Tews Elektronik Gmbh&co. Kg

Tews Elektronik Dipl. -Ing. Manfred Tews

Tews Elektronik

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Capsugel Belgium Nv

Fette Gmbh

Fette Compacting Gmbh

Aiger Group Ag

Udo Schlemm

Rainer Herrmann

Stefan Zaage

Hendrik Richter

Manfred Tews

Harald Ceslik

Ingo Schmidt

Ulrich Arndt

Dimitar Yanchev

Hans-Rainer Herrmann

Tom Regina Augustinus Huysmans

Wolfgang Sexauer

Jörn Eggers

Rainer Herrman

Jôrn Eggers

Dimitar Yankov Yanchev

A method for identifying capsule defects in a tobacco filter includes measuring values for density and/or moisture content of the filter using a microwave measurement device. The measured values are compared with a threshold value and a presence of a capsule defect in the filter is determined if the measured valued undershoots the threshold value. A value for a degree of fluctuation of the measured values is determined at a region in front of a measurement location and/or behind the measurement location in which at least one measured value is below the threshold value. The value for the degree of fluctuation is compared with a predetermined capsule threshold value. The capsule defect comprises a broken capsule when the value for the degree of fluctuation exceeds the capsule threshold value, and the capsule defect comprises a missing capsule when the value for the degree of fluctuation undershoots the capsule threshold value.

Method and device for identifying capsule defects in a filter of the tobacco processing industry

A method for measuring substance quantities in a substance mixture including two substances, the method comprises determining a first moisture value for a first of the two substances using a microwave resonator. A second moisture value for the second of the two substances I determined using a microwave resonator. A first measured value and a second measured value are determined for the substance mixture using a microwave resonator. Two scalar factors are determined for two moisture vectors from the first and the second measured values for the substance mixture. The two moisture vectors indicate a direction of a straight line of equal moisture for the first and second substances in a plane of the first and second measured values using the first and second moisture value. A quantity of the first substance and of the second substance in the substance mixture are determined from the two scalar factors.

Method for measuring substance quantities in a mixture

A method for measuring absorbent hygiene products comprises placing absorbent bodies on a web and moving the web through at least one microwave resonator. Values of a shift in a resonance frequency and a spreading of the resonance frequency are measured using the at least one microwave resonator to continuously determine the shift in the resonance frequency and the spreading of the resonance frequency. At least one of moisture and density of the plurality of absorbent bodies is determined based on the measured values of the shift in the resonance frequency and a spreading of the resonance frequency. Empty values for each of the measured values of the shift in the resonance frequency and the spreading of the resonance frequency are determined and subtracted from the measured values of the shift in the resonance frequency and the spreading of the resonance frequency to evaluate the measured values.

Method for measuring absorbent hygiene products

A device for measuring absorbent bodies that are spaced from each other on a continuous web comprises at least two microwave resonators configured to measure values of a shift of a resonance frequency and a spreading of a resonance frequency. The continuous web moves through the at least two microwave resonators and the at least two microwave resonators are positioned at an offset with respect to each other in the transverse and transport direction relative to a direction of transport of the continuous web in order to measure the entire width of the continuous web. At least one of a moisture and a density of the absorbent bodies is determined using the at least two microwave resonators to continuously determine the values of the shift of the resonance frequency and the spreading of the resonance frequency.

Device and method for measuring absorbent hygiene products

A method for online measurement of a plasticizer in an endless filter rod, includes: measuring a resonance shift (A) and line broadening (B) with a microwave resonator at a passing endless filter rod, determining a mass per length of plasticizer from the measurement variables (A, B), measuring a reference mass of plasticizer applied per time with the application of the plasticizer onto the filter tow band, determining an averaged reference mass per length of plasticizer from the measured mass applied over a time period, averaging the values for mass per length of plasticizer, determined using the measurement variables over the same time in which the reference mass of plasticizer is determined, determining a deviation between the averaged reference value for the mass per length and averaged mass per length and correcting the mass per length, determined from the measurement variables of the microwave resonator, according to the determined deviation.

Method for online measurement of a plasticizer in an endless filter rod and a device for producing an endless filter rod of the tobacco processing industry

A method and device for measuring the position of sections with an absorbing substance in multi-segment filter rods of the tobacco processing industry by measuring a varying shift of the resonance frequency A and/or spread of the resonance line B during movement of the rod in the longitudinal direction, using a microwave resonator, which has a field concentration in a spatial area, wherein this spatial area is smaller in the rod direction than the segment length to be determined, forming a difference quotient &#x394;A of the resonant frequency shift A and/or &#x394;B of the resonance line spread B relative to the longitudinal direction, determining local extreme values of the respective difference quotients, and assigning local extreme values as a position of a transition from a section with higher content of absorbing substance to a section without, or with lower content, of absorbing substance, and vice versa.

Method and device for measuring the position of segments with absorbing substances in multi-segment filter rods of the tobacco processing industry

Method for measuring a moisture value F of dielectric materials using at least one microwave resonator, one shift A of the resonant frequency being respectively evaluated for at least two resonance modes with resonant frequencies which are different from one another and a density-independent moisture value being calculated from the measured shifts in the resonant frequency.

Method and device for measuring a moisture value of dielectric materials

A device for producing cigarettes in the tobacco processing industry that has a tobacco processing unit and a paper feeding unit, which feeds a paper having LIP strips to the tobacco processing unit, wherein the paper feeding unit has a measurement device, which continuously detects the LIP strips, wherein the measurement device has a microwave resonator, through whose measurement region the paper having the LIP strip is passing, and which detects a shift of the resonance curve and/or a broadening of the resonance frequency.

Device for producing cigarettes in the tobacco processing industry and a method therefore

An exemplary embodiment of this invention relates to a method of inspection of a filled hard capsule sealed with a solvent sealing agent, including a process for determining the quality of the seal. The process may include: supplying a filled hard capsule sealed with a solvent sealing agent; supplying a microwave resonator wherein a measuring field having a resonance curve is generated; directing the capsule through the measuring field; measuring characteristics related to the modification of the resonance curve produced by the presence of the capsule in the measuring field, in comparison with a reference resonance curve corresponding to an empty state of the resonator; and using the measured characteristics to determine a value associated with the quality of the seal. Other exemplary embodiments of this invention relates to a method for sorting capsules on the basis of the result of the inspection method and to an associated equipment able to carry out such methods.

Method of inspection of sealed capsules with a process of determination of the quality of the seal and related equipment for in-line inspection

A method for quality surveillance of powdered press material for a rotary press, in which the press material is fed from a reservoir via a preferably vertical feed channel to a filling device, which continuously fills dies of a rotor with press material wherein to the feed channel and/or the filling device is assigned a microwave resonator with an analysis unit, which measures the moisture and/or the density and/or the size of the granules of the press material, and at least one press variable of the microwave resonator is used for changing a control variable of the rotary press.

Rotary press for quality surveillance of powdered pressed material

Method and apparatus for the measurement of mass or density and/or for the measurement of the humidity in a plurality of portioned units in a non-metallic carrier material, which provides the following: a microwave measuring instrument, consisting of at least one microwave resonator for generating at least one resonance mode in a spatially limited measurement area and an analyzing unit for analyzing at least one variable of the at least one resonance mode, a conveying device for the carrier material, which transports the carrier material with the portioned units through the measurement area, the microwave measuring instrument measures at least one variable of the at least one resonance mode at a time when only the carrier material without portioned unit is in the measurement area, and at a time when the portioned unit is at least partially in the measurement area, the analyzing unit subtracts the variable measured for the carrier material from the measurement values for the portioned unit, and determines a value of the humidity and/or of the mass or density of the portioned unit from at least one difference by way of an input-output map.

Apparatus and method for the measurement of mass and density and/or for the measurement of the humidity of portioned units

An apparatus for the measurement of mass and/or moisture of dielectric objects, with an analysing unit, at least one high frequency generator, at least one high frequency detector and with a high frequency resonator, wherein the at least one high frequency generator can generate at least two modes which are independent from each other, having different resonance frequencies in the resonator, the at least one high frequency detector can measure the occurring frequencies for each mode in the resonator, and the analysing unit can determine a shift of the resonance frequency (A) and a change of the resonance curve for the measured frequencies in each mode, and can calculate the mass and/or moisture of the dielectric object from the determined values for the shift of the resonance frequency (A) and the change of the resonance curve.

Apparatus and method for the measurement of mass and/or moisture of dielectric objects

A filter rod measuring station is equipped with measuring devices which measure at least the mass (M) of a filter rod and the draw resistance (PD) of the filter rod, and a microwave measuring device is provided for measuring the mass of the softener and/or the moisture content and/or the dry mass of the filter rod.

Filter rod measuring station as well as method for measuring the mass of a softener, the moisture and/or the dry filter material in a filter rod

Apparatus and method for detection and segregation of faulty cigarettes in a production/packaging installation for cigarettes having an apparatus by means of which faulty cigarettes are segregated from the conveyed sequence of cigarettes, wherein the apparatus and method use a generator and evaluation circuits for radio-frequency electromagnetic fields and use a sensor past whose end surface the ends of the cigarettes are passed and which applies the radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to the end surface of the sensor, whose size corresponds approximately to the size of the end surface of the cigarettes, with the changes in the electromagnetic fields as a cigarette passes being evaluated.

Apparatus and method for detection and segregation of faulty cigarettes

A Method and an apparatus for measuring the mass and/or moisture of the contents of incompletely filled capsules, containing, in particular, medicinal products, pharmaceutical products, vitamins and similar products, with the aid of microwaves is disclosed. The displacement of the resonant frequency and broadening of the resonance curve caused by the capsules in at least one resonator is determined and evaluated. Measurements are made integrated over the whole capsule as well as with high local resolution for various portions and cross sections of the capsule.

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