Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B47/00—Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means
  • E05B47/02—Movement of the bolt by electromagnetic means; Adaptation of locks, latches, or parts thereof, for movement of the bolt by electromagnetic means
  • E05B47/026—Movement of the bolt by electromagnetic means; Adaptation of locks, latches, or parts thereof, for movement of the bolt by electromagnetic means the bolt moving rectilinearly
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G29/00—Supports, holders, or containers for household use, not provided for in groups A47G1/00-A47G27/00 or A47G33/00 
  • A47G29/14—Deposit receptacles for food, e.g. breakfast, milk, or large parcels; Similar receptacles for food or large parcels with appliances for preventing unauthorised removal of the deposited articles, i.e. food or large parcels
  • A47G29/141—Deposit receptacles for food, e.g. breakfast, milk, or large parcels; Similar receptacles for food or large parcels with appliances for preventing unauthorised removal of the deposited articles, i.e. food or large parcels comprising electronically controlled locking means
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B65/00—Locks or fastenings for special use
  • E05B65/0021—Locks or fastenings for special use for overhead or roll-up doors, e.g. garage doors
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B47/00—Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means
  • E05B2047/0048—Circuits, feeding, monitoring
  • E05B2047/0067—Monitoring
  • E05B2047/0068—Door closed
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B47/00—Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means
  • E05B2047/0048—Circuits, feeding, monitoring
  • E05B2047/0067—Monitoring
  • E05B2047/0069—Monitoring bolt position

Definitions

• the present invention relates to safes for the storage of objects. More particularly, the invention relates among these safes, those which include a fixed part and a movable part mounted movable relative to the fixed part, between a maximum open position allowing access to the interior of the trunk and a closed position in which said movable part prevents access to the interior of the cabinet.
• This type of trunk has many drawbacks, in particular when it is used to temporarily store an object placed in said trunk by an operator, this object normally having to be recovered later by a user.
• the closing means cannot then lock and fix the mobile part in its closed position relative to the fixed part of said trunk thus leaving free access to the interior of said trunk.
• the storage chest in question is essentially characterized in that it comprises means for automatically returning the movable part from its maximum open position to its closed position, in that the part fixed comprises, a lock bolt capable of taking at least one of the following positions:
• the trunk comprises means for detecting the position of the mobile part when the latter is in its maximum open position or in its closed position, and in that the trunk also comprises a control unit capable of activating the bolt in "its locked position or in its unlocked position when the detection means detect that the movable part is in its maximum open position or in its closed position.
• control unit is adapted to allow: the activation of the bolt in its unlocking position when said control unit receives instructions for opening the boot and that the detection means detect that the movable part is in its position closed -, • the activation of the bolt in its locking position when the detection means detect that the mobile part has arrived in its maximum opening position, • the activation of the bolt in its unlocking position when the detection means detect that the movable part has been in its maximum open position for a first time interval, and
• control unit is adapted to activate communication means intended to emit a signal to the user before activating the bolt in its unlocking position when the detection means detects that the mobile part is in its position Maximum open since said first time interval;
• the mobile part comprises: “a first stop element intended to be placed facing the bolt, and a first detectable element intended to be detected by the detection means when said mobile part is in its closed position, and
• the bolt when in the ' locking ' position, is adapted to be in at least one of the following positions . :
• a first locking position in which the bolt travels a first stroke to fix the movable part in its closed position relative to the fixed part, and • - a second locking position in which the bolt travels a second stroke different from the first stroke to fix the movable part in its maximum open position relative to the fixed part, and in which
• the fixed part comprises two-state detection means for detecting that the bolt is in a first state corresponding to its unlocking position or its second locking position or in a second state corresponding to its first locking position, and
• the means for detecting the position of the mobile part are formed by two-state detection means suitable for detecting that the mobile part is in a first state corresponding to its maximum open or closed positions, or in a second state corresponding to a intermediate position between its maximum open and closed positions.
• the control unit is adapted to transmit an alert message when the bolt is in its unlocking position and that the detection means of the position of the movable part do not detect that the latter is in the closed position.
• FIG. 1 represents a schematic sectional view of the trunk according to the invention when the movable part is in the closed and locked position relative to the fixed part of the trunk,
• FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of the trunk when the movable part is in an intermediate position relative to the fixed part of the trunk
• Figure 3 is a schematic sectional view of the trunk when the movable part is in the maximum open position and locked relative to the fixed part of the trunk.
• the same references designate identical or similar elements.
• the trunk 1 intended for the storage of objects and represented in FIGS. 1 to 3 mainly comprises a fixed part 2 and a mobile part 3 mounted movable relative to the fixed part 2.
• the fixed part 2 of the trunk 1 has a substantially parallelepipedal interior volume which is delimited by an upper wall (not shown) and a lower wall 21 connected together by side walls 22 and 23 as well as by a bottom 24.
• the movable part 3 is, in turn, in the form of a sliding curtain 3 which is guided in rails 25 (only one of which is shown in the figures) formed on the upper wall and the lower wall 21 of the fixed part 2.
• rails 25 of the fixed part 2 therefore allow the sliding curtain 3 to be placed in a closed position, shown in FIG. 1, in which the sliding curtain 3 prevents access to the interior of the boot, and a maximum open position, represented in FIG. 3, allowing a user to have access to the interior of the trunk 1.
• the trunk also includes closing means adapted to allow the sliding curtain 3 to be fixed relative to the fixed part 2, when said sliding curtain 3 is in the closed position or in the fully open position.
• the closing means comprise an electric lock 4 comprising a bolt 5 slidably mounted relative to the side wall 22 of the fixed part 2 of the boot, as well as stop means 6 integral, for their part, with the sliding curtain 3. These stop means 6 cooperate with the lock bolt 5 in order to allow said sliding curtain 3 to be fixed relative to the fixed part 2, either in the closed position (FIG. 1) either in the maximum open position ( Figure 3).
• the sliding curtain 3 extends between a first end 31 and a second end 32 and it is for example made up of a plurality of rigid and unbreakable facets 33 connected together by articulated connecting means which allow said sliding curtain 3 to be guided by the rails 25 between its closed and maximum open positions.
• the stop means 6 of the slide curtain • 3 comprises a through opening 61 formed in one of the facets 33 of the first end 31 of the curtain. This through opening 61 is intended to receive the lock bolt 5 of the fixed part 2 to block the sliding curtain in its closed position.
• the stop means 6 also include a notch or a housing 62 produced on a facet 33 located at the second end
• This housing 62 has a shape substantially complementary to that of the bolt 5 to also allow locking of the sliding curtain in its maximum open position.
• the fixed part 2 of the trunk 1 also comprises detection means 7 intended to allow the position of the sliding curtain 3 to be detected when the latter is in its maximum open position or in its closed position.
• the movable curtain 3 also comprises, at its first end 31, a detectable element 8, and, at its second end 32, a second detectable element 9.
• These two detectable elements 8 and 9 can by example consist of reflective elements intended to be detected by the means of detection 7 can be in the form of an optical sensor.
• the detection means 7 are formed by an optical detector with two states intended to switch to a first state, called state 1, when it detects the presence of the reflecting element 8 or of the 'reflective element 9,' and in a second state, called state 0, when it does not detect the presence of the reflective elements 8 and 9.
• state 1 a first state
• state 2 a second state
• state 0 of the detector 7 therefore corresponds to an intermediate position of the curtain 3 located between its positions closed and open maximum.
• the bolt 5 or more precisely the electric lock 4 as well as the detector 7 are connected to a control unit
• control unit 10 is capable of activating the bolt 5 in its locked position or in its unlocked position when the detector 7 detects that the sliding curtain 3 is in its maximum open position or in its closed position.
• the trunk 1 also comprises detection means
• the bolt 5 of the lock is able to take the following three different positions, namely:
• the detection means 11 are formed for example by a measurement sensor capable of providing the control unit with two states of. positioning of the bolt relative to the fixed part 2. More precisely, the sensor 11 is adapted to detect that the bolt 5 is in a first state, known as state 0, corresponding to the bolt unlocking position or to its second locking position in which the bolt 5 travels the second stroke, and the sliding curtain 3 is fixed in its maximum open position relative to the fixed part 2.
• state 1 The second state, called state 1, of the sensor 11 corresponds to the first locking position of the bolt 5 in which the sliding curtain 3 is fixed in its closed position relative to the fixed part 2 of the trunk the bolt 5 having then traveled a first stroke greater than the second stroke.
• the container 1 or more precisely the fixed part 2 of the boot is provided with automatic return means 12 which allow to automatically remind the roller door 3 from its maximum open position to its closed position in 'which the through opening 61 the sliding curtain 3 is arranged opposite the bolt 5.
• automatic return means 12 can, for example, be formed by one or two wires 12a housed in the rails 25 of the fixed part 2 and fixed on a reel 12b connected to the fixed part 2 of the trunk by means of a return spring allowing automatic rewinding of the wire 12a on the spool 12b thereby bringing the sliding curtain 3 towards its closed position, as shown in FIG. 1.
• the sliding curtain 3 can also include a handle 13 located at its second end -32 to allow a user or operator to move the sliding curtain 3 from its closed position to its open-maximum position when the bolt 5 is in its unlocked position.
• a handle 13 located at its second end -32 to allow a user or operator to move the sliding curtain 3 from its closed position to its open-maximum position when the bolt 5 is in its unlocked position.
• the user can for example enter a confidential code corresponding to his object on a keyboard (not shown) connected to the control unit 10 This confidential code will then be compared with a code known from the control unit 10 to validate or not the unlocking of the bolt 5 of the lock.
• the control unit 10 Prior to the entry of the confidential code by the user, the control unit 10 has in memory the state of the bolt as well as the state of the optical detector. Indeed, as shown in FIG. 1 when the detectable element 8 is facing the optical detector 7 and the bolt 5 is in its first locking position, the detection means 11 as well as the optical detector 7 then transmit to the control unit that the state of the bolt is in state 1 while the state of the optical detector 7 is also in state 1.
• control unit 10 activates the bolt 5 in its unlocking po-sition so as to change the state of the bolt 5 from state 1 to state 0.
• the optical detector 7 detects neither the presence of the reflecting element 8 nor the presence of the reflecting element 9. The detector 7 then transmits to the control unit 10 the information that the state of the optical detector is at state 0.
• the optical detector 7 When the user still moves the sliding curtain 3 to its maximum open position • shown in FIG. 3, the optical detector 7 then detects the presence of the reflecting element 9 so that the optical detector 7 sends to the control unit signals that its state changes from state 0 to state 1.
• control unit 10 activates the bolt 5 in its second locking position in which the bolt 5 is housed in the housing 62 of the sliding curtain 3 by traversing the second stroke so as to fix it relative to the fixed part 2.
• the fixed part may also comprise at the level of its lower wall 21 a stop member 26 for stopping the travel of the sliding curtain 3 to its maximum open position.
• the means 11 for detecting the position of the bolt then inform the control unit 10 that the bolt is in a state corresponding to state 0.
• the control unit 10 maintains the bolt 5 in its second locking position for a first configurable time interval T1 which can , for example, be of the order of 30 seconds to allow the user to remove his package from the interior volume of the trunk 1.
• the control unit 10 can then be adapted to activate communication means 14 intended to send a signal to the user during a second time interval T2.
• These communication means 14 can be in the form of a visible light signal transmitter or an audible acoustic signal transmitter making it possible to emit an alert signal to the user during the second time interval T2 before the control unit 10 only activates the bolt 5 in its unlocked position.
• the second configurable time interval T2 can, for example, be of the order of 5 seconds.
• the control unit 10 activates the bolt 5 in its unlocked position, so that in normal operating mode and without incident, the sliding curtain 3 is directly brought back to its closed position ( Figure 1) under the effect of the automatic return means 12.
• the optical detector 7 indicates to the control unit that its state corresponds to the state 1 while the detection means 11 of the bolt 5 indicates to the control unit that the state of the bolt 5 is in state 0.
• the control unit 10 in view of the state of the bolt and the state of the optical detector 7, controls the activation of the bolt 5 which is placed in its first locking position in which the bolt 5 passes through the opening 61 while traversing the first stroke.
• the bolt position detection means 11 then inform the control unit 10 that the state of the bolt switches from state 0 to state 1, which means that the sliding curtain 3 is in a position closed and locked.
• control unit 10 can then be adapted to wait for a third time interval T3, for example of the order of 10 seconds, before checking in its own table of states that the states of the bolt 5 and of the optical detector 7 are equal to 1, which then means that the entire operation performed by the user to recover his package is correct.
• T3 a third time interval
• the closed and locked position of the sliding curtain 3 corresponds to a state 1 of the bolt and to a state 1 of the optical detector, which automatically allows the control unit to check whether the entire delivery procedure of the parcel in the 'safe by the operator or the reception of the parcel ' or of the object by the user has been correctly carried out.
• the state of the optical detector will then be in state 1 while the state of the bolt 5 will be in state 0 corresponding to either the second locking position is in the unlocked position.
• the control unit by checking its status table, will then note that the procedure for removing the package or closing and automatically locking the sliding curtain 3 is not correctly carried out.
• the control unit 10 is adapted to emit an alert message for example to a maintenance service to indicate that the sliding curtain relocking 3 in its closed and locked position has not been carried out correctly which requires intervention to reset and return the trunk 1 to its closed and locked position.
• the state of the optical detector will be in state 0 and the state of the bolt 5 will also be in state 0, which will be automatically known to the control unit 10. More precisely, when the control unit 10 checks in its state table that the state of the bolt and the state of the detector are equal to 0 during an interval time corresponding to the addition of the aforementioned first time interval T1, the aforementioned second time interval T2 and the aforementioned third time interval T3, the control unit 10 will then trigger an alert message requiring the intervention of an operator to remedy the problem.
• optical detector 7 with for example three states, the first state of which would correspond to the detection of the reflecting element 8, the second state of which would correspond to the detection of the reflecting element -9, and the third state would correspond to a non-detection of the reflecting states 8 and 9.
• the optical detector -7 has three different detection states, the position detector 11 of the bolt 5 can be deleted.
• the bolt 5 may have only one locking position and one locking position while allowing the control unit to know whether the sliding curtain 3 is in a closed and locked configuration or in a configuration requiring the intervention of an operator to reset and return the trunk 1 to its closed and locked position.

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