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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Atago Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Amamiya, Tokyo, JP;
Masanosuke Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Kiire, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Higuchi, Saitama, JP;
ATAGO CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A nondestructive measurement apparatus includes a casing including a grip portion capable of being held in hand and a measurement portion having a ring shaped abutting portion to be abutted to a measurement target such as fruit or vegetable; a light source group including a plurality of light sources arranged to be separated in a circumferential direction in an interior thereof; a ring lens arranged in a ring shape smaller than the abutting portion at an inner portion of the abutting portion, for emitting lights from the light source group to an external of the casing in a ring shape; and a light guide member having one end surface exposed to an inner side of the ring lens and another end surface positioned in the interior of the casing, for emitting lights incident from the one end surface to the external from the another end surface.