Drive through wireless order taking system

• US 5,590,407 A
• Filed: 09/25/1995
• Issued: 12/31/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Hideaki, Shinoda, Atsunao
• Primary Examiner(s): Eizenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE
• Application Number:
  US08/533,194
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 455/66, 455/54.1, 455/67.1, 455/67.7, 455/38.2, 455/227, 455/228, 455/53.1, 455/54.2, 455/56.1, 340/286.09, 340/286.01, 340/941, 340/928, 340/933, 379/159, 379/160, 379/167, 379/168, 379/170
• US Class Current: 455/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724

Abstract

A drive through wireless order taking system includes a base station, and a slave station being connectable with the base station by radio and being movable into and out of a talk lock state. The base station includes a device for transmitting a talk lock release signal to the slave station. The slave station includes a device for moving the slave station out of the talk lock state in response to the talk lock release signal transmitted from the base station.

Claims

1. A drive through wireless order taking system comprising:

a base station; and

a slave station being connectable with the base station by radio and being manually movable into and out of a talk lock state at the discretion of an order taker;

wherein the base station comprises means for transmitting a talk lock release signal to the slave station, and the slave station comprises means for automatically moving the slave station out of the talk lock state in response to the talk lock release signal transmitted from the base station.

2. The drive through wireless order taking system of claim 1, wherein the base station includes means for detecting that a vehicle moves from a given place in a drive through lane, and said transmitting means comprises means for transmitting the talk lock release signal when said detecting means detects that a vehicle moves from the given place in the drive through lane whereby the slave station is automatically placed out of the talk state.

3. The drive through wireless order taking system of claim 1, further comprising a talk lock release switch, wherein said transmitting means comprises means for transmitting the talk lock release signal when the talk lock release switch is actuated.

4. A wireless order taking system for first and second drive through lanes, comprising:

a first base station in the first drive through lane;

a first slave station in the first drive through lane, the first slave station being connectable with the first base station by radio;

a second base station in the second drive through lane;

a second slave station in the second drive through lane, the second slave station being connectable with the second base station by radio;

a wire connected between the first base station and the second base station;

first means in the first base station for transmitting a first page communication signal to the second base station via the wire;

second means in the second base station for transmitting a second page communication signal to the first base station via the wire;

third means in the first base station for receiving the second page communication signal from the second base station, and transmitting the second page communication signal to the first slave station by radio;

fourth means in the second base station for receiving the first page communication signal from the first base station, and transmitting the first page communication signal to the second slave station by radio;

fifth means in the first base station for detecting that a vehicle comes to a given place in the first drive through lane;

sixth means in the first base station for muting the second page communication signal when the fifth means detects that a vehicle comes to the given place in the first drive through lane;

seventh means in the second base station for detecting that a vehicle comes to a given place in the second drive through lane; and

eighth means in the second base station for muting the first page communication signal when the seventh means detects that a vehicle comes to the given place in the second drive through lane.

5. The wireless order taking system of claim 4, wherein the first means comprises means for adding a signal of customer speech and a signal of a beep tone to the first page communication signal when the fifth means detects that a vehicle comes to the given place in the first drive through lane, and the second means comprises means for adding a signal of customer speech and a signal of a beep tone to the second page communication signal when the seventh means detects that a vehicle comes to the given place in the second drive through lane.