Housing device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individual houses in cities face challenges in accommodating home delivery lockers due to limited space, leading to difficulties in storing packages of various sizes, particularly large or long packages, which often result in re-delivery issues.
Innovation Solution
A housing device with modular housing boxes that include a movable shelf plate to partition and combine storage spaces, allowing for flexible use of space and accommodating packages of different sizes, featuring a control system for secure access and article detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the size of housing boxes is reduced to fit narrow installation spaces in individual houses, then the device can be installed in individual houses with limited space, but it cannot accommodate packages of large or long sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The housing box is divided into multiple compartments by shelf plates that can be independently adjusted. This segmentation allows the internal space to be flexibly divided to accommodate packages of various sizes while keeping the external dimensions compact for narrow installation spaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The shelf plates are designed to be movable rather than fixed, allowing users to dynamically adjust the internal configuration of the housing box. This enables the same housing box to adapt to different package sizes by repositioning the shelf plates, resolving the contradiction between compact external size and internal versatility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If fixed shelf plates are used to partition housing spaces, then the structure is simple and stable, but the storage spaces cannot be flexibly adjusted for packages of different sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The shelf plates are designed with movable characteristics, allowing them to be repositioned along the housing box walls. This dynamic design provides storage flexibility for different package sizes while maintaining relative structural simplicity through guided movement paths.
Solution Approach 2:
Guiding structures and slots act as intermediaries between the shelf plates and the housing box walls, enabling smooth movement while maintaining structural integrity. These intermediary elements facilitate the movable shelf plate function without requiring complex mechanisms.
3Productivity
If all doors are unlocked simultaneously, then access is fast and convenient, but security is compromised by allowing access to multiple housing spaces that may contain articles
Solution Approach 1:
The door unlocking mechanism implements local quality control by selectively unlocking only the specific door(s) associated with the target housing space containing the article. This prevents simultaneous unlocking of all doors, maintaining security while enabling efficient access to the required compartment.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit receives feedback from detection units that identify which housing space contains the delivered article. Based on this feedback, the control unit selectively activates only the relevant door lock(s), achieving both security and efficient access without unnecessary door unlocking.
Data Source
AI summary
A housing system is provided with a housing device 10 that is installed, for example, at an entrance of an individual house of a user, and stores a delivery object or the like addressed to the user while being locked, and a managing server 20 for managing the housing state of the housing device 10. The housing device 10 has, for example, a square pillar shape, and on its one side face, a display for use in displaying and keys or the like for use in inputting information are disposed, on the other two side faces, doors of housing boxes are disposed.