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Apparatus for detecting defects on bottle mouth with screw thread
Assignee: Omron Kirin Techno System Co Ltd
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Filing: 1987-10-08
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Granted: 1989-05-16
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Expires: 2007-10-08
Abstract
Abstract An apparatus for detecting defects on a bottle mouth having a screw thread has an illuminating unit for applying light to the mouth of a bottle under rotation; a photoelectric conversion unit for photoelectrically converting a light transmitted image of the bottle mouth illuminated with light by the illuminating unit into electric signals; a defect detecing unit for detecting a defect within a predetermined area in the light transmitted image photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit, based on the brightness at predtermined at-least two points in a predetermined detection direction within the area; and a judge unit for calculating the number of defects detected by the defect detecting unit and judging the presence of any defect of the bottle mouth based on the number of defects. The apparatus detects defect points from the light transmitted image of the bottle mouth and judges based on the number of defect points whether or not there is a defect of a bottle.
Inventors
- 👤 Hiroyuke Fukuchi
- 👤 Masatoshi Nishiyama
- 👤 Yukio Sugawara
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-03 09:54
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01N; G01N21/00; G01N21/84; G01N21/88; G01N21/90; G01N21/9054
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
137 words
An apparatus for detecting defects on a bottle mouth with a screw thread, comprising: illuminating means for illuminating the mouth of a bottle under rotation; photoelectric conversion means for photoelectrically converting a light transmitted image of said bottle mouth illuminated with uniformly diffused light by said illuminating means into electric signals; defect detecting means for detecting a defect, within a predetermined area in said light transmitted image photoelectrically converted by said photoelectric conversion means, based on the brightness at predetermined at-least two points in a predetermined detection direction within said area, said direction being inclined with a certain inclination representing a direction of the thread; and judge means for calculating the number of defects detected by said defect detecting means and judging the presence of any defect of said bottle mouth based on the number of defects.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
137 words
An apparatus for detecting defects on a bottle mouth with a screw thread, comprising: illuminating means for illuminating the mouth of a bottle under rotation; photoelectric conversion means for photoelectrically converting a light transmitted image of said bottle mouth illuminated with uniformly diffused light by said illuminating means into electric signals; defect detecting means for detecting a defect, within a predetermined area in said light transmitted image photoelectrically converted by said photoelectric conversion means, based on the brightness at predetermined at-least two points in a predetermined detection direction within said area, said direction being inclined with a certain inclination representing a direction of the thread; and judge means for calculating the number of defects detected by said defect detecting means and judging the presence of any defect of said bottle mouth based on the number of defects.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
50 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising detection area decision means for declining said predetermined area, which is defined at the middle of and below the top of the bottle mouth, to be detected by said defect detection means, based on said light transmitted image of said bottle mouth.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
53 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising rotative angle detector means for detecting a rotative angle of said bottle, and inspection frame decision means responsive to said rotative angle detected by said rotative angle detector means for deciding a plurality of inspection frames based on which said judge means judges a defect.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
53 words
An apparatus accordingly to claim 2, further comprising rotative angle detector means for detecting a rotative angle of said bottle, and inspection frame decision means responsive to said rotative angle detected by said rotative angle detector means for deciding a plurality of inspection frames based on which said judge means judges a defect.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
43 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of inspection frames in a measurement each of said inspection frames having more than a predetermined number of defect points.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
43 words
An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of inspection frames in a measurement each of said inspection frames having more than a predetermined number of defect points.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
43 words
An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of inspection frames in a measurement each of said inspection frames having more than a predetermined number of defect points.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
43 words
An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of inspection frames in a measurement each of said inspection frames having more than a predetermined number of defect points.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of defects in all the inspection frames in a measurement.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
33 words
An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of defects in all the inspection frames in a measurement.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
30 words
An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of defects in all the inspection frames.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
30 words
An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said judge means judges a defect based on whether there are more than a predetermined number of defects in all the inspection frames.
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