US 12,465,165 B2
Delivery locker management system
Yuki Tatsumoto, Seto (JP); Ryutaro Tomita, Tokyo (JP); Mami Noguchi, Nagoya (JP); Kenichiro Sugihara, Kounosu (JP); Hiroyuki Nakajima, Tokyo (JP); and Yuko Nagai, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on May 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/663,280.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-082197 (JP), filed on May 18, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0382028 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. A47G 29/14 (2006.01); A47G 29/30 (2006.01)
CPC A47G 29/141 (2013.01) [A47G 29/30 (2013.01); A47G 2029/142 (2013.01); A47G 2029/149 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delivery locker management system, comprising:
a delivery locker station including multiple delivery lockers having two or more different sizes; and
a processor configured to communicate with the delivery locker station, wherein
the processor is configured to:
obtain information on a size of a parcel to be deposited;
extract delivery lockers having sizes suitable for the parcel from available delivery lockers among the multiple delivery lockers;
allocate one of the extracted delivery lockers to the parcel prior to a depositor of the parcel arriving at the delivery locker station;
notify the depositor of the parcel of information identifying the delivery locker allocated to the parcel; and
unlock a lock of the delivery locker allocated to the parcel, so that the depositor can deposit the parcel in the delivery locker allocated to the parcel,
wherein, if the delivery locker allocated to the parcel is a delivery locker that is larger than a smallest delivery locker into which the parcel can be placed from among the multiple delivery lockers, and if the smallest delivery locker becomes available before the parcel is deposited in the larger delivery locker, the processor is further configured to cancel allocation of the larger delivery locker and allocate the smallest delivery locker to the parcel.