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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2015
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian J. Tillotson, Kent, WA (US);
Robert Paul Higgins, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrej Martin Savol, Lake Tapps, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/88 (2006.01); G01N 21/952 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/8806 (2013.01); G01N 21/8803 (2013.01); G01N 21/952 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G01N 2201/068 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for use in inspecting a wire segment is provided. The apparatus includes a guide tube sized to receive the wire segment, and an array of mirrors positioned about the guide tube. Each mirror in the array is oriented such that a reflection of the wire segment in the array of mirrors forms a circumferential view of at least a portion of the wire segment, and such that the reflection from each mirror is within a field of view from a single vantage point.