JP2005047237A - Hazardous material classification label creating device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a label printer which allows a person having not so sufficient knowledge as a hazardous material manager to create a classification label of a hazardous material under the Fire Defence Law, only by responding to questions issued from the printer. <P>SOLUTION: According to the configuration of the label printer, attention is paid to whether ingredients of a printing ink, a paint, or a diluent or a cleaning liquid of them belong to a second group or a fourth group of the hazardous material under the Fire Defence Law, or whether ingredients are mixtures of the hazardous material in the second or fourth group and ordinary materials irrelevant to the hazardous material under the Fire Defence Law. Therefore by inputting information on a viscosity and a flash point of the hazardous material, the label printer creates the classification label of the hazardous material. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention is, for example, printing inks and paints (paints, paints), such as thinning liquids and cleaning liquids of the Fire Service Law Dangerous Goods Class 4 or a mixture of these mixed with the Fire Service Law Dangerous Goods Class 2 in the Fire Service Law. The present invention relates to an apparatus for creating a dangerous goods classification label.

  Some containers such as printing inks and paints, thinning liquids and cleaning liquids are labeled as “non-medicinal deleterious substances” or “second petroleum or fire strict” on the label. This is because the “Toxic and Deleterious Substances Control Law” and the “Fire Service Law” require that the relevant products be marked as such in order to ensure their storage and handling.

  For hazardous materials (flammable and flammable substances) specified by the Fire Service Act, classification, `` no fire '', and the name of the relevant dangerous materials are required. In addition, there is a quantity limit when storing a large amount in a warehouse, etc., and it is necessary to be careful of fire even when storing in a general household.

  Here, dangerous goods under the Fire Services Act are articles listed in the product name column of the Fire Service Act separate table in Article 2, Paragraph 7 of the Fire Service Act, which have the properties listed in the property column of the same table according to the categories specified in the same table Is defined.

However, all the articles listed in the table are pure substances.Regarding the mixture, it is not a matter of its individual constituents, but whether the mixture itself has a property as a dangerous substance, making a complicated determination from the following viewpoints: The test had to be done.

Class 1 Oxidizing solids Solids that are mixed with combustible materials and have the risk of causing extremely severe combustion when decomposed by heat or the like.
Class 2 flammable solids Solids that are easily ignited by fire or solids that are easily ignited at relatively low temperatures
Class 3 Pyrophoric substances and water-inhibiting substances Solid or liquid Substances that may ignite spontaneously when exposed to air, or that ignite on contact with water or generate flammable gases
Class 4 Flammable liquid Flammable liquid
(3rd petroleum, 4th petroleum, animal and vegetable oils are limited to those that are liquid at 1 atm 20 ° C)
Class 5 Self-reactive substance solid or liquid A substance that generates a large amount of heat or undergoes an explosive reaction by self-reaction such as decomposition by heating.
Class 6 Oxidizing liquid A liquid that does not itself burn but promotes the combustion of other combustible materials.

As a printer that prints nutritional components contained in food on a label, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-228561 is known, but the information of each nutritional component of food that has been input data is printed as it is.
JP 2000-255114 A

  The present invention relates to whether printing inks and paints (paints, paints), the components of these thinning liquids and cleaning liquids belong to the Fire Services Act Dangerous Goods Class 2 or the Fire Services Law Dangerous Goods Class 4, and these An object is to provide a device capable of creating a dangerous goods classification label of the Fire Service Law by inputting information on the viscosity and flash point of the mixture.

  The features of the configuration adopted by the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems are as follows. It is to determine whether or not the mixture is dangerous under the Fire Service Act, and if it is dangerous, what kind of dangerous material is to be printed on the label.

Printing ink and paint (paint, paint) The components of these thinning liquids and cleaning liquids are limited to those belonging to the second class of dangerous goods of the Fire Service Act or the fourth class of dangerous materials of the Fire Service Law, or general materials that do not fall under the Fire Service Law dangerous materials. It is done. For example, varnish, binder, synthetic resin, pigment, organic filler, inorganic filler, organic solvent, etc.

1st class (oxidizing solid)
Class 3 (Pyrophoric substances and water-inhibiting substances)
Class 5 (Self-reactive substances)
Class 6 (oxidizing liquid)

Is not included, the fire fighting law dangerous goods classification can be determined considering the nonflammability, flame retardancy, liquid or solid, and flash point, and this can be printed on the label with a printer.

  Next, a dangerous goods classification label producing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 is an external view of the label printer according to the embodiment, FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of the label printer of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of information processing performed in the label printer.

  In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an input device (keyboard) 2, a display device (LCD) 3, and a printing unit 4 (see FIG. 2) in a single housing 10 for input of information, information processing, and label printing. This is a so-called stand-alone type label printer.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the label printer 1 is connected to a CPU (central processing unit) 5 constituting a control unit main body via a bus line 6 with a memory 7 composed of ROM and RAM, and a nonvolatile memory 8 such as EEPROM. Has been.

  The printing unit 4 prints and outputs on label paper, and various printing methods such as a direct thermal method, a thermal ribbon transfer method, an ink jet method, and an electrophotographic method can be used.

  The memory 7 stores fixed data such as program data and character generator data for the CPU 5 to control each unit, and the CPU 5 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 3 when the power of the label printer 1 is turned on. Start the program.

  First, after the power is turned on, the program is read into the RAM, and when the process is started, in the first step 1 (S1), the fire fighting law is used as a raw material for articles (mixtures) such as printing ink to be subjected to the risk judgment in the fire fighting law. The display device 3 displays a question as to whether or not the above dangerous goods are included. The question here is whether a single substance, not a mixture, is used as a raw material. The operator of the label printer 1 answers by pressing a key assigned to YES or NO. If YES (Y), go to Step 2.

  In step 2 (S2), a question is displayed on the display device 3 as to whether the mixture is liquid or solid at 20 degrees Celsius and 1 atmosphere. Here, a solid does not mean only a complete solid, but a concept including a liquid having a high viscosity. Similarly, a liquid does not mean only a complete liquid but includes a solid having a low viscosity. It is. Specifically, the viscosity of the mixture may be measured, and the value may be entered as a key and judged based on this value. Also, when a predetermined amount of the mixture is filled in a test tube and tilted on a flat surface, A method of measuring the distance of the mixture flowing out in time or the time (seconds) until reaching a predetermined distance and inputting this value can be considered. If it is determined as a liquid, the process proceeds to step 3.

In step 3 (S3), the display device 3 of the label printer 1 is prompted to input a flash point. The operator inputs a specific numerical value by key input.
If the flash point (FP) is less than 21 degrees Celsius, it becomes the first petroleum (S4). If the flash point (FP) is 21 degrees Celsius or more and less than 70 degrees Celsius, it becomes a second petroleum (S5). If the flash point (FP) is 70 degrees Celsius or more and less than 200 degrees Celsius, it is a third petroleum (S6). If the flash point (FP) is 200 degrees Celsius or more and less than 250 degrees Celsius, it becomes a fourth petroleum (S7).

  On the other hand, when it is determined as solid in Step 2 (S2), it becomes a combustible solid (S8). If NO (N) in step 1, the process proceeds to step 9 (S9), and a question as to whether it is flame retardant or non-flammable is displayed on the display device 3 of the label printer 1. In the case of YES (Y) in Step 9, it is determined that it does not correspond to a dangerous article under the Fire Service Act (S10).

  On the other hand, if NO (N) in step S9, the process proceeds to step 11 (S11), and the same liquid / solid determination as in step 2 is performed. If it is a liquid, it is determined as a flammable liquid (S12).

  If it is determined in step 11 that the solid is solid, the process proceeds to step 13 and a question as to whether synthetic resin is used as a raw material is displayed on the display device 3 of the label printer 1. In the case of YES (Y), it is determined as a synthetic resin (S14). In the case of NO (N), it becomes a combustible solid (S8). The label printer 1 prints the above determination result on a label.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, knowledge about the danger material manager can be obtained even for a mixture having a myriad of mixing ratios, such as printing ink and paint (paint, paint), such as a thin liquid and a cleaning liquid. Even those who do not have the ability to create classification labels for dangerous goods of the Fire Service Act simply by answering questions from the label printer.

  Thereby, even when it is frequently diluted to adjust printability like printing ink or mixed to adjust color like paint, a new dangerous goods classification label can be created immediately.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the form mentioned above, Arbitrary deformation | transformation is possible within the range as described in a claim. For example, although a case where a stand-alone type label printer is used has been illustrated, the host computer and an online type label printer may be used.

1 is an external view of a label printer according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a circuit configuration of the label printer of FIG. 1. It is a flowchart which shows the process inside a label printer.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Label printer, 2 ... Input device, 3 ... Display apparatus, 4 ... Printing part, 5 ... CPU, 6 ... Bus line, 7 ... Memory, 8 ... Nonvolatile memory

Claims (1)

When entering information on the viscosity and flash point of a mixture of the Fire Service Act Dangerous Goods Class 2 or the Fire Service Law Dangerous Goods Class 4 and whether or not the mixture is a Fire Service Law Dangerous Goods Dangerous goods classification label making device characterized by determining what kind of dangerous goods and printing on the label.

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