IP Library Granted Patent US 7,221,446
Granted Patent B2
US 7,221,446 · App. 11/273,089 · Granted May 22, 2007

Fluid dispenser and lens inspection device

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,221,446
App. No.
11/273,089
Granted
May 22, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fluid dispenser dispenses a fluid alternately from one of a pair of ports ( 29,31 ) that are provided on opposite ends of a syringe ( 26 ) by moving a piston ( 42 ) back and forth inside the syringe. A pair of stirrers ( 47,48 ) are provided in the syringe on opposite axial sides of the piston. The stirrers may each individually rotate on an axis that extends in parallel with the moving direction of the piston. A pair of stirrer driving rings ( 49,50 ) are mounted on an outer periphery of the syringe in correspondence with the stirrers. Magnets ( 55,56,59,60 ) are embedded in the stirrers and the stirrer driving rings such that the stirrer is rotated by magnetic fields that are generated from the stirrer driving ring, as the stirrer driving ring is rotated by a motor ( 51,52 ).

Claims (9)

1. A lens inspection method of inspecting a lens to determine whether said lens is defective or not, said lens inspection method comprising the steps of:

projecting an inspection light simultaneously onto an entire area of said lens from one axial side of said lens such that a dark field image of said lens is photographed by a photoelectric imaging device that is placed on said one side of said lens, to detect those rays of the inspection light that are reflected from a surface of said one side of said lens;

calculating an average intensity of photoelectric signals obtained from each of a plurality of unit sections that are defined in an inspection range of said photoelectric image device, said inspection range corresponding to said dark field image; and

judging that said lens is defective when a difference in said average intensity between adjacent two of said unit sections is above a predetermined threshold value.

2. A lens inspection device for inspecting a lens to determine whether said lens is defective or not, said lens inspection device comprising:

a photoelectric imaging device that is placed on one axial side of said lens and focused on said lens;

a lighting device disposed on the same side of said lens as said photoelectric imaging device, for projecting an inspection light simultaneously onto an entire area of said lens from outside a photographic field of said photoelectric imaging device; and

a calculating and judging device for calculating an average intensity of photoelectric signals obtained from each of a plurality of unit sections of said photoelectric imaging device, to judge said lens to be defective when a difference in said average intensity between adjacent two of said unit sections is above a predetermined threshold value.

3. A lens inspection device as recited in claim 2 , wherein said lighting device has a circular shape and projects the inspection light from a projection surface that is formed around an inner periphery of said lighting device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2007
From: FUJIFILM HOLDINGS CORPORATION (FORMERLY FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.)
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
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