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Method and apparatus for monitoring a series of products

US5304927A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 4, 1991
Grant dateApr 19, 1994
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Expiry dateFeb 4, 2011

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01V3/105
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Monitoring a series of products of the kind in which the presence of foreign bodies in the product being monitored is detected by the characteristic magnetic field phase difference each material exhibits. The signal generated by a satisfactory product having no foreign body in it is used as the datum for judging whether the next subsequent product is free from a foreign body or not.

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