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    • 6. 发明专利
    • Material handling apparatus with delivery vehicles
    • NZ744108A
    • 2021-01-29
    • NZ74410817
    • 2017-01-11
    • OPEX CORP
    • STEVENS ALEXANDERMCVAUGH MONTYWALSH JAMESWILSON GREGORYDEWITT ROBERT
    • B07C3/08B07C3/14B65G1/06G06T7/13
    • Sorting and retrieving items to fill a customer order can be a laborious and time consuming. Automated picking has developed to reduce labor cost and improve customer service by reducing the time it takes to fill a customer order. However, the known systems of automatically handling the materials are either very expensive or have limitations that hamper their effectiveness. There is provided an apparatus for sorting a plurality of items having a plurality of sort destinations and a plurality of delivery vehicles for delivering items to the sort destinations. Each vehicle has a surface for supporting items to be delivered and an edge-detection assembly for detecting an edge of an item when the item is conveyed onto or discharged from the vehicle. The edge-detection assembly has an emitter for emitting a beam toward the surface. The emitter is positioned below the surface so that the beam is projected transverse the surface. The edge-detection assembly also has a plurality of detectors for detecting the beam. An object on the surface of the vehicle affects the beam received by the detectors. The edge-detection assembly is positioned adjacent to, but slightly below, a discharge end of the surface so that the emitter and plurality of detectors form a detection plane that is transverse and orthogonal to a plane defined by the surface. The apparatus also has a controller for controlling the loading of an item onto one of the vehicles or the discharge of an item from the vehicle based on signals from the edge-detection assembly.