EP2225049B1 - Verfahren zum sortieren von postsendungen mittels dynamischer zuweisung von ausgängen - Google Patents

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EP2225049B1
EP2225049B1 EP08865507A EP08865507A EP2225049B1 EP 2225049 B1 EP2225049 B1 EP 2225049B1 EP 08865507 A EP08865507 A EP 08865507A EP 08865507 A EP08865507 A EP 08865507A EP 2225049 B1 EP2225049 B1 EP 2225049B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
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  • the invention relates to a method for sorting mail items on N sorting destinations of a sorting plan with a sorting machine comprising a conveyor of items that serves M sorting outlets each provided with a storage bin for mailings removable container handled by a conveyor of bins, as described in EP-A-1,707,275 , EP-A-1,820,575 or EP-A-1726371 .
  • the invention applies more particularly to the sorting of mail items of the "large format" type on bucket carousel sorting machines, but the invention can be applied to the sorting of other postal items. These machines have a significant amount of space.
  • the aim of the invention is to reduce this congestion by proposing a sorting method according to which, in the sorting plane, the M sorting outlets are associated with only a subset of the N logical destinations.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method for sorting simple postal items and which preserves the operational flow of a bucket carousel of a sorting machine, which uses a sub-sized sorting machine of small size, that is to say, the number of sorting outlets is less than the number of destinations of the shipments.
  • the idea underlying the invention is therefore to dynamically allocate the sorting outputs to the logical destinations and to perform a tray change on a sorting output dynamically allocated to a logical destination, the tray extracted from this output sorting is put on a waiting loop of the ferry conveyor. Dynamic allocation and bin switching can be fast enough to prevent shipments destined for a logical destination dynamically overbooked from traversing the entire transit conveyor waiting loop.
  • the bins extracted from the dynamically allocated sorting outlets may be partially filled bins that during the sorting process may return to a sorting output dynamically allocated to still store shipments. There is then a recycling of partially filled bins in the sorting outlets of the machine.
  • the method according to the invention is more particularly applicable to the sorting of large format items on a conveyor conveyor of the carrousel type with buckets.
  • the advantage of the method according to the invention is that it makes it possible to use a sorting machine whose dimensioning is optimized with respect to the number of destinations of the items to be sorted.
  • this method makes it possible to optimize the filling the bins, that is to say to leave the bins of the machine only when they are full.
  • sorting machine 1 with two feed inlet with 480 physical sorting outlets to sort 600 logical destinations of a sorting plan.
  • Each logical destination can correspond to several distribution points of a postman's tour.
  • 300 physical outputs of the machine are associated in the sorting plane to a first group of 300 logical destinations while the other 180 sorting outputs of the machine are associated with only a part (180 logical destinations) of the logical destinations of the machine.
  • a second group of 300 logical destinations which constitutes another virtual sorting machine.
  • the sorting process according to the invention is particularly effective in the situation described hereinafter but it can also operate with a single group of 600 logical destinations assigned to the 480 physical sorting outlets of the sorting machine 1. There is also in this case a number of sorting outputs smaller than the number of logical destinations to process on the machine.
  • the sorting machine 1 for sorting postal items thus comprises two supply input lines 2 with automatic unstacking devices supplying a conveyor of items 3 of the bucket carousel type.
  • Each bucket is here arranged to move one shipment at a time.
  • each item goes into a reading and recognition device automatic address by OCR for example (not shown).
  • OCR optical character recognition
  • each item is injected into a cup of the carousel 3, the cups of the carousel circulating in a closed loop path above the physical sorting outlets of the machine 1 (not referenced) which are distributed here on two opposite sides of the machine 1.
  • the carousel 3 is designed to allow consequently shipments to be recirculated on a waiting loop 4 temporarily.
  • the shipping conveyor 3 is controlled by a control / command unit 7.
  • Each sorting outlet is provided with a storage bin 5 for shipments.
  • the storage capacity of each tray is about fifty shipments.
  • the bins 5 of the sorting outlets are removable and interchangeable bins.
  • the sorting machine 1 also comprises a tray conveyor 6 provided for transporting trays along the sorting outlets.
  • This tray conveyor 6 is able to load and unload a tray 5 at each sorting outlet.
  • This tray conveyor 6 is furthermore arranged to follow, along the sorting outlets, a path 8 in a closed loop, which makes it possible to temporarily recirculate (wait) partially filled containers on a waiting loop as described below.
  • the closed loop path 8 of the bins conveyor 6 passes to the front and rear of the sorting outlets of the machine so that the bins enter and exit from each sorting outlet as in a "FIFO"("First In, First Out", that is, the first entry in the sort output is the first output).
  • the conveyor of bins 6 here comprises two so-called external ferry conveyor sections 9a, 9b (also called OTAC for "Outside Tray Accumulation Conveyor”) respectively connected to two so-called internal ferry conveyor sections 10a, 10b (also called ITAC for "Inside Tray Accumulation Conveyor”) by via input or output tray transfer devices 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b (also called ITD for "Input Transfer Device” or OTD for "Output Transfer Device”).
  • the conveyor sections 9a, 9b therefore run along the front side of the sort discharge outlets while the conveyor sections 10a, 10b run along the rear side of the sorting outlets.
  • the bin conveyor 6 is also driven by the unit 7.
  • the sorting of each shipment is made from the sorting plane in which each sorting output of the machine is associated with a logical destination derived from the postal address automatically read on the surface of the shipment.
  • the sorting plan can be seen as an association table stored in the unit 7 which associates a logical destination with a distribution point (for example a postal address), the logical destination being moreover associated in machine memory with a sorting outlet which allows the unit 7 to control the conveyors of consignments 3 and containers 6.
  • the allocation (or assignment) of a sorting output to a logical destination for a shipment is done dynamically, that is to say while the sending flows in the conveyor of items 3.
  • the thickness of the items can be measured in the sorting machine to anticipate the fill level of sort output bins and to calculate bin replacement requests based on a fill level limit.
  • the unit 7 can therefore associate the shipment with a logical destination and normally a sorting outlet. Since the sort plan requires 600 logical destinations, and the sorting units only have 480 physical outputs, the association of a logical destination to a physical sorting output is not a one-to-one association but an association dynamic that does not exist during a whole sorting pass and can therefore move from one physical sort output to another during this pass.
  • a first input 2 of the machine with sendings intended for group A of logical destinations indicated on the machine is used. figure 1 .
  • 300 physical sorting outputs are used to start a sorting pass with group A.
  • These sorting outlets are provided with empty trays at the start.
  • the other power input of the machine is not used with sendings to group B of logical destinations.
  • the bins of the outputs of group A are therefore filled as and when the shipments of group A in the conveyor 6.
  • the figure 1 illustrates the state of operation of the sorting machine at this stage of the sorting process by showing in rectangles with hatching on the right the partially filled sorting outlets 5 associated with group A and in empty rectangles the outlets sorting 5 associated with no logical destination.
  • the bins 5 in the conveyor 6 can be identified and tracked by the unit 7 via machine readable codes, such as barcodes.
  • FIG. 2 shows an operating state of the sorting machine 1 during a first phase of simultaneous sorting of the items intended for groups A and B of logical destinations, the conveyor of items 3 being supplied at the same time from the two inputs 2 of the machine. At this time, shipments also fill the sorting outlets associated with the logical destinations of group B.
  • a set of trays 5 partially filled with shipments associated with Group B logical destinations which are illustrated by a rectangle with a hatch on the left.
  • the unit 7 can control the activity or the instantaneous occupation of the physical sorting outlets.
  • unit 7 may, for example, choose a physical output associated with group A of logical destinations which has the lowest occupancy and therefore control the conveyor of bins. 6 so that it replaces the partially full container of this sorting outlet with an empty container able to receive the items to be sorted for this overbooked destination.
  • the partially filled tank of this sorting outlet is thus removed on the outer conveyor section 9a, 9b and the empty tank is fed by the inner conveyor section 10a, 10b.
  • This sorting output can be selected for example according to the number of expected shipments it must receive, for example the number of shipments present in the conveyor 3 and which are intended for it according to the sorting plan.
  • the selection criterion is the exit with the lowest occupancy.
  • FIGS 3 and 4 show operating states of the machine 1 where partially filled tanks associated with the group A circulate in the conveyor 6 with empty trays.
  • the bins reaching the downstream end of the inner conveyor section 10a, 10b are transferred onto the outer conveyor section 9a, 9b by the transfer of bins 12a, 12b.
  • empty bins can be transferred on the conveyor section 9a, 9b when they reach the downstream end of the conveyor section 10a, 10b and partially filled bins can be transferred on the conveyor section 9a, 9b either at the following unloading sorting outlet when they are replaced by another tray, or when they reach the downstream end of the inner conveyor section 10a, 10b.
  • the figure 5 shows the state of the machine during a recycling of empty bins and partially filled bins on the outer conveyor section 9a, 9b during the sorting process.
  • the dynamic allocation process that is performed then requires that the partially full container that has already been used to receive shipments associated with this overbooked logical destination be returned to a sorting outlet, the one which, at a given moment, presents the most low occupation.
  • This partially filled container can therefore be loaded into one of the sorting outlets associated with group B. From this moment, bins partially filled in with group A, partially filled bins associated with group B and empty bins run along the closed loop path 8 and partially filled bins are recycled to the sorting outlets by unit 7, which is shown over there figure 6 .
  • the figure 7 illustrates the main steps of the dynamic allocation process according to the invention.
  • step 20 the unit 7 automatically determines the mailing address for a current mail entering the sorting machine and therefore a logical destination that corresponds to this mailing address in the sorting plan.
  • step 21 the unit 7 checks whether this logical destination is a logic destination in overbooking.
  • the unit 7 controls the conveyor 6 in step 22 to direct the sending to a sorting outlet of the machine 1 identified in the sorting plane for storage in a bin 5.
  • the unit 7 determines in step 23, starting from the instantaneous or predicted occupation levels of the sorting outlets of the machine, an output to reassociate, for example the sorting outlet having the lowest occupation (this occupation level may correspond to a filling rate of the bin).
  • the sorting plan in memory in the sorting machine is then updated dynamically in step 24 to associate the logical destination which is overbooked with the lowest occupancy sorting output which was determined in step 23.
  • step 24 the logical destination that was previously associated with this sorting output has passed into a state of overbooking in the sorting plan so that the items present, if any, in the conveyor 3 having this logical destination. are then recirculated by the unit 7 in the waiting loop of the conveyor 3 (the unit 7 therefore suspends the unloading of these items in a storage bin).
  • the unit 7 also controls the tray conveyor 6 to unload the tray sorting outlet, if necessary partially full, and replace it with a replacement tray, if necessary an empty tray, in which the current shipment may be unloaded at step 22.
  • the replacement tray may be also be a tray already partially full in the case where this tray has already been recycled during the sorting process.
  • the unit 7 must make this change of bins in a sorting outlet in advance of the arrival of the items in the sorting outlet and the items to be directed to this sorting outlet can be recirculated on the waiting loop 4 before being unloaded in the sorting outlet.
  • the management of the bins on the conveyor 6 may require identification of the bins and tracing of the bins along the conveyor 8 in a manner known per se.

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  1. Verfahren zum Sortieren von Postsendungen nach N Sortierzielen mit einer Sortiermaschine, umfassend einen Sendungsförderer (3), der M Sortierausgänge bedient, die jeweils mit einem abnehmbaren Behälter (5) zum Speichern von Sendungen versehen sind, der von einem Behälterförderer (6) gehandhabt wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    - Erkennen (21), dass eine zu sortierende laufende Sendung ein bestimmtes sogenanntes überbelegtes logisches Ziel aufweist, das keinem Sortierausgang zugeordnet ist,
    - in Antwort auf diese Erkennung dynamisches Zuweisen (24) eines bestimmten Sortierausgangs der Maschine, der von einem anderen logischen Ziel belegt wird, an dieses überbelegte logische Ziel, Durchführen eines Wechsels der Speicherbehälter (25) in diesem bestimmten Sortierausgang und Zuführen des aus diesem bestimmten Sortierausgang entnommenen Behälters auf eine Schleife (8) des Behälterförderers (6) zum Warten.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Speicherbehälter, der diesem bestimmten Sortierausgang entnommen wurde, zur Rückführung einer Strecke mit einer geschlossenen Schleife (8) des Behälterförderers (6) zugeführt wird, und wobei die Sendungen, die dem anderen logischen Ziel entsprechen, zur Rückführung einer Strecke mit einer geschlossenen Schleife (4) des Sendungsförderers (3) zugeführt werden.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei eine erste Untermenge der Sortierausgänge einer ersten Untermenge (A) der N logischen Ziele zugewiesen wird und eine zweite Untermenge der Sortierausgänge einer zweiten Untermenge (B) der N logischen Ziele zugewiesen wird, und wobei, wenn erkannt wird, dass ein logisches Ziel der zweiten Untermenge (B) von logischen Zielen in einem überbelegten Zustand ist, dieses überbelegte logische Ziel auf dynamische Weise einem bestimmten Sortierausgang zugewiesen wird, das zur ersten Untermenge (A) von Sortierausgängen gehört.
  4. Verfahren nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, wobei der bestimmte Sortierausgang unter Berücksichtigung der momentanen oder voraussichtlichen Belegung der Sortierausgänge gewählt wird.
  5. Verfahren nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche zum Sortieren von Sendungen großformatigen Typs, wobei ein Kreisförderer mit Bechern (3) verwendet wird, um die Sendungen entlang der Sortierausgänge zu bewegen.
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