Patents by Inventor Wolf Kleinert

Wolf Kleinert 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: 7694566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for representing echo signals that are obtained with the aid of an ultrasonic test apparatus used for non-destructively testing a test piece. Said ultrasonic test apparatus comprises a probe, especially an angled probe, a monitor with a display device for representing the received echo signals in an cross-sectional image such that at least one front face and a back wall of the test piece can be recognized. A flaw is detected from different arrangements of the angular probe, represented, and an error signal is determined. The test images are stored and then represented in a superimposed manner in an evaluation image such that the first and the second error signal can be recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: GE Inspection Technologies, GmbH
    Inventor: Wolf Kleinert
  • 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
  • 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