Yazaki Corporation

Tsutomu Maki

Tatsuya Maeda

Kazuyoshi Tomikawa

Yoshimi Masuda

Hitoshi Uesugi

Connector housings having plural kinds of terminals (plated with different materials, e.g.) are mounted at predetermined locations, positioned and secured by a drive means. A sensor probe which receives a light, of a color detection device, is transferred successively to the locations opposite to the terminals. A color sensor senses a level of a specific color component of the light received by the sensor probe. The sensed level is compared with a predetermined reference level and it can be determined based upon whether the sensed level is higher than the reference level, the kind of the terminals in the connector housings.

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Haibara-gun, Japan

Tsutomu Maki