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Patents Assigned to Commercial Technologies, Inc.

Method and apparatus for magnetically testing elongate objects using two circumferentially disposed arrays of magnets and two circumferentially disposed arrays of sensors

Patent number: 5402066

Abstract: A magnetic interferometer for performing nondestructive magnetic induction testing and inspection of wire rope and cable. The device concentrically surrounds a wire rope or cable to be tested and includes means for inducing a magnetic field in the rope or cable as well as means for detecting flux changes in the induced magnetic field. By detecting flux changes in the magnetic field the condition of the rope or cable can be determined.

Type: Grant

Filed: March 24, 1992

Date of Patent: March 28, 1995

Assignee: Commercial Technologies, Inc.

Inventors: William Hickman, Jr., Joseph P. Dyer