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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1986
Filed:
May. 30, 1984
Shigeyoshi Osaki, Hyogo, JP;
Yoshihiko Fujii, Osaka, JP;
Osamu Tomita, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiko Saiwai, Osaka, JP;
Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Ginza, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for measuring the orientation of the constituents of sheets are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of inserting a sheet into a small clearance with which the openings in a pair of waveguides are opposed to each other to form a cavity resonator, producing a relative motion at a constant speed between the sheet and the resonator while emitting linearly polarized microwaves from the upper waveguide to allow them to fall on the sheet at right angles thereto, measuring the amount of attenuation of the microwaves by the lower waveguide, and determining the orientation of the constituent of the sheet from that angle of the sheet with respect to the plane of polarization of the microwaves which gives the maximum attenuation.