Patent ID: 7664311

Claim:
An inspecting apparatus for inspecting for a solder bridge between electrode pads on a component mounting board and for determining whether inspection for the solder bridge is to be executed, the apparatus comprising: a mechanism configured to store a predetermined threshold value representing an operator's selected distance between adjacent electrode pads, the predetermined threshold value being manually inputted by an operator, a mechanism configured to determine an actual distance between adjacent electrode pads in a first direction and a second direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction; and a mechanism configured to create a solder bridge inspection point and if the actual distance between the adjacent electrode pads in either the first direction or the second direction is shorter than the predetermined threshold value, then inspection for the solder bridge is executed at the solder bridge inspection point and if the actual distance between the adjacent electrode pads in either the first direction or the second direction is greater than or equal to the threshold value, then inspection for the solder bridge is not executed.