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US 12,342,468 · App. 17/758,663 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Inspection device and inspection method for detecting formation of a solder bridge over adjacent electrodes

Inventors: Mikiya Suzuki (Nishio, JP); Yuta Yokoi (Kariya, JP)
Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
H05K13/0817G01M1/122G06T7/001G06T7/66G01N2021/8887G01N2021/95638G01N2021/95646G06T2207/30141G06T2207/30152
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Patent No.
US 12,342,468
App. No.
17/758,663
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides an inspection device for use in a mounting system including a mounting device for disposing a component on a board, including a control section configured to extract a mass area included in a captured image resulting from imaging a processing target object where a viscous fluid is formed at a predetermined part, obtain a center of gravity of the mass area so extracted, and determine whether the center of gravity is included in a normal range of the predetermined part as a reference of the captured image to thereby determine whether a bridge has occurred where the viscous fluid is formed over adjacent predetermined parts.

Claims (25)

1. An inspection device for use in a mounting system including a mounting device for disposing a processing target object on a board, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions executable by the processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

capture an image by imaging the processing target object;

extract a mass area included in the captured image of the processing target object where a viscous fluid is formed at a predetermined part;

obtain a location of a center of gravity of the mass area;

determine whether the location of the center of gravity is within boundaries of an area of the predetermined part relative to a reference image of the predetermined part with the viscous fluid present;

detect a brightness difference between a plurality of detection lines crossing between an inside area of the predetermined part and an outside area of the predetermined part;

detect a state of disposition of the processing target object based on detection lines of the plurality of detection lines that satisfy a predetermined tolerance ratio;

determine, based on the location of the center of gravity and the state of disposition of the processing target object, whether a bridge has occurred, wherein the bridge is a formation of the viscous fluid over adjacent predetermined parts; and

execute a discard process of discarding the processing target object in response to determining that the bridge has occurred.

2. The inspection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing target object is a component having two or more electrodes,

wherein the viscous fluid is solder, and

wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether a bridge of the solder has occurred.

3. An inspection method for use in a mounting system including a mounting device for disposing a processing target object on a board, comprising:

capturing an image by imaging the processing target object;

extracting a mass area included in the captured image of the processing target object where a viscous fluid is formed at a predetermined part;

obtaining a location of a center of gravity of the mass area;

determining whether the location of the center of gravity is within boundaries of an area of the predetermined part relative to a reference image of the predetermined part with the viscous fluid present;

detecting a brightness difference between a plurality of detection lines crossing between an inside area of the predetermined part and an outside area of the predetermined part;

detecting a state of disposition of the processing target object based on detection lines of the plurality of detection lines that satisfy a predetermined tolerance ratio;

determining, based on the location of the center of gravity and the state of disposition of the processing target object, whether a bridge has occurred, wherein the bridge is a formation of the viscous fluid over adjacent predetermined parts; and

executing a discard process of discarding the processing target object in response to determining that the bridge has occurred.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2022
From: SUZUKI, MIKIYA; YOKOI, YUTA
To: FUJI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060486/0102 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230029470A1 · Feb 2, 2023
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