Vertical edge detection-based automatic optical inspection for solder jet ball joint defect on Head Gimbal Assembly

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jirarat Ieamsaard ◽  
Suchart Yammen ◽  
Paisarn Muneesawang
Keyword(s):  
Edge Detection ◽  
Vertical Edge ◽  
Ball Joint ◽  
Automatic Optical Inspection ◽  
Optical Inspection ◽  
Head Gimbal Assembly

scholarly journals Vertical Edge Detection-Based Automatic Optical Inspection of HGA Solder Jet Ball Joint Defects

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
Jirarat Ieamsaard ◽  
Suchart Yammen ◽  
Paisarn Muneesawang ◽  
Frode Eika Sandnes
Keyword(s):  
Edge Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Disk Drive ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Vertical Edge ◽  
Ball Joint ◽  
Optical Inspection ◽  
Head Gimbal Assembly ◽  
The Media ◽  
Edge Detection Method

The Head Gimbal Assembly (HGA) is an essential hard disk drive (HDD) component allowing data to be read from and written to the media. Defects on the HGA may affect the data read/write process and reduce the quality of the HDD. Therefore, HGA inspection needs to be improved during HDD manufacturing. This paper describes an image processing method that automate the optical inspection of HGA solder jet ball joint defects. Vertical edge detection methods are proposed for identifying defects. The performance of the vertical edge detection method is compared to a Sobel-based method, Roberts’ method and a Prewitt’s method. The methods were tested with 18,123 HGA images. The experimental results show that the vertical edge detection method outperforms the other methods, which had an accuracy of 99.3%, as compared to the Sobel based method, with an accuracy of 80% and 78.2 for Roberts’ method and 65.9 for Prewitt’s method.

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