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US 8,045,144 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for the inspection of the surface of a component
AssigneeRolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
InventorBaumgartner Manfred
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Abstract
An apparatus for inspection of a surface of a component includes a probing device (21) which is coupled to a traversing device (50) and has at least one probe carrier (22, 23), to which at least one inspection mechanism is fitted. In order to enable surface defects in a component (11) to be shown directly and without conversion, the inspection mechanism is an image pick-up unit (26, 27).
Claims19
An apparatus for inspection of a surface of a component, comprising:
- a traversing device;
- a probing device coupled to the traversing device and including two probe carriers;
- at least one image pick-up unit fitted to the probe carriers;
- the two probe carriers provided in parallel arrangement, with a distance between the probe carriers exceeding a thickness of the component, and each probe carrier being smaller than a distance between the component and an adjacent component.
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A method for inspection of a surface of a component, comprising:
- providing a traversing device;
- providing a probing device coupled to the traversing device and including two probe carriers provided in parallel arrangement, with a distance between the probe carriers exceeding a thickness of the component, and each probe carrier being smaller than a distance between the component and an adjacent component;
- providing at least one image pick-up unit fitted to each probe carrier;
- receiving image data from the surface of the component into the image pick-up units;
- feeding the image data from the image pick-up units to a recorder;
- storing the image data in the recorder;
- and
- forwarding the image data to an image analyzing unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.