Inspection Device for Bottling Plants Using Perpendicular Scanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional inspection devices in bottling plants are time-intensive and slow, leading to reduced processing speed and potential for imprecise results due to positional errors in packaged products.
Innovation Solution
An integrated inspection device that scans the synchronized product stream before separation, using a scanning path perpendicular or at an angle to the product motion, allowing for high-speed, accurate inspection with reduced radiation exposure and smaller device dimensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional inspection devices are used to examine separated and packaged products, then foreign bodies can be detected, but the inspection process becomes time-intensive and slower than the processing speed of the bottling plant
Solution Approach 1:
The inspection device examines products in the synchronized product stream before the products are separated and packaged. This preliminary inspection allows detection of foreign bodies while products are still in a defined positional state, enabling high-speed parallel processing without waiting for separation and packaging to complete.
Solution Approach 2:
The inspection system processes multiple products simultaneously in parallel within the synchronized product stream, rather than examining products sequentially after separation. This segmentation of the inspection process across multiple product positions at once maintains high processing speed while ensuring reliable foreign body detection.
2Reliability
If products are examined after separation and packaging, then foreign body detection is possible, but imprecise or incorrect results occur due to imprecise positioning of products in secondary packaging
Solution Approach 1:
The inspection is performed before products are separated and placed into secondary packaging where positioning would be imprecise. By examining products while they remain in the synchronized product stream with unambiguous positioning, the system ensures both reliable foreign body detection and high inspection accuracy.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the inspection device is integrated deep in the filling machine, then radiation protection is improved and access is restricted, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The inspection device is integrated as a fixed component deep within the filling machine structure, merging the inspection system with the existing filling machine architecture. This integration provides inherent radiation protection through the machine's structural shielding and restricts access naturally, while the fixed component design simplifies installation and maintenance.
4Productivity
If a scanning path perpendicular to product motion is used, then processing speed increases and device dimensions are reduced, but the scanning field must cover the entire product stream width
Solution Approach 1:
The scanning beam is directed perpendicular to the product motion direction, utilizing the width dimension of the product stream rather than scanning along the length. This dimensional change allows the scanning field to cover the entire product stream width in a single pass, achieving high processing speed without requiring a long scanning path, thus reducing the device's structural length while maintaining adequate scanning field area.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables faster and more accurate inspection, preventing positional errors and reducing radiation exposure, while maintaining high processing speed and improving safety and efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the inspection device is constructed as a scanning device, for example, as an x-ray, microwave, ultrasound, infrared device
Implementation Method 2
the inspection device is constructed as a scanning device, for example, as an x-ray, microwave, ultrasound, infrared device
Implementation Method 3
the inspection device is constructed as a scanning device, for example, as an x-ray, microwave, ultrasound, infrared device
Implementation Method 4
the inspection device is constructed as a scanning device, for example, as an x-ray, microwave, ultrasound, infrared device
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to an inspection device for a production machine, in particular, a bottling plant 1 with a filling device 7 or a filling and sealing device 13, with a stream of products (5) consisting of one or more columns, wherein the inspection device is arranged in the production machine, advantageously in the bottling plant 1, directly after the filling device 7 or the filling and sealing device 13 or before a separating device 23, so that the products 5 are inspected before the separation 23 or packaging 25 of the products 5. Furthermore, the invention relates to an inspection method for a production machine, in particular, for a bottling plant 1, in which an inspection device consisting of a source 17 and a sensor 19 scans several products 5 perpendicular or diagonal to the product motion B.