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7600442 Ultrasonic probing method and apparatus therefor utilizing resonance phenomenon  
A flaw Z with a long probing length inside a probing target is allowed to be probed. The waves other than the probing target waves are removed or reduced, so that the individual difference in the...
7590495 Inverse method to calculate material properties using a non-resonant technique  
A method for calculating material properties of a material includes determining a dilatational wavespeed and a shear wave speed. The dilatational wavespeed is determined by conducting vertical...
7584663 Material stream sensors  
A method of determining the content of a desired component in a stream of material including two or more types of component, includes causing or permitting a stream of a plurality of particles of...
7584060 Inverse method to calculate material properties using an insertion loss test  
A method for calculating material properties of a material includes conducting two insertion loss tests of the material having a single thickness and a double thickness. These tests are conducted...
7580802 Method of determining condition of a turbine blade, and utilizing the collected information for estimation of the lifetime of the blade  
A method for determining the condition of a turbine blade ( 2, 4 ) in a compressor and utilizing the collected information in an estimation of the lifetime of the turbine blade ( 2, 4 ), whereby a...
7578183 Acoustic volume indicator  
Acoustic volume indicators for determining liquid or gas volume within a container comprise a contactor to vibrate a container wall, a detector to receive vibration data from the container wall, a...
7562557 Flexural resonator sensing device and method  
A flexural resonator includes a piezoelectric material. At least a portion of an electrode having a first surface and a second surface is embedded in the piezoelectric material such that the...
7555952 Sensing device  
The present invention prevents instability of frequency measurement caused by spatial connection between quartz sensors adjacent to each other when a plurality of quartz sensors, including a quartz...
7555951 Determination of remaining useful life of gas turbine blade  
A system may be used to indicate a need for replacement of a vibrating structure and includes a sensor, an indicator, and a processor. The sensor senses a frequency of vibration of the vibrating...
7552639 Quartz sensor and sensing device  
An object of the present invention is to provide a highly sensitive Langevin type quartz sensor which is easy in assembling, is less likely to cause damage to a quartz resonator during the assembly...
7549338 Nanostructure sensor of presence and concentration of a target molecule  
Method and system (i) to determine when a selected target molecule is present or absent in a fluid, (2) to estimate concentration of the target molecule in the fluid and (3) estimate possible...
7549336 Harmonic fatigue evaluation  
A method and apparatus for determining the performance level, amount of wear, and remaining useful life of a new or worn object, preferably of metallic construction through harmonic fatigue...
7546769 Ultrasonic inspection system and method  
A method and system for microstructural evaluation and degradation evaluation of an object are provided. The method comprises insonifying at least one subvolume of the object with ultrasonic energy...
7543476 Rupture event sensors  
An apparatus for separating an analyte from a mixture or for detecting an analyte or for determining the affinity, or a property related to affinity, between binding partners includes: a) a surface...
7532951 Method of automatically setting vibration suppression filter  
A filter is set by a control apparatus automatically detecting a vibration frequency and determining a filter to be needed, in a simple method that does not require a special process. A servo...
7530272 Multiple frequency ultrasound apparatus  
The invention disclosed that the multiple frequency ultrasound apparatus using unique transducer will contain many actuations module, a coupled circuit and a transducer. Each actuation module can...
7526958 Audiometer receiver and audiometer  
An audiometer having an air-conduction receiver, a bone-conduction receiver, a masking receiver and an audiometer body is provided, in which the air-conduction receiver, the bone-conduction...
7519480 Driving-force output of a reciprocating actuator  
The force exerted by a reciprocating actuator is estimated as a weighted sum of three quantities: a reaction-mass acceleration, a baseplate acceleration, and a relative acceleration of the...
7513157 Method and device for determining the redox state of a reaction surface coated with a catalyst material  
The invention relates to a method and device for determining the redox state of an anode ( 11 ), which is coated with a catalyst material or consisting thereof, associated with a high temperature...
7509861 Method and device for local spectral analysis of an ultrasonic signal  
The method decomposes the radio frequency signal into sub-bands by filtering, for example with a time-frequency transform. From the coefficients acquired through decomposition a matrix of spectral...
7509860 System for measuring resonant frequency and delay time of quartz crystal microbalance  
This present invention relates to a system for measuring resonant frequency and delay time of the quartz crystal microbalance. The system includes a transistor oscillating circuit, a switch...
7503219 Monitoring and diagnosing a technical installation using purely mechanically activated signaling means  
A specific failure occurring during operation of a technical installation is detected by acquiring an acoustic and/or optical signal emitted by a device assigned to at least one component of the...
7497119 Methods and systems for using resonant acousto-EM energy and acousto-EM signatures to disrupt biologic structures  
The present invention makes use of resonant acousto-EM energy (alone or in combination with resonant acoustic energy) applied to biologic structures for the disruption of at least one function of...
7464593 Metallurgic treatment and verification system  
A new and improved metallurgic treatment and verification system and method. The system comprising several components in combination. First provided is an object to be tested. The object has a...
7458266 Method and apparatus for detecting a load change upon a structure and analyzing characteristics of resulting damage  
A sensor network is attached to a structure and employed to detect and analyze load changes. The sensor network has transducers, capable of acting as both passive sensors and active actuators,...
7458265 Piezoelectric cantilever sensors  
A piezoelectric cantilever with a non-piezoelectric, or piezoelectric tip useful as mass and viscosity sensors. The change in the cantilever mass can be accurately quantified by monitoring a...
7454926 Washing machine  
A washing machine includes a rotary drum for accommodating therein laundry, the rotary drum having a horizontal or slanted rotational axis; a water tub supported in a vibratable manner in a washing...
7444874 Method of determining damping of an article of manufacture and system for determining damping performance  
A method of determining damping performance of an article of manufacture includes moving an article of manufacture along a production line, directing a laser beam at a surface of the moving article...
7435004 Methods and apparatus for assembling a bearing assembly  
A method for predicting bearing failure, wherein the bearing includes an inner race, an outer race, and a plurality of rolling elements between the inner and outer race. The method includes...
7431193 Vibration stress relief of weldments  
A method of stress relief for stainless steel combustion turbine components includes vibrating the components during welding at a subharmonic frequency. The proper frequency is selected to be below...
7430910 Device for testing cabin parts of commercial aircrafts  
A simulation arrangement is used for laboratory testing of enclosed partial cabins to be installed as resting cabins in commercial aircraft. The partial cabin is outfitted with vibration generators...
7430483 Method and apparatus for diagnosing a mechanism  
A method of analyzing variations in an indicator of the behavior of a mechanism, in which noise is extracted, and any discontinuities from an indicator in order to obtain a trend, variations in the...
7428475 Method of processing oscillatory data  
A method which permits the transformation of non-stationary response measurements into stationary data for analysis is provided. Many standard analysis techniques, particularly for oscillatory...
7424827 Inspecting method of elastic body, inspecting apparatus thereof, and dimension predicting program thereof  
In an inspecting method of a piezoelectric/electrostrictive actuator having a piezoelectric/electrostrictive element and two or more electrodes, the frequency response characteristics is picked up...
7421899 Resonance method for determining the spring constant of scanning probe microscope cantilevers using MEMS actuators  
In accordance with the invention, the spring constant of a scanning probe microscope cantilever mechanically coupled to a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) actuator may be determined in-situ...
7412899 MEMS-based monitoring  
A solution for monitoring a property of an object and/or an area using a Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)-based monitoring device is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, the...
7409268 Method for actuating active vibration insulators  
A method for actuating active vibration insulators includes the steps of generating an idling control signal in an idling range of a vehicle, generating a running control signal in a running range...
7398685 Measuring method using surface acoustic wave device, and surface acoustic wave device and biosensor device  
A measuring method using a surface acoustic wave device, with which even in a case where a target substance having a different viscosity is added to a buffer liquid on the surface acoustic wave...
7377168 Wireless sensor antenna configuration  
Many sensors could be used in a passive wireless mode. These include RLC, acoustic wave and magneto-elastic sensors. These types of sensors are designed to exhibit a change in fundamental frequency...
7372279 Power generation unit condition monitor using frequency profile analysis  
A power generator unit condition monitoring system can receive a frequency profile generated by a frequency generating component and can transmit the received frequency to a frequency profile...
7367242 Active sensor for micro force measurement  
An active micro-force sensor is provided for use on a micromanipulation device. The active micro-force sensor includes a cantilever structure having an actuator layer of piezoelectric material and...
7353708 Ultrasonic generator system  
The system controls the frequency of an ultrasonic signal to be applied to a waveguide, such that the frequency corresponds to a preferred resonance mode of the waveguide and not to adjacent...
7350416 Method for determining properties of a film, and apparatus for realizing the method  
A method for determining properties or a thin film includes the steps of: providing a piezoelectric substrate; providing a slanted finger interdigital transducer unit that includes a transmitter...
7334452 Method for characterizing materials by using a mechanical resonator  
Methods for monitoring a fluid composition include placing a mechanical resonator in the fluid composition and oscillating the resonator. The resonator can be a tuning fork resonator having tines...
7331231 Apparatus and method for measuring micro mass using oscillation circuit  
A micro mass measuring apparatus includes a cantilever on which a subject is attached, a piezoelectric element formed on the cantilever, an oscillation circuit for actively vibrating the cantilever...
7322243 Acoustic wave etch rate sensor system  
An acoustic wave sensor system for monitoring the etch rate or etch ability of a selective material has an acoustic wave sensing device having a piezoelectric substrate and at least one electrode...
7317994 Method and apparatus for signal signature analysis for event detection in rotating machinery  
A method for analyzing vibration including: acquiring a vibration signal; isolating a vibration signal event in the acquired signal; determining a frequency of a damped sinusoid of the vibration...
7305883 Chemical micromachined microsensors  
The present invention provides sensors based on micromachined ultrasonic transducer technology. The sensors preferably include a plurality of sensor elements, but may include only one sensor...
7299678 Sensor apparatus  
A measurement head particularly for borehole use can measure multiple parameters with no electronics in the head and only a single conductor cable. Double-ended tuning forks ( 26, 28 and 38, 40 )...
7296472 Method and apparatus for acoustic sensing of structures  
A method and system provides for acoustic sensing of structures, including a general shape and/or configuration of the structure and movement within the structure. Acoustic waves are used to...