Installation for sorting articles such as parcels or packets with a system for monitoring the positioning of the articles by outline detection

    公开(公告)号:US11311913B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US17082457

    申请日:2020-10-28

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B07C3/08 B07C3/14

    摘要: An installation for sorting articles comprises a carousel sorting conveyor having transport bins, an article feed magazine in which articles stored loosely are put into series and then injected one-by-one into the transport bins of the conveyor by an injection device, and a monitoring and control unit that acts on the bins so as to open each of them over a receptacle that corresponds to a delivery address of the article, the injection device comprising piston pushers and a system of sensors being provided to generate data representative of an outline of the article seen in plan so as to enable the data processing unit to detect inappropriate positioning of the article before it is injected into a bin, and, in such a situation, direct the improperly positioned article towards a reject receptacle.

    Mail sorting installation with a shuttle robot for injecting trays onto a conveyor

    公开(公告)号:US11278936B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US16339176

    申请日:2018-12-12

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B07C3/00 B07C3/08

    摘要: The sorting installation (1) of the invention includes sorting outlets (2) aligned along a sorting conveyor (3), each outlet being provided with a recess (4) for receiving a tray (5) in which sorted mailpieces (6) are stored. The installation also includes a tray conveyor (8) that extends in a certain conveying direction (F2) under the sorting outlets for the purpose of transporting trays filled with sorted mailpieces from the sorting outlets to a feed inlet (7) of the sorting conveyor. The installation further includes a shuttle robot (9) suitable for traveling on the floor (S1) in autonomous manner along the sorting outlets, the robot including handling means (12) suitable for extracting a tray from a recess of a sorting outlet and for placing it lengthwise on the tray conveyor.

    A METHOD OF PALLETIZING NON-UNIFORM ARTICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20210371201A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US16339187

    申请日:2018-12-11

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    发明人: Luc Chirol

    IPC分类号: B65G1/137

    摘要: A method of palletizing non-uniform objects comprises using shuttle robots controlled by a monitoring and control system (190) to control trolleys, each of which carries an object, from a feed point (101) to a palletizing station (140) via a device (120) for determining the morphologies of the objects so as to characterize the outside shapes of all of the objects forming a batch before the start of the operation of stowing the objects on the pallet, so as to calculate a stowage plan that optimizes stowage of the batch on a pallet (150).

    APPARATUS FOR FEEDING AN UNSTACKER MAGAZINE WITH MAILPIECES ON EDGE

    公开(公告)号:US20210179381A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-17

    申请号:US16070816

    申请日:2018-06-18

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B65H31/06 B07C1/02

    摘要: Apparatus (1) for feeding an unstacker magazine (2) with mailpieces (3) on edge, which apparatus includes a first feed conveyor (4) for conveying trays (6) extending crosswise and loaded with mailpieces placed flat on the bottoms of the trays, and tray tipping means (8) for pivoting a tray forwards onto a ramp of the tray tipping means so as to bring the mailpieces on edge from the tray to the unstacker magazine. The apparatus includes a second feed conveyor (5) for conveying trays (6) extending lengthwise and loaded with mailpieces (3) placed on edge on the bottoms of the trays, and tray tipping-over means (9) designed for laying a tray over on its side onto the unstacker magazine.

    A MAIL SORTING INSTALLATION WITH A TRAY CONVEYOR AND AN ELEVATOR ROBOT

    公开(公告)号:US20210170450A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-10

    申请号:US16070822

    申请日:2018-06-15

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B07C3/00 B07C3/02

    摘要: An installation for sorting mailpieces (A) includes a sorting conveyor with sorting outlets (2) and storage trays (3), and further includes a tray conveyor (4) disposed along the sorting conveyor under the sorting outlets, and a shuttle robot (5) suitable for being controlled by a monitoring and control unit (6) for automatically taking hold of a tray in a sorting outlet and for placing it below on the tray conveyor, the shuttle robot also being provided with a safety system arranged to detect the presence of an obstacle being approached in the direction in which the robot is traveling while at a certain safety distance away, and arranged to respond to such detection by reducing the speed of movement of the shuttle robot.

    SHARING OF PARCEL SORTER OUTLETS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200324321A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16841942

    申请日:2020-04-07

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B07C3/08 B65G47/71

    摘要: A parcel-sorting facility for sorting parcels (115) comprises a conveyor (110) and receptacles (118) situated at sorting outlets (117) and corresponding to destination addresses of said parcels. Each sorting outlet is shared between a plurality of receptacles, only one of which is in a position (P0) for receiving parcels. A receptacle exchanger device (119) for exchanging receptacles is assigned to each outlet, and is configured for exchanging the receptacle in the receiving position at a given outlet with another of the receptacles sharing said outlet, and the sorting facility anticipates the arrival of a parcel at said outlet by placing the receptacle associated with the destination of said parcel in the receiving position whenever necessary.

    STORAGE-AND-RETRIEVAL CELL FOR A PARCEL-HANDLING LOGISTICS PLATFORM

    公开(公告)号:US20190337720A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-07

    申请号:US16401261

    申请日:2019-05-02

    申请人: Solystic

    摘要: The storage-and-retrieval cell for a parcel-handling logistics platform includes shuttle robots that position parcels in storage locations and that retrieve the parcels therefrom, which locations form two rows of storage locations that extend along a longitudinal direction, and four half-rows of storage locations that are disposed back-to-back in the longitudinal direction between the two rows, a hopper being open in the upper floor between one pair of half-rows and the other pair of half-rows, the hopper being designed to allow the parcels to pass through it while they are being retrieved, the cell further including nesting trolleys each of which is suitable for being hitched to a shuttle robot and which are suitable for nesting together in the same storage location, and, at the edge of the hopper, an unloading device for unloading a nesting trolley by sweeping its deck.

    Article sorting equipment for a logistics platform

    公开(公告)号:US10358300B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-23

    申请号:US15962425

    申请日:2018-04-25

    申请人: Solystic

    发明人: Jean Rieu

    IPC分类号: B65G47/38 B65G47/78 B65G17/00

    摘要: Article sorting equipment of the invention comprises a flat conveyor of the chain type having carrier links configured to convey articles towards sorting outlets in a certain conveying direction. The links are mounted to slide on the chain transversely relative to the conveying direction and the sorting outlets are disposed under the links of the chain, one after another in the conveying direction. The links are also arranged to come out from under the articles when they are slid so as to cause the articles to fall into the sorting outlets. A monitoring and control unit for monitoring and controlling the sorting equipment is also configured to cause the links to slide as a function of the sorting outlets into which the articles are to be sorted.

    Pairing of images of postal articles with descriptors of singularities of the gradient field

    公开(公告)号:US10223587B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15502169

    申请日:2016-06-15

    申请人: Solystic

    发明人: Olivier Desprez

    摘要: A method of processing articles, in particular postal articles, which method consists in forming a first digital image of an article and in deriving from said first image a first image signature that is a unique identifier for said article, in forming a current digital image again for said article, and in deriving from the current image a current signature that is compared with first article image signatures that are recorded in a memory, for the purpose of pairing-off the image signatures on the basis of similarity. The method is characterized in that each signature is derived using the following steps: extracting a digital map of the luminance gradient field of said image by local planar regression; identifying in said digital map points of interest corresponding to topological singularities of the gradient field having high local circular convergence or high local circular divergence.