US 11,989,714 B2
Wireless tag reading device
Osamu Watanabe, Fuji Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/715,072.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-117583 (JP), filed on Jul. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0012478 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 20/208 (2013.01) [G06K 7/10316 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless tag reading device, comprising:
a product placing portion on which a product is placed;
an antenna installed in a vicinity of the product placing portion,
wherein the antenna emits radio waves toward a wireless tag attached to the placed product;
an antenna moving mechanism that moves the antenna along a locus of a concave curve defined by a guide portion of the antenna moving mechanism; and
a conveying mechanism that moves the guide portion along a linear path concurrently with the moving of the antenna along the locus of the concave curve of the guide portion by the antenna moving mechanism.