Patent ID: 11864311
Assignee: HEATHKIT COMPANY, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F  G | IPC F  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for assisting electronics assembly, comprising:
an electronic device being assembled by a builder, said electronic device being an electronics kit;
an assistive component comprising a microcontroller/microprocessor having embedded or attached memory, said assistive component comprising one or a plurality of assistive methods, each said assistive method being implemented at least in part in a firmware image, said firmware being embedded in the electronics kit;
circuit connections from the microcontroller/microprocessor to one or a plurality of test points in a circuit of said electronic device;
the microcontroller/microprocessor and/or its embedded or attached memory storing model data of a computable model embedded in the electronic device and characterizing the structure, function, and operation of the electronic device under assembly with respect to defined test values in correspondence with one or a plurality of assembly steps, wherein said model data comprises one or more related abstract models of the electronic device.