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：US11679417B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17478085

申请日：2021-09-17

Applicant: SOLYSTIC

Inventor： Steve Breysse ,  Olivier Roch ,  Richard Blache ,  Bruno Stuner

IPC: B07C1/04 ,  G06V20/10 ,  B07C3/00 ,  B07C3/14 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B65G47/248 ,  B25J15/06 ,  H04N23/90

CPC classification number: B07C1/04 ,  B07C3/008 ,  B07C3/14 ,  B25J9/1669 ,  B25J9/1697 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B65G47/248 ,  G06V20/10 ,  B25J15/0616 ,  H04N23/90

Abstract: An equipment for automatically feeding parcels to a sorting conveyor, the equipment having a platform for temporarily storing a pile of parcels arranged loosely, a first vision system designed to form a digital image of the loose pile of parcels while the pile is stationary on the platform, a processor unit having setting data for responding to the digital image by identifying a parcel for singulating that presents a grip face that is not covered by another parcel, and by supplying indicative data about the three-dimensional position, the orientation in three dimensions, and the dimensions of the grip face, and a pneumatic gripper head of a robotic arm that is controlled on the basis of the data so as to take hold of the parcel for singulating by its grip face.