| 摘要 |
<p>In a combinatorial weighing method of measuring out a desired quantity of articles, respective batches of articles are delivered to weighing machines which provide respective measures of the individual weights of those batches. Respective total weights of different combinations of the batches are then calculated, using those measures, and a "best" combination (having a total weight equal or closest to a preselected value) is identified, The batches of that identified combination are brought together to make up the desired quantity of articles. To speed up such calculation the different combinations whose respective total weights are calculated are restricted in number, as compared with the total number of possible different combinations of the batches, so as to exclude at least one preselected type of combination that is inherently unlikely to be identified as the "best" combination. </p> |
