Patent ID: 11944590
Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B  G | IPC A  B  G

Claim 6:
7. A continuous manufacturing method of continuously manufacturing a product from a powder of a raw material,
the method being executed in an inspection and sorting device which is provided in a path between a first processing device that performs first processing on the powder of the raw material and a second processing device that performs second processing on the powder on which the first processing device has performed the first processing, and which includes an inspection chamber into which powder sent from the first processing device flows, the method comprising:
when a prescribed amount of the powder has accumulated in the inspection chamber, inspecting the powder inside the inspection chamber after blocking a path connecting the first processing device to the inspection chamber;
when the inspection ends, removing the blocking after discharging the powder from inside the inspection chamber; and
the inspection and sorting device includes a sensor that senses whether or not the powder that has accumulated in the inspection chamber has reached a prescribed height, and the inspection and sorting device performs the inspection when the sensor senses that the prescribed amount of the powder has accumulated in the inspection chamber.