Shopping Trolley With Display or Advertising Surface

• US 20080313938A1
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Franz Wieth, Horst Sonnendorfer
• Original Assignee: Franz Wieth, Horst Sonnendorfer
• Inventors: Sonnendorfer, Horst, Wieth, Franz
• Granted Patent: US 9,174,660 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/308
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1408 Display devices mounted on it, e.g. advertisement displays
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1416 mounted on the handle
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1424 Electronic display devices
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1428 Adaptations for calculators, memory aids or reading aids
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions

Abstract

The purchasing aid is temporarily connected to a housing for the advertising surface which is permanently present, said housing being arranged fixedly on the shopping trolley, wherein the fastening for the purchasing aid is arranged outside the advertising surface, and the advertising surface which is permanently present can optionally also be used as a display for the purchasing aid.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A shopping cart having a display or an advertising area, where the handle of the shopping cart permanently bears an advertising area unit with a display area, characterized in that the advertising area unit bears a mounting facility on which an electronic shopping assistant can be mounted, and this mounting facility is situated outside of the display area.

10. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9,

characterized in that

the display area permanently borne by the shopping cart is an electronic display,

power and/or data can be interchanged between the shopping assistant and the display area, and

the electronic display can display information which has been transmitted from the shopping assistant to the electronic display.

11. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the mounting facility is in the form of a plug connection.

12. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the mounting facility is in the form of a groove connection.

13. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the data transmitted from the shopping assistant to the electronic display continue to be displayed on the display even when the shopping system is no longer mounted on the shopping cart.

14. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the advertising area unit comprises a scanner.

15. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the advertising area unit comprises a loudspeaker.

16. The shopping cart as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the advertising area unit can have headphones connected to it by wire or wirelessly.