Lufthansa Technik Ag

Mattes Schumann

Jan Oke Peters

Michael Thies

Sven Rasche

Thorsten Schueppstuhl

Werner Neddermeyer

Tomas Domaschke

Soenke Bahr

Maik Dammann

Tarek Mostafa

Oliver Neumann

Lukas Bath

Thorsten Schüppstuhl

Sönke Bahr

Jens-Peter Tuppatsch

Thorsten Schuppstuhl

Sonke Bahr

An apparatus investigates a technical device using a borescope. The apparatus has: a guide tube which is introducible through a borescope opening on the technical device to be inspected using the borescope; and a repeatedly plastically deformable carrier configured to guide a borescope head arranged at one end of the carrier. The guide tube is designed to deform the carrier during the passage of the carrier through the guide tube.

Apparatus for borescope inspection of technical devices

A method uses a flexible endoscope to inspect one or more hard-to-reach components of a gas turbine. The flexible endoscope has at least one image capture unit, which is configured to capture visual image information and associated 3D data, and which is located at a free end of the flexible endoscope. The method includes: introducing the flexible endoscope through an inspection opening; capturing the visual image information and the associated 3D data by the at least one image capture unit; comparing the captured 3D data to a 3D model of a component to be examined, and based on the comparison, ascertaining a relative pose of the at least one image capture unit in relation to the component; and texturing the 3D model with the visual image information captured by the at least one image capture unit, in accordance with the ascertained relative pose of the image capture unit.

Method and device for inspecting hard-to-reach components

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Mattes Schumann