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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:
Nov. 10, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald J Straayer, South Windsor, CT (US);
Assignee:
Gerber Systems Corporation, South Windsor, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395129 ; 382-8 ; 382-1 ; 358106 ; 358101 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus used with a printed circuit board (PCB) defect detection system generates a reference data base image of the PCB having tolerances for each individual PCB feature. The invention includes a transitional data base having three states, black, white and gray corresponding to areas where the PCB features respectively must appear, must not appear and may or may not appear.