Automated distress ranking system
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAswini Kumar Jandhyala, Rajkumar Singha Konwar, Ashok Kumaraswamy, Manibabu Pippalla
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Abstract
A system for inspecting objects includes an imaging assembly, a detection module, an analysis module, and a memory. The imagining assembly can be a borescope that enters an unlit, closed conduit to inspect objects that are components of a turbine engine. Using an artificial light source to illuminate the conduit and one or more objects of the turbine engine, the borescope can obtain a video image of the one or more objects of the turbine engine. The video image can be used to determine a rank of distress for the one or more objects.
Claims26
A system for inspecting an object comprising:
- an imaging assembly for obtaining a video image of the object having a coating;
- a detection module configured to identify at least an identification of coating loss and any cracks in the object in the video image;
- an analysis module configured to assign at least a rank of distress of the object based on the identification of the coating loss and any cracks in the objects in the video image;
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- a memory for storing at least the rank of distress for each object in the video image.
A system for inspecting engine components of a turbine engine, the system comprising:
- at least one turbine engine component having a coated surface;
- an imaging assembly for obtaining a video image of the coated surface of the at least one turbine engine component;
- a detection module configured to identify at least an identification of coating loss and any cracks in the at least one turbine engine component in the video image;
- an analysis module configured to assign at least a rank of distress of the at least one turbine engine component based on the identification of the coating loss and any cracks in the at least one turbine engine component in the video image;
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- a memory for storing at least the rank of distress for the at least one turbine engine component in the video image.
A method for inspecting a coated object contained within a cavity, the method comprising:
- capturing a video image of the coated object in the cavity;
- identifying coating loss and any cracks of the coated object in the captured video image;
- assigning a rank of distress of the coated object based on the identified coating loss and any cracks in the video image;
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- storing the rank of distress for coated in the video image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.