AIRPORT BAGGAGE CONVEYOR SYSTEM
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Abstract
The invention relates to a conveyor system comprising an electronic control which provides a plurality of local material flow controls and a material flow monitoring system. The local material flow controls are associated with respective individual branch points in the conveyor system and calculate for every item conveyed, upon its arrival in the area of the branch point, the conveyor path towards the respective desired destination while taking into consideration possible disturbances of individual conveyor sections. The local material flow controls are provided with information on possible disturbances via a corresponding transmitting facility of the material flow monitoring system in the fashion of radio messages broadcast across the conveyor system.
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22 Claims
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11. An airport baggage conveyor system, for transporting conveyed items to individual destinations on transport routes having a plurality of conveyor portions and branch points, comprising:
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an electronic control system that determines a transport route, for each conveyed item, leading to the respective destination and the branch points are respectively controlled in accordance with the transport route, the conveyed items respectively having an information carrier that is machine-readable by the control system; and a material flow monitor that comprises a sensor system for registering disturbances of the conveyor portions and branch points, a plurality of local material flow control systems that are respectively functionally assigned respectively only to one branch point and to at least one conveyor portion connected thereto, where the local material flow control systems comprise a memory, where a transport section plan of the conveyor system, comprise conveyor portions and data characterizing transport section plan is stored, a transmitting device via which the local material flow control systems are informed about disturbances in the conveyor system, in that the respective destination of the conveyed item is stored on the information carriers, and a route program, by which, with due regard to any disturbances which might possibly exist, a suitable transport route to the respective stored destination of a conveyed item making its way into the functional area of responsibility of the respective material flow control system is calculated. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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