RFID Clothes Tracking for Treatment State Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in managing and tracking the treatment states of various clothes due to increasing numbers of clothing items, leading to potential unnecessary re-treatment and fabric damage, as existing clothes treating apparatuses lack efficient information management and identification systems.
Innovation Solution
A clothes treating apparatus equipped with RFID tags, a RFID reader, and a control system that includes a central processing unit and memory unit, allowing for the identification and storage of treatment states and positions of clothes, with communication capabilities to an external device for remote monitoring and display of information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the number of clothes items increases, then the accommodation capacity is improved, but the user's ability to recognize and track each piece of clothes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses RFID tags as information copies attached to each clothes item, storing treatment state data that can be read remotely. This allows the system to track multiple clothes items without requiring direct user observation, effectively decoupling the quantity of clothes from the user's information tracking capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an RFID reader and control system as intermediaries between the clothes items and the user. These intermediaries automatically read RFID tag information and manage treatment state tracking, eliminating the need for direct user monitoring of each clothes item.
2Ease of operation
If the user treats clothes without accurate information, then the treatment operation is simple, but fabric damage may occur due to unnecessary re-treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the RFID reader continuously monitors treatment state information stored on RFID tags. The control system receives this feedback and automatically adjusts treatment operations, allowing simple user operation while preventing fabric damage through informed decision-making based on real-time clothes state information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables clothes items to effectively monitor their own treatment states through RFID tags that automatically store and update treatment information. The control system then uses this self-reported information to determine when treatment is needed, eliminating the need for user judgment while preventing unnecessary re-treatment.
3Volume of stationary object
If the clothes treating apparatus is made large to accommodate more clothes, then the accommodation capacity is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex manual information management systems with automated RFID reading and electronic data processing. This substitution allows the system to handle information for large numbers of clothes items without proportionally increasing operational complexity, as the RFID system automatically tracks each item's treatment state without user intervention.
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AI summary
A clothes treating apparatus is disclosed. More particularly, the present invention relates to a clothes treating apparatus which includes a RFID reader capable of reading information of clothes with RF tags such that the information of the clothes may be identified via an external computer. According to the clothes treating apparatus, the RFID reader is used and the information on treating states or positions of the clothes is identified via an external computer or display device. As a result, it can be simple to manage each item of clothes. Furthermore, the information on the treating states of the clothes may be identified. As a result, troubles of treating the clothes again unnecessarily as well as fabric damage may be saved.