Display window device for sale of products

• US 8,825,206 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2007
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Xavier Ferreira
• Original Assignee: Xavier Ferreira
• Inventors: Ferreira, Xavier, Rocchi, Jean-Mathieu
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN
• Application Number:
  US12/516,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20100096400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,470 Days
• Field of Search: 700230-243
• US Class Current: 700/232
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/16 Delivery means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/38 in which the magazines are horizontal
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/02 Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10

Abstract

A display window device for the sale of products is disclosed. The display window device includes a transparent window, a shelf designed to receive different types of products displayed on one side of the window, at least one sensor capable of detecting a force exerted on the window, a meter to count the number of forces, a selector configured to associate a number of forces and a type of product, and an element to deliver a product of the chosen type.

Claims

1. An automated display window device machine for the sale of products stored within the machine, comprising:

a transparent window;

a storage space element designed to accommodate a plurality of different types of products offered for sale, on a first side of the window;

a background illumination system capable of illuminating said plurality of products accommodated in the storage space;

a system of selective illumination capable of directing a light beam toward at least one specific product of said plurality of products accommodated in the storage space;

at least one pressure sensor configured to detect a first pressure applied on a second side of the window, wherein the first side of the window is opposite the second side of the window;

a processing unit connected to said at least one pressure sensor, wherein the processing unit is configured to

identify a location of the first pressure on the window based on at least one output signal from the at least one pressure sensor,

identify the at least one specific product in the storage space element based on the location of the first pressure on the window, and

transmit an order for selective illumination of the at least one specific product in the storage space element; and

a selector in communication with said processing unit and said system of selective illumination, wherein the selector is configured to

receive the order for selective illumination of the at least one specific product in the storage space element, and

energize the system of selective illumination based on the order for selective illumination to selectively illuminate the at least one specific product in the storage space element.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein

the at least one pressure sensor consists of at least three pressure sensors, and

the processing unit is capable of estimating the location of the pressure in order to deduce therefrom the order for said product.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the window supports representations of products and of a number of products.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the at least one pressure sensor is attached to the window.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the at least one pressure sensor is capable of detecting a force, a pulse, or a vibration of the window.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising:

a counter for sensing a number of pressure applications on the window,

wherein the counter is configured to count from 1 to n, the number of product types being equal to n.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising:

a counter for sensing a number of pressure applications on the window,

wherein the counter is configured in order to count from 1 to 2ⁿ, the number of product types being equal to n.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising:

a plurality of lamp indicators, each corresponding to a type of product.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is configured to interpret a dual pressure on the window as verification of the correctness of the order.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a sensitivity of the pressure sensor is adjustable within a range of 1 to 10 Newtons.

12. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selector is further configured to identify a type of product based on a number of pressure applications on the first side of the window.

2. An automated display window device machine for the sale of products stored within the machine, comprising:

a transparent window;

a storage space element designed to accommodate a plurality of different types of products offered for sale, on a first side of the window;

a background illumination system capable of illuminating said plurality of products accommodated in the storage space;

a system of selective illumination capable of directing a light beam toward at least one specific product of said plurality of products accommodated in the storage space;

at least one pressure sensor configured to detect a first pressure applied on a second side of the window, wherein the first side of the window is opposite the second side of the window;

a processing unit connected to said at least one pressure sensor, wherein the processing unit is configured to

identify a location of the first pressure on the window based on at least one output signal from the at least one pressure sensor,

identify the at least one specific product in the storage space element based on the location of the first pressure on the window, and

transmit an order for selective illumination of the at least one specific product in the storage space element; and

a selector in communication with said processing unit and said system of selective illumination, wherein the selector is configured to

receive the order for selective illumination of the at least one specific product in the storage space element, and

energize the system of selective illumination based on the order for selective illumination to selectively illuminate the at least one specific product in the storage space element; and

a confirmation system is configured to trigger the vending and delivering of said at least one specific product in answer to a confirmation order resulting from a second pressure applied on the second side of the window.