WO1999018528A2 - Inventory device - Google Patents
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- WO1999018528A2 WO1999018528A2 PCT/EP1998/006297 EP9806297W WO9918528A2 WO 1999018528 A2 WO1999018528 A2 WO 1999018528A2 EP 9806297 W EP9806297 W EP 9806297W WO 9918528 A2 WO9918528 A2 WO 9918528A2
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
- G07F11/46—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports
- G07F11/58—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the articles being supported on or by endless belts or like conveyors
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D25/00—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled
- F25D25/04—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled by conveyors
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
- G07F9/02—Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
- F25D2400/36—Visual displays
- F25D2400/361—Interactive visual displays
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D2500/00—Problems to be solved
- F25D2500/06—Stock management
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D29/00—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
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- the invention relates to a storage device with a storage room and with a closable access opening to the storage room.
- DE-OS 28 561 22 discloses a device for recording and registering goods stored in the storage containers of a freezer.
- This device comprises a keypad which, in addition to numerical keys for performing simple arithmetic operations and for entering the date and weight of the stored goods, also has keys with symbols which symbolically represent the type of stored goods and which are visible on the storage containers for identifying the goods stored therein are arranged.
- the button corresponding to the goods in the keypad provided with the symbols is pressed and then the identifying data such as. B. entered the date and weight of the goods to be stored.
- the data are then displayed in a liquid storage display and stored in a data memory of the registering device, from where they can also be queried again.
- the corresponding key To query the content of the individual storage containers of the freezer device, in addition to a special key combination, the corresponding key must also be pressed, the symbol of which corresponds to the symbol of the respective storage container. The symbol provided on the container, the individual packs stored in the container and the total weight of the frozen goods stored in this container are then displayed
- This type of registration and recording of the goods placed in storage is inadequate insofar as the symbols create a kind of rough classification for the stored goods - but no statement is made as to which special products are hidden under a main group represented by a symbol.
- this type of registration in order to be able to identify the stored goods again when they are removed, it must be provided with labels to be labeled.
- the invention has for its object to propose a registration for a device according to the preamble of claim 1, which can be done quickly and easily and which avoids the disadvantages of the prior art.
- the storage device is assigned an optical imaging device used for detecting three-dimensional objects, the images it generates are processed in a manner suitable for the screen and are fed via data lines to an electronic visualization device and for data processing of a data processing device, where the images are in one Data storage are stored.
- the ability to create true-to-stock images of the stored goods and to save them and to be able to call them up again when required enables a user not only to be able to store the stored products in the storage facility in a highly product-differentiated manner, but also through the true-to-original images of the stored goods with the option of being able to retrieve them very specifically from the inventory or to check their product data as required. Furthermore, the stored goods can be identified without a complex description.
- the solution according to the invention thus provides an extremely efficient recording and registration unit which not only significantly simplifies the handling of the storage device for a user, but also makes it considerably more time-saving.
- optical imaging device is particularly compact and thus saves space if, according to a preferred embodiment of the subject of the invention, it is provided that the optical imaging device is designed as a scanning device which is connected via data lines to the data processing system coupled to the data technology on the screen.
- the scanning device is arranged at least in the vicinity of the access opening and is fixed to the storage device.
- Such a measure not only significantly facilitates the creation of the image and its data storage, but also the storage of the stock product.
- the scanning device attached to the storage device is connected upstream of the access opening.
- the screen for identifying the stored goods to be stored is arranged ergonomically in a particularly favorable manner if, according to a next preferred embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the screen is fixed to the storage device in the vicinity of the scanning device.
- the electronic visualization device is particularly expedient if, according to a preferred embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the electronic visualization device is designed as a screen.
- the screen is designed as a touch screen, on which reduced images of the structures detected by the scanning device are displayed as symbol-like.
- the use of such a screen makes it unnecessary to provide an input unit which is used to call up the stored products.
- the reduced images provide the user with an overview of the entire range of stored products.
- the scanning device is able to use data technology to identify an expiry date of the stored goods attached to the stored goods in the form of a barcode or the like, an alarm signal initiated by the data processing device being emitted on the storage device when the expiry date is reached .
- a device indicating the fill level of its storage space is provided on the storage device.
- the storage device is a refrigeration device such as a refrigerator or freezer
- the display device leads to a not insignificant energy saving, since an opening of the cold room door results in the determination of the remaining storage space within the storage room.
- a storage device is particularly convenient if, according to one of the next preferred embodiments of the subject matter of the invention, it is provided that the storage space is equipped with a demand device constructed in accordance with a patemo system, which, controlled by the data processing device, stores the goods to be stored after it has been detected by the scanning device at a predetermined storage position within the storage room and which can transport the goods to the access opening when they are called up
- such a conveying device not only achieves particularly efficient use of the storage space, but also a particularly positionally secure storage of the stored goods
- the storage space is provided with a gripping arm controlled by data lines, which is controlled by the data processing device to grip the stored goods after their scanning process and to deposit at a predetermined position within the storage space and, when the storage goods are called up, can convey them to the access opening.
- a refrigeration device serving as a storage device is particularly expediently designed, with a heat-insulating housing and an access opening to its usable space closed by a door, if, according to a last advantageous embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the refrigeration device is designed according to one of claims 1 to 10.
- FIG. 1 is a purely schematic illustration of a household freezer cabinet with a loading gap provided on the ceiling of its heat-insulating housing, provided with a scanning device and a screen designed as a touch screen, in section,
- FIG. 2 shows the screen in an enlarged view compared to FIG. 1, with smaller images of the layered products stored in the storage room of the domestic freezer cabinet arranged as pictograms.
- Fig. 3 The screen with a product displayed on it in full screen
- FIG. 1 shows a purely schematically illustrated freezer 10, the heat-insulating housing 11 of which has an access opening 13 on its top wall 12 which can be closed by a heat-insulating cover 14 which is pivotably mounted on the top wall 12.
- the housing 11 defines a heat-insulating storage space 15 therein, which is equipped with a paternoster-like device 16.
- the conveying device 16 has ant ⁇ ebs wheels 17, which serve to drive a transport chain 18.
- the transport chain 18 is equipped with storage levels 19 which are arranged at a distance from one another and fixed to it, which, in the case of a feed conveyor, for. B. in the direction of arrow I, are arranged in a horizontal position and which for serving as storage goods 20 serving z. B.
- the storage levels 19 equipped with the stored goods 20 can be brought directly by the conveying device 16 into the access area of the access opening 13, to which, in the rear area, outside the pivoting area of the cover 14, there is provided an optical imaging device which serves to optically detect the foodstuffs, which in the foreground -
- the case is designed as a scanning device 21.
- This is fixed on the housing 11 and is connected to a data processing device (also not shown) and a screen 22 designed as a touch screen with data lines (not shown).
- the screen 22, like the scanning device 21 is fastened to the housing 11 in the rear area of the ceiling wall 12, outside the pivoting area of the cover 14.
- the screen 22 is used to display the food 20, which has been optically detected by the scanning device 21 and prepared in accordance with the screen and has come for storage in the storage room 15, of which reduced images 23 are shown on the screen 22 in a symbol-like manner.
- the reduced images can be displayed on the screen 22 to improve the recognizability of the stored goods as a full image (see FIG. 3).
- the storage goods 20 intended for storage in the storage space 15 are fed to the scanning device 21 before they are stored. This generates an optical image of the stored goods, which on the one hand is prepared for the screen by data lines (not shown), is supplied to the screen 22 and on the other hand is transmitted to a data processing device (not shown) for data processing.
- the data optically recorded on the stored goods 20, such as the pictorial representation of the packaged stored goods and their expiry date are stored in a memory and can be called up if necessary, the shelf life date of a food being stored by a person in the data processing device with the data storage Integrated system clock is monitored until the expiry date is reached and a warning signal is triggered if the expiry date is exceeded.
- the data processing device additionally monitors a fill level indicator, not shown, which indicates to a user without having to look into the storage space 15, the fill level and thus the remaining storage capacity.
- the pivotally mounted cover as an integrated in the ceiling wall 12, for. B. is formed on the basis of a straight guide movable cover element, above which directly the scanning device 21 is fixed to the housing 11 and which automatically opens the access opening 13 to the storage space 15 after a completed scanning process and closes this again after storage of the stored goods 20.
- both the scanning device 21 and the screen 22 and the data processing device are assigned to the freezer 10 as solo devices.
- the storage device is designed as a wine storage cabinet, the storage levels 19 then being designed accordingly for storing wine bottles.
- the electronic visualization device is designed as a virtual touch screen.
- the storage device is advantageously designed when it is used as a food storage device.
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Priority Applications (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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EP98954328A EP1042722B1 (en) | 1997-10-02 | 1998-10-02 | Inventory device |
DE59801600T DE59801600D1 (en) | 1997-10-02 | 1998-10-02 | STORAGE DEVICE |
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DE19743752.4 | 1997-10-02 | ||
DE19743752A DE19743752A1 (en) | 1997-10-02 | 1997-10-02 | Foodstuffs stocking apparatus for domestic refrigerator |
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WO1999018528A2 true WO1999018528A2 (en) | 1999-04-15 |
WO1999018528A3 WO1999018528A3 (en) | 1999-06-24 |
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PCT/EP1998/006297 WO1999018528A2 (en) | 1997-10-02 | 1998-10-02 | Inventory device |
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EP (1) | EP1042722B1 (en) |
DE (2) | DE19743752A1 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2165197T3 (en) |
TR (1) | TR200000487T2 (en) |
WO (1) | WO1999018528A2 (en) |
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WO1999018528A3 (en) | 1999-06-24 |
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ES2165197T3 (en) | 2002-03-01 |
TR200000487T2 (en) | 2000-07-21 |
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