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

Claim 12:
13. A sorting method for a control module of a sorting apparatus, the sorting apparatus comprising: the control module and a plurality of transportation vehicles, the plurality of transportation vehicles being distributed on at least two transportation rows, the at least two transportation rows being arranged along a direction away from a feed inlet; and
the method comprising:
controlling, by sending a control instruction comprising a sorting route of a to-be-sorted item, a transportation vehicle to move along a direction of the transportation rows 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 located 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.