Article sorting device and article sorting system
阅读说明:本技术 物品分拣装置及物品分拣系统 (Article sorting device and article sorting system ) 是由 马超 于 2019-06-12 设计创作,主要内容包括:本发明实施例提供一种物品分拣装置及物品分拣系统,该物品分拣装置包括底座和设置在底座上的物品承载部,底座上设置有中空的物品投放口,当物品承载部释放其所承载的物品时,物品失去支撑力,从而在重力的作用下从物品投放口掉落,降低物品落入分拣格口的难度。而且,当支撑部的数量大于1时,由于每个支撑部上都可以承载待投递物品,从而使得该物品分拣装置可以承载多个待投递物品,如此一来,物品分拣装置每次在上件工作台时,可以承接多个待投递物品,进而投递时,可以完成多个待投递物品的投递,从而通过在一次承接任务中承接多个待投递物品,实现提高分拣效率的目的。(The embodiment of the invention provides an article sorting device and an article sorting system, wherein the article sorting device comprises a base and an article bearing part arranged on the base, a hollow article putting opening is formed in the base, and when the article bearing part releases articles borne by the article bearing part, the articles lose supporting force, so that the articles fall from the article putting opening under the action of gravity, and the difficulty of falling the articles into a sorting grid opening is reduced. Moreover, when the quantity of supporting part is greater than 1, because can all bear the weight of article to be delivered on every supporting part to make this article sorting device can bear a plurality of article to be delivered, so, article sorting device can accept a plurality of article to be delivered at the time of last work station at every turn, and then when delivering, can accomplish the delivery of a plurality of article to be delivered, thereby through accepting a plurality of article to be delivered in accepting the task once, realize improving the purpose of letter sorting efficiency.)
1. The utility model provides an article sorting device, includes article bearing part and base, its characterized in that:
the base is provided with a hollow article putting opening, the article bearing part is arranged on the base and can release articles borne by the article bearing part, so that the articles fall from the article putting opening under the action of gravity.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein the article carrying portion comprises a retractable support portion, the support portion is located directly above the base, the support portion has a support force to carry an article when the support portion is in the extended state, and the support portion releases the support force when the support portion is in the retracted state, so that the article carried on the support portion falls through the article drop opening under the action of gravity.
3. The device of claim 2, wherein the support comprises a first support and a second support;
the first supporting part and the second supporting part sequentially extend to bear different articles, and the second supporting part is located right above the first supporting part.
4. The apparatus of claim 3,
the first supporting part and the second supporting part are adjacent supporting parts, and the height of an article borne on the first supporting part is lower than the height between the two adjacent supporting parts on the bearing part;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the first supporting part and the second supporting part are not adjacent supporting parts, and the height of the article borne on the first supporting part is higher than the height between the two adjacent supporting parts on the bearing part.
5. The device according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the article carrying part is a U-shaped article carrying part or a hollow tetrahedron, the support part comprises a first part and a second part, the first part and the second part are respectively arranged on two opposite surfaces of the article carrying part, when the first part and the second part are in a horizontal state, the support part has a support force to support the article, and when the first part and the second part are respectively in a vertical state, the support part releases the support force to enable the article to fall through the article putting opening under the action of gravity.
6. The device of claim 5, wherein the width of the first member is less than the distance between two adjacent support portions.
7. The device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the article carrier and the base form an L-shaped structure.
8. The apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a drive mechanism for controlling the article sorting device to operate directly above a target sorting cell so that the article falls under gravity from the article drop opening into the target sorting cell.
9. An article sorting system comprising the article sorting apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, a scanning apparatus, and a server, wherein,
the scanning device is used for scanning a plurality of articles to be delivered in sequence to obtain scanning information of each article to be delivered and sending the scanning information of each article to be delivered to the server;
the server is used for determining a path queue according to the scanning information of each article to be delivered and sending the path queue to the article sorting device; wherein the path queue comprises at least two article delivery paths, each article delivery path is used for delivering an article to be delivered on a support part, the order of the article delivery paths in the path queue is consistent with the delivery order of the article to be delivered on the article sorting device, and the end point of the previous article delivery path in the two adjacent article delivery paths in the path queue is the starting point of the next article delivery path;
and the article sorting device is used for bearing each article to be delivered and delivering each article to be delivered according to the path queue.
Technical Field
The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of logistics, in particular to an article sorting device and an article sorting system.
Background
Traditional manual sorting is because needs a large amount of manpower and materials, and letter sorting inefficiency and with high costs, can't satisfy the commodity circulation and the storage trade of thriving development. Therefore, many logistics centers utilize automatic sorting system to replace manual work to reduce the manual work cost, improve the operating efficiency, shorten parcel warehouse entry time.
Currently, a common automatic sorting system includes a scanning device, a server, a sorting robot, and the like, wherein the sorting robot is, for example, an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) or the like. In the sorting process, the conveying belt conveys the packages to the workpiece workbench, workers place the packages on trays of sorting robots with the surfaces with information such as bar codes facing upwards, the scanning device scans the information on the packages and sends the scanned information to the server, the server determines target sorting grids according to the scanned information, determines the optimal path according to the target sorting grids and sends the optimal path to the sorting robots. And after receiving the optimal path, the sorting robot drives to the target sorting grid according to the optimal path, and overturns the tray to a certain angle, so that the package is poured into the sorting grid.
In the sorting process, the sorting robot needs to turn upwards for a certain angle, and if the angle is smaller, the packages cannot be dumped; if the angle is large, the parcel can not fall into the sorting grid. However, the weight of different packages is different, which makes it difficult for the robot to control the force for turning the tray and to accurately deliver the packages to the sorting grid.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides an article sorting device and an article sorting system, which are used for delivering packages by utilizing gravity, so that the difficulty of falling the packages into sorting grids is reduced.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a sorting device, including: the article bearing part can release articles borne by the article bearing part, so that the articles fall from the article putting opening under the action of gravity.
In a possible design, the article carrying part includes a telescopic supporting part, the supporting part is located right above the base, when the supporting part is in an extended state, the supporting part has a supporting force to carry the article, when the supporting part is in a retracted state, the supporting part releases the supporting force, so that the article carried on the supporting part falls through the article putting-in opening under the action of gravity.
In one possible design, the support comprises a first support and a second support; the first supporting part and the second supporting part sequentially extend to bear different articles, and the second supporting part is located right above the first supporting part.
In a possible design, the first supporting part and the second supporting part are adjacent supporting parts, and the height of the article carried on the first supporting part is lower than the height between two adjacent supporting parts on the carrying part;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the first supporting part and the second supporting part are not adjacent supporting parts, and the height of the article borne on the first supporting part is higher than the height between the two adjacent supporting parts on the bearing part.
In a feasible design, the article carrying part is a U-shaped article carrying part or a hollow tetrahedron, the support part includes a first part and a second part, the first part and the second part are respectively disposed on two opposite surfaces of the article carrying part, when the first part and the second part are in a horizontal state, the support part has a support force to support the article, and when the first part and the second part are respectively in a vertical state, the support part releases the support force to enable the article to fall through the article input opening under the action of gravity.
In one possible design, the width of the first part is smaller than the distance between two adjacent support parts.
In one possible design, the apparatus further includes a driving mechanism for controlling the article sorting device to move to a position directly above the target sorting cell, so that the article falls into the target sorting cell from the article input port under the action of gravity.
In one possible design, the article carrier and the base form an L-shaped structure.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an article sorting system, including the article sorting apparatus according to any one of the above first aspects, a scanning apparatus, and a server, where the scanning apparatus is configured to scan a plurality of articles to be delivered in sequence, obtain scanning information of each article to be delivered, and send the scanning information of each article to be delivered to the server; the server is used for determining a path queue according to the scanning information of each article to be delivered and sending the path queue to the article sorting device; wherein the path queue comprises at least two article delivery paths, each article delivery path is used for delivering an article to be delivered on a support part, the order of the article delivery paths in the path queue is consistent with the delivery order of the article to be delivered on the article sorting device, and the end point of the previous article delivery path in the two adjacent article delivery paths in the path queue is the starting point of the next article delivery path; and the article sorting device is used for bearing each article to be delivered and delivering each article to be delivered according to the path queue.
The article sorting device comprises a base and an article bearing part arranged on the base, wherein a hollow article putting opening is formed in the base, and when the article bearing part releases articles borne by the article bearing part, the articles lose supporting force, so that the articles fall from the article putting opening under the action of gravity, and the difficulty of falling the articles into a sorting grid opening is reduced. Moreover, when the quantity of supporting part is greater than 1, because can all bear the weight of article to be delivered on every supporting part to make this article sorting device can bear a plurality of article to be delivered, so, article sorting device can accept a plurality of article to be delivered at the time of last work station at every turn, and then when delivering, can accomplish the delivery of a plurality of article to be delivered, thereby through accepting a plurality of article to be delivered in accepting the task once, realize improving the purpose of letter sorting efficiency. Meanwhile, when the articles are fed at each time, a plurality of articles to be delivered need to be placed on the same article sorting device by workers, so that invalid waiting time in the feeding process can be reduced, and the sorting efficiency is improved again.
Drawings
In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a sorting system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a sorting cell for use with a sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a sorting device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4A is an internal structural view of a sorting device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4B is an internal structural view of another sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4C is an internal structural view of another sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a sorting device delivering articles according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic view of a two-dimensional code scanned by a sorting device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a flowchart of a sorting method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
In the logistics industry, each article, such as a package, a letter and the like, has mail sending information, including a sender name, a sender address, a sender phone and the like. After the articles arrive at the sorting center, the articles are conveyed to the article sending workbench through the conveying belt, the worker places the article sending information of the articles upwards on a tray of the sorting robot, the scanning device scans the article sending information to obtain scanning information, the scanning information is sent to the server, the server determines a target sorting grid according to the scanning information, and the optimal path is sent to the sorting robot. And after receiving the optimal path, the sorting robot drives to the target sorting grid according to the optimal path, and overturns the tray to a certain angle, so that the package is poured into the sorting grid.
In the sorting method, the sorting robot needs to turn upwards for a certain angle, and if the angle is smaller, the packages cannot be dumped; if the angle is large, the parcel can not fall into the sorting grid. However, the weight of different packages is different, which makes it difficult for the robot to control the force for turning the tray and to accurately deliver the packages to the sorting grid. And because the staff single can only put in a parcel on the letter sorting robot, the letter sorting robot need expend longer time and go to the target letter sorting check mouth, accomplish the parcel and deliver the back, empty car returns to the last workstation again and gets off a parcel, sorts inefficiency. In addition, since the former sorting robot leaves the workpiece loading table and the latter sorting robot reaches the workpiece loading table, the time difference exists in the middle, so that after each article is thrown in by a worker, the worker waits for the time when one sorting robot reaches the workpiece loading table, a large amount of waiting time, namely invalid operation time, is generated in long-time operation, and the sorting efficiency is reduced to a certain extent again.
In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide an article sorting apparatus and an article sorting system, which deliver articles by using gravity, thereby reducing the difficulty of the articles falling into the sorting gates.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an article sorting system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 1, the architecture includes an
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a sorting cell suitable for an article sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 2, the sorting center has a plurality of
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, when the
It should be noted that, although the architecture shown in fig. 1 is described above, the article sorting system according to the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail by taking the
Next, the
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an article sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 3, an
In this embodiment, the
The article sorting device that this embodiment provided includes the base and sets up the article bearing part on the base, is provided with hollow article on the base and puts in the mouth, and when article bearing part released its article that bears, article lost the holding power to drop from article input mouth under the effect of gravity, reduce the degree of difficulty that article fell into the letter sorting bin.
In a possible design, the
Next, the
In a possible design, the
Referring to fig. 3 again, in the embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of retractable supporting
For example, in the embodiment of the present invention, the operation of the
Firstly, a loading link is carried out.
Illustratively, when no piece is loaded, each
And secondly, a delivery link.
Illustratively, after the loading is completed, each
After receiving the path queue, the
According to the article sorting device provided by the embodiment of the invention, when the number of the supporting parts is more than 1, each supporting part can bear the articles to be delivered, so that the article sorting device can bear a plurality of articles to be delivered, therefore, the article sorting device can bear a plurality of articles to be delivered every time when the article sorting device is on a workpiece working table, and further can complete delivery of a plurality of articles to be delivered during delivery, so that the purpose of improving the sorting efficiency is realized by bearing a plurality of articles to be delivered in one bearing task. Meanwhile, when the articles are fed at each time, a plurality of articles to be delivered need to be placed on the same article sorting device by workers, so that invalid waiting time in the feeding process can be reduced, and the sorting efficiency is improved again.
Next, the
Fig. 4A is an internal structural view of an article sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 4A, in the present embodiment, the
In the embodiment of the present invention, the number of the supporting
Fig. 4B is an internal structural view of another article sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 4B, in this embodiment, the
Fig. 4C is an internal structural view of another article sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 4C, in the present embodiment, the
In general, the
Referring to FIG. 5, in contrast to a conventional tilting AGV, in the embodiment of the present invention, the
As can be seen from fig. 5: in the embodiment of the invention, the delivery of the articles is completed under the action of gravity, when the articles are delivered, the
Referring to fig. 5 again, two-dimensional codes are attached around each sorting cell, as shown by a dashed line frame in the figure, each two-dimensional code represents a specific position, and the position of each sorting cell and the position corresponding to the two-dimensional code around the sorting cell have a preset relationship. When the
Fig. 6 is a schematic view of a two-dimensional code scanned by an article sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 6, in the embodiment of the present invention, since the driving time of the
It should be noted that the two-dimensional code can be used for path correction in addition to verifying whether the article sorting device is positioned right above the sorting grid. For example, when the article sorting device operates to the target sorting grid according to the target path in the path queue, the two-dimensional code on the ground is continuously scanned, whether the current position is located on the target path is judged, and if the current position is not located on the target path, it is indicated that the article sorting device deviates from the path. When the deviation degree is small, the article sorting device automatically adjusts the driving direction to eliminate the path deviation, and when the deviation degree is large, the article sorting device automatically gives an alarm, so that a worker moves the article sorting device to a target path.
It should be noted that, in the above embodiments, the path queue includes the first path, when the first path is not the last path in the path queue, the end point of the first path is the sorting cell corresponding to the first path, and the sorting cell is denoted as the first sorting cell. However, embodiments of the present invention are not limited, and in other possible implementations, when the first path is not the last path in the path queue, the end point of the first path is a preset distance from the first sorting gate. At this time, when the
On the basis of the above article sorting device and article sorting system, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a sorting method, for example, see fig. 7.
Fig. 7 is a flowchart of a sorting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the embodiment includes:
101. the method comprises the steps of obtaining a path queue, wherein the path queue comprises at least two article delivery paths, each article delivery path is used for delivering at least one article to be delivered on an article sorting device, the sequence of the article delivery paths in the path queue is consistent with the delivery sequence of the articles to be delivered on the article sorting device, and in two adjacent article delivery paths in the path queue, the end point of the previous article delivery path is the starting point of the next article delivery path.
102. Delivering the articles to be delivered on the article sorting device according to the at least two article delivery paths.
Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the article sorting device, which is not repeated herein.
In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. The procedures or functions according to the embodiments of the present application are all or partially generated when the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wirelessly (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy Disk, hard Disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.
The term "plurality" herein means two or more. The term "and/or" herein is merely an association describing an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B, may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the former and latter related objects are in an "or" relationship; in the formula, the character "/" indicates that the preceding and following related objects are in a relationship of "division".
In addition, functional modules in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each module may exist alone physically, or two or more modules are integrated into one unit. The unit formed by the modules can be realized in a hardware form, and can also be realized in a form of hardware and a software functional unit.
It is to be understood that the various numerical references referred to in the embodiments of the present application are merely for descriptive convenience and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.
It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiment of the present application.
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