Apparatus and method for inspecting cans

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United States of America

PATENT NO 12216062
APP PUB NO 20220334066A1
SERIAL NO

17712636

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An apparatus for inspecting containers and in particular cans, having an illumination device which illuminates the can to be inspected and radiates radiation onto an inner base wall of the container, and having an image recording device which records at least one spatially resolved image of the inner base wall illuminated by the illumination device is provided. The apparatus has a first polarization device in a beam path between a light source of the illumination device and the inner base wall in such a way that the radiation reaching the inner base wall is polarized, wherein the illumination device being designed in such a way that a predominant proportion of the radiation irradiated into the container by the illumination device reaches the inner base wall.

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  • KRONES AG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kwirandt, Rainer Barbing, DE 16 91
Piana, Stefan Koefering, DE 29 108

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