Ensuring inspection coverage for manual inspection

US9927232B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Lukasz Adam Bienkowski · Munich, DE
• Christian Homma · Vaterstetten, DE
• Hubert Mooshofer · Birkenfeld, DE
• Max Rothenfusser · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 24, 2013
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01B21/047
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order to support an inspecting person in a method for the manual non-destructive inspection of a test object, a detection device is provided for detecting three-dimensional surface coordinates of a region to be inspected on the test object and for continuously determining positions and speeds of an inspecting tool relative to the test object Discrete position values and speed values of the inspecting tool for the respective measurement time points are stored by a storage device. A computing device determines the share of an already inspected region in relation to the total region of the test object to be inspected. The method and device can be used for manual inspection of test objects having a plurality of different shapes. The inspecting person is effectively relieved and the process for the non-destructive inspection is documented in order to guarantee a complete inspection.