Coarse flaw detector for printed circuit board inspection

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4707734
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06745967

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A system for detecting flaws in printed circuit boards. The circuit board is scanned by a video camera to provide a serial stream of bits each indicative of a picture element within a particular scan line. The serial stream of bits is formulated into binary numbers each representative of a contiguous path of picture elements composed of n.times.n picture elements. Each of these binary numbers are compared with a corresponding one of a set binary numbers stored in memory representative of a perfect master printed circuit board. Failure of the printed circuit board to match the stored master indicates a flaw. The invention also includes means to generate overlapping patches to insure detection of defects which occur in adjacent patches.

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NATIONSBANK N A100 NORTH TYRON STREET 13TH FLOOR CHARLOTTE NC 28255
EUROPEAN AMERICAN BANK335 MADISON AVENUE 17TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10017
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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bryant, Timothy E Yorba Linda, CA 1 24
Labinger, Richard L Trumbull, CT 1 24
Tinnerino, Natale F Redding, CT 5 424

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