weight measurement is performed by passing a commodity on a weighing conveyor which is coupled so as to become a load of a load cell, and a label on which data based on the measured value are printed is automat... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4390952 | Mailing system with sequential printing control A processor controlled automated mailing system for determining and printing the requisite postage for mailing an article includes a scale, a keyboard for operator input, a display and a meter setting device. After the requisite postage has been determine... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4386994 | Conveyor control apparatus in a fully automatic labeling system A fully automatic labeling system having a sending-in conveyor, a weighing conveyor and a sticking conveyor which have their operations controlled independently of one another. This invention controls the operations of the conyeyors so that the conveyors ... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4377214 | Method and apparatus for interfacing an electronic scale system with a storage medium An interface apparatus and method are described with which an electronic scale system is connected to a storage medium such as a disk or memory of a data processor and whereby scale transaction data related to the mailing of an article with an electronic ... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4376981 | Electronic postage metering system A system for automatically setting a postage meter as a function of package weight and destination includes a scale mechanism for generating weight-representing signals. The package postage can be established by converting the destination zip code to a de... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4366552 | Postal charge processing system having a count of successive weight measuring operations A postal charge processing system includes a weight measuring unit for measuring the weight of a postal parcel and producing weight data corresponding to the measured weight, a keyboard having a plurality of keys selectively operated to set postal conditi... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4363693 | Full-auto labeling system A full-auto labeling system having sending-in conveyor, a weighing conveyor and a sticking conveyor disposed in alignment, and the respective conveyors provided with sensors for detecting a commodity, so as to control an operation of a load cell with outp... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4351033 | Postal charge processing system wherein postal condition data is saved and reused for the next postal parcel A postal charge processing system includes a measuring unit for measuring the weight of a postal parcel and producing weight data corresponding to the measured weight, a plurality of keys for setting postal conditions including the way of mail and region ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4349891 | Postal charge processing system which calculates and displays the difference between the postal charge and the stamp for when the postal charge is greater A postal charge processing system includes a data processing unit for calculating the postal charge for a postal parcel based on the weight of the postal parcel and the postal condition including the way of mailing and region of mailing destination, and d... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4339807 | Postal charge processing system including a weight measuring unit, postal charge calculating unit and a meter stamp issuing unit A postal charge processing system, which comprises a postal charge calculator for calculating the postal charge of a postal parcel from weight data corresponding to the weight of said postal parcel and post condition data concerning post conditions for th... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4326254 | Postal charge processing system A postal charge processing system includes a data processing unit calculating the postal charge of a postal parcel from weight data representing the weight of the postal parcel and postal condition data about postal conditions such as the way of mailing a... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4325440 | Method and system for computing special fees in a parcel postage metering system A postage calculator system and method comprising means for introducing postal information to the system; a memory means for obtaining weight information of the article to be mailed; a memory means for storing information indicative of special fee categor... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4313508 | Mail-weighing machine In mail-weighing machines the values determined by a weight measuring device (20) are supplied in digital form to a programmable set-value store (27). The set-value store (27) and the codifier (23) supplying the digital, measured values are connected to t... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4286325 | System and method for computing domestic and international postage A postage value computing system includes both apparatus and a method for determining the postage of an article to be mailed for various domestic and international classes of postal service. Postal information such as carrier type, class and destination d... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4274500 | Electrically price-calculating balance There is disclosed an electrically price-calculating balance, in particular a balance for a shop's counter, comprising an indicator part and a weighing part each constructed as a separate unit. The indicator part has an upper surface which is constructed ... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4271470 | Serial data bus for use in a multiprocessor parcel postage metering system A multiprocessor parcel postage metering system includes a system processor to which a scale subsystem processor, a postage printing subsystem processor, and a peripherals subsystem processor may be connected. The processors share a common data bus over w... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4266623 | Price calculating balance with aimed price input A price calculating balance which includes in addition to circuitry for storing the measured weight of a product and unit price and multiplying the weight by the unit price, circuitry for storing an aimed or desired price and dividing it by the unit price... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4251874 | Electronic postal meter system An electronic postal meter system is separated into a meter unit and an input/output control unit. The two units are linked by a communications link which preferably uses light transmitting fibers to transmit data and instructions. The meter unit is used ... | 02/17/1981 |
