Delivered article storage control system

• US 4,894,717 A
• Filed: 03/27/1989
• Issued: 01/16/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fulltime System
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fulltime System
• Inventors: Komei, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Britton, Howard W.
• Application Number:
  US07/328,623
• Time in Patent Office: 295 Days
• Field of Search: 358/108, 358/93, 358/85
• US Class Current: 348/150
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 29/141 comprising electronically controlled locking means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/253 visually
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/13 the containers being a postal pick-up locker
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A delivered article storage control system comprising a control box equipped with a receipt issuing printer, an instruction display and/or a speaker, a card reader, a monitor display and an input keyboard, a delivered article storage box equipped with a plurality of lockers, each of which is equipped with a door which can be opened when an identification card is entered into the card reader and an article presence/absence detection sensor, and a control unit which controls the above devices. The system is installed in a visitor reception room and connected to a control room equipped with a monitor display through a telephone line, and delivered article receiving and storing processes (including a receipt issuing process) can be conducted accurately and safely for 24 hours a day without the help of any third person, such as a janitor.

Claims

1. A delivered article storage control system comprising a control box equipped with a receipt issuing printer, an instruction display and/or an audio message output speaker, an identification card reader, a monitor display for a burglar detection camera and an input keyboard, and a delivered article storage box equipped with a plurality of lockers, each of which is equipped with a door which can be opened when an identification card is entered into said card reader and an article presence/absence detection sensor, wherein said two boxes and said burglar detection camera are installed in a visitor reception room, said monitor display for said burglar detection camera is installed in a control room and said two rooms are connected to each other via a telephone line, and a control unit is further provided to control said burglar detection camera, printer, instruction display and/or speaker, monitor display and card reader so that said identification card entered into said card reader can be read and so that said door of said corresponding locker is opened/closed according to the information stored on said card.

2. A delivered article storage control system according to claim 1, wherein said control room is connected to a security company via an exclusive telephone line.

3. A delivered article storage control system according to claim 1, wherein said control unit is a CPU.

4. A delivered article storage control system according to claim 3, wherein said control and storage boxes are installed in the side wall of said visitor reception room of a building so that the front sides of said boxes are exposed outside said building and the rear sides of said boxes are exposed inside said building.

5. A delivered article storage control system comprising a control box equipped with a receipt issuing printer, an instruction display and/or an audio message output speaker, an identification card reader, a monitor display for a burglar detection camera and an input keyboard, and a delivered article storage box equipped with a plurality of lockers, each of which is equipped with a door which can be opened when an identification card is entered into said card reader and an article presence/absence detection sensor, wherein said printer, instruction display and/or speaker, burglar detection camera, monitor display and input keyboard are provided on the front of said control box, said card reader has two card slots on the front and rear sides of said control box, and said delivered article storage lockers of are equipped with said doors on the front and the rear sides of said storage box.