公开(公告)号：US09676003B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-13

申请号：US14441454

申请日：2015-03-05

Applicant: Solystic

Inventor： Karim Kara ,  Jacques Petit ,  Karine Crest ,  Pierre Campagnolle ,  Eric Moullard ,  Jean Rieu

IPC: B07C1/02 ,  B07C1/04 ,  B07C1/00 ,  B07C1/06 ,  B65G47/90 ,  B65G47/32

CPC classification number: B07C1/04 ,  B07C1/00 ,  B07C1/06 ,  B07C3/087 ,  B65G47/32 ,  B65G47/90 ,  B65G47/967 ,  B65G2201/022 ,  B65H29/16 ,  B65H29/36 ,  B65H2701/1916

Abstract: A postal sorting machine includes a sorting conveyor having sorting outlets, a first feed branch adapted for automatically injecting heterogeneous postal articles of the small parcel type into the sorting conveyor, and a second feed branch adapted for injecting homogeneous flat mailpieces of the letter type, or the magazine type, or of some analogous type into the sorting conveyor. The first feed branch has an inlet adapted for receiving the heterogeneous postal articles loose, and it is provided with at least one robotized handling arm of the “pick and place” type.

公开(公告)号：US10232407B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-19

申请号：US15142370

申请日：2016-04-29

Applicant: SOLYSTIC

Inventor： Karine Crest ,  Pierre Campagnolle ,  Jacques Petit ,  Richard Blache

IPC: B07C1/04 ,  B25J15/00 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J15/06 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/14 ,  B65G47/91

Abstract: An installation for separating and singulating non-uniform postal articles of the small parcel or packet type comprises a platform for temporarily storing a pile of loosely placed postal articles, a vision system adapted to form digital images of the pile of loose postal articles, which pile is static on the platform, a data-processing unit adapted to use these digital images to identify a postal article to be singulated, i.e. an article that has a pickup face that is not covered by any other postal article, the unit being suitable for delivering data indicating the three-dimensional position, the facing direction, and the dimensions of the pickup face, and a pneumatic pickup head of a robotized arm that is controlled on the basis of the data to lift up the postal article to be singulated via its pickup face, and to deposit the postal article on a deposition zone that is off the platform.

公开(公告)号：US09878349B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-30

申请号：US15023866

申请日：2015-12-16

Applicant: Solystic

Inventor： Karine Crest ,  Pierre Campagnolle ,  Jacques Petit

IPC: B07C1/04 ,  B07C1/06 ,  B65G47/14 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B65G47/96 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J15/06

CPC classification number: B07C1/04 ,  B07C1/06 ,  B25J9/0093 ,  B25J9/1687 ,  B25J9/1697 ,  B25J15/0616 ,  B65G47/1471 ,  B65G47/1485 ,  B65G47/26 ,  B65G47/52 ,  B65G47/915 ,  B65G47/917 ,  B65G47/967 ,  B65G2201/0282 ,  B65G2201/0285 ,  B65G2203/044 ,  G05B2219/39417 ,  G05B2219/40607 ,  G05B2219/45047

Abstract: The postal sorting machine comprises a sorting conveyor suitable for transporting postal articles in series past sorting outlets and a postal article feed unit having a magazine for loosely storing postal articles to be sorted and a separator that has a robotized arm and a vision sensor and that is suitable for picking up the postal articles to be sorted one-by-one from the magazine and for putting them on the sorting conveyor while placing them in series at constant pitch. The sorting conveyor has a flat conveyor that slopes sideways to form a jogging edge against which the postal articles are jogged by gravity.