Patent ID: 8797147

Claim:
An upright type apparatus for embedding wireless IC tags, the upright apparatus comprising: a vibration alignment unit for aligning the wireless IC tags in the same direction by applying a vibrating force to the wireless IC tags; a separating unit for separating the wireless IC tags aligned by the vibration alignment unit and dropping the separated wireless IC tags one by one into a vertically-dropping passage; a plurality of IC tag processing units disposed along the vertically-dropping passage in a vertical direction; a plurality of IC tag pressure feeding sections disposed at a lateral side of the plurality of IC tag processing units, respectively; and a defective wireless IC tag reception section provided beneath the vertically-dropping passage, wherein each of the IC tag processing units includes: a stopper section for opening/blocking the vertically-dropping passage; a data writing section for writing data to the wireless IC tags dropped into the vertically-dropping passage by means of a first radio communication means when the wireless IC tags dropped into the vertically-dropping passage are blocked by the stopper blocking the vertically-dropping passage; a distribution section disposed beneath the stopper section and adapted to receive and distribute the wireless IC tags to which data is written by the data writing section so that the wireless IC tags to which data is written by the data writing section are either (i) distributed to one of the IC tag pressure feeding sections or (ii) distributed to the defective wireless IC tag reception section; and a data reading-out section for reading out data from the wireless IC tags received by the distribution section by means of a second radio communication means.