RU191681U1 - Device for delivery of goods - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for delivering goods is hereby described, including: a housing made primarily of metal and having front, rear, and sides. The housing includes a service compartment located inside and a plurality of cells for storing goods, and cells of a plurality of cells have doors, each of which is connected to the housing by internal hinges. The front side comprises doors of a plurality of cells forming a door region. Each door has a lock. In the service compartment there is a controller inaccessible with the doors open and made with the ability to control the opening of door locks upon receipt of the corresponding signal. The technical result is an increase in the vandal resistance of the device for the delivery of goods and the safety of goods.

Description

The technical field to which the utility model relates.

This utility model relates to devices for the delivery of goods, in particular to pedestals, and more particularly to pedestals with high vandal resistance and a high degree of protection for the safety of goods.

State of the art

The prior art knows the solution US 2018101820 (published April 12, 2018), which describes the postomat and methods of its operation. However, this solution does not provide sufficient vandal resistance.

Also known from the prior art is the solution WO 2016193794 (published December 8, 2016), which describes the postomat. This solution also does not provide sufficient vandal resistance, respectively, there are ways to improve, which are presented in this solution.

The prior art knows the solution EP 2835078 (published February 11, 2015), which describes a cabinet for a delivery or collection system, comprising a storage room, an access panel for the storage room and an authorization unit for authorizing access to the storage room through the access panel; the cabinet further comprises means for recording delivery or collection of goods from the storage room. This solution does not have sufficient vandal resistance and security.

Utility Model Disclosure

The present solution discloses a device for delivering goods, including: a housing made primarily of metal and having front, rear and sides; moreover, the housing includes a service compartment located inside, and a plurality of cells for storing goods, and cells from a plurality of cells have doors, each of which is connected to the housing by internal hinges; the front side comprises doors of a plurality of cells forming an area of doors; moreover, each door is equipped with a lock; moreover, in the service compartment is a controller inaccessible with the doors open and configured to control the opening of door locks upon receipt of the corresponding signal.

In some implementations of the present solution, the controller may be configured to receive a signal to open the lock from a remote mobile device via a data network, for example, a smartphone, phone, tablet, laptop.

In some implementations of this solution, the door region may be made without protruding parts.

Also, door locks can be made inaccessible from the outside with the doors closed.

Additionally, an independent power supply unit for the controller can be located in the postamat housing.

In addition, the area of the doors can be made without recesses.

In some implementations of the present solution, the postomat can be performed without a display with a user interface.

Also in some implementations, the lock may have a door opening mechanism, wherein the door opening mechanism may open the door after opening the lock.

Additionally, in some implementations, the controller may be connected to the locks via wireless communication.

The service compartment may be located in the upper part of the housing in some implementations of this solution.

The service compartment may be provided with an access panel, and the access panel may be equipped with a sensor for illegally opening the access panel for some implementations of the present solution.

Postamate in some of its implementations may have a system for attaching to the floor.

In addition, in some implementations, the back and sides may include panels.

In some implementations, the postamate may have legs with a height calibration mechanism.

EFFECT: increased vandal resistance of a device for delivering goods and the safety of goods.

The technical result is achieved, in particular, by the presence of a service compartment, which is located inside, because this makes unauthorized access to its contents difficult. The presence of internal articulated joints of the doors with the case also increases vandal resistance and prevents unauthorized access to goods. The presence at each door of the lock, individual for each cell, increases vandal resistance and protection of goods from unauthorized access to them. The inaccessibility of the controller located in the service compartment does not allow vandalism in relation to it and prevents unauthorized access to it. The control of door locks from this controller as described below and in the formula is a highly secure control, which with high probability eliminates illegal access. Receiving signals by the controller from a remote mobile device has no vulnerabilities, except for a data network, i.e. vulnerabilities are minimized, which increases vandal resistance and increases the degree of reliability of the preservation of goods.

Utility Model Implementation

The device for the delivery of goods has a housing containing many cells for storing goods, a service compartment, and a controller.

The housing has front, rear and sides, which are made mainly of metal. The back and sides are panels. In some embodiments, the back and sides are made of one panel. Without loss of generality, the back and sides can be made of several panels. In this case, the panels can be flat, embossed, have stiffeners, welded, and also have other features.

The case has legs with a height calibration mechanism. The legs have a threaded surface and an emphasis. By rotating the leg about its axis, the length of the protruding part of the leg is changed. Thus, it is possible to change the height of each leg separately from the height of the other legs, respectively, it is possible to achieve the installation of the housing with support on all legs at a given angle, in particular horizontally.

The housing can also be made with a mounting system to the floor or to the wall. The mounting system to the floor or wall is a bracket, loop, pin and other structural elements. These elements are part of a locking device used to secure the housing to the floor and / or wall.

The system of fastening to the floor and / or wall complicates the task of theft or other unauthorized movement of the device in order to obtain unauthorized access to the goods contained in the cells.

The cells are made in the form of cavities inside the housing, and are separated from each other by walls located inside the housing. The walls can be made of metal, for example, steel with a sheet thickness of 0.2-2.2 mm. For access control, the cells have doors, each of which is located on the front side of the housing, and is connected to the housing by internal hinges. The hinges are internal due to the fact that they are located wholly or mainly inside the cells and are not directly accessible from the outside of the housing, at least when the doors are closed. The hinges are covered by a casing for additional protection against access when opening the door. In the general case, internal hinged joints of doors with walls are used, in particular, it is possible to use hinges.

All doors are made without handles or other protruding structures or recesses for manually opening the door. This design reduces the possibility of opening doors using brute force on the handles for opening, for example, by using it as a lever applied to a protruding handle or handle made in the form of a recess, rods, sticks, and other objects. Each door is equipped with at least one lock (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.) having a mechanism for opening the door to open the door after opening the corresponding lock through the mobile device. Locks are not accessible from the outside of the case, as they are out of direct view of the outside of the case, at least when the doors are closed.

Doors form a door area on the front of the chassis. In this embodiment, the door area is made without protruding parts and without gaps and indentations.

The service compartment is located inside the upper part of the housing, outside the structure of the doors and external walls of the device. The service compartment contains a controller and is equipped with an access panel that prevents access to the controller even when the device doors are open. The access panel is connected to the housing with bolts, screws, screws or other connecting elements. The access panel is connected to an illegal access sensor. If the access panel is opened improperly, the sensor sends an alarm to the remote control center and / or to the speaker (s) built into the case, and / or turns on a visual alarm, which can also be built into the case.

The controller is powered via a wired connection to a remote main power source (for example, from the nearest 220-volt outlet), and is configured to automatically switch when the main power is lost to backup power from an independent power supply. An independent kicking unit, such as a battery, is located in the device’s body, in the service compartment.

The controller is connected to the locks via wireless communication and is configured to wirelessly control the opening of the locks when receiving a signal from a mobile device via a wireless data network. In some implementations, the controller is connected to the doors through a wired connection, and the wires are not available outside the case, as well as with the doors open. Using wired control also increases the stability of this solution to unauthorized access, and the inaccessibility of wires increases vandal resistance and prevents unauthorized connections.

In this embodiment, the controller consists of two modules. The first module receives and analyzes the signal from the mobile device. If it is determined that the user of the mobile device legitimately requests access to at least one of the cells of the device, the first module generates and sends the corresponding signal to the second module via wired communication inside the case to the second module. In response, the second module opens the desired door (s). In some implementations, the controller is made by a single module that communicates with a mobile device and controls the operation of the locks. In some implementations, it is possible to use more controllers, in particular each vertical (horizontal) block of cells can be serviced by its own controller, which in turn is serviced by a central controller.

Wireless communication between the controller, mobile device and locks can be made on the basis of any suitable technology (Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi (tm)), Bluetooth (Bluetooth (tm)), near contactless communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID) , mobile communications 3G, 4G, LTE, 5G, and so on). The use of these communication technologies is well known, each of the technologies has a fairly high degree of reliability and resistance to unauthorized access attempts.

A mobile device, such as a mobile phone, is equipped with software that allows the user to perform wireless control of the locks through the controller using only the mobile device. Accordingly, the device for delivering goods is made without any display, keyboard, credit card reader, keyhole, external lock, or any other user interface. The lack of access to such elements increases the reliability of the device, as the number of elements that can be damaged is reduced.

In total, the technical features of hinges, doors, locks, the area of doors, the service compartment, and the location of the controller, as well as the system for attaching the case to the floor and the absence of handles and any user interfaces on the case, make it difficult for third parties to obtain unauthorized access to goods contained in the device’s cells, as well as the possibility of damage to the postamate (vandalism).

Claims (18)

1. A device for delivering goods, including: a housing made primarily of metal and having front, rear and sides; moreover, the housing includes a service compartment located inside, and a plurality of cells for storing goods, and cells from a plurality of cells have doors, each of which is connected to the housing by an internal hinge; the front side comprises doors of a plurality of cells forming an area of doors; moreover, each door is equipped with a lock; moreover, in the service compartment is a controller inaccessible with the doors open and configured to control the opening of door locks upon receipt of the corresponding signal. 2. The device according to claim 1, in which the area of the doors is made without protruding parts. 3. The device according to claim 1, in which the door locks are made inaccessible from the outside with the doors closed. 4. The device according to claim 1, in the housing of which there is an independent power supply for the controller. 5. The device according to claim 1, in which the area of the doors is made without recesses. 6. The device according to claim 1, which is made without a display with a user interface. 7. The device according to p. 1, in which the lock has a mechanism for opening the door, and the mechanism for opening the door opens the door after opening the lock. 8. The device according to claim 1, in which the controller is connected to the locks via wireless communication. 9. The device according to claim 1, in which the service compartment is located in the upper part of the housing. 10. The device according to p. 9, in which the service compartment is equipped with an access panel, and the access panel is equipped with a sensor for illegally opening the access panel. 11. The device according to claim 1, which has a system for attaching to the floor. 12. The device according to claim 1, in which the rear and sides include panels. 13. The device according to p. 1, in which the controller is configured to receive a signal to open the lock from a remote mobile device via a data network. 14. The device according to claim 1, which has legs with a height calibration mechanism.