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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2021
Satake Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Doi, Tokyo, JP;
SATAKE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical sorter includes a light source, a color sensor, a determination part configured to determine a foreign object and/or a defective product, a color shift amount calculation part configured to calculate, based on a color image acquired by the color sensor, an amount of a color shift that occurs due to the fact that at least two element groups out of an R element group, a G element group, and a B element group are spaced apart from each other in a transit direction of a sorting target, a speed calculation part configured to calculate a transit speed of the sorting target based on a separation distance between the at least two element groups in the transit direction, the color shift amount, and a scan time, which is a time required for the color sensor to scan the sorting target once, and a sorting device configured to perform a trajectory change operation for changing a trajectory of a specific sorting target determined based on a result of the determination by the determination part at a timing determined based on the transit speed calculated by the speed calculation part.