公开(公告)号：US20250102432A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18891680

申请日：2024-09-20

Applicant: Krones AG

Inventor： Rainer KWIRANDT ,  Anton NIEDERMEIER ,  Stefan PIANA ,  Peter LINDNER

IPC: G01N21/51 ,  G01N21/17 ,  G01N21/88

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for optically inspecting a pulp bottle. The apparatus comprises a lighting device having an opening, wherein a mouth of the pulp bottle can be arranged below the opening of the lighting device; and a camera which is configured to take an image of at least a part of an inner wall of the pulp bottle through the opening of the lighting device or from the opening of the lighting device, wherein the pulp bottle can be arranged such that the part of the inner wall of the pulp bottle is illuminated by the lighting device. The present disclosure further provides a method for optically inspecting a pulp container, in particular a pulp bottle.

公开(公告)号：US20230236057A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-27

申请号：US17996588

申请日：2021-04-13

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Stefan PIANA ,  Christof WILL ,  Judith MENGELKAMP ,  Anton NIEDERMEIER

IPC: G01F23/292

CPC classification number: G01F23/292

Abstract: A method for checking the fill level of containers, wherein the containers are transported by a transporter as a container mass flow and measurement data are captured by a sensor unit, and wherein the measurement data are evaluated by an evaluation unit and the fill level of the containers is determined in each case, wherein the measurement data are evaluated by the evaluation unit using an evaluation method that works on the basis of artificial intelligence in order to determine the fill level.

公开(公告)号：US20220334066A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-20

申请号：US17712636

申请日：2022-04-04

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Stefan PIANA ,  Rainer KWIRANDT

IPC: G01N21/90 ,  G01N21/21 ,  G01N21/88

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting containers and in particular cans, having an illumination device which illuminates the can to be inspected and radiates radiation onto an inner base wall of the container, and having an image recording device which records at least one spatially resolved image of the inner base wall illuminated by the illumination device is provided. The apparatus has a first polarization device in a beam path between a light source of the illumination device and the inner base wall in such a way that the radiation reaching the inner base wall is polarized, wherein the illumination device being designed in such a way that a predominant proportion of the radiation irradiated into the container by the illumination device reaches the inner base wall.

公开(公告)号：US20200298463A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16645578

申请日：2018-09-07

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Andreas STOPFER ,  Stefan PIANA ,  Stefan SCHOBER

IPC: B29C49/80 ,  B29C49/36 ,  B29C49/42 ,  B29B11/14

Abstract: A method for inspecting a device for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, the device having a transport unit, at which a plurality of forming stations for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers is arranged, and an inspection unit that is arranged after the forming stations in a transport direction of the plastic containers and that determines a wall thickness of these plastic containers in at least one region of the plastic containers produced, includes the following steps: introducing at least one test container that has a predetermined and/or known wall thickness at least in sections, and determining a first wall thickness in at least one area of the container by the inspection unit.

公开(公告)号：US20200270113A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-27

申请号：US16797981

申请日：2020-02-21

Applicant: KRONES AG

Inventor： Tobias STAEBER ,  Johannes KUGLER ,  Holger MUELLER ,  Gabriel SEIBOLD ,  Sascha BAUER ,  Ludovic LAINE ,  Lisa HERTEL ,  Aurelie BOERMANN ,  Stefan PIANA ,  Stephanie WUNDERLICH ,  Ute BEDOE ,  Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER

IPC: B67C7/00 ,  B67C3/00 ,  B67C3/24 ,  B67C3/26 ,  B65B55/12 ,  B65B7/00

Abstract: A device for producing filled containers has a transport device which is configured for transporting containers which are filled with a liquid and are closed by a closure. Furthermore, the apparatus has a penetration device which is configured for producing an opening in at least one region of the closure and/or of the container, and an application device, which applies a flowable and in particular gaseous medium to the interior of the container through this opening (or feeds the gaseous medium to this interior). Furthermore apparatus has a closing device which closes the opening again.