Agricultural product inspection device

Abstract

There provides an inspection apparatus for agriculture product capable of performing an operation for inspecting whole surfaces of an agriculture product with a small space and facilitating layout of the apparatus. Each housing body (B) held on each holding stand 9 of a rotation table 8 constituting the inspection apparatus 1 for agriculture product is moved along a conveyance course in the circumferential direction and, at the same time, each agriculture product (A) housed in each housing body (B) is held and lifted by each holding head 13 and is revolved and moved into each region (a) to (f) on the conveyance course. In an inspection area (c) for lateral surface, the whole periphery of the lateral surface of each agriculture product (A) held by each holding head 13 is photographed by a lateral surface photographing camera 36 and, in an inspection area (d) for lower surface, the lower surface of each agriculture product (A) held by each holding head 13 is photographed by a lower surface photographing camera 37. Thereafter, each agriculture product (A) held by each holding head 13 is again housed by each housing body (B) and the housing body (B) in which the agriculture product (A) is housed is discharged from each holding stand 9.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an agricultural product inspection device for comprehensively inspecting the external state (scar, color, defect, etc.) of agricultural products including, for example, apples, pears, peaches, tomatoes, persimmons, and citrus fruits. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, as a device for inspecting the above-mentioned appearance of agricultural products, there is a measuring device for identifying agricultural products disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example. This device uses the top measuring device to measure the top and side surfaces of the agricultural products placed on the tray conveyed by the first conveyor belt device, and then uses the transfer device arranged between the first conveyor belt device and the second conveyor belt device to move the first conveyor belt device. The agricultural products on the conveyed tray are picked up and transferred on the tray conveyed by the second conveyor belt dev...

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[0003] However, the above-mentioned measurement device must arrange the following measurement devices between the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt arranged in parallel, which causes more restrictions in design

And objects other than the bottom of agricultural products must be inspected on the first or second conveyor, and the measuring device for measuring the surface other than the bottom will be arranged on the first or second conveyor, so the settings required for inspection of agricultural products space will also increase

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