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AssigneeNational Research Council of Canada
InventorsChristian Moreau, Mario Lamontagne, Paolo Cielo
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A method and an apparatus for monitoring simultaneously the temperature and the velocity of sprayed particles. The system is comprised of a sensor head attached to the spray gun, an optical fibre transmitting the collected radiation to detection apparatus, and a protective detection cabinet having the detection apparatus that incorporates two detectors. A two-slit or multiple-slit mask is located in the sensor head at the end of the optical fibre. For the temperature measurements, the particle emitted radiation collected by the sensor head is transmitted to two photodetectors, filtered by interference filters at two adjacent wavelengths. The particle temperature may be computed from the ratio of the detector outputs. To measure the velocity, the two-slit system collects radiation emitted by the in-flight particles travelling in the sensor field of view, which generates a double peak light pulse transmitted through the optical fibre. The time delay between these two peaks may be evaluated automatically and the particle velocity computed knowing the distance between the two slit images.
A method of detecting characteristics of plasma sprayed particles in a plasma jet during flight between a plasma jet gun and a substrate, comprising the steps of focusing radiation emitted from a particle on a first photodetector through a slit mask formed of at least two parallel slits, and transmitting signals from the photodetector to a processor for determining the velocity of the particle from time delay between two or more peaks which are detected resulting from said radiation.
An optical sensor for plasma sprayed particles in a plasma jet comprising:
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