Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Inventory management
Patent
1996-03-05
1999-09-28
Cosimano, Edward
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Inventory management
235385, 356375, 364400, G06F 1760
Patent
active
059604131
ABSTRACT:
The prior art invention entitled Automated End Tally System, has been augmented to include either a scanning radar unit (22c) or a phased array scanning radar unit (42c), for the purposes of additionally obtaining unit interior topological information. Such interior information is required to determine an accurate tally count in the case where two or three boards such as (13), (14), and (15), have been longitudinally aligned to span the entire board row (11b) of a given coarse (10b) (a technique referred to as "nesting"). In the case of scanning radar unit (22c), this additional interior topology information is gathered by emitting a focused pulsed incident scanning energy beam (38a), which is of an energy chosen to be transmissive to paper wrap materials (8) which might be covering unit (10) and to the lumber of unit (10) itself. As beam (38a) transmits through "nested" boards such as (13) and (14) it will encounter a board row break such as (16) where the two boards are abutted. Either board end (13b) or (14a), which define this break, will have been previously demarcated during unit construction by a reflective material. This reflective marking (16a) will cause the incident beam (38a) to reflect back towards scanning radar unit (22c) as reflective beam (38b). The reflective information obtained by unit (22c) is input to the unit interior topological processor (22d) which then determines the three dimensional locations of all board row breaks within lumber unit (10) which is communicated to computer (28). Computer (28) then combines this interior end surface information with the exterior information to provide a precise tally count of unit (10).
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Amon James A.
Holler William R.
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