Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Condition responsive means controls separating means
Patent
1990-05-07
1991-11-05
Huppert, Michael S.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Condition responsive means controls separating means
209586, 209587, B07C 5342
Patent
active
050625322
ABSTRACT:
A sorting machine is disclosed in which the viewing window is electro-optically observed using an array of photodetectors, each observing a photo site or pixel of the viewing window. Such detection allows for normalizing by photo site viewing to individually account for background and photodetector sensitivity differences from photo site to photo site. Such detection also provides for detecting a series of defects existing for each photo side and, thus, rejecting products that have a larger than acceptable number of successively detected defective photo sites. Also disclosed is a circuit for rejecting a defective product based on sensing where its trailing edge is or should be if covered up by a successive overlapping product. Such detection also allows for rejecting products that are either too long or too short. All of this is done by digital processing resulting from the digitizing permitted by photo site detection.
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ESM International Inc.
Huppert Michael S.
Wacyra Edward M.
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