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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:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul J Latimer, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Daniel T MacLauchlan, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Assignee:
McDermott Technology, Inc., New Orleans, LA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73643 ; 73598 ; 73600 ; 73627 ;
Abstract
A method for inspecting welds uses a single EMAT tranducer operated in pulse-echo mode that sends and receives Rayleigh waves to detect defects in a weld between sheet plates of dissimilar thicknesses.