The Boeing Company

Jessica Adele Boze

Paul Griffin Vahey

James Francis Kirchner

Karen A Schultz

Nels A Olson

Matthew Carl Johnson

Maribel Gomez Locsin

Kenneth R Block

Dara Ung

Geoff M House

Systems, apparatuses and methods for rapidly evaluating light transmission through coatings including paints, primers, thin films, surfacing films, laminates and the like are disclosed. The system includes a light source for transmitting light through a coating sample. A sample holder holds the coating sample in a position to receive the incident light. A spectrometer measures an amount of the transmitted light that passes through the coating sample. Optionally, one or more optical filters may be used to condition any transmitted light that passes through the coating sample to reduce the intensity of the light outside of wavelengths of interest. An opaque cover encloses the spectrometer, the one or more optional optical filters, and at least part of the sample holder to prevent light other than the transmitted light from the light source from entering the spectrometer such that any transmitted light passing through the coating sample can be accurately evaluated.

System, apparatus and method for rapid evaluation of light transmission through opaque coatings and films

A method for quality inspection of laser material processing includes performing laser material processing on a workpiece and generating, by a sensor, raw image data of secondary emissions during the laser material processing of the workpiece. The method also includes determining a quality of the laser material processing by analyzing the raw image data of the secondary emissions.

Quality inspection of laser material processing

Growing community of inventors

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jessica Adele Boze