Rosen Swiss Ag

Dynatech Electro-optics Corporation

Ronald B Alers

Jacob Y Wong

Keith Kaste

Ross E Johnson

Thomas Beuker

George A Alers

John J Boyle

Larry J Schoennauer

Georg A Alers

A device for destruction-free testing of ferromagnetic component walls with respect to elongate defects has a sending transducer that excites ultrasound waves in a wall area of a ferromagnetic component wall magnetized in a predetermined direction of magnetization. The ultrasound waves propagate on a path oriented by the sending transducer. A receiving transducer receives the ultrasound waves at a spacing from the sending transducer. The configuration of the sending transducer and a high frequency emitted by the sending transducer, which high frequency is to be determined based on a thickness of the ferromagnetic component wall, are selected so as to effect excitation of horizontal shear waves of higher order. The path orientation is selected at a slant angle to the predetermined direction of magnetization. The receiving transducer is positioned lateral to the path and is oriented toward a predetermined testing area of the wall section in the path.

Device for testing ferromagnetic component walls without destruction of the same

Apparatus for inserting and removing several filters from an optical path and for determining at all times the instantaneous positional relationship of each filter with respect to the optical path includes a set of filters mounted on a carrier which is attached to a resonant piezoelectric system, and further includes reference tracks also located on the carrier and extending in the direction of the oscillatory motion and including a sequence of binary indicia progressing in the direction of the oscillatory motion. The reference tracks are read optically to produce a series of binary electrical signals which are processed to yield the instantaneous position of the carrier and filters with respect to a fixed optical path.

Resonant piezoelectric chopper for infrared radiation

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San Luis Obispo, CA, United States of America

Ronald B Alers