Boresonic inspection system
CA 1293796 C · Owner: Michaels, Thomas Elsworth · Inventors: Michaels, Jennifer Emmons; Nottingham, Lawrence Darrell; Michaels, Thomas Elsworth
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53,451, ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE, An immersion based ultrasonic inspection system is disclosed which is used to interrogate the bore and near bore material of turbine and generator rotors by passing ultrasonic search units through the rotor bore. This system utilizes variable focus array inspection transducers in a shear mode inspection of the near bore material. A ranging transducer is provided which is used to correct the surface time of the inspection beam. A mapping transducer and blind bore sensor allow diameter mapping of the rotor bore as well as a blind rotor end sensing as the scan head carrying the transducers enters the bore. A scan head centering device or chuck deploys four …
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- Granted December 31, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 31, 2008.
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