Method for identifying surface characteristics of metallurgical products, especially continuously cast and rolled products, and a device for carrying out said method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8564656
APP PUB NO 20100103256A1
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12531340

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The invention relates to a method for recognizing surface characteristics of metallurgical products, especially continuously cast products and rolled products. According to said method, a defined section of the product surface (12, 12′) is irradiated by at least two radiation sources of different wavelengths, from different directions, and the irradiated surface section is optoelectronically detected. Three light sources (21, 22, 23) are oriented towards the product surface (12, 12′), as radiation sources, under the same angle (a), the positions thereof being in three planes (E1, E2, E3) forming a 120 DEG angle and being perpendicular to the product surface (12, 12′). In this way, instructive information about metallurgical products can be determined and stored in a very short space of time such that the products can be determined in a perfectly identified manner for the reprocessing, in terms of the surface quality or surface structure thereof.

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SMS CONCAST AGTODISTRASSE 9 ZURICH CH-8027

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Rauber, Tobias Kusnacht, CH 2 9

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