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20100199768 | LASER-BASED MAINTENANCE APPARATUS - A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser system which includes an optical system for emitting, in a first irradiation condition, a generation laser beam for generating an ultrasonic wave in a portion of an object on which maintenance is to be performed, and including a laser source configured to generate and detect a detection laser beam which interacts with the ultrasonic wave generated by the laser light beam in the first condition. The laser maintenance apparatus also includes a light transmitting device for transmitting laser light emitted from the laser system, a laser irradiation device for irradiating laser light transmitted by the light transmitting device to the object portion, and a transporting/scanning mechanism for transporting the light transmitting device and the laser irradiation device to a portion near the object portion, and scanning over an arbitrary range at the object portion. | 08-12-2010 |
20100199769 | LASER-BASED MAINTENANCE APPARATUS - A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser system which includes an optical system for emitting, in a first irradiation condition, a generation laser beam for generating an ultrasonic wave in a portion of an object on which maintenance is to be performed, and including a laser source configured to generate and detect a detection laser beam which interacts with the ultrasonic wave generated by the laser light beam in the first condition. The laser maintenance apparatus also includes a light transmitting device for transmitting laser light emitted from the laser system, a laser irradiation device for irradiating laser light transmitted by the light transmitting device to the object portion, and a transporting/scanning mechanism for transporting the light transmitting device and the laser irradiation device to a portion near the object portion, and scanning over an arbitrary range at the object portion. | 08-12-2010 |
20130014587 | ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTOR AND ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTING METHODAANM YAMAMOTO; SetsuAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP YAMAMOTO; Setsu Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Miura; TakahiroAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP Miura; Takahiro Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Semboshi; JunAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP Semboshi; Jun Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Ochiai; MakotoAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP Ochiai; Makoto Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Nagai; SatoshiAACI Kawasaki-ShiAACO JPAAGP Nagai; Satoshi Kawasaki-Shi JPAANM Watanabe; KazumiAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP Watanabe; Kazumi Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Mitsuhashi; TadahiroAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP Mitsuhashi; Tadahiro Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Adachi; HiroyukiAACI Machida-ShiAACO JPAAGP Adachi; Hiroyuki Machida-Shi JPAANM Yamamoto; SatoshiAACI Kawaguchi-ShiAACO JPAAGP Yamamoto; Satoshi Kawaguchi-Shi JPAANM Takabayashi; JunichiAACI Yokohama-ShiAACO JPAAGP Takabayashi; Junichi Yokohama-Shi JPAANM Otsuka; MasaruAACI Ota-KuAACO JPAAGP Otsuka; Masaru Ota-Ku JP - An ultrasonic flaw detector including an ultrasonic probe for emitting an ultrasonic wave on an object to be inspected and receiving a reflected ultrasonic wave from the object, a drive element control unit for controlling a plurality of ultrasonic elements to emit an ultrasonic wave on the ultrasonic probe and to control a reflected ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic probe, and a calculation unit for obtaining, by using a refraction angle of the ultrasonic wave at a time of the ultrasonic wave entering the object, an incident position of the ultrasonic wave on a surface of the object, and a surface shape of a surface of the object at the incident position, the incident angle of the ultrasonic wave entering the incident position, and obtaining a plurality of ultrasonic elements to be driven, based on the incident position and the incident angle. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021452 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A three-dimensional imaging unit includes a plurality of image pickup devices that image an image and a rotation drive device which rotates the image pickup devices and adjusts optical axes such that reflections of an object to be measured in a space to be measured have a predetermined amount of overlap. An association calculating unit calculates position association information of pixels when a required measurement point is mapped onto a plurality of images. A three-dimensional shape calculating unit calculates a three-dimensional shape of the object to be measured using the position association information and rotational information of the rotation drive device. A three-dimensional shape estimation calculating unit estimates, from the three-dimensional shape, a three-dimensional shape of a region of the object to be measured where the three-dimensional shape is not obtained. A three-dimensional measurement coordinates calculating unit calculates, from an estimation result, three-dimensional coordinates of two distance measurement points designated on the object to be measured. A distance calculating unit calculates a distance between the two points using the three-dimensional coordinates. | 01-24-2013 |
20140230556 | Ultrasonic Test Equipment and Evaluation Method Thereof - An ultrasonic test equipment includes: a signal generating mechanism that generates a voltage waveform; an ultrasonic transmitting mechanism that excites ultrasonic vibrations having a lower frequency than a predetermined frequency to an object to be tested; an ultrasonic receiving mechanism that receives an ultrasonic response from the object to be tested; an AD converting mechanism that digitizes the received ultrasonic waveform; an analyzing mechanism that performs frequency analysis of the digital ultrasonic waveform digitized by the AD converting mechanism; an evaluating mechanism that extracts a variation of a nonlinear ultrasonic component from a frequency component of the digital ultrasonic wave obtained by the frequency analysis, compares the variation with defect data information in a defect information database, identifies a physical quantity of defect information of the object to be tested, and evaluates a defect in the object to be tested; and a control mechanism that partly or entirely controls a measurement system. | 08-21-2014 |
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20100129059 | APPEARANCE INSPECTION APPARATUS AND APPEARANCE INSPECTION METHOD - Visibility of defects is improved for inspection of structures and the like, by generating an image having higher resolution than pixel resolution of a TV camera itself. An appearance inspection apparatus is provided with a TV camera; a camera driving device for making the TV camera scan an inspection object; an image capture device for capturing the image in the TV camera as a digital image; a camera motion measuring device for measuring scanning motion of the TV camera; a high definition image generating device, which generates a high definition image having a higher pixel resolution than that of the TV camera, based on the digital images captured by the image capture device and the TV camera scanning motion data measured by the camera motion measuring device; and a recording device which records and stores positional information of the inspection object. | 05-27-2010 |
20110284508 | WELDING SYSTEM AND WELDING METHOD - A welding system has: a welding mechanism, a reception laser light source, a reception optical mechanism, an interferometer, a data recording/analysis mechanism and a data recording/analysis mechanism. The reception laser light source generates reception laser light so as to irradiate the object to be welded with the reception laser light for the purpose of detecting a reflected ultrasonic wave obtained as a result of reflection of a transmission ultrasonic wave. The reception optical mechanism transmits, during or after welding operation, the reception laser light generated from the reception laser light source to the surface of the object to be welded for irradiation while moving, together with the welding mechanism, relative to the object to be welded and collects laser light scattered/reflected at the surface of the object to be welded. | 11-24-2011 |
20110286005 | WELDING INSPECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A welding inspection method has steps of: generating transmission laser light for generating an ultrasonic wave and transmitting the transmission laser light to an object to be inspected during or after welding operation for irradiation; generating reception laser light for detecting an ultrasonic wave and transmitting the reception laser light to the object to be inspected for irradiation; collecting laser light scattered and reflected at surface of the object to be inspected; performing interference measurement of the laser light and obtaining an ultrasonic signal; and analyzing the ultrasonic signal obtained by the interference measurement. At least one of the transmission laser light generated in the transmission laser light irradiation step and the reception laser light generated in the reception laser light irradiation step is irradiated onto a welded metal part or a groove side surface. | 11-24-2011 |
20130160551 | ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTION DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC FLAW DETECTION METHOD - According to an embodiment, an ultrasonic flaw detection device is provided with: an ultrasonic probe, which applies ultrasonic waves, by driving a plurality of ultrasonic elements, to a test object to be inspected, and which receives reflected ultrasonic waves from the test object; and an analysis unit, which analyzes the signals of the reflected ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic probe, and which calculates the flaw detection results. The analysis unit calculates the flaw detection results using an ultrasonic wave propagation path obtained on the basis of the surface information of the test object having the ultrasonic waves applied thereto, thereby obtaining highly accurate detection results even the surface of the test object is formed in complex shape. | 06-27-2013 |
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20090250864 | RECORDING MEDIUM TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium transport apparatus includes: plural storage units each storing a recording medium; a transport unit that transports the recording medium from one of the storage units to a recording position where an image is recorded on the recording medium; a memory that stores a reference position of a recording medium prescribed for each storage unit; a measuring unit that measures a position of the transported recording medium; and a movement unit that reads the reference position corresponding to the storage unit that stored the transported recording medium, from the memory, and moves the recording medium according to the difference between the reference position and the measured position such that the position of the recording medium approaches the reference position when the recording medium is located upstream of the recording position in the transport direction thereof. | 10-08-2009 |
20090256308 | RECORDING SHEET MOVING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND RECORDING SHEET MOVING METHOD - A recording sheet moving device includes: a moving unit that moves a recording sheet; a recording sheet specifying unit that specifies a length in the transport direction and a weight per unit area of the recording sheet; a first memory configured to record, for each of plural recording sheets, a threshold for a length in the transport direction in association with a weight per unit area; and a movement control unit that retrieves a threshold for a length on the basis of the specified weight per unit area from the first memory, and compares the retrieved threshold for a length and the specified length, to determine whether to cause the moving unit to move the recording sheet, and if it is determined that the recording sheet should be moved, causes the moving unit to move the recording sheet. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257074 | RECORDING MATERIAL MOVING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A recording material moving device comprises: a position adjuster that moves a recording material in a direction which is parallel to a recording surface of the recording material and orthogonal to a transporting direction, in an upstream side of a recording position along the transport direction of the recording material; a reference position specifying unit that specifies a reference position; a determination unit that determines whether a range of a predetermined width centered on the reference position exceeds a movable range of the recording material within which the recording material can be moved by the position adjuster; and a controller that causes, if the determination unit determines that the movable range is not exceeded, the position adjuster to sequentially move the recording material within the movable range of the predetermined width centered on the reference position each time a condition for moving the recording material is satisfied. | 10-15-2009 |
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20130110934 | INFORMATION INTEGRATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATION SYSTEM, OPERATION METHOD, LOCAL APPARATUS AND SERVER APPARATUS | 05-02-2013 |
20130261801 | SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL SYSTEM, SERVER, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM - According to an embodiment, social infrastructure control system includes control apparatus, database, sensors, collector, calculator, selector and creator. Control apparatus controls social infrastructure of community based on software. Database stores software modules. Sensors detect events concerning social infrastructure to output event information. Collector collects event information from sensors. Calculator calculates characteristic of social infrastructure or community by analyzing the collected event information. Selector selects module corresponding to the calculated characteristic from database. Creator creates software based on selected module. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262580 | SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL SYSTEM, SERVER, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a social infrastructure control system includes upper layer system and lower layer system. Lower layer system includes sensor, uploader and controller. Sensor detects event concerning social infrastructure and outputs event information. Uploader uploads event information to upper layer system via communication line. Controller controls social infrastructure based on control data transmitted from upper layer system or event information. Upper layer system includes processor and transmitter. Processor generates control data used to control social infrastructure based on event information. Transmitter transmits control data to controller via communication line. | 10-03-2013 |
20130310952 | SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND SERVER - According to one embodiment, a system includes control apparatus and server. Control apparatus includes collector, transmitter, receiver and main controller. Collector collects sensing data concerning control targets in social infrastructure. Transmitter transmits collected sensing data to server. Receiver receives control instruction from server. Main controller controls control targets based on control instruction. Server includes acquisition unit, database, generator and instructor. Acquisition unit acquires sensing data from control apparatus. Database stores sensing data. Generator generates control instruction by processing sensing data. Instructor transmits generated control instruction to control apparatus. | 11-21-2013 |
20150074111 | INFORMATION INTEGRATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATION SYSTEM, OPERATION METHOD, LOCAL APPARATUS AND SERVER APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information integration control system includes a collector, a storage module and a generator. The collector collects infrastructure information concerning a social infrastructure, user information about a user who uses the social infrastructure, and management information of a manager who manages the social infrastructure and the user. The storage module stores the infrastructure information, the user information, and the management information which are collected. The generator generates control information for the social infrastructure based on the infrastructure information, the user information, and the management information which are stored in the storage module. | 03-12-2015 |