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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2020
Ckd Corporation, Aichi, JP;
Tadashi Inoguchi, Aichi, JP;
CKD CORPORATION, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
An appearance inspection device includes: a transparent conveyance body having a surface and a rear face and conveyed in a predetermined direction; an illumination device that irradiates with predetermined light an inspection area through which a plurality of objects pass, wherein the objects are arranged at predetermined intervals on a first face that is one of the surface and the rear face; a plurality of imaging devices each of which takes, along a predetermined direction, an image of part of side faces of the objects located in the inspection area, wherein the predetermined direction is inclined to both the surface and the rear face; and a processor that inspects an appearance of the side faces of the objects based on image data obtained by the imaging device.