JP2006215658A - Equipment and communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain the disassembly processing and recycle processing of equipment in which an information storage medium such as an IC tag is installed by storing the disassembly information or recycle information related with the equipment in the information storage medium, and acquiring the disassembly information or recycle information from the information storage medium. <P>SOLUTION: Communication equipment 2 is provided with an IC tag communication part 23 for storing disassembly/recycle information related with equipment 1, and for communicating with an information storage medium(IC tag) 10 applied to the equipment 1 and an output part 25 for outputting the disassembly/recycle information acquired from the IC tag 10 to a display device or the like. The disassembly/recycle information includes information related with the disassembly method of the equipment 1 and the material information of the respective parts of the equipment 1 disassembled according to the disassembly method. A user disassembles the equipment 1 according to the disassembly method while viewing the disassembly/recycle information displayed at the display device, and discriminates the respective parts of the equipment 1 for every material according to the material information, and collects the recyclable parts. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a device provided with an information storage medium such as an IC tag and a communication device capable of communicating with the information storage medium, and more specifically, an information storage medium storing disassembly information and recycling information about the device. The present invention relates to a communication device capable of communicating with a device and its information storage medium.

  Conventionally, disposal of equipment such as electric products has been performed by local governments or disposal processing companies collecting the equipment. The disposal method is, for example, crushing or incineration. In the disposal process, some materials are separated / recycled and reused.

  In addition, the home appliance manufacturer is obliged to recycle home appliances under the Act on Re-commercialization of Specific Home Appliances (the so-called “Home Appliance Recycling Law”). When the recycling process is performed, it is necessary to disassemble (disassemble) the product to be recycled. In order to efficiently disassemble such home appliances, various disassembly methods for home appliances have been proposed.

  Hereinafter, the flow of the conventional disassembly work will be briefly described. First, a product person to be recycled is identified by a worker in charge having specialized knowledge. In the rough disassembly, the target product is classified into a housing, general parts, and special parts containing harmful substances. Case components are classified into plastic, iron, aluminum, etc., and subjected to crushing treatment. A general part is determined by a person in charge having expertise to determine whether or not it is a reusable part, and processing is performed according to the determination. Since special parts are dangerous in handling, they are further disassembled by a person in charge with expertise. Most of the disassembling work in such a recycling process is performed manually by a person in charge of work with expertise and a person in charge of simple work.

  As mentioned above, when disassembling the equipment, the equipment is manually disassembled one by one, and the parts of the disassembled equipment are sorted by material and collected and recycled, and those that cannot be recycled are discarded. Perform the process. At this time, when the person in charge of the work is unfamiliar, it is not clear how to disassemble the equipment and how to separate each part. Ask a skilled expert or check the manual etc. There was a problem that the efficiency of disassembling, separating, and recycling the equipment was poor because the work was progressing.

As described above, a method for acquiring information necessary for recycling using an IC tag in order to efficiently perform a recycling process or the like is disclosed. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a wire harness to which an IC tag storing data necessary for recycling a used automobile wire harness is attached. Further, Patent Document 2 discloses a technique that can prevent misperception in physical distribution management by attaching an IC tag having unique information to hazardous waste including PCB.
JP 2002-313165 A JP 2002-356229 A

  However, the invention described in Patent Document 1 stores wire harness recycling information in an IC tag, and is intended for wire harnesses that have been removed from a used automobile and for general equipment such as electrical products. It is not what I did. In addition, the invention described in Patent Document 2 has an IC tag having unique information attached to hazardous wastes including PCBs, etc., and disassembly information and recycling information on equipment for general equipment such as electrical products. It is not stored in the IC tag.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and in a device provided with an information storage medium such as an IC tag, disassembly information and recycling information about the device are stored in the information storage medium, and information storage is performed. The purpose is to acquire disassembly information and recycle information from the medium, and to be able to perform disassembly processing, recycling processing, etc. of the device according to the information.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the first technical means of the present invention is a device provided with an information storage medium, wherein the information storage medium includes storage means for storing disassembly information and / or recycling information related to the device. And a communication means for communicating the disassembly information and / or the recycling information with the outside.

  According to a second technical means, in the first technical means, the information storage medium is an IC tag.

  According to a third technical means, in the first or second technical means, the disassembly information includes information on a disassembly method of the device, and the recycle information includes information on each part of the device disassembled according to the disassembly information. It is characterized by including material information.

  According to a fourth technical means, a communication device capable of communicating with an information storage medium provided in a device according to any one of the first to third technical means, a communication means for communicating with the information storage medium, and the information storage It is characterized by comprising means for acquiring disassembly information and / or recycling information from a medium and output means for outputting the acquired disassembly information and / or recycling information.

  According to a fifth technical means, in the fourth technical means, it is connectable to a display device, and the output means outputs the acquired disassembly information and / or recycling information to the display device. is there.

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily obtain information related to device disassembly processing and recycling processing from an information storage medium such as an IC tag. Therefore, manual disassembly, separation, recycling processing, etc. can be performed easily and efficiently from such information. Can be done automatically.
In addition, by linking with a system that automatically performs device disassembly, sorting, recycling processing, etc., the above processing can be automated without human intervention.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a disassembly / recycling system using an IC tag according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a device such as an electric product to be disassembled / recycled, 2 is 1 shows a communication device capable of communicating with an information storage medium 10 provided in a device 1. An information storage medium (hereinafter referred to as an IC tag) 10 provided in the device 1 stores disassembly and / or recycling information (hereinafter referred to as disassembly / recycling information) related to the device 1. Note that the device 1 is not limited to electrical products such as a television device, a DVD recorder, a VTR, an audio device, and an air conditioner, and covers all devices that perform disassembly processing at the time of disposal.

  The communication device 2 communicates wirelessly with a microcomputer (hereinafter referred to as a microcomputer) 21 for controlling the communication device 2, a memory 22 for storing a control program and various data of the communication device 2, and the IC tag 10. An IC tag communication unit 23 that acquires (reads) disassembly / recycle information of the device 1, an operation input unit 24 that includes a plurality of operation keys, and an output unit 25 that outputs the disassembly / recycle information to a display device or the like. In this example, the case where the communication device 2 communicates with the IC tag 10 of one device 1 is shown. However, there may be a plurality of devices 1, and in this case, disassembly / recycling information of each device 1 is displayed. The stored IC tag 10 may be assigned to each device 1. Thereby, disassembly / recycling information can be acquired from a plurality of different devices using the communication device 2.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration example of the IC tag 10, and the IC tag 10 includes an RF circuit 10a, a control circuit 10b, and a memory 10c. The IC tag 10 is an RFID element, and is a small storage medium capable of storing various data. Since the IC tag 10 does not have a normal power supply, it receives radio waves from the communication device 2 and generates power by a method such as electromagnetic induction.

  The RF circuit 10a and the memory 10c are each connected to the control circuit 10b. The RF circuit 10a is an analog circuit for receiving radio waves from the communication device 2 shown in FIG. 1, and the control circuit 10b is a digital circuit that performs data processing such as modulation processing and demodulation processing via the RF circuit 10a. It is. As shown in FIG. 4 to be described later, disassembly / recycling information related to the device 1 is stored in the memory 10c. This disassembly / recycling information is stored in advance in the memory 10c. For example, the disassembly method (disassembly procedure) of the device 1, material information of each part of the device 1 disassembled according to the disassembly method, information on recyclable components, harmful It shall include information on the parts in which the substance is used.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration example of the communication device 2. The communication device 2 includes a microcomputer 21, a memory 22, an IC tag communication unit 23, an operation input unit 24, and an output unit 25. Communication with the IC tag 10 attached to the television apparatus 1 can be performed wirelessly. The IC tag communication unit 23 includes a modulation circuit 23a that performs predetermined modulation processing on transmission data, a transmission control unit 23b that transmits a modulated modulated radio wave to the IC tag 10, and a decomposition that is returned from the IC tag 10 in response to an RF reaction. / Reception control unit 23c that receives recycle information, demodulation circuit 23d that performs predetermined demodulation processing on the received modulated radio wave, and antenna 23e that performs communication with the IC tag 10 via the transmission control unit 23b and the reception control unit 23c It is composed of

  The output unit 25 outputs the disassembly / recycling information acquired by the IC tag communication unit 23 to the display device 3 such as a liquid crystal display or a printing device (not shown). The output destination of the output unit 25 can be arbitrarily designated from the operation input unit 24 by the operator. The display device 3 may be either built in the communication device 2 or externally connected.

  In FIG. 3, when the device 1 is collected for disposal processing and discarded, the communication device 2 acquires disassembly / recycling information of the IC tag 10 and causes the display device 3 to display and output it. While viewing the disassembly / recycling information displayed on the display device 3, the user disassembles the device 1 into parts according to the disassembly procedure, sorts each part according to the material used according to the material information, and further recyclable parts and harmful Separate and collect parts containing substances. Then, after collection, recycling processing, disposal processing, and the like are performed.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of disassembly / recycling information stored in the IC tag 10. The disassembly / recycling information shown in this example includes the device code for identifying the device to be disassembled / recycled, disassembly information including the device disassembly method, and material information of each part of the device disassembled by the disassembly method. Consists of recycling information including. This disassembly information includes, for example, the disassembly procedure, the shape / size / fitting position of the claw parts of the cabinet that constitutes the equipment, the mounting position / number of screws, the shaping (passing) position of the wiring, and the type of metal part Recycling information includes, for example, material information of each part after disassembly (for example, plastic, vinyl chloride, lead-containing substrates), information on recyclable parts, and harmful substances. It shall include information on the parts used.

  As described above, since information related to device disassembly processing and recycling processing can be easily obtained from an information storage medium such as an IC tag, manual disassembly, separation, recycling processing, etc. can be performed easily and efficiently from these information. It can be carried out. Further, even if the person in charge of the work is not a skilled person, the work can be performed in the same manner as the skilled person.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a disassembly / recycling system using an IC tag according to another embodiment of the present invention, and the communication device 2 automatically performs device disassembly, separation, recycling processing, and the like. It is connected to the automation system 4. In this embodiment, device disassembly processing and the like are automated in conjunction with the automation system 4 that automatically performs device disassembly, separation, recycling processing, and the like. The automation system 4 is a robot-type automatic control system that includes various work devices (for example, work tables, drivers, cutters, robot arms (manipulators), etc.) for disassembling the device 1. It is realized by.

  In FIG. 5, disassembly / recycling information output from the output unit 25 is input to the automation system 4. In the automation system 4, the device 1 is controlled to be disassembled according to the disassembly procedure, and the disassembly process of the device 1 is executed. Further, the disassembled parts are subjected to a sorting process based on the material information, and are sorted and collected into recyclable parts and non-recyclable parts based on the recyclability information. Furthermore, a predetermined recycling process may be performed on the parts collected as recyclable parts.

  In this way, it is possible to easily obtain information on device disassembly processing and recycling processing from an information storage medium such as an IC tag, and further interlock with a system that automatically performs device disassembly, separation, recycling processing, etc. Thus, the process can be automated without depending on human hands.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the decomposition | disassembly / recycling system using the IC tag which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the example of schematic structure of an IC tag. It is a block diagram which shows the schematic structural example of a communication apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the decomposition | disassembly / recycling information memorize | stored in the IC tag. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the decomposition | disassembly / recycling system using the IC tag which concerns on other embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Apparatus, 2 ... Remote control apparatus (communication apparatus), 3 ... Display apparatus, 4 ... Automation system, 10 ... Information storage medium (IC tag), 10a ... RF circuit, 10b ... Control circuit, 11 ... Microcomputer (microcomputer) 10c, 22 ... Memory, 23 ... IC tag communication unit, 23a ... Modulation circuit, 23b ... Transmission control unit, 23c ... Reception control unit, 23d ... Demodulation circuit, 23e ... Antenna, 24 ... Operation input unit, 25 ... Output Department.

Claims (5)

  In a device provided with an information storage medium, the information storage medium includes storage means for storing disassembly information and / or recycling information regarding the device, and communication means for communicating the disassembly information and / or recycling information with the outside. A device characterized by comprising.   2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the information storage medium is an IC tag.   The device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the disassembly information includes information on a disassembly method of the device, and the recycling information includes material information of each part of the device disassembled according to the disassembly information. Features equipment.   4. A communication apparatus capable of communicating with an information storage medium provided in the device according to claim 1, wherein communication means for communicating with the information storage medium, and disassembly information and / or recycling from the information storage medium A communication apparatus comprising: means for acquiring information; and output means for outputting the acquired disassembly information and / or recycling information.   5. The communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the communication apparatus is connectable to a display apparatus, and the output unit outputs the acquired disassembly information and / or recycling information to the display apparatus.

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