Patents Assigned to METROSENSE OY
  • Patent number: 10464105
    Abstract: A method for sorting waste, in which waste or recyclable material intended for sorting is brought in waste bags to a sorting apparatus, which includes a conveyor, from which the waste bags belonging to different waste components are separated from each other by guiding them into the containers according to the waste components or to further processing. A waste bag, an identifier arranged in connection with it and/or the content of the waste bag is identified with a sensor system, which includes a number of sensors monitoring different properties, which sensors essentially simultaneously read and/or identify a waste bag, an identifier arranged in connection with it and/or the content of the waste bag when the waste bag is transferred on the conveyor via the reading area of the sensors, and in which method on the basis of information coming from the sensors the waste bags are sorted into different waste components using one or more handling devices of the sorting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: METROSENSE OY
    Inventors: Oskari Koistinen, Hannu Karhuketo, Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20170225199
    Abstract: Method for sorting waste, in which method the waste or recycleable material intended for sorting is brought in waste bags to a sorting apparatus, which includes a conveyor, from which the waste bags belonging to different waste components are separated from each other by guiding them into the containers according to the waste components or to further processing. In the method a waste bag, an identifier arranged in connection with it and/or the content of the waste bag is identified with a sensor system, which includes a number of sensors monitoring different properties, which sensors essentially simultaneously read and/or identify a waste bag, an identifier arranged in connection with it and/or the content of the waste bag when the waste bag is transferred on the conveyor via the reading area of the sensors, and in which method on the basis of information coming from the sensors the waste bags are sorted into different waste components using one or more handling devices of the sorting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: METROSENSE OY
    Inventors: Oskari KOISTINEN, Hannu KARHUKETO, Göran SUNDHOLM