Patent ID: 11954640
Assignee: nan
Field: Basic communication processes (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A container for a goods management system, the system being configured for receiving goods,
wherein the container is a cardboard, plastic or wooden box,
wherein the container comprises a capacitive sensor device for detecting the presence and/or the filling volume of goods in the container, the capacitive sensor device comprising a conducting path formed through the printing of electrically conductive ink on a surface of at least one boundary wall of the container;
wherein the container, in addition to the capacitive sensor device, comprises a separate property sensing device configured to determine a qualitative property of the goods present;
wherein the sensor device comprises a plurality of conducting paths or a plurality of pairs of conducting paths forming measuring and shielding electrodes to separately detect, by capacitive measurement, the presence and/or the filling volume of goods in a plurality of areas or compartments of the container; and
wherein the property sensing device comprises an IR spectrometer, an RFID reader, a camera coupled to an image evaluation device, or an electromagnetic sensor system.