US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 7 for "Repair welding system, repair welding method, inspection device, and robot control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,390, issued on July 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Repair welding system, repair welding method, inspection device, and robot control device" was invented by Takamichi Komatsu (Osaka, Japan), Toshinari Mohri (Osaka, Japan) and Ryutaro Monden (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair welding system includes an inspection device configured to inspect an appearance of a welded portion of a workpiece, and a robot control device that controls a robot configured to weld the workpiece. The inspection device determines whether there is a defective portion among welded portio...