JPH10116303A - Article rental contract processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve processing precision and operation efficiency by automating the recovery of data and the data changing processing of a register receiving mechanism. SOLUTION: The first communication control part 19 of the register receiving mechanism 11 and the second communication control part 26 of a tabulation/ contract mechanism 12 are directly connected through a communication line 28. At the same time of it, a second control part 27 is provided with a rewriting circuit 29 rewriting a stored content in a first memory part 13 to automatically change the stored content in the first memory part 13 from the rewriting circuit 29 through the communication line 28 at need.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for performing a rental contract processing of articles such as pallets, and more particularly, to an apparatus which can be successively moved from one borrower to another borrower like a pallet rented. The present invention relates to an article rental contract processing device in a certain case.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional article rental contract processing apparatus of this kind, for example, an apparatus described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-14357 is known.

[0003] In brief, this article rental contract processing device has a registration receiving mechanism installed on the pallet receiving side and a tallying / contracting mechanism installed at the rental source.

The registration accepting mechanism includes a reading unit for identifying and registering a delivery-side card and an accepting-side card of an article, a first read-only memory (ROM) storing various programs for acceptance processing, and a delivery unit. A storage unit for registering the type or quantity of the article and the date or time when the article was delivered, a first control unit for controlling operations of the first read-only memory, the reading unit, and the storage unit; A first communication control unit that outputs the data input to the first control unit to the outside.

On the other hand, the tallying / contracting mechanism includes a second communication control unit for receiving each data output from the first communication control unit and a second communication control unit for storing various programs for data tallying processing and contract processing. A read-only memory (ROM) and a second control unit that performs a totalizing process and a contract process based on data transmitted from the second communication control unit and various programs in the second read-only memory.

[0006] Then, a card on the pallet delivery side and a card on the accepting side among the borrowers of articles, for example, pallets, are inserted into the registration accepting mechanism. By this card insertion, the registration receiving mechanism is activated, and recognizes the delivering customer and the receiving customer.

After that, when the delivery quantity of the pallets and the like are inputted by the operation of the operator, the registration of the quantity, date and time are accepted. The registered contents are sent to a tallying / contracting mechanism (a rental source) by means such as a handheld computer (HHC), and the tallying / contracting mechanism tallies the registered contents.

[0008] Further, all pallets are generally owned by the rental source, and both the pallet delivery side and the receiving side are contractors with the rental origin. Pallets are subleased between. Therefore, at the rental source, according to the result of the aggregation, the rental contract is canceled for the delivery side with respect to the delivered pallets, and the new rental contract is processed for the receiving side. I have.

[0009]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional article rental contract processing apparatus, various programs for reception processing stored in advance in the first read-only memory of the registration reception mechanism have been changed. In such a case, each first read-only memory is manually changed individually. That is, after writing the software in the first read-only memory, the first read-only memory in the registration receiving mechanism is physically exchanged.

[0010] In particular, the storage contents of the registration accepting mechanism are temporarily stored in the first communication control unit in the handheld computer (HHC), and then stored in the transmission terminal by the HHC.
Further, in the communication system for transmitting data from the transmission terminal to the tallying / contracting mechanism, a large number of registration receiving mechanisms installed in advance on each receiving side have to be collected with HHCs one by one. The work becomes extremely complicated.

In addition, as described above, when changing various programs in the first read-only memory, it is necessary to go to the location where the registration accepting mechanism is installed and individually perform the change processing. Both processes of the change become complicated, and timely contract processing between the receiving side and the rental source is difficult.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been devised in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the invention according to claim 1 has a relationship between an article rental source and a delivery side and an acceptance side of the article. An article rental contract processing apparatus between a plurality of customers that can be established, wherein a registration receiving mechanism installed on the receiving side includes: a first memory unit storing various programs for receiving processing; And a reading unit that reads data on the receiving side, a storage unit that stores various data such as a type or quantity of delivered articles and a delivery date or a delivery time, and an operation of the first memory unit, the reading unit, and the storage unit. A first control unit for controlling, and a first communication control unit for transmitting the data input to the first control unit to the outside, while a tallying / contracting mechanism installed at the goods rental source is , The first A second communication control unit that receives each data output from the communication control unit, a second memory unit that stores various programs for data summarization processing and contract processing, and a data that is transmitted from the second communication control unit. A second control unit that performs aggregation processing and contract processing based on data and various programs in a second memory unit, and connects the first communication control unit and the second communication control unit via a communication line; The control unit is provided with a rewrite circuit for rewriting the storage content of the first memory unit, and the storage content of the first memory unit can be changed via the communication line based on the rewrite data output from the rewrite circuit. It is characterized by:

The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that the data storage media on the delivery side and the reception side read by the reading section are constituted by bar codes on a slip.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the delivery-side and reception-side data holding media read by the reading unit are constituted by magnetic cards.

The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that the first memory section is constituted by a readable and writable RAM.

The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the first memory section is constituted by an electrically erasable EEPROM or an IC card.

According to the present invention having the above-described structure, the first communication control unit and the second communication control unit are connected by a communication line using, for example, a public line network. In addition, since the individual storage and collection work is not required at all, the processing program and the like in the first memory unit of each registration receiving mechanism can be freely changed from the rewriting circuit of the counting and contracting mechanism. Processing such as upgrading of various programs in the memory unit can be easily and timely performed.

[0018]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an article rental contract processing apparatus according to the present invention. This article rental contract processing device is composed of a registration receiving mechanism 11 installed at the customer's hand and a tallying / contract processing mechanism 12 installed at the rental source.

The registration receiving mechanism 11 is installed under a plurality of customers who have a rental contract for the same device. The registration receiving mechanism 11 is, for example, a facsimile machine / telephone equipped with a so-called personal computer function, which is a commercially available product. The personal computer has a first memory unit 13 storing various programs for receiving processing, and a delivery side. And a random access memory (RAM) 14, which is a storage unit for storing various data read by the receiving side, an operation unit 15 having numeric keys, and a bar, which is a reading unit that reads a barcode on a slip described later. A code reader 16, a display unit 17 on which various menus and instruction items are displayed during operation of the registration receiving mechanism 11, and a slip on which a delivery slip recording the contents registered in the registration receiving mechanism 11 is printed out as a hard copy A printer 18, a first communication control unit 19 for transmitting data in the registration receiving mechanism 11 to the outside,
And a control unit 20 for controlling the operation of the various function units.

The data on the delivery side and the receiving side, that is, various data such as the company name and the product name are displayed on a bar code 22 on a slip 31 as shown in FIG. 2, and the bar code 22 is read by a bar code reader. Read by 16,
The data is input to the RAM 14. The control unit 20 is configured by a CPU, and issues an operation command to each functional unit or performs data processing. Further, the first memory unit 13 is constituted by a readable and writable RAM, and can be freely rewritten based on a data change command from the tallying / contract processing mechanism 12 described later. Also, the first memory unit 13
Is designed to prevent erasure of stored contents when the power is turned off.

On the other hand, the tallying / contract processing unit 12 includes a second memory unit 21 which is a storage device such as a RAM in which various programs for tallying data and contract processing and tally data are stored, an operation unit 22, A display unit 24 for displaying tally data and the like, and a printer 2 for printing out tally results
5, a second communication control unit 26 for receiving data from the registration receiving mechanism 11, and a second control unit 27 for controlling the operation of the various function units in the tallying / contract processing mechanism 12. The second control unit 27 is configured by a CPU, reads a program from the second memory unit 21, and performs processing according to the program. The second communication control section 26 of the tallying / contract processing mechanism 12 is connected to the first communication control section 19 of each of the registration receiving mechanisms 11 via a communication line 28.

The communication line 28 utilizes a public telephone network such as a normal telephone or facsimile so that the information signal from the first communication control unit 19 is directly transmitted to the second communication control unit 26. Has become.

The tallying / contract processing mechanism 12
The control unit 27 includes a rewriting circuit 29 capable of rewriting the program contents and the like of the registration accepting mechanism 11. The rewriting circuit 29 reduces the processing time of various programs in the first memory unit 13 or sets the processing items. In order to upgrade functions such as increase, the first memory unit 13 downloads them. Note that the program data and the like are stored in the second memory unit 21. Also,
In the first memory unit 13 of the registration receiving mechanism 11, there is a customer master downloaded from the tallying / contract processing mechanism 12, and a check with the customer master is performed at the time of registration to improve the accuracy of registration data. .

Further, the bar code 22 of the slip 31
The (processing code) incorporates various information data in addition to the delivery side and the receiving side, for example, six processing division data of acceptance and delivery are incorporated. Further, below the processing code 22, three commodity codes 2 set in advance are set.
2a, 22b and 22c are incorporated.
The slip printers 18 and 25 are displayed in kanji and hiragana.

The rental source has set up pallet collection points (depots) at various places in order to speed up the work of collecting rental pallets from customers and to lend them to customers at any time. Then, the customer can return or borrow the goods at any time by this accumulation place, and it becomes possible to utilize the necessary goods for a necessary period only when necessary. As a result, there is no need for the customer to hold unnecessary and urgent items.

The operation of the rental contract processing apparatus having such a configuration will be described.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the registration receiving mechanism 11 (first control unit 20) of the rental contract processing apparatus. FIG. 4 shows the contents displayed on the display unit 17 of the registration receiving mechanism 11, and FIG. Is a flowchart showing the operation of the tallying / contracting mechanism 12. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a pallet distribution mechanism in which the rental contract processing device is operated.

First, in FIG. 6, when a pallet 43 as an article is carried in from the delivery side 41 to the receiving side 42, the operation of the registration receiving mechanism 11 installed on the receiving side 42 is started. The display unit 17 of the registration receiving mechanism 11
In FIG. 4A, a screen as shown in FIG. 4A is displayed. When “Data registration” is touched on this screen, a registration selection menu shown in FIG. 4B is displayed. Here, the processing code 22 is displayed on the barcode reader 16. When the processing code 22 is read in step S1 of FIG. 3 by placing the, the screen of the display unit 17 automatically changes to the display of FIG. 4c without displaying the screen of FIG. 4b.

In step S2, the name of the delivery side is read and stored in the RAM 14 at the same time.
FIG. 4D is displayed on the screen of the display unit 17. Next, in step S3, it is determined whether or not the receiving side code is automated. If it is determined that the code is automated, the process proceeds to step S5. If it is determined that the code is not automated, the process proceeds to step S4. Here, the name of the receiving side is read and stored in the RAM 14, and the process proceeds to step S5. In this step S5, the barcode reader 16 reads the product codes 22a, 22b, 22c of the same slip 31. The product codes 22a to 22c indicate types of predetermined products. Further, in step S6, input data by the ten-key operation by the operator is fetched. This input data is the quantity of goods delivered and the date or time of delivery (hereinafter referred to as date etc.)
And it is possible to register a plurality of products by one registration process.

Incidentally, the above-mentioned quantity is input by a ten-key operation by an operator, but data relating to the date and the like may be input by an operator or may be taken from a timer incorporated in the registration receiving mechanism 11. FIG. 4E is displayed on the screen.

When the input data has been fetched, the process proceeds to step S7. Here, it is checked whether or not the registration of the product or the quantity has been completed. The process returns to S5, and if it has been completed, the process proceeds to step S8. In this step S8, processing for storing the input data in the RAM 14 is performed. This means that the delivered article has been registered.
In the next step S9, a slip for confirming the delivery and acceptance of the article is issued from the slip printer 18, thereby ending a series of registration acceptance processing.

Further, by touching "OK" in the screen display of FIG. 4E, the screen display of FIG. 4F is displayed. If "Registration" is further touched here, the registration data print display of FIG. 4G is displayed. Then, a receipt is printed, and after completion, the display returns to the registration selection menu.

The result of the registration of the delivery and acceptance of the article is transmitted from the registration accepting mechanism 11 installed on the receiving side 42 to the tallying / contracting mechanism 12 installed on the rental source 44 through the communication circuit 28. This data is
The data is automatically transmitted to the tallying / contracting mechanism 12 at night or the like. It should be noted that data can be transmitted at any time as needed.

The operation procedure of the tallying / contracting mechanism 12 will be described with reference to FIG. 5. First, in step S21, data such as a receiving side, a delivering side, date, hour, minute, second, product code, and quantity are taken. Will be Next, in step S22, a determination is made as to the delivery customer from the fetched data, and in step S23, a determination is made as to the receiving customer. Next, in step S24, data such as the delivery quantity and delivery date is read, and
At 25, these data are stored in the second memory unit 21. Next, in step S26, ledgers of the customers corresponding to the delivery side and the receiving side are loaded from the customer file already stored in the second memory unit 21, and a contract process is performed in step S27 according to the customer ledger.

In the contract processing, the rental contract is canceled (or terminated) for the delivery quantity based on the data such as the date on the delivery side while the rental contract is canceled on the receiving side. In the same manner, a new rental contract concluding process is performed for the accepted quantity (equal to the delivered quantity) based on the data such as the date. When the contract processing is completed, the process proceeds to step S28,
The newly updated loan relationship is written in each customer ledger, and a series of tallying / contract processing is completed.

As is clear from FIG. 6, the customer corresponding to the delivery side 41 can directly receive the supply of the pallet 43, which is a rental article, through a transaction with the rental source 44 or the accumulation place (depot). The details of the transaction are registered in the registration receiving mechanism 11 installed in the depot (depot) and transmitted to the tallying / contracting mechanism 12. Then, the delivery side 41 sends the pallet 43 from the goods accumulation place 45 of the rental source.
Receive supply.

Further, the customer corresponding to the receiving side 42,
It is possible to bring a predetermined number of pallets 43 to the nearest article accumulation place 46 in order to eliminate the accumulation of pallets 43. This carry-in record is also registered by the registration receiving mechanism 11 installed at the tallying station (depot) and transmitted to the tallying / contracting mechanism 12.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, it is possible to smoothly deliver and accept products such as pallets, and the efficiency of delivery work is greatly improved.

The registration receiving mechanism 11 and the tallying / contracting mechanism 12 are connected by using a public communication line 28, and the rewriting circuit 29 of the tallying / contracting mechanism 12 rewrites various program contents in the first memory unit 13. Can be directly and freely changed, so that the program changing operation can be performed extremely easily and timely.

In addition, since the registration receiving mechanism 11 reads the bar codes 22, 22a, 22b, and 22c on the slip 31 with the bar code reader 16, the input operation becomes extremely easy and the reading accuracy is improved. In addition, information processing using a bar code makes it possible to clarify the return and borrowing side, particularly the borrowing side entity, even in a complicated borrowing mode, thereby preventing erroneous input by the entity.

Further, it is possible to easily refer to the registered results at the place where the registration receiving mechanism 11 is installed, and the results can be managed on the customer side.

As a medium for holding various data on the delivery side and the reception side, a bar code 2 on the slip 31 is used.
In addition to the above, it is possible to use a magnetic card (I / D card) as shown in the conventional example, which uses a magnetic card on the delivery side and a magnetic card on the receiving side, and accepts registration. The mechanism 11 may be provided with insertion holes for the first and second cards and a card reading section for reading data of the card inserted into each of the card insertion holes. The bar code and the magnetic card can be used together depending on the specifications of the device.

In the above embodiment, a pallet for forklift cargo handling was taken as an example of a rental article. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this item. All goods can be applied. Although the first memory unit 13 uses a RAM in this embodiment, it may be an electrically rewritable EEPROM or an IC card.

[0044]

As is apparent from the above reasons, according to the present invention, it is possible to smoothly carry out the delivery and acceptance of the product together with the article, thereby improving the efficiency of the delivery work. In particular, the registration data of the registration accepting mechanism can be automatically and timely transmitted to the tallying / contracting mechanism, and a rewriting circuit is provided in the second control unit of the tallying / contracting mechanism. , The contents stored in the first memory unit of the registration receiving mechanism can be freely changed, so that processes such as upgrading various programs in the first memory unit can be performed easily and easily, and timely. Contract processing becomes possible.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the input operation becomes extremely easy, and the reading accuracy is improved. In addition, information processing using a bar code makes it possible to clarify the return and borrowing side, particularly the borrowing side entity, even in a complicated borrowing mode, thereby preventing erroneous input by the entity.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, a specific data input person becomes unnecessary, and, for example, a driver of an article transporting vehicle can freely input data, thereby enabling effective utilization of human resources. Further, the versatility of the specification is improved by using the bar code together.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the first
Since the memory section is constituted by an EEPROM, writing and erasing can be performed electrically, so that more accurate and quick information processing becomes possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a rental contract processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a barcode slip provided in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the registration receiving mechanism of the embodiment.

FIGS. 4A to 4G are diagrams showing continuous screen displays on the display unit of the registration receiving mechanism.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation procedure of the tallying / contracting mechanism of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a rental article distribution mechanism to which the embodiment is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Registration reception mechanism 12 ... Accounting and contract mechanism 13 ... First memory part (RAM, EEPROM, ID card) 14 ... First storage part (RAM) 16 ... Barcode reader (reading part) 19 ... First communication control part Reference Signs List 20 first control unit 21 second memory unit 23 second storage unit 26 second communication control unit 27 second control unit 28 communication line 29 rewriting circuit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An article rental contract processing device between an article rental source and a plurality of customers who can establish a relationship between a delivery side and an acceptance side of the article, comprising: a registration accepting mechanism installed on the acceptance side. Is a first memory unit that stores various programs for reception processing, a reading unit that reads data on the delivery side and the reception side, and various data such as the type or quantity of delivered goods and the delivery date or delivery time. , A first control unit for controlling operations of the first memory unit, the reading unit, and the storage unit, and a first communication control for transmitting the data input to the first control unit to the outside. A tallying / contracting mechanism installed at the article rental source, a second communication control unit receiving each data output from the first communication control unit, a data tallying process, a contracting process A second memory unit in which various programs are stored, and a second control unit that performs a tabulation process and a contract process by using data transmitted from the second communication control unit and various programs in the second memory unit. The first communication control unit and the second communication control unit are connected by a communication line, and the second control unit is provided with a rewriting circuit for rewriting the storage content of the first memory unit. An article rental contract processing apparatus characterized in that the contents stored in the first memory unit can be changed via the first memory unit. 2. The article rental contract processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data storage media on the delivery side and the reception side read by the reading unit are constituted by bar codes on a slip. 3. The article rental contract processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the delivery-side and reception-side data holding media read by the reading unit are magnetic cards. 4. A read / write R memory, comprising:
2. The article rental contract processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the article rental contract processing apparatus is constituted by an AM. 5. The article rental contract processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first memory section is constituted by an electrically erasable EEPROM or an IC card.