Slim-Profile ATM Safe With Recessed Door for Lane Retrofit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional ATMs require a larger footprint than pneumatic transfer systems, limiting the number of traffic lanes and necessitating site reconstruction when replacing pneumatic drive-up banking systems with ATMs.
Innovation Solution
A slim-profile safe for ATMs with a recessed door configuration and non-parallel planar surfaces, allowing for reduced external dimensions and enabling installation on existing platforms without altering traffic lanes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If conventional ATMs are used, then automated banking service is provided, but the footprint is larger requiring site reconstruction
Solution Approach 1:
The safe door employs an asymmetric design with a recessed portion that is non-parallel to the back wall, creating an oblique surface that reduces the overall footprint. This asymmetric configuration allows the safe to maintain security functionality while occupying less space on the island platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The recessed door design utilizes dimensional optimization by creating a multi-level door structure with fore and recess portions at different depths. This dimensional approach allows the safe to fit within smaller external dimensions while maintaining internal volume for currency storage.
2Productivity
If conventional ATMs are used, then automated handling and storage of currency is achieved, but the island platform width is greater limiting traffic lanes
Solution Approach 1:
The asymmetric door configuration with non-parallel surfaces optimizes the width dimension by eliminating unnecessary protrusions. The recessed portion allows the door to be positioned closer to the safe body, reducing the overall width requirement of the island platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the geometric parameters of the door by introducing a recessed portion with specific depth measurements (first depth for fore portion, second depth for recess portion). This parameter optimization reduces the envelope dimensions while maintaining functional requirements for currency handling.
3Reliability
If conventional ATMs are used, then safe components are provided, but site reconstruction is necessary when replacing pneumatic systems
Solution Approach 1:
The recessed door design extracts the essential security functionality from a bulky conventional door configuration. By removing unnecessary material and creating a recessed structure, the safe maintains its security integrity while reducing dimensions to fit existing platforms without reconstruction.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of reducing the safe body dimensions, the invention inverts the approach by designing the door to recede into the safe body. This inverted door configuration achieves footprint reduction while preserving the safe's internal components and security features.
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AI summary
A slim-profile safe has a safe body that defines an interior space, and a safe door that is moveable between a closed position for securing the interior space and an open position for accessing the interior space. The safe door includes a fore portion and a recess portion that is offset from the fore portion by a recess angle. The fore portion defines a maximum depth of the safe, and the recess portion provides a reduced depth portion of the safe for the presentation of external hardware for operating a lock that releasably locks the safe door in the closed position, the recess portion being sufficiently offset from the fore portion such that the external hardware is positioned entirely sub-flush to a plane that extends parallel to the fore portion.