Postal/deliverable matter delivery route developing apparatus and method of developing postal/deliverable matter delivery route

• US 20080065398A1
• Filed: 09/11/2006
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Morita, Hitoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/518,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20080065398A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00

Abstract

A postal/deliverable matter delivery route developing apparatus includes feeder which supplies the postal/deliverable matter, reading means for reading the sorting information of the postal/deliverable matter fed from this feeder, memory means for memorizing sorting information of the postal/deliverable matter fed from the feeder, destination information sorted based on the sorting information, and charging order, destination configuring means for configuring the destination of the postal/deliverable matter, segment boxes for accumulating therein the postal/deliverable matter sent in based on the sorting information read by the reading means, storage box for holding the accumulated postal/deliverable matters taking out from the segment boxes by being respectively divided in a prescribed order, calculating means for calculating the destination and the order of the postal/deliverable matter based on the sorting information, the destination, and the order which were memorized by the memory means when the postal/deliverable matters are moved from the box to the feeder and it succeeds in the secondary sorting operation, judging means for judging whether the postal/deliverable matters are charged according to the destination and the order calculated by the calculating means, and charging mistake warning means for issuing warning when it is judged that the postal/deliverable matters are out of order detected by the judging means.

Claims

1. A postal/deliverable matter delivery route developing apparatus, comprising:

feeder which supplies the postal/deliverable matter;

reading means for reading the sorting information of the postal/deliverable matter fed from this feeder;

memory means for memorizing sorting information of the postal/deliverable matter fed from the feeder, destination information sorted based on the sorting information, and charging order;

destination configuring means for configuring the destination of the postal/deliverable matter;

segment boxes for accumulating therein the postal/deliverable matter sent in based on the sorting information read by the reading means;

storage box for holding the accumulated postal/deliverable matters taking out from the segment boxes by being respectively divided in a prescribed order;

calculating means for calculating the destination and the order of the postal/deliverable matter based on the sorting information, the destination, and the order which were memorized by the memory means when the postal/deliverable matters are moved from the box to the feeder and it succeeds in the secondary sorting operation;

judging means for judging whether the postal/deliverable matters are charged according to the destination and the order calculated by the calculating means; and

charging mistake warning means for issuing warning when it is judged that the postal/deliverable matters are out of order detected by the judging means.

2. A postal/deliverable matter delivery route developing apparatus, as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the destination configuring means is provided with:

means for performing selectively configuring of the destination when succeeding in the sorting operation the whose postal/deliverable matters are the first time; and

operation display means provided with an information display means served for second charging of the postal/deliverable matter sorting operation to the feeder is presented, and an alter operation part.

3. A postal/deliverable matter delivery route developing apparatus, as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the warning means is so constituted that

in case of the destination of the postal/deliverable matter charged in the second time agreeing with the destination and the order calculated by the calculating means, the warning means pauses the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is in operation while the warning means continues the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is not in operation, and

in case of the destination of the postal/deliverable matter charged in the second time disagreeing with the destination and the order calculated by the calculating means, the warning means continues the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is in operation while the warning means pauses the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is not in operation.

4. A method of developing postal/deliverable matter delivery route by reading sorting information of postal/deliverable matter and sorting the postal/deliverable matter into the destination configured by destination configuring means, comprising the steps of:

primary charging the postal/deliverable matter into a feeder;

configuring the destination of the charged postal/deliverable matter;

feeding the postal/deliverable matter from the feeder;

reading the sorting information of the postal/deliverable matter fed from the feeder;

memorizing the sorting information of the postal/deliverable matter, the destination and the order read at the reading step;

calculating an order of accumulation in segment boxes based on the sorting information, the destination, and the order which were memorized at the memorizing step;

accumulating the postal/deliverable matter in the segment boxes according to the order calculated at the calculating step;

taking out the postal/deliverable matter accumulated in the segment boxes in a predetermined order;

making the postal/deliverable matter taken out from the segment boxes store in a storage box in a predetermined order by sorting respectively;

secondary charging the postal/deliverable matter by taking out from the storage box into the feeder in a predetermined order;

feeding the charged postal/deliverable matter from the feeder;

judging whether the postal/deliverable matter has been charged at the secondary charging step according to the destination and the order calculated at the calculating step; and

issuing charging mistake warning in case of that the charging order differs to the order judged in the judging step.

5. A method of developing postal/deliverable matter delivery route as claimed in claim 4, wherein the charging mistake warning issuing step has the steps of,

in case of the destination of the postal/deliverable matter as secondary charged agreeing with the destination and the order calculated in the calculating step, pausing warning operation when charging mistake warning is in operation while continuing the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is not in operation, and

in case of the destination of the postal/deliverable matter as secondary charged disagreeing with the destination and the order calculated by the calculating step, continuing the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is in operation while changing to the warning operation when the charging mistake warning is not in operation.