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Title:
DIMENSION MEASURING EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR LONG CORRUGATED FLEXIBLE TUBE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3212023
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a noncontact optical inspection equipment for the feature amount in the shape of a long corrugated flexible tube being produced continuously while advancing in the axial direction of the tube.
SOLUTION: The dimension measuring equipment for long corrugated flexible tube comprises an illuminating means 2, a CCD camera 3 with shutter for picking up the two-dimensional still image of a long corrugated flexible tube being produced continuously while advancing, a control unit 4 for the CCD camera 3 with shutter, and an image processor 5 for calculating the pitch and the height of crest of the corrugated flexible tube by subjecting a still image thus obtained to binarization and feature amount extraction and transferring the processing results to a production system.


Inventors:
Hiroshi Ueda
Hirotaka Arase
Kenji Hayashi
Kiyoshi Yagihara
Application Number:
JP8900797A
Publication Date:
September 25, 2001
Filing Date:
April 08, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Hitachi Metals Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
G01B11/08; G01B11/10; (IPC1-7): G01B11/10
Domestic Patent References:
JP8136228A
JP5187825A
JP3214046A