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System for picking articles

  • US 5,875,434 A
  • Filed: 03/14/1996
  • Issued: 02/23/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system to pick articles, comprising:

  • a wireless response tag having a rewritable storage unit;

    a receiving box to hold said wireless response tag and to store a desired article;

    an antenna to communicate with said wireless response tag;

    terminal equipment for writing and reading article data to and from said wireless response tag via said antenna;

    a plurality of article shelves to store a plurality of articles;

    a plurality of display units disposed in the vicinity of each of said plurality of article shelves; and

    a belt conveyer to convey said receiving box to pick one of said plurality of articles by using said receiving box,wherein provision is made for a destination-of-picking read terminal at a position of said belt conveyer in front of said plurality of article shelves to read article data picked from said wireless response tag, to display the corresponding article and a picking management number on said display unit and to store said picking management number in said wireless response tag, andsaid terminal equipment reads the picking management number when said receiving box has moved close to said plurality of article shelves and displays the picking management number on said display unit by using said antenna disposed near said belt conveyer in the vicinity of each of said plurality of article shelves.

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