摘要 |
PURPOSE:To prevent erroneous registration of a new article, by assembling an IC circuit for storing commodity information into a rental article, and read ing out commodity information automatically upon insertion of the article into a shelf and registering into a rental management memory. CONSTITUTION:A rack 21 is provided with many shelves 22 for containing articles, and a, body controller 23 is arranged while adjoining thereto. An IC circuit 27 is assembled into a window 26 of a cassette 24 which is contained in the shelf 22, and commodity information such as commodity code, title con cerning to said cassette is stored in the IC circuit 27. Furthermore, a light emission element 28a and a photoreceptor 28b for performing optical communica tion with the shelf 22 when the cassette 24 is inserted into the shelf 22 are provided to the cassette 24. When a new cassette 24 which is not registered yet is inserted into the shelf 22, commodity information concerning to said cassette 24 is registered automatically into the rental management memory. |