Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Transportation
Reexamination Certificate
2002-03-08
2004-05-04
Le, Thien M. (Department: 2876)
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Transportation
C235S375000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06729540
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system capable of managing (or collecting information with regard to) disposal situations of wastes in real time even by a third party. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system for managing dynamic situations of wastes, which is able to realize centralized management of transport routes of waste transporting vehicles for transporting wastes generated in particular facilities, construction sites, etc., arrival of the vehicles to a disposal site, and dumping of the wastes, and which enables management information to be provided even to a third party.
2. Description of the Related Art
Transportation of wastes generated in construction sites, etc. from places of waste generation to a final disposal site and dumping of the wastes in the final disposal site are performed by small- to medium-size companies under subcontract at present. However, a company who has subcontracted disposal of wastes has no means for monitoring how the wastes are transported to a disposal site and then dumped in the disposal site after delivery of the wastes to the companies under subcontract. This has raised a problem that it is impossible to confirm the places to which the wastes have been transported by the companies under subcontract, and in which the wastes have been dumped.
To overcome the above-mentioned problem, as one of systems for preventing illegal dumping of industrial wastes, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication 9-142609, entitled “Industrial-Waste Disposal and Management Information System”, proposes a waste disposal and management information system for monitoring dynamic situations of industrial-waste transporting vehicles by utilizing satellite communication and the GPS (Global Positioning System).
With the proposed system, a management terminal receives position information of the waste transporting vehicle, which is computed by an onboard terminal of the waste transporting vehicle based on electronic waves received from a GPS satellite, monitors the transport route of the waste transporting vehicle based on the received position information, and further monitors arrival of the waste transporting vehicle to a waste disposal site, i.e., a final destination of the transport route. Therefore, the proposed system is able to monitor travel situations and loading/unloading situations of the individual waste transporting vehicles, but is not intended to monitor the particulars of the loaded wastes and disposal/dumping situations.
In consideration of the above, the inventor has already developed and proposed “Collected-Waste Disposal Information System” (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication 10-95505, referred to as “SCMS” (Satellite Communication Management System) hereinafter) utilizing the GPS, SCMS II (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication 10-95506) that is an improved version of SCMS, i.e., a system for monitoring and preventing general wastes from being carried into an incineration facility not designated (public incineration site outside a specific area), as well as SCMS III that has improved communication systems of SCMS and SCMS II.
To explain SCMS in more detail, it is a system for monitoring a flow of waste disposal by collecting information using satellite communication so that waste disposal steps carried out by a waste source company, a collecting/transporting company and an intermediate treating company can be managed, and for rapidly preparing and providing necessary information from the collected information. Thus, SCMS is a system for managing works and travel of waste transporting vehicles by monitoring a flow of waste disposal while collecting information using satellite communication so that waste disposal steps carried out by a waste source company, a collecting/transporting company and an intermediate treating company can be managed, and for rapidly preparing and providing necessary information from the collected information.
Specifically, SCMS is a system for managing works and travel of waste transporting vehicles with satellite communication by employing a barcode label and a load slip in combined manner, the load slip containing necessary items put on it based on related information, including barcode information, inputted to a terminal for satellite communication. Stated otherwise, SCMS is a system for managing works and travel of vehicles for transporting wastes under special management with satellite communication by employing a barcode label and a load slip in combined manner, the load slip containing necessary items put on it based on related information, including barcode information, inputted to a terminal for satellite communication.
Furthermore, SCMS is a waste disposal information system for monitoring a flow of waste disposal while collecting information using satellite communication so that waste disposal steps carried out by a knocking-down/waste source company, a collecting/transporting company and an intermediate treating company can be managed, and for rapidly preparing and providing necessary information from the collected information, the system employing a barcode label and a load slip in combined manner, the load slip containing necessary items put on it based on related information, including barcode information, inputted to a terminal for satellite communication.
The above waste disposal information system is applied to wastes under special management with satellite communication by employing a barcode label and a load slip in combined manner, the load slip containing necessary items put on it based on related information, including barcode information, inputted to a terminal for satellite communication.
Those systems have been developed for collecting and managing wastes under special management (including classified wastes that are explosive, toxic or infectious and possibly hurt human health and living environments, but also general wastes that are generated in large amount and may give rise to a substantial influence from the viewpoint of environment pollution when dumped). From viewpoint of collecting information, information directly indicating dynamic situations of waste transporting vehicles is also effective other than reading of a barcode attached to a load. As a matter of course, information collection may be performed by utilizing both types of information in combined use or utilizing one type of information for supplemental purpose.
SCMS II is an improved version of SCMS and intends to collect information based on information directly indicating dynamic situations of waste transporting vehicles instead of reading a barcode. Such information collection can be realized with SCMS II by setting an onboard terminal for satellite communication, which is used in SCMS, in each of permitted waste transporting vehicles and then doing works in the same manner as in SCMS.
More specifically, information regarding dynamic situations of the waste transporting vehicle is collected by adding, to each waste transporting vehicle used with SCMS, the function of sensing actuation of a loading device with a sensor at the time of loading wastes on the vehicle and then transmitting sensed information to an SCMS management center via a communication satellite, the function of sensing dumping or unloading operation performed for disposal of the wastes that have been carried into an incineration facility, and then transmitting sensed information to the SCMS management center via the communication satellite, etc.
Waste management in accordance with SCMS and SCMS II is automatically performed at the SCMS management center using the satellite communication system. Data regarding when and where the waste transporting vehicle has collected wastes and when and where the waste transporting vehicle has unloaded the collected wastes, etc. is obtained by the SCMS management center via the satellite communication system. The obtained data is automatically subjected to matching work with a computer so as to check whether the obtained data are matched with the pres
Le Thien M.
Nisscom Corporation
Nowlin April A.
Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian LLP
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