US 12,029,333 B2
Product management system, product management apparatus, and display zone communication apparatus
Tomohiro Degawa, Tokyo (JP); Masashi Fujisawa, Yokohama (JP); Masanori Morobishi, Yokohama (JP); Masaki Kambe, Yokohama (JP); Fumihiro Matsusaki, Yokohama (JP); Kazuyuki Takaki, Kawasaki (JP); Akira Kawasaki, Kawasaki (JP); and Masatoshi Yanase, Yokosuka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/590,371.
Application 17/590,371 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/028843, filed on Jul. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-143935 (JP), filed on Aug. 5, 2019; and application No. 2019-159973 (JP), filed on Sep. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0151404 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. A47F 7/19 (2006.01); A47G 25/14 (2006.01); A47G 25/32 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); A47F 10/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47F 7/19 (2013.01) [A47G 25/1407 (2013.01); A47G 25/32 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); A47F 2010/005 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A product management system comprising:
a product management apparatus configured to manage a product;
a product wireless tag provided on the product and into which a product identifier indicating the product is written;
a tool wireless tag provided on a holding tool and into which a tool identifier indicating the holding tool is written, the holding tool being configured to hold the product; and
a display zone communication apparatus provided in a display zone in which at least one set of the product and the holding tool is disposed and including a wireless tag reader configured to read the product identifier from the product wireless tag and read the tool identifier from the tool wireless tag,
wherein the display zone communication apparatus transmits both the product identifier and the tool identifier read by the wireless tag reader to the product management apparatus, and
the product management apparatus links the holding tool and the product held by the holding tool with each other based on the product identifier and the tool identifier from the display zone communication apparatus.