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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8030946 | In-pipe coating integrity monitor for very long pipes Systems, methods and program products of instructions stored on a computer readable medium related to a tether free piggable inspection tool capable of detecting holidays and able to read and store non-conductive internal coating thickness values in very long conduc... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7847563 | Test system A test system includes a front bezel of an electronic device and a test device. The front bezel includes a plurality of positions defined in the front bezel, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) located in the plurality of positions, and a female LED connecto... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7808250 | Test method and apparatus for spark plug insulator There is provided a test method for detecting the presence or absence of a defect in a spark plug insulator, including a reference voltage determination process, a test area determination process, a test voltage determination process and a current detection process.... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7768270 | In-pipe coating integrity monitor for very long pipes Systems, methods and program products related to a tether free pigable inspection tool capable of detecting holidays and able to read and store non-conductive internal coating thickness values in very long conductive pipes, along with distance values for further off... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7365507 | Power control apparatus for motor A power control apparatus for a motor is disclosed. The power control apparatus includes: a moisture sensor for detecting moisture soaking into a housing including the motor; and a switching unit which is switched by an output signal of the moisture sensor, and swit... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358753 | Probing apparatus, probing circuit board and probing system for high-voltage matrix probing A probing apparatus, probing circuit board and probing system for high-voltage matrix probing are provided. Switching circuits of the probing apparatus capable of probing a plurality of probing points for high-voltage matrix probing are manufactured with using a mix... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327132 | Testing procedure for evaluating diffusion and leakage currents in insulators A method for predicting long-term electrical insulation properties of composite materials in a moist environment. The method including the steps of providing a specimen, and testing the specimen to determine moisture content values and leakage current values at pred... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7269029 | Rapid fire test board A test board for testing a packaged integrated circuit has a set of contacts matching counterpart contacts on a socket. The contacts are each connected to a first voltage plane containing power, a second voltage plane carrying ground, and a set of terminals that wil... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7256701 | Motor driver A motor driver capable of detecting the insulation deterioration of a motor easily and inexpensively is disclosed. The voltage supplied from an AC power supply (1) is rectified by a first rectifying circuit (D1 to D6) and smoothed by a capacitor... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251986 | Sealed condition inspection device A sealed condition inspecting device comprising a support unit for supporting an element to be inspected for a sealed condition, a pair of electrodes in contact with the portion to be inspected of the element to be inspected and supported by the support unit, an ele... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245143 | Electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, and mounting structure An electro-optical device includes a first substrate that holds an electro-optical material, a first IC that is mounted on the first substrate and that has a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals formed on the first substrate to be connected ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239316 | Method and apparatus for graphically manipulating data tables An interactive display system includes a display such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), for example, and a display controller. The display controller and display operate in concert to display graphical images that are representative of numerical, tabular, data. The displ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239126 | System bench wireless mapping board A system for testing electronic modules comprising at least one mapping board box, and at least one harness operably attached to the mapping board box with a harness port is disclosed. The mapping board box comprises pin receptors, wherein the receptors are in commu... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225681 | Statistical method for identifying microcracks in insulators One embodiment of the invention is a method for evaluating a material such as low-k dielectric, by a stress-generating test tool such as a needle. The evaluation object is shaped as a stack of adhering layers: low-k dielectric, first metal (preferably copper), barri... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7176694 | Testing device and method of testing insulated handles used for servicing high voltage transmission lines A hot stick testing apparatus and method including a pair of generally ring-shaped electrodes spaced from one another at a predetermined distance. Each electrode has a central opening configured to receive the diameter of a hot stick under test positioned longitudin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171322 | Algorithm for estimation of multiple faults on a transmission line or waveguide An algorithm is provided for a frequency domain reflectometer which takes into account both attenuation per unit length of transmission line and phase shift per unit length of transmission line in a modified Inverse Fourier Transform that converts a frequency domain... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7141990 | Device for detecting degradation of a component An apparatus for monitoring the structural integrity of a component. A monitoring structure is applied to a component that is subject to structural degradation. The monitoring structure includes an electrical conductor that becomes cracked if the component becomes s... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141982 | Estimation of leakage rates using voltage measurements A current is injected in the vicinity of a liquid-containment facility of interest to create a measurable electrical potential field in the ground underlying the site. Voltage is measured at each of a plurality of electrodes and plotted as a function of time. The ra... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120087 | Electronics-carrying module An electronic-carrying module (640), for example for use with a seismic data acquisition cable (400), is disclosed. The preferred electronic-carrying module (640) includes, first, an electronics carrier (106) having access means (107 | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108018 | Reinforced flexible hose A reinforced flexible hose comprising as least a first inner extruded tubular layer and at least a second extruded tubular layer with a tubular reinforcement fabric provided between said first and second hoses. The two tubes are joined so as to form a homogeneous un... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7084776 | Fluid detection apparatus and kit, and method of installation thereof An apparatus for sensing the presence of a conductive fluid on an upwardly facing generally planar surface of a floor, and a method of installation thereof. The apparatus includes an electrically insulating base dimensioned for installation under the floor such that... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084777 | Fluid leak detection device A fluid leak detection device includes a platform having at least one fluid concentration zone forming a fluid detection area. Two electrically conductive members are positioned in the fluid concentration zone such that a gap is formed between the electrically condu... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081744 | Cable location continuously determining apparatus, cable location continuously determining method, and cable location continuously determining program The apparatus can continuously determine the location at which a cable is buried. Location data of a measurement standard position is acquired by RTK-GPS. The azimuth of the moving direction of the apparatus is calculated using the location data. Electromagnetic wav... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7075311 | Insulation detecting device for non-grounded power source An insulation detecting device having a capacitor and a DC power source, insulated from a ground potential part. A voltage detecting unit, detects a voltage across the capacitor. A first switching unit connects the capacitor to the DC power source in series for a fi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7063670 | System and method for detecting perforations in a body cavity A system and method for detecting perforations in a body cavity. In accordance with the method of the invention, a fluid (liquid or gas) is delivered into a body cavity to slightly pressurize the cavity. A pressure sensing system monitors the pressure within the cav... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061249 | Sealed condition inspecting device An object of the present invention is to provide a seal condition inspection apparatus capable of reliably inspecting seal condition. The seal condition inspection apparatus includes an electrically-variable-quantity detecting section for detecting an electrically v... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061253 | Apparatus and method for field testing polymer insulators A system and method for testing polymer insulators is provided. One embodiment includes applying a voltage to a grading shield that is oriented about a top region of a polymer insulator and to a high voltage lead of the polymer insulator; detecting a leakage current... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7038464 | Carrier line oriented spin high voltage leak detection system and method Inspection and leak detection of electrically insulated containers having an electrically conductive solution therein in high speed assembly carrier line systems, includes controlled carrier structure and methods for carrying, conveying, orientating, and spinning th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7013701 | Inspection method of multilayer gas sensing device Provided is an inspection method for a multilayer gas sensing device, capable of certainly and easily detecting a defective product originating from faults such as gaps or cracks. For the inspection of the gas sensing device including a sensor cell in which a measur... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015700 | Flaw detector Flaw detection apparatus includes an electrode disposed in a region surrounded by a packaging material including a layer of an electrically-conductive material; a cutting member made of an electrically-conductive material and adapted to cut a predetermined portion o... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6984992 | Condom testing apparatus A condom testing apparatus having a plurality of electrically conductive mandrels having condoms loaded thereon, a first set of condom-contacting electrode members, a second set of condom-contacting electrode members, and a gapped electrical circuit between each of ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6924650 | Device for generator diagnosis with built-in rotor In a device for the investigation of components of a generator which border on a machine air gap (29) between stator and rotor (22), with the rotor (22) built in, by means of at least one moveable inspection probe (35), a simple, flexible... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6836125 | Method and a device for testing a power module A method of testing a power module including a control gate, an emitter, a collector, at least one power component on a dielectric substrate and a diode connected in antiparallel with the power component measures partial discharges occurring between the emitter and ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6825555 | Hot plate An object of the present invention is to provide a hot plate which is superior in thermal conductivity, is superior in temperature-rising/dropping property, particularly in temperature-dropping property, and has high cooling thermal efficiency at the time of cooling... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6812716 | Method and apparatus for testing an electrical component A process and an apparatus for measuring the impedance of a capacitive sample and thereby determining the leakage impedance and the loss angle. To suppress the effects of ambient power frequency fields coupling onto the test object, measuring frequencies on either s... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6794885 | Device for inspecting hermetically sealed packages While a sealed package (3) prepared by wrapping conductive contents (1) with an electric-insulation film (2) is being conveyed by two conveyors (4, 4), front and rear, a conductor (5) disposed on one side of a conveyance path (A) a... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6774640 | Test coupon pattern design to control multilayer saw singulated plastic ball grid array substrate mis-registration A new method is provided for evaluating the alignment of inner layers of interconnect layers. A test pattern is inserted within and as part of the process of creating a saw singulated plastic ball grid array substrate. The test pattern comprises a test point of refe... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6768316 | Laser cutting of laminates for electrical insulation testing A laminate comprising an insulation layer sandwiched between a pair of electrically conductive layers is prepared for electrical insulation testing by using a laser to remove a strip from at least one of the conductive layers proximate the edge of the laminate to el... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6694268 | Leakage inspection method for sealed container and apparatus for carrying out the method A leakage inspection method for a sealed container in which a liquid of a non-electrolyte is contained for judging whether a defect exists in the container, the method comprising the steps of applying an inspection AC voltage through electrodes from an in... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6686748 | Procedure arrangement and sensor for testing of the H-F tightness of the junction between two adjacent parts Arrangement to test HF tightness of a junction between two adjacent parts including HF generator (4), HF line that guides the signal over junction (1), measuring device (10) as well as a signal analyzer. HF line includes two waveguides (5a, 5b) that have ... | 02/03/2004 |
