Tohken THIR-6000 Bluetooth Series User manual

THIR-6000 Bluetooth Series

THIR-6000B

THIR-6000HB

THIR-6000DM-B

Handheld Image Reader

(Linear / 2D Scanner)

OPERATION MANUAL

TOHKEN CO., LTD.

1st Edition

April 15, 2008

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APPLICATION NOTICE

Tohken products are not designed or intended for use as a component in life support appliances or as surgical

implants nor in any other application where failure of the product could cause personal injury or death. The

use of Tohken products shall indemnify and hold harmless Tohken and its shareholders againstany claims of

injury or death associated with unintended authorized use.

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mentioned in this document may be the marks of their respective owners.

Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG. Microsoft, Windows is registered trademarks or

trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other product names mentioned in this manual may be trademarks or

registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged

CONTACT INFORMATION

Tohken Ltd., 2-7-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Japan 163-0710

Tel: +81-3-5325-4311

www.tohken.co.jp

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing this product.

This manual explains the features of this product, operation, system configuration, specifications,

etc. In order to use the product properly, please read this manual carefully. When there is any

problem during normal use, please document it carefully to be reproduced by our support team.

The contents of this manual may be changed without a notice. Please check our website for

regular updates

Safety Notice

Please do not disassemble this product as this will void the warranty and might cause an

accident.

Please follow the warningsor notices of computers to be used with this product.

Please stop using the product when there is smoke smell or strange sound to avoid fire.

DO NOT

DISASSENBLE

PULL OFF

Handling with care

CAUTION

About backup data

This product has a memory backup function. This backup can not guaranteed if repair,

reconstruction, and upgrade are performed on this Image Reader.

CAUTION

Please do not use this product at temperature orhumidity ranges that are different from the product

specifications or under the direct sunshine.

CAUTION

Please do not drip water, moisture, oil, etc. on the unit.

CAUTION

This unit can be damaged in environment with corrosive gas.

CAUTION

When stain or dust is stuck on the reading window, please follow the following steps to clean it:

- Wipe off stain lightly withcloth or swab (wet with alcohol)

- Wipe off again with the dryclothes.

DO NOT Wipe off with any chemicals.

CAUTION

This is a high-precision optical device. Avoid shocking the product such as fall.

III

CAUTION

This unit is designed to use with general electronics devices such as personal computer, office

automation equipment, mesurement hardware, industrial robot, AV device etc. Please care

specially if try to use for safety unit of transportation vehicle (cars, train, airplane), traffic right, gas

leak sensor or other device for safety. Please do not use for devices for satelite, devices for

nueclear or other devices which involves human lives.

The frequency band of this unit (IEEE802.15.1) is also used by other industrial, scientific or

medical instruments like microwave (ISM band).

To avoide cross talk, please follow the following instruction.

1. Please check if there is in-building base station or small valtage wireless base station or

amture wireless base station to detect mobile communication devices

2. By any possibility, if THIR-6000B causes cross talk please contact our sales department.

Please be carefull to deal with Li-ion battery. Improper treatment or use of batteries may present

a danger of fire, explosion, leakage, or other hazard.

•Please do not disassemble the battery.

•Avoide strong impact on the battery.

•Never dispose of batteryies in a fire bacause they may explode.

•Never use or charge batterywith opposed polarity.

•Never connect + and – by steal wire or something. Also don’t carry the battery with metal

accessories or bobby pin.

•Never use microwave with the battery in.

•Never use other cradle tocharge the battery.

•Never charge the battery by connecting it directory to outlet.

•Avoide colse to a fire or strong sun shine when charging the battery.

Please treat this uint gentry. This unit isa precision equipment.

Prohibited

Where to store

CAUTION

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Please do not use/store this unit in the following environment to avoid electrification, fire, defect on

the unit, cause damage on other device placed around.

- The temperature or humidity is out rage ofthe Specification.

- There is a danger of water leakage and electricity leakage.

- The direct sunshine hits.

- It has a dust, salinity and a iron content etc in atmosphere around.

- The static electricity is easy to occur.

- The fire is close, or heat is easy to be confined.

- It has the inflammable or explosive gas in atmosphere around.

This product is not explosion-proof construction.

- The corrosive gas is included in atmosphere around.

Long-term storage

CAUTION

During storage thisunit, be sure to avoid the placewhere there is vibration,dust, high humidity, low

temperature, high temperature and direct sunshine.

Wireless device

•This unit is 2.4GHz band wireless device.

•License, registration and/orcontract to use this device are not needed to use this unit.

Unpacking the product

After opening the shipping package containing the THIR-6000, take the followingsteps:

1- Check for damage that might occur during the shipping process. Report the damage immediately to the

carrier who delivered the shipment.

2- Save the shipping container for later storage orshipping.

3- Make sure everything ordered is present.

Components Qty

THIR-6000B series 1

Start-up Instruction Manual 1

Items not included with the product

•Charging base (TBC-6000)

Used to charge rechargeable battery of THIR-6000B series

TBC-6000

•AC Power Adaptor (Optional): In case of purchase separately, select an adapter with output DC3V to DC6V

range and more than 10W. Please confirmpolarity and DC plug type as below.

Polarity:

DC plug type: EIAJ RC5320A Voltage Segment 2

Table of Content

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................................I

SAFETY NOTICE.....................................................................................................................................................I

HANDLING WITH CARE....................................................................................................................................II

WHERE TO STORE..............................................................................................................................................IV

CAUTION

...........................................................................................................................................IV

PLEASE DO NOT USE/STORE THIS UNIT IN THE FOLLOWING ENVIRONMENT TO AVOID

ELECTRIFICATION, FIRE, DEFECT ON THE UNIT, CAUSE DAMAGE ON OTHER DEVICE

PLACED AROUND...................................................................................................................................................IV

LONG-TERM STORAGE.....................................................................................................................................IV

WIRELESS DEVICE.............................................................................................................................................IV

UNPACKING THE PRODUCT...........................................................................................................................V

1. GETTING STARTED.....................................................................................................................................4

1.1SCANNER COMPONENTS ..................................................................................................................................6

1.2HOW IT WORKS..................................................................................................................................................8

2. HOW TO USE THIR-6000B.........................................................................................................................9

2.1.BATTERY CHARGING........................................................................................................................................9

2.2SETTING UP THE HOST COMPUTER..............................................................................................................11

2.3SETTING VIRTUAL COMPORT ......................................................................................................................12

2.4CONFIRMING TRANSMITTING DATA..............................................................................................................12

2.5IMAGE PREPROCESSING [ONLY FOR DMTYPE] ..........................................................................................12

3. OPERATION..................................................................................................................................................13

3.1BARCODE READING.........................................................................................................................................13

3.2BEEPING SOUNDS...........................................................................................................................................14

3.3IMAGE DATA TRANSACTION ...........................................................................................................................14

3.4VIBRATION.......................................................................................................................................................14

4. COMMUNICATIONS..................................................................................................................................15

4.1DATA TRANSACTION.......................................................................................................................................15

4.2IMAGE DATA TRANSACTION..........................................................................................................................15

5. SPECIFICATIONS.......................................................................................................................................16

5.1GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS............................................................................................................................16

5.2FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION........................................................................................................................17

5.3READING RANGE/DEPTH...............................................................................................................................18

5.4DEFAULT SETTINGS........................................................................................................................................22

6. DIMENSIONS....................................................................................................................................................23

6.1HOUSING DIMENSIONS...................................................................................................................................23

7. SPECIALTY FUNCTION................................................................................................................................24

7.1GLOBAL SHUTTER ..........................................................................................................................................24

7.2AUTO DETECTION MODE ................................................................................................................................26

7.2.1 Overview .................................................................................................................................................26

7.2.2 How to use...............................................................................................................................................27

7.3FOR HIGH DENSITY BARCODES......................................................................................................................29

7.4HOW TO CONFIGURE SECURITY SETTINGS...................................................................................................29

7.5HOW TO CONFIRM DATA TRANSMITTING......................................................................................................30

7.6IMAGE PREPROCESSING.................................................................................................................................32

8. TROUBLESHOOTING...............................................................................................................................33

8.1THE UNIT DOES NOT WORK WHILE PUSHING THE READ TRIGGER SWITCH..............................................33

Does the battery have enough amounts?...................................................................................................33

8.2CAN NOT CHARGE BATTERY...........................................................................................................................33

Is THIR-6000B placed on the cradle correctly?.........................................................................................33

Is the AC adapter inserted correctly?..........................................................................................................33

Is power supply polarity correct?..................................................................................................................33

Is the power rating of the power supply enough?.....................................................................................33

Is the charging terminal clean?....................................................................................................................33

Isn’t the battery too old?.................................................................................................................................33

8.3BARCODE CANNOT BE READ.........................................................................................................................34

Is there beep from the buzzer when THIR-6000B reads barcode? .......................................................34

Is a code setup correct?...................................................................................................................................34

Is reading distance suitable?.........................................................................................................................34

Is the surface of the code glossy?..................................................................................................................34

Is the reading window clean?........................................................................................................................34

Is the print quality of the code good?...........................................................................................................34

8.4READING DATAGETSGARBLED.....................................................................................................................35

Do you set fixed digit for ITF.........................................................................................................................35