Addressable drawer organizer with item display panel
AssigneeiMicrodata
InventorsShengbo Zhu, Su Shiong Huang
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InventorsShengbo Zhu, Su Shiong Huang
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A drawer organizer for facilitating the location of an item stored in one of several drawers in one or more drawer organizer cabinets. Each drawer has an LED and a display device mounted on a front panel, as well as a CPU and a display device driver. The CPU memory contains the address of the associated drawer and communicates with an associated controller which receives drawer address and display information from a host computer. A user specifies an item to be retrieved from one of the cabinet drawers, the host computer transmits drawer identification signals to the controller, which converts these signals to a drawer address and supplies the drawer address to all drawer CPUs in the cabinet. If the incoming address matches the address stored in CPU memory of one of the drawers, this result is conveyed via the controller to the host computer, which then sends item display information to the controller. The controller forwards this information to the CPU, which relays this information to the display device driver and the information is displayed to the user. The CPU also activates the drawer LED.
A drawer organizer comprising:
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