Door-Mounted Package Strongbox to Reduce Delivery Theft
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge of safely and securely delivering large and oversize parcels to intended recipients without their presence, as package theft is a significant issue costing shippers, carriers, and customers billions annually.
Innovation Solution
A package delivery strongbox with a strongbox that has an open top and a close lid, coupled to an exterior door via shutters and a latching mechanism, allowing delivery personnel to place packages inside and secure them until the recipient retrieves them.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If packages are left on front porches and doors for delivery, then delivery productivity is improved, but package security deteriorates leading to theft
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a strongbox as an intermediary device between the delivery person and the recipient. The strongbox is mounted on the exterior door and provides a secure intermediate storage location where packages can be placed and later retrieved, eliminating the need to leave packages exposed on porches while maintaining delivery efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The strongbox is designed with separable components including a box body, lid, and mounting shutters that can be independently assembled and disassembled. This segmentation allows the system to provide secure storage while maintaining ease of installation and retrieval operations.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a secure strongbox is mounted on the exterior door, then package security is improved, but device complexity increases due to shutters and latching mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The strongbox incorporates dynamic elements including a movable lid that opens and closes, and shutters that can be positioned to secure or release the box. These dynamic components allow the system to transition between secure storage and accessible states, providing security while maintaining operational simplicity through straightforward mechanical movements.
3Ease of manufacture
If the strongbox is designed with a fixed structure, then manufacturing is simplified, but adaptability to different door configurations is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is divided into separate shutter components that can be independently adjusted and positioned on different door types. This segmentation allows the same strongbox unit to be adapted to various door configurations without requiring custom manufacturing, balancing production simplicity with installation flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention is directed to a package delivery strongbox. The package delivery strongbox may comprise a strongbox, a first shutter, a second shutter, and a latching mechanism. The strongbox may couple to the outside of an exterior door via the first shutter and the second shutter. The strongbox may be adapted for a delivery person to place one or more delivered packages into the strongbox through an open top and then close a lid. The latching mechanism may engage the lid thereby securing the one or more delivered packages inside of the strongbox. The one or more delivered packages may be removed by opening the exterior door, moving the first shutter and the second shutter to release the latching mechanism, and opening the lid. The strongbox may collapse for storage by folding the strongbox at a plurality of hinges.