KR100768261B1 - Apparatus for separating rotten chestnut - Google Patents

Abstract

A chestnut sorting device is provided to sort out chestnuts without exposing the cracked chestnuts to pollutants for a long period of time quickly and to use the cracked chestnuts directly for the next packing or cooking process. A chestnut sorting device is composed of hoppers(10,30) receiving chestnuts(C1) of which the inner and outer shells are peeled off; vibration feeders(40,50) connected to the hopper and vibrated to separate the chestnuts supplied to the hopper one by one and transfer the chestnuts; an inclined path(55) connected to the end of the vibration feeder, inclined downward, and formed in zigzag to rotate the chestnuts in passing the chestnuts; an image processor(60) discriminating spots of the chestnuts by obtaining an image of the chestnuts moving with turning on the inclined path; a controller for separating the chestnuts discriminated according to data about the spots of the chestnuts obtained by the image processor; and a shooting unit installed at the end of the inclined path to guide the chestnuts dropping from the inclined path into a correspondent receiving box(80) by the control of the controller.

Description

Chestnut sorter {APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING ROTTEN CHESTNUT}

1 is a side view of a night sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a plan view showing a chestnut sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 3 is a view showing the state of the night supply is made by the vibration feeder in the night sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention

4 is a view showing a zigzag-shaped ramp in the night sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10: Primary Hopper

20: magnetic feeder

30: 2nd Hopper

40: 1st Vibration Feeder

50: 2nd Vibration Feeder

55: zigzag ramp

60: image processing apparatus

70: air cylinder

72: induction plate

80: storage box

90: display device

C: night

C1: Spotty Night

C2: night without spots

The present invention relates to a night sorter, and more particularly to a night sorter for sorting the night and the normal night spots are formed by automated image processing.

Hereinafter, in the present specification, a description will be made of a device for screening a chestnut in a pulp state peeled from the skin and the endothelium of the chestnut.

The night of the pulp is atypical, and in order to sort the conventional night pulp, it was necessary to visually sort and store them by human resources, which consumed a lot of manpower. There was a difficulty.

In addition, the processing company using chestnuts had to peel off the outer skin and the inner skin of the chestnuts by hand and sort them with the naked eye, which caused the freshness of the chestnuts in the process of consuming a lot of time.

After removing the skin and inner skin of the chestnut, the chestnut is a light beige pulp state, and the rotten parts are shaded by dark brown or worms, which can be easily identified by the naked eye. Screening takes a lot of time and labor.

The fleshy chestnut does not have a uniform shape, and unlike the fruits of a substantially constant shape such as apples and tomatoes, it requires a high sorting method, and in recent years, it is consumed in large quantities for bread and various cooking. However, when people try to sort them by hand, they raise the cost of supply by hand.

In the case of fleshy chestnuts, it is necessary to supply rapidly by the modern supply system, and after peeling the inner and outer skins, it is necessary to promptly use them for cooking to prevent the rot and contamination of the chestnuts. There is this.

 In order to solve this problem, it is also considered an undesired option to entrust the night screening process to overseas countries where labor costs are low.

In such a situation, the night pulp productivity can be improved by providing a device capable of sorting the chestnut pulp efficiently and efficiently from the conventional simple chest pulp selection method in order to ensure that the pulp chestnuts are supplied in reality. There is a need for a solution.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and proposes a method that can automatically screen the night pulp according to the spots instead of selecting spots of the night pulp by the naked eye. For the purpose of

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method for rapidly sorting a large amount of chestnut pulp by selecting chestnut pulp in large quantities instead of selecting chestnut pulp by the naked eye.

It is also an object of the present invention to propose a method in which night pulp is sorted automatically by a machine without causing pollution of night pulp by manual labor.

In addition, the chestnut pulp is to be sorted by grade, and in the subsequent processing step is to propose a method that can be quickly used for packaging or cooking using the chestnut pulp selected by grade.

The present invention has been made to solve the object as described above, the chestnut sorter according to the present invention is a hopper which is supplied with a pulpy chestnut peeled from the outer skin and the endothelium, the chestnut is connected to the hopper installed and supplied to the hopper Vibration feeder for feeding while vibrating to separate into pieces, and inclined downward to the end of the vibrating feeder, a ramp formed in a zigzag shape to rotate as the night passes, and an image of the night moving while rotating in the ramp An image processing apparatus for acquiring and determining whether there are spots of night; a controller for separating the night determined according to the data of spots acquired by the image processing apparatus; and a controller installed at an end of the ramp to control the controller. Including shooting means for inducing a night drop from the ramp by a corresponding storage box Characterized in that made.

In addition, the chestnut sorter according to the present invention and the primary hopper receiving a fleshy chestnut peeled from the skin and the endothelium; A magnetic feeder connected to be inclined to the primary hopper and driven by a conveyor belt to convey the chestnut supplied to the primary hopper by a predetermined amount; A secondary hopper installed at an end of the magnetic feeder and supplied with chestnuts carried by a predetermined amount by the magnetic peter; A first vibration feeder connected to the secondary hopper and vibrating to separate the chestnuts carried in the secondary hopper; A secondary vibration feeder which is installed at an end of the primary vibration feeder and vibrates so as to vibrate to separate the chestnuts transferred to the primary vibration feeder individually; A ramp formed to be inclined downward at an end of the secondary vibration feeder and formed in a zigzag shape so as to rotate while the night passes through the drop; An image processing apparatus for determining whether there are spots at night by acquiring an image of a night moving while rotating on the ramp; A controller which receives the data of spots acquired by the image processing apparatus and selects a chestnut according to the data; An air cylinder installed at an end of the ramp and configured to guide and separate the night falling from the ramp under control of the controller; It characterized in that it comprises a holder formed with a plurality of storage compartment for storing the night guided by the air cylinder.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, in order to screen the pulp of the peeled inner and outer skins, the chestnuts are separated and passed through the image processing apparatus so that the spots of the images obtained by the image processing apparatus are spotted on the image processing apparatus. The night is formed and the normal night without spots is identified.

In order for the individual pulp chestnuts to pass through the image processing apparatus, it is preferable to first supply the pulp chestnuts by a predetermined amount through the hopper.

When the pulverized chestnut is supplied to the hopper, the quantitative chestnut is transferred by the magnetic feeder connected to the hopper, and the chestnuts which are quantitatively transferred are dropped into the secondary hopper and transferred to the vibration feeder.

Since the secondary hopper is supplied with a certain amount of chestnuts, the chestnuts do not accumulate overnight, and the chestnuts are unfolded and conveyed by the vibration feeder connected directly to the secondary hopper.

Due to the cross-section of the upper part of the vibration feeder, the chestnuts are placed on the valleys according to the irregularities, and the chestnuts are separated by the vibration of the vibration feeder.

In order to prevent the so-called bridge phenomenon overlapping chestnuts may be further carried out to the secondary vibration feeder, wherein the fleshed chestnuts are completely separated and conveyed.

The fleshy chestnuts delivered to the end of the last vibration feeder pass through a zigzag ramp.

The pulpy night passes through the zigzag-shaped ramp to be rotated, and the night image is acquired by using an image processing apparatus while passing through the zigzag-shaped ramp.

When a night is rotated along a predetermined ramp, a plurality of night images obtained when the fall is made by the image processing apparatus are analyzed to determine a night where spots are formed and a night where no spots are formed.

The data determined by the image processing apparatus is input to the controller and stores the data for the night, and controls the shooting means in accordance with the time point at which the data falls on the shooting means.

The shooting means serves to separate the chestnuts on which the spots are formed and the chestnuts on which the spots are not formed.

In one embodiment of the present invention, an air cylinder in which a guide plate is formed is used as a shooting means. When the chestnut falls to the guide plate of the air cylinder, the cylinder is operated according to the operation of the controller, and the chestnut is accommodated in the compartment for storing the night with spots of the box or the compartment for the night without spots.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the storage compartment of the storage box will be made of the separation of the chestnut in the steady state and the spot of the pulp state in the normal state without the spot is finally formed, the steady state night immediately You can use it or do something else.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display device which is operated in conjunction with a multi-screen image processing apparatus is further provided, so that a night discrimination state may be displayed through the display device. A count of nights with spots and nights without spots can be made, and the operator may use this data to select a night supplier.

As such, the night in which the screening is performed according to the present invention takes place in a very large amount of night screening.

When the inner skin of chestnuts is peeled off with a knife, chestnuts have an irregular shape, and the meat is exposed to external pollution. These pulp need to be sorted or processed quickly and packaged quickly to prevent contamination.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for supplying a quantitative suitable for screening the skinned chestnuts classified as an atypical object should be provided, and a method for aligning the pulp supplied by the quantitatively in a constant lane It is preferable to provide.

The fleshy chestnut is pale beige, and in light of experience, the spots are easily distinguishable, and the image processing unit is programmed to distinguish them.

An image processing device is used to determine the spots of the pulp at night. To effectively distinguish the spots at night, the background of the night and the brightness of the light shining at the pulp of the night must be effectively adjusted. do.

After the chestnuts are screened according to the presence or absence of spots by the image processing apparatus, it is desirable to provide a method for storing the containers in accordance with the presence or absence of spots. The packaging can be made immediately.

When constructing a quantitative supply and alignment device suitable for an atypical object according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is necessary to first understand the characteristics of each object having a different shape and size, such as chestnuts, so that the nights are continuous The bridge phenomenon, which is a masking phenomenon, should be avoided.In order to prevent such a bridge phenomenon, a vibration feeder method capable of quantitatively supplying vibration is provided.Also, the alignment method is supplied in a line for a desired image processing. There is a need to design a structure that can be processed.

In order to process the image of the pulp night separately, it is necessary to set up a background that can effectively process the image and to perform lighting processing. The image processing applied in the present invention enables clear and clear picture quality to be obtained by using the individual chestnut pulp, and the background and the object can be clearly distinguished when an irregular irregular motion is expected, such as an object such as chestnut pulp. Make sure the lights are evenly illuminated on the subject.

The chestnut is sorted according to the presence or absence of spots by the image processing apparatus, and the chestnuts are separately stored according to the spots of chestnuts determined by the image processing apparatus. Storage should be provided according to the presence or absence of spots, and at this time, the pulp night must not be damaged by impact so as not to reduce the value of the night product.

In the image processing apparatus, the spots of the pulp state are distinguished for each spot, and the shooting means is an air cylinder type or an air nozzle so that the spots are separated in the box while minimizing the impact on the objects according to the grade in order to separate the spots according to the discriminated result. Method can be used.

At this time, the impact of night is smaller and more efficient as fall of pulp chestnut falls at short distance, but the efficiency of the whole structure should be considered, and the operating time of air cylinder, which is a means to sort out pulp chestnut, must be taken into consideration. do.

If the spots of chestnuts are selected and stored in the box, the chestnuts are classified by grade, and at this time, the packaging is made by grade or may be used at the stage of processing using the same.

Hereinafter, a detailed description according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 is a view showing a schematic state diagram of a night sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, first, a first hopper 10 is provided to which chestnut pulp is peeled from the outer skin and the endothelium, and a magnetic feeder is transported to the primary hopper by a predetermined amount. 20 is provided so that it may incline to upper part successively. When the chestnut pulp is randomly supplied to the primary hopper 10, the magnetic feeder 20 is inclined so that a certain amount of chestnut pulp is transferred, and the night pulp is placed above the magnetic feeder 20 by a predetermined amount. Ground chestnuts are supposed to roll down. Typically, the magnetic feeder 20 is implemented by a conveyor belt, so that the night pulverized meat placed in a certain space is supplied to the secondary hopper 30, and the secondary hopper 30 is provided with the magnetic feeder 20. The feeding of a certain amount of chestnut pulp is carried.

The chestnuts conveyed by a certain amount to the secondary hopper 20 by the magnetic feeder 20 are conveyed by the primary vibration feeder 40 installed connected to the secondary hopper, and the chestnut is vibrated by the vibration of the primary vibration feeder. This is separate, but the night pulp may be too close or hidden from each other. In order to separate the night at a sufficient distance, the secondary vibration feeder 50 is provided in series with the primary vibration feeder 40, and the night is transferred from the primary vibration feeder 40 to the secondary vibration feeder 50. While forming a sufficient gap by vibration. That is, the interval is formed so that the nights are made up of individual nights.

At the rear end of the secondary vibration feeder 50, a zigzag-shaped ramp 55 inclined downward is connected and installed, and when the night passes through the ramp, it rotates while hitting a wall, and at this time, the image processing apparatus 60 ) To determine the presence of spots.

In this way, the data about the presence or absence of night spots determined by the image processing apparatus 60 is transmitted to a controller (not shown) and operates the air cylinder 70 which is a shooting means according to the data received from the controller. When the night is determined whether the spot is dropped on the guide plate of the air cylinder, the spot night (C1) and the spotless night (C2) is separated into the guide box 80 according to the presence of the spot.

Zigzag-shaped ramp 55 may be a plurality of lanes, the end is provided with an air cylinder set.

At this time, the air cylinder 70 is preferably installed at a location where the fall distance of the night is minimized so as not to be damaged at night in the pulp state, and the night is formed in the storage box 80 by opening and closing the air cylinder 70. The night with spots and the night without spots are guided to the storage compartment that is contained separately, and finally the storage box 80 contains the selected chestnuts. When the night of the pulp state is hit by the guide plate 72 provided in the air cylinder 70, the suit is made to the corresponding compartment of the storage box, the chestnut is stored in the corresponding storage compartment of the storage box 80.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the display device 90 that is linked to the image processing device 60 is further provided to enable the programming for the night grade, the whole night chestnut pulp for the selection state of the chestnut pulp The display device 90 of the statistics on what grade the night pulp is selected at what rate can be made to be used as data to determine the merchandise of the night pulp. For example, some suppliers' chestnut pulp will be sorted into high grade, high grade grades, resulting in high commercial value.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1 and is configured so that the chestnut in the pulp state is fed into the hopper and transported to the storage box, and the presence or absence of spots is selected. As shown in FIG. 2, the fleshy chestnut passing through the end of the last vibration feeder passes through a zigzag-shaped ramp 55, and a sufficient rotation is performed while passing through the zigzag-shaped ramp. It is desirable to have a sufficient number of night images obtained at 60).

3 is a view showing the upper portion of the vibration feeder of the night sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the upper portion of the upper portion for preventing the so-called bridge phenomenon, which is connected to the night by applying vibration to prevent the night flesh from being connected or not, is shown. If night (C) is attached to each other by night vibration (C) between the collision occurs and at this time the night (C) between the distance to occur a certain distance. In the night supplied as described above, the ramp passes a predetermined time interval.

The night of the pulp state (C) is vibrated while the image is acquired by the image processing apparatus 60 and the tracking is performed afterwards, the data indicating the presence or absence of the spot is input to the controller and the corresponding air cylinder ( 70) is performed.

As described above, the zigzag-shaped ramp 55 forms a valley by a plurality of lanes so that the image acquisition in the image processing apparatus 60 is evenly performed on the night surface, and through the set of air cylinders 70 provided below. Chestnuts selected by the image processing apparatus 60 are guided to the corresponding storage compartment formed in the storage box.

Figure 4 illustrates a zigzag-shaped ramp used in the night sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Figure 4 is rotated while passing through the zigzag-shaped ramp and the surface of the night evenly Image acquisition is performed by the image processing apparatus.

The present invention constituted as described above, so that the chestnut in the pulp state peeled from the skin and the endothelium is separately supplied by the vibrating feeder, so that the chestnut supplied above passes through the zigzag-shaped ramp 55 Acquiring the image of the night passing through the ramp by the image processing apparatus 60, determining whether there is a night spot from the obtained image, and transmitting data on the spot presence determined above to the controller, Characterized in that it is made to separate the night with spots and the night without spots by the shooting means, the shooting means is an air cylinder 70 is formed with a guide plate 72 at the end, the night is said The guide plate 72 may be guided to the holder 80, and further includes a display device 90 interlocked with the image processing device 60. The counting of night C1 with night and spotless night C2 can be achieved.

According to an embodiment of the present invention configured as described above, the night of the pulp state is not exposed to contaminant phosphorus for a long time, and the night screening is quickly performed according to the night screening device according to the present invention, night screening is the present invention By being made quickly according to the chestnut sorter according to one embodiment of the present invention, it becomes a state that can be used immediately, such as the packaging step or the cooking step, which is the next processing step. Compared to the above, it is very fast and can significantly reduce the time exposure to the source of pollution by hand. In addition, direct contamination such as human body is required even if it needs to be stored with moisture such as pulp night. Avoid prolonged exposure to the cause.

In addition, according to one embodiment of the present invention, by the input of the manpower is not made by the manual operation and the visual identification of the input manpower is made by a sorting machine, it is supplied in large quantities of chestnut pulp and the alignment and image processing at a very high speed Because of this, large quantities of chestnut pulp can be sorted in a very quick time.

In addition, since the night of the pulp state is sorted out by the automated image processing, if the screen is selected by the regularly programmed image processing, the sorting of the pulp is uniformly determined within a certain error range. Separation by grade is easy, but according to an embodiment of the present invention, the selection of grades 5 to 7 can also be made very easily and accurately.

Effects according to an embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs does not depart from the scope of the technical idea according to an embodiment of the present invention. Any changes can be made in.

Claims (3)

A hopper supplied with a fleshy chestnut peeled from the skin and the endothelium, a vibration feeder connected to the hopper and vibrating to separate the chestnuts supplied to the hopper separately, and inclined downward to an end of the vibration feeder. A ramp installed in a zigzag shape to be connected and rotated as the night passes, an image processing device for acquiring an image of a night moving while rotating on the ramp, and determining whether there are spots at night, and a spot obtained by the image processing device And a controller for controlling to separate the night determined according to the presence or absence of data, and a shooting means installed at an end of the ramp to guide the night dropped from the ramp to the corresponding storage box under the control of the controller. Night selector. The night sorter according to claim 1, wherein the shooting means is an air cylinder having a guide plate formed at the end thereof to guide the chest by hitting the chest. A first hopper fed with a fleshy chestnut peeled from the shell and the endothelium; A magnetic feeder connected to be inclined to the primary hopper and driven by a conveyor belt to convey the chestnut supplied to the primary hopper by a predetermined amount; A secondary hopper installed at an end of the magnetic feeder and supplied with chestnuts carried by a predetermined amount by the magnetic peter; A first vibration feeder connected to the secondary hopper and vibrating to separate the chestnuts carried in the secondary hopper; A secondary vibration feeder which is installed at an end of the primary vibration feeder and vibrates so as to vibrate to separate the chestnuts transferred to the primary vibration feeder individually; A ramp formed to be inclined downward at an end of the secondary vibration feeder and formed in a zigzag shape so as to rotate while the night passes through the drop; An image processing apparatus for determining whether there are spots at night by acquiring an image of a night moving while rotating on the ramp; A controller which receives the data of spots acquired by the image processing apparatus and selects a chestnut according to the data; An air cylinder installed at an end of the ramp and configured to guide and separate the night falling from the ramp under control of the controller; Chestnut sorter characterized in that it comprises a holder formed with a plurality of compartments for storing the chestnuts guided by the air cylinder.

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