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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2004
Chihiro Hanaoka, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Otaka, Tokyo, JP;
Shinzo Kida, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An appearance inspection device for a rod-like article comprises a rotatable main drum () interposed as a feeding drum in a drum train that defines a feeding path in a filter cigarette manufacturing machine, upstream and downstream bypass drum trains () located in the outside of the main drum () and receiving a filter cigarette (FC) from the main drum () to bypass the cigarette, and an inspection camera () situated between the bypass drum trains () in a circumferential direction of the main drum (). The inspection camera () directly or indirectly images exposed circumferential surfaces of filter cigarettes (FC), that are different from one another, when the filter cigarettes (FC) are conveyed on the main drum () and each of the bypass drum trains ().
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