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Empty bottle inspection

US9535011B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

KHS GmbH · DE

Inventors

Marius Michael Herrmann · Rosenheim, DE
Heinrich Wiemer · Hamburg, DE
Wolfgang Schorn · Bobingen, DE
Jürgen Herrmann · Rosenheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 2, 2012
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 8, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N23/10
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An inspection device for monitoring bottles includes a lighting unit, a color-sensitive camera, and a control-and-evaluation unit. The lighting unit is arranged above a transport path of bottles to be examined and has a light-source circuit-board having light sources that emit light having a light-source color. The control-and-evaluation unit changes the light-source color to a bottle color that is determined in a region of a mouth of a bottle.

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