Abstract: The close contact between a surface to be attracted and an attracting surface when an openable and closable door is closed is established at a high level to form a state in which the surface to be attracted and the attracting surface overlap each other without a gap. An electromagnetic lock type safety switch includes an actuator including; a member to be magnetized on which a surface to be attracted corresponding to an attracting surface, formed on an electromagnet of a switch body, is formed; an actuator attachment portion for attaching the actuator to a movable portion (openable and closable door); and a movement mechanism supporting the member to be magnetized to be movable relative to the actuator attachment portion.

Abstract: A reverse engineering support apparatus, includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires the mesh data; a reception unit that receives an input of a designated point on the mesh data; an extraction unit that extracts a plane candidate based on the designated point from the mesh data; a plane determination unit that creates a plane constituting a polyhedron based on the plane candidate; and a polyhedron creation unit that creates the polyhedron including the plane created by the plane determination unit. The reception unit can further receive designation of a constraint condition indicating a position and an attitude with respect to another surface or a position and an attitude in a predetermined coordinate system for each surface of the polyhedron, and the plane determination unit creates the plane constituting the polyhedron based on the plane candidate and the constraint condition.

Abstract: Read data of a plurality of optical information reading devices can be compared on a spatial axis. A setting device includes: a communication part for communicating with each of the optical information reading devices; a display part that displays a list of pieces of read data, conveyor, of any one of a plurality of optical information reading devices; an input part that receives an input for selection of any one piece of read data from the list of pieces of read data displayed on the display part; and a control part that acquires a code image having the read data selected by the input part from another optical information reading device connected to the network, and performs comparison display, on the display part, of a plurality of the code images respectively acquired by different ones of the plurality of optical information reading devices.

Abstract: Provided is an optical displacement sensor that allows a housing serving as a head to be downsized. A relay cable extending from the head is integrated with a body. The head is primarily responsible for projecting and receiving light to and from a to-be-detected object, while the body is made up of a power supply circuit, a display, and an operation part. The head includes a green laser light source and emits the green laser light to form a spot on a surface of the to-be-detected object.

Abstract: Provided is a controller capable of cooperating with a smart camera. The controller to which the smart camera is connectable includes a setting unit that receives a setting of one of a first mode in which the smart camera alone executes generation processing of an inspection target image and inspection processing on the inspection target image, and a second mode in which the smart camera executes generation processing of the inspection target image and transfer processing of the inspection target image to the controller, and the controller executes inspection processing on the transferred inspection target image. When the setting of the second mode is received, the inspection unit of the controller executes inspection processing.

Abstract: A user can easily execute image processing from setting to data utilization without acquiring programming skills. An inspection setting device includes: a screen generation unit that generates a display screen displaying a palette region in which a plurality of tools including an imaging setting tool, a positioning setting tool, an inspection setting tool, and an output tool can be arranged and a work sheet region in which data related to the plurality of tools is referred to and calculated; and an input unit that receives selection of a tool arranged on the palette region and receives a setting related to input, reference, or calculation of data related to the selected tool via the work sheet region.

Abstract: To improve reading accuracy by enabling a read image to be restored by machine learning while reducing a calculation load in an optical information reading device. An optical information reading device includes: a storage part that stores a structure and a parameter of a neural network generated in advance by machine learning of a plurality of defective images and a plurality of ideal images; a processor that attempts restoration by inputting a read image to the neural network configured using the structure and parameter stored in the storage part and executes decoding processing on the restored read image; and a housing that accommodates a camera, the storage part, and the processor.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a laser light output section, a laser light scanning section, a distance measurement light emitting section which emits distance measurement light, a pair of light receiving elements which receives the distance measurement light emitted from the distance measurement light emitting section and reflected by the workpiece, optical axes of the pair of light receiving elements being arranged inside the housing so as to sandwich an optical axis of the distance measurement light emitting section, a distance measuring section which measures a distance to the surface of the workpiece, and a light receiving lens which is arranged such that each of the optical axes of the pair of light receiving elements passes through the light receiving lens, and condenses the distance measurement light that has been reflected by the workpiece on respective light receiving surfaces of the pair of light receiving elements.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an imaging unit generating an inspection target image, a storage unit storing a reference image obtained by capturing an inspection object in advance, and a calculation unit specifying a positional relationship between an inspection object included in the inspection target image generated during operation and the inspection object included in the reference image, and calculates a generation condition of the inspection target image during operation such that the inspection object included in the inspection target image generated during operation and the inspection object included in the reference image are at substantially the same position. The generation condition includes positional information of an output region in which the inspection object is able to be output at substantially the same position as the reference image. The imaging unit generates an inspection target image corresponding to the output region of the positional information during operation.

Abstract: An industrial camera includes an imaging unit generating a captured image with a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels of the inspection target image, an image generation unit downscaling a first captured image corresponding to an output region which is a region of a field of view range (FOV) of the imaging unit in whole or part at a first scaling magnification to generate an inspection target image with a first number of pixels smaller than a number of pixels of the first captured image, an interface unit receiving a first zoom instruction to change the output region to a relatively small region, and a calculation unit calculating a second scaling magnification. The image generation unit generates an inspection target image with the first number of pixels by downscaling the second captured image at the second scaling magnification.

Abstract: Installation of an industrial camera is simplified. An industrial camera includes an imaging unit that captures an inspection object to generate an inspection target image, a distance measurement unit that measures an installation distance that is a distance to the inspection object, a storage unit that stores a camera parameter of the imaging unit, an interface unit that is able to receive an input of a size of a field of view or a pixel resolution as a required specification from a user, and a calculation unit that automatically calculates an optical condition necessary for realizing the required specification based on the installation distance measured by the distance measurement unit, the camera parameter stored in the storage unit, and the input required specification.

Abstract: An industrial camera includes an electric zoom optical system, an imaging unit generating a captured image with a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels of an inspection target image, an image generation unit executing downscaling a captured image corresponding to an output region of the imaging unit, an interface unit receiving designation of a zoom magnification, and a calculation unit calculating an optical magnification of optical zooming and a magnification of the downscaling based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is smaller than or equal to a predetermined magnification, an inspection target image is generated by downscaling a captured image at a scaling magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is larger than the predetermined magnification, the zoom optical system is driven at the optical magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification to generate an inspection target image.

Abstract: Even if a size of a read image is large, a code search process can be speeded up to enable immediate output of a decoding result. Each time a predetermined number of lines of image data is taken, a pre-processing circuit executes pre-processing on the image data and calculates a characteristic amount indicating the likelihood of the code for each area in the image data. A processor determines a code candidate area based on the acquired characteristic amount and executes a decoding process of the determined area to generate a decoding result.

Abstract: An image measurement apparatus includes: a setting section which sets a measurement element having a geometric shape; a storage section which stores in advance a correspondence relationship between a shape type or a size of the measurement element settable by the setting section, and positions and the number of contact target positions of the touch probe to be arranged with respect to the measurement element; and a control section which specifies a plurality of contact target positions of the touch probe based on a position of the measurement element on the workpiece image set by the setting section, the shape type or size of the measurement element, and the correspondence relationship stored in advance during the measurement execution by the touch probe, and relatively moves a stage or the touch probe to move the touch probe sequentially to the plurality of specified contact target positions.

Abstract: A first contact target position, a second contact target position, and a characteristic pattern for specifying a position and a posture of the workpiece are set in association with each other. First and second contact target positions for measurement are specified from a workpiece image newly generated during the execution of measurement such that a driving section is controlled to bring the touch probe into contact with the side surface of the workpiece with the specified first contact target position for measurement as a reference, and the driving section is controlled to bring the touch probe into contact with the upper surface of the workpiece with the specified second contact target position for measurement as a reference. Three-dimensional coordinates of a contact point are measured based on a contact signal output when the touch probe comes into contact with the workpiece.

Abstract: To provide a programming support apparatus including an integrated development environment in which a development environment for developing a user program to be executed by a PLC is integrated with a development environment of a display screen. A programming supporting apparatus includes a providing section that provides an integrated development environment in which a non-web application-based first development environment supporting development of a user program to be transferred to and executed by the programmable logic controller is integrated with a web application-based second development environment supporting development of a display screen by generating the display screen, which displays a symbol value collected from a symbol used in accordance with the user program in the programmable logic controller, as a web page that is described by data describing a structure, data describing a decoration, and a code describing dynamic processing.

Abstract: Convenience is improved by enabling an imaging section to capture an image of a measurement element without adjustment of a rotation angle of a measurement object performed by a user. A control unit identifies a reference rotation angle during measurement, and calculates a measurement angle to measure a measurement element based on a relative rotation angle with respect to the reference rotation angle stored in advance. The control unit controls a rotation unit such that a rotation angle of the rotation unit becomes the measurement angle. The control unit executes a process of measuring a dimension of the measurement element based on a measurement object image captured by an imaging section when the rotation angle of the rotation unit becomes the measurement angle.

Abstract: In a setting mode, a processor stores in a memory a reference image for pattern search, measurement location information indicating a plurality of measurement locations, and imaging setting information indicating at which magnification imaging is performed. In a measurement mode, the processor controls an imaging section, acquires a target image for pattern search, executes a pattern search on the target image using the reference image, specifies a plurality of imaging positions for imaging each of the plurality of measurement locations based on the measurement location information and a result of the pattern search, causes the imaging section to perform imaging at a magnification set for each measurement location, and measures a dimension of the measurement location.

Abstract: To suppress an increase in processing time due to a load of inference processing while improving reading accuracy by the inference processing of machine learning. An optical information reading device includes a processor including: an inference processing part that inputs a code image to a neural network and executes inference processing of generating an ideal image corresponding to the code image; and a decoding processing part that executes first decoding processing of decoding the code image and second decoding processing of decoding the ideal image generated by the inference processing part. The processor executes the inference processing and the first decoding processing in parallel, and executes the second decoding processing after completion of the inference processing.

Abstract: An analysis and observation device includes: an electromagnetic wave emitter that emits a primary electromagnetic wave; a reflective object lens having a primary mirror provided with a primary reflection surface reflecting a secondary electromagnetic wave and a secondary mirror provided with a secondary reflection surface receiving and further reflecting the secondary electromagnetic wave; first and second detectors that receive the secondary electromagnetic wave and generate an intensity distribution spectrum; and a controller that performs component analysis of a sample based on the intensity distribution spectrum. A transmissive region through which the primary electromagnetic wave is transmitted is provided at a center of the secondary mirror.