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7607352 |
Ultrasonic sensor transmitting and receiving ultrasonic frequencies adjusted according to temperature
Components of an ultrasonic sensor are contained in a cylindrical casing having an end wall closing one end of the casing. A vibrator such as a piezoelectric element is disposed in the casing in...
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7591182 |
Ultrasonic sensor mounting structure
An ultrasonic sensor mounting structure includes an ultrasonic sensor and a wall member to which the ultrasonic sensor is mounted. The ultrasonic sensor includes an ultrasonic transducer and a...
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7575371 |
Temperature sensor and extensometer
A thermometer and extensometer for cables and conductors is described. The travel time of one or more acoustic signals along a conductor is used to determine the temperature along the conductor and...
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7562576 |
Convenient ultrasonic inspection device
An ultrasonic transducer device is pressed against the front surface of a structure, emits an ultrasonic pulse into the structure, and detects an echo profile from the structure. An indicator is...
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7544165 |
Dynamically configurable ultrasound transducer with integral bias regulation and command and control circuitry
A dynamically configurable ultrasound transducer element and related circuits and methods. The transducer may comprise an array of capacitive transducer elements, a row decoder coupled to said...
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7536912 |
Flexible diagnostic patches for structural health monitoring
Devices for monitoring structural health conditions of structures. A device includes a bottom substrate layer and an electrical connection layer disposed on the bottom substrate layer. The...
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7523666 |
Leak locator
A method of determining the presence and location of leaks in a pipeline ( 2 ) comprising inserting a leak location device capable of detecting and recording the occurrence of noise into the flow...
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7513158 |
Ultrasonic sensor for use in automotive vehicle
An ultrasonic sensor for detecting a position and/or a shape of an object located around an automotive vehicle is mounted on a structure of the vehicle such as a bumper. The ultrasonic sensor...
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7497121 |
Ultrasonic sensor
An ultrasonic sensor includes a sending element for sending an ultrasonic wave to an object to be detected, a receiving portion for receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected by the object, an...
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7461555 |
Ultrasonic sensor
An ultrasonic sensor includes an integral housing including a plurality of tubular containers that are open at one end and closed by bottom portions at the other end and have side portions...
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7398687 |
Ultrasonic sensor
A cover member of an ultrasonic sensor has a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion, which are respectively engaged with a third engagement portion and a fourth engagement portion...
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7392705 |
Ultrasonic sensor
An ultrasonic sensor includes an ultrasonic transducer and a case. The ultrasonic transducer has a housing in a cylindrical shape with a bottom attached thereto, a piezoelectric device disposed in...
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7376519 |
Method for reducing the computation resources required for determining damage in structural health management system
A method for determining damage in a structural health monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensors distributed across a structure is disclosed. The method includes decomposing the plurality...
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7362229 |
Ensuring the performance of mandated inspections combined with the collection of ancillary data
During an inspection discrete checkpoints provide data to a portable reader, enabling a record to be generated identifying each checkpoint visited during an inspection. At least one checkpoint...
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7343803 |
Modular ultrasonic sensor
The present disclosure relates to an ultrasonic sensor used, for example, in the form of an ultrasonic vehicle parking aid provided with a sensor having an ultrasonic membrane and optionally a...
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7334479 |
Systems and methods for non-contact measuring sputtering target thickness ultrasonics
A method and apparatus for ultrasonically measuring the thickness of sputter targets of varying shapes. An immersion bubble ( 32 ) and transducer ( 36 ) provide pulses to a front surface ( 24 ) and...
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7325456 |
Interrogation network patches for active monitoring of structural health conditions
Apparatus for monitoring structural health conditions of structures. The apparatus includes a piezoelectric device that has a bottom cover plate, piezoelectric rings concentrically disposed with...
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7313960 |
Ultrasonic sensor assembly
An ultrasonic sensor assembly includes an ultrasonic sensor apparatus, a holding member and a spring arrangement. The spring arrangement includes two spring portions, which are connected together...
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7273459 |
Vortex transducer
A mechanically formed vortex transducer is described. The transducer has a plurality of piezoelectric elements suspended in an epoxy and heat molded into a desired shape. An irregularity in the...
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7197933 |
Ultrasonic sensor for controlling the process during resistance spot welding
A sensor carrier is provided that has at least one oscillating element ( 32 ) that introduces ultrasonic waves into an area to be examined and/or receives ultrasonic waves coming from the area to...
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7188526 |
Ultrasonic transducer
An ultrasonic transducer having an effective center frequency of about 42 MHz; a bandwidth of greater than 85% at 6 dB; a spherical focus of at least 0.5 inches in water; an F4 lens; a resolution...
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7140253 |
Device for the ultrasound measuring of cylindrical test models
A device is provided for the ultrasonic measuring of cylindrical test specimen, in particular tubes and hoses, wherein said device can be filled with water or submerged in a water bath and is...
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7125468 |
Method of making ultrasound transducer or actuator
Method of making a gas matrix composite ultrasound transducer comprises aligning piezoelectric rods or fibers substantially parallel to each other on an adhesive side of a plurality of curable...
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7117134 |
Method to optimize generation of ultrasound using mathematical modeling for laser ultrasound inspection
The invention is directed to a laser ultrasound testing system with adaptive generation of sonic energy signals. The system may detect or test features of the manufactured object such as defects...
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7104131 |
Ultrasonic pulser-receiver
Ultrasonic pulser-receiver circuitry, for use with an ultrasonic transducer, the circuitry comprising a circuit board; ultrasonic pulser circuitry supported by the circuit board and configured to...
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7086286 |
Transducer holder and nozzle
A holder for a transducer having a sensor portion and a body portion is disclosed. The holder includes a base having an opening for receiving the transducer, a support member configured to support...
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7080543 |
Sensor and method for manufacturing the same
A detecting-element assembly ( 40 ) is configured such that a piezoelectric element ( 51 ) is housed in a casing body portion ( 43 ) of a casing ( 42 ), and is attached to a housing portion ( 22 )...
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7069786 |
Ultrasonic transducer structures
The present invention provides an ultrasonic transducer structure, comprising a first ultrasonic transducer element ( 1 ), arranged and operable for transmitting an ultrasonic signal from a front...
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7062972 |
Acoustic transducer
An acoustic transducer includes an acoustic pulse generator, an impedance matching layer, and a thermal management system. The thermal management system is mounted to the matching layer to transfer...
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7021145 |
Acoustic transducer
An acoustic transducer for measuring a property of a fluid includes an acoustic pulse generator and buffer assembly. The buffer assembly is between the pulse generator and the fluid. The buffer...
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7021144 |
Ultrasonic wave utilizing device
In an ultrasonic wave utilizing device having a cylindrical elastic holder 2 into which an ultrasonic sensor 3 is pressed and a cylindrical part 23 that is closed at one end and is formed in...
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6998559 |
Detection system for sorting apparatus
The present invention relates to a system for determining characteristics of products of generally unequal size, e.g. apples, which are conveyed on product carriers, such as rollers of a conveying...
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6959589 |
Ultrasound analysis of slurries
An autoclave reactor allows for the ultrasonic analysis of slurry concentration and particle size distribution at elevated temperatures and pressures while maintaining the temperature- and...
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6952967 |
Ultrasonic transducer
An ultrasonic transducer is provided having a transduction element in the form of a truncated cone. The angle of the transduction element is selected so that the majority of the acoustic energy...
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6951135 |
Ultrasonic probe and method for the fabrication thereof
An ultrasonic probe comprising a piezoelectric element, a first electrode formed on a substantial portion of a first main face, a first side face and a part of a second main face of the...
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6901802 |
Acoustic sensors using microstructures tunable with energy other than acoustic energy
A sensor for detecting acoustic energy includes a microstructure tuned to a predetermined acoustic frequency and a device for detecting movement of the microstructure. A display device is...
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6889552 |
Acoustic waveguide system
An acoustic waveguide system including a waveguide, a housing with a port in one side of the housing for receiving the proximal end of the waveguide, the port opening into a channel in the housing....
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6862917 |
Apparatus for detecting chemical agents including olfactory interferometric lens and method of use
An apparatus and method for detecting gases, gasified agents or other analytes. The apparatus includes a solid body having a first surface area and a second surface area. A first, preferably...
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6837110 |
Micro-machined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) substrate that limits the lateral propagation of acoustic energy
A micro-machined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) substrate that reduces or eliminates the lateral propagation of acoustic energy includes holes, commonly referred to as vias, formed in the substrate...
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6792810 |
Ultrasonic sensor
The invention concerns an ultrasonic sensor with a pot-shaped diaphragm having an oscillatory diaphragm bottom and a diaphragm wall which surrounds at least sections of the diaphragm bottom. The...
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6772634 |
Conduit end identifier system
The system provides a means for identifying the opposite ends of each particular conduit of an array of conduits laidout in a building. The system includes a sonic transmitter and a sonic receiver...
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6758094 |
Ultrasonic transducer wafer having variable acoustic impedance
The invention is a wafer having variable acoustic properties. The wafer may be used as a substrate over which to form an ultrasonic transducer, an IC, or may be used as a circuit board. An...
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6680994 |
Monitoring the contents of a container by ultrasonic means
The contents of a container 1 are non-intrusively monitored by probing the container with an ultrasonic signal, and measuring changes in the ultrasound signature of the received signal after the...
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6672166 |
Ultrasonic transducer system
An ultrasonic transducer system which has an ultrasound transducer and a filter supporting the transducer. To suppress the transmission of ultrasound signals through a housing of the ultrasound...
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6640634 |
Ultrasonic probe, method of manufacturing the same and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
A two-dimensional array ultrasonic probe comprises printed circuit boards, each carrying piezoelectric vibrators arranged in the form of a matrix and adapted to draw signal leads and grounding...
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6637270 |
System for transmitting ultrasonic waves
The invention relates to a transmitting system for the generation of ultrasonic waves for testing materials, comprising a controllable signal generator and an ultrasonic transducer, wherein the...
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6637269 |
Motor vehicle air spring system having an ultrasonic measurement arrangement
An air spring system for a motor vehicle includes essentially a flexible member ( 4 ) having first and second ends. At a first end, the flexible member is closed off by the cover plate ( 8 ) as a...
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6615663 |
Method and apparatus for acoustic sensing
An acoustic sensing system to measure an interior characteristic of an object, for example, density, the presence of defects, or bond integrity (of a laminated object). The system includes a first...
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6597633 |
Method for electrolinetic downhole logging
A method and apparatus for measuring the properties, such as permeability, of the rock surrounding a metal cased borehole by generating a seismic or sonic shock downhole within the borehole which...
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6578424 |
Hand-held variable angle membrane (VAM) ultrasonic scanning head for the noninvasive detection of corrosion, MIC and foreign objects in pipes
A hand-held Variable Angle Membrane (VAM) ultrasonic scanning head consisting of transmitting and receiving transducers is used to excite guided waves to detect corrosion, MIC and foreign objects...
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