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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2020
Applicants:

Beumer Group Gmbh & Co. KG, Beckum, DE;

Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v., Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Jan Behling, Dortmund, DE;

Jan Josef Jesper, Delbrück, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/36 (2006.01); B07C 5/10 (2006.01); B07C 5/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/10 (2013.01); B07C 5/12 (2013.01); B07C 5/362 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method for producing and maintaining an assignment of object data of an object to a changing physical position of the object in a sorting device, with the steps: feeding in an object at an entry point to the sorting device, capturing and storing identity data as part of the object data of the object; on the basis of sorting data, determining a transfer point assigned to the object; transporting the item as far as the specified transfer point; discharging the object at the specified transfer point; capturing optical object data of each object ejected at the transfer point once the object has reached a predetermined position on the sorting device, at the transfer point or along a delivery path extending from the transfer point to a removal point, and storing the optical object data as a further part of the object data of the object; transporting the object along the delivery path; and during that transportation, tracking the discharged object on the basis of the optical object data by means of tracking, and storing a current position of the object as a further part of the object data of the object, as well as a device for executing the process.


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