摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a metering device that achieves improvement in metering precision and prevention against mixing of foreign matter with a body to be metered, and is made compact on the whole. <P>SOLUTION: The metering device includes a metering hopper 1, four load cells LC1-LC4 from which the metering hopper 1 is suspended and supported, and weight calculation means for calculating the weight of the body to be metered in the metering hopper on the basis of output signals of the load cells LC1-LC4, A first area P where a hopper body 11 of the metering hopper 1 and first and second discharge gates 12a, 12b are arranged, a second area Q where a rotary actuator 21a, a first bearing part 28A, a third bearing part 28C, two suspension parts 17, and the two load cells LC1, LC2 are arranged, and a third area R where a rotary actuator 21a, a second bearing part 28B, a fourth bearing part 28D, the two suspension parts 17, and the two load cells LC1, CL2 are arranged are partitioned off by partition walls 53, 54. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |