Patent ID: 6227375
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: B07C,G06K,G07B

Abstract:
An apparatus for monitoring the process of transporting flat consignments, said apparatus being designed as a flat consignment, with a sensor device, a memory device, an evaluation device and a power supply which are located in one or more component zones designed as rigid regions, in which apparatusthere are between the component zones flexible bending and folding zones which have flexible padding material and flexible electric connection elements for the components and which are in a ain transport direction, in each case, at least half as long as the length of the largest adjoining component zone,there is a padded stamp zone having a compressive strength adapted to the stamping pressures, said stamp zone being capable of overlapping with outer zones, in addition to the component zones,there is a buffer and entry zone which consists of flexible padding material and which extends from the circumferential edges of the apparatus as far as the component zones and the bending and folding zones, with the thickness of the of the buffer and entry zone at the boundaries with the component zones and bending and folding zone being approximately equal to the thickness of these zones and decreasing toward the circumferential edges,the position of the component zones and the distribution of the masses over the component zones are such that the positions of the mass center of gravity and of the area center of gravity of the apparatus in relation to half the length and half the width of the apparatus differ from one another by no more than 6%.