JPH11312224A - Clothes provided with electronic tag - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide clothes such as work clothes, protective clothes or various kinds of uniforms to be rented for a specific facility like a nuclear power facilities, which are provided with a function capable of unifying different kinds of information. SOLUTION: A flexible electronic tag 2 provided with a memory freely writable and readable without contacting is fixed to the proper place of the clothes 1, such as the work clothes or the uniform made of flexible material like woven fabric or nonwoven fabric. So far, in the specific facility like a nuclear power facility, the management of the number of wearing times, the number of renting times and the number of washing times regarding the work clothes, the protective clothes or the clothes like a rental uniform for wearing at the time of entering inside of the facility, the management of room entering/ leaving at the facility and the management of staying time have been respectively executed in the managing systems different from each other. However, it is extremely rational that they can unitarily be managed by utilizing the electronic tag for utilizing the freely writable and readable memory.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to, for example, work clothes or protective clothes worn in nuclear facilities or rental uniforms (hereinafter simply referred to as clothes), the number of times the clothes are lent or worn, or The present invention relates to clothes provided with a writable and readable electronic tag that can be used for various managements, such as management of a wearer's entry / exit and stay time in a certain place, or management of the number of washings.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a nuclear facility, for example, in order to protect a human body and a living body from radiation, it is required to wear predetermined protective clothing and work clothes even in a radiation control area or such a building. I have. When you go outside from the place where you enter with such work clothes or protective clothing, you must take off the work clothes and protective clothing and go outside unless you have undergone the prescribed decontamination treatment etc. Has been processed so that it cannot be

[0003] On the other hand, the work clothes and the protective clothes described above may be exposed to extremely slight radiation which does not cause any problem to the living body. Therefore, they can be worn repeatedly from a so-called disposable type to a use limit. , Even those that are repeatedly worn, those that are washed or decontaminated every time they are worn and are worn up to a predetermined number of times, and those that are washed after a predetermined number of times of wear or when dirt is conspicuous in appearance, and There is something. The number of times of washing, that is, the number of times of wearing, is determined for the clothes of this washing type.
Disposal such as incineration has been made.

[0004] In the nuclear facilities exemplified above, the number of uses of protective clothing and the like to be worn is controlled according to strict standards for safety. The number of times or the staying time at a predetermined place is strictly controlled under various standards and regulations that are stricter than the management standards for the protective clothing. In addition, in the case of clothes such as various uniforms for rental, it is considered that if the management of the number of times of lending, the number of times of wearing, or the number of times of washing, etc. can be easily executed, it will be convenient in line of business.

On the other hand, in the above specific facilities,
A so-called ID card or the like is used for entering and leaving the room, and a so-called washing tag is used for the number of times of wearing work clothes and protective clothing or the number of times of washing.
Since the type of information to be managed is not a single type, for each type of information, that is, in this example, an ID code indicating a person such as a worker, and a washing tag indicating the number of washing of work clothes and protective clothes worn by the person However, there is an annoyance that it is necessary to create a management system separately for each.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides work clothes or protective clothing for a specific facility such as a nuclear facility, which has a function of unifying information of different types, or a protective suit. It is an object of the present invention to provide clothing such as various uniforms for rental.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention, which has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, is to provide a garment such as a work clothes or uniform made of a flexible material such as a woven or non-woven fabric. A flexible electronic tag provided with a non-contact writable and readable memory is attached to a location.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of an essential part showing an example in which the present invention is applied with work clothes or protective clothing, FIG. 2 is a plan view of an example of an electronic tag, and FIG. 3 is a management system of an entrance and exit using clothes of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example, and FIG. 4 is a front view of an example of a display mode of the display unit.

In FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a protective garment for a nuclear facility formed as an example of the garment of the present invention. In this example, an electronic tag 2 is replaceably provided near the shoulder opening of a sleeve 1a of the protective garment 1. ing. Reference numeral 3 denotes a thin cylindrical tag housing portion formed on the sleeve 1a for housing the electronic tag 2.

The electronic tag 2 used here has the following form. That is, in FIG. 2, 2a is a flexible base film formed to have a width of about 5 to 10 mm and a length of about 50 to 60 mm when viewed from a plane, and 2b is a space between the upper and lower laminated base films 2a. This is an antifuse write-once type memory enclosed in a box, and has a capacity of about 1000 bits, and can be freely written and read. 2c is an antenna line connected to the output end of the memory 2b and sealed between the films 2a, and allows the information written in the memory 2b to be read by a scanner or the like in a non-contact manner, and to the memory 2b. The electronic tag 2 functions as an input / output terminal for receiving write information.

The electronic tag 2 is used by being put in a housing 3 provided on a sleeve 1a of a protective suit 1. In the electronic tag 2, data that is unique to each electronic tag 2 is written as a so-called ID code in a state where the electronic tag 2 is stored in the storage unit 3 or before the electronic tag 2 is stored in the storage unit 3. The protective clothing 1 for a nuclear facility provided with the electronic tag 2 provided with the unique code as described above.
Can be integratedly applied to various management systems, such as management of entry and exit, management of staying time in a predetermined place, management of the number of times of washing of clothes, by a system as exemplified in FIG. Will be described.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 4 denotes an entrance of the facility,
Is a scanner located on the side of the entrance 4 and opposite to the shoulder opening of the sleeve 1a of the wearer of the protective suit 1 provided with the electronic tag 2, and the scanner stores the ID in the memory 2b of the electronic tag 2. It has a function of writing a code and reading a written ID code. The scanners 5 and 6 can be freely moved in and out of the storage sections 5a and 6a.

Reference numeral 7 denotes an entrance code transmitter which is provided at the entrance 4 and supplies an entrance code unique to the entrance to a central processing unit CP which will be described later. The detected entrance code is output to the central processing unit CP. Here, the entrance code is the same regardless of the number of entrances at the same location.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a write driver for causing the scanners 5 and 6 to perform an ID code writing function, and 9 operates a function of causing the scanners to read the ID codes written by the scanners 5 and 6. Each of the read drivers 8 and 9 is connected to the central processing unit CP.

The central processing unit CP includes an entrance code supplied from an entrance code transmitter 7 and an ID read by the scanner 5 or 6 when an operator passes through the entrance 4.
Combine with the code and import as one data,
It has the function of counting and storing the time of passing by a built-in clock, and starting or stopping the timer starting or ending at this time.

That is, as an example, when a certain ID code and an entrance code are supplied once from the scanner 5 or 6, the time is counted and a timer is started, and the same ID code and entrance code are used as the above. Scanner 5 or 6 to 2
When supplied as the second code, the person wearing the protective clothing 1 to which the electronic tag 2 having the ID code is attached can be measured by counting the time and stopping the timer.
At what time and what time the user enters the facility from the entrance 4, and then at which time and when the user leaves the entrance, the time spent in the facility is calculated and displayed on the display unit 10. Here, when the entering time approaches the allowable time,
A display to that effect is made on the display unit 10, and a warning to that effect is given to the occupant from a warning light (not shown) or a speaker 11 provided inside the entrance 4, for example. The display unit 10 includes a CRT,
The display as illustrated in FIG. 4 is performed on a display such as a liquid crystal display.

The above example relates to protective clothing for a nuclear facility, but the present invention can also be applied to work clothes and uniforms, and the present invention can be applied to these in the above manner. Will be done.

On the other hand, clothing such as the protective clothing 1, the work clothing, or the uniform is used as a system each time it is worn, or when it is a system that is washed for several times, for example. , Is processed as follows. A logical product condition of a specific ID code and an entrance code and a logical product condition of an entry time and a leaving time are calculated, and the logical product of the calculation results is obtained. Is displayed on the display unit 10.

The protective clothing 1 on which the display is made is carried into a washing facility (not shown) at another location, and the data (ID code) of the electronic tag 2 is provided there. Read by another scanner. This reading is a washing code, and the reading time is a washing start time. When the washing is completed and the finishing is completed, when the ID code of the electronic tag 2 is read again by the scanner of the washing facility, the reading time becomes the washing completion time.

In the laundry facility, the ID code is read twice before and after the washing, and the logical product condition of the two time data (at the start and at the end of the washing) is satisfied. The protective clothing you have is formed into data for one wash, indicating that one wash has been completed.
This data is supplied to the aforementioned central processing unit CP. The number of washing times data of the protective clothing 1 having the specific ID code is stored in the central processing unit CP and a central processing unit (not shown) in the laundry facility, respectively, and used for the next use or washing. Will be prepared.

The second or subsequent use of the protective clothing 1 is performed by reading the ID code written in the electronic tag 2 in the same manner as described above for managing the number of wearing. Handled in the same way. This point can also be applied to the management of the number of rents or the number of wears of clothes such as rental work clothes and uniforms.

[0022]

The present invention is as described above. Conventionally, in a specific facility such as a nuclear power facility, work clothes and protective clothing to be worn when entering the facility, or clothing such as a rental uniform. The management of the number of times of wearing, the number of times of lending and the number of washings, the management of entering and leaving the facility, or the management of the staying time, are performed by a separate management system. The use of the electronic tag using the tag makes it possible to centralize and manage the tag, which is extremely reasonable.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a main part showing an example in which a work suit or a protective suit is applied to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of an example of an electronic tag.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of an entry / exit management system using clothes according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of an example of a display mode of a display unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Protective clothing 2 Electronic tag 3 Housing part 4 Entrance 5, 6 Scanner 7 Entrance code transmitter 8 Write driver 9 Read driver 10 Display part CP Central processing part

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A flexible electronic tag having a non-contact writable and readable memory is attached to an appropriate portion of work clothes or uniforms made of a flexible material such as woven or non-woven fabric. Clothing provided with an electronic tag characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. The electronic tag comprises a collar, a front body,
A garment comprising the electronic tag according to claim 1, attached to a back body, a sleeve, or pants. 3. A garment comprising the electronic tag according to claim 1, wherein the electronic tag is detachably attached to the garment. 4. A scanner for writing and reading data in an electronic tag in a non-contact manner and reading the data written in the electronic tag. A garment comprising the electronic tag according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the garment is used as management data for a plurality of management items such as management of the number of times of wearing and management of the number of washings.