Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – With means to create magnetic field to test material
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-04
2005-10-04
Patidar, Jay (Department: 2862)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
With means to create magnetic field to test material
C324S242000, C324S243000, C324S202000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06952095
ABSTRACT:
Inductive sensors measure the near surface properties of conducting and magnetic material. A sensor may have primary windings with parallel extended winding segments to impose a spatially periodic magnetic field in a test material. Those extended portions may be formed by adjacent portions of individual drive coils. Sensing elements provided every other half wavelength may be connected together in series while the sensing elements in adjacent half wavelengths are spatially offset. Certain sensors include circular segments which create a circularly symmetric magnetic field that is periodic in the radial direction. Such sensors are particularly adapted to surround fasteners to detect cracks and can be mounted beneath a fastener head. In another sensor, sensing windings are offset along the length of parallel winding segments to provide material measurements over different locations when the circuit is scanned over the test material. The distance from the sensing elements to the ends of the primary winding may be kept constant as the offset space in between sensing elements is varied. An image of the material properties can be provided as the sensor is scanned across the material.
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Goldfine Neil J.
Schlicker Darrell E.
Tsukernik Vladimir
Washabaugh Andrew P.
Zilberstein Vladimir A.
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds P.C.
JENTEK Sensors, Inc.
Patidar Jay
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