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：US11034533B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16754157

申请日：2019-12-20

Applicant: SOLYSTIC

Inventor： Karim Kara ,  Alain Danjaume ,  Eric Moullard

IPC: B65G47/82 ,  B62B3/14 ,  B65G47/90 ,  B62B5/00 ,  B65G47/88

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for conveying articles (3), which system comprises an article conveyor (2) extending from an upstream end (4) to a downstream end (5), and a motor-driven shuttle trolley (6) having an article carrier deck (7) and designed to dock with said ends of the conveyor so as to transfer an article between the trolley and the conveyor. The conveyor is a gravity conveyor under which a ramp (12) extends, and the trolley is suitable for travelling under the conveyor and is provided with a lever (11) that is mounted to move vertically relative to the deck and that is designed to co-operate with the ramp while the trolley is moving under the conveyor so that, by following the ramp, the lever moves between a retracted position in which it is retracted under the conveyor and a deployed position in which it projects above the conveyor so as to drive an article along the conveyor. The method of matching digital images of the same article in a data processor unit comprises the steps of: transforming each digital image of an article into a local divergence topographic map of the luminance gradient vector field; detecting singularities or extrema of local divergence in the luminance gradient vector field, such singularities corresponding to points of interest in said digital image; and, for each detected point of interest, encoding the values for the singularity of the gradient field that are located on a plurality of concentric rings centered on the point of interest so as to derive a digital data vector (210); and transforming said vector into a digital hash key (220) by means of a family of hash functions of the cosine Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) type.

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.

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).