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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:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2001
Applicants:
Gregory F. Carey, Plymouth, MA (US);
James H. Wyner, Boston, MA (US);
Philip J. Prakop, Middleboro, MA (US);
A. Michael Nahmias, Wakefield, RI (US);
Inventors:
Gregory F. Carey, Plymouth, MA (US);
James H. Wyner, Boston, MA (US);
Philip J. Prakop, Middleboro, MA (US);
A. Michael Nahmias, Wakefield, RI (US);
Assignee:
Shawmut Corporation, West Bridgewater, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M003/02 ; G01M003/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Laminates are tested for the presence of small holes. For example, when a laminate is moving through a processing machine in a direction along a length of the laminate, a vacuum is applied to a surface of the laminate and the surface of the laminate is inspected to detect liquid that has penetrated from another surface of the laminate through small holes to the inspected surface.