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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1994
Takeshi Matsumura, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Kubo, Tokyo, JP;
Mikio Komori, Tokyo, JP;
Takehiro Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dilution monitoring system for filter cigarettes has pairs of pressure sensors provided individually for left- and right-hand manufactured filter cigarettes, a dilution processor card adapted to receive pressure signals from the pressure sensors through an A/D converter, and a server computer connected to the processor card by means of a communication line and including a CRT. The dilution processor card computes the respective dilutions of the individual filter cigarettes in accordance with the pressure signals, and stores the computation results in a RAM. Thereafter, the processor card obtains quality data, such as the average, frequency distribution, and standard deviation of the stored dilutions, for each group of the left- and right-hand filter cigarettes, also stores the quality data in the RAM. The server computer receives the quality data transmitted from the processor card, and displays them in the form of a graph or table on the CRT.