JP2000271544A - Route constructing machine and method for setting sorting port of route constructing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a sorting box from being overfilled to thereby enhance the treating efficeincy when the written information of mail is read and the mail is sorted according to the information and allotted among sorting boxes by estimating a sorting box to which mail is concentrated allotted, and allotting the mail allotted to the sorting box to a plurality of sorting boxes. SOLUTION: Mail is supplied to a supply section 1, and is taken out one by one through a take-out section 2, and only normal mail is conveyed to a bar code reading section 4. In accordance with the sorting places stored in a data base and corresponding to the bar code, the mail is diverged at a step pass section 5 and is allotted to an objective sorting box 6. Then, the mail is taken one of the sorting box 6 and again conveyed to the supply section 1, and the operation is again started. When there is an excess in the number of sorting ports of the second time, other sorting ports are allotted to the sorting ports, successively from one having a higher number of pieces of mail alotted, thus averaging the accumulated number per sorting port. Thus, the sorting box 6 is prevented from being overfilled, and the treating efficiency is enhanced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a route assembling machine and a route assembling machine for reading a barcode of a postal matter on which a barcode corresponding to postal code and address information is printed in advance and assembling a route for delivering the postal matter. Related to the method of setting the division mouth

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional route assembling machine has been put into practical use in which a mail can be sorted in a delivery route only by sorting a mail to be assembled twice by performing a two-pass process. This route assembly is performed by a two-pass method based on the sorting theory. This sort is 2
It may be performed in a plurality of passes equal to or more than the pass.

[0003] As described above, in the route assembling machine, 2
When the first sorting information is not accumulated when sorting the images in order and sorting them in order (section plane fixed), the second sorting destination is determined and registered in advance based on the first sorting destination. It has become.

[0004] For this reason, fluctuations in the amount of mail and information on sorting destinations are not effectively utilized, so that the second sorting is likely to be full.

[0005] For example, in the case of the display of the new house of what number and what number, in the case of the display of the old house of which address (new house display is not performed), and in the case of the display of the house up to each unit (room number) of the apartment house, The corresponding number of households is expected to be different. For example, if the home indication is to each apartment in the apartment,
It is expected that one household will correspond, and if the house display is the old house display, it is expected that multiple households will correspond, and if the house display is the new house display, one or two households will correspond. Is expected.

[0006] However, even if the number of households corresponding to each of the above-mentioned house displays is different, since the number of allocated division boxes is the same, it becomes easy for the second division to be full or the like. ing.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method of assembling a route in which the same mail is sorted a plurality of times to rearrange the order. It removes the drawback that the sorting box is likely to be full in the second and subsequent sections, so that the sorting box is unlikely to be full in the second and subsequent sections, and can be processed efficiently. It is intended to provide a route assembly machine that can be used.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A route assembling machine according to the present invention reads mail information and performs sorting into a sorting box based on the read contents a plurality of times for the same mail so that the mail can be sorted. In assembling the delivery route,
When there is room in the number of divisions in the second and subsequent divisions,
A change means is provided for predicting a sorting box in which mails are concentrated and sorting the mail sorted in the sorting box into a plurality of sorting boxes.

A route assembling machine according to the present invention assembles a route for delivering a mail by reading information described on a mail and performing sorting on a same mail a plurality of times based on the read contents. , A first calculating means for calculating the number of sectional directions, a second calculating means for calculating a first and a second number of divisions based on the number of sectional directions calculated by the first calculating means, Calculate the total number of expected number of mails based on the description information of mails classified by mouth 3
Calculating means, and when there is a surplus in the number of divided ports after the second calculation calculated by the second calculating means, when the total number of expected numbers of each divided port calculated by the third calculating means is large, Setting means for setting the remaining sorting ports in order.

A route assembling machine according to the present invention comprises a supply means for supplying a mail, a reading means for reading a bar code as sorting information of the mail supplied by the supply means, and a bar code read by the reading means. Sorting means for sorting into one of a plurality of sorting boxes on the basis of the bar code, and sorting the mail supplied by the supply means into a sorting box based on a bar code a plurality of times for the same mail. As a result, in the assembly of the route for delivering mail,
When there is room in the number of divisions in the second and subsequent divisions,
A change means is provided for predicting a sorting box in which mails are concentrated and sorting the mail sorted in the sorting box into a plurality of sorting boxes.

A route assembling machine according to the present invention comprises a supply means for supplying a mail, a reading means for reading a bar code as sorting information of the mail supplied by the supply means, and a bar code read by the reading means. Sorting means for sorting into one of a plurality of sorting boxes on the basis of the bar code, and sorting the mail supplied by the supply means into a sorting box based on a bar code a plurality of times for the same mail. As a result, in the assembly of the route for delivering mail,
First calculating means for calculating the number of sectional directions, and first and second calculations based on the number of sectional directions calculated by the first calculating means.
Second calculating means for calculating the number of times of sorting, third calculating means for calculating the total number of expected mails based on the barcode of mail sorted for each sorting port, and the second calculating means When there is a surplus in the number of divided ports after the second calculation calculated by the above, setting means for setting the surplus divided ports in descending order of the total number of expected number of passages for each divided port calculated by the third calculating means. Consists of

[0012]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a small-sized route assembling machine according to the route assembling machine of the present invention. That is, the small route assembling machine includes a supply unit 1 for supplying mail, a take-out unit 2 for taking out mail one by one, a conveyance posture defective accumulation unit 3 for accumulating mail having a poor conveyance posture, and a post-printed mail. A bar code reading unit 4 for reading a bar code indicating the address information, a step-pass unit 5 for sorting the postal matter from which the bar code has been read, a sorting box 6 in which the sorted mail items are stacked,. Temporary storage box 7 for temporarily storing collected mail,
, And an operation unit 8 including an operation panel 9 for performing various operation inputs.

FIG. 2 shows a configuration of a control system provided in the operation unit 8. The control system includes a control unit 11 for controlling the entire small route assembling machine, a database 12 for registering a second sorting destination corresponding to a barcode (corresponding to a zip code and address information) for each mail. A transport control unit 13 for controlling the transport of the mail, a sorting control unit 14 for controlling the sorting of the mail, and a bar code reading unit 4.
And an operation unit 8.

In the database 12, the second sorting destination is determined and registered in advance based on the first sorting destination. As shown in FIG. 3, a bar code (postal code, Corresponding to the address information), the destination number at the time of the second supply and the expected number of mails at the time of the second supply are stored. In the database 12, the sorting destination at the time of the first supply is also stored corresponding to the barcode.

The expected number of mails stored in the database 12 at the time of the second supply is different based on the display of the house. In the case of what address the old house is displayed (new house is not displayed), it is "5", and in the case of the house display up to each house (room number) of the apartment house, it is "1". I have.

Next, the flow of mail processing will be described.

First Supply (First Pass) First, the postal matter supplied to the supply unit 1 is sent from the take-out unit 2 to the first unit.
Mail items are taken out one by one. The extracted mail is
To check the status of the removal,
The pickup pitch and the like are detected, and those that affect reading are excluded by the conveyance attitude defect accumulation unit 3.

A normal postal matter is conveyed by the bar code reading section 4. At this time, the barcode printed on the mail is read in advance. Here, the postal matter is branched at the step pass section 5 and sorted into the target sorting box 6 in accordance with the sorting destination at the time of the first supply stored in the database 12 for the read barcode. For mail that could not be read,
Rejected and sorted into reject sorting box 6 Second supply (second pass) Subsequently, in order to perform the second pass, mails are sequentially extracted from the sorting box 6 by the operator and again supplied to the supply unit 1 And start operation again.

The sorted mail items are stored once in order, and are again supplied and sorted in the same manner as in the first time.

As described above, by supplying the mail twice, the mails to be arranged can be rearranged in the order of the square of the effective number of mouths (the number of sorting boxes 6).

Next, a method of setting the section opening will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG.

That is, the control unit 11 calculates the number of sections (ST1), and calculates 1 based on the calculated number of sections.
The second and the second divided port numbers are calculated (ST2).

Next, the control unit 11 sets an initial number parameter based on an expected number (read out by the database 12) corresponding to each bar code classified for each section in an internal memory (not shown). (ST3).

The control unit 11 determines whether there is a margin in the number of divisions (ST4). If there is a margin in the number of divisions, the control unit 11 determines the number of divisions based on the initial number parameter set for each division in step 3 above. Then, a setting is made so as to allocate surplus section ports in order from the section port that is expected to have the largest number of sections (ST5). As a result, the divided ports are set such that the expected number of sheets in the second divided port number is minimized.

When it is determined in step 4 that there is no room in the number of divided ports, the number of divided ports calculated in step 2 is set (ST6).

For example, if the number of divisions in the second time is 80 and there are 10 divisions, it is determined that there is room for two divisions, and the division with the largest total expected number of traffic and the second Assign other divisions to many divisions.

In this case, as the above initial number parameter, the total expected number of messages for the sorting destination 101 is "13", the total expected number of messages for the sorting destination 102 is "27",.
Total expected number of messages for 07 is “40”,.
, The total expected number of shares is “18”, the most categorized port is the classification destination 107, and the second most categorized port is the classification destination 102.

Therefore, two sorting ports are set for each of the sorting destinations 102 and 108 allocated in step 2 described above.

As described above, in the case of assembling the route of postal matter in order by two divisions, when there is room in the second division, the number of divisions to each division is increased. Another sorting port is allocated in order, and the number of collections for each sorting port is averaged.

In this way, in the case where the route assembly for rearranging mail items in order according to the two divisions is also performed, it is possible to make it difficult for the bins to become full in the second division, that is, to become full in the second division. Can be reduced, and efficient processing can be achieved.

[0032]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, in the case where the same mail is sorted a plurality of times to rearrange the order, the sorting box is filled in the second and subsequent sorting. It is possible to provide a route assembling machine and a method for setting a sorting port of the route assembling machine, which can make the processing less likely to occur and can be efficiently processed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a schematic configuration of a small route assembling machine according to a route assembling machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a storage example of a database.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a method of setting a division port.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Supply part 2 ... Extraction part 4 ... Barcode reading part (reading means) 5 ... Step path part (sorting means) 6 ... Sorting box (stacking part, stacking means) 7 ... Temporary storage box (storage part, storage means) 8 operation unit 9 operation panel 11 control unit 12 database

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A route assembling machine for reading postal information by assembling a postal mail delivery route by reading the postal information a plurality of times into the sorting box based on the read contents. When there is room in the number of divisions in the subsequent divisions,
A route assembling machine, comprising: means for estimating a sorting box in which mails are concentrated and sorting the mails sorted into the sorting boxes into a plurality of sorting boxes. 2. A route assembling machine which reads information written on a mail and sorts the mail into a sorting box a plurality of times for the same mail to assemble a mail delivery route. A first calculating means for calculating the number, a second calculating means for calculating the number of first and second divisions based on the number of division directions calculated by the first calculation means, and a division for each division A third calculating means for calculating the total number of the expected number of mails based on the written information of the postal matter to be sent; Setting means for setting surplus sorting ports in ascending order of the total number of expected messages for each sorting port calculated by the calculating means, and a route assembling machine. 3. The route assembling machine according to claim 2, wherein the expected number of mails based on the written information of the mail is different based on the indication of the residence of the mail. 4. A route assembling machine which reads information written on a postal matter and divides the mail into a sorting box by a plurality of times for the same postal matter to assemble a postal delivery route. Calculate the number of first and second divisions based on the number of divisions, and calculate the total number of expected numbers based on the description information of the postal matter classified for each division. When there is a surplus in the number of divisions after the second
A method for setting a sorting port of a route assembling machine, comprising: setting a surplus sorting port in descending order of a total number of expected numbers of messages calculated for each of the sorting ports. 5. A supply means for supplying a mail, a reading means for reading a bar code as sorting information of the mail supplied by the supply means, and a plurality of classifications based on the bar code read by the reading means. A sorting means for sorting into one of the boxes, and performing the sorting of the mail supplied by the supply means into a sorting box based on the barcode a plurality of times for the same mail, thereby In the route assembling machine that assembles the route to be delivered, when there is room in the number of divisions in the second and subsequent divisions,
A route assembling machine, comprising: means for estimating a sorting box in which mails are concentrated and sorting the mails sorted into the sorting boxes into a plurality of sorting boxes. 6. A supply means for supplying a mail, a reading means for reading a bar code as sorting information of the mail supplied by the supply means, and a plurality of divisions based on the bar code read by the reading means. A sorting means for sorting into one of the boxes, and performing the sorting of the mail supplied by the supply means into a sorting box based on the barcode a plurality of times for the same mail, thereby In a route assembling machine that assembles a route to be delivered, a first calculating means for calculating the number of division directions, and a first and second calculation of the number of division mouths based on the number of division directions calculated by the first calculation means. (2) calculating means, (3) third calculating means for calculating the total number of expected mails based on the barcode of the mail sorted by each sorting port, and (2) the second and subsequent times calculated by the second calculating means. Setting means for setting, when there is a surplus in the number of surpluses, the surplus division ports in order from the one with the largest total number of expected number of passages for each division port calculated by the third calculation means. And directions assembly machine. 7. The route assembling machine according to claim 6, wherein the expected number of mails based on the barcode of the mail is different based on the indication of the residence of the mail. 8. A supply means for supplying a mail, a reading means for reading a bar code as sorting information of the mail supplied by the supply means, and a plurality of divisions based on the bar code read by the reading means. A sorting means for sorting into one of the boxes, and performing the sorting of the mail supplied by the supply means into a sorting box based on the barcode a plurality of times for the same mail, thereby In the route assembling machine that assembles the route to be delivered, the number of divisions is calculated. Based on the number of divisions, the number of first and second divisions is calculated, and the barcode of mail sorted by each division is calculated. Calculate the total number of expected numbers based on the above, and if there is a surplus in the calculated number of units after the second time,
A method for setting a sorting port of a route assembling machine, comprising: setting a surplus sorting port in descending order of a total number of expected numbers of messages calculated for each of the sorting ports.