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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Barry Allen Fetzer, Renton, WA (US);
Kate Brown Boudreau, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/36 (2006.01); G01N 29/26 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/36 (2013.01); G01N 29/262 (2013.01); G01N 2291/044 (2013.01); G01N 2291/056 (2013.01); G10K 11/346 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is presented. A signal may be sent into a structure at an incidence angle from a transducer array. A response signal reflected from the structure in response to the signal sent into the structure may be detected at the transducer array to form a received response.