US 5,875,434 AGranted

System for picking articles

AssigneeFujitsu Limited

InventorsKazuo Matsuoka, Naomichi Kawamura

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Abstract

A system for picking particular articles, by using a receiving box, out of many articles held on article shelves in order to handle articles at high speeds, highly efficiently and highly reliably in a physical distribution management system. The system includes a wireless response tag having a rewritable storage unit, a receiving box having a tag, a terminal equipment for writing/reading article data to and from the tag, a plurality of article shelves, an order-accepting unit, and a belt conveyer, wherein provision is made of a destination-of-picking read terminal at a position of the belt conveyer in from of the article shelves to read the data of an article to be picked from the tag, to indicate the quantity and a management number on the article shelf and to store the management number in the tag, and when the receiving box has moved close to the article shelves, the management number corresponding to the article to be picked is read out and is flashed so as to give an instruction that the article is to be taken off the shelf and put into the receiving box.

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Dependent claims

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, and
said 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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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/615,956Filed 14 Mar 1996
Priority: JP 7-05593415 Mar 1995
Granted: 23 Feb 1999
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B65G 1/1376
For fulfilling orders in warehouses: the orders being assembled on a commissioning conveyor
G05B 19/4189
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
G06Q 10/08741
Inventory fulfillment: by picking of items from inventory for fulfillment