Differential transmit-receive eddy current probe incorporating bracelets of multi-coil units
CA 2076205 C · Owner: Sharp, F. Leonard · Inventors: Obrutski De Marini, Laura; Cecco, Valentino S.; Sharp, F. Leonard
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An eddy current probe for insertion into a tube to be inspected includes a transmitter coil and a pair of sensing coils. The pair of sensing coils have opposite polarity relative to one another and are series connected to provide a differential output. The pair of sensing coils and the transmitter coil are disposed on the surface of the probe. The pair of sensing coils being equally spaced from the transmitter coil and separate from each longitudinally on the probe. Each sensing coil in the pair of sensing coils is thereby angularly displaced from a plane transverse to the probe as measured from the transmitter coil with which a multi-coil unit is formed. Bracelets of coils are formed from …
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- Filed August 14, 1992 and granted April 20, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 14, 2012.
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