JPH10277529A - Product decomposition information database - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and highly precisely dismantle and process waste products by providing a product dismantling information database which stores product dismantling information such as dismantling indicating information of a plurality of products, dismantling assisting information, constituent material information and searching the product dismantling information while using appearance information as a key word. SOLUTION: In a case the product dismantling information is searched while using a product dismantling information data base 5, the appearance information of a waste product is read out as, for example, an image and displayed on a display apparatus such as CRT. An operator observes the appearance information and selects a product having the same appearance information or one product having most similar appearance among products having appearance similarity within an allowable range by an interactive manner through an input apparatus. Then, the operator gives an instruction to an appearance information searching means 1b to search the product dismantling information database 1a and carries out searching while using the selected product as a key word. In the case the product dismantling information is extracted, the searching result is transmitted to the database input/output part 1c and then the process is finished.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to home electric appliances, OA
Used for the operation of a waste treatment plant that decomposes, crushes, and sorts the waste of industrial products such as equipment and automobiles, and removes hazardous substances and collects valuable resources. The present invention relates to a product disassembly information database that holds product disassembly information such as support information and material composition information and outputs such information in response to a search.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional waste treatment plant for industrial products such as home electric appliances, OA equipment and automobiles, a decomposition step is provided before a crushing step in order to increase a recycling rate of valuable resources or a removal rate of harmful substances. Then, the products put into the plant are disassembled to the parts level, and the disassembled parts are put into crushing equipment corresponding to the constituent materials.

[0003] In such a disassembly process of a plant, in addition to manual disassembly, attempts have been made to perform disassembly by mechanical disassembly equipment in order to perform more efficient disassembly. In such plants, the size of the product to be decomposed,
It is necessary to present the individual information of the product to be disassembled, such as the internal structure and the number of parts, to the workers, and to instruct the disassembly equipment. Such disassembly instruction information, disassembly support information, and product disassembly information such as material composition information Attempts have been made to create a database.

[0004] For example, JP-A-6-168253,
JP-A-6-226239 and JP-A-6-246
In the technology disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 256-256, a database of product disassembly information is proposed, but the proposed content accumulates disassembly information for each target product,
The information of the product to be disassembled is extracted from the accumulated product disassembly information by using data for specifying the product such as a product type name, a manufacturer, and a serial number as keywords.

[0005]

Since the conventional product disassembly information database is configured as described above, there are the following problems.

[0006] First, in a waste treatment plant or the like that decomposes, crushes and sorts industrial product waste such as home appliances, OA equipment, and automobiles to remove harmful substances and recover valuable resources, the market is randomized. Although it is necessary to disassemble and process a wide variety of products collected in the past, it is impossible to collect and accumulate all the product disassembly information of a huge variety of products released in the past and put on the market. Even if possible, the same product is given a different model name from the viewpoint of waste disposal, such as differences in colors and differences in firmware of electronic circuits, for industrial products, and in the case of OEM products, Since different type names are given to completely the same product, there is a problem that it is useless to hold the product decomposition information for each type name.

[0007] Waste collected from the market is subject to aging, leaving in the collecting process, soiling due to cargo handling, so-called material handling (generally called material handling), or soiling / breakage due to handling in the distribution process. Many products cannot read the model name and serial number of the product. In this case, there is a problem that it is not possible to set a search keyword in the product decomposition information database, so that it is not possible to extract the product decomposition information from the product decomposition information database.

Further, in many cases, the conventional method cannot use the product disassembly information stored in the product disassembly information database, which increases the labor burden on the disassembler, increases the operation rate of the plant, the recovery rate of valuable resources, There were problems such as a reduction in the harmful substance removal rate.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and decomposes, crushes, and sorts industrial product waste such as home electric appliances, OA equipment, and automobiles to remove harmful substances and valuable resources. The objective is to obtain a product disassembly information database that enables efficient disassembly and processing of a wide variety of products with high accuracy by effectively utilizing product disassembly information in waste treatment plants that collect waste. I do.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a product disassembly information database, wherein the product disassembly information holding means includes product disassembly instruction information for a plurality of products such as home appliances, OA equipment, and automobiles, and disassembly support. Holds product disassembly information consisting of information, material composition information, etc., holds product disassembly information that can be searched using product appearance information as keywords, and appearance information search means stores product disassembly information using appearance information as keywords. The product decomposition information holding means is searched to provide the product decomposition information.

In the product disassembly information database according to the second aspect of the invention, the product disassembly information holding means stores the product disassembly information corresponding to the external dimensions and the appearance image of the product as the appearance information, and the appearance information search means stores the product disassembly information. The product disassembly information is provided by searching the product disassembly information holding means using the external dimensions and the appearance image as keywords.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the product disassembly information database, the appearance information search means searches the product disassembly information holding means using the appearance information of the product as a keyword, and the appearance information is the same or within a predetermined allowable range. Is searched for product disassembly information on one product having a similarity degree of, and the product disassembly information is provided.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the product disassembly information database, the appearance information retrieving means retrieves the product disassembly information holding means using the appearance information of the product as a keyword, and the appearance information resembles the appearance information within a predetermined allowable range. The product decomposition information is searched for a plurality of products having different degrees to provide the product decomposition information.

[0014] The product decomposition information database according to the invention of claim 5 is incorporated in a waste product decomposition processing plant that decomposes, crushes and sorts discarded products, removes harmful substances and recovers valuable resources, A product disassembly information database that can search and provide product disassembly information used for the operation of each disassembly facility for products that are input to each disassembly facility of a waste product disassembly plant based on appearance information. When retrieving product disassembly information, product disassembly information is provided using external dimensions and appearance images as appearance information, so that the product disassembly process can be performed efficiently and with high accuracy.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below. Embodiment 1 FIG. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a product disassembly information database according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1a denotes a product disassembly information holding unit as a product disassembly information data file, 1b denotes an appearance information search unit, and 1c denotes an appearance information search unit. It is a database input / output unit. Reference numeral 1 denotes a product disassembly information database including a product disassembly information holding unit 1a, an appearance information search unit 1b, and a database input / output unit 1c.

The product decomposition information holding means 1a includes:
Product disassembly information including product disassembly instruction information, disassembly support information, material composition information, etc. of industrial products such as OA equipment and automobiles,
It is stored in correspondence with external information such as external dimensions and external images of the product. The product appearance information is, for example, in the case of a washing machine, external dimensions described in a catalog, the operation panel position is a right position or a left position, the operation panel is a projection type or a flat type, and the operation switch is a dial type or a button. This is information such as the type or the size of the operation button.

The appearance information search means 1b searches the product decomposition information holding means 1a using the appearance information of the product as a keyword. The product information registered in advance in the product decomposition information holding means 1a also includes, for example, information described in a product catalog. The database input / output unit 1c has a function of transferring data between the appearance information search unit 1b and the outside of the product disassembly information database 1.

The product disassembly information database 1 according to the first embodiment detects the appearance information of a product and uses the information as a keyword to disassemble the disassembly information of the same product or a similar product within a predetermined allowable range of appearance similarity. A search is made in the information holding means 1a, and the corresponding product disassembly information is provided externally, for example, to a disassembly plant or the like, in order to efficiently and highly accurately disassemble the waste product.

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 2 shows FIG.
6 is a flowchart showing a procedure for searching for product disassembly information on a waste product using the product disassembly information database of FIG. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 600a denotes a display device (display means) such as a CRT, and 600b denotes an input device (input means) such as a keyboard, which is not shown in FIG. Part 1c, Embodiment 2 to be described later
The communication interface 10 shown in FIG.
a, and is connected to the product decomposition information database 1
It is operated by an operator. First, step ST10
At 0, the external appearance information of the waste product supplied to the decomposition processing plant (not shown) is read as an image, for example, and the read image is displayed on a display device 600a such as a CRT. Therefore, the operator observes the appearance information of the waste product displayed on the display device 600a. As the appearance information, for example, when the waste product is a washing machine, the size, the operation panel position is the right position or the left position, the operation panel is a projection type or a flat type, the operation switch is a dial type or a button type, the operation button Is information such as the size of the size.

Next, a product having the same appearance information or one product having the highest similarity among products within a predetermined appearance similarity allowable range is interactively displayed via the display device 600a and the input device 600b. To choose. The operator instructs the appearance information search means 1b to search the product decomposition information database 1 by using the input device 600b with the selected product as a keyword. The appearance information search means 1b starts searching in the product decomposition information holding means 1a.

Next, in step ST200, the search result in step ST100 is determined. If the product decomposition information can be extracted, the search result is passed to the database input / output unit 1c, and the process ends. If extraction is not possible, that is, if there is no product within the predetermined appearance similarity allowable range in the product decomposition information holding unit 1a in step ST100, the process proceeds to step ST300.

In step ST300, the search condition is changed first. Specifically, the predetermined appearance similarity allowable range used in step ST100 is set wider. Then, again, based on the appearance information, the appearance information searching means 1b
Search the product within the allowable range of appearance similarity in the product decomposition information holding means 1a, and display the corresponding similar product on the display device 60.
0a.

In step ST400, the result of the search executed in step ST300 is determined. If one or more products within the allowable range of appearance similarity have been extracted, the process proceeds to step ST600. If none of the products within the appearance similarity allowable range has been extracted, the process proceeds to step ST500.

If no product within the allowable range of appearance similarity was extracted, the search condition of the allowable range of similar appearance is further changed in step ST500. As the contents of the change, the preset candidate selection extraction range is corrected, and the candidate selection extraction range is further expanded. Upon completion of the change of the search condition, the process returns to step ST300.

In step ST300, the appearance information retrieving means 1b is set again using the product appearance information as a keyword.
Performs a search in the product decomposition information holding means 1a. In step ST300, until a similar product that matches the search condition of the appearance similarity allowable range is searched, step ST30 is performed.
0, the processing of steps ST400 and ST500 is repeated.

In step ST600, as a result of the search processing in step ST300, when a plurality of products having similar appearances are obtained, the operator selects and extracts one of the products via the input device 600b. As a selection procedure, first, appearance information of a plurality of selected products is displayed on the display device 600a to prompt the operator to select. The operator compares the displayed appearance information of the plurality of products with the actual product to be disassembled, selects the most similar product, and selects the input device 600.
Input the selection result via b. The product disassembly information relating to the product input via the input device 600b is searched in the product disassembly information holding means 1a, and the obtained product disassembly information is transferred to the database input / output unit 1c, and the process ends.

It should be noted that step ST100 of the first embodiment,
In step ST300 and step ST500, the search condition of the product is not limited to the case where the appearance information is the same, but the appearance similarity allowable range is provided and set in stages. The reason is that the search condition within a certain allowable range is set. If the appearance is similar, it can be regarded as the same product. That is, the appearance information of the registered product held in the product decomposition information holding means 1a and the appearance information obtained from the appearance of the waste product put into the decomposition processing plant (not shown) are the same product. It is expected that will not always match. For example, a waste product put into a decomposition plant may change over time due to long-term use, or it may be left outdoors in the distribution process as waste, unpacked, transported, piled up, etc. It can be expected that the appearance is different. Therefore, if only the same search condition is used as the search condition, it often becomes impossible to search for the product.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, the appearance information retrieving means 1b uses the appearance information as a keyword to extract the decomposition information of the same product or a similar product within a predetermined allowable appearance similarity range. A search is performed in the disassembly information holding means 1a, and if there is no corresponding item, the permissible range of appearance similarity is changed again to obtain the corresponding product disassembly information.

Embodiment 2 Next, an example in which the product disassembly information database 1 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is applied to a waste washing machine disassembly processing plant will be described. FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram of a disassembly process of a waste washing machine disassembly processing plant using the product disassembly information database 1 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
A product disassembly information database processing system 10 including a communication interface 10a for exchanging disassembly information and the like between the product disassembly information database 1 and a disassembly process system 30 described later. The product disassembly information database processing system 10 issues a removal instruction corresponding to the structure of the waste washing machine 20 to a motor removal device 30f in a disassembly process system 30 described later.

Reference numeral 30 denotes a disassembly process system (waste product disassembly processing plant) of the waste washing machine 20, which includes an appearance information reading device 30a and a motor take-out device 30f.
The disassembly process system 30 is for taking out a motor from the waste washing machine 20. The external appearance information reading device 30a is an external appearance image capturing device 30 that captures external information of the waste washing machine 20.
e, an image development device 30d, a dimension extraction processing device 30b, and a video data file conversion means 30c.

As described above, the waste washing machine disassembly processing plant according to the second embodiment includes the product disassembly information database processing system 10 and the disassembly process system 30.

Next, the operation will be described. The waste washing machine 20 carried into the disassembling process system 30
By i, it is transported into the appearance information reading device 30a. The external appearance information reading device 30a reads the external appearance of the waste washing machine 20 by the external appearance image photographing device 30e, and develops it into image data by the image developing device 30d. First, based on the developed image data of the waste washing machine 20, the dimension extraction processing device 30b extracts the outer dimensions of the waste washing machine 20 from the image data. The extracted external dimension data is transmitted to the product disassembly information database processing system 10 via the transmission path 10b.

Next, the image data file conversion means 30c
Converts the image data into an image file. The converted image file is transmitted to the product decomposition information database processing system 10 via the transmission path 10c. Transmission line 1
0b and the transmission path 10
c, the image file transmitted by the communication interface 10 in the product decomposition information database processing system 10.
a and informs the product disassembly information database 1.

As described in the first embodiment, the product disassembly information database 1 uses the appearance information such as the outer dimensions and the appearance image of the waste washing machine 20 as keywords, and
Alternatively, product decomposition information of a product within the allowable range of appearance similarity is searched for and extracted. This search is the same as that described in the product decomposition information database 1 of the first embodiment, and thus the description is omitted here. The extracted product decomposition information is
It is temporarily stored in the product disassembly information database 1 and is prepared for transmission to the disassembly process system 30.

The motor take-out device 30f is a facility for separating the motor from the main body of the waste washing machine 20. Conveying means 3
0j, the waste washer 20 is
Upon arrival at f, the product disassembly information database processing system 10 transmits the product data necessary for taking out the motor to the motor take-out device 30f via the transmission line 10d by the communication interface 10a.

The motor take-out device 30f takes out the motor from the waste washing machine 20 based on the transmitted product disassembly information. The main body of the waste washing machine 20 from which the motor has been removed is transported to a washing machine crusher (not shown) by the transport unit 30k. The motor taken out of the waste washing machine 20 is conveyed to a motor crusher (not shown) by the conveying means 30l.

As described above, according to the second embodiment, the waste washing machine 2 obtained by the appearance information reading device 30a is used.
Since the product disassembly information database processing system 10 provides the product disassembly information on the basis of the appearance information 0, the motor take-out device 30f can take out the motor in the waste washing machine 20 efficiently and with high accuracy. The washing machine 20 can be efficiently disassembled.

[0038]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the product disassembly information holding means includes a home appliance, an OA device,
Holds product disassembly information including product disassembly instruction information, disassembly support information, material composition information, etc. for multiple products such as automobiles, and holds searchable product disassembly information using product appearance information as keywords The means is configured to retrieve the product disassembly information holding means storing the product disassembly information using the appearance information as a keyword, and obtain the product disassembly information. Only one, that is, only registering the product disassembly information on a small number of representative products in the product disassembly information holding means,
There is an effect that product decomposition information of many products can be obtained efficiently.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the product disassembly information holding means stores the product disassembly information corresponding to the external dimensions and the appearance image of the product as the appearance information, and the appearance information retrieval means stores the external dimensions and the appearance of the product. Since the product decomposition information holding means is searched using the image as a keyword and the product decomposition information is provided, there is an effect that the product decomposition information of a large number of products can be efficiently obtained.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the appearance information searching means searches the product decomposition information holding means using the appearance information of the product as a keyword, and determines the similarity of the appearance information being the same or within a predetermined allowable range. Since the system is configured to search for product disassembly information on one product and provide the product disassembly information, even when the product disassembly information on the product to be disassembled is not registered in the product disassembly information holding means, the similarity is high. This has the effect of obtaining product decomposition information of the product.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, the appearance information searching means searches the product decomposition information holding means using the appearance information of the product as a keyword, and the appearance information has a similarity within a predetermined allowable range. The product decomposition information is retrieved and the product decomposition information is provided, so even if the product decomposition information about the product to be decomposed is not registered in the product decomposition information holding means, the similarity is high. There is an effect that the most appropriate product decomposition information can be obtained from the product decomposition information of a plurality of products.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to disassemble, crush, and sort the discarded product, and to incorporate the discarded product into a waste product decomposition treatment plant for removing harmful substances and recovering valuable resources. A search is performed using the appearance information such as the external dimensions and the appearance image relating to the product to be disassembled to each disassembly facility of the waste product disassembly processing plant as a keyword,
Since it is configured to obtain the product decomposition information, there is an effect that the decomposition processing step of the product, which is waste, can be efficiently and accurately performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a product decomposition information database according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a product disassembly information database of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a waste washing machine disassembling treatment plant according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Product decomposition information database, 1a Product decomposition information holding means, 1b Appearance information search means, 30 Decomposition process system (waste product decomposition processing plant).

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A storage device that stores product disassembly information including product disassembly instruction information, disassembly support information, material composition information, and the like for a plurality of products such as home appliances, OA devices, and automobiles, and searches using the appearance information of the products as keywords. Product disassembly information holding means for holding the possible product disassembly information; and appearance information search means for searching the product disassembly information holding means storing the product disassembly information using the appearance information as a keyword. Database. 2. The product disassembly information holding means stores product disassembly information corresponding to the external dimensions and appearance image of the product as appearance information, and the appearance information retrieval means stores the external dimensions and the appearance image of the product as keywords. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: searching the product decomposition information holding means.
Product decomposition information database described. 3. Appearance information searching means searches the product decomposition information holding means using the appearance information of the product as a keyword, and performs product decomposition on one product whose appearance information has the same or similarity within a predetermined allowable range. 2. The product disassembly information database according to claim 1, wherein information is searched. 4. Appearance information retrieving means retrieves the product decomposition information holding means using the appearance information of the product as a keyword, and retrieves the product decomposition information on a plurality of products whose appearance information has a similarity within a predetermined allowable range. The product disassembly information database according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the product disassembly information is searched. 5. A waste product decomposition processing plant that decomposes, crushes and sorts discarded products, removes harmful substances and collects valuable resources, and puts it into each decomposition facility of the waste product decomposition processing plant. A product decomposition information database that can be used to search for and provide product decomposition information used for the operation of each of the decomposition facilities with respect to the product based on the appearance information, and performs a search for the product decomposition information using the appearance information as a keyword. The product disassembly information database according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein an external dimension and an external image are used as the external information when performing the operation.