Vaccines such as influenza are manufactured using fertilized chicken eggs. The virus is cultivated by injecting the virus into fertilized eggs and keeping it warm for several days. After that, the increased virus solution in the fertilized egg is collected and used as a raw material for the vaccine. However, at this time, bad eggs may be mixed up, and of course, bad eggs may adversely affect the collected vaccine raw materials rather than culturing the vaccine.
This device observes the developmental state of fertilized eggs and performs image processing to automatically distinguish between good eggs and defective eggs such as dead and undeveloped eggs, and removes the defective eggs.
In the past, in egg inspection work, inspectors illuminated each egg individually and visually observed the inside of the egg in a dark room. Therefore, the inspector has a great labor load, and since it is performed by humans, the inspection results will vary.
This device can be expected to stabilize quality and save labor by quantifying the state of eggs and automatically determining them.
