Qualicaps Co., Ltd.

Kyosuke Ikeuchi

Hiroshi Sakuramoto

Naoki Yoshimoto

An apparatus for inspecting an appearance of capsulein which capis fitted to bodyincludes a carrying body that carries capsulehoused in housing part, contact bodythat rotates capsulecarried inside housing partdue to a contact friction, imaging devicethat takes an image of the capsule rotating, and a determination device that determines if the capsule is good or poor based on an imaging data taken by imaging device. Wherein contact bodymoves an inside of housing partto a side of bodyby rotating the capsule, which is housed in housing partbeing separated from other capsules, around an axis direction, and the determination device determines an orientation of capsulebased on a position of capsulein housing part

Apparatus for inspecting appearance of capsule

A capsule mass measuring device includes conveyer roller and measurement device having measurement plate. Conveyer roller is provided with protrusions and accommodation parts formed between adjacent protrusions, and each of which accommodating the capsule such that a longitudinal direction of the capsule is arranged along rotation axis. Measurement plate is provided with groove part and the measurement plate is arranged such that the capsule in accommodation part is supplied to groove part, by a rotation of the conveyer roller, during a period after the capsule passes through the lowest point until rotating 45 degrees, and the capsule of which the mass has been measured is discharged from measurement plate by contacting one of protrusions, which is defined as one protrusion, due to the rotation of conveyer roller.

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Kyosuke Ikeuchi