US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 24 for "Bead appearance inspection device, bead appearance inspection method, program, and bead appearance inspection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,418, issued on June 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Bead appearance inspection device, bead appearance inspection method, program, and bead appearance inspection system" was invented by Kazuki Hanada (Osaka, Japan), Masashi Yoshida (Tokyo) and Takamichi Komatsu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bead appearance inspection device includes an input unit configured to enter input data related to a welding bead of a workpiece produced by welding, a preprocessing unit configured to perform a preprocessing of converting a shape of the welding bead into a predetermined sha...