Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090026117 | Method for sorting addressed mailings according to the destination address - In the multistage sorting method, the mail items read in the first step are re-identified in the subsequent steps on the basis of characteristic features determined. | 01-29-2009 |
20090114725 | VALUE DOCUMENT, IN PARTICULAR A POSTAGE STAMP, WITH A SECURITY ELEMENT - A value document, in particular a postage stamp, which contains an optically recognizable security element in the form of a two-dimensional structure. Accordingly, the security element has a resolution of at least 300 dpi which makes it difficult to electronically reproduce the security element and therefore protect against the production of counterfeit postage stamps. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115184 | FORGERY-PROOF VALUE DOCUMENT AND METHOD FOR ITS EXAMINATION - A forgery-proof value document, in particular a postage stamp, is examined for its authenticity. The value document contains a two-dimensional area with a security element in the form of a two-dimensional structure. The two-dimensional area is provided with, for example printed with, at least one first and at least one other substance. When illuminated with light that is visible to the human eye, the two substances have the same hue and different hues when illuminated with infrared light. The security element is placed on the value document by use the first substance, the remaining part of the area by use of the at least one other substance. When illuminated with visible light the entire two-dimensional area appears in the same hue. When illuminated with infrared light the security element is optically distinguished from the remaining area. | 05-07-2009 |
20090121163 | Apparatus and method for detecting overlapping mail items - An apparatus for detecting overlapping flat objects, wherein each object has flat sides and narrow sides, includes a doubles detector configured to derive at least one feature of an object, a first imaging unit configured to produce an electronic image of a first flat side of the object, and a second imaging unit configured to produce an electronic image of a second flat side of the object. A determination facility of the apparatus is coupled to the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit to receive the electronic images, and to derive at least one further feature of the object. Further, a decision facility of the apparatus is coupled to the doubles detector and the determination facility to receive the least one feature and the at least one further feature of the object, and to determine whether the object is a single object or a number of objects. | 05-14-2009 |
20090282922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A SYSTEM - A method for monitoring a system, in which a plurality of acoustic images are recorded and compared at defined intervals of time over a period of time extending several weeks. A large system can be monitored reliably and with little complexity if the acoustic images each contain a plurality of acoustic image areas which are arranged in a spatially different manner, and, between respective recordings of the image areas of an acoustic image, an acoustic sensor is aligned with an image area, which is to be recorded, of a next image area by being moved. | 11-19-2009 |
20100191367 | Method for Identifying Transportation Items, Particularly Luggage Items - A method of identifying transportation items which are physically different from one another, particularly for identifying automatically sortable passenger luggage in air, rail, or ocean travel, using electronically readable information associated with the transportation item. To be able to automatically identify transportation items, particularly luggage items, even when information storage media fitted to them cannot be read or can be read only imperfectly, it is proposed that, before or when the transportation item is surrendered to a transport and/or sorting system, special sensors be used to ascertain specific physical features of the respective transportation item and that these specific physical features be stored in a database as an electronic feature data record (signature) together with an identification code associated with the transportation item, the stored feature data records being compared with a subsequently produced feature data record for a transportation item as required, in order to identify the transportation item using its associated identification code when there is at least a sufficient match between the subsequently produced feature data record and one of the feature data records stored in the database. | 07-29-2010 |
20100332406 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING A SET OF ARTICLES TO DESTINATIONS AND FOR ANALYZING THE TRANSPORTATION PROCESS - A method and an apparatus for transporting a set of articles to destinations, particularly items of mail to delivery addresses. The articles to be transported are placed into a transportation apparatus and the filled transportation apparatus and also a portable position measuring instrument are transported along the route. At each destination on the route, the following step is performed: each article which is provided with details relating to the destination is taken from the transportation apparatus, and the transportation for the article is concluded. The position measuring instrument carried along measures its own current geoposition during the transportation at each prescribed measurement time and stores the measured geoposition together with an identification for the measurement time. The interval between two prescribed measurement times is shorter than the period of time for transporting the position measuring instrument from one destination to the next destination on the route. Following conclusion of the transportation, the stored geopositions and measurement times are evaluated in order to ascertain what value is assumed by at least one parameter describing the transportation for this route. | 12-30-2010 |
20140138200 | NON-RAIL-BOUND VEHICLE - A non-rail-bound vehicle, truck or bus, includes a current collector feeding electrical energy from an overhead line installation having a contact wire. The collector has a contact strip with a working region contacting the contact wire. An actuating device coupled to the collector adjusts the contact strip. The contact strip is horizontal and adjustable transversely to a vehicle longitudinal axis. A sensor senses the position of the vehicle relative to the contact wire. A control device connected to the sensor and the actuating device actuates the actuating device based on the sensed vehicle position, so that the contact strip maintains contact with the contact wire within its working range. The vehicle thus reliably maintains contact with the contact wire through the collector during operation on multilane roadways with an at least partially electrified lane, even at relatively high speeds of, for example, 80 to 100 km/h. | 05-22-2014 |