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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2011
Masaaki Numazu, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaaki Numazu, Kawasaki, JP;
KIRIN TECHNO-SYSTEM COMPANY, LIMITED, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a glass bottle inspection apparatus which can detect a defect at a specific location such as a bottle-mouth portion of a glass bottle by an imaging process. The glass bottle inspection apparatus includes an inspection unit having one or plural illuminating units (LEDthrough LED) configured to illuminate a glass bottle () and at least one camera (CAMthrough CAM) configured to image light reflected from the glass bottle (), configured to detect a defect at a specific location of the glass bottle. The apparatus has a controller () configured to control operations of the one or plural illuminating units (LEDthrough LED) and the camera (CAMthrough CAM). The controller () controls the one or plural illuminating units (LEDthrough LED) individually to emit a pulsed light in synchronism with an image capturing timing of the camera (CAMthrough CAM).