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WO2003034348A1
WO2003034348A1 PCT/IB2002/003991 IB0203991W WO03034348A1 WO 2003034348 A1 WO2003034348 A1 WO 2003034348A1 IB 0203991 W IB0203991 W IB 0203991W WO 03034348 A1 WO03034348 A1 WO 03034348A1
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Malcolm Donald Anderson
Nicholas George Beaumont
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GILGAMESH Ltd
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00896—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys specially adapted for particular uses
    • G07C9/00912—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys specially adapted for particular uses for safes, strong-rooms, vaults or the like
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C2009/00753—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by active electrical keys
    • G07C2009/00761—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by active electrical keys with data transmission performed by connected means, e.g. mechanical contacts, plugs, connectors
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00817—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys where the code of the lock can be programmed
    • G07C2009/00833—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys where the code of the lock can be programmed by code input from switches
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C2209/00—Indexing scheme relating to groups G07C9/00 - G07C9/38
    • G07C2209/04—Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00658—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by passive electrical keys
    • G07C9/00674—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by passive electrical keys with switch-buttons
    • G07C9/0069—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys operated by passive electrical keys with switch-buttons actuated in a predetermined sequence

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  • THIS INVENTION relates to a safe.
  • the invention relates particularly to a safe of a type that has an electronically operable control means that controls the operation of the locking mechanism of the safe, for opening and locking the door of the safe, and where the control means incorporates a keypad and a processing means and a user, before locking the door of the safe, generates a code, herein referred to as an end user code, via the keypad, that is stored by the processing means and unlocking of the door, once locked, requires the end user code to be entered via the keypad and the processing means to recognize the code and hence operate the locking mechanism for unlocking the door.
  • a code herein referred to as an end user code
  • Safes of the above type often are used in hotel rooms for enabling guests to safely lock away their valuables.
  • a guest forgets the end user code generated by him, or leaves a safe locked upon leaving the hotel, it is required for an authorized third party, e.g. a hotel employee, to open the safe and in order to enable this, the processing means of the electronically operable control means of the safe has an override code stored therein which, when entered via the keypad and recognized by the processing means, will provide for the operation of the locking mechanism of the safe and opening of the safe door.
  • the override code often becomes known to a number of third parties, e.g. employees, this can be taken advantage of as a safe can thus be opened at any time by any one of the third parties, enabling theft from the safe without the particular third party that opened the safe being identifiable.
  • a safe which includes an electronically operable control means that incorporates a keypad and a processing means, which has a memory, and that controls the operation of the locking mechanism of the safe, for opening and closing the door of the safe, and a code reader device for reading an authorization code stored in an authorization means and for transmitting it to the processing means of the control means, and in which the processing means is programmed to control opening of the safe by storing an authorization code corresponding to that stored in an authorization means and requiring the authorization code to be linked in its memory with an opening code by bringing the authorization means into communication with the code reader device, to permit the latter to read the authorization code stored in the former, and entering the opening code via the keypad and for subsequent opening of the safe requiring a person to either enter the end user code or to bring an authorization means, storing therein an authorization code corresponding to an authorization code linked in its memory with an opening code, into communication with the code reader device, to permit the latter to read the authorization code stored in the former, and entering the said opening code, which must be recognized by
  • an authorization means will in practice be given only to authorized third parties.
  • Each such authorized third party will thus select and enter into the safe, via the keypad, an opening code after bringing his authorization means into communication with the code reader device. Subsequent opening of the safe by the authorized third party will require him to again bring his authorization means into communication with the code reader device and then entering his opening code.
  • a person or persons ultimately responsible for the security of the safe will issue authorization means to authorized third parties and keep a record of the authorization codes stored on those authorization means.
  • the authorization codes are thus linked in the record to a particular authorized third party.
  • the details of authorization codes used to open the safe are stored by the safe for subsequent downloading, the person responsible for the authorization means used to open the safe at any time is identifiable via the said record.
  • the processing means may be programmed to respond to a specific code, herein referred to as a program code, by switching to a mode, herein referred to as program mode, in which an authorization code and an opening code linked therewith may be stored in the memory of the processing means.
  • the processing means may be programmed to respond, while in program mode, to an authorization code read from an authorization means by the code reader device by permitting an opening code to be entered via the keypad, by storing in its memory the authorization code read and the opening code entered, and by linking them with each other within its memory. In this manner, each authorized third party responsible for an authorization means may be permitted to generate his own opening code while the processing means is in its program mode.
  • the program code will in practice be known only to a person or persons ultimately responsible for the security of the safe.
  • the authorization means may be a commercially available code plug which stores therein an authorization code and which has a spigot having external electrical contact elements.
  • the code reader device of the control means will then include a socket for receiving the spigot of the code plug, the socket having electrical contact elements to cooperate with the electrical contact elements of a code plug, when its spigot is received in the socket, thus permitting the code reader device to read the code stored in the code plug.
  • the authorization means may be a transponder device, a smart card, a card incorporating a magnetic strip, or the like, the code reader device being a corresponding reader device.
  • the processing means of the control means of the safe may include an integrated circuit chip.
  • the processing means may have a real-time clock, permitting it to store within its memory the time at which an event occurred, such as an operation of the locking mechanism, the entering of a code via the keypad, the reading of a code by the code reader device, and the like.
  • the processing means may be programmed to store in its memory a code that was entered via the keypad during opening of the safe.
  • the processing means may be programmed to store in its memory, in the event of the unlocking of the locking mechanism by means of an authorization means and an opening code, the authorization code read from the authorization means.
  • the processing means may store in its memory a record of a sequence of events. As such, the processing means may store in its memory a record comprising the details of the last predetermined number of unlocking events for which end user codes were used and a separate record comprising the details of the last predetermined number of unlocking events for which authorization means and opening codes were used.
  • All data stored by the processing means may be downloadable to a device such as a personal computer, and the like, and the control means may include a data communications port suitable for this purpose.
  • the data communications port may form an integral part of the code reader device.
  • the authorization means being a code plug, as aforesaid
  • the socket of the code reader device may serve also as such a data communications port.
  • Figure 1 shows a diagrammatic three-dimensional view of a safe, in accordance with the invention
  • Figure 2 shows a block representing the locking mechanism of the safe of Figure 1 and a circuit diagram of electronic control means of the safe;
  • Figure 3 shows a general view of a code plug for use with the safe of Figure 1 .
  • a safe in accordance with the invention, is designated generally by the reference numeral 1 0.
  • the safe 1 0 is installed in a room (not shown) of a hotel to permit an end user, such as a hotel guest, to securely store valuables during his stay in the room.
  • the safe 1 0 has a body 1 2 defining therein a storage compartment 1 4 in which valuables (not shown) such as computer notebooks, money, jewellery, and the like, may be stored.
  • the safe 10 has also a door 1 6 which has a locking mechanism (see reference numeral 32 in Figure 2) which includes a lock bolt 1 8 and a knob 20.
  • the safe 1 0 has further electronically operable control means (see reference numeral 24 in Figure 2), including a keypad 22, that controls the operation of the locking mechanism of the safe for opening and locking the door 1 6 of the safe.
  • control means is designated by the reference numeral 24. It includes the keypad 22, a processing means 26, including an integrated circuit chip 28, which i.a. serves as a memory, and a code reader device 30.
  • the control means 24 controls the operation of the locking mechanism 32 by enabling or disabling, as the case may be, the operation of the lock bolt 1 8 by means of the knob 20.
  • a guest may put his valuables (not shown) into the compartment 14 and generate a four-digit end user code by entering it via the keypad 22. This code is stored by the processing means in the memory of its integrated circuit chip 28. The guest may then close the door 1 6 and rotate the knob 20, which will cause the lock bolt 1 8 to engage the body 1 2, thus locking the safe 10.
  • T e processing means 26 will recognise this code and hence operate the locking mechanism 32 to permit disengagement of the body 1 2 by the lock bolt 1 8 by means of rotation of the knob 20, thus unlocking the door.
  • the hotel has a manager, who is ultimately responsible for the security of the safe 1 0, and three supervisors working around the clock in eight hour shifts.
  • Each of these supervisors is authorized to open the safe 10 in the case of a guest forgetting the end user code generated by him, or leaving the safe locked upon leaving the hotel.
  • the supervisors thus are authorized third parties as referred to above.
  • the manager In the event of a supervisor opening the safe 1 0, the manager, for security reasons, must be able to ascertain which supervisor has opened the safe.
  • the safe 10 permits each supervisor to open it whilst storing in the memory of its processing means 26, for subsequent downloading, the time of opening and details of the authorization code used to open the safe.
  • the code reader device has a socket 34 that can cooperate with an authorization means in the form of a commercially available code plug such as code plug 36 shown in Figure 3.
  • each supervisor is provided with a code plug such as the code plug 36.
  • the code plug 36 stores therein an authorization code and has a spigot 40 having external electrical contact elements 42.
  • the spigot 40 is receivable within the socket (see reference numeral 34 in Figure 1 ) of the control means.
  • the socket 34 has electrical contact elements (not shown) to cooperate with the electrical contact elements 42 of the code plug 36 when the spigot 40 of the code plug is received in the socket.
  • the code plug 36 can communicate with the code reader device 30 by permitting the code reader device to read the code stored in the code plug. Upon so reading a code, the code reader device transmits it to the processing means 26.
  • the integrated circuit chip 28 stores therein an eight-digit program code and is programmed to respond to the program code being entered via the keypad 22 by switching to a program mode, in which an authorization code and an opening code may be stored in its memory and linked therein with each other.
  • the manager is the only person who knows the program code of the safe 10.
  • the manager issues to each supervisor a code plug having stored therein an authorization code. He keeps a record of the names of the supervisors and the authorization code stored in the code plug issued to each supervisor.
  • the manager In order to permit a supervisor to generate his own opening code and storing it in the memory of the processing means of the safe 10, the manager enters the program code of the safe via the keypad 22.
  • the processing means 26 responds by switching to its program mode.
  • a supervisor now inserts the spigot of his code plug into the socket 24 of the code reader device 30 of the control means.
  • the code reader device reads the authorization code stored in the code plug and transmits it to the processing means.
  • the processing means permits the supervisor to enter a four-digit opening code via the keypad 22, stores in its memory the authorization code read and the opening code entered, and links them with each other within its memory.
  • the manager now instructs, via the keypad 22, the processing means to exit program mode.
  • a supervisor now wishing to access the safe 1 0 has to insert the spigot of his code plug into the socket 34 of the code reader device 30 and enter via the keypad 22 the opening code previously stored in the memory of the processing means 26 and linked thereby with the authorization code stored in the code plug.
  • the processing means 26 has a built-in real-time clock (not shown). Each time the safe 1 0 is locked or unlocked and an end user code is entered, the processing means stores therein the time of the event and the end user code entered. Each time the safe is opened by means of a code plug and a corresponding opening code entered via the keypad 22, the processing means stores therein the time of the event, the authorization code read from the code plug, and the opening code entered.
  • the processing means 26 stores in its memory a record comprising the details of the last fifty unlocking events for which end user codes were used and a separate record comprising the details of the last fifty unlocking events for which authorization means and opening codes were used.
  • the socket 34 of the code reader device 30 serves also as a data communications port for the control means 24.
  • a personal computer (not shown) may be connected thereto, by means of a suitable data cable (not shown), for downloading to the computer the data stored within the memory of the processing means 26.
  • the manager may download the records comprising details of the events stored within the processing means. Since each code plug is linked via the record kept by the manager with a particular supervisor, who is responsible for the safeguarding of his own code plug and the opening code generated by himself, a manager may, by inspecting the data downloaded from the processing means on the personal computer, determine which supervisor was responsible for the opening of the safe at any particular time.
  • the safe of the invention provides a useful means of controlling the opening of the safe whilst creating an audit trail, in the form of data stored in the memory of the processing means for subsequent downloading, of authorization codes used to unlock the safe.

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L'invention concerne un coffre-fort et notamment un coffre-fort comprenant des moyens de commande électronique destinés à commander un verrou. Lesdits moyens de commande électronique comprennent un dispositif lecteur de code permettant de lire un code d'autorisation stocké dans des moyens d'autorisation portables, tels qu'une prise de code, ces moyens de commande comprenant également un clavier et une mémoire. Ils permettent de stocker en mémoire un code d'ouverture relié à un code d'autorisation. Afin de déverrouiller ultérieurement le verrou, les moyens de commande ont recours à des moyens d'autorisation à mettre en communication avec un dispositif lecteur de code et le code d'ouverture associé à entrer via le clavier. Ces moyens de commande stockent en mémoire un enregistrement de codes d'autorisation et de codes d'ouverture qui ont été utilisés pour déverrouiller le verrou.
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EP1748128A3 (fr) * 2005-07-05 2007-11-21 Kaba Mauer GmbH Serrure à combinaison avec mécanisme de vérification amélioré
EP1866506A4 (fr) * 2005-03-17 2010-02-10 Security People Inc Serrure de casier a pene reglable

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GB2153896A (en) * 1984-02-09 1985-08-29 David Harry Lindop Safes
US5349345A (en) * 1992-06-30 1994-09-20 Vindicator Corporation Electronic lock
EP0676519A1 (fr) * 1992-09-17 1995-10-11 Total Security Installations Limited Système de securité comportant une serrure

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GB2153896A (en) * 1984-02-09 1985-08-29 David Harry Lindop Safes
US5349345A (en) * 1992-06-30 1994-09-20 Vindicator Corporation Electronic lock
EP0676519A1 (fr) * 1992-09-17 1995-10-11 Total Security Installations Limited Système de securité comportant une serrure

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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EP1866506A4 (fr) * 2005-03-17 2010-02-10 Security People Inc Serrure de casier a pene reglable
EP1748128A3 (fr) * 2005-07-05 2007-11-21 Kaba Mauer GmbH Serrure à combinaison avec mécanisme de vérification amélioré

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