JP6123236B2 - Product purchase system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a product purchase system, and more particularly, to a product purchase system that enables shopping by reading a recording medium on which purchase product information purchased at a plurality of stores is recorded without carrying the product as baggage.

  Conventionally, when shopping at a department store, a supermarket, a hotel or the like, a purchaser of a product goes to a target store and purchases a product depending on the type of the product. After purchasing the product, the product is carried as baggage.

When purchasers of products purchase products at a plurality of stores, baggage tends to increase gradually.

  Patent Document 1 discloses an invention that aims to provide a shopping card system that does not need to receive a product each time when shopping at a store, and that allows shopping without baggage.

However, since Patent Document 1 uses a magnetic card with a magnetic card reader / writer in each register in each store, it is impossible for the purchaser of the product to visually confirm the product name and the product price using the magnetic card. It is. Furthermore, since it is premised that the settlement information of the registers provided in each store is centrally managed by the host computer, it is not online and cannot be applied to an independent store.

JP-A-8-137957

  When a purchaser of a product purchases a product at a plurality of stores, there is a problem that baggage gradually increases and becomes bulky and heavy, and it becomes difficult to examine many other products and look around.

Furthermore, when the purchaser of a product puts a plurality of products into the shopping cart, there is a problem that the total amount of products to be purchased is unknown and the purchase budget is exceeded.

Therefore, in the product purchase system according to the present invention, the above-described problems are solved by the following aspects.

  According to a first aspect of the present invention, a purchaser purchases products purchased at a plurality of stores using a recording medium (2) possessed by the purchaser (1) of the product and capable of recording and displaying purchased product information. (1) In the system that delivers the package in a lump, the recording medium (2) includes unique information for specifying the recording medium (2), and each of the plurality of stores includes a cash register (3), At least a reader / writer device (4) connected to the cash register (3) and reading information from the recording medium (2) and reading information from the recording medium (2). The purchased product information is recorded on the recording medium (2) possessed by the purchaser (1) by the reader / writer device (4), and the product purchased at any of the plurality of stores is purchased by the purchaser (1 )What A reader / writer device that records purchased merchandise information recorded on the recording medium (2) in association with the unique information and delivers a proof that the merchandise corresponding to the read purchased merchandise information has been delivered to the purchaser at a delivery place A product purchase system comprising at least (4).

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a commodity purchase system, wherein the recording medium (2) is a rewrite card.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the recording medium (2) includes optically readable code information (20) corresponding to unique information for identifying the recording medium (2) and the recording medium (2). An optically readable code information (21) corresponding to purchased product information is displayed.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a commodity purchase system, wherein the code information (20), (21) is one of a one-dimensional code and a two-dimensional code.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a commodity purchase system, wherein the recording medium (2) comprises a portable terminal (not shown) having a non-contact IC attached thereto.

A purchaser of a product can make purchases at a plurality of stores without carrying the product itself only by recording purchase product information to be purchased on a recording medium. Further, since the purchased product information to be purchased is recorded on the recording medium, the purchased product information can be visually confirmed.
Moreover, it is not necessary for each store to be online via a host computer.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the flow of the product purchase by the product purchase system concerning this invention. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the structure of the goods purchase system concerning this invention.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the flow of product purchase by the product purchase system according to the present invention.
In FIG. 1, 2 is a recording medium, 20 is code information (optically readable code information corresponding to specific information for specifying the recording medium 2), and 21 is code information (optically readable code information corresponding to purchased product information). ), 22 indicates a delivery date (a proof of delivery).

  In FIG. 1, a purchaser 1 (shown in FIG. 2) of a product at a store selects a product to be purchased and records the unique information and the purchased product information on the recording medium 2 with visual information and code information 20 and This is performed as code information 21 (details will be described later), and the user goes to another store without holding the product. The product purchaser 1 selects a product to be purchased and records the purchased product information on the recording medium 2 as visual information, code information 20 and code information 21.

  Furthermore, it is possible to look around other stores without having a product. At the final settlement, the code information 20 and the code information 21 are read from the recording medium 2 and the delivery date 22 is recorded, and then the product is delivered.

  Specifically, for example, when a 300-yen product A and a 500-yen product B are purchased at a store A (S1), the product purchaser 1 enters the recording medium 2 (details of materials and the like will be described later). It is possible to carry the recorded purchased merchandise information (S2) and go to the store B without purchasing the merchandise and purchase the merchandise C (S3).

  The product purchaser 1 purchases a product C of 200 yen at the store B (S4), records the purchased product information on the recording medium 2 without carrying the product C, and visits another store for shopping. It is possible (S5).

  The merchandise purchaser 1 purchases the desired merchandise, the store reads the code information 21 from the recording medium 2, and delivers the merchandise purchased so far at the same time as the settlement of the total amount of 1000 yen. At this time, the delivery date is recorded on the recording medium 2.

  FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing the configuration of the product purchase system according to the present invention. In the store A, the purchaser 1 of the product carries the recording medium 2 to the cash register 3 to record the purchased product information of the products A and B, and records it with the reader / writer device 4 connected to the cash register 3. The code information 20 and the code information 21 are read and settled.

  Further, at the store B, the product purchaser 1 carries the recording medium 2 to the cash register 3 in order to record the purchased product information of the product C, records it with the reader / writer device 4 connected to the cash register 3, and records the code. The information 20 and the code information 21 are read and settled (S6).

  In other stores, if there are further desired purchased products, the same processing as in S4 and S5 may be repeated.

  Each cash register 3 may operate offline.

  As soon as the purchase is completed, the purchaser 1 of the product receives the code information 20 and the code information 21 displayed on the recording medium 2 at the delivery place, and collects the product A, the product B, and the product C.

  Next, the logistics system will be described. On the merchandise shelf, merchandise A, merchandise B, merchandise C, etc. are displayed, and the merchandise is transported to the delivery place using physical distribution means. As a physical distribution means in this case, a person may carry it directly by hand or carry it by a cart, or a belt conveyor or an elevator may be used.

(Recording medium 2 “Rewrite card”)
The rewrite card is the recording medium 2 in which information can be easily erased and written by a thermal head or the like. The rewrite card generally includes a base material / rewrite layer / protective layer.

The base material is formed of a material such as PET (polyethylene terephthalate).

For the preparation of the rewritable layer, a solution in which two components of a resin base material and a low molecular weight organic substance are dissolved or a solution of a resin base material (a solvent that does not dissolve at least one kind of low molecular weight organic substance is used) A dispersion liquid in which organic low molecular weight substances are dispersed in the form of fine particles is applied onto a plastic film substrate, dried and cured.

  Further, the solvent for the rewritable layer can be variously selected depending on the kind of the resin base material and the organic low molecular weight substance. For example, it is selected from tetrahydrofuran, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone and the like.

Any organic low molecular weight substance may be used as long as it changes from polycrystalline to single crystal by heat in the recording layer. In general, it is selected from those having a melting point of about 50 ° C to 150 ° C.
In addition, additives such as a surfactant and a high boiling point solvent are added to the organic low molecular weight substance in order to improve printing characteristics.

The thickness of the formed rewrite layer is preferably about 2 μm to 20 μm in a dry state. When the rewritable layer exceeds 20 μm, heat distribution occurs in the layer, and it becomes difficult to make it transparent uniformly. On the other hand, if the rewritable layer is less than 2 μm, the white turbidity is lowered and the contrast is lowered.
Furthermore, the turbidity can be increased by increasing the amount of the low molecular weight organic substance in the rewritable layer.

The protective layer material is selected from silicone rubber, silicone resin, polysiloxane graft polymer, UV curable resin, electron beam curable resin, and so on. Although the thickness of a protective layer changes with preparation methods, 2 micrometers-20 micrometers are preferable. When the thickness is less than 2 μm, the protective effect is lowered, and when it exceeds 20 μm, the thermal sensitivity is lowered.

(Recording medium 2 “mobile terminal with non-contact IC”)
Plug-in-size IC cards called SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) and UIM (User Identity Module) cards are increasingly used in portable terminals such as cellular phones.

The SIM and UIM cards are built-in small IC cards, and when they are used by being mounted on a mobile phone, individual authentication is performed because subscriber and user information such as a telephone number is written therein. By being able to authenticate individuals, if you borrow a mobile phone from another person and use it by inserting or removing a SIM or UIM card without using it, the subscriber information such as the phone number is specified and the phone is by the subscriber himself. It is proved that the telephone fee is charged to the subscriber, so that the telephone fee can not be borne by others.

In addition, it is conceivable to carry a plurality of cards carrying different operating systems (OS) and frequently exchange the cards according to the purpose. For this purpose, it is necessary that the SIM and UIM cards can be easily attached and detached. Furthermore, a new function can be performed by providing the SIM or UIM card itself with a non-contact communication function.

By using such a portable terminal equipped with a non-contact IC as the recording medium 2, there is no deterioration of the recording medium 2 due to repeated use, and the life of the recording medium 2 itself is extended.

In the non-contact IC, unique information for specifying the recording medium 2 and purchased product information are recorded and can be read.

(Code information)
For the code information 20 and the code information 21, a bar code that is a one-dimensional code is used. The bar code is usually a code obtained by patterning a numeric code by a combination of bars according to line thickness, spacing, color, and the like, and this is a management target code.

Furthermore, a QR code (registered trademark) that is a two-dimensional code is used for the code information 20 and the code information 21. The two-dimensional code includes a stack type two-dimensional code formed by stacking bar codes and a matrix type two-dimensional code.

The two-dimensional code can store a large amount of information (for example, about 1800 characters in the case of kanji) in a smaller space than a bar code or the like. In addition, reading is possible from any direction. Furthermore, even if there is some dirt or damage, there is an advantage that the misreading rate is low because restoration is performed while correcting the error.

1 Purchaser 2 Recording medium 3 Cash register 4 Reader / writer device 20 Code information 21 Code information 22 Delivery date

Claims (5)

Possession of the purchaser of the product, by using a recording medium capable of recording and display of the purchased product information, meet the system deliver in bulk products that were purchased at several stores to the buyer,
The recording medium includes unique information for identifying the recording medium, and each of the plurality of stores is connected to the cash register, the visual information and code information recorded on the recording medium, and the recording medium. comprising at least a reader-writer device for reading information from the recording to the recording medium the purchaser possessed by the reader writer device store purchased goods, the purchased product information including amounts as visual information and code information Then , the purchased product information recorded in the recording medium is read in association with the specific information in the delivery place where the product purchased in any of the plurality of stores is delivered to the purchaser of the product, and the purchased product is read. It is characterized by having at least a reader / writer device that records a proof that the product corresponding to the information has been delivered to the purchaser. Commodity purchasing system.   The product purchase system according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a rewrite card.   The recording medium displays optically readable code information corresponding to unique information identifying the recording medium, and the recording medium displays optically readable code information corresponding to purchased product information. The product purchase system according to any one of claims 1 and 2.   The commodity purchase system according to claim 3, wherein the code information is one of a one-dimensional code and a two-dimensional code. The product purchase system according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a portable terminal on which a non-contact IC is mounted.

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