Manufactured article recycling system

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;
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• 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;
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• output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.

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;
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• 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;
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• output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.

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;
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• 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;
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• output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.

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;
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• 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;
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• output means for outputting a result of a decision made by said recycle decision means for said article.

An article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration, said article including:

• 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;
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• 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.

An article manufactured with a reuse method thereof being taken into consideration, said article including:

• 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;
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• 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;
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• 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.

A manufactured article recycle system comprising:

• 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;
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• output means for outputting said second information extracted by said computation means.

A manufactured article recycle system comprising:

• 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;
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• an output unit which outputs the second information extracted by the extractor.