| 摘要 |
In a combinatorial weighing or counting method, weight data items from a plurality of weighing machines are combined to find an optimum combination giving a total combined value (X) equal or closest to a target value and within preset allowable limits. Apparatus for practicing the method includes respective counters corresponding individually to the weighing machines, and the method includes the steps of: clearing the status of the counters corresponding to those weighing machines that participate in the optimum combination and updating by a predetermined quantity the status of the counters corresponding to those weighing machines that do not participate in the optimum combination, the clearing and updating being carried out each time an optimum combination is found; discriminating whether the status of each of the counters exceeds a preset value (Wa); selecting, from combinations including each at least one weighing machine whose corresponding counter has a status which exceeds the preset value, a combination the total combined value (X) whereof is closest to the target value and within the preset allowable limits; and discharging the weighed articles from the weighing machines participating in the selected combination. |
