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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2001
Wilfried Courage, Cologne, DE;
Courage + Khazaka electronic GmbH, Koel, DE;
Abstract
A measuring device for measuring the elastic properties of a surface structure ( ), comprising a probe ( ) arranged within a housing ( ), a transmitter and at least one receiver, the transmitter transmitting acoustic pulses and the receiver picking up the propagation behavior of the acoustic pulses in the surface structure ( ), a control means ( ) for generating acoustic pulses and an evaluating means ( ) for the measuring signals received by the receiver, at least two adjacent measuring tips ( ) being connected as transmitting and receiving elements, the measuring tips being adapted to be set onto the surface structure ( ) and having strip-shaped bi-morph elements ( ) carried by a holder ( ), wherein the measuring tips ( ) are formed by the holders ( ) of the bi-morph elements ( ) and the strip-shaped elements ( ) have one side of one of their ends fastened to the holder ( ).