Patent ID: 11865585
Assignee: BEIJING JINGDONG QIANSHI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A sorting apparatus comprising: a plurality of transportation vehicles, wherein
the plurality of transportation vehicles is distributed on at least two transportation rows, and the at least two transportation rows are arranged along a direction away from a feed inlet;
wherein the transportation vehicle being configured to move, based on a control instruction comprising a sorting route of a to-be-sorted item, along a direction of the transportation rows sequentially to at least two target positions, each corresponding to a transportation row, indicated by the sorting route, so that the to-be-sorted item is transferred by a current transportation vehicle on which the to-be-sorted item is currently placed to a target position corresponding to a next transportation row where the next-row transportation vehicle is located by a next-row transportation vehicle, wherein the next transportation row is adjacent to the transportation row where the current transportation vehicle is located in a direction away from the feed inlet, and the sorting route indicates the target positions where the to-be-sorted item is located when passing the transportation rows of the sorting apparatus, and indicate a target position on each transportation row.