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Patent US7982764 - Apparatus for monitoring a package handling system - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA monitoring apparatus for sensing conditions associated with a package handling system. The monitoring apparatus includes a test package configured for being handled by the package handling system with non-test packages handled by the package handling system. The test package has a housing defining...http://www.google.com/patents/US7982764?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7982764 - Apparatus for monitoring a package handling systemAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS7982764 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 12/169,230Publication dateJul 19, 2011Filing dateJul 8, 2008Priority dateJul 8, 2008Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS8630537, US20100010664, US20110242299Publication number12169230, 169230, US 7982764 B2, US 7982764B2, US-B2-7982764, US7982764 B2, US7982764B2InventorsNagesh KadabaOriginal AssigneeUnited Parcel Service Of America, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (66), Non-Patent Citations (21), Referenced by (31), Classifications (15), Legal Events (2) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetApparatus for monitoring a package handling system
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a monitoring apparatus and, more specifically, to apparatus for monitoring conditions associated with a package handling system.
Package handling systems, such as conveyor belt systems moving packages or parcels about a warehouse or delivery hub, sometimes experience operational problems, such as a jam of the packages being handled by the system or a break in a conveyor belt of the system. Operators of these systems sometimes monitor conditions associated with the systems for determining when problems have occurred. Conventionally, if such monitoring is performed at all, it is often performed by personnel walking around the system looking for unwanted events or conditions.
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus for monitoring conditions associated with a package handling system. The monitoring apparatus includes a test package configured for being handled by the package handling system with non-test packages handled by the package handling system. The test package has a housing defining a test package interior. The test package also has at least one sensor positioned within the interior of the housing for sensing conditions associated with the package handling system. The sensor produces an output signal corresponding to the conditions that it senses. The test package further includes a support positioned within the test package interior and connecting the sensor to the housing so that the sensor is directed generally toward an outside of the test package for sensing conditions associated with the package handling system.
The present invention will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying figures, in which some, but not all embodiments of the invention are shown. Indeed, this invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.
The transmitter 22 may be connected to the sensors 20 in a variety of ways such as by way of wires or by wireless connection using corresponding wireless devices (e.g., Wi-Fi or Bluetooth®) positioned within or connected to the transmitter 22 and the sensors 20 (Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth Sig, Inc., Corporation, of Bellevue, Wash.). The remote devices 14 may be positioned remote from the test package 12 being handled by the package handling system 16. For example, the remote devices 14 may be positioned at a central location within a warehouse in which the package handling system operates or even more remotely, such as remote from such a warehouse. It is contemplated that the monitoring apparatus 10 may also be connected to a network, such as the Internet, for users of the apparatus to monitor or evaluate conditions associated with the package system at various times and from various locations.
The test package housing 30 may include a plastic, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), or another relatively robust material that would hold up through substantial handlings in the system 16. PMMA is also known as Plexiglas®, a registered trademark owned by Arkema France, of Puteaux, France.
The windows 35 of the test package 12 can be sized and shaped and comprise material or lack material allowing the sensors to better sense the conditions outside of the test package. For example, for embodiments of the present invention in which the sensors 20 are video cameras, the windows 35 can include a visually transparent or translucent material, such as Plexiglas®, allowing light to pass through the window and into the cameras. For other types of sensors 20 (e.g., infrared or vibrational sensors), the windows may include other materials conducive to facilitating effective operation of those sensors. In a contemplated embodiment of the invention (not shown), one or more of the windows 35 could be generally void of material, thereby being an opening adjacent the respective sensors through which the sensors can effectively sense conditions outside of the test package 12. The sensors 20 may partially or completely fill such windows 35, such as is the case when a lens, or a rim of the lens, of a camera extends into the window.
As also shown in FIG. 2, the test package 12 may include a local power source 40, such as a conventional battery. The local power source 40 can be connected to any of the electronic parts of the testing package 12 (e.g., sensors 20, transmitter 22, locating device 38), such as by wires positioned within the sensor support 36, for providing operating power to those parts. The local power source 40 can include a conventional rechargeable battery. The local power source 40 can store power until it is needed by other parts of the test package 12. The local power source may be a so called “super capacitor”, being rechargeable hundreds or thousands of times.
As described above, the monitoring apparatus 10 may include remote devices 14 including the receiver 24, the processor 26, and communication elements 28 connected to the processor for communicating information to users of the apparatus and receiving information from the users. The transmitter 22 of the test package 12 and the receiver of the remote devices 14 of the monitoring apparatus 10 may be configured in a variety of ways, allowing various types of communications between the transmitter and the receiver. For example, the transmitter 22 and the receiver 24 can each be configured for communicating using Wi-Fi, radiofrequency (RF), infrared, Bluetooth®, wireless local area network (WLAN), or other types of signals (Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth Sig, Inc., Corporation, of Bellevue, Wash.).
As shown in FIG. 1, the communication elements 28 may include a visual display 52 for displaying information received from the processor 26. The processor 26 may be configured (e.g., programmed) to provide information to the visual display 52 for display to the user in any of a variety of formats, such as lists, spreadsheets, charts, and graphs. Information displayed by the visual display 52 can advise users of conditions associated with the package handling system 16 (e.g., “A package jam is imminent on conveyor number two”. Such information may also include instructions advising the users how to proceed (e.g., “Please evacuate area four”, “Please repair belt”, and “Please alleviate jam”).
The communication elements 28 of the monitoring apparatus 10 may also include an acoustic source 54, such as a speaker, buzzer, horn, or siren. By way of the acoustic source 54, the processor 26 can audibly communicate messages to users of the monitoring apparatus 10 and the package handling system 16. These messages can be verbal, advising users of conditions associated with the package handling system 16 (e.g., “A package jam is imminent on conveyor number two”. Such verbal message may also include instructions advising the users how to proceed (e.g., “Please exit area four”, “Please repair belt”, and “Please alleviate jam”).
The communication elements 28 may include other types of visual sources such as a light source 56. An exemplary light source is a light-emitting diode (LED). As with the visual display 52 and the acoustic source 54, the light source 56 may receive signals from the processor 26 and operate accordingly to communicate information to users of the monitoring apparatus 10 and the package handling system 16. For example, the light source 56 may include a green LED, a yellow LED, and a red LED, which may be selectively illuminated in response to corresponding signals from the processor 26 to respectively indicate to users, for example, good package handling system conditions, slightly or potentially problematic conditions, problematic conditions, or instructions for proceeding. The monitoring apparatus 10, and the processor 26 and light source 56 in particular, may also be configured to communicate various messages to users in other ways, such as by being illuminated/not illuminated or by blinking in various ways. Also, the light source 56 may include a light behind a message, such as “Please attend to jam on conveyor #2”, which may be illuminated by a light of the light source 56 at instruction of the processor 26.
The apparatus 10 may include multiple elements of the various types of communication elements 28 (e.g., more than one visual display 52, more than one acoustic source 54, etc.). The communication elements 28 may be positioned at various locations, such as within the package handling system 16, in a remote central monitoring office near the handling system, and/or in an even further remote monitoring location, such as off site from the handling system. Communication elements 28 positioned in particular locations may display information particular to the location. For example, a visual display 52 positioned within or adjacent a specific part of the package handling system 16 may display information relevant only to users within or adjacent that part of the system (e.g., “Please attend to package jam in this area”) and an acoustic source 54 positioned within or adjacent a specific part of the system may provide instructions and/or tones audible in that area for communicating to users in or adjacent that area.
Information communicated to the users via the communication devices 28 can advise them of conditions associated with the package handling system 16, such as a speed at which a conveyor is moving or a jam in the system. The information communicated to the users can also include instructions advising the users how to proceed, such as when the processor 26 causes the acoustic source 54 or monitors of the visual display 52 to broadcast or display a message for all users to hear or see or for users in a particular area of the package handling system (e.g., “Please attend to a package jam in this area”).
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