CN109166236B

CN109166236B - Commodity vending machine

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Publication number: CN109166236B
Application number: CN201810934240.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 潘存云; 唐志勇; 廖孝兵; 刘临军; 潘星佑; 杨仕湘; 谭几元; 邓凯凯
Original assignee: Shenzhen Zhihe Tiancheng Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Zhihe Tiancheng Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-08-16
Filing date: 2018-08-16
Publication date: 2024-04-05
Anticipated expiration: 2038-08-16
Also published as: CN109166236A

Abstract

The invention discloses a commodity vending machine, which comprises more than one shelf, conveying equipment and a control device, wherein the conveying equipment and the control device are arranged in the shelf; the conveyor apparatus includes a plurality of conveyors and a track in which the conveyors move for retrieving or inserting containers and/or goods from or into the shelves. The invention has the advantages of simple operation, high space utilization efficiency and the like.

Description

Commodity vending machine

Technical Field

The invention mainly relates to the field of commodity vending equipment, in particular to a self-service intelligent commodity vending machine.

Background

Along with the rapid development of mobile payment, the development of the self-service novel commodity vending machine is also faster, and various self-service commodity vending machines with different categories, different operation modes and different payment systems are developed.

At present, the traditional self-service novel commodity vending machine on the market has the following characteristics:

a. the goods are isolated from consumers, so that the problems of random arrangement, damage, in-store use and the like of the goods by some consumers before consumption are avoided;

b. the goods do not need to be posted with identification bar codes, the goods are completely fetched by the machine depending on the position, the code pasting cost is reduced, and the problem that consumers tear off the identification codes to directly bring the goods is avoided;

c. the service feeling is stronger, the consumer does not need to pick up goods by himself, and the goods are completely finished by the machine;

d. automatic prompt replenishment, modularization replenishment, convenient and fast more need not artifical piece by piece replenishment, reduce cost, raise the efficiency.

However, the above-mentioned existing new merchandiser still has the following drawbacks: the commodity accommodation space inside the machine is fixed in size, can only be used for accommodating and selling fixed type commodity, and space utilization is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is as follows: aiming at the technical problems existing in the prior art, the invention provides the commodity vending machine which is simple and convenient to operate and high in space utilization efficiency.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a commodity vending machine comprises more than one shelf, conveying equipment arranged in the shelf and a control device, wherein a plurality of shelves are arranged on each shelf from top to bottom, and a plurality of containers are arranged on each shelf for loading commodities; the conveyor apparatus includes a plurality of conveyors and a track in which the conveyors move for retrieving or inserting containers and/or goods from or into the shelves.

As a further improvement of the invention: the control device is used for controlling the conveying device to take out containers and/or commodities from the goods shelves, selecting corresponding accommodating spaces in the goods shelves according to the sizes of the containers and/or commodities required to be placed in, and controlling the conveying device to place the containers and/or commodities into the goods shelves.

As a further improvement of the invention: the motion mode of the conveying device is a lifting motion mode, a push-pull motion mode or a translation motion mode of the whole conveying device in a track, and the translation motion mode is matched with the lifting motion mode through the whole movement in the track to align corresponding containers and/or commodities; the push-pull movement mode is used for taking out the corresponding container and/or commodity through push-pull movement or putting the corresponding container and/or commodity into the container.

As a further improvement of the invention: the container is a tray, and a goods channel is arranged on the tray along the conveying direction of the conveying equipment, and goods are placed in the goods channel.

As a further improvement of the invention: the goods way is evenly distributed with a plurality of grids which are penetrated up and down along the opening direction, and the size of each grid is matched with that of the goods so as to enable the goods to fall off from the grids smoothly.

As a further improvement of the invention: the pallet includes multiple layers of pallets, each layer of pallet including a drawer assembly for extracting/placing trays, extracting/placing lanes and picking up items.

As a further improvement of the invention: the brackets are two layers, the upper layer bracket is used for withdrawing and returning the goods in the goods channel where the goods are to be taken out, and the lower layer bracket is used for supplementing and delivering the goods.

As a further improvement of the invention: the brackets are three layers, the upper layer bracket is used for withdrawing and returning a goods channel where goods are to be taken out, and the lower layer bracket is used for supplementing and delivering the goods; a rigid partition plate is arranged on the drawing component of the middle layer of bracket, the upper surface of the partition plate is coplanar with the bottom surface of the tray, the function of blocking the commodity from falling is achieved, and the commodity falling sequence from the grid is changed by matching the action of the drawing component of the upper layer of drawing component.

As a further improvement of the invention: the goods delivery device is used for receiving and delivering the dropped goods, and is positioned on the lowest layer of bracket and driven by the drawing component to move; the conveying device pulls out the corresponding goods channel from the tray in a push-pull movement mode, so that the goods in at least one grid of the goods channel fall off.

As a further improvement of the invention: the automatic ordering machine also comprises a goods outlet, a goods supplementing port and an access door, wherein the goods outlet is arranged along the extending direction of the goods shelf, and a man-machine interaction screen is arranged beside the goods outlet and used for ordering; the goods supplementing port is arranged in the side direction of the goods shelf and is used for supplementing goods by goods supplementing personnel; the access door is arranged at one end of the rail and is used for overhauling the machine by an overhauling staff.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:

1. the commodity vending machine disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the whole occupied area is rectangular, the shape is regular, and the commodity vending machine is convenient to place in different applicable occasions, such as communities, markets, buildings and the like.

2. According to the commodity vending machine, the goods shelves can be additionally arranged along the track direction, the length direction can be expanded, and the commodity vending machine shares one set of track system, so that the types and the quantity of commodities are effectively increased.

3. According to the commodity vending machine disclosed by the invention, commodities are indirectly loaded into the novel commodity vending machine through the container, the position of the container is adjustable to form the variable accommodating space, the control device can select the accommodating space with the corresponding size in the goods shelf body according to the size of the container and/or the commodity which are required to be placed in, and the commodities in any grid in the goods shelf can be obtained through the blocking effect of the middle layer drawing component. Therefore, the novel commodity vending machine can dynamically utilize the inner space according to the size of the container and/or the commodity, can put and vend various commodities with different sizes, and can not waste the inner space, thereby improving the space utilization efficiency.

4. The commodity vending machine has the advantages of no limitation on the type of commodity to be vended and high space utilization efficiency.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the structural principle of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a partial structure according to another view of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the structural principle of the present invention in the specific application of embodiment 1.

Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the principle of the invention in the embodiment 1 in which the tray is engaged with the loading lane.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the operation flow of the present invention in the specific application in example 1.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the structural principle of the present invention in the specific application in embodiment 2.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the principle of the invention in which the pallet is fitted to the loading lane in embodiment 2.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of the operation flow of the present invention in the specific application in embodiment 2.

Legend description:

1. a goods shelf; 2. a tray; 3. a bracket; 4. a transfer device; 5. a cargo path; 6. a track; 7. a delivery port; 8. a replenishment port; 9. an access door; 10. a man-machine interaction screen; 11. an electromagnet assembly; 12. an armature; 13. a commodity; 14. a partition plate; 15. a shipment device; 16. a guide groove; 17. a grid.

Detailed Description

The invention will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and the specific examples.

Example 1: as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the vending machine of the present invention mainly includes more than one shelf 1, a conveying device disposed inside the shelf 1, and a control device disposed on the shelf 1. A plurality of shelves are arranged up and down on each shelf 1, and a plurality of containers are placed on each shelf for loading goods 13.

The container can adopt a pallet 2 with a certain height on three sides and an open top according to actual needs, a goods channel 5 is arranged on the pallet 2 along the conveying direction of the conveying equipment, and goods 13 are placed in the goods channel 5. When the pallet 2 is mounted on the guide grooves 16 of different heights, the height distance from the previous or next pallet 2 will be different, so that goods of different heights can be stored. The mounting height of the tray 2 on the goods shelf 1 is determined by the control device according to the height of the goods 13 and the current condition that the tray 2 is mounted on the goods shelf 1, so that the purpose of dynamically utilizing the space of the goods shelf 1 is achieved, and the space utilization efficiency is improved.

In a specific application example, the conveying device comprises a conveying device 4 and a track 6, the conveying device 4 moves on the track 6 to position the goods 13 on the goods shelf 1, the goods shelf comprises a plurality of layers of brackets 3, and the lifting motion can be performed on the longitudinal height to position the height of the goods shelf on which the goods 13 is carried on the tray 2. Each layer of trays 3 comprises a drawer assembly, which can extract/place trays 2, an extraction/placement lane 5 and an access 13.

In a specific application example, the commodity vending machine of the present invention further comprises a shipment port 7, a restocking port 8 and an access door 9. The goods outlets 7 can be arranged in a plurality according to the requirements, are arranged along the extending direction of the goods shelf 1, and are provided with a man-machine interaction screen 10 beside for ordering; the replenishment port 8 is arranged in the side direction of the goods shelf 1 and is used for replenishing by replenishment staff; an access door 9 is provided at one end of the track 6 for an access personnel to access the machine.

In a specific application example, the number of shelves 1 can be extended along the direction of the rails 6, and can be set according to the field requirements and the types/numbers of commodities 13, the length of the rails 6 is correspondingly increased, and in order to ensure the shipment efficiency, the number of the conveying devices and the shipment ports 7 is correspondingly increased.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, three weeks of the tray 2 have a certain height, one end of the tray is open, the outlet direction of the goods way 5 is defined, a plurality of vertically through grids 17 are uniformly distributed on the goods way 5 along the opening direction, and each grid 17 is related to the size of the goods 13, so that the goods 13 can fall from the grids 17 smoothly.

The conveying device in this embodiment is composed of two layers of brackets 3 (but not limited to two layers), each layer of brackets 3 comprises a pair of rails 6 and a drawing component capable of sliding on the rails 6, the rails 6 adopt sliding rails, the drawing component is an electromagnet component 11 in this embodiment, but not limited to the electromagnet component 11, the number of electromagnets is an integral multiple of the maximum placement number of the goods ways 5 in the trays 2, and the goods ways 5 and the front ends of the trays 2 are fixed with armatures 12 which are used for corresponding and transient connection with the trays 2 or the goods ways 5 to draw out or push the trays 2 into or out of the shelves and push the goods ways 5 into or out of the trays 2. The upper tray 3 is mainly responsible for withdrawing and returning the goods 5 in the lane where the goods 13 are to be taken out. The lower pallet 3 is mainly responsible for restocking and shipment.

During shipment, the lower bracket 3 is provided with a shipment device 15, in this embodiment a basket with a closed periphery, the goods 13 drop into the basket from the grid 17 of the goods channel 5, and the lower bracket 3 conveys the picked goods 13 to a goods outlet for being taken out by a user. During replenishment, the lower-layer bracket 3 integrally takes out the to-be-replenished tray 2 and conveys the to-be-replenished tray 2 to the replenishment port 8, and replenishment staff can fill the empty cargo channel 5 with the grids 17 one by one or can integrally replace the tray 2 to complete replenishment.

In specific application, the motion mode of the conveying device 4 is a lifting motion mode, a push-pull motion mode or a translation motion mode of the whole conveying device in the track 6, and the translation motion mode is matched with the lifting motion mode through the whole movement in the track 6 to align the corresponding container and/or commodity 13; the push-pull movement is used for taking out the corresponding container and/or commodity 13 or putting the corresponding container and/or commodity 13 through push-pull movement. The lifting movement mode, the push-pull movement mode and the translation movement mode of the whole track 6 can be one or a combination of a synchronous belt transmission mode, a gear rack transmission mode, a ball screw transmission mode and a linear motor transmission mode.

As shown in fig. 5, a) to n) illustrate a flow chart of a picking motion according to the present embodiment. Firstly, as shown in fig. 5 a), when the machine receives a goods taking instruction, the control device finds the position of the first commodity 13, specifically to the coordinates of the goods shelf 1 where the tray 2 is located, the positions of the goods channel 5 and the grid 17 where the commodity 13 is located, and drives the conveying device 4 to align with the target tray 2; then as shown in fig. 5 b), the upper bracket 3 drives the slide rail to push the electromagnet assembly 11 on the side where the target commodity 13 is located to the target goods channel 5 and is in contact connection with the armature 12 at the front end of the electromagnet assembly, and at the same time, the lower bracket 3 pushes the goods discharging device 15 to be close to the goods shelf 1 for goods discharging; next, as shown in fig. 5 c) and d), the lane 5 is withdrawn and the target product 13 falls from the corresponding compartment 17 into the delivery device 15; as shown in fig. 5 e) and f), the electromagnet assembly 11 pushes the loading lane 5 back onto the tray 2 and disconnects the loading lane 5, returning to the predetermined position together with the delivery device 15; as shown in fig. 5 g) to l), the control device finds the position of the second article 13, and then repeats the above steps to take out the second article 13, and so on, until all the target articles 13 are taken out into the shipment device 15; finally, as shown in fig. 5 m) and n), the control device drives the conveying device 4 to move to the front-stage delivery position, and after the lower-layer bracket 3 pushes the delivery device 15 out to the delivery port 7, the cabinet door is opened, and the user takes the goods.

Example 2: as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the structure of this embodiment 2 is substantially identical to that of embodiment 1, except that: the conveyor 4 has one more intermediate layer tray 3 than the conveyor 4 of embodiment 1, and is located between the upper layer tray 3 and the lower layer tray 3, and has the main functions of: a rigid partition plate 14 is arranged on the middle layer of drawing component, the upper surface of the partition plate 14 is coplanar with the bottom surface (namely the plane where the goods channel 5 is positioned) of the tray 2, the function of blocking the goods 13 from falling is achieved, and the falling sequence of the goods 13 from the grid 17 can be changed by matching the action of the goods channel 5 drawn by the upper layer of drawing component.

As shown in fig. 8, a) to n) illustrate a flow chart of a picking motion according to the present embodiment. Firstly, as shown in fig. 8 a), the commodity vending machine receives a commodity taking instruction, the control device finds the position of the first commodity 13, specifically to the coordinates of the goods shelf 1 where the tray 2 is located and the positions of the goods channel 5 and the grid 17 where the commodity 13 is located, and drives the conveying device 4 to align with the target tray 2; then as shown in fig. 8 b), the upper layer drawing component pushes the electromagnet component 11 to the target goods channel 5 and contacts and connects with the armature 11 at the front end of the upper layer drawing component, meanwhile, the middle layer drawing component pushes the partition 14 out to be aligned with the lower surface of the tray 2, and the lower layer bracket 3 pushes the goods discharging device 15 to be close to the goods shelf 1 for goods discharging; next, as shown in fig. 8 c) and d), the lane 5 is drawn out to the extent that the cell 17 where the target commodity 13 is located just leaves the tray 2, and then the intermediate layer drawing assembly draws the partition 14 back by the distance of one cell 17, and the target commodity 13 falls from the corresponding cell 17 into the shipment device 15; next, as shown in fig. 8 e) and f), the intermediate layer drawing assembly pushes the diaphragm 14 back to the position aligned with the lower surface of the pallet 2, while the upper layer drawing assembly pushes the lane 5 back to the initial position in the pallet 2, and then retreats to the predetermined position together with the diaphragm 14 and the shipment device 15; as shown in fig. 8 g) to l), the control device finds the position of the second article 13, and repeats the above steps until all the target articles 13 are taken out to the shipment device 15; finally, as shown in fig. 8 m) and n), the control device drives the conveying device 3 to move to the front-stage delivery position, and after the lower-layer drawing device pushes the delivery device 15 out to the delivery port 7, the cabinet door is opened, and the user takes the goods.

In the above two embodiments, it may further include by optimization: the detection device is used for detecting the height of the container and reporting the detected height data to the control device; the control device is specifically configured to select at least one pair of guide grooves 16 in at least one set of container placement structures on the shelf 1 according to the number of containers to be placed and the height of each container, and form a receiving space between and above the pair of guide grooves 16 sufficient to accommodate the containers to be placed, and control the conveying device to mount the containers to be placed on the selected guide grooves 16. Meanwhile, the control device can be further connected with one or more cameras and used for monitoring user operation and the running condition of the novel commodity vending machine. The control device is connected with the communication module and is used for communication between the novel commodity vending machine and the upper server, communication between the novel commodity vending machine and a user and remote control of the commodity vending machine.

The whole commodity vending machine is rectangular in overall occupation area in the design process, regular in shape and convenient to place in different applicable occasions, such as communities, markets, buildings and the like.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the above examples, and all technical solutions belonging to the concept of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that modifications and adaptations to the invention without departing from the principles thereof are intended to be within the scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

Claims

1. The commodity vending machine is characterized by comprising more than one goods shelf (1), conveying equipment arranged in the goods shelf (1) and a control device, wherein a plurality of shelves are arranged on each goods shelf (1) from top to bottom, and a plurality of containers are arranged on each shelf for loading commodities (13); the conveying device comprises a plurality of conveying devices (4) and a track (6), wherein the conveying devices (4) move in the track (6) and are used for taking out containers and/or goods (13) from the goods shelves (1) or putting the containers and/or goods (13) into the goods shelves (1); the container is a tray (2), a goods channel (5) is arranged on the tray (2) along the conveying direction of the conveying equipment, and goods (13) are placed in the goods channel (5); the goods channel (5) is uniformly provided with a plurality of grids (17) which are penetrated up and down along the opening direction, and the size of each grid (17) is matched with that of the goods (13) so as to enable the goods (13) to smoothly fall from the grids (17); the goods shelf (1) comprises a plurality of layers of brackets (3), wherein each layer of brackets (3) comprises a drawing component which is used for drawing/placing the tray (2), drawing/placing the goods channel (5) and taking goods (13); the brackets (3) are three layers, the upper layer brackets (3) are used for drawing out and returning the goods (5) where the goods (13) are to be taken out, and the lower layer brackets (3) are used for supplementing and discharging; a rigid partition plate (14) is arranged on the drawing component of the middle layer of bracket (3), the upper surface of the partition plate (14) is coplanar with the bottom surface of the tray (2), the function of blocking the dropping of the commodity (13) is achieved, and the commodity (13) is used for changing the dropping sequence of the commodity (13) from the grid (17) by matching the action of the upper layer of drawing component to draw the commodity channel (5).

2. The merchandiser of claim 1, wherein said control means is adapted to control said conveyor (4) to remove containers and/or merchandise (13) from said shelves (1), and to select a corresponding sized accommodation space in said shelves (1) depending on the size of containers and/or merchandise (13) to be placed therein, and to control said conveyor (4) to place containers and/or merchandise (13) in said shelves (1).

3. A merchandiser according to claim 2, characterized in that the movement of the conveyor (4) is a lifting movement, a push-pull movement or a translation movement wholly in the track (6), said translation movement being coordinated with the lifting movement by a movement wholly in the track (6), aligning the respective containers and/or goods (13); the push-pull movement is used for taking out the corresponding container and/or commodity (13) through push-pull movement or putting the corresponding container and/or commodity (13).

4. The merchandiser of claim 1, further comprising a shipping device (15) for receiving and shipping dropped items (13), said shipping device (15) being positioned on a lowermost tier of trays (3) for movement by the drawer assembly; the conveyor (4) pulls the corresponding goods way out of the tray (2) in a push-pull movement mode, so that the goods in at least one grid (17) of the goods way (5) fall off.

5. The merchandiser of any one of claims 1-4, further comprising a delivery opening (7), a replenishment opening (8) and an access door (9), said delivery opening (7) being arranged along the extension of the rack (1), beside which a man-machine interaction screen (10) is arranged for ordering; the goods supplementing port (8) is arranged in the side direction of the goods shelf (1) and is used for supplementing goods for goods supplementing staff; the access door (9) is arranged at one end of the track (6) and is used for an overhaul worker to overhaul the machine.