Magnetic flux density apparatus for, E.G., detecting an internal crack of a metal or a shape of the metal

• US 6,683,452 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2001
• Issued: 01/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jin-Yi Lee, Lacomm Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Lacomm Company Limited
• Inventors: Kim, Min-soo, Kim, Dae-jung, Choi, Won-ha, Kang, Moon-phil, Lee, Jin-yi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Aurora, Reena
• Application Number:
  US09/997,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20020101234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 788 Days
• Field of Search: 324/240, 324/229, 324/230, 324/241, 324/262, 324/238, 324/209, 324/263, 324/220, 324/260, 324/67, 324/329, 324/345, 324/235, 340/551
• US Class Current: 324/240
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/82 for investigating the presence of flaws
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/10 Plotting field distribution ; Measuring field distribution

Abstract

A display apparatus of magnetic flux density for detecting an internal crack of a metal or a shape of the metal includes a three-dimensional magnetic flux focusing unit installed near the metal, for concentrating magnetic flux generated by the metal, a magnetic flux density measurement unit installed near the magnetic flux focusing unit, for measuring changes in magnetic flux density concentrated by the magnetic flux focusing unit, and a display unit electrically connected with the magnetic flux measurement unit, for real-time displaying and storing changes in the magnetic flux density.

Claims

1. A display apparatus of magnetic flux density for detecting an internal crack of a metal or a shape of the metal comprising:

a three-dimensional magnetic flux focusing unit installed near the metal, for concentrating magnetic flux generated by the metal;

a magnetic flux density measurement unit installed near the magnetic flux focusing unit, for measuring changes in magnetic flux density concentrated by the magnetic flux focusing unit;

a display unit electrically connected with the magnetic flux measurement unit, for real-time displaying and storing changes in the magnetic flux density; and

wherein the magnetic flux focusing unit comprise a container having magnetic fluid.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnetic flux focusing unit comprises a ferromagnetic material.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outer shape of the magnetic flux focusing unit is one of circle, rectangle or polygon.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outer shape of the magnetic flux focusing unit is one of circle, rectangle, or polygon.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnetic sensor is a Hall sensor comprising a plurality of Hall effect semiconductor chips.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the Hall sensor comprises an insulator on which the chips are arranged to a predetermined distance.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display apparatus of magnetic flux density comprises an additional magnetic field generator to magnetize the magnetic materials set up near the magnetic materials.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the magnetic field generator comprise a conductor for generating a magnetic field when a current flows.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the magnetic field generator is set up on a security door, and the door can detect whether the people walking through it has the magnetic materials or not if the magnetic lens and the magnetic flux density measurement device are set up on one side of the door.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the metal is a line patterned on the printed circuit board, magnetic fields are generated around the printed circuit board when currents flow through the lines, and the display device can display the currents flowing through the lines.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the metal is buried under the ground and the metal is magnetized by the terrestrial magnetism.

12. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the magnetic flux measuring unit includes numerous magnetic sensors in order to measure a variation of a concentrated magnetic flux density.

13. The apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein the magnetic sensors are arranged in an array having fixed intervals between adjacent sensors.

14. The apparatus as recited in claim 13, wherein a variation of the magnetic flux density, concentrated by the magnetic flux focusing unit and measured by the magnetic flux density unit, provides measurement of spatial distribution of the magnetic flux density.

15. The apparatus as recited in claim 13, wherein the apparatus amplifies leakage magnetic flux density in a particular region in real time in order to increase a signal to noise (S/N) ratio.

16. A display apparatus of magnetic flux density for detecting an internal crack of a metal or a shape of the metal comprising:

a three-dimensional magnetic flux focusing unit installed near the metal, for concentrating magnetic flux generated by the metal;

a magnetic flux density measurement unit installed near the magnetic flux focusing unit, for measuring changes in magnetic flux density concentrated by the magnetic flux focusing unit;

a display unit electrically connected with the magnetic flux measurement unit, for real-time displaying and storing changes in the magnetic flux density; and

wherein the magnetic flux focusing unit comprises an absorber of magnetic fluid.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the absorber is either one of paper or sponge.

18. A display apparatus of magnetic flux density for detecting an internal crack of a metal or a shape of the metal comprising:

a first means, near the metal, for concentrating magnetic flux generated by the metal;

a second means, installed near the first means, for measuring changes in magnetic flux density concentrated by the magnetic flux focusing unit; and

a third means, connected with the second means, for real-time displaying and storing changes in the magnetic flux density; and

wherein said first means includes a three-dimensional magnetic fluid and said second means includes a regularly arranged magnetic sensor, wherein the apparatus measures and displays in real time magnetic flux density, amplifying leakage magnetic flux and increasing magnetic flux density in a particular region of the sensor to measure leakage magnetic flux.