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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2001
Applicants:
Toshiharu Ishikawa, Tokyo-To, JP;
Shigeru Nakano, Tokyo-To, JP;
Inventors:
Toshiharu Ishikawa, Tokyo-To, JP;
Shigeru Nakano, Tokyo-To, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D023/00 ; G06K019/07 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An automatic cold-storage system includes a food package () provided with a noncontact IC tag (), and a refrigerator () for storing the food package (). Information is read from the noncontact IC tag () by a noncontact IC tag reader () and is compiled to a database (). A managing means () controls the refrigerator () on the basis of information contained in the database (). The managing means () makes a display device () display a warning on the basis of information read by the noncontact IC tag reader ().