When sorting raw ginseng by ultrasound, ultrasound speed depends on density, moisture content, inner tissue, etc. of the ginseng. Because force on raw ginseng by two ultrasonic transducers can effect on density and inner tissue of the ginseng, uniform...
When sorting raw ginseng by ultrasound, ultrasound speed depends on density, moisture content, inner tissue, etc. of the ginseng. Because force on raw ginseng by two ultrasonic transducers can effect on density and inner tissue of the ginseng, uniform force should be pressured on ginseng when measuring transmitted sltrasonic speed of the ginseng. In this study, automatic system to measure the speed of transmitted ultrasound was developed and the performance test was carried out. The research results is as follows.
1. The developed system consisted of a personal computer to control the whole system, a driving and moving equipment for system, a load transducer, two ultrasonic transducers and PUNDIT(Potable Ultrasonic Non-destructive Digital Indicating Tester).
2. In program for system control and measurement, pressure on ginseng, size of the ginseng, transmitted time of ultrasound and the transmitted speed were calculated sequently. Visual Basic 6.0 was used for control program. Motor driving, A/D converting and RS232C communication part were made in module type.
3. After moving the plate with transducer to 30, 60, 90, 120, 150mm at 15mm/sec and 30mm/sec, the error between command length to move and measured value by digital vernier calipers was shown at the range of 0∼0.04mm, which was much smaller than 0.17mm of allowable error. And there was no big difference between velocity of 15mm/s and 30/s.
4. When the plate with transmitting transducer was moved 10∼40 times in the range of 10∼60mm at velocity of 15mm/sec and 30mm/sec, the repeatability error was smaller than 0.02mm.
5. When the size of aluminum lumps was measured with 2kgf force on them, maximum error was 0.08mm which was smaller than 0.17mm allowable error.
6. The bio-yield point of raw ginseng was 47.8kgf. The transmitted ultrasonic velocity of the original raw ginseng was 356.8m/s and the cut ginseng was 396.4m/s. The transmitted ultrasonic velocity of the potato, carrot and radish cut was respectively 679.8m/s, 326.5m/s, 274.3m/s.