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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Rakesh Malladi, Houston, TX (US);
Anand G. Dabak, Plano, TX (US);
Nitish Krishna Murthy, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/041 (2013.01); G01N 2291/02854 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes: transmitting, via a signal generator, an electrical driving signal, the electrical driving signal having a mean square error; transmitting, via a wave generating component, a Lamb wave, the Lamb wave having many different modes; estimating, via an estimating component, a propagation parameter associated with the Lamb wave; and estimating, via an estimating component, a thickness of a material.