CN211264384U

CN211264384U - Goods delivery detection device of vending machine

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Publication number: CN211264384U
Application number: CN201922212089.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卓友君
Original assignee: Guangdong Yazhuo Technology Service Co ltd
Current assignee: Stall Holding Guangzhou Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-11
Filing date: 2019-12-11
Publication date: 2020-08-14
Anticipated expiration: 2029-12-11

Abstract

The application discloses automatic shipment detection device of vending machine includes: the vending machine comprises a plurality of infrared sensing probes (10), wherein the infrared sensing probes (10) are respectively arranged on each goods discharging track (20) of the vending machine, and the infrared sensing probes (10) are connected with a control system of the vending machine and used for sensing the goods discharging quantity of each goods discharging track (20). The technical problems that in the prior art, the vending machine cannot distinguish which commodity is not normally delivered after the commodity clamping phenomenon occurs, and a plurality of commodities can cause counting errors when passing through the grating of the vending machine at the same time, so that business processing difficulties such as subsequent commodity refund, information pushing and the like are caused, and even the goods cannot be processed are solved.

Description

Goods delivery detection device of vending machine

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of vending machines, in particular to a goods discharging detection device of a vending machine.

Background

In the goods delivery control system of the current vending machine, due to the fact that the packaging form of goods is five-flower eight doors, the mechanical part is difficult to guarantee hundred percent normal delivery, and the phenomenon of mechanical goods clamping occasionally occurs. The control system of the existing vending cabinet can detect the phenomenon that goods are not normally delivered, but the existing vending machine is only provided with one delivery grating, so that the system cannot distinguish which goods are not normally delivered. In addition, when multiple items pass through the grating of the vending cabinet at the same time, the grating will also count only once, resulting in a counting error. Therefore, the subsequent business processing such as product refund, information push and the like is difficult and even impossible.

Aiming at the technical problems that the vending machine in the prior art cannot distinguish which commodity is not normally delivered after the commodity clamping phenomenon occurs, and counting errors can be caused when a plurality of commodities pass through a grating of the vending machine at the same time, so that business processing such as subsequent commodity refund, information push and the like is difficult and even cannot be processed, an effective solution is not provided at present.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model provides an automatic shipment detection device of vending machine to solve the vending machine that exists among the prior art at least and can't distinguish after the card goods phenomenon takes place which commodity does not normally go out goods, and can lead to the count mistake when many commodities pass through the grating of vending machine simultaneously, thereby lead to the technical problem that business processing difficulty such as follow-up commodity refund, information push even can't be handled.

According to an aspect of the present application, there is provided a shipment detecting apparatus of a vending machine, including: the plurality of infrared sensing probes are respectively arranged on each goods outlet track of the vending machine, and are connected with a control system of the vending machine and used for sensing the goods outlet quantity of each goods outlet track.

Optionally, the plurality of infrared sensing probes are individually turned on and/or off.

Optionally, the control system controls the infrared sensing probe by digitally controlled pulses and pulse widths.

Optionally, the control system controls the intensity of the light source of the infrared sensing probe.

Optionally, the infrared sensing probe is disposed at a delivery port of the delivery track.

The utility model discloses a shipment detection device of automatic vending machine is owing to set up infrared ray inductive probe respectively at every shipment track of automatic vending machine to inductive probe can the autonomous working, therefore each orbital shipment condition can detect respectively. In addition, infrared ray inductive probe sets up in shipment mouth department of shipment track, therefore the card goods detects more accurately. Therefore, compared with the prior art, the scheme has the following advantages:

1. the digital control pulse and the pulse width are adopted to provide signals for the induction probe, the signals are obtained by calculation of a control system, and the pulse value and the pulse width value can be remotely controlled by an instruction. And the light source intensity is suitable for different commodities, and the detection reliability is improved.

2. Each infrared sensing probe can be independently opened and closed, so that other sensing probes which are not delivered can not interfere with the sensing probes which are delivering goods.

3. The goods outlet of the goods outlet rail is closely arranged, so that the reliability of goods delivery detection is further ensured.

Therefore, under the condition of commodity card goods, the follow-up businesses such as commodity refund, information push and the like can be ensured to be smoothly carried out.

The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Some specific embodiments of the present application will be described in detail hereinafter by way of illustration and not limitation with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a shipment detection apparatus of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

In order to make the technical solution of the present invention better understood, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts shall belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances for describing embodiments of the invention herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a shipment detection device of an automatic vending machine according to an embodiment of the present application, and referring to fig. 1, the whole is a cargo tray of the automatic vending machine, a plurality of shipment rails 20 are provided on the tray, and different shipment rails 20 correspond to different cargos. The shipment detection device of the vending machine includes: a plurality of ir-sensitive probes 10, which are conventional in the art and the specific structure of which is not shown. And the plurality of infrared ray induction probes 10 are respectively arranged on each delivery track 20 of the vending machine, and the plurality of infrared ray induction probes 10 are connected with a control system of the vending machine for sensing the delivery quantity of each delivery track 20. Namely, each goods outlet of the goods tray is correspondingly provided with an infrared sensing probe, and when goods are delivered, the sensing probe positioned at the goods outlet is triggered. The control system records the position of the probe and compares the position with the shipment instruction. The triggered goods at the goods outlet are marked as normal goods outlet, otherwise, the goods are not normally delivered. Therefore, the shipment condition of the commodity can be monitored in real time.

Thus in this way, the utility model discloses an automatic shipment detection device of vending machine is owing to set up infrared ray inductive probe respectively at every shipment track of vending machine, consequently can detect every shipment orbital shipment condition. Compared with the prior art, after the condition of the goods being blocked occurs, the vending machine system can quickly and accurately know which goods are blocked. In addition, even when a plurality of goods are shipped, the counting can be performed accurately. Therefore, after the goods are blocked, the businesses such as the refund of the subsequent goods, the information push and the like can be accurately carried out. And then solved the vending machine that exists among the prior art and can't distinguish which commodity does not normally go out after the card goods phenomenon takes place to can lead to the count mistake when many commodities pass through the grating of vending machine simultaneously, thereby lead to business processing difficulty such as follow-up commodity refund, information push even the technical problem that can't handle.

Optionally, the plurality of infrared sensing probes 10 are individually turned on and/or off. Namely: each infrared sensing probe can be independently opened and closed, so that other sensing probes which are not delivered can not interfere with the sensing probes which are delivering goods. Therefore, the accuracy of detection can be improved.

Optionally, the control system controls the infrared sensing probe 10 by digitally controlled pulses and pulse widths.

Specifically, the control system of the vending machine provides signals for the induction probe through numerical control pulses and pulse widths, the signals are obtained through calculation by the control system, and the pulse values and the pulse width values can be remotely controlled through commands.

Optionally, the control system controls the light source intensity of the infrared sensing probe 10.

Specifically, the control system can control the light source intensity of the infrared sensing probe 10, provide suitable light source intensity for different commodities, and improve the reliability of detection.

Optionally, the infrared sensing probe 10 is disposed at the shipment port 201 of the shipment rail 20.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1, the infrared sensing probe 10 is installed in a short distance at the position of the goods outlet 201 of the goods tray (the goods outlet rail 20), so as to further ensure the reliability of goods outlet detection.

To sum up, compare with prior art, the utility model has the advantages of it is following:

Unless specifically stated otherwise, the relative arrangement of the components and steps, the numerical expressions, and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention. Meanwhile, it should be understood that the sizes of the respective portions shown in the drawings are not drawn in an actual proportional relationship for the convenience of description. Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate. In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as merely illustrative, and not limiting. Thus, other examples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values. It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, further discussion thereof is not required in subsequent figures.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the orientation words such as "front, back, up, down, left, right", "horizontal, vertical, horizontal" and "top, bottom" etc. are usually based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and in the case of not making a contrary explanation, these orientation words do not indicate and imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore, should not be interpreted as limiting the scope of the present invention; the terms "inner and outer" refer to the inner and outer relative to the profile of the respective component itself.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present application should be covered within the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. An shipment detection device for a vending machine, comprising: the system comprises a plurality of infrared sensing probes (10), wherein the infrared sensing probes (10) are respectively arranged on each goods outlet track (20) of the vending machine, the infrared sensing probes (10) are connected with a control system of the vending machine and used for sensing the goods outlet quantity of each goods outlet track (20), and the infrared sensing probes (10) are independently turned on and/or turned off.

2. The shipment detection device according to claim 1, wherein the control system controls the infrared sensing probe (10) by means of numerical control pulses and pulse widths.

3. The shipment detection device according to claim 2, wherein the control system controls the intensity of the light source of the infrared sensing probe (10).

4. The shipment detecting device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the infrared sensing probe (10) is disposed at a shipment port (201) of the shipment rail (20).