公开(公告)号：US20070245834A1

公开(公告)日：2007-10-25

申请号：US11702422

申请日：2007-02-05

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  David Grundy ,  Yonko Sheiretov ,  Leandro Lorilla ,  Vladimir Zilberstein ,  Volker Weiss ,  J. Lovett ,  Andrew Washabaugh

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  David Grundy ,  Yonko Sheiretov ,  Leandro Lorilla ,  Vladimir Zilberstein ,  Volker Weiss ,  J. Lovett ,  Andrew Washabaugh

IPC分类号： G01L3/02

CPC分类号： G01L1/125

摘要： Magnetic or electric field sensors are mounted against a material surface and used for stress, strain, and load monitoring of rotating components such as vehicle drive trains. The stationary sensors are mounted at multiple locations around the component and used assess the stress on the component at multiple rotational positions. The sensor response is typically converted into a material property, such as magnetic permeability or electrical conductivity, which accounts for any coating thickness that may be present between the sensor and mounting surface. The sensors are not in direct contact with the rotating component and are typically mounted on an annular material or ring that encircles the rotating component. Measurements of the annular material properties, such as the stress, are related to the stress on the rotating component and discrete features on the component. As a particular example, the rotating component is a planetary gear system, with sensors mounted on the ring gear and the discrete features are carrier plate posts. The sensors are preferably mounted at equal distances around the circumference of the component. The sensors and instrumentation may be removable and reusable for monitoring of additional components.

摘要翻译： 磁场或电场传感器安装在材料表面上，用于对诸如车辆传动系的旋转部件进行应力，应变和负载监测。 固定式传感器安装在组件周围的多个位置，用于评估组件在多个旋转位置的应力。 传感器响应通常被转换成诸如磁导率或导电性的材料性质，其考虑了传感器和安装表面之间可能存在的任何涂层厚度。 传感器不与旋转部件直接接触，并且通常安装在环绕旋转部件的环形材料或环上。 环形材料特性（如应力）的测量与旋转部件上的应力和部件上的离散特征有关。 作为具体示例，旋转部件是行星齿轮系统，其中传感器安装在齿圈上，并且分立的特征是承载板柱。 传感器优选地围绕部件的圆周以相等的距离安装。 传感器和仪器可能是可拆卸的，可重复使用，用于监控附加部件。

公开(公告)号：US20060247896A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-02

申请号：US11371315

申请日：2006-03-07

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Yanko Sheiretov ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  David Grundy ,  Vladimir Zilberstein

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Yanko Sheiretov ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  David Grundy ,  Vladimir Zilberstein

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G01N22/00

摘要： The condition of insulating and semiconducting dielectric materials is assessed by a sensor array that uses electric fields to interrogate the test material. The sensor has a linear array of parallel drive conductors interconnected to form a single drive electrode and sense conductors placed on each side of and parallel to a drive conductor. Subsets of the sense conductors are interconnected to form at least two sense elements sensitive to different material regions. The sense conductors may be at different distances to the drive conductors, enabling measurement sensitivity to different depths into the test material. The material condition is assessed directly from the sense element responses or after conversion to an effective material property, such as an electrical conductivity or dielectric permittivity.

摘要翻译： 绝缘和半导体介电材料的条件通过使用电场询问测试材料的传感器阵列来评估。 传感器具有互连以形成单个驱动电极的线性阵列和放置在驱动导体的平行于驱动导体的每一侧上的感测导体。 感测导体的子集互连以形成对不同材料区域敏感的至少两个感测元件。 感测导体可以距离驱动导体不同的距离，使测量灵敏度不同于测试材料的深度。 材料条件直接由感应元件响应或转换为有效材料性质（如导电率或介电常数）进行评估。

公开(公告)号：US20050017713A1

公开(公告)日：2005-01-27

申请号：US10864297

申请日：2004-06-09

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  David Grundy ,  Vladimir Zilberstein ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Andrew Washabaugh

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  David Grundy ,  Vladimir Zilberstein ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Andrew Washabaugh

IPC分类号： B23K20/12 ,  B23K31/12 ,  G01N27/90 ,  G01N27/82

CPC分类号： B23K20/123 ,  B23K20/122 ,  B23K31/125 ,  G01N27/90

摘要： Eddy current sensors and sensor arrays are used to characterize welds and the welding process schedule or parameters. A sensor or sensor array is placed in proximity to the test material, such as a lap joint or a butt weld, and translated over the weld region. Effective properties associated with the test material and sensor, such as an electrical conductivity or lift-off, are obtained for the weld region and the base material at a distant location from the weld region. The effective properties or features obtained from the effective property variation with position across the weld are used to assess the welding process parameters.

摘要翻译： 涡流传感器和传感器阵列用于表征焊缝和焊接过程进度表或参数。 传感器或传感器阵列放置在测试材料附近，例如搭接接头或对接焊缝，并在焊接区域上翻译。 对于焊接区域和基材在与焊接区域相距较远的位置，获得与测试材料和传感器相关的有效特性，例如导电性或剥离性。 使用从穿过焊缝的位置的有效性质变化获得的有效性质或特征来评估焊接工艺参数。

公开(公告)号：US20060076952A9

公开(公告)日：2006-04-13

申请号：US11056334

申请日：2005-02-11

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  David Grundy ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Ian Shay ,  Andrew Washabaugh

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  David Grundy ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Ian Shay ,  Andrew Washabaugh

IPC分类号： G01N27/82

CPC分类号： G01N27/904

摘要： Apparatus and methods are described for assessing material condition through magnetic field measurements that provide material property information at multiple depths into the material. The measurements are obtained from sense elements located at different distances from an excitation drive winding, with the area of each sense element adjusted so that the flux of magnetic field through each sense element is approximately the same when over a reference material. These sense element responses can be combined, for example by subtraction, to enhance sensitivity to hidden features, such as cracks beneath fastener heads, while reducing the influence from variable effects, such as fastener material type and placement. Measurement responses can also be converted into effective material properties, using a model that accounts for known properties of the sensor and test material, which are then correlated with the size of the surface breaking or hidden features.

摘要翻译： 描述了用于通过磁场测量来评估材料状况的装置和方法，其在材料的多个深度处提供材料属性信息。 测量是从位于与激励驱动绕组不同距离的感测元件获得的，每个感测元件的面积被调节，使得当超过参考材料时，通过每个感测元件的磁场通量大致相同。 这些感应元件响应可以例如通过减法来组合，以增强对诸如紧固件头部下方的裂纹的隐藏特征的敏感性，同时减少诸如紧固件材料类型和放置的可变效应的影响。 也可以使用考虑传感器和测试材料的已知特性的模型将测量响应转换为有效的材料性质，然后将其与表面破裂或隐藏特征的大小相关联。

公开(公告)号：US20060186880A1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-24

申请号：US11408290

申请日：2006-04-20

申请人： Darrell Schlicker ,  Neil Goldfine ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  Karen Walrath ,  Ian Shay ,  David Grundy ,  Mark Windoloski

发明人： Darrell Schlicker ,  Neil Goldfine ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  Karen Walrath ,  Ian Shay ,  David Grundy ,  Mark Windoloski

IPC分类号： G01N27/82

CPC分类号： G01N27/9033 ,  G01N27/82 ,  G01N27/902 ,  G01N27/904

摘要： An automated drawing tool and a method for drawing a sensor layout. A sensor is drawn by selecting a sensor family, each sensor of the sensor family having at least one drive element to impose a magnetic field in a test material when driven by an electric signal, and at least one sense element for sensing a response of the test material. A set of layout rules are associated with the sensor family and are used in determining a sensor-layout. The automated drawing tool processes input information and the layout rules, for the sensor family, to automatically draw the sensor.

摘要翻译： 自动绘图工具和绘制传感器布局的方法。 通过选择传感器系列来绘制传感器，传感器系列的每个传感器具有至少一个驱动元件，以在由电信号驱动时在测试材料中施加磁场，以及至少一个感测元件，用于感测 测试材料。 一组布局规则与传感器系列相关联，并用于确定传感器布局。 自动绘图工具处理输入信息和传感器系列的布局规则，自动绘制传感器。

公开(公告)号：US20050248339A1

公开(公告)日：2005-11-10

申请号：US11056334

申请日：2005-02-11

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  David Grundy ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Ian Shay ,  Andrew Washabaugh

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  David Grundy ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Ian Shay ,  Andrew Washabaugh

IPC分类号： G01N27/82 ,  G01N27/90

CPC分类号： G01N27/904

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 感应传感器测量导电和磁性材料的近表面性质。 传感器可以具有平行延伸的绕组段的初级绕组，以在测试材料中施加空间周期的磁场。 这些延伸部分可以由各个驱动线圈的相邻部分形成。 每隔一半波长提供的感测元件可以串联连接在一起，而相邻半波长中的感测元件在空间上偏移。 某些传感器包括产生在径向周期性的圆形对称磁场的圆形段。 这种传感器特别适于围绕紧固件以检测裂缝并且可以安装在紧固件头部下方。 在另一个传感器中，感测绕组沿着平行绕组段的长度偏移，以便在电路扫描测试材料时，通过不同位置提供材料测量。 当感测元件之间的偏移空间变化时，从感测元件到初级绕组的端部的距离可以保持恒定。 当传感器跨越材料扫描时，可以提供材料特性的图像。

公开(公告)号：US20060009865A1

公开(公告)日：2006-01-12

申请号：US11079912

申请日：2005-03-14

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Vladimir Zilberstein ,  Ian Shay ,  Christopher Craven ,  David Grundy ,  Volker Weiss ,  Andrew Washabaugh

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Vladimir Zilberstein ,  Ian Shay ,  Christopher Craven ,  David Grundy ,  Volker Weiss ,  Andrew Washabaugh

IPC分类号： G05B13/02 ,  G05D23/00

CPC分类号： G01N27/02 ,  G01N19/00 ,  G01N25/00 ,  G01N27/60 ,  G01N27/72 ,  G05D23/1931 ,  G05D23/22 ,  G05D23/24 ,  G05D23/26

摘要： The condition of internal or hidden material layers or interfaces is monitored and used for control of a process that changes a condition of a material system. The material system has multiple component materials, such as layers or embedded constituents, or can be represented with multiple layers to model spatial distributions in the material properties. The material condition changes as a result of a process performed on the material, such as by cold working, or from functional operation. Sensors placed proximate to the test material surface or embedded between material layers are used to monitor a material property using magnetic, electric, or thermal interrogation fields. The sensor responses are converted into states of the material condition, such as temperature or residual stress, typically with a precomputed database of sensor responses. The sensor responses can also be used to determine properties of the test material, such as electrical conductivity or magnetic permeability, prior to conversion to the material state. The states are used to support control decisions that control the process or operation causing the material condition to change.

公开(公告)号：US20070272042A1

公开(公告)日：2007-11-29

申请号：US11715288

申请日：2007-03-07

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Vladimir Tsukernik ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Todd Dunford ,  Andrew Washabaugh

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Mark Windoloski ,  Vladimir Tsukernik ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Todd Dunford ,  Andrew Washabaugh

IPC分类号： G01M19/00

CPC分类号： G01B7/285

摘要： A set of curved components, such as the dovetail region of engine blades, are inspected by mounting each component into a circular carousel in a vertical orientation and rotating the carousel to move each component toward and away from an inspection site. The inspection site clamps a flexible eddy current sensor array to the curved material surface, scans the array over the surface, records the sensor position. A rigid element having a surface geometry similar to the surface shape of the component can be attached to the component to facilitate scanning of the sensor array over a component edge. The response of each sense element in the array may be converted into an effective material property and sense element proximity to the component material surface to verify the quality of the inspection scan and the presence of a defect such as a crack.

摘要翻译： 通过将垂直方向上的每个部件安装到圆形转盘中并旋转圆盘传送带以使每个部件朝向和离开检查部位移动，来检查一组弯曲部件，例如发动机叶片的燕尾形区域。 检查部位将柔性涡流传感器阵列夹在弯曲的材料表面，扫描阵列在表面上，记录传感器的位置。 具有类似于部件的表面形状的表面几何形状的刚性元件可以附接到部件上以便于在部件边缘上扫描传感器阵列。 阵列中的每个感测元件的响应可以被转换成有效的材料性质和感测元件接近组件材料表面以验证检查扫描的质量和存在诸如裂纹的缺陷。

公开(公告)号：US20060082366A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-20

申请号：US11071051

申请日：2005-03-02

申请人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Karen Walrath ,  Volker Weiss ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  Vladimir Zilberstein

发明人： Neil Goldfine ,  Darrell Schlicker ,  Karen Walrath ,  Volker Weiss ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  Vladimir Zilberstein

IPC分类号： G01N27/82

CPC分类号： G01N27/72 ,  G01B7/24 ,  G01B7/34 ,  G01N27/90 ,  G01N27/902 ,  G01R33/12

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 感应传感器测量导电和磁性材料的近表面性质。 传感器可以具有平行延伸的绕组段的初级绕组，以在测试材料中施加空间周期的磁场。 这些延伸部分可以由各个驱动线圈的相邻部分形成。 每隔一半波长提供的感测元件可以串联连接在一起，而相邻半波长中的感测元件在空间上偏移。 某些传感器包括产生在径向周期性的圆形对称磁场的圆形段。 这种传感器特别适于围绕紧固件以检测裂缝并且可以安装在紧固件头部下方。 在另一个传感器中，感测绕组沿着平行绕组段的长度偏移，以便在电路扫描测试材料时，通过不同位置提供材料测量。 当感测元件之间的偏移空间变化时，从感测元件到初级绕组的端部的距离可以保持恒定。 当传感器跨越材料扫描时，可以提供材料特性的图像。

公开(公告)号：US20060009923A1

公开(公告)日：2006-01-12

申请号：US11227307

申请日：2005-09-15

申请人： Ian Shay ,  Neil Goldfine ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  Darrell Schlicker

发明人： Ian Shay ,  Neil Goldfine ,  Andrew Washabaugh ,  Darrell Schlicker

IPC分类号： G01B7/00

CPC分类号： G01N27/82 ,  G01N27/902

摘要： Magnetic field sensor probes are disclosed which comprise primary or drive windings having a plurality of current carrying segments. The relative magnitude and direction of current in each segment are adjusted so that the resulting interrogating magnetic field follows a desired spatial distribution. By changing the current in each segment, more than one spatial distribution for the magnetic field can be imposed within the same sensor footprint. Example envelopes for the current distributions approximate a sinusoid in Cartesian coordinates or a first-order Bessel function in polar coordinates. One or more sensing elements are used to determine the response of a test material to the magnetic field. These sense elements can be configured into linear or circumferential arrays.

摘要翻译： 公开了磁场传感器探针，其包括具有多个载流段的初级或驱动绕组。 调整每个段中的电流的相对幅度和方向，使得所得到的询问磁场遵循所需的空间分布。 通过改变每个段中的电流，可以在相同的传感器覆盖区内施加多于一个磁场的空间分布。 当前分布的示例包络近似于笛卡尔坐标中的正弦波或极坐标中的一阶贝塞尔函数。 一个或多个感测元件用于确定测试材料对磁场的响应。 这些感测元件可以被配置成线性或圆周阵列。