JPS62255313A - Baggage claim device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To assort baggages by arrived flight, seat classification and seat position so as to shorten receiving time by providing plural loop-shaped receiving conveyors at baggage receiving area in an airport and connecting an assorting machine provided with a diverter to it. CONSTITUTION:A group of baggages 1 from flight No.J001 and U010 are transported to a loading place of conveyors 3a, 3b and then laid on the conveyors 3a, 3b by the staff 2. And a company name, a flight name, seat classification and a name are read from an attached tag by a tag reader 5 at a baggage tag reading position 4 and input into a center processing device to devide their destination after assortment. Next the baggage 1a is sent to an assorting machine 9 by conveyors 8a, 8b after passing by the reading position 4 and shifts on the upper step b belt part 10 in the a direction and an the lower step belt part 10b in the b direction and when it reaches the specified position, a diverter 11 rotates to let it fall onto a chute 12. Next the baggage is sent to conveyors 13a-13c or 13d-13f by the flight and it flows on a conveyor until the pick up by a passenger 14 and receiving time is shortened.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a baggage claim device for sorting passenger baggage to a predetermined receiving conveyor at an airport or the like.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, a plurality of 713 machines have been installed in the baggage claim area of the airport as shown in Figure 7 or Figure 8, and the passenger 14 can see the flight number of the flight he or she has boarded. In this system, a user stands in front of the baggage claim conveyor 13, picks up his or her own baggage 1a from the conveyor 13, and moves it to the customs check area.

On the other hand, baggage group 1 that was taken off the plane was handled by airport staff 2.
The bags are placed on the baggage receiving conveyor 13 one by one. This baggage receiving conveyor 13 is driven in the direction shown by the dotted line arrow, and the baggage 1a is picked up when it comes in front of the passenger 14, but if the passenger 14 fails to pick up the baggage 1a, it is picked up at that location. If so, baggage 1a again
will be played, so you can pick it up at that time.

In the figure, 18 is a room partition, and the left side of this partition 18 is a baggage receiving area 19 for passengers, and the right side is a loading area 20 for baggage groups.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

By the way, such conventional equipment has the following problems.

(1) Since a group of baggage unloaded from one airplane comes out from one receiving conveyor, it takes time for R11 passengers to receive their baggage. In particular, in recent years, large jet aircraft carry a large number of passengers, so it takes time to process baggage.

(2) Passengers line up on the side of the conveyor in order to provide equal service to passengers, so the length of the conveyor is longer, and if a passenger fails to pick up his/her own baggage, it takes time to pick up the baggage again. It takes.

(a) Since baggage is handled on different conveyors for each arriving flight, the equipment cannot be used effectively, resulting in a decline in service to passengers.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and its purpose is to provide a baggage claim device that can shorten the time it takes to receive baggage and improve service to passengers.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention installs a plurality of loop-shaped receiving conveyors in parallel in a baggage receiving area of an airport, etc., connects a sorting machine equipped with a diverter to these receiving conveyors, and transfers baggage to the receiving conveyor. This feature is characterized in that the information is sorted according to boarding number, etc.

[For production]

In the present invention, a plurality of loop-shaped receiving conveyors are installed in parallel in the baggage receiving area of an airport, etc., and a sorting machine equipped with a diverter is connected to these receiving conveyors, thereby sorting passenger baggage by arrival flight and seat class. , and can be sorted by seating position.

〔Example〕

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

1 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 schematically shows a baggage claim device. In the same figure, the mark @1 in the figure indicates a group of baggage taken off from the airplane, and this baggage group 1 is placed one by one on the baggage loading conveyors 3a and 3b by airport staff 2, and the baggage tag is read at the baggage tag reading position @4. Information such as the airline name, 2 flight numbers, and seat class 1 name can be read from a tag (not shown) attached to 1a. At the baggage tag reading position 4, a tag reader 5 that optically reads information displayed on the tag and a baggage tag reading device 17 that reads information by pressing a button by an operator 6 are installed. The information read by the baggage tag reading device 7 is input to a central processing unit 125 shown in FIG.

In addition, 8a and 8b in the figure are sorting machine feed conveyors that send the baggage 1a that has passed through the baggage tag reading position [4 to the sorting machine 9. It is connected to the steel belt section 10b (see FIG. 2). The driving directions of the upper steel belt section 10a and the lower steel belt section 10b of the sorting 19 are opposite to each other, and the baggage 1a on the upper steel belt section 10a is moved in the direction of the solid arrow a, and the baggage on the lower steel belt section 10b is moved in the direction of the solid arrow a. 1a are arranged to move in the directions indicated by the solid line arrows.

Further, diverters 11 are provided at a plurality of locations on the upper steel belt section 10a and the lower steel belt section 10b of the sorting 19. These diverters 11
As shown in the figure, when the baggage 18 flows to a predetermined position, it rotates and drops the baggage 1a onto the chute 12.The baggage 1a dropped onto the chute 12 by the diverter 11 is transferred to baggage receiving conveyors 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d. .

13 (3, 13f). These baggage receiving conveyors 13a.

13b, 13c, 13d, 13e, and 13f are arranged in parallel in the baggage receiving area 19, and are connected to the sorting machine 9 via the chute 12, respectively. The upper steel belt section 10a and the lower steel belt section 10b of the sorting machine 9 are connected by a return conveyor 15, and the baggage 1a that has not been sorted by the lower steel belt section 10b passes through the return conveyor 15 and returns to the upper steel belt section 10a. It is now sent to. And the upper steel belt part 10
An end buffer 17 is connected to the terminal end of the belt a via an end chute 16, and collects the baggage 1a that has not been sorted by the upper steel belt section 10a and the lower steel belt section 10b.

Also, each baggage receiving conveyor 13a, 13b.

A baggage receiving conveyor display device [22] is provided near i of 13c, 13d, 13e, and 13f, respectively. This baggage claim conveyor display device 22 displays the relevant conveyor number, arrival flight number, seat class, etc., as shown in FIG. 3, for example.
rI14 displays information such as 1 for first class, 2 for economy class, and whether the seat is on the left, center, or right side of the row of seats, etc., so you can check the receiving conveyor where your baggage will come out. It looks like this. In addition, a baggage claim conveyor number search device 23 is installed near the entrance 19a of the baggage claim area 19. When you enter the airline name, flight number, name, etc., the conveyor number where your baggage will be delivered will be displayed on the screen (or printed). out). A passenger guidance display device 24 is suspended from the ceiling near the entrance 19a as shown in Figure 4, so that passengers can check at a glance the conveyor number from which their baggage will be delivered. Inside 19b1, exit 21 of baggage claim area 19 is the customs counter.

As shown in FIG. 5, the central processing unit 25 connects the tag reader 51, the baggage tag reading device 71, the baggage receiving conveyor display device M221, the baggage receiving conveyor number search device 123, the passenger guide display device 24.
Related information system connection equipment @26. Memory charge 27. It is connected to a console display 28, two sorting machine control devices, a sorting four peripheral conveyor control device 302, and a baggage receiving conveyor control device 31, and information is input from each of these devices to perform υ11[1 of the entire device. It becomes.

The related information system connection device 26 connects each airline's passenger management system 34a, . . . , 3 through a transmission line 33.
You can get seat information etc. from 4n.

Furthermore, it is possible to obtain from the customs system 35 a list of names of persons who do not require customs checks, a list of names of persons who require special checks at customs, etc.

Next, the operation of the apparatus configured as described above will be explained. Suppose that flight 001 (hereinafter referred to as JOOI flight) of five companies and flight 010 (hereinafter referred to as LJO flight 10) of company U arrive at the airport at the same time, and both flights have shared baggage. Then, the relevant airline name and nine flight numbers are inputted from the console display 28, and the airline passenger management system 34a, . . . is inputted via the related information system connection device 26.

34n and obtain information on JOO1 flight and 0010 flight. Then, from the information obtained, JOOI
Assuming that the flight will be divided into three parts by seat class, and flight 0010 will be divided into three parts by seat position, it will be divided into three parts, and the baggage claim conveyors 13a, 13b, and 13c will be 8
A sorting plan is input from the console display 28 to the central processing unit 81125 so that flight 001 is designated for flight 001, and 13d, 13e, and 13f are designated for flight 0010.

On the other hand, the baggage group 1 unloaded from flights 0001 and Uoio are transported to the O-ding locations on loading conveyors 3a and 3b, respectively, and loaded one by one onto the O-ding conveyor 38°3b by airport staff 2. . The baggage 1a on the loading conveyors 3a, 31j is at the baggage tag reading position 4, and information such as the airline name, 1 flight number, and seat class 1 name is read from the tag attached to the baggage 1a by the tag reader 5 or the baggage tag reading device 7. The read information is input to the central processing unit 25 to determine the sorting destination. The baggage 1a whose sorting destination has been determined passes through the baggage tag reading position 4 and is transferred to the feed conveyor 8a,
It is sent to the sorting machine 9 by 8b. The baggage 1a sent to the sorting machine 9 moves on the upper steel belt section 10a of the sorting machine 9 in the direction of the solid line arrow a, and on the lower steel belt section 10b in the direction of the solid line arrow. When the position is reached, the diverter 11 rotates and drops the baggage 1a into the chute 12.

The baggage 1a that has fallen onto the chute 12 from the sorter 119 in this way is transferred to the baggage receiving conveyors 13a and 13b if the baggage is for JOO1 flight.

13C (for example, 13a for first class,
13b for business class, 13c for economy class)
and in the case of flight 0010, it is sent to one of the baggage claim conveyors 13d, 13e, and 13f (for example, the left side of the seat row is 13d, the center is 13e, and the right side is 13f),
It flows on the same conveyor until the passenger 14 picks it up. It should be noted that all baggage that has been sorted incorrectly due to a malfunction of the diverter 11 or for which there is no sorting destination is collected by the end buffer 17.

In this way, a plurality of baggage receiving conveyors 13a, 13b are installed in the baggage receiving area 19 of an airport or the like.

13c, 13d, 13e, and 13f are arranged side by side, and a sorting machine 9 equipped with a diverter 11 is connected to the receiving conveyors 13a to 13f of these, thereby sorting the baggage 1a of passengers 14 by arrival flight, seat class, and seat position. Since the items can be sorted separately, the time required to receive the baggage 1a can be shortened. In the above embodiment, a steel belt sorting machine having two stages of upper and lower steel belt surfaces was used as the sorting machine 9, but a single stage steel belt sorting machine as shown in FIG. 6 may be used.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to shorten the time required to receive baggage at an airport or the like, thereby providing a baggage claim device that can improve service to passengers.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the outline of a baggage claim device, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a connecting part between a baggage receiving conveyor and a sorting machine.
Fig. 3 is a front view of the baggage claim conveyor display device, Fig. 4 is a front view of the passenger guidance display device, Fig. 5 is a control block diagram of the baggage claim device, and Fig. 6 shows another embodiment of the present invention. The plan view of the baggage claim device, FIGS. 7 and 8, are explanatory diagrams of a conventional example. 1... Baggage group, 1a... Baggage, 3a, 3b...
- Sorting machine loading conveyor, 4... Baggage tag reading position, 5... Tag reader, 7... Baggage tag reading device, 8a, 8b... Sorting machine feed conveyor, 9... Sorting machine, 11. ...Diverter, 12...
Chute, 13a-13f... baggage claim conveyor,
15... Return conveyor, 17... End buffer, 19... Baggage receiving area, 20... Loading area, 22... Baggage receiving conveyor display device,
23... Baggage claim conveyor number search device, 24...
・Passenger guidance display device, 25...center ff1l! Device. Applicant's sub-agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue 2 Figures 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8

Claims (1)

[Claims] A plurality of loop-shaped receiving conveyors are installed in parallel in the baggage receiving area of an airport, etc., and a sorting machine equipped with a diverter is connected to these receiving conveyors so that the baggage is sorted into the receiving conveyor for each boarding aircraft, etc. A baggage claim device characterized by: