Test probe as well as family of test probes for the non-destructive testing of a workpiece by means of ultrasonic sound and testing device

US8955384B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolf-Dietrich Kleinert · Bonn, DE
• Gerhard Splitt · Cologne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2010
• Grant date: Feb 17, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2291/056
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a test probe 10 for the non-destructive testing of a workpiece by means of ultrasonic sound. The test probe has an ultrasonic transducer 20 for the generation of an ultrasonic field, which is coupled acoustically to a delay line body 12, which is provided to be attached for a coupling of the ultrasonic field into the workpiece on a surface of the workpiece. Furthermore, the invention relates to a family of test probes as well as to a testing device for the non-destructive testing of a workpiece by means of ultrasonic sound, with a test probe 10, whose ultrasonic transducer 20 has a majority of independently controllable individual oscillators. Furthermore, a control unit 50 is provided, which is equipped to control the individual oscillators of the ultrasonic transducer 20 with phase accuracy in such a way, that a sound field rotationally symmetrical to the central beam is generated. The test probe or the family of test probes and the testing device are suitable in particular for the angular intromission of sound or for a utilization on curved workpiece surface areas.