Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Stress in material measurement
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-08
2007-05-08
Lefkowitz, Edward (Department: 2862)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Stress in material measurement
C324S233000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10492135
ABSTRACT:
Material properties such as stress in a ferromagnetic material may be measured using an electromagnetic probe. While generating an alternating magnetic field in the object, and sensing the resulting magnetic field with a sensor, the signals from the magnetic sensor may be resolved into in-phase and quadrature components. The signals are affected by both geometrical parameters such as lift-off and by material properties, but these influences may be separated by mapping the in-phase and quadrature components directly into material property and lift-off components, and hence a material property and/or the lift-off may be determined. The mapping may be represented in the impedance plane as two sets of contours representing signal variation with lift-off (A) (for different values of stress) and signal variation with stress (B) (for different values of lift-off), the contours of both sets (A, B) being curved. The stress contours (B) intersect any one liftoff contour (A) at a constant angle. Hence calibration measurements taken along a few contours of each set enable the positions of the other contours of each set to be determined.
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ESR Technology Ltd.
Holt William H.
Lefkowitz Edward
Schindler David M.
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