EP4062394A1 - Batteriebetriebenes elektronisches etikett - Google Patents
Batteriebetriebenes elektronisches etikettInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a battery-operated electronic label.
- the display unit is produced using electronic ink or electronic paper technology, that is to say with the aid of "electronic paper”, or “e-paper” for short, also “e-paper” or Called “e-ink”.
- the reflective screen used for this is known in technical jargon as electronic paper display, or EPD for short.
- EPD electronic paper display
- EPDs are usually designed for black-and-white reproduction or for gray-scale reproduction, meanwhile also for black-white-red or black-white-yellow reproduction.
- Labels that are equipped with such EPDs display static information similar to a classic, non-electronic label.
- the EPD is intended to display the same information over a longer period of time in the most energy-saving way possible.
- the screen technology used here therefore does not offer the possibility of attracting the viewer's attention through dynamic image changes. This means that, in addition to displaying different, static images in similar color variations, there is no possibility of drawing attention to individual products or offers in a visually dynamic way and thus to highlight them visually perceptible from other products.
- an electronic label with a housing that has a front wall and a rear wall and at least one side wall, the front wall having a screen, in particular a reflective screen, and wherein, in contrast to the front wall and rear wall, the side wall is designed to be light-conducting and where A light source is positioned within the housing for emitting the light that can be generated with it through the side wall and wherein the side wall is inclined towards the front wall.
- the object is also achieved by a system which has an electronic label according to the invention and an anti-theft device and a tape which connects the electronic label to the anti-theft device.
- the measures according to the invention are accompanied by the advantage that the light emission via the side wall can be used to dynamically draw attention to individual products or product groups, or even detached from the products or product groups, only to the electronic label as such.
- the screen presents static information in the form of text and images, with little to no electrical energy is required
- an electronics of the label controls whether and how (in the form of e.g. frequency, color, intensity, etc.), i.e. with what dynamics light is emitted through the side wall, in order to attract the attention of potential customers or staff to the respective To direct the product, the product group or the label.
- the label can also be used to attract the attention of staff. For example, before a grocery store opens for customers, those labels that relate to a product whose expiry date is about to strike can emit a warning light signal in a certain frequency or certain color, and those labels that relate to a product that has already expired, emit an alarm light signal in a different frequency or color so that the staff is aware of the light signal coding and can take the appropriate measures.
- the control data required for this can either be stored in a memory module of the electronics of the label and / or obtained from a data processing system via a communication module of the label.
- the side wall ensures that the light generated inside the housing is guided or radiated in such a way that it is clearly visible from as many viewing directions as possible on the label.
- a slight inclination of the side wall for example by 3 ° -15 °, towards the front wall ensures that the light signal can be easily perceived when viewed from the front (i.e. looking at the screen).
- the side wall can be implemented, for example, by a transparent plastic part that is produced with the aid of an injection molding process. However, the side wall can also be made of glass or Plexiglas and the like.
- the side wall can also be designed in a manner similar to a conventional light guide, with light entering the interior of the housing and light exiting on its side oriented outward from the housing, with a lateral exit of the light in between due to the corresponding course of the refractive index is held back or avoided.
- the side wall can be designed in such a way that it only ends, de facto, without a border, in an edge converging to a point.
- the side wall has an edge with a thickness, it has a side wall edge.
- This side wall edge can be made opaque.
- the side wall edge is also translucent so that the light can exit not only through the side wall surface that dominates in certain areas, but also through the side wall edge which is sometimes relatively narrow in relation to the side wall surface. This can be preferred if the side wall is not embedded between adjacent walls, but is placed on these adjacent walls so that the edge of the side wall is visible. This allows the viewing area to be enlarged for the observer, because he can also perceive the luminous edge of the side wall.
- the side wall or its material is preferably designed in such a way that the side wall guides the light from the inside to the outside as well as possible.
- An optional optimization of the shape and the material can ensure that the maximum possible luminosity (light intensity) of the light is present when it emerges from the side wall.
- the side wall can, for example, run all around the circumference between the front wall and the rear wall, so that the light signals can also be perceived when viewed from each side of the label.
- only one of the side surfaces is preferably designed as the side wall to be transparent or light-conducting.
- separate other lateral wall elements can be used in this context be waived.
- the rest of the housing apart from the one light-conducting side wall or side surface, can be formed completely by the front wall and the rear wall, which are shell-shaped leaving the side wall and an opening for the screen on the front wall and the inside of the label between include them extensively for the most part.
- the front wall and the rear wall are opaque. This is achieved, for example, by choosing a suitable plastic granulate, if necessary by coloring it, from which all other walls or wall sections, such as the front wall and the rear wall, are made.
- Any active screen such as an OLED or LCD screen, can of course be used as the screen.
- an extremely energy-saving reflective EPD screen is preferably used, as discussed at the beginning.
- the label can have a communication module for radio communication, with the aid of which data and / or commands can be exchanged with an access point.
- the label can thus be controlled from a central server or a data processing system.
- a wide variety of communication protocols can be used for communication with the access point, such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, WLAN, etc.
- preference is given to using a proprietary time slot communication method that is discussed in WO 2015/124197 A1, pages 2-22 and the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- the side wall has an energy storage holder protruding into the interior of the housing, which is used to hold at least one electrical energy storage device, in particular a battery or a rechargeable battery, particularly preferably a button cell battery, in a designated position in the housing is trained.
- the poles of the energy store are with electrically conductive (usually metallic) contact elements, the contact elements in turn being electrically conductively connected to the electronics in order to supply the electronics of the label with electrical energy.
- the side wall and the energy storage holder can be implemented separately from one another and connected to one another by gluing or screwing.
- the side wall and the energy storage holder are preferably designed in one piece.
- both, that is to say the side wall and the energy storage holder, which are jointly referred to below as a combination part are made from one and the same material and are designed to be light-transmitting or translucent or, in other words, light-conducting.
- This has the advantage that the light does not necessarily have to be fed in directly on the side wall, which can sometimes result in a problematic and difficult to implement positioning of the light source and its connection to the electronics, but in a position deeper in the housing Area of the energy storage bracket can take place.
- the light propagating from there in the combination part allows a more homogeneous illumination of the side wall than would be the case if the light feed were to take place directly on the side wall or in the immediate vicinity.
- the light source is located further away from the side wall and the light, starting from its essentially punctiform origin zone at the light source, can already spread spatially on the way through the combination part to the side wall, so that the light upon reaching the Side wall illuminates this as homogeneously as possible and thus the side wall is perceived as luminous when viewed from the outside with uniform brightness. If the light were to be fed directly into the side wall at a certain point on the side wall, the side wall at this feed point would be extremely brightly lit and other areas further from the point of feed would be less brightly lit.
- the energy storage holder is particularly preferably free of separate clamps or springs or electrical contacts and the like, so that the energy storage device can be inserted into or removed from the energy storage holder without hindrance, in particular non-positively and / or clamp-free.
- the energy store is merely positioned at the intended position in the housing, that is to say along the direction of insertion or removal. Positioned there, the energy store is essentially touched directly by the contact elements provided within the housing and fixed by them in a force-locking manner transversely to the direction of insertion or removal.
- the contact elements are designed or positioned in such a way that the energy store can be inserted into the housing without further aids only through the energy store holder along the insertion direction and pulled out of the housing along the removal direction running in the opposite direction.
- the energy store holder can be designed differently. If, for example, a button cell battery (button cell for short) is used, it is advantageous if the energy storage holder is designed in the shape of a bowl or pan. In this way, the button cell can be easily inserted into the shell or pan adapted to its size and shape and, held in this way, inserted into the housing. It can also be advantageous here if the central area of the bowl or pan is made free of material, that is to say essentially consists of a ring that slightly and only partially encompasses or encompasses the button cell. This leads to a significant saving in material, especially in the case of large quantities, and thus to a more favorable design.
- a button cell battery button cell for short
- the shell or pan can also be designed in two parts, in particular with the formation of a gap in the central area furthest away from the side wall, i.e. have a left and a right part, these two parts merging towards the side wall and the button cell being accommodated between these two parts.
- the two parts can be dimensioned or their distance from one another adjusted so that the button cell is at least slightly wedged between them. The removal can therefore take place without tools.
- the bowl-shaped or pan-shaped design also makes it easier to remove the button cell, since the bowl or pan only needs to be turned over so that the button cell falls out of it or, if there is a slight frictional connection between the bowl or pan and the button cell, lightly press the button (e.g. through the material-free central area on the button cell) can be pushed out of it.
- the combination part consisting of a side wall with its energy storage holder is designed in the shape of a drawer. The combination part can be easily grasped in the area of or directly on the side wall and operated like a drawer in which the energy store is stored. This allows easy and quick assembly (inserting the battery) during the initial installation but also during maintenance, such as when replacing the battery.
- the housing also has a slot running between the front wall and the rear wall for receiving the energy storage holder.
- the slot can be designed to receive the energy storage holder in a form-fitting and / or force-fitting manner.
- the combination part can be pushed in like a drawer according to the described handling in order to position the energy store in the housing at its desired position and supply the label electrically there, or pulled out like a drawer to replace or remove the energy store, for example to operate the label to end.
- the shapes and dimensions of the shaft and the combination part are matched to one another accordingly.
- the rear wall has a protuberance which encloses an energy storage receiving area which is dimensioned such that the energy storage holder together with the energy storage can be received therein.
- This protuberance rises from the rest of the rear wall and is open towards the side wall.
- the protuberance can be dimensioned depending on the space required inside the label. On the rear wall, it forms, so to speak, the enclosure of the shaft.
- This special shape of the rear wall allows a material-saving design, because in other areas of the housing where only the relatively flat electronics or the screen are to be accommodated in the housing, a much slimmer or flatter design of the housing is possible, which leads to a reduced lateral design Use of material compared to the protuberance leads.
- the rear wall has a recess adjacent to the side wall and a part of the energy storage holder is exposed there. This is accompanied by the advantageous effect that there is a planar contact of the part of the energy storage holder with the Fingertip of a human hand is possible.
- a significantly more efficient power transmission can thus be ensured than would be the case if one only had to pack a typically relatively slim edge of the side wall.
- the combination part can therefore be separated from the housing in a particularly simple manner because, in the recess, part of the energy storage holder de facto forms part of the outer surface of the housing.
- the label can be held in one hand, with the fingers of the hand encompassing the housing essentially parallel to the flat extension of the side wall, and at the same time applying normal pressure with the thumb of the hand on the outer surface formed by the combination part and in the direction of the side wall so that the combination part is pushed out of the housing. Only the recess in the rear wall enables the combination part to be pushed out of the housing with one hand.
- the part of the energy storage bracket exposed in the recess also shines flat like the side wall, only on the rear wall with a different surface shape, namely more square or rectangular and not slim or elongated, as is the case with the one in relation to the front - or rear wall relatively narrow side wall is the case.
- This difference can be perceived by the staff without a great deal of attention, e.g. to identify labels that are placed upside down, i.e. with the screen and consequently also with the side wall oriented towards the goods, oriented towards the goods.
- the label is correctly aligned, i.e. with the screen facing away from the product, the light emitted from its rear side can help illuminate the product in the immediate vicinity of the label, which (especially when the ambient light is dimmed accordingly) leads to a quasi-magical lighting effect Product itself leads. This is possible because there is always a distance between the product and the label along the rear wall between the protuberance and the side wall, where the light emerging from the exposed part of the energy storage holder on the rear of the label can also spread laterally.
- the protuberance of the rear wall enclosing the energy storage receiving area is formed next to the recess.
- the The protuberance is thus positioned at a distance from the side wall. This distance can have a value between a few millimeters up to about two, even 3 cm.
- the length of that part of the energy storage holder that is available for interaction with the fingertip of the human hand as well as for emitting light on the rear wall of the label can be defined by dimensioning the distance.
- the width of this part of the energy storage holder (which is available for interaction with the fingertip of the human hand as well as for emitting light on the rear wall of the label) can also be based on the dimensions of the energy storage. In the case of a button cell, this would be the diameter of the button cell, said width exceeding this button cell diameter by approx. 1 to 5 mm in order to ensure sufficient stability of the energy storage device.
- Said protuberance of the rear wall is used in relation to its inside, as discussed, to accommodate the energy storage holder together with the energy storage.
- the protuberance can have a tape guide for guiding a tape that can be inserted into the tape guide along the outer contour of the protuberance.
- the protuberance can therefore serve a double use.
- the tape guide is used to guide a tape with which the label is attached to another object, such as an anti-theft device.
- the label can also be attached to an object other than a shelf rail without an anti-theft device. In both applications, the label can be positioned dangling on the tape.
- the label and tape form a first system that is used purely for attaching the label.
- the label and tape attached to an anti-theft device form a second system, namely an anti-theft system.
- the use of the tape for attaching the label to products has proven to be particularly advantageous when the products are not to be presented on conventional shelves with a single label attached to the front, which displays information on a large number of identical products.
- the label can be attached to individual products in a clearly visible manner, which can be presented hanging or individually set up or placed, for example. This is the case, for example, with items of clothing, handbags, sports equipment or watches, etc.
- the tape guide particularly viewed from it in the direction of the side wall, saves the shaft and has tubes on both sides of the shaft.
- the distance between the tubes also ensures that the left and right tape sections above the label twist out of their own accord due to the rope forces that occur when dangling, and that the label assumes the orientation that the parallel course of these tape sections towards a tape attachment on another product or an anti-theft device.
- the tape guide between the two tubes which preferably run on the outer edges of the rear wall, is curved, preferably part-circular, particularly preferably semicircular, and / or is designed to be open to the outside.
- the tape guide can thus be completely closed along the protuberance, which ensures that the tape runs essentially invisibly on the rear wall.
- the tape guide can also be open to the outside, which contributes to the aspect of saving material in relation to the rear wall.
- a tape with which the electronic label can be attached to products can therefore be guided through the tape guide.
- compact electronic labels are desired. This is achieved when the combination part is used to hold the battery or rechargeable battery in position at that end of the label at which the tape guide feeds in and out the tape.
- a minimum radius is therefore necessary in order to reduce the friction when guiding the tape. In contrast, a disproportionately large radius would increase the friction again.
- the electronic label For a label that is to be positioned lying on a product, it is desirable that the electronic label can be oriented so that it can be easily read by the customer. In the case of conventional labels, this often contradicts the requirement that the conventional label should be attached to the product as firmly as possible so that it cannot fall off the product. In practice, however, this leads to restrictions in the orientation of the product on the shelf, since the label should always be easy to read and its orientation must therefore also be coordinated with the orientation of the image content. However, both aspects are taken into account with the label according to the invention. On the one hand, the label is firmly connected to a product or to an anti-theft device coupled to the product by means of the tape.
- the label is only loosely connected to the tape due to the bath guide (freely movable in relation to the tape, but within the limits specified by the tape length) and therefore remains in a lying position on a product at its angle (in its orientation) changeable or adjustable.
- the product can be placed on the shelf in practically any orientation, but at the same time the orientation of the label placed on it remains optional.
- the band can be realized by a monofiber or by a fiber composite (eg twisted fibers). It can be realized as a plastic tape, carbon fiber tape, natural fiber tape, metal tape, etc. or also in a combination of the most varied of materials. Its diameter can be adapted to the tape guide in the range of approx. 1-6 mm.
- the aforementioned anti-theft device, to which the label can be connected by the tape could be implemented, for example, by a conventional mechanical security label.
- the label has the already mentioned battery-operated electronics, which are designed to control the screen and the light source.
- the light source can be controlled, for example, by a constant current or by a current modeled in terms of duration and / or amplitude.
- the electronics accordingly have a corresponding driver stage, which can typically be implemented with the aid of one or more transistors. This driver stage can be discrete or digital, i.e. integrated.
- the electronics can also be implemented using an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a microcontroller or a microprocessor with appropriate peripheral components.
- ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
- the electronic label has at least two LEDs positioned at different points as a light source. With their help, light can be fed into the energy storage holder inside the housing from different sides (for example from the left and the right side). This can of course also be done with a higher number of LEDs that are positioned along the energy storage holder.
- the aspect is set that the light from the Light source can spread to the side wall at a corresponding distance therefrom, but also that a large number of light sources also have a positive effect on the uniform and homogeneous illumination of the side wall.
- Figure 6 is a side view of the label viewed from one side
- Fig. 8 is a further side view of the label viewed from the other side;
- FIG. 10 shows the label according to FIG. 9 looking towards the rear wall; 11-15 the combination part in different views;
- an electronic label 1 according to the invention, hereinafter referred to as label 1 for short, is shown in different views.
- the label 1 has a housing 2 which is formed from a front wall 3, a rear wall 4 and a side wall 5.
- a component of the front wall 3 is also a reflective screen 3A, which is inserted into a recess in the material of the front wall 3 that is adapted to its dimensions.
- the three walls 3-5 are made of plastic (e.g. by injection molding), the front wall 3 and the rear wall 4 being made of an opaque or non-transparent (possibly also colored) plastic.
- the side wall 5 is made of a translucent or transparent plastic, that is to say a light-conducting plastic.
- the front wall 3 and the rear wall 4 apart from their upper end, are shell-shaped, so that they realize a large part of the housing 2 when joined together as half-shells.
- the energy storage holder 7 is also made of said light-conducting plastic and is formed in one piece with the side wall 5, that is to say produced in one and the same manufacturing step.
- the combination part 6 is formed substantially in the shape of a drawer in order to place the button cell battery 8 within the housing 2.
- the two housing shells 3 and 4 of the housing 2 close the housing 2 on the left and right side as well as on the foot side, i.e. on its underside, and leave an entrance into a shaft 9 visible in FIG. 9 open on the head side.
- the combination part 6 can be inserted or withdrawn like a drawer into this shaft 9.
- the button cell battery 8 can be placed in the housing 2 in its intended position, where it is used for the electrical supply of the entire electronics (not shown in detail, but see reference number 25 in FIG. 17) of the label 1.
- the button cell battery 8 can be removed from the housing 2 and replaced if necessary.
- the side wall 5 is inclined towards the front wall 3 at an angle of approximately 10 °. This is clearly visible in FIGS. 1, 4, 6 and 8, for example. This can also be seen in an analogous manner from FIGS. 12, 13, 14 and 15, where the combination part 6 is shown detached from the housing 2 and the inclined orientation of the side wall 5 in relation to the energy storage holder 7 can be seen.
- the course of the upper edge of the front wall 3 and the rear wall 4 is adapted according to the inclination of the side wall 5.
- the rear wall 4 furthermore has a protuberance 10 which encloses an energy storage area inside the housing 2 from the rear, i.e. the rear wall .
- This protuberance 10 forms the rear delimitation of the previously mentioned shaft 9.
- the rear wall 4 has a recess 12 which extends from its upper rear wall edge 11 to the protuberance 10 and is delimited by the further rear wall edges 13, 14 and 15.
- the rear wall 4 also has a tape guide 16, which is composed of two tubes 17 and 18 running on the left and right edges of the protuberance 10 and a semicircular recess 19 in the protuberance 10 that connects the tubes 17, 18 and is open to the outside.
- the ends of the tubes 17, 18 oriented towards the head end to the left and right side of the recess 12.
- the tape guide 16 is used to attach the label 1 to another object with the aid of a tape 20 inserted in the tape guide (see FIGS. 9, 10 and 16) (not shown) to attach.
- the belt 20 can have two loose ends or be designed as a closed belt loop.
- the positioning of the protuberance 10 in that half of the housing 2 which is oriented towards the side wall 5 has the advantage that the label 1 hanging on the tape 20 always aligns itself by the action of gravity so that the side wall 5 always follows above shows.
- the focus of the label 1 is thus shifted asymmetrically towards the side wall 5.
- This fact can advantageously be taken into account in the image design, ultimately the orientation of the image content, which means that the image content is always displayed correctly oriented on the screen 3A for the viewer of the label 1.
- FIGS. 11-15 show the combination part 6 which can be inserted into the shaft 9, are discussed below. It should be emphasized here that the energy storage holder 7 has a left and a right holder element 21 and 22. This has two advantages.
- the housing 2 there are namely contact elements (not visible in the previously explained figures, but see FIG. 17, contact lugs 23 and 24) for electrically conductive contacting of the poles of the button cell battery 8, and these contact elements can be positioned in the housing 2 in such a way that they lie between the holding elements 21, 22, that is, when the combination part 6 is pushed in or pulled out, they do not interact mechanically with the combination part 6, but are only in contact with the button cell battery 8.
- the two-part design of the mounting elements 21 and 22 can also be used to dimension their spacing so that when the button cell battery 8 is inserted, a clamping effect occurs that largely prevents the button cell battery 8 from accidentally falling out of the energy storage holder 7 .
- FIG. 17 is discussed below, which roughly and not conclusively visualizes a selection of electronic function blocks of the electronics 25 inside the housing 2, but without going into details, such as the connections between them, because these are routinely accessible to the person skilled in the art .
- FIG. 17 shows how the energy storage holder 7 positions the button cell battery 8 inside the housing 2 between contact lugs 23 and 24 forming contact elements and these contact lugs 23, 24 each touch a pole of the button cell battery 8, for example from above and from below, the button cell battery 8 being positioned between the contact lugs 23 and 24.
- the other ends of the metallic contact lugs 23, 24 are connected to the electronics 25 of the label 1. From this electronics 25 are a communication module 26 which is designed for radio communication with an access point (not shown) according to the proprietary time slot communication method mentioned in the general part of the description and for this purpose an antenna configuration 26A in addition to other electronic components such as a matching network, resonant circuit, etc.
- the two light-emitting diodes 29A and 29B are positioned in such a way that they feed their emitted light into the transparent body of the energy storage holder 7 at different points on the energy storage holder 7. In the present case, the feed takes place symmetrically to the position of the button cell battery 8, i.e. to its left and right side, for example at the position or in the area of the position of the button cell battery 8.
- the two light diodes 29A and 29B can be monochrome or designed as RGB LEDs.
- the light can, however, also be fed into the energy storage holder 7 above the position of the button cell battery 8 at a distance from the side wall 5. Only a single LED can also be used. 6th
- the way (e.g. color, flashing frequency, brightness, signal coding, etc.) in which the side wall 5 lights up can be controlled by a server (not shown) by transmitting commands via the access point to the general digital controller 28 of the label 1 become.
- the general controller 28 decodes the commands and controls the light-emitting diodes 29A and 29B accordingly. This allows a wide variety of effects to be achieved on the observer. In this way, the attention of customers as well as staff can be drawn to the label 1 in question. In particular, the areal light emission over the entire side wall 5 makes it possible to achieve a pleasant perception of the visual attention trigger for the observer, in other words very different from what would be the case if a light-emitting diode or other point-like light source were to flash it directly, which is often glaring and is perceived as invasive.
- the light emission via the forwardly inclined side wall 5 has the advantage that, despite the extensive light signature perceived from the front, the front wall 3 is largely available for the screen 3A, so no compromises in terms of size and positioning of the screen 3A because of the additional Light signal delivery means (light source, energy storage holder 7, side wall 5) are to be made.
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