Rotating Media Dispenser Access Guide Channel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automatic media dispensers require customers to insert their hands into the apparatus to retrieve media, making it inconvenient and prone to errors, and do not allow for easy depositing or recovery of media, leading to malfunctions and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A customer access apparatus with a rotatable supporting plate, stacker guide, and push plate that allows media to be raised for easy retrieval and depositing, using stacking wheels with spirally formed conveying vanes to guide and compress media for accurate placement and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the door is opened for customer access, then the customer can retrieve media, but the media may be lost or misplaced
Solution Approach 1:
A guide channel is introduced as an intermediary structure between the media storage area and the customer access area. The guide channel physically guides the media along a predetermined path, ensuring that media is properly directed to the customer without direct access to the internal storage areas, thus maintaining security while enabling access.
Solution Approach 2:
The customer access apparatus is divided into distinct functional segments: a media storage section, a guide channel section, and a delivery section. This segmentation allows the media to be transferred through controlled stages, with each segment performing a specific function that contributes to both customer access and media security.
2Productivity
If the base tray rotates to empty media into the recovery box, then media can be recovered, but the mechanism becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The base tray rotation mechanism is merged with the guide channel structure. The guide channel is integrated into the rotating base tray assembly, so that a single rotational movement simultaneously achieves both the emptying of media into the recovery box and the resetting of the guide channel for the next media batch, reducing overall mechanism complexity.
3Reliability
If the door remains closed for security, then media is protected, but the customer cannot access the media
Solution Approach 1:
The media is extracted from the enclosed secure storage area and delivered through an external guide channel to the customer access point. This allows the main storage area to remain closed and secure while still providing customer access to the media through the separate guide channel delivery system.
Data Source
AI summary
A customer access apparatus for an automatic media dispenser is provided. The customer access apparatus may include a pivotable supporting plate that supports an end of the media standing upright, and a stacker guide which is movably installed on the supporting plate. A push plate moves integrally with the stacker guide and relative to the stacker guide, and a driving unit recovers media which have been compressed and conveyed by the stacker guide and the push plate. Upper ends of the stacker guide and plate are selectively located at a position where the media are raised toward an inlet to which a customer has access, by means of a rotation of the supporting plate, such that a process of depositing and withdrawing the media can be performed. A contact point between the customer and the customer access apparatus may be located outside of the customer access apparatus such that the operation of depositing and withdrawing the media can be performed more accurately and easily. In particular, the media can be accurately arranged when the customer deposits the media, and the media to be recovered or deposited can be separated out one by one and then conveyed, arraigned and stored. Recovered media can be used again as it is stored in the automatic media dispenser.