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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110247417 | PULSE-ECHO METHOD BY MEANS OF AN ARRAY-TYPE PROBE AND TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION The invention relates to a nondestructive ultrasonic test method in which at least one ultrasonic pulse is emitted into a workpiece under test by means of at least one ultrasonic transmitter (3), the ultrasonic pulse is reflected on boundary surfaces within the w... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110154903 | METHOD FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING USING A SMART SENSOR SYSTEM The structural health monitoring method of the present invention utilizes ultrasound to determine information about deformation, stress and/or damage in structural elements. The method propagates ultrasound through at least a portion of a material having fully-reversibl... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110072903 | PORTABLE DEVICE FOR ASSESSING WARP STABILITY The present disclosure includes a portable device for assessing warp stability of a wood element having two or more planar surfaces. In some embodiments, the portable device includes a sensor housing positioned adjacent to the wood element, a first sensor group configur... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20100244591 | Method and apparatus for monitoring wall thinning of a pipe using magnetostrictive transducers and variation of dispersion characteristics of broadband multimode shear horizontal (SH) waves Magnetostrictive transducers for monitoring wall thinning in a pipe, and an apparatus and method for monitoring wall thinning in a pipe using magnetostrictive transducers are provided. The magnetostrictive transducers generate broadband multimode shear horizontal (SH) w... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100218609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ULTRASONIC INSPECTION OF GEARBOX RING GEAR A method and system for ultrasonically inspecting a ring gear of a gearbox is provided. The method and system can be used for the detection, characterization and/or sizing of defects in the ring gear. The ring gear has a plurality of teeth, which extend radially inward ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20090308163 | Ultrasonic Flaw Detection Apparatus and Ultrasonic Flaw Detection Program A plurality of ultrasonic flaw detection methods can be switched and executed by a simple operation. An ultrasonic flaw detection apparatus includes a switching circuit 3 for permitting an angle probe 1 and a normal probe 2... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090301198 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Systems for Damage Detection Methods, apparatuses, and systems for damage detection and for other detection of the state of a structure or material. Such damage detection and detection of the state of a structure may be performed and operated without the use of baseline data. The present invention ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090199642 | ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTION APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTION METHOD [Object] To simply and accurately determine the position of an edge, the depth or the height of a flaw including a surface crack, a corroded portion near the surface layer of a thick specimen, and a minute damage. [Solving Means] An ultraso... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090178484 | METHOD FOR THE NON-DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION OF A TEST BODY USING ULTRASOUND A method for the non-destructive inspection of a test body using ultrasound is disclosed, in which at least one ultrasonic transducer couples ultrasonic waves into the test body and ultrasonic waves reflected inside the test body are received by ultrasonic transducers a... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090151456 | DOWNHOLE TOOL DAMAGE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A downhole tool damage detection method includes, transmitting ultrasonic energy through a downhole tool, receiving ultrasonic energy transmitting through the downhole tool, monitoring the received ultrasonic energy for changes over time, and alerting that damage in the... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090120190 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF A FIBER WEB A method for monitoring the structural state of a fiber web (1) that is being processed by a fiber web processing machine comprising a fiber web processing station (2) is described. The method comprises the steps of arranging a generator (5) and a d... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090095085 | Defect Detection Method of Turbine Generator End Ring A defect detection method of a turbine generator end ring includes a first ultrasonic testing step of conducting ultrasonic testing by an angle beam technique to the turbine generator end ring, a second ultrasonic testing step of conducting, when an indication echo is d... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090007678 | Method and apparatus for measuring flaw height in ultrasonic tests The measurement of a flaw height in a thick welded portion of a stainless steel specimen, which is difficult to perform by the TOFD method, can be conducted with more ease, with higher accuracy and in a shorter time than in the case of using tip echo techniques. In addi... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080110262 | Method and Apparatus For Detecting Panel Conditions A method and apparatus for detecting a predetermined condition of a panel by transmitting a cyclically-repeating energy wave through the material (41) of the panel from first location (43a) to a second location (43b); measuring the tra... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080092658 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NON-DISRUPTIVE AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION OF METALLURGICAL FURNACES AND SIMILAR VESSELS Some embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatus for more accurately determining the thickness of a refractory lining included in an operating metallurgical furnace. Specifically, in some embodiments a transient propagated stress wave is ... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080041159 | Method and Appartus For Detection Of Mechanical Defects In An Ingot Piece Composed Of Semiconductor Material A method for detection of mechanical defects in a semiconductor ingot section which has at least one planar surface, and a thickness at right angles to this surface of 1 cm to 100 cm, involves scanning the planar surface by at least one ultrasound head which is coupled ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20070129901 | Acoustic fluid analysis method A method of analyzing acoustic data comprising, determining fluid sound speed through connate fluid. The method involves sampling the fluid, sending an acoustic signal into the fluid between a first and a second reflective interface. Data is recorded that represents aco... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20060075817 | Methods and system for monitoring a condition of a material Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for monitoring a condition of a cavity surface of an elongated member having a cavity therein. In particular, the example apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture emit a first ultrasonic signal that propagates from ... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060010979 | Failure detecting system The present invention relates to a failure detecting system that enables the detection of a break in a rail and the like by a simple network configuration. Detecting units (20 and 50), relay units (30A, 30B, 60A through 60C) and... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050223807 | Method for ultrasonic control of weld joints The invention concerns a method for non-destructive ultrasonic control, combining time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) and inclined longitudinal wave techniques, of weld joints assembling two abutted parts. The method consists of using the time-of-flight diffraction techni... | 10/13/2005 |
