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).

  • Patent number: 10775743
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
  • Publication number: 20180364644
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
  • Patent number: 10025272
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
  • Patent number: 9921186
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Dieter Lingenberg
  • Publication number: 20150330948
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Dieter LINGENBERG
  • Patent number: 8991258
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Kurt Guenter Fuchs, Dieter Lingenberg, Cord Heinrich Asche
  • Publication number: 20140211588
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg
  • Publication number: 20140060196
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephan FALTER, Dieter LINGENBERG
  • Publication number: 20130298685
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Kurt Guenter Fuchs, Dieter Lingenberg, Cord Heinrich Asche
  • Patent number: 8443674
    Abstract: 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 starti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Damian Meinert, Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg, Reinhard Prause, Rainer Vierhaus
  • Patent number: 8375795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Lingenberg, Reinhard Prause
  • Publication number: 20110138919
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: GE SENSING & INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg, Gerald Rosemeyer, Cord Asche
  • Publication number: 20110120225
    Abstract: 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 starti
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: GE INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Damian Meinert, Stephan Falter, Dieter Lingenberg, Reinhard Prause, Rainer Vierhaus
  • Publication number: 20110005321
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: GE SENSING & INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Dieter LINGENBERG, Reinhard PRAUSE
  • Patent number: 5987993
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Meier, Dieter Lingenberg
  • Patent number: 5936162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Lingenberg, Rainer Meier