US 12,116,066 B2
Vehicle inspection method and vehicle inspection system
Tatsuhiro Takahashi, Nagakute (JP); Hiromitsu Kamata, Toyota (JP); Satoru Koshi, Nisshin (JP); Kazuki Inoue, Toyota (JP); Tetsuya Tamoto, Nagoya (JP); Tooru Nishimura, Toyota (JP); Kiyoshi Suzuki, Nagoya (JP); Shinya Imai, Toyota (JP); and Seiya Shibata, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/526,555.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-212531 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194502 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 65/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 65/005 (2013.01) [G01N 21/8851 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle inspection method in a production line of a vehicle, the vehicle inspection method comprising:
performing a part inspection, in steps of manufacturing parts of the vehicle, the part inspection in which each of the parts after being manufactured is inspected with an inspection device and which includes one or more inspection items;
storing a result of the part inspection in a storage device such that the result is associated with each of the parts; and
displaying the result of the part inspection, on a display device used in a completed vehicle inspection for inspecting a completed vehicle serving as the vehicle that is completed, information indicating at least the part of the parts corresponding to a failed item serving as the inspection item which is determined not to be passed in the result of the part inspection stored in the storage device and information indicating the failed item, wherein
the performing the part inspection includes
sensing, with an image sensing device, an image of each of the parts after being manufactured, and
comparing a reference image with the sensed image obtained in the image sensing step,
the storing the result of the part inspection includes storing, in the storage device, the sensed image obtained in the image sensing step such that the sensed image is associated with the part, and
the displaying the result of the part inspection includes
displaying, on the display device, in addition to the information indicating at least the part of the parts corresponding to the failed item and the information indicating the failed item, the sensed image stored in the storage device, and
displaying, on the display device, the sensed image stored in the storage device and the reference image of the part corresponding to the failed item side by side.