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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2025
Geonwoo Solution, Seoul, KR;
Eggstone Co., Ltd, Seoul, KR;
Elite Sigma Solution Llc, Vancouver, WA (US);
Samuel Seok Jae Jeong, Vancouver, WA (US);
In Jae Chung, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Ji Hoon Chung, Seoul, KR;
Shin Won Yu, Seoul, KR;
Geonwoo Solution, Seoul, KR;
Eggstone CO., LTD, Seoul, KR;
Elite Sigma Solution LLC, Vancouver, WA (US);
Abstract
A bean defect sorter includes a container configured to store beans, a transfer guide configured to receive the beans from the container and to guide each bean in series, the transfer guide being configured to discharge the beans one by one, a rotary configured to rotate in a predetermined direction and to receive each of the beans discharged from the bean dispenser, an imaging device configured to provide a bean image of one or more of the beans, a processor including a learning algorithm that is configured to classify each bean as one of a normal bean, a defective bean, and an indeterminable bean, a bean sorter configured to discharge each bean from the rotary by using air pressure according to a classification result, a storage configured to store each of the normal bean, the defective bean, and the indeterminable bean, and a residual bean collector to process escaped beans.