Collective objects management system with receptacle for random deposit of addressable objects

    公开(公告)号:US10659935B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US16501708

    申请日:2019-05-24

    摘要: A collective objects management system using addressable object tracking devices attached to objects without the need for specially constructed cabinets having mounting pegs or locking apertures. Receptacles are slidably stored in ordinary cabinet cavities. Each receptacle has a first Bluetooth® antenna mounted on an outside wall surface and a second Bluetooth® antenna mounted on an inside wall surface. Each antenna communicates with a supervisory MCU via a separate Bluetooth® unit. An electronic lock and a visible indicator mounted on the receptacle front wall are controlled by the MCU. The MCU communicates with an outside host requesting device via the first antenna, and communicates with any object tracking devices in the receptacle via the second antenna. The object tracking devices have a battery and a battery management components which are powered by a transmitting array located in the receptacle.

    Searchable Binder With Inductive Address Code Transfer

    公开(公告)号:US20170203604A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-20

    申请号:US14998563

    申请日:2016-01-19

    IPC分类号: B42F13/40 G08B5/36 G06K7/10

    摘要: A binder management system having a cabinet with shelves for removable storage of searchable binders. Each binder has a body with front and rear covers and a spine. Inside the body is a binder mechanism for removably retaining sheet media. Each binder has a planar receiving antenna mounted on the spine in a plane parallel to the lower margin of the spine or mounted on one of the covers in a plane parallel to the cover plane Each binder has a binder identification circuit coupled to the receiving antenna and to an LED mounted on the binder spine in a location visible when the binder rests on a shelf. When a binder identification signal from a host computer is detected by the receiving antenna it is transferred to the binder identification circuit. If the signal matches an address code stored in the binder identification circuit, the LED is activated to aid the user in finding the binder. Transmitting antennae are mounted on the shelves to broadcast the binder identification signals to the receiving antenna mounted in the binder. An LED and an optional audible indicator are mounted on the shelves to further aid the user in finding the sought binder.

    Searchable binder with security lock

    公开(公告)号:US09697704B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-04

    申请号:US14999605

    申请日:2016-06-01

    IPC分类号: G08B5/36 B42F13/40

    摘要: A searchable binder which is operationally compatible with a binder management system having a cabinet with shelves for removable storage of the binder. Each binder has a body with front and rear covers and a spine. Inside the body is a binder mechanism for removably retaining sheet media. Each binder has a binder contact mechanism mounted to the spine at the upper end, a binder lock mechanism mounted to the spine at the lower end, a binder identification circuit electrically coupled to the binder contact mechanism and the binder lock mechanism, and a visible indicator. The binder contact mechanism has a contact element extending outwardly of the upper end of the spine and engaged with one of several first conductive shelf elements of the binder cabinet. The binder lock mechanism has a lock bolt extending outwardly of the lower end of the spine with an end portion engaged with one of several grooved second conductive shelf elements of the binder cabinet to normally lock the binder in the cabinet. When a binder identification signal from a host computer is supplied to the cabinet conductive elements, it is transferred by the binder contact mechanism and the binder lock mechanism to the binder identification circuit. If the signal matches a binder identification code stored in the binder identification circuit, the binder lock mechanism is activated to the release position and the visible indicator is activated to aid the user in finding the binder.

    Secure document receptacle
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170080743A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-23

    申请号:US14756562

    申请日:2015-09-17

    IPC分类号: B42F15/00

    摘要: A secure document receptacle for use in file cabinets having slidable drawers with laterally spaced support rails for removable supporting file folders. The secure document receptacle has a single support brace along the top edge with downwardly opening channels for removable engagement with the drawer support rails. The receptacle has a closed top edge and openings to the interior of the receptacle on the side edge or the bottom edge of the receptacle. Documents can only be inserted and removed via the open side or bottom edges. The receptacle must be partially or completely removed from the drawer support rails before a document can be removed from the receptacle. This interrupts contact between the brace channels and the support rails, an event which can be detected by cabinet sensing circuitry.

    Addressable drawer organizer with item display panel
    5.
    发明申请
    Addressable drawer organizer with item display panel 有权
    可寻址的抽屉组织器与项目显示面板

    公开(公告)号:US20160196798A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-07

    申请号:US14544430

    申请日:2015-01-06

    IPC分类号: G09G5/12 A47B81/00 A47B67/00

    摘要: A drawer organizer for facilitating the location of an item stored in one of several drawers in one or more drawer organizer cabinets. Each drawer has an LED and a display device mounted on a front panel, as well as a CPU and a display device driver. The CPU memory contains the address of the associated drawer and communicates with an associated controller which receives drawer address and display information from a host computer. A user specifies an item to be retrieved from one of the cabinet drawers, the host computer transmits drawer identification signals to the controller, which converts these signals to a drawer address and supplies the drawer address to all drawer CPUs in the cabinet. If the incoming address matches the address stored in CPU memory of one of the drawers, this result is conveyed via the controller to the host computer, which then sends item display information to the controller. The controller forwards this information to the CPU, which relays this information to the display device driver and the information is displayed to the user. The CPU also activates the drawer LED.

    摘要翻译: 一个抽屉组织器,用于促进存储在一个或多个抽屉组织柜中的几个抽屉之一中的物品的位置。 每个抽屉具有安装在前面板上的LED和显示装置,以及CPU和显示装置驱动器。 CPU存储器包含相关抽屉的地址,并与从主计算机接收抽屉地址和显示信息的关联控制器进行通信。 用户指定要从一个橱柜抽屉中检索的物品,主机将抽屉识别信号传送到控制器,将这些信号转换为抽屉地址,并将抽屉地址提供给机柜中的所有抽屉式CPU。 如果输入地址与其中一个抽屉存储在CPU存储器中的地址相匹配,则该结果通过控制器传送到主计算机,然后主机将项目显示信息发送给控制器。 控制器将该信息转发给CPU,该CPU将该信息中继到显示设备驱动程序,并向用户显示信息。 CPU还激活抽屉LED。

    Storage container for electronically addressable file folders and documents
    6.
    发明申请
    Storage container for electronically addressable file folders and documents 有权
    用于电子寻址文件夹和文件的存储容器

    公开(公告)号:US20140191633A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-10

    申请号:US13694829

    申请日:2013-01-08

    IPC分类号: B42F15/00

    摘要: A storage container for use in a documents management system with remote location of file folders positioned on support members mounted between walls of the storage container. The support members are electrically connected to an electrical input connector which supplies file folder search signals to the container and receives response signals from address decoder circuits located in each file folder removably received in the container. Each container has an electrical output connector which can be connected to the electrical input connector of another container so that several containers can be connected to one another. Each container can be removably installed in a file cabinet drawer and electrically connected to the file drawer conductive rails to communicate with a file cabinet based file management system.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于文件管理系统的存储容器,其中文件夹的位置位于安装在存储容器的壁之间的支撑构件上。 支撑构件电连接到电输入连接器,该电输入连接器将文件夹搜索信号提供给容器,并且从位于可移除地容纳在容器中的每个文件夹中的地址解码器电路接收响应信号。 每个容器都有一个电气输出连接器,可以连接到另一个容器的电气输入连接器,以便可以将多个容器相互连接起来。 每个容器可拆卸地安装在文件柜抽屉中,并与文件抽屉导电轨电气连接,以与文件柜的文件管理系统进行通信。

    Fan with flexible drive shaft
    7.
    发明授权
    Fan with flexible drive shaft 有权
    风扇带柔性传动轴

    公开(公告)号:US08662866B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-03-04

    申请号:US13134726

    申请日:2011-06-15

    IPC分类号: F04D29/05 F16C1/02

    摘要: An electric motor driven fan device has a base member with walls forming an enclosure, an electrically powered motor located within the enclosure and having an output shaft coupled via a bearing mounted in an upper wall of the base member to one end of a flexible drive shaft rotatably enclosed in a bendable sheath secured to the base member. The other end of the flexible drive shaft is coupled via a second bearing to a driven shaft secured to a multi-bladed fan. The other end of the bendable sheath is secured to the outer race of the second bearing. The predominant mass of the device is at the bottom, which reduces the footprint of the lower portion. The bendable sheath enables the attitude of the fan to be manually adjusted.

    摘要翻译: 一种电动机驱动的风扇装置,具有形成外壳的壁的基座部件,位于外壳内的电动马达,具有通过安装在基部件的上壁中的轴承与柔性驱动轴的一端相连的输出轴 可旋转地封闭在固定到基座构件上的可弯曲护套中。 柔性驱动轴的另一端通过第二轴承联接到固定到多叶片风扇的从动轴上。 可弯曲护套的另一端固定在第二轴承的外圈上。 该装置的主要质量位于底部,这减小了下部的占地面积。 可弯曲护套可以手动调整风扇的姿势。

    Intelligent fastener
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US08584957B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-19

    申请号:US13374911

    申请日:2012-01-23

    IPC分类号: G06K19/06 F16B31/02 G06F17/00

    摘要: An intelligent fastener having a head and an externally threaded shank for threaded engagement with a structural member. The head has a recess formed in the top surface for mounting an RFID tag with a memory containing information specific to the fastener—such as fastener identification, specified torque value and other information—an antenna for enabling bidirectional communication with an RFID tag reader, and a torque value sensor for determining the torque applied to the fastener by a fastener installation tool. Once installed, the existing torque on a collection of fasteners is measured by using an RFID tag reader to scan the information stored in the memory of each fastener.

    Document folder for storage cabinets

    公开(公告)号:US10350936B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15932821

    申请日:2018-05-01

    IPC分类号: A47B63/06 B42F15/00

    摘要: A document storage system for removably storing individual documents. A shelved cabinet has a track receptacle mounted to the lower shelf surface adjacent the cabinet front. The track receptacle has a plurality of tracks extending from the cabinet front to the cabinet rear. Each track has an open slot extending from the front to the rear of the cabinet. The track also has a rearwardly extending lip providing a rearwardly directed open notch. The cabinet further includes a back with an inner surface and a pair of ohmic conductors mounted on the inner surface and extending laterally thereof. An electronically searchable flexible file folder has a thin main body portion and a header secured to the top of the main body portion. The header is dimensioned to be removably received in any track of the track receptacle with the main body portion slidably received in the slot. The header portion has visible indicator mounted on a first end; and a latch pawl located on the first end engageable with the notch when the file folder is installed in the track. A pair of probe pins is mounted on the other end of the header and are engageable with the pair of ohmic conductors when the file folder is installed in a track.

    Security lock for removably suspended electronically addressable object and system

    公开(公告)号:US10102698B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US15530365

    申请日:2017-01-03

    摘要: An electronically addressable object carrier for enabling the management of removably suspended objects, such as keys, distributed in an object location space, The object carrier includes a housing having an object retention element for securing an object to the object carrier and a lock element for releasable engagement with an associated locking device, the microcontroller having a unique object address serving to identify an object secured to the object carrier; a plurality of electrically conductive contact pads in the housing for electrically coupling the microcontroller to a source of object address signals and electrical power signals and a visible indicator coupled to the microcontroller for activation whenever the microcontroller receives an address signal representative of the unique object address. The lock element is a recess formed in a surface of the housing with an abutment edge. The associated locking device is a solenoid having a retractable plunger terminating in a control element which engages the recess. The locking device is mounted adjacent a mounting aperture in a support element, such as a cabinet interior wall. In use, the carrier is inserted into the wall aperture until the control element engages the housing recess, which locks the carrier in place. To unlock, the solenoid is operated to retract the plunger to release the carrier for manual removal.