Patent ID: 8408379
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: B07C,G01N,G02B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A machine-vision system for inspecting devices in trays, each tray populated with a plurality of devices, the system comprising: a first input station having a first input elevator configured to hold a plurality of trays, wherein the plurality of trays includes a first tray held at an inspection position of the first input elevator that is above all other ones of the plurality of trays held by the first input elevator, and wherein each one of the plurality of trays has a first plurality of that tray's devices that are yet to be inspected; a first output station having a first output elevator for holding a plurality of trays; and a first machine-vision imager that performs a first machine-vision inspection of the first plurality of devices in the first tray held at the inspection position of the first input station and wherein, upon completion of the first machine-vision inspection, the system operates to then move the first tray, which has the first plurality of that tray's devices that have been inspected by the first machine-vision imager, off the inspection position of the first input elevator and eventually to the first output elevator, and to successively raise the other ones of the plurality of trays to the inspection position of the first input elevator to be inspected by the first machine-vision imager.