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Calibration for a nondestructive material testing system

US8127591B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Stefan Hain · Rückersbach, DE
Hubert Mooshofer · Birkenfeld, DE
Fabricio De Carvalho Ferreira · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 19, 2009
Grant date	Mar 6, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 25, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2291/2634
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Calibration for an ultrasonic nondestructive materials testing system is specified, the system having an array of ultrasonic transducers which can be linearly moved and pivoted. In order to compensate for the offset between the beam direction of the ultrasonic transducers and the rotation point of the pivoting system or another desired point of the transducers, this offset is determined using a calibrating body which is, for example, spherical.

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