Combination balance and cash register

US7057117B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Guenter Baitz · Berlin, DE
• Wolfgang Lohnstein · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2003
• Grant date: Jun 6, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01G23/3707
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to the combination of a balance and a cash register with a customer display device shared by both, customary cash register software being used for this purpose. A multiplexer is used, the one data input of which has weighing data of the balance applied to it and the other input of which has price and/or product data that are output by the data processing unit applied to it, the one data input being activated by a multiplex switching signal when the weighing data have a value other than zero.