Non-destructive inspection apparatus and non-destructive inspection system

• US 20060265094A1
• Filed: 12/06/2005
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Numata, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 7,331,249 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/110
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2291/0231 Composite or layered materials
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2291/105 two or more emitters, two or more receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2291/2694 Wings or other aircraft parts
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 29/043 in the interior, e.g. by shear waves
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 29/265 by moving the sensor relative to a stationary material

Abstract

A nondestructive inspection device nondestructively inspects an internal state of an inspection target, and transmits information indicating a progress status of the inspection to the outside of an inspection site. A nondestructive inspection system which uses this nondestructive inspection device includes a network connected to the nondestructive inspection device, and one or a plurality of computers connected via the network to the nondestructive inspection device.

Claims

1. A nondestructive inspection device which nondestructively inspects an internal state of an inspection target and transmits information indicating a progress status of the inspection to the outside.

2. The nondestructive inspection device according to claim 1, wherein, in addition to the information indicating the progress status of the inspection, the nondestructive inspection device also transmits information indicating an inspection result of the nondestructive inspection to the outside.

3. The nondestructive inspection device according to claim 1, wherein, in addition to the information indicating the progress status of the inspection, the nondestructive inspection device also transmits inspector information indicating an inspector who carries out the nondestructive inspection to the outside.

4. The nondestructive inspection device according to claim 2, wherein the nondestructive inspection device transmits both or one of information indicating the progress status of the nondestructive inspection and information indicating the inspection result for each block which is set in the nondestructive inspection target to the outside.

5. The nondestructive inspection device according to claim 2, wherein, when the inspection result is a failure, the nondestructive inspection device transmits positional data relating to a failed part of the inspection target and inspection data relating to the failed part to the outside.

6. A nondestructive inspection system comprising:

the nondestructive inspection device according to claim 1;

a network which is connected to the nondestructive inspection device; and

one or a plurality of computers which is/are connected via the network to the nondestructive inspection device.

7. The nondestructive inspection system according to claim 6, wherein the computer comprises a plurality of computers including a server computer and a client computer;

and

the nondestructive inspection device transmits information indicating the progress status of the inspection to the server computer, and the server computer supplies information indicating the progress status of the inspection to the client computer.