VEHICLE WELDING QUALITY INSPECTION DEVICE AND THE METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150018998A1
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Cho, Yong Joon
• Application Number:
  US14/145,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20150018998A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/109
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 11/36 Auxiliary equipment B23K11/31 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 2101/006 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 31/125 Weld quality monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41875 characterised by quality surveillance of production
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30152 Solder
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0004 Industrial image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

A vehicle welding quality inspection device for checking welding parts of a vehicle body transferred along a transferring line may include a welding part shooting unit fixed on an outside of the transfer line, shoots a welding inspection part of the vehicle body, and outputs the shot data to the controller, and a welding part vision sensor disposed on a front end of an arm of a robot, is moved thereby toward the welding point of the welding inspection part that is recognized by the controller, shoots the welding point, and the vision data to the controller.

Claims

1. A vehicle welding quality inspection device for checking welding parts of a vehicle body transferred along a transferring line, comprising:

a welding part shooting unit fixed on an outside of the transfer line, shoots a welding inspection part of the vehicle body, and outputs the shot data to the controller; and

a welding part vision sensor disposed on a front end of an arm of a robot, is moved thereby toward the welding point of the welding inspection part that is recognized by the controller, shoots the welding point, and the vision data to the controller.

2. The vehicle welding quality inspection device of claim 1, wherein the welding part vision sensor includes a lighting portion that radiates light toward the welding point and a camera portion that shoots the welding point.

3. The vehicle welding quality inspection device of claim 2, wherein the lighting portion are arranged along an edge portion of the camera portion.

4. The vehicle welding quality inspection device of claim 3, wherein the controller analyzes the vision data of the welding point that is acquired from the welding part vision sensor to determine whether the welding portion is normal or not.

5. The vehicle welding quality inspection device of claim 1, wherein the welding part vision sensor includes a lighting portion that radiates light toward the welding point and a camera portion that shoots the welding point, and the position of the camera portion is varied by the robot in both side directions with a predetermined angle based on a center of the welding point.

6. The vehicle welding quality inspection device of claim 1, wherein the welding part vision sensor includes a lighting portion that radiates light toward the welding point and a camera portion that shoots the welding point, and three lighting portions are arranged with an interval of 120 degrees.

7. The vehicle welding quality inspection device of claim 5, wherein the controller analyzes the vision data that is acquired by the welding part vision sensor to calculate the shape and the concave spot depth of the welding point.

8. A vehicle welding quality inspection method that shoots a welding point of a vehicle body transferred along a transfer line, comprising:

shooting a welding inspection part of the vehicle body through a welding part shooting unit from an outside of the transfer line and outputting the shot data of the welding inspection part to a controller;

analyzing the shot data of the welding inspection part of the controller and calculating the position data of the welding point for the welding inspection part;

transmitting the position data of the welding point through the controller and moving a welding part vision sensor toward the welding point;

shooting the welding point through the welding part vision sensor and outputting the shot data of the welding point to the controller;

analyzing the shot data of the welding point through the controller to determine whether the welding point is normal or not.

9. The vehicle welding quality inspection method of claim 8, wherein the position of the welding part vision sensor is varied by the robot in both side directions with a predetermined angle based on a center of the welding point so as to radiate light toward the welding point and shoot the welding point.

10. The vehicle welding quality inspection method of claim 8, wherein the welding part vision sensor radiates light toward the welding point with an interval of 120 degrees from an outside of a center of the welding point and shoots the welding point.

11. The vehicle welding quality inspection method of claim 9, wherein the controller analyzes the shot data of the welding point and calculates the shape and the concave spot depth of the welding point.