US 11,754,509 B2
Method for inspecting metal separator
Masaaki Kishimoto, Tokyo (JP); Satoshi Hasegawa, Tokyo (JP); Daigo Mukasa, Tokyo (JP); Koya Shimada, Tokyo (JP); and Miho Asano, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/677,380.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-042394 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0299447 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 21/95 (2006.01); H01M 8/0297 (2016.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 21/95 (2013.01) [G01N 21/8851 (2013.01); H01M 8/0297 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for inspecting a metal separator that is formed by a first separator and a second separator welded to each other, the method comprising:
a step of positioning an imaging portion of an imaging device at a weld portion of the metal separator;
a step in which a height detector detects deflection of the metal separator in the vicinity of an imaging portion of the imaging device, and a driving device displaces the metal separator or the imaging device in a height direction according to the deflection of the metal separator, whereby a distance between the imaging device and the imaging portion of the metal separator is kept constant; and
a step of imaging the weld portion with the imaging device.