Postal sorting equipment with shuttle robot carts that transport trays

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PATENT NO 9981291
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15316373

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Equipment for handling postal articles, in particular for preparing a delivery round, includes a sorting machine (1) with a feed inlet (2) and sorting outlets (3). The articles (4) sorted into the sorting outlets are transported in storage trays (5) by shuttle robot carts (6). A monitoring and control unit (7) causes the shuttle robot carts with full trays of articles to move from the sorting outlets to the feed inlet and causes the shuttle robot carts with empty trays to move past the sorting outlets, where the shuttle robot carts move in convoys and in a target-seeking mode.

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SOLYSTIC14 AVENUE RASPAIL GENTILLY CEDEX 94257

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chirol, Luc Paris, FR 17 66
Madar, Francois Bourg les Valence, FR 9 14

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