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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2016
Sintokogio, Ltd., Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JP;
Yoshiyasu Makino, Okazaki, JP;
SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
To provide a surface characteristics inspection method of inspecting a heat treatment on a steel product subjected to a surface treatment in a nondestructive manner. A surface characteristics inspection apparatus is used which includes an alternating-current bridge circuit, an alternating-current power supply that supplies an alternating-current power to the alternating-current bridge circuit, and an evaluation device that evaluates the surface characteristics of a subject, which is a steel product subjected to a heat treatment, based on an output signal of the alternating-current bridge circuit. Coils of a reference detector and an inspection detector in the bridge circuit are energized to produce an alternating-current magnetism to induce an eddy current in a reference subject and the subject, respectively, and the electromagnetic characteristics of the subject obtained in the state where the reference detector detects a reference state is output as a first output signal.