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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Icm Airport Technics Australia Pty Ltd, New South Wales, AU;
Richard Dinkelmann, New South Wales, AU;
Rainer Dinkelmann, New South Wales, AU;
ICM AIRPORT TECHNICS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, Mascot, New South Wales, AU;
Abstract
A processing station for registering a piece of passenger's luggage for a trip, wherein the processing station includes an injector for receiving the piece of luggage associated with the passenger; at least one sensor associated with the injector, the at least one sensor, in combination with at least the floor of the injector, creating a zone around the piece of luggage. A controller associated with the sensor being adapted to monitor, via the at least one sensor, intrusions through the zone to determine one or more of whether a predetermined limit on dimensions of the piece of luggage has been exceeded or whether a foreign object has intruded the zone from outside, and allow further processing of the piece of luggage only if no intrusion of the zone is detected. The controller also adjusts the area of the zone to accommodate different sizes of luggage.