Freight information management method and freight management system using electronic tags
First Claim
1. A freight information management method using electronic tags in a freight information management system having a consignor destination system installed at a consignor destination, base station systems respectively provided at a plurality of base stations of a dealer in delivering freight collected from said consignor destination to a consignee, a consignee destination system provided at a consignee destination, a freight information overall management system connected with said base station systems, and an electronic tag attached to the freight to be delivered and being capable of electronically storing freight information necessary for delivery, wherein in said consignor destination system, inputting of collection request information including freight information concerning the freight to be delivered, consignor information concerning the consignor and consignee information concerning the consignee is received, said collection request information is stored in storage means, said collection request information is transmitted to a collection management system provided in a base station system of a base station serving as a departure store so as to be precedently registered in said electronic tag attached to said freight, freight numbers for identifying individual freight goods are read and stored, a base station serving as an arrival store is determined on the basis of said consignee information, and arrival store information indicative of the determined base station and said collection request information are written into said electronic tag, said collection management system receives said collection request information, determines a terminal unit used for collection of the requested freight, and transmits consignee information contained in said collection request information to said terminal unit, said terminal unit stores said consignor information, records collection record information including person in charge, work date and work index on said electronic tag during acceptance of said freight, reads said collection request information from said electronic tag, and transmits, as collection register information, said collection record information and said collection request information to said collection management system, and said collection management system transmits said received collection register information to said freight information overall management system.
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Abstract
A collection request inputted at a consignor destination system is recorded on an electronic tag attached to freight and sent to a collection management system so as to be received. During collection of freight, information concerning collection is recorded on the electronic tag by means of a terminal unit and the collection information is sent to the collection management system. An in-base station freight information management system informs a freight information overall management system of the collection information and information concerning freight passing through the base station. The freight information overall management system acquires a transport history of the freight on the basis of the information sent from the in-base station freight information management system, calculates a delivery schedule of the freight and informs it to each in-base station freight information management system.
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29 Claims
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1. A freight information management method using electronic tags in a freight information management system having a consignor destination system installed at a consignor destination, base station systems respectively provided at a plurality of base stations of a dealer in delivering freight collected from said consignor destination to a consignee, a consignee destination system provided at a consignee destination, a freight information overall management system connected with said base station systems, and an electronic tag attached to the freight to be delivered and being capable of electronically storing freight information necessary for delivery,
wherein in said consignor destination system, inputting of collection request information including freight information concerning the freight to be delivered, consignor information concerning the consignor and consignee information concerning the consignee is received, said collection request information is stored in storage means, said collection request information is transmitted to a collection management system provided in a base station system of a base station serving as a departure store so as to be precedently registered in said electronic tag attached to said freight, freight numbers for identifying individual freight goods are read and stored, a base station serving as an arrival store is determined on the basis of said consignee information, and arrival store information indicative of the determined base station and said collection request information are written into said electronic tag, said collection management system receives said collection request information, determines a terminal unit used for collection of the requested freight, and transmits consignee information contained in said collection request information to said terminal unit, said terminal unit stores said consignor information, records collection record information including person in charge, work date and work index on said electronic tag during acceptance of said freight, reads said collection request information from said electronic tag, and transmits, as collection register information, said collection record information and said collection request information to said collection management system, and said collection management system transmits said received collection register information to said freight information overall management system.
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18. A freight information management method using electronic tags in freight transportation which uses an electronic tag electronically holding information concerning freight delivered from a consignor destination to a consignee destination to perform delivery management of said freight on the basis of the information held in said electronic tag,
wherein a vehicle for performing delivery of said freight is provided with an on-vehicle system having a reader/writer for reading/writing information from/to said electronic tag, a storage unit holding transport route information concerning a transport route determined in accordance with a combination of a base station serving as a departure store and a base station serving as an arrival store, an input unit for performing input of information by an operator and an output unit for delivering information, and during loading onto said vehicle at each base station, said on-vehicle system receives inputting of a base station name for which the vehicle is destined by means of said input unit, acquires a departure store name and an arrival store name concerning that freight from the information held in the electronic tag of the freight to be loaded onto said vehicle by means of said reader/writer, extracts a transport route of that freight from said transport route information on the basis of said departure store name and arrival store name, decides whether said inputted destination base station is present in the extracted transport route, and delivers an erroneous loading alarm by means of said output unit when said destination base station is not present in base stations on said transport route.
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19. A freight information management method using electronic tags in freight transportation which uses an electronic tag electronically holding information concerning freight delivered from a consignor destination to a consignee destination to perform delivery management of said freight on the basis of the information held in said electronic tag,
wherein a vehicle for performing delivery of said freight is provided with an on-vehicle system having a reader/writer for reading/writing information from/to said electronic tag, an input unit for performing input of information by an operator and an output unit for delivering information, and during loading onto said vehicle at each base station, said on-vehicle system sequentially acquires weight information of freight goods held on electronic tags attached to the freight goods sequentially loaded onto said vehicle, cumulates the acquired weight information, compares the cumulated weight information with a loading limit weight value of said vehicle and delivers an overload alarm to said output unit when said cumulated weight information exceeds said loading limit weight value.
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20. A freight information management method using electronic tags in freight transportation which uses an electronic tag electronically holding information concerning freight delivered from a consignor destination to a consignee destination to perform delivery management of said freight on the basis of the information held in said electronic tag,
wherein a vehicle for performing delivery of said freight is provided with an on-vehicle system having a reader/writer for reading/writing information from/to said electronic tag, an input unit for performing input of information by an operator and an output unit for delivering information, and during loading onto said vehicle at each base station, said on-vehicle system receives, from said input unit, list information containing freight numbers of freight goods to be transported, acquires and stores the freight numbers from the electronic tags attached to freight goods sequentially loaded onto said vehicle, collates the stored freight numbers with the freight numbers contained in said list information to extract, from the freight numbers contained in said list, a freight number to which said stored freight numbers does not correspond and delivers the extracted freight number through said output unit.
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21. A freight information management method in a freight information management system, comprising:
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on the basis of a consignor address and a consignee address of freight requested to be delivered from a consignor destination, determining a delivery route of said freight in a freight information management center;
writing the thus determined delivery route into an electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center;
while said freight is delivered via a plurality of collection/delivery stations in accordance with the delivery route in the electronic tag attached to said freight, determining a redelivery route of said freight in response to a change of said consignee address in the freight information management center;
writing the thus determined redelivery route into said electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center; and
changing the delivery route of said freight in accordance with the redelivery route in said electronic tag attached to said freight. - View Dependent Claims (22, 24, 26, 28)
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23. A freight information management method in a freight information management system, comprising:
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in a freight information management center, determining a delivery schedule of freight on the basis of consignor information and consignee information of said freight requested to be delivered at a consignor destination;
writing the thus determined delivery schedule into an electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center;
while said freight is delivered via a plurality of collection/delivery stations in accordance with the delivery schedule in the electronic tag attached to said freight, comparing an actual delivery condition of said freight with said delivery schedule read out of said electronic tag attached to said freight in each collection/delivery station; and
delivering an alarm informing that an irregular delivery schedule occurs in that collection/delivery station when a result of said comparison is non-coincident.
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25. A freight information management system comprising:
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a departure collection/delivery station where freight requested to be delivered from a consignor destination is collected and delivered;
an arrival collection/delivery station for delivery of said freight to a consignee;
at least one transit collection/delivery station for relaying said freight from said departure collection/delivery station to said arrival collection/delivery station; and
a freight information management center for managing delivery of said freight, said freight information center including a unit for determining a delivery route of said freight in the freight information management center on the basis of a consignor address and a consignee address of said freight; and
a unit for writing the thus determined delivery route in an electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center, wherein while said freight is delivered via said plurality of collection/delivery stations in accordance with the delivery route in the electronic tag attached to said freight, said unit for determining the delivery route determines a redelivery route of said freight in response to a change of said consignee address, and said unit for remote write writes the thus determined redelivery route into said electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center, whereby the delivery route of said freight is changed in accordance with the redelivery route in said electronic tag attached to said freight.
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27. A freight information management system comprising:
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a departure collection/delivery station where freight requested to be delivered from a consignor destination is collected and delivered;
an arrival collection/delivery station for delivery of said freight to a consignee;
at least one transit collection/delivery station for relaying said freight from said departure collection/delivery station to said arrival collection/delivery station; and
a freight information management center for managing delivery of said freight, said freight information center including;
a unit for determining a delivery schedule of said freight in the freight information management center on the basis of consignor information and consignee information of the freight requested to be delivered from the consignor destination; and
a unit for writing the thus determined delivery schedule in an electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center, each of said collection/delivery stations including;
a unit for comparing, while said freight is delivered via said plurality of collection/delivery stations in accordance with the delivery schedule in the electronic tag attached to said freight, an actual delivery condition of said freight with said delivery schedule read out of said electronic tag attached to said freight; and
a unit for delivering an alarm informing that an irregular delivery schedule occurs in the collection/delivery station when a result of said comparison is non-coincident.
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29. A storage medium used in a freight information management system and readable by a computer, comprising:
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a process portion for determining a delivery route of freight in a freight information management center on the basis of a consignor address and a consignee address of said freight requested to be delivered from a consignor destination;
a process portion for writing the thus determined delivery route into an electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center;
a process portion for determining, while said freight is delivered via a plurality of collection/delivery stations in accordance with the delivery route in the electronic tag attached to said freight, a redelivery route of said freight in the freight information management center in response to a change of said consignee address; and
a process portion for writing the thus determined redelivery route into said electronic tag attached to said freight remotely from said freight information center to change the delivery route of said freight in accordance with the redelivery route in said electronic tag attached to said freight.
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