Patent №
US 10,144,037
Granted
2018-12-04
Filed 2017
Owner
TOSHIBA INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
15426864
Presently disclosed embodiments are directed to a system and method for controlling/adjusting a position of mail product or other contents in an automated mail tray. Specifically, the disclosed embodiments utilize an automated mail tray with a ridged construction to allow automation equipment to adjust, load, and unload mail product in a structured manner. An adjustment feature, along with a moveable bottom surface of the mail tray, may be used to adjust a position of mail product in the automated mail tray into a vertical position. In some embodiments, the system may actuate the adjustment feature in response to sensor feedback that the mail product has fallen from the vertical position. Once the mail is in the vertical position, the moveable tray bottom may lift the mail product until it is elevated out of the tray for movement into other automation equipment without tray wall interference.
AI classification
Ownership
TOSHIBA INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
assignment · 411970058
Assignors
HANSON, BRUCE H., GAVENAS, JEFFREY ANTHONY
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.