US Patent Issued to CKD on July 14 for "Attenuating an inspection device that inspects transparent or translucent cylindrical body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,965, issued on July 14, was assigned to CKD Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Attenuating an inspection device that inspects transparent or translucent cylindrical body" was invented by Yukihiro Taguchi (Aichi, Japan), Shozo Oda (Aichi, Japan) and Shiori Imaizumi (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates the inspection object with light; a rotation unit that rotates the inspection object; a fiber optical plate that holds optical fibers in parallel and has a light incident surface and a light emission surface at which outlets of the optical fibers are disposed; an imaging u...