A device for measuring elevations on a surface of a rotary body provided as a cylinder, sleeve, or plate for a graphic industry machine, for instance a flexographic printing plate, includes a first motor rotating the rotary body about an axis of rotation and a measuring device including at least one radiation source, at least one line scan camera, and a computer taking contact-free measurements and combining individual images of the line scan camera to form a joint image. The measuring device preferably includes a reference object such as a wire tautened in an axially parallel direction, a second motor and, if required, a further second motor adjusting the measuring device and/or reference object perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The device provides fast high-precision measurements of elevations such as flexographic printing dots. A system includes the measuring device and a flexographic printing press.

An end mill inspection device, which inspects an end mill having a blade part formed in a curved convex shape or an arc shape, includes: an imaging data acquisition unit that acquires imaging data obtained by capturing an image of a blade part of the end mill by an imaging unit; a contour extraction unit that extracts the contour of the blade part on the basis of the imaging data acquired by the imaging data acquisition unit; and a curvature radius calculation unit that calculates a curvature radius of the contour on the basis of the contour of the blade part extracted by the contour extraction unit.

A shape profile measurement device includes: a light projector and a light receiver arranged facing each other; a belt conveyor for conveying an object for measurement; and a calculation unit. The light projector includes a plurality of light-emitting portions arranged in an array direction, and each emits substantially parallel measurement light. The light receiver includes a plurality of light-receiving portions arranged in the array direction facing the plurality of light-emitting portions, and each receives the measurement light emitted from a corresponding light-emitting portion. The light-receiving portions output a signal indicating a light intensity of the received measurement light. The calculation unit acquires the signal of the light receiver when the object is at a plurality of different movement-direction positions between the light-emitting portions and the light-receiving portions, and obtains a shape profile on the basis of the signal acquired and information relating to the plurality of movement-direction positions.

A computer-implemented method of automatically generating inspection templates of a plurality of known good fasteners to identify fasteners at an inspection station is provided. The method includes providing a data entry mechanism to provide content needed to identify a plurality of unidentified mixed fasteners. The method also includes storing the content in a database, extracting the content from the database and creating the inspection templates from the extracted content. Each of the templates including a fastener profile and a set of features. Each of the features includes a range of acceptable values. Each of the templates has a fastener identification code associated therewith.

An optical measuring device includes: an emission device configured to emit a scanning light, of which an optical axis parallelly moves, to an object; a light receiving element configured to perform photoelectric conversion with respect to the scanning light after passing over the object; a calculation device configured to calculate, from a voltage wave obtained from time change of an electrical signal that is output by the light receiving element, a distance corresponding to a time range from a first edge with respect to a voltage value where the scanning light is not interrupted by the object and a second edge with respect to a voltage value where the scanning light is interrupted by the object, when a part of the scanning light is interrupted by the object for the time range.

A non-contact tool measurement apparatus is used in a machine tool environment. The apparatus includes a transmitter including a first aperture and a laser for generating light that is emitted from the transmitter through the first aperture towards a tool-sensing region. A receiver includes an optical detector and is arranged to receive light from the tool-sensing region. A processor analyses the light detected by the optical detector to enable the measurement of tools in the tool-sensing region. The laser is capable of generating light having a wavelength of less than 590 nm thereby enabling the size of the first aperture to be reduced resulting in a reduction in contaminant ingress. In one embodiment, the laser generates blue light.

A non-contact tool measurement apparatus is used in a machine tool environment. The apparatus includes a transmitter including a first aperture and a laser for generating light that is emitted from the transmitter through the first aperture towards a tool-sensing region. A receiver includes an optical detector and is arranged to receive light from the tool-sensing region. A processor analyses the light detected by the optical detector to enable the measurement of tools in the tool-sensing region. The laser is capable of generating light having a wavelength of less than 590 nm thereby enabling the size of the first aperture to be reduced resulting in a reduction in contaminant ingress. In one embodiment, the laser generates blue light.

The present disclosure proposes an apparatus for determining a first three-dimensional shape of an object. The apparatus includes a first light source configured to irradiate first pattern lights to the object, first image sensors configured to capture first reflected lights generated by reflecting the first pattern lights from the object, a second light source configured to sequentially irradiate second pattern lights having one phase range, a beam splitter and lenses configured to change optical paths of the second pattern lights, a second image sensor configured to capture second reflected lights generated by reflecting the second pattern lights from the partial region, and a processor configured to determine the first three-dimensional shape of the object based on the first reflected lights and the second reflected lights.

The invention relates to a processing centre (1) or cutting materials, consisting of a cutting machine (2a) and an adjusting device (5), wherein the adjusting device (5) has a positioning device (8), an illumination device (9, 9a) and an image sensor (11), wherein the positioning device (8) holds a tool unit (10) to be illuminated by the illumination device (9, 9a) in front of the image sensor (11) in such a way that the image sensor (11) is partially shaded by the tool unit (10), wherein the image sensor (11) has a greater maximum extension in at least one spatial coordinates direction than the tool unit (10) in the same spatial coordinates direction, and wherein the outline contour of the tool unit (10) is determined using the value for the extension of the shaded region.

Device for detecting the coding profile of a key, of the type intended to be installed and/or provided inside a key cutting machine having an operating area provided of at least one milling and/or cutting unit and of at least one clamp for locking a key, and includes: an optical reader which is configured to be entirely housed inside the structure of the duplicating machine but outside the operating area of the machine, a drawer provided with clamping means to hold the key, whose coding profile is to be detected, in correspondence with its head and/or its stem and/or a connecting section between the head and the shaft of the key, the drawer being configured to be movable towards and away from the optical reader, the optical reader includes a telecentric optic interposed between the drawer and at least one optical sensor.