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Apparatus for internal inspection of a workpiece having a hollow cylindrical hole

US8578780B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intelligendt Systems & Services GmbH · DE

Inventors

Rainer Meier · Erlangen, DE
Edgar Zaus · Bad Mergentheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 6, 2013
Grant date	Nov 12, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 6, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2291/2636
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus internally inspects a workpiece having a hollow cylindrical hole. The apparatus contains an ultrasound transducer configuration having a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements, which are arranged in at least one row, one next to the other, in an elastically deformable carrier which has the form of a segment of a hollow cylinder and has a plurality of sliding pimples which extend in the longitudinal direction of the carrier and project with a protrusion in the radial direction beyond the transmitting and/or receiving surfaces of the ultrasound transducer elements.

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