公开(公告)号：US20210094072A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-01

申请号：US16465186

申请日：2019-02-28

Applicant: SOLYSTIC

Inventor： Karim Kara ,  Frederic Badier ,  Didier Tresse ,  David Morisot ,  Mohammed Ghezal

IPC: B07C3/00 ,  B07C3/08

Abstract: The mailpiece sorting machine includes a bin sorting conveyor (1) that acts under the control of a control unit (4) to move the bins (3) over sorting outlets (S1, S2, Sn) having removable storage trays (5). The control unit is suitable for detecting (20) that a current mailpiece has a destination address that does not correspond to an available sorting outlet in the machine. If such a situation is detected, a manipulator robot (R) comes to replace the tray of a sorting outlet with an empty tray (or with a tray already containing mail for the same destination address) into which the current mailpiece is sorted, while the replaced tray is placed on standby on a rack (8).

公开(公告)号：US09669430B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-06

申请号：US14432566

申请日：2015-01-14

Applicant: Solystic

Inventor： Didier Tresse ,  Karim Kara ,  David Morisot

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  B07C3/00

CPC classification number: B07C3/006 ,  B07C3/00

Abstract: A method of sorting mailpieces by using a dynamic assignment process and an overbooking mechanism whereby an overbooked sorting destination (D) is substituted for a sorting destination that is already assigned to a certain sorting outlet (S) comprises the following steps: a) identifying from among said sorting outlets (S) a sorting outlet that has a filling level (N) greater than a first threshold (s1) and the longest idle time, and assigning the overbooked sorting destination to that sorting outlet; b) if all of the sorting outlets (S) have filling levels (N) less than said first threshold (s1), identifying from among the sorting outlets the sorting outlet that has the longest idle time, assigning that sorting outlet to said overbooked sorting destination, and indicating that said other sorting destination is a sorting destination to be amalgamated.