US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 11 for "Bead appearance inspection device, bead appearance inspection method, program, and bead appearance inspection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,827, issued on March 11, 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 Katsuaki Okuma (Osaka, Japan), Kazuyuki Nakashima (Osaka, Japan) and Teruaki Nishinaka (Fukuoka, 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, and a determination unit configured to perform an inspection determination related to a shape of the welding b...