Patent ID: 11958080
Assignee: YOUNG EON KIM
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A parcel sorting system comprising:
a track driven in a cross-belt type;
a loading line loading and conveying parcels to be sorted to the track;
a loading line induction putting parcels supplied by the loading line to the track; carriers disposed on the track and moved by operation of the track with the parcels thereon which have been put in;
a plurality of chutes disposed along the track so that the parcels on the track are discharged by the same destination groups;
a 5-face image processor disposed at a side of the track, reading out parcel information marked on the top and sides of parcels, and sensing the positions of parcels on the track;
a feedback line putting parcels not read out by the 5-face image processor back to the track; and
a controller determining chutes for discharging parcels using the parcel information transmitted from the 5-face image processor,
wherein the track includes a pair of first and second tracks provided to handle parcels for a first area with a density of parcel and a second area with a density of parcel less than the first area, respectively, and
the parcel sorting system further comprises:
a shortcut line connecting the first and second tracks so that parcels, which are not parcels for a corresponding area and have been put in wrong, can be conveyed to a corresponding track; and
a shortcut line induction putting parcels supplied by the shortcut line to the track.