Consolidated air cargo management system

• US 20040143465A1
• Filed: 12/18/2003
• Published: 07/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Imanishi, Kouji
• Application Number:
  US10/738,223
• Publication Number:
  US 20040143465A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/6
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 9/00 Equipment for handling freight; Equipment for facilitating passenger embarkation or the like emergency equipment B64D17/00, B64D19/00, B64D25/00; structures integral with fuselage to facilitate loading, fuselage floors specially adapted for freight, steps mounted on and retractable within aircraft B64C; ground installations B64F
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/043 Optimisation of two dimensional placement, e.g. cutting of clothes or wood

Abstract

[Object] The invention makes it possible to easily and accurately perform the work of loading consolidated cargo without requiring skill and experience, and makes it possible to reduce the transport cost for each small cargo load.

[Means Solve] The invention comprises: a terminal 10 on the side of a cargo owner A, a terminal 20 on the side of a cargo owner B and a terminal 30 on the side of a cargo owner C that have the function of sending cargo data related to a plurality of small cargo loads; a server 40 on the side of a business that handles air cargo and that is connected to these terminals, and that has a function of extracting small cargo loads based on the cargo data that will match the specified load amount of the a pallet 70; and a database 46 that stores basic data that gives the types of pallets 70, the specified load amounts that specify the load weight and dimensions for each air carrier, and the unit fee.

Claims

1. A consolidated-air-cargo-management system comprising:

terminals for each cargo owner that have a function for sending cargo data for a plurality of small cargo loads; and

a server on the side of a business that handles air cargo and that is connected to the terminals for each said cargo owner over a network, and extracts small cargo loads that match the specified load amount of a pallet based on said respective cargo data from the terminals of each said cargo owner.

2. The consolidated-air-cargo-management system of claim 1 further comprising:

a database that stores basic data that indicates the type of said pallet, the specified load amount that is specified by the load weight and dimensions for each air carrier, and the unit fee, is stored in the database, and wherein

said server comprises;

an owner-cargo-data-storage unit that stores respective cargo data from the terminals of each said cargo owner;

a detail-data-extraction unit that extracts detail data from the cargo data stored in the said owner-cargo-data-storage unit that gives at least the cargo owner'"'"'s name, transport destination, product contents, weight of outside packages, size of outside packages and outside package ID Nos.; and

a loadable-cargo-extraction unit that extracts a plurality of small cargo loads from the detail data extracted by said detail-data-extraction unit and the basic data stored in said database such that the external dimensions and weight of the entire consolidated cargo matches the specified load amount of said pallet.

3. The consolidated-air-cargo-management system of claim 1 or claim 2 wherein

said server comprises:

a simulation-execution unit that executes simulation of a consolidated load of small cargo loads loaded on said pallet based on the weight of the outside packages and the size of the outside packages of said extracted small cargo loads, and determines whether the arrangement of the small cargo loads is the most efficient; and

a cargo-load-information-output unit that outputs cargo load information based on the simulation results from the simulation-execution unit, that shows which small cargo loads are loaded in which location of which layer on said pallet using the outside-package ID numbers.

4. A consolidated-air-cargo-management method comprising:

a process of sending cargo data from terminals of each cargo owner for a plurality of small cargo loads; and

a process of extracting small cargo loads, which match the specified load amount of a pallet based on the respective cargo data from the terminals of each said cargo owner, from a server that is connected to the terminals of each said cargo owner over a network.

5. The consolidated-air-cargo-management method of claim 4 further comprising:

a process of storing basic data that indicates the type of said pallet, the specified load amount that is specified by the load weight and dimensions for each air carrier, and the unit fee;

a process of storing respective cargo data from the terminals of each said cargo owner;

a process of extracting detail data from said stored cargo data that gives at least the cargo owner'"'"'s name, transport destination, product contents, weight of outside packages, size of outside packages and outside package ID Nos.; and

a process of extracting a plurality of small cargo loads from said extracted detail data and said basic data such that the external dimensions and weight of the entire consolidated cargo matches the specified load amount of said pallet.

6. The consolidated-air-cargo-management method of claim 4 or claim 5 further comprising:

a process of executing simulation of a consolidated load of small cargo loads loaded on said pallet based on the weight of the outside packages and the size of the outside packages of said extracted small cargo loads, and determining whether the arrangement of the small cargo loads is the most efficient; and

a process of outputting cargo load information based on said simulation results that shows which small cargo loads are loaded in which location of which layer on said pallet using said outside-package ID numbers.