Positioning assembly for a transducer in a boresonic inspection system
CA 1303723 C · Owner: Michaels, Thomas Elsworth · Inventors: Nottingham, Lawrence Darrell; Michaels, Thomas Elsworth; Michaels, Jennifer Emmons
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53,451-B-3, An immersion base ultrasonic inspection system for interrogating 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. The system includes a positioning assembly for a transducer which includes carriage means for supporting the transducer and a first positioning means for tilting one end of the carriage means in a radial axial plane whereby the transducer may be positioned at an angle to a longitudinal axis of the system. A second positioning means is provided for circumferentially rotating the …
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- Granted June 16, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 16, 2009.
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