Impact Counter for Fruits during Transportation

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly
ISSN 00213551
NII recode ID (NCID) AA0068709X
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Fruits and vegetables sustain mechanical damage from impacts and vibrations during transportation. To measure the degree of impacts and vibrations, an impact counting device was developed, which can be packed with fruits in a corrugated cardboard box and transported. Between the transportation, the apparatus counts the number of impacts above the threshold acceleration in each of triaxial directions. The impact counter consists of a sphere for detecting the acceleration and a box with an electronic circuit. The sphere is made of acrylic resin and contains a triaxial piezoelectric accelerometer.

Date of issued
Creator Kenji IMOU Hiroshi TAKENAGA Hiroshi MORISHIMA Yasuhisa SEO and Yoshinori KAWAGOE
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NII resource type vocabulary Journal Article
Volume 30
Issue 4
spage 245
epage 248
Language eng

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