538results about "Electric/magnetic roughness/irregularity measurements" patented technology

A pulsed eddy current sensor probe includes a sensor array board. A number of sensors are arranged on the sensor array board and are operable to sense and generate output signals from the transient electromagnetic flux in a part being inspected. Each of the sensors has a differential output with a positive and a negative output. At least one drive coil is disposed adjacent to the sensors and is operable to transmit transient electromagnetic flux into the part. A first and a second multiplexer are arranged on the sensor array board and are operable to switch between the sensors. The first and second multiplexers are connected to the positive and negative outputs of the sensors, respectively.

A surface-tracking measuring machine is provided, in which measurement range is enlarged while keeping a measuring force, responsivity, resolution thereof. For the object, the surface-tracking measuring machine has a frame (10), a probe (11) swingably supported by the frame (10) and having a tracer (15) at an end thereof, a measuring force controller (21) for controlling the measuring force applied to the probe, a displacement detector (31) for detecting a displacement of the probe, a measuring force detector (41) for detecting the measuring force applied to the probe, and a controller (51) for comparing a measuring force detected value detected by the measuring force detector and a previously commanded measuring force command value and to control the measuring force controller so that the measuring force detected value is equal to the measuring force command value.

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.

The invention relates to a method for creating the image of a sample surface to be analyzed, with a resolution which is better than 1 μm laterally in relation to the sample surface and better than 100 nm vertically in relation to said surface. According to the invention, the surface is scanned on a point-by-point basis by a scanning probe, the distance between the scanning probe and the sample surface at each scanning point being periodically modulated, in such a way that a force-time curve of the probe is produced for this point. The force-time curve is recorded at each scanning point, digitized using an A/D converter, evaluated online in real-time and stored, together with the entire data stream, in a first area of a memory device. One or several characteristic variables of the force-time curves are determined for each scanning point from the real-time evaluation results and the stored digitized force-time curves and an image of the sample surface is obtained from said characteristic variables of the scanning points.

A capacitance sensor used as a fingerprint sensor is provided which includes, in addition to a sensor array (11) in which sensor cells (100) each with a sense electrode are disposed in the form of an array, a canceling dummy block (14) having, disposed in an area having no relation with any object under detection, one column of dummy cells (141) corresponding to each row in the sensor array (11) and each having a dummy electrode nearly identical in parasitic capacitance to the sense electrode of the sensor cell (100). Also, a differentiation output unit (183) is provided to differentiate between a sensed voltage Vsig sensed at the sensor array (11) by sensing circuit (13) and sensed voltage Vdmy sensed at the canceling dummy block (14), thereby eliminating the influence of a variation in parasitic capacitance Cp, caused by a production tolerance.

A surface texture measuring instrument has a rotary table on which a workpiece is rotatably mounted, a Z-axis slider capable of moving in a Z-axis direction parallel to a rotation axis of the rotary table, an X-axis slider that is held by the Z-axis slider and is advanceable and retractable in an X-axis direction orthogonal to the rotation axis, a first arm that is held by the X-axis slider and is rotatable around a center line parallel to the X-axis, a second arm that is held by the first arm and is advanceable and retractable in a direction orthogonal to the X-axis, and a detector held by the second arm to measure a surface texture of the workpiece.

An improved method is provided for performing nanomanipulations using an atomic force microscope. The method includes: performing a nanomanipulation operation on a sample surface using an atomic force microscope; determining force data for forces that are being applied to the tip of the cantilever during the nanomanipulation operation, where the force data is derived along at least two perpendicularly arranged axis; and updating a model which represents the topography of the sample surface using the force data.

A structure and method for improving the spatial resolution of a scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip, which has been coated with a layer of chemically-synthesized nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are either single-species or heterogeneous, such that the single-species nanoparticles can be either ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, superparamagnetic, antiferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic, magneto-optic, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, superconducting, semiconducting, magnetically-doped semiconducting, insulating, fluorescent, or chemically catalytic. The layer of nanoparticles is at least two nanoparticles thick, or alternatively, is a single layer of nanoparticles thick, or alternatively, is a single layer of nanoparticles thick and covers only the tip apex portion of the tip, or alternatively, only a single nanoparticle is affixed to the tip apex. Alternatively, the layer of nanoparticles is transformed into an electrically-continuous magnetic film by annealing at a high temperature.

A distance sensor has a capacitive element in turn having a first plate which is positioned facing a second plate whose distance is to be measured. In the case of fingerprinting, the second plate is defined directly by the skin surface of the finger being printed. The sensor includes an inverting amplifier, between the input and output of which the capacitive element is connected to form a negative feedback branch. By supplying an electric charge step to the input of the inverting amplifier, a voltage step directly proportional to the distance being measured is obtained at the output.

Predicting the remaining life of individual aircraft, fleets of aircraft, aircraft components and subpopulations of these components. This is accomplished through the use of precomputed databases of response that are generated from a model for the nonlinear system behavior prior to the time that decisions need to be made concerning the disposition of the system. The database is calibrated with a few data points, to account for unmodeled system variables, and then used with an input variable to predict future system behavior. These methods also permit identification of the root causes for observed system behavior. The use of the response databases also permits rapid estimations of uncertainty estimates for the system behavior, such as remaining life estimates, particularly, when subsets of an input variable distribution are passed through the database and scaled appropriately to construct the output distribution. A specific example is the prediction of remaining life for an aircraft component where the model calculates damage evolution, input variables are a crack size and the number of cycles, and the predicted parameters are the actual stress on the component and the remaining life.

The invention relates to an automatic test device of the flatness and thickness of a metal sheet, which comprises a machine frame, a feeding mechanism, a test platform and a discharging mechanism. The machine frame and the test platform are connected through a Y-directional track. The test platform comprises a test frame, guide rails, a test cross beam, a cantilever fixing frame, a cantilever, an upper test probe, a lower test probe, a Y-directional ball screw mechanism and a measuring circuit. The automatic test device has the following beneficial effects that: the test is accurate; the test efficiency and the test precision are improved because the probes always cover the effective test range of a saw blade; mechanical and electrical integration technology is fully used, the structure is simple, the operation and maintenance are convenient, and the application in the field of the test of the flatness and thickness of other metals can be realized with a little improvement, and the promotion and use are easy; and an eddy induction principle is used to realize the test of the flatness and the thickness of the metal sheet, the interference of water and other non-metal impurities on the saw blade is eliminated effectively, precise positioning of the saw blade is not required in test, the price is low, and the operation is simple.

A capacitance sensor usable as a fingerprint sensor is provided in which a timing controller (16) provides such a switching control as to first cause a switch (SA) in a sensor cell (100-k) to turn on to set the potential at a sense electrode to a reference potential and then a switch SB to turn on after the switch (SA) is turned off, whereby charge is stored from the sensor cell (100-k) into a reference capacitance Cf1 of a sensing circuit (13-k), the sensitivity of sensing the capacitance is raised by increasing the number of times the charge storage is repeated and only signal components are extracted by reducing noise components by averaging.

A sharpness tester for testing the sharpness of a blade. The tester has a blade holder 19 and a mounting arrangement 21, 22 for mounting a cuttable material 20. The blade holder 19 is mounted by a carriage 18 which is moveable on a track 14 so that the blade can move relative to the material 20 and contact the material. A linear distance measuring device and a force measuring device 21 enable the tester to determine the force required by part of the blade B to cut the material 20.

Cantilever for a scanning probe microscope (SPM) including a substrate having a tip, a piezoactuator on the substrate movable in response to an external electric signal, and a sensor formed around the piezoactuator so as not to overlap with the piezoactuator, thereby minimizing inner couplings.

A surface configuration measuring method is provided, the surface configuration measuring method being characterized in having the steps of: moving a touch signal probe by a command velocity vector to touch a surface of the workpiece to be measured; scanning the surface of the workpiece to be measured, the touch signal probe being moved along the surface to be measured while controlling the distance relative to the surface to be measured so that detected amplitude value of a detection signal outputted by the detecting circuit becomes a predetermined reference value, thus outputting the detected amplitude value and corresponding measuring position; and calculating an estimated surface position based on the detected amplitude value and the measuring position estimated to be obtained when surface is scanned to keep the detected amplitude value constant.

The present invention relates to the invention of the magnetic flux leakage flaw detection method. The strong magnets such as steel plates are magnetized in multiple magnetic fields of different strengths, and the magnetic probes are used to detect the magnetic flux leakage of the magnetized strong magnets, or the strong magnets are magnetized in a certain magnetic field. A plurality of magnetic probes arranged at different positions along the magnetization direction are used to detect the magnetic flux leakage of the magnetized strong magnet, and the output signal of the magnetic probe after the detected magnetic flux leakage is subjected to the calculation of highlighting the signal generated by the internal defect of the strong magnet. In addition, the magnetic flux leakage flaw detection method can be used to detect defects with high precision, so the hot-rolled steel sheet after hot rolling is inspected by this method, and the detected defect is calibrated on the position of the defective steel sheet, so that the correct defect can be grasped in advance. Scaled or descaled hot-rolled steel sheet with location information.

A micro-geometry measuring device capable of reducing measuring force thereof for avoiding damage on micro-geometry of workpiece surface and measuring at a high-speed is provided. The micro-geometry measuring device has a stylus mechanism having a stylus mechanism provided to an arm and having a stylus body, a measuring force adjusting mechanism for adjusting a measuring force working between the stylus body and the workpiece, a displacement sensor for detecting a position of the arm, and a measuring force controller for controlling the measuring force adjusting mechanism. The stylus mechanism includes a vibrator for resonantly vibrating the stylus body, and a detector for detecting vibration status changing when the stylus body touches the workpiece. The change in vibration of the stylus body vibrated by the vibrator is directly detected by the detector and a signal therefrom is fed back to the measuring force controller to keep constant measuring force working between the stylus body and the workpiece.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a rope inspection method, which can not only avoid the damage of the rope tester in the first place, but also can check the elevator wire rope in a short period. A rope inspection method for detecting the exception of an elevator wire rope (6) traveling in linkage with the rotation for driving a rope pulley, a rope tester monomer (26) has a pair of opposite polarity magnets (28a, 28b) mutually depart from a scheduled distance; and a flat coil (31) for detecting the variation of magnetic flux produced between the pair of magnets (28a, 28b), wherein, the rope tester monomer (26) is set that the flat coil (31 ) can detect the variation of magnetic flux produced by the fracture of the wire of the traveling wire rope (6), before performing a main check-up for detecting whether the wire of the traveling wire rope (6) has fractures based on the output of the flat coil (31 ), a preparatory check-up for detecting whether the wire rope (6) has projecting positions is performed firstly.

The invention relates to a micro friction measurement device, and belongs to the technical field of micro force measurement. By adjusting a fine tuning knob on a lifting platform, loading normal load is realized. Resistance strain gages are adhered to front and back surfaces of an elastic element, form a Wheatstone bridge through leads, so as to indirectly measure the normal load. Two fixed pole plates and a moving pole plate form a differential capacitive sensor; the two fixed pole plates are fixed on the lifting platform through supporting rods; the moving pole plate is connected with a detachable connecting block through a connecting piece; when a servo motor is operated to drive a ball screw, to enable a sample stage to perform linear motion, the connecting block suffers frictional force, a small displacement in the horizontal direction can occur, and the polar distance between the pole plates can be changed, therefore, the capacitance of the capacitive sensor is changed, and the friction measurement is realized. The micro friction measurement device has a simple structure, can realize force loading without a high-precision placement platform, improves the measurement sensitivity, greatly reduces the linear error, and has a good effect on measuring micro force, such as friction force and the like.

An inspection tool for the non-destructive testing of a test component made of an electrically conductive material is described. The inspection tool employs movably mounted permanent magnets, which provides a means for generating a variable DC magnetic field within the test component, and eddy current probes so as to provide a means for performing a partial saturation eddy current test upon the test component. The eddy current probe preferably comprises an integrated magnetic field sensor which increases the accuracy and flexibility of the modes of operation of the described apparatus and methods. The described apparatus and methods are particularly suited for the inspection of tubular components that are often remotely located within the oil and gas exploration and production industries.