Wireless tag information management device

• US 7,210,626 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2006
• Issued: 05/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Asahina, Shigetoshi, Ohishi, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Thien M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA
• Application Number:
  US11/387,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20070063030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/385
• US Class Current: 235/385
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

Abstract

Articles being information management objects are brought together and stored in a preservation place arranged within the communication area by an antenna and a reader/writer unit, and electric wave communication of having an access to only wire-less tags of the number of the information management objects located in the preservation place or the number (object number) to be processed is performed, and communication without excess and deficiency is realized.

Claims

1. A wireless tag information management device, comprising:

management objects having attached thereto wireless tags;

a storage unit for storing the management objects by a storage number determined in advance;

a reader/writer unit for radiating an electric wave to the management objects stored in the storage unit to read out information of the wireless tags; and

an electric wave control unit for, when the number of the management objects having attached thereto the wireless tags whose information is read out by the reader/writer unit gets to the storage number determined in advance, suspending radiation of the electric wave from the reader/writer unit,

wherein the electric wave control unit has a counter for reading out the storage number determined in advance, and, in case a determination made that the counter value is one or more, information of the wireless tags is read out by the reader/writer unit, the counter is decremented by one, returning to the counter judgment, while in case a determination made that the counter value is zero or less, radiation of electric wave by the reader/writer unit is suspended.

2. The wireless tag information management device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the storage unit is configured by a file binder having bound therein file storage matters of a predetermined number which stores document files being the management objects, enabling incoming and outgoing of the document files.

3. The wireless tag information management device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit is constituted by an article shelf that has formed therein small racks of a predetermined number, in each of which a single article to be managed is stored, and from each of which an article to be managed is taken out.

4. A wireless tag information management device, comprising:

management objects having attached thereto wireless tags;

a storage unit for storing the management objects by a storage number determined in advance;

a reader/writer unit for radiating an electric wave to the management objects stored in the storage unit to read out information of the wireless tags;

an incoming and outgoing management output unit for judging the incoming or outgoing of the management objects to or from the storage unit, and calculating a storage number by subtracting the difference number of the management objects obtained by the incoming or outgoing judgment from the storage number determined in advance; and

an electric wave control unit for, when the number of the management objects having attached thereto the wireless tags whose information is read out by the reader/writer unit gets to the storage number calculated by the incoming and outgoing management output unit, suspending radiation of electric wave by the reader/writer unit,

wherein the electric wave control unit has a counter for reading out the storage number calculated or output by the incoming and outgoing management output unit, and, in case a determination made that the counter value is one or more, information of the wireless tags is read out by the reader/writer unit, the counter is decremented by one, returning to the counter judgment, while in case a determination made that the counter value is zero or less, radiation of electric wave by the reader/writer unit is suspended.

5. A wireless tag information management device, comprising:

management objects having attached thereto wireless tags;

a storage unit for storing the management objects by a storage number determined in advance;

a reader/writer unit for radiating an electric wave to the management objects stored in the storage unit to read out information of the wireless tags;

an incoming and outgoing management output unit for arbitrarily counting the number of the stored management objects, judging the incoming or outgoing of the management objects to or from the storage unit, and outputting the storage number of the management objects stored in the storage unit; and

an electric wave control unit for, when the number of the management objects having attached thereto the wireless tags whose information is read out by the reader/writer unit gets to the storage number output by the incoming and outgoing management output unit, suspending radiation of electric wave by the reader/writer unit,

wherein the electric wave control unit has a counter for reading out the storage number calculated or output by the incoming and outgoing management output unit, and, in case a determination made that the counter value is one or more, information of the wireless tags is read out by the reader/writer unit, the counter is decremented by one, returning to the counter judgment, while in case a determination made that the counter value is zero or less, radiation of electric wave by the reader/writer unit is suspended.