MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517078962 A) filed by Jfe Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on Aug. 20, for 'band-like object shape measuring method, band-like object shape control method, band-like object manufacturing method, band-like object quality management method, band-like object shape measuring apparatus, and band-like object manufacturing equipment.'
Inventor(s) include Ono, Hiroaki; Akazawa, Takahiro; Goto, Hiroto; and Ukida, Takafumi.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This method for measuring the shape of a belt-like object includes: an imaging step for capturing an image of thermal radiation from the belt-like object such that the angle ? formed by a plane a that is a reference plane of the surface of the belt-like object and the optical axis of a camera does not become 90 degrees and the angle f between a regular projection to the plane a of the optical axis of the camera and the conveyance direction p of the belt-like object does not become 0 degrees; and an image processing step for calculating an index of the shape of the edge part of the belt-like object by calculating a contour profile of the belt-like object from the obtained image."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/046079.
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