CN113706770A

CN113706770A - Intelligent goods box based on commodity shelf life, unmanned vending machine and unmanned vending system

Info

Publication number: CN113706770A
Application number: CN202110659674.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王淼; 张德鑫
Original assignee: Hainan Ruide Perception Iot Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Hainan Ruide Perception Iot Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-06-15
Filing date: 2021-06-15
Publication date: 2021-11-26

Abstract

The invention discloses an intelligent goods box based on the shelf life of goods, which comprises a box body, a storage box and an electronic control device, wherein the storage box and the electronic control device are arranged in the box body; and, the same storage box only stores the same commodity, the commodity is placed in the storage box from near to far away from the exit hole according to the quality guarantee period sequence, and the same commodity of the same production batch, the same production date or the same quality guarantee date uses the same quality guarantee two-dimensional code mark, the quality guarantee period information of the commodity is saved in the server; the server regularly checks whether the intelligent cargo box has commodities with expiration dates or not, and informs workers of relevant expiration information to process in time. The invention also discloses the unmanned vending machine and the unmanned vending system. The invention achieves the technical effect that the vending machine has the commodity shelf life reminding function at reasonable cost.

Description

Intelligent goods box based on commodity shelf life, unmanned vending machine and unmanned vending system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of reminding alarms (G08B 21/24). The invention particularly relates to an intelligent goods box, an unmanned vending machine and an unmanned vending system based on the shelf life of goods.

Background

The outer package of food, daily necessities or other products on the market must contain the commodity trademark of the product, and the label can indicate the type of the product, the production place, the production date, the quality guarantee period, the effective date and other information related to the product. With the prosperity of market economy and the pace of life becoming faster and faster, people need to purchase a large number of fast food, convenience food and goods to meet daily needs. Meanwhile, ensuring the safety of food and articles is the focus of high importance of the nation and the society, and the most important potential safety hazard is to ensure that people can use articles and edible food within the guarantee period.

In order to meet the demand of people, the headquarters of the unmanned vending machine needs to purchase daily food and supplies in batches from suppliers, then store the goods in a warehouse, and then put the goods from the warehouse to the shelves of the sold unmanned vending machine to supply to consumers according to the demand. Consumers and retailers generally consider food and goods on warehouses and shelves to be safe and hygienic as long as there is no obvious deterioration, and thus continue to eat, posing a threat to health. The problems can be solved by knowing the shelf life information of the food stored in the warehouse and the shelf in time and then processing the problems by the merchant.

However, in the prior art, various solutions for tracking and managing the shelf life of daily food and articles, including two-dimensional code scanning, electronic tags, image recognition and the like, only obtain the identifier of the tag and the product information corresponding to the identifier, and cannot accurately monitor the shelf life of the product in real time. The shelf life of each article and food is monitored by manpower, which is troublesome and easy to make mistakes, for example, the shelf life of each commodity needs to be recorded every time a batch of commodities are input, and information input is needed when the commodities are delivered to the unmanned vending machine from a warehouse and put on a goods cabinet of the unmanned vending machine, thereby bringing the defects of complex operation and easy mistakes. In other technologies, the shelf life of each commodity can be traced through a two-dimensional code or other types of electronic tags, but the number of daily foods and articles is very large, and if the workload of attaching the two-dimensional code tag to each commodity is very large, the actual operation is very time-consuming and labor-consuming.

Patent document CN104504867B discloses a commodity shelf life reminding system based on two-dimensional code, which includes: the system comprises a remote server, intelligent equipment and a commodity with a two-dimensional code; the invention also discloses a commodity quality guarantee period reminding method based on the two-dimension code by applying the commodity quality guarantee period reminding system based on the two-dimension code, and quality guarantee period reminding can be easily set through code scanning selection. By applying the invention, the quality guarantee period reminding of the commodities can be conveniently and quickly set by mass consumers, so that the consumers can be reminded in time, and the misuse or waste of purchasing the commodities caused by forgetting to use or mistaking the quality guarantee period can be avoided. Patent document CN104504867B discloses a technique of two-dimensional code for each product.

Patent document CN110969760A discloses an unmanned selling method of prepackaged fresh vegetables and fruits, comprising: the labels are adhered to the specific positions of the vegetables and fruits at the moment through a label adhering device, and the unit prices of the vegetables and fruits are recorded into a microprocessor by a shop; calculating the weight and the preset unit price, and feeding back the prices of the vegetables and the fruits to the labels of the corresponding shelves of the vegetables and the fruits; a consumer selects a designated commodity through a selection key of the unmanned vending machine, commodity payment is carried out through the payment unit, and the microprocessor places the designated commodity into the goods discharge area through the loading and unloading assembly after confirming that the payment is successful; and the second pressure sensing device in the goods discharging area measures the weight of the goods discharged and transmits the measured data to the microprocessor, and the data is checked to successfully open the goods discharging port. The invention effectively ensures the food safety of consumers by monitoring the safe quality guarantee period of the prepackaged food in real time, constantly reminds shops by monitoring commodities in the goods shelf in real time through the remote monitoring unit, and maintains the public praise of the merchants. The shelf life reminder disclosed in patent document CN110969760A does not use the two-dimensional code technology.

Patent document CN210006136U discloses the utility model discloses a multifunctional intelligent unmanned vending machine, which comprises a vending machine body, a server and a user side; the vending machine body comprises a cabinet body and an MCU (microprogrammed control unit), a plurality of storage cabinets and cabinet doors are arranged in the cabinet body, and cabinet door execution units are arranged on the cabinet doors; the MCU is connected with the server through the network module, and the cabinet door execution unit is electrically connected with the MCU; the cabinet body is provided with a two-dimensional code label matched with the cabinet body; the cabinet body is provided with a mains supply plug and a power adapter, the cabinet body is further provided with a USB interface, and the USB interface is provided with a charging data line. The utility model connects the user terminal and the server through the two-dimension code label matched with the vending machine body, thereby not only facilitating the timely consumption of the tourists, but also selling articles in the guest room due to the adaptation of the idle space in the size guest room of the vending machine body, and protecting the privacy of the consumers; meanwhile, great convenience can be provided for tourists who do not carry suitable data lines or charging wires for traveling. The two-dimensional code label disclosed in patent document CN210006136U is a label of a vending machine body, and does not disclose a commodity shelf life reminding technique.

The above prior art schemes are complicated to use or have high implementation cost, so it is still the endeavor of those skilled in the art to design a new technical scheme of an unmanned vending system with a commodity shelf life reminding function, which is simple and convenient to use and has reasonable implementation cost.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, one of the purposes of the invention is to provide an unmanned vending system, which generates a unique two-dimensional code for each batch of commodities with the same production date, records the quality guarantee period information, and stores the two-dimensional code and the quality guarantee period information into a cloud server, so that the purposes of tracking and reminding the quality guarantee period of the commodities are achieved.

The invention also aims to provide an improved unmanned vending machine which can track and remind the quality guarantee period of commodities.

The invention also aims to provide a novel intelligent cargo box which is installed in a storage cabinet of the unmanned vending machine or replaces the storage cabinet, can track and remind the shelf life of commodities, and has reasonable structure and reasonable cost.

One of the purposes created by the invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme:

unmanned vending system based on commodity shelf life, its characterized in that: the system comprises a mobile terminal, an unmanned vending machine based on commodity shelf life and a cloud server, wherein the unmanned vending system can manage the shelf life of commodities according to the following management modes:

1) customizing a coding rule for each batch of commodities with the same production date by the mobile terminal, generating a unique two-dimensional code and a unique quality guarantee period for each batch of commodities, inputting the information of the two-dimensional code and the quality guarantee period into the server, and putting the server into a warehouse;

2) when the commodity is sent to the unmanned vending machine from the warehouse, the mobile terminal updates the location of the commodity by scanning a bar code and inputting the address of the unmanned vending machine;

3) after the commodities arrive at the unmanned vending machine, the commodities are put into the intelligent goods boxes of the storage container in sequence; inputting, with the mobile terminal, a type and a corresponding quantity of the goods extracted from the intelligent cargo box of the storage container in a case where the goods are to be delivered from the intelligent cargo box of the storage container to the sales container;

4) after the intelligent goods box of the storage container receives the request, the commodities are automatically provided for workers according to the sequence from old to new in shelf life, and then the commodities are put on the sales container and supplied to consumers;

5) and the server runs a timing task, notifies the commodity which is about to expire in the warehouse to a warehouse manager every day, and notifies the information of the commodity which is about to expire in the sales counter to the staff of the unmanned vending machine.

The second purpose of the invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme:

an unmanned vending machine based on the shelf life of commodities comprises a storage cabinet and a vending cabinet,

the method is characterized in that: the stock cabinet comprises the intelligent cargo box.

The third purpose of the invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme:

the intelligent goods box based on the shelf life of goods comprises a box body, a storage box and an electronic control device, wherein the storage box and the electronic control device are arranged in the box body, and the storage box is used for storing goods;

the box body comprises a cabinet body and a power plug, and the cabinet body is provided with drawer lattices; the drawer bay having a drawer-type slide that allows the storage box to slide freely in and out;

the storage case having an exit aperture enabling ejection of the merchandise within the storage case; the storage box comprises a delivery component, a holding component and a pushing component; said retention means being capable of retaining said article within said storage box, preventing said article from being ejected from said exit aperture; the delivery member being capable of applying a force to the article to cause it to be dispensed from the exit aperture; the pushing member is capable of pushing the article of merchandise to move closer to the exit aperture;

the electronic control device comprises a PCBA electronic main board and a PCBA electronic auxiliary board; the PCBA electronic main board comprises an MCU (microprogrammed control unit), a hard disk and a sensor connector, and the PCBA electronic auxiliary board comprises a Bluetooth module and a WIFI module; the PCBA electronic mainboard is connected with the PCBA electronic auxiliary board through a UART (universal asynchronous receiver transmitter) serial port; the sensor connector is electrically connected with the shipment component, the holding component and the pushing component, so that the electronic control device can control the shipment component, the holding component and the pushing component to execute corresponding actions;

the data of the intelligent cargo box can be transmitted to a server at the cloud end through the WIFI module to be processed in an algorithm mode, and after a processing result is returned, the processing result is executed by a main program of the electronic control device;

the same storage box only stores the same commodity, the commodities are placed in the storage box from near to far away from the outlet hole in the quality guarantee period sequence, the same commodity of the same production batch, the same production date or the same quality guarantee date is marked by the same quality guarantee two-dimensional code, and the quality guarantee period information of the commodity is saved in the server; the server regularly checks whether the intelligent cargo box has commodities with expiration dates or not, and informs workers of relevant expiration information to process in time.

According to other aspects of the present disclosure, one or more of the features described herein may also be included. As long as such a combination of features is practicable, new technical solutions formed by the features are part of the invention.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1) because the unique two-dimensional code is generated by the same commodity with the same quality guarantee date instead of one two-dimensional code for each commodity in the prior art, a large amount of logistics management cost is saved, and the storage overhead of a cloud server is also saved;

2) based on the existing unmanned vending machine, the existing unmanned vending machine without the quality guarantee period reminding function can be transformed into the unmanned vending machine with the quality guarantee period reminding function only by adding an intelligent goods box or replacing a storage cabinet of the unmanned vending machine with the intelligent goods box, so that the use space of the new technology is greatly expanded;

3) a brand-new intelligent cargo box is developed and designed, has a quality guarantee period reminding function, is convenient for workers to timely process commodities with expiration or nearly expiration of the quality guarantee period, and guarantees the rights and interests of final commodity consumers.

Drawings

The features, advantages and characteristics of the present invention will be better understood by the following description of specific embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1: a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the intelligent cargo box created by the present invention, wherein 2 storage boxes 102 are shown;

FIG. 2: FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a storage box 102 of the intelligent cargo box, wherein the commodities 109 are arranged in an arrow direction from high to low according to their shelf lives;

FIG. 3: another schematic view of the smart cargo box shown in fig. 1, wherein 8 storage boxes 102 are shown;

FIG. 4: FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the first solenoid valve 104 of the smart cargo box holding component;

FIG. 5: FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the second solenoid valve 105 of the smart cargo box holding component;

FIG. 6: fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic control device 103 of the intelligent cargo box;

FIG. 7: FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a replenishment operation of the smart cargo box;

FIG. 8: fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a shipping operation of the smart cargo box.

In the drawings, identical or similar elements are provided with the same reference numerals, and different elements are provided with different reference numerals, wherein:

101. a box body; 102. a storage box; 103. an electronic control device; 104. a first solenoid valve; 105. a second solenoid valve; 106. a film rotating wheel; 107. an electric motor; 108. an article separator; 109. a commodity; 110. a power plug; 111. a drawer grid; 113. a tank baffle; 115. PCBA electronic mainboard; 116. PCBA electronic subplate; 151. a biasing spring; 152. pressing a plate; 214. a first valve plate; 215. a second valve plate; 224. a first metal plate; 225. a second metal plate; 234. a first spring; 235. a second spring; 244. a first electromagnetic coil; 245. a second electromagnetic coil;

Detailed Description

The invention is further described below in conjunction with the attached drawings and the detailed description.

The inventive concept of the inventors is described in detail below.

Aiming at the technical problem to be solved by the invention, the invention provides a novel intelligent cargo box based on two-dimensional codes. The outside of intelligence goods case be a cuboid, inside storage box and the electron mainboard that is equipped with the goods of multilayer. Each storage box consists of a rectangular groove type drawer, a rubber rotating wheel, a motor and a spring plate. Two solenoid valves are arranged above each storage box to control goods or objects or commodities to be ejected. And the electronic mainboard is provided with a processor module and a communication module. The mobile terminal may be an android or apple smartphone. The invention can enable warehouse management personnel to manage the shelf life of each batch of commodities by scanning the two-dimensional codes, and the commodities in each batch only need to generate one two-dimensional code, so the workload is small and the operation is convenient. After the commodities arrive at the unmanned vending machine, the quality guarantee period of the commodities on the goods shelf can be conveniently traced through the auxiliary management of the intelligent goods box.

The invention further provides a quality guarantee period management method and device of food and goods based on the mobile terminal and the computer system, wherein the computer system can be a cloud server, and the food and goods are also called as commodities.

The shelf life method and the management device of the food and the articles have the following characteristics:

1) and customizing a coding rule for each batch of commodities by the mobile terminal, generating a unique two-dimensional code and a unique shelf life for each batch of commodities, inputting the codes into a computer system, and putting the codes into a warehouse.

2) When the goods are sent from the warehouse to the unmanned vending machine, the mobile terminal updates the location of the goods by scanning the bar code of the goods and inputting the address of the unmanned vending machine.

3) After the goods arrive at the unmanned vending machine, the goods are put into the container device in order. When it is necessary to bring goods from a stock chest to a sales chest, it is necessary to input the kind and the corresponding number of the goods extracted from the stock chest with a mobile terminal.

4) After the request is received by the stock cabinet, the goods are automatically provided to the staff in the order from old to new, and then the goods are put on the shelf to be supplied to the consumer.

5) The computer system runs a timing task, and notifies the warehouse manager of foods and articles which are about to expire in the warehouse every day and notifies the vending machine staff of the foods and articles which are about to expire on the goods shelf.

The storage cabinet comprises a newly designed intelligent cargo box.

As shown in fig. 1 and 3, the smart cargo box is mainly composed of three modules, namely, an appearance mold, that is, a box body 101, an internal storage box 102, and an electronic main board, that is, an electronic control device 103.

The main body of the appearance mold consists of a cabinet main body with a grid and a power plug 110.

1) The cabinet body is formed by a cabinet partition 113 and a contour housing into a plurality of rectangular cells, each cell having a drawer-type slide for allowing the storage box 102 to slide in and out freely. The front shield is positioned to define an exit opening, referred to as an exit aperture, for the storage case 102 to allow ejection of the contents of the storage case 102. At a location adjacent the exit aperture of the storage case 102, there are two solenoid valves that control the ejection of the articles from the storage case 102. In the standby state, the first solenoid valve, i.e., the first solenoid valve 104, will lower the first valve plate 214 adjacent the exit aperture, trapping the item within the storage case 102 closest to the exit aperture, preventing the item from being ejected. Upon receiving a ready to ship command, the second solenoid valve, i.e., second solenoid valve 105, lowers second valve plate 215 adjacent the exit aperture to trap the second item adjacent the exit aperture. The first solenoid will then be commanded to deliver the product, at which time the first solenoid will pull the first valve plate 214 up and the rotating wheel 106 of the magazine 102 will begin to rotate to deliver the first product out of the outlet. After the rotation of the rubber wheel 106 is completed, the first valve plate 214 of the first solenoid valve falls to block the outlet hole of the storage box 102, and then the second valve plate 215 of the second solenoid valve is pulled up to allow the spring plate, also called a pushing member, at the rear end of the storage box 102 to push the remaining article forward until the original second article is pushed against the valve plate of the first solenoid valve.

2) The intelligent cargo box comprises a plurality of storage boxes 102 for storing goods, wherein each storage box 102 corresponds to one grid and can only be used for storing one type of goods. The articles in the storage box are sorted according to the quality guarantee period from front to back, the article with short quality guarantee period is always at the top, and the sequence of the articles with the same quality guarantee period is unimportant. The staff is assured that the new item is placed behind the old item when restocking. The rearmost of the storage case 102 is a spring plate or pusher member that ensures that the contents of the storage case 102 can be pushed to the front of the case without any external force or obstruction. A rubber wheel is provided on the front floor of the storage box 102 and driven by a motor, and upon receiving a delivery command from the electronic main board, the rubber wheel starts to rotate and delivers the front-most article from the front end of the storage box 102.

3) The PCBA electronic mainboard, namely the electronic control device 103, is composed of a PCB board, an MCU processing module, a Bluetooth and WIFI communication module and other electronic components.

(1) The main program of the electronic control device 103 is operated by the MCU, the data of the intelligent cargo box can be transmitted to the server at the cloud end through the WIFI to be processed by an algorithm, and the main program of the electronic control device 103 is executed on the equipment after the result is returned. If the main program of the electronic control device 103 with network abnormality cannot be connected to the server through the WIFI, the staff can use the mobile phone app or the WeChat applet to connect the equipment through the Bluetooth to execute the operations of shipment, replenishment and the like. In addition, when the device initializes the names and passwords of the WIFI staff members, the device needs to be set through bluetooth by using a mobile phone app or a wechat applet.

(2) The main program of the electronic control device 103 mainly uses the WIFI module to connect the server of the smart cargo box and the cloud. The initial setting of WIFI is completed by a Bluetooth module and a mobile phone app or a WeChat applet. If the main program can normally access the server in the cloud through the WIFI module, the Bluetooth module is in an out-of-operation state. If WIFI cannot connect the server, the Bluetooth module is activated. When the Bluetooth module works, the staff can use the mobile phone app, the WeChat applet and the intelligent cargo box to conduct offline transaction, a local hard disk of the PCBA can exist in the record of the transaction, and when the WIFI is connected to the server again, the record of all local transactions is uploaded.

(3) Each intelligent cargo box is pasted with a two-dimensional code and can be scanned, after scanning, articles in the intelligent cargo box can be selected on a mobile phone app or a WeChat applet, then the quantity needing goods delivery is selected, and goods delivery is selected. When the goods are delivered, the mobile phone is directly connected with the server at the cloud end to complete the delivery process of the goods, and after the server receives the delivery notice, a delivery instruction is issued to the goods box. Upon receipt of the command, the electronic control unit 103 sequentially opens the two solenoid valves of the corresponding storage boxes 102 for the articles and rotates the rubber wheel 106 to deliver the articles. After the goods are delivered, the current goods state of the intelligent goods box is uploaded to the server. If the server cannot communicate with the intelligent cargo box after receiving the delivery notice, the server prompts workers to deliver the cargo by using Bluetooth through mobile phone app or a WeChat applet and issues a group of delivery passwords. The shipment password of the main program of the electronic control device 103 is the same algorithm as that of the server, and both are updated every minute by the system time calculation. After completing the shipment service via bluetooth, the electronic control unit 103 stores the transaction results locally, and then re-connects to the server for uploading. The server updates the database after receiving a notification that the item was removed.

(4) When the manager goes to restock, the shelf life of the goods and the corresponding quantity of the goods of each intelligent goods box can be known through the server. A manager can apply for unlocking the lock of the storage box 102 in the cargo box through mobile phone app or a WeChat applet, and meanwhile, the quality guarantee period of a new article can be notified to the server, whether the data of the database are available or not can be checked before the server is unlocked, then an unlocking instruction is issued to a main program of the electronic control device 103, and the main program of the electronic control device 103 can be unlocked after receiving the instruction. When a new article is loaded into the storage box 102, the lock is closed, and the main program of the electronic control unit 103 uploads the state after the storage box 102 is refilled to the server. The server, upon receiving the new status, updates the quantity of items in the storage box 102 and the corresponding shelf life, and then synchronizes the results to the database. If the verification fails in the replenishment process, the system stops the automatic replenishment process and sends a notice to the operator to force the completion or cancellation of the operation.

(5) In order to facilitate the equipment maintenance of the electronic control device 103, the electronic control device 103 is divided into a main board and an auxiliary board, the MCU and various connectors are placed on the main board, the auxiliary board is provided with a Bluetooth module and a WIFI module, and the two boards are connected through a UART serial port. Therefore, if the communication module is damaged, the communication module can be conveniently replaced.

Based on the above inventive concept, referring to fig. 1 to 3, according to a preferred embodiment of the intelligent goods box based on the shelf life of goods of the present invention, the box body 101, the storage box 102 and the electronic control device 103 are arranged in the box body 101, and the storage box 102 is used for storing goods 109. It will be appreciated that the intelligent cargo box may be used in place of or as part of the inventory cabinet of the unmanned vending system, and thus, the size and dimensions of the intelligent cargo box may be designed as desired to fit existing unmanned vending machines of different sizes, although the intelligent cargo box may also be used with new unmanned vending machines and unmanned vending systems as described below.

Referring to fig. 1, the case 101 includes a cabinet having a drawer compartment 111, and a power plug 110; the drawer bay 111 has a drawer-type slide that allows the storage case 102 to slide freely in and out. It will be appreciated that the cabinet comprises drawer compartments for receiving storage boxes 102, as shown in fig. 3, the box 101 comprises 3 layers of 9 drawer compartments, 8 storage boxes 102 are shown, as a variant, the number of drawer compartments of the box 101 may be 12, 15, 18, etc., and the storage boxes 102 may also have a corresponding number. The slides facilitate the removal and loading of the storage case 102. The case 101 may be made of an injection molding material or a metal material.

Referring to fig. 2, the storage case 102 has an exit aperture that enables ejection of an item 109 within the storage case 102; the storage box 102 comprises a delivery component, a holding component and a pushing component; the retaining member is capable of retaining the item 109 within the storage case 102, preventing the item 109 from being ejected from the exit aperture; the delivery member is capable of applying a force to the article 109 to cause it to be dispensed from the exit aperture; the pushing member is capable of pushing the item of merchandise 109 towards the exit aperture. It will be appreciated that fig. 2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the case 102, the exit aperture being in the left end face of the drawing, the case 102 shown in fig. 2 housing 6 articles 109, although each case 102 could be configured to house an equal number of articles, 8, 10, 12, etc. The case body of the case 102 may be injection molded from a plastic material or compression molded from a metal material. The delivery unit includes a film wheel 106 and a motor 107, as described below, and further may be comprised of an air cylinder that drives a push rod that pushes the product 109 out of the exit aperture; or the goods part consists of a ratchet wheel and a stepping motor. The holding means includes a first solenoid valve 104 and a second solenoid valve 105, and further, the holding means is composed of two pneumatic cylinders or two micro manipulators. The pushing member or spring plate includes a pushing spring 151 and a pressing plate 152, and instead, the pushing member is constituted by a pushing cylinder or a pushing solenoid valve and a pressing plate.

Referring to fig. 6, the electronic control device 103 includes a PCBA electronic motherboard and a PCBA electronic subplate; the PCBA electronic main board comprises an MCU (microprogrammed control unit), a hard disk and a sensor connector, and the PCBA electronic auxiliary board comprises a Bluetooth module and a WIFI module; the PCBA electronic mainboard is connected with the PCBA electronic auxiliary board through a UART (universal asynchronous receiver transmitter) serial port; the sensor connector is electrically connected to the shipment part, the holding part, and the pushing part, so that the electronic control device 103 can control the shipment part, the holding part, and the pushing part to perform corresponding actions. It can be understood that the MCU micro control unit can be replaced by an android computer or a Linux computer, so that the intelligent cargo box can be conveniently controlled or debugged through the liquid crystal display, and the hard disk can be a mechanical hard disk, a Flash hard disk or an SSD hard disk, and is used for storing data offline when the network is disconnected. The sensor connector may be plural, and respectively connect the shipment member, the holding member, and the pushing member, and other members requiring electronic control. The motherboard connector and the daughter board connector shown in fig. 6 belong to a UART serial port type, and are used for realizing the electrical connection and data communication between the motherboard and the daughter board. The structure in which the electronic control device 103 is divided into two circuit boards facilitates partial replacement of electronic parts rather than overall replacement, achieving a technical benefit of cost saving.

The data of the intelligent cargo box can be transmitted to a server at the cloud end through the WIFI module to be processed in an algorithm mode, and after a processing result is returned, the processing result is executed by a main program of the electronic control device 103. It can be understood that the electronic control device 103 is equivalent to a computer or a mobile phone or a tablet computer, has a strong data processing capability, and can run a simple processing program to perform corresponding calculations or send corresponding control signals. The data of the intelligent cargo box are, for example, GPS position information, location address, number of storage boxes 102 and corresponding commodity type and number, commodity shelf life information, shelf two-dimensional code information, and the like of the intelligent cargo box. The shipment and replenishment of the intelligent cargo box are operated by staff, so that the data of the intelligent cargo box are changed correspondingly, the data changes need to be updated in time in the database of the intelligent cargo box in the cloud server, so that the server issues corresponding operation instructions according to corresponding trigger conditions, the data and instructions from the cloud server are processed by the main program of the electronic control device 103, and corresponding mechanical and electronic components are controlled to execute operations or actions. The main program of the electronic control device 103 can be understood as a software operating system, a program interpretation executor or a program deduction executor, a special control program of the intelligent cargo box, and the like.

The same storage box only stores the same commodity, the commodities are placed in the storage box 102 from near to far away from the outlet hole in the quality guarantee period sequence, the same commodity of the same production batch, the same production date or the same quality guarantee date is marked by the same quality guarantee two-dimensional code, and the quality guarantee period information of the commodity is saved in the server; the server regularly checks whether the intelligent cargo box has commodities with expiration dates or not, and informs workers of relevant expiration information to process in time. It can be understood that the quality guarantee two-dimensional code is the two-dimensional code for marking the quality guarantee period, and in the technical scheme, the same storage box only stores the same commodity, and the keeping periods are arranged in sequence, so that the arrangement is favorable for recording and updating the data change of the intelligent cargo box, and the sequential execution of the replenishment operation and the delivery operation of workers is also favorable. And the staff can ensure the correctness of the data information updating of the intelligent cargo box when the replenishment operation and the delivery operation are carried out.

According to the technical scheme, due to the technical means that the same commodity has the same shelf life and the same two-dimensional code is adopted, compared with the prior art, the cost of marking each commodity by a large number of two-dimensional codes is saved, and the management of data information of the intelligent cargo box is simplified. And, newly-designed intelligent goods case is as functional module, and is rational in infrastructure, with reasonable costs, the commonality is good, strong adaptability, can be very convenient effectively with current unmanned vending machine increase the commodity shelf life and remind the function, has saved the cost of purchasing brand-new unmanned vending machine based on commodity shelf life.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 2, the delivery assembly includes a film wheel 106 and a motor 107, the film wheel 106 being mounted on the floor of the storage case 102 on a side adjacent the exit aperture;

the motor 107 is capable of driving the film reel 106 in rotation under the control of the electronic control means 103, whereby the rotating film reel 106 is capable of delivering the product closest to the exit aperture out of the storage cassette 102.

The arrows shown in fig. 2 represent the order of the shelf life of the items in the storage case 102 from longer to shorter. The outlet opening is located in the left side of the drawing plane of fig. 2.

The delivery component with the configuration has simple structure and is easy to automatically control and operate.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 1, the holding means comprises a first solenoid valve 104 and a second solenoid valve 105;

as shown in fig. 4, the first electromagnetic valve 104 includes a first electromagnetic valve plate 214, a first metal plate 224, a first spring 234, and a first electromagnetic coil 244;

when the first electromagnetic coil 244 is energized, the generated magnetic field can pull up the first metal plate 224;

as shown in fig. 5, the second solenoid valve 105 includes a second solenoid valve plate 215, a second metal plate 225, a second spring 235, and a second solenoid coil 245;

with the second electromagnetic coil 245 energized, the magnetic field generated can pull the second metal plate 225 down.

The first solenoid valve 104 and the second solenoid valve 105 of the holding member shown in fig. 1 are disposed or mounted on the top of the third drawer compartment 111 of the body 101 of the intelligent cargo box, and the corresponding storage box 102 in fig. 1 is not shown, in order to clearly show the positions of the first solenoid valve 104 and the second solenoid valve 105. It will be appreciated that the retaining member may also be provided at the side wall of drawer compartment 111, as long as the first and

second valve plates

214 and 215 can easily enter or exit between the articles 109. Accordingly, the arrangement of the first solenoid valve 104 and the second solenoid valve 105 and the respective elements should be changed accordingly.

The holding member having the above configuration is simple in structure and easy to automatically control the operation.

Preferably, referring to fig. 1 and 2, the pushing member includes a pushing spring 151 and a pressing plate 152, a first end of the pushing spring 151 is connected to a rear side plate of the storage box 102 away from the exit hole, and a second end of the pushing spring 151 is connected to the pressing plate 152;

the resilient force of the biasing spring 151 can urge or otherwise tend to move the product 109 within the storage case 102 toward the exit aperture.

The pushing component with the configuration is simple in structure and easy to automatically control and operate.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 7, the smart cargo box can perform a restocking operation as follows:

the staff applies for replenishment through the mobile terminal;

the server receives a replenishment application and detects the inventory of the intelligent cargo box;

is there a vacancy in the storage box 102 of the intelligent cargo box determined? If no vacancy exists, ending the replenishment operation;

if the vacancy exists, the server issues a replenishment instruction;

the storage box 102 of the intelligent cargo box is unlocked;

the staff member places a new article 109 into the empty space of the storage box 102;

after the merchandise 109 is replenished in place, the storage box 102 is locked;

the intelligent cargo box informs the server that the replenishment is successful;

and finishing the replenishment operation.

It is understood that the sending and receiving of the data, information and commands of the intelligent cargo box are all performed by the electronic control device 103 and its components, and the control flow diagram in fig. 7 shows the control logic of the replenishment operation more clearly.

It should be noted that the personnel supplementing the storage box 102 with new items places the items 109 in the storage box 102 in the order specified by the present invention based on the shelf life information provided by the shelf life two-dimensional code of the items and ensures that the same storage box 102 places the same items 109.

The mobile terminal is, for example, a smart phone, a tablet computer or a portable notebook computer and an APP program therein.

The staff can edit and update the data of the intelligent cargo box through the mobile terminal, the data of the intelligent cargo box is uploaded to a server at the cloud end through the electronic control device 103, and the server is informed that the replenishment operation is completed successfully.

The control logic of the replenishment operation is simple and easy to realize.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 8, the smart cargo box can perform a shipment operation as follows:

the staff applies for shipment through the mobile terminal;

the server receives the shipment application and detects the inventory of the intelligent cargo box;

determine if there are items 109 in the storage box 102 of the smart bin? If no commodity 109 exists, ending the shipment operation;

if the commodity 109 exists, the server issues a delivery instruction;

the storage box 102 of the intelligent cargo box receives the delivery instruction and sends the delivery instruction to the second solenoid valve 105 of the storage box 102;

the second valve plate 215 of the second solenoid valve 105 of the magazine 102 falls;

a first solenoid valve 104 that sends a delivery command to the storage cassette 102;

the first valve plate 214 of the first solenoid valve 104 of the storage box 102 is pulled up;

issuing shipment instructions to the motor 107 of the storage cassette 102;

the film reel 106 at the front of the storage case 102 rotates to slide the first item 109 out;

issuing an end command to the first solenoid valve 104 of the storage box 102, the first valve plate 214 of the first solenoid valve 104 of the storage box 102 falling;

issuing an end command to the second solenoid valve 105 of the storage box 102, the second valve plate 215 of the second solenoid valve 105 of the storage box 102 being pulled up, the pushing member pushing all the commodities 109 forward;

sending the state of successful synchronization of the intelligent cargo box to the server;

the server updates the state of the intelligent cargo box;

and finishing the shipment operation.

It can be understood that the state that the intelligent cargo box is synchronized successfully means that the worker has successfully taken out the commodities according to the commodity types and the commodity quantity of the shipment application.

And the server updates the state of the intelligent cargo box, namely, the number of the commodities of the type is subtracted from the corresponding data record in the intelligent cargo box database, and the content of the intelligent cargo box database is kept consistent with the type and the data of the real commodities in the intelligent cargo box.

The control logic of the shipment operation is reasonable and easy to realize.

Advantageously, the intelligent cargo box is able to handle network failures as follows:

under the condition that the main program of the electronic control device 103 cannot be connected to the server through the WIFI module due to network abnormality, a worker can use a mobile terminal to connect the intelligent cargo box through the Bluetooth module to execute cargo discharging operation and/or cargo supplementing operation.

The design ensures that off-line transaction can be completed smoothly.

According to the invention, a preferable embodiment of the unmanned vending machine based on commodity shelf life comprises a storage cabinet and a vending cabinet, wherein the storage cabinet comprises the intelligent goods box. According to the design, the commodity shelf life reminding function can be conveniently added to the existing unmanned vending machine only by simply replacing the storage cabinet with the intelligent goods cabinet or integrating the intelligent goods cabinet into the storage cabinet.

According to a preferred embodiment of the unmanned vending system based on commodity shelf life, the unmanned vending system comprises a mobile terminal, the unmanned vending machine based on commodity shelf life and a cloud server, and the unmanned vending system can manage the shelf life of commodities according to the following management modes:

1) the method comprises the steps that a mobile terminal customizes coding rules of the same commodities with the same production batch, the same production date or the same quality guarantee date, the same commodities with the same quality guarantee date generate unique two-dimensional codes and quality guarantee periods, then the two-dimensional codes and the quality guarantee period information are input into a server, and then the server puts the two-dimensional codes and the quality guarantee period information into a warehouse;

It can be understood that the encoding technology of the two-dimensional code is the prior art, and the customized encoding rule of the invention is to encode the same two-dimensional code according to the commodities with the same type and the same shelf life.

The unmanned vending system of the invention achieves the technical benefit of commodity shelf life reminding.

Preferably, under the WIFI module can not connect the condition of server, the bluetooth module is activated, the consumer can with mobile terminal with the transaction of unmanned vending system off-line, the record of transaction can exist in the hard disk of PCBA electron mainboard, after the WIFI module reconnects to the server, upload the record of all local transactions of intelligence cargo box again.

The intelligent cargo box is provided with a local hard disk, so that transaction data can be stored off line, and the unmanned vending system is favorable for operating business uninterruptedly.

The foregoing detailed description of preferred or specific embodiments of the invention has been presented. It should be understood that numerous modifications and variations can be devised by those skilled in the art in light of the present teachings without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the technical solutions available to those skilled in the art through logic analysis, reasoning and limited experiments based on the design concept of the present invention should be within the scope of the present invention and/or the protection scope defined by the claims.

Claims

1. The intelligent goods box based on the shelf life of goods comprises a box body (101), a storage box (102) and an electronic control device (103), wherein the storage box (102) and the electronic control device (103) are arranged in the box body (101), and the storage box (102) is used for storing goods (109);

the box body (101) comprises a cabinet body and a power plug (110), wherein the cabinet body is provided with a drawer grid (111); the drawer bay (111) having a drawer-type slide that allows the storage box (102) to slide freely in and out;

the storage case (102) having an exit aperture enabling ejection of an item (109) within the storage case (102); the storage box (102) comprises a delivery component, a holding component and a pushing component; said retention means being capable of retaining said item of merchandise (109) within said storage case (102), preventing said item of merchandise (109) from being ejected from said exit aperture; the delivery member being capable of applying a force to the article (109) to cause it to be dispensed from the exit aperture; -said pushing member is able to push said article (109) to move closer to said exit aperture;

the electronic control device (103) comprises a PCBA electronic main board and a PCBA electronic auxiliary board; the PCBA electronic main board comprises an MCU (microprogrammed control unit), a hard disk and a sensor connector, and the PCBA electronic auxiliary board comprises a Bluetooth module and a WIFI module; the PCBA electronic mainboard is connected with the PCBA electronic auxiliary board through a UART (universal asynchronous receiver transmitter) serial port; the sensor connector is electrically connected with the shipment component, the holding component and the pushing component, so that the electronic control device (103) can control the shipment component, the holding component and the pushing component to execute corresponding actions;

the data of the intelligent cargo box can be transmitted to a cloud server through the WIFI module to be processed in an algorithm mode, and after a processing result is returned, the processing result is executed by a main program of the electronic control device (103);

the same storage box only stores the same commodity, the commodities are placed in the storage box (102) from near to far away from the outlet hole in the quality guarantee period sequence, the same commodities of the same production batch, the same production date or the same quality guarantee date are marked by the same quality guarantee two-dimensional code, and the quality guarantee period information of the commodities is saved in the server; the server regularly checks whether the intelligent cargo box has commodities with expiration dates or not, and informs workers of relevant expiration information to process in time.

2. The smart cargo box based on shelf life of goods according to claim 1, wherein: the shipment component includes a film reel (106) and a motor (107), the film reel (106) being mounted on a floor of the storage case (102) on a side adjacent the exit aperture;

the motor (107) is capable of driving the film reel (106) to rotate under the control of the electronic control means (103), whereby the rotating film reel (106) is capable of advancing the article closest to the exit aperture out of the storage case (102).

3. The smart cargo box based on shelf life of goods according to claim 1, wherein: the holding member includes a first solenoid valve (104) and a second solenoid valve (105);

the first solenoid valve (104) includes a first solenoid valve plate (214), a first metal plate (224), a first spring (234), and a first electromagnetic coil (244);

when the first electromagnetic coil (244) is energized, the generated magnetic field can pull up the first metal plate (224);

the second electromagnetic valve (105) includes a second electromagnetic valve plate (215), a second metal plate (225), a second spring (235), and a second electromagnetic coil (245);

the magnetic field generated when the second electromagnetic coil (245) is energized can pull the second metal plate (225) down.

4. The smart cargo box based on shelf life of goods according to claim 1, wherein: the pushing component comprises a pushing spring (151) and a pressing plate (152), a first end of the pushing spring (151) is connected with a rear side plate, away from the exit hole, of the storage box (102), and a second end of the pushing spring (151) is connected with the pressing plate (152);

the resilient force of the biasing spring (151) is capable of urging or tending to move the merchandise (109) within the storage box (102) in the direction of the exit aperture.

5. The smart cargo box based on shelf life of commodities as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: the intelligent cargo box can execute replenishment operation according to the following modes:

the staff applies for replenishment through the mobile terminal;

is there a vacancy in the storage box (102) of the intelligent cargo box determined? If no vacancy exists, ending the replenishment operation;

if the vacancy exists, the server issues a replenishment instruction;

the storage box (102) of the intelligent cargo box is unlocked;

-the staff member puts a new article (109) into the empty space of said storage box (102);

after the goods (109) are replenished in place, locking the storage box (102);

and finishing the replenishment operation.

6. The smart cargo box based on shelf life of commodities as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: the intelligent cargo box can perform shipment operation as follows:

the staff applies for shipment through the mobile terminal;

is there an item (109) determined to be in the storage box (102) of the intelligent cargo box? If no commodity (109) exists, ending the shipment operation;

if the goods (109) exist, the server issues a goods sending instruction;

the storage box (102) of the intelligent goods box receives the delivery instruction and sends the delivery instruction to the second solenoid valve (105) of the storage box (102);

-the second valve plate (215) of the second solenoid valve (105) of the storage box (102) falls;

a first solenoid (104) that sends a delivery command to the storage box (102);

-the first valve plate (214) of the first solenoid valve (104) of the storage box (102) is pulled up;

a motor (107) that issues a shipment command to the storage box (102);

-a film reel (106) at the front end of the storage box (102) is rotated to slide the first item (109) out;

issuing an end command to the first solenoid valve (104) of the storage box (102), the first valve plate (214) of the first solenoid valve (104) of the storage box (102) falling;

-issuing an end command to the second solenoid valve (105) of the storage box (102), the second valve plate (215) of the second solenoid valve (105) of the storage box (102) being pulled up, the push member pushing all the goods (109) forward;

the server updates the state of the intelligent cargo box;

and finishing the shipment operation.

7. The smart cargo box based on shelf life of commodities as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: the intelligent cargo box can handle network failures as follows:

under the condition that a main program of the electronic control device (103) cannot be connected to the server through the WIFI module due to network abnormality, a worker can use a mobile terminal to connect the intelligent cargo box through the Bluetooth module to execute cargo discharging operation and/or cargo supplementing operation.

8. An unmanned vending machine based on the shelf life of commodities comprises a storage cabinet and a vending cabinet,

the method is characterized in that: the storage container comprising the smart cargo box of any of claims 1 to 7.

9. Unmanned vending system based on commodity shelf life, its characterized in that: the vending machine comprises a mobile terminal, the vending machine based on the commodity shelf life according to claim 8 and a cloud server, wherein the vending system can manage the shelf life of commodities in the following management modes:

the method comprises the steps that a mobile terminal customizes coding rules of the same commodities with the same production batch, the same production date or the same quality guarantee date, the same commodities with the same quality guarantee date generate unique two-dimensional codes and quality guarantee periods, then the two-dimensional codes and the quality guarantee period information are input into a server, and then the server puts the two-dimensional codes and the quality guarantee period information into a warehouse;

when the commodity is sent to the unmanned vending machine from the warehouse, the mobile terminal updates the location of the commodity by scanning a bar code and inputting the address of the unmanned vending machine;

after the commodities arrive at the unmanned vending machine, the commodities are put into the intelligent goods boxes of the storage container in sequence; inputting, with the mobile terminal, a type and a corresponding quantity of the goods extracted from the intelligent cargo box of the storage container in a case where the goods are to be delivered from the intelligent cargo box of the storage container to the sales container;

after the intelligent goods box of the storage container receives the request, the commodities are automatically provided for workers according to the sequence from old to new in shelf life, and then the commodities are put on the sales container and supplied to consumers;

and the server runs a timing task, notifies the commodity which is about to expire in the warehouse to a warehouse manager every day, and notifies the information of the commodity which is about to expire in the sales counter to the staff of the unmanned vending machine.

10. The shelf-life-based vending system according to claim 9, wherein: under the condition that the WIFI module can not be connected with the server, the Bluetooth module is activated, a consumer can use a mobile terminal to conduct offline transaction with the unmanned vending system, the record of the transaction can exist in a hard disk of the PCBA electronic mainboard, and after the WIFI module is connected with the server again, the record of all local transactions of the intelligent cargo box is uploaded.