Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Kenichiro Kimura

Kazuhiro Hattori

Osamu Goto

Hiroaki Muranami

Tatsuya Umino

Masaru Tokumoto

Tomoki Yamashita

Junta Hirayama

In an automatic deboning apparatus, an X-ray irradiation unit is provided on the upstream side of a meat cutting unit in a direction of transport of the work. In the X-ray irradiation unit, an X-ray r is irradiated to a work w from an X-ray irradiation device, an image of the X-ray transmitted through the work is subjected to image processing in an image analysis process unit, and two-dimensional position coordinates of a bone part are thereby obtained. In the meat cutting unit, three robot arms are provided with cutting blades. A storage unit of a controller stores three-dimensional position coordinates of a target operation course of each of the cutting blades. The target operation course is corrected on the basis of the two-dimensional position coordinates of the bone part obtained for each work in the image analysis process unit.

Deboning method and apparatus for meat with bone using X-ray

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenichiro Kimura