CN218630895U

CN218630895U - Sales counter

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Publication number: CN218630895U
Application number: CN202220799069.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王志
Original assignee: Cloudminds Shanghai Robotics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Cloudminds Shanghai Robotics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-03-31
Filing date: 2022-03-31
Publication date: 2023-03-14
Anticipated expiration: 2032-03-31

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a sales counter, wherein the sales counter comprises a counter body, a display screen, a face recognition camera, a microphone and a loudspeaker, the counter body comprises a cabinet door, and the cabinet door forms at least part of the front side wall of the counter body; the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the loudspeaker are all arranged on the front side wall. According to the technical scheme, the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the loudspeaker have the active interaction function, and great convenience is brought to consumers. In addition, the display screen can also be used for convenience service such as city public information publicity.

Description

Sales counter

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of automatic retail, in particular to a sales counter.

Background

With the development of the socioeconomic technology, unmanned retail represented by sales containers is an important development trend in the retail industry. Compared with traditional convenience stores, snack stores and community supermarkets, the sales counter has a plurality of advantages in the aspect of meeting the daily life demands of consumers, such as 24-hour business in the whole day, labor saving and breakthrough of location limitation.

However, the traditional sales counter is completely selected by the consumer, so that the consumer is inconvenient to use and has poor consumption experience effect.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above, embodiments of the present application have been developed in order to provide a sales counter that solves, or at least partially solves, the above-mentioned problems.

The embodiment of the application provides a sales counter, includes: the container comprises a container body, a display screen, a face recognition camera, a microphone and a loudspeaker, wherein the container body comprises a cabinet door which forms at least part of the front side wall of the container body;

the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the loudspeaker are all arranged on the front side wall.

Optionally, the face recognition camera is mounted inside the front side wall, and a first abdicating hole is formed in the outer side surface of the front side wall corresponding to the face recognition camera; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the microphone is arranged inside the front side wall, and a second abdicating hole is formed in the outer side surface of the front side wall corresponding to the microphone; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the loudspeaker is installed in the front side wall, and the outer side face of the front side wall corresponds to the loudspeaker and is provided with a third abdicating hole.

Optionally, the cabinet door has a transparent area and a light shielding area, and the display screen is disposed in the light shielding area.

Optionally, the container body further comprises a container body, and the door covers a front opening of the container body;

the speaker sets up the cabinet body, the display screen face identification camera and the microphone sets up the cabinet door.

Optionally, the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone, and the speaker are sequentially distributed from bottom to top.

Optionally, the sales counter further comprises an electric latch, and the electric latch is respectively connected with the counter body and the counter door, so that the counter door can be unlocked and locked relative to the counter body.

Optionally, a commodity identification camera is further installed in the container body, and the commodity identification camera is used for identifying commodities in the container body; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

a goods shelf and a gravity sensor are arranged in the container body, and the goods shelf is used for supporting commodities; the gravity sensor is installed on the goods shelf.

Optionally, the container body is provided with a heat exchange mechanism, and the heat exchange mechanism can be switched between a refrigerating state and a heating state.

Optionally, the heat exchange mechanism includes a heat exchange air duct and a heating fan disposed in the heat exchange air duct, the heat exchange air duct has an air outlet penetrating through an inner side surface of the top wall of the container body, and the heating fan is configured to send out hot air from the air outlet in the heating state.

Optionally, the sales counter further comprises: the main control unit is arranged on the cabinet body of the container body and is used for being in communication connection with the cloud server, and the main control unit is further respectively connected with the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the loudspeaker in an electric connection mode.

The technical scheme that this application embodiment provided adopts face identification, and accessible face identification carries out customer identification, to specific customer crowd, carries out advertising functions such as pertinence new product popularization, introduction on the display screen, perhaps carries out the propelling movement of specific information. Or, adopt face identification camera to brush face payment, increase the payment channel, provide the convenience for consumer's payment. Meanwhile, the microphone can be used for receiving voice information of the consumer, purchasing information is automatically identified, and the loudspeaker can be used for reminding the consumer again, such as purchasing confirmation, purchasing completion and taking away commodities. Therefore, the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the loudspeaker are adopted to enable the sales counter to have an active interaction intelligent function, and great convenience is brought to consumers. In addition, the display screen can also be used for convenience service such as city public information publicity.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a closed sales counter in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the open sales counter of FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is an exploded schematic view of a part of a cabinet door in the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of another cabinet door according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of a portion of another cabinet door in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of a circuit of a sales counter according to an embodiment of the present application.

Reference numerals are as follows:

reference numerals	Name(s)	Reference numerals	Name(s)	Reference numerals	Name(s)
						100	Storing articlesCabinet	25	Opening(s)	38	Heat exchange mechanism
10	Cabinet door	31	Electric mortise lock	381	Heating fan
						11	Inner layer door body	32	Display screen	39	Master control unit
12	Outer door body	33	Face recognition camera	41	Temperature sensor
						20	Cabinet body	34	Microphone (CN)	42	Heating assembly
21	Front side wall	35	Loudspeaker	421	Heating wire
						23	Upper retaining wall	36	Commodity identification camera	422	Heating plate
24	Lower retaining wall	37	Goods shelf	43	Battery with a battery cell

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application without making any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the embodiments in the present application.

It should be noted that, in the description of the present application, if the terms "first", "second", etc. appear, the terms "first", "second", etc. are only used for convenience in describing different components or names, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying a sequential relationship, relative importance, or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, if "and/or" appears throughout, it is meant to include three juxtapositions, exemplified by "A and/or B," including either solution A, or solution B, or both solution A and solution B.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. The terminology used in the description of the present application herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2 in combination, the present application provides a cabinet door assembly for a storage cabinet 100, wherein the storage cabinet 100 is any one of a refrigerator, a freezer, a disinfection cabinet, a wine cabinet and a sales counter. The cabinet 100 comprises a cabinet body comprising a cabinet body 20 and a door assembly movably coupled to the cabinet body 20 to enable opening and closing of the cabinet body 20.

Specifically, the cabinet door assembly includes a cabinet door 10, and the cabinet door 10 is used to open and close the cabinet body 20. The cabinet door 10 may be plate-shaped. Illustratively, the cabinet door 10 may include, but is not limited to, a side hung door, a sliding door, a folding door, and the like. Taking a side hung door as an example, the cabinet door 10 is provided with a hinge portion for hinging with the cabinet body 20 of the storage cabinet 100. Specifically, the hinge portion may be a hinge. The side of the cabinet door 10 to which the hinge is attached can be considered as the door hinge of the cabinet door 10. The cabinet door 10 may close the opening 25 of the cabinet 20. For example, the door 10 can be rotated around a door axis to close or open the opening 25 of the cabinet 20.

In some embodiments, the number of cabinet doors 10 may be one. For example, the cabinet door 10 shown in fig. 2 is a single-door. In some embodiments, the number of cabinet doors 10 may be multiple. For example, the cabinet may include two side-hung doors. The cabinet door 10 may be coupled with the cabinet body 20.

The container body comprises a front side wall 21, which front side wall 21 refers to the plate body at the front side, which plate body is directly facing the consumer. Wherein the cabinet door 10 constitutes at least part of the front side wall 21 of the container body. In some embodiments the front side of the container body is also provided with an upper retaining wall 23, which upper retaining wall 23 is arranged close to the top of the container body, optionally with the top surface of the upper retaining wall 23 flush with the top surface of the container body. Further, the front side of the container body is also provided with a lower retaining wall 24, which lower retaining wall 24 is arranged close to the bottom of the container body, optionally the bottom surface of the lower retaining wall 24 is level with the bottom surface of the container body. The cabinet door 10 is arranged between the upper retaining wall 23 and the lower retaining wall 24, and the upper retaining wall 23, the cabinet door 10 and the lower retaining wall 24 are spliced in sequence to jointly form the front side wall 21 of the container body.

In some embodiments, the height of the cabinet door 10 can be larger so as to cover the front side of the cabinet 20 completely, so the front side wall 21 of the container body refers to the cabinet door 10.

Further, the cabinet 100 also includes locks that connect the cabinet 20 and the door 10, respectively, to enable the door 10 to be unlocked and locked with respect to the cabinet 20. In some embodiments, the lock is an electrical plug lock 31, the electrical plug lock 31 connecting the cabinet 20 and the door 10, respectively, to enable unlocking and locking of the door 10 relative to the cabinet 20. Specifically, the electric mortise lock 31 includes a lock body and a lock hole, one of the lock body and the lock hole is disposed in the cabinet body 20, the other is disposed in the cabinet door 10, and a bolt in the lock body can be extended and retracted to be inserted into the lock hole for locking, or to be pulled out from the lock hole for unlocking. When the electric plug lock 31 is unlocked, the cabinet door 10 can be opened relative to the cabinet body 20; when the electric plug lock 31 is locked, the cabinet door 10 is locked relative to the cabinet 20 and cannot be opened.

Of course, in other embodiments, the lock can also be a magnetic lock, and the on-off of the magnetic force is realized by switching on and off electricity.

When the storage cabinet 100 is used as a sales counter, in order to realize the active interaction function, the sales counter further includes a display screen 32, a face recognition camera 33, a microphone 34, and a speaker 35, and the display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34, and the speaker 35 are all disposed on the front side wall 21.

The display screen 32 is exposed at the outer side surface of the front side wall 21, and the display screen 32 is used for displaying the relevant information of the goods in the container body, wherein the relevant information of the goods comprises but is not limited to pictures, names, prices, quantities, production dates and the like of the goods. The display screen 32 may also have a function of a touch screen, and a consumer may directly click a picture of a commodity to select the picture after browsing, which is convenient and fast.

The lens of the face recognition camera 33 is exposed on the outer side surface of the front side wall 21 so as to be capable of directly recognizing face information.

The exposure in the embodiments of the present application includes, but is not limited to, the following situations: the display screen 32 is located on the outer side of the front sidewall 21, i.e. protrudes from the outer side; or, the display screen 32 is embedded into the front side wall 21, and a through hole is formed on the outer side surface of the front side wall 21 corresponding to the display interface of the display screen 32 for exposing the display screen. Similarly, the lens of the face recognition camera 33 exposed on the outer side surface of the front side wall 21 may also be similar to the display screen 32 exposed on the outside.

The speaker 35 can send out voice prompt, the microphone 34 can collect voice reply of the consumer, the consumer can confirm the voice reply when confirming shopping, and the microphone 34 can transmit related information to the main control unit 39 for confirmation when catching the voice reply of the consumer, so that the operation is more convenient.

The display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34, and the speaker 35 in the embodiment of the present application are described below with reference to some specific application scenarios.

The application scene one:

after the consumer browsed the commodity information that shows on the display screen 32, mineral water need be bought, the back is selected to the picture that the consumer directly clicked the mineral water, payment information appears in the display screen 32, the consumer selects the payment mode like brushing face payment, then, face identification camera 33 carries out the information comparison after acquireing consumer's face information, the information comparison is automatic accomplishes the payment after successful, the cabinet door unblock, the consumer opens the cabinet door and takes away the mineral water away, when the cabinet body 20 inside is equipped with automatic shipment mechanism and has seted up the shipment mouth, the shipment mouth that the mineral water fell on the cabinet body 20 supplies the consumer to take away.

Application scenario two:

after the consumer browses the commodity information displayed on the display screen 32, the consumer needs to purchase mineral water, the consumer directly speaks the commodity to be purchased, such as 'a bottle of mineral water', to the microphone 34, the system automatically identifies the voice information of the consumer, and triggers the loudspeaker 35 to broadcast 'a bottle of mineral water is selected for you and payment is requested' according to the voice information. Then, the consumer selects corresponding payment mode on display screen 32, for example, swipes the face and pays, and face identification camera 33 carries out the information comparison after obtaining consumer's face information, and the information is compared and is accomplished the payment after succeeding in, and the unblock of cabinet door, consumer open the cabinet door and take the mineral water away, when the inside automatic shipment mechanism that is equipped with of cabinet body 20 just seted up the shipment mouth, the mineral water falls the shipment mouth on the cabinet body 20. Finally, the system again triggers the speaker 35 to broadcast "payment is complete, please take your goods" for the customer to take.

Application scenario three:

the consumer stands in front of a sales counter, the face recognition camera 33 performs customer recognition through face recognition, and advertising functions such as targeted new product promotion and introduction or specific information pushing are performed on the display screen 32 for specific customer groups. For example, when a young person is recognized, an advertising promotion of a new milk tea product is displayed on the display screen 32. And when the old customer is identified, carrying out corresponding information push according to the purchasing habit of the old customer.

According to the technical scheme, the face recognition is adopted, the client recognition can be carried out through the face recognition, and the targeted advertising functions such as new product promotion and introduction are carried out on the display screen 32 or the pushing of specific information is carried out aiming at specific client crowds. Or, adopt face identification camera 33 to brush face payment, increase the payment channel, provide the convenience for consumer's payment. Meanwhile, the microphone 34 can be used for receiving voice information of the consumer and automatically identifying purchase information, and the loudspeaker 35 can be used for reminding the consumer again, such as purchase confirmation, purchase completion and commodity removal. Therefore, the display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34 and the loudspeaker 35 are adopted, so that the sales counter has an active interaction intelligent function, and great convenience is brought to consumers. In addition, the display screen 32 can also be used for convenience services such as city public information publicity.

In some embodiments, the face recognition camera 33 is installed inside the front sidewall 21, and a first abdicating hole is formed on the outer side surface of the front sidewall 21 corresponding to the face recognition camera 33; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the microphone 34 is arranged inside the front side wall 21, and a second abdicating hole is formed in the outer side surface of the front side wall 21 corresponding to the microphone 34; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the speaker 35 is installed inside the front side wall 21, and a third abdicating hole is formed on the outer side surface of the front side wall 21 corresponding to the speaker 35.

By installing the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34 and the loudspeaker 35 inside the front side wall 21 of the container body, these parts can be prevented from protruding out of the outer side surface of the container body, so that the overall aesthetic property can be ensured. Furthermore, the parts can be prevented from being damaged by other external objects or artificial collision due to the fact that the parts protrude outwards.

The first, second and third yielding holes may be round, square, rectangular, elliptical, irregular, etc. Illustratively, the first and second abdicating holes are round holes, and the third abdicating hole is a rectangular hole.

The cabinet door 10 may be made of a non-transparent material, so that the commodities in the cabinet body 20 cannot be viewed through the cabinet door 10 from the outside. Of course, the cabinet door 10 can also be made of transparent material, so that the consumer can directly look up the internal commodity through the cabinet door 10. Alternatively, a portion of the cabinet door 10 is transparent and another portion is non-transparent.

In some embodiments, the cabinet door 10 has a transparent region and a light-shielding region, the transparent region is made of a transparent material, and the light-shielding region is a non-transparent region made of a non-transparent material. Wherein the display screen 32 is disposed in the light-shielding region. The area of the display screen 32 may be larger to provide the consumer with more clear merchandise information, for example, a 32 "touch screen is used for the display screen 32.

The display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34 and the speaker 35 may all be disposed on the cabinet door 10, or the display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34 and the speaker 35 may be partially disposed on the cabinet door 10, and the other part is disposed on the cabinet body 20.

In some embodiments, the speaker 35 is disposed in the cabinet 20, and the display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, and the microphone 34 are disposed in the cabinet door 10. Because the sound coverage that speaker 35 broadcast is great, consequently can set up it at cabinet body 20 to avoid concentrating the setting at cabinet door 10 and increase the burden of cabinet door 10. And the display screen 32 is arranged on the cabinet door 10, so that the displayed related information can be better viewed by consumers. The face recognition camera 33 is arranged on the cabinet door 10, so that face information can be more conveniently recognized. The microphone 34 is arranged on the cabinet door 10, so that the voice information of the consumer can be received more conveniently.

In some embodiments, the display screen 32, the face recognition camera 33, the microphone 34, and the speaker 35 are distributed from bottom to top. Because the sound coverage that speaker 35 broadcast is great, consequently can set up speaker 35 at the position that the packing cupboard body leans on, and the position that leans on is close to consumer's ear, also can make the more clear speech information who receives speaker 35 of consumer.

Further, a commodity identification camera 36 is also installed in the container body, and the commodity identification camera 36 is used for identifying commodities in the container body; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

a goods shelf 37 and a gravity sensor (not shown) are arranged in the container body, and the goods shelf 37 is used for supporting goods; the gravity sensor is mounted to the shelf 37.

The application range of the unmanned sales counter provided by the embodiment of the application can be expanded to living goods such as fruits and vegetables. In reality, fruit and vegetable's weight and specification can't be accomplished to be even completely, need pay according to the commodity weight that the consumer chooseed for use when selling.

In use, items are placed in the shelves 37 and a gravity sensor, such as a gravimetric scale, reads the initial item weight information. After a consumer selects a certain number of commodities, the number of the commodities in the shelf 37 is reduced, and the gravity sensor can acquire weight information of the sold commodities. The consumer can be provided with cost information based on the difference in weight of the goods on the shelves 37 and the price information of the goods.

In another embodiment, in which the packaged goods are sold in an unmanned sales counter, the specifications of different goods are fixed, and the goods identification camera 36 can be installed in the cabinet 20.

In use, the article recognition camera 36 photographs the article taken out of the opening 25, and can recognize the information on the type and number of the article. After the goods are taken out, the goods identification camera 36 calculates the cost of the goods according to the quantity and price of the taken out goods, and the consumers can take out the goods after paying. Further, in another consumption scenario, the system can directly perform automatic fee deduction of the consumer binding account after the commodity is identified by the commodity identification camera 36, and in this scenario, the face identification camera 33 is only used for identification and interaction but not used for face payment, so that the payment mode is more intelligent and convenient.

Wherein, can set up one or more commodity identification camera 36 in the cabinet body 20, when setting up a plurality of commodity identification cameras 36, can carry out image acquisition to the commodity in wider range, carry out the multi-angle and shoot, provide more accurate data. Illustratively, two article recognition cameras 36 are arranged in the cabinet 20, wherein one article recognition camera 36 is arranged at the top of the cabinet 20, the other article recognition camera 36 is arranged at the bottom of the cabinet 20, and both article recognition cameras 36 are arranged at the front side of the cabinet 20.

Further, the product identification camera 36 may be mounted on the front side of the cabinet 20 and extend toward the opening 25 of the cabinet 20 to partially block the opening 25 of the cabinet 20, so as to capture an image of the product in the cabinet 20 from the opening 25.

The gravity sensor is mounted on the bottom wall of the shelf 37 and can be used for weighing by deforming the shelf 37.

The shelf 37 is used for placing goods, and may be in the form of a basket or a shelf, etc. to support the goods. In some embodiments, the shelf 37 includes a support bottom wall and a retaining sidewall connected thereto that surrounds the support bottom wall to define a storage chamber configuration with an upward opening 25 into which the articles are placed. Further, support the diapire and can also set up a plurality of partitions lateral wall, a plurality of partitions lateral wall vertically and horizontally staggered sets up to separate the storing chamber for a plurality of little spaces, put one or more commodity in every little space, consequently can better classify to commodity and put.

Illustratively, the shelf 37 is formed by bending a metal strip, such as a stainless steel strip, to form an openwork structure.

Further, the container body is provided with a heat exchange mechanism 38, and the heat exchange mechanism 38 can be switched between a cooling state and a heating state to provide cooling capacity or heat capacity for the interior of the container body 20. For example, in summer, the heat exchange mechanism 38 is in a cooling state to provide cooling energy to the space inside the cabinet 20, so that the temperature of the goods, such as beverages, is low, and cold beverages are provided for consumers. In winter, the heat exchange mechanism 38 is in a heating state, and can provide heat for the space in the cabinet 20, so that the temperature of the beverage is higher, and hot drinks are provided for consumers.

Heat exchange mechanism 38 may include components such as compressors, condensers, evaporators, capillary tubes, fans including, but not limited to, centrifugal fans, cross-flow fans, axial fans, diagonal fans, and the like. When refrigerating, the high-temperature and high-pressure gas flowing out of the compressor flows through the condenser and the evaporator in sequence and then returns to the compressor, and the cold energy generated by the evaporator is provided for the space in the cabinet body 20. When heating, the flow direction of the high-temperature and high-pressure gas flowing out of the compressor is opposite.

Of course, in other embodiments, the heat exchanging mechanism 38 may further include an electric heating element, such as a heating wire 421, and when refrigerating, a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, etc. are used to generate cold. While heating, heat is generated by the electric heating element. In this embodiment, the heat exchanging mechanism 38 can simultaneously achieve heating and cooling functions, specifically, separate the space in the cabinet body, and heat or cool different separated regions.

In some embodiments, the heat exchanging mechanism 38 comprises a heat exchanging air duct and a heating fan 381 arranged on the heat exchanging air duct, the heat exchanging air duct has an air outlet penetrating through the inner side surface of the top wall of the container body, and in a heating state, the heating fan 381 is configured to send out hot air from the air outlet. Through setting up hot-blast air outlet at cabinet body 20 roof, hot-blast direct from last down blowing for from last orientation direct contact down each commodity, bring more even heating effect.

Please refer to fig. 6 in combination, further, the sales counter further includes: the main control unit 39, the main control unit 39 sets up at the cabinet body 20 of packing cupboard body to be used for carrying out communication connection with the cloud server, and the main control unit 39 still respectively with display screen 32, face identification camera 33, microphone 34 and speaker 35 electric connection, with the information of receiving this type of part collection, perhaps send control command to these parts, control these part work.

In addition, the main control unit 39 is electrically connected to the heat exchanging mechanism 38, the commodity identification camera 36, the gravity sensor, and the like, and is used for controlling the heat exchanging mechanism 38, the commodity identification camera 36, and the gravity sensor to operate.

The main control unit 39 may be connected to the data acquisition unit and the transmission unit. The manner of connection may be wired or wireless, as examples. The main control unit 39 can receive the information of the commodities collected by the data collection unit, generate a movement instruction according to the information of the commodities, and control the movement of the transmission unit through the movement instruction so as to move and send the corresponding commodities to the goods taking port.

In addition, the data acquisition unit may also acquire voice information of the microphone 34, face information of the face recognition camera 33, weight information of the gravity sensor, and the like.

Further, a temperature sensor 41 is further disposed in the cabinet 20, and the temperature sensor 41 is electrically connected to the main control unit 39. The temperature sensor 41 can detect the temperature inside the cabinet 20, and the main control unit 39 can control the operation of the heat exchanging mechanism 38 according to the temperature of the cabinet 20 detected by the temperature sensor 41, such as lowering the temperature or raising the temperature or turning on the heat exchanging mechanism 38, etc.

The inventor finds in practice that, in the prior art, for the storage cabinet 100 capable of refrigerating, the frosting phenomenon easily occurs on the cabinet door 10, so as to affect the internal refrigerating effect of the storage cabinet 100 and increase the power consumption of the storage cabinet 100.

The reason is that, when the storage cabinet 100 is used for refrigerating, the internal temperature is low, the ambient temperature is usually high, and particularly in summer, the temperature difference between the inside and the outside of such refrigerating equipment is large, so that the frosting phenomenon of the cabinet door 10 of the equipment is easily caused.

To above-mentioned problem, this application embodiment provides a cabinet door subassembly, and the accessible improves the inboard temperature of cabinet door 10 to reach and reduce the inside and outside difference in temperature, avoid the purpose of the emergence of frosting phenomenon.

Referring to fig. 3 to fig. 5, the cabinet door assembly in the embodiment of the present disclosure further includes a heating assembly 42, the heating assembly 42 is installed on the cabinet door 10, and the heating assembly 42 can generate heat to heat the inner side of the cabinet door 10. Thereby realize the function of avoiding frosting through reducing the inside and outside surface difference in temperature of cabinet door 10.

When heating element 42 circular telegram produced the heat, perhaps heating element 42 spontaneous heat production during the heat, heating element 42 can be directly give cabinet door 10 with heat transfer for cabinet door 10 temperature risees, and the medial surface temperature of cabinet door 10 risees thereupon, and consequently the difference in temperature of the inside and outside of cabinet door 10 reduces, thereby can reduce the possibility that cabinet door 10 medial surface frosted.

The heating assembly 42 may be disposed at various positions of the cabinet door 10, or the heating assembly 42 may be disposed at only a local position of the cabinet door 10. In some embodiments, the cabinet 20 is provided with a cool air outlet on the inner side, and the cool air generated by the heat exchanging mechanism 38 is blown out from the cool air outlet when in a cooling state. The heating assembly 42 is disposed at a position close to the cool air outlet. Alternatively, the heating elements 42 may be densely arranged near the cool air outlet and the heating elements 42 may be sparsely arranged far from the cool air outlet.

The form of the heating assembly 42 includes, but is not limited to, a heating wire 421, a heating sheet 422, a heating rod, and the like.

Referring to fig. 3 and 4 in combination, in some embodiments, the heating element 42 includes a heating wire 421, and the heating wire 421 is electrically conducted to generate heat. In order to make the heat generated by the heating wire 421 be distributed on the cabinet door 10 relatively uniformly, the heating wire 421 can be bent back and forth. The back and forth bending here refers to a meandering arrangement. As shown in fig. 3, in particular, the heating wire 421 includes a plurality of U-shaped portions sequentially distributed from top to bottom, the openings 25 of the U-shaped portions are left or right, and the openings 25 of two adjacent U-shaped portions are opposite, that is, the opening 25 of one U-shaped portion is left and the opening 25 of the other U-shaped portion is right in any two adjacent U-shaped portions. Meanwhile, the adjacent positions of two adjacent U-shaped parts share one straight rod.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 4, the heating wire 421 may include a plurality of heating plates connected to each other, the heating plates may be disposed in a spiral shape, and the plurality of heating plates may be distributed in a rectangular array.

Or, the heating wire 421 includes a plurality of heating rods, the heating rods extend along the left-right direction, and the plurality of heating rods are sequentially distributed at intervals from top to bottom.

Referring to fig. 5, in other embodiments, the heating assembly 42 includes a heating plate 422. The heater chip 422 may be a self-heating heater chip 422, or the heater chip 422 may be a heater chip 422 that heats when energized. The heating assembly 42 may include a plurality of heating plates 422, and the plurality of heating plates 422 are sequentially spaced from top to bottom. Of course, the plurality of heating sheets 422 may be distributed in a rectangular array, or the heating sheets 422 may be distributed in a disordered manner.

The shape of the heat patch 422 includes, but is not limited to, square, circular, oval, triangular, irregular, and the like. The size of the heating sheet 422 may be set as needed, and is not limited herein.

The cabinet door 10 is provided with a hinge portion for hinging with the body 20 of the storage cabinet 100. The heating element 42 has a wire (not shown) electrically connected to a power source, the wire being attached to the hinge. The power source provides electrical energy to the heating element 42 via the wires, and the heating element 42 converts the electrical energy to thermal energy. By attaching the wires to the hinge portion and then connecting the heating element 42, the wires can be hidden, so that the wires can be prevented from colliding with other external structures and other external components such as commodities and being pulled, and the overall appearance can be improved, compared with the manner of directly leading the wires into the cabinet door 10 from the front side of the cabinet body 20.

In order to fix the conducting wire better, the hinging part can be provided with a clamping hook on which the conducting wire is hooked. Alternatively, the hinge may be provided with a guide slot or be hollow, with a wire passing through the guide slot or being built-in the hinge.

The cabinet door 10 comprises an inner door body 11 and an outer door body 12 which are stacked, and a heating assembly 42 is arranged between the inner door body 11 and the outer door body 12. In this way, the heating assembly 42 is hidden inside the cabinet door 10, preventing it from being exposed to the outside. On the one hand, when heating element 42 heats the medial surface of cabinet door 10, because the interior door body 11 blocks, can avoid the too much radiation of heat that heating element 42 produced to the internal portion of cabinet 20, lead to the internal portion of cabinet 20 high temperature. On the other hand, heating element 42 can directly heat the inner door 11 for the medial surface of the inner door 11 deviates from the temperature of one side of the outer door 12 higher promptly, thereby reduces the difference in temperature of the inside and outside of the whole cabinet door 10, avoids frosting.

The inner layer door body 11 can be made of heat insulation material to improve the heat insulation effect to the inside of the cabinet body 20. The outer door body 12 is made of a high-strength and high-hardness material, so that a better protection effect is achieved, and the possibility of collision damage is reduced.

The display screen 32 can be embedded into the outer door body 12, and the outer door body 12 is provided with a let position opening corresponding to the display screen 32, so that the display screen 32 is exposed outside through the let position opening. Optionally, the display screen 32 is flush with the outer side of the outer door body 12, improving aesthetics and reducing impact.

Further, the inner door body 11 and the outer door body 12 may be disposed with an interval therebetween, which constitutes an installation space. The face recognition camera 33 and the microphone 34 are arranged in the installation space between the inner-layer door body 11 and the outer-layer door body 12, the outer-layer door body 12 can be provided with a plurality of second abdicating holes, and the second abdicating holes are distributed at intervals from left to right.

In other embodiments, the cabinet door 10 may be formed by stacking more door bodies. Alternatively, the cabinet door 10 is a unitary cabinet door 10.

The cabinet 100 may be powered by an external power source, or the cabinet 100 may be powered by an internal battery 43. Further, a battery 43 may be disposed inside the cabinet 20, and the battery 43 may be a rechargeable battery 43 or a non-rechargeable battery 43, and the battery 43 supplies power to the electrical components inside the cabinet 20. Of course, the cabinet 20 may further include a power cord electrically connected to an external power supply system.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a storage cabinet 100, the storage cabinet 100 includes a container body, the container body includes the above-mentioned cabinet body 20 and cabinet door assembly, and the cabinet body 20 and the cabinet door assembly are movably connected. In addition, the cabinet 100 further comprises a heat exchange mechanism 38, and the heat exchange mechanism 38 has a cooling state to provide cooling energy for the cabinet 20.

For the specific structures of the cabinet 20, the cabinet door assembly, and the heat exchanging mechanism 38, please refer to the above embodiments, which is not described herein again.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, and are not limited thereto; although the embodiments of the present application have been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the respective technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. A sales counter, comprising: the intelligent container comprises a container body, a display screen, a face recognition camera, a microphone and a loudspeaker, wherein the container body comprises a container door which forms at least part of the front side wall of the container body;

2. The sales counter of claim 1, wherein the face recognition cameras are mounted inside the front side wall, and first abdicating holes are formed in the outer side surface of the front side wall corresponding to the face recognition cameras; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the loudspeaker is installed in the front side wall, and the outer side face of the front side wall corresponds to the loudspeaker provided with a third abdicating hole.

3. The sales cabinet of claim 1, wherein the cabinet door has a transparent area and a light-blocking area, the display screen being disposed in the light-blocking area.

4. The sales cabinet of claim 1, wherein the cabinet body further comprises a cabinet body, and the cabinet door covers a front opening of the cabinet body;

5. The sales counter of claim 1, wherein the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the speaker are distributed from bottom to top in sequence.

6. A sales cabinet according to claim 1, further comprising an electrical plug lock connecting the cabinet body and the cabinet door, respectively, to enable unlocking and locking of the cabinet door relative to the cabinet body.

7. The sales counter of claim 1, wherein a commodity identification camera is further installed in the counter body, and the commodity identification camera is used for identifying the commodity in the counter body; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

a goods shelf and a gravity sensor are arranged in the container body, and the goods shelf is used for supporting commodities; the gravity sensor is mounted on the shelf.

8. Sales counter according to claim 1, wherein the counter body is provided with a heat exchanging mechanism, which can be switched between a cooling state and a heating state.

9. The sales counter of claim 8, wherein the heat exchange mechanism comprises a heat exchange air duct and a heating fan disposed in the heat exchange air duct, the heat exchange air duct has an air outlet penetrating through an inner side surface of the top wall of the counter body, and the heating fan is configured to send hot air out of the air outlet in the heating state.

10. A sales counter according to any of the claims 1 to 9, wherein the sales counter further comprises: the main control unit is arranged on the cabinet body of the container body and is used for being in communication connection with the cloud server, and the main control unit is further respectively connected with the display screen, the face recognition camera, the microphone and the loudspeaker in an electric connection mode.