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Title:
GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR STORE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH0642979
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To quickly obtain information on the layout display of a counter with reference a customer and information on a present position in it by a method wherein, when a shopping cart reaches a prescribed position, indication information is read out and the present position of the cart is discriminated.

CONSTITUTION: A cart C is provided with one pair of right and left wheels 21 installed at the lower part of a frame 8, with a basket part 9 installed in the central upper part of the frame 8 and with a handle 10 protruding to the upper back part of the frame 8. When the cart C reaches installation positions of tags A installed in main points such as branch points to individual counters in the passage of a floor, indication information on the tags A is read out by a tag reader 1 which has been installed in the central position on the lower- part side of the frame 8 in such a way that its transmission and reception face is faced with a floor face. A cart controller discriminates the present position of the cart from the read-out information and from counter layout information stored on the side of the cart, and the present position of the cart in the counter layout information is displayed two-dimensionally on a display board 2 utilizing a liquid crystal or the like installed at the front of the handle 10.


Inventors:
TANAKA HIROYUKI
SUZUKI YOSHIAKI
OTEGI YASUSHI
Application Number:
JP20074592A
Publication Date:
February 18, 1994
Filing Date:
July 28, 1992
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KUBOTA KK
International Classes:
B62B5/00; G01C22/00; G05D1/02; G07C11/00; G09G3/00; B62B3/00; (IPC1-7): G01C22/00; B62B3/00; B62B5/00; G07C11/00; G09G3/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kitamura Osamu



 
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