DEVICE FOR MEASURING ENTIRE LENGTH OF BONE-IN MEAT AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ENTIRE LENGTH OF BONE-IN MEAT

Title:

DEVICE FOR MEASURING ENTIRE LENGTH OF BONE-IN MEAT AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ENTIRE LENGTH OF BONE-IN MEAT

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2019/131357

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

A device (10) for measuring the entire length of bone-in meat is equipped with: a clamp tool (12) that grips a piece of bone-in meat (Mb) and can be moved in a horizontal direction; a contact body (14) that is provided to the conveyance path of the bone-in meat; a pressing part (16) that is capable of pressing the contact body against the bone-in meat; a position sensor (18) that is capable of detecting the vertical position of the contact body; and a control unit (24) that is capable of controlling the movement of the contact body, and that includes a computation unit (20) which obtains, as the entire length of the piece of bone-in meat, the distance from a reference position on a moving coordinate system that moves along with conveyance of the clamp tool to an end detection position at which the position sensor detects the end of the piece of bone-in meat on the downstream side in the conveyance direction.

Inventors:

KIDO KOJI (JP)
TOYODA NAOKI (JP)
SAKURAYAMA HIROYUKI (JP)
AKABANE HAJIME (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2018/046678

Publication Date:

July 04, 2019

Filing Date:

December 19, 2018

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

MAEKAWA SEISAKUSHO KK (JP)

International Classes:

A22C21/00; A22C17/02; G01B5/04

Domestic Patent References:

WO2012056793A1

2012-05-03

Foreign References:

JP2013507101A	2013-03-04
JPH05236868A	1993-09-17
JPH03117451A	1991-05-20