公开(公告)号：US11592424B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16882871

申请日：2020-05-26

申请人： Oceaneering International, Inc.

发明人： Vilmar da Silva do Vale ,  Rohit Bali ,  Samik Das ,  Sheethal Sasidharan ,  Vikrant Verma

IPC分类号： G01N29/22 ,  E21B47/107 ,  G01M3/24 ,  G01N29/24 ,  B63C11/48 ,  B63G8/00 ,  E21B47/001 ,  E21B47/007 ,  E21B47/13 ,  G01N29/26 ,  G01N29/02 ,  E21B17/01

摘要： A system for inspecting flexible pipelines comprises a data analyzer, a data collector and an ultrasonic transducer. Further, the ultrasonic transducer is adapted to propagate shear wave into the annulus of the flexible pipeline. The data collector further comprises a data store and a communicator. Further, the system is capable of differentiating flooding and non-flooding condition of the annulus of the flexible pipeline which is subjected to high pressure. Using the system, an indicator of a flooded or non-flooded condition within the flexible pipeline may be calculated using transmitted and detected reflective waves or the lack of detected reflective waves.

公开(公告)号：US20230058202A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17445367

申请日：2021-08-18

申请人： Saudi Arabian Oil Company ,  KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

发明人： Fadl Abdellatif ,  Jeff S. Shamma ,  Sultan Shaqaq ,  Abdullah Arab ,  Abdullah A. Alkhder ,  Sahejad Patel

IPC分类号： B64C39/02 ,  B64D27/24 ,  B64C37/00 ,  B60F5/02 ,  B64D31/00 ,  B64D35/02 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G01N29/04 ,  G01N29/265 ,  G01N29/22

摘要： An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a flight-only mode with a motor only rotating propellers and not rotating on-board wheels to configure the UAV to fly away from a surface of a structure, and a crawling-only mode in which the UAV is configured to crawl on the surface due to the motor only rotating the wheels while not rotating the propellers. In the flight-only mode, a clutch disengages a motor from the wheels so that the motor only engages the propellers to fly to lift from the surface. In the crawling-only mode, the clutch disengages the motor from the propellers so that the motor only engages the wheels to move the UAV on the surface.

公开(公告)号：US20230057737A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17793185

申请日：2021-01-15

申请人： DolphiTech AS

发明人： Eskil Skoglund ,  Tore Magne Skar ,  Fredrik Lingvall

IPC分类号： G01N29/28 ,  G01N29/06 ,  G01N29/04 ,  G01N29/22 ,  G01N29/24

摘要： A coupling shoe for attachment to a transducer module to couple ultrasound transmitted by the transducer module into a target object, the coupling shoe comprising a transducer engaging portion; a couplant chamber arranged to hold couplant; and a flexible membrane at least partially defining a probe surface for facing the target object through which couplant from the couplant chamber can seep for coupling ultrasound transmitted by the transducer module into the target object.

公开(公告)号：US20230055861A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17978708

申请日：2022-11-01

申请人： UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

发明人： Bhanu SOOD ,  Michael G. PECHT ,  Michael D. OSTERMAN

IPC分类号： G01N29/11 ,  G01N29/04 ,  G01N29/07 ,  G01R31/392 ,  H01M10/42 ,  B60L3/12 ,  H01M10/0525 ,  B60L58/16 ,  B60L58/21 ,  G01N29/22 ,  G01N29/26 ,  H01M10/48

摘要： A system for assessment of a battery cell comprises a testing platform, a conveying system, one or more ultrasound sources, and one or more ultrasound sources, and a control unit. The conveying system can move the battery cell to the testing platform for assessment and from the testing platform after the assessment. The control unit can control the one or more ultrasound sources and the one or more ultrasound sensors to perform the assessment. The assessment can comprise determining a state of the battery cell based on the one or more signals generated by the one or more ultrasound sensors. The control unit can control the conveying system to direct the battery cell from the testing platform responsive to the assessment.

公开(公告)号：US11585788B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US16343344

申请日：2017-10-10

申请人： SAIPEM S.A.

发明人： Nicolas Feuilly ,  Marco Aurelio Occhilupo ,  Eric Kerdiles

IPC分类号： G01N29/04 ,  B23K31/12 ,  G01N29/22 ,  G01N29/24 ,  G01N29/265 ,  B23K9/02 ,  B23K9/028 ,  G01N29/11 ,  G01N29/44 ,  G10K11/35

摘要： A method of automatically inspecting a weld bead deposited in a plurality of passes in a chamfer formed between two parts by performing the following steps: positioning at least one emission electromagnetic acoustic sensor on one side of the chamfer and at least one reception electromagnetic acoustic sensor on an opposite side of the chamfer, the ultrasound wave emission sensor being configured to emit Rayleigh surface waves; while depositing a pass, automatically moving the sensors to follow the movement of welding electrodes along the chamfer; activating the sensors while they are moving to enable the emission sensor to generate and emit Rayleigh waves towards the pass of the weld bead that is being deposited, the reception sensor receiving the ultrasound signals transmitted and/or reflected in said pass; and reiterating the operation for the entire pass of the weld bead.

公开(公告)号：US11573205B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US16843669

申请日：2020-04-08

申请人： AWE Technologies, LLC

发明人： Dipen N. Sinha ,  Peter G. Espina

IPC分类号： G01N29/036 ,  G01N33/52 ,  G01N29/22 ,  G01N29/24 ,  G01N33/49 ,  G01N29/34 ,  G01N29/028 ,  G01N29/02 ,  G01N15/14

摘要： Apparatus for performing multiple different measurements on a small specimen sample, enabling testing and diagnoses in real time at the point of care are described. The core of the apparatus includes an ultrasonic resonator cavity where acoustic resonances are used to determine the speed of sound and sound attenuation in a single droplet. Acoustic measurements are made in the reflection mode using electrical impedance of a small piezoelectric crystal transducer that operates in the thickness longitudinal mode. Combination of this technology with electromagnetic, electrical, and magnetic fields permits multiple types of measurements to be made using the same resonator cavity.

公开(公告)号：US11573118B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US16892502

申请日：2020-06-04

申请人： LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

发明人： Glen Davis

IPC分类号： G01N29/22 ,  G01F25/17 ,  G01F15/00

摘要： Provided are systems and methods for line volume calibration, and measurement of fluid samples delivered to an interrogation point. In various embodiments, a known fluid volume comprising a sample line fluid and a secondary fluid is delivered to a fluid boundary sensor. The fluid boundary sensor assists in determining the position of the boundaries between the various fluids, and the positions of these boundaries are used to determine the sample line fluid volume.

公开(公告)号：US20230029143A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-26

申请号：US17873498

申请日：2022-07-26

申请人： Tessonics Corp.

发明人： Roman Gr. Maev ,  Andrew Ouellette ,  Andriy Chertov

IPC分类号： B23K31/12 ,  G01N29/22 ,  G01N29/07 ,  G01N29/06 ,  G01N29/28 ,  B23K11/30

摘要： A spot-welding electrode assembly includes an electrode, an electrode cap at an outer end of the electrode, and a plurality of transducer elements positioned inward of the electrode cap. The transducer elements may be micro-elements. A method for monitoring a weld formed by a spot-welder includes passing current from an electrode assembly through a stack-up, transmitting an ultrasonic wave from each of a plurality of sources in the electrode assembly to a plurality of points in the stack-up, and monitoring the ultrasonic waves to monitor the weld formation.

公开(公告)号：US11549918B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16164597

申请日：2018-10-18

申请人： OLYMPUS AMERICA INC.

发明人： Benjamin Spay ,  Simon Alain ,  Martin Dupuis ,  Sylvain Sauvageau ,  Francois Houde

IPC分类号： G01N29/265 ,  G01N29/24 ,  G01N29/28 ,  G01N29/22

摘要： An ultrasound probe assembly comprises a housing and a wedge, wherein wedges configured for pipes of different diameter may be easily interchanged in the assembly. Four wheels are attached to the housing, there being a front wheel pair and a rear wheel pair. Wheels of each pair are positioned on either side of a linear probe array, wherein the distance between wheels in each pair in a direction perpendicular to the array length is as small as possible. A position encoder monitors the position of the assembly during scanning, and a push lock switch is used to disable the encoder and the data acquisition while indexing to a new scan position on the pipe.

公开(公告)号：US11549843B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16847672

申请日：2020-04-14

申请人： Qian Jun Technology Ltd.

发明人： Yu-Yen Fu ,  Po-Chun Yeh ,  Dong-Fu Chen

IPC分类号： G01H11/08 ,  H01L41/113 ,  H01L41/23 ,  H01L41/25 ,  G01N29/24 ,  G01N29/00 ,  G01N29/22

摘要： An ultrasonic sensing device includes a housing, a piezoelectric assembly, a board and a plurality of fixing members. The housing includes a connecting board being a metal board and a supporting shell being a plastic member. The supporting shell includes a bottom wall opposite to a disposing opening of the connecting board and a surrounding side wall integrally surrounding and connecting to the bottom wall. The surrounding side wall encloses a portion of the connecting board. The piezoelectric assembly includes an encapsulating body and a piezoelectric sheet enclosed by the encapsulating body. The encapsulating body is disposed on the bottom wall and surrounded by the surrounding side wall. The piezoelectric sheet has a sensing surface exposed to the encapsulating body and facing the bottom wall. The fixing members fix the board on the connecting board, thereby pressing the sensing surface of the piezoelectric sheet to the bottom wall.