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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2001
Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Shridhar Champaknath Nath, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Curtis Wayne Rose, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Thomas James Batzinger, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Kenneth Gordon Herd, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A pulsed eddy current two-dimensional sensor array probe for electrically conducting component inspection includes a drive coil disposed adjacent to a structure under inspection, a pulse generator connected to the drive coil and operable to energize in a pulsed manner the drive coil to transmit transient electromagnetic flux into the structure under inspection, and an array of sensors arranged in a two-dimensional array and substantially surrounded by the drive coil and operable to sense and generate output signals from the transient electromagnetic flux in the structure under inspection.