Logistics appliance and anti-disassembly method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020388124-A1
Application number	US-201816955650-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 19, 2018
Priority date	Dec 20, 2017
Publication date	Dec 10, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present application relates to the field of logistics, discloses an anti-disassembly logistics appliance and anti-disassembly method therefor, realizing the anti-disassembly alarm of a designated module under the premise of simple structure and low power consumption. An anti-disassembly logistics appliance, comprising: a confined space and an anti-disassembly module disposed in the confined space; the anti-disassembly module comprises: one or more photoelectric devices, a wireless communication unit and a determining unit; the determining unit is configured to determine whether an electrical signal output by the photoelectric device is greater than a preset threshold, and if so, triggers the wireless communication unit to transmit an alarm signal; the structure of the confined space satisfies following requirements: the confined space is an light-tight dark space after the anti-disassembly module is installed; during the process of disassembling the anti-disassembly module from the logistics appliance, the light-tightness of the confined space is at least temporarily destroyed to enable the optoelectronic device to detect light.

First claim

1 . An anti-disassembly logistics appliance, comprising: a confined space and an anti-disassembly module disposed in the confined space;
the anti-disassembly module comprises: one or more photoelectric devices, a wireless communication unit and a determining unit; the determining unit is configured to determine whether an electrical signal output by the photoelectric device is greater than a preset threshold, and if so, triggers the wireless communication unit to transmit an alarm signal; the structure of the confined space satisfies following requirements: the confined space is a light-tight dark space after the anti-disassembly module is installed; and, during the process of disassembling the anti-disassembly module from the logistics appliance, the light-tightness of the confined space is at least temporarily destroyed to enable the optoelectronic device to detect light.

2 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-disassembly module further comprises one or any combination of the following components electrically coupled to the wireless communication unit:
a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope, a logistics appliance empty/full sensor; the wireless communication unit accesses an external wireless communication network in a wireless manner, and transmits signals output by the above sensors together with the identification of the anti-disassembly module to a cloud server through the wireless communication network.

3 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the alarm signal comprises one of the following information or any combination thereof:
the identification of the anti-disassembly module, the identification of the logistics appliance, the time when the alarm is triggered, and the position where the alarm is triggered.

4 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-disassembly module comprises an independent battery to supply power to the photoelectric device, the wireless communication unit and the determining unit.

5 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 4 , further comprising a wireless charging module coupled to the battery for charging the battery.

6 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the confined space is a cavity, and the inner surface of the cavity is made of a material with a reflection coefficient lower than a predetermined threshold.

7 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 6 , wherein the inner surface of the cavity is made of black matte material.

8 . The anti-disassembly logistics appliance according to claim 1 , wherein after the anti-disassembly module is installed in the confined space, at least one surface of the anti-disassembly module is used as a bonding surface to be bonded to one surface of the logistics appliance, and at least one surface of the anti-disassembly module is used as a non-bonding surface which is in the confined space but not bonded to any surface of the logistics appliance;
there are a plurality of the photoelectric devices, wherein, at least one photoelectric device is disposed on the bonding surface, and at least one photoelectric device is disposed on the non-bonding surface; the determining unit is configured to trigger the wireless communication unit to transmit an alarm signal indicating that the anti-disassembly module is completely disengaged if the electrical signal output by the photoelectric device disposed on the bonding surface is greater than a preset threshold, and trigger the wireless communication unit to transmit an alarm signal indicating that the anti-disassembly module is damaged if the electrical signal output by the photoelectric device disposed on the non-bonding surface is greater than a preset threshold.

9 . An anti-disassembly method for logistics appliance, comprising:
installing an anti-disassembly module into a logistics appliance in advance so that the anti-disassembly module is disposed in a confined space structure; determining that an electrical signal indicating optical intensity output by a photoelectric device is greater than a preset threshold; triggering a wireless communication unit to transmit an alarm signal; wherein, the structure of the confined space satisfies following requirements: the confined space is an light-tight dark space after the anti-disassembly module is installed; and, during the process of disassembling the anti-disassembly module from the logistics appliance, the light-tightness of the confined space is at least temporarily destroyed to enable the optoelectronic device to detect light.

10 . The anti-disassembly method for logistics appliance according to claim 9 , further comprising:
before legal disassembly, sending an instruction indicating suspending alarm from a server to the anti-disassembly module; prohibiting the wireless communication unit from transmitting the alarm signal after the anti-disassembly module receives the instruction.

11 . The anti-disassembly method for logistics appliance according to claim 9 , further comprising:
sending a request which carries the identification of the anti-disassembly module or the logistics appliance for legal disassembly to a server through a terminal; ignoring the alarm signal which carries the identification of the anti-disassembly module or the logistics appliance after the server receives the request in the received alarm signal.

Assignees

• Shanghai Hongyan Returnable Transit Packagings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liao Qingxin
• Li Bo
• Cao Yiwen

Classifications

• G08B13/181 Primary

  using active radiation detection systems · CPC title

• G08B13/1895 Primary

  using light change detection systems (G08B13/194 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G08B25/10

  using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} · CPC title