Ckd Corporation

Yukihiro Taguchi

Tsuyoshi Ohyama

Norihiko Sakaida

Shozo Oda

Takamasa Ohtani

Eiji Ohta

Tadashi Inoguchi

Hisanao Wate

Eiji Ota

An inspection device includes: an illumination device; an imaging device that includes: an optical system that corrects a field curvature; an imaging element that takes an image via the optical system; and a mirror that reflects an incident light from the inspection object toward the optical system; and an inspection controller that: judges whether a quality of the inspection object is good or poor based on image data; and controls the imaging device to take an image of a first inspection area at a first timing when the first inspection area is located within a first focusing range, in which the first inspection area is focusable without the mirror, and to take an image of a second inspection area at a second timing when the second inspection area is located within a second focusing range, in which the second inspection area is focusable via the mirror.

Inspection device, blister packaging machine, and method for manufacturing blister pack

An inspection device inspects a formation state of a pocket portion formed in a container film of a blister pack and includes: an illumination device that irradiates a container film including the pocket portion with a predetermined electromagnetic wave; an imaging device that takes an image of at least the electromagnetic wave transmitted through a bottom portion of the pocket portion and obtains image data; a control device that extracts, based on the image data, shading pattern data corresponding to a shading pattern occurring in the bottom portion of the pocket portion by irradiation with the electromagnetic wave; a storage that stores a neural network and a model, the model being generated by learning of the neural network using, as learning data, only shading pattern data of a pocket portion without any formation defect among the extracted shading pattern data.

Inspection device, blister packing machine, and method of manufacturing blister pack

An inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates standard and inspection objects with near-infrared light; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light; an imaging device that takes images of first and second optical spectrums of the reflected light dispersed by the spectroscope to obtain standard spectroscopic image data and inspection spectroscopic image data; and a processor. The processor executes a predetermined arithmetic operation with regard to at least one of (i) each pixel row of the standard spectroscopic image data perpendicular to a wavelength dispersion direction and (ii) each pixel column of the standard spectroscopic image data parallel to the wavelength dispersion direction. The processor, based on luminance values of pixels belonging to the pixel row or column, determines a characteristic of the pixel row and grasps a wavelength sensitivity characteristic of the imaging element under the near-infrared light emitted from the illumination device.

Inspection device, PTP packaging machine and calibration method of inspection device

An inspection device includes: an irradiator that radiates, before content is placed into the pocket, ultraviolet light toward one face of the container film; imaging devices that take images of the container film from another face side of the container film; and a processor that determines, based on the images, whether the pocket includes a pinhole, at least two of the imaging devices being each disposed on respective sides of the container film in a width direction such that the pocket is placed between the two imaging devices, and while the container film is being conveyed along a conveyance path, the two imaging devices take images of the pocket at a timing when the pocket is located at an upstream-side position, a middle-side position, and a downstream-side position of the conveyance path.

Inspection device, packaging sheet manufacturing device, and inspection method

An inspection device performs an inspection in manufacture of a Press Through Package (PTP) sheet, and includes: an illumination device; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the PTP sheet; an imaging device that takes an image of an optical spectrum of the disperses light and acquires spectroscopic image data; and a controller. Before the inspection is performed, the controller grasps disturbance data that is one of either spectral data of a predetermined content placed in the pocket portion and attributed to ambient light, or approximate spectral data approximate to the spectral data of the predetermined content attributed to the ambient light, and corrects either spectral data of the content as an inspection object obtained based on the spectroscopic image data acquired by the imaging device, or a reference value used for determining the spectral data of the content as the inspection object.

Inspection device, PTP packaging machine and inspection method

An inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates an object with near-infrared light; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the object irradiated with the near-infrared light; an imaging device that takes a spectroscopic image of the reflected light dispersed by the spectroscope; and a processor. The processor obtains spectral data at a plurality of points on the object based on the spectroscopic image obtained by the imaging device, selects, from among the spectral data at the plurality of points, a group having a highest density of luminance values of a predetermined wavelength component as a dense spectral data group, and performs a predetermined analysis for the object based on the dense spectral data group and detects a different type of object.

Inspection device, blister packaging machine, and blister sheet manufacturing method

A manufacturing device is used for manufacturing a package including a resin sheet and a predetermined work wrapped with the resin sheet. The manufacturing device includes: a sealing unit that thermally welds overlapping parts of the sheet; and an inspection device that inspects a sealing quality of the sealed portion thermally welded by the sealing unit. The sealing unit makes, by the thermal welding, a thickness of the sealed portion after the thermal welding smaller than a total thickness of the overlapping parts prior to the thermal welding. The inspection device obtains thickness information on the thickness of the sealed portion and determines the sealing quality of the sealed portion based on the thickness information.

Manufacturing device of package and manufacturing method of package

An inspection device used in manufacture of a Press Through Package (PTP) sheet includes a container film including a pocket portion in which a content is placed and a cover film closing the pocket portion. The inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates the content with near-infrared light; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the content irradiated with the near-infrared light; an imaging device that takes an image of an optical spectrum of the reflected light dispersed by the spectroscope and acquires spectroscopic image data; and a controller that obtains spectral data of the content based on the spectroscopic image data, executes an inspection of the content based on the spectral data of the content, and executes good or poor quality judgment of the content.

An inspection device is used in manufacture of a PTP sheet that comprises a container film including a pocket portion in which a content is placed and a cover film closing the pocket portion. The inspection device includes: an illumination device that emits near infrared light; a light shield that is placed between the illumination device and the container film and prevents the near infrared light from entering the container film; a through hole in the light shield that allows the near infrared light to pass through; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the content; an imaging device that images an optical spectrum of the reflected light and obtains spectroscopic image data; and a controller that: obtains spectral data of the content based on the spectroscopic image data; and performs a predetermined inspection with regard to the content based on the spectral data of the content.

Inspection device and PTP packaging machine

An inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates an object with near infrared light; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the object irradiated with the near infrared light; an imaging device that takes a spectroscopic image of the reflected light dispersed by the spectroscope; and a processor. The processor: obtains spectral data at a plurality of points on the object based on the spectroscopic image obtained by the imaging device; selects, as typical spectral data representing the object from among the spectral data at the plurality of points, one of: spectral data in which a luminance value in a predetermined wavelength is a median value; and spectral data in which a summation of luminance values in a predetermined wavelength range is a median value; and performs a predetermined analysis for the object based on the typical spectral data and detects a different type of object.

Inspection apparatus, PTP packaging machine, and method for manufacturing PTP sheet

An inspection device includes: an irradiator that irradiates an object with near-infrared light; a spectroscope that has a slit where reflected light enters and that disperses the reflected light into wavelength component lights; an imaging device that comprises an imaging element that takes a spectroscopic image of the wavelength component lights; and a processor that: obtains spectral data based on the spectroscopic image; and detects a type of the object using a predetermined analysis based on the spectral data. Each of the wavelength component lights is a single wavelength light, the inspection device satisfies L&#x2265;2P, where L is a width of each of the wavelength component lights in a wavelength dispersion direction on a light receiving surface of the imaging element and P is a width of a pixel in the wavelength dispersion direction on the light receiving surface.

Inspection device, PTP packaging machine and PTP sheet manufacturing method

A blister packaging machine includes: a pocket portion forming unit that forms a pocket portion having a bottom portion and a side portion, in a belt-like container film, and adjusts balance between a thickness of the bottom portion and a thickness of the side portion; an illumination device that is disposed on a downstream side of the pocket portion forming unit, and irradiates the pocket portion with an electromagnetic radiation; an imaging device that is disposed on a side opposite to the illumination device across the container film, and obtains transmitted image data based on the electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the pocket portion; a side portion state detector that detects a state of the thickness of the side portion based on the transmitted image data; and a controller that controls an operation of the pocket portion forming unit.

Blister packaging machine

An inspection device includes: an irradiator that irradiates an object with near-infrared light; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light from the irradiated object; an imaging device that takes a spectroscopic image of the reflected light; a processor that: obtains spectral data of a plurality of points on the object, based on the spectroscopic image; defines a group of similar spectral data from among the spectral data of the plurality of points; extracts a group having a largest number of spectral data from the defined group; calculates an average of the spectral data of the extracted group; and detects a type of the object using a predetermined analysis of the object, based on the average.

An inspection device for inspecting an inspection object portion in a PTP sheet, the inspection device including: an irradiator that irradiates the inspection object portion with light; an imaging device that takes an image of the inspection object portion irradiated with the light; a processor that detects a defect in the inspection object portion from the taken image by using a predetermined luminance threshold value, and determines whether the inspection object portion is non-defective; a verification image generating circuit that generates a verification image in which a virtual defective image is placed in a non-defective image; and a threshold value verifier that causes the processor to determine whether the inspection object portion is non-defective or defective by using the verification image, in place of the image taken by the imaging device, and to verify the luminance threshold value based on a determination result by the processor.

An inspection device for inspecting an inspection object of a PTP sheet including a pocket portion formed in a container film, and a cover film mounted to the container film to close the pocket portion, or a portion of a PTP film forming the PTP sheet, includes: an irradiator that irradiates the inspection object with a predetermined light; an imaging device that takes an inspection image of the irradiated inspection object and a peripheral portion of the inspection object; and a processor that: determines whether the inspection object is defective or non-defective based on inspection image data of the inspection object taken from the inspection image. The inspection image data includes data of respective pixels corresponding to an inspection target area subjected to the defective/non-defective determination, and data of respective pixels corresponding to a non-inspection target area that excludes the inspection target area.

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Yukihiro Taguchi