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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2020
Satake Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
SATAKE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Included are a chute arranged in an inclined manner to allow sorting targets to flow downward, optical detection means for detecting the sorting targets at a detection position, and ejector means for sorting and removing the sorting targets based on a result of detection of the optical detection means. The chute is provided with an optical detection slit in a direction orthogonal to a flow-down direction of the sorting targets, a slit width of the optical detection slit is adjustable, and the optical detection means images the sorting targets flowing downward on the chute with the imaging means at a position where the optical detection slit is provided as the detection position.