Goods anti-theft device, more particularly for cardboard boxes
Assigneerapitag GmbH
InventorsSebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
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Abstract
The invention relates to an anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected the anti-theft device including a housing, which comprises a winding apparatus rotatably arranged therein, at least one securing-loop arrangement designed and intended to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected, and a locking mechanism.
Claims23
Anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected, the anti-theft device comprising:
- a housing which comprises a winding apparatus rotatably arranged therein;
- at least one securing-loop arrangement, which comprises one or more securing loops, each having at least one securing cord connected to the winding apparatus, the securing cords being windable onto the winding apparatus in response to a rotational winding movement of the winding apparatus, and being unwindable from the winding apparatus in response to a rotational unwinding movement of the winding apparatus, the securing-loop arrangement being designed and intended to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected;
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- a locking mechanism which is accommodated at least in part in the housing and is operatively connected to the winding apparatus, the locking mechanism having an unlocked state, in which the rotational unwinding movement of the winding apparatus in the housing is permitted, and a locked state, in which the rotational unwinding movement of the winding apparatus in the housing is prevented,
- wherein the locking mechanism further comprises a release element, which is made at least in part of a shape-memory alloy and is configured to cause the locking mechanism to be transferred from the locked state to the unlocked state when the shape-memory alloy is in an excited state.
Anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected, comprising:
- a housing,
- at least one securing-loop arrangement, which comprises one or more securing loops, each having at least one securing cord that can be connected to the housing,
- the securing-loop arrangement being designed and intended to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected,
- a locking mechanism, which is accommodated at least in part in the housing, interacts with the securing-loop arrangement and has an unlocked state, in which removal of the anti-theft device from the merchandise to be protected is permitted, and a locked state, in which removal of the anti-theft device from the merchandise to be protected is prevented, and
- a power supply unit,
- wherein the anti-theft device further comprises
- a motion sensor, and
- a control unit which is configured to receive signals from the motion sensor and to set the anti-theft device selectively in an active or an inactive operating mode depending on the signals received from the motion sensor.
Anti-theft device according to 9, wherein the light sensor is operatively connected to the alarm generation apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.