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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2016
James Laudermilch, Lewistown, PA (US);
Terry Wray, McClure, PA (US);
James Laudermilch, Lewistown, PA (US);
Terry Wray, McClure, PA (US);
OLYMPUS SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS AMERICAS INC., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an NDT/NDI probe array and manufacturing method. The probe array includes a sheet of flexible circuitwith a plurality of lower pinsand corresponding, electrically connected, upper pins. The probe further comprises a backing block, a layer of piezoelectric ceramichaving a plurality of conductive elements, a matching layerand a frame. An adhesive material such as epoxy is applied to the circuit, the backing, the ceramic and the matching layer, and all are aligned and stack pressed at least partially into the frame and permanently bonded in such a fashion that each of the lower pins of the flexible circuit is firmly and permanently in contact with a corresponding one of the conductive elements of the ceramic.