US 12,030,686 B2
System and method for controlling processing in an automated packaging process and system and method for automatically packaging shipment sets
Melle Jonker, Drachten (NL); and Eelke Visser, Drachten (NL)
Assigned to SPARCK TECHNOLOGIES B.V., Drachten (NL)
Filed by SPARCK TECHNOLOGIES B.V., Drachten (NL)
Filed on May 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/745,096.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 112 728.9 (DE), filed on May 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0363423 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B65B 5/02 (2006.01); B65B 57/16 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01); B65B 59/02 (2006.01); B65B 61/00 (2006.01); B65B 65/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 57/16 (2013.01) [B65B 5/024 (2013.01); B65B 59/001 (2019.05); B65B 59/02 (2013.01); B65B 61/005 (2013.01); B65B 65/003 (2013.01); B65B 2210/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling the processing of varying shipment sets of one or more item(s) in an automated packaging system for packaging said varying shipment sets in custom-sized boxes made from cardboard blanks, said packaging system comprising a plurality of processing stations performing different operations on said shipment sets, said operations including transporting said shipments sets to and through said processing stations, said method comprising:
acquiring information about one or more physical properties of a shipment set or of one or more items forming the shipment set,
determining based on said information if the shipment set needs or allows a specific treatment in or on the transport to and through one or more of said processing stations within said packaging system, and
configuring said one or more of said processing stations with instructions for said specific treatment of said shipment set, wherein said specific treatment comprises at least one of:
decreasing or increasing a time spent in a curing station for curing a hot melt glue used to form a custom-sized box for said shipment set, or
decreasing or increasing a time to hold a custom sized box containing said shipment set in a defined position to allow the contained shipment set to stabilize.