Inspection device for container closures

US10222340B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KHS GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Carsten Buchwald · Bad Breisig, DE
• Jürgen Herrmann · Rosenheim, DE
• Marius Michael Herrmann · Rosenheim, DE
• Wolfgang Schorn · Bobingen, DE
• Xiang Zhang · 红钢城街道, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: May 7, 2015
• Grant date: Mar 5, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2021/8845
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An inspection device for inspecting screw-closures on bottles includes a rotationally-symmetric lens disposed above a bottle's screw-closure and having a convex portion and a flat aspheric portion, a first lighting-unit for illuminating the screw-closure, and a camera located above the lens and connected to an image processor.