Recovery method for an electric appliance
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsukasa Takagi, Yoshihiro Tanabe, Hideaki Nagatomo, Kazuhiro Ishida, Kouichi Nakagawa
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Abstract
A mark is displayed to a manually scrapped component capable of being disassembled manually without disassembling or crushing by machine at the time of discard or recovery of an electric appliance after use, and the manually scrapped component is manually scrapped from a product, and in the case of crushing by machine thereafter, the mark display is a mark capable of separation into plural kinds of substance on which a cost burden is imposed and valuable substance after recovery, and scrapping can be performed easily at low cost.
Claims6
A recovery method for an electric appliance, comprising:
- removing a component from the electric appliance;
- obtaining information from a storage medium corresponding to the component, said information including a value of materials forming the component or costs associated with disposing of the component, and a standard scrapping cost per unit time;
- determining a time required to remove the component from the electric appliance;
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- determining an accumulated profit or loss based on the time to remove the component, the standard scrapping cost per unit time, and the value of materials forming the component or costs associated with disposing of the component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.