USE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090031397A1
• Filed: 06/15/2006
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Chikada, Takayuki
• Application Number:
  US11/917,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20090031397A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/2
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00092 the support being an IC card
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/266 for the use of a photocopier or printing device photocopiers H04N1/00

Abstract

A use management system includes: a facility equipment which includes a use control unit for executing control of switching the facility equipment between a usable state and a disabled state; a portable storage medium which stores identification information; a portable storage medium reading device which reads the identification information from the portable storage medium; and an information management device which is connected to and communicates with the facility equipment and the portable storage medium reading device. The information management device includes: a use authority information database which is associated with the identification information, and which registers individual information of a person having the portable storage medium and use authority information of the facility equipment; a determination unit which determines existence or nonexistence of a use authority of the facility equipment based on the identification information received from the portable storage medium reading device and the use authority information registered in the use authority information database; and a unit which transmits an instruction signal to make the facility equipment usable to the facility equipment when it is determined in the determination unit that the use authority exists.

Claims

1. A use management system capable of executing unified use management of a facility equipment, comprising:

a facility equipment which includes a use control unit for executing control of switching the facility equipment between a usable state and a disabled state;

a portable storage medium which stores identification information;

a portable storage medium reading device which reads the identification information from the portable storage medium; and

an information management device which is connected to and communicates with the facility equipment and the portable storage medium reading device,

wherein the information management device includes;

a use authority information database which is associated with the identification information, and which registers individual information of a person having the portable storage medium and use authority information of the facility equipment;

a determination unit which determines existence or nonexistence of a use authority of the facility equipment based on the identification information received from the portable storage medium reading device and the use authority information registered in the use authority information database; and

a unit which transmits an instruction signal to make the facility equipment usable to the facility equipment when it is determined in the determination unit that the use authority exists.

2. The use management system according to claim 1,

wherein the facility equipment is a cabinet including a door having a key, and

wherein the use control unit is a locking/unlocking device for managing taking-off of a stored item in the cabinet by switching a locking/unlocking state of the key.

3. The use management system according to claim 1, wherein the facility equipment is an electronic device.

4. The use management system according to claim 1, wherein the use authority information includes use time period information permitted to use the facility equipment.