Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – With means to create magnetic field to test material
Patent
1990-05-25
1991-09-10
Snow, Walter E.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
With means to create magnetic field to test material
324262, 336 20, G01N 2782, G01R 3312, H01F 2102
Patent
active
050477196
ABSTRACT:
An improved flexible coil array for nondestructive reflective-mode eddy-current testing of conductive members is disclosed. The assembly comprises a flexible substrate having a first array of coils formed on one side thereof. The first array of coils are connected in series in parallel columns. One end of each of the rows is connected to a common ground connection, while the other ends of each row are successively connected to a source of excitation energy. A second array of series-connected rows of coils, orthogonal to the columns, is formed on the opposite side of the substrate. Again, one end of each of the rows is connected to a common point while the other end of each of the rows is successively connected to means for detecting a voltage induced on the coils of the row. The voltage will vary if one of the coils is disposed in juxtaposition to a discontinuity of the member to be inspected. Comparison of voltages induced on the various rows of coils, together with indication of the column of driver coils which is being driven at the time of detection of a variation in the voltage, locates any discontinuity in the member to be inspected. The coils may be made up of pairs of half-coils connected in series to form the rows and columns.
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Johnson Duane
Krampfner Yehuda
Liniak Thomas P.
Snow Walter E.
The Failure Group, Inc.
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