1. A packaging system for packaging a unique object with a product, said packaging system comprising:
an insertion device for inserting said unique object into a flow of said product;
a sensor attached to said packaging system for detecting a unique object to be inserted by said insertion device wherein responsive to said sensor detecting said unique object a signal is generated for use by said packaging system;
a packaging device positioned downstream from said insertion device for packaging said unique object with said product in a container;
a foreign matter detector between said packaging device and said insertion device for detecting foreign matter in said product; and
a controller connected to said sensor and said foreign matter detector for deactivating said foreign matter detector after said sensor detects said unique object such that said foreign matter detector is deactivated while said unique object passes through said foreign matter detector and is reactivated after said unique object passes through said foreign matter detector.
2. The packaging system of claim 1 wherein said unique object is a conductive object that triggers said foreign matter detector if said conductive object passes through said foreign matter detector while said foreign matter detector is activated.
3. The packaging system of claim 2 wherein said conductive object comprises a prize and a metallized label packaged together in a coupon pouch in a bandolier.
4. The packaging system of claim 1 wherein said insertion device comprises a coupon inserter adapted for separating and inserting coupons from a bandolier of coupons wherein said unique object is randomly packaged in said bandolier of coupons.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a counter for counting a plurality of said unique objects as they are inserted into said packaging system wherein said counter is incremented as each said unique object is inserted.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said sensor is a sensor chosen from the group consisting of a capacitive proximity sensor, an inductive proximity sensor, a thickness sensor, a stiffness sensor, a color sensor, a reflectivity sensor, a transmissivity sensor, an odor sensor, and a chemical sensor.
7. A consumables packaging system for packaging a unique object of a plurality of objects with a product, said packaging system comprising:
an insertion device for inserting said unique object into a flow of said product;
a sensor attached to said packaging system for detecting said unique object to be inserted by said insertion device wherein responsive to said sensor detecting said unique object a signal is generated for use by said packaging system, wherein said sensor distinguishes said unique object from other objects in said plurality of objects such that said signal is only generated when said unique object passes by said sensor; and
a packaging device positioned downstream from said insertion device for packaging said unique object with said product in a container.
8. The consumables packaging system of claim 7 wherein said sensor comprises a capacitive proximity sensor capable of sensing a metallized label attached to said unique object.
9. The consumables packaging system of claim 7 further comprising:
a foreign matter detector between said packaging device and said insertion device for detecting foreign matter in said product; and
a controller connected to said sensor and said foreign matter detector for deactivating said foreign matter detector after said sensor detects said unique object such that said foreign matter detector is deactivated while said unique object passes through said foreign matter detector and is reactivated after said unique object passes through said foreign matter detector.
10. The consumables packaging system of claim 9 wherein said unique object is a conductive object that triggers said foreign matter detector if said conductive object passes through said foreign matter detector while said foreign matter detector is activated.
11. The consumables packaging system of claim 10 wherein said conductive object comprises a prize and a metallized label packaged together in a coupon pouch in a bandolier.
12. The consumables packaging system of claim 7 wherein said insertion device comprises a coupon inserter adapted for separating and inserting coupons from a bandolier of coupons wherein said unique object is randomly packaged in said bandolier of coupons.
13. The apparatus of claim 7 further comprising a counter for counting a plurality of said unique objects as they are inserted into said packaging system wherein said counter is incremented as each said unique object is inserted.
14. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said sensor is a sensor chosen from the group consisting of a capacitive proximity sensor, an inductive proximity sensor, a thickness sensor, a stiffness sensor, a color sensor, a reflectivity sensor, a transmissivity sensor, an odor sensor, and a chemical sensor.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A rim wheel comprising:
three or more sub-air chambers which are formed between a rim and a plurality of cap members disposed outwardly in a radial direction of the rim, by no less than three sealed diaphragms which divides one sub-air chamber into three or more sub-air chambers, the one sub-air chamber being defined by the rim and the cap members, the sub-air chambers being discontinued in a rim circumferential direction, and the sealed diaphragms being separated from each other at predetermined intervals in the rim circumferential direction;
a concave well portion which is provided at at least one of the rim and the cap members, and has a bottom portion positioned radially inward of a bead seat; and
a communicating portion which is provided at each of the cap members thus allowing a tire main air chamber and the sub-air chambers to communicate with each other,
characterized in that a Helmholtz resonance noise absorber is constituted by the sub-air chambers and the communicating portion, which satisfy the following equation:
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f
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V
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100
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f0: resonance frequency (Hz)
V: a volume of sub-air chambers (cm3)
S: a total cross-sectional area of communicating portions (cm2)
L: a length of a communicating portion (cm)
N: the number of communicating portionsair chamber
R: a wheel diameter (inch).
2. The rim wheel according to claim 1, characterized in that the cap members are kept in close contact with each other, the cap members and the rim are kept in close contact with each other, and the sub-air chambers and the tire main air chamber are made to communicate with each other, simply through holes as the communicating portions formed at each of the cap members.
3. The rim wheel according to claim 1, characterized in that, in a tire axial direction, a length of a gap between a position closest to a tire axial center of the communicating portion and an inner surface of the sub-air chamber at a rim wheel side is equal to or more than 5 mm.
4. The rim wheel according to claim 1, characterized in that the communicating portion is formed at a position separated in a tire circumferential direction by 30 mm or more from the sealed diaphragms corresponding to both ends of the sub-air chamber, and separated in a tire widthwise direction by 15 mm or more from the side walls corresponding to both ends of the sub-air chamber.
5. The rim wheel according to claim 1, characterized in that three holes or more that function as the communicating portions are formed at each of the cap members.
6. The rim wheel according to claim 1, characterized in that both end edge portions in the rim circumferential direction of the cap member are inclined surfaces inclining in the same direction, and one inclined surface on one cap member and one inclined surface of another adjacent cap member, which surfaces are adjacent to each other in the rim circumferential direction, are kept into close contact with one another.
7. The rim wheel according to claim 1, comprising:
a first step portion, which is parallel to an outer circumferential surface of the cap member, formed at one end edge side of the cap member in the rim circumferential direction, positioned inwardly in a rim radial direction of the outer circumferential surface, and faces outwardly in the rim radial direction, and a second step portion, which is in parallel to an inner circumferential surface of the cap member, formed at the other end edge side of the cap member in the rim circumferential direction, positioned outwardly in a rim radial direction of the inner circumferential surface, and faces inwardly in the rim radial direction,
characterized in that at least portions of the first step portion and the second step portion of each of the cap members adjacent to each other in the rim circumferential direction are kept in close contact with one another in the rim widthwise direction.
8. A tire rim assembly in which a tire is attached to the rim wheel according to claim 1, characterized in that a total volume of the sub-air chambers is equal to or more than 2% and equal to or less than 25% of a tire main air chamber.
9. The tire rim assembly according to claim 8, characterized in that a compression rate of the tire is equal to or less than 60%.
10. The tire rim assembly according to claim 8, characterized in that the tire has a belt reinforcing layer to be spirally wrapped around and the belt reinforcing layer uses an organic fiber whose tensile modulus of elasticity is equal to or more than 6 GPa.