ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,574, issued on June 30, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for predicting weld quality" was invented by Hyeong Won Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeon Jeong You (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki Dong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for predicting weld quality includes an image sensor acquiring an image of a welding portion of a workpiece, a storage storing a shape detection model, a depth prediction model and a strength prediction model, and a controller configured to acquire shapes of a melt pool and a keyhole by receiving the...