Patents by Inventor Horst Guenter Thum

Horst Guenter Thum 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).

  • Ultrasonic probe, in particular for manual inspections
    Patent number: 6641535
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic probe comprising: —a housing (20), which accommodates an ultrasonic transducer and has a contact surface for making contact with the surface (28) of a body (30) to be inspected; —at least one digital camera (36), which is allocated to the housing (20) and which is aligned in such a way that it registers the surface (28) of the body (30) and supplies a respective electronic image of sub-sections of the surface (28) of the body (30) at intervals; —a circuit for image processing (40), which has an image memory (42) for at least one electronic image that has been registered by the digital camera (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Agfa NDT GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Buschke, Wolf Kleinert, Horst Guenter Thum
  • ULTRASONIC PROBE, IN PARTICULAR FOR MANUAL INSPECTIONS
    Publication number: 20030191388
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic probe comprising: a housing (20), which accommodates an ultrasonic transducer and has a contact surface for making contact with the surface (28) of a body (30) to be inspected; at least one digital camera (36), which is allocated to the housing (20) and which is aligned in such a way that it registers the surface (28) of the body (30) and supplies a respective electronic image of sub-sections of the surface (28) of the body (30) at intervals; a circuit for image processing (40), which has an image memory (42) for at least one electronic image that has been registered by tile digital camera (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Paul Buschke, Wolf Kleinert, Horst Guenter Thum