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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:
Mar. 16, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marc A Legault, Johnston, RI (US);
Richard F Amaral, Harrisville, RI (US);
Assignee:
MPM Corporation, Franklin, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427-8 ; 356237 ; 356376 ; 427 10 ; 427 96 ; 228-8 ; 228102 ; 228105 ;
Abstract
Automatically monitoring pads of material deposited on a surface of a workpiece using an inspection system that senses a deposited pad of material and determines pad height values at a plurality of locations across the pad, and a shape classifier that receives the pad height values as inputs and outputs a plurality of three-dimensional shape attributes related to pad deposit conditions.