Paint defect automated seek and repair assembly and method
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsThurston Sandy Matthews, Gary David Farquhar, Valerie Catherine Bolhouse
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Abstract
A method of detecting and repairing paint defects on a vehicle body (10) is provided, including developing paint defect data using electronic imaging of the vehicle body (S1), referencing said electronic imaging with vehicle CAD data to develop three dimensional paint defect coordinates for each paint defect (S2), storing said paint defect data and said paint defect coordinates referenced to the vehicle body (S3), developing a repair strategy based upon said paint defect data and said paint defect coordinates (S4), and performing an automated repair on the paint defects based upon said repair strategy (S5).
Claims8
A method of detecting and repairing paint defects on a vehicle body, comprising:
- developing paint defect data using electronic imaging of the vehicle body;
- referencing said electronic imaging with vehicle CAD data to develop three dimensional paint defect coordinates for each paint defect;
- using said vehicle CAD data to determine a vehicle surface normal at each paint defect;
- storing said paint defect data and said paint defect coordinates referenced to CAD master coordinates;
- developing a repair strategy based upon said paint defect data and said paint defect coordinates;
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- performing an automated repair on the paint defects relative to their said vehicle surface normals.
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