Article Use Information Retrieval Synchronized With Item Handling

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Solution Overview

Problem

The timing mismatch between the delivery of an article and the presentation of its usage information to the user is not synchronized, leading to suboptimal user experience.

Innovation Solution

An article management system that associates identification information with use information and presents it to the user when the article is used, utilizing a computer-based system with components like user terminals, management servers, and delivery terminals to synchronize the presentation of use information with article usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If use information is presented to the user at the timing of article delivery, then the information is available early, but the information may not be presented at the optimal timing when the user actually uses the article

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime delay between information presentation and article usageVSAvoiduser experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by storing the use information together with the identification information on the article beforehand. This allows the information to be readily available when the user takes out the article, eliminating the need for separate information delivery steps and ensuring timely presentation at the moment of usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The article itself serves the dual function of being both the delivered object and the carrier of its own use information. Through the identification information attached to the article, the system enables the article to automatically trigger the retrieval and presentation of its associated use information, making the information delivery process self-service oriented and perfectly synchronized with usage timing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If use information is stored and retrieved based on identification information, then information is presented at the correct timing, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetiming synchronization of information presentationVSAvoidsystem structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the identification information and use information into a single storage unit, associating them together. This combining approach ensures that when the identification information is read from the article, the corresponding use information is automatically retrieved, achieving reliable timing synchronization without requiring complex separate management systems for identification and information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12511615B2Article management system, article management method, and article management program

Publication Date: 2025.12.30 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK

AI summary

An article management system that manages a delivered article by using a computer is provided. The article management system stores identification information identifying an article to be delivered to a user thereof and use information about use of the article attached by a sender of the article while associating them with each other; and reads, when the user uses the article, the identification information attached to the article, and extracts and outputs the use information associated with the identification information.