Equipment for automatically distributing round dinner plates after information is collected by wide-angle camera

The automated tray dispensing system, which uses a wide-angle camera to collect information, solves the problems of inaccurate tray distribution and complicated settlement in restaurants. It achieves fast, low-noise, and low-cost tray dispensing, thus improving the level of intelligence in restaurants.

CN223804493UActive Publication Date: 2026-01-16ZHONGPU HUILIAN INFORMATION TECH (SHANGHAI) CO LTD
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Patent Information

Application Number
CN202520480906.1
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-03-19
Publication Date
2026-01-16
Estimated Expiration
2035-03-19

AI Technical Summary

Technical Problem

In existing restaurant dining scenarios, multiple people are required to operate the equipment, making it difficult to accurately distribute plates, the settlement process is complicated, and the level of intelligence of the equipment is insufficient.

Method used

Design a device that automatically dispenses round plates after collecting information from a wide-angle camera. The device includes a housing, an electrical control box, a wide-angle camera, a motor drive assembly, a mechanical plate-dropping assembly, and lighting spotlights. The automatic dispensing of plates is achieved through photoelectric sensors and the motor drive assembly, reducing manual intervention.

Benefits of technology

It enables fast and accurate plate distribution, reduces labor costs, enhances the dining experience, is suitable for use in various occasions, has a simple and easy-to-maintain structure, and reduces noise pollution.

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Abstract

The utility model discloses equipment for automatically distributing round dinner plates after information is collected by a wide-angle camera, belongs to the technical field of restaurant intelligent equipment, and particularly relates to a restaurant intelligent plate distributing machine which comprises a box body, an electric control box, the wide-angle camera, an opening door, a motor driving assembly, a mechanical plate falling assembly and a lighting spotlight. The dinner plate distributing equipment is high in response speed and dinner plate discharging speed, is suitable for being used in various occasions, has low requirements for the environment and is beneficial to large-scale popularization. Labor cost is reduced, personnel watching is not needed, and more round dinner plates are arranged in the machine, so that the machine can be used in a large-scale canteen; the mute motor is used, noisy noise is avoided during operation, the structure is simple, and maintenance is easy.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The application belongs to the technical field of intelligent restaurant equipment, and particularly relates to an intelligent dish server for a restaurant. BACKGROUND

[0002] In the past dining scene, a plurality of workers need to operate, diners cannot find the dish plate, cannot select the amount of dishes according to their food volume when finding the dish plate to take dishes, need to recharge in the process of settlement, or need to buy tickets for settlement in some specific scenes. Some disadvantages will be perfectly solved by the participation of the smart canteen, and the automatic dish server is an indispensable component in the smart canteen.

[0003] The device is an indispensable component in the smart canteen system. When the whole smart canteen system is more and more intelligent and fast, we should consider how to improve the components in the system from all angles to efficiently and accurately complete the corresponding services.

[0004] Therefore, there is an urgent need in the prior art to solve the above problems. Content of the utility model

[0005] The technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide a device and system for the problems in the background art.

[0006] A device for automatically issuing a circular dish plate after information is collected by a wide-angle camera, characterized in that the device comprises a box body, an electric control box, a wide-angle camera, an opening door, a motor drive assembly, a mechanical dish dropping assembly and an illuminating spotlight.

[0007] The box body is provided with an opening door, and the box body is provided with an electric control box, a wide-angle camera, a motor drive assembly, a mechanical dish dropping assembly and an illuminating spotlight.

[0008] The electric control box is electrically connected with the wide-angle camera, the motor drive assembly, the mechanical dish dropping assembly and the illuminating spotlight.

[0009] The mechanical dish dropping assembly comprises a dish dropping limiting piece, a transmission rod, a tray limiting plate and a dish dropping limiting piece I.

[0010] The number of the dish dropping limiting pieces is four, the dish dropping limiting pieces are rotationally arranged in the box body through rotating shafts, and the four dish dropping limiting pieces are sequentially connected through the transmission rod. The dish dropping limiting piece is T-shaped, one end of the horizontal bar of the T-shaped dish dropping limiting piece is a lifting end, the lifting end is provided with the dish dropping limiting piece I, and the other two ends of the T-shaped dish dropping limiting piece are rotationally connected with the transmission rod. The tray limiting plate is L-shaped, and the tray limiting plate is arranged in the box body.

[0011] The motor driving assembly comprises a photoelectric sensor, a reset mechanism, a limiting piece, a sliding block motor, a driving block, a sliding core, a end sealing, a reset spring, a connecting piece, a reciprocating motion piece, a limiting spring and a supporting spring.

[0012] The sliding block motor output end is provided with a lead screw, and the lead screw is provided with a driving block.

[0013] The reset mechanism is provided with a reset spring and a supporting spring, and the reset spring and the supporting spring are connected to the inner wall of the reset mechanism at one end and connected to the sliding core at the other end.

[0014] The reset mechanism is provided with a photoelectric sensor at the top, and the reset mechanism is provided with a limiting piece inside, and the limiting piece is provided with a first inclined surface.

[0015] The connecting piece is fixedly arranged on the transmission rod closest to the reset mechanism; the reciprocating motion piece comprises a motion block and a motion rod, the motion block is fixedly connected with the motion rod, the motion block is provided with a second inclined surface matched with the first inclined surface, and the motion rod sequentially passes through the sliding core and the connecting piece; the motion rod is provided with a limiting spring, one end of the limiting spring is fixedly connected with the motion rod, and the other end of the limiting spring is fixedly connected with the sliding core.

[0016] The opening door is provided below with a tray taking opening.

[0017] The electric control box comprises a processor, a circuit and a power supply.

[0018] The box body comprises a left side plate, a bottom plate, a back plate, a right side plate and an upper cover plate.

[0019] The photoelectric sensor is arranged on the reset mechanism through a sensor support.

[0020] The lifting end is provided with a tray limiting piece I through a rotating shaft.

[0021] The reset mechanism is fixedly installed in the box body through a reset mechanism mounting plate.

[0022] The reset mechanism mounting plate is provided with an end sealing.

[0023] The number of the tray limiting plates is four, and the four tray limiting plates are regularly arranged in the box body and used for limiting the meal tray.

[0024] The opening door is provided with an observation window.

[0025] The driving block is provided with a pushing block, the pushing block is used for pushing the motion block when the driving block moves, and the height of the pushing block is lower than that of the limiting piece.

[0026] Through the above design scheme, the device is provided with fast response speed and fast dish plate output speed, is suitable for various occasions, has low environment requirement and is beneficial to wide promotion, reduces labor cost, does not need personnel to keep watch, and the circular dish plates prevented in the machine are more and can meet the use of large-scale canteens, the silent motor is used, no noisy noise is generated during operation, and the structure is simple and easy to maintain. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0027] Figure 1 Structure diagram of the utility model Figure One .

[0028] Figure 2 Structure diagram of the utility model Figure Two ;

[0029] Figure 3 Structure diagram of the utility model Figure Three ;

[0030] Figure 4 Assembling diagram of mechanical dish plate assembly and motor driving assembly adopted by the utility model Figure One ;

[0031] Figure 5 Assembling diagram of mechanical dish plate assembly and motor driving assembly adopted by the utility model Figure Two ;

[0032] Figure 6 Top view of mechanical dish plate assembly and motor driving assembly adopted by the utility model

[0033] Figure 7 Side view of mechanical dish plate assembly and motor driving assembly adopted by the utility model

[0034] Figure 8 Perspective view of mechanical dish plate assembly and motor driving assembly adopted by the utility model

[0035] Figure 9 Structure diagram of dish plate limiting piece adopted by the utility model

[0036] 1-left side plate, 2-viewing window, 3-wide-angle camera, 4-opening door, 5-tray taking port, 6-motor drive assembly, 7-mechanical tray falling assembly, 8-bottom plate, 9-back plate, 10-right side plate, 11-top cover plate, 12-illumination spotlight, 13-electric control box, 61-photoelectric sensor, 62-sensor support, 63-reset mechanism, 64-limiting piece, 65-sliding block motor, 66-driving block, 67-sliding core, 68-reset mechanism mounting plate, 69-end sealing, 71-tray falling limiting piece, 72-transmission rod, 73-tray limiting plate, 74-tray falling limiting piece I, 10-right side plate, 11-top cover plate, 610-reset spring, 611-connection piece, 612-reciprocating movement piece, 613-limiting spring, 614-support spring, 6121-movement block, 6122-movement rod, 6123-second inclined surface, 641-first inclined surface, 661-pushing block, 711-lifting end, 16-dinner tray. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0037] The application is further illustrated in conjunction with the drawings:

[0038] The application discloses an equipment for automatically distributing a circular dinner tray after information is collected by a wide-angle camera, which comprises a box body, an electric control box 13, a wide-angle camera 3, an opening door 4, a motor drive assembly 6, a mechanical tray falling assembly 7 and an illumination spotlight 12.

[0039] The box body is provided with the opening door 4, and the box body is internally provided with the electric control box 13, the wide-angle camera 3, the motor drive assembly 6, the mechanical tray falling assembly 7 and the illumination spotlight 12.

[0040] The electric control box 13 is electrically connected with the wide-angle camera 3, the motor drive assembly 6, the mechanical tray falling assembly 7 and the illumination spotlight 12 respectively.

[0041] The mechanical tray falling assembly 7 comprises tray falling limiting pieces 71, a transmission rod 72, a tray limiting plate 73 and tray falling limiting piece I 74.

[0042] The four tray falling limiting pieces 71 are rotationally arranged in the box body through rotating shafts and are sequentially connected through the transmission rod 72; the tray falling limiting piece 71 is T-shaped, one end of the horizontal bar of the T-shaped structure is a lifting end 711, the tray falling limiting piece I 74 is arranged on the lifting end 711, and the other two ends of the T-shaped structure are rotationally connected with the transmission rod 72; the tray limiting plate 73 is L-shaped and is arranged in the box body.

[0043] The motor driving assembly 6 comprises a photoelectric sensor 61, a reset mechanism 63, a limiting piece 64, a sliding block motor 65, a driving block 66, a sliding core 67, an end sealing 69, a reset spring 610, a connecting piece 611, a reciprocating piece 612, a limiting spring 613 and a supporting spring 614.

[0044] The sliding block motor 65 is provided with a screw rod at the output end, and the driving block 66 is arranged on the screw rod.

[0045] The reset mechanism 63 is provided with the reset spring 610 and the supporting spring 614, and the reset spring 610 and the supporting spring 614 are connected to the inner wall of the reset mechanism 63 at one end and connected to the sliding core 67 at the other end.

[0046] The reset mechanism 63 is provided with the photoelectric sensor 61 at the top, and the limiting piece 64 is arranged in the reset mechanism 63, and the limiting piece 64 is provided with a first inclined surface 641.

[0047] The connecting piece 611 is fixedly arranged on the transmission rod 72 closest to the reset mechanism 63; the reciprocating piece 612 comprises a moving block 6121 and a moving rod 6122, the moving block 6121 and the moving rod 6122 are fixedly connected, the moving block 6121 is provided with a second inclined surface 6123 matched with the first inclined surface 641, and the moving rod 6122 sequentially passes through the sliding core 67 and the connecting piece 611; the limiting spring 613 is sleeved on the moving rod 6122, one end of the limiting spring 613 is fixedly connected with the moving rod 6122, and the other end is fixedly connected with the sliding core 67.

[0048] The opening door 4 is provided below with a tray taking opening 5.

[0049] The electric control box 13 comprises a processor, a circuit and a power supply.

[0050] The box body comprises a left side plate 1, a bottom plate 8, a back plate 9, a right side plate 10 and an upper cover plate 11.

[0051] The photoelectric sensor 61 is arranged on the reset mechanism 63 through the sensor support 62.

[0052] The lifting end 711 is provided with a tray limiting piece I74 through a rotating shaft.

[0053] The reset mechanism 63 is fixedly installed in the box body through the reset mechanism mounting plate 68.

[0054] The end sealing 69 is arranged on the reset mechanism mounting plate 68.

[0055] The number of the tray limiting plates 73 is four, and the four tray limiting plates 73 are regularly arranged in the box body and used for limiting the tray.

[0056] The opening door 4 is provided with an observation window 2.

[0057] The slider motor 65 is a mute motor.

[0058] The driving block 66 is provided with a pushing block 661 for pushing the moving block 6121 when the driving block 66 moves, and the height of the pushing block 661 is lower than that of the limiting piece 64.

[0059] The tray limiting plate 73 is used for limiting the position of the tray 16 to prevent the tray from being scattered.

[0060] The size of the box is 515mm*370mm*1060mm.

[0061] The box comprises a left side plate 1, a bottom plate 8, a back plate 9, a right side plate 10 and an upper cover plate 11, and all the plates are made of aluminum alloy plates with good rust and corrosion resistance.

[0062] The wide-angle camera 3 installed on the opening door 4 collects information and sends a tray dropping signal to the processor in the electric control box 13. In order to better observe the number of circular trays inside the equipment, a long waist type observation window 2 is made on the opening door, and a tray taking opening 5 is arranged below the opening door for taking out the fallen tray 16.

[0063] When the slider motor 65 works, the lead screw drives the driving block 66 to move, the driving block 66 pushes the reciprocating moving piece 612 to move reciprocally, when the reciprocating moving piece 612 moves from the starting end to the other end and contacts with the limiting piece 64, the first inclined surface 614 cooperates with the second inclined surface 6123 to make the reciprocating moving piece 612 slide inward to the direction of the limiting piece 64 towards the mechanical tray dropping assembly 7, causing the reciprocating moving piece 612 to produce a relative displacement and be separated from the common movement with the driving block 66, under the action of the return spring 610, the reciprocating moving piece 612 is restored to the position when no movement is produced by the slide core 67, the driving block 66 has an interaction with the reciprocating moving piece 612 when restoring to the initial position, under the action of the limiting spring 613, the driving block 66 and the reciprocating moving piece 612 form the initial state again.

[0064] Each reciprocating movement will drive the connecting piece 611 to move the transmission rod 72, the movement of the transmission rod 72 drives the tray dropping limiting piece 71 and the tray dropping limiting piece I74 to produce a reciprocating arc movement on the rotating shaft, the end lifting end 711 of the tray dropping limiting piece 71 and the tray dropping limiting piece I74 respectively act to separate and drop the lowest circular tray from the whole tray stack, which is convenient for the operator to take out from the lower tray taking opening 5.

[0065] When the person who needs the tray stands in front of the device, the wide-angle camera 3 collects the image of the person, and when the collection time reaches the required time, it is determined that the current person is the tray demander, not a passerby and a misrecorded person. At this time, the control box 13 issues an instruction to the motor drive assembly 6 to start operation, and the tray falling assembly 7 operates to realize the operation of falling the tray.

[0066] Such a process realizes the full function of our device, improves the composition of the smart cafeteria, reduces the workload of the cafeteria staff, reduces labor costs, and improves the dining experience. The wide-angle camera 3 selected by the device can adjust the angle according to actual needs to ensure that the camera can collect the corresponding information when diners of different heights stand in front of the device. It cannot happen that the information cannot be collected because of the different heights of the diners.

[0067] All non-standard parts in the device are made of standard metal materials. The panels, side plates and other parts processed have good flatness and high aesthetics. The internal components are light in weight and have good rigidity requirements, and are easy to install. As a component of the smart cafeteria system, the tray dispenser can sort out the dining habits of each diner through data integration, so as to determine whether the diner has a health problem when a special situation occurs. Although this is not a very important focus, our device is applied in the overall environment of the smart cafeteria, so in general it can still reflect a certain importance.

[0068] As our dining scene becomes more and more intelligent, we also need to constantly improve each component in this intelligent scene to reduce the proportion of manual labor and make people a decision-making existence rather than a labor existence. At the same time, improving the intelligence and automation of the device can also provide diners with a better dining experience. Business opportunities are unlimited and subtle. Only by providing each participant with a better psychological and physical experience can we have more opportunities to promote what we do, so that more people can eat healthily and happily.

Claims

1. A device for automatically dispensing round dinner plates after information is captured by a wide-angle camera, characterized in that, The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12);The utility model relates to a kind of box, electric control box (13), wide-angle camera (3), opening door (4), motor drive assembly (6), mechanical tray assembly (7) and lighting spotlight (12) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The electric control box (13) comprises a processor, a circuit and a power supply.

2. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: The box body comprises a left side plate (1), a bottom plate (8), a back plate (9), a right side plate (10) and an upper cover plate (11).

3. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: The photoelectric sensor (61) is arranged on the reset mechanism (63) through a sensor support (62).

4. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: The lifting end (711) is provided with a disc limiting piece I (74) through a rotating shaft.

5. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: The reset mechanism (63) is fixedly installed in the box body through a reset mechanism mounting plate (68).

6. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 5, wherein: An end head block (69) is arranged on the reset mechanism mounting plate (68).

7. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: The number of the tray limiting plates (73) is four, which are regularly arranged in the box body and used for limiting the trays.

8. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: An observation window (2) is arranged on the opening door (4).

9. The apparatus for automatically dispensing a round dinner plate after information is captured by a wide-angle camera according to claim 1, wherein: A pushing block (661) is arranged on the driving block (66), which is used for pushing the moving block (6121) when the driving block (66) moves, and the height of the pushing block (661) is lower than that of the limiting piece (64).