US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on March 11 for "Inspection device and inspection method for sheet layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,928, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Inspection device and inspection method for sheet layer" was invented by Masataka Koyama (Kobe, Japan), Tomohiro Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan), Hiroharu Suzuki (Kobe, Japan), Motohiro Nakagami (Kobe, Japan), Yuki Hanawa (Kobe, Japan), Shogo Kojima (Kobe, Japan) and Yusaku Ishida (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device includes a scanning device, a first recognition unit, and a second recognition unit. The scanning device includes a laser sensor that emits laser slit light for measuring a two-dimensional shape, and a movement mechanism t...