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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120035862 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Laminated Structure Disclosed is an apparatus, method and system for inspecting structures, and more particularly for evaluating the condition of a structure. The disclosed nondestructive inspection testing method and apparatus enables an operator to assess the condition of a structure, su... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110277549 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING USING ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAY The present invention is related generally to the field of non-destructive materials testing using ultrasonic devices, more particularly, ultrasonic devices in a phased array and includes a wedge for conducting pitch-catch ultrasonic phase array testing of materials whe... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110271763 | ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING METHOD An ultrasound probe diagnosing apparatus which diagnoses an ultrasound probe having an array of a plurality of ultrasound transducing elements on the basis of how the ultrasound probe receives reflected ultrasound waves from a test object placed to face the ultrasound p... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271762 | ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING METHOD An ultrasound probe diagnosing apparatus which diagnoses an ultrasound probe having an array of a plurality of ultrasound transducing elements on the basis of how the ultrasound probe receives reflected ultrasound waves from a test object placed to face the ultrasound p... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110265571 | ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING METHOD An ultrasound probe diagnosing apparatus which diagnoses an ultrasound probe having an array of a plurality of ultrasound transducing elements on the basis of how the ultrasound probe receives reflected ultrasound waves from a test object placed to face the ultrasound p... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265570 | ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND PROBE DIAGNOSING METHOD An ultrasound probe diagnosing apparatus which diagnoses an ultrasound probe having an array of a plurality of ultrasound transducing elements on the basis of how the ultrasound probe receives reflected ultrasound waves from a test object placed to face the ultrasound p... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110239768 | PULSE-ECHO METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE DAMPING BLOCK GEOMETRY 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... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110209548 | ASSESSING METAL STACK INTEGRITY IN SOPHISTICATED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES BY MECHANICALLY STRESSING DIE CONTACTS The metallization system of complex semiconductor devices may be evaluated in terms of mechanical integrity on the basis of a measurement system and measurement procedures in which individual contact elements, such as metal pillars or solder bumps, are mechanically stim... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110154900 | VIBRATION MONITORING APPARATUS AND VIBRATION MONITORING METHOD The present invention provides a vibration monitoring apparatus that monitors vibration of a jet pump disposed in a reactor pressure vessel using ultrasonic wave, including: an ultrasonic sensor that is attached to an outside the reactor pressure vessel, and transmits a... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110138920 | Contact-free pipe wall thickness measurement device and pipe wall thickness measurement In order to make available a contact-free pipe wall thickness measurement device having a simple design, having at least two laser ultrasound measurement heads, it is possible to dispose at least two ultrasound measurement heads on a common pivot frame in the contact-fr... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110132092 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE NDT/NDI INSPECTION DEVICE WITH SELECTIVE NOISE AVERAGING An apparatus for performing ultrasonic inspection of an object, during one measurement on the object, triggers a sequence of excitations of the probe system and receives a sequence of substantially identical echo signals reflected from the object, and further scales eac... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110088473 | Ultrasonic Method To Verify The Interference Fit Of Fasteners Embodiments of techniques and technologies to verify the interference fit of fasteners are disclosed. In one embodiment, a transducer is positioned to transmit a shear ultrasonic signal through a region of a fastener which is subject to stress when the fastener experien... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110048134 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS The invention provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including a signal generating part for generating a chirp wave; a compression processing part for performing a compression process on the chirp wave and outputting a chirp compression signal; and a probe for gene... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110023611 | SELF-HEALING COMPOSITE MATERIAL A self-healing composite material comprising a fibre-reinforced polymeric matrix, wherein the polymeric matrix comprises a thermosetting polymer and a thermoplastic polymer.... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110005322 | Pulse Period Jitter for Artifact Detection or Reduction in Ultrasound Imaging Depth ambiguity artifact is addressed. The pulse repetition interval is periodically varied. This jitter in the interval causes variance in the artifact while maintaining actual tissue or signal. The variation of the artifact may be visually detected or automatically de... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100307251 | Detailfunction Based Measurement Methods and apparatuses for finding, extracting and for providing of echoes with detail functions are described. In particular, an echo extraction method for extracting an echo from an echo function is described. The method comprises receiving the echo function and deco... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100281983 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POSITION DETERMINATION An apparatus for determining a distance includes a converter element that generates n acoustic surface wave, a surface that feeds over at least part of the acoustic surface wave to a surface having a reflection point, and a processor that determines a distance between t... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100275692 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING MATERIAL THICKNESS An apparatus and system for measuring material thickness of a test object. In one embodiment, the apparatus can include a measurement probe that can have a plurality of transducer elements that can include transmitter elements and receiver elements arranged, respectivel... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100269593 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A BODY PROVIDED WITH A SLOT AS A TEST CRACK A process for producing a reference body (10) provided with a slot (17) as a test crack for the nondestructive testing of materials can be used flexibly and includes the following steps:
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| 20100231894 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR OBSERVING MILLIMETRIC OR SUBMILLIMETRIC STRUCTURAL DETAILS OF AN OBJECT WITH SPECULAR BEHAVIOUR A device for observation, by reflection, of the structural details of an object (2) that exhibits a behaviour that is at least partially specular, located in an exposure area, which includes: at least one radiation source with an emission surface (6) posse... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100206082 | ULTRASONIC DETECTION DEVICE, ULTRASONIC DETECTION METHOD, AND ATOMIC POWER PLANT NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION METHOD Provided are an ultrasonic inspection device, an ultrasonic inspection method, and an atomic power plant nondestructive inspection method that are capable of efficiently generating ultrasonic waves having a sufficient intensity and that are capable of carrying out prefe... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100199768 | LASER-BASED MAINTENANCE APPARATUS A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser system which includes an optical system for emitting, in a first irradiation condition, a generation laser beam for generating an ultrasonic wave in a portion of an object on which maintenance is to be performed, and inclu... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100199769 | LASER-BASED MAINTENANCE APPARATUS A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser system which includes an optical system for emitting, in a first irradiation condition, a generation laser beam for generating an ultrasonic wave in a portion of an object on which maintenance is to be performed, and inclu... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100180685 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS The transmission of a detection wave and the reception of a reflected wave are periodically repeated every transmission period. One received signal is compared with another received signal at a similar corresponding comparison periods in different transmission periods o... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100170343 | ULTRASONIC SENSOR AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SEPARATION OF AN OBJECT FROM AN ULTRASONIC SENSOR The invention relates to a method for determining a separation, spacing or distance of an object from an ultrasonic sensor, in which ultrasonic pulses are emitted by a transducing or sensing element and in which ultrasonic pulses reflected by the object are detected by ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100147081 | EXTENDED OVERFLOW INDICATION FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE ULTRASONIC FAULT DETECTION SYSTEMS A method and apparatus for effecting ultrasonic flaw detection of an object processes an echo signal received from the object being tested in at least three signal channels, wherein the echo signal is scaled to different degrees along each channel to increase and extend... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100107768 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING A FLAW IN A COMPONENT The invention relates to a device for detecting a flaw in a fibre-reinforced component, in particular delamination in a bearing region of a hole, by means of at least one probe, wherein an ultrasound field is emittable and detectable by means of the at least one probe. ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100110414 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR TRACKING VESSEL MOTION DURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CORONARY ARTERY MICROSCOPY Exemplary embodiments of apparatus, method and computer accessible medium can be provided which can facilitate a determination of at least one characteristic of a structure. For example, it is possible to use at least one first arrangement which can be structured to pro... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100071471 | OBSTACLE DETECTION SYSTEM An obstacle detection apparatus for detecting an obstacle in its surroundings is disclosed. The system includes: an ultrasonic sensor for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic wave; an obstacle detection section for performing an obstacle detection operation to determin... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100058871 | ULTRASONIC INSPECTION APPARATUS An ultrasonic inspection apparatus is provided in which the size of the apparatus can be made compact by using laser light, the degradation and deformation of the inspected object is prevented, and a broad range of inspections can be carried out. An ultrasonic inspectio... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100043558 | Tuned Resonant Apparatus for Non-Destructive Testing or Flaw Analysis A Tuned Resonant Insert TRI (1), is disclosed for Non Destructive Testing (NDT) which eliminates the need for a couplant, either solid or liquids including demineralized water and oils. The TRI (1) applies a tip force on a uni-morph or bi-morph ceramic wit... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100024557 | Ultrasonic device for detecting direction to object A ultrasonic device detecting a direction to an object includes: a transmitting element of a ultrasonic wave; first and second receiving elements; a diffraction wave phase detector; an initial phase memory for an initial phase of a diffraction wave; a sound speed detect... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100014554 | Cloud Point Monitoring Systems for Determining a Cloud Point Temperature of Diesel Fuel Cloud point monitoring systems for determining a cloud point temperature value for diesel fuel are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a cloud point monitoring system receives diesel fuel in the tubular conduit and propagates a sound wave through the diesel fuel. The... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090320600 | FLAW DETECTION TESTING METHOD There is provided a flaw detection testing method applied to a slot dovetail portion of a turbine generator rotor shaft. The flaw detection testing method includes an angle determining step of determining a slot angle of the slot dovetail portion using a variable-angle ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090301204 | Methods For Imaging Displacement Of A Target Body The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-de... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090301203 | Tool, Sensor, and Device for a Wall Non-Distructive Control The invention relates to a tool for non-destructive inspection of a three-dimensional wall, the tool including a plurality of juxtaposed non-destructive inspection sensors. The sensors are mounted on a support for moving the set of sensors in common relative to the wall... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090277271 | Micromechanical Sensor, Sensor Array and Method The present invention relates to a micromechanical sensor for analyzing liquid samples and an array of such sensors. The invention also concerns a method for sensing liquid samples and the use of longitudinal bulk acoustic waves for analyzing liquid phase samples microm... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090260422 | Ultrasonic sensor An ultrasonic sensor includes a transmitting device, a receiving device, and a circuit device. The circuit device determines that the receiving device receives an ultrasonic wave reflected from an object, when an output voltage of the receiving device is equal to or gre... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090260442 | Drum Inspecting Apparatus Inspecting a loss in section such as corrosion, rust and abrasion due to physical factor generated in an inside face of a drum securely and rapidly with a simple structure and specifying a generation position thereof. A drum inspecting appa... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090249878 | Ultrasonic Sensor For an ultrasonic sensor at least one sensitivity parameter or sensitivity characteristics curve may be adjusted as a function of the air humidity and/or temperature in such a way that a predefined range or a range section may be reliably reached. Such a sensor makes it... | 10/08/2009 |
