EP0742928B1 - Commercial building - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a commercial building with a sales area and a parking area based on a novel concept of sales, according to which the customer does not come into direct contact with goods at the time of sale. The building has a storeroom to which customers have no access, a salesroom open to the customers, a large number of parking spaces, a barrier to prevent people from entering or leaving the parking area, and an automatic system for opening the barrier which can be operated by those wishing to leave only by the return of a command unit which is validated in a machine designed for that purpose. In addition, the following features are also proposed: the salesroom is a presentation room only; at least one parking space and preferably all the parking spaces have inside the sales area a deposition area for purchased goods which is not accessible to customers; the automatic system for opening the barrier provides the customer with a command unit which is unique to a particular deposition area or the associated parking space and can be operated by giving back such a command unit; a hatch with a closure flap is provided between each parking space and its associated goods deposition area; near each parking space associated with a goods deposition area there is an automatic system for operating the closure flap, which can be operated only with the aid of the command unit validated in the automatic validation system and unique to the goods deposition area or associated parking space.

Description

The invention relates to a commercial building with a sales building part and a parking area part of the building, the former with a storage space inaccessible to buyers and a sales room accessible to buyers and the latter with a large number of parking spaces, an entry and exit locking unit for the Parking areas and an opening machine for the locking unit, which can be extended only by returning one in a validation machine for Actuating elements validated actuating element can be triggered.

The commercial buildings of the above-mentioned type are either with a single entry and exit lock unit for all parking spaces in arrangement at the entrance and exit or with such a locking device on each one Parking area of the parking area part of the building. The overall design of the business building and in particular its sales part of the building however, on the concept of giving a buyer the goods to choose from and to offer own service, recorded by checkout staff and through to let the buyer pay, after which the buyer for transportation to his Motor vehicle in the parking area part of the building has to take care of. The objective Offering goods in sales rooms with the possibility of self-service by the buyer requires relatively large sales areas, as these Rooms are storage rooms at the same time; for storage purposes only additional rooms only serve to accommodate those that are not currently needed Quantities of goods. Although the concept of self-service versus the Concept of serving the buyer by sales personnel is already essential less staff is feasible is still a relatively very large large number of staff necessary, especially for the continuous replenishment of the Goods shelves in the sales rooms. Incidentally, inventory controls have shown that continuously with a shrinkage, especially through theft to calculate. The sales concept practiced so far is both from the personnel side and disproportionately expensive in terms of shrinkage.

The invention is therefore based on the object of realizing a new one Sales concept to create a commercial building with a significant lower staff levels are feasible and a loss of goods due to theft possibly impossible with the participation of the sales staff makes.

This object is achieved by the features of claim 1.

The business building designed in this way sees a separation of the Goods in terms of their storage and presentation, so that goods are lost are made impossible by theft. Furthermore, there is no need to fill up shelves, as is necessary with conventional sales rooms is. The buyer is therefore only kept in the sales or presentation room to look at the goods offered, to select from them and accordingly to order. The goods will then be based on the seller's order on the basis of a service to be performed by the seller on the stated parking space transported where the purchased goods are handed over to the buyer. For this handover or the accessibility of the stored goods for the buyer the buyer must use the automatic actuator for the closure flap of the storage area operate, by means of the control element that he after the Entry into a parking area from the automatic opening device of the associated locking unit or otherwise handed over. So that the control element Flap actuators can operate the control have previously been "devalued". This cancellation takes place after the registration the goods purchased at the checkout and payment of the purchase price. Of the So buyer comes with the one based on the new sales principle Commercial buildings only come into physical contact with the goods when he she paid. On the other hand, by forming a flap the shelves only the buyer of the goods access to the goods sold find, because other buyers even closed the flap with a "canceled" Cannot operate the actuator because this actuator is not is individually marked with regard to the storage space.

The present provides for the provision of the purchased goods on the shelf Invention does not provide a special measure, i.e. this deployment can based on the seller's existing ideas.

In principle, the actuating element can be of any type; so it can This is, for example, a simple bill or a simple one Act card as it is known from parking lots with locking units. The Actuating element can also be an element like a check card or be an element with an electronic chip.

There is a particularly preferred embodiment of the actuating element in that the latter is a battery powered bar code reader, particularly with radio output of both read bar codes and individual ones Identification of the actuator is. It can then be provided that the barcode reader's identifier with respect to the associated merchandise shelf is set by default. The barcode reading function serves this Purpose of simplified ordering of the goods selected by the buyer in the presentation room, where the goods together with the respective barcode Tobe offered. Those selected for purchase using the barcode reader Goods can practically be used as an order list by the buyer in the form of associated radio signals be forwarded to an order acceptance. This forwarding causes then the removal of the selected goods by the seller in the of this desired way from storage shelves and transportation of goods the specially marked storage area, together with the creation the associated invoice at the checkout. By paying the purchase price or in connection with this in time, the barcode reader can be used as an actuating element "devalued" so that the buyer is then able to with the "devalued" barcode reader the closure flap of his storage area to open, accept the goods and finally the blocking unit of the Open parking space for driving out.

The goods storage areas are expediently the end points of a goods transport system, by means of, for example, radio signals from the bar code reader goods ordered and made available for transport from the storage room can be brought about. The provision and transport of the ordered goods can on the part of the seller in a manner of his own choice. Especially can an electronically controlled supply and transport system between the storage room and the individual parking spaces of the parking areas will.

In terms of construction technology comes for the commercial building according to the invention practically every design is possible; for example the design of an im Floor plan of the quadrangular building for the sales part of the building as well as for the Parking area part of the building. It is only essential that the parking area part of the building is assigned to the sales part of the building so that individual and in particular all Parking spaces on the side of the sales building with goods storage areas can be equipped. For example, it is possible that the parking area part of the building a parking lot tower or usual parking garage is, if at the same time in the area of the sales building part special areas in the sense of the aforementioned Parking spaces are provided that are only used by the buyer, if he selected, ordered and selected those while parking in the parking garage wants to take over paid goods at a storage area. For this purpose it leaves The buyer then his actual parking lot, he drives such a special one Parking area, which is actually a short-term parking / goods transfer area represents.

In terms of construction, however, a commercial building is to be preferred, one preferably circular, but possibly also round in another way, for example has an oval floor plan. In this case there is a possibility that Presentation room in a relatively large height of the sales building part to represent the circular building, and the entire one below Space as the actual warehouse including the inclusion of the if necessary electronically controlled goods delivery and / or transport systems to use. At the same time there is the possibility of the parking area part of the building as the outside of the sales building part helically around it form guided part of the building, the parking area part of the building essentially from one adjacent to the outer wall of the sales building part Parking lane and a parking lane surrounding this outside exists. Then it can practically the entire outer circumference of the sales rotunda can be used, the accessibility to the parking area part of the building for goods storage areas and to create the associated parking spaces.

There is the option for non-motorized buyers, for example on the ground floor to provide appropriately smaller "parking spaces" where the buyer the actuating element, in particular in the form of a bar code reader, in Can receive and where later after actuating the flap machine access to the purchased goods is enabled.

Fig. 1

einen horizontalen Schnitt durch eine bevorzugte Ausführungsform des erfindungsgemäßen Geschäftsgebäudes;

Fig. 2

eine Seitenansicht des Geschäftsgebäudes der Fig. 1;

Fig. 3

eine schematische, perspektivische Ansicht einer Parkfläche;

Fig. 4

eine schematische, perspektivische Ansicht einer bevorzugten Ausführungsform eines Betätigungselements und

Fig. 5

eine Ansicht von oben in den Präsentationszwecken dienenden Verkaufsraum des Verkaufs-Gebäudeteils der bevorzugten Ausführungsform gemäß Fig. 1 und 2.

In the following, the invention is described in further detail and solely by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings; in these show:

Fig. 1

a horizontal section through a preferred embodiment of the commercial building according to the invention;

Fig. 2

a side view of the business building of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3

a schematic, perspective view of a parking area;

Fig. 4

is a schematic, perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an actuating element and

Fig. 5

a view from above in the presentation-serving sales room of the sales building part of the preferred embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2.

The commercial building 1 is the particular embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 designed as a rotunda. This rotunda does not have to be circular, as shown be; rather, oval or polygonal training can also be used Consideration. This rotunda consists of the actual sales building part 2 and the parking area building part 3. The parking area building part 3 is on the outside the outer wall 4 of the sales building part 2 trained parking lane 5 and lane 6, the parking lane 5 of the wall 4 of the sales building part 1 is immediately adjacent and the lane 6 the parking lane 5 on the outside surrounds. Both tracks 5 and 6 begin at ground level as shown in FIG. 2 and are helical around the outside of the sales building part 2 arranged around.

With a correspondingly broad design of the lane 6, this can both Startup and shutdown are used; with only one track Training the lane 6 must provide a special lane for the shutdown will. This can then be much steeper than parking lane 5 or Lane 6.

Parking lane 5 and lane 6 should be as flat as possible, namely in such a way that the height required for inspection and navigability, for example about 3m is adhered to, with an equal gradient per circulation the building.

For the structural division of the interior of the round building designed as a round building and in particular the sales part 2 of the same referred to the dashed line 7 of FIG. 2, above which, for example Presentation room 8 is arranged. The presentation room 8 can basically located at any height of the building; the highest possible arrangement is useful, however, because it is below the presentation room 8 available space 9, which forms the storage space for the goods, offers a height for the storage of high-level storage racks, the rest in the height of the ground floor should be set up to supply their supplies To lighten vehicles.

FIG. 2 shows by means of the two dashed lines 10, as is also the case from FIG. 1 it can be seen that the outside of the storage room 9 or possibly also the Presentation room 8 but still inside the sales building 2 a circumferential subdivision is provided, the annular space 11 thereby achieved there is space for the formation of storage areas and for a transport system, which will be discussed later.

Fig. 3 shows schematically the basic design of a parking area 12, such as these are arranged around the sales building part 2. At the front the parking area 12 borders on the outside of the wall 4 of the sales part of the building 2 on. The parking area 12 is an entry and exit lock unit 13 in assigned the shape of a motor-driven swivel barrier, where an automatic opening device 14 is assigned to this locking unit 13.

At the front of the parking area 12 is a hatch 15 in the wall 4 with illustrated case provided open flap 16, which may be preferred can be pivoted downward as a horizontal footprint. over this hatch 15 is an access to one behind it Goods storage space created, which is located in the annular space 11 (see FIG. 2).

Furthermore, a suspension device 17 is included on the front side of the parking area 12 a not recognizable charging device for a bar code reader 18 intended. This barcode reader 18 has one for the respective parking area 12 individual marks and serves as an actuating element for, among other things Triggering the automatic opening machine 14.

After driving a vehicle into the parking area 12, the driver must Remove barcode reader 18 from suspension 17 to work with the barcode reader 18 to operate the automatic opening device 14 in the sense that the locking unit 13 blocked the access to the parking area 12. Similarly, the driver must before Extend the automatic parking machine again from the parking area 12 with the barcode reader 18 Press 14, this time to open the locking unit 13, which after the entrance has been closed.

In order to extend the automatic parking machine 14 by means of the Barcode reader 18 or some other actuator open the barcode reader 18 must be "canceled"; i.e. purchased goods must be paid at the cash register, after which the cash register will pass the barcode reader "canceled". Has the user of a parking area 12 made no purchase, so that his barcode reader 18 has not been "canceled", he can use the automatic opening machine 14 using the barcode reader 18 with simultaneous deposit operate a parking fee.

With regard to the retraction can also be provided that by the Removal of the bar code reader 18 as an actuating element from the associated Suspension 17 of the automatic opening device 14 for the locking unit 13 is triggered automatically becomes.

To open the flap 16 is an opening machine 19, which by means of "devalued" barcode reader 18 can be triggered. Instead of an independent one Automatic opening machines 19 can be provided that by hanging again the bar code reader 18 in its suspension 17, the flap 16th is opened; this reattachment of the bar code reader 18 in its suspension 17 can also be used to automatically trigger the automatic opening machine 14 can be used for the locking unit 13.

Fig. 3 shows the addressed bar code reader 18 as an actuator both for the automatic opening device 14 of the locking unit 13 and for the automatic actuating device 19 of the flap 16. With this bar code reader 18 is a common barcode reader to capture a Barcodes that are attached somewhere, in the present case namely on presentation surfaces in the sales room 8. In addition to this barcode detection function the barcode reader 18 takes over, as stated several times, also the functions of an actuating element for the machines 14 and 19. Der Bar code reader 18 is a battery powered bar code reader with radio output the bar codes recorded, namely with regard to goods to be bought and their provision in storage room 9 and for transport from there to the respective associated goods parking space a parking area 12. Regarding the order For selected goods, bar code reader 18 can perform a variety of other functions with a correspondingly more complex internal structure.

5 shows a view from above into the sales or presentation room 8 no detailed design of the same, since this is arbitrary, but only one Expediently to be centrally arranged cash register 20 with assigned automatic cancellation machines 21 for the actuating element or to be used as such Barcode reader 18 and an elevator 22 through which the buyers of the Reach parking areas 12 of the various parking area floors from the sales area 8 can. In Fig. 5 is provided on the outside of the sales room 8 Annulus 11 has been dispensed with. Likewise, the presentation is different other details of the associated building have been dispensed with.

Claims (7)

1. A commercial building with a sales area and a parking space area, the former having a storage room that is inaccessible for buyers and a sales room that is accessible for buyers, and the latter having a plurality of parking spaces (12), an entrance and exit turnstile unit (13) for the parking spaces and an automatic opening device (14) for the turnstile unit which can only be activated for driving out of the building by returning an activation element that has been cancelled in an automatic cancelling device for activation elements, characterized in that the sales area (8) is exclusively a presentation room, that at least one parking space (12), and preferably all of the parking spaces, on the inner side of the building's sales area (2) have at least one temporary storing space for the purchased merchandise that is inaccessible to the buyers allocated to it (them), that the automatic opening device (14) for the turnstile unit (13) is such that when a car is driven into the building, the device dispenses an activation element (18) that is individually identified with regard to a certain temporary storing area and/or the parking space it is allocated to or can be activated by receiving such an activation element (18), that between each parking space (12) allocated to a temporary storing area, on the one hand, and the respectively allocated temporary merchandise storing area, on the other, there is a service hatch (15) with a flap closure (16), that an automatic flap closure activation device (19) is provided in the area of every parking space (12) allocated a temporary merchandise storing area, said device only being activatable for opening the allocated flap closure (16) by means of the activation element (18) that has been cancelled in the automatic cancelling device that is identified with respect to this temporary merchandise storing area and/or the parking space (12) allocated to it.
2. A commercial building according to claim 1, characterized in that the activation element (18) is a battery-operated bar code reader with radio-wave output of both read bar codes and the individual code of the activation element, and thus of the allocated temporary merchandise storing area and/or the parking space (12) allocated to it.
3. A commercial building according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the temporary merchandise storing areas are the end points of a merchandise transportation system, by means of which merchandise that is ordered through the radio signals of the bar code reader (18) and held on standby for transportation can be brought to the temporary storing areas from the storage room (9).
4. A commercial building according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the automatic cancelling device (21) for the activation element (18) can be activated by the cash register (20) after the merchandise has been paid for.
5. A commercial building according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a specifically electronically controlled standby- and/or transportation system is provided between the merchandise storage room (9) and the temporary merchandise storing areas.
6. A commercial building accoding to claims 2 and 5, characterized in that the standby and/or the transportation system can be controlled by radio signals of the bar code reader (18).
7. A commercial building according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the building's sales area (2) is a round construction, that the building's parking space area (3) is designed as a building section that runs spirally around the outside of the building's sales area, said building section consisting essentially of a parking lane (5) adjacent to the outer wall of the building's sales area (2) and of a driving lane (6) which surrounds the parking lane on the outside.

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