Patent ID: 11965836
Assignee: PROOV STATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An assembly for detecting defects on a bodywork of a motor vehicle, its understructure and its tires, comprising a gantry, of inverted U-shaped cross section, shaped to allow the passage of said motor vehicle in a longitudinal direction, from the rear of the gantry to the front of the gantry; said gantry comprising an inner surface extending transversely between two lateral free ends and comprising a light source suitable for illuminating, in a substantially uniform manner, the bodywork of the motor vehicle during the passage of the motor vehicle through the gantry, said gantry comprising at least one opaque strip extending transversely over the entire length of the inner surface; said assembly comprising a plurality of cameras installed at a distance from the gantry, in at least one longitudinal direction, so as to capture images of the bodywork of the motor vehicle during its passage under the gantry, and a detection member suitable for receiving said images captured by said plurality of cameras and for detecting, according to these images, defects in the bodywork by analyzing the reflection of the opaque strip on the bodywork and by directly recognizing, in said images, defects highlighted by the reflection of the light source on the bodywork;
said assembly comprising, on each side of the gantry, a rear attachment structure extending to the rear of the gantry, parallel to the longitudinal direction, and allowing the attachment of at least some of the plurality of cameras forming rear detection cameras, which are oriented so as to acquire images of the side and rear faces of the motor vehicle as it passes through said gantry, wherein each rear attachment structure includes an upright member supporting a group of vertically spaced rear detection cameras from the plurality of rear detection cameras, and wherein each rear attachment structure includes a plurality of vertically spaced cross members each extending toward the gantry from the upright member and each supporting at least one rear detection camera from the plurality of rear detection cameras.