Patent ID: 11927470
Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 2:
3. A combination weighing apparatus comprising:
a plurality of hoppers that receives articles inputted from an outside, temporarily stores the articles, and discharge the stored articles downstream;
a discharge chute that receives the articles discharged from the hoppers and causes the articles to slide downstream;
an acquisition unit that acquires weight values of the articles stored in each hopper; and
a control unit that performs combination calculation on the basis of the weight values acquired by the acquisition unit and discharges the articles from a hopper determined by the combination calculation to the discharge chute, wherein
the discharge chute has a plurality of protrusions on a front surface on which the articles is conveyed,
an opening directed from the front surface to a rear surface is formed at an end portion on a downstream side of each of the plurality of protrusions, and
each of the plurality of protrusions includes:
a left flat surface rising from the front surface toward an inner side of the discharge chute on a left side of the opening;
a right flat surface rising from the front surface toward the inner side on a right side of the opening; and
an upper flat surface that connects the left flat surface with the right flat surface.