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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2001
Tatsuya Maeda, Shizuoka, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inspection method and an inspection system of a terminal metal fitting which can securely judge the good or bad of the fastening condition of an electric wire by a crimping piece of the terminal metal fitting is provided. The inspection system of the terminal metal fitting has an illuminating lamp , a CCD camera , a dark box , and a control unit . The CCD camera is arranged at a position of the light thrown from the illuminating lamp and reflected by crimping pieces of a pressure welding terminal not entering the CCD camera . The dark box covers the illuminating lamp , an object side of the CCD camera , and the pressure welding terminal . The control unit makes a binary processing on an image of a wire connecting portion taken by the CCD camera . The control unit is provided on each of the crimping pieces and judges the good or bad of the crimping condition on the basis of an area in black in an inspection area in the binary image of at least some part of the crimping piece.