ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,035, issued on April 15, was assigned to CKD Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Inspection device, blister packaging machine, and method for manufacturing blister pack" was invented by Yukihiro Taguchi (Aichi, Japan) and Shozo Oda (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device includes: an illumination device; an imaging device that includes: an optical system that corrects a field curvature; an imaging element that takes an image via the optical system; and a mirror that reflects an incident light from the inspection object toward the optical system; and an inspection controller that: judges whether a quality of the inspection...