Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inspection object imaging apparatus, inspection object imaging method, surface inspection apparatus, and surface inspection method
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Application No.: US15564154Application Date: 2016-12-19
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Publication No.: US10281408B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Yusuke Konno , Takamichi Kobayashi , Toshio Akagi , Atsuhiro Hibi , Nobuhiro Furuya , Akihito Nakazaki
- Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2016-079716 20160412
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/087728 WO 20161219
- International Announcement: WO2017/179243 WO 20171019
- Main IPC: G01N21/88
- IPC: G01N21/88 ; G01N21/892 ; G01N21/94 ; G01N21/952 ; G01N21/359 ; G01N21/00 ; G01N15/06

Abstract:
An inspection object imaging apparatus includes: a light source configured to produce a light beam belonging to an infrared wavelength band and having a predetermined spread half-angle on a surface of an inspection object; a projection optical system to project the light beam on the surface of the inspection object at a predetermined projection angle; and an imaging unit. The imaging unit includes an imaging optical system configured to condense reflected light and branch the reflected light to two different directions, and a first image sensor and a second image sensor, the first image sensor positioned on the inspection object side with respect to a position of the imaging optical system that is conjugate with the surface of the inspection object, along an optical axis of the reflected light, and the second image sensor positioned on the reflected-light travel direction side with respect to the conjugate position.
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