Container Inspection Device High-Speed Transfer Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional container inspection devices face challenges in reducing inspection time per liquid container due to increased conveying speed leading to potential container collisions and high drive force requirements for moving receiving cases, which complicates accurate air-trapped inspection.
Innovation Solution
A container inspection device with a first and second conveying portion, a mounting table, and a third conveying portion that moves at a higher speed than the liquid containers, allowing for high-speed transfer of containers between these sections, reducing inspection time by minimizing distance and avoiding increased container speed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the conveying speed of liquid containers is increased to decrease inspection time, then the inspection time per container is reduced, but the liquid containers are likely to strike one another and fall in the receiving spaces, hampering accurate inspection
Solution Approach 1:
The conveying system is divided into multiple independent conveying portions (first, second, and third conveying portions) that operate at different speeds. The third conveying portion moves at high speed to reduce inspection time, while the first and second conveying portions maintain lower speeds to ensure stable container positioning and accurate inspection, thus resolving the contradiction between speed and accuracy.
2Loss of time
If the movement speed of receiving cases is increased to decrease inspection time, then the inspection time per container is reduced, but a great drive force becomes necessary to move each receiving case with multiple liquid containers, making it difficult to increase the movement speed
Solution Approach 1:
The receiving case movement function is segmented into multiple independent conveying portions. The third conveying portion handles high-speed movement for rapid container transfer, while the first and second conveying portions handle lower-speed, high-precision positioning. This segmentation allows the system to achieve high overall speed without requiring excessive drive force on any single component.
Solution Approach 2:
The third conveying portion acts as an intermediary high-speed transfer mechanism between the first and second conveying portions. It enables rapid container transfer without requiring the receiving case itself to move at high speed, thus reducing the drive force requirement while still achieving reduced inspection time.
3Productivity
If multiple receiving cases are arranged and separately moved to be connected to conveying means alternately or sequentially, then multiple liquid containers can be conveyed and inspected sequentially, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple receiving cases are merged into a single integrated receiving case structure with multiple inspection chambers. This allows multiple containers to be inspected simultaneously within one receiving case, maintaining high productivity while reducing the number of separate receiving cases and their associated movement mechanisms, thus lowering device complexity.
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
The solution decreases inspection time per container by enabling high-speed conveying and accurate inspection without increasing the conveying speed of individual containers or the drive force required for receiving cases, enhancing inspection efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
a third conveying portion that is movable in the certain direction at a speed greater than a conveying speed of the liquid containers by the first conveying portion
Data Source
AI summary
A container inspection device includes an inlet conveyor, an outlet conveyor, a mounting table having a mounting surface, a chamber portion having an opening in a section of the chamber portion, in which a receiving space is formed when the mounting surface contacts the chamber portion to close the opening, and a transfer. The transfer is movable in the certain direction at a speed greater than the conveying speed of the cartons by the inlet conveyor. The transfer holds multiple ones of the cartons that have been conveyed by the inlet conveyor collectively and conveys the cartons to the mounting surface of the mounting table, and holds the multiple ones of the cartons mounted on the mounting surface collectively and conveys the cartons to the outlet conveyor.