Inspection equipment for screw part of bottle-can

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9335278
APP PUB NO 20140125793A1
SERIAL NO

14124001

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Inspection equipment for a screw part of a bottle-can having a mouth section provided with a curl portion in which an opening edge thereof is rolled up outward and the screw part for fitting a cap by threads below the curl portion for attaching the cap with a liner, the inspection equipment inspects a shape of the screw part of the mouth section by imaging an imaging area which is set so as to include a part of the mouth section while rotating the bottle-can around a can-axis, the inspection equipment including: a rotating device which holds and rotates the bottle-can around the can-axis; a thread-illumination device which irradiates illumination light toward the screw part of the bottle-can; an imaging device which continuously obtains inspection images including reflected light of the illumination light at the imaging area; and an thread-inspection device which inspects the screw part.

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KURASHIKI BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAOKAYAMA COUNTY JAPAN OKAYAMA
UNIVERSAL CAN CORPORATIONTOKYO 112-8525

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kurosawa, Akio Neyagawa, JP 3 23
Sota, Tadayuki Neyagawa, JP 3 23

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