JPH0829812B2 - Product sorting method - Google Patents

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[Detailed Description of the Invention] <Industrial field of application> The disclosed technology is in the field of technology in which products such as refrigerated meat and fish are packed in product centers and the ordered quantity is sorted for each store. Belong to

<Summary of Summary> Therefore, the invention of the present application measures and packs products such as meat and fish refrigerated and frozen at a predetermined low temperature condition by a predetermined weight, and the ordered quantity for each store. According to the digital display quantity of the display device corresponding to the container placed in advance on the predetermined sorting rack, the product sorting method in which the products are put in is determined by the number of products ordered for each store in the operation table. The bar code is read through the scanner, the quantity is displayed on the display, and the worker reads the displayed quantity and puts the goods carried in by the conveyor or the trolley into the container for each store in the quantity. In particular, the invention relates to the sorting of products, and in particular, by guiding the light from the display to the light receiving plate of the container of the corresponding store, the display quantity of the display corresponds to that of the store. The present invention relates to a product sorting method which enables smooth insertion of a predetermined number of products into a container while surely confirming that the product corresponds to the container.

<Prior Art> As is well known, as social life becomes richer, in the secondary market, a wide variety of products are being reliably and reliably traded in large quantities and in small quantities.

Thus, although the end consumer purchases a desired product from a store such as a supermarket or a specialty store, it goes without saying that the smoothness of the product sold in the secondary market is obtained at these stores. You must ensure a good deal.

Therefore, in order to stably supply a predetermined amount of desired products in these stores, for example, not only in food manufacturing factories, but also on the supply side such as a food center that backs up sales at the stores, freezing and refrigeration. It is important to weigh the selected products such as meat and fish by the set weight and sort the type and quantity of products ordered from these stores for each store.

At these product centers, etc., a system has been established in which computer products are used to sort products ordered by store, and according to the quantity, sort the products according to type and into the ordered quantity, and ship and supply to each store. ing.

Therefore, in product centers, etc., it is quite important to weigh each product for each set weight, but it is extremely important to sort the products according to the order type and quantity of each store. If there are mistakes or troubles in this sorting work, there is a problem that smooth distribution is hindered.

For such product sorting work, as shown in FIG. 7, a predetermined product carried in from the manufacturing process or the packaging process is displayed on the main operation table 1 through a scanner (not shown) so that a bar code of a label attached to the product is displayed. Read, sort the required quantity of each sorting line, and the sorted products are carried in by a worker via a conveyor or a trolley (not shown) on each line. Scan the code with a scanner to start, and as shown in FIG.
For the containers 5 made of plastic or the like, which are allocated and set for each of the stores, the operator visually checks the digitally displayed quantity of the display 6 provided corresponding to the upper part of the container 5 and displays the display. The displayed quantity is put in according to the quantity.

At this time, the display quantity of the display 6 is digitally displayed photoelectrically according to the bar code read by the scanner in the operation table 3.

Therefore, the worker sets the display quantity on the display 6 to the
As shown in the figure, if you read the product as shown by the one-dot chain line arrow and put the corresponding quantity of product in the corresponding container 5 as shown by the hatching arrow, the quantity of the product ordered for each store will be accurate in that kind. It is put in and then delivered to the store by a truck or the like.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> However, as shown in FIG. 7, the shelves 4 are installed in parallel with each other, and a passage 7 is formed between them, and an operator walks along the passage 7 and is illustrated. The number of goods of the relevant type is read into the container 5 according to the digital display quantity of the display 6 from a conveyor or a trolley, but the worker is required to work along the aisle 7 along the shelf 4 for convenience of work. In some cases, when visually checking the display quantity of the display 6 while walking, it is sometimes desirable to stand in front of the display 6 for each store and visually check the display quantity. For convenience, in many cases, the display quantity may be read from the front side of the display 6 (container 5) or the passing side from the back side, as shown in FIG. Appearance In order to put the goods into the container 5 by force, it is good if the visually displayed display quantity can be accurately put into the container 5 of the corresponding store each time as shown by the hatching arrow in FIG. 5, but as shown by the white arrow. However, there is a possibility that a mistake in the operation of accidentally putting the container 5 in the front side or the front side may occur. As a result, as described above, the sorting mistake may lead to an incorrect delivery, which may cause a trouble. was there.

In order to prevent this, it is desirable for the worker to stop at the position immediately in front of the display unit 6 and to perform an accurate visual check of the displayed quantity and to encourage the introduction of products accordingly. When work is busy, there is a risk that efficiency will be reduced, and there is a negative point that mistakes and troubles may occur due to nervous fatigue.

<Object of the Invention> The object of the invention of this application is refrigeration based on the above-mentioned prior art,
It is a technical issue to solve the problem of sorting work for each store through a display in a product center that packages and sorts refrigerated products and so on. While making full use of the merit of the product sorting system that follows the display of the ordered quantity, based on the displayed quantity, the products are loaded in a one-to-one correspondence with the containers in each store, and the sorting is done smoothly. It is intended to provide an excellent product sorting method that is beneficial to the field of using the product handling technology in the distribution industry.

<Means / Action for Solving the Problem> In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the structure of the invention of this application, which is based on the above-mentioned object, is summarized as follows. When sorting items such as refrigerated meat and fish in packaged states according to the order quantity from retail stores, when a product of that type is loaded, the barcode is read by the scanner on the main operation table. , When the products are sorted and sent to the shelves of each line, and when the goods are put into the plastic containers of each store of the shelves via the workers by the conveyor or the trolley, 1 1 to
The ordered quantity is displayed digitally on the indicator corresponding to the above by the barcode reading through the scanner in the operation table for each line, and at that time, light is guided from the indicator to the container. , It is confirmed by the operator that the display quantity corresponds to only the container shown by floating on the light guided from the display, etc. Therefore, the product concerned can be surely displayed only in the container corresponding to the light. Accurately dispense the indicated quantity and prevent it from being accidentally thrown into other containers.By doing this, the products of the number ordered for each store are sorted accurately, and the light is , For example, it is guided to the container of the store by a lamp, an optical fiber or the like, or frozen gas such as dry ice drifts from the top of the shelf to make the optical path float and the light is emitted. The operator can visually check, and the corresponding container can be visually recognized by the display, and the product of the input quantity for the confirmed container can be accurately added only to the relevant container. This is a technical task that was taken to prevent the accident.

<Embodiment> An embodiment of the invention of this application will be described below with reference to FIGS.

It should be noted that parts that are the same as those in FIGS. 7 and 8 will be described using the same reference numerals.

Similar to the conventional mode, the illustrated mode can be applied to end stores such as supermarkets and specialty stores such as frozen, chilled meat,
This is a mode in which packaged products such as fish are distributed according to the ordered quantity, and unillustrated products panned according to a predetermined weight and quantity are carried in in the same manner as the conventional mode shown in FIG. 7. The bar code is read through a scanner (not shown) by the main operation table 1, the required quantity in each operation table 3 is output to the attached printer, the required quantity of each line is intermediately sorted, and the operation of each line shelf 4 is performed. It is sent to the table 3 and is sorted into plastic-made containers 5, 5 ... For each store on each shelf 4 by a worker by a conveyor, a trolley, etc. not shown.

Then, on the shelves 4 of each line, the bar code is read by the operation table 3 through a scanner (not shown), and the order quantity for each store is digitally displayed on the indicator 6'of the display 6. The worker visually checks the displayed quantity and takes out the displayed quantity of the product from the conveyor or the trolley to the container 5 of the corresponding store and loads it.

The working mode up to this point is the same as the conventional mode described above, but in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, in the invention of this application, as shown in FIG. A small lamp 9 (such as a spotlight with small power consumption) provided with a hole 8 indicates the quantity (at the time of the invention of this application, such a technique is electrically very easy to design). (In addition, depending on the design, a flashlight type lamp such as a penlight may be used.) As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 4, the spotlight 12 is guided to the corresponding light receiving plate 11 of the container 5. (In this case, even if the light from the lamp 9 is spread or narrowed, the indicator 6 of the container as a spotlight is displayed.
There is no change in the correspondence display function with. ).

Therefore, the order quantity of the store is digitally displayed on the indicator 6'by the operation table 3, and the operator can clearly see which store, that is, which container 5 the display corresponds to other containers. It can be identified.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1, the operator reads the digitally displayed quantity of the indicator 6'of the display 6 (whether it is at the immediately preceding position, the near side, or the excessive position). It suffices to visually check the container 5 clearly indicated by the spotlight 12 and take out and put in the product in the indicated quantity, and the work can be accurately performed without mistake.

When the above operation is repeated for each product, the sorting is completed.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the optical path of the light from the lamp 9 is guided to the air. In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, however, glass fibers such as known glass fibers are used in the optical path. Is used, and the containers 5, 5, ... Are stacked on the slanted shelf 4 below the display 6 to display the display 6.
From the number of laminated layers of the container, that is, the number of glass fibers 13 ', 13' ... Corresponding to the store, are cut open at their lower ends (thus, only the cut open ends are shining). The bundled light guide cables 13 are vertically installed, and the order quantity for each store is digitally displayed on the indicator 6 ', and the glass fiber 13' corresponding to only the store is electrically connected to emit light and cut. Only the open end 14 emits light and is shined, and the worker only has to put the number of products indicated by the indicator 6'into the shining portion of the container 5, and does not make a mistake in another container.

By pressing the button 15 of the display 6 after the insertion, the lamp display of the store concerned and the light emission of the glass fiber 13 'are extinguished, and the next, i.e., lower, light emission may be visually recognized and the product may be inserted.

Further, light emission that does not have a display, that is, it is not necessary to put products of the corresponding store, is prevented.

It should be noted that the embodiment of the invention of this application is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and the light path itself of the light can be visually observed by changing the light to a laser beam.
It is possible to confirm the container of the store corresponding to the display device more reliably and correspondingly.

Further, as described above, when the sorted products are frozen, chilled meat, fish, etc., by setting dry ice, a low temperature pipe, etc. on the uppermost shelf, the descending cold air is in the air as a low temperature atmosphere. By atomizing the water, it is possible to clearly indicate which container 5 the irradiation light from the display 6 corresponds to by making the irradiation light itself stand out as an optical path when the atomized gas drifts. Various modes such as possible can be adopted.

Of course, the light from the display may be applied not only to the light receiving plate of the container but also to the handle of the container, etc., as a design change.

In addition, the target products are not limited to frozen meat and fish, for example,
Needless to say, it can be applied to confectionery, cakes, vegetables, and other products that are handled in the secondary market.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, according to the invention of the present application, basically, product sorting according to types such as predetermined weight at a product center such as a package factory in a distribution market of products handled at end stores In this case, the ordered quantity is displayed as it is in the conventional manner through the barcode reading by the scanner, the displayed quantity of the product of the relevant type is displayed on the display, and the product is carried into the corresponding plastic container of the store according to the displayed quantity. In sorting work in which products are loaded, while workers walk through the aisles facing the shelves while visually observing the number display on the display unit, they take out the products from the conveyors or carts and load them into the corresponding containers in the store. At this time, even if you look at the display diagonally upward from the front side of the container or display, or the front side that has gone too far, By clearly indicating the container to which the light guided from the display corresponds, the product is put into only the container corresponding to the quantity displayed on the display, and there is no mistake sorting such as mistakenly inserting the product into the front and rear containers. That is an excellent effect.

Therefore, there is an advantage that the work efficiency is improved and the occurrence of mistakes and troubles is eliminated without causing mental fatigue or nerve fatigue during the work.

Therefore, as a result of accurate product sorting at the product center and the like, there are no problems in handling the products in the secondary market, and there is a secondary advantage that the reliability between the product center and the store is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 to 6 are explanatory views of an embodiment of the invention of this application,
1 is a partially enlarged perspective view of one embodiment, FIG. 2 is a side view of the same, FIG. 3 is a bottom view of an indicator, FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged plan view of a container, and FIG. 5 is another embodiment. Is a front view, FIG. 6 is an enlarged side view of the light guide path, FIG. 7 is a schematic plan view of a sorting mode, and FIG. 8 is a side view of a shelf. 4 ... shelf, 7 ... passage 5 ... container, 6 ... display 11 ... light receiving plate, 10 ... light 13 ... light guide path

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A container for each store, which is arranged on a shelf facing a passage of a sorting area, is loaded with the number of products carried in according to the display quantity of an indicator for each store provided on the shelf. In the product sorting method, the light from the above display is guided to the corresponding container of the store, and the correspondence between the displayed content and the container is checked by light guide to put the product in the container. Method. 2. The product sorting method according to claim 1, wherein the light receiving plate provided on the container is irradiated with the light. 3. The product sorting method according to claim 1, wherein the light is guided by an optical fiber so that the light is emitted at the corresponding cut open end of the side of the container. 4. The method of sorting products according to claim 1, wherein the optical path of the light is made clear. 5. The method of sorting products according to claim 1, wherein a gas atmosphere is suspended in the optical path of the light.