Abstract: Apparatus for inspecting the surface of objects such as band-like running material, which may be metal, paper, or textile, without stopping or reducing the speed of the inspection line, to determine the occurrence of defects. The inspected object surface image and defect data are recorded so that at a desirable later time, the defect data may be reviewed to make a judgement of acceptance or rejection of the object. The apparatus provides an effective control on production.

Abstract: A stroboscope is employed as the lighting source for a video camera, the output of which is converted into a signal from which a fault in the object scanned is detected. The stroboscope is controlled in response to a portion of the output voltage of the video camera to insure that the luminous energy is constant.

Abstract: A light source irradiates one side of a transparent container and a video camera is placed to pick up the image of the transparent container so that it will not directly receive the reflection of light from the light source. A nonreflecting plate is placed behind the container in opposition to the video camera. An image processor processes the output image of the camera. A light diffusion plate may be placed in front of the light source.

Abstract: A sample of powder granules flowing through an online conveyor is removed periodically and fed to a supply hopper where a predetermined amount of granules are stored. A small portion of the granules are removed from the supply hopper and continuously fed to the upper surface of a rotary table to form a single layer thereon. The sample on the table is optically sensed to detect foreign particles. The foreign particles are removed and subsequently the good particles are removed and passed to a weighing hopper. The ratio of good product after sensing and the sample in the hopper is calculated to determine the relative amount of foreign particles flowing in the system.

Abstract: A video image is obtained of an object and divided into a matrix of horizontal and vertical zones. The matrix is scanned sequentially and those zones determined to have defects stored. The position of each of the stored zones are determined by the distance horizontally and vertically from a base comprising the zone indicated preceding in the scan.

Abstract: Powder granule samples are continuously and automatically inspected on a rotary table which conveys the granule specimens on its suface. The rotary table has a circular 5 groove formed on its surface in which the sample granules will fit.

Abstract: An image of a light irradiated object is picked up by a video camera. Detection of defects on the object is conducted from the image signal from the video camera. Two inspection zones adjacent each other are established on the picture screen, each having a preset size. The brightness of each of the respective two inspection zones is sensed and accumulated as the inspection zones are indexed across the screen. When the difference between the accumulated values of the respective inspection zones exceeds a preset threshold value a defect is defined.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for inspecting powder material and for removing the foreign matter therefrom. A rotary table is provided to receive powder material to be inspected on its surface. A feeder supplies the powder material onto the surface of the table aligned in a single layer and a photosensing system detects the foreign matter. The foreign matter is removed by a suction device. Thereafter, the remaining power material is removed by a second suction device.

Abstract: A light source irradiates the bottom of a bottle with light that contains visible light rays and infrared rays. Two photoelectric conversion sensors remove the light passing through the bottle bottom from the light source. An optical filter which passes only infrared rays placed in front of the light receiving surface of one of the photoelectric conversion sensors, and the outputs from the two photoelectric conversion sensors are compared directly and a signal is provided when a difference between the outputs exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: A supersonic sound emitting device consisting of a power source, a supersonic wave signal generator supplied with a power from the power source and for generating a supersonic wave signal and a supersonic sound emitter supplied with the supersonic wave signal from the supersonic wave signal generator and for emitting a supersonic sound, wherein the power source has a solar battery, a secondary battery charged by the solar battery, and an on-off switcher for making the secondary battery on and off.

Abstract: An image of the inspected object, irradiated by a light, is picked by a video camera and a video signal therefrom is processed by an electronic processor. A pattern judging window is setup on the inspected object to thereby judge whether a pattern exists on the object, and when it is judged that there is no pattern a plurality of inspection windows are set up to thereby perform a predetermined defect inspection on portions of the inspected object within the plurality of windows. A pattern discrimination window is setup on the inspected object when it is judged that there exists a pattern so as to discriminate the kind of pattern, and either setting up the inspection window or another inspection window depending on the kind of pattern so discriminated.

Abstract: A bottle mouth top surface polishing apparatus including rotating machine having a rotary shaft, a rotary plate means coupled at its center to the rotary shaft, a grinding plate fixed to the rotary plate and having a grinding face which is to be made in contact with a bottle mouth top surface to be polished, and a contact adjusting device for making the contact between the grinding face and the bottle mouth top surface always close over whole contact surfaces thereof upon polishing.

Abstract: A selected sampling of powder granules is fed penumatically from an on-line tube to a separator in which granules are separated from the air and transferred to an endless conveyor in a single layer. The selected granules are inspected for metallic foreign particles and thereafter for moisture ratio of the sampled power granules, and number and size of colored foreign particles or the like while on the conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting powder granule sample having a sampler for continuously sampling powder granules from an on-line tube by a predetermined amount of a cyclone for separating sample powder granules from air a conveyor tube obliquely located and communicated at its upper end with said cyclone and for conveying sampled powder granules from the cyclone downward, a transfer tube for transferring the sampled powder granules from a lower end opening of the conveyor tube to the on-line tube, an inspector for inspecting the sampled powder granules within the conveyor tube, and adjuster for adjusting the amount of the sampled powder granules within the conveyor tube.

Abstract: A photosensing device in which a camera picks up through a see through-hole formed through a light diffuser reflection board an image of an object to be photosensed that has a high light reflectivity and that is indirectly irradiated upon by a light source, a member having a light reflectivity substantially same as that of the light diffuser reflection board and a property to pass therethrough the light is tightly fit to the see through-hole, and the camera picks up the object to be photosensed through the member.

Abstract: An object inspection apparatus having a light source for irradiating an object to be inspected, a pick-up device for picking up the object and generating an image signal thereof including a synchronizing signal, and an inspecting device for receiving the image signal to determine whether or not the object has a defect.

Abstract: A photo-electric conversion device is provided with an independent optical system having a lens making an image of the surface of an object to be inspected which is not flat as a flat spatial image at the front stage of the photo-electric conversion device. The photo-electric conversion device receiving the flat spatial image on its target screen produces a video signal. An inspection device for processing an output video signal is provided to judge whether the inspected surface is good or not.

Abstract: A bottle bottom inspection apparatus in which an image sensor is located above a mouth of a bottle to pick up an image of the bottle bottom and the bottle bottom is irradiated upwardly by a light source and the bottle bottom is picked up by the image sensor via the bottle mouth thereby to inspect said bottle bottom. In this case, an optical device is disposed between the light source and the bottle bottom, wherein the optical device is operated to prevent the light from the light source from being directly incident on the bottle bottom but to cause the light to be incident upwardly on the bottle bottom with a predetermined incident angle from the outside of the bottle bottom.

Abstract: An object is sensed by a photoelectric conversion sensor having a photoelectric conversion screen expressed as an XY coordinate grid such that the symmetrical axis of the object is parallel to one axis of the XY coordinate, coordinates at a plurality of right left points which respect to the other axis of the XY coordinate at which an external contour of the object intersects a plurality of straight lines perpendicular to the symmetrical axis are determined. Coordinates at a plurality of center points between the right and left points with respect to the other axis are determined, and the maximum frequency coordinate among the coordinates of center points in designated as a standard center coordinate, and the standard center coordinate is compared with each of the plurality of center coordinates.

Abstract: A surface inspection apparatuses having a light source for irradiating an uneven surface of an object to be inspected, a photoelectric conversion sensor for picking up the uneven surface of the object and generating a video signal thereof, and an electronic processor for processing the video signal to inspect the surface of the object, in which an optical mask is located in front of the light source so as to restrict the passage of the light from the light source with a predetermined pattern, whereby the irregular light reflection of the light from the light source, which passed through the optical mask, on the uneven surface becomes substantially uniform.