ARTICLE REJECTING SYSTEM

• US 20180250715A1
• Filed: 02/23/2018
• Published: 09/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ishida Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ishida Company Limited
• Inventors: SUDA, Shoji, MIZUNO, Emi, IWAKAWA, Ken, HAYASHIDA, Kohei, YAMADA, Yuzuru
• Granted Patent: US 10,350,645 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/28 using electrical control means
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/3422 using video scanning devices, e.g. TV-cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/36 Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution sorting according to destination B07C3/003, B07C3/02
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/362 Separating or distributor mechanisms switches for postal sorting B07C3/065; particular discharging devices for B65G47/74

Abstract

An article rejecting system includes: a conveyance unit that conveys an article along a conveying direction; a detection unit that detects the article which is conveyed by the conveyance unit; a rejecting unit that is provided on a downstream side of the detection unit in the conveying direction and performs a rejecting motion for rejecting the article which is conveyed by the conveyance unit; a control unit that controls the rejecting unit such that the rejecting motion is performed at a predetermined automatic timing when the detection unit detects the article; and an input unit that accepts input of a manual operation for causing the rejecting unit to perform the rejecting motion at a manual timing. The control unit sets the automatic timing based on the manual timing, if the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation when the detection unit detects the article.

Claims

1. An article rejecting system comprising:

a conveyance unit that conveys an article along a conveying direction;

a detection unit that detects the article which is conveyed by the conveyance unit;

a rejecting unit that is provided on a downstream side of the detection unit in the conveying direction and performs a rejecting motion for rejecting the article which is conveyed by the conveyance unit;

a control unit that controls the rejecting unit such that the rejecting motion is performed at a predetermined automatic timing when the detection unit detects the article; and

an input unit that accepts input of a manual operation for causing the rejecting unit to perform the rejecting motion at a manual timing,

wherein the control unit sets the automatic timing based on the manual timing, if the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation when the detection unit detects the article.

2. The article rejecting system according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit stores a conveyance speed of the conveyance unit and a time period from when the detection unit detects the article to when the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation.

3. The article rejecting system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit that displays a time period from when the detection unit detects the article to when the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation, when the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation,

wherein the input unit accepts input of an adjustment operation for adjusting the time period displayed on the display unit, and

the control unit sets the automatic timing based on the adjusted time period.

4. The article rejecting system according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit re-sets the automatic timing according to a conveyance speed when the conveyance speed of the conveyance unit is changed.

5. The article rejecting system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an inspection unit that is provided on an upstream side of the rejecting unit in the conveying direction and inspects the article which is conveyed by the conveyance unit.

6. The article rejecting system according to claim 5,

wherein the input unit is provided to at least one of the inspection unit, the rejecting unit, and a portable device distant from the inspection unit and the rejecting unit.

7. The article rejecting system according to claim 1,

wherein the detection unit is an inspection unit that inspects the article which is conveyed by the conveyance unit, and

the control unit controls the rejecting unit such that the rejecting motion is performed at the automatic timing when the inspection unit inspects the article.

8. The article rejecting system according to claim 1,

wherein the input unit accepts input of an article setting operation for setting the article subjected to a performance of the rejecting motion by the rejecting unit, and

the control unit

stores a conveyance speed of the conveyance unit and a time period from when the detection unit detects the article to when the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation, in association with the set article, when the input unit accepts the input of the manual operation and the input of the article setting operation, and

sets the automatic timing based on the stored time period associated with the article set by the article setting operation, if the time period is stored when the input unit accepts the input of the article setting operation.