SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING CONTENTS OF AN AUTOMATION TRAY

Patent №

US 10,144,037

Granted

2018-12-04

Filed 2017

Owner

TOSHIBA INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

Lab

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.

PlanningB07C 3/008B65H 31/30B65H 2301/422542B65H 2701/1916

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.01
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

TOSHIBA INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

assignment · 411970058

Assignors

HANSON, BRUCE H., GAVENAS, JEFFREY ANTHONY

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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