Test device for the detection and analysis of material faults

US4370889A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Ruthrof · Nürnberg, DE
• Rainer Meier · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 1980
• Grant date: Feb 1, 1983
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E30/30
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Test equipment for the detection and analysis of material faults in a test piece, including a test head, an electrical remotely controlled manipulator for moving the test head in at least two degrees of freedom, a device connected to the test head for supplying the test head and evaluating signals thereof, a display connected to the test head for measuring test results thereof, a device for providing the manipulator with a testing program for automatically following a predetermined path at the surface of the test piece, an electronic transmission system connected to the manipulator, a device connected to the electronic transmission system for simulating the test piece, and a remote controlled hand-operated guide element disposed adjacent to the display in the simulating means for controlling the test head in correspondence to manual operation.