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Inspect molded caps at 3200 a minute.


A new optical quality-control system is said to inspect up to 55 bottle caps/sec or 3200/min. The CAPchecker system from Opsis of Speyer, Germany, uses two CCD cameras See digital camera.  to deliver up to three different views of the cap body. The camera can give a fisheye fish·eye  
adj.
1. Of or being a wide-angle photographic lens that covers an angle of about 180°, producing a circular image with exaggerated foreshortening in the center and increasing distortion toward the periphery.

2.
 view of the inner side and border of the cap, or a tele-centric view to measure cap diameter or ovality In telecommunications and fiber optics, ovality or noncircularity is an attribute of an optical fiber. In particular, it is the degree of deviation from perfect circularity of the cross section of the core or cladding. . New version 4.0 software captures the cap image in 300 microsec and can analyze all parameters of the cap in 38 millisec or less, or one dimension in 1 to 2 millisec. Opsis offers an entire system, including cap separator and cap-orientation device, cameras, control system, and pneumatic pneumatic /pneu·mat·ic/ (noo-mat´ik)
1. pertaining to air.

2. respiratory.


pneu·mat·ic
adj.
1. Of or relating to air or other gases.

2.
 discharge device for off-spec parts. Tel: +49 6232 33 0398 * www.opsis.de
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH: Injection Molding
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Jul 1, 2006
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