Patents by Inventor Tanchum Weller

Tanchum Weller 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).

  • Method and system for detecting damage in layered structures
    Patent number: 7520666
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting structural damage in a layered structure, the method compromising: providing an array of optical fibers attached to the layered structure; providing a laser source for emitting light into the optical fibers; providing a thermal imaging device; transferring laser light beam through each of the optical fibers of the array; acquiring at least one thermal image of an external surface of the layered structure; and detecting existence of one or more hot spots on the external surface indicative of a location of damage in the layered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventors: Pavel Pevzner, Tanchum Weller, Avraham Berkovits
  • Method and system for detecting damage in layered structures
    Publication number: 20070223557
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting structural damage in a layered structure, the method compromising: providing an array of optical fibers attached to the layered structure; providing a laser source for emitting light into the optical fibers; providing a thermal imaging device; transferring laser light beam through each of the optical fibers of the array; acquiring at least one thermal image of an external surface of the layered structure; and detecting existence of one or more hot spots on the external surface indicative of a location of damage in the layered structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Pavel Pevzner, Tanchum Weller, Avraham Berkovits