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Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Yukihiro Kobayashi, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06K 19/07 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1378 (2013.01); G06K 7/10445 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06K 19/0723 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract

With a parts supply system in which a plurality of parts boxes is transported by a trolley while the parts boxes are unloaded from the trolley at respectively corresponding part-supply places provided on a parts transport route, progress status of supply of the parts boxes to respective unloading places is determined. Information of RFID tags Tto Trespectively applied to a plurality of parts boxes Bto Bis read by ID tag reading devicesA,B andC respectively mounted on trolleysand. Thus, the respective parts boxes Bto Bthat exist on the trolleysandare identified, and information is generated on the progress status of supply of the respective parts boxes Bto Bto the part-supply places. Thus, the progress status of the supply of the parts boxes Bto Bto the part-supply places is recognized.


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