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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2005
Yoshiaki Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinzo Kida, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinzo Kida, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inspection apparatus for a filter cigarette FT having a perforation line () in the outer circumferential surface of a filter () for introducing the outside air has a filter socket assembly () that is capable of receiving the filter () and includes a ring holder () defining in the inside an end chamber for surrounding the mouthpiece of the filter () and a surrounding chamber for surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the filter () including the perforation line (), a guide pipe () for supplying a compressed fluid of the given pressure into the surrounding chamber of the ring holder (), and a guide pipe () that outputs the pressure in the end chamber; and a pressure sensor for detecting the pressure outputted from the guide pipe () that outputs the pressure in the end chamber.