JP6243076B1 - Delivery box for goods - Google Patents

Abstract

An article delivery box capable of smoothly delivering an article between a user and an article provider. A front door is provided between a preparation area A2 for preparing an article to be delivered and a reception area A1 for receiving the prepared article, and includes a front door 4 facing the reception area and a rear door 5 facing the preparation area. At least a part of the panel is composed of a functional panel with a transparent touch panel on the front side of the liquid crystal panel or organic EL panel. When the sensor detects that the liquid crystal panel or the organic EL panel constituting the functional panel is switched from the translucent state to the non-translucent state. [Selection] Figure 5

Description

  The present invention relates to an interactive article delivery box that delivers food or the like according to an order.

  In Patent Document 1, the door of a storage box such as a locker is configured with a liquid crystal panel, and the liquid crystal panel is made transparent so that the state inside the storage box can be seen from the outside, and the liquid crystal panel is made opaque. The state inside the storage box is made invisible from the outside.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a storage box that turns on a lamp to notify that a predetermined time has elapsed.

  Patent Document 3 describes a touch panel device having a configuration in which a transparent electrode layer is provided on a liquid crystal panel as means for ordering products at a rotating sushi or a fast food store.

  In Patent Document 4, as a touch panel application other than product ordering means, a transparent touch panel is provided in a part of the plant cultivation box so that the inside can be visually recognized, and the temperature and humidity in the box are displayed on this touch panel. In addition, it is disclosed that temperature management and water replenishment are performed by operating a touch panel.

  Patent Document 5 describes a resident who has received a personal identification number by a foreigner such as a home delivery company putting his / her baggage in a storage box, and the foreigner sends the personal identification number to the smart phone of the resident who receives the luggage via the management center. Discloses a system in which a smart phone is wirelessly connected to a storage box to check a personal identification number and take out a package from the storage box.

  In Patent Document 6, home appliances such as a microwave oven are stored in a storage cabinet that separates a kitchen and a dining room, and a front door that opens and closes on the kitchen side and a rear door that opens and closes on the dining room side are provided on the home appliance. A face-to-face storage cabinet has been proposed that can be accessed from both the dining room and the dining room.

JP-A-8-273051 Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 52-072797 JP 09-212749 A JP 2014-217309 A JP 2017-0664026 A JP 2008-12601 A

  The locker disclosed in Patent Document 1 detects whether or not an object is stored in the locker by a sensor, and only makes the door transparent or opaque according to the detection result. There is no element for exchanging information with each other, and it is impossible to provide the requested items at the time required by the user.

  The locker disclosed in Patent Document 2 makes it possible to know from the outside that the deposit time has expired. However, the locker is not used for delivery of goods between an article supplier such as a store and a user. .

  Patent Document 3 discloses article ordering means as an application of the touch panel device, but does not disclose anything about using the touch panel as a door of a storage box.

  In the plant cultivation system disclosed in Patent Document 4, the inside of the cultivation box can be monitored by using a part of the side wall of the cultivation box as a transparent touch panel, but the cultivation box is not used for delivery of articles. However, the interior is always visible, and the interior is not hidden from the outside as needed.

  The order system disclosed in Patent Document 5 is effective if the goods are simply delivered, such as a courier, but if the goods are, for example, food, the food is prepared on the back side of the delivery box. In the case of delivery in a delivery box, it is preferable that the kitchen is not visible from the outside. However, Patent Document 5 is not devised in this respect.

The face-to-face storage cabinet disclosed in Patent Document 6 incorporates home appliances in a partition that divides two areas, and uses the home appliance as a delivery box. I can see the state of the area.
For ordinary households, there is no problem in seeing the kitchen from the dining room, but at take-out type lunch supply stores, etc., prepare lunch etc. from the reception area side to protect trade secrets etc. You may not want to look into the preparation area. In Patent Document 6, there is no disclosure of means for solving this.

In order to solve the above-described conventional problems, the article delivery box according to the present invention is arranged between a preparation area for preparing an article to be delivered and a receiving area for receiving the prepared article, and faces the receiving area. And a rear door facing the preparation area, and at least a part of the front door is composed of a functional panel provided with a transparent touch panel on the surface side of the liquid crystal panel or the organic EL panel, and a part of the functional panel A keyboard and a display are formed, and the sensor detects that the rear door is opened, and the liquid crystal panel or the organic EL panel constituting the functional panel is switched from a translucent state to an opaque state. It has a configuration.

  When one of the front door and the rear door is in an open state, the other door is locked and set so as not to be in an open state, thereby preventing both the front door and the rear door from being simultaneously opened.

According to the present invention, a wall is provided between an article receiving area and an article preparation area, and a delivery box is disposed on the wall, whereby the article receiving area and the article preparation area can be isolated.
In particular, when the sensor detects that the rear door on the preparation area side has been opened, the panel (door) on the reception area side changes from the translucent state to the non-transparent state. The secrecy of the preparation area can be ensured.

  In addition, a box for storing articles is individually provided, and a keyboard portion for inputting a personal identification number and the like on a front door of each box, a display portion for displaying text for prompting operation, a camera for reading a two-dimensional code of a smartphone, and the like are provided. Therefore, delivery of goods can be performed smoothly.

  In addition, the front door is opaque only while the back door is open, the preparation area is not visible from the outside, and the front door is transparent otherwise, so when the user enters the receiving area, the box You can quickly find your box because you can see the items inside.

The perspective view of the delivery box of the article | item concerning this invention Figure showing an example of the front door of the delivery box Sectional view of the functional panel that composes the front door Overall view of a delivery system using an article delivery box according to the present invention (A)-(c) is a figure explaining each state of a delivery box

  As shown in FIG. 1, a space in a store is divided into an article receiving area A1 and an article preparation area A2 by a wall 1, and a plurality of delivery boxes 2 are supported on the wall 1.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the delivery box 2 includes a main body 3 made of metal such as stainless steel, a front door 4 facing the receiving area A1 side, and a back door 5 facing the preparation area A2 side. The opening / closing states of the front door 4 and the rear door 5 are detected by sensors 4a and 5a.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the front door 4 has a functional panel 8 held by a frame body 7. As shown in FIG. 3, this functional panel 8 has a transparent electrode film (transparent touch panel) 10 formed on the surface side of a glass substrate 9, a protective film 11 formed on the surface side of the transparent electrode film 10, and glass. A liquid crystal panel (or organic EL panel) 12 is provided on the back side of the substrate 9. Here, the type of the transparent touch panel is not particularly limited, and for example, “resistive film method”, “capacitance method”, “surface capacitance method”, “projection capacitance method”, and the like can be applied.

In addition to the door number, the front door 4 is formed with a keyboard portion 13 for inputting a personal identification number and an opening / closing operation, and a display portion 14 for explaining an operation procedure and an operation method. In this embodiment, in addition to the personal identification number, A camera 15 that reads a barcode displayed on a smart phone or the like is provided.

In addition, a reader / writer circuit that communicates with the IC card is formed on a part of the transparent touch panel, and the IC card such as Felica (registered trademark) or Edy (registered trademark) mounted on a communication terminal such as a smartphone. Communication may be enabled and a door opening / closing operation may be performed according to a command from the communication terminal.

Next, a delivery system using a delivery box will be described with reference to FIG. This system includes a delivery box 2 in a store, a computer 16 on the side of preparing (providing) an article, and a communication terminal such as a smart phone 17 held by a user who performs two-way communication with the computer 16. Is done.

The specific case where the article is food is explained. When the user finishes the work, the smart phone 17 is used to order and pay for dinner to the computer 16 of the store. At the same time, its own position information (GPS) is transmitted to the computer 16.

The computer 16 of the store that received the order calculates the time until the owner of the smart phone 17 reaches the store based on the GPS information. Although the arrival time to the store is different by using a train, by car, or on foot, the time for an assumed general route is calculated, and this time is compared with the time required for cooking (preparation time).

When the estimated arrival time to the store is longer than the time required for cooking, the estimated arrival time is set as the “delivery time”, and this “delivery time”, the “box number” for delivering the ordered product, and the box are opened. A “two-dimensional code” held over the camera is transmitted from the computer 16 to the smartphone 17. A password may be transmitted instead of the “two-dimensional code”.

Along with the transmission of the orderer to the smart phone 17, the “delivery time”, “name of the order item”, and “delivery box number” are also transmitted from the computer 16 to the kitchen. If the computer 16 is close to the cooking place, the above information is printed out and given to the cook.

In the above, if the estimated arrival time to the store is longer than the time required for cooking, the estimated arrival time to the store can be set as the “delivery time” to provide the cooked product to the orderer. On the contrary, when the estimated arrival time to the store is shorter than the time required for cooking, the time after cooking is set as the “delivery time”.

In addition, when there is another order after receiving the above order, and the other orderer has a shorter estimated arrival time at the store and before the cooking of the previous order is started, or in parallel with the cooking of the previous order If the later order can be cooked, the later order is given priority over the previous order. As described above, the computer 16 determines and instructs the cooking place, so that efficient delivery can be performed without waste.

The delivery procedure is as follows. First, the order contents, delivery time, and delivery box number are notified from the computer 16 to the kitchen. Then, in the preparation area A2 (cooking place), as shown in FIG. In this state, the front door 4 and the rear door 5 of the delivery box 2 are closed, and the liquid crystal panel 12 constituting the functional panel 8 is in a translucent state, so that the inside of the delivery box 2 from the receiving area A1 side. You can see the status.

Next, when cooking of the ordered item is completed at the cooking place, the back door 5 is opened as shown in FIG. At this time, the open state is detected by the sensor 5a, and the liquid crystal panel 12 is switched from the translucent state to the non-translucent state so that the cooking area (preparation area A2) cannot be seen from the receiving area A1 side.

When the ordered product is placed in the delivery box 2 and the rear door 5 is closed, the liquid crystal panel 12 is again in the translucent state. After that, the orderer arrives at the store, confirms his / her order, and holds the two-dimensional code displayed on the smartphone 17 over the camera, so that the front door 4 is unlocked, and FIG. Orders can be taken out as shown in FIG.

  In the embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to food as an article delivery box has been shown, but the present invention can also be used for goods other than food.

A1 ... goods receiving area, A2 ... article preparation area, 1 ... wall, 2 ... delivery box, 3 ... metal body, 4 ... front door, 5 ... back door, 4a, 5a ... sensor, 7 ... Frame, 8 ... Functional panel, 9 ... Glass substrate, 10 ... Transparent touch panel, 11 ... Protective film, 12 ... Liquid crystal panel, 13 ... Keyboard part, 14 ... Display part, 15 ... Camera, 16 ... Computer, 17 ... Smart Hong.

Claims (1)

An article delivery box disposed between a preparation area for preparing an article to be delivered and a receiving area for receiving the prepared article, wherein the delivery box is a wall that defines the preparation area and the receiving area. The delivery box is provided with a front door facing the receiving area and a rear door facing the preparation area, and at least a part of the front door is provided with a transparent touch panel on the surface side of the liquid crystal panel or organic EL panel A keyboard part and a display part are formed in a part of the functional panel, and when one of the front door and the rear door is in an open state, the other is locked in a closed state. The sensor detects that the door is opened, and the liquid crystal panel or organic EL panel constituting the functional panel is not translucent from the translucent state. It switched state, and when the back door is in the closed state delivery box of articles and maintains the liquid crystal panel or an organic EL panel in translucent state.