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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1977
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
George A Alers, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Robert B Thompson, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rockwell International Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 6 / ; 73 7 / ; 73 8 / ;
Abstract
Stress is detected by magnetostrictively generating vibrations which are detected at a location spaced from the region of generation. The efficiency of the generation is indicative of stress if the region is magnetically biased to less than maximum amplitude for the vibrations as produced. Preferably, the needed bias for generating vibrations at a constant level is used as stress indicator. Due to reciprocity of magnetostriction, the efficiency of generating magnetic oscillations by means of elastic vibrations in a biased region can be detected.