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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2010
Harry Israel Ringermacher, Delanson, NY (US);
Donald Robert Howard, Troy, NY (US);
Bryon Edward Knight, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Harry Israel Ringermacher, Delanson, NY (US);
Donald Robert Howard, Troy, NY (US);
Bryon Edward Knight, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for determining variable thickness of a coating on a surface of a substrate using in part a flash-lamp source, capable of generating a thermal pulse at the coating surface, and a image capture and processing device capable of capture sequential image frames of the coating surface, whereas each sequential image frame corresponds to an elapsed time and comprises a pixel array, and wherein each pixel of the array corresponds to a location on the coating surface. A method of calculating coating thickness is also provided.