US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Nov. 11 for "Laser welding quality inspection method and laser welding quality inspection apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,002, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser welding quality inspection method and laser welding quality inspection apparatus" was invented by Koji Funami (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser welding quality inspection method of a welded portion between a joining object and a joined object, when the joining object and the joined object are welded by being irradiated with a laser beam, the method includes: acquiring first data indicating a signal intensity of thermal radiation light radiated from the welded portion during the welding; acquiring secon...