MB-CTL Series

Metaphase Technologies Collimated Tube Lights are ideal for producing high contrast silhouettes.  The Collimated Tube Light boasts increased illumination compared to standard backlights when used with telecentric lensing.

Telecentric illumination is ideal for precision measurements where accuracy, repeatability, and throughput are key factors in the application’s success. The key benefits of telecentric illumination are: superior detection of small defects, increased measurement accuracy and repeatability compared to standard backlight illumination, elimination of blurred edges caused by diffused reflections, increased light intensity from collimated light rays, high contrast images from elimination of blurred edges and increased light intensity, reduced camera exposure times from increased light intensity, faster systems and high throughput compared to standard backlight illumination and increased distance between object and illumination source.

Applications

• Absence/presence of objects
• Defect detection in glass/plastic containers
• Object tracking (Fish in an aquarium)
• PCB (printed circuit board) board assembly through-hole lead detection
• Web inspection (pin-holes in web)
• Bottlecap detection
• Screw/Bolt thread inspection
• Glass Sheet defect detection
• Sub-pixel dimensional inspection
• Machine Vision & Automation
• Robotic Inspection

Features

• A collimated spot size of 1.5 inches (38 mm)
• Compact housing for easy application integration
• Optional mounting clamp available
• Multiple wavelength options
• Ideal for producing high contrast silhouette images for edge detection and high accuracy measurements