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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2019
Olympus America Inc., Center Valley, PA (US);
David-Alexandre Roy Chevalier, Lévis, CA;
Christian Gagnon-Lachance, Lévis, CA;
Olympus America Inc., Center Valley, PA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an ultrasonic bar or tube inspection assembly comprising two centering assemblies and two inspection cassettes. The centering assemblies are designed to guide the bar under inspection with rollers disposed on symmetrically arranged pivot arms activated by a single centering ring. A pressure plate is designed to push the probe cassettes to be stacked tightly and concentrically onto the centering assembly. The inspection probe cassettes, with the accompanying design of engagement grooves and ridges, and a pressure plate, may be easily removed from the bar inspection assembly for maintenance operations.