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US 2006/0185936 A1Published application
Self-checkout system
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiro Kaneko
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Abstract
A self-checkout system includes a shopping basket table including a weighing scale, an accounting unit including a scanner to read data of an article and which executes a transaction based on read data of the article, and a collecting base that includes another weighing scale and collects the scanned article. The shopping basket table, accounting unit and collecting base are formed as separate block units so that an arranging order and an arranging direction of the block units are properly settable.
Claims14
A self-checkout system comprising:
- an accounting unit which includes a scanner to scan at least one article to read data of the article, and which executes a transmission based on the read data of the article;
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- a collecting base which includes a loading surface for supporting each scanned article and a weighing scale for weighing the article supported by the loading surface;
- wherein the accounting unit and the collecting base are formed as physically separate units such that an arranging order and an arranging direction of the accounting unit and the collecting base are changeable.
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