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US 11,334,727 B2Granted
Electronic tag writing system and method for same
AssigneesDaio Paper Corporation, DAIO ENGINEERING Co., ltd.
InventorsTaro Ikawa, Koki Beppu, Hirohide Ouchi, Eiji Nishiyama, Ryoto Takahashi, Shin Koyama, Shuntaro Noguchi
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Abstract
A technology is for writing different information depending on an object into an electronic tag. The above problem is solved by an electronic tag writing system including a writing device that writes write information into an electronic tag, and an information acquisition section that acquires write information related to an object associated with the electronic tag, in which the write information acquired by the information acquisition section is written into the electronic tag using the writing device.
Claims9
An electronic tag writing system comprising:
- a writing device that writes write information into an electronic tag;
- an information acquisition section that acquires write information related to an object associated with the electronic tag;
- a conveyor for conveying the object;
- a tag supply section that successively supplies electronic tags having pressure sensitive adhesion sections;
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- a robot that receives the electronic tag supplied from the tag supply section and attaches the electronic tag to the object conveyed on the conveyor;
- wherein after causing the robot to receive the electronic tag supplied from the tag supply section, the electronic tag is brought to close the writing device to perform writing of the write information acquired by the information acquisition section, and then attached to the object;
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- wherein in addition to a conveyance space of the object by the conveyor, a temporary attachment section is provided for attaching the electronic tag that is received by the robot and that is to be discarded.
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An electronic tag writing system comprising:
- a writing device that writes write information into an electronic tag;
- an information acquisition section that acquires write information related to an object associated with the electronic tag;
- a conveyor for conveying the object;
- a tag supply section that successively supplies electronic tags having pressure sensitive adhesion sections;
- a robot that receives the electronic tag supplied from the tag supply section and attaches the electronic tag to the object conveyed on the conveyor, the robot having six or more degrees of freedom;
- an image pickup device that picks up an image of the object conveyed on the conveyor on an upstream side of an attachable range of the robot in the conveyor;
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- a storage section in which image information of the object and the designated attachment position on the object are stored in association with each other;
- wherein after causing the robot to receive the electronic tag supplied from the tag supply section, the electronic tag is brought close to the writing device to perform writing of the write information acquired by the information acquisition section, and then attached to the object;
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- wherein imaging information obtained by the image pickup device is compared with the image information of the object stored in the storage section by image recognition, and when the object is recognized on the conveyor, a designated attachment position associated with the recognized object is read from the storage section, and a position of the object on the conveyor is detected, and
- wherein the robot attaches the electronic tag to the designated attachment position on the object based on the designated attachment position and the position of the object, regardless of irregular positioning of the object on the conveyer.
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An electronic tag writing system comprising:
- a tag supply section that successively supplies electronic tags having pressure sensitive adhesion sections,
- a robot that receives an electronic tag supplied from the tag supply section and attaches the electronic tag to an object conveyed on the conveyor,
- a conveyor for conveying the object,
- an image pickup device that picks up an image of the object conveyed on the conveyor on an upstream side of an attachable range of the robot in the conveyor,
- an individual information sensor that detects individual information of the object and is provided on an upstream side of the image pickup device and the attachable range of the robot in the conveyor,
- a writing device that writes write information including at least one of a part or all of the individual information detected by the individual information sensor and related information acquired based on the detected individual information, into an electronic tag to be attached to the object subjected to detection of the individual information,
- wherein after causing the robot to receive the electronic tag supplied from the tag supply section, the electronic tag is brought close to the writing device to perform writing, and then attached to the object,
- the electronic tag writing system further comprising a storage section in which image information of the object and a designated attachment position on the object are stored in association with each other,
- wherein imaging information obtained by the image pickup device is compared with the image information of the object stored in the storage section by image recognition, and when the object is recognized on the conveyor, a designated attachment position associated with the recognized object is read from the storage section, and a position of the object on the conveyor is detected, and the robot attaches the electronic tag to the designated attachment position on the object conveyed on the conveyor based on the designated attachment position and the position of the object, and
- wherein before reading of the designated attachment position is completed, the robot ends an operation from receiving to writing of the electronic tag,
- the electronic tag writing system further comprising a temporary attachment section for attaching an electronic tag to be discarded other than a conveyance space of the object by the conveyor,
- wherein when the designated attachment position is not read until the object passes through the attachable range of the robot after the individual information is detected by the individual information sensor, the electronic tag received by the robot is attached to the temporary attachment section, and the object to which the electronic tag has been scheduled to be attached is discharged from the conveyor without attaching the electronic tag.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.