Weight detection system for ordered goods and method using the same

• US 20060230003A1
• Filed: 03/31/2005
• Published: 10/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Wen-Yi, Sung, Min-Tzu, Shih, Shan-Fa, Lu, Po-Wen
• Application Number:
  US11/094,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20060230003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/414
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/4144 for controlling weight of goods in commercial establishments, e.g. supermarket, P.O.S. systems

Abstract

A weight system and method for ordered merchandizes to detect actual weight of ordered goods and avoid inaccuracy in weighing caused by human errors. The weight detection system for ordered merchandizes includes: a database of orders for storing customers'"'"' ordering information; a database of pallet for storing weight of the pallets and quantity of merchandising goods that each pallet can carry; a database of goods list for declaration for storing information required when declaring goods at the Customs; a weight estimation module for calculating the estimated weight of goods in each ordering list; a weighing module for measuring the actual weight of goods in each ordering list; a computation module for computing the difference between the estimated weight and the measured actual weight of goods in each ordering list; and a data accessing module for storing the actual weight of the ordered goods into the database of goods list for declaration provided that the difference between the two is within an acceptable range. The data stored in the database of goods list for declaration is to be used for customs declaration purposes, and the merchandiser need not worry about being fined due to an incorrect weight declaration.

Claims

1. A weight detection system for ordered goods comprising:

a database of orders for storing order-related information including at least description, quantity and weight of ordered goods;

a database of pallets for storing information related to pallets used for carrying the goods, the information including at least weight and carrying capacity of the pallets;

a database of goods list for declaration for storing at least information related to customs declaration of the goods;

a weight estimation module for reading the description, the quantity and the weight of the ordered goods from the database of orders and also the weight and the carrying capacity of the pallets from the database of pallets, and calculating an estimated weight of the ordered goods using a predetermined formula for weight calculation based on the read information;

a weighing module for measuring an actual weight of the goods;

a computation module for calculating the difference between the actual and the estimated weight of the goods; and

a data accessing module for storing the actual weights of the ordered goods into the database of goods list for declaration provided that the difference is within a predetermined acceptable range.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the formula for weight calculation is:

(weight of goods) * (quantity of goods)+(weight of a pallet) * [quantity of goods/carrying capacity of a pallet]=estimated weight of goods.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein when the outcome of [amount of ordered goods/carrying capacity of each pallet] is not an integer, the decimal is ignored and one is added to the units digit of the outcome.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weighing module is a platform weighting scale.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weighing module is a weigher.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the acceptable range of the difference is predetermined by a user.

7. A weight detection method for ordered goods provided comprising the following steps of:

storing order-related information including at least description, quantity and weight of ordered goods into a database of orders and pallet-related information including at least weight and carrying capacity of the pallets into a database of pallets;

reading the description, the quantity and the weight of the goods from the database of orders and also the weight and the carrying capacity of the pallets from the database of pallets, and calculating an estimated weight of the ordered goods using a predetermined formula for weight calculation based on the read information;

measuring the actual weight of the goods;

calculating the difference between the actual and the estimated weight of the goods;

storing the actual weights of the ordered goods into the database of goods list for declaration provided that the difference is within a predetermined acceptable range; and

suspending declaration and re-weighing goods when the difference is out of the predetermined acceptable range.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising storing the estimated weight of goods into the database of orders.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising storing the actual weight of goods into the database orders.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising passing declaration-related information stored in the database of orders into a database of goods list for declaration in order to generate declaration forms for declaration process.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the predetermined formula for weight calculation is:

(weight of goods) * (amount of goods)+(weight of a pallet) * [amount of goods/carrying capacity of a pallet]=estimated weight of ordered goods.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein when the outcome of [amount of ordered goods/carrying capacity of each pallet] is not an integer, the decimal is ignored and one is added to the units digit of the outcome.

13. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the predetermined acceptable difference range is determined by a user.