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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2022
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); B23K 9/095 (2006.01); B23K 31/02 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 31/02 (2013.01); B23K 9/0953 (2013.01); B25J 11/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bead appearance inspection device includes an input unit configured to enter input data related to a welding bead of a workpiece produced by welding, a preprocessing unit configured to perform a preprocessing of converting a shape of the welding bead into a predetermined shape on the input data, and k inspection determination units, where k is an integer of 1 or more, that are equipped with k types of artificial intelligence and that are configured to inspect and determine presence or absence of a welding defect of the welding bead based on processings of the k types of artificial intelligence targeting input data on which the preprocessing is performed.