DEVICE FOR ASSESSMENT OF MOVING OBJECTS

摘要

A device for inspecting and/or differentiating falling objects (11, 12), preferably free-falling tablets (13), has an illuminating device designed to produce a first distribution of light intensity in a first measuring plane, influencing the given object (12, 13) as it traverses the first measuring plane, and to produce a second distribution of light intensity in a second measuring plane that is different from the first measuring plane, influencing the given object (12, 13) as it traverses the second measuring plane. A detection device is combined with the illuminating device to form a measuring station (18), the detection device being designed to measure in two successive measuring steps the influences of the first and second intensity distributions along first and, differing therefrom, second measuring coordinates in such a way that it detects the respective dimensions of the object (12, 13) in the direction of the respective measuring coordinate. Provided also is an analysis device (19) which derives from the detected dimensions at least one control signal (S1, S2), which comprises a qualification of the particular object (12, 13), such that a downstream sorting station (21) dispatches the objects (12, 13) differently depending on the control signal (S1, S2).