JPH0751584A - Food taste measuring apparatus in grain drying and adjusting facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To evaluate food taste of unhulled rice at load receiving stage by performing an analysis of ingredients of the received unhulled rice by means of a near infrared spectroscopic analysis apparatus and obtaining the value of evaluation of the food taste based on this ingredient data in an operation control part when the unhulled rice is received from a producer in a grain drying and adjusting facility. CONSTITUTION:In a grain drying and adjusting facility where a grain is received from a producer and it is shipped after it passes through each process of drying and storage, a near infrared spectroscopic analysis apparatus 1 for measuring analysis of ingredients of the received unhulled rice when the load is received and an operation control part 5 for treating this measured data as a data for evaluation of the food taste are provided. As this result, the evaluation value of the food taste of the received unhulled rice is fed into a control apparatus of the grain drying and adjusting facility through an output part 8 and it is used as a data for drying and storing the unhulled rice. For example, on every evaluation of the food taste, it is temporarily stored and dried by means of a dryer and it is stored in an individual tank after drying. Therefore, such an evil that an article with good quality and an article with bad quality are mixed and shipped as before can be avoided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a taste measuring device in a grain dry preparation facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional grain drying and preparing facility, since the receiving rice from a plurality of producers has the same kind and moisture, the drying and preparing process is performed at the same time.
The voluntary verification device is used to obtain the brown rice yield for each producer, which is the basis for converting the amount of money for each producer. In recent years, the evaluation of the taste of rice has been emphasized, and this taste evaluation value should be adopted for the above-mentioned amount conversion or the like, but it has not yet been put to practical use. This is because the component evaluation for the texture evaluation by the paddy at the time of receiving the goods is not established.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks and to obtain the taste value of a grain received.

[0004]

In the grain drying and preparation facility, when the paddy is received from the producer, the components of the received paddy are analyzed by the near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer, and the arithmetic and control unit evaluates the taste based on the component data. Value is required. This taste evaluation value is added to the amount converted to the producer.

As described above, since the near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer is used, the component analysis at the stage of paddy can be carried out quickly and easily, and the evaluation items for each producer at the time of receiving goods can be enhanced.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the figure, 1 is a known near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer, and in this embodiment, when a paddy sample obtained by collecting a part of paddy received at a grain drying and preparation facility is supplied, the chemical composition of the taste evaluation element of the sample is supplied. Is quantitatively detected and an electric signal corresponding to the content of each chemical component is output.

The chemical components detected by the near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer 1 are, for example, proteins with high weight, amylose, and water as taste evaluation factors. In addition,
Reference numeral 2 is a data input unit, which is used to weigh the above-mentioned consigned grain 3
It is possible to input, as data, the target moisture value for finishing when the grain dryer 4 dries after weighing. Reference numeral 5 denotes an arithmetic processing unit composed of a microcomputer or the like, which calculates the evaluation value of the taste of the unpacked paddy based on each signal from the near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer 1 and the data input unit 2 as described later.

The result calculated by the arithmetic processing section 5 can be printed by the printer 6 and displayed on the display unit 7. Further, the result can be supplied to the control device 9 of the grain drying and preparation facility via the output unit 8. The drying and preparing facility includes the weighing machine 3, the grain dryer 4, a plurality of storage tanks 10, 10, ... And the weighing machine 3 and the grain dryer 4.
A plurality of cargo receiving tanks 11, 11, ... Are provided between the above and the tanks so that each taste evaluation value can be stored in the cargo receiving stage.

Next, an operation example of the embodiment of the present invention having such a configuration will be described. Now, when the grain of the producer is received by the grain drying and preparation facility, the amount of the received cargo is measured by the weighing machine 3. Then, at the time of this weighing, a predetermined amount of a part of the receiving paddy is sampled. Next, when this sample is supplied to the near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer 1, the sample is crushed and spectroscopic analysis is performed, and as a result of the analysis, electrical signals corresponding to the respective contents of protein, amylose and water in the sample are obtained. Is output.

On the other hand, from the data input section 2, the finish target moisture value (for example, 16%) when the received grain of this sample is subsequently dried by the grain dryer 4 is input to the arithmetic processing section 5 in advance. There is. Therefore, the arithmetic processing unit 5
When the signals relating to protein, amylose, and water are input from the near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer 1, each of these signals is digitized. Next, based on the quantified protein and amylose contents and the target finish moisture value input from the data input unit 2, an evaluation value of the taste of the unpacked paddy at the time of dry finishing is calculated by a predetermined arithmetic expression. .

The evaluation value of the taste of the unpacked paddy thus quantified by the arithmetic processing unit 5 is supplied to the controller 9 of the grain drying and preparation facility via the output unit 8 to dry and store the paddy. It is used as data for the occasion. For example, it is temporarily stored for each taste evaluation, dried by the dryer 4, and stored in separate tanks 10, 10 ... After completion of the drying. As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, since the grain grade can be known from the evaluation value of the taste at the stage of receiving the paddy, the subsequent processing in the grain drying and preparation facility, that is, drying and storage can be performed according to the grade.

Therefore, it is possible to eliminate the disadvantage that the high quality product and the poor quality product are mixed and shipped as in the conventional case.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram.

FIG. 2 is a facility schematic diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer 2 Data input unit 3 Weighing machine 4 Grain dryer 5 Calculation processing unit 6 Printer 7 Display 8 Output unit 9 Control device 10,10 Storage tank 11,11 Receiving tank

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hisao Matsui No. 1 Hachikura, Tobe-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture Izeki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A near-infrared spectroscopic analyzer for measuring the component analysis of receiving paddy at the time of receiving in a grain drying and preparation facility that receives the grain from the producer, and then ships through each process of drying and storage. A taste measuring device in a grain drying and preparing facility, comprising: an arithmetic controller for processing the measurement data as taste evaluation data.