KR20020076871A - vending mechine fo the hotle and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: Provided is a vending machine for lodging enterprise which separates plural articles as partitioned space and shows the presence of the articles to users exactly so that it helps managers to supplement the lacking articles easily. CONSTITUTION: In the vending machine for the lodging enterprise which includes a body, a space partition member to partition the body and a door(25) to open or close an article accommodation space(13), the vending machine for the lodging enterprise comprises the parts of: an article sensor(37) which detects articles to generate an article detection signal; a door sensor(35) which detects the opening or closing of the door to generate a door switch signal; a locking drive part(33) which induces the doors to be locked or closed by a control signal; a withdrawal switching part(30) which sends a locking cancellation order to the locking drive part; a withdrawal condition supply part which interprets withdrawal conditions from users and generates a withdrawal permission signal; and a control part which receives an output signal from the withdrawal condition supply part, judges by appropriate logic algorithm and permits locking cancellation order to the withdrawal switching part.

Description

Vending machine for lodging and its control method {vending mechine fo the hotle and control method

The present invention relates to a vending machine for a lodging establishment and a control method thereof, and more particularly, so that the guest can immediately purchase the desired product (item of mutant and non-chilled food for alcoholic beverages or various adult articles) in the lodge's interior. A lodging vending machine and a control method thereof.

Generally, lodging facilities are equipped with refrigerators for providing cold water or beverages to guests. Such a refrigerator is used to store food at a low temperature for a long time. The refrigerator is installed in a luxury lodging facility and is used to provide drinks and alcohol to customers for a fee. In the case of using such a refrigerator at a lodging facility, alcoholic beverages or beverages that can accommodate a variety of guests' tastes are prepared in the refrigerator to freely drink alcoholic beverages or beverages according to the customer's choice.

However, most of these refrigerators are enclosed types without a display function, and the contents of the refrigerator are not opened until the contents of the refrigerator can be known. Therefore, the sales force is reduced, which leads to a visual purchase. It is not suitable for loading beverages provided by the property to the guests.

In addition, the employee who manages the refrigerator at the lodging establishment has a difficulty in getting a fee after entering the guest's room and checking the stock state of the refrigerator when the guest leaves the room. Since the rates are different depending on the drink, it is difficult to calculate the rate, or the money is lost due to the wrong rate. Therefore, some accommodations do not receive on-time charges for the guests' resignation, and they operate a certain percentage of the sales of the refrigerators in the rooms as a loss rate. When you leave after paying in advance in cash, you may have to pay the refrigerator fee and return the rest.

In addition, the conventional general beverage vending machine is structurally impossible to use the vending machine in the room. In addition, a customer who drinks a beverage in the refrigerator does not correctly remember the beverage he or she drinks when leaving, or if it is uncertain, he / she may have to wait until the employee reconfirms, and in some cases, the memory of the guest You can feel embarrassed if the wrong figure is different. In addition, customers who stayed in a store that does not operate a mini-bar even in a store that has a refrigerator because of this closure have a hassle to call an employee to order um, liquor when they want to drink alcohol. Because the privacy of people is important, almost all of them call the employees and order alcohol, so the refrigerator is almost useless.

On the other hand, in some lodging establishments, the terminal management system is installed so that the drink is drunk and the alcohol is checked automatically. However, this costs a lot of installation and maintenance costs, even if you move the goods a little due to the inexperienced use of the customer, the charge is counted at the front and friction between the customer and the employee often occurs, there is a problem that can not have anything other than the standard size of the object .

Due to the problems described above, most lodging establishments give up high profits that can be obtained by selling drinks, liquor, snacks, and daily necessities in rooms. In particular, there is no vending machine for accommodating snacks, daily necessities, snacks and daily necessities of non-chilled beverages in each storage compartment in order to supply desired items according to a predetermined withdrawal condition.

In order to solve the above problems, the applicant loads the unrefrigerated beverages and alcoholic beverages in individual compartments while maximizing the space utilization in the guest rooms of the lodging facilities, and according to the withdrawal conditions of the goods accommodated in the one compartment desired by the guest. The application for registration of utility model (No. 2000-5774) was filed on March 2, 2000, which allowed vending machines to be taken out individually.

However, as mentioned above, the vending machine for lodging businesses typically increases the inconvenience of the user, such as having to close the door by locking the door after the user directly withdraws the goods, and in particular, a safety accident occurs due to the door because the guest does not close the door. Or breakage of the door may occur. In addition, there is an uncomfortable problem in management that the manager does not know whether or not there is an article through the article accommodation space directly.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, each of a number of items (various goods and snacks and alcoholic beverages or alcoholic beverages or various adult products) to be sold in the guest room of the accommodation in a separate individual space, respectively Accommodate the user's (consumer's) and manager's presence and absence in individual spaces so that appropriate actions can be taken, and at the same time, the door is automatically locked after the goods have been withdrawn, improving the user's convenience. To provide a vending machine and a control method thereof, an object thereof is provided.

The object of the present invention is to provide an article accommodating space capable of accommodating a main body having a relatively large space, and a plurality of individual articles (item of variability and snacks and alcoholic beverages or various kinds of adult articles). In a vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partition member for partitioning the space of the main body at regular intervals in the horizontal and vertical direction, and a door that is hinged rotatably to the doorway of the article receiving space, the door opening and closing the door; An article sensor for detecting the article on an exposed surface of the article seating area of the article receiving space to generate an article detection signal, a door sensor for detecting a door opening and closing to generate a door opening and closing signal, and a control signal A locking driving unit for guiding the door to one of locking and releasing state, a withdrawal switching unit provided at an upper portion of the doorway to give a locking release command to the locking driving unit, and a withdrawable signal by reading a withdrawal condition supplied from the guest; A drawing condition providing unit for generating a; and a control unit which receives an output signal of the article sensor, the door sensor, and the drawing condition providing unit, determines a specific logic algorithm, and approves a unlocking command to the plurality of drawing switching units identified according to the determination. It is achieved by a vending machine for accommodation.

Here, it is preferable that a closing induction part for inducing a rotational force in the closing direction after the door is opened and opened at a predetermined angle is provided on at least one side of the upper and lower sides of the rotation shaft of the door. It is preferable that the closing guide portion is formed with a spiral rotating groove along the outer surface of the lower side of the rotating shaft so that the closing rotational force is generated according to the gravity of the door. At the same time, the closing guide portion is preferably provided with an auxiliary spring to induce a closing rotation by generating a bias force toward the gravity on the rotating shaft facing the rotating groove.

In addition, at least one of the article sensor and the door sensor is preferably at least one of a contact type and a non-contact type.

The locking driving unit may include a magnetic generating unit which is kept in a locked state and a released state by a signal of the control unit, and a pin which linearly moves and locks and releases the linear driving unit by the magnetic generating unit.

The above object is, according to another field of the present invention, an article accommodating space capable of accommodating a main body having a relatively large space, and a plurality of individual articles (items of varying degrees, snacks and alcoholic beverages, or various adult articles). In the vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partition member for partitioning the space of the main body at regular intervals in the horizontal and vertical direction to be provided, and a door hinged rotatably hinged to the doorway of the article receiving space; An article sensor for sensing the article on a contact surface of the article receiving area of the article receiving space to generate an article detecting signal, and a locking driver for guiding the door to one of locking and releasing state by a control signal; A withdrawal switching unit provided in an upper portion to give a locking release command to the locking driving unit, a withdrawal condition providing unit for reading out a withdrawal condition supplied from the occupant and generating a withdrawable signal, and an output signal of the article sensor and withdrawal condition providing unit; It is achieved by a vending machine for a lodging facility including a control unit for approving a unlocking command to any one of the plurality of withdrawal switching units identified accordingly.

The above object is, according to another field of the present invention, an article accommodating space capable of accommodating a main body having a relatively large space, and a plurality of individual articles (items of varying degrees, snacks, alcoholic beverages, and various adult articles). In the vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partition member for partitioning the space of the main body at regular intervals in the horizontal and vertical direction to be provided, and a door hinged rotatably hinged to the doorway of the article receiving space; An article sensor which detects the article on the contact surface of the article receiving area of the article receiving space and generates an article detection signal, a door sensor which detects the opening and closing of the door and generates a door opening and closing signal, and locking the door; Locking driving unit for guiding to any one state of the release, and if there is no article by the article sensor and the door sensor is detected by the door sensor for the accommodation comprising a control unit for controlling the locking driver to guide the door to the locked state Achieved by the vending machine.

The above object is, according to another field of the present invention, an article accommodating space capable of accommodating a main body having a relatively large space, and a plurality of individual articles (items of varying degrees, snacks, alcoholic beverages, and various adult articles). Method for controlling a vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partition member for partitioning the space of the main body at regular intervals in the horizontal and vertical directions, and a door that is hinged to the entrance of the article receiving space so as to be rotatable. To; Detecting the article on the contact surface of the article receiving area of the article receiving space, detecting the closing of the door, and detecting a withdrawal condition paid by the occupant in the step to open the receiving space of the desired article; Acknowledging, releasing the door locking by detecting the guest's opening command in the recognized state, displaying a message notifying the item replenishment if not detected in the article detecting step, and detecting the article. If the door is detected without being achieved by the control method of the vending machine for lodging, including the step of locking the door.

1 is a perspective view showing a vending machine for lodging facilities according to the present invention;

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing in detail the article receiving space of the vending machine for lodgings according to the present invention,

3 is a cross-sectional view showing in detail the locking driving unit of FIG.

Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view of the door to show the induction of the step of Figure 2,

5a to 5b is a perspective view showing a door operation state of the vending machine for lodgings according to the present invention,

6 is a block diagram showing a control system of the vending machine for lodging facilities according to the present invention;

7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control system of the vending machine for lodging facilities according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing

10; Main body 13; Goods storage space

15; Space compartment member 20; Withdrawal Terms

25; Door 26; Locking Home

30; Withdrawal switching unit 31; Draw out lamp

33; Locking driving part 35; Door sensor

37; Article sensor 40; Magnetic generator

41; Pin 43; Pivot

45; Revolving Groove 47; Auxiliary spring

50; Control

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a vending machine for a lodging facility and a control method thereof according to the present invention. Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a vending machine for lodging according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a perspective view showing in detail the article accommodation space of the vending machine for lodging according to the present invention, Figure 3 is a detailed view showing the locking drive of Figure 2 4 is a perspective view illustrating an exploded view of the door in detail to show the step guide part of FIG. 2, and FIGS. 5A to 5B are perspective views illustrating a door operation state of a vending machine for lodging according to the present invention. Is a block diagram showing a control system of a vending machine for lodging according to the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control system of a vending machine for lodging according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 1, the vending machine for a lodging facility has a rectangular main body 10 having a relatively large receiving space. In the accommodation space of the keyboard base 10, a space compartment member 15 is provided in which a plurality of article accommodation spaces 13 have a shape as shown in FIG. At least any two areas of the article accommodation space 13 receive currency from the customer (buyer, consumer), that is, the buyer needs such as beverages, alcoholic beverages, snacks, etc. A withdrawal condition providing unit 20 for generating a predetermined withdrawal condition for withdrawing an article is provided. The upper part of the article receiving space 13 to inform the buyer that it is possible to withdraw the article accommodated in any one of the article receiving space 13 according to the withdrawal conditions generated in the withdrawal condition providing unit 20 and the door ( A pull-out switching unit 30 is provided which generates a command to the locking driving unit as shown in FIG. 2 so that 25 is opened. The draw switch 30 has a built-in lamp (not shown) of a predetermined brightness so that the buyer can visually know that the drawer can be pulled out.

As shown in FIG. 2, the door 25 is pivotally hinged to one side of the entrance and exit of the article storage space 13, and has a locking groove 26 in a direction perpendicular to the circumference of the door 25. Is formed. A locking driving part 33 is provided at an upper part of the entrance and exit of the article storage space 13 to pass through the locking groove 26 and lock the door 25. A lower part of the entrance and door detects the closing of the door 25. The door sensor 35 which outputs a door detection signal is embedded. In addition, an article sensor 37 is installed on an exposed surface or an article contact surface on the article seating area in the article receiving space 13 and detects the article placed thereon and outputs an article detecting signal. Here, the door sensor 35 and the article sensor 37 is provided with any one of a switch type sensor and a non-contact optical sensor. In particular, the article sensor 37 may use a piezoelectric sensor. The door 25 is made of a transparent material so that the rest of the lock driving region can check the article in the article receiving space 13. As shown in FIG. 3, the locking driving unit 33 maintains the locked state and the released state by a control signal, and the locking groove 33 is linearly moved by the magnetic generating unit 40. And a pin 41 penetrating through 26 to lock and release.

As shown in FIG. 4, the rotation shaft 43 of the door 25 is provided with a closing guide part for inducing a rotation force in the closing direction after the door 25 is opened and opened at a predetermined angle. The closing guide portion is disposed below the rotation shaft 43 and has an inclination between 30 ° and 50 °, and a spiral rotation groove 45 is formed along the outer diameter surface of the shaft. The spiral pivot 45 has a rotation angle between 90 ° and 150 °. Here, the rotation groove 45 is a spiral shape that rotates in the closing direction according to the gravity load of the door 25. In addition, an auxiliary spring 47 for generating an elastic force toward the gravity direction is provided on the upper portion of the rotation shaft 43 in order to auxiliary weight the spiral rotation in the closing direction by the rotation groove 45. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5A, the rotating shaft 43 is positioned at the lower side in the closed state of the door, and as shown in FIG. 5B, when the door is gradually opened, the rotating shaft moves along the spiral rotating groove 45. 43 rises vertically.

On the other hand, the withdrawal switching unit (20) to receive the output signal of the withdrawal condition providing unit 20, the withdrawal switching unit 30, the door sensor 35 and the article sensor 37 as described above to release the locking of the door ( 30 and the control unit 50 for controlling the locking driving unit 33 and receiving the output signals of the door sensor 35 and the article sensor 37 to lock the door 26, as shown in FIG. 6. It is provided adjacent to the condition providing unit 20.

As illustrated in FIG. 7, the control unit including the control unit 50 as described above may detect the article on the exposed surface of the article receiving area of the article accommodating space 13 to generate an article detecting signal. ), A door sensor 35 which detects the opening and closing of the door 25 to generate a door opening and closing signal, and a locking which guides the door 25 to one of locking and releasing state by a control signal. A driving unit 33, a withdrawal switching unit 30 provided at an upper portion of the entrance and exit to lock the driving unit 33, and a withdrawal conditioner for generating a withdrawable signal by reading a withdrawal condition paid from the guest; Study (20), the output sensor of the article sensor 37, the door sensor 35 and the withdrawal condition providing unit 20 is determined by a specific logic algorithm and the plurality of withdrawal switching unit (30) confirmed in accordance with the determination To unlock) It has a control unit 50, the take-out lamp 31 installed in the take-out switching unit 30 in order to inform the user of the withdrawable state in accordance with the control signal of the control unit 50, the article from the article sensor 37 If it is recognized that there is no additional to have a display unit 34 for displaying a warning message for replenishment of goods to the manager. The display unit 34 is installed on the exposed surface of the withdrawal condition providing unit 20 so as to notify the user through the view of the manager.

That is, the controller 50 approves the unlocking command to any one of the plurality of withdrawal switching units 30 identified in accordance with the article detection signal and the output signal of the withdrawal condition providing unit 20 from the article sensor 37. Or, if there is no article by the article sensor 37 and the door 25 is detected by the door sensor 35 to control the locking drive unit 33 to guide the door to the locked state.

The control unit 50 will be described in more detail as shown in FIG. 6.

First, the controller 50 determines whether the article is accommodated in all the article receiving spaces 13 from each article sensor 37 (S1), and determines whether the door 25 is closed (S3). If the door 25 is locked under the accepted condition, the vending machine starts its operation. Then, it is determined whether or not the customer's (consumer, buyer) 's currency coincides with the withdrawal condition of the standard, and if the condition is equal to or greater than the criterion, the withdrawal switching unit 30 approves the unlocking command that can be released by the locking driver 33. (S5). That is, the withdrawal switching unit 30 to approve the article-receiving space (13) accommodated by the guest to the desired item is approved. The drawing lamp 31 which informs the plurality of spaces which can be opened at the same time is turned on (S7). At this time, when the withdrawal switching unit 30 for the withdrawal of the desired article by the guest to generate a withdrawal signal (S9) the control unit 50 recognizes this and then controls the locking drive unit 33 to the desired The door 25 of the article storage space 13 is unlocked (S11).

Then, if the guest opens the door 25 that has been opened and withdraws the article therein, the door 25 is not detected by the door sensor 35 for a predetermined opening time. In this case, the door 25 is automatically closed by the rotation groove 45 and the auxiliary spring 47 of the closing induction part at the same time as the door 25 is opened. Thereafter, the controller 50 recognizes that the door 25 is in an open state (S3), and after determining whether the door 25 is in the second closed state through the door sensor 35 (S15), controls the locking driver 33 to control the pin ( 41) by locking the locking groove 26 through (S17).

On the other hand, if there is no article through the article sensor 37, the control unit 50 displays an alarm message for replenishing the article on the display unit (34) (S13), and the guest (or buyer) to the control unit 50 for settlement Has a calculation function for calculating the value of the cash and the withdrawn goods, and a printer output device (not shown) for showing the settlement amount to the manager based on the calculation function.

The present invention accommodates a plurality of items to be sold in the lodging room of the property (personal variation, snacks and alcoholic beverages or other non-chilled foods or various adult items) into separate individual spaces and accommodate their presence or absence in the individual spaces. Consumers and managers are informed and appropriate measures are taken, so that it is possible to accurately induce the purchaser of the occupants and to facilitate the replenishment of the manager's goods.

At the same time, the door is automatically locked after taking out the goods, which improves the convenience of the occupants, thereby preventing damages and various thefts that may occur when the door is open. Only because of the automatic locking, there is an effect to prevent the economic loss of the guest and the resulting anxiety and dissatisfaction.

In addition, since the same kind of goods are accommodated in a plurality of spaces, it is effective to maximize the convenience of the user who can select a desired one among the goods. It is effective in maximizing the purchasing power by generating.

In addition, since the guest does not use the room service, there is no need for manpower, thereby reducing the burden of economic operation costs, and also maximizing the profit pursuit of the owners, thereby improving the management status extremely well.

Claims (9)

The main body has a relatively large space, and the space of the main body in the horizontal and vertical directions to provide a space for receiving a plurality of individual items (items of varying variability and non-refrigerated food for alcoholic beverages or various adult products) In a vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partitioning member for partitioning at regular intervals, and a door hinged to the entrance and exit of the article receiving space rotatably to open and close it; An article sensor for sensing the article on an exposed surface of the article receiving area of the article receiving space and generating an article detecting signal; A door sensor for detecting an opening and closing of the door and generating a door opening / closing signal; A locking driving unit for guiding the door to one of locking and releasing states by a control signal; A withdrawal switching unit provided at an upper portion of the doorway and configured to release a locking command to the locking driving unit; A drawing condition providing unit which reads the drawing conditions supplied from the guest and generates a drawable signal; Receiving the output signal of the article sensor, the door sensor and the withdrawal condition providing unit is determined by a specific logic algorithm and a control unit for accepting a lock release command to the plurality of withdrawal switching unit confirmed in accordance with the determination Vending machine. The method of claim 1; A vending machine for a lodging facility, characterized in that the rotating shaft of the door is provided on at least one of an upper side and a lower side of a closing induction part for inducing a turning force in the closing direction after the door is opened and opened at a predetermined angle. The method of claim 2; The closing induction part is a vending machine for a lodging facility, characterized in that the rotational groove of the spiral shape is formed along the outer surface of the lower side of the rotating shaft so that the closing rotational force is generated according to the gravity of the door. The method of claim 3; The closing induction part is a vending machine for a lodging facility, characterized in that the auxiliary spring to induce a closing rotation by generating a bias force toward the gravity on the rotation shaft facing the rotation groove. The method of claim 1; At least one of the article sensor and the door sensor is at least one of a contact type and a non-contact type vending machine for lodging. The method of claim 1; The locking driving unit includes a magnetic generating unit for holding in a locked state and a released state by a signal from the control unit, and a pin for locking and releasing the linear movement by the magnetic generating unit. The main body has a relatively large space, and the space of the main body in the horizontal and vertical directions to provide a space for receiving a plurality of individual items (items of varying variability and non-refrigerated food for alcoholic beverages or various adult products) In a vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partitioning member for partitioning at regular intervals, and a door hinged to the entrance and exit of the article receiving space rotatably to open and close it; An article sensor for sensing the article on a contact surface of the article receiving area of the article receiving space and generating an article detecting signal; A locking driving unit for guiding the door to one of locking and releasing states by a control signal; A withdrawal switching unit provided at an upper portion of the doorway and configured to release a locking command to the locking driving unit; A drawing condition providing unit which reads the drawing conditions supplied from the guest and generates a drawable signal; And a control unit for granting a locking release command to any one of the plurality of withdrawal switching units identified according to the output signal of the article sensor and the withdrawal condition providing unit. The main body has a relatively large space, and the space of the main body in the horizontal and vertical directions to provide a space for receiving a plurality of individual items (items of varying variability and non-refrigerated food for alcoholic beverages or various adult products) In a vending machine for a lodging facility having a space partitioning member for partitioning at regular intervals, and a door hinged to the entrance and exit of the article receiving space rotatably to open and close it; An article sensor for sensing the article on a contact surface of the article receiving area of the article receiving space and generating an article detecting signal; A door sensor for detecting an opening and closing of the door and generating a door opening / closing signal; A locking driving unit for guiding the door into one of locking and releasing states; And a control unit for controlling the locking driver to guide the door to the locked state when there is no article by the article sensor and the door is detected by the door sensor. The main body has a relatively large space, and the space of the main body in the horizontal and vertical directions to provide a space for receiving a plurality of individual items (items of varying variability and non-refrigerated food for alcoholic beverages or various adult products) A control method of a vending machine for a lodging facility, comprising: a space partitioning member partitioning at regular intervals; and a door rotatably hinged to an entrance and exit of the article accommodation space to open and close the door; Sensing the article on the contact surface of the article seating area of the article receiving space; Detecting the closing of the door; Sensing the withdrawal conditions paid by the occupant in the step and acknowledging the opening of the accommodation space of the desired item; Releasing door locking by sensing an open command of the guest in the recognized state; Displaying a message informing of replenishment of goods if not detected in the goods detection step; And locking the door when the article is not detected and the door is sensed.