Inspection method and inspection equipment for mouth section of bottle-can

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9316600
APP PUB NO 20140125796A1
SERIAL NO

14123978

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An inspection method and inspection equipment for mouth section of bottle-can including:

    first-inspection process for eliminating the bottle-can in which existence of a low-brightness area is detected from a monochrome inspection-image which is obtained by imaging the curl portion with irradiating white light to the curl portion in an imaging area of the bottle-can which is conveyed along a main-conveyance path; and a second-inspection process for judging quality of the bottle-can while conveying the bottle-can which is eliminated by the first-inspection process along a secondary-conveyance path, by irradiating illumination lights having two colors from different directions to the curl portion in the imaging area along substantially a tangential direction of a cylindrical surface of the mouth section so as to image a color inspection-image, and distinguishing existence or not of the asperity on the curl portion from signal strengths of the light colors of the color inspection-image.

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KURASHIKI BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA7-1 HOMMACHI KURASHIKI-SHI OKAYAMA 710-0054
UNIVERSAL CAN CORPORATIONTOKYO

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hirano, Tadafumi Sunto-gun, JP 2 3
Kurosawa, Akio Neyagawa, JP 3 23
Sota, Tadayuki Neyagawa, JP 3 23

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