Image-based control of wire harness and connector manufacturing processes using artificial intelligence
AssigneeCrimping & Stamping Technologies, Inc.
InventorEdgar Iván Sanchez Ortega
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Abstract
An embodiment provides a method of operating wire harness manufacturing equipment, including: adding, using the manufacturing equipment, an element to a wire to form a combination of the element and the wire; capturing, using an imaging device, an upper image and a lower image of the combination; analyzing, using one or more processors operatively coupled to the imaging device, the upper image and the lower image to detect a defect; and thereafter indicating that the defect has been detected. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
A method of operating wire harness manufacturing equipment, comprising:
- adding, using the wire harness manufacturing equipment, an element to a wire to form a combination of the element and the wire;
- capturing, using an imaging device, an upper image and a lower image of the combination without alignment referenced to a master or reference image;
- analyzing, using one or more processors operatively coupled to the imaging device, the upper image and the lower image to detect a defect;
- and
- thereafter indicating that the defect has been detected.
A method, comprising:
- adding, using wire harness manufacturing equipment, an element to a wire to form a combination of the element and the wire;
- capturing, using an imaging device, an upper image and a lower image of the combination without alignment referenced to a master or reference image;
- analyzing, using one or more processors operatively coupled to the imaging device, the upper image and the lower image to detect if a defect is present;
- thereafter indicating that the defect has not been detected;
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- incorporating at least the combination of the element and the wire into a wire harness.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, from an imaging device, an upper image and a lower image of an element added to a wire to form a combination of the element and the wire, wherein the upper and lower images were captured without alignment referenced to a master or reference image;
- analyzing, using one or more processors, the upper image and the lower image to detect a defect;
- and
- thereafter indicating that the defect has been detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.