Cable inspection apparatus
AssigneesTE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
InventorsZongjie Tao, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Lvhai Hu, Yuhang Shang, Hongze Li
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Abstract
A cable inspection apparatus includes an image capturing device and a determination device. The image capturing device includes a ring camera frame and a plurality of cameras mounted on the ring camera frame and distributed at intervals on a circumference of the ring camera frame. The cameras simultaneously capture images of a cable to be inspected extending through the ring camera frame from a plurality of different angles. The determination device determines whether or not a portion of the cable is qualified according to the images.
Claims21
A cable inspection apparatus, comprising:
- an image capturing device having a first stand, the first stand includes a first ring camera frame and a plurality of cameras mounted on and positioned through the ring camera frame and distributed at intervals on a circumference of the ring camera frame, the cameras simultaneously capture images of a cable to be inspected extending through the ring camera frame from a plurality of different angles;
- an illumination device having a second stand, a gap is positioned between the first stand of the image capturing device and the second stand of the illumination device, the illumination device providing an illumination through a ring lamp to the cable the ring lamp extending continuously along an inner side wall of a ring lamp holder, the illumination device providing light absorption to an open side of the ring camera frame;
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- a marking device having a separate mounting frame, a gap is positioned between the mounting frame of the marking device and the second stand of the illumination device;
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- a determination device adapted to determine whether or not a portion of the cable is qualified according to the images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.