(19)
(11) EP 0 903 706 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
16.05.2001 Bulletin 2001/20

(43) Date of publication A2:
24.03.1999 Bulletin 1999/12

(21) Application number: 98117835.3

(22) Date of filing: 21.09.1998
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7G07G 1/12
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 22.09.1997 JP 25664597

(71) Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu 545-0013 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Wakabayashi, Kenichi
    Shiki-gun, Nara (JP)

(74) Representative: Müller, Frithjof E., Dipl.-Ing. 
Patentanwälte MÜLLER & HOFFMANN, Innere Wiener Strasse 17
81667 München
81667 München (DE)

   


(54) Electronic cash register


(57) An object of the invention is to provide an electronic cash register capable registering sales data speedy while keeping optimum operability. To this end, the electronic cash can change and setup a commodity to be assigned to a registration key even during a sales registering processing without stopping serving customers, as well as register sales data of any commodity whose code is changed using a registration key after the changing and setting. Another object of the invention is to provide an electronic cash register with improved operability, which can change the assignment according to sales quantity and sales time. Upon an input from a commodity key (5b), sales data of a commodity having a commodity code related to the commodity key (5b) by a key layout memory (3-1) is registered. The registered sales information of each commodity can be printed out or displayed. If it is designated that a specific commodity is set so that its code is related to the commodity key during the sales registering processing, the commodity code related to the commodity key is replaced by the specific commodity code. After this registration, the sales of the specific commodity is registered according to the commodity key input.







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