KEY MANAGEMENT BOX

摘要

In a key management box (30) for centrally managing keys used to unlock the locks of a plurality of safekeeping compartments and comprising a key lock means (41) for making impossible to take out the key, an electronic ID storage section (47) performing personal authentication, and a controller (44) for unlocking the key lock means (41) of a key permitted to a personally authenticated user, the key is an electronic key (1) with an IC tag, the IC tag stores the ID data of a user and data for specifying a safekeeping compartment which the user is permitted to unlock out of a plurality of safekeeping compartments, and the key management box (30) has a means (42) for reading out the ID data of the IC tag (S13; Yes), and a means (S14) for unlocking a locking means (41) of a key having the ID data of the user when the electronic key ID storage section (47) recognizes a specific user. Consequently, the storing boxes of the plurality of safekeeping compartments can be opened/closed using one same key.