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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
May. 18, 2011
Carsten Buchwald, Bad Breisig, DE;
Wolfgang Schorn, Honningen, DE;
Carsten Buchwald, Bad Breisig, DE;
Wolfgang Schorn, Honningen, DE;
KHS GmbH, Dortmund, DE;
Abstract
A system for detecting features on a container wall includes an optical assembly comprising a camera, and an illuminating unit having light sources arranged on conductive tracks. Viewed in a vertical direction of the unit, the light sources are in vertical columns to project a strip-shaped beam onto a container-wall region. When viewed axially, the light sources are arranged on the conductive track one above the other without offset. Each column of light sources is actuated to project a light pattern on the container-wall region that can be variably adjusted as a function of surface properties of the container-wall region. The illuminating unit has first and second light source sets in corresponding adjacent vertical columns. Each light source set has one or more light sources. Adjustment is effected by concurrently switching the first and second light source sets between an on-state and an-off state.