Patent ID: 7006681

Claim:
An inspection apparatus of an electric junction box having a plurality of mounts on which electric parts are mounted, for inspecting mounting state of the electric parts, said each electric part having a different mark on an outer surface thereof depending upon an item symbol thereof, the inspection apparatus comprising: image pickup means for picking up an image including said mark of the electric part mounted on the mount; extraction means for (1) storing image consulting data containing a plurality of images including said marks of the electric parts of all the item symbols to be mounted in the electric junction box as a subject of the inspection and normal data indicating the proper item symbols of the electric parts mounted on the corresponding mounts, and for (2) comparing the image including said mark of the electric part mounted on the mount picked up by the image pickup means and the image in the image consulting data, and for (3) extracting the item symbol of the electric part having the most analogous image from the images in the image consulting data; and judgment means for judging the quality of the mounting state of the electric parts on the mount by comparing the item symbol of the electric part having the most analogous image and said normal data.