US 11,961,374 B2
POS terminal device with rotatable operator and customer displays
Kunihiro Akaba, Kanagawa (JP); Katsumi Harashima, Kanagawa (JP); and Akihisa Iwata, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/626,192
Filed by NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kawasaki (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/022054
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/010045, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-131548 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0292932 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G07G 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G07G 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC G07G 1/0018 (2013.01) [G07G 1/12 (2013.01); G06Q 20/20 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A POS terminal device comprising:
a housing including a rectangular upper surface with short sides and long sides;
a rectangular operator display having a first upper side and a first bottom side facing each other and two first lateral sides facing each other mounted on one of the short sides of the upper surface of the housing perpendicular to the upper surface of the housing; and
a customer display having a second upper side and a second bottom side facing each other and two second lateral sides facing each other mounted on another one of the short sides of the upper surface of the housing perpendicular to the upper surface of the housing, wherein
the operator display and the customer display are arranged in such a way that rear surfaces of each of the respective displays face each other and each of centers of the first upper side and the second upper side of each of the displays passes through a center line connecting centers of the two short sides of the housing,
the operator display has an operator-side rotation shaft that supports the operator display,
the customer display has a customer-side rotation shaft that supports the customer display,
a rotation center of the operator-side rotation shaft is at a position that is spaced apart from the center line,
a rotation center of the customer-side rotation shaft is at a position that is spaced apart from the center line and is provided on an opposite side of the center line from where the operator-side rotation shaft is provided,
the operator display is rotatble by 90 degrees around the operator-side rotation shaft in such a way that the first lateral side that is closer tolocated at closer distance from the rotation center of the operator-side rotation shaft is moved toward the customer display,
the customer display is rotatable by 90 degrees around the customer-side rotation shaft in such a way that the second lateral side that is closer tolocated at closer distance from the rotation center of the customer-side rotation shaft is moved toward the operator display, and
the operator display and the customer display do not collide with each other when the operator display is rotated by 90 degrees, and
the customer display and the operator display do not collide with each other when the customer display is rotated by 90 degrees.