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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2011
Sonoko Umemura, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Tanimura, Tokyo, JP;
Masaru Kinugawa, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sorting method for plastics, including: sorting a predetermined plastic piece from a mixed plastic piece group including plastic pieces of a plurality of types; identifying the plurality of types of the plastic pieces; and calculating mixing rates of the plurality of types in the mixed plastic piece group based on a result obtained in the identifying, the identifying is performed on the mixed plastic piece group prior to the sorting, a sorting condition of the sorting is set based on an identification result obtained in the identifying, the identifying includes identifying the plurality of types of the plastic pieces with a beam.