Actuation of a conveying system

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PATENT NO 9950344
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15286989

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An apparatus receives data from at least one detection device which regularly detects single items on a sorting surface of a conveying system. Here, a separately actuatable drive element is assigned in each case to a plurality of partial surfaces of the sorting surface. The device regularly determines a region on the sorting surface taken up by the respective single item on the basis of the obtained data by means of triangulations for as long as the single item is situated on the sorting surface. The device determines control commands for actuating the drive elements, which are assigned to a partial surface and correspond to a specific region on the sorting surface taken up by the respective single item, on the basis of a destination at the sorting surface provided for the respective single item. Then, the device actuates the drive elements with the determined control commands.

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DEUTSCHE POST AG53113 BONN

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Hartmann, Bernd Grafschaft-Leimersdorf, DE 83 773
Tzschichholtz, Ingo Frankfurt, DE 4 12

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