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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2015
Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Osamu Hirose, Ritto, JP;
Toshiharu Kageyama, Ritto, JP;
Takuyu Kubo, Ritto, JP;
Yoshito Inazumi, Ritto, JP;
Shinya Ikeda, Ritto, JP;
Satoshi Konishi, Ritto, JP;
ISHIDA CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a combination weighing device in which supply of articles at an article conveyance part is controlled with good precision. A combination weighing device () is provided with article conveyance parts () having loading parts () of articles and driving parts () for driving the loading parts, the article conveyance parts () driving the driving parts and thereby causing the articles to be conveyed to hoppers () arranged downstream in a conveyance direction, a sensing part () for sensing, in non-contact manner, a state of the articles on the loading parts, and a supply control part () for controlling supply of the articles by controlling driving of the article conveyance parts based on a sensing result of the sensing part. The sensing part sense, for a plurality of regions along the conveyance direction, the state of the articles for each of the regions. The supply control part controls the driving based on a physical quantity relating to a height of the articles on the loading parts for each of the regions, the height being ascertained from the state of the articles of each of the regions.