Color Sensor Systems for Quality Control in Textile...

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Color Sensor Systems for Quality Control in Textile Industry Dr. Winfried Mahler – JENCOLOR Innovations Forum 2013

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Color Sensor Systems for Quality Control in Textile Industry

Requirements

Speed of textile rolls: 60 m / min

Measurements: 500 samples / s 2 ms / sample

Spot: 20 mm

Distance: 10 ... 15 mm

Measurement method: Tristimulus / True Color

(Based on human eye perception)

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Requirements

Accuracy : Delta E < 0.5 class two

Delta E < 0.3 class one

For comparison: Delta E < 3 no visual difference

Color Sensor Systems for Quality Control in Textile Industry

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Comparison of Filter Shapes

Round shaped filters Square shaped filters Hexacomb shaped filters

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Sensor and Filter areas of the MTCSiCS / MTCSiCF

• Perfect for fiber optics

• Perfect for lenses

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• Not suitable for fiber optics

• Not suitable for lenses

• Suitable for monitors and TV,

• Suitable for mobile phones

Unusable areas ~ 21,3 % loss

Benefits and Disadvantages of Filter Shapes

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Interference filters vs Absorbtion filters

Color filters

Interference Absorption

organic

inorganic

Filter characteristics are

independent from light level

Filters are stable even in

sun light over years

Filters bleach / lose color

due to influences of

time in light intensity

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Transmission factor of interference vs absorption filters

100 % 100 % 30 % minimum absorption

No minimum absorption

Interference filters Absorption filters

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Reasons for using MAZeT Color Sensors for Textiles

The reasons are:

• Dark colors

• Distance to garment surface, materials

• Motion of the materials

• In-line measurement requires sample & hold timing

Spectrometers are not suitable:

• One shot measurement evaluates the color of different locations

• The accuracy of spectrometer is a question of the calibration

• The high spectrum values gives no additional information for the human eye

Each measurement is a scaled comparison between sample and a reference

(These values are taken from a data memory)

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Realisation of Hardware I

The eye: sensor board with MTCSiCS

Colors → currents → digital values → serial data protocol

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Realisation of Hardware II

Si-CM-1 Interface Board

Data SPI bus (several color sensors) → data USB2.0

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Optical Mechanical Construction of Color Sensor Device

Sensor Aperture Measurement Spot

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Accuracy based on human eye perception and not machine vision

Applications of MAZeT´s True Color Sensors

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Further Applications of MAZeT´s True Color Sensors

Devices from Sensor Instruments GmbH / Germany

Further industries for example: plastic, paper, bottles, and more...