阅读说明：本技术 一种仪表自动化分拣系统 (Automatic sorting system for instruments ) 是由 庄国龙 沈长青 于 2021-09-27 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供一种仪表自动化分拣系统,包括自动识别装置、距离感应器、分拣管理装置、分拣控制装置、存储器、装货载入轨道、环形传送轨道、货物传送轨道和N个分拣轨道；所述环形传送轨道采用逆时针方向传送,环形轨道的一条直线轨道的外边沿处则垂直连接若干个分拣轨道,且每个分拣轨道呈平行状,利用分别安装在各条分拣轨道与直线轨道的交接处的自动识别装置,将识别结果发送至分拣管理装置进行分析处理；分拣管理装置收到货品条码信息后,调取存储器中与之对应的工单,匹配是否属于该条分拣轨道。本发明利用货品标识码,提供一种能够提高分拣效率,降低分拣的出错率,减少用工成本,可以宏观调控的分拣系统。(The invention provides an automatic instrument sorting system which comprises an automatic identification device, a distance sensor, a sorting management device, a sorting control device, a memory, a loading track, an annular conveying track, a cargo conveying track and N sorting tracks, wherein the automatic identification device is used for identifying the distance between the automatic identification device and the distance sensor; the annular conveying tracks are conveyed in the anticlockwise direction, the outer edge of one linear track of each annular track is vertically connected with a plurality of sorting tracks, each sorting track is in a parallel shape, and the automatic identification devices which are respectively arranged at the joints of the sorting tracks and the linear tracks are used for sending identification results to the sorting management device for analysis and processing; after receiving the goods bar code information, the sorting management device calls the corresponding work order in the memory to match whether the goods bar code information belongs to the sorting track. The invention provides a sorting system which can improve the sorting efficiency, reduce the error rate of sorting, reduce labor cost and can be macroscopically regulated and controlled by utilizing the goods identification code.)

1. An automatic instrument sorting system is characterized by comprising an automatic identification device, a distance sensor, a sorting management device, a sorting control device, a storage device, a loading track, an annular conveying track, a cargo conveying track and N sorting tracks;

the annular conveying track comprises two semicircular tracks which are oppositely arranged and two linear tracks which are connected between the semicircular tracks, and the annular conveying track adopts anticlockwise conveying;

the loading track is arranged at the outer edge of one linear track of the annular conveying tracks, the outer edge of the other linear track of the annular conveying tracks is vertically connected with a plurality of sorting tracks, and each sorting track is parallel;

the automatic identification device comprises N blocking devices and N scanning modules, and the blocking devices, the scanning modules and the sorting tracks are correspondingly arranged; the blocking device is arranged at the joint of each sorting track and the linear track and used for blocking goods advancing along the linear track at the inlet of the sorting track to which the blocking device belongs and sending scanning instructions to the corresponding scanning module to enable the scanning module to identify the bar codes of the goods;

the sorting management device receives the goods bar code sent by the scanning module, calls the work order information corresponding to the goods bar code in the memory, matches whether the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, if the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, sends a sorting instruction to the sorting control device corresponding to the sorting track, otherwise sends a release instruction to the blocking device;

the sorting control device comprises a jacking device and a distance sensing device, after receiving a sorting instruction, the jacking device transmits goods to a sorting track to queue, and the quantity of the queued goods of the sorting track is increased by one; the distance sensing device is installed at one end, close to the linear track, of the sorting track and used for detecting the distance value between the goods at the tail of the queue and the linear track in the sorting track, an isolation mechanism is arranged at one end, far away from the annular conveying track, of each sorting track, when the number of the queued goods in any sorting track reaches a preset number threshold value or the distance value detected from the sensing device is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, the sorting control device issues an opening control instruction to the isolation mechanism, and the goods in the sorting track are conveyed to a goods loading area at one time.

2. The automated sorting system of claim 1, wherein the sorting control means matches the work order in the memory by analyzing the information of the goods that have been sorted, and when the number of the queued goods on the sorting track is less than the preset number threshold value due to the fact that the number of the queued goods belongs to the tail number amount, the preset distance threshold value S is automatically adjusted in combination with the size of the goods: and S is X m, wherein X is the length of the goods corresponding to the current work order, and m is the quantity of the unsorted residual goods corresponding to the current work order.

3. The automated meter sorting system of claim 1, comprising an emergency track connected to the endless transfer track, arranged in parallel with the other sorting tracks, adjacent to the last sorting track.

4. The automated meter sorting system of claim 1, wherein the automated sorting system comprises a plurality of intelligent terminals in the sorting plant, each intelligent terminal comprises an emergency stop button for emergency stop of the conveyor.

5. An operating method of an automated meter sorting system, the operating method comprising:

s1, starting the automatic sorting system, and transferring the goods to the annular transfer rail one by one through the loading rail, so that the goods on the annular transfer rail pass through the blocking device one by one;

s2, blocking the goods moving along the linear track at the entrance of the sorting track through a blocking device, sending a scanning instruction to a corresponding scanning module, and enabling the scanning module to identify the bar code of the goods;

s3, the sorting management device receives the goods bar code sent by the scanning module, transfers the corresponding work order information in the memory, matches whether the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, if the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, then sends a sorting instruction to the sorting control device corresponding to the sorting track, otherwise sends a release instruction to the blocking device, and the goods are transferred to the next blocking device;

s4, after receiving the sorting instruction, the sorting control device transmits the goods to the sorting track through the jacking device to queue;

s5, the distance sensing device detects the distance value between the goods at the tail of the queue in the sorting track and the linear track, when the quantity of the queued goods in the sorting track reaches a preset quantity threshold value or the distance value detected by the distance sensing device is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, the sorting control device issues an opening control instruction to the isolation mechanism, so that the goods in the sorting track are conveyed to the goods loading area at one time.

6. The method of operating an automated meter sorting system according to claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

when goods pass through the automatic identification devices on the sorting tracks one by one, the goods can not identify the automatic identification bar codes and corresponding work order information is not identified according to the goods identification codes, and the goods finally flow into the emergency track for exception handling;

sending the abnormal information to a man-machine interaction interface through a distance sensing device on the emergency track to prompt a worker to process the abnormal information;

and (4) checking the goods by manpower, if the goods are normal goods, guiding the goods into the annular track again for secondary sorting, otherwise, processing abnormal problems until the abnormal alarm state of the goods is relieved.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of automatic sorting, and belongs to an automatic sorting system and method for instruments.

Background

At present, electric instrument factory usually adopts the letter sorting mode of commodity circulation, the size of crossing the goods, weight, the shape is gone to sort, and most is accomplished with manual operation, along with the continuous increase of cost of labor, enterprise's recruitment cost constantly rises, automatic sorting has begun to appear in the market, but still with the size of goods, weight, relevant information such as shape is categorised, transport appointed goods shelves with these goods, the processing area, delivery platform etc. but according to the continuous increase of inventory quantity, or the goods is piled up the place mistake, lead to the difficulty of leaving warehouse, can't find the appearance of the circumstances such as corresponding goods, an urgent need for at present can improve letter sorting efficiency, reduce the error rate of letter sorting, reduce the recruitment cost, sorting system that can the macroscopical regulation and control.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide an automatic instrument sorting system aiming at the defects of the prior art, finished products are placed in different goods collecting areas according to the order requirements through advanced automatic control, transmission and sorting, and specific storage positions can be called according to order information in the later period.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:

an automatic instrument sorting system comprises an automatic identification device, a distance sensor, a sorting management device, a sorting control device, a storage device, a loading track, an annular conveying track, a cargo conveying track and N sorting tracks.

The annular conveying track comprises two semicircular tracks which are oppositely arranged and two linear tracks which are connected between the semicircular tracks, and the annular conveying track adopts anticlockwise conveying.

The loading and loading track is arranged at the outer edge of one linear track of the annular conveying tracks, the outer edge of the other linear track of the annular conveying tracks is vertically connected with a plurality of sorting tracks, and each sorting track is in a parallel shape.

The automatic identification device comprises N blocking devices and N scanning modules, and the blocking devices, the scanning modules and the sorting tracks are correspondingly arranged; the blocking device is installed at the joint of each sorting track and the linear track and used for blocking goods advancing along the linear track at the entrance of the sorting track to which the goods belong and sending scanning instructions to the corresponding scanning module to enable the scanning module to identify the bar codes of the goods.

The sorting management device receives the goods bar code sent by the scanning module, calls the work order information corresponding to the goods bar code in the storage, matches whether to belong to the sorting track, if the matching belongs to the sorting track, then issues a sorting instruction to the sorting control device corresponding to the sorting track, otherwise issues a release instruction to the blocking device.

The sorting control device comprises a jacking device and a distance sensing device, after receiving a sorting instruction, the jacking device transmits goods to a sorting track to queue, and the quantity of the queued goods of the sorting track is increased by one; the distance sensing device is arranged at one end of the sorting track close to the linear track and used for detecting the distance value between the goods at the tail of the queue in the sorting track and the linear track; and one end of each sorting track, which is far away from the annular conveying track, is provided with an isolation mechanism, when the quantity of queued goods in any sorting track reaches a preset quantity threshold value or a distance value detected by the distance sensing device is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, the sorting control device issues an opening control instruction to the isolation mechanism, so that the goods in the sorting track are conveyed to a loading area at one time.

Further, the sorting control device matches the work order in the memory through analyzing the goods information that has finished sorting, and when the sorting track lines up that the goods belong to the tail number amount, the quantity threshold is not preset enough, and the distance threshold S is preset in combination with the automatic adjustment of the goods size: and S is X m, wherein X is the length of the goods corresponding to the current work order, and m is the quantity of the unsorted residual goods corresponding to the current work order.

Furthermore, the emergency track is connected with the annular conveying track, is arranged in parallel with other sorting tracks and is adjacent to the last sorting track.

Furthermore, the automatic sorting system is provided with a plurality of intelligent terminals in a sorting workshop, and each intelligent terminal is provided with an emergency stop button respectively and used for emergently stopping the conveying device.

The invention also provides a working method of the automatic instrument sorting system, which comprises the following steps:

and S1, starting the automatic sorting system, and transferring the goods to the annular conveying track one by one through the loading track, so that the goods on the annular conveying track pass through the blocking devices one by one.

S2, the goods advancing along the linear track is blocked at the entrance of the sorting track through the blocking device, and the scanning instruction is sent to the corresponding scanning module, so that the scanning module identifies the bar code of the goods.

S3, the sorting management device receives the goods bar code sent by the scanning module, calls the work order information corresponding to the goods bar code in the memory, matches whether the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, if the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, then issues a sorting instruction to the sorting control device corresponding to the sorting track, otherwise issues a release instruction to the blocking device, and the goods are transferred to the next blocking device.

And S4, after the sorting control device receives the sorting instruction, the goods are transmitted to the sorting track through the jacking device to be queued.

S5, the distance sensing device detects the distance value between the goods at the tail of the queue in the sorting track and the linear track, when the quantity of the queued goods in the sorting track reaches a preset quantity threshold value or the distance value detected by the distance sensing device is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, the sorting control device issues an opening control instruction to the isolation mechanism, so that the goods in the sorting track are conveyed to the goods loading area at one time.

Preferably, the working method further comprises the steps of:

when goods pass through the automatic identification device on each letter sorting track one by one, the goods bar code can not be identified automatically and corresponding work order information is not identified according to the goods identification code, and the goods finally flow into the emergency track for exception handling.

And sending the abnormal information to a man-machine interaction interface through a distance sensing device on the emergency track to prompt a worker to process the abnormal information.

And (4) checking the goods by manpower, if the goods are normal goods, guiding the goods into the annular track again for secondary sorting, otherwise, processing abnormal problems until the abnormal alarm state of the goods is relieved.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. through the goods identification code, can integrate goods and order data, go to realize the macroscopical regulation and control and the traceing back of goods letter sorting stacking.

2. The distance sensing device is combined with the size of the goods, so that the size, the weight, the shape and the like of the sorted goods can be conveniently classified and standardized.

3. Through the unified planning management to work order quantity, solved because of the goods piles up the mistake, lead to the problem of the difficulty of leaving warehouse.

4. The invention improves the work efficiency of sorting and binding by synchronously operating sorting and binding.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present invention, and in order to make the technical solutions of the present invention more clearly understood and to implement them in accordance with the contents of the description, the following detailed description is given with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an automatic instrument sorting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of the cargo sorting exception handling process of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an automated sorting pipeline according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it should be understood 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 description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

In addition, the technical features involved in the different embodiments of the present invention described below may be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other.

As shown in fig. 1, an automatic sorting system for meters includes an automatic recognition device, a distance sensor, a sorting management device, a sorting control device, a memory, a loading track, an endless transfer track, a goods transfer track, and N sorting tracks.

The annular conveying track comprises two semicircular tracks which are oppositely arranged and two linear tracks which are connected between the semicircular tracks, and the annular conveying track adopts anticlockwise conveying.

The loading and loading track is arranged at the outer edge of one linear track of the annular conveying tracks, the outer edge of the other linear track of the annular conveying tracks is vertically connected with a plurality of sorting tracks, and each sorting track is in a parallel shape.

The automatic identification device comprises N blocking devices and N scanning modules, and the blocking devices, the scanning modules and the sorting tracks are correspondingly arranged; the blocking device is installed at the joint of each sorting track and the linear track and used for blocking goods advancing along the linear track at the entrance of the sorting track to which the goods belong and sending scanning instructions to the corresponding scanning module to enable the scanning module to identify the bar codes of the goods.

The sorting management device receives the goods bar code sent by the scanning module, calls the work order information corresponding to the goods bar code in the storage, matches whether to belong to the sorting track, if the matching belongs to the sorting track, then issues a sorting instruction to the sorting control device corresponding to the sorting track, otherwise issues a release instruction to the blocking device.

The sorting control device comprises a jacking device and a distance sensing device, after receiving a sorting instruction, the jacking device transmits goods to a sorting track to queue, and the quantity of the queued goods of the sorting track is increased by one; the distance sensing device is arranged at one end of the sorting track close to the linear track and used for detecting the distance value between the goods at the tail of the queue in the sorting track and the linear track; and one end of each sorting track, which is far away from the annular conveying track, is provided with an isolation mechanism, when the quantity of queued goods in any sorting track reaches a preset quantity threshold value or a distance value detected by the distance sensing device is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, the sorting control device issues an opening control instruction to the isolation mechanism, so that the goods in the sorting track are conveyed to a loading area at one time.

Further, the sorting control device matches the work order in the memory through analyzing the goods information that has finished sorting, and when the sorting track lines up that the goods belong to the tail number amount, the quantity threshold is not preset enough, and the distance threshold S is preset in combination with the automatic adjustment of the goods size: and S is X m, wherein X is the length of the goods corresponding to the current work order, and m is the quantity of the unsorted residual goods corresponding to the current work order.

For example, in an instrument sorting and packaging workshop, 10 commodities in a work order need to be packaged and delivered from a factory, 8 commodities are packaged into a group according to the preset packaging standard of the work order, the work order is sorted and packaged through a first sorting track, a distance sensor of the first sorting track senses that 8 commodities are collected together by the sorting track according to a preset quantity threshold value, and the 8 commodities are conveyed to a loading area for packaging and stacking at one time. The sorting control device matches the work order in the storage through analyzing the goods information which has finished sorting, find that the work order has 2 goods which do not enter the loading area, after the goods are sorted by the automatic sorting system, 2 goods of the tail order are already conveyed to the first sorting track, the distance sensing device on the first sorting track analyzes the 2 goods according to the new distance threshold value adjusted by the sorting control device, and when the distance threshold value of the current goods accords with the preset threshold value, the 2 tail order goods are conveyed to the loading area for packaging and stacking at one time.

Furthermore, the emergency track is connected with the annular conveying track, is arranged in parallel with other sorting tracks and is adjacent to the last sorting track.

Furthermore, the automatic sorting system is provided with a plurality of intelligent terminals in a sorting workshop, and each intelligent terminal is provided with an emergency stop button respectively and used for emergently stopping the conveying device.

For example, in a cargo transmission state, when a human body sensing device is used for acquiring that a person enters a dangerous area, the automatic sorting system triggers an alarm system, and a stopping and conveying device can be arranged. Meanwhile, in the sorting workshop, each human-computer interface is provided with an emergency stop button, so that the conveying device can stop working temporarily in case of emergency, and danger to personnel is prevented.

With reference to fig. 2 and 3, the present invention further provides an operating method of an automatic meter sorting system, where the operating method includes the following steps:

and S1, starting the automatic sorting system, and transferring the goods to the annular conveying track one by one through the loading track, so that the goods on the annular conveying track pass through the blocking devices one by one.

S2, the goods advancing along the linear track is blocked at the entrance of the sorting track through the blocking device, and the scanning instruction is sent to the corresponding scanning module, so that the scanning module identifies the bar code of the goods.

S3, the sorting management device receives the goods bar code sent by the scanning module, calls the work order information corresponding to the goods bar code in the memory, matches whether the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, if the goods bar code belongs to the sorting track, then issues a sorting instruction to the sorting control device corresponding to the sorting track, otherwise issues a release instruction to the blocking device, and the goods are transferred to the next blocking device.

And S4, after the sorting control device receives the sorting instruction, the goods are transmitted to the sorting track through the jacking device to be queued.

S5, the distance sensing device detects the distance value between the goods at the tail of the queue in the sorting track and the linear track, when the quantity of the queued goods in the sorting track reaches a preset quantity threshold value or the distance value detected by the distance sensing device is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, the sorting control device issues an opening control instruction to the isolation mechanism, so that the goods in the sorting track are conveyed to the goods loading area at one time.

Preferably, the working method further comprises the steps of:

when goods pass through the automatic identification device on each letter sorting track one by one, the goods bar code can not be identified automatically and corresponding work order information is not identified according to the goods identification code, and the goods finally flow into the emergency track for exception handling.

And sending the abnormal information to a man-machine interaction interface through a distance sensing device on the emergency track to prompt a worker to process the abnormal information.

And (4) checking the goods by manpower, if the goods are normal goods, guiding the goods into the annular track again for secondary sorting, otherwise, processing abnormal problems until the abnormal alarm state of the goods is relieved.

For example, a packaged instrument goods is conveyed to an annular conveying track through a loading track, the goods is intercepted at the junction of a first sorting track through a blocking device, the intercepted goods is identified through a scanning module, when the goods bar code is not identified in a preset time or the goods do not belong to the first sorting track, the sorting control device of the first sorting track cannot acquire related information from a sorting management device, a release instruction is sent to the blocking device by the sorting management device, the goods is transferred to a second sorting track, an automatic identification device at the inlet of the second sorting track performs secondary identification on the goods, if the goods bar code is not identified or the goods do not belong to the second sorting track, the goods is released and transferred to a third sorting track, and the goods information cannot be acquired through the automatic identification device until the last sorting track is analogized in sequence, this goods will flow into emergent track, distance induction system on the emergent track will unusual information transfer to human-computer interaction interface, the suggestion manual work carries out unusual information processing, utilize manual operation to accomplish the detection, if detect for normal goods, will remove unusual alarm information through human-computer interaction interface to revise goods relevant information, make the goods flow and flow into annular transfer orbit again and sort, otherwise then need the manual work to carry out the abnormal problem processing that corresponds according to the abnormal conditions, until removing the abnormal alarm state of this goods.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.