Device and method for optically capturing an object
AssigneeMd Elektronik GmbH
InventorsChristoph Riegl, Helmut Harrer, Robert Lemaire, Stefan Perzl, Martin Gwiasda
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Abstract
A capturing device for optically capturing an object to be checked includes a radiation source having a wall which encompasses a recording chamber. The radiation source is configured to emit at least infrared radiation when in a heated state. The wall has at least one insertion opening for inserting the object to be checked into the recording chamber and at least one image-recording opening for recording images of the object to be checked. The capturing device also includes an image-capturing apparatus configured to record images of the object to be checked through the at least one image-recording opening.
Claims20
A capturing device for optically capturing a cable end, the capturing device comprising:
- a radiation source having a wall which encompasses a recording chamber with a longitudinal center axis, wherein the radiation source is configured to emit at least infrared radiation when in a heated state, wherein the wall has at least one insertion opening for inserting the cable end into the recording chamber and at least one image-recording opening for recording images of the cable end, the at least one image-recording opening being arranged radially on the wall which encompasses the recording chamber;
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- an image-capturing apparatus configured to record infrared images of the cable end through the at least one image-recording opening such that the images capture an entire circumferential periphery of the cable end, the image-capturing apparatus having an imaging axis along which the images of the cable end are received, the imaging axis being orthogonal to the longitudinal center axis of the recording chamber.
A method for optically capturing cable end, the method comprising:
- inserting the cable end into a heated radiation source having a wall which encompasses a recording chamber with a longitudinal center axis, wherein the radiation source is configured to emit at least infrared radiation when in a heated state, wherein the wall has at least one insertion opening for inserting the cable end into the recording chamber and at least one image-recording opening for recording images of the cable end, the at least one image-recording opening being arranged radially on the wall which encompasses the recording chamber;
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- recording infrared images of the cable end with at least one image-capturing apparatus through the at least one image-recording opening such that the images capture an entire circumferential periphery of the cable end, the image-capturing apparatus having an imaging axis along which the images of the cable end are received, the imaging axis being orthogonal to the longitudinal center axis of the recording chamber.
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