US 11,865,585 B2
Sorting apparatus and sorting method
Xiaochong Chen, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/606,483
Filed by Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Mar. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/081323
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/258956, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910574805.X (CN), filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0219201 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. B07C 3/08 (2006.01); B65G 41/00 (2006.01); B65G 11/02 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC B07C 3/08 (2013.01) [B65G 11/023 (2013.01); B65G 41/003 (2013.01); G05B 19/41895 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45047 (2013.01); G05B 2219/50393 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
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1. A sorting apparatus comprising: a plurality of transportation vehicles, wherein
the plurality of transportation vehicles is distributed on at least two transportation rows, and the at least two transportation rows are arranged along a direction away from a feed inlet;
wherein the transportation vehicle being configured to move, based on a control instruction comprising a sorting route of a to-be-sorted item, along a direction of the transportation rows sequentially to at least two target positions, each corresponding to a transportation row, indicated by the sorting route, so that the to-be-sorted item is transferred by a current transportation vehicle on which the to-be-sorted item is currently placed to a target position corresponding to a next transportation row where the next-row transportation vehicle is located by a next-row transportation vehicle, wherein the next transportation row is adjacent to the transportation row where the current transportation vehicle is located in a direction away from the feed inlet, and the sorting route indicates the target positions where the to-be-sorted item is located when passing the transportation rows of the sorting apparatus, and indicate a target position on each transportation row.