Delivery box capable of handling registered mails

• US 6,715,669 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2001
• Issued: 04/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fulltime System
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fulltime System
• Inventors: Hara, Kouichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, William L.
• Application Number:
  US09/809,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20020130172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 232/19, 232/24, 232/25, 232/17, 232/45, 340/5.73, 340/5.8, 340/5.86
• US Class Current: 232/45
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 29/141 comprising electronically controlled locking means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

In the case of parcels delivered by an automatic delivery system, all tenants in an apartment, etc., agree to receive parcels by a box; however, in the case of registered mails, in particular, registered mails with cash, some tenants do not agree to receive these from a delivery box because of fear of theft, etc. The resulting problem is that the delivery box is not used for delivering registered mails. A delivery box capable of handling a registered mail is provided with: a memory 22 for preliminarily memorizing kinds of registered mails that are not accepted by receivers, with respect to each of the receivers; a barcode reader 12d for reading electronic information of a registered mail; a judgment device 21 for making a judgment as to whether or not the kind of the registered mail read by the electronic information reader is permitted by a destination receiver as an acceptable mail; and a device for opening a lid 13 of a registered mail locker when the registered mail has been judged as an acceptable mail.

Claims

1. A computerized controlled delivery box capable of handling registered mail, comprising:

program means capable of preliminarily memorizing kinds of registered mail that are not acceptable to a receiver;

electronic information reading means for reading electronic information of the registered mail;

judgment means for making a first judgment that is made as to what kind of registered mail it is, and a second judgement based on the memorized kinds of the registered mail as to whether the read electronic information does not match with any of the memorized kinds of the registered mail and thus is acceptable by the receiver; and

means for opening a lid of a registered mail locker of the delivery box when the read electronic information has been judged as corresponding to the registered mail that is acceptable to the receiver.

3. A delivery box capable of handling registered mail according to either claim 1 or claim 2, wherein after the electronic information has been read, a name of the receiver designated on the registered mail is displayed on a monitor so as to confirm an address of the receiver designated on the registered mail.

4. A delivery box capable of handling registered mail according to either claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the registered mail locker is provided with a plurality of divided rooms inside the lid, each of the plurality of divided rooms being provided with an inner lid so as to doubly ensure safety.

2. A computerized controlled delivery box capable of handling registered mails comprising:

program means capable of preliminarily memorizing kinds of registered mail that are not acceptable to a receiver;

identifying means for identifying a mail man based upon whether or not a card possessed by the mail man is coincident with a pass number;

electronic information reading means for reading electronic information of the registered mail;

judgment means for making a first judgment that is made as to what kind of registered mail it is, and a second judgement based on the memorized kinds of the registered mail as to whether the read electronic information does not match with any of the memorized kinds of the registered mail and thus is acceptable by the receiver; and

means for opening a lid of a registered mail locker of the delivery box when the read electronic information has been judged as corresponding to the registered mail that is acceptable to the receiver.