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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. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2002
Thurston Sandy Matthews, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Gary David Farquhar, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Valerie Catherine Bolhouse, Northville, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting and repairing paint defects on a vehicle body ( ) is provided, including developing paint defect data using electronic imaging of the vehicle body (S ), referencing said electronic imaging with vehicle CAD data to develop three dimensional paint defect coordinates for each paint defect (S ), storing said paint defect data and said paint defect coordinates referenced to the vehicle body (S ), developing a repair strategy based upon said paint defect data and said paint defect coordinates (S ), and performing an automated repair on the paint defects based upon said repair strategy (S ).