Sorting device and method for sorting RFID tags
AssigneeMuehlbauer AG
InventorsTim Wirsching, Doris Kies, Dieter Bergmann
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Abstract
sorting device for RFID tags, comprising a dispensing unit for supplying RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt; a pick-up unit having a plurality of transport units for respectively picking up the RFID tags in a respective pick-up area onto a corresponding transport belt of the transport units and a positioning device for positioning the dispensing area and a selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit.
Claims11
A sorting device for RFID tags, comprising:
- a dispensing unit for supplying RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt;
- a pick-up unit having a plurality of transport units, each having a corresponding transport belt, for picking up the RFID tags in a respective pick-up area onto a corresponding transport belt of the transport unit;
- a positioning device for positioning the dispensing area and a selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit;
- a test device through which the transport belt runs before reaching the dispensing area configured to classify each of the RFID tags according to one parameter;
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- a control device for selecting the transport unit as a function of a result of the classification.
A method for sorting RFID tags, comprising:
- supplying classified RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt;
- selecting one of a plurality of transport units for picking up the RFID tags in an associated pick-up area;
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- positioning the dispensing area and the selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit.
A sorting device for RFID tags, comprising:
- a dispensing unit for supplying RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt;
- a pick-up unit having a plurality of transport units for respectively picking up the RFID tags in a respective pick-up area onto a corresponding transport belt of the transport units;
- a positioning device for positioning the dispensing area and a selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit, wherein the dispensing unit has in the dispensing area a dispensing edge which can be positioned by the positioning device;
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- a compensation device which, as a function of the selected position of the dispensing edge, compensates a displacement of the transport belt in the dispensing area which is brought about by the positioning of the dispensing edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.