Ykk Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Riken

Ryoji Usui

Mitsuyasu Fukusawa

Hiroyuki Oya

Koei Watanabe

Osamu Watanabe

Hajime Tanabe

A method and a device for identifying an upper surface and a lower surface of a component having asymmetric upper and lower outer shapes are provided. In particular, a method and a device for identifying orientation of an item that hardly allows visual identification of the upper and lower surface. A disk-like, cylindrical, or annular component having asymmetric upper and lower outer shapes is placed on a reference surface having a reference block, an outer peripheral part of the component on the reference surface is brought into contact with the reference block, and identification of the upper and lower surface of the component is achieved in an inline system based on a gap created between the outer peripheral part of the component and the reference block, using a light source lighting device and a detection camera arranged across the reference block.

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Kashiwazaki, Japan

Ryoji Usui