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Systems and methods for inspection of seals

An inspection system, capping technology, applied in the field of sealed systems, which can solve problems such as multi-capital and operating costs

Inactive Publication Date: 2015-06-03
NESTEC SA
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These methods require additional equipment to be added to the assembly or production line, requiring more capital and operating costs

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[0027] The present disclosure relates to sealing technology. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for inspecting the seal of screw closures. The inspection system described herein provides a visual measurement of designated markings on each container in order to assess any minor defects in the seal between each closure and container.

[0028] Such as figure 1 As shown in , the present disclosure provides a seal inspection system 10 having a closure 20 attached to a container 30 . The closure 20 may be attached to the container 30 by threads. Closure 20 may be any suitable covering for a container (eg, cap, lid, cap, stopper, etc.) to hermetically close the container, eg, to prevent leakage of the product in the container. Container 30 may be any suitable storage device (eg, bottle, bucket, tin, jug, small container, carton, can, bag, package, container, case, vessel, vial, etc.) for holding a substance or product. In one embodiment, clos...

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Systems and methods for inspecting seals for leaks are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a seal inspection system including: a closure threadingly attached to a container, each of the closure and the container including a mark; at least one camera positioned to detect the mark on the closure and the mark on the container; and a computer including a processor configured to calculate at least one of 1) an angle between the mark on the container and the mark on the closure, or 2) a distance between the mark on the container and the mark on the closure and determine whether the angle or the distance meets a reference value.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for inspecting seals. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for inspecting the seal of screw closures. Background technique [0002] Currently, to detect leaks from a bottle with a closure, a vision system is used to check the height of the closure relative to the neck ring or bottom of the bottle while the bottle is on a conveyor belt. Another form of inspection is to see how much light passes between the neck ring of the container and the closure, and measure the pixels of the display to measure the space or distance between the closure and neck ring. Although current vision systems inspect each container, they can only find minor or major defects and not subtle defects. The problem with these current inspection systems is that the closures tend to be "leakers" even when no height or spatial differences are detected, or when the tolerances of affordab...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G01M3/32G01B11/26G01M3/38G01B11/14G01N21/90
CPCG01B11/26G01M3/3209G01B11/14G01B11/245G01N21/9054G01M3/38B67B3/264G01B15/00G01M3/32
Inventor J·布鲁克莱梅尔M·戈德曼G·施努斯泰因
Owner NESTEC SA