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Product shipping system

  • US 6,513,712 B2
  • Filed: 02/08/2002
  • Issued: 02/04/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A product shipping system comprising:

  • a terminal equipment on the side of a purchaser, for transmitting designation information designating the order in which respective shipping products are to be mounted on a delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets, a terminal equipment on the side of a supplier, connected to the terminal equipment on the side of the purchaser via a communications line, for receiving the designation information, capable of converting the designation information as received into partition information indicating partitions identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products by execution of a conversion program;

    a printer capable of printing out the partition information after conversion by operating the terminal equipment on the side of the supplier;

    a flat car or plural flat cars for transfer of the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets that display(s) the partition information as printed by the printer, capable of mounting respective products in as-partitioned state thereon; and

    a plurality of product pallets provided with a display identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products, on which the respective shipping products are mounted by the kind thereof on the supplier'"'"'s side;

    wherein a worker can select respective products mounted on the respective product pallets provided with the display on the basis of the partition information as displayed on the delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets loaded on the respective flat car or plural flat cars, and can mount the respective products in as-partitioned state on the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets.

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