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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute, JP;
Yuta Itozawa, Nagoya, JP;
Hirotaka Komura, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaro Takagi, Tokyo, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A shelf inventory management system includes: a shelf including a plurality of storage boxes each of which is identified; a first sensor provided for each row of the shelf to detect a mass change of the storage boxes, and a second sensor for detecting that each of the storage boxes is pulled out from the shelf; and a management unit that manages an inventory of an article stored in each of the storage boxes. The management unit determines which article has been taken out from which of the storage boxes, based on detection results of the first sensor and the second sensor.