APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTAINERS

• Main Authors: HAYASHI SHOJI, IGUCHI TAKUMI, MASUDA AI, TSUKIJISHIN KENTA, MIYAMOTO HIROSHI, KAWAMURA KUNITO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 11.10.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

To provide an apparatus for managing containers adapted to efficiently gather containers used and reduce the cost of persons or fuel required for collection.SOLUTION: An apparatus for managing containers in the present invention comprises: a container-information generating section that generates information of the type and number of containers to correct based on information about a duration of use of a commodity received in the container or information requesting a collection of the container; a collecting-condition generating section that generates a collecting condition including a collection point and time zone of containers to correct and position information of a collector who goes to collect; and a collection-route computing section that computes a collection route for the collector to go to the collection point based on the information of the type and number of the containers the container-information generating section generated and the collecting condition the collecting-condition generating section generated.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】使用済みの容器を効率的に収集し、回収に要する人や燃料のコストを低減させる容器管理装置を提供する。【解決手段】本発明の容器管理装置は、容器に収容された商品の使用時期に関する情報又は容器の回収を要求する情報に基づいて回収すべき容器の種類及び数量の情報を生成する容器情報生成部と、回収すべき容器の回収地点及び回収時間帯、並びに、回収に向かう回収者の位置情報を含む回収条件を生成する回収条件生成部と、前記容器情報生成部が生成した前記容器の種類及び数量の情報、並びに、前記回収条件生成部が生成した前記回収条件に基づいて、前記回収者が前記回収地点に向かう回収行程を演算する回収行程演算部と、を備える。【選択図】 図２