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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2010
Kouichi Sano, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shinji Saegusa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Kouichi Sano, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shinji Saegusa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an article management apparatus in which the weight of a bottle, including content, placed on a weighing scale is measured and tag data of a radio tag, indicating content of the bottle, which is affixed on the bottle is read out in a non-contact manner by a radio tag reading section through an antenna when the bottle is placed on the weighing scale, a compound data for discriminating whether or not content in a bottle is compoundable with contents in other bottles is stored. It is determined, based on the compound data stored, whether content of a first bottle on which a first radio tag is affixed can be compounded with content of a second bottle on which a second radio tag is affixed when the radio tag reading section reads out tag data of first and second radio tags.