To inspect the shape of a metallic body further accurately, regardless of surface roughness of the metallic body. A shape inspection apparatus for a metallic body according to the present invention includes: a measurement apparatus configured to irradiate a metallic body with at least two illumination light beams, and measure reflected light of the two illumination light beams from the metallic body separately; and an arithmetic processing apparatus configured to calculate information used for shape inspection of the metallic body on the basis of luminance values of the reflected light. The measurement apparatus includes a first illumination light source and a second illumination light source configured to irradiate the metallic body with strip-shaped illumination light having mutually different peak wavelengths, and a color line sensor camera configured to measure reflected light of first illumination light and reflected light of second illumination light, separately. The first illumination light source and the second illumination light source are provided in a manner that their optical axes form substantially equal angles with a direction of regular reflection of an optical axis of the color line sensor camera at a surface of the metallic body. A wavelength difference between a peak wavelength of the first illumination light and a peak wavelength of the second illumination light is equal to or more than 5 nm and equal to or less than 90 nm.

A method includes: sensing a defect on a cast strip surface, the cast strip being cast from molten metal or alloy by a casting system, determining an adjustment amount and/or direction of a casting system component based on the identified surface defect, and providing the adjustment amount and/or direction to an operator for adjustment of the casting system component and/or commanding that the casting system component be adjusted by the adjustment amount and/or direction.

A method for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys. The method includes pickling the flat product, in particular for degreasing the flat product. The method includes carrying out a colour measurement on the surface of the flat product to determine at least one measured colour value after pickling the flat product. The method includes generating output information on the basis of the at least one measured colour value. The output information is indicative of compliance with at least one rule for the measured colour value and outputting or triggering the output of the output information. The invention further relates to a device for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys and to a use of a colorimeter which is configured to determine at least one measured colour value in a surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys.

A learned model generation method includes: using a teacher image including a defect map that is an image indicating a distribution of a defect portion of a surface of steel and having an equal image size, and presence/absence of periodic defects assigned in advance to the defect map; and generating a learned model by machine learning, the learned model for which: an input value is a defect map that is an image indicating a distribution of a defect portion of a surface of steel and having an image size of the equal image size; and an output value is a value concerning presence/absence of periodic defects in the defect map.

A shape inspection apparatus includes N illumination light sources, a line sensor camera, a measurement control unit, and a data processing unit. The measurement control unit controls the illumination light sources to modulate luminescence intensities at a frequency that is 1/N of a frequency of a scan rate of the line sensor camera, and to emit lights by sequentially repeating N different patterns of illumination intensity ratios. The data processing unit generates a first separated image and a second separated image based on a photographed image, generates a first mixing elimination image acquired by removing an unnecessary illumination component from the first separated image, and a second mixing elimination image acquired by removing an unnecessary illumination component from the second separated image, and calculates an inclination of the surface of the strip-shaped body based on a difference between the first mixing elimination image and the second mixing elimination image.

An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode performs press-working of a strip electrode being conveyed. This manufacturing apparatus includes a press roll including a roll surface having a width that is twice or more a width of the strip electrode, a switch configured to switch a contact region of the roll surface contacting with the strip electrode during press-working, and a controller. When an abnormality of the roll surface is detected in a state where the contact region of the roll surface is a region located on the left side with respect to a center line of the roll surface, the controller controls the switch such that the contact region of the roll surface is switched to a region located on the right side with respect to the center line of the roll surface.

A visual control system for an extended product being a wire, a tube, a plate, a strip or a series of juxtaposed elements type contains a first measurement zone with an inspection unit for automatically inspecting a portion of the product advancing along a longitudinal path. The inspection unit delivering at least one map having qualitative information of an inspected portion of the product. A second control zone is disposed downstream of the first measurement zone and has a device for overprinting at least the qualitative information on the portion of the product. The second control zone being intended for displaying the portion as it arrives in the second control zone.

An inspection station for manufactured components includes a framework and a plurality of cameras. The framework has of a plurality of vertically stacked and spaced apart plates. Each plate defines a central orifice. The central orifices of each plate are aligned along an axis. The manufactured components are configured to freefall through the central orifices defined by the plates. The plurality of cameras is secured to the framework. Each camera is focused toward a region within the framework to capture images of the manufactured components. The plurality of cameras is arranged in an array that extends radially about the axis. At least one of the cameras is positioned at an angle above a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to the axis and intersects the region within the framework. At least one of the cameras is positioned at an angle below the horizontal plane.

A method of inspecting stamped blanks on a stamping line includes identifying at least one target defect location for a given stamped blank configuration where a unique defect type is associated with each of the at least one target defect locations. One or more images of each of the least one identified target defect locations on blanks stamped per the given stamped blank configuration are acquired with one or more cameras assigned to each of the identified target defect locations. The method includes analyzing the one or more images of each of the least one identified target defect locations and detecting if the unique defect type associated with each of the at least one target defect locations is present. Also, each unique defect type is identified with a corresponding unique defect identification algorithm.

An inspection station for manufactured components includes a framework and a plurality of cameras. The framework has of a plurality of vertically stacked and spaced apart plates. Each plate defines a central orifice. The central orifices of each plate are aligned along an axis. The manufactured components are configured to freefall through the central orifices defined by the plates. The plurality of cameras is secured to the framework. Each camera is focused toward a region within the framework to capture images of the manufactured components. The plurality of cameras is arranged in an array that extends radially about the axis. At least one of the cameras is positioned at an angle above a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to the axis and intersects the region within the framework. At least one of the cameras is positioned at an angle below the horizontal plane.