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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:
Jul. 15, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
The Timken Company, Canton, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73598 ; 73629 ; 73597 ;
Abstract
The depth of a case on a specimen of case-carburized steel is measured by launching an acoustic wave along the surface of the specimen such that the wave passes through the case, and measuring the velocity of that wave within the specimen. From an existing correlation of velocity and case depth for the very same core steel as the specimen, one finds the case depth which corresponds to the measured velocity, and that is the case depth of the specimen.