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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2001
Junji Iida, Chiba, JP;
Akira Terashima, Chiba, JP;
Kazuo Maeda, Chiba, JP;
Shintaro Ishikawa, Chiba, JP;
Shinji Yamauchi, Chiba, JP;
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A non-destructive sugar content measuring apparatus having a plurality of trays on which vegetables and fruits are to be placed, a transport device for successively delivering the trays at appropriate intervals, and first, second and third measuring sections provided in the course of a transport path and at which laser beams having wavelengths &lgr;1, &lgr;2 and &lgr;3 are respectively made incident on each vegetable or fruit and the amount of light of each laser beam emergent from the vegetable or fruit is measured with a detector provided at each measuring section and the absorbance of each laser beam is determined from the amount of incident light made incident on the vegetable or fruit and the amount of detected light which has been measured with the detector, to measure the sugar content of the vegetables and fruits on the basis of each absorbance.