Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – With means to create magnetic field to test material
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2006-05-23
Patidar, Jay (Department: 2862)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
With means to create magnetic field to test material
C324S239000, C324S243000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07049811
ABSTRACT:
A test circuit having a drive winding with parallel conducting segments and a plurality of sense elements used for the nondestructive measurement of materials. The drive winding segments have extended portions and are driven by a time varying electric current to impose a magnetic field in the test material. Sense elements are distributed in a direction parallel to the extended portions of these drive segments, with separate connections provided to each sense element. A second plurality of sense elements may also be distributed parallel to the extended portions of the drive windings, being either aligned or offset from a first plurality of sense elements.
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Goldfine Neil J.
Grundy David C.
Schlicker Darrell E.
Shay Ian C.
Walrath Karen E.
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds P.C.
JENTEK Sensors, Inc.
Patidar Jay
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