Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Etsuko Kinoshita

Hisataka Yonezawa

Yoshitaka Ikeda

Wataru Matsubara

Noriyuki Akasaka

Hidetaka Ono

Kazumasa Miyamoto

Mitsuaki Tamagawa

In order to efficiently controlling a compressing feeder of refuse, a novel detector system for existence or non-existence of refuse, a novel detector system for stagnation of refuse, and a novel system for preventing stagnation of refuse, are disclosed. The refuse existence detector system comprises an image pick-up device, an A/D converter for an analog image signal, a background image memory, a luminance variation detector, a background image selector, a subtractor for subtracting a background image signal from a digitized image signal, a binary encoder for issuing binary-coded image difference signal, an area calculator for calculating an area of an image region where the binary-coded image difference signal is binary '1', and a determinator device for determining whether existence or non-existence of refuse on the basis of the output of the area calculator. The refuse stagnation detector system and the refuse stagnation preventing system are constructed on the basis of a similar inventive concept.

Detector systems for existence or non-existence and stagnation of refuse

A control system for a refuse shredder composed of a refuse feeding section and a refuse shredding section detects a stagnating state of refuse to adjust the feed rate, detects idling of the feeding section and restores it to a proper state, detects a tendency of tripping of a shredder drive motor and prevents such tripping, and generally automates an operation of the shredder. The system includes an image pickup device for picking up an image of a refuse inlet of the shredder, an image processor for binary-coding an image signal generated by the image pickup device to obtain a characteristic quantity of the refuse, and control calculator for calculating and outputting a control signal for controlling the feeding section and the shredding section on the basis of the characteristic quantity of the refuse obtained by the image processor. Preferably, the system further includes a current detector for detecting a drive current value of a drive motor for the feeding section and the shredding section, and the control calculator calculates and outputs a control signal for controlling the feeding section and the shredding section on the basis of the above-mentioned characteristic quantity of the refuse as well as the detected drive current value of the drive motor.

Operation control system for a shredder

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Kobe, Japan

Etsuko Kinoshita