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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2012
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Peter Berdelle-Hilge, Konstanz, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Objects are sorted according to a predetermined sorting feature. A first storage area and a second storage area each have a plurality of storage devices. A storage device of the first storage area has a storage device output and an emptying transport path, which leads to a storage device of the second storage area. The value that the sorting feature takes on for each object to be sorted is measured for that object. A storage device is selected on the basis of the sorting feature value. In an emptying-optimized mode, only storage devices of the first storage area are selected, and in a sorting destination-optimized mode, storage devices of the second storage area are also selected. A storage device with a store output is emptied in an emptying-optimized mode by transporting objects in this storage device to a storage device of the second storage area via the emptying transport path.