NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20020080928: Industrial Inspection System

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by  NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

I Industrial Inspection System
Be low, an operator is watch- An important feature of the applications. It is designed
ing the video monitor of system is its ability to inspect to accommodate products up
the new LIX@ Conveyor 100 percent of the product to 18 inches in length that
x-ray system to spot defects in right on the production line, might have defects not easy to
the products being inspected. not in a quality control labora- distinguish from surrounding
The installation pictured is in tory. The LIXI Conveyor is non-defective areas. Among
the processing plant of a synchronized with standard examples of applications are
company offering a totally line speed; packages enter a food products, medical devices,
boneless chicken product. totally sealed and waterproof printed circuit boards, electron-
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Manufactured by Lixi, Inc., x-ray chamber and a real ic components and small parts.
Downers Grove, Illinois, the time image is presented on The LIXI Conveyor, pro-
LIXI Conveyor has a high reso- the monitor. The system can duced by Lixi, Inc. under NASA
lution imaging system that can detect defects measuring less license, is the latest in a long
distinguish small bone frag- than a millimeter. line of spinoff devices that trace
ments in the chicken (right), The system can be config- their origins to a portable x-ray
allowing immediate rejection ured with various options to instrument developed in the
of the defective package. suit different products and late 1970s by Goddard Space
A SPINOFF X-RAY
SYSTEM FROM AN
EARLIER ERA IS
STILL FINDING NEW
I . APPLICATIONS
Publ~cS afety
Flight Center. Called the Low
Intensity X-ray Imaging Scope,
it was designed to use less than
one percent of the radiation
required by conventional x-ray
devices That feature, plus its
portability, made it attractive
for a broad variety of industrial
and medical applications.
Lixi, Inc. has used the NASA
technology to build a thriving
business serving a growing list
of U.S. and international custom-
ers. The company manufactures
certain standard systems, but it
is primarily a systems integration
firm developing a variety of
custom configurations employing
x-ray technology as the core
component and including such
other technologies as image
enhancement, videography,
thermal printing, materials
handling, computers and soft-
ware. Lixi produces a number
of types of industrial inspection
systems; hand-held and portable
units for security applications;
and battery-powered hand-
held x-ray devices for medical
use in remote areas of the
Third World.
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LIXl is a rGgistered trademark of
Lixi, Inc.
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