Toyo Glass Company, Limited

Tadashi Gomibuchi

Yoshihiro Yamato

A method of and an apparatus for inspecting a bottle or the like by which the presence or absence of a defect, particularly a check, can be determined with a high degree of accuracy. Light is irradiated upon an inspection area of a rotating or moving object, and reflected light is photographed by a two-dimensional camera which includes solid-state image pickup elements. Picture element data for a first frame are fetched at a first point of time from the two-dimensional camera and stored into a memory, and then picture element data for a second frame are fetched at a second point of time after a fixed interval of time after the first point of time. Then, differences of the picture element data for the second frame from the picture element data for the first frame from the memory are taken and binary digitized with reference to predetermined brightness threshold level, and the differences which have one of two binary values are counted. The count number is compared with a predetermined number to determine the presence or absence of a defect in the object being inspected.

Method of and apparatus for inspecting bottle or the like

A vacuum degree inspecting device wherein a high degree of accuracy is not required for positioning of an object vessel and the degree of vacuum of an object vessel can be detected with a high S/N ratio under a reduced influence of fluctuations in size or configuration of a top (lid) wall of an object vessel. The device comprises a great diameter lens for refracting rays of light from a light source into rays of light to be irradiated upon an area including a lid wall of a sealed up vessel held at a predetermined inspection position, a beam splitter for passing part of rays from the great diameter lens therethrough and for reflecting reflected rays from the lid wall of the sealed up vessel, a condenser lens for condensing reflected rays from the beam splitter, an image sensor for detecting the thus condensed rays, and a comparator circuit for comparing an output voltage of the image sensor with a reference voltage to develop a signal representing that the sealed up vessel is acceptable or to be rejected.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Gomibuchi