WO2000070305A1 - Vorrichtung zum bestimmen der dicke oder blattzahl eines blattartigen objekts - Google Patents
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01B15/00—Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of electromagnetic waves or particle radiation, e.g. by the use of microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays or electrons
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- G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01B17/00—Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic vibrations
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S17/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of electromagnetic waves other than radio waves, e.g. lidar systems
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- the present invention relates generally to an apparatus for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object and, more particularly, to an apparatus for determining the number of sheets in a stack of paper.
- Optoelectronic processes such as. B. the transmitted light control, in which the object, for. B. paper, runs through a light barrier, however, are easier to evaluate. However, they are prone to errors because different objects, such as. B. different types of paper or printed images, the light transmission changes and leads to misinterpretation of the optical signal.
- DE 3934623 AI describes a device for folding folded samples, eg. B. of paper folding samples, with adjustable folding pressure, in particular for simultaneous measurement of the thickness and the compressibility of the folding samples.
- the thickness of paper folding samples can be determined using the folding pressure.
- DE 3612914 AI discloses a device for measuring the thickness of paper or the like, in which the paper is supported on a base and a responsive to the position of the surface of the paper, movably mounted sensor is provided, which is carried by an air cushion and the like Position and thus the thickness of the paper can be detected by a measuring device.
- DE 3922992 C2 discloses a device for recognizing both the thickness and the edges of record carriers in processing devices, in particular in printers, in which the record carriers lie largely without gaps on a base and send ir.es- and by means of a stroke a relative movement to the sensing element carrying out the recording medium can be scanned, measured stroke differences being converted into electrical signals which represent the thickness of the recording medium.
- EP 0635696 B1 describes a device for electronically measuring the thickness of thin webs or sheets, in particular foils or paper sheets, consisting of a stationary support surface and a push-button sensor that is arranged essentially perpendicular to this support surface and that has a ferromagnetic sensor that is movable relative to the support surface.
- cal sensing element which, depending on its position relative to the support surface, influences the signal of an inductive transducer designed as a sensor coil and thus indicates the thickness of the webs or sheets.
- DE 19537340 AI describes a side sensor device for generating a signal relating to a thickness of a sheet of paper, which has a base plate and a foot plate, which are arranged in opposite relationship.
- the base and foot plates are arranged so that the paper can pass between them so that the base and foot plates are spaced from each other which is substantially equal to the thickness of the paper sheet.
- a capacitance detection device which is connected to the base plate and the base plate, detects changes in the electrical capacitance of the base plate and the base plate and generates an output signal which is related to the plate spacing and thus to the paper thickness.
- EP 0442727 A2 discloses a paper thickness detection device which has an electrode detection unit which is formed by a ground electrode and an opposite detection electrode which are arranged in an upper and a lower position of a paper path, an oscillating circuit for generating an oscillation frequency signal, a resonance circuit for shifting an Resonance point in response to a change in electrostatic capacity corresponding to a change in paper thickness detected by the electrode detection unit and a detection circuit for detecting an output signal of the resonance circuit to determine the thickness of the paper.
- US 5,012,248 describes a device for determining the thickness of radar absorbing material coatings.
- the device assigns a radiation element arrangement for transmitting RF energy and for recovering reflective energy.
- a source of a frequency-modulated RF signal has an FM sawtooth generator arrangement, a buffer amplifier arrangement and a Gunn oscillator.
- a ferrite circulator directs the modulated RF signal to the radiation element arrangement and the reflected RF energy to a detector arrangement.
- the detector arrangement includes a Schottky detector, video amplifier arrangement, transducer / driver arrangement and digital display, and is adapted to detect the reflected RF energy from the coating and to provide a visual indication in the form of a voltage provide, which is inversely proportional to the amount of reflected RF energy and a measure of the thickness of the radar absorbing material coating.
- US 4,161,731 discloses an FM radar for carbon layer thickness measurement, in which an FM transmitter is modulated by the combination of two signals, and a horn-type antenna is used which is filled with a material having a dielectric constant which approximately corresponds to the dielectric constant of coal, the antenna being positioned flush with the coal.
- US 5,145,560 discloses a method and an apparatus for detecting the liquid flow rate in a papermaking machine. This liquid flow rate is detected by microwave Doppler effect speed sensors.
- the speed sensors include means for directing the microwave signal toward a first position of the liquid stream and receiving the reflected microwave signal from the liquid stream, the speed sensors further comprising means for generating a sensor output signal which is frequency related to the speed at the first position of the Liquid flow is shifted according to the Doppler effect.
- DE 3327526 AI describes a method for determining the wall thickness or the speed of sound of workpieces with an ultrasonic measuring device.
- the ultrasonic measuring device has two transducer elements, a transmitter transducer and a receiver transducer, which are accommodated in a common housing and are acoustically separated from one another and receive and transmit the ultrasonic signals.
- the transmitting element is connected to a transmitter
- the receiving element is connected to a receiver, which is connected to an evaluation unit.
- the evaluation unit determines the workpiece properties, such as, for example, from the transit time of the signal of the transmitter transducer received in the receiving transducer and reflected by a wall or a workpiece.
- B the wall thickness or the sound velocity of the wall material.
- the evaluation unit also uses correction factors to make corrections to the transit time or thickness measured by the ultrasound measuring device, depending on the type of test head used.
- correction factors are called up by the evaluation unit from a memory (PROM), which can also store the thickness of a calibration body attached to the measuring device, previously measured thickness values or default values for measuring a differential thickness.
- a comparison device in the form of a comparator can be connected to the evaluation unit to determine a difference in thickness between a previously measured thickness or a predetermined thickness.
- the ultrasonic measuring device can also measure thickness during a relative movement to a measurement object, e.g. B. a wall.
- WO82 / 03455 AI describes a method and a device for measuring the thickness of material layers with a frequency-modulated ultrasound signal.
- the ultrasound signal is modulated with a certain fixed modulation rate and directed onto a material layer to be measured. Due to the reflection of the signal at the outer and inner boundary layer of the material, an interference of these reflected signals occurs, and this is received by the layer Due to the frequency modulation of the ultrasound signal sent to the layer, the received signal therefore has a frequency-dependent interference pattern that has maxima and minima that can be used to determine the thickness of the material layer.
- DE 3424652 AI discloses a device for dynamically determining the local basis weight of sheet material.
- the device comprises an arrangement of transmitter, receiver and material to be measured, which suppresses sound components reflected on these elements from the beam path between transmitter and receiver and at the same time by suitable means, such as, for. B. sound traps, prevents the masked sound components from not returning to the original beam path and hitting the transmitter and / or receiver.
- the material to be measured is leaf-shaped and is guided with the aid of guide elements, such as. B. transport rollers, moved between the transmitter and receiver.
- the sheet-like material to be measured is subjected to sound waves from a sound transmitter and the sound components transmitted and reflected by the material to be measured are measured with the aid of a receiver in order to determine the basis weight therefrom.
- DE 4141446 C1 describes a method for measuring the thickness of a layer of water, snow or ice on a surface, in which a pulse of electromagnetic radiation from a transmitter is directed obliquely onto the surface covered with a layer.
- the transit time of the pulse through the layer and thus the thickness of the layer are determined by a transit time difference detected in a receiver between a part of the pulse which is reflected back to the receiver at the surface of the layer and another part of the pulse which is at the Area on which the layer is located, is reflected back to the receiver.
- the transit time of a pulse between the transmitter, the area covered with a layer and the receiver is measured and stored beforehand, and this stored transit time is compared with a transit time of a currently measured transit time value for a pulse which is transmitted by the transmitter and reflected on the surface of a layer located on the surface and received in the receiver, and the thickness of the layer is determined from the comparison .
- a disadvantage of the conventional devices for measuring the thickness and the number of sheets of a sheet-like object is that they do not provide an accurate and reliable detection of the thickness and in particular the number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object, such as e.g. B. a stack of paper is possible.
- Another disadvantage of the conventional devices is that no contact-free and at the same time accurate detection of the thickness or the number of sheets is possible.
- Another disadvantage of the conventional devices is that, above all, the determination of the thickness or the number of sheets of moving objects in which, for. B. the individual sheets form a loose stack of sheets, and which are moved on any guide paths at different speeds, is not possible accurately and reliably.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object or a biatt-like object, which enables an accurate, reliable and non-contact determination of the thickness or the number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object or a sheet-like object.
- This object is achieved by a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object according to claim 1 and a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a sheet-like object according to claim 18 solved.
- the invention lies u. a. based on the knowledge that the movement of a sheet-like object depends on the speed and the thickness or the number of sheets of the same, a different influence, here u. a. on the Doppler effect, on the characteristics of the reflected part of a radiation directed at the moving sheet-like object, such as. B. a microwave radiation, and thus a determination of the thickness of the moving sheet-like object or the number of sheets based on predetermined relationships between the radiation characteristics and the thickness of the object or the number of sheets is possible.
- FIG. 1 shows a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object according to a first preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 shows a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object according to a second preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3 shows a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object according to a third preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 4 shows a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object according to a fourth preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 shows a device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object according to a fifth preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- An apparatus for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object 100 comprises a transmitting and receiving device 102, such as. B. a microwave sensor having a waveguide antenna 118, or an ultrasonic sensor or generally an electromagnetic sensor or a sound sensor.
- the transmitting and receiving device 102 transmits radiation to the moving object 100, such as. A paper or a stack of paper, and receives a reflected radiation that has at least the part of the radiation transmitted to the object that is reflected by the moving sheet-like object 100.
- the transmitting and receiving device 102 also generates a signal in response to the reception of the reflected radiation that it represents reflected radiation.
- the device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object 100 further comprises an evaluation device 104, with which the thickness of the moving object is determined on the basis of predetermined relationships between signal characteristics and the thickness of the moving object 100.
- the radiation emitted by the transmitting and receiving device 102 is emitted by the moving object 100, e.g. B. from sheets of paper, and is reflected back to the transmitting and receiving device 102.
- the reflected radiation has a Frequency shifted due to the Doppler effect.
- the object type e.g. B. the type of paper and the paper thickness, but also the position and the speed of the moving object, you get a signal curve that is characteristic in the time and frequency range for the paper thickness or the number of sheets of paper fed simultaneously one above the other.
- the signals can, for example, be digitized in the evaluation device 104, fed to a computing unit and analyzed there with mathematical aids.
- the evaluation device 104 comprises a first storage device 106 for storing one or more previously determined time profiles, each of which is associated with a specific thickness of the moving object 100.
- the previously determined time profiles can be experimentally measured, for example, by measuring the reflected radiation from a moving object 100 with a different thickness or number of sheets, but e.g. B. can also be determined at different speeds, positions, etc.
- These characteristic time profiles are then stored in the first storage device 106, e.g. B. a RAM, a hard disk or another storage medium, in order later to enable a comparison with actually measured signal profiles in a practical application and to determine the thickness of the object 100.
- the evaluation device 104 further comprises a first comparison device 108 for comparing the time profile of the signal representing the reflected radiation with the stored predetermined time profiles and for determining the thickness of the moving object 100 on the basis of the comparisons.
- This comparison device 108 can, for example, the previously determined characteristic time profiles, that of a specific thickness of the moved Object assigned, call from the first memory device 106 in order to compare it with the actually measured time profiles of the signal representing the reflected radiation. This enables the thickness to be determined using the time signal.
- the first comparison device 108 can be, for example, fuzzy logic, any other statistical logic, a device which carries out integral value comparisons of integrals of the signals, waveform comparisons, etc.
- the first comparison device 108 can both in hardware and in software with any accuracy of the comparison, z. B. Number of binary digits can be implemented.
- an evaluation device 204 comprises a transformation device 210 for transforming the time profile of the signal representing the reflected radiation into the frequency range in order to generate a frequency spectrum of the reflected radiation received by a transmitting and receiving device 202.
- the time profile can be read into a memory from which memory can be called up, and the same can be read using the transformation device 210, such as, for example, B.
- a device for performing a Fourier transform can be transformed into the frequency domain in order to obtain a frequency spectrum.
- This frequency spectrum can in turn be stored in a memory in order to carry out a later comparison.
- the frequency spectrum can also be determined directly from the course of time and then processed or stored.
- the evaluation device 204 further comprises a two-ce storage device 206, e.g. B. a RAM, a hard disk or another storage medium for storing one or more predetermined frequency spectra, each associated with a specific thickness of a moving object 200.
- a two-ce storage device 206 e.g. B. a RAM, a hard disk or another storage medium for storing one or more predetermined frequency spectra, each associated with a specific thickness of a moving object 200.
- These previously determined frequency spectra are determined, for example, by experiments in which the time signals for objects of different thicknesses, e.g. B. from sheet stacks with different number of sheets, but also with different speed, position, etc., determined and transformed into the frequency range.
- These frequency spectra are then assigned or characteristic of a specific thickness or number of sheets of a moving object 200 at a specific speed, a specific position, etc.
- the evaluation device 204 further comprises a second comparison device 208 for comparing the frequency spectrum of the reflected radiation with the stored predetermined frequency spectra and for determining the thickness of the moving object 200 on the basis of the comparisons.
- the previously stored frequency spectra, each corresponding to a certain thickness of the object 200 are compared with the frequency spectra of signals actually measured by the transmitting and receiving device 202, which correspond to the reflected radiation, in order to determine the thickness of the object 200.
- the second comparison device 208 can be, for example, a fuzzy logic, any other statistical logic, a device which carries out integral value comparisons of integrals of the spectra, comparison of the spectral curve, etc.
- the second comparison device 208 can both in hardware and in software with any accuracy of the comparison, z. B. Number of binary digits can be implemented.
- one includes Evaluation device 304, in addition to a transformation device 310, which is identical to the already described transformation device 210 of the second exemplary embodiment of FIG. 2, a third storage device 306 for storing one or more previously determined area values, each with a certain thickness of a moving object 300 are assigned, and an area determination device 312 for determining the area of the spectrum supplied by the transformation device 310 in the range of a specific frequency, such as, for. B. the Doppler frequency, the reflected radiation.
- a specific frequency such as, for. B. the Doppler frequency, the reflected radiation.
- the part of the radiation reflected by the moving object 300 is shifted with respect to its frequency to the frequency of the transmitted radiation by the Doppler effect.
- the frequency transformation of the time profile or signal corresponding to the reflected radiation has a peak value in the range of that frequency which results from the double shift of the transmission frequency of the signal.
- the Doppler frequency is a measure of the strength of the reflection and thus for the question of whether, for example, in a sheet-like retracted or output object of a printer, copier or fax machine, etc., only one sheet or more sheets is drawn in or have been issued.
- the area values can be experimentally determined for various configurations of the object, in particular depending on the thickness, but also also depending on the speed, position, guidance of the object in a device, etc., and stored in a memory, e.g.
- the evaluation device 304 further comprises a third comparison device 308 in order to compare the area determined by the area determination device 312 with the stored previously determined area values and to determine the thickness of the moving object 300 on the basis of the comparisons.
- the third comparison device 306 can, for example, be fuzzy logic or any other statistical logic etc. and can be used in hardware as well as in software with any accuracy of the comparison, e.g. B. Number of binary digits can be implemented.
- the device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object 400 comprises a transmitting and receiving device 402 and an evaluation device 404, which, as in the third exemplary embodiment, comprises a transformation device 410 and an area determination device 412, and additionally a first, second and / or third storage device 406a, 406b or 406c, a first second and / or third comparison device 408a, 408b or 408c and optionally a fourth comparison device 414.
- the first, second and third storage devices 406a, 406b and 406c correspond to the first, second and third storage devices 106, 206, 306 of the first, second and third exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, and the first second and third comparison devices 408a, 408b and 408c correspond to the first, second and third comparison devices 108, 208, 308 of the first, second and third exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.
- the first second and third comparison device 408a, 408b and / or 408c can be compared with the comparison device 414, e.g.
- a fuzzy logic to check the correspondence of the thicknesses determined by the first, second and / or third comparison device 408a, 408b, 408c, and to determine a most likely thickness of the moving object 400. This enables an even more reliable determination of the thickness of the moving object 400, e.g. B. the number of sheets of a stack of paper.
- the outputs 120, 220, 320, 420a, 420b, 420c, 422 of the comparison devices 108, 208, 308, 408a, 408b, 408c, 414 of the first, second, third and fourth exemplary embodiment can, for example, be binary signals of a certain bit width, which encode the thickness or number of sheets of the moving sheet-like object or give information about the most likely thickness or number of sheets of the moving object, e.g. B. has a sheet stack consisting of sheets.
- the device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object 500 further comprises a reflector 516, which is arranged behind the moving object 500 with respect to a transmitting and receiving device 502 and which is through the moving object 500 transmitted radiation is reflected to the moving object 500 and to the transmitting and receiving device 502.
- This reflector 516 causes the radiation reflected to the transmitting and receiving device 502 to have the radiation reflected by the reflector 516 in addition to the radiation reflected by the moving object 500.
- This results in a mixed signal which can be processed and analyzed by an evaluation device 504 in a manner similar to the previous one, in order to determine the thickness of the moving object 500.
- this can be done by moving the device or the transmitting and receiving device.
- the transmitting and receiving device on a platform is preferably small distances, for. B. in an oscillating movement to the object and away from the object.
- This movement can, for example, by a vibration generator element, such as. B. a piezo element, mechanical vibration generator elements, etc. are generated.
- a vibration generator element such as. B. a piezo element, mechanical vibration generator elements, etc. are generated.
- mirror elements or deflection devices that change the beam path length, such as. B. mirrors arranged in the beam direction can be used to change the run lengths of the radiation and thus to simulate a movement.
- neither the transmitting and receiving device nor the object moves, and only the signal shape received by the object, e.g. B. detects the temporal signal of the reflected radiation.
- the width and shape of this reflected signal depends on the number of layers or sheets of the sheet-like object, since the signal components reflected on these layers have different return times to the receiving device and thus, for example, widen the time of the reflected signal.
- the number of sheets or the thickness of the object can then be determined from the width.
- the reflected signal can be processed differently, as explained in the previous exemplary embodiments, and with stored empirical values for reflected signals, which can be assigned to different object thicknesses. net, compare.
- the thickness of an object can be determined simply and quickly by means of a statistical evaluation of the received signal form and of stored or determined or learned signal forms which are assigned to specific thicknesses.
- the device for determining the thickness or number of sheets of a moving sheet-like object or a sheet-like object enables easier handling without operating elements.
- a software analysis of the characteristic signals, spectra, areas allows z. B. an arbitrarily high accuracy, which also increases the reliability to a large extent.
- the device of the present invention further enables a simple construction, an improved evaluation possibility, is based on a contactless method and is flexible to different configurations, e.g. B. in papermaking, paper processing, and paper handling, applicable. You can e.g. B. when using microwave radiation for all sheet-like objects whose thickness is between 1/10 mm and a few millimeters.
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