JPH1123476A - Display system of rice quality evaluating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable even inexperienced people to evaluate sample rice comprehensively by calculating and displaying comprehensively evaluated values from the evaluated values of the quality of sample polished rice and data, based on the determined results of the qualities of unpolished rice and polished rice. SOLUTION: Sample unpolished rice in a hopper 11 is distributed to a measurement path 13 and a polishing path 14 by a distributing device 12. Unpolished rice in the measurement channel 13 is passed through a distributing device 15, and its external and internal qualities are measured at an external and internal quality measuring means 16 and 17, and each measured data of the unpolished rice is displayed 31 and stored 30. Meanwhile, sample rice in the polishing path 14 is passed through a measuring path 20, its initial weight is measured by a meter 21, and it is polished 18 and measured 21. Then the yields of polished rice are computed, it is passed through a transfer path 28 and the measurement path 13, its quality is measured 16 and 17, and its measured data values and comprehensively evaluated values are displayed 31 and stored 30. In the column of internal quality of polished rice in a display means 31, moisture, protein, etc., are displayed in numeric data and graphically displayed in a radar chart, and the proportions of the number of whole grains, opaque-kernel rice, etc., are displayed in numeric values and in a circular graph.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a rice quality evaluation apparatus for measuring the quality of brown rice and white rice samples and displaying the measured data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, it has been gradually performed to measure the quality of brown rice and white rice samples and to refer to the measured data. For example, in places where paddy and brown rice are purchased from producers, such as agricultural cooperatives, the quality of brown rice is relatively important, while in stores that sell directly to consumers, the quality of white rice is important. Often watch.

As quality measuring means for measuring the quality of rice, there are an external quality measuring means for measuring the external quality and an internal quality measuring means for measuring the internal quality. As the appearance quality measuring means, the sample rice is irradiated with visible light to measure the transmitted light and the reflected light, and color tone analysis is performed by calculation based on these measured values. Quality measurement of natural color sized grain, bluish immature grain, damaged grain with blackish color due to insect eating, colored grain with brownish color, dead rice without transparency, cracked body with broken body, etc. When the sampled rice was white rice, the grains were completely undegraded, low-transparency powdery grains, crushed and crushed small grains, damaged grains that were blackened due to insect eating, and brownish. A configuration for measuring the quality of colored particles or the like is known.

[0004] As an internal quality measuring means, the sample rice is irradiated with near-infrared rays to measure the content of various chemical components in the sample rice or to calculate the quality evaluation value to evaluate the internal quality. Is known.

[0005] As described above, if the appearance quality measuring means and the internal quality measuring means are provided and the quality of brown rice and white rice is measured by both measuring means, various qualities of both brown rice and white rice can be measured. Being able to know makes it possible to provide useful information to users.

[0006]

However, even when a large number of numerical data of various measurement results are obtained and displayed as described above, it is difficult to recognize the characteristics and quality of the rice from the large number of numerical data. It would be difficult unless a skilled person has the ability to judge numerical data.
Therefore, for a rice operator with little experience, despite the large amount of information as a measurement result, even a comprehensive evaluation of the sample rice cannot be judged, and the measurement result may not be very useful. .

An object of the present invention is to provide a display system of a rice quality evaluation device that enables even a person with little experience to easily judge a comprehensive evaluation of sample rice. Things.

[0008]

Means for Solving the Problems To solve the above problems, the invention according to claim 1 comprises a brown rice quality measuring means for measuring the quality of a sample brown rice, and a white rice quality measuring means for measuring the quality of a sample white rice. Calculating means for calculating a comprehensive evaluation value from the quality evaluation value of the sampled white rice obtained by the white rice quality measuring means and the data based on the brown rice quality measurement result and the white rice quality measurement result; and displaying the comprehensive evaluation value. Display means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the display system of the rice quality evaluation device according to the first aspect, a sorting unit is provided, and based on a result measured by the brown rice quality measuring unit, the sampled rice is sized. And the grain size of the sampled rice are sorted by the sorting means, and the ratio of the number of grains of the sampled brown rice to the grain size of the sampled rice is measured, and the quality evaluation value of the sampled white rice is calculated based on the result measured by the quality measuring means. Then, complete grains and crushed grains are sorted out from the sampled white rice by a sorting means, and the ratio of each number of the perfect grains and the crushed grains of the sampled white rice is measured. The total evaluation value is calculated from the ratio (the ratio of the number of sized particles) and the ratio of the defective particles (the ratio of the number of crushed particles / the number of broken particles), and the total evaluation value is displayed by the display means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the display system of the rice quality evaluation device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the comprehensive evaluation value, the brown rice measurement result measured by the brown rice quality measuring means, and the white rice quality measurement. The white rice quality measurement result measured by the means is edited and written on the screen and displayed by the display means.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the comprehensive evaluation value is displayed, even the inexperienced rice handler can easily recognize the comprehensive evaluation of the sample rice.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the evaluation of the quality of the white rice, an appropriate overall evaluation taking into account the ratio of excellent grains and the percentage of defective grains when the brown rice is milled into white rice. Displays the value.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the comprehensive evaluation value, the brown rice measurement result, and the white rice quality measurement result can be compared at a time, so that the comprehensive evaluation value can be easily recognized. Not only can be recognized, but also a result that is a basis for a good or bad comprehensive evaluation value can be recognized at the same time.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a rice quality evaluation device according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, sample rice to be measured is put into a hopper 11 serving as an input supply unit, and is distributed by a distribution device 12 into two systems, a measurement system 13 and a milling system 14.

One of the two measuring systems 13 is further divided into two systems by another distribution device 15, one of which is connected to the appearance quality measuring means 16 and the other of which is connected to the internal quality measuring means 17. . In addition, the other milling line 14 of the two systems is connected to the milling section 18 and the milling line 1
The measuring system 20 is branched by interposing a three-way valve 19 in the middle of 4, and the measuring system 20 is connected to the measuring device 21.

The appearance quality measuring means 16 is provided with a transport section 22, a detecting section 23, and a sorting section 24. The sample rice supplied to the external quality measuring means 16 is detected by the transport section 22 one by one. 23, the sample rice is irradiated with visible light to measure transmitted light and reflected light, and color tone analysis is performed by calculation based on these measured values. The appearance grades of the sampled rice are classified into six ranks: sized, unripe, damaged, colored, dead, and cracked in the case of brown rice, and complete grain and powdery in the case of white rice. Judgment is made into five kinds of ranks of the quality grain, the crushed grain, the damaged grain, and the colored grain, and the sorting unit 24 sorts each rank. At this time, the number of grains for each rank is measured by a counter in the sorting unit 24, and the grain weight for each rank is measured by the measuring device 25. The weight ratio for each rank, including the sizing ratio, is calculated from the measured values.

In the internal quality measuring means 17,
Irradiate the sample rice with near-infrared light and perform spectroscopic analysis in a non-pulverized state.
Measure fatty acid content and internal quality evaluation value. The internal quality evaluation value is determined based on a sensory test or a physicochemical test standard of the Japan Grain Inspection Association, and is determined and calculated from the taste evaluation value, stickiness value, hardness value, etc. of the sampled rice.

On the other hand, the milling unit 18 is provided with a milling intensity changing device 26 which can change the milling load or lengthen or shorten milling time. The milling intensity changing device 26 can be adjusted by a command from the control means 27. For example, the milling yield (“milling accuracy”) can be changed and controlled. And rice mill 18
The sampled rice of the milled rice (referred to as sampled white rice) is measured by the measuring device 21 and then sent to the measurement system 13 by the transport system 28. A three-way valve 29 is interposed in the middle of the transport system 28. By switching the three-way valve 29, the sampled white rice weighed by the measuring device 21 is sent to the measurement system 13 or the rice mill 18 It is possible to perform the rice milling process a plurality of times.

Here, the control means 27 reads the measurement data of the appearance quality measuring means 16 and the measurement data of the internal quality measuring means 17, respectively, stores the data in the storage means 30 and displays the data on the display means 31 as needed. Also,
The control means 27 has a calculation unit 27a,
The rice polishing yield is calculated from the ratio between the initial weight of the sampled rice weighed in step 1 and the weight after rice polishing, and the rice polishing intensity changing device 26 is used.
By controlling the rice milling yield by changing the control.
The storage means 3 stores the measurement data of the weighing device 21, the yield of the polished rice in the polished rice mill 18, the control output of the polished rice intensity changing device 26 and the like.
0 and is displayed on the display means 31 as needed.

When measuring the quality of rice, a sample of brown rice (referred to as sample brown rice) is taken from the hopper 1.
The sample brown rice is distributed to a measuring system 13 and a milling system 14 by a distribution device 12. Measurement path 1
The sample brown rice distributed to No. 3 is further distributed to two systems by the distribution device 15 and sent to the appearance quality measuring means 16 and the internal quality measuring means 17, where the appearance quality and the internal quality are measured as described above. The measured data of the brown rice are displayed on the display means 31 and stored in the storage means 30.

On the other hand, the sample brown rice distributed to the rice milling line 14 is first sent to the measuring device 21 via the measuring line 20,
After the initial weight is measured, the rice is milled by the milling means 18. The milled sample white rice is weighed by the measuring device 21 and calculates the milled rice yield as described above. If the milling yield has not reached the target value, the sampled white rice is returned to the milling means 18 and milled again.

Then, the white rice which has reached the target rice milling yield is sent from the transport system 28 to the measuring system 13. Thereafter, in the same manner as in the case of the sample brown rice, the quality of the sampled white rice is measured by the appearance quality measuring means 16 and the internal quality measuring means 17, respectively, and the measured data and the comprehensive evaluation value are displayed on the display means 31. It is stored in the storage means 30.

Therefore, at the time when all the measurements are completed, as shown in FIG. 1, the measurement data of the sample brown rice, the measurement data of the sample white rice and the comprehensive evaluation value on the appearance quality and the internal quality are simply displayed on the display means 31. It is displayed on one screen or a continuous screen (a screen that can be continuously viewed by scroll processing).

Specifically, the sample number, brand, year of production, place of production, and grade are displayed at the upper end of the display screen of the display means 31, and at the upper left side of the display screen, the white rice after milling is used as a milling measurement column. Weight, yield (weight of white rice after milling / weight of brown rice before milling), number of milling times, intrinsic yield (weight of full grain of white rice / weight of milled brown rice) are shown by numerical data, and the yield is circle. It is displayed as a graph, and in the upper center of the display screen, the moisture, protein, amylose, fatty acid content and quality evaluation value of brown rice are shown as numerical data as the internal quality column of the sample brown rice, and the moisture, protein, amylose, and internal The quality evaluation values are displayed graphically in association with each other as a radar chart. As seen quality column, sized sample brown rice, immature grains, Dowaritsubu, damage grain, colored particle, the particle number percentage of dead rice is displayed numerically and pie charts.

In the center of the lower part of the display screen of the display means 31, the moisture, protein, amylose, fatty acid content, and quality evaluation value of the white rice are shown as numerical data in the column of the internal quality of the sample white rice.
The amylose and the internal quality evaluation values are displayed as a graph in association with each other as a radar chart, and further, on the right side at the bottom of the display screen, as the appearance quality column of the sampled white rice, the sized, immature, broken and damaged grains of the sampled white rice are displayed. ,
The ratio of the number of colored grains and the number of dead rice grains is displayed in a numerical value and a pie chart.

The total evaluation value is displayed on the lower left side of the display screen of the display means 31. In this case, the comprehensive evaluation value is calculated from the product of the sample white rice quality evaluation value, the excellent grain ratio (percentage of whole grains / the proportion of sized grains) and the defective grain rate (the proportion of the number of broken grains / the number of crushed grains). You. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the sample white rice quality evaluation value is 75 points, the quantity ratio of complete grains is 89.8%, and the quantity ratio of sized grains is 85.2.
%, The quantity ratio of the crushed granules is 4.2%, and the quantity ratio of the body cracked grains is 4.5%, the following calculation formula 75 × (89.8 / 85.2) × (4.5 / 4.2) ≒
A total evaluation value of 85 is calculated from 84.7.

As described above, not only the various measurement results are displayed, but also a comprehensive and single comprehensive evaluation value is displayed. It is easy for a person to recognize the comprehensive evaluation of sample rice. Then, as a comprehensive evaluation value, a sample white rice quality evaluation value having a correlation with a taste evaluation value, a stickiness value, a hardness value, and the like of the sample rice, an excellent grain ratio (percentage of perfect grains / a proportion of sized grains), and a defective grain The ratio is calculated from the product of the ratio (the ratio of the number of broken kernels / the ratio of the number of crushed kernels). In addition to data on the taste evaluation of the sample rice, the sample brown rice is milled and processed into white rice. The added value of the sample rice can be obtained comprehensively while taking into account the degree of obtaining more excellent white rice and the degree of less defective white rice.

Further, since the comprehensive evaluation value, the brown rice measurement result, and the white rice quality measurement result can be compared at a glance, not only can the overall evaluation value be easily recognized, but also the overall evaluation value is good. The measurement result that is the basis for the bad or bad condition can be recognized at the same time, and useful information can be obtained even for inexperienced rice handlers and skilled workers.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, an overall evaluation value is calculated from the quality evaluation value of the sampled white rice obtained by the white rice quality measuring means, the brown rice quality measurement result, and data based on the white rice quality measurement result. By displaying this comprehensive evaluation value, even a rice technician with little experience can easily recognize the comprehensive evaluation of the sample rice, and the use value of the rice quality evaluation device can be improved.

Further, a comprehensive evaluation value is calculated and displayed based on the quality evaluation value of the sampled white rice, the excellent grain ratio (percentage of complete grains / proportion of sized grains) and the defective grain rate (proportion of crushed grains / proportion of crushed grains). By doing so, it is possible to easily and appropriately know the value of the sample rice in consideration of the ratio of excellent grains and the ratio of defective grains when brown rice is polished and made into white rice, in addition to the quality evaluation of the white rice. .

Further, by displaying the comprehensive evaluation value, the brown rice measurement result, and the white rice quality measurement result on the screen together with editing, not only can the comprehensive evaluation value be easily recognized, but also the overall evaluation value is good. It can also recognize the result that is the basis of the badness at the same time, and helps to know the properties of rice by comparing each measurement data with the comprehensive evaluation value, further improving the use value of the rice quality evaluation device be able to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a display screen of a display system of a rice quality evaluation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of the rice quality evaluation device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 16 Appearance quality measuring means (quality measuring means) 17 Internal quality measuring means (quality measuring means) 18 Rice polishing section 24 Sorting section 27 Control means 27a Operation section 30 Storage means 31 Display means

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing from the front page (71) Applicant 000001052 Kubota Co., Ltd. 2-47, Shicitsu-Higashi 1-chome, Namiwa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka (72) Inventor Takao Sugiyama 1-40-2, Nisshincho, Omiya-shi, Saitama (72) Inventor Eiji Makino 1-440 Nisshin-cho, Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture 2) Within Biological Specified Industrial Technology Research Promotion Organization (72) Inventor Tomohiko Ichikawa, Nisshin-cho, Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture No. 40 No. 2 Within the Organization for Promoting Specified Industrial Technology in Biological Sciences (72) Inventor Sadakazu Fujioka No. 1 Hachikura, Tobe-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. No. 1 Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. Engineering Department (72) Inventor Motohiko Emori 1-8-1 Minamimagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Kett Scientific Research Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Toshimichi Watanabe 1-8-1, Minamimagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Inside Kett Science Research Institute Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Jiro Warashina 2620 Takao, Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka Machinery Co., Ltd. 72) Inventor Michio Kawanaka 2620 Takao, Fukuroi-shi, Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka Machinery Co., Ltd.Electronics Division (72) Inventor Shimizu Akika 2-35 Jinmucho, Yao-shi, Osaka Inside Kubota Kuhoji Plant (72) ) Inventor Kazuki Matsushita 2-35 Jinmucho, Yao-shi, Osaka Inside Kubota Kuhoji Plant

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Brown rice quality measuring means for measuring the quality of sample brown rice, white rice quality measuring means for measuring quality of sample white rice, quality evaluation value of sample white rice obtained by said white rice quality measuring means, and said brown rice quality measurement A display system for a rice quality evaluation device, comprising: a calculating means for calculating an overall evaluation value from results and data based on white rice quality measurement results; and a display means for displaying the overall evaluation value. 2. Sorting means is provided, based on the result measured by the brown rice quality measuring means, to sort the sized and cut grains from the sample brown rice by the sorting means. Measure the number ratio of each grain, calculate the quality evaluation value of the sample white rice based on the result measured by the white rice quality measuring means, and sort out the perfect grains and crushed grains from the sample white rice by the sorting means, and The ratio of the number of grains to the crushed grains is measured, and the evaluation means for the sampled white rice, the excellent grain rate (the ratio of the number of complete grains / the proportion of the sized grains) and the defective grain rate (the proportion of the number of crushed grains / the ratio of the number of broken grains) are calculated by the calculating means. 2. The display system for a rice quality evaluation device according to claim 1, wherein a total evaluation value is calculated from the calculated values, and the total evaluation value is displayed by a display unit. 3. The comprehensive evaluation value, the brown rice quality measurement result measured by the brown rice quality measurement means, and the white rice quality measurement result measured by the white rice quality measurement means are edited and displayed on a screen and displayed by the display means. Or the display system of the rice quality evaluation device according to 2.