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Category: Sensors

Input devices

Contact Lens Inspection

By Frank Posted on February 27, 2011 Posted in Pharmaceutical, Servos, vision Tagged with Animatics, Machine Vision, servo

This was a contact lens inspection station built in 2005 for Vistakon, a Florida company. It has 2 cameras mounted to X-Y-Z axes with similarly mounted backlighting below the moving pallet. Samples would be taken from the production lines and …

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Spotlight on Vision

By Frank Posted on February 16, 2011 Posted in Applications, vision Tagged with gauging, Machine Vision

In my previous life I spent about 30-40% of my time doing vision applications. Most of the jobs I did involved using “smart cameras” which are self-contained vision systems where the frame grabber circuitry, image processing and I/O are built …

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Rocker Cover Gauging

By Frank Posted on January 30, 2011 Posted in Applications, LVDTs Tagged with gauging, LVDT

This is an application to determine whether a gasket is located properly in a rocker arm cover. 3 LVDTs were used to measure the outside edges of a plastic rocker arm cover establishing a plane. 4 additional LVDTs were then …

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Rubber Gasket Inspection

By Frank Posted on January 30, 2011 Posted in Applications, vision Tagged with Machine Vision, ultraviolet, vibratory bowls

When I used to do a lot of work for NAS in Knoxville we got a job to inspect rubber gaskets after they came out of the molding process. The gaskets were about 2-3 inches in diameter and were somewhat …

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