Patent ID: 7379788

Claim:
A discarded article treatment processing method, comprising the steps of: treating the discarded article on the basis of a selected treatment procedure for separating parts incapable of being treated by facilities installed in a treatment-entrusted factory which is in charge of treatment of said discarded article, or for segregating harmful or hazardous material to be separated; monitoring a situation in which said discarded article is being treated and checking whether relevant work has been completed or will be able to be performed in conformance with the selected treatment procedure through a medium of a detecting means; reading out, from information concerning separation procedures for taking out the parts, harmful or hazardous material from the discarded article, the information concerning the facility or equipment demanded for the execution of the separation procedures and the information concerning equipment or facilities installed in the treatment-entrusted factory, in case it is decided that said treating situation suffers abnormality; determining an alternative treatment procedure serving for a same purpose as selected treatment procedure on the basis of the information acquired in the reading out step; determining the position or location at or along which the parts, harmful or hazardous material can be cut and separated from said discarded article without being impaired on the basis of the location information and the dimensional information concerning the parts, harmful or hazardous material, in case it is decided that the candidate for the alternative treatment procedure is not found; treating said discarded article in accordance with said determined alternative treatment procedure or separating the parts, harmful or hazardous material by cutting.