US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for non-destructively testing stator weld quality and epoxy thickness" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,606, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for non-destructively testing stator weld quality and epoxy thickness" was invented by Robert Schroeter (Livonia, Mich.) and Michael Oelscher (Bergheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining pre-weld image data of the electric motor stator from one or more image sensors; performing a welding process in response to obtaining the pre-weld image data, obtaining post-weld image data of the electric motor stator from the one or more image sensors in response to performing the welding process, obtainin...