Patents Assigned to Futec, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130184134
    Abstract: An box producing apparatus is disclosed, including a camera that obtains an image of a printed face which is printed on a box material sheet by the printing section; and a register correction control unit that compares a specific picture in a master image of a sample for the print, and a picture in a region specified according to the specific picture in the image of the printed face obtained by the camera to determine an amount of register displacement in each of the print units, and controls a register adjustment mechanism provided in each of the print units based on the amount of register displacement to correct a register of the print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: FUTEC INC.
    Inventors: Yasunari Suzuki, Shinya Iori, Tooru Kojima
  • Publication number: 20070139657
    Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a measurement system capable of measuring a three-dimensional geometry of a target object over a relatively large area, in a small length of time and by a contact-free method. When a ray of light is cast from a light source onto the target object s and reflected at a certain point on the surface of the target object s, the light produces direct reflection light (zero-order light) and higher-order diffraction light. The zero-order light is guided by a separating optics to a movable reflector of a variable-phase filter 20 while the higher-order diffraction light is guided to a fixed reflector. The two rays of light are reflected by the corresponding reflectors and led to substantially the same point by an interference optics system. At this point, the two rays of light interfere with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicants: TECHNO NETWORK SHIKOKU CO., LTD., FUTEC INC.
    Inventors: Ichirou Ishimaru, Ryoji Hyodo
  • Patent number: 6618464
    Abstract: A thickness-measuring device comprising (i) an X-ray tube unit including an X-ray tube, (ii) an X-ray detector unit including an X-ray detector having a sensor, and (iii) a means for driving the X-ray tube unit and the X-ray detector unit back and forth, in synchronism with each other, widthwise of an object whose thickness is measured and which runs through a pathline between the X-ray tube unit and the X-ray detector unit. A mask is set above the sensor of the X-ray detector to cover it partly; accordingly, the light-receiving area of the light receiver of the X-ray detector is smaller than the whole area of the sensor. Thus, the measuring area per unit time is reduced effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Futec Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mizobuchi, Mitsuaki Kameyama, Yoshinori Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 6309179
    Abstract: A hydro turbine has a housing with a cylindrical chamber and opposed end walls with laterally spaced smaller rectangular inlets and laterally spaced larger rectangular outlets formed in upper and lower portions of the chamber side wall in horizontally opposed relation. Smaller rectangular inlet ducts adjoin the inlets, and larger rectangular outlet ducts adjoin the outlets. A cylindrical runner surrounding a power take-off shaft is rotatably enclosed in the chamber and has a central cylindrical hub divided into laterally spaced hub portions with a first and second plurality of circumferentially spaced peripheral blades extending angularly outward from each hub portion, the first plurality of blades being circumferentially offset from the second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Futec, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph T. Holden
  • Patent number: 5805663
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system for an object comprises a convergence type radiation generating unit for producing radiations having a radiation bundle so that it converges onto a given location, a radiation sensor unit opposed to the radiation generating unit with the object interposed therebetween, a pinhole member placed between the object and the radiation sensor unit, and a signal processing unit for processing an output signal of the radiation sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Futec, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiro Mihara
  • Patent number: 5377279
    Abstract: A method of displaying a defect appearing on an elongated object conveyed in one direction. The method comprises the steps of scanning the object in the width direction thereof by means of a sensor camera, and obtaining object image data corresponding to the object, processing the object image data, to detect a defect in the object, storing the object image data in an image memory in a scroll manner, stopping the scroll storing of the object image data in the image memory and storing the object image data output subsequently from the sensor camera in the other image memory in response to the detection of the defect, and retaining the object image data including the defect in the image memories as still image data, and displaying the still image data read out from the image memories on a monitor screen as a still image such that the defect is displayed at a predetermined position on the monitor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Futec Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hanafusa, Masami Nishio
  • Patent number: 5253306
    Abstract: A method for matching patterns includes the steps of optically scanning a master image and a to-be-recognized image and outputting master image data and to-be-recognized image data, extracting master outline data representing an outline of the master image from the master image data, extracting to-be-recognized outline data representing an outline of a to-be-recognized image from the to-be-recognized image data, performing an enlargement process for the to-be-recognized outline data to enlarge the to-be-recognized outline, thereby forming to-be-recognized outline data, and collating the master outline data with the to-be-recognized outline data, and if a portion of the master outline projects from the to-be-recognized outline, determining that the to-be-recognized image has a short-defect indicating an omission of the image
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Futec Inc.
    Inventor: Masami Nishio
  • Patent number: 5060281
    Abstract: A method of detecting a disparity in a cyclic length of a printed pattern includes the steps of scanning a to-be-checked sheet on which predetermined patterns are cyclically printed in the longitudinal direction by an electronic camera to obtain image data corresponding to a pattern, extracting outline data representing an outline of the pattern from the image data, writing the outline data extracted in the extraction step into a memory with a predetermined cycle in accordance with travel position data of the to-be-checked sheet, reading out the outline data, and comparing first outline data for one cycle read out from the memory and second outline data which is read out after the first outline data is read out. Disparity of a cyclic length of the pattern is detected based on a correlation between the first and second outline data, e.g., a coincidence or noncoincidence therebetween, in accordance with the comparison result in the comparison step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Futec, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuji Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 4975971
    Abstract: A method of detecting a significant difference of a to-be-checked sheet includes the steps of: scanning a traveling to-be-checked sheet by a camera in the widthwise direction to obtain image data, extracting an outline of an image and an outline of a defect on the to-be-checked sheet from the image data, sequentially writing the outline data extracted in the outline extraction step in a memory with a predetermined cycle in accordance with travel position data and simultaneously reading out the outline data, comparing outline pattern data for an immediately preceding cycle as outline mask data with the latest outline pattern data obtained in a cycle following the immediately preceding cycle, and detecting a significant difference between the outline mask data and the latest outline pattern data in accordance with the comparison result obtained in the comparison step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Futec Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuji Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 4724481
    Abstract: A flaw detector, for detecting a flaw in a sheet, picks up, by means of a plurality of linear array cameras, the light of rays transmitted through a sheet. The video signals from the linear array cameras, which are appropriately processed, are used for checking whether a flaw is present or not. A sensitivity-difference correcting section corrects sensitivity differences amoung the cameras and among photosensitive elements of each camera, which sensitivity differences are contained in the video signal. Automatic gain control sections, for transparent and opaque flaws, respectively, control the sensitivities of the video signals. These signals are differentiated, and then compared with a predetermined slicing level, thereby to check whether transparent and opaque flaws are present or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Futec Inc.
    Inventor: Shizuo Nishioka
  • Patent number: 4237959
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for examining the surface condition of a traveling metal strip in the process of being continuously cast for detection of scarfs, if any, produced on said surface, wherein a light emitter projects light beams of short waves or those containing said short waves and other waves on a traveling metal strip in the process of being continuously cast; among the reflections of the projected light beams, only those consisting of short waves are received by the light detector through a filter; a flat hood surrounding a light path extending between the light emitter and light detector is set in a cooling chamber; compressed air streams run through the flat hood to air purge or clean the environment of the light path; a signal issued from the light detector is processed by an image memory; the shade image of the traveling metal strip is continuously displayed on the screen of a monitor television set; and the surface condition of the traveling metal strip is examined on the screen to detect scarfs,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: Futec Inc.
    Inventors: Tomio Yamamoto, Hideyuki Hanafusa, Kouji Seno, Toshiro Mihara, Isoshiro Ishida