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Jason Toomey

Andrew Thomas

Steven Besser

Kirk M Rager

Les Nye

Adam Liberatore

An ultrasonic inspection system utilizes a tunable digital filter with 4&#xd7; interpolation. The system is used for scanning objects to be tested and includes a transmit/receive device to generate a test signal and receive an echo signal. A signal processing circuit processes the echo signal with one or more digital to analog converters for converting an analog version of the echo signal to a digital echo signal in the form of streaming digital data which is stored in a memory. The data is stored at a first data rate and read out at the second, slower data rate. An averaging decimator receives and processes the data from the memory and supplies it to an IIR filter and subsequently to an FIR filter and ultimately to a box car filter to effect processing thereon which increases the perceived resolution of the data by a given factor, preferably by a factor of 4.

Ultrasonic detection measurement system using a tunable digital filter with 4X interpolator

An ultrasonic inspection system utilizes a tunable digital filter with 4&#xd7; interpolation. The system is used for scanning objects to be tested and includes a transmit/receive device to generate a test signal and receive an echo signal. A signal processing circuit processes the echo signal with one or more analog to digital converters for converting an analog version of the echo signal to a digital echo signal in the form of streaming digital data which is stored in a memory. The data is stored at a first data rate and read out at the second, slower data rate. An averaging decimator receives and processes the data from the memory and supplies it to an IIR filter and subsequently to an FIR filter and ultimately to a box car filter to effect processing thereon which increases the perceived resolution of the data by a given factor, preferably by a factor of 4.

Ultrasonic detection measurement system using a tunable digital filter with 4x interpolator

A solderless, direct cable interconnect for an array transducer and method for the fabrication thereof. An ultrasonic array transducer includes an acoustic backing layer, a piezoelectric layer containing an array of piezoelectric elements (typically created from a solid layer of piezoelectric material disposed over a matching layer cut with a dicing saw and fixed on a solid ground plane), and plurality of control wires, disposed between the backing layer and the piezoelectric layer. A solid backing material which will displace slightly at temperature and pressure is formed into the desired shape. Kerfs are precisely cut into the shaped backing material in a pattern such that they will line up with the center of each piezoelectric element in the piezoelectric layer. Signal wires are disposed across the backing material along the kerfs, and the piezoelectric layer is aligned and then compression bonded to the backing layer, encapsulating the signal wires and electrically connecting them to the piezoelectric elements without the need for an intermediate connection board or flex circuit.

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