公开(公告)号：US20060076475A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-13

申请号：US10533992

申请日：2003-11-07

申请人： Don Cochran ,  Dennis Bradley ,  Steven Cech ,  Fredrick Awig ,  Terry Graves ,  Thomas Palombo ,  Michael Yoder

发明人： Don Cochran ,  Dennis Bradley ,  Steven Cech ,  Fredrick Awig ,  Terry Graves ,  Thomas Palombo ,  Michael Yoder

IPC分类号： G01N21/90

CPC分类号： G01N21/909 ,  G01N21/8806 ,  G01N21/9036 ,  G01N2201/0634

摘要： This application relates to an apparatus and method for automated inspection of formed metal containers. More specifically, it pertains to the use of machine vision systems to identify and correlate manufacturing defects occurring in formed food and beverage containers to specific manufacturing paths or sources of origin (eg., body makers) used in the container forming process. The disclosed invention is enabled by the placement of a machine-readable code on specific portions of the can body during the forming process and the use of illumination exposure techniques.

公开(公告)号：US20050174571A1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-11

申请号：US10970780

申请日：2004-10-21

申请人： Don Cochran ,  Dennis Bradley ,  Steven Cech ,  Fredrick Awig ,  Terry Graves ,  Thomas Palombo ,  Michael Yoder

发明人： Don Cochran ,  Dennis Bradley ,  Steven Cech ,  Fredrick Awig ,  Terry Graves ,  Thomas Palombo ,  Michael Yoder

IPC分类号： G01N20060101 ,  G01N21/86 ,  G01N21/88 ,  G01N21/90 ,  G01V8/00

CPC分类号： G01N21/909 ,  G01N21/8806 ,  G01N21/9036 ,  G01N2201/0634

摘要： This application relates to an apparatus and method for automated inspection of formed metal containers. More specifically, it pertains to the use of machine vision systems to identify and correlate manufacturing defects occurring in formed food and beverage containers to specific manufacturing paths or sources of origin (e.g., body makers) used in the container forming process. The disclosed invention is enabled by the placement of a machine-readable code on specific portions of the can body during the forming process and the use of machine vision reading techniques.

摘要翻译： 本申请涉及用于形成的金属容器的自动检查的装置和方法。 更具体地说，它涉及使用机器视觉系统来识别并将形成的食品和饮料容器中出现的制造缺陷与在容器成型过程中使用的具体制造路径或原始来源（例如身体制造者）相关联。 所公开的发明是通过在机器视觉阅读技术的成形过程和机器视觉阅读技术的使用期间将机器可读代码放置在罐体的特定部分上而实现的。

公开(公告)号：US20050273720A1

公开(公告)日：2005-12-08

申请号：US11134137

申请日：2005-05-20

申请人： Don Cochran ,  Fredrick Awig ,  Kevin Batty ,  Jesse Booher ,  David Cochran ,  Patrick Gilliland ,  Noel Morgan ,  Thomas Palombo ,  Timothy SirLouis ,  Michael Yoder

发明人： Don Cochran ,  Fredrick Awig ,  Kevin Batty ,  Jesse Booher ,  David Cochran ,  Patrick Gilliland ,  Noel Morgan ,  Thomas Palombo ,  Timothy SirLouis ,  Michael Yoder

IPC分类号： G06F11/30

CPC分类号： G06Q10/06 ,  G05B19/41875 ,  G05B2219/31472 ,  Y02P90/22 ,  Y02P90/86

摘要： The invention provides for a graphical user interface which provides for very simple and intuitive ways of changing single or multiple inspection parameters. The graphical display immediately shows what the monitoring or inspection result would have been if the effected change had been in place during the inspection of the last “N” parts. This retrospective graphical “look-back” invokes immediate re-inspection facilitating an estimation of what the future inspection or process monitoring results will be if future production looks similar to the recent past production. The re-inspection results are immediately shown with a combination of visualization for ease of understanding and settings optimization. The visualization also shows selected other associated data to each specific inspection for ease of tracking and optimizing production processes.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了图形用户界面，其提供了改变单个或多个检查参数的非常简单和直观的方式。 图形显示会立即显示在最后一个“N”部分的检查过程中，如果实施的变更已经到位，监视或检查结果将是什么。 这种回顾性图形“追溯”调用立即重新检查，以便对未来的检验或过程监控结果将如何预测未来的生产与近期的生产相似。 重新检查结果立即显示，以便于理解和设置优化。 可视化还显示了每个特定检查的选定的其他相关数据，便于跟踪和优化生产过程。