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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2013
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Joseph L. Hafenrichter, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Tacoma, WA (US);
William Joseph Tapia, Kapowsin, WA (US);
Michael D. Fogarty, Auburn, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An automated blade crawler capable of scanning a multiplicity of non-destructive inspection sensors over a surface of an airfoil-shaped body such as a blade component. The blade crawler is movable in a spanwise direction, thereby enabling a sensor array to inspect the surface area on one or both sides of the blade component in one pass. The sensors concurrently output scan imaging data which is multiplexed, the multiplexed being transmitted (via an electrical cable or wirelessly) to data collection and display hardware at an operations control center.