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- This invention relates to a postal conveyor, delivering parecels received from unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to inside flats, or floors in towers.
- Unmanned aerial vehicles which are also called pilotless aircraft or remote piloted vehicles, are finding their way to markets recently, and in the near future, in numerous commercial and civil uses.
- Each drone should be provided with a special code recognition device, and a mechanism to unlock the parcel from the drone.
- the drone should land on the ground, normally inside a yard front of a villa, or house, but not inside an office, or a flat in a tower where most people live, or over any delivery station, because personal delivery by hand limit the delivery to be only at the ground.
- 5- The programmed route of the drone can not guess if the landing location is safe, e.g: already occupied by a vehicle, or a vehicle reversing toward it, or a fountain spraying water on it, or a child, boy, dog, or a nosy person intends to interfere.
- the prior art is not showing any conveyor receiving parcels from a drone, and destributing them into specific personal delivery compartments, but it is showing that Packstations providing automated booths for self-service collection of parcels and oversize letters, as well as dispatch of parcels 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- a person not a drone, opens the gates of the boxes, and keep the parcel inside, the receiver is notified via email or SMS, then the receiver Via a magnetic stripe card and PIN to be entered to the machine, to specify and unlock the gate, he can get to his parcel.
- generl relevance patents can be found, such as: a Separate Packstation disclosed under German Patent No.: DE102006025617A1. Storage, in particular picking storage and storage management system, and method for operating the same, disclosed under Patent No.: EP2639186A2.
- Patent No.: US 20140032034 A1 disclosed under the title: Transportation using network of unmanned aerial vehicles, is disclosing the use of a ground station to provide navigational aids that help the delivery vehicles, locate the position of the ground station, with increased accuracy, but still it is not diclosing at all how a ground station can receive, deliver, or destribute a shipment to a compartment inside an office, flat, floor... Disclosure of Invention
- the conveyor is made from a motorized flat plate (carrier-plate), vertically moveable inside a duct, with an open end, either at the top, or bottom side of it. If it is opened from the top end, over the top end of a tower, or high rise building, then a drone delivers the box to inside the duct opening over the carrier-plate. While the parcel is moving down toward the carrier-plate, a side scanner fixed on the duct's inner surface, scans a fluorescent code label printed on the side of the parcel, to locate which addressed compartment inside the tower, this parcel belongs too.
- carrier-plate motorized flat plate
- Parcel delivery Accordingly, a control unit runs the side motors to unwrap the ropes from the pulleys, to let the carrier-plate move down with the parcel, until reaching the floor in which the compartment is located, wherein the parcel faces the door of the compartment. There, a hydraulically piston-supported side-plate pushes the box toward the retardable door of the compartment, to let the parcel be moved inside the compartment, then the side-plate is retarded and the door is closed.
- the piston rod which is pushing the side-plate can be of a telescopic type, so that many parcels can be pushed inside the compartment, wherein the first parcel can be pushed far inside the compartment, while the second can be pushed to the middle of the compartment, depending on the programmed adjusted length of stroke of the piston rod.
- FIG. 1 Illustrates a 3-D view for the motorized carrier plate.
- FIG. 3 Illustrates a 3-D view for multiple levels compartments, with a parcel pushed inside one of them.
- FIG.s 4 (A- C) Illustrate 3-D view for another embodiment of a large area floor conveying system.
- An autonomous conveyor for interfacing aerial delivery to handle reception of smart parcels from a drone, and delivering them to a specific compartment inside an office, flat, floor., is designed to face the future needs for such aerial delivery systems for small size parcels.
- the conveyor 20 is made from a motorized flat plate (carrier-plate) 21, vertically moveable inside a duct 22, with an open end, either at the top, or bottom side of a building. If it is opened from the top end, over the top end of a tower, or high rise building, it should be conventionally enclosed inside a room.
- a drone 23 enters the room, to deliver the box (parcel) 24 to inside the duct 22 opening over the carrier- plate 21.
- the carrier-plate 21 is hanged from each side of it via two ropes 25, extending up, and rolled around two pulleys 26, each two pulleys 26 are installed on a drive shaft 27, driven by a motor 28, so in total, there is four ropes 25, four pulleys 26, two drive shafts 27, and two motors 28, wherein the motors 28 are installed at the top of the duct 22.
- a control unit 32 runs the side motors 28 to unwrap the ropes 25 from the pulleys 26 to let the carrier-plate 21 move down with the parcel 24, until reaching the floor in which the compartment 31 is located, wherein the parcel 24 faces the door of the compartment 31.
- a hydraulically-supported side-plate 33 is pushed by a telescopic arm 34, to push the parcel 24 to inside the specified compartment 31, to let the parcel 24 be moved inside the compartment 31, then the hydraulically-supported side-plate 33 is retarded back, and the carrier-plate 21 is returned to the top position, to receive another parcel 24, either from the same drone 23, or another one.
- the piston rod 34 pushing the side plate is of a telescopic type, so that many parcels 24 can be pushed inside the compartment 31, wherein the first parcel 24 can be pushed far inside the compartment 31, while the second one can be pushed to the middle of the compartment 31, depending on the programmed adjusted length of stroke of the piston rod 34.
- a distance meter 35 is installed on a side of the carrier-plate 21, to move on the surface of the duct while the plate 21 is moving down, or up, to calculate the distance that the plate 21 is crossing, to feed it back to the control unit 32, to determine when the plate 21 reaches the addressed compartment 31, so that there, it stops the motor 28.
- compartment 31 can be made in levels arranged vertically, instead of sub-compartments arranged horizontally. In such a case, each compartment 31 should be faced by one hydraulically- supported side-plate 33, wherein all of them are run by one hydraulic circuit 36.
- These sub-compartments 31 can be used for the same office, flat... one for food delivery, one for gifts delivery, and one for governmental documents...
- FIG. 4 (A- C) For horizontally conveying of parcels 24, such as in floors with extended areas (large floor plate), instead of making the vertical delivery from tens of outer inlets like in the prior system, with tens of rooms enclosing them, the conveying mechanism in another embodiment is made of a side belt 37, built-in inside a side duct 22, or in a duct 22 penetrating the side walls (fagade) of the building.
- a drone 23 drops a parcel 24, then the side-belt 37 conveys the parcel 24 to face a duct 22 of a vertically addressed compartments 31, there the side-belt 37 stops, and a hydraulically supported side-plate 33, pushes the parcel 24 to inside the duct 23, wherein a carrier-plate 21 like in the prior system, moves down the parcel 24 to the addressed compartment 21.
- FIG. 5- A, B In a new building, the ducting system can penetrate the walls, while in an old building, a side (external) ducting system can be built on the surface of the facade, while the compartments
- Such a conveyor system can be used too for ground delivery, without the use of drones, but via persons who feed parcels to it from a bottom inlet, to be taken up or sideways to a target compartment.
Abstract
To provide an autonomous conveyor (20) interfacing aerial delivery, to handle reception of smart parcels from a drone, and delivering them to a specific compartment (31) inside an office, flat, floor.. The conveyor (20) is made from a motorized carrier-plate (21). A drone delivers the parcel to inside the duct (22) opening over the carrier-plate (21). While the parcel is moving down toward the plate (21), a side scanner fixed on the duct's inner surface, scans a fluorescent code printed on the side of the parcel, to locate which addressed compartment (31) inside the tower this parcel belongs too. A control unit runs the side motors to unwrap the ropes from the pulleys to let the carrier-plate move down with the parcel, until reaching the floor in which the compartment is located. There, a hydraulically piston supported side-plate (33) pushes the box toward the retard able door of the compartment (31), to let the parcel be moved inside the compartment (31).
Description
AUTONOMOUS CONVEYOR INTERFACING AERIAL DELIVERY Description of the Invention
Technical Field of Invention
This invention relates to a postal conveyor, delivering parecels received from unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to inside flats, or floors in towers.
Background Art
Unmanned aerial vehicles, which are also called pilotless aircraft or remote piloted vehicles, are finding their way to markets recently, and in the near future, in numerous commercial and civil uses.
One of the recent required demands from drones to do, is the parcels delivery: gifts, books, governmental documents, food orders, and this may be expanded to personal or other commercial types of parcels delivery, linked to shipment express services, provided by DHL, ARAMEX, TNT...etc.
Even to make a drone carry a suitable size parcel is very obvious for a low skills person, and even to create a compartment in a drone for a document, to be carried and dlivered to another reception destination, according to a preprogrammed rout (path) is also obvious for a person skilled or not skilled in the art, but the way how to deliver the parcel is the issue.
Up to date, all the delivery and handling proposed procedures are simple and manual, and actually unpractical, the followings are part of the unlimited reasons:
1- The person to whom the parcel should be delivered, should be a vailable at the delivery location on time.
2- No indoor delivery, so the person should wait out under any whether conditions.
3- Each drone should be provided with a special code recognition device, and a mechanism to unlock the parcel from the drone.
4- The drone should land on the ground, normally inside a yard front of a villa, or house, but not inside an office, or a flat in a tower where most people live, or over any delivery station, because personal delivery by hand limit the delivery to be only at the ground.
5- The programmed route of the drone can not guess if the landing location is safe, e.g: already occupied by a vehicle, or a vehicle reversing toward it, or a fountain spraying water on it, or a child, boy, dog, or a nosy person intends to interfere.
6- As the drone has a limited waiting time for delivery, then any delay from a person who should receive the shipment for any normal reason, means the shipment is not delivered, and penalties should be paid by him, instead of getting a cutting-edge service.
So, the only solution is to deliver these parcels to inside an office or a flat or a floor, is to deliver it to aonveyor penetrating the tower, building, like elevators, such that the drone handle the parcel to one known end of it, away from the ground, safe and secure, while the conveyor convey it to the address office, flat... where it is pushed inside a delivery compartment built-in inside that precise office, flat- The prior art is not showing any conveyor receiving parcels from a drone, and destributing them into specific personal delivery compartments, but it is showing that Packstations providing automated booths for self-service collection of parcels and oversize letters, as well as dispatch of parcels 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A person, not a drone, opens the gates of the boxes, and keep the parcel inside, the receiver is notified via email or SMS, then the receiver Via a magnetic stripe card and PIN to be entered to the machine, to specify and unlock the gate, he can get to his parcel.
In the prior art, generl relevance patents can be found, such as: a Separate Packstation disclosed under German Patent No.: DE102006025617A1. Storage, in particular picking storage and storage management system, and method for operating the same, disclosed under Patent No.: EP2639186A2.
Patent No.: US 20140032034 A1, disclosed under the title: Transportation using network of unmanned aerial vehicles, is disclosing the use of a ground station to provide navigational aids that help the delivery vehicles, locate the position of the ground station, with increased accuracy, but still it is not diclosing at all how a ground station can receive, deliver, or destribute a shipment to a compartment inside an office, flat, floor...
Disclosure of Invention
Brief Description
To provide an autonomous conveyor for interfacing aerial delivery, to handle reception of smart parcels from a drone, and delivering them to a specific compartment inside an office, flat, floor..
Smart parcel box reception: The conveyor is made from a motorized flat plate (carrier-plate), vertically moveable inside a duct, with an open end, either at the top, or bottom side of it. If it is opened from the top end, over the top end of a tower, or high rise building, then a drone delivers the box to inside the duct opening over the carrier-plate. While the parcel is moving down toward the carrier-plate, a side scanner fixed on the duct's inner surface, scans a fluorescent code label printed on the side of the parcel, to locate which addressed compartment inside the tower, this parcel belongs too.
Parcel delivery: Accordingly, a control unit runs the side motors to unwrap the ropes from the pulleys, to let the carrier-plate move down with the parcel, until reaching the floor in which the compartment is located, wherein the parcel faces the door of the compartment. There, a hydraulically piston-supported side-plate pushes the box toward the retardable door of the compartment, to let the parcel be moved inside the compartment, then the side-plate is retarded and the door is closed.
Note that the piston rod which is pushing the side-plate, can be of a telescopic type, so that many parcels can be pushed inside the compartment, wherein the first parcel can be pushed far inside the compartment, while the second can be pushed to the middle of the compartment, depending on the programmed adjusted length of stroke of the piston rod.
Also multiple levels of compartments can be used for the same office, one for food delivery, one for gifts delivery, one for governmental documents...
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• FIG. 1 : Illustrates a 3-D view for the motorized carrier plate.
• FIG.s 2 (A- C): Illustrate a 3-D view for the parcel box movement in- between being handled through the inlet opening of the duct to the carrier-plate, convoyed using the carrier-plate to the addressed flat, and pushed to inside the compartment.
• FIG. 3: Illustrates a 3-D view for multiple levels compartments, with a parcel pushed inside one of them.
• FIG.s 4 (A- C): Illustrate 3-D view for another embodiment of a large area floor conveying system.
• FIG. 5 (A, B): Illustrates a 3-D view for a building with the conveying system penetrating it.
Detailed description for carrying out the Invention:
Best Mode for Carrying out the Invention: In order to make it easy to carry out the invention, a detailed description of the parts of the invention, supported with figures, is provided here, wherein the main parts are arranged sequentially, according to the importance of the part, it is made easy to read, by referring to each feature, with a number included in the parts description text, and in the parts numbering list, the numbering of parts features is indicated here, by starting it sequentially from number 20, whenever a part feature appears in a text, it will be directly assigned its required serial number.
An autonomous conveyor for interfacing aerial delivery, to handle reception of smart parcels from a drone, and delivering them to a specific compartment inside an office, flat, floor., is designed to face the future needs for such aerial delivery systems for small size parcels.
1- Motorized plate (FIG. 1): The conveyor 20 is made from a motorized flat plate (carrier-plate) 21, vertically moveable inside a duct 22, with an open end, either at the top, or bottom side of a building. If it is opened from the
top end, over the top end of a tower, or high rise building, it should be conventionally enclosed inside a room. A drone 23 enters the room, to deliver the box (parcel) 24 to inside the duct 22 opening over the carrier- plate 21. The carrier-plate 21 is hanged from each side of it via two ropes 25, extending up, and rolled around two pulleys 26, each two pulleys 26 are installed on a drive shaft 27, driven by a motor 28, so in total, there is four ropes 25, four pulleys 26, two drive shafts 27, and two motors 28, wherein the motors 28 are installed at the top of the duct 22.
2- Parcel reception (FIG. 2- A): After the parcel is dropped from the drone 23 in the duct 22, then while the parcel 24 is moving down toward the carrier- plate 21, a conventional side scanner 29 (not shown) fixed on the duct's 22 inner surface, scans a conventional fluorescent code label 30 printed on the side of the parcel 24, to locate which addressed compartment 31 inside the tower this parcel 24 belongs too.
3- Parcel 24 delivery (FIG. 2- B, C): Accordingly, a control unit 32 runs the side motors 28 to unwrap the ropes 25 from the pulleys 26 to let the carrier-plate 21 move down with the parcel 24, until reaching the floor in which the compartment 31 is located, wherein the parcel 24 faces the door of the compartment 31. There, a hydraulically-supported side-plate 33 is pushed by a telescopic arm 34, to push the parcel 24 to inside the specified compartment 31, to let the parcel 24 be moved inside the compartment 31, then the hydraulically-supported side-plate 33 is retarded back, and the carrier-plate 21 is returned to the top position, to receive another parcel 24, either from the same drone 23, or another one. Note 1: that the piston rod 34 pushing the side plate, is of a telescopic type, so that many parcels 24 can be pushed inside the compartment 31, wherein the first parcel 24 can be pushed far inside the compartment 31, while the second one can be pushed to the middle of the compartment 31, depending on the programmed adjusted length of stroke of the piston rod 34. Note 2: a distance meter 35 is installed on a side of the carrier-plate 21, to move on the surface of the duct while the plate 21 is moving down, or up, to calculate the distance that the plate 21 is crossing, to feed it back to the control unit 32,
to determine when the plate 21 reaches the addressed compartment 31, so that there, it stops the motor 28.
4- Parcel 21 delivery to multiple levels of compartments 31 (FIG. 3): In another embodimentrthe compartment 31 can be made in levels arranged vertically, instead of sub-compartments arranged horizontally. In such a case, each compartment 31 should be faced by one hydraulically- supported side-plate 33, wherein all of them are run by one hydraulic circuit 36. These sub-compartments 31 can be used for the same office, flat... one for food delivery, one for gifts delivery, and one for governmental documents...
5- Large floor plate conveying system (FIG. 4 (A- C): For horizontally conveying of parcels 24, such as in floors with extended areas (large floor plate), instead of making the vertical delivery from tens of outer inlets like in the prior system, with tens of rooms enclosing them, the conveying mechanism in another embodiment is made of a side belt 37, built-in inside a side duct 22, or in a duct 22 penetrating the side walls (fagade) of the building. At an inlet 38 side of the duct 22, a drone 23 drops a parcel 24, then the side-belt 37 conveys the parcel 24 to face a duct 22 of a vertically addressed compartments 31, there the side-belt 37 stops, and a hydraulically supported side-plate 33, pushes the parcel 24 to inside the duct 23, wherein a carrier-plate 21 like in the prior system, moves down the parcel 24 to the addressed compartment 21.
6- Ducting system (FIG. 5- A, B): In a new building, the ducting system can penetrate the walls, while in an old building, a side (external) ducting system can be built on the surface of the facade, while the compartments
31 can be cupboards opened (connected) to the duct 22 through a rectangular cut in a glass window.
Note: Such a conveyor system can be used too for ground delivery, without the use of drones, but via persons who feed parcels to it from a bottom inlet, to be taken up or sideways to a target compartment.
Industrial applicability:
1- Autonomous conveyor interfacing aerial delivery having its tools, and mechanisms, made from available tools, parts, mechanisms, with applicable modifications.
2- Multiple uses for multiple bodies: courier service, governmental departments... etc.
3- The fastest ever service of delivery by drones can be interfaced to make the delivery from the drones to the receivers practical, safe, secure, and time saving.
4- Compact multi-level compartments that can be located in the wall of your office, flat, or floor.
5- A revolutionary development in postal service, taking the whole industry many steps forward, with the addition and creation of new concepts for this industry.
6- Based on such a system, many aspects and types of commercial handling, delivery can be carried out for different types and sizes of materials, parcels, documents, food...
7- New urban planning, communication styles, drones routing can be developed.
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20 Autonomous conveyor.
21 Carrier-plate..
22 Duct.
23 Drone.
24 Parcel.
25 Rope.
26 Pulley.
27 Drive shaft.
28 Motor.
29 Side scanner.
30 Fluorescent code label.
31 Compartment.
32 Control unit.
33 Side-plate.
34 Telescopic arm (piston rod).
35 Distance meter.
36 Hydraulic circuit
37 Side-belt.
38 Inlet.
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Claims
1- An autonomous conveyor (20) interfacing aerial delivery, comprising: an autonomous conveyor (20);
a motorized carrier-plate (21);
a duct (22);
a rope (25);
a pulley (26);
a drive shaft (27);
a motor (28);
a side scanner (29);
a compartment (31);
a control unit (32);
a side-plate (33);
a telescopic arm (rod) (34);
a distance meter (35);
a hydraulic circuit (36);
a side-belt (37);
an inlet (38);
2- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the motorized carrier-plate (21), is hanged from each side via two ropes (25), extending up, and rolled around two pulleys (26), each two pulleys (26) are installed on a drive shaft (27), driven by a motor (28), such that the motors (28) move the carrier-plate (21) vertically up-down through the duct (22).
3- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the motorized carrier-plate (21) receives a parcel (24) dropped from a drone (23) through a duct (22), while a conventional side scanner (29) fixed on the duct's (22) inner surface, scans a conventional fluorescent code label (30) printed on the side of the parcel (24), to locate which addressed compartment (31) in a flat, office, floor... inside the tower this parcel (24) should be carried to by the carrier-plate (21).
4- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the control unit (32) runs the side motors (28) to unwrap the ropes (25) from the
pulleys (26) to let the carrier-plate (21) move down with the parcel (24), until reaching the floor in which the compartment (31) is located, to bring the parcel (24) to face the door of this addressed compartment (31).
5- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the distance meter (35) is installed on a side of the carrier-plate (21), to move on the surface of the duct (22) while the plate (21) is moving down, or up, to calculate the distance that the plate (21) is crossing, to feed it back to the control unit (32), to determine when the plate (21) reaches the addressed compartment (31 ), so that there, it stops the motor (28).
6- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the hydraulically-supported side-plate (33) is pushed by a telescopic arm (34) to push the parcel (24) to inside the specified compartment (31), to let the parcel to be moved inside the compartment (31), then the hydraulically supported side-plate (33) is retarded back.
7- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the compartment (31) in another embodiment, can be made of multiple levels arranged vertically, instead of sub-compartments arranged horizontally, such that each compartment (31) is faced by one hydraulically-supported side-plate (33), wherein all of them are run by one hydraulic circuit (36).
8- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the side-belt (37) is built-in inside a side duct (22), or a inside a duct (22) penetrating the side of a large floor plate, such that at an inlet (38) side of the duct (22), a drone (23) drops a parcel (24) over the side-belt (37), then the belt (37) conveys the parcel (24) to face the addressed duct (22) of a vertically addressed compartments (31), there the side-belt (37) stops, and a hydraulically supported side-plate (33) pushes the parcel (24) to inside the duct (23), wherein a carrier-plate (21) like in the prior system, moves down the parcel (24) to the addressed compartment (21).
9- The autonomous conveyor (20) according to claim 1, wherein the ducts (22) in a new building, can penetrate the walls, while in an old building, a side (external) ducting system can be built on the surface of the fagade,
while the compartments (31) can be of cupboards opened (connected) to the duct (22) through a rectangular cut in a glass window.
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