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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1999
Brent C. Rankin, Lima, OH (US);
Honda of America, Mfg., Inc., Marysville, OH (US);
Abstract
The present invention is an assembly line testing apparatus and method for automatically determining whether a size of a gap, within at least one component of an article of manufacture, is within an acceptable range, during assembly of the article of manufacture. The present invention uses a microcontroller to control the operation of the assembly line testing apparatus of the present invention such that the size of the gap may be checked in a flexible and reliable manner by repeating the cycle of checking for the size of the gap. The present invention may be used to particular advantage for checking that the size of a spark plug gap within a vehicle engine is within an acceptable range during assembly of the vehicle engine.