US 12,291,368 B2
Inspection device, packaging sheet manufacturing device, and packaging sheet manufacturing method
Takamasa Ohtani, Aichi (JP); Tsuyoshi Ohyama, Aichi (JP); and Norihiko Sakaida, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to CKD CORPORATION, Aichi (JP)
Filed by CKD CORPORATION, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/462,150.
Application 17/462,150 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/004307, filed on Feb. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-082645 (JP), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0387761 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B65B 57/00 (2006.01); B65B 9/04 (2006.01); B65B 61/06 (2006.01); G01N 23/04 (2018.01); G01N 23/18 (2018.01)
CPC B65B 57/00 (2013.01) [B65B 9/04 (2013.01); B65B 61/06 (2013.01); G01N 23/04 (2013.01); G01N 23/18 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaging sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
an inspection device that inspects a packaging film in a belt-like form, wherein the packaging film comprises a first film made of an opaque material and a second film made of an opaque material attached to each other; and tablets disposed in a space between the first film and the second film, the inspection device comprising:
a first X-ray irradiator that irradiates, with an X-ray from a first film-side, a first inspection range that corresponds to a position of a first tablet portion of a first packaging sheet including at least one of the tablets;
a second X-ray irradiator that irradiates, with an X-ray from the first film-side, a second inspection range that corresponds to a position of a second tablet portion of a second packaging sheet including at least one of the tablets;
an imaging device that is disposed on a second film-side and opposed to the first and second X-ray irradiators across the packaging film, that comprises an X-ray detector comprising a plurality of detection elements arrayed along a film width direction and detecting the X-ray transmitted through the packaging film, and that successively outputs X-ray transmission image data obtained every time the packaging film is conveyed by a predetermined amount; and
a controller that inspects the first and second packaging sheets based on the X-ray transmission image data obtained by the imaging device, wherein
the first and second X-ray irradiators are aligned in the film width direction spaced apart from each other at a predetermined distance and emit the X-ray having a predetermined irradiation angle not to irradiate a center-portion range between a first irradiation range corresponding to the first inspection range and a second irradiation range corresponding to the second inspection range,
a width of the center-portion range correspond to a non-inspection range that includes a first tag portion not including the tablets and adjacent to the first tablet portion of the first packaging sheet and that includes a second tag portion not including the tablets and adjacent to the second tablet portion of the second packaging sheet, and
the X-ray radiated from the first X-ray irradiator and transmitted through the first inspection range and the X-ray radiated from the second X-ray irradiator and transmitted through the second inspection range do not overlap with each other on the imaging device; and
a sheet punching device that punches out, from the packaging film, the first packaging sheet including the first tablet portion and the first tag portion, and the second packaging sheet including the second tablet portion and the second tag portion.