Patent ID: 7295318
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. An evaluation apparatus for vegetables and fruits capable of evaluating vegetables and fruits with respect to their interior quality through exposing vegetables and fruits carried on a carrier line, which evaluation apparatus comprises: a plurality of light sources vertically arranged exclusively in a common plane on one side of a carrier line spaced in a width direction Y from the carrier line and wherein the common plane of the light sources is perpendicular to a carrying direction X of the carrier line; and a light-receiving section arranged by an opposite side of the carrier line in the width direction Y perpendicular to the carrying direction X of the carrier line and arranged exclusively in the common plane of the light sources; and wherein measuring lights irradiated from the light sources converge toward the vegetables and fruits whereby the measuring lights are transmitted through the vegetables and fruits so that the light-receiving section receives the transmitted measuring light.