Method of digitally grading leather break

    公开(公告)号:US10297018B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-21

    申请号:US15650430

    申请日:2017-07-14

    申请人: LEAR CORPORATION

    发明人: Robert vonBerge

    IPC分类号: G06T7/00 C14B17/00 G01N33/44

    摘要: A method and apparatus for grading leather based upon the size and spacing of the breaks in the leather. All or a portion of a hide is fed to a fixture that compresses a local area of the hide into a concave shape. The outer side of the hide is compressed and the inner side of the hide is expanded to cause breaks to be manifested in a local area. The local area of the hide is scanned with a digitizing profilometer that measures the depth of the breaks as the hide is fed through the fixture. The depth data measured by the digitizing profilometer is recorded by a controller. The depth data is then correlated with location data representing the local area scanned to develop a map of the break.