Ultrasound test device with cluster housing

US8443674B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Damian Meinert · Langenfeld, DE
• Stephan Falter · Simmerath, DE
• Dieter Lingenberg · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Reinhard Prause · Hürth, DE
• Rainer Vierhaus · Pühlheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2008
• Grant date: May 21, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2291/2634
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an ultrasound inspection device for the inspection of tubular workpieces, where the ultrasound inspection device can be coupled to the workpiece by means of a fluid medium, the workpiece and the ultrasound inspection device can be moved relative to each other, a transducer unit substantially disposed in a cluster housing is provided, where the cluster housing includes a wear sole which is adapted to the respective diameter of the workpiece and which can be placed on an outer lateral surface of the workpiece and is configured such that a chamber forms between the workpiece and the transducer unit, at least one fluid inlet channel, which, with a fluid inlet opening, opens into the chamber, at least one fluid outlet channel for venting and draining the chamber, which opens into the chamber where the mouth of the fluid outlet channel and the fluid outlet channel are configured and disposed such that a filling process of the chamber and of the fluid outlet channel can be carried out starting on the outer lateral surface of the workpiece, and then in a rising manner.