Manufactured article recycling system
First Claim
1. A manufactured article recycling system for deciding a recycle processing for realizing a method of reusing a manufactured article, said system comprising:
- reading means for reading information affixed to said article;
storage means for storing a database of article reuse oriented information which bears correspondence to said information affixed to said article for reuse of said article;
recycle decision means for deciding said recycle processing for said article by referencing said article reuse oriented information of said database stored in said storage means on a basis of the information affixed to the article inputted through said reading means; and
output means for outputting a result of a decision made for said article by said recycle decision means;
wherein the information affixed to the article and inputted through said reading means contains information concerning at least name of the article, manufacturer name of the article, model name of the article, manufactured date, manufacturing number and component parts of the article;
wherein said storage means includes as said database an article specifications information database for storing life limit information concerning a restoration-allowable life limit of said article; and
wherein said recycle decision means makes decision on the basis of the information affixed to said article as inputted through said reading means as to whether or not said article satisfies a condition that said article has a remaining life falling within said restoration-allowable life limit of said article as stored in said article specifications information database, wherein when the remaining life of said article falls within said restoration-allowable life limit, said recycle decision means issues a recycle processing decision result indicating that said article is subject to restoration as a restored article, and if otherwise, said recycle decision means issues a recycle processing decision result indicating that said article is subject to a disassembling processing for disassembling said article to individual component parts.
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Abstract
A system promoting a proper recycle of discarded article and contributing economization of energy consumption which will otherwise increase, reduction in the amount of wastes and prevention of environmental pollution due to harmful substances. A recycle system includes an input unit for inputting information concerning article, a storage for storing databases of information for reuse of the articles, a recycle processing method deciding processor for deciding a recycle processing for the article in accordance with recycling rules determined previously by referencing the information for the reuse of the article as contained in the database stored in the storage unit on the basis of the information concerning the article inputted through the input unit, and a recycle factory equipment control unit functioning as an output unit for outputting the result of the decision to a succeeding process.
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34 Claims
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1. A manufactured article recycling system for deciding a recycle processing for realizing a method of reusing a manufactured article, said system comprising:
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reading means for reading information affixed to said article; storage means for storing a database of article reuse oriented information which bears correspondence to said information affixed to said article for reuse of said article; recycle decision means for deciding said recycle processing for said article by referencing said article reuse oriented information of said database stored in said storage means on a basis of the information affixed to the article inputted through said reading means; and output means for outputting a result of a decision made for said article by said recycle decision means; wherein the information affixed to the article and inputted through said reading means contains information concerning at least name of the article, manufacturer name of the article, model name of the article, manufactured date, manufacturing number and component parts of the article; wherein said storage means includes as said database an article specifications information database for storing life limit information concerning a restoration-allowable life limit of said article; and wherein said recycle decision means makes decision on the basis of the information affixed to said article as inputted through said reading means as to whether or not said article satisfies a condition that said article has a remaining life falling within said restoration-allowable life limit of said article as stored in said article specifications information database, wherein when the remaining life of said article falls within said restoration-allowable life limit, said recycle decision means issues a recycle processing decision result indicating that said article is subject to restoration as a restored article, and if otherwise, said recycle decision means issues a recycle processing decision result indicating that said article is subject to a disassembling processing for disassembling said article to individual component parts. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A manufactured article recycling system comprising a manufactured article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration and a recycle processing deciding apparatus for deciding a recycle processing for realizing said reuse method,
characterized in that said manufactured article includes memory means for storing as information affixed to said manufactured article information concerning at least name of the article, manufacturer name of the article, model name of the article, manufactured date, manufacturing number and component parts of the article, and output means for outputting information affixed to said manufactured article and stored in said memory means; - and
that said recycle processing deciding apparatus includes connecting means connected to said article for reading the information affixed to said article from said output means; storage means for storing a database of information for reuse of said article, said information bearing correspondence to the information affixed to said article; recycle decision means for deciding said recycle processing for said article by referencing said information for the reuse of said article contained in said database stored in said storage means on a basis of the information affixed to the article and read through said connecting means; and output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.
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21. A manufactured article recycling system comprising a manufactured article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration and a recycle processing deciding apparatus for deciding a recycle processing for realizing said reuse method,
characterized in that said manufactured article includes memory means for storing as information affixed to said manufactured article information concerning at least name of the article, manufacturer name of the article, model name of the article, manufactured date, manufacturing number and component parts of the article and radio transmitter means for outputting by wireless the information affixed to said manufactured article and stored in said memory means; - and
that said recycle processing deciding apparatus includes radio receiver means for receiving by wireless the information affixed to said article as sent out by said radio transmitter means; storage means for storing a database of information for reuse of said article, said information bearing correspondence to the information affixed to said article; recycle decision means for deciding said recycle processing for said article by referencing said information for the reuse of said article contained in said database stored in said storage means on a basis of the information affixed to the article and received through said radio receiver means; and output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.
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22. A manufactured article recycling system comprising a manufactured article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration and a recycle processing deciding apparatus for deciding a recycle processing for realizing said reuse method,
characterized in that said manufactured article includes bar code means for indicating information affixed to said manufactured article in the form of a bar code, said information containing at least name of the article, manufacturer name of the article, model name of the article, manufactured date, manufacturing number and component parts of the article; - and
that said recycle processing deciding apparatus includes bar code reading means for reading said bar code; storage means for storing a database of information for reuse of said article, said information bearing correspondence to the information affixed to said article; recycle decision means for deciding said recycle processing for said article by referencing said information for the reuse of said article contained in said database stored in said storage means on a basis of the information affixed to the article and corresponding to the bar code inputted through said bar code reading means; and output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.
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23. A manufactured article recycling system comprising a manufactured article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration and a recycle processing deciding apparatus for deciding a recycle processing for realizing said reuse method,
characterized in that said manufactured article includes removable memory means for storing as information affixed to said manufactured article information concerning at least name of the article, manufacturer name of the article, model name of the article; - and
that said recycle processing deciding apparatus includes driving means for driving said removable memory means for thereby reading the information affixed to said article from said removable memory means; storage means for storing a database of information for reuse of said article, said information bearing correspondence to the information affixed to said article; recycle decision means for deciding said recycle processing for said article by referencing said information for the reuse of said article contained in said database stored in said storage means on a basis of the information affixed to the article and read out from said removable memory means driven by said driving means; and output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.
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24. An article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration, said article including:
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memory means for storing as information affixed to said article at least information concerning at least one of a name of said article, manufacturer name of said article, model name of said article, manufactured date and manufacturing number; output means for outputting information affixed to the article and stored in said memory means, times counting means for counting a number of times a power supply to said article is turned on to supply power to said article; and temporal duration counting means for counting a temporal duration of the supply of power from a time point at which said power supply is turned on to a time point at which said power supply is turned off; wherein said memory means stores as use history information said number of times counted by said times counting means and said temporal duration of the supply of power counted by said temporal duration counting means.
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25. An article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration, said article including:
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memory means for storing as information affixed to said article at least information concerning at least one of a name of said article, manufacturer name of said article, model name of said article, manufactured date and manufacturing number; output means for outputting information affixed to the article and stored in said memory means; temperature measuring means for measuring a temperature of said article in a state in which a power supply is on; storage means for storing an upper limit value of a temperature specified for said article; and detecting means for detecting that the temperature of said article measured by said temperature measuring means exceeds the upper limit value of the specified temperature stored in said storage means; a temporal duration measuring means responding to the detection output of said detecting means to thereby measure a temporal duration for which the temperature of the article measured by said temperature measuring means continues to exceed the upper limit value of the specified temperature stored in said storage means; and a temporal duration counting means for counting a number of times said temporal duration measuring means measures the temporal duration for which the upper limit is exceeded; wherein said memory means further stores in response to the detection output of said detecting means the temporal duration for which the upper limit value is exceeded and the count of said temporal duration counting means. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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27. A manufactured article recycle system comprising:
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first storage means for storing first information relating to a plurality of parts combinable to form different articles; second storage means for storing second information relating to a plurality of recycle processes corresponding to properties of said parts; input means for inputting third information relating to said articles; computation means for extracting the first information relating to a part of an article inputted by an input means from said first storage means, and extracting said second information relating to said part to be extracted from the first storage means from said second storage means; and output means for outputting said second information extracted by said computation means. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30)
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31. A manufactured article recycle system comprising:
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a first storage unit which stores first information relating to a plurality of parts combinable to form different articles; a second storage unit which stores second information relating to a plurality of recycle processes corresponding to properties of said parts; an input unit for inputting third information relating to said articles; an extractor which extracts the first information from said first storage unit relating to a part of an article inputted by said input unit and which extracts second information from said second storage unit relating to said part in accordance with the first information extracted from first storage unit relating to said part; and an output unit which outputs the second information extracted by the extractor. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34)
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Specification