Smart Shopping Cart with Adjustable Displays and Self-Driving
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional shopping carts lack adaptability to modern trends and technology, failing to meet the needs of contemporary shoppers and being inaccessible to individuals with disabilities.
Innovation Solution
A smart shopping cart equipped with a hanger system, adjustable display panels, motion sensors, and self-driving capabilities, along with interactive interfaces and additional storage solutions, such as a cup holder and rechargeable battery, to enhance usability and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional shopping cart design is maintained, then manufacturing simplicity is preserved, but adaptability to modern trends and technology deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The shopping cart is designed to perform multiple functions: traditional shopping storage, smartphone charging via integrated power bank, advertising display through LED panels, and navigation assistance. This multi-functionality approach allows the cart to adapt to modern trends without requiring multiple separate devices, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines traditionally separate functions into a single integrated cart system: the power bank is integrated into the cart body, display panels are built into the structure, and control systems are unified. This merging reduces the number of separate components needed, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while achieving modern adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If traditional shopping cart design is maintained, then ease of manufacture is preserved, but ease of operation for disabled users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The shopping cart incorporates adjustable features including height-adjustable handlebars and collapsible shopping baskets. These dynamic adjustments allow the cart to adapt to different user needs, including disabled users who may require specific height configurations or easier maneuverability, while using simple mechanical adjustment mechanisms that remain easy to manufacture.
3Ease of operation
If interactive features are added to shopping cart, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The shopping cart includes autonomous navigation capabilities where the cart can automatically follow the customer using smartphone integration and sensors. The cart self-adjusts its position and provides navigation assistance without requiring complex manual controls from the user, improving interactive experience while managing system complexity through autonomous operation.
4Loss of information
If display panels and electronic components are added, then information access is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The LED display panels are designed to operate in periodic cycles rather than continuously, activating during relevant shopping phases or when information is needed, and entering low-power states during idle periods. This periodic operation provides necessary information access while significantly reducing overall energy consumption compared to continuous operation.
Data Source
AI summary
The smart shopping cart is a cart for storing and transporting groceries or other articles, having a hanger pole rising from the basket for hanging bags and the like. The smart shopping cart includes a basket and a plurality of wheels secured to a lower surface of a lower wall of the basket. A lower end of a hanger pole is mounted to an upper surface of the lower wall of the basket, and the hanger pole extends upwardly. At least one article hanger is mounted on the hanger pole. A lower end of a support is mounted to a rear end of the basket, and a first display panel is mounted on the upper end of the support. A second display panel is mounted on a front end of the basket, and a handle for pushing the smart shopping cart is attached to the upper end of the support.