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EP1544386A1 - Méthode pour indiquer un accès frauduleux à un conteneur et serrure électronique pour réaliser la méthode - Google Patents

Méthode pour indiquer un accès frauduleux à un conteneur et serrure électronique pour réaliser la méthode Download PDF

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EP1544386A1
EP1544386A1 EP03425806A EP03425806A EP1544386A1 EP 1544386 A1 EP1544386 A1 EP 1544386A1 EP 03425806 A EP03425806 A EP 03425806A EP 03425806 A EP03425806 A EP 03425806A EP 1544386 A1 EP1544386 A1 EP 1544386A1
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security member
housing
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Quirino Fausto Sestini
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/008—Doors for containers, e.g. ISO-containers
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B39/00—Locks giving indication of authorised or unauthorised unlocking
    • E05B39/02—Locks giving indication of authorised or unauthorised unlocking with destructible seal closures or paper closures
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F3/03—Forms or constructions of security seals
    • G09F3/0376—Forms or constructions of security seals using a special technique to detect tampering, e.g. by ultrasonic or optical means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2211/00—Anti-theft means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/22—Safety features

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  • the present invention relates to a method to attest an occurred tampering or an unauthorized opening of a container for carrying goods of many kinds.
  • the invention relates to an electronic lock that carries out this method.
  • Antitampering systems also exist that provide a security member inserted in a lock which prevents mechanically the opening operation of the container. The extraction of the security member or its rupture causes the transmitting an alarm signal.
  • the arrangement of the security member in integral association to the container is made introducing a portion of the security member in a housing created in a support integral to the container and accessible through an opening created in the wall of the container.
  • the container can be opened only breaking the seal, i.e., causing a detachment of a portion thereof which exceeds the external surface of the container. This allows attesting a possible unauthorized opening observing directly the integrity of the seal.
  • the identification code of the container is recorded in a circuit arranged in a housing that in use is in the container in an area not accessible from outside without leaving apparent tampering evidence on the container same.
  • the identification code of the security member is recorded in a circuit that in operative conditions is not accessible from outside without leaving apparent tampering evidence on the security member same or on the container. This prevents from possible tampering of the circuits by unauthorised individuals.
  • At least one intermediate verification station can be provided arranged between the forwarding station and the delivery station.
  • the surveillance procedure of the container as above described thus provides a traceability of the container same. In other words, it is possible to reconstruct and follow the path of the container from the forwarding station to the delivery station at any intermediate station to attest a possible tampering and to date back the moment when this tampering occurred.
  • an apparatus to attest an occurred tampering of a container provides:
  • a housing is provided accessible through an opening created in the wall of the container, said housing being mounted on a support integral to the container that in use remains in the container same.
  • the security member and the housing have cooperating means suitable for causing a mutual engagement.
  • the housing has a protection shield that cannot be set if the security member is not correctly engaged in it.
  • the cooperating means of the security member and of the housing have a unidirectional pliability.
  • they allow the introduction of the security member in the housing along an advancing direction, but preventing from the extraction of the security member from the housing in the opposite direction. This prohibits that an unauthorised individual removes the security member as a whole from the housing and that the lock is opened without leaving tampering evidence.
  • the security member comprises an elongated portion connected by a weakened portion to a head.
  • the used circuits have a read only memory (ROM) whereby the identification code that is preprogrammed at the moment of the production of the circuits cannot be altered.
  • ROM read only memory
  • each circuit queried by the transreceiving means returns its identification code. This is carried out through an antenna that forms with the queried circuit a transreceiving element, or transponder, which interacts with the transreceiving means by a system of transmitting/receiving radio waves according to the RFID technology (Radio Frequency IDentification).
  • radio waves comprise also microwaves.
  • the transponder associated to the container is mounted on the support integral to the container and in operative conditions is in the inner side of the container, whereby it is not possible to reach it without leaving tampering evidence on the container same.
  • transponder 10 associated to the container with relative circuit 17 and security member 1 with relative circuit 7 are shown by means of which it is possible to carry out the method to attest an occurred tampering of the lock of a container, according to the invention.
  • a transponder 10 operating at a frequency of 13,56 MHz in any case it is possible to use a transponder operating at much higher frequencies, for example 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz. More in detail, the use of transponder operating at much higher frequencies allows longer reading distances and higher data transmission rates, even if the higher frequencies have some drawbacks, for example a higher sensitivity to humidity for GHz frequencies.
  • transponder 10 can be mounted on a support 35 that is integral to the container and that in use remains inside it, whereby the transponder is not accessible without leaving apparent tampering evidence on the container same or on a lock 101.
  • Transponder 10 comprises a circuit 17 in which at the production a non-duplicable identification code is recorded for identifying univocally a container 100.
  • security member 1 is associated univocally to a non-duplicable identification code recorded at the production in a circuit 7 to it fastened.
  • each circuit 7, or 17, is of passive type, i.e. it does not need a battery and is activated only within an electromagnetic field and not out of it.
  • Each circuit 7, or 17, is, furthermore, capable of radio communication with a transreceiving apparatus 55 for returning its identification code (figures 7 and 9).
  • the security member comprises an elongated portion 2 on which the circuit 7 is applied. Elongated portion 2 is connected by a weakened portion 6 to a head 3.
  • a possible exemplary embodiment is shown of the cooperating means 5 of between security member 1 and a part of cooperating means 25 associated to housing 21 that allow to them a mutual engagement.
  • the interaction between the teeth 25 of a lock 20 and side recesses 5 of security member 1 allows an easy introduction of security member 1 in housing 21, but prohibit any extraction of security member 1.
  • the method to attest an occurred tampering of the lock of container 100 begins when an operator 50 uses a transreceiving apparatus 55, for example a palm-sized computer, associated to a plurality of identification data. These identify the operator entrusted with the surveillance procedure of container 100 in the forwarding station (figure 6). Then, operator 50 by a radio waves transreceiver, for example integrated in the palm-sized computer 55, queries circuit 17 that returns the identification code associated to container 100 and in it recorded. Then, operator 50 chooses a security member 1 among a plurality of security member and reads its relative identification code recorded in circuit 7 by the radio waves transreceiver integrated in the palm-sized computer 55 (figure 9).
  • a transreceiving apparatus 55 for example a palm-sized computer
  • Both identification codes of circuits 7 and 17 are recorded in the memory of the palm-sized computer 55 without being displayed on the display 56 and then associated univocally to each other.
  • the identification codes of the security member and of the container are encrypted and kept inaccessible to avoid any possible manipulation.
  • Security member 1 is then inserted, through an opening 45 made in an upright 40, in a housing 21 mounted on support 35 obtaining a physical matching between security member 1 and housing 21. This allows to attest a possible unauthorized opening of container 100 since the cooperating means 5 and 25 of security member 1 and of housing 21 prohibit the extraction of security member 1 as a whole from housing 21.
  • container 100 can be opened only breaking security member 1, causing a detachment of head 3 from elongated portion 2 at weakened portion 6 (figure 11). This would make apparent a possible tampering of the container or of the housing by unauthorised individuals.
  • a possible change of a broken security member 1 with another identical security member would be recognized at the moment of the control in a station of verification, owing to the uniqueness of the identification code of each security member.

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WO2007061721A1 (fr) * 2005-11-28 2007-05-31 Wherenet Corp Dispositif de fixation d’etiquette utilise pour localiser des conteneurs de cargo et des remorques routieres
WO2019052312A1 (fr) * 2017-09-18 2019-03-21 同方威视技术股份有限公司 Dispositif de verrouillage personnalisé électronique et procédé de vérification de conteneur de fret
US12006152B2 (en) 2021-01-22 2024-06-11 Zebra Technologies Corporation Methods and systems for managing temporary storage in warehouses

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FR2507579A1 (fr) * 1981-06-11 1982-12-17 Lehner Max & Co Ag Dispositif de fermeture d'un recipient equipe d'un couvercle
US4682688A (en) * 1985-01-24 1987-07-28 Firma Georg Knoblauch Secured container and locking device for same
US5125700A (en) * 1990-07-30 1992-06-30 Fattori Lazzaro A Security seal
DE19704210A1 (de) * 1997-02-05 1998-08-06 Orga Kartensysteme Gmbh Logistiksystem für Container
EP1182154A1 (fr) * 2000-01-31 2002-02-27 Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Procede et dispositif pour la gestion de conteneurs

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FR2507579A1 (fr) * 1981-06-11 1982-12-17 Lehner Max & Co Ag Dispositif de fermeture d'un recipient equipe d'un couvercle
US4682688A (en) * 1985-01-24 1987-07-28 Firma Georg Knoblauch Secured container and locking device for same
US5125700A (en) * 1990-07-30 1992-06-30 Fattori Lazzaro A Security seal
DE19704210A1 (de) * 1997-02-05 1998-08-06 Orga Kartensysteme Gmbh Logistiksystem für Container
EP1182154A1 (fr) * 2000-01-31 2002-02-27 Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Procede et dispositif pour la gestion de conteneurs

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2007061721A1 (fr) * 2005-11-28 2007-05-31 Wherenet Corp Dispositif de fixation d’etiquette utilise pour localiser des conteneurs de cargo et des remorques routieres
US7475814B2 (en) 2005-11-28 2009-01-13 Wherenet Corp. Tag mounting device used for locating shipping containers and truck trailers
WO2019052312A1 (fr) * 2017-09-18 2019-03-21 同方威视技术股份有限公司 Dispositif de verrouillage personnalisé électronique et procédé de vérification de conteneur de fret
US12006152B2 (en) 2021-01-22 2024-06-11 Zebra Technologies Corporation Methods and systems for managing temporary storage in warehouses

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