Patents by Inventor Dieter Lingenberg
Dieter Lingenberg has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10775743Abstract: An ultrasonic holography imaging system and method are provided. The ultrasonic holography imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to an analog processing section. The analog processing section is coupled to a digital processing section. The digital processing section generates digital signals to be converted by the analog processing section into analog signals that are transmitted to individual transceiver elements within the ultrasonic transducer array to cause separate ones of the individual transceiver elements to emit ultrasonic waveforms that are differentiated from each other by one or more parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and phase or modulation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
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Publication number: 20180364644Abstract: An ultrasonic holography imaging system and method are provided. The ultrasonic holography imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to an analog processing section. The analog processing section is coupled to a digital processing section. The digital processing section generates digital signals to be converted by the analog processing section into analog signals that are transmitted to individual transceiver elements within the ultrasonic transducer array to cause separate ones of the individual transceiver elements to emit ultrasonic waveforms that are differentiated from each other by one or more parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and phase or modulation thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
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Patent number: 10025272Abstract: An ultrasonic holography imaging system and method are provided. The ultrasonic holography imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to an analog processing section. The analog processing section is coupled to a digital processing section. The digital processing section generates digital signals to be converted by the analog processing section into analog signals that are transmitted to individual transceiver elements within the ultrasonic transducer array to cause separate ones of the individual transceiver elements to emit ultrasonic waveforms that are differentiated from each other by one or more parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and phase or modulation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Inventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
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Patent number: 9921186Abstract: A method and a device for the non-destructive inspection of a rotationally symmetric workpiece having sections with different diameters by a non-destructive inspection technique, such as ultrasound, are provided. Within the context of the method, a test data set characterizing the material properties of the workpiece is generated by the inspection technique. An azimuth angle-dependent indicated value set is generated therefrom. Subsequently, a representation of the workpiece is generated, wherein the elements of the indicated value set are depicted in the representation in a spatially resolved manner. In particular, a graphic representation of the surface of the workpiece can be generated in which flaw signals are displayed that may have been found.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Dieter Lingenberg
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Publication number: 20150330948Abstract: A method and a device for the non-destructive inspection of a rotationally symmetric workpiece having sections with different diameters by a non-destructive inspection technique, such as ultrasound, are provided. Within the context of the method, a test data set characterizing the material properties of the workpiece is generated by the inspection technique. An azimuth angle-dependent indicated value set is generated therefrom. Subsequently, a representation of the workpiece is generated, wherein the elements of the indicated value set are depicted in the representation in a spatially resolved manner. In particular, a graphic representation of the surface of the workpiece can be generated in which flaw signals are displayed that may have been found.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventor: Dieter LINGENBERG
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Patent number: 8991258Abstract: An inspection arrangement and an associated method for inspecting an elongate object. The arrangement includes a housing providing an interior space. The housing has an entrance and exit that are aligned. The arrangement includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensor arrays disposed to direct ultrasonic sensory pluses. Each sensor array has a plurality of ultrasonic sensors with each ultrasonic sensor positioned to direct a respective ultrasonic sensory pulse in a respective direction. The arrangement includes a fluid delivery device that delivers a coupling fluid into the interior space. The coupling fluid transmits the ultrasonic sensory pluses to the elongate object. The arrangement includes a plurality of redirecting elements associated with the plurality of ultrasonic sensor arrays. Each redirecting element is positioned such that ultrasonic sensory pluses from the respective ultrasonic sensor array proceed through the respective redirecting element and are redirected along a different direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stephan Falter, Kurt Guenter Fuchs, Dieter Lingenberg, Cord Heinrich Asche
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Publication number: 20140211588Abstract: An ultrasonic holography imaging system and method are provided. The ultrasonic holography imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer array coupled to an analog processing section. The analog processing section is coupled to a digital processing section. The digital processing section generates digital signals to be converted by the analog processing section into analog signals that are transmitted to individual transceiver elements within the ultrasonic transducer array to cause separate ones of the individual transceiver elements to emit ultrasonic waveforms that are differentiated from each other by one or more parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and phase or modulation thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
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Publication number: 20140060196Abstract: A plurality of subsets of ultrasonic transducers in an array of ultrasonic transducers are configured to transmit ultrasonic waves at various angles simultaneously toward a test object so that an anomaly of any orientation in the test object can be detected efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stephan FALTER, Dieter LINGENBERG
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Publication number: 20130298685Abstract: An inspection arrangement and an associated method for inspecting an elongate object. The arrangement includes a housing providing an interior space. The housing has an entrance and exit that are aligned. The arrangement includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensor arrays disposed to direct ultrasonic sensory pluses. Each sensor array has a plurality of ultrasonic sensors with each ultrasonic sensor positioned to direct a respective ultrasonic sensory pulse in a respective direction. The arrangement includes a fluid delivery device that delivers a coupling fluid into the interior space. The coupling fluid transmits the ultrasonic sensory pluses to the elongate object. The arrangement includes a plurality of redirecting elements associated with the plurality of ultrasonic sensor arrays. Each redirecting element is positioned such that ultrasonic sensory pluses from the respective ultrasonic sensor array proceed through the respective redirecting element and are redirected along a different direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stephan Falter, Kurt Guenter Fuchs, Dieter Lingenberg, Cord Heinrich Asche
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Patent number: 8443674Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasound inspection device for the inspection of tubular workpieces, where the ultrasound inspection device can be coupled to the workpiece by means of a fluid medium, the workpiece and the ultrasound inspection device can be moved relative to each other, a transducer unit substantially disposed in a cluster housing is provided, where the cluster housing includes a wear sole which is adapted to the respective diameter of the workpiece and which can be placed on an outer lateral surface of the workpiece and is configured such that a chamber forms between the workpiece and the transducer unit, at least one fluid inlet channel, which, with a fluid inlet opening, opens into the chamber, at least one fluid outlet channel for venting and draining the chamber, which opens into the chamber where the mouth of the fluid outlet channel and the fluid outlet channel are configured and disposed such that a filling process of the chamber and of the fluid outlet channel can be carried out startiType: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbHInventors: Damian Meinert, Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg, Reinhard Prause, Rainer Vierhaus
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Patent number: 8375795Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the non-destructive ultrasound inspection of a high-pressure line as a testing piece by means of the pulse-echo method, where the high-pressure line is conveyed to a near-field range of at least one ultrasonic transducer and an ultrasonic pulse is emitted with a perpendicular sound incidence on the high-pressure line in such a way that the high-pressure line is completely captured in its cross section by the near-field sound emission caused by the ultrasonic transducer, and the reflected ultrasonic pulse(s) is/are received by the ultrasonic transducer and/or, optionally, further ultrasonic transducers, the associated echo delay times are recorded and, optionally, evaluated.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbHInventors: Dieter Lingenberg, Reinhard Prause
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Publication number: 20110138919Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the non-destructive ultrasonic testing of a test piece (3) with flat surfaces (5) at an angle to each other by means of several selectively activatable ultrasonic transducers (2, 2?, 2?), whereby the method comprises several test cycles, with which certain (2,2?) of the several ultrasonic transducers (2, 2?,2?) are selected and activated, in order to emit at least one ultrasonic pulse (7, 7?) to the test piece, and with which the ultrasonic pulse reflected in the test piece (3) is received by the selected and/or, if necessary, other ultrasonic transducers (2, 2?, 2?). The method according to the present invention is characterized in that in the respective test cycle, the determined ultrasonic transducers (2, 2?) are so selected and activated, that the main propagation direction (6, 6?) of the ultrasonic pulse (7, 7?) produced by the selected and activated ultrasonic transducers (2, 2?) is perpendicular to at least one of the angled surfaces (5) of the test piece (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: GE SENSING & INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg, Gerald Rosemeyer, Cord Asche
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Publication number: 20110120225Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasound inspection device for the inspection of tubular workpieces, where the ultrasound inspection device can be coupled to the workpiece by means of a fluid medium, the workpiece and the ultrasound inspection device can be moved relative to each other, a transducer unit substantially disposed in a cluster housing is provided, where the cluster housing includes a wear sole which is adapted to the respective diameter of the workpiece and which can be placed on an outer lateral surface of the workpiece and is configured such that a chamber forms between the workpiece and the transducer unit, at least one fluid inlet channel, which, with a fluid inlet opening, opens into the chamber, at least one fluid outlet channel for venting and draining the chamber, which opens into the chamber where the mouth of the fluid outlet channel and the fluid outlet channel are configured and disposed such that a filling process of the chamber and of the fluid outlet channel can be carried out startiType: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: GE INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Damian Meinert, Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg, Reinhard Prause, Rainer Vierhaus
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Publication number: 20110005321Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the non-destructive ultrasound inspection of a high-pressure line as a testing piece by means of the pulse-echo method, where the high-pressure line is conveyed to a near-field range of at least one ultrasonic transducer and an ultrasonic pulse is emitted with a perpendicular sound incidence on the high-pressure line in such a way that the high-pressure line is completely captured in its cross section by the near-field sound emission caused by the ultrasonic transducer, and the reflected ultrasonic pulse(s) is/are received by the ultrasonic transducer and/or, optionally, further ultrasonic transducers, the associated echo delay times are recorded and, optionally, evaluated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: GE SENSING & INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Dieter LINGENBERG, Reinhard PRAUSE
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Patent number: 5987993Abstract: The test apparatus for nondestructive material testing using electrodynamically generated ultrasonic waves. A high-frequency coil assembly has an end face perpendicular to a surface of the workpiece and it is disposed between at least two magnets. Efficient generation and reception of ultrasonic waves is thereby assured.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rainer Meier, Dieter Lingenberg
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Patent number: 5936162Abstract: A method for the production of ultrasound waves for nondestructive materials testing of a workpiece. The method includes providing at least one radio frequency coil disposed in an essentially uniform magnetic field. The at least one radio frequency coil has a longitudinal axis disposed parallel to a surface of a workpiece. The method also includes producing horizontally polarized transverse ultrasound waves in the workpiece due to an interaction of the magnetic field with eddy currents in the workpiece. The eddy currents are supplied by the at least one radio frequency coil. The invention also teaches a device for implementing the method.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Lingenberg, Rainer Meier