Huron Valley Steel Corporation

Kerry Lang

Richard B Wolanski

Paul Torek

Michael A Hawkins

Kalyani Chaganti

Benjamin H Aubuchon

Richard Wolanski

A system has a conveyor for carrying at least two categories of scrap particles positioned at random on a surface of the conveyor, with at least some of the particles comprising metal. The system has a sensor array with a series of analog inductive proximity sensors arranged transversely across the conveyor. An active sensing end face of each sensor lies in a sensing plane, and the sensing plane is generally parallel with the surface of the conveyor. A control system of is configured to sample and quantize analog signals from the series of sensors in the array, and locate and classify a scrap particle on the conveyor passing over the array into one of at least two categories of material based on the quantized signals. A method for sorting the particles is also provided.

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Taylor, MI, United States of America

Kerry Lang